Less physically imposing and more approachable was Astacio, one of my porters, known to everyone as Buddy. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few seconds these conditions imposed restraint. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The State's lawyer argued that this was a routine capital murder case and that the death penalty had been appropriately imposed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

To impose an anachronism: desegregation simply did not compute. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Through an imposing blue door, Joseph entered the lady’s sitting room. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He wasn't a tall man, but the elevated bench made him as imposing as any judge. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He is tall and imposing, strong and regal. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

His own, not those imposed on him by other people, such as the faculty of the Devon School. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

West Indian Archie cuts an imposing figure under normal circumstances—when he’s mad like this, he seems enormous. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two years later, in June 2012, we won a constitutional ban on mandatory life-without-parole sentences imposed on children convicted of homicides. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

While other states have caps of more than a million dollars, and many have no cap at all, several states impose onerous eligibility requirements. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed more like Doom Manor than Daffodil Manor, since there wasn’t a flower in sight, just imposing gables and a wrought iron fence. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Yet in 1995, a few brave souls challenged the implementation of Georgia’s “two strikes and you’re out” sentencing scheme, which imposes life imprisonment for a second drug offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In some upstate towns, the prison is the main event, visually speaking: Clinton’s imposing wall runs along Dannemora’s main street. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These sentences were imposed pursuant to California’s controversial three strikes law, which mandates a sentence of twenty-five years to life for recidivists convicted of a third felony, no matter how minor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In one corner an imposing grandfather clock ticks loudly, and when it chimes the hour, I nearly slide off in surprise. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But Nene could be as imposing as a block of granite. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The bottom of the stairs soon appeared, and she came to a halt before three equally dark and imposing portals. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was, standing there, gliding down through the darkness, quite an imposing figure, seeming, all in all, probably close to ten feet tall, with voice to match. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t using a word-processing program of any kind—in fact, she was bypassing much of the operating system—and whatever formatting was imposing itself on the words, it wasn’t hers. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy also imposed a five-minute limit on the use of the bathroom and the telephone. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The deciding factor in how they reacted wasn’t how emotionally secure they were, or whether they were intellectuals or jocks, or whether they were physically imposing or not. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The first stop was Nishuane, the elementary school, an imposing and forbidding structure of dark red brick. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The school had been imposing: a fallacy of glass and steel against the dusty expanse of the north shore clearing, like a middle finger thrown into the sky, built in record time. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Supreme Court announced its decision: Life imprisonment without parole sentences imposed on children convicted of non-homicide crimes is cruel and unusual punishment and constitutionally impermissible. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the distance, the imposing grandeur of the temple came into view. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Lest these conclusions be misinterpreted, we should end this chapter with caveats against exaggerating two points: peoples’ readiness to accept better crops and livestock, and the constraints imposed by locally available wild plants and animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the rest was silence, a second desert imposed upon the one I already lived in, where “Hi” was as rare as rain. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

So every time a writer adds a word to a sentence, he is imposing not one but two cognitive demands on the reader: understanding the word, and fitting it into the tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The point was that the dolls and blocks needed me to give them life, and I dutifully gave it to them, imposing one personal crisis after another. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I’ve no wish to impose—” “Thee must not think so,” he said quickly. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“So many questions. For instance, you wear the queue. I’ve read that it is a badge of slavery imposed by conquest by the Manchus on the Southern Chinese.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Newton’s supposed discovery only imposed itself on the scientific community because Newton acquired ‘control over the social institutions of experimental authority’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, there were radical changes in the traditional sense of hospitality because at that time it was Fernanda who imposed her rules. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The majority opinion, written by Justice Harry Blackmun, spoke specifically to the would-be mother’s predicament: The detriment that the State would impose upon the pregnant woman by denying this choice altogether is apparent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Most of us, in ways that we are not entirely aware of, automatically associate leadership ability with imposing physical stature. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

As I’ve said, we never mentioned it to the guardians and looking back, it seems to me this was a rule we imposed on ourselves, as much as anything the guardians had decided. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Slavery is forbidden in Pentos, by the terms of the treaty the Braavosi imposed on us a hundred years ago. Still, they will not refuse you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

All rulers of all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers, but they could not afford to encourage any illusion that tended to impair military efficiency. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Readers of The Times in London were told that what was otherwise an “imposing ceremony” was “rendered ludicrous by some of the luckless sallies of that poor President Lincoln.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

But at a bigger size you have to impose complicated hierarchies and rules and regulations and formal measures to try to command loyalty and cohesion. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn't comply with all of the requirements imposed on him, so he was frequently locked in a closet, denied food, and subjected to beatings and other physical abuse. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But the many young mothers who entered the imposing gray building each day to apply for aid grasped instantly what lay behind the convenience of geography: the judgment that here sinners came to justice. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The government had agreed to impose sharia if the Taliban would stop fighting. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The imposing brick buildings on the campus looked like castles. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

If acoustically flawed, Peck knew, the building would be a failure no matter how imposing the finished structure proved to be. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He’s a skyscraper, impossibly imposing with his arms crossed now against his chest in a battle stance, studying me like I’m a new life form. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But his polite regrets didn’t impose upon her, and when she galloped away with the Count, she saw Laurie sit down by her aunt with an actual expression of relief. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mayor knows, for he told the merchants of the city that the budget would be cut down, that no new taxes would be imposed to satisfy the clamor of the masses of the needy! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Marian remembered her grandmother Isabella as an imposing woman, tall and imperious, who ruled her family with an iron hand. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

They would have been exterminated if conservationists had not imposed protective measures quickly. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course you wouldn’t be imposing. Besides, you’ve never visited me”—she paused—“in my flat.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He added that Congress remained free to impose federal oversight on states where voting rights were at risk, but must do so on the basis of current conditions. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a striking case of French imposing itself upon English, and of the scientists determining for the first time the language of the theologians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The local coroner held that the death had resulted “from disease, the fatal termination of which was hastened by flogging, labor, and general harsh treatment, imposed by .. . Elam Lynds. ...” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were able to arrange a meeting, surmounting all of Blanca’s usual obstacles in addition to the new ones imposed by Pedro’s job, they would find themselves more full of anguish than desire. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Grandfather,” said Mother, “we wouldn’t dream of imposing on you if you have a prior engagement.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She told him about the ngozi and how she had fled from an imposed marriage. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In command of the cookhouse was the imposing figure of Evanda May Calimar, a lady of color and, as it would turn out, an awe-inspiring cook. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The loss of income made London rescind some of the taxes it had imposed on America. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Outside the imposing columned entryway of the school the steps are already clear. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It echoed the ideological fear, so effective as a weapon against the taxes imposed by Parliament and decrees of George III, that once arbitrary power was acknowledged to reside elsewhere, all liberty was lost. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

By contrast, in other developed countries around the world, a first-time drug offense would merit no more than six months in jail, if jail time is imposed at all. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When I push, I realize she’s intimidated by the thought of just walking through the school’s imposing gate, past its security guard, through its neatly manicured gardens. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I considered not imposing upon George LaTrell, because the truth is that in addition to being tired of persevering, I was also tired of imposing. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

His relationship with his daughter had never been good, and after her unfortunate marriage it had deteriorated to the point where only the obligatory politeness Clara imposed allowed them to live under the same roof. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We impose controls upon ourselves to prevent it. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What did that say about the legitimacy of imposing our will to continue the war?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Like me, they appeared to be impressed by the imposing sight of military power. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could have imposed on her an apprenticeship in any other field and the results would have been the same. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Snape had imposed his personality upon the room already; it was gloomier than usual, as curtains had been drawn over the windows, and was lit by candlelight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It is true that the state imposes a license fee, but that fee does not come to the counties or the towns except for road maintenance and extension. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most were armed only with staves and short swords, but one man of imposing stature held a crossbow leveled at us. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mary led the way along a hard path above the mud; like many things the mulefa had made, it was ancient and perfectly maintained, more like a part of nature than something imposed on it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

If sanctions are imposed, the goat will fall. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without the strong support of life with his parents and siblings under one roof and chafing under foster parents and teachers imposing limited state policies, Malcolm simply dropped out. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And Gowon cannot be head of state. They cannot impose Gowon on us as head of state. It is not how things are done. There are others who are senior to him.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The man was the largest and most physically imposing man in the room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whites had arrived, imposed centralized government, and brought material goods whose value New Guineans instantly recognized, ranging from steel axes, matches, and medicines to clothing, soft drinks, and umbrellas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the statues lacked heads, the dwarf noted, yet even headless they still managed to look imposing in die purple dusk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Thank you for everything. I won’t impose on you any longer.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But just to make sure, the same week, the new Nazi government had enacted a separate measure imposing the death penalty on those who published “treasonable articles.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Rocky Mountains are too big, too long, too important to have to be imposing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house was fringed with palm trees, magnificent gardens, and concealed but nonetheless imposing outbuildings in which the family indulged its various hobbies. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a word about the silence he had imposed upon Danny and me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We are the sum of our own soul strength, not of the judgments imposed on us by others. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The imposing brick Sherman Hotel reigned from the far end of town. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

In an unchanging universe a beginning in time is something that has to be imposed by some being outside the universe; there is no physical necessity for a beginning. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The authorities attempted to impose a complete blackout; they did not want us to learn anything that might raise our morale or reassure us that people on the outside were still thinking about us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to impose a fine on apologies,” she said. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And then, far over to the right, he saw a tall monument, once no doubt imposing but now tipped slightly sidewise. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Kruger was a tall and imposing fellow who treated us with fairness. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was time to impose myself and carve out my territory. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

If the jury imposed or rejected death, that was the final judgment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The streets grew broader, the buildings more imposing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He insisted that imposing political order on Haiti, no matter how much financial aid was provided, wouldn’t improve the problems of poverty and disease. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The Death Danda, as if it were matching her mood, hopped and danced, then turned from a purple compact into an imposing stick at the blink of an eye. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A few avenues to the west, Model T automobiles delivered well-dressed ladies and gentlemen to the doors of imposing three-story brick and stone homes. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They weren’t interested in him just because he was big and looked imposing in a football uniform. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was an imposing man, quiet and dignified, and a great lover of books. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I know what you’re thinking. You think you are imposing on us and you feel guilty.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, I don’t want to impose for too long,” Mae says. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Most important, the government had imposed Muslim law on the whole country, even though we black Africans of the south weren’t Muslim. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here on the lower ground the buildings were nearly as imposing in size but housed a separate family behind each of their many grimy windows. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

His austere, shiny face, inscrutable and imposing, reminded me of my father. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind his glasses and striking outfit he possesses an imposing bald forehead and the huge, triangular upper body of a comic-book bully. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we decided to challenge death-in-prison sentences imposed on children, I told her we might be able to finally challenge her sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The imposing structure of the Cairo courthouse and the even more imposing customs house looked like enormous freshly baked cookies in the syrupy gold of the light at the end of the day. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I’d found his office imposing when I first saw it, but its quiet elegance had, over time, made the stronger impression. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone is overtaken by an intense desire to impose order. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Guards gave these managers, who were always male and tended to be physically imposing, virtually unchecked authority over their fellow prisoners. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Early in the 1950s black community leaders in the South began to organize boycotts of concerts and public events that imposed segregated seating. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Because the Osage had purchased their land, it was harder for the government to impose its policy of allotment. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

After they’d gone six or eight blocks, the scenery changed even more: The street opened out into a wide boulevard with imposing buildings on either side. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Miss Whitlaw did not want to impose upon her neighbors again and ask them to watch their things. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your Hazel is alive, Waters, and you mustn’t impose your will upon another’s decision, particularly a decision arrived at thoughtfully. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Mary didn’t have the power to remove the limits that society imposed on her girls, but it was her duty, she felt, to help pry off the restrictions they might place on themselves. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Tata Ndu is much heavier than my father, with very large arms, and at that moment seemed more imposing in general. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In a word, the seal of silence has been imposed, and this is the best proof of the vigorous work that is going on now abroad.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My guess is that the indignities imposed on so many low-wage workers— the drug tests, the constant surveillance, being “reamed out” by managers—are part of what keeps wages low. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carlos was always trying to get away with something, or at least he used to be like that before enlisting, but Alex found that rules imposed a structure, and he preferred that. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

We in Europe are only dwarfs and no nation, ancient or modern, has conceived the art of architecture on such a sublime, great, and imposing style, as the ancient Egyptians. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

To him, the building was gloomy and imposing, out of spirit with its surrounding structures. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The differing availability of raw materials imposed an obvious constraint on material culture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The practice, which wasn't declared unconstitutional until 2002, was one of many degrading and dangerous punishments imposed on incarcerated people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He imposed obligatory military service for men over eighteen, declared to be public property any animals walking the streets after six in the evening, and made men who were overage wear red armbands. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It has in any case a certain imposing majesty that beckons. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

By American standards, the Delaware is not a particularly imposing waterway, but it has one almost unique characteristic. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

George Bizos, though, suggested that unless we gave evidence and convinced the judge that we had not decided on guerrilla warfare, he would certainly impose the supreme penalty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A collection of imposing metal instruments lay on a nearby tray. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

On the march he would impose strict field discipline. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As new Malthusian limits were imposed—diseases, famines, parasites—new breeds gained a stronghold, and the population shifted again. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

At fifty-two, Macon Dead was as imposing a man as he had been at forty-two, when Milkman thought he was the biggest thing in the world. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lawmakers from Southern states argued that the federal government should not have the power to interfere with a state’s constitutional right to impose its own voting requirements. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed the monument’s white marble steps and stood in front of the imposing, seated figure of Abraham Lincoln. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Van Niekerk said that he would prove to the court that the accused, with help from other countries, were plotting to overthrow the existing government by violence and impose a Communist government on South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grave robber was an Irish giant, imposing in frame, uncouth in manner and speech, and carried with him the reek of damp earth. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And again I’d hear Bigger Thomas, far away and long ago, telling some white man who was trying to impose upon him: “I’ll kill you and go to hell and pay for it.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Granny and I were always imposing on people. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Dominating the entire back wall is a colossal, Gothic choir screen carved from marble and adorned with ornate statues of saints, black and gold and imposing, holy. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Everything appeared very stately and imposing to me; but then I was so little accustomed to grandeur. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

In an effort to stop Japan, President Franklin Roosevelt imposed ever-increasing embargoes on materiel, such as scrap metal and aviation fuel. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

A gifted French-horn player, as a teen he was a member of the American University Symphony but quit, according to Walt, after objecting to rules imposed by a high school band leader. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A number of peons were standing about, turbaned and belted, much more imposing than the tannery chowkidars had been. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was even more imposing towering over me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

If the universe is regular and predictable, this is not because there are internal forms but because God has imposed order upon it from the outside. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I had watched the program every Saturday afternoon, our gasbag of a collie imposing frequent intermissions. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He had been tricked by it himself, but he had extricated himself without asking or receiving help from any man; let anyone else who might be so imposed upon do the same.— Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

As befitted the central player in the Constitutional Convention, Madison emphasized the various legal obligations imposed by the compact of 1787. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Court’s enforcement decree, issued a full year after Brown, seemed conciliatory to segregationists, imposing no deadline for achieving racially mixed schools and calling merely for “good faith implementation.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Before us stood a mountain of a woman who looked even more imposing because of the brightly colored Hawaiian shift she wore. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Many Osage, unlike other wealthy Americans, could not spend their money as they pleased because of the federally imposed system of financial guardians. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Turner ran to the shore every day now, the forbidden having been silently lifted—or at least not imposed. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When a certain leader of the free world tried to impose a ban on Muslims entering the country, I thought of my own family immigrating here, but I also thought a lot about Mamani. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

As Mr Charles described it, all three passengers seemed to be overcome as one by the realization of what an imposing physical force my father was. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Père Lafontant—père is the French word for “father” or “priest”—was a small but imposing man with a forceful manner, especially when he spoke of life in the central plateau. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

There was, however, a condition that he now felt obligated to impose. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The arid, imposing mountains sat along deep gorges and soared to jagged peaks. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The safety measures imposed on the students since Black’s second break-in made it impossible for Harry, Ron, and Hermione to go and visit Hagrid in the evenings. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The trading ship with its sixty-two normal NS-2’s was gone to wherever it was bound, with an officially imposed story to explain its two weeks’ delay. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

What we need is a form of hindsight that does not impose itself arbitrarily on the mentality of the revolutionary generation, does not presume that we are witnessing the birth of an inevitable American superpower. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Yes, if I may impose on your hospitality a little longer. I’ll be off first thing in the morning, I promise.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They circled around me and advanced on Florence, their eyes flashing with the thought of the punishment they would impose on the non-believer. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad was about six-foot-two, and while he was probably the least violent guy ever, he could look pretty imposing. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They went in a dream, unguided by owl’s hoot or bat’s squeak, but only kept together by the necessary pace which the sleeping forest imposed upon them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building, everything inside the imperial gates, was cold and imposing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I wanted to photograph some of our clients in order to give the life-without-parole sentences imposed on children a human face. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was cool with this, a life of self- imposed isolation. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Straight ahead of the cart, emerging from the gray mist, were walls as gray and imposing as Notre Dame herself. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

