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But it is bright and high-toned, earthy, focused and exceedingly pleasant.

The '09s were lush and soft, while 2010 was fresh and high-toned.

DAILY CROSSWORD COLUMN Andrew J. Ries brings us a high-toned Saturday puzzle.

The lemon adds a high-toned touch to the earthy chicken and potato.

Savory and high-toned, with dry, earthy aromas and flavors of flowers and citrus.

Square Feet Museums offer information, cultural awareness, a high-toned meeting place and personal enlightenment.

It is high-toned and refreshing, with flavors that linger on and on in the mouth.

She abandons May altogether when she finds employment as an inspirational speaker with a high-toned abolitionist.

Luther Dunphy is a religious nutter who thinks in a kind of high-toned biblically inflected language.

The waxy texture on the palate innately intensifies the high-toned minerality and prominent acidity of this wine.

Our wine, a blend from several vineyards, showed finesse and juiciness, along with a high-toned citrus note.

And all the while you're flying, music is piped in, poetry, a high-toned jingle in the collective head.

" This is the high-toned D.C. version of the old saying: "Who are you going to believe — me or your lying eyes?

These wines, especially the youthful examples in our tasting, are not too high-toned to go someplace bold and rustic like Morocco.

This red from Contrà Soarda, which also makes a fine white from the equally obscure vespaiolo grape, is rich yet high-toned.

No one would mistake the Up Stairs Lounge for a high-toned establishment, and Buddy and Hugh had handled things quickly and efficiently.

Attenborough's docs, for all their limits, do form the rare high-toned break from the seas of televised crap we all swim in.

You can think of this the way they do — a high-toned, righteous issue about sexual autonomy — or as a novel courting ritual.

His psychology is so acute, his language so supple and sharp, that his work calls forth low-key intelligence instead of high-toned magniloquence.

He also made a one-off, La Cloche, made exclusively from the Vieux Château cuttings, a floral, pretty, high-toned wine that was structured yet delicate.

An Oddero from the first flight was high-toned and pure, silky and graceful, yet complex with the delicate flavors of rose petals and stony minerals.

On the one hand, the order had a reputation for up-to-date learning, which attracted the loyalty and largess of high-toned patrons, notably the Medicis.

It's got Peak TV presentation — the stars, the high-toned direction — and scripts that would fit right in on the '90s dramas of its writer, David E. Kelley.

If Fox News's biggest star, Sean Hannity, specializes in angry rants, magnifying internet conspiracy theories and coordinating with Trump, Maddow deals in high-toned if sometimes exasperated argumentation.

Adapting to the changing times and the sexual revolution, Hammer Film Productions began to complement its signature brand of high-toned horror with liberal helpings of gore and flesh.

Mr. Price and Mr. Zaillian are not making a high-toned "Law & Order" procedural about the particulars of a single murder rap, though it has that intrigue as a hook.

Shirley Jackson did all of these things, and, during her lifetime, was largely dismissed as a talented purveyor of high-toned horror stories—"Virginia Werewoolf," as one critic put it.

Mourvèdre from Bandol has a broader, sunnier quality that speaks of Provence, while the high-toned nebbiolo of Barolo can be from nowhere else but the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy.

This essay by John McWhorter explains: Celts with a unique grammar were conquered first by Germanics, then by Vikings who couldn't be bothered with genders or conjugations, then by high-toned Normans.

He took naturally to Anderson's precise framing, spatial economy and high-toned, winking confabulations — he squeezed about a dozen sets into a building in Görlitz, Germany, for the defiantly, dazzlingly fake ''Grand Budapest Hotel.

As "Billions" heads into the back half of its 12-episode first season, it's helpful to remind ourselves of the show's true identity and embrace the lusty, high-toned delirium that revs its dramatic engine.

The 2015 Maria da Graça is 90 percent alfrocheiro with a touch of merlot and the remainder bical, a white grape, likewise fresh and floral, with a high-toned citrus quality that lifts the wine.

In recent weeks, the knives have come out for so-called "prestige TV," the high-toned cable and streaming dramas that drive so much discussion on the internet and earn so much attention from the media.

Mass-market conservative media outlets, like Breitbart, Drudge Report, and Fox News, have seemingly sided with Trump's messaging this election, compared with the more critical, high-toned voices of National Review and the Wall Street Journal.

