Sentences with phrase «marbled halls of»

From walking into the UN Criminal Court, or the FTC, a Fortune 10, or into the marbled halls of Cravath, my greatest triumph was getting over my fear to serve great clients.

Hot summer days call for a retreat to the cool marbled halls of a museum.

But at least something's going on in the marble halls of Arsenal.

Proof that someone else watching The Pelican Brief decided that its great unplumbed racial subplots would be worth a Grisham picture of their own, enter the patently offensive A Time To Kill, underscoring its liberal screed by opening with caricatures of rednecks at war with caricatures of black people: basketball hoops on the one side, Confederate flags on the other; front - yard barbecues, late - night cross-burnings; marble halls of justice, raucous Baptist churches; Kevin Spacey's DA summation on the one side all superego, Matthew McConaughey's tear - jerking monologue on the other all soul.

A month after Kentucky's governor and superintendent of public instruction began visiting each of the state's 120 counties to promote greater community involvement in education reform, members of the state legislature's joint education committee announced that they, 3 too, would leave the marble halls of Frankfort to discuss school improvements.

[citation needed] The marble Hall of Sculpture replicates the interior of the Parthenon.

Not exact matches

Up them long white steps behind them tall white pillars in that great big marble hall with the eagle of the U.S.A., where at I would bang my gavel and promulgate.»

The police band made way for a DJ, the marble halls remain as part of the Highbury housing development, but nothing similar was developed in the new ground.

Year 2 wants some rather formal poses, more suits, handshakes with US Democrats who might become President, and a backdrop sometimes of marble halls.»

The homeless New York City Council, forced out of its chambers at City Hall while the building undergoes a much - needed $ 106 million renovation, will meet instead at the historic Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank building, a Beaux - Arts property with a limestone façade, marble walls and stained - glass skylights at nearby 51 Chambers Street.

But with its abundance of pre-premiered films and no juried competition, it'll never have the grandeur or ever - so - slightly scuffed glamor of the Venice event, with its beachside location, soaring marble delegate halls and saturated aroma of overpriced espresso — not to mention the artsier exclusivity of its film programming, a once hit - and - miss virtue that scored a bulls - eye with a 2010 lineup that beat last year's Cannes for range, relevance and vitality.

General Lee (Robert Duvall) and «Stonewall» Jackson (Stephen Lang) may as well be talking marble busts in some Disney Hall of Greek Deities attraction, rooted in place while spouting on endlessly about their manifest right to defend their homes from marauding Yankees.

Within days, a storm of protest settled over the state capitol, one that reverberates still through the building's marble halls.

Surprisingly, the Corgi's roots lie not in marble halls and gilded bedchambers but in the mud - and - manure - caked corrals and dirt - floored huts of 12th - century Wales.

The glittering event took place in the Marble Hall, Russian Museum of Ethnography with hundreds of hospitality leaders from across the region, in attendance.

Other features include a spacious bedroom with panelled walls, a marble - floored bathroom and a red and gilt sitting room off of the dramatic black and gold dining hall.

This distinctive example of late Rattanakosin period architecture is best known for a four - sided ordination hall built out of imported Italian marble in... Read more about Wat Benchamabophit.

The highly anticipated event will take place at the Marble Hall, Russian Museum of Ethnography this Saturday, September 30th, while the official after party will be held in the ballroom at the luxurious five - star Hotel Astoria.

Highlights include Broken Hill, Wadlata Outback Centre, Woomera, Coober Pedy, Mt Connor, Yulara, Uluru, Kata Tjuta, Kings Canyon, Alice Springs, West MacDonnells, Standley Chasm, Desert Park Alice Springs, Devil's Marbles, Tennant Creek, Barkly Highway, Mount Isa, John Flynn Place Cloncurry, Kynuna, Winton's Royal Theatre Picture Show Under the Stars, Waltzing Matilda Cultural Centre, Stockman's Hall of Fame and QANTAS Museum.

InterContinental Asiana Saigon is in the cornerstone of Kumho Asiana Plaza complex, a complex that integrates commercial and accommodations in one landmark space in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City.The hotel is located in the city centre, near the Notre Dame Cathedral and the well - known Saigon Post Office.Famous landmarks like the Reunification Place, City Hall and the beautiful Opera House are within walking distance.Our spacious and well appointed rooms offer clean designs and an elegant marble bathroom featuring walk - in shower and separate bath.All 305 rooms offer magnificent views over the modern Ho Chi Minh City from our unique floor to ceiling windows.