President Johnson used his imposing physical stature and outsized personality to intimidate others, 1965. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Even Lady Constance seemed to have shrunk a size smaller just by virtue of standing within this vast, imposing space. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I was apologetic for imposing such a burden on those who had to decide. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of her secret hostility toward the colonel, it was Fernanda who imposed the rigor of that mourning, impressed by the solemnity with which the government exalted the memory of its dead enemy. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Their contact until tonight has been artificial, imposed, something like his relationship to his cousins in India but lacking even the justification of blood ties. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, he said, Copernicus was acknowledged by all astronomers except those who “were a bit slow-witted or under the superstitions imposed by merely human authority.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

School desegregation, imposed by a federal court over bitter protests, did not take place until 1982. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One reason they persisted was that the lord of the manor could accuse the Jewish community of a crime, find the entire community guilty, and impose a heavy fine. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

She ordered that kind because she didn’t want to impose on any of them to look after her stove for her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was relieved when the pastor politely explained that since I wasn’t baptized in the Truth he wasn’t going to impose the ethics of a Christian on me. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Then they decided to go after him by imposing additional and arbitrary restrictions. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The mayor’s house is newer and made of a white stone that rises up four stories, the roof topped by a plethora of cupolas and gables, looking very fancy and imposing. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It might seem that this episode would have imposed a certain coolness upon our friendship. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Complex clusters of stone buildings, so tall and imposing they looked like gods rising out of the water, reached for the sky. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The building itself wasn’t that imposing; it was only called the Tower because it stuck up like a broken finger in a sea of one-story wooden shacks arranged in rings. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Just like I was tired of imposing and persevering. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

At this juncture, the imposing figure of Hermann Goring strode onto the platform, outfitted in a spectacular white military uniform. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

These local monopolies are reinforced by the Japanese government, which obstructs the import of foreign processed food by imposing a 10-day quarantine, among other restrictions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then Neola might grow tired of the constraint the verses imposed on her own voice and select a child to light a match for her cigarette. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But industrial civilization is only possible when there’s no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Encircled by an electric fence with imposing metal gates, Emalia now had a sinister look. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Despite similar crime rates, each government chose to impose different levels of punishment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was this matter of honor, he’d explained to her, and he had no choice but to accept the duty the war imposed on him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was no doubt about it: Alexandra Finch Hancock was imposing from any angle; her behind was no less uncompromising than her front. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He succeeded in imposing his authority over the career officers in a wide sector along the coast. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He was always friendly but never imposed on me, and I could tell he had it tough in here. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the Cahokian equivalent of the Reformation, except that the Church imposed it on itself. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He avowed that even if we proved that guerrilla war had not been approved and our policy of sabotage was designed not to sacrifice human life, the state could still impose the death sentence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it was a matter of deciding which family member she’d impose on. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When she thought of the restrictions imposed on the slave population, she longed to return to Maryland to bring out more slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In almost every state, juries made the decision to impose the death penalty or life in prison without parole. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Walls, roofs, domes, and arches could rise far higher, but by establishing this one point of commonality the architects ensured a fundamental harmony among the fair’s most imposing structures. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As a U.S. citizen, you are subject to the prohibitions under Executive Order 12810, dated June 5, 1992, imposing sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The mud dried and the spring flowers came out: yellow coltsfoot, and white wood anemones in profusion—and the wall being built around Asgard was a glorious, imposing thing. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

They were standing in an imposing marble foyer, and Sierra felt tiny, a crumb in a giant, pristine oven. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

For example, the San Diego and Los Angeles zoos are now subjecting the last surviving California condors to a more draconian control of breeding than that imposed upon any domesticated species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The state had not weakened in its resolve to impose passes on women and women had not weakened in their resolve to resist. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was too beautiful tonight to be their mother and to impose the old rules. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The Court found the sentences imposed in those cases “reasonably proportionate” to the offenses committed—and not “cruel and unusual” in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They were nearly eye-to-eye: he, an imposing grown man; she, a slight and messy child. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Behind her loomed a man shorter than she, but as imposing. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The physical conditions were overlaid with military regimentation far beyond anything imposed at the Rad Lab, even after its absorption into the bomb project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Fay, instead of trying to impose order, appeared distracted by the succession of in-mates presenting him with special requests. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Green, a suavely tough little septuagenarian, has an imposing reputation among his peers, who admire his stagecraft—a repertoire of actorish gifts that includes a sense of timing acute as a night-club comedian’s. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he climbed up to the imposing leather chair and settled in, what stood out most of all were his huge eyes peering through thick horn-rimmed glasses. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe, in addition to being tired of imposing and persevering, I was also tired of keeping my mouth shut. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Tier body seems larger in stature, more imposing than mine. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

This ruling was remarkable given that, prior to the Drug Reform Act of 1986, the longest sentence Congress had ever imposed for possession of any drug in any amount was one year. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to impose, I don’t know if the Persian understood or not when I shook my head and smiled, meaning “No, thanks.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she managed to get through an entire week without crying, overcoming all the tests Nicolas imposed, she won a prize, which almost always consisted of a motorcycle ride at breakneck speed—an unforgettable experience. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had even threatened to impose economic sanctions to pressure Pretoria to end apartheid. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being Afro-American, or black, was being imposed on me by people who had their own ideas of what those terms meant. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Paul Aebersold constructed a removable wooden chamber as a “treatment room” next to the imposing machine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And even if you disregard that part of it, there was strong evidence that the death penalty should not be imposed because of Herbert's trauma, military service, and childhood difficulties. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Today there is just one, the Mount Washington, still imposing and festive with its perky red roof but inescapably forlorn in its solitary grandeur. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was magnificent country, as topographically imposing as any landscape on earth, but it wasn’t wilderness, and hadn’t been for hundreds of years. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was a little like Switzerland in World War II. Shells were bursting all around me, souls were tortured and I was powerless in the confines of imposed neutrality— hopes were dying. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

What composers could impose instead of incremental change were more abrupt contrasts of loud and soft, like the juxtaposition of light and shade, chiaroscuro, in painting. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Beyond the fence, much closer now, is the imposing exterior wall. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The butler, an imposing personage named Mr Tibbs, was in supreme command of all the palace servants and he did the best he could in the short time available. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Grand Elder knitted his eyebrows in away that he assumed was imposing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The white mah’s system has been imposed upon non-white peoples all over the world. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We showed the Court that these sentences are disproportionately imposed on children of color. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She has schedules and rules and methods and every day she does her best to impose these on the world, one chipped fingernail repair at a time. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which' we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Natural objects have, for an Aristotelian, their own internal formative principles, while artificial objects are made according to a design imposed from outside. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was a drama about nothing, the missing boys; it was Hermione’s life imposed upon her own. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The six grandest buildings of the exposition towered over the central court with an effect more dramatic and imposing than even he had imagined. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The uproar among the gallery made me forget for a moment that I would be going to prison to serve what was then the stiffest sentence yet imposed in South Africa for a political offense. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

New Hampshire’s Mount Washington is still an imposing presence, but the stony mass that rises from the New England woods today represents, at most, the stubby bottom one-third of what was ten million years ago. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather may have been an imposing and learned man, but he was an idealist and a dreamer. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Even for high-end drug crimes, most countries impose sentences that are measured in months, rather than years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But polyrhythm conceived from scratch by a composer, written down on the page, imposed on the Western symphony orchestra, player by player, was an utterly novel concept. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Away from the riverside, Cahokia was hardly less busy and imposing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It is a punishment I impose on myself,” La Llorona began. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Each day the wall grew, and by evening it was bigger and more imposing than it had been before. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She suddenly felt shy around Diana, who seemed even more imposing away from the looms when her lovely, elegant voice was pitched rich and low like the call of a mourning dove. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

At present, black silk ribbons were tied around the braids, too, making them even more imposing, if you got to see them, which few people did. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If Levy Pants was to succeed, the first step would be imposing a heavy hand upon its detractors. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am surprised at the conditions that the government wants to impose on me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Úrsula succeeded in imposing the command that she eat with Amaranta in the kitchen so that the outsiders would not see her, she felt more comfortable, because, after all, she was beyond all discipline. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Whatever we might think of this imposing man in his pointed hat, he is a figurehead who represents the will of Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the old king, afraid the desperation would lead the people into disorder, had imposed strict laws with harsh punishments. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

My grandfather had an imposing presence, but he was a devoted father and was well respected by his peers. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Arthur is fighting the present war,” he said, “to impose his ideas on King Lot.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t impose on them anymore than I already had, or risk ruining them with the invisible fingers that seemed bent on tearing apart every single connection I managed to make. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Many of us, I think, both long to see this happen and are terrified of it, for though this transformation contains the hope of liberation, it also imposes a necessity for great change. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Even the shortest ferry ride delivered him to a new island nation, garish and imposing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

That imposed a constraint Lawrence had become a master at overcoming. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The range had other mountains, taller, more imposing, but Buck’s Peak was the most finely crafted. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His bulk was not even imposing as men go. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I told the Court that the United States is the only country in the world that imposes life imprisonment without parole sentences on children. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As legal scholar David Cole has observed, “The Court has imposed nearly insurmountable barriers to persons challenging race discrimination at all stages of the criminal justice system.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In spite of the visible hostility of the family, Fernanda did not give up her drive to impose the customs of her ancestors. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The old man had fierce tufty eyebrows of his own, rather like a dragon’s, and he was altogether too imposing a figure for me to have clambered on as an infant. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Tia is kind of big and imposing and her thick black eyebrows have scared me since childhood. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second man was huge, of a light coffee color, imposing in a frock coat and white tie. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Arthur imposed this idea on Christendom, because of the richness of his own schooling under Merlyn. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because civil penalties and sanctions imposed on people with criminal records applied only to a few, they never operated as a comprehensive system of control over any racially or ethnically defined population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it’s a disgrace,” agrees the caustic, somewhat original, and entirely imposing lady who presides over this litter. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their meager clothes, imposed on them by foreigners, clung to their thin chests and legs like a second skin finally ready to accept the shape of their bodies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I raised my right hand as directed and looked around nervously at the other hundreds of participants while a video of an imposing President Bush stared down at us like Big Brother. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And they were so successful at imposing their will on the landscape that in 1492 Columbus set foot in a hemisphere thoroughly marked by humankind. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I had no sympathy in their appearance, their expression: yet I could imagine that most observers would call them attractive, handsome, imposing; while they would pronounce Mr. Rochester at once harsh-featured and melancholy-looking. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Somehow even me being white and imposing on their hospitality didn’t seem enough reason. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And only now, after working this same land for ten years, am I coming to understand the length and breadth of outsiders’ failure to impose themselves on Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It must seem imposing to a farm girl,” Mrs. Bedlow said. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner, the children drifted off to their rooms with their poker faces congealed and their imposed vow of silence unbroken. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mandatory sentencing laws are frequently justified as necessary to keep “violent criminals” off the streets, yet those penalties are imposed most often against people who are guilty of nonviolent crimes and drug offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Without a doubt, princes become great when they overcome difficulties and obstacles imposed upon them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie clung to my trail, following me past riveted metal machines, past imposing cannons and naval guns, past armored plates and display cases of mortars and bullets. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Again, I said that they must furnish evidence if they were going to impose any penalties. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under federal sentencing guidelines, however, the sentencing judge was obligated to impose a fifty-five-year mandatory minimum sentence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the realm of power, Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty—necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

White was led into Hoover’s immaculate office, where there was an imposing wooden desk and a map on the wall showing the locations of the bureau’s field offices. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

To pull it off, Ulbrickson knew, he was going to have to clear a series of imposing hurdles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was an even more obvious metaphor for Christians, as it was easy to think of God as a legislator imposing laws on nature and to personify nature as obeying him. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The very fancy oriental rug covering the wooden floor and the slate flagstones of the hearth only served to make the room seem even more imposing. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The violence continued over the next week, despite a 7 P.M. to 6 A.M. curfew imposed by the mayor and the deployment of National Guard troops throughout the city. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like so many words, it can be interpreted in two ways: a contradiction imposed from without and one imposed from within. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

At six foot three inches tall, he intimidated both enemies and allies with his imposing stature and sharp tongue. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Before sentencing, I informed the court that whatever sentence the state imposed, it would do nothing to change my devotion to the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was learning already from the frantic light in her eyes the strain that the city imposed upon its people. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would not fire a number of white employees at City Hall and replace them with blacks, and he could not impose a hiring quota for black clerks at a downtown store. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sexual puritanism of the Party was not imposed upon them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

For me, my “X” replaced the white slavemaster name of “Little” which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed upon my paternal forebears. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Alar is the cornerstone of sympathy. If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He held out his hand to him and cried, “I will submit to any penalty you impose. You be the judge.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wide assortment of children's rights advocates, lawyers, and mental health experts were watching closely when we asked the Court to declare life-without-parole sentences imposed on children unconstitutional. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A heavy fine was now imposed on anyone who wore khaki trousers and shins of the same color. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To impose white rule, the Dutch colonists went to war with the natives, ultimately developing a set of laws to subjugate and enslave them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

No judge wants to deal with attack ads that highlight the grisly details of a murder case in which the judge failed to impose the most severe punishment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was as if a small, befuddled stranger were peering through the imposing mask of my father’s features. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barges and boats dot the water, and just beyond the eastern banks sits the city of Serra, its dun-colored walls imposing even from a distance of miles. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The South African government was under growing international pressure, as nations all across the globe began to impose economic sanctions on Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On June 12,1986, the government imposed a State of Emergency in an attempt to keep a lid on protest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1980s, however, when the national government, dominated by northern Arabs, tried to impose Islamic laws on the entire nation, civil war broke out. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind her she heard the continuing roar of the engines, the confused shouts, the powerful voice of the President trying to impose some order on the scene. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But as Oliver said at the time of the bombing, the armed struggle was imposed upon us by the violence of the apartheid regime. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His breath swelled deep in his lungs and he flexed his muscles, trying to impose his will over his body. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Old buildings, whose gray rococo facades housed my memories of the Forty-Niners, and Diamond Lil, Robert Service, Sutter and Jack London, were then imposing structures viciously joined to keep me out. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

An imposing congregation had massed itself around her first certainties, and now it was waiting and she could not disappoint it at the altar. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The death penalty can be imposed fairly only after carefully considering all the reasons why death might not be the appropriate sentence, and that didn't happen in Herbert's case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The screen’s camera flickered with laser light, and a green grid sprang up on Shay’s face, a field of tiny squares imposed across the shape of her cheekbones, nose, lips, and forehead. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The courthouse is an imposing, old, pillared brick building occupying a full city block, but the entrance is off to the side, down a set of steps. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His lawyers argued that the law is arbitrary and irrational, because it imposes such vastly different penalties on two forms of the same substance. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Christianity not only imposed an abbreviated chronology; the liturgy was constructed around an endless cycle, the annual recurrence of the life of Christ. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The regime he imposed was draconian: He subtracted the labor that kept Pennsylvania’s inmates occupied during the day in their cells, as well as the opportunity they had for daily exercise. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tall but not physically imposing, he dreamed of being on television—having a voice that made an impact. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Random for most practical purposes, they are actually generated by a deterministic formula which imposes sufficient order on the numbers as to render them useless for some applications. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Provision was also made for house arrest, the most well-known use of which was imposed on the white political activist Helen Joseph. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sentence imposed was four years in prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We all jumped out of our seats, but Father, because of his imposing stature, had to kind of crouch over inside the plane instead of standing up straight. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to completely disregard a person's disability would be unfair in evaluating what degree of culpability to assign and what sentence to impose. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The photograph was of a dark, imposing man with radioactive green eyes wielding a baseball bat at Rodin’s lovely romantic sculpture The Kiss. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t big or imposing enough to be called a mansion. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Just short of the finish line, a gleaming white 250-foot coast guard cutter, the Champlain, was tied up in the shadow of an imposing grim, gray U.S. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The present King of France has waged many wars without imposing extraordinary taxes on his subjects, only because his habitual parsimony has provided for the additional expenditures. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

God could have made the universe in many different ways; he has arbitrarily chosen to make it as it is, and the order it displays is an order he has chosen to impose upon it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

At the oral argument months earlier, I'd been hopeful as I walked into the imposing Alabama Judicial Building and stood in the grand appellate courtroom that was formerly a Scottish Rite Freemasonry temple. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It imposed a furtiveness on the loving done on it. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Ash had to admit that she was an imposing figure, and when she gathered Ana and Clara to her to kiss their beribboned heads, Ash felt like a sparrow among peacocks. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than once he had fought alone and imposed his will on crowds of other rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them, New York City seemed to rise out of the sea, but it didn’t look so tall and imposing from out here, more like a toy set. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Judge Reed expressed serious misgivings about the sentence he was forced to impose. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He had written, in chilling terms in 1929, about the probable coming of a master race, “a race physically strong, mentally alert and morally sound; a race not to be imposed upon.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Ferguson twenty years later, the Court unanimously upheld Alabama's restrictions on interracial sex and marriage and affirmed the prison terms imposed on Tony Pace and Mary Cox. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

No longer a ropy mass of gangly arms and gangly legs, but now a big, firm, curvy woman, exulting in her weight and height, and it made her imposing, a presence that drew the eyes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was a tall man with imposing muscles, but in that instant he sounded cowed and confused. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The stranger guided our horse down a cobbled walk to a stable nearly as imposing as the house. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were imposed on us by Virginia planters obsessed with enslaving as many Americans as possible. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

His focus was now on the group of people he’d not been able to see from so far away: a line of imposing cops in riot gear who stood in front of the gate. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