Every song I considered was Hüsker Dü just because Bob Mould's guitar tone was so cutting back then, and I really wanted to capture how the high-toned fruit and acid make this wine shimmer and shake.

Rounding out the top four was the high-toned, earthy Porter Creek, made from old vines of carignan from Mendocino, blended with a small percentage of zinfandel grown next door to the winery in the Russian River Valley.

Among the other highlights for me were a 1982 Napa Valley, with bright, high-toned flavors; an earthy, herbal 1995 Trailside; and a bright 1972 Martha's Vineyard, in which the mintiness was underscored by a baritone fruit note.

It also had a high-toned elegance, a zing of citrus zestiness and a light body that spoke more of a mountain wine than say the richer expressions one might find from the Langhe, the home of Barolo and Barbaresco.

The high-toned explanation for these serial rebukes of the establishment by the base is that the former has failed to address the anxieties and disgruntlements of the latter: immigration and culture shocks; wage stagnation and the stresses of a globalized world.

After Wodehouse's death in 1975, Jeeves and Wooster's exploits more or less ended on paper — though not on the small screen, where multiple productions of their high-toned scrapes and highjinks have aired, most memorably, though not most recently, by Stephen Fry (as the valet) and Hugh Laurie (as his master).

It also underscored the ways in which reductivism — whose puritanical bent has been frequently scorned (not without reason) by postmodernists who pledged themselves to reopening art to emotion, experience, nature, history, literature, and so on — can offer a clarifying, even revivifying corrective to the high-toned, industrial-scale fabrications topping the contemporary market.

A Sonic Youth album cover here, a high-toned gallery show there, but always, it seemed, the same MO: hermetic pronouncements scrawled across crude ink drawings, except for the occasional venture into an outsized watercolor of a tiny surfer pipelining a tidal wave, or a full-blown mural splayed across a pristine white wall.

Then, Lonnie, and Muhammad got me to come here when we had an occasion at the Muhammad Ali center, and I was trying to be incredibly old, gray haired, elderly statesman, I gotta elevate this guy so I'm saying all this stuff in very high toned language and Muhammad comes up behind me and puts his fingers up behind my head.

Declaring victory before the ... Declaring victory, vast budget, no one had ever heard such a budget, so they ... And Vanity Fair, to go back, was another one of these magazines that was sort of the society ... Well, Vanity Fair, in its heyday, was this sort of cultural, high-toned, witty magazine that was edited by a great editor, Frank Crowninshield, who was the first to publish Cubism in America, and published Clare Booth Luce and Dorothy Parker, and, you know, it was a very good read.

His eyes are soft and insinuating. His face is placid and innocent. ... His grammar education was neglected. He is not 'high-toned.

The consonants n and m can also have a high tone when contracted from 'and' or high-toned , e.g. (short for ) 'where do you live?'.Stevick et al. (1965), p. 83.

Chichewa verbs are mostly toneless in their basic form, although a few have a high tone (usually on the final vowel). However, unlike the situation with the lexical tones of nouns, there is no correlation at all between the high-toned verbs in Chichewa and the high-toned verbs in other Bantu languages. The obvious conclusion is that the high tones of verbs are not inherited from an earlier stage of Bantu but have developed independently in Chichewa.Hyman & Mtenje (1999b), p. 122f.

When a verbal extension is added to a high-toned root, the resulting verb is also usually high-toned, e.g. : 'sleep' > 'sleep together' Certain extensions, especially those which change a verb from transitive to intransitive, or which make it intensive, also add a tone. According to Kanerva (1990) and Mchombo (2004), the passive ending also adds a high tone, but this appears to be true only of the Nkhotakota dialect which they describe.Kanerva (1990), pp. 16-17; see Hyman & Mtenje (1999b), p. 127.

The Infinitive has a proclitic tone, that is, a high tone is heard on the syllable immediately following the prefix :Downing & Mtenje (2017), pp. 147–9. : 'to explain' : 'to help' : 'to see' : 'to eat' With a high-toned verb, the extra tone can be heard on the final only in verbs of three or more syllables. In a three-syllable verb, the tones form a plateau; in a two-syllable verb the second tone disappears by Meeussen's Rule. There are no high-toned monosyllabic verbs:Downing & Mtenje (2017), p. 147.

