Sentences with phrase «own slice of history»

For long - time DE2 fans, the paint scheme brings a wistful smile; for newer fans, the paint scheme makes that slice of history come alive.

I was working on something related to movies the other day and came across an interesting slice of history I was not aware of that could have some bearing on a particularly contentious debate going on today.

Mass market watch ownership is a relatively small slice of our history, starting after the First World War and only becoming the norm for the industrialised world in the 1930s.

Bruno Martins Indi is pumped up to try and help Stoke City grab a slice of history at Arsenal tomorrow.

Cristiano Ronaldo secured his own slice of history, becoming the first player to score in three finals after netting in the La Decima win over rivals Atlético Madrid and for Manchester United against Chelsea.

The Foxes are just three wins from writing themselves a huge slice of history by winning the Premier League.

Another subversive slice of history is told via The Rokeby Venus, a 17th century painting of a female nude.

Sundance Doc The Lovers and the Despot examines a bizarre slice of history that should, from its very subject matter, be interesting.

It would be cool to see slices of history that you haven't seen with African figures.

It can hardly be called a recurring theme after two days, but last night's gala brought Trumbo to the BFI London Film Festival and, like Suffragette, served up another slice of history that's inexplicably taken decades to reach the screen.

Directed and adapted by Armando Iannucci, who created the TV show «Veep,» «The Death of Stalin» is a dark political satire and an odd slice of history set around the political positioning put in motion by the death of the Soviet leader in 1953.

Behind the lens, Clooney's directorial career has adopted the same characteristics, whilst capturing slices of history simultaneously.

Veteran French director Anne Fontaine approaches a spiritually and emotionally complex real - life slice of history with deftness and understated drama in «The Innocents,» about a group of nuns who became pregnant after Soviet soldiers raped them at the end of World War II.

What follows is an often macabre and sporadically funny attempt at conjuring a laugh from a ghastly slice of history, with a talented cast wasted on a thankless script by Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft (St. Trinians), and the poor direction of Landis who can't find the balance between grizzly murder and comedic slapstick.

Geraldine Brooks has a way of infusing vivid color, texture, sound, and aroma to little - explored slices of history, breathing new life into facts cull

Educational and a slice of history, but Worth's ability to convey emotion elevates her stories to another level.

Now they've come up with another winning slice of history.

Once again, this is a finely drawn portrait of a family in flux as well as a memorable slice of history.

Traversing the South Korean landscape, from the rural fishing village of Pusan to the bustling capital of Seoul, This Burns My Heart is truly a slice of history, capturing a country very much in transition.

Given that there has been a general social prohibition (far too weakly enforced) against hitting women for a much greater slice of history than the Kindle has been infuriating writers of noble purpose, I have to say that I think Mr. Alexie probably got his fair due.

So, we might arrive at a totally different conclusion regarding the right balance of stocks and bonds depending on what slice of history we choose to consider.

Today, a museum in the same plantation house preserves this little slice of history - and a handful of the explorer's personal belongings.

This inn was built in 1888 for a local judge and his wife, and in the years since has been meticulously kept and restored as a slice of history.

For an excellent insight into Peniscola's architectural growth throughout the years, the towns» museum, La Casa Del Ayer, is an interesting slice of history.

Each room serves as a little slice of history, and it's fun and utterly depressing at the same time to witness Edith slowly fill in the family tree in her own journal while exploring the memories of those who came before her.

Hot on the heels of the StarCraft: Remastered announcement, Blizzard have confirmed plans to release what they are calling a «faithful slice of history» — the original StarCraft in the native, original resolution and with no changes whatsoever.

It's a slice of history and undoubtedly a retro classic, but I don't feel it's aged as well as some of the other classics from the 16 - bit era, and as such it's difficult to recommend as a must - buy.

These pieces are mostly included in the less publicized Day, or Morning, Sales — the ones that rarely make newspaper headlines but still present ample opportunities to spot a masterpiece and to acquire a slice of history.

Wednesday night from 5 - 8 venture out past the Upper East Side into a slice of history for Ladies of the House: History From A Feminine Perspective.

Art Deco behemoth gets its spark back: a little slice of history for # 6m as apartments at Battersea Power Station finally go on sale

But it's a pretty gorgeous slice of history that I'm thrilled the Hilton has preserved.

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But I would argue that even a tiny slice of the biggest opportunity in the history of capitalism is something worth grasping.

Namely, history is almost completely irrelevant in an information environment that restricts one's attention to a narrow slice of temporal immediacy.

As a pioneer in Jamaican business history, Continental Baking Co.'s founder — Karl Hendrickson — brought the concept of sliced and wrapped bread to the island in 1952.

As a result, slices of sweet potato subbed as toast slices and the rest is history as they say.

I find it fascinating that you can take something as simple as a potato and dependent upon whether it has been boiled, roasted, deep fried, baked in cheese, sliced, cooked whole, crumbled, burnt, sprinkled in mint, or doused in yogurt — it will open your eyes to learning about another culture and their adoption of traditions throughout their own history.

We're resurrecting a little slice of American cake history with this very vintage homemade pumpkin spice layer cake recipe slathered with fresh pumpkin butter custard frosting, oh way.

The true origin of the potato chip is lost in the murky depths of culinary history, but I'll put my money on the Brits as being the first to slice potatoes paper - thin and toss them into hot oil.

«A mixture of sliced cucumbers, shallots, or onions, cut very small, a little lime juice, and Madeira wine, with a few pods of bird pepper well mashed, and mixed with the liquor, is reckoned an unfailing stimulant to the appetite in the West Indies, and is called man - dram,» wrote William Rhind in A History of the Vegetable Kingdom (London: Blackie & Son, 1868).

Meanwhile, a living link to this extraordinary slice of forgotten history sits in her easy chair in Jacksonville.

But Nigel was at Anfield yesterday as a slice of Hammers history was -LSB-...]

Political data nerds LOVE to use tools like the VAN backend voter management system to slice and dice outreach lists by all kinds of criteria — age, location, voting history, and....

Last April, New York published the first of what we hoped would be a recurring event: an anniversary issue (the magazine debuted on April 8, 1968) that celebrated our birthday by exploring a slice of this city's history.

As emission lines are narrow and redshifted, they act as testifiers of four different time slices (one for each filter) of the universe's history.

BEIJING — As the scalpel sliced into the towering celebrity, a throng of people strained against a belt stanchion to glimpse history in the making.

This study also offers a slice of pterosaur life history that is out of reach of fossil evidence, suggesting that the reptiles lived within easy access of warm thermal wind currents near open spaces of land or near the ocean.

As the brand is known and loved for it's signature checkered statement print, this feature appears year after year across the Burberry Heritage collection, letting boys have a slice of the sassiest print in designer history.

Critics Consensus: You don't have to be a soccer fan to enjoy this stylish, breezy slice of 1970s sports history.

The first trailer for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained is here, and it's another slice of revisionist history set in his own movie world where Christoph Waltz is a bounty hunter who mentors and then aids Jamie Foxx's Django in his search for his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington).

is not only a nostalgic slice of Nintendo's arcade history, it just so happens to be one of the most enjoyable boxing games ever made, laying down the entire foundation not only for the whole series but for several other games adopting the «behind the boxer» viewpoint.