Sentences with phrase «valour in»

The exhibition features lithographic prints, linocuts, mixed media collages and tapestry — all of which deal with ideas of courage, voicing identity and exerting valour in the face of adversity in both past and present social discourses.

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Throughout Scripture, we can see women of valour, women operating in their anointing and created purpose as ezer kenegdos.

He who as soon as born keen - thoughted, foremost, Surpassed the gods, himself, a god, in power; Before whose vehemence the worlds trembled Through his great valour; he, O men, is Indra.

What buckles is complex: «brute beauty,» «plume,» and «air» but also «valour,» «act,» and «pride,» both the natural and human are involved; in fact, it takes on cosmic proportions.

It was a tour of duty in which, yet again, they demonstrated their heroism and valour, and during which they lost two of their comrades.

So maybe it would be wiser to wait until the moment that discretion no longer forms the better part of valour and challengers are forced to face up to each other in front of a baying audience at their autumn conference — until then enjoy the silly season!

Anajaneya is the name of Hanuman whose valour and exploits are well known in the epic Ramayana.

Italian jacquard fabric is produced on the legendary mills of Ruffo Coli, Taroni, Carnet and Etro, all proudly working on valouring the selvage «Made in Italy» and deserving to be called the benchmarks in the world of fabrics.

Deciding to pursue a career in the armed forces requires valour and strength, two virtues that make the military singles using our site so special.

With a streak of blood worn proudly on his temple as representative of Stephen Crane's manifest valour (the only injury our invulnerable flyboy hero sustains even in the midst of a withering firefight between three American combat helicopters and an armoured division of murderous Serbs (or Muslims, or Croats — they're not sure so we're not either), save for a flesh wound to the shoulder), the great irony of stranded Navy Navigator Burnett's (Owen Wilson) red badge of courage is that it's acquired when he ejects from his own downed aircraft.

It identifies this Jacksonian ideal that runs deep into the bedrock of American culture of the valour of getting hands dirty and the importance of beating the holy hell out of Brainy whenever it can, physically and emotionally — and who cares, because he's for moderation in a go - go world.

«For come, tell me, can there be anything more delightful than to see, as it were, here now displayed before us a vast lake of bubbling pitch with a host of snakes and serpents and lizards, and ferocious and terrible creatures of all sorts swimming about in it, while from the middle of the lake there comes a plaintive voice saying: «Knight, whosoever thou art who beholdest this dread lake, if thou wouldst win the prize that lies hidden beneath these dusky waves, prove the valour of thy stout heart and cast thyself into the midst of its dark burning waters, else thou shalt not be worthy to see the mighty wonders contained in the seven castles of the seven Fays that lie beneath this black expanse;» and then the knight, almost ere the awful voice has ceased, without stopping to consider, without pausing to reflect upon the danger to which he is exposing himself, without even relieving himself of the weight of his massive armour, commending himself to God and to his lady, plunges into the midst of the boiling lake, and when he little looks for it, or knows what his fate is to be, he finds himself among flowery meadows, with which the Elysian fields are not to be compared.»

Scant justice was done to the valour of Catherine McDougall, the Australian lawyer and «whistle - blower» in this case, whose career had suffered unwarrantedly and to whom it added insult to injury.

Not the kind that castles and ships fly or that armies carried into battle (see, e.g., the Battle of the Standard, in reference to which the word was first used in English to mean flag, the OED tells us, because a versifier there wrote: «it was there that valour took its stand to conquer or die»), but growing out of that notion of a centre from which commands are issued all the way to a measure of uniform quality.