For such a critic the poem lacks an appropriately "lacquer finish" and is "marred by the intrusion in the last line of the critical adjective 'stupid'". ‘Wink most when critics wince’, one might say, paraphrasing from "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman".

Most intransitive verbs with the endings , , , derived from simpler verb-stems are high-toned. This is especially true when a transitive verb has been turned by a suffix into an intransitive one: : 'happen' (cf. 'do') : 'be cut' (cf. 'cut') : 'be known' (cf.

High-toned verb roots are comparatively rare (only about 13% of roots),Hyman & Mtenje (1999b), p. 124. though the proportion rises when verbs with stative and intensive extensions are added. In addition there are a number of verbs, such as 'find' which can be pronounced either way.

The second verb's mood is indicated by the low toned subjectival concord as well as the final vowel. The second meaning is rendered by basically using two normal verbs in the subjunctive mood (with high toned subjectival concords and final vowels) with the actions following each other.

Barbara Billingsley in the pilot "It's a Small World", 1957. June is dedicated to her family; her interests outside the home are social events like weddings or school events like meetings and plays. She has ladylike pastimes: needlepoint, cake decorating, and arranging tea roses. She reads glossy but high-toned, tasteful women's magazines.

"Palace of the Babies" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. It was first published in 1916Buttel, p. 219. and is therefore in the public domain. Bates takes this poem to signify that the author of "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman" was not altogether "the village atheist".

Sadakiyo ends up killing him on behalf of the Friends, collecting the information he has gathered. ; : Kenji's female childhood friend and former classmate. During Kenji's school years, Yukiji was a high-toned tomboy who was able to fight off the bullying twins, Mabo and Yanbo. She also joins Kenji's gang when they were kids.

"A High-Toned Old Christian Woman" is a poem in Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium (1923). Milton J. Bates interprets the poem as a "shocking version" of Santayana's argument in Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900) that poetry and religion are equally fictions of the human mind, simply reflecting the values of the human maker.Bates.

Of these, Emerson, Clarke, and Higginson all became members. At this time, in Boston, there existed a few other clubs for women, including "the Saturday Morning Club, the Brains Club and the Young Ladies Club, the members of which are in general high-toned persons, interested in intellectual and philanthropic matters."Georgia Weekly Telegraph, Feb. 9, 1875.

" The intensely pro-Union Palmyra Courier was restrained in its criticism of McCullough: "We have known him personally since he was a boy. He was ever, as a citizen, a high-toned gentleman – really a noble specimen of a man. Brave as a lion, no danger could intimidate him. We doubt whether the rebel ranks contain a more honorable man than he was.

Likewise in the Chewa verb a- _ná-ká_ -fótokoza 'he went and explained', the tone of ká 'go and' does not get lowered, despite following the high-toned tense-marker ná.Hyman, Larry M. & Al D. Mtenje (1999). "Prosodic Morphology and tone: the case of Chichewa" in René Kager, Harry van der Hulst and Wim Zonneveld (eds.) The Prosody-Morphology Interface. Cambridge University Press, 90-133.

Tonal patterns also play an important grammatical role in Chichewa verbs, helping to distinguish one tense from another, and relative clause verbs from main clause verbs. Tones are also used in intonation and phrasing. Conventionally Chichewa is said to have high tones (H) and low tones (L). However, it has been argued that it is more accurate to think of it as having high-toned syllables versus toneless ones.

When a noun has a high tone there is usually only one, and it is usually heard on one of the last three syllables. However, some nouns, like 'car', have two tones or, like 'pepper', a trio of three high-toned syllables. Chichewa thus in some respects can be considered to be a pitch-accent language with a 'mixture of accentual and tonal properties'.Downing & Mtenje (2017), pp. 132–4.

From a theoretical point of view, however, it has been argued that Chichewa tones are best thought of not in terms of H and L, but in terms of H and Ø, that is to say, high-toned vs toneless syllables.Myers (1998). The reason is that H tones are much more dynamic than L tones and play a large role in tonal phenomena, whereas L-toned syllables are relatively inert.Hyman (2000).

