Nothing ever feels quite large enough for his vaunting ambitions of scale and theme.
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Airlines have been vaunting for this title for years, often with no clear definition as to what "longest flight" means.
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Here's the thing: Airlines have been vaunting for this title for years, often with no clear definition as to what "longest flight" means.
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His City Hall in Dallas, a boldly cantilevered wedge of glass and steel facing the commercial district, reflected the vaunting Texan pride he found there.
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"Old Town Road," a country song by a black musician, Lil Nas X, vaunting the cowboy lifestyle, has been atop the Billboard 27 this year.
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Yet even the strait-laced Iranian government has used Mr. Tataloo's popularity to record a nationalistic video vaunting Iran's military effort in the Persian Gulf in 2017.
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Early attempts by newspapers to put up digital "paywalls" floundered, and met with derision from critics and competitors vaunting the internet's ability to generate huge audiences for free content.
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He is running a campaign on nationalist themes, blaming terrorism and the West for Turkey's economic woes — rising unemployment, inflation and a falling lira — and vaunting his social and building programs.
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More fundamentally, though, Delaware's brief contends that the state's insistence on a politically-balanced judiciary has contributed to the vaunting reputation of Delaware's courts – as even the 3rd Circuit acknowledged in its opinion.
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On the walls of a military base not far from the front line are SDF murals, as well as some vaunting the military feats of the YPG and its all-women counterpart, the YPJ.
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Like industry rivals, LVMH has been increasingly vaunting its environmental credentials at a time when young shoppers in particular have shown a penchant for "greener" fashion and an interest in issues such as brands' use of animal fur.
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Fresh on people's minds were American wartime propaganda that portrayed the Japanese as subhuman, and Japanese propaganda that depicted Americans as deformed monsters, to say nothing of Nazi Germany's vaunting of a master race and its dehumanisation of Jewish people.
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But for readers with the patience to sift through all this semi-raw material, "Powerhouse" delivers a chronicle of vaunting ambition, immense wealth and power, and personal betrayal all the more astonishing in a business ostensibly built on loyalty and trust.
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As it follows the diminishing fortunes of two families, poised on the cusp of personal and professional breakthroughs that never arrive, "The Light Years" feels Olympian in its distance and its omniscience, shaking its head in tender perplexity at vaunting mortal ambitions.
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In those days, if Fleets did presume on the Main, They seldom, or never, return'd back again, As witness, the Vaunting Armada of Spain.
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Available online from the Alt Pibroch Club website.PS 237 "The Red Speckled Bull" Comparative tune resource on the Alt Pibroch Club website. "A Bhoalaich/An Intended Lament,""A Bhoalaich/An Intended Lament," in Donald MacDonald's Manuscript Vol 2. Available online from the Alt Pibroch Club website. also published in Angus MacKay's book as "A Bhoilich/The Vaunting","A Bhoilich/The Vaunting" in Angus MacKay, A Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd or Highland Pipe Music, 1838, p. 66-7. MacKay appears to have mis-translated the title which is more likely to have been "A Bhalaich/The Boy." This tune was significantly altered by the PS editors when compared with the earlier MacDonald MS. PS 235 "The Vaunting" Comparative tune resource on the Alt Pibroch Club website.
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The Ritual is a 2009 pseudo-documentary (cinéma vérité) horror film written and directed by Anthony Spadaccini. The film is a sequel to Spadaccini's 2007 horror film Head Case and continues the story of Claymont, Delaware serial killer Wayne Montgomery, who films his crimes. The plot details the beginning of Wayne's vaunting task of grooming a successor, until outside influences threaten to destroy their sadistic relationship.
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By 1900, it was as important in retailing as the Christmas season is today. Not everyone was enthused about the display of wealth and beauty. Critics worried regularly over Easter extravagance and the "vaunting of personal possessions" that offended deep-seated American values of simplicity, frugality, and self-denial. In 1914, social critic Edwin Markham spotlighted the crushing hardships of the sweatshop workers who made Easter's artificial flowers.
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It is through his writings that Bailey's place in Canadian history was assured. His poetry was widely known and his verse satire was considered to be styled like that of the English poet, Samuel Butler. He wrote a considerable amount of prose as well and much of this can contribute to historians' studies of those times. "Behold the vaunting hero," Royal Gazette and the Nova-Scotia Advertiser (Halifax), 11 Dec.
