Sentences with phrase «with obelisk»

At our April Wednesday Live client breakfast, Roger spoke with the Obelisk team and our guests about how we might reframe our professional lives in order to bring about innovation and progress within the legal sector.

The latest in our series of Snapshot stories, Obelisk Consultant Sobia Choudary tells us why she wanted to work differently as a lawyer... Tell us about yourself and how long you've been working with Obelisk.

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We had the center of Paris right below us - the place de la Concorde with the obelisk, the Orangerie, the Chambre des Députés, the Seine with its pompous bridges, palaces, gardens.

The religion in the U.S. is catholic, Sun - day, Saturn - day, moon - day, buildings with obelisk, «sex» on top of so called holy buildings where many people go to hear what one man has to say three time a week while they are kept dumb like sheep being led to slaughter.

Not exact matches

Since you already used a restaurant example, let me continue with the analogy: we're serving tasty food to an ever increasing number of satisfied, loyal customers and making enough money on every meal served to pay back original investment in fixed overhead by next year (those faux - egyptian obelisks didn't come cheap).

It contained a number of remarkable constructions such as Augustus's Mausoleum (an enormous building, some forty metres high, topped with a bronze colossus of Augustus), the beautiful and ornate Ara Pacis, and a giant sundial (an obelisk taken from Egypt, signifying the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra which began his rule) erected in such a way as to demonstrate the cosmological significance of Augustus's birth (its shadow bisected the Ara Pacis on his birthday).

Take, for instance, the fact that the videos showing the beheadings and executions of Ethiopian and Egyptian Christians were entitled «A Message Signed in Blood to the Nation of the Cross», and that the cover of ISIS» official magazine, Dabiq, in October 2014 featured a picture of St Peter's Square with an ISIS flag superimposed atop the obelisk that adorns the centre of that iconic Christian building.

The truncated obelisk's flat top is capped, in a way both formally and materially awkward, by an exogenous metal structure resembling a flying saucer that contains communications equipment; a needle fitted with a series of rings rises from this structure, attaining the «iconic» height of 1,776 feet.

For many centuries there lay side by side in one of the famous archaeological sites two enormous obelisks, cut with great skill out of the living rock of Egypt, dressed down to the proper shape, then deeply inscribed with hieroglyphic characters.

For many, it's still hard to forget the images of the large obelisk in the center of Buenos Aires that was covered with a giant «condom» on World AIDS Day in 2005.

A row of bars and pizza stands with their backs to the river and a massive concrete obelisk baring the name «Mussolini» bracket the open expanse of a four - lane divided boulevard.

At the same time, a slightly younger, more flamboyantly out contingent — which includes the movie's main character, an HIV - positive radical played to soul - searing perfection by Nahuel Pérez Biscayart — wants to stage public kiss - ins, lead raunchy cheers at rallies with pink pompoms, and sheath the city's Luxor Obelisk in a giant condom.

To begin with the unlocking, Quickly fast travel to Yngvar's Fang, then walk to the obelisk and head right to see a path that leads down from the plateau.

For the first time, all winners at this year's Cardinal Crystal Grooming Achievement Awards, which will be presented at the SuperZoo show in Las Vegas on July 21, will receive a cash prize of $ 1,000 to go along with their Crystal obelisk statue, which has long been regarded as the grooming industry's version of an Oscar.

It surges up from the sea and towards the seafront and its wide ribbon of sandy beach and an even wider promenade with a war memorial obelisk as its landmark.

Except for the hieroglyph stairway there are no tall buildings here, but many stèles (memorial obelisk - like stones with inscriptions) in perfect condition and altars.

Istanbul Obelisk & Sumengen Hotel luxury and home comfort hotel in old city center istanbul with sea view rooms and terrace resturant... Savannah Getaways Savannah Getaways is a consortium of absentee property owners who rent these upscale historic district homes out to vacation and business travelers to this coastal Georgia destination at highly competitive rates by the day, week or month.

Buenos Aires has the layout of a European capital — with the grand avenues cutting through the city, impressive monuments like the Obelisk, visible from far away.

The Obelisk Hotel, Istanbul, offer their guests traditional Turkish hospitality with a warm atmosphere.

Enjoy a guided tour of this magical Nabatean City with highlights including the Siq, Treasury, Obelisk Tomb, Calligraphy, Jabal Madbach (sacrificial palace), Tombs, Theater, Mountaintop Tombs

Museums, palaces, carved granite obelisks, rock - hewn churches and ancient remains; all this combined with spectacular landscapes and much more, is waiting for you in this historic, beautiful and diverse country.

We will begin with the ancient Hippodrome, which was the scene of chariot raoes, with the three monuments: the Obelisk of Theodosius, the bronze Serpentine Column and the Column of Constantine.

View from the terrace of the Spanish Steps and of the Piazza Trinita» dei Monti with the famous obelisk.

Another time - wasting idea also gets introduced as you progress through the game, tasking you with knocking down twenty obelisks strewn around the castle, adding at least another five or ten minutes of pointless running around.