The elderly criminal mastermind known as the Gentleman arrives in New York with his young ward, a mute woman known as Pity. The Gentleman has a plan to gain wealth and destroy the world simultaneously. To accomplish this, he wants the assistance of the Sinister Six. He begins by appearing at the Machiavelli Club, a refuge for high-toned criminals, and hiring the Chameleon to be his main recruiter.

This tends to occur (with some exceptions) when there is a series of syllables with tones H L H or H L L H; it does not occur when two high tones come in adjacent syllables. The toneless syllables tend to be lower than the high-toned syllables. However, the first syllable of anticipates the following high tone and is almost on the same level. The last syllable of is also raised.

Alternatively, one (or both) of the vowels may have started out low-toned and become high-toned due to the application of some rule; or perhaps there was a low tone between the two high tones that got deleted at some point. Regardless, the OCP claims that there can not have been two consecutive high tones (nor two consecutive low tones, etc.) in the underlying representation of the morpheme, i.e. in the morpheme's lexical entry.

According to English scholar Jonathan Roberts, the resulting music sets Blake's poems to a folk music idiom. The songs on the album average under two minutes in length. Ginsberg's melodies and the accompanying instrumentation are noted for their simplicity, with Peter Frank from Fanfare describing the accompaniment as "mantra-like". Vocally, Ginsberg demonstrates a lithe, high- toned delivery and the dramatic character of what Ink 19 magazine's James Mann calls "a poet's voice".

It is common that in bluegrass music, each instrument in the band adds to the rhythm of the tune in its own way. The mandolin with its high toned strings, makes its contribution with a technique called a "chop," also known as chunking. Sharp chords are played on the second and fourth beats of each bar (or the second and third in the case of 3/4 time). These are called the "upbeats" or sometimes "offbeats".

Helen Gurley Brown in 1964 In 1962, Brown's book Sex and the Single GirlScanlon 2009, p. ix. was published in 28 countries, and stayed on the bestseller lists for over a year. In 1964 the book inspired the film of the same name starring Natalie Wood. In 1965, Brown became editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, then a literary magazine famed for high-toned content, and reinvented it as a magazine for the modern single career-woman.

Hira's stage performances were heralded throughout his career. In 2009, Tokyo University professor emeritus of English literature described Hira as Japan's best Shakesperean actor, noting the incandescence he brought to his roles as mythical characters. The range in his performance as King Lear, from solemnness to madness, was praised by Kindai University professor and theatre critic . An obituary by the Chunichi Shimbun identified Hira's special ability to deliver profound performances and his high-toned delivery of lines.

His work and life came to an end September 4, 1854. Dean wrote of Goddard, "His native endowments were superior; his education had been extended and thorough; his study of the Chinese language had been patient and successful; his knowledge of the sacred languages and literature was accurate and familiar, and he brought to his work a large share of common sense and sound judgment, and a warm heart and high- toned Christian principles." Collections from American Universities: 1\.

"Sketches of English Literature", "Morning Dewdrops" and "Working Women of the Nineteenth Century" held a high place in public esteem. Most of Balfour's writing was as a contributor to periodical literature. She was impressed with the importance of utilizing the modern demand for magazine reading by an abundant supply of high-toned and attractive literature. One of the first writers in The Fireside, she continued its "long, fast friend", her last serial story, "Lilian's Trial; or, Darkness before Dawn," appearing in its pages.

A commonly held conception within phonology is that no morpheme is allowed to contain two consecutive high tones. If two consecutive high tones appear within a single morpheme, then some rule must have applied . Maybe one of the surface high-tone vowels was underlyingly high-toned, while the other was underlyingly toneless. Then, since all vowels must have tone at the surface (in this hypothetical language), the high tone of the one vowel spreads onto the other (see: autosegmental phonology).

Another interpretive direction is that the poem is about nihilism rather than an alternative morality of pagan virtues. Bates seems to take this direction when he writes, "If lewdness is human, why not project a heaven on this basis rather than the moral sentiment?"Bates, p. 106. This seems to concede that the alternative construction wouldn't be a moral perspective, capable of sustaining its own moral sentiment, but rather a nihilistic "lewd" rejection of "the moral sentiment"—enough to make a high- toned Christian widow wince.

