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...After years struggling with his Proustian epic Answered Prayers, Truman Capote fell back on a cliché and began to write what he knew....
...There is a magic to making such rich, decadent dough rise to a feather-light, elastic and long-lived confection....
...It looks over Lake Fuschl towards the mountains; its garden is garlanded with Tibetan prayer flags with a small outbuilding containing treatment rooms and a bijou but technologically impressive gym....
...On the windowsill people had left letters of prayer, and correspondence with the dead....
...It’s got a blackboard menu and, as I’ve sworn never to mention Farrow & Bloody Ball ever again, you’ll have to fill in the last bit yourself. But that’s where it stops....
...The snow leopard — a sleek, ghost-pale creature with luxuriant fur and an oversized, feather-duster tail — roams the stark mountainside above the tree line, slinking largely unseen between rock chutes and...
...The two men are birds of a feather — birds of prey that is. The thing about autocrats is that they can do what they want....
...In the early mornings, they were as soothing as a murmured prayer. A low sun struck through the palm groves to lay a nave of light across the water....
...It’s half past eleven, but the monks were up long before dawn for morning prayers. “Stop crossing yourself! You’ve done it seven times!”...
...Our last village accommodation is Radhu Kandu, all bleached Farrow & Ball hues, and very pleasing to the eye....
...Graham & Green stuffed one of its sofas with foam rather than feathers at her request....
...So Seward’s purpose for the holiday was akin to an inspirational prayer....
...Although it is not strictly a gemstone, it is one of what are called the “sacred stones” in Chinese Buddhism, and is used for prayer beads....
...The first spout of water feathers in the wind as rubbery backs break the surface, the pod no more than 15ft from us....
...Disappointing — particularly as catching Chicos Mambo at the Pleasance meant missing the last 20 minutes of Coppélia by Feathers of Daedalus at the Assembly....
...More male comic despair was to be found in Piuma (Feather), an Italian crowd-pleaser about a young Roman couple’s unplanned pregnancy....
...I scribble a prayer for a relative who is undergoing tests and pin it on. My pal is still talking....
...His refusal to give face-to-face interviews suggests a desire to remain in control that cannot but ruffle the feathers of an old-fashioned hack who likes to see the whites of her subject’s eyes....
...When we finally opened the door and got out of the hail into a restored Georgian house, entirely painted in Farrow & Ball, I was on a weird sort of high....
...His stick arms and legs terminate in flattened extremities resembling feathers and stars....
...Another goddess, Dharampala, the “Protector of the Buddhist Faith”, rides to meet her across the charnel ground, dressed in a magnificent cloak of peacock feathers, while drinking from a skullcup....
...In ancient Egypt, it was the job of the jackal-headed god Anubis, who would usher them to where their hearts would be weighed against the feather of justice....
...A prayer was said, giving thanks to the animal, then Kalehkhan ripped off a piece of cheek and handed it to me, explaining through Buya that, as the guest (and only the second foreigner they had seen in...
...Westminster Abbey will host a candlelit prayer vigil with the last candle to be extinguished at 11pm – the moment that war was declared....
...The main variation in halal was that a prayer had to be said by a practising Muslim during slaughter. “Halal does not mean non-stun per se,” Eblex said....
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