In what feels like some sordid Dr. who episode, you are dumped on a remote part of a UK - future inlet, and I tasked with collecting scraps and assorted detritus to survive whilst Evading highly tuned Victorian - era hunter - bots as you seek the pieces of the obelisks that may somehow lead to your escape from said highly - stylized prison.

From there, the aforementioned exams give you the chance to advance to Ra Yellow or Obelisk Blue, bettering your «rep» with the other characters.

The story takes a page out of Space 2001, with the protagonists encountering a towering black obelisk endowed with some inscrutable alien power.

A Batcolumn and Lipstick (Ascending), neither among the Whitney's sketches, play with noble columns as richly as Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk.

There's Louise Bourgeois» Untitled (With Hand)(1989); Michelangelo's David (1504); Auguste Rodin's The Thinker (1880); Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913); Wladimir Tatlin's Monument to the third International (1919 - 20); Pablo Picasso's She Goat (1950); Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk (1963); Lygia Clark's Raw Cubismo (1969); Robert Smithson's Gyrostasis (1968); Sol LeWitt's Incomplete Open Cube (1974); Niki de St. Phalle's Snake Tree (1984 - 1987); Nam June Paik's L'Olympe de Gouges in La fée électronique (1989); and a Moai Easter Island Head (circa 1250 - 1500).

Besides Broken Obelisk, Pipilotti Rist toys effortlessly on video with feminism and post-feminism, as she will later with Pipilotti Rist in retrospective.

«Younger Than Jesus» was well - stocked with crowd pleasers like Chu Yun's «living sculpture» of a woman sleeping in a bed in the middle of the gallery (This is XX, 2006) and AIDS - 3D's OMG Obelisk (2007) which humorously memorialized IM's condensed exclamation on the favoured totem of ancient worship.

In 1964, the artist staged temporary interventions with living animals, and in 1975 she made an Obelisk of Sweet Bread, that models the national monument in the ephemeral material.

Katherine Bradford (American, b. 1942) Horse Costume Initialed and dated «KB 97» l.r., titled, signed, and dated»... / K Bradford /...» on the reverse, with a label from Obelisk Gallery, Boston, More...

The sculptures that compose Whites take the form of anthropomorphic obelisks — bone - like shrunken monuments with eye sockets and nostrils cast from human skulls.

Bell will speak about Ursuţa's distinct visual language, which thrives on paradox and commingles the monumental and the forensic, as exemplified in Whites (2015), the artist's series of anthropomorphic white obelisks, and Conversion Tables (2015 — 16), her sculptures of dismembered female torsos adorned with coins.

Olu Oguibe's work was among the most prominently displayed in the city of Kassel, Germany, during Documenta 14 — whenever you got off the tram at Königsplatz, you saw his gigantic black obelisk, inscribed with words from the Book of Matthew written in... Read More

Barnett Newman's stately Broken Obelisk has kept company with the Rothko Chapel for more than three decades.

The atrium soars six stories, with Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk in the center, like an exclamation point, aimed at the skylight above.

Although it doesn't make any historical sense (but it does look good) and in an Apollonian versus Dionysian sense perhaps it makes an esoteric point, the curators chose to place Barnett Newman's sculptureBroken Obelisk (1967), in juxtaposition with Claude Monet's mural - sized Water Lilies (ca.1921 - 25) across from paintings by Willem de Kooning, Brice Marden, and Jasper Johns.

When the project was conceived, the artists» goal was to mark the historic boundary with a series of 47 obelisks that mimicked markers installed along the contemporary border between Mexico and the U.S.

Their contribution to the New Museum's 2009 Triennial was an obelisk on which stacked text read omg that was sent as JPEG files with instructions and built by the museum staff from cheap fiberboard and glue — the thinking being that, on the Internet, no one would be the wiser.

RM: There's a good 1975 interview with your father at the end of the book in which he talks about the difficulties of the material from which LOVE was made, Cor - Ten steel, which of course many artists were using at this time — from Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk to Richard Serra's Tilted Arc.

It didn't quite work with Barnett Newman's «Broken Obelisk» or Cy Twombly's large painting from the late «60s.

This assembly of golden columns, arches, pedestals, and a giant obelisk are all covered with trash — toylike skulls, fruit, axes, and swords.

The de Menils bought the Broken Obelisk for $ 90,000 and announced that they'd donate it, along with 14 Mark Rothko paintings, to the Institute of Religion in the Texas Medical Center.

But it also radically feminizes a normally cold and masculine space (Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk first installed there alongside Monet's Water Lilies set the tone nicely), not only with its subject matter but with the gaudy drama of several stories of fuchsia colored drapes and a enormous circular couch that invites visitors to lounge, chat and even sleep.

Broken Column takes the cliche of monumental Victorian cemetery masonry and turns it into something else (as Barnett Newman did with his Broken Obelisk in the 1960s).

Choosing to work within a consultant network like Obelisk means you have access to network of clients who you know have experience of working with freelance legal consultants.

This ethos of positive innovation is one that we at Obelisk share with BT, and this shared understanding permeates and informs our relationship with them.