A truce – not a compromise, but a chance for high-toned gentlemen to retire gracefully from their very civil declarations of war. By Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, February 17, 1877, p. 132. A ceasefire (or truce), also spelled cease fire (the antonym of 'open fire'), is a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions. Historically, the concept existed at least by the time of the Middle Ages, when it was known as a 'truce of God'.

Le Figaro awarded The Art of Love with three stars out of four, as well as Les Inrockuptibles, StudioCiné Live and Télérama. The reviews of Le Parisien, Elle and A voir à lire were more rigid, although they praised the film's comedic situations. Foreign critiques similarly reviewed the film. Neil Young of The Hollywood Reporter positively reviewed the film, comparing it to the works of Woody Allen, but adding that "some promising ideas in this high-toned romantic comedy get smothered by an over-complicated presentation".

Vancouver: Mitchell Press, 1974, 138. Later mansions (including the Davie mansion) were built in then remoter areas of the West End as the financial district's land values displaced the high-toned residences. This role was ultimately dropped with the increasing vogue for the upscale Shaughnessy neighbourhood, and as middle- class housing of various kinds began to fill out the West End. As the city grew, the West End became a transitory place for new arrivals from elsewhere in Canada, the United Kingdom, and later for immigrants from other countries, establishing a tradition of diversity.

At just the time Double Indemnity was released, Selznick's Since You Went Away was enjoying some box-office success. In his ads, Selznick quoted various dignitaries claiming it was the finest picture they had ever seen, how it served such a noble purpose, how it elevated humanity to new levels – no high-toned platitude was too lofty to invoke. Indeed, the ad averred, the words Since You Went Away had become "the four most important words uttered in motion picture history since Gone with the Wind."Sikov, p.

Thus asóma means 'he reads', but when the toneless prefix a- 'he/she' is replaced by the high-toned prefix bá- 'they', instead of básóma it becomes básomá 'they read'.Luganda Pretraining Program, p.94. The tones of verbs in relative clauses and in negative sentences differ from those in ordinary positive sentences and the addition of an object-marker such as mu 'him' adds further complications. In addition to lexical tones, phrasal tones, and the tonal patterns of tenses, there are also intonational tones in Luganda, for example, tones of questions.

Upon receiving his first lecture, Mrs. Eddy wrote to Bliss Knapp in August 1904 that she was pleased with it and that the excerpts she has read were "clear, logical and high-toned." She sent him a book called The Essentials of Elocution by Alfred Ayres, Funk and Wagnals, New York, 1897. Mrs. Eddy helped edit his lecture "Christian Science: Its Nature and Purpose" in her own handwriting, making eleven changes in the body of the lecture and all but one in the section "Christian Science no Will Power".

In this example from the satirical "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman", Stevens plays with the notions of immediately accessible, but ultimately unsatisfying, notions of reality: The saxophones squiggle because, as J. Hillis Miller says of Stevens in his book, Poets of Reality, the theme of universal fluctuation is a constant theme throughout Stevens's poetry: "A great many of Stevens's poems show an object or group of objects in aimless oscillation or circling movement."Miller, J. Hillis. "Wallace Stevens". Poets of Reality: Six Twentieth-Century Writers, p. 226.

Warner came from money, growing up in the high-toned suburb of Indian Hill in a family with local social standing. For example, Warner's father served as a trustee of the Cincinnati Music Hall Association and Art Museum and chaired the United Appeal one year. Warner's grandfather (and namesake) ran his own insurance firm and was active in local golfing circles. Grandmother Warner was the daughter of a wealthy Cincinnati entrepreneur named J. Stacey Hill, who was the president of a then-prominent thousand-room Cincinnati hotel named Hotel Gibson.

Hence also the locally-brewed "Knickerbocker Beer" brewed by Jacob Ruppert, the first sponsors of the TV show Tonight!;"Tonight!" Knickerbocker Beer Show, 1953. hence the gossip columnist "Cholly Knickerbocker", the pen name of Igor Cassini; hence the extremely high-toned Knickerbocker Club (still in a neo-Georgian mansion on Fifth Avenue at 62nd Street, which was founded in 1871 when some members of the Union Club became concerned that admission policies were not strict enough); and hence the New York Knicks, whose corporate name is the "New York Knickerbockers".

