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...As a focal point on the main hillside, Le Nôtre planned a massive statue of Heracles, weary after his 12 labours, copying the one sculpted in the 320s BC by Lysippus, Alexander the Great’s favourite sculptor...
...A weary, friendly foursome emerged into the setting sun to be cited for criminal trespass. “Please tell me we’re not going to jail,” said Slowensky, a high-school-band director....
...I became weary of sliced courgettes in batter, even as prescribed in one of my cooking bibles, the River Café Cook Book Easy, whose recipe for them is first class. Is this vile summer the new pattern?...
...Gabriel Vick steps into the sizeable shoes of Robin Williams as the exuberant but unreliable voiceover artist, Daniel, who disguises himself as an elderly Scottish nanny to gain access to his kids during...
...From time to time, weary company directors contact me to announce they are intending to become archaeologists....
...The strongest sections of the novel show vividly the inexorable unfurling of global eco-cataclysm, which the author depicts with a weary, detached fatalism....
...Weary of its own endless wars, the west is pioneering a new kind of “hybrid” war — a combination of economic and soft power intended to punish Russia and pressure a change of course....
...Weary short sellers have unwound most of their bets against Tesla, as retail investors unperturbed by Twitter polls and talk of stock market bubbles continue to pump cash into the world’s most valuable car...
...And it’s a view that’s shared by many a weary short seller....
...carry on being defined by his own legendary status of damaged warrior; the play becomes a quizzical, critical response to machismo-loaded mythology and the way those tropes continue to play out in our weary...
...Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end, Though the way be long, let your heart be strong, Though you’re tired and weary still journey on, Till you come to your happy abode, Where...
...Whether quarry, building site, garden or field, the landscapes of our weary, battered planet turn much of the London Open into a homage to the anti-sublime....
...Neil Rue, managing director at the PCA, points out that investors suffered two major bear markets in the noughties, and noted that “people have grown weary of these gyrations”....
...If uttered with the right tone of world-weary insight, it sounds strangely wise Favourite clichéd concept The fourth industrial revolution Normally, the chosen theme for the World Economic Forum is forgotten...
...Soon we were bathing our weary bodies in the adjacent river. Over supper that night we learnt more about the finca....
...They basked in the bareness of William Cornysh’s “Ah Robin”, and the innocence of Thomas Tallis’s “If ye love me”, sung from the opposite side of the chapel, as if to mark it out for special attention....
...Warranted or not, constant criticism from China and South Korea makes ordinary Japanese weary of apologies for their country’s wartime record....
...your average German-Jamaican kid with dreadlocks halfway down his back and a 133mph serve) was about to bait, tease, infuriate and then destroy poor old Rafa Nadal, like a sadistic fly fisherman landing a weary...
...You could mistake him, on a dark Fallujah night, for the bastard son of John Milius and Robin Williams....
...Despite the best efforts of a terrific cast – Philip Seymour Hoffman, Willem Dafoe, Robin Wright – this story of a world-weary German secret agent (Hoffman) attempting to contain a suspected Islamic terrorist...
...It is to be hoped that those still attacking it will soon weary of the damage being wrought by their broadsides....
...Flynn, who also wrote the screenplay, has defended herself, writing on her website: “I’ve grown quite weary of the spunky heroines, brave rape victims, soul-searching fashionistas that stock so many books...
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...The politics-weary residents of India’s national capital were elated in late December when Arvind Kejriwal, a 45-year-old anti-corruption crusader and political outsider, was sworn in as chief minister of...
...“Jérôme Kerviel is not Robin Hood....
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