King Hizdahr had replaced the bench with two imposing thrones of gilded wood, their tall backs carved into the shape of dragons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The clouds were parting, and through the dark gap a figure was speeding down: small at first, but as it came closer second by second, the form became bigger and more imposing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The collective appearance of the gentlemen, like that of the ladies, is very imposing: they are all costumed in black; most of them are tall, some young. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The moose, when shot, unfortunately lacked the imposing horns that Jefferson had specified, but Sullivan thoughtfully included a rack of antlers from an elk or stag with the suggestion that these be attached instead. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A loud roar howls through the kitchen, imposing a kind of silence. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But they come at a cost, which is the extra load they impose on memory. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The guards imposed harsh discipline, consisting of compulsory physical exercise, denial of evening meals, solitary confinement, and corporal punishment. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My dear Xan,” Glerk said, feeling a rumble deep in his chest, which he hoped sounded imposing and dramatic, and not like someone who was simply coming down with a cold. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He is very imposing, my father, with broad shoulders and unusually large hands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a used model that managed to look imposing even when positioned on a linoleum-tiled floor. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The choice was a bold statement and his size made him an imposing figure. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But there were a couple of tall streetlamps, which made the space seem imposing, especially this late at night. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

At the stove she pressed the coffee button, and in a moment had put the imposing mug by his place at the kitchen table. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

But his presence imposed order and allowed freedom. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the room sat seven or eight men, young, dressed in dark suits, very much at ease, and very imposing. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Even Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has condemned the harsh mandatory minimum sentences imposed on people convicted of drug offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then we rounded a corner and the cathedral’s dome revealed itself, proud and imposing despite patches of fire-blackened stone and a few crumbling arches. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But it could also have been that she was just content to be quiet about her beliefs and not impose them on others, including Charles. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That imposes two demands on the long-suffering reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

When judges have discretion, they may consider a defendant’s background and impose a lighter penalty if the defendant’s personal circumstances—extreme poverty or experience of abuse, for example—warrant it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The man possesses quite an imposing air, one of barely repressed violence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The elimination of judicial discretion through mandatory sentencing laws has forced judges to impose sentences for drug crimes that are often longer than those imposed for violent crimes in many countries around the world. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Behind the imposing facade, the building looked like what it was—a prison. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The judge also imposed a year of supervised release and numerous computer restrictions. NY man gets 1 year in prison for 'X-Men' piracy 2011-12-20T02:53:08Z

The next morning, we headed to the beach — an impressive landscape of imposing cliffs, black sand, and a curious juxtaposition of cedar trees next to electric blue Mediterranean waters. An Ancient Corner of Italy Finds the World on Its Doorstep 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

A small aboriginal community in Canada's Northwest Territories is crafting laws that would normally be imposed by higher authorities as it forges ahead on a path of self-governance some 20 years in the making. Northern Canada’s Deline, population 500, gets self-governance 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

“Some cities are imposing curfews,” the alert said. Traveling to France? What You Need to Know About the Protests. 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

That beneath all the bluster, behind the imposing shades, underneath the girth and the tattoos — barriers all — there beat something urgent, a muscle carrying more weight than one man could reasonably bear. Rick Ross Tries On a New, Streetwise Role 2012-08-01T13:32:00Z

Both had their minds and characters shaped by the conditions of their early reading, by what their parents imposed on them, and by what was thought, in their environment, to be "good" and "bad" reading. The Woman Reader by Belinda Jack – review 2012-07-05T07:00:01Z

We spend enormous amounts of time, energy, and treasure in imposing our will on nature, on preexisting or inherited structures, dreaming of permanent solutions, monuments to our ambitions and dreams. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z

Voodoo and murders and gothically imposing southern dynasties – what's not to like? The Devil and the River by RJ Ellory – review 2013-06-02T08:00:02Z

Sometimes, as when experts impose solutions which locals do not want, it rides roughshod over them. Poor and benighted 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z

The government is keen to restart the country's reactors once they pass tougher security checks imposed after the Fukushima disaster, to reduce reliance on expensive imported fuel. Fukushima film shows reality sinking in for 'nuclear refugees' 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Transcendental Meditation, which he still practices daily, may also have helped, though he said it imposes little order on his personal life. Ben Foster Brings His Beast Mode to ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Ben Stones’s imposing concrete set includes the signature graffito, “I love you, will u marry me,” that was painted on a concrete bridge of the housing project in 2001 and became an unlikely Sheffield icon. These 2 Productions Bring a Jolt of Energy to British Musicals 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

How are readers imposing their own politics on to "American Carnage" and your other work? "American Carnage" isn't about Donald Trump: "I don't think the Trumps are that interesting" 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

Steps 6 and 7: And these principles add an even more poisonous element: when imposed by force, humility becomes humiliation and defects of character become weak spots to attack. Do 12-step programs lead to cults? 2012-08-28T19:46:00Z

While I have a lot of work to do to reduce my own carbon footprint, Topia’s restrictions didn’t impose any particular hardship for me. 2010-02-06T03:05:00Z

For 30 years, he was a United States Postal Service employee, toiling mostly in the vast mail-sorting room beyond the imposing columns of what was New York City’s general post office in Midtown Manhattan. By Day, Richie Weeks Sorted Mail. At Night, He Was a Disco Mastermind. 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z

Jahangir Kothari Parade promenade, once an imposing British heritage site, is now obscured by a maze of overpasses and the shadow of Pakistan’s tallest building. Pakistan's crumbling architectural heritage 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Against a backdrop of haunting, pianissimo strings, which move at a glacial pace, Mr. Rouse imposes short bursts of fast, angular flute figures, darkly mysterious contributions from lower-lying woodwinds, and sudden bursts of fortissimo brass. 2010-02-11T23:34:00Z

This novel is just roaring with danger, imposed by both man and nature. L.A. based Nina Revoyr talks about writing socially conscious adventure novel 'Lost Canyon' 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

It’s a basic principle, in fact, of any form of etiquette: Thou shalt not impose thy beliefs on someone else. How (not) to behave: Manners and the classical music audience 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

The board, which has to check scripts before filming begins, imposed the ban, saying on Twitter: “Anyone found in its possession will be in breach of law.” Lesbian love movie director sues Kenya to lift ban on film 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Or worse, they do what they can to make them go away, for example by disrupting their commerce or imposing draconian fines. Food safety policy neglects informal markets in developing countries — 3 ways this can change 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ratmansky, whose work richly engages tradition, wrote in an email that he didn’t mean to offend or impose a ban. When Two Men Fall in Love on the Ballet Stage, and Why It Matters 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

I find it strange that these ideas are being imposed now. Mali music ban by Islamists 'crushing culture' 2013-01-15T21:10:07Z

And Thomas manages the neat trick of making a towering figure seem both imposing and human, as he overcomes his own temper to make history. Review: 'Jackie & Me' brings together Little Leaguer, hero 2011-05-06T20:50:11Z

The next day, 17 March, the UN Security Council would impose a no-fly zone over Libya. Spies, Chopin and a Libya rescue 2013-01-14T07:00:03Z

The 25-year-old struggled with her probation until Sautner imposed a series of tough new rules, including monthly meetings with the court, in November. Lohan returns to court for latest probation update 2012-01-17T11:26:24Z

As time passed, the pandemic imposed limitations on the planning and execution of the piece, and the protests following the murder of George Floyd last spring added new context for the work. Artists in a Post-George Floyd, Mid-Pandemic World 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

Barred from the Royal Society of London because she is a woman, Anna finds a way around the limits imposed by society, eventually publishing the world’s first photography book in 1843. Picture Book Biographies of Women Who Made History 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

The imposing medieval castle that looms above Lerici’s main piazza is the town’s defining feature, but the scenic mile-and-a-half-long promenade that stretches along the waterfront is its most dazzling. Next Stop: Lerici Lacks the International Cachet of Nearby Cinque Terre. 2010-06-16T20:05:00Z

When I return to the museum’s imposing dioramas, I fruitlessly search for human tracks in the carefully crafted earth. Museum Review: The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles, Redesigned 2013-08-02T19:53:12Z

The term “bullying” is inherently vague, and there’s always the risk, in legislating behavior, of imposing a moral value on uncomfortable opinions. GOP actually bullies an anti-bullying bill 2013-05-20T14:52:00Z

A short walk along the north side of the port to the imposing 12th-century Fort St.-Jean takes you to two high, narrow footbridges. Cultured Traveler: Marseille Polishes Its Image 2013-09-06T17:29:48Z

The eye needs to adjust to the separation of planes, and to the slight darkening of the image that all 3D glasses impose. Titanic, TIME and Me 2012-04-04T20:24:41Z

There is the blocky plaster and papier-mâché model of Elie Nadelman’s 1930 sculpture, “Two Circus Women,” the imposing full-scale version of which looms over the lobby of the Metropolitan Opera House. Bedtime Under Glass 2013-12-12T03:49:39Z

An alternative solution might be to impose restrictions on the kind of causes for which tax exemptions can be claimed. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Bahrain's rulers have imposed martial law and are backed by a Saudi-led military force to try to quell an uprising that began in February. Britain revokes wedding invite for Syria envoy 2011-04-28T12:27:19Z

“I couldn’t imagine a review of this movement without Still strongly represented,” said Mr. Sobel, looking to balance the many rules imposed by the artist with advancing his legacy. Rare Loan of Clyfford Still Paintings to Join Royal Academy Show 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

They move into the Overlook Hotel after Jack is appointed caretaker of the imposing and isolated North American mountain retreat while it is closed for winter. Fans breaking The Shining 'codes' 2012-10-24T08:06:46Z

The imposing hardware, as well as the sounds it produces, plays a supporting role, too. ‘Berberian Sound Studio’ and Movies About Audio Men 2013-06-07T20:04:45Z

Tension with the West rose last month when Washington and the European Union imposed the toughest sanctions yet on Iran in a bid to force it to provide more information on its nuclear program. Iran says oil ban will not halt nuclear work 2012-02-04T13:45:12Z

"Businesses have long recognized the need for sensible regulations," he said, but the regulatory system imposes a burden on business that is "pervasive, insidious and needs to be exposed." Campaign by U.S. Chamber to target federal regulations 2010-11-16T07:01:00Z

The snippets from musical comedy recordings between scenes impose quotation marks on Mr. Bradshaw’s script that push it into obvious irony. | 'Burning' : Thomas Bradshaw?s ?Burning? at Acorn Theater - Review 2011-11-15T03:18:36Z

“The State Water Board has imposed an 8 percent cut back on the Monterey Peninsula, much less than the average 25 percent statewide cut back,” he said. Drought Tests California Tourism 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

To her surprise, the richness of the natural world keeps imposing itself — recall that vivid little robin. A Lucid, Literary Illustration of the Complex, Beautiful Work of Memory 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

It doesn’t feel imposed from the outside in. ArtsBeat: More Todd Haynes on My Morning Jacket Concert Film 2011-05-03T19:48:06Z

The merrymakers sang an off-key “Happy Birthday” as they reached the imposing yet capricious new gate in front of Harrison House. The 24-hour Joshua Tree party to celebrate Lou Harrison's 100th birthday 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Although this is not the first time the artist has simulated a naturally occurring stone object, previous efforts were not so imposing. Review | In the galleries: Simulated stone and neon artworks reflect the transience of life 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

It’s likely that you were not the principal director of an imposing Chelsea gallery. Up Close: Max Levai Directs the Marlborough Chelsea 2012-03-07T00:33:45Z

"Europe kind of agreed to buy some more soybeans or something and maybe some liquefied natural gas — it’s kinda vague — and in return, Trump agreed not to impose hefty tariffs on European cars," Colbert continued. Mueller wants to question the president about his tweets; Stephen Colbert has some questions too 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

He blithely rewrote his friend, imposing his poetic style on her more prosaic effort, inventing dialogue and taking little liberties to heighten the drama. Joanne Carson's Capote-edited memoir chapter still in limbo 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Spending £10m on such a divisive figure in times of austerity, especially when austerity is being imposed on the poor, is wrong, especially when harm is being caused to the disabled and the NHS. Margaret Thatcher funeral: quotes of the day 2013-04-17T10:35:03Z

A makeshift shrine sprawls across the base of an imposing concrete facade — flowers, stuffed animals, deflating balloons, a profusion of glowing candles. Review: ‘Antigone’ Asserts Whose Lives Matter, With Modern Relevance 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

Alongside the frustrations and injustices borne by women, Eastwood suggests that men, too, have suffered from unchallenged traditional gender roles—they have been emotionally impoverished by the imposed distance from their wives and children. “The Mule,” Reviewed: The Personal and Political Passions Behind Clint Eastwood’s New Crime Drama 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

In addition to the usual complaints, Rabbi Emden was vexed that the ban would impose an additional financial burden on the struggling masses, whose food options were already limited. And, on Passover, God Gave the Israelites Back Their Legumes 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Recently married to Noah’s feckless father, and trying to assert authority in the awkward situation, she imposes a new rule: Caroline should keep any change she finds in Noah’s dirty clothes. Review: ‘Caroline, or Change’ Makes History’s Heartbreak Sing 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

“But I was a first-time filmmaker, and people wanted to maybe impose their own vision on the film. She kind of naturally sprung into action to safeguard what the movie needed to be.” Tika Sumpter on Playing the Future First Lady, Michelle Obama 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

At a news conference, Kristof responded to a question about whether America was imposing its beliefs on other countries. 'Half the Sky' tells pain, hope of exploited women 2012-09-29T19:01:04Z

Russia's economy is teetering on the brink of recession and faces reduced access to foreign capital after the West imposed sanctions over Moscow's policies in Ukraine. Putin wants monasteries, church rebuilt inside Kremlin 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Congressional Republicans have opposed the Democratic approach of paying for the tax holiday by imposing a surtax on millionaires. GOP: Charge wealthy more for Medicare 2011-11-30T23:02:00Z

Disney imposed new rules on when theaters could show discount screenings of its films, including "Avengers." Disney posts another strong quarter as its clout grows 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

"It's completely unacceptable for either the government or the private sector to impose upon you the requirement that you show proof of vaccine to just simply be able to participate in normal society." How Ron DeSantis' COVID bans could get Harry Styles tripped up 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

The imposing, crystalline mountain is slammed up side by side against a hazy, atmospheric river valley that stretches into the far distance. 'Alternative Dreams: 17th Century Chinese Paintings From the Tsao Collection' at LACMA 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Onstage and off, she’s a vivid presence: a voluble storyteller with an imposing Afro and a boisterous laugh. Behind a ‘Best New Artist’ Nod: Yola’s 20 Years of Experience 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

But the grimness and irony that pervade the production feel imposed on Gounod’s opera, not drawn from it. Music Review: A Review of the Metropolitan Opera?s ?Faust? 2011-11-30T13:23:05Z

Radicalized under martial law imposed by Marcos in 1972, she drops out of medical school and joins the New People’s Army, a communist rebel force that continues to resist the government today. A Debut Novel Traces the Filipino Experience in the United States 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

Similarly, specific characters emerge from the throng to impose their wills on the eager but largely passive Joe. ‘Allegro,’ a Rarely Staged Rodgers and Hammerstein Musical 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

The Middle Kingdom is a 19th-century idea, imposed on a dynamic period of Egyptian culture more for scholarly convenience than explanatory power. Met exhibit shatters 19th-century myths about ancient Egypt 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Now, the imposing structure will host “Picture, Tower, Building,” a presentation offering highlights of Meier’s prolific career, which opens tomorrow. Richard Meier Architecture, Revisited at the Ulm Stadthaus in Germany 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

The United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions on Gaddafi and his family on Saturday, and referred Libya's crackdown on demonstrators to the court. Beyonce says she donated Gaddafi performance fee 2011-03-03T15:14:23Z

Even now, enormous calligraphic roundels in Arabic impose themselves on its cavernous space, affirming that if this is a house of God at all, the commanding spirit is Islam. Museums: In Turkey?s Museums, Sacred and Secular Interweave 2010-05-25T22:26:00Z

The concerns rest on the sensitivity with which they are imposed. 'No one should die penniless and alone': the victims of Britain's harsh welfare sanctions 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

The imposing yet airy three-tiered set, by Daniel Conway, combines the grandeur of an old seafaring galleon with the rumpled beauty of a traveling circus. ‘The Tempest,’ á la Steampunk, in Cambridge, Mass. 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

The indictment, in April, charged Mr. Ahmad, with evading U.S. sanctions imposed on him in 2019, by using a network of businesses to conceal millions of dollars in transactions involving art and diamonds. Hezbollah Sanctions Case Highlights Frailties in the Art Market 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z

As embodied by the imposing Mr. Pedersen, he’s also a classic western hero: white hat, casual swagger, stony, squinting stare. Review: In ‘Mystery Road,’ Judy Davis Goes West 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

They may not have been imposing maestros, but they knew a thing or two about Verdi. Toscanini and Giulini Put Their Mark on ?Traviata? 2010-04-04T21:37:00Z

And the integration project, as a whole, undermined the solidarity — albeit imposed from outside — felt within the Black community. Annette Gordon-Reed’s Surprising Recollections of Texas 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

Last week, the U.S. imposed a trade ban on Syria, following Obama’s call for the Syrian president to step down. British Oil Company With Ties To Assad Family Carries On With Drilling 2011-08-26T18:08:52Z

Disturbingly, Republicans originally sought to impose work requirements on all recipients up to age 65, forcing older poor people to toil for their meager food assistance. Food stamp work rules harm older, poor Americans 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z