Even Stevens' experimentation with perspective, coolly executed in "The Snow Man", is presented with bawdy humor in a poem like "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman". One vein of Stevens' poetic humour expresses his reaction against the conventions of the Victorian tradition. "Depression Before Spring" for instance refuses to gush about spring as a season of renewal; it compares a fair maiden's flaxen hair to cow spit; and it introduces such "unpoetic" lines as "Ho! Ho!" and > But ki-ki-ri-ki Briings no rou-cou No rou-cou-cou.

The première was held at the Salle Charras on 17 November 1908. It was high-toned throughout, befitting such an "art" film. Sponsored and advertised by Le Film d'Art under the title "Visions d'Art", the various entertainments mostly combined imagery and live music. There were two other features beside The Assassination, each with an original score of its own: Le Secret de Myrto, depicting ballerina Régina Badet dancing to music of Gaston Berardi; and L'Empreinte, with music by Fernand Le Borne contained a series of "picturesque tableaux" using silhouettes of Pierrot and other pantomime figures.

The speed of sound in xenon gas (169 m/s) is less than that in air169.44 m/s in xenon (at 0 °C and 107 kPa), compared to 344 m/s in air. See: because the average velocity of the heavy xenon atoms is less than that of nitrogen and oxygen molecules in air. Hence, xenon vibrates more slowly in the vocal cords when exhaled and produces lowered voice tones (low-frequency-enhanced sounds, but the fundamental frequency or pitch doesn't change), an effect opposite to the high-toned voice produced in helium. Specifically, when the vocal tract is filled with xenon gas, its natural resonant frequency becomes lower than when it's filled with air.

The election was hotly contested, as can be seen by this poster published in 1877 A certificate for the electoral vote for Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler for the State of Louisiana "A truce – not a compromise, but a chance for high-toned gentlemen to retire gracefully from their very civil declarations of war." By Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, 1877 Feb 17, p. 132. Tilden, who had prosecuted machine politicians in New York and sent legendary political boss William M. Tweed to jail, ran as a reform candidate against the background of the corruption of the Grant administration. Both parties backed civil service reform and an end to Reconstruction.

Roman Period sites in Kosovo Part of a series of articles upon Archaeology of Kosovo Recorded traces of the Vërban archaeological site, inform us a lot about site selection for the settlement building during the Roman times. The site is set close to Klokot, in an alluvial terrace stretched along the Morava river flow, an area known for the fertile land and near the warm thermal mineral waters spring. One of the most interesting accidental archaeological discoveries is a sculpture found near the Banja e Kllokotit, a masterpiece of the Dardanian art, presenting an example of the distinguished autochthonous sculpturing art, of advanced artistic creation. It is sculptured in qualitative marble, and reflects a figure of a high-toned Dardanian lady.

The density of the book was discussed, with some reviewers suggesting that the multitude of references to chess required a certain knowledge of the game in order to appreciate the allusions and clues contained through the book. Others said that the writing was at times clunky, and the extensive social commentary detracted from the narrative flow. In a negative review for the London Review of Books, critic Lorin Stein described the book as "long-winded [and] shoddily put together", and discussed why many American reviewers paid deference to what he thought was a high-toned airport novel. Stein found various inconsistencies within the book to be distracting, noting an example where a pool table appears mid-scene in a room previously described as "tiny", and said the plot was goofy and implausible.

Most verbal roots in Chichewa are toneless, as the following: : 'help' : 'go' Monosyllabic verbs are always toneless: : 'eat' : 'die' A few verbal roots, however, have a lexical tone, which is heard on the final vowel of the verb: : 'run' : 'thank' The tones are not inherited from proto-Bantu, and do not correspond to the high-low distinction of verbal roots in other Bantu languages, but appear to be an independent development in Chichewa.Hyman & Mtenje (1999b), p. 122f. Often a verb has a tone not because the root itself has one but because a stative or intensive extension is added to it: : 'know' : 'be known' : 'want' : 'want very much' If a high-toned extension is added to a verb which already has a high tone, only one tone is heard, on the final.

