Hints and tips:
...“I said we’re going to be fighting for titles within three to five years. Well, we’re already there. I’m very proud of what we built . . ....
...We can vouch for the honour of tending plants that symbolise Rome – acanthus, that evergreen, ever-growing, tendril-rich plant that lends its leaves to the Corinthian column, and symbolises ever-expanding...
...The event, which involves London galleries hosting overseas counterparts, “involves so much moving around, I wanted things to be as back to normal as possible after Covid,” says Vanessa Carlos, who runs...
...Its towering layers of Corinthian arcades emanate a terrifyingly undiminished sense of Roman power. With few other visitors it felt as though we had hit an interval between shows....
...See First Corinthians 15.” (Corinthians, based on letters written by Christ’s disciple Paul, reads: “If Christ is not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.”)...
...Trump’s first presidential pitch to evangelicals in 2016 got off to a shaky start after be bungled a biblical reference to Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians....
...of a Roman Corinthian column; and three out-of-the-way Sinan mosques — Şehzade, Sokollu Mehmed Pasha and Mihrimah Sultan — where I was the only tourist....
...There have been times in the saddle, drunk on glory and undernourished exhaustion, when I’ve surveyed a lofty rearward horizon with ugly triumphalism, an enemy I have taken on and defeated....
...The Secretary-General of the Commonwealth read a lesson from 1 Corinthians....
...In an adjacent sitting room contemporary De Padova chairs surround a second-century corinthian chapter that has been repurposed as a coffee table....
...Fluted columns rear up from an excavated patch on one side; below one of those buildings, Palazzo Martinengo, lie a Roman home and baths; and beyond the modern square is a building with Corinthian columns...
...“I wanted them to be a bit like columns, you know? Corinthian columns. Make them really majestic – dominating the space.”...
...“I’ll always find something that catches my eye,” she says. “I know what I like so I don’t have to put much thought into it.”...
...What An eight-bedroom, four-storey Grade I-listed house of Tudor origin, which was refronted in 1730....
...“I had a job and home. Today I have nothing.” Santana is one of São Paulo’s 30,000-odd rough sleepers, a number up 30 per cent since 2019....
...Scots, so I’m told more than once during my stay, typically display a sniffy attitude to London brands parachuting into the city and expecting instant success....
...I know I’m up for it and I know other foreign investors have been inspired,” he told the Financial Times. “There’s capital and people looking at other clubs to do the same thing.”...
...But my favourite of these unavoidables is a very battered, water-spotted 1870 edition of 1821’s Life in London: or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorne, Esq, and his Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom...
...At least two publicly listed companies (ITT Technical Institute and Corinthian Colleges) declared bankruptcy. Now, you may think many for-profit colleges were simply frauds (I think this)....
...But I can’t help myself; its foibled history has my heart....
...“I hear chefs talk about the terroir of the land, about growing up picking elderberries as children,” says Franklin. “I grew up in central London. So how do I tie what I do to my background?...
...The restored Assembly Room, with its original chandeliers, gilt-topped Corinthian columns and ornate ceiling, is a neoclassical stunner: surely the effect Carr intended....
...Made in the late 19th or early 20th century, this grandiose cream-and-green house is modelled on a neoclassical temple and embellished with pineapple finials, Corinthian columns and a raised plinth mounted...
...Vanbrugh called Blenheim, with its massed stone facades, Corinthian columns, rooftop array of lanterns, chimney towers and soaring, dynamic statues, his “castle air”....
...Its romantic charms are immediately apparent because its facade is packed with delightfully theatrical detail: Flemish bond brickwork, two Corinthian pilasters supporting a compact pediment, an oeil-de-boeuf...
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