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...Painting brigands and nobility alike, Pirosmani turned social observation into parable, or reclining sex workers into saints in the “Ortachala Belle” diptych....
...The idea for the show came to Williams and co-curator Polly Putnam while they were watching the Met Gala in 2018....
...In China, the trend is best known as “old money style”, a hashtag that currently has 53mn views on social platform Xiaohongshu, where influencers give tips on how to nail “nobility” through clothing....
...And in both films the rising finance bros justify flaunting their wealth with the boast, “There is no nobility in poverty.”...
...Where Degas was primarily inspired by Italy, as Ingres and Poussin had been, Manet struck out from French tradition by co-opting the starkness of Spanish art....
...“We’re giving a sense of nobility back to some jobs that were not very well known, and which are often not badly paid.”...
...The custard-yellow neo-Moorish opera house built by the ruling Russians in 1851 – to try to curry favour with Georgian nobility – and the stacked concrete cuboids of the national bank, opened in 1975 under...
...Elgar’s Enigma Variations sported bracing speeds, scintillating detail and much tenderness, if not the accustomed rich nobility of utterance....
...“It’s a bit more casual, which I think just relaxes people,” says Robert Godwin, the 34-year-old co-founder of this hotel in the leafy west London district of Chiswick....
...For those of us who are sticklers when it comes to the rule of law, the incident was a gratuitous attempt to bend regulations, almost tarnishing the nobility of the sport....
...But when, in his funeral eulogy in Westminster Abbey, Diana’s brother Charles pointedly contrasted the monarchy with his sister’s authentic nobility, the polemic hit a national nerve, and not in a good way...
...The most appealing initial aspect of the score is the orchestration, a little watered-down Wagnerian but rising to real nobility, too....
...The sumptuary laws of the medieval and early modern ages cracked down on peasants and traders donning fancy hats and expensive robes, not to eliminate waste but to let the nobility monopolise privilege....
...Ambrogio Maestri is Falstaff incarnate, and brings all the nobility, wit, warmth, tenderness and complexity to his voice that is missing in Bieito’s direction....
...They take turns in the shadow and in the light. ★★★★☆ In New York to November 3, then to Minneapolis and Los Angeles; joyce.org, blackgrace.co.nz...
...Medvedev writes that it resembles Tsarist Russia’s feudal table of ranks, which recorded grades of the nobility....
...Then there is the multi-layered meaning of the Garden of Cosmic Speculation, north of Dumfries, Scotland, whose co-creator, Charles Jencks, sadly died last month....
...One shows a grand meeting of the nobility of Marwar – then the largest princely state in Rajasthan – to determine whether Jodhpur should join the new India or pursue its own independence....
...Lounging for dinner like ancient Roman nobility or sultans in their palaces is a terrific night in for simple souls like us, as long as you follow some easy rules....
...As Josephson points out in his book, for a while the early industrialists co-existed with the feudal order of the Antebellum South: ...literally the symptoms of the future order of things, all the new shapes...
...In contrast, Forest Whitaker’s chief counsellor is allowed a few reels of massively costumed nobility before being fed to the script’s no-prisoners action development....
...But a much larger associational trend in society, based around peasant co-operatives, unions and mutual aid societies politicised groups marginalised from the electoral process....
...“We should acknowledge that throughout its history the UN has suffered from a seemingly unbridgeable gap between the nobility of its purposes and the effectiveness of its delivery,” she said....
...As Mr Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference continues, Donald Trump’s lawyers are wrestling with how much to co-operate with investigators....
...She did and by the time she had finished her dissertation, the Communist party leadership had allowed the establishment of co-operatives for private entrepreneurship....
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