Nyala Game Lodge is set on a private game reserve located 20 km outside of Marble Hall on the Sterk Arabia Dam road in a malaria free area.

Rinkhalskop Safari Lodge is nestled at the foot of the Rinkhalskop mountain range situated approximately 31 km outside Marble Hall in the Limpopo Province.

Pear Trees is full of original oak beams and character with many interesting features such as the ancient flagstones in the reception hall, the sitting room with its large marble fireplace where logs burn in winter, the dinning room with original window shutters, the old Aga in the kitchen that is used for all cooking and the utility room where there is even an ancient water well and pump!

Located in the heart of downtown Campbell, Villa Ragusa is a popular event and wedding venue in the classic, banquet - hall style, featuring a grand granite and marble staircase and a graceful mahogany bar.

Each of our 3 ballrooms offer a unique design from the Hall of Mirrors to the Italian marbled Continental and the 1920s art deco Pavillion.

The grand entry hall of Villa Anne - Lie invites you into this stunning 6,835 square - feet beachfront villa featuring four bedrooms and four and one - half granite and marble bathrooms.

From the glittering marble of halls of Mt Olympus to the desolate deserts of Tartarus, Kratos will explore worlds both epic and majestic.

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Last summer, Hall styled a wedding shoot in an art gallery, pulling pieces of fine art into the scene and pairing them with watercolors and marbled papers that she'd made.

The Hall of Sculpture Balcony bears a hefty selection of Nicole Eisenman's paintings and plaster sculptures amongst the museum's figurative marble statues, though the artist's brand of classical and art historical absurdities seem tame in comparison to the strangeness of satirical and metaphorical works by Iranian artist Rokni Haerizadeh installed in an adjacent space.

The centrepiece of this grand mansion is a magnificent marble hall, and its collection contains paintings, furniture and porcelain.

Raising the Hall's marble floor in an incongruous and startling manner, Prouvost has placed in front of it a metal figure holding a mop.

Thomas Ball's neoclassical marble bust of Margaret Van Nest (1870), granddaughter of former Rutgers trustee Abraham Van Nest, for whom the university's Van Nest Hall is named, is among the important nineteenth - century examples.

Responding to John Flaxman's 1824 statue of the bard that dominates the gallery's great hall, Gordon reproduces it in black marble, and then «breaks the spell», blasting it off its pedestal into glassy shards.

Not far from the Peggy Guggenheim Museum and the Pinault collection at Punta della Dogana, a polychrome marble - faced mansion encloses in its halls frescoes of Giandomenico Tiepolo and one stunning garden overlooking Canal Grande.

Hanako's Teahouse with Hanako Miwa, artist Sun, Nov 16, 2014 2 p.m., Marble Hall Free, no reservations required The Japanese tea ceremony is a way of communication and a way to appreciate arts while enjoying tea.

The interiors contrasted with the exterior: the huge double - height marble hall is in muted stone colours, to provide a foil for the vibrant colours of the adjoining suite of state rooms.

Barlow's sculptures have tended to be modified for, or inspired by, each venue: the high ceilings of the BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art in Newcastle provided an opportunity to create a very tall anthropomorphic object while here in the lobby of One Canada Square, a corporate office building, she has used a lurid pink and yellow colour scheme as a response to the floor - to - wall pinkie - brown marble hall.

Saturday, Feb 3, 7 — 11:30 pm Marble Hall and the Atrium Advance ticket sales only: $ 45 ($ 35 for members of VMFA or Black History Museum) Must be 21 + to attend

He was staying at the Edition, where lines for the basement sometimes snake up two flights of marble stairs and down the hall.

«Syon House» by Christopher Simon Sykes A bronze sculpture statue of «The Dying Gaul» faces a marble Apollo in the apse of Robert Adam's Great Hall, Syon House, Middlesex, 1990s.

Singing from a large bed - like platform in the middle of the large hall, the nieces will be surrounded by marble, columns, skylight, and the plaster casts of classical sculptures that look down from the balcony.

Right now, the UN is being renovated at great expense to bring it back to its former glory; in Hamilton, they are renovating the City Hall but want to it on the cheap and clad it in precast instead of the original marble.

A large gilt mirror, gold - framed artwork and ornate K'ang Hsi jars add a sense of luxury to this light - filled entrance hall, complemented by an elegant black and white marble floor.

The hall floor is tiled with dark green - gray marble and provided with a striking pattern that makes for a bit of drama.

Victoria Hall, 01603 764411, hand - marbles sheets of 120g paper in historic patterns.