Sentences with phrase «pleasure dome»

Inserting agitprop feminist art into a downtown pleasure dome was the Guerrilla Girls» way of skewering the Palladium for owning a collection of art produced exclusively by men.

The paintings suggest a type of pleasure dome, existing for the viewer to project their thoughts on abstractions.

THE PLEASURE DOME Toronto and AVAILABLE LIGHT, Ottawa, Canada THE BROKEN SHAPE: Jennet Thomas in person, programme of Thomas» video works screened, September, curated by Jon Davies MATT»S GALLERY ALL SUFFERING SOON TO END!

So what exactly is inside this $ 422 million cultural pleasure dome located at the previously non-existent address of 99 Gansevoort Street?

Xanadu - Samuel Taylor Coleridge coined the name «Xanadu» for his imagined paradise when, in 1797, he wrote, «In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree...» Some two hundred years later, Ivan and Judy Sheinbaum began creating their Xanadu - a Monolithic Dome tropical island resort on Ambergris Caye in the West Caribbean, Central American, nation of Belize.

Hear my wife speak of John Lewis and you might picture a stately pleasure dome of ornamental cascades and hanging gardens, staffed by muscular Centaurs who know all there is to know about kitchenware and soft furnishings.

The interior of the Infiniti is a pleasure dome featuring stylish aluminum trim, violet mood lighting, and French - stitched leather seats.

It takes its name from the opening lines of Kublai Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: «In Xanadu did Kublai Khan / a stately pleasure dome decree...».

But who really is living in the pleasure dome?

In Puerto Rico, wheeler - dealer Louis Puro did a stately pleasure dome decree.

These are the stately, if temporary, pleasure domes erected by sponsoring companies to provide hospitality and refreshment for VIPs.

Not exact matches

The weird pinnacles, spires, domes, minarets, and peaks, that remind one of castles fashioned by some genius for the pleasure of some whimsical fairy princess, find their counterpart in unseen, outlying spurs that project under water and that are fully as dangerous as any reef.

Compare 1987's Near Dark to the insights offered by its temporal brothers: the sexual leprosy of David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986) and the crumbling pleasure - domes of Marek Kanievska's difficult Less Than Zero (1987) and Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy (1989).

Once we arrived at the campsite, I was delighted to finally see the glass domes we'd have the pleasure of staying in.

Prague, the chief city and cultural centre of 4th - century Europe retains a glorious skyline, a fairytale scenario of domes and spires and is best explored on foot (though it's a pleasure to hop on and off the electric trams).

Think Ellsworth Kelly's shaped canvases, Buckminster Fuller's domes, Paco Rabanne's cocktail dresses made of mirrored discs, the Finnish designer Eero Aarnio's Pastil Chair («pill chair»), all those white - plastic TV sets shaped like globes, and many other playful - provocative essays in the pleasures of pure form.