Sentences with phrase «rarified air of»

Though I lived my professional life in the rarified air of an academic library, I knew who was really on the front line of the profession.

For a chance to revisit AbEx from the unique vantage of the humble and the striving, I suggest a short trip to the Upper East Side's Hollis Taggart Galleries, where one can currently study a gathering of canvases representing what a very young Audrey Flack was up to while breathing the rarified air of mid-century New York.

While work remained to accommodate all the treatable animals and more challenging adoptions, that agreement established San Francisco in the rarified air of being the first no - kill city in the nation.

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Pierre Kleinubing joined team owner Peter Cunningham and Michael Galati in the rarified air of five World Challenge Championships in 2009, but it was not easy.

The SRT uses a 6.4 - liter V8 making 475 horsepower, and its fantastic handling puts it in the rarified air of the best European SUVs like the Porsche Cayenne.

Crimmins never attained the rarified air of Pryor, Carlin, or Rock, but he was fiercely intelligent, incredibly angry, and very quick on his feet.

Gibson doesn't travel in the rarified air of a Hillary Clinton (her national book - signing at Oblong Books on Dec. 7 was sold out hours after it was announced last summer), but he works the lecture circuit, radio interviews and the like.

You, scot, «truth «follower, all inhabit the same rarified air of your own making — a supposed moral high ground pedestal on which you've placed yourselves.

With many modern - day workers changing careers as casually and quickly as if they were swapping smart phones, it's become less common for people to accumulate the hours to reach the rarified air of mastery.

Not exact matches

The problem is that particularly since March 2012, our estimates of prospective market returns (on a blended horizon of 2 - weeks to 18 months) have moved from the worst 2 % of historical observations, to the worst 1 % of observations, to what is now such rarified air that only a handful of atoms remain.

The theory of independent trials is rarified intellectual air.

Likewise, such players instil confidence in their own, inspiring teammates to try daring new things and take greater risks, and seeing players like Pogba and Ibrahimović in the red of United meant that that old, familiar buzz of excitement and expectation returned to rarify the air.

Methinks that rarified air on the sixth floor of the County Office Building may be getting to the new chairman.

But Isle of Dogs is almost as delightful as Fantastic Mr. Fox, which puts it in rarified air among all cinema, not just animation.

The current projections for Civil War's domestic opening weekend are $ 180 - $ 200m, which would place it in the same rarified air as Marvel's top opening weekends - Avengers's $ 207.4 m and Age of Ultron's $ 191.27 m.

A close relative of the Hyundai Equus and a spiffier version of a sedan that's been sold in Asia since 2012, the K900 is certainly equipped to play in rarified air.

It's still a lot of money, but in this rarified air, it's also something of a deal when compared to the $ 143,000 Mercedes - AMG S63, a rival that only has 577 horsepower and needs 3.9 seconds to hit 60 mph.

Packed with luxury and technology, there's no doubt you're behind the wheel of a car that competes in the same rarified air as others like the BMW 640i, or even the Porsche 911.

For lovers of Optical Art, American Artist Richard Anuszkiewicz lives in rarified air, alongside Europeans Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely — all of whom are credited with fueling the genres skyrocketing popularity in the 1960s and 70s.

Cold (T ~ 210K) rarified air is not capable of holding much moisture, and a difference of a few degrees does not matter much there (T = 210K - > 1.6 Pa; T = 220K - > 5.1 Pa).

[Ankh]:» «As for CO2 itself, the old measurements made at sea - level pressure had little to say about the frigid and rarified air in the upper reaches of the atmosphere, where most of the infrared absorption takes place.

If you take a long horizontal cylinder of air and then raise it to vertical, the gas at the (new) bottom of the cylinder will be compressed and heated, while the gas at the top will be rarified and cooled.