Sentences with phrase «spans over a century»

The Cubs no longer have to deal with an ever - growing championship drought that spanned over a century: they are the 2016 World Series champions, and it'll take decades before they can be considered losers again.

Although it has been done dozens of different ways in a gaggle of films spanning over a century, Tim Burton did as complete and loyal a job in adapting Alice in Wonderland as could be expected with the tools at his disposal.

Spanning over a century, dreamlike and yet impossibly real, profound and playful, The Shore is a breathtakingly ambitious and accomplished work of fiction by a young writer of remarkable promise.

The Whitney's «Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905 - 2016» (Oct. 28 to Feb. 5) should venture into new territory, spanning over a century and encompassing both commercial and avant - garde endeavors in film.

The selection spans over a century of British art, from Vorticist master Wyndham Lewis and Eduardo Paolozzi's animated line drawings inspired by Rembrandt to postwar Henry Moore and Lucian Freud's somber figure studies.

Its track record of providing domestic and cross-border legal services in the fields of corporate law, banking and finance law and dispute resolution, spans over a century.

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Over the last few days, leading CEOs, academics and designers spanning all industries engaged in an array of panels to grapple with hefty questions about business and design: What does it mean to be a designer in the 21st century?

Franklin Templeton pioneered international investing over 60 years ago, and our expertise in emerging markets spans more than a quarter of a century.

What has changed over the span of the past half - century?

For them microevolution is the change we have observed over just the short span of a human lifetime or within a few centuries.

These letters were written over a span of not more than twenty years just before and after the middle of the first century and therefore within what might be called the first Christian generation.

In the Hebrew canon of prophecy (the Latter Prophets) there are four «books» comprising fifteen names — Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and the twelve «minor» prophets (the last twelve writings of our Old Testament, Hosea to Malachi) These fifteen writings vary in length, were written over a span of centuries from the eighth probably to the third B.C., are addressed to radically different historical situations, and certainly in their present form represent far more than fifteen writers.

We may term the block of chapters, then, JP, a designation which serves at least to remind us that the work is composite and that it reflects the meditation and faith of Israel over a good five - hundred - year span, from the Yahwist in the tenth century to the priests of the fifth century.

The OT was written over a span of many centuries.

While Nielsen - Massey Vanillas has been producing vanilla products for over a century, vanilla itself has an even longer history that spans nearly 1,000 years.

It's too easy to focus on the obvious landmarks in a career that spanned well over half a century and overlook the deeper and richer features — often the personal and professional contradictions — that made Tony Benn such a remarkable man.

Brenner's distinguished career in science spans over half a century.

You can thank those industrious Romans for building the world's oldest reliably dated bridge, too: They erected a stone arch span over the Meles River in Izmir, Turkey, in the ninth century B.C.

I argue for the latter, although it's not inconceivable that the former has taken place, that we have literally evolved so that the more pacific parts of human nature have been strengthened, at least over a span of centuries or millennia.

Dubbed the «Age of Obesity and Inactivity» by the Journal of the American Medical Association, this runaway weight gain threatens to decrease average U.S. life span, reversing gains made over the past century by lowering risk factors from smoking, hypertension, and cholesterol.

Remember, however, that these intimately related breakthroughs occurred over a span of centuries.

We went through a list of over 100 major maritime disasters spanning three centuries to see if we could find data on survival rates of men and women.

We must now explain two mind - boggling phenomena related to Boyajian's star: slow dimming over at least four years (and possibly the past century) and deep, irregular dips spanning days or weeks.

The scientists predict that about 15 per cent of the initially applied fertilizer N will be exported from the soils towards the groundwater over a time span of almost one century after the 1982 fertilizer application.

Methane is a greenhouse gas up to 35 times as potent as carbon dioxide as a driver of climate change over the span of a century, and landfills are the United States» third largest source of methane emissions, according to the EPA.

By comparing findings of the current period of minimum activity with those of previous cycles, scientists can paint a picture of the changes in the sun over a span of decades, and sometimes centuries.

Noah and Allie's romance begins in South Carolina in the 1940's and spans over the 20th century.

Francois Girard's epic follows the history of a violin as it passes over continents and through lives over the span of three centuries.

That becomes something of a crutch in The Cut, his decade - spanning, continent - hopping look at the aftermath of the Armenian genocide, because the film's narrative requires that its embattled protagonist, a refugee named Nazaret (Tahar Rahim), navigate a whole slew of unknown territories and political ideologies over the course of a few decades in the early 20th century.

Spanning a century of film art and taken from various countries around the world, these posters show the evolution of movie promotion over the years, but more pertinently they also reveal a great deal about how blackness has been portrayed, exploited and indeed commoditised, throughout the history of cinema.

