Straw men bestrode the landscape, and paranoia and conspiracy theories flourished.
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The squat, hyperkinetic demagogue bestrode the antebellum landscape like "an unstoppable force of nature," Blumenthal writes.
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The exploitation of the imaginary Aryan history, bestrode by Valhallan gods, became central to the Hitler cult.
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For at least three years, ISIS has held sway over a vast expanse of area that bestrode both Iraq and Syria.
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Many might even share her nostalgia for the heady days when Alfred Kazin and Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe bestrode the cultural landscape.
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Homage is paid, above all, to Jean Gabin, who bestrode French films with a nobility that has no exact equivalent on the American screen.
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In far too many cases an office that once bestrode entire cities now belongs to invisible company men, embarrassed phantoms materializing via videotape for the annual appeal.
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One of the world's best-known auto industry executives, Ghosn bestrode the alliance, although he often said that his efforts to drive integration were hampered by the French government's stake in Renault.
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At midcentury, the Democratic Party bestrode the country as an electoral colossus, but that reach came at the cost of ideological consistency: The party contained within its ranks not only a growing cohort of Northern liberals but also a powerful faction of racially and economically conservative Southerners.
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Although the general public had caught on to his insufferable personality by 2002, when he called 9/11 "kind of like an artwork in its own right," the not-so-Young British Artist bestrode a tide of escalating asking prices through 2008, when he raised £111 million at a Sotheby's auction without the help of a dealer or gallery.
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And never had Duane bestrode a gamer, swifter, stancher beast.
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Gerald Howat summed up Devonshire's life: > Devonshire had been a moderate among men of great political passion. If > scarcely a spectator in the play of events, he had never bestrode the stage. > His death, coming just after those of Hardwicke and Legge, deprived the > Whigs of three material men.
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At this juncture his tenancies and personal estates were so geographically diverse and his power at court so great it has been said that he "bestrode the kingdom like a colossus".Barton (1992), 248. In 1155 Ponce fought at the conquest of Andújar, where he can be traced on 15 June.
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He had four siblings, but only one of them compared to him favourably in eminence and prominence; Isaac Babalola Akinyele. Between the brothers, they bestrode the environment of Ibadan in the fields of education, religion, social responsibility and politics, each like a colossus as from the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
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Alexander Owen (29 April 1851 - 29 July 1920) was an English brass band conductor, arranger and cornet player. It was said that he "bestrode the banding world for over 50 years.""The Top 10 Most Successful MD’s at the Open: Alexander Owen", 4Barsrest.com. Retrieved 5 April 2017 Owen was born in Manchester, and grew up in an orphanage in Swinton.
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He was wary of allied decadence, complacent, corrosive of an innocent romanticism expanded into mysticism. His ideas were challenged as "objectively impossible"; Weimar lacked clarity and leadership, while Rathenau was deterministic, and robust over the details. A Levee en masse would be part of this utilitarianism that bestrode his menschen philosophies. This contradistinction about an "unravelled" Versailles which was incompatible with Fulfillment and the role of Reconstruction.
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J. M. Freeland says of the architectural scene in Sydney in the 1860s, "The real architects of Sydney, in general, liked, respected and helped each other as friends. This peaceful situation was partly due to the overpowering presence of Edmund Blacket. Blacket bestrode the Sydney Architectural scene like a colossus." During the period of the building of Sydney University, Edmund and Sarah added another two children to the family; Cyril was born in 1857 and Horace in 1860, taking the total to eight.
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When the ship was done, he told the youngest son to lay claim to the princess. The youngest son asked him to stay with him, and the hermit asked him for half of everything he got. The son agreed. As they traveled, they came across a man putting fog in a sack, and at the hermit's suggestion, the son asked him to come with them, and so with a man tearing up trees, a man drinking a stream dry, a man shooting a quail in the Underworld, and a man whose steps bestrode an island.
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The Muscogees gave the white man land, and kindled him a fire, that he might warm himself; and when his enemies, the pale faces of the south, made war on him, their young men drew the tomahawk, and protected his head from the scalping knife." "But when the white man had warmed himself before the Indian's fire, and filled himself with their hominy, he became very large. With a step he bestrode the mountains, and his feet covered the plains and the valleys. His hands grasped the eastern and western sea, and his head rested on the moon.
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In 2002 The Spectator described it as "one of the great radio successes"; the following year William Cook wrote in The Guardian that the show, "boasted a wonderful writing team" and "bestrode the airwaves like a colossus, reaching an audience of 15 million – the sort of ratings most current comedies can only dream about." In 2005 The Sunday Times referred to it as "One of the best-loved shows of all time." Punch commented that the series was probably the last comedy show on radio to have a huge following. According to Took, Round the Horne was broadcast when radio was considered to be on the wane when compared to television; such was the show's popularity, many thought radio would continue to be a leading form of entertainment.
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