The film tells a story about occupation, about what happens when Islamist extremists take over the town and impose a grinding interpretation of Sharia law. A Movie That Dares to Humanize Jihadists 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

He grouses about the coverage, sneering, “Martial law may have been imposed in Poland, and we have footage of Prince Rainier on honeymoon with his showgirl.” | ?The Hour?: Espionage in the Government and Shenanigans at Work 2011-08-16T12:00:00Z

There, behind the gilded and imposing St. George statue in Freedom Square, three restaurants have opened. Humble Magic in Georgian Capital’s Restaurant Renaissance 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

In one painting he is an imposing Confucian ancestor figure; in another, a humble young Daoist scholar. Art Review: A Man of Contradictions, With a Collection to Match 2011-02-03T23:00:07Z

A ridiculous, insane experiment that a small group of people imposed on a society – and, in all truth, a slightly larger community kept it in power through apathy. Mies Julie in London: 'Apartheid was an insane experiment' 2013-03-06T20:00:02Z

All good Gothic tales need an imposing house. "Flowers in the Attic: The Origin": How to be Gothic, from creepy manors to severe housekeepers 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z

The imposing cascade on the left, 850 feet wide, is the American Falls. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Niagara Falls 2011-05-26T18:29:08Z

The dictates of theater, though, impose structural requirements distinct from a novel’s, a reality Sorkin confronted when Rudin summoned him to New York for a meeting on improvements, after he submitted a first draft. Aaron Sorkin and Jeff Daniels made ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ their mission 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

But you may find yourself troubled a little along the way by the analytical framework he’s imposed on the material, the division between the technologically minded Wizards and the limits-embracing Prophets. To Respect the Earth’s Limits — or Push Them? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

His trio with Mr. Hébert and Mr. McPherson has been working more or less steadily for the last five years, developing an imposing level of collective empathy. New Albums by Honeyblood, John Hiatt and the Fred Hersch Trio 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

The Turks particularly, says Ms Calabi, were subject to rules “stricter perhaps than those imposed on the Jews”. Hidden secrets 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

As the number of devout believers has dwindled, many of those imposing but well-preserved churches have helped nurture a literary tradition by hosting readings, salons, writing classes and theatrical productions. Overnighter: Norwich, England ? a Getaway for Book Lovers 2011-01-21T19:55:00Z

It wasn’t Korean — and I saw Sam flinch — but at this point, I was willing to impose. In South Korea, a search for beauty, one day at a time 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

The Bolshevik revolution was imposed by force of arms, and all the inhabitants of the area were enrolled as Soviet citizens. The Eagle Unbowed by Halik Kochanski – review 2012-11-09T22:55:09Z

“Historicity” imposes no hierarchies where style is concerned, absorbing protocols from myriad sources. 2010-01-08T03:22:00Z

There's no doubt that this year's competition boasts an imposing Hollywood pedigree. Cannes and Hollywood: a feisty marriage 2013-05-14T08:00:03Z

Mr. Gardiner never imposed grandeur on these scores, preferring to emphasize the lucidity afforded by a period orchestra. This Is How to Do a Beethoven Symphony Cycle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

In his painting The Baptism of Christ, an eerily perfect bisection of the painting by the pale figure of Christ with the dove of the Holy Spirit directly above him imposes a sense of truth. Baby, it's cold outside: art's best nativity scenes 2012-12-24T08:00:04Z

Yet in conveying this imposing princess’s inner emotional fragility, Ms. Rachvelishvili shaped crucial phrases with supple, yearning tenderness. Review: Met Opera’s ‘Adriana Lecouvreur’ Bristles With Passion and Danger 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

“Ms. Huffman is prepared to serve the term of imprisonment Judge Talwani ordered as one part of the punishment she imposed for Ms. Huffman’s actions,” her spokesman said in the statement. Actress Felicity Huffman reports to prison for part in U.S. college scandal 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

But in return, they needed a sign of good faith: The IRA had to impose a week-long cease-fire during the group’s visit. How an undocumented Irish immigrant became an unofficial U.S. diplomat 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

In another TikTok, Schnatter imposes himself jokingly clutching his heart over a message showing a pizza so disfigured that it looks like it could have been carried on its side. ‘Papa’ John Schnatter rips bad pizzas on TikTok: ‘Holy s---‘ 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

The domination was imposed in part by the influence of university music departments in the United States and of high-minded radio stations and specialized music festivals across Europe. Back to the future with the Seattle Modern Orchestra | Classical review 2013-02-09T18:53:57Z

Lawyers for Black Rock City filed the lawsuit in Reno in August 2012 accusing Pershing County of violating their First Amendment rights by imposing fees for visitors to the event on BLM land. Burning Man Organizers Reach Settlement with Pershing County on Security Costs 2013-11-11T23:44:23Z

None are more imposing than the Palais de Justice, or central courthouse, a ghastly mash-up of Baroque, classical and Assyrian motifs that sprawls over more than six acres of the capital’s heart. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

The last piece is about his relationship with his own father, a super-intelligent but also imposing doctor. Michael Chabon Tries Hard to Be a Good Dad 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

But when the Delta variant contributed to the surge of cases over the summer, she and her husband, David, felt it was necessary to impose a vaccine requirement for those over age 11 this Thanksgiving. The Big Question This Thanksgiving: Are You Vaccinated? 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

She showed me that great designs are not imposed from above but evolve during rehearsal. The artists' artist: set designers 2011-07-20T21:31:01Z

Corporations accused of misconduct lawyered up, offering extensive internal investigations but erecting imposing defenses around individual executives. America’s Top Prosecutors Used to Go After Top Executives. What Changed? 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

Austen's allure is in the exacting set of rules society of her time imposes on courtship; it takes so little to sully a decent lady's reputation. Why "Bridgerton" and "Sanditon" dialed back the sex – and came out stronger for it 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z

One of gentrification’s peculiar wounds is its threat to the architecture of memories, as new stories, new histories, get imposed upon old ones. A Photographer Chronicles Upheaval in His Suburban Home Town 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

There are ghost ships, for one, and even more imposing is the realization that her entire town, including her life, is under surveillance by a mysterious figure. What young 'Jenny LeClue' will ultimately do is up to the players 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Instead French musicians imposed their own six-month ban on the performance and publication of his music in France. Unlocking the Mystery of Honegger 2010-08-29T02:30:00Z

He's brilliantly served by the handsome, imposing Bardem, whose expressive face and large battered nose resembles a deposed Roman emperor who's spent a lifetime in fairground boxing booths. Biutiful 2011-01-30T00:05:53Z

But it was a different experience in 2011 in the main cathedral of Cusco, Peru, a place of great color and pattern behind its imposing dark-brown stone facade. Why early-morning walks are the best way for travelers to explore new places 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

Most true-crime dramatizations are just that — an exercise in imposing a saucier narrative on top of the transcripts, TV’s version of rubbernecking. Review | Showtime’s ‘Escape at Dannemora’ is a brilliant series for our remorseless times 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

With its fictional framework and obvious cinematic flourishes, “Krisha” imposes enough distance that viewers can assure themselves they’re watching a performance, not literal human suffering. Bold films negotiate the fine line between voyeurism and bearing witness 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

Businesses, though, are free to impose their own vaccination and masking requirements if they choose. What you need to know about mask and vaccine requirements to get into Seattle-area arts and music events this spring 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

China's government imposes a quota on film imports and keeps a careful eye on the content of those it allows through. Why Hollywood kowtows to China 2013-03-11T14:24:26Z

A newspaper tycoon forces opera into the private fantasy he is imposing on his wife; Afro-Brazilian and African-American musicians negotiate a treacherous landscape of idolization, condescension, and repression. Orson Welles, Musician 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

The judge ruled that wearing the device was part of the bail conditions imposed on Lohan for missing the May court date, but was not a part of her 2007 probation. Lindsay Lohan back in court 2010-07-06T18:30:00Z

Dudley Smith, one of the great villains of contemporary fiction, also is back, hatching byzantine schemes and imposing his implacable will on the chaos that surrounds him. ‘Perfidia,’ the new James Ellroy novel, starts the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor

He imposed his taste for cream-colored walls, introduced Elkann, not exactly a local, to Rome’s best workmen and helped position furniture, art and objects that the couple had amassed over the years. T Magazine: Portrait of a Lady 2014-02-15T00:16:46Z

The directors’ association has the power to impose sanctions on members for selling off artworks to pay for general operating expenses. Museums Vote to Allow Sale of Art to Care for Collections 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

Racing through “Squid,” one of Mr. Stewart’s newer tunes, each imposed his fluency, though Mr. Blake took more impetuous digressions, and Mr. Wilson was coolly algorithmic. 2010-02-15T01:06:00Z

The same technologies being employed to fight the war on terror internationally are being imposed on Americans in their most private, personal lives. Four ways your privacy is being invaded 2012-09-11T13:44:00Z

Many restaurants impose numerous safety precautions, including requirements that staff and customers wear masks. A Quandary for New York Restaurants and Workers: What to Do About Omicron? 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z

The imposing structure, built in a style that blends Gothic and Islamic elements, is one of the country’s oldest colonial-era edifices. Cuernavaca: A side trip into opulence, only an hour away from Mexico’s capital 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

In his mind, Rome was its glorious past, its imposing ruins, its magnificent Colosseum, not the contemporary Rome that he unexpectedly found before him and that was not in the guidebooks he had read. Read Your Way Through Rome 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

In addition, “cost-effectiveness” is subjective, and imposes a one-size-fits-all formula on a diverse country of 300 million people, who respond differently to different treatments. Burr-Coburn: The Best Medicare Reform Proposal Yet 2012-02-16T16:01:02Z

When she ridicules David for carrying a mechanical watch as opposed to a digital one, he tries to explain that the handcrafted mechanism imposes “a structure on the flux of reality.” Remembering a Lover Who Never Revealed Her True Nature 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

The drawings use heightened perspective and exaggerated angles, and they make the building look futuristic and imposing, even today. How Frank Lloyd Wright Tried to Solve the City 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

Speaking of order; to impose some on a rambunctious bunch of recommendations, this week focuses on mystery writers working in Europe. Readers on the case: favorite mysteries set in Europe 2010-12-23T00:50:29Z

If banks do not perform well on that disclosure – which is measured every year – penalties are imposed and the money is invested in financial provision for communities that banks do not penetrate. Microloans in Hackney | Feature 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z

It also seems to impose temporary order on the outside world, now turned upside down by an unseen virus: If something can be mapped, it can be controlled. Maps new and old offer shelter-in-place globe-trotting — and lessons in human history 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

In part because of this, however, the anomalous turn to comedy imposed different operatic constraints – and in so doing steered both Verdi's and Wagner's musical imaginations in odd but stimulating directions. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z

Is American law egalitarian at its core, or does American law impose a racial hierarchy? The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

Reduced to a shattered skeleton following repeated bombardments over the years, the imposing European-style palace was built in the 1920s by former King Amanullah Khan on a low hilltop just outside the capital. Hopes for revival pinned on Afghan palace restoration 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

The house, from the outside, is imposing: giant, square, Palladian. Ann Demeulemeester Doesn’t Miss Fashion at All. She Has Other Plans. 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

It recommends that the district's superintendent impose "appropriate discipline." Probe into Fetty Wap video shoot faults school principal 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

In the summer of 2015, shortly after three friends and I had played Ferry Point, I asked Trump why he had imposed that ban. The Joys of Golf, No Matter the Weather or the President 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

In 1862, the American painter Frederic Edwin Church created an eerie and imposing vision of an erupting Cotopaxi in Ecuador; it's a wondrous picture, which resembles a science-fiction vista from some distant planet. Explosive art: my top five volcano paintings 2010-04-21T14:02:00Z

As lawmakers in Athens debated a bill Sunday that would impose yet-more severe austerity on the country, outside the parliament building tens of thousands of people gathered to voice their opposition to the deal. Myths explain Greece 2012-06-25T15:15:00Z

Steven Hill, who originated imposing lead roles on two notable television series, “Mission: Impossible” in the 1960s and “Law & Order” in the 1990s, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. Steven Hill, Who Starred on ‘Law & Order’ and ‘Mission: Impossible,’ Dies at 94 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

They were seized last weekend at Vaalimaa, a Finnish border crossing, on suspicion of contravening European Union sanctions imposed following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Officials Say Russian Art, Seized by Finns, Should Return Home 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

No appearance by the imposing Mr. Hallberg is lackluster, but he seemed off his game. Dance Review: ‘Swan Lake’ Returns to American Ballet Theater 2013-06-18T19:59:17Z

Upstairs, Self Edge has one of the best, and most imposing, selections of denim in the city. | Self Edge: Jeans Made to Be Tough Enough for the Demanding 2010-04-13T22:37:00Z

In court, Holley also asked Superior Court Judge H. Chester Horn Jr. to reduce an $1,800 fine to $200, but Horn denied the request and imposed the full amount, plus court costs. Ex-TV chef gets 9 years in plot to kill wife 2010-12-14T02:01:05Z

The most physically imposing player in the gym, Reed had mixed it up with opponents for less. Books of The Times: ?Whore of Akron? and ?When the Garden Was Eden? - Review 2011-12-25T22:22:07Z

I sense that this imposed binary, “feel” versus “think,” is akin to what Hernando Colón discovered as he sought to bring order to his thousands of books. David Byrne Likes Reading Aloud to His Friends 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Rules such as the ones requiring passengers to take off their shoes and limit their liquids were imposed periodically over the past 20 years in response to specific security threats. The TSA was born after 9/11 — how that day forever shaped the way we think about airport security 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z

Putting the museum to work in the process of planning and fabricating the work was partly the result of the limitations imposed by Covid-19 travel restrictions, and partly Kiwanga’s working method. To Illuminate History, an Artist Turns Out the Lights 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

But if the hastening tempo of the railway age brought collective liberation, it imposed a new tyranny on the individual. All the road rage: Fast & Furious 6 taps a modern vein 2013-05-20T13:40:02Z

Jackson at the outset of the case also imposed a gag order to prevent pretrial publicity from biasing potential jurors, which neither side opposed. News organizations seek access to Mueller materials in Russia investigation 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

Whether her style sense was inborn or imposed by her directors, “the strength of her character was innate,” he said. Jean Seberg’s Legacy: A Look With a Life of Its Own 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

Gray, imposing, and charmless, it typifies the style of government buildings. The Best Secret Streets Around the World 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

Between 221 BC and his death in 210 BC he imposed the Qin penal code, created a single currency, standardized weights and measures and imposed a single written language and bureaucracy in China. China's terracotta warriors march to Liverpool museum 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

She's an imposing physical specimen: five-foot-seven, with a strong jaw and broad shoulders, and an ample chest framed by slim arms; but here her eyes photograph small and her nose beaky. Remembering "The Two and Only" Jane Russell: 1921-2011 2011-03-04T09:05:00Z

The justice is remembered today primarily for his dissenting opinions arguing that judges should not impose their policy preferences by finding unwritten rights in the Constitution. The Many Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

This may simply be life: unimaginably wonderful things happen, and unimaginably terrible things happen, and the only patterns to be found in it are the ones we impose on them after the fact. The Leftovers Spins the Wheel of Fortune 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

It’s an insult to Michelin and a mark against those who claim that stars impose fiscal and creative burdens on an eatery, the British celebrity chef said Tuesday. Gordon Ramsay denounces chefs who snub Michelin guide honors 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

In Arena’s Cradle, the procedural aspects of “Right to Be Forgotten” unfold, with the title framing the debate: Can a statute of limitations be imposed on Web condemnation? Review | A new play asks: Should the Internet let you erase your past bad acts? 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Even here, though, she imparts an imposing gravitas, interrupted only by the half-smile she flashes as yet another tough guy underestimates her strength of spine. True Grit Review: Trading the Dude for the Duke 
 2010-12-22T19:25:00Z

The chain gangs, debt peonage and convict lease system that was imposed on black Americans after the Civil War across the South and elsewhere no longer exists. From an Iowa classroom in 1968 to Donald Trump: Educator Jane Elliott on the legendary “Blue-Eyed/Brown-Eyed” exercise 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

But today it is done by imposing differentiated citizenship rights on convicted felons. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

Washington says the deal sends the wrong message to Russia at a time of sanctions imposed by Western states on Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine. World leaders gather for D-Day tribute, hope for thaw on Ukraine 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Although employed by a corporate giant, Mr. Stoddard was known for working closely with writers and producers and trying hard not to impose on their creative vision. Brandon Stoddard, ABC executive who developed ‘Roots’ miniseries, dies at 77 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

The state instead imposed the 14-day quarantine order and strict health mandates for fishermen and processing companies. How Covid-19 Is Threatening Alaska’s Wild Salmon Fishing Season 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

The imposing structure rises out of the dense forest, a forgotten monolith of industrial gray. Maine’s Cushing Island delivers a whole lot of wonderful nothing 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

The most imposing works throughout are panoramic views of majestic mountains, rivers and forests, in which a range of robust textures and scratchy, dry-brush markings impart a vigorous, sometimes wild sense of modernity. Art Review: Fu Baoshi, China?s Master Modernist, at Metropolitan Museum 2012-01-27T00:09:56Z

But after each costly accommodation, religious right politicians imposed yet another demand. “The intent is to make this 5- to 10-minute abortion procedure seem dangerous”: The plaintiff in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt on defending her Texas clinics all the way to the Supreme Court 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