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Alan Sillitoe was one of the angry young men producing media vaunting or depicting the plight of rebellious youths. The film has characters entrenched in their social context. Class consciousness abounds throughout: the "them" and "us" notions that Richardson stresses reflect the basis of British society at the time, so that Redgrave's "proper gentleman" of a Governor is in contrast to many of the young working-class inmates.
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Anderson, Early Sources, pp. 428–9; Annals of Ulster, s.a. 937. The battle was remembered in England a generation later as "the Great Battle". When reporting the battle, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle abandons its usual terse style in favour of a heroic poem vaunting the great victory. In this the "hoary" Constantine, by now around 60 years of age, is said to have lost a son in the battle, a claim which the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba confirms.
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Bradley's discovery confirmed Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun. In 1.5 million years, Gamma Draconis will pass within 28 light years of Earth. For a period, if its current absolute magnitude does not change, it will be the brightest star in the night sky, nearly as bright as Sirius is at present. It is by far the brightest star having a zenith above a point near London which led to its vaunting in these places as the "zenith star".
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Bournemouth placed their faith on their own muscles and their new galley the Alice against the impudent youngsters in the test. The old Club's colours were Dark Blue and the Premier Club sported Blue and Magenta. The great day was 22 June and it was raining hard with a chop, so the race was postponed by the umpire until the 29th. The race was a walkover for Bournemouth who won in 6 minutes and thus extinguished for the moment the vaunting ambition of their rivals.
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Meanwhile, "Wonder" and "Lifted", both two of eight collaborations with Sandé, experiment with gospel music. The latter collaboration contains elements of drum and bass and stadium music. The Independents Andy Gill also described the production on "Lifted" as a "[Naughty Boy] trademark Funky Drummer variant" with "quirkily looped strings and backing vocals". It was the Sandé and Wretch 32 collaboration, "Pluto", that garnered some of the most positive comments, Gill said "Pluto" best exemplified Naughty Boy's signature sound, which was a "blend of vaunting synthesised strings and shuffling groove carries a two-way argument between Sandé and Wretch 32", while Aizlewood called all of the Sandé collaborations "stellar".
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The word has been traced to a 15th-century Spanish root, fanfa ("vaunting"). Though the word may be onomatopoeic, it is also possible that it is derived from the Arabic word fanfáre ("trumpets"). The word is first found in 1546 in French, and in English in 1605, but it was not until the 19th century that it acquired its present meaning of a brief ceremonial flourish for brass . Indeed, an alternative term for the fanfare is "flourish", as in the "Ruffles and Flourishes" played by military bands in the US to announce the arrival of the President, a general, or other high-ranking dignitary .
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Foot, Æthelstan: The First King of England, pp. 23, 210–211 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle abandoned its usual terse style in favour of a heroic poem vaunting the great victory, employing imperial language to present Æthelstan as ruler of an empire of Britain.Foot, "Where English Becomes British", p. 144 The site of the battle is uncertain, however, and over thirty sites have been suggested, with Bromborough on the Wirral the most favoured among historians.Foot, Æthelstan: The First King of England, pp. 172–179; Scragg, "Battle of Brunanburh"; Higham, The Kingdom of Northumbria, p. 193; Hill, The Age of Athelstan, pp. 139–153; Livingston, "The Roads to Brunanburh", pp.
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" Quote: "By the latter date (1720) the essential structure of the centralized state was disintegrated beyond repair." during whose reign the empire also achieved its maximum geographical extent. Reduced subsequently, especially during the East India Company rule in India, to the region in and around Old Delhi, the empire was formally dissolved by the British Raj after the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Although the Mughal empire was created and sustained by military warfare, Quote: "The vaunting of such progenitors pointed up the central character of the Mughal regime as a warrior state: it was born in war and it was sustained by war until the eighteenth century, when warfare destroyed it.
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Afzal- Khan killed, 1659. Afzal Khan, an officer of high rank, volunteered to command the expedition, and in his public leave- taking, in the vaunting manner particularly common to Deccan Muhammedans of those days, pompously declared that he should bring back the insignificant rebel and cast him in chain under the footstool of the throne. To avoid impediments which presented themselves on the straight route from Bijapur and the heavy rains which seldom subsided in the neighbourhood of the hills till the end of October, the army proceeded in September 1659 from Bijapur to Pandharpur and thence marched towards Wai. Shivaji, on its approach, took up his residence in Pratapgad and sent the most humble messages to Afzal Khan.
