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...In those mnemonic mosaics, familiar images — a hospital corridor crammed with gurneys, a waving politician with a desperately cheery grin, a combat scene — are meant to gratify our sense of shared participation...
...The UHRA, which represents 130 hotel businesses in Ukraine, said hoteliers were “refusing to change their position in their continued operations in Russia” in order to “gratify shareholders” despite an escalation...
...In our time, most of these stories are idylls of one kind or another, with the plants chosen for their beauty or fragrance or outward form, but always for their willingness to gratify human desire and do...
...“It’s not like they’d take up much room,” she shoots back....
...His early work was torn between the desire to gratify, honed by his background as a jobbing commercial artist, and his wish to be taken seriously as a shocking, avant-garde fine artist....
...Mountains that Hannibal struggled to cross, he says, we now cut down “to gratify our luxurious inclinations”....
...In this quid-pro-quo arrangement are all the hallmarks of Mr Trump’s leadership style: an attempt to gratify his ego, the love for a deal whatever the long-term costs and an indifference to the damage the...
...“Catch of the Day” was a fillet of pink bream, with the kind of meunière crust that would gratify any Francophile zealot, but served on top of Chinese cabbage, leek jangajji — not un-akin to sweet pickled...
...These treasuries didn’t just gratify an acquisitive nobility or stoke a keeping-up-with-the-Habsburgs ethos of luxury. They did more, even, than just add to the general storehouse of wisdom....
...But spare a thought for the thousands of unnamed workers — and even the fish — who perished in order to gratify the Sun King’s grandest whim....
...Your choice, the old man indicates: gratify the body or uplift the soul? As a bit of elaborate Victorian moralising, Rejlander’s “Two Ways of Life” equivocates....
...The space is light, large and rather blank: the few prints on the walls were hung to gratify visiting trustees from Amsterdam’s Foam photography museum, and a large section of her bookcase is arranged with...
...One soldier said he was worried Isis might seek to cut the main government supply route to Aleppo, Syria’s second city: “If they [do] . . . that would gratify their terrorist needs,” he added....
...pay and promotions at American company Sterling Jewelers, 250 women and men said that managers had groped them, sexually “preyed” on young saleswomen at company events and urged female staff to sexually gratify...
...It wasn’t so much a bust-up, we just went our separate ways,” he says — though his role in Banksy’s stratospheric rise evidently gratifies him....
...But others will wonder why a TV show that so shamelessly gratifies viewers’ lust for sex and death is still so hyped, with its leather-bound warriors and feudal clashes, as a snapshot of the imagined medieval...
...In a tweak to gratify central banking aficionados, the Fed has said it will add so-called fan charts to its economic projections illustrating the uncertainty around those forecasts....
...But how wise to keep the position of national figurehead out of the hands of those who seek it to gratify their ambition. I returned in time to visit the reopened National Army Museum in Chelsea....
...Budget measures that will gratify the left include an increase of €10 in monthly state pensions of up to €628, covering about 80 per cent of all government pensions....
...Demonising the financial sector may gratify the party’s left but it serves little substantive purpose beyond that. In other areas, Mr Sanders has had minimal influence....
...It’s a war movie of the everyday, wry, harsh, insightful....
...“I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman,” she wrote in 1863....
...But at the instant it is consumed, it gratifies. As I say, a lot like Pringles. Tim Harford is the author of ‘The Undercover Economist Strikes Back’. Twitter: @TimHarford Illustration by Harry Haysom...
...Then there is the absurd ritual in pop concerts of the encore, originally a genuine mark of appreciation, now an undignified pretence designed to gratify a performer’s craving for approval and the audience...
...Our national dialogue in January would gratify Calvin or Savonarola....
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