It practically imposes a different rhythm on your life. You’ll Find Me in My Hammock, Inside 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Rhys, wearing a shaggy beard and woolly hat, is an imposing figure – somewhat diminished by the 20ft-high filing cabinet next to him. Gruff Rhys: my musical take on the communist Forrest Gump 2013-05-01T18:30:02Z

Little wonder the Graham Johnson edition of the complete lieder runs to an imposing 37 CDs. Ian Bostridge’s ‘Schubert’s Winter Journey’ examines the composer’s melancholy work 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Her only response to attempts to impose bourgeois restraint on that need is to laugh or dance. Salome: Strauss' heroine for the new century 2013-01-18T09:51:11Z

In film, television, and, to a lesser extent, literature, storytelling is the business of imposing order on the chaos of life. The Best Video Games of 2018 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

And for any communitywide activity, like Hebrew school or day camp, the Orthodox rabbis sought to impose their strict rules on everyone, including kosher food. My Search for Lost Time in a Slice of Jewish Rye 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

The imposing walnut-and-bronze fireplace wall in the study that conceals the television “is freestanding; it’s independent of the window wall.” 2009-12-01T05:00:00Z

Behind the imposing facade of the Harry S. Truman Building, the furniture in the bosom of international power was pathetic, he recalls. 'Veep' taps deeper into D.C.'s dysfunction for third season 2014-04-02T11:09:51Z

That would likely result in another hearing at which a sentence would be imposed, they said. Lindsay Lohan ordered to LA court 2010-05-18T19:28:00Z

We will impose our outsized taste on the world, it announces, and we’ll do so in lockstep. “Heathers” Blew Up the High-School Comedy 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

The same wish drives children to build homes out of cardboard boxes and impose strict entry conditions, and it is a powerful reason why, functional questions apart, clients commission and architects design buildings. The inescapable power of architecture 2012-08-11T23:05:42Z

Similarly, as Fogg, Passepartout and Fix are the first to take on this particular style of circumnavigation they have liberated themselves from imposed borders and human limitations. In PBS' playful "Around the World in 80 Days" David Tennant channels Jules Verne's liberated spirit 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z

In a nod to character limits imposed by social media like Twitter, winners deliver five-word acceptance speeches, such as Al Gore's "Please don't recount this vote." Obama campaign, Bieber Internet ad score Webby award nominations 2013-04-09T21:23:05Z

The imposing capital city, Valletta, is a monument to this hard-fought past. Malta: A citadel of many cultures in the middle of the Mediterranean 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Equally imposing if more solemn are Jim Sanborn’s bogus Buddhist statues, which comment on the international trade in looted and counterfeit artifacts. In the galleries: D.C. artist summons the supernatural in the everyday 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

But even allowing for the secrecy imposed on them, their inner lives here are less developed than the details of their wardrobes. A Debut Novel Reimagines the C.I.A.’s Efforts to Promote ‘Doctor Zhivago’ 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

Friends said they were imposing their political and ideological values on a newborn. Motherlode: Is This Baby a Boy or Girl? 2011-05-24T18:49:53Z

The statement imposes no obligation on you to invite them again, but it shouldn’t stop you from trying, if you want to. Social Q’s: Something I Said? 2013-09-12T20:29:50Z

The injuries that Peterson’s son received went well beyond “spanking,” of course, but the controversy also raised the charge that Peterson’s critics were imposing outside values on black parents who still favored corporal punishment. black-ish Whips Up a Conversation About Spanking 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

What are your thoughts about Black masculinity and how Killian's imposing figure makes others uncomfortable? "You have a religious devotion to this sport": Director on bodybuilding movie "Magazine Dreams" 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

He imposes a reedy, naïve-sounding voice and strong ideas about aural space on sturdy American traditions, from Georgia Sea Island songs to R. Kelly. Redrawing Rhythmic Strategies 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z

“Global companies impose on local communities,” Watson said. How to be a socially conscious traveler 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Britain imposed a countrywide travel ban, which is still in effect, and a number of nations including the United States warned against travel to certain parts of Tunisia, like the southeast region bordering Libya. Tourists Return to Tunisia, but Slowly 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

President Trump entered the fray, telling the FDA to act and imposing a temporary ban on any flavours that might appeal to young people. The great vape debate: are e-cigarettes saving smokers or creating new addicts? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

He also had to impose self-discipline on himself. Son of Babylon: 'I made it for my family, for Iraq' 2011-02-03T23:30:00Z

But for the Christian right, “religious freedom” means almost exactly the opposite: the “freedom” to impose their will on everyone else, precisely the sort of power over others that Jefferson fought so hard against. Religious freedom: It’s a core American principle, and it doesn’t mean what right-wingers want it to mean 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Pushed beyond the roles imposed by their common master, man and mastiff unravel a knot of domination that can’t be maintained without the subordination of animals to human beings, wilderness to “civilization.” Fleeing a Caribbean Plantation Into a Mythic Wilderness 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

This imposing and sprawling complex grew with the family empire from the 13th century until just before World War I. Rick Steves gets lost in the music and grandeur of Vienna 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

The Grammy-nominated rapper and New Jersey resident agreed to pay the government more than $1.1 million in tax debts, plus penalties imposed by the Internal Revenue Service, according to federal prosecutors. Rapper Ja Rule pleads guilty to tax evasion 2011-03-22T21:37:10Z

"I think Roe v. Wade could be overturned now. And I think the result of that would be chaos and pain. And to impose that kind of crisis on a woman is unthinkable." "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade admits in "deathbed confession" she was paid to fake anti-abortion stance 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

Jazzers Mangelsdoff and Cherry impose constraints on themselves – essentially, it's an improvisation on a part of You Dig It, a Terry Riley composition – and in the process, find liberation. Readers recommend: songs about austerity ? the results 2011-01-20T16:32:23Z

Artists would face potential sanctions for lyrics and performances deemed too racy, although it's not yet clear who would be the official arbiters of taste or what penalties may be imposed. Cuba targets racy reggaeton in lyrics crackdown 2013-01-07T20:12:27Z

Soon after the first lady’s event ended, the president announced he was lifting economic sanctions imposed on Turkey. Melania Trump visited Capitol Hill and ignored shouted questions about impeachment 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

This way of working had evolved as a way of dodging the rules imposed by the lord chamberlain, who acted as official censor. Pamela Green obituary 2010-05-19T17:18:00Z

Some perceived it as criticism of the reigning king, Louis-Philippe I; the morning after Hugo's play opened at Paris' Comedie-Francaise on Nov. 22, 1832, the French government imposed a ban that lasted a half-century. Sin City Duke: Met moves `Rigoletto' to Las Vegas 2013-01-23T18:25:11Z

Despite its turn-of-the-century housing, an imposing Fifth Avenue mansion built for Andrew Carnegie, the museum is renowned as a repository of forward-thinking design in an array of fields, including art, architecture, graphics, electronics and products. Cooper Hewitt Chief Was Forced Out After Probe of Her Wedding 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

The government will impose a statutory ban on libraries charging for ebooks, including remotely, the review states. Key to saving libraries: free internet access and Sunday opening 2010-03-22T06:00:00Z

Some impose a fee, as ours did, and allow only small dogs, while any size goes at others. In France, Our Dog Has His Day 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

“Yin Yang,” a horizontal work from 1990, imposes three greenish rectangles on an expanse of dark red-brown, evoking both scroll paintings arranged on a wall and Japanese screens of folded or hanging kimonos. Art in Review: HELEN FRANKENTHALER: ?East and Beyond? 2011-02-10T23:26:54Z

Here, a number of different architects contributed a dense layout of imposing housing blocks. The Unrepeatable Architectural Moment of Yugoslavia’s “Concrete Utopia” 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

Away from spanking, I’m a light-hearted, mild-mannered chap who finds the notion of controlling or imposing my will on anyone absolutely abhorrent. My life in sex: ‘I have always loved spanking women’s bottoms’ 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

Jarrod Lee made an imposing Loudspeaker Voice, seated in the back row of the orchestra and joining in the elegiac final choral number, which was one of the highlights. Review | The In Series aims to make ‘Atlantis’ great again 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

The authors, Richter et al., also found that, in addition to dominating water consumption, cattle-feed crop irrigation in the West imposes the greatest depletion on rivers during summer low flows and times of drought. Dairy, drought and the drying of the American West 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z

But the skating world’s sense of community belies the history of violence and prejudice imposed upon it. And the Beat Goes On 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

Emperor Constantine imposed sweeping reforms across Rome, transforming the pagan empire into a Christian one. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

In the UK, home to 30 of the Sousse victims, Foreign and Commonwealth Office travel advice imposed last July warns against all but essential travel to every part of Tunisia. Tunisia keen to show tourists that it’s safe to return 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

But the god of thunder shrivels in character complexity beside Loki, the god of mischief, later promoted to the more imposing and accurate rank god of evil. Thor: The Dark World: A God-Awful Villain Steals the Thunder 2013-11-06T23:49:43Z

Hoover said the eight-member advisory panel that formulated the new restrictions is aware they impose insurmountable hurdles. New limits on ivory sales set off wide concerns 2014-03-21T04:59:29Z

By not conforming to the gender paradigm imposed on us as children, I’ve been able to enjoy life in a more open and fulfilling fashion. What does it mean to be a man? Guardian readers respond 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

The Crimean peninsula’s annexation propelled Russia’s relations with the West to a post-Cold War low and saw a string of countries impose economic sanctions on Moscow. Russia drops plans for Putin mosaic in military church 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

“Was there violence imposed on you as a kid?” Ear Hustle: unlocking the truth about San Quentin 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

“My choice of timing imposes on this project many risks of error and misunderstanding,” he concedes on the first page of “Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic.” Will Democracy Survive President Trump? Two New Books Aren’t So Sure 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

Add to that the factor of a waiting period some states impose. Legal abortion is gone for many women, but the problem is about to get exponentially worse 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Like Alma, Moore has accessorized his eccentricity to the extent that it acts as a deterrent, to anyone who might try to impose strictures on his field of inquiry. A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

From perhaps the most imposing something in the theatrical canon, Ms. Lee has constructed a big, fat nothing. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z

“Much Ado” will be produced in the larger, 774-seat Harman, an imposing space across from Capital One Arena on F Street NW that has proved to be a challenge for the company to satisfactorily fill. Shakespeare Theatre’s new head announces his first season, from ‘Much Ado’ to a James Baldwin play 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

He is an imposing figure, part Samurai warrior, part Aladdin's genie, but with a huge, heavily wired-up accordion strapped to his chest. River of Music, Europe stage – review 2012-07-22T15:43:07Z

Photograph: Pal Hansen for the Observer My earliest memories are drenched in routines, not all of them imposed, many were chosen, cultivated even. Russell Kane's ordered life 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z

He said the star will be sentenced at a later date after the court considers the progress of a community order imposed in 2007. George Michael could face jail 2010-08-24T10:18:00Z

In Houston, the ending focused on a local dispute over a drainage plan that would impose heavy fees on megachurches. ‘City Council Meeting,’ Locally Tailored, From Here 2013-05-08T21:40:41Z

He lacks the imposing size of Pittsburgh’s Ben Roethlisberger or Carolina’s Cam Newton, just as he lacks the speed and elusiveness of Michael Vick or Russell Wilson. Is Kirk Cousins capable of greatness? 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

Yet a little more than one year later, there already is a call for the federal government to impose another mandate on the American people. Orszag: Another Mandate May Be Necessary to Save Obamacare's Long-Term Care Entitlement 2011-08-08T19:05:57Z

The document was offered in Stamford Superior Court in support of an order of protection imposed against Morrison. Protection order issued against NYC TV anchorman 2013-02-19T21:10:12Z

Some of them controlled wells and began to impose taxes on farmers. Don't Kill Me, I Beg You. This is My Tree by Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright 2013-03-20T13:00:02Z

“Milan prices,” boasts the sign on the door, hinting at the effect of international sanctions imposed since the start of Russia’s conflict with Ukraine. Searching for signs of the Soviets in St Petersburg 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

Like textual originalists in every field, he wants to recruit history as a sledgehammer against the present, particularly against readers who would dare “impose their own experiences” on the great poetry of the past. Poetry’s Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

Publishing its report on the eve of a special session of the United Nations devoted to illegal narcotics, it urges a complete reversal of the repressive policies imposed by most governments. Medical experts call for global drug decriminalisation 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Unassuming, he doesn’t impose himself on the conversation. Imagined Meetings With Joyce, Dickens, Hardy, and Lawrence 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

She recognised that the problem was not her veganism, per se, but the particularly rigid and restrictive diet regime she had imposed on herself. Why we fell for clean eating 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

In his partial autobiography, One Bullet Away, however, Fick is not able to impose his authorial personality on his version of the story from which he emerges with so much credit in Wright's account. The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

The authors did not quantify what cap should be imposed on caffeine levels but stated that it should be evidence based. Energy drinks could cause public health problems, says WHO study 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Making it easier for members of the community to ask the state to look into an issue is not the same as the state taking it upon itself to impose a limit on free speech. Scott Walker makes it harder to fight racist team names 2013-12-20T19:36:00Z

He was leading the discussion, but he wasn’t trying to impose his own perspective on it. Books of The Times: David Remnick?s ?Bridge? Adds Details on Obama?s Life 2010-04-05T22:06:00Z

The palace had imposed a news blackout on Harry's deployment, but when that was broken the prince was pulled out immediately because of concerns for his safety. Combat is tradition for UK royal 'spare heir' 2012-09-07T12:43:12Z

I could jettison the diaeresis, impose my own logic on the hyphen, and defy Webster’s by, say, making two words out of “hardworking.” Wigwag: The Magazine That Lex Built 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

Yale is taking the unusual step of imposing no limits on the use of the images and is not requiring any licensing. ArtsBeat: Yale Opens Its Image Vault Online for Free 2011-05-12T16:24:41Z

Why would we impose such a burden on these harried souls? Why Won’t Anyone Help Me in This Sex Shop? 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

Like Griffiths, Jones is fascinated with the creative tension between the organic and the imposed. Two very different painters show that abstractionism isn’t dead yet 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

According to National Geographic, the Talmud, a Jewish holy text, states that Hanukkah acknowledges the Maccabean revolt the Hebrews led against the Hellenistic influence that was being imposed by Greco-Syrian Seleucid rulers. How people celebrate Hanukkah around the world 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

In the name of the public interest, TWC is trying to impose a top-down dictate on a populist exercise. Buy the Sky and Sell the Sky: The Weather Channel Is Now Branding Winter 2013-01-04T13:00:07Z

As the villain who repents, Kevin Short displayed an imposing bass voice. Tenor Fabiano shines in Verdi's `I Lombardi' 2013-04-09T19:46:08Z

The first shot of “Carol” pans slowly across an imposing bronze gate, behind which its enclaves fade into darkness. Cate Blanchett’s cocky elegance: As Queen Elizabeth, Bob Dylan or a closeted ’50s housewife, her on-screen seductions are anything but sweet 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

The Western heritage really is imposing, despite its flaws and failures. Critic?s Notebook: Quai Branly Museum in Paris Glorifies the ?Other? 2011-11-25T23:47:39Z

A visual validation of that claim might be Jason Ardizzone-West’s imposing Brutalist set, which runs the length of the large performance space. Onstage in Brooklyn, ‘Monsoon Wedding’ Tries to Capture the Film’s Spirit 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

A pallid, wildly coifed young man hunched over an imposing smorgasbord of gear? Amplifying the Women Who Pushed Synthesizers Into the Future 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

Joseph Stalin, who was responsible for exterminating some twenty million people, imposed total censorship of all forms of media in the Soviet Union. The right’s religion lie: Science, sex and the truth about God and politics 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

It would also invalidate the law’s high-risk pools, its subsidized exchanges for regulated private insurance, the medical-loss-ratio regulations, and all of the other mandates and regulations that the law imposes on private insurers. What Should Congress Do after the Supreme Court Decision on Obamacare? 2012-05-19T16:24:07Z

Both men prefer to let solutions bubble up from below, rather than imposing them from above. Poor and benighted 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z

The pavement outside Victoria House, an imposing interwar office building on Bloomsbury Square in central London, is cluttered with bins, bikes and bus-stop signs from the 1970s. Ricky Gervais's ballad of Reading jail 2010-04-08T21:00:00Z

The players, led by high-profile quarterback Tom Brady, filed an antitrust lawsuit against the NFL and its owners, who responded by imposing the lockout. NFL owners vote to ratify tentative deal 2011-07-21T23:51:06Z

Polls illustrate the stark choice imposed by Trump’s refusal to concede. Does Electoral College end election for conservative media? 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

By remaining utterly present when painting — without imposing preconceived concepts onto his canvases — he opens himself up to the "happy accidents" that occur when making art. Ed Moses, 90, prepares nonstop for a new survey at Bergamot Station 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

Borda has the rare ability to cultivate experiments and impose discipline in equal measure. How the L.A. Phil Can Stay on Top of the Orchestra World 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

The historical ban on hemp, which is derived from the cannabis plant, has long imposed barriers on the agriculture industry. Joint effort: cannabis lobby heads to Washington to woo US lawmakers 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

The state’s health department imposed a rule, ordering districts to allow the parents the choice of whether the children wear masks. Florida’s largest school district drops all mask mandates 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

