Sentences with word «nobleman»

A nobleman is a man who belongs to the highest social class, usually due to their family background or royal lineage. They often have a higher rank and hold special privileges and titles. Full definition
The quartet of noblemen consisting of Strathairn, Conti, Cumming and Cooper engage in fairly dull interaction.
She had achieved the seemingly impossible task of bringing to the screen Virginia Woolf's fantastical 1928 novel about a 16th - century English nobleman who lives through three centuries, while aging only three decades and changing gender in the process.
Daniel Kaluuya, of «Get Out,» and Winston Duke play Wakandan noblemen with their own agendas and allegiances.
What if the famed - yet - often - misunderstood Wise Men had been nothing more than petty thieves disguising themselves as noblemen in their effort to escape Herod's executioner?
It was followed two decades later with a traveling English nobleman who used to present acquaintances with a handwritten letter of introduction which he called a resume.
By the early 17th century, the final holdouts survived in the Jaktorów Forest of Poland, protected by noblemen who also liked to hunt them.
With Luther went Fr Amsdorf of the University and Cathedral, Dr Jerome Schurff the lawyer, a young friar, Johann Petzensteiner, and a young humanist nobleman from Pomerania, Peter Suaven.
In the Charter of the Moscow Noble Guesthouse (school for noblemen) the following literary activities were spread among the students: «speeches about scientific and moral subjects, analyses of their own compositions, analyses of the best Russian writers» (Ibidem, p. 435).
lands, titles, pensions, etc) with the Scots nobleman at the expense of the English.
That play being «Eboshi - Ori» a traditional Japanese tale in which a young nobleman uses a disguise to escape his troubled past.
Black Adder [4/1] Rowan Atkinson may be best known in the States as Mr. Bean (or other dumb - playing roles like Johnny English), but for my money, his absolute best series is Black Adder, where he plays a series of British noblemen (each season is set in a different century) with dry wit and an unfortunate lot of idiotic hangers - on.
Jakuba Wejhera was a 17th - century Polish nobleman and military leader.
Overall: C With too little story to interest adults, and too much language and violence for young audiences, even French actor Christian Clavier's terrific clowning and often hilarious antics can't rescue this maiden in distress movie about a 12th century French nobleman who gets catapulted into the future.
Warriors traveled with large guard dogs, and noblemen used fierce dogs to protect palaces and property.
During the same time, bulldogs were bred with greyhounds by an English nobleman named Lord Orford and these crosses continued for 7 generations, and were very popular.
Directed by: Timur Bekmanbetov - A falsely accused Jewish nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his Roman best friend, who betrayed him.
When nobleman Garrett witnesses her performance, he's determined to earn her love.
European noblemen built «garderobes» in their castles — rooms with stone or wooden benches with holes in them, through which the excrement would fall, down chutes and into the moat.
He ran off from servitude to a local nobleman after carrying on an affair with the missus, so Tommasso instructs him to pretend he's a deaf mute as a cover story.
She was a minor aristocrat, but Lady Dai clearly enjoyed the sumptuous trappings of her role as the wife of a provincial nobleman during the Han Dynasty in the second century B.C.
Charming Victorian earrings with hand painted miniatures of Indian noblemen on each.
The Queen's Lover will tell the story of Marie Antoinette as framed by her relationship with Swedish nobleman Count Axel von Fersen, a man she first befriends early in her reign
A Castilian nobleman and ruler of Valencia, he was known for his military prowess and has been idealized and immortalized in folklore and film.
«In a world devoid of color, the woman warrior Ranhé swears herself to a mysterious nobleman traveling to the exotic city of Tronaelend - Lis, the City of Dreams, where a decadent brother and sister rule as co-regents in the absence of the land's true ruler.
The BRI is a huge, epochal, lucrative and open - ended Eurasian project people have dreamed about ever since that Venetian nobleman and trader (Marco Polo) showed the way to Serenissima's riches in the late 13th century.
