Sentences with phrase «long nineteenth»

The dining room was furnished around the eleven - foot - long nineteenth - century convent table found in a shop in Pennsylvania.

She is a third year PhD student in Art History at the University of Delaware, where her research focuses primarily on photography and print culture of the long nineteenth century.

Slater Memorial Museum, «Crocker's Norwich: The Long Nineteenth Century», group show, ongoing exhibit, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Tuesdays - Fridays, 1 - 4 p.m. Saturdays - Sundays, $ 3, seniors and students $ 2, ages 12 and under free, 108 Crescent St., Norwich; 860-887-2506.

I do not envisage the conversation as an anodyne exercise in collective self - congratulation, but as a UK - wide equivalent and successor to the astonishingly profound and vigorous national conversation that took place during the Scottish referendum campaign in September 2014 — and, for that matter, to the searching, decades - long nineteenth - century conversation about the «Condition of England Question'that I describe in chapter two.

Others would adopt the same remedy, or have it imposed upon them, and by the end of the long nineteenth century in 1918, the ancient Catholic monarchies of Europe would all be gone.

Not exact matches

«Nineteenth century reformers like Amor De Cosmos would be proud, I think, but a little shocked it took us this long,» said Kai Nagata, communications director at B.C. citizens» group, Dogwood.

Since the late nineteenth century, however, except perhaps for a brief period before and after World War II, this is no longer the case, and we should not allow this hidden assumption to determine our explanations of trade imbalances.

In The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution, John W. Compton argues that the idea of the living Constitution has a much longer history that began with nineteenth - century Evangelicals.

First published in the early decades of the nineteenth century, it is a long narrative poem about a young woman of great beauty and culture, her misfortunes, and the burdens of karma; a work of genuinely moving brilliance, grim and sad at many points, but also somehow radiant.

Much opposition to the concept of evolution in the nineteenth century derived from a revulsion against the idea that humans were descended from ape - like animals long ago.

Lutherans today are both more sophisticated and more liturgically minded than they were in my youth and so they are less tolerant of the sentimental nineteenth - century gospel songs that for so long dominated Protestant hymnody, but they will now and then allow those of us at mid-life or beyond to sing again the songs we grew up with but which more informed tastes tell us (and we try to tell ourselves) we should not have liked as much as we did.

By the time separation achieved critical mass during the second half of the nineteenth century, the establishments of old had long since died out.

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

With new vigor in the early nineteenth century, the churches of Western Christendom, through the overseas missionary movement, began their long and ever more complex recognition that the ministry and church must go to people in special settings or with special problems.

«His work in philosophy forms part, and a very important part, of the movement of twentieth - century realism; but whereas the other leaders of that movement came to it after a training in late - nineteenth - century idealism, and are consequently realistic with the fanaticism of converts and morbidly terrified of relapsing into the sins of their youth, a fact which gives their work an air of strain, as if they cared less about advancing philosophical knowledge than about proving themselves good enemies of idealism, Whitehead's work is perfectly free from all this sort of thing, and he suffers from no obsessions; obviously he does not care what he says, so long as it is true.

We are told that members of a community can disagree about some rather fundamental issues; nineteenth - century chemists did not all have to accept atomism as long as they all accepted the laws of combining proportions.

He said that it is probable «that the world will live, if it does not destroy itself, for a long time in a state of semi-anarchy in which certain centers of authority, power, and prestige will mitigate the anarchy much as anarchy was mitigated in nineteenth century Europe by the balance of power.»

The development of such a comprehensive view has long been a need, for it has become clearer and clearer as we have become familiar and involved with a constantly widening horizon of different musical aims and practices, that the old «common practice» theories of harmony and counterpoint could no longer be overhauled or extended, but had by necessity to be replaced by a way of description and analysis that treated the «common practice» of Western music from the late seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries as only one instance of a much wider musical method and practice that could be applied to all of Western music, from its origins to the present, as well as to music of other cultures.»

Many of the ideas associated with the American Dream are no longer expressed in nineteenth - century terms.

For instance, the well - known description of the religious liberalism that gained ascendancy in the late nineteenth century and ruled so long.

This does not mean that men had to wait till the nineteenth century before seeing how events, grouped in long series, were absorbed into the past.

Henri Pranzini — tall, charming, and charismatic — was a life - long petty thief who took advantage of vulnerable women in nineteenth century France, a vice that eventually destroyed him.

Today Christendom no longer exists and we are moving towards a world in which the Christian peoples or the peoples that have formerly been Christian will be a minority... We no longer have any solid grounds for believing that the post-Christian era is likely to realize any of the humanitarian utopias in which the idealists of the nineteenth century put their faith.2

Whereas «sodomy» had long identified a class of actions, suddenly for the first time, in the second half of the nineteenth century, the term «homosexual» appeared alongside it.