The dispute is unfolding amid a heated debate over the rights of individuals as local governments and businesses work to bring the pandemic under control by imposing mask mandates and requiring vaccines. Baltimore Symphony Fires Flutist Who Shared Covid Conspiracy Theories 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

It's the same as us imposing constellations on the sky which, of course, are completely crazy and nothing to do with the stars. A life in art: Anselm Kiefer 2011-03-21T08:00:00Z

Fiction,” Messud writes, invoking Picasso, “is a means of ‘seizing power, of imposing form.’ On Claire Messud and the importance of stories in a dying universe 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

Jared Angle was imposing as the Intruder to whom she is powerfully attracted before making him her prey. Dance Review: Robbins and Balanchine Cleanse the Palate at City Ballet 2013-05-29T21:44:32Z

Had it been placed on the big screen, those twenty minutes would be among the most imposing and shattering movie scenes of the year to date. What to Stream This Weekend: The Third Season of Joe Swanberg’s “Easy” 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

I've never approached them, for legal reasons and because I worry about imposing on them in their grief. Amanda Knox reiterates innocence as memoir is published 2013-04-26T12:46:05Z

Eventually, a new family imposes itself on Alice, this one including the same mother, a different father and a new twin brother. Bring Your Flamethrower. In This Novel, Art Feels the Burn. 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

The problem, to return to Chapek’s memo, was “world-class, franchise-based entertainment” — not every instance of it, but the models of creation and consumption the idea imposed. How Much Do You Really Miss Going to the Movies? 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

Europeans invoked God’s will to impose their will on indigenous people. Why more places are abandoning Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

A thorough but imposing six hours of material, this collection is less about any specific unearthed gem than the larger transformation it charts. Remarkable Records of Joni Mitchell’s Changes 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

"I think in our trade the only way to impose yourself is to produce. It's a very hard field," she said. Burkina Faso director gives African women authentic voice 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z

Greyeyes, with his rich voice and imposing demeanor, tends to play grave and serious roles because he can carry their weight while also conveying emotion. These MVPs of television delivered greatness in a year that almost broke us 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

The Ballez members, while bravely defying limitations imposed by society and much of the ballet world, seem trapped within the limitations of their training. Review: For This Spin on ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ Someday Her Princess Will Come 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

This approach worked better in London, where Lange played opposite Charles Dance, who brought an imposing patriarchal authority to James Tyrone. Even with Jessica Lange and Gabriel Byrne, 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' fails to connect 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Sure tell the people in the wedding party what to wear, but how are you going to impose on guests? Stop inviting us to your weddings 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z

In conversation, Ms. Venditti, who is tall but not imposing, leans in to display attentiveness and empathy, and rarely interrupts, preferring instead to let her interlocutor dictate flow and pace. Jennifer Venditti Will See You Now 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

Though the devastating labor upheavals caused by the new global economy have been widely noted, this new academic labor system has been imposed with hardly any notice by the public at large. The Wal-Mart-ization of higher education: How young professors are getting screwed 2014-02-16T11:59:00Z

It was the visual moment when Mr. Trump hung his shiny golden “T” on the Republican Party, imposing his brand, tone and aesthetic on his newly acquired property. G.O.P. Convention Begins With Trump Written All Over It 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

Many condo and rental complexes impose pet fees for wear and tear. Using DNA to catch canine culprits — and their owners 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

The fashion crowd sat on distanced cubes facing an imposing bronze of Napoleon, as Max Mara previewed its feminine uniform for next spring and summer. Prada-Simons dialogue launches in virtual Milan preview 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

A shimmering opening Adagio segues into a bustling, contrapuntally complex Allegro, followed by a wistful Adagio, a misbehaving Scherzo and a hurtling, imposing finale. Harold Shapero, 93, American Neo-Classical Composer, Dies 2013-05-22T03:58:50Z

For one, it lays out very clearly how futile it is to impose our current notions of hetero, homo or bisexuality on the ancient world – it’s simply not how they looked at it. Eric Berkowitz on sex and society 2012-07-09T11:45:00Z

One imposed liability that Zucker would like to see amended concerns real estate. L.A.'s theater community resumes discussion of wages and fiscal health 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

How do you embrace your imposing, almost unfathomable command as a vocalist while still meeting your audience at eye level? 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Some impose an annual fee to keep the guarantee in force, an easy-to-overlook requirement. Wet basement? Try these cost-effective solutions before calling a contractor. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Here and in the other three Pärt scores he uses here, he continually imposes a brisk dance tempo on top of essentially slow music. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Koch Theater 2012-03-30T20:37:16Z

Car rental companies often impose additional restrictions on drivers. Perspective | Do you need an international driving permit? 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

A rule by the U.S. transportation secretary, Ray LaHood, taking effect April 29 would impose fines as high as $27,500 for each customer when an airline fails to free passengers after three hours. Flight Cancellations May Increase as Carriers Follow Tarmac Rule 2010-04-27T12:38:00Z

The imposing figure of Wallace on the screen, though, belied an entirely human figure, with vulnerabilities and insecurities, off the screen. How Mike Wallace created ‘a revolution’ in journalism — while battling depression 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Evans, who was recently named a 2016 Guggenheim fellow, captures the peculiar state of enforced relaxation that long-distance travel imposes. The Secret Lives of Amtrak Passengers 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

But “Watchmen” is also suspicious of those, like Veidt and Lady Trieu, who want to use power to impose their idea of good on the world. The Incredible, Indelible ‘Watchmen’ 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

They can’t name any of the local judges who impose punishment. The author of ‘Just Mercy’ says we’ve made talking about race political — and that has to change 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

The body heat generated by the company warps the air as its members go through physical exertions as demanding, in their way, as those imposed on Twyla Tharp’s dancers. Theater: New Casts Enliven ?God of Carnage? and ?39 Steps? 2010-04-16T23:59:00Z

Gone are the imposing fortifications shown on English Heritage's website but you can potter round the few courses remaining and chat to shoppers getting off the many buses. Britain's best views: Hadrian's Wall 2010-04-06T13:21:00Z

The multiple locations significantly increase operational complexity, because different historic venues impose structural limitations on which works can be shown, and exhibitions are often reinterpreted as they move between locations. Come for the Guest Rooms. Stay for the Galleries. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

“Red Knot,” the feature debut of Scott Cohen, a New York artist, takes an imposing backdrop and adds the slenderest of stories. ‘Red Knot,’ About a Voyage to Antarctica 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Parliament has also rushed through laws increasing fines for protesters, tightening controls on the Internet - which is used to arrange protests - and imposing stricter rules on defamation. Russia's female punk rock band trio face verdict in trial condemned by U.S 2012-08-16T22:05:13Z

We often sat outside on the teak decks in the shade; on this day, as the breeze brushed the sea’s surface, we watched the imposing Venetian fortresses guarding Nafplio’s harbor recede in the distance. Savoring the mythic Aegean on a small-ship cruise in Greece 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

Swed also attended a performance by British organist James McVinnie, who took on the imposing instrument at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Essential Arts & Culture: Pacino as Tennessee Williams, Diego Rivera at LACMA, suspended Iranian art, 'Mr. Gaga' 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Maybe it would help ease my own pain and prevent me from imposing my own past on my daughter’s. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z

Intended to compete with E. H. Gombrich’s imposing survey, “The Story of Art,” the new work expanded the field to include the arts of Asia, Africa, Oceania and the indigenous cultures of the New World. Hugh Honour, Art Historian and Author, Dies at 88 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gelb said in an interview, “If we haven’t reached agreements, the Met really has no option in my opinion but to impose a lockout.” Met Opera Prepares to Lock Out Workers 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

Bujalski’s films, like those of other, yes, mumblecore directors, don’t impose performances on actors but develop them from the actors themselves. How Mumblecore Brings Out the Best in Actors 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Tim Wu, having played a central role in the net neutrality debate, and angling to impose stricter merger reviews for already-unpopular New York cable companies, has picked a wise time to enter the political arena. Tim Wu Makes A Bid For Net Neutrality 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

It’s imposing, cavernous and too quiet, and severely short on lighting fixtures. Re-possessed: exploring Hereditary and Hollywood’s love of the haunted house 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z

While many of the academy’s rooms are grand and imposing, “this is the utilitarian part of their world,” says Weinberg. How an Abandoned Hotel Became a Witches’ Lair for ‘Suspiria’ 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Before you seek any such help, know what your goals are and look for someone who you feel connected to and who will help you with those goals, rather than impose their own. Help! How do I stop smoking pot? 2012-10-07T15:00:00Z

Even then, remain arm’s-length attentive — and send a sympathy note without exception, because that shows you care without imposing any obligation for a response. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Send condolences to a friend whose baby is stillborn 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

This is the artist’s “Temple,” as imposing as it is sheltering. Review | In the galleries: ‘Taking Territory’ exhibition finds the creative common ground 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

Listening to them, I realized just how meaningful this imposing, noble statue is to Huelva’s people. Retracing the Spanish Path of My Ancestor, the Founder of the Whitney 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Set atop an imposing historic building, the three-bedroom flat is an exercise in controlled eclecticism and studied contrasts, characteristics that are evident from the moment one steps into the entrance hall. Allegra Hicks Takes Her Bohemian Chic to Naples, Italy 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

“But our focus will be on accessibility. So if in fact a fee structure will be imposed, it will be a priority that it not become a barrier to participants.” New York Loves Outdoor Dining. Here’s How to Keep the Romance Alive. 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z

Skaters, musicians and chess players by the Washington Arch stopped and stared as we passed, holding our plastic candles and following an imposing lamplighter in a bowler hat. Two New York Neighborhoods Set the Stage for Decadence and Loss 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

We see, too, how these various elements can be used to create buildings that are both imposing and comforting, grand and quaint. Exhibition Review: National Design That?s Hidden in Plain Sight 2011-06-13T22:41:43Z

Hitler’s forces have reshaped America not by imposing Teutonic culture on it but by using, or warping, what was already at hand. An Alternative America Hits Home in ‘The Man in the High Castle’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

It was in part to protect this type of freedom that museums like the Whitney opposed temporary regulations from the New York State Board of Regents that imposed stricter guidelines in 2008 governing deaccessioning. The Permanent Collection May Not Be So Permanent 2011-01-26T22:59:45Z

Many countries, including Brazil, Thailand, Singapore, the Seychelles and Uruguay, have banned e-cigarettes as a result, while others have imposed regulations limiting their use. The great vape debate: are e-cigarettes saving smokers or creating new addicts? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

We visited several imposing estate wineries, like the stunningly sited Burrowing Owl Estate. Journeys: British Columbia?s New Vine Trail 2010-06-04T15:36:00Z

Some cities in Washington impose fines on stores for wayward carts, and other cities are taking note. Everyone Has a Theory About Shopping Carts 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

The US Federal Trade Commission later approved the deal in its turn without imposing any conditions. EMI-Universal deal gets approval 2012-09-21T15:53:22Z

Diana Crane, a sociology professor emerita at the University of Pennsylvania, writes, “Clothes as artifacts ‘create’ behavior through their capacity to impose social identities and empower people to assert latent social identities.” My week at the naked mountain hut 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

“I felt that if you could return to those people their humanity, you could get closer to the truth of what happened than if you imposed a thesis on them.” Stacy Schiff’s ‘The Witches’ Shines a Torch on Salem Trials 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

If they cancel, it's due to real sickness or the unprecedented physical stress imposed by contortionist directors. Royal Opera music director rails at young opera stars' 'weakness' 2013-03-13T17:55:01Z

This is an unequivocal truth, though it imposes a severity that would frighten most critics. A Critic Who Worships Literature, and Defends His Faith Accordingly 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Unger draws not just from his own wide knowledge and considered taste but from an imposing array of journals, memoirs, biographies and periodicals. Review | How Picasso’s she-devils changed art forever 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Under the leadership of Jan Bockelson of Leyden, the Anabaptists imposed a reign of terror in the city, killing or driving out anyone who stood in their way. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z

While past history of trauma does not excuse taking someone’s life, such a violent and troubled past should be considered by a judge when imposing a sentence on a child like Miller. Juvenile sentencing 2012-07-03T14:34:00Z

Is this about freedom and personal responsibility, or about imposing a reasonable limit? Motherlode Blog: What if the City Banned Sales of Junk Food to Minors? 2012-06-01T00:12:39Z

It’s relatively easy to watch Frank Capra’s screwball comedies without imposing a 21st-century social lens on to them, but it’s harder for products from the late 1980s and 90s. I've never seen … Sleepless in Seattle 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

Even so, inhabiting the body of a woman still subjects The Doctor to patriarchally imposed rules and assumptions on Earth. Before the first female 007 debuts, Jodie Whittaker's "Doctor Who" gets into the spy game 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

Is it wrong to impose my values on him? Ask Amy: Family looks in the closet after mother’s death 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

France is starting to relax some of the restrictions it imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. Your bubble is ready: plastic pods offer solution for COVID dining 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

The imposing, Brooklyn-born rap artist Christopher Wallace took on the identities of The Notorious B.I.G. and Biggie Smalls and was massively influential as rap became music’s dominant style in the 1990s. Whitney Houston, Notorious B.I.G. lead field into rock hall 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

The judge imposed two specific requirements on Read, which will require him to be supervised by the probation service and to undertake a community sex offender group work programme. Harry Potter and Star Wars actor convicted of indecent exposure 2011-07-29T12:54:49Z

My mother was a more private person and keen not to impose on anyone. My family values: David Hasselhoff 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

These pathologies may not actually be more common along the commuter rail lines than anywhere else, but there is an imposing body of literature that insists otherwise. Review: In ‘The Land of Steady Habits,’ Suburban Malaise, With a Twist 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

One image of London, relying solely on moonlight, was taken during the blackouts imposed to confuse German bombers during the blitz in World War II. Art Review: What Photographers Saw After Sunset 2011-04-29T05:30:10Z

This imposing Doric-columned structure was once the headquarters for the Eva Perón Foundation, which she established to distribute money to needy families — and, some say, to draw funds for her personal use. Eva Per?n?s Buenos Aires 2012-03-09T21:57:43Z

Oh, that parental conundrum: when to impose one’s preferences and when to recognize the child’s own? A Mother-Daughter Test: London, Together 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

McMurphy’s story is enlarged by the meaning Chief imposes on it. Eli Gottlieb’s ‘Best Boy’ 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

He preferred to write lyrics after the melodies were in place, working around the strictures they imposed to weave stories about heartbreak, jealousy and old-fashioned romance. William Hart, Driving Force Behind the Delfonics, Dies at 77 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

The screenings occurred after the actress missed a court hearing and a judge imposed stricter restrictions, including wearing an ankle alcohol monitor. Report: Lohan drug tests were clean since May 2010-07-07T21:52:00Z

The only person looking at the boy, with intent consternation, is the policeman whose imposing form fills the right edge of the picture. Donna Ferrato’s Camera Is a Weapon for Women 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

I’ve always been a huge believer in the paradoxical freedom that results from imposing structure. A Weeknight Pasta That Finds Freedom in the Familiar 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

In a 1936 interview, with the Spanish civil war a looming reality, he spoke of the need to "resist all societies... if the aim is to impose their demands on us". A life in paintings 2011-03-20T00:08:06Z

Walton takes no didactic stance on Britain's right to impose its rule on a quarter of the world, he takes imperium as fact and calls it "the greatest empire in world history" – forget Rome. Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton – review 2013-01-31T11:00:01Z

Her parents shielded her from Birmingham's pervasive racism, she writes, "by imposing high expectations and a determined insistence on excellence." 'Extraordinary, Ordinary People': Condoleezza Rice's incomplete tale 2010-10-13T00:01:00Z

He and others suggest that we should be thinking more broadly than simply to impose human thought processes and experiences on any beings we encounter from another world. Critic?s Notebook: Science Channel Ponders ?Alien Encounters? 2012-03-19T22:13:00Z

As its imposing title suggests, the Russian drama “Leviathan” is something of a monster movie. ‘Leviathan’ Turns on a Modern-Day Job 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. Strassberger, the director, is also focused on the work’s dramatic strength, not imposing a concept on it but responding to its unusual qualities. An Opera Known for Obscurity, Plucked From the Shadows 2013-07-19T18:31:28Z

The financial plan remains to try to raise revenue, rather than impose cuts. A Conductor’s Tumultuous, Invaluable Tenure Ends in Minnesota 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

Or is it mostly a pressure imposed from the network side? 'Fargo' mastermind Noah Hawley makes stranger-than-fiction real 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

As a boy he had stood in awe of the High Gothic cathedral, its massive rose window, its imposing gallery of kings. When Cultural Heritage Becomes a Battlefront 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

He nevertheless sided with the commission but declined to impose fines on Sciame. Hepburn house owner loses court fight in Conn. 2013-01-07T20:18:15Z

An imposing presence, reserved until he isn’t, Pee represents the born-and-raised Atlanta backbone of Quality Control, as well as its most direct line to the illicit ecosystems that led to trap music’s sound. Atlanta Rap Keeps Evolving. Quality Control Is Taking It Global. 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

It seemed to be a comparison that was imposed upon you. The ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Showrunners on ‘Redefining the Story of Losers’ 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z

Surround yourself in stunning autumn colours with a hike to Ichinokurasawa valley, where you will be rewarded with the imposing sight of one of Japan’s three largest rock faces. Where to see spectacular autumn colours around the world: our readers’ tips 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Her foster parents not only imposed newfound discipline into her life, making her go to school regularly and do small chores around the house, but they also shielded Beers from intense media interest. 20 years on, Katie Beers says kidnapping saved her 2013-01-15T11:37:20Z

