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...Where another translator says the Trojan hero carries “a powerful long-sword”, here it’s a “big, strong blade”....
...The tipple might help loosen the tongues of Samuel Beckett and James Joyce, two intellectual titans whose work and lives I find fascinating....
...The King gave him a sword and arranged for his inoculation against smallpox, of which several of the visitors from Labrador had died....
...The FT’s then economics editor Samuel Brittan recalls his first-hand experience with the public mood in 1968: “My chief memory of the devaluation weekend a year ago is that for the first time in my life...
...As well as exhibiting items related to the great, famous and powerful, such as Samuel Pepys’ dinner plate, Nelson’s sword and Oliver Cromwell’s death mask, it also offers a glimpse into the lives of other...
...“This is a double-edged sword. There is a trade-off here,” he says....
...Donald Trump was in the White House; the #MeToo movement was heating up; the Irish actor Lisa Dwan was delivering No’s Knife, her stunning solo adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s prose, at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre...
...The writer is a novelist and co-founder of Peach Pubs, an independent group of 19 pubs Samuel Johnson defined “hospitality” as “the practice of entertaining strangers”....
...‘It’s so hard to fight’ In the battle to contain problematic political content, TikTok’s structure is a double-edged sword, said Mr Medina Serrano....
...From a piazza in Bologna, he excoriated the Italian political circus with sword-swallowing satire. “We are part of a new Woodstock,” he roared....
...My hostess, Julie Samuels, executive director of Tech:NYC, hopes this will once and for all confirm New York as America’s second city of tech....
...The mega-bum turned out to be a double-edged sword. Tailor-made for our Insta-sozzled age, its gorgeous, goofy curves trended on social media for months....
...But being funny was a double-edged sword. It made her magnetic, but could also make those outside her inner circle wary....
...But the pound’s weakness is a double-edged sword, as it benefits exporters but also pushes up costs and prices....
...In his Land Rover a CD of the German composer Samuel Scheidt lies in wait....
...The depreciation of the pound has been something of a ‘double edged sword’ as many firms who export also import....
...Jemma Redgrave and James Fleet are wonderful as the aged (grand)parents, forever at crossed verbal swords....
...In fact, longstanding advocates such as Scott Sumner and Samuel Brittan are better described as libertarian in outlook....
...His text was from 2 Samuel: “He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.”...
...I have also learnt from experience that the sword alone cannot decide this bitter dispute in this land.” Additional reporting by Dubi Kanengisser...
...But this proved a double-edged sword when Burberry last year issued a profit warning after a slowdown in China....
...A shaggy-haired Alexander the Great on horseback raises his sword high above Skopje’s main square. Two 19th-century revolutionaries pose beside an Ottoman-era stone bridge....
...Still less was that the case for Joseph ibn Naghrela, a vizier of 11-century Granada, who possibly created the first luxurious palace on the Alhambra hill, or Samuel Abulafia, whose 14th-century Tránsito...
...Fatima Bhutto’s memoir ‘Songs of Blood and Sword’ is published by Vintage...
...In other ways too, renown is a double-edged sword. As the coffee dribbles, she derides the lengthy approval process that turns every public art commission into “an emotionally draining” marathon....
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