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...Why Coffered ceilings, leaded glass cabinets, coloured walls, and decorated fireplaces lend a grandness to the house’s multiple living spaces, and hark back to the era in which it was built....
...So when they learn of Her Grandness’s new scheme to improve efficiency by turning minors into mice, it’s showtime....
...The place doesn’t aspire to the grandness of a Wolseley or Delaunay. And I can imagine it becoming a destination (for tourists, for the curious) because “fun” sells. Especially the retro kind....
...It is a London plane in a large, leafy square that attractively splits the difference between grandness and ordinariness....
...This precise, cinematic control of time and perspective gives an impressive sense of grandness to such brief novels, and brings with it the aching poignancy of hindsight....
...The grandness derives from longevity rather than manner....
...Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War (2018) also brilliantly contrasts the provincial world of folk dances and bleakly lit social spaces with the chic grandness of Paris, a place of parties and seductions but decadent...
...If the Brexit wrecking ball reaches a nihilistic denouement, Britain may come to see the grandness of the irony. They used to say Britain punched above its weight. But London has nothing on Dublin....
...“The more I read him, the more I realised how little I knew of the vastness and grandness in Hinduism,” Surya says....
...Minor-league in dimension, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg owes its nominal grandness to the strategic position of its fortress straddling the Pétrusse and Alzette rivers....
...But even so, there is a wearying grandness to the piece and although Huppert brings us so many compelling incarnations of this enigmatic character, we don’t, in the end, get much closer to her....
...And what strikes you-- apart from the grandness of the surroundings and the beautiful mountains, of course-- is all these posters kicking around telling everybody to be good human being....
...Watching fellow humans trying to establish a settlement on Mars, for real, would be a curious televisual mix of the high-minded and the lowbrow — the grandness of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos blended with the coarser...
...The grandness of the ambition provoked a reaction that has become familiar with Google’s increasingly frequent forays into sweeping new areas of economic and social life....
...He points out that its inception, in 1895, may have been motivated by “enlightened ideals of art, and nation, and grandness” but that the “shadow histories” of many of its participants are less admirable...
...Canadian writer and artist Emily Carr summed up the country’s wild attractions when she wrote in 1937: “It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw . . . she is a great rugged power that you...
...His striking, sculptural buildings are pierced with monumental arches and characterised by the kind of gaudy grandness more often associated with the Gulf of the boom years....
...However, while possessing a certain grandness of manner, soloists can seem interpretatively superficial. The presence of dancers from abroad inevitably establishes clear contrasts in approach....
...But he could not escape the grandness of the Benn dynasty, whose political power now stretches across five generations and nearly 125 years....
...Simple but decorative linen sackcloth pillows furnish the seating area and the white, light grey colour scheme together with the glass chandelier gives the kitchen living area an understated grandness reflective...
...Lowry as local symbol emphasised cobbled quaintness rather than imaginative grandness....
...I begin to ask Redgrave about The New Yorker’s conclusion that “the comic elements in Eisenberg’s script have freed her from grandness, and from the responsibility of being Vanessa Redgrave” but she cuts...
...“The grandness of the landscapes, the– ” She is interrupted by a walker’s hard-eyed bull terrier, which wants her sandwich....
...Perhaps it’s the evocation of the Jane Austen era or the grandness of the architecture but Georgian houses have for a long time epitomised my dream home. The area is in the right part of London too....
...The school was backed by Google and Nasa, lending it credibility and a certain grandness of ambition – optimism at a time when banks and carmakers were slashing jobs and going under....
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