One moment he is hypercritical of his son, imposing unrealistic expectations — and in the next, a boon companion. Buzz Bissinger's 'Father's Day': a father's love for two vastly different sons 2012-05-23T22:59:03Z

Publishing lore is filled with stories of famously headstrong editors imposing their will on authors. The Invisible Hand Behind Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

Then why impose such an alien spectacle, a far cry from the Folies Bergere, on France? Early Cannes films are the polar opposite 2010-05-14T05:26:00Z

All four central characters struggle to reconcile the expectations that the world imposes on them with the internal selves they discover through heartbreak and struggle. New Y.A. Crossover From Morgan Parker, Renée Ahdieh and More 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Canada, and Britain, have imposed a diplomatic boycott of the Games over China's campaign of genocide against Uyghurs. The rise and fall of Bing Dwen Dwen, Beijing's insidious Olympics mascot 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z

This headlong quality, along with the changing numbers of dancers onstage, helps to shape the intensity of the work, though Ms. Brown’s typical breath rhythms impose a sameness that might go on forever. Dance Review: ‘Astral Converted’ by Trisha Brown at Park Avenue Armory 2012-07-11T22:05:08Z

Leppin sat at the center of it all, physically and sonically, maintaining an imposing posture over her cello, as if literally trying to wrestle new sounds out of it. Review | Janel Leppin’s Ensemble Volcanic Ash is making a jazzlike sound you can look forward to 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z

Freedman says, “Sometimes designers will try to impose their will on a space. This room is cozy and serene and relates to us.” Looking to unplug in your own house? Here’s some inspiration 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

She called for more comprehensive ethics disclosures to more easily reveal conflicts of interest, and aides said she favors strengthening a recent law that imposed the state's first-ever limits for campaign contributions. Once his defender, Quinn berates Blagojevich 2011-12-08T03:50:00Z

Woolworth is a huge, imposing presence on the street, like the Municipal Building, but the tiles give it a delicacy on the skyline that most big buildings don’t have. Brooklyn Bridge, Star of the City: Here’s a Tour 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

The imposing 1969 painting “Blessing of the Fleet,” for instance, pays homage to a local seafaring ritual with festive red and green, the colors of the Portuguese flag. ‘Abstract Climates’: Helen Frankenthaler’s Ode to Provincetown 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

That community goes well beyond government–it’s friends, neighbors, businesses–but Parks doesn’t hesitate to say that government, however imperfect and ludicrous, is another aspect of community, not an outside force imposed on legitimate community. Knope and Change: The Politics of Parks and Recreation 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

What you see a lot in all of this is people trying to impose their sensibility as if it represents everybody. America's misguided war on offensive humor 2011-07-12T16:15:00Z

Far from the imposing Jack Bauer, who intimidated and outwitted countless bad guys on "24," James is small and weak, frustrated and angry. Starry cast is smooth in 'Championship Season' 2011-03-07T03:11:09Z

For him, it would be conceptual and incisive, a decades-long leveraging of symbols — fair or unfair, positive or pejorative, self-applied or externally imposed — of Black identity. David Hammons, Body and Soul, at the Drawing Center 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

He wasn't just imposing on the family connection, he says. At SSO: Adams' 'Doctor Atomic Symphony' 2011-12-29T21:18:04Z

Mr. Mills, 31, doesn’t impose a formula or pay attention to current hits. How Producer Blake Mills Coaxes Musicians Into Pushing the Envelope 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

It was the year of the so-called Caracazo, when economic-austerity measures imposed by a newly elected President led to several days of rioting and bloodshed in the capital and surrounding towns. An Unflinching View of Venezuela in Crisis 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

Although Nielsen adjusted the numbers after learning of the incident, it declined to impose any further punishment against the station. HBO leads Emmy nominations. Dish wants FCC to block Comcast deal. 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

In April, the U.S. started imposing $34 billion worth in tariffs on Chinese goods. While small dairy farms shut down, this mega-dairy is shipping milk to China 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

As Arthur and Suze navigate the physical threats to their safety imposed by their introduction to the Young Gents, they question their relationship and the roles that they play as husband and wife. ‘Please Baby Please’ Review: Hyper-Masculinity, on Its Head 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

The face of the National Front leader appears for a few seconds, with the Fascist symbol briefly imposed on it, and is followed by the features of a man resembling Adolf Hitler. French far right to sue Madonna over swastika images 2012-07-15T11:15:55Z

Also, last year the United States imposed sanctions on Poly Technologies, a defense equipment division that American authorities accused of violating the nonproliferation policy that controls weapons traffic with Iran, Syria and North Korea. Chinese Arts Company Goes Public in Bid to Grow 2014-02-24T22:49:01Z

Cameron Douglas wrote an essay published Tuesday by the Huffington Post that says United States laws impose tougher penalties on addicts than violent criminals. Cameron Douglas pens drug policy essay from jail 2013-06-11T19:11:08Z

Since time immemorial the “peace of God” has been imposed on others by fire and sword. This is your brain on religion: Uncovering the science of belief 2014-01-04T19:00:00Z

They’re intense players and imposing physical specimens, especially Mr. Pope, with his buoyant ringlets of hair. Music Review: At the Knitting Factory, Wavves Move Past Meltdown 2010-06-25T23:59:00Z

A colonising power tends to impose its language on a subject land. Once upon a time 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

This is one of the central paradoxes of the book: The church provides coherence and connections, but it’s also harsh and unyielding, imposing outside values on the Cherokee community. Review | In Kelli Jo Ford’s remarkable ‘Crooked Hallelujah,’ the maternal bond is unbreakable 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

But imposing modern attitudes on canonical characters in the belief they must be relatable is just lazy. I should love Little Women. But sometimes it’s hard to fall in love with the perfect match | Hadley Freeman 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z

Though many support the government’s new law to impose the death penalty, some fear it could backfire. Delhi gang rape trial sparks Indian media frenzy 2013-03-28T15:29:00Z

The active screens present a variety of visual information, including documentation of the political slogans Bell has projected on the Trump hotel, the Supreme Court building and other imposing D.C. structures. Review | In the galleries: From artist Timothy Johnson, a heady exhibition 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

The ghosts of Follies past that live in the theater had to be both ethereal and imposing. What Makes ‘Follies’ a Classic? 7 Answers and 1 Big Problem. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

Though the play is nominally about a woman transcending the limitations imposed by gender and class, for me it became an inspirational story of transcending summer. London Theater Journal: A Double Double Bill 2010-07-28T15:51:00Z

“The waiting period interferes with the inviolability of my body and thereby imposes an unwanted and substantial burden on my sincerely held religious beliefs.” Satanist challenges Missouri’s 72-hour abortion wait: It’s “a burden on my sincerely held religious beliefs” 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Less imposing halls need to be found for the symphonic repertory. Let’s Get Intimate. Big Music Doesn’t Need Huge Halls. 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Given the complex logistics imposed by the casting, the storytelling can get muddled in places. Deaf West revisits 'Spring Awakening' with fresh vigor at the Wallis 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

The operatic performance style Tsikurishvili imposes on the actors doesn’t help. Review | On this occasion, lots of bugs in Synetic Theater’s system 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

The Citi Premier Card and the Chase Sapphire Reserve are two examples of cards that do not impose foreign transaction fees. 9 Things You Should Know Before You Go to India 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Then New York State imposed a travel ban for part of the weekend, including the window of time on Saturday evening when Ms. Schneider and Matthew Schwartz were meant to be exchanging vows. New York Weddings Blanketed in White 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

I do want to get back to your very good analogy and interesting contrast with laws being imposed now on trans children and teens. "They're tired of explaining their own bodies": Intersex folks counter right-wing hate and shaming 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

What’s more, the programs impose few demands on local residents, and they appear to pay for themselves. The Other Side of “Broken Windows” 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

His Beethoven is very much his own – neither irresistibly dynamic in the Carlos Kleiber mould, nor monumentally imposing like Klemperer, but somewhere in between. CBSO/Nelsons – review 2013-06-30T14:11:54Z

It is a book about how central planners impose grand schemes on the people they see from 20,000 feet above. Education experts share the best books they’ve read about teaching 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

For Mr. Moore, the situation in Flint is a microcosm of the disaster he sees President Trump imposing on this country. Review: In ‘Fahrenheit 11/9,’ Michael Moore Targets Trump, and Us 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

“They are imposing figures just like their mother.” A departure Obama is dreading: Leaving the White House? No, Malia moving out. 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Nearby, a sandstone plaque of a ship marks the headquarters of the Free Skippers, who imposed tolls on boats entering the city. The adoration of Ghent: art, history and flavours in Flanders 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

As imposing as it is, the mausoleum is given a lightness by its milky marble skin and the placement of its four minarets at the distant corners of its plinth. The real magic of the Taj Mahal 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

The new instalment, loosely adapted from the comic book Civil War, centres on a split in the superhero ranks after Earth’s governments decide to impose official oversight on the Avengers. Mark Ruffalo: Hulk has been cut from Captain America: Civil War 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

In retaliation, she imposed economic sanctions, raising the fee to 75 pence, then a pound. David Nicholls Every Good Boy 2011-07-22T22:01:00Z

I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people’s lives. Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z

The imposing shield Valentina slams between herself and the world is partly a matter of survival, partly to ensure she gets her way. How "The White Lotus" blurs the cinematic meaning of gaze through the lens of Valentina 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

The context and subtext are plenty imposing here. Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium: Drab, Dreary and Dysto-pointing 2013-08-08T16:08:09Z

Ms. Lee’s program note also states that in the process of creation she discovered that the uninterrupted nudity “prevented the audience from imposing identities on the performers.” | 'Young Jean Lee?s ?Untitled Feminist Show': Young Jean Lee?s ?Untitled Feminist Show? ? Review 2012-01-16T23:03:34Z

Some engage in virtuosic struggles against the constraints imposed on them. Review: Seattle troupe Manifold Motion turns old INS Building into a surreal labyrinth 2010-11-13T23:16:00Z

The New York Times reported in 1936 that the French composer and critic Reynaldo Hahn had described it as “imposing, lofty, minutely elaborated” and “always compelling admiration.” With a Rare ‘Oedipe,’ the Paris Opera Pulls Together 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

It also bothers me that they are still allowed to impose the fuel surcharge. To Find Cheap Flights, the Day (Kind of) Matters 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

He needed to be attractive, a little bit off and of imposing size, so Margot feels a certain sense of discomfort. ‘Cat Person’ goes from viral story to Sundance talker — with an extra chapter 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z

One of them, “If We Were Vampires,” has already lit up the internet with its heartbreaking look at the limits of true love imposed by immortality. Jason Isbell’s got hope for the high road: “If you yell at people they’re going to stop listening” 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

He is an imposing figure, a kind of living sculpture. 2010-02-03T13:38:00Z

That, in the end, is as it should be: its role is surely to allow British people to think about these issues for themselves, not impose on them a particular reading of events. Michael Gove's history wars 2013-07-13T07:00:05Z

It found that even imposing one-child policies worldwide and “catastrophic mortality events” would not significantly reduce the global population by 2100. BirthStrikers: meet the women who refuse to have children until climate change ends 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

In the minority opinion, Judge Matthew J. Jasen wrote, “I see no reason why the child must continue to bear the burden imposed by her mother’s bad judgment.” Garry Gross Is Dead at 73; Photographer of Clothes and Their Absence 2010-12-07T07:19:00Z

The penultimate poem demonstrates how imposing order affects perception: “Without structure/ there can be no mystery. Dear sirs, thank you for this service./ You have shaken down the Garden of Eden for its seeds.” The three best poetry books for June 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

Producers: please impose a financial penalty whenever your stars say "For me". Oi! Celeb chef! Stop saying 'For me' 2013-01-01T10:00:00Z

It was an imposing energy to encounter in tubular mood lighting. The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero 2013-07-02T09:01:01Z

A lot of this money goes towards lobbying, explaining why the American sugar industry has been able to dodge regulation on burning when other countries have imposed tighter restrictions. What you need to know about sugarcane burning 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z

Its five traditional squares lead up to the highest point of the town – the imposing Agios Nikolaos church. 12 of the best beach towns in southern Europe 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z

Though the Philadelphia Orchestra historically had 105 musicians, it imposed a hiring freeze during the bankruptcy that initially held that number at 95, and then 96. Philadelphia Orchestra Ends Its Brief Strike 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

But even this story line pales into cliché, becoming the familiar tale of a woman seeking liberation from the constricting roles imposed on her. | 'Take Flight': Musical About Early Aviators at McCarter Theater 2010-05-23T22:45:00Z

Then there is the imposing, luridly colorful mural that stretches nine full stories down the side of a building in the Plateau-Mont-Royal neighborhood. Is Leonard Cohen the New Secular Saint of Montreal? 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

With little to lose, he changed his plans, creating a monumental structure layered with imposing arcades, colonnades and flanking pavilions, crowned with a dome and a pedimented tower. An Opera House Inspired by More Than Music 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

Alan Howard, a celebrated English actor whose regal bearing and imposing voice gave life to a spate of Shakespearean kings, died on Feb. 14 in London. Alan Howard, Actor With Royal Shakespeare Company, Dies at 77 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

A muscular, imposing figure on the podium, Van Zweden’s mature conducting style crackles with energy and seethes with intensity. L.A. meets the future conductor of the New York Philharmonic 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

On 4 June, the Chinese government violently put down the demonstrations, imposing martial law and massacring hundreds of citizens. June Fourth Elegies by Liu Xiaobo – review 2012-08-17T21:54:01Z

One flight up from the Spanish Renaissance galleries is Gallery 1, displaying a single work: Leone Leoni’s imposing 1551 bronze sculpture, “Emperor Charles V and the Fury.” A 7-Hour, 6-Mile, Round-the-Museum Tour of the Prado 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

This is largely because there is no official cultural boycott of Israel equivalent to that imposed on South Africa during apartheid. When musicians boycott countries there are no clear winners 2010-05-26T15:09:00Z

When the year began, the administration was rumbling about imposing even higher tariffs, which thankfully never happened. For winemakers, 2020 was the year that ‘dropped us to our knees’ 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

“Alegría” is set in a mysterious kingdom where a character named Mr. Fleur, “a conceited, manipulative and unpredictable character,” says the press kit, “clumsily tries to impose his authority.” At Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Alegría’ at Marymoor Park, less is more 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

Mechanisation imposed a faster and faster pace of life, as time became money. All the road rage: Fast & Furious 6 taps a modern vein 2013-05-20T13:40:02Z

As hulking and imposing as the buildings it surveys, this book weighs seven and a half pounds, and its cover is flecked with abrasive sandpaper. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

The high-toned beauty of the cinematography, by Thomas Hardmeier and Rasmus Videbaek, imposes a stateliness on this serious-minded movie that sometimes puts it at odds with the galvanic events it depicts. ‘Out Stealing Horses’ Review: Old Man, Take a Look at Your Life 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

The exhibition starts with an array of manuscripts, dueling pistols, imposing oil portraits and other objects arranged in a snug opening gallery Ms. Paley has nicknamed “the man cave.” Dolley Madison and Her Peers Ran Their Own ‘Pussy-Hat’ Brigade 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

The United States imposed a trade embargo, and Cuba banned some capitalist influences from the Caribbean island. Broadway finds a new stage in an old venue: Cuba 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Certain themes recur: the mother as shelterer, the father as shepherd, both vulnerable, both imposing fearful legacies. Anais Mitchell: Young Man in America ? review 2012-02-09T21:00:00Z

But the highly forgettable songs seem to be imposed on the action rather than arising organically from it and many of the jokes are just as arbitrary. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - review 2011-02-22T02:09:02Z

Italy was the first Western country to impose a national lockdown, on March 4, which suspended all businesses. With Most Weddings Still on Hold, Italian Designers Struggle 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

There is almost no dialogue, and it is hard to tell whether the narrowness of the couple’s existence is being observed by the filmmakers or imposed by the editing process. ‘Cousin Jules’: a couple quietly living in a state of nostalgia 2014-03-06T20:32:54Z

Judge Gertner, in reducing the damages, noted that “for many years, businesses complained that punitive damages imposed by juries were out of control, were unpredictable, and imposed crippling financial costs on companies.” Judge Cuts $675,000 Fine in Downloading Case 2010-07-12T16:58:00Z

“It’s so commanding, with its incredibly imposing buttress roots,” says Sacheti. Tree of the week: a centuries-old kapok amid the hubbub of an Indian megacity 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

Some Federal-era mansions still had imposing and highly crafted gardens, all different, but it was the rowhouses built later in the 19th century that were, in some ways, more interesting. Five decades after arriving in Georgetown, Gordon Riggle is still shaping its gardens 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

But the play is driven and made fascinating by its imposing female titans — both tough customers, each mercurial in word and deed. At ACT, a tale of 2 queens, 1 throne 2011-09-16T19:59:04Z

If the concept is imposed in advance by a dominating mind, it closes all the doors. Peter Brook on A Midsummer Night's Dream: a cook and a concept 2013-04-15T14:28:03Z

It would be lovely to impose that kind of order on the maddening, intractable disorder of American border policy. Perspective | Yo-Yo Ma’s concert at the border was a beautiful prayer amid an ugly conflict 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