A man with a long history of criminal violence became a serial killer while working on a Ph.D. thesis at the University of Bradford, the subject of his thesis being the methods of homicide used in the city during the nineteenth century.

As Emory Professor Gary Laderman has written, by the end of the nineteenth century, «intimacy with the naked truth of death, as it was embodied by the corpse, was no longer a necessary part of social life (The Sacred Remains, 175).»

Much of the opposition to the idea of evolution in the nineteenth century derived from a revulsion against the idea that humans were descended from ape - like creatures long ago.

The transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries was a climax of movements and trends long present but now exploding in the intellectual, religious, political, and economic life of Western Europe.

The Russian Orthodox Church had long been bound so closely to the state that it had become anemic and in the nineteenth century had been losing its grip on the nation.

They point with scorn to the weaknesses of nineteenth - century political democracy, now become painfully apparent through long experimentation.

The Protestant practices of nineteenth - century public schools were highly sectarian, discriminatory against Catholics, and are no longer permitted.

He said Mrs May «U-turns on everything», adding: «I have very little confidence in her, her record of delivery as the longest serving Home Secretary since the nineteenth century was abysmal.

Sixteen miles long and only seven miles across at its widest point, Elba in the early nineteenth century was home mainly to goats, deserted ruins, a variety of vines and scraggly shrubs on arid hillsides, and approximately twelve thousand impoverished peasants with a well - deserved reputation for being «extremely irritable» and «almost universally ignorant.»

A bizarre prologue to the piece, a nineteenth - century urban legend spoken in Yiddish, might encourage the main feature to be seen as a parable but returning to that end credit disclaimer, A Serious Man is the Coens» least serious film for a long time.

All seven Maserati brothers were born in the nineteenth century, and if fifth - born Mario was an artist with no interest in cars or racing, the six others were true «car guys,» to use a term popularized long after the last of them had died.

Junction of Oregon Trail with Overland Trail 60 Rod S - E Enchanted by the idea that I could step from a modern paved road onto the tracks of the nineteenth - century pioneers — not to mention walk all the way to Oregon — I paused just long enough to grab a water bottle and a brimmed hat from my car and set out along the ruts, heading west.

My countrymen have yet to embrace the concept of eBooks, let alone realise that they are no longer living in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

These questions puzzled me for a long time and then one day, while looking through a library catalogue, I came upon a nineteenth - century dictionary of the «Laskari» language.

In the tradition of Cod by Mark Kurlansky, a remarkable book about a long - forgotten historical phenomenon that changed our world — the rise and fall of the natural ice industry in nineteenth - century North America.

Long celebrated for his vivid evocations of nineteenth - and twentieth - century American life (particularly New York life), Doctorow has received the National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, the PEN / Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howell Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal.

It's too nineteenth century with the lower class characters speaking in sentences like «He was willin», so long's I «greed to be careful about fire, an» well... there's nothin'to keep you from comin» down to - night and seein» it» and «I s» pose we'll have a high old time between now and mornin», «cause that kid, sweet as she's lookin» jest now, ain't goin'to be quiet.»

Since the early nineteenth century, English and Afrikaners have opposed one another in a long sequence of incidents culminating in the Second Anglo - Boer War of 1899 - 1902; whites and the various indigenous groups have confronted each other in a series of Continue reading

A long standing favourite of Lombardy's nobility, who built magnificent villas and gardens within the town, Bellagio's popularity as a holiday resort truly flourished in the early nineteenth century, establishing grand new hotels and luxury shops to cater for increasing numbers of visitors.

Cadenabbia's innate tranquillity and natural beauty has long made it a favoured resort for visitors and holiday makers, and particularly for those from northern Europe, but before the nineteenth century little existed on the site of the current village except for an inn called the Ca» dei Nauli (the «Boatmen's House) from which the modern name reputedly derives.

The longest tunnel, just before the railway station at the village of Barog, spans more than a kilometre and at the time of its completion in the late nineteenth century was the longest rail tunnel in the world.

The exhibition features works by artists depicting Long Island in the nineteenth century.

In Panorama of Rome (2012), you use painterly techniques that were popular long before the «white cube» even existed — the rococo, nineteenth - century panorama rooms, Renaissance frescoes, even Poussin and Corot.

His investigation of ancient mythological creatures has long been understood as a parable for the forces of nature, and it was characterized by Clement Greenberg as the best and the worst of nineteenth - century painting.

From 1946 to 1966, Charles C. Cunningham, the museum's longest - running director, enlarged the scope of the collections in medieval and Asian art, seventeenth - century Dutch paintings, French impressionism, nineteenth - century American art, modernism, and contemporary art.

«Emily Dickinson, long acknowledged as one of the most important poets of the nineteenth century, remains an enigmatic figure.