In a Czech land called «Comenia» that could be Bohemia, first the Nazis and then the Russians impose terror and devastation, through which the author traces the fate of several families, including that of
an aristocratic woman who both supported the Nazis and saved the lives of Jews.
The wearing of cosmetics was so integral to the identity of
aristocratic women in France that their morning routine of painting the face and dressing the hair became an informal ceremony with an audience, known as the public toilette.
Up to that point,
aristocratic women had been pressured to retain a «natural» look.
Ambrose was clearly a source for eleventh — and twelfth — century bridal mysticism, and, in his On Virginity, he even encouraged
the aristocratic women who wanted to enter convents to use the Song of Songs to think of themselves as brides of Christ.
The former, in spite of writing a great book, Emile, on how to bring up children, abandoned his own and led a life of sheer hedonism, being constantly supported by wealthy European
aristocratic women who were his serial lovers.
Over the course of one midsummer night, Miss Julie explores the brutal, charged power struggle between a young
aristocratic woman and her father's valet.
Here, he tackles environmental crimes, an enigmatic and
aristocratic woman, and, of course, murder.»
Following the tour, we visit the Monasterio de las Descalzados Reales, or «Monastery of the Barefoot Royals», a convent with a history of providing an escape from unhappy betrothals for
aristocratic women.
Toby wanted to create
an aristocratic woman who was strong, intelligent, independent, athletic and powerful.»
In Tilia of 2012,
an aristocratic woman stands in profile in the foreground while the scenic background reveals several classic Morrison motifs: dandelions and field - and - tree pairings abound.
Thomas Gainsborough — Countess Howe, c1763 - 4 There is an almost apocalyptic beauty to this vision of
an aristocratic woman in coral pink silks against a misty glowing sky.
Not exact matches
One reading of Tocqueville is... that much of the Middle East remains in the
aristocratic age: the individual not yet having emerged into the light of day, men and
women understand themselves in terms of their affiliations.
After I wrote The Next Christendom in 2002, I had a bizarre encounter with an elderly and rather
aristocratic Episcopal
woman, who praised me for how effectively I had delineated the growth of new kinds of Christianity in the global South, with its passion and enthusiasm, its primitive or apostolic quality, its openness to the supernatural.
In the Fourth Gospel, the first inquiry a Jew made of Jesus came from a rabbi, learned,
aristocratic, a ruler of his people; Jesus» first contact with the Samaritans was with a
woman of ill repute, humble and socially unimportant, even unacceptable.
Tocqueville's worry, of course, is that, while in the
aristocratic age the differences between men and
women are highlighted more than they should be, in the democratic age they will be denied altogether.
Set in remotest nineteenth - century Cumbria (but shot entirely in Toronto), this old - school spooker follows the travails of a young
woman who becomes convinced that her
aristocratic hubby is not all he appears to be.
Reiss's subject is a compelling one; Dumas was born in Saint - Domingue (now Haiti) to a black African slave
woman and her white
aristocratic owner.
Henrietta is a hardworking, gentle, and simple
woman; far away in standing from the
aristocratic Dr. Ross - Pit.
Set in 18th Century New Orleans, the game presents a little - known period of American history through the eyes of a
woman caught between two worlds - the
aristocratic French society of her father, and the African heritage of her mother.
The black - and - white format refers to the 18th - century English and French silhouette tradition, in which
aristocratic young
women hand cut silhouette portraits of their friends and family.
In his series of «Genius» paintings and sculptures, Hod depicted
aristocratic young men and
women whose cherubic cheeks contrast with their scornful expressions and smoldering cigarettes.
His knockout works are his most recent ones: 19th - century
aristocratic portraits onto which he has hand - paints disruptions such as the clown noses in the work above, or a smear of lipstick across a
woman's face.
This unknown
woman, portrayed with an
aristocratic posture and demeanor, somewhat evoking the style of John Singer Sargent, was imbued with great self - possession, posed with a book, and comfortable in her own skin.