Like many entrepreneurs, noblemen like Robert had little formal training.
The Mughal power structure rested on a heterogeneous Muslim aristocracy composed of newcomers from Transoxiana (where Bukhara and Samarkand had long been centers of Arabic Islamic culture), of Iranian noblemen seeking careers in the newly conquered country, and of the Turkish and Afghan aristocracy who were already entrenched in India but now removed from supreme power.
While popular with the ancient Greeks, Romans and Chinese noblemen, cherries were first brought to our shores by settlers in the 1600's.
Of course, the king exempted himself and other stakes - loving noblemen from the ban.
Anonymous Untitled (Indian nobleman), date unknown 5 1/2 x 4 inches Hand - colored albumen print on cabinet card
Winston Duke (M'Baku) Duke, whose portrayal of the powerful Wakandan nobleman and uneasy ally of T'challa was a «Black Panther» fan favorite, will reprise the role in «Avengers: Infinity War.»
This charmingly loopy, iconoclastic story about a crotchety ogre (voiced by Mike Myers), an upstart donkey (Eddie Murphy), a princess with a beauty secret (Cameron Diaz), and a contemptible nobleman with a Napoleonic complex (John Lithgow) isn't only a funny, sprightly fable for all ages about not judging a book by its cover; it's also a kind of palace coup, a shout of defiance, and a coming - of - age for DreamWorks, the upstart studio that shepherded the project with such skill and chutzpah.
Danaë was commissioned by nobleman Giovanni Antonio Sauli in 1621, and ranks among Gentileschi's most important works.
Afterwards, the Hero will travel to the western continent, where he will meet up with Saber once more, and travel to the town of Mostroferrato, where the wealthy nobleman Mr. Briscoletti and his daughters Nera and Debora live.
It hasn't been clear sailing all the way, mind: popular historian Stephen Marche recently took to the NEW YORK TIMES to debunk such «prophets of truthiness» — Emmerich and Orloff are but a new, high - profile strain of Oxfordians, a group who name nobleman Edward de Vere as the true author of Shakespeare's texts, even the ones dated after his death — for advancing a lunatic conspiracy theory based on little more than class snobbery.
When Education Next ran its Braveheart story on D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, Beltway insiders scoffed, saying it was only a matter of time for her, just as it had been for the medieval Scottish nobleman.
Shakespeare suggests he serve as a further buffer between the mysterious nobleman and jumps at an opportunity to become the most celebrated writer in London.
Among the city's other hot tables are White Rabbit (no. 23 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list), serving an upscale European menu with 360 - degree views of the Moscow skyline, the elegant Café Pushkin, set in the house of an 18th - century Russian nobleman, and Grand - Café Dr. Zhivago, a sensory celebration of Russian food culture.
Creators Author Marc Tyler Nobleman tells Michael Cavna about his crusade to gain recognition for Bill Finger as one of the co-creators of Batman — including a push to have Google honor him with a Google Doodle on his birthday: «As it currently stands, even the mighty Christopher Nolan could not legally credit Bill as co-creator.
Creators Author Marc Tyler Nobleman tells Michael Cavna about his crusade to gain recognition for Bill Finger as one of the co-creators of Batman — including a push to...
The Queen's Lover (Penguin Press) arrives on June 14, and will tell the story of Marie Antoinette as framed by her relationship with Swedish nobleman Count Axel von Fersen, a man she first befriends early in her reign.
In Nobleman v. American Savings Bank the Supreme Court refused to apply this standard to a debtor's principal residence, hence the current push for bankruptcy reform.
Abian Biu Mansion is a unique hotel in Umalas, Seminyak Bali and is private residence that blends ancient Oriental Javanese nobleman styles with traditional Balinese modes, located in the up and coming area of Kerobokan, Bali.
You'll spend a day lugging a spoiled nobleman's armor into the woods to hunt rabbits.
How would you like to stay in a place where you can have a nap in guest rooms where powerful kings and many other noblemen have slept?
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