Concert of Charles Dutoit and Philadelphia Orchestra in Tianjin Every year, more than 300 performances are staged in the grand theatre, including operas, dances, musicals, symphonies, Chinese modern dramas, Chinese operas. Since the establishment of the theatre in April 2012, about 10 high-toned operas have been performed annually. For example, Puccini's Tosca, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin carried out by Stanislavski Russian Theatre, Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard's Castle, Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto, Il trovatore, Aida performed by Hungarian State Opera House, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro by Deutsche Oper am Rhein, and La traviata of Giuseppe Verdi. In June 2012, Concert of Charles Dutoit and Philadelphia Orchestra was staged in the theatre. 296 performances have been staged and 270,000 visitors have been served till the first anniversary of the theatre’s inauguration ceremony.

The details made his songs feel more authentic and compelling, familiar to anyone who's ever longed for another, especially someone determined to remain out of reach." The seven- minute "Abba on the Jukebox" contains chintzy drum machine beats, a brief, high-toned guitar phrase and sighing backing vocals, with lyrics solely comprising a list of memories spent with a partner. Tom Ewing of Freaky Trigger said of the song's lyrics: "What Rob Wratten discovered with the Field Mice is that if you say something plainly enough, your words work harder and you can give the most ordinary phrases the emotional weight of novels. […] What he discovered with 'Abba on the Jukebox' is that you didn’t even have to go that far – what makes this song so poignant is that the loss between the lines, the knowledge that these things he's describing can't ever return or be remade, goes unmentioned.

Summer is like a fat beast, > sleepy in mildew... Josephson's objection to this side of Stevens is that he in his next book "would have to be more and more intimate and scandalous, ad absurdum", and that already this side "has influenced many of his younger contemporaries, and in them, at least, leads to pretense, and murkiness".Josephson, 32 There are those who maintain that both the aesthete and sensualist readings overlook the American burgher in Stevens, the successful insurance executive possessed of "something of the mountainous gruffness that we recognize in ourselves as American—the stamina, the powerful grain showing in a kind of indifference".Richard Eberhart, quoted in Bates, p. 89. This character trait may be reflected in the element of anti-poetry in Stevens' work, as in his choice of the word 'stupid' in "Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores", or the "tink and tank and tunk-a-tunk-tunk" of "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman".

193 Le Bargy and Calmettes then re-filmed the work, this time with Cécile Sorel as Tosca, and released it in 1908. The Bernhardt version re-surfaced and was released in 1912 by Universal Pictures. There was also a 1918 version by Paramount Pictures with Pauline Frederick as Tosca.Berkeley Daily Gazette (27 May 1918) p. 3 Only fragments remain of the Italian film made the same year starring Francesca Bertini.Amazonas (2004) p. 154 Later films tended to be adaptations of Puccini's opera rather than Sardou's play with the notable exception of Carl Koch's 1941 Italian film Tosca starring Imperio Argentina as Tosca and Rossano Brazzi as Cavaradossi. Jean Renoir originally worked with Koch on the adaptation, but had to leave Italy at the outbreak of World War II. The film was released in the US in 1947 as The Story of Tosca.Durgnat (1974) p. 213; Crowther (19 December 1947) Shortly after the first London performances of La Tosca, Francis Burnand and the composer Florian Pascal wrote a musical parody of the play entitled Tra- la-la Tosca or The High-Toned Soprano and the Villain Bass.

Lancaster's Drayneflete may have taken its initial hints from a public lecture delivered in 1947 by Sir John Summerson outlining the issues in historic preservation that underlie Lancaster's comedy. Summerson described tongue-in cheek the typical English village's "laminations of architecture which would take a whole library of Mumfords to describe in detail:" :"The 'matrix' is medieval and a few Tudor gables jut out in the High Street; the one where Cromwell is conclusively proved not to have slept is an antique shop; another is the Nell Gwynne Cakery. These are the much- photographed 'old bits' The remainder of the High Street is 70 per cent Georgian--I should, perhaps, say 35 per cent, because the shopfronts have eaten up half the façades and sash windows peer over the enormous flashing fascias of the chain stores..."Summerson, John, 1947. "The Past in the Future" collected in Heavenly Mansions 1948 (paperback 1963) Drayneflete is a fairly high-toned joke, that any reader with some experience of English architecture and the English county way-of-life and the style of English antiquarian notes about parish churches and curious village harvest traditions and the like will recognize.