Sentences with phrase «public lamentation»

Portraits by Gainsborough (the star in this field, with his The Blue Boy, c. 1770, fetching an all - time record price of $ 728,800 in 1921), Reynolds, Romney, Raeburn, Lawrence, and Hoppner (more in demand in the US than in Britain) were sold from aristocratic collections in Britain, amid public lamentation, to the US and also Cuba and France.

To the concept of the king as a being, in his religious significance, apart from and above his people, we have numerous allusions: Jeremiah refers to public lamentations at the death of a king such as clearly relate them to the ritual of the fertility - god (Jer.

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She does so through lamentation, an original, often public, performative, and collaborative form of her art.»

Set in New York City's Times Square, the intimate one - person opera is scaled to dramatic proportions within this most public of settings, giving a candid and global voice to the social and cultural trauma of South African racial politics and migrant labor; a woman's anguish explodes on the streets of New York as an operatic monument to lamentation.

By the time the segment turns to Oliver's trip to Russia and the interview with Snowden rolls, he has laid the groundwork — with laughs more than painful lamentations — and established America's pitiful relationship with privacy, and the public indolence around programs like PRISM, MUSCULAR, and X-Keyscore (which Oliver parenthetically adds are likely names for lesser - known strip clubs of California).