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Herzog remarked that "the film has not a single frame that can be recognised as our planet, and yet we know it must have been shot here". Herzog's sparse commentary interprets the imagery out of its documentary context, and into a poetic fiction: the opening narration begins "A planet in our solar system/ wide mountain ranges, clouds, the land shrouded in mist". The narrative stance is detached, bemused; Herzog makes no effort to explain the actual causes of the catastrophic scenes, but interprets them in epic terms with vaunting rhetoric to accompany the Wagnerian score. The workers are described as "creatures" whose behaviour is motivated by madness and a desire to perpetuate the damage that they are witnessing.
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In The New York Times Book Review, critic A.O. Scott discussed Franzen's, "calm, passionate critical authority." Scott closed, > "At present, in Franzen's humane, pessimistic view, our individuality is > under assault from all quarters, and the novel is part of a web of modern > institutions—along with the daily mail, the industrial city and the idea of > a democratic public sphere—undermined by the irresistible (that is, both > unstoppable and undeniably attractive) forces of standardization and > privatization. To point this out is, inevitably, to sound like something of > a crank, and the accomplishment of this book is to offer its cranky author > and his like-minded readers a suitably contradictory and ambiguous > consolation: we're not alone."A.O. Scott, "Vaunting Ambivalence," The New > York Times Book Review, November 10, 2002.
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Politically, the militia was highly popular during the postwar period, though to some extent, based more on pride of victory in the recent war than on the realities. This skepticism of the actual value of relying upon the militia for national defense, versus a trained regular army was expressed by Gouverneur Morris: > An overweening vanity leads the fond many, each man against the conviction > of his own heart, to believe or affect to believe, that militia can beat > veteran troops in the open field and even play of battle. This idle notion, > fed by vaunting demagogues, alarmed us for our country, when in the course > of that time and chance, which happen to all, she should be at war with a > great power.Sparks, Jared: The Life of Gouverneur Morris, with Selections > from His Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers.
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In the 11th century Diwan (poetical works) of Nasir Khusraw, an eagle soars through the air, vaunting itself. When it is brought down by a hunter and recognises the feathers on the arrow, the realisation comes that it has been injured by its own means.A translation by Henri Massé is included in Anthologie persane (XIe-XIXe siècles) Pieter de la Court was to give the story a similar interpretation in his Sinryke Fabulen (1685), making the point that those who thrust themselves into prominence become the mark for others to harm. The point is underlined by the Latin tag beneath the illustration of the injured bird, an adaptation of proverbial lines from the 4th century Latin poet Claudian: Vivitur exiguo melius, natura beatis / omnibus esse dedit, si quis cognoverit uti (it is better to live on little, [nature has provided for all to do so happily,] could one but know it).
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Henry Wriothesley at 21 Shakespeare's dedication to Southampton of The Rape of Lucrece, 1594 In 1593 Shakespeare dedicated his narrative poem Venus and Adonis to Southampton, followed in 1594 by The Rape of Lucrece. Although the dedication to Venus and Adonis is more restrained, the dedication to The Rape of Lucrece is couched in extravagant terms: > The love I dedicate to your lordship is without end ... What I have done is > yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours. This type of vaunting language was not particularly unusual however, because other dedications of the day always excessively praised any noble person sponsoring the author's work – mainly for political and, above all, financial reasons. Nathan Drake, in Shakespeare and his Times, was the first to suggest that Southampton was not only the dedicatee of Shakespeare's two long narrative poems, but also the "Fair Youth" of the Sonnets.. The title page refers to the "onlie begetter of these sonnets Mr W.H.," and it had earlier been inferred that the Sonnets were addressed to "Mr. W.H.".
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English translations, in whole or in part, have been published by R. Williams (in William Forbes Skene's Four Ancient Books of Wales), by Robert Graves in The White Goddess and by Roger Sherman Loomis, Herbert Pilch, John T. Koch, Marged Haycock, John K. Bollard, Sarah Higley. At some points it requires individual interpretation on the part of its translators owing to its terse style, the ambiguities of its vocabulary, its survival in a single copy of doubtful reliability, the lack of exact analogues of the tale it tells and the host of real or fancied resonances with other poems and tales. A number of scholars (in particular, Marshall H. James, who points out the remarkable similarity in Line 1, of Verse 2 in "Mic Dinbych", from the Black Book of Carmarthen), have pointed out analogues in other medieval Welsh literature: some suggest that it represents a tradition that evolved into the grail of Arthurian literature. Haycock (in The Figure of Taliesin) was the first to point out that the poem is "about Taliesin and his vaunting of knowledge", and Higley calls the poem "a metaphor of its own making—a poem about the material 'spoils' of poetic composition".
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