Using the mismatch of traditional and modern as the basis of all attempts at hilarity (spanning parenting styles, technology, behaviour and anything else that has evolved in form and function over the last half - century), the feature dares not depart from the standard, as apparent hijinks ensue.

From its humble beginnings on the now - ancient Japanese MSX2 computer following a young, lone - wolf US soldier Solid Snake as he infiltrates the secret military base Outer Heaven, Metal Gear has blossomed into a empire of its own, its story spanning generations of supersoldiers and over a century of modern American history and politics across nearly two dozen games.

Over the span of a half - century, The New York Review of Books has remained a viable enterprise of American society and political affairs, steadfast criticism, and as evoked by its title, analysis of popular literature.

Told over multiple seasons and spanning the twentieth century, the series begins in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III (Harris Dickinson), an heir to the Getty oil fortune, by the Italian mafia in Rome.

The premise: Since human life spans have become so much longer over the centuries, marriage should now be seven years contractually, with an option to renew every seven years.

After writing, directing and starring in approximately 50 silent shorts over the span of seven years, Charlie Chaplin took a shot at making a feature - length picture with The Kid, a resounding success that kicked off his rapid ascension as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century.

If you push your way through Pynchon's 2006 door - stopper Against the Day, spanning globally over three decades at the turn of the 20th century, please tell us if you figure anything out.

Spanning 10 canonical titles across 7 console generations, Hideo Kojima's franchise boasts a complex and intricate history that stretches back for over a century.

A collection of stories written by the legendary Lawrence Block, featuring some of his most popular characters created over a career spanning more than half a century.

In a world where practically everyone has access to the internet on a computer or a phone, it can be easy to overlook the more traditional forms of marketing that have been tried and true for countless businesses over a span of centuries.

Readers follow the fictional «Time Traveler» that H. G. Wells sends into future centuries; track the gyrations of time - spanning thought that Borges unfolds in his labyrinthine tales; ponder the temporal cause - effect paradoxes that Bertrand Russell surmounts; and puzzle over the reversibility of time in the physics with which Einstein revolutionized science.

His approach to writing evolved at a very young age and has developed over a career spanning more than half a century.

The 18th Century Victorian Building of Hotel Bluebells which comprises of 25 rooms spanning over 4 Stories is ideally located in the heart of... Read more Notting Hill within a walking distance of Portobello Road and Westbourne Park Grove.

St. Simons Island is the largest of the Golden Isles and has a deep - rooted history spanning over four centuries.

Celebrating over a quarter of a century of the timeless Ys series, the Ys: Memories of Celceta Silver Anniversary Edition will come packaged with a host of celebratory bonus items including a 3 - CD collection of original and arranged music spanning the entire history of the franchise, as well as game - specific items such as a cloth map detailing the lands of Celceta, a logo - emblazoned compass, and «Adol's Travel Journal» containing adventuring strategies and artwork, all within an exclusive commemorative package.

At the Morgan Library, a generous sampling of 150 works from the Thaw Collection's more than 400 sheets offered a more leisurely journey over a longer span of time, from a group of crisply delineated standing saints by Mantegna, made in the mid-fifteenth century, to a cluster of spiky, unidentifiable, compelling forms drawn by Jackson Pollock five hundred years later.

New York, NY, August 21, 2017 — Tibor de Nagy Gallery presents the exhibition Larry Rivers: (RE) APPROPRIATIONS, consisting of over 20 paintings and sculptures by Rivers spanning half a century, from the mid-1950s to the late 1990s.

«Magnetic Fields» spans four generations over the past century, featuring works by Chakaia Booker, Barbara Chase - Riboud, Abigail DeVille, Maren Hassinger, Jennie C. Jones, Howardena Pindell, Mavis Pusey, Sylvia Snowden, Shinique Smith, Alma Thomas, Mildred Thompson, and Brenna Youngblood, among others.

The heads are a perfect illustration of the dual mission Mr. Marshall has been pursuing with a kind of holy fervor for almost 40 years now: building a sturdy bridge for figurative painting from the 15th century to ours, over treacherous spans of recent history that declared both figuration and painting to be finished — and at the same time trying to rewrite history itself.

The collection spans five millenniums, from the art of early Japanese cultures around 3000 B.C. through that of the Edo period of the 17th to 19th centuries A.D. -LSB-...] Assembled over half a century and exhibited throughout the world, Mrs. Burke's collection comprises about a thousand artifacts, including paintings, prints, sculpture, textiles, lacquerware, ceramics and calligraphy, collectively worth tens of millions of dollars.