Dudamel said it was too early to lay out his plans for the orchestra, saying he did not want to impose his vision yet. Gustavo Dudamel, Superstar Maestro, Meets New York 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z

But his was a muscular Wotan, in both his imposing presence and his powerful singing. Music Review: At Met, the New ?Ring? Is Mostly a Success 2010-09-28T06:30:00Z

The limits imposed by dramatic structure and spoken dialogue reined in his natural tendency for poetic bombast and symbolism. | 'One Arm': Hustler on the Streets, Missing Both a Limb and a Capacity to Feel 2011-06-10T02:01:04Z

On one level, I am sympathetic to the principle that gay marriage ought not to be imposed by the government. 500 years of church intolerance 2011-02-15T07:30:02Z

Its oldest building, an imposing redbrick and stone-pillared structure built in 1912, is an architectural relic of Japanese sovereignty at the turn of the 20th century. 36 Hours in Taipei, Taiwan 2013-04-11T16:30:22Z

“This would impose an additional burden on the economy and place great organizational challenges on companies. Such leave should continue to be the responsibility of employers and social partners,” it said. Back to work, dad: Swiss government opposes paternity leave 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

Did he grow these imposing bristles to keep the world at bay while he withdrew into retirement? David Letterman (and His Beard) Shop at Target These Days 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

The pyramids mess with our sense of scale – not that imposing from a distance, they’re awe-inspiring close up. Our big exotic sleepover: a single-parent tour of Egypt 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Hawkins appealed to global human rights standards and often noted that a minority of countries impose capital punishment. A new mission for Amnesty International: Bringing human rights home

Each of the 150 works is printed opposite the psalm it’s named after, the biblical texts super­imposed on swirling backdrops of veined marble. Damien Hirst’s “Psalm” Series Is Shown In A New Book 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

One $16.80 purchase later Mr. Flanagan explained his managerial policy, that he is happy to offer customers his recommendations but not to impose them. Television: AMC Goes Inside Kevin Smith?s Comic Book Shop 2012-02-05T06:00:09Z

He looked imposing in his uniform, and I felt proud to be in public with my father, the police officer. When the 1967 Detroit riot came home 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

Although grand and imposing in its way, it is not representative of his best work, even if it is manifestly more accomplished than his erstwhile teacher Bandinelli’s “Hercules and Caco” on the Piazza close by. Art: In Florence, Revelations in Stone 2011-08-12T11:30:07Z

The building of a global empire is principally about the commodity the original owners of these imposing boxes hoped to fill them with: money. The full story of the British empire is yet to be told 2012-12-28T19:31:12Z

NO one does deep, dark, elemental brooding quite as profoundly and convincingly as Harrison Birtwistle, the imposing éminence grise of British modernist composers. Classical Recordings 2011-05-25T21:36:46Z

“The United States will not hesitate to impose sanctions on any individual, entity, or vessel supporting North Korea’s illicit activities, regardless of nationality,” Nauert said. U.S. says won't hesitate to impose sanctions over fuel to North Korea 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

It towers above the surrounding farmland like a castle, with imposing stone towers and a tall wooden door. Overnighter: Tlaxcala, an Old-World Escape Near Mexico City 2011-11-23T20:01:52Z

The hotel’s staff impose on “guests” a variety of draconian regulations intended to prompt their pairing-off. The Petty Laments of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Lobster” 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

If you tried to impose a sequential pattern on what is basically a series of separate acts, you would probably conclude that humankind evolved from a troupe of juggling Oriental unicyclists. Cirque du Soleil: Totem ? review 2011-01-06T21:31:01Z

Not only has our country particularly since the World War II period, where you have the rise of suburbia and the middle class, reinforced racial segregation, we’ve also imposed class zoned neighborhoods. The deep roots of “white trash” in America: “Not only are we not a post-racial society, we are certainly not a post-class society” 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z

In contrast, the greatest performance David gave came not in this lacking ninth outing, but throughout the six-year gap between seasons that was imposed by David himself. Emmy nods for Larry David and “Curb Your Enthusiasm”? But…why? 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

That sum happens to reflect weight limitations imposed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Richard Serra Is Carrying the Weight of the World 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

And on the side of the museum that faces the popular Museumplein is Moore’s imposing “Two Piece Reclining Figure” in bronze. In Transit Blog: An Amsterdam Museum Pays Tribute to Its History 2013-07-11T18:17:09Z

He was an imposing figure: tall, handsome, elegant and self-possessed. How Vernon Jordan became a one-of-a-kind Washington presence 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

Fees imposed by booking platforms aren’t the only costs cutting into owners’ profits. Perspective | Vacation rentals are charging extra for what? 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

That is to say, they require you to accept all kinds of conditions imposed by them, while explicitly exempting them from any obligations whatsoever. To the internet giants, you're not a customer. You're just another user 2013-06-08T23:05:23Z

The answer: I have decided that I don't care about the threat of potential consequences that likely shouldn't be imposed anyway. Unapologetic Black women are taking back our power 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z

As their guest, walking among those imposing stone monoliths, I experienced a physical and cultural landscape unlike any I'd known in China. Short story: England and My Clan by Yan Lianke 2010-03-22T12:02:00Z

Employers and white workers imposed color bars that kept certain higher-prestige jobs off limits to blacks. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z

The submission and control it seeks to impose is. They really want a theocracy: The GOP candidates who want to make you bow to their lord 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

Has a more imposing windmill than Amazon ever been chased? Letting go of my Kindle guilt 2012-11-18T14:00:00Z

In the case of Syria, for example, Congress voted to impose the restrictions in 2016 after terrorist groups were found to be profiteering from the country’s antiquities to pay for weapons and recruitment. Yemen Asks U.S. for Help to Curb Smuggling of Looted Ancient Artifacts 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Most of the replicas, though, are embedded this time in the show’s imposing title piece, a grid of 80 handsome black clay rectangles that sit on an elegant wooden platform six inches off the floor. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

In filming, he imposed on himself a rigid code of ethics. Robert Gardner, renowned documentary filmmaker of ‘Dead Birds,’ dies at 88

She tries to impose order by divvying it up and keeping it clean, but it’s still a prison. David O Russell: ‘I relate to Joy – she manages a lot of commerce that is unforgiving and nasty’ 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

The Providence Journal that Warwick resident Lynne Taylor is appealing to a state court a fine imposed by a municipal judge. Weird news: Owner of cursing cockatoo appeals noise complaint fine 2012-09-25T22:04:00Z

He declared "forced and token integration" was a "pacifier," or temporary solution to problems blacks face, and one group should not impose its culture on another. 'Ali' to return to theaters to celebrate the boxing legend 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

We discovered that if we tried to impose rules or structure of some kind on our playing, it would fall flat. The Composer Pauline Oliveros Stays Busy at 80 2012-08-11T22:02:08Z

Even when that baby has leathery skin, imposing jaws, a lumbering gait and a distinctly reptilian look. Spare Times for Children for July 25-31 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

However, as I’ve discussed before, employers are allowed to impose a reasonable workplace dress code consistent with their business purpose and branding. Work Advice: Can I tell my employee she has to wear a bra? 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Gender, as in Bausch, is an issue: Men often take comic advantage of women, trying to impose themselves or steal credit. Review: The Inspired Poetry of Gandini Juggling 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Students have risen to stop an imposed candidate, from the party that ruled a smooth dictatorship from 1929-2000, and now has plans to strike back. June's best music from across the MAP 2012-06-13T10:52:13Z

Greece imposed the lockdown in March and started easing restrictions on May 4. Social-distancing Greek style: shimmy and sing from your car 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

For me to impose what I think it is robs the viewer of that experience. Jessica Chastain: The dazzling redhead who's suddenly everywhere 2011-09-27T21:28:00Z

Yet experts who study media consumption among children are not concerned about the explosion of programming, as long as parents impose limits, said Shelley Pasnik, the director of the nonprofit Center for Children and Technology. As parents consider new streaming services, is there too much... 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

The felt imposes an extra layer between now and then; it mutes and neutralizes. 'Understory' is two artists' ode to the American basement, and every surface is covered in felt 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Competing casino projects are also vying for tables under a strict cap imposed by the authorities. Macau mogul hopes dinosaurs trump volcanoes in new casino resort 2013-07-30T21:22:37Z

The finances are complicated so long as there are capacity limits imposed by health officials. The Arts Are Coming Back This Summer. Just Step Outside. 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

A sporting god, irascible yet beloved, he was a vivid and imposing figure, loudmouthed, foul-mouthed, bullying and almost pathologically self-centered, but with a deep and tender charitable streak that made him hard to fathom. Books Of the Times: Ben Bradlee Jr. Plumbs Ted Williams’s Life in ‘The Kid’ 2013-12-04T22:02:20Z

Rather than keep the story dark, though, the filmmakers confect a different fate for Maleficent, played by Angelina Jolie at her most sculpturally imposing. Critic’s Notebook: The sisters of summer

It’s an imposing legacy of French history, revolution and tax laws. Build the wine cellar of your dreams — if only in your mind — with a book on Burgundy 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

At Higher Pictures, Barbara Crane’s black-and-white photographs of Chicago buildings, by contrast, emphasize the vertical, massive, imposing aspect of a modern cityscape: What we see is not embraceable but vaulting and unassailable, our Egyptian pyramids. Conceptual, Sensual, Degenerate: Your Summer Art Choices 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Without making politics explicit, the ambient menace of cavalierly imposed power is made clear in scenes of police stops of young black male drivers. The Experimental High Notes of “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

What children read at this point can influence how they respond to the pressure to conform to type, and whether they impose that pressure on others. Beyond Battles, Boogers and Pranks 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

But she’s heard about surcharges imposed on older drivers, mandatory insurance requirements and other unanticipated fees. Car renters may hit potholes when they cross borders 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

He quoted Stravinsky: “The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself.” Running Live Dance Drills at the Armory 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

But from the start, the baritone Christopher Maltman oozed juicy seductiveness as an imposing Iago. In Cleveland, Schubert Outsings Even the Mighty ‘Otello’ 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

Over the last four weeks staff at ACE have been drawing up plans on how to implement a £19m cut imposed on it by the new government. Arts Council cuts: the full list of all 880 organisations affected - as a spreadsheet. Visualised 2010-06-18T14:09:00Z

An imposing basalt sarcophagus from about 600 B.C. gets pride of place in one gallery of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s illuminating new exhibition... ‘Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World’ Review: A Cross-Cultural Journey Begins 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

For the most part, the Danish impose themselves as indirectly as possible on the music, and they seem happy to let the connections running through the albums strike the listener as they come, too. The Danish String Quartet’s ‘Prism’ Is Essential Listening 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

The enterprising among you submitted questions for Crane last week, and Mr. Irvine has imposed upon Crane to answer them. 'Sleepy Hollow' Recap: Introducing a Special Guest, Ichabod Crane 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Several times peace treaties were imposed by New York financier Jay Gould. 'Rival Rails' tells the story of the Santa Fe Railroad 2011-01-06T00:10:04Z

The broadcasting regulator said the channel's breach was serious and repeated and therefore a financial penalty should be imposed. Ofcom fines E! over Playboy show 2012-11-16T16:59:51Z

It comes as Israel is once again imposing restrictions in light of the omicron variant, closing air travel to international visitors and imposing quarantine on Israelis returning from abroad, even those who are vaccinated. Black Eyed Peas frontman defies Israel boycott calls 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z

Not even the imposing Mr. Fairbanks, a founder of the film school, has kept newcomers at bay. Film School Students Aplenty, but What About Jobs? 2011-07-04T15:57:39Z

The system enables companies to impose order on the chaos of global distribution. FilmTrack software helps Hollywood keep tabs on content 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Back in Kyrenia, we gazed despondently at the imposing buildings erected by the latest arrivals. Ruins, casinos and abandoned construction mark Cyprus 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

“He doesn’t hold back, but he doesn’t impose, and there’s just a ton of soul and history and sadness and character that he brings to the table,” Mr. Gold said. Reed Birney, Back on Broadway in ‘Picnic’ 2013-01-06T04:47:18Z

Sometimes copy editing and language, like a lot of human activity, is an attempt to impose certitude and consistency on things–here, identity, psychology, self-perception–that are really shifting and complicated. When Did Chelsea Manning Become Chelsea Manning? 2013-08-28T13:51:42Z

Ms. Haffey was concerned about some of the constraints imposed by the potential client. Venus Williams, Off the Court 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z

At one point, to impose order, I played "chase the conductor". The Duchess of Malfi; La traviata 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z

U.S.-led U.N. sanctions imposed against Iraq for 13 years beginning in 1990 in conjunction with the first Gulf War are a stark example of this. An American century of carnage: Measuring violence in a single superpower world 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

But unlike Israel’s so-called ‘anti-photoshop’ law, French legislation that takes effect this month imposes fines and jail sentences on those who fail to comply. Israel targets fashion industry over underweight models 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

The court decided, that if you're going to impose restrictions, there had to be evidence and the benefits to women had to outweigh the cost. Legal abortion is gone for many women, but the problem is about to get exponentially worse 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

That said, the tension of working within the restraints imposed by the pandemic is something he hopes never to repeat. Netflix to Debut Italy’s First TV Show With a Majority Black Cast 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

The certification process is expensive, and it was thought that requiring compliance might impose too heavy a burden on restaurateurs. When the Menu Says ‘Organic,’ but Not All the Food Is 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

The Constitution says Congress has the power to "regulate commerce" and to impose taxes to promote the general welfare. Possible trouble ahead for insurance mandate 2012-03-27T15:20:00Z

Its 100,000 troops in Palestine turned downtown Jerusalem into a fortified camp ringed with barbed wire, imposed curfews, checked pass papers and engaged in crass anti-Semitism. Long, long road 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

The Biden administration last month imposed new testing requirements for air travelers entering the United States. Perspective | Evolving restrictions have travelers on edge 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

Clearly, they were more comfortable with each other, and the upscale dining setting wasn’t all that imposing anymore. What happens when food writers bring their toddlers to fancy restaurants 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

He was not interested in imposing his ideas and things on me. Aretha Franklin does "own thing" with new album 2010-03-19T21:54:00Z

Drawing on his organizational talents, he transformed the workings not only of the Supreme Court but of the entire federal judiciary, and he persuaded Congress to build an imposing temple of justice beside the U.S. ‘William Howard Taft’ Review: Taking the Bully Out of the Pulpit 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

But her function remains the same as in previous Perrys: to bring comic relief to the first half of the film and, in the second, to impose order on the domestic chaos. Madea's Big Happy Family: Tyler Perry's Drag Ball 2011-04-24T14:05:00Z

In a deal with the US judge, he served 42 days in prison, but then fled America fearing that the judge might impose a much longer term. Poland will not extradite Roman Polanski to US, judges confirm 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

His film portrays, in painful detail, what happened to daily life in that desert city when jihadists seized power there at the beginning of the decade and rigidly imposed Sharia law on Timbuktu’s unwilling residents. Russian, Argentine and Mauritanian Nominees Caught Up in Real-Life Turmoil 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Located in an idyllic wooded valley on the River Rye, this striking ruin was once one of the most imposing Cistercian abbeys in Europe. Five Reasons to Visit the North York Moors 2010-06-17T09:25:00Z

One thing that turns sound into its dark twin, noise, is a sense of imposed helplessness. Books: Meditations on Noise in 3 Books About Silence 2010-05-17T22:17:00Z

Symphony Hall aside, many larger halls that once were in regular use in Boston are under the control of universities, which have imposed stringent restrictions on outside groups in the name of protecting students. Scrappy and Invaluable, a Unique Music Ensemble Returns 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z

In Congress, lawmakers from both parties are considering raising minimum salaries for H-1B workers and imposing other measures to protect American jobs. What's on the agenda (and what might be avoided) when Trump meets Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

The baritone Christopher Purves, the original Protector, brings a stentorian voice and imposing swagger to the role, while projecting the words with impressive clarity. Review: In ‘Written on Skin,’ George Benjamin Creates an Unusual Love Triangle 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

Some force — internal, imposed or both — seems to be sapping their will to act. The Best Classical Music Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Númenor, a large and imposing island featuring giant statues, a glittering palace, a thriving city and lush grasslands. ‘The Rings of Power’ Season 1, Episode 3: Island Time 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

Travel companies imposed these restrictions for two reasons: first, they protect their profits; and second, they ensure all customers are treated evenhandedly, a policy otherwise referred to as “no waivers, no favors.” The travel industry is taking precaution, but is it calming anxiety about disease?

Paterson is not hungry for fame, but like Daniel Blake and Chiron he wants to be seen, to count, to do something to overcome the invisibility that his circumstances might impose. At the New York Film Festival, a Defense of Human Dignity 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

This is an old-guard way of addressing new times, hoping to impose order on an environment that is intrinsically fractured. Arts & Leisure: Two Titans Share The Seat of Power 2011-08-09T19:00:08Z

He was an imposing and charismatic man, if a little quixotic: he would sometimes disappear for months on end, and his behaviour was often erratic. Sigmar Polke obituary 2010-06-14T17:40:00Z

Ms. Seaman’s photographs are whiplash reminders that, in his first week in office as president, Donald J. Trump not only ordered a go-ahead for the pipeline but also imposed a communications blackout on the E.P.A. ‘Perpetual Revolution’ Shows Artists Shaping Their Times 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

But living in 1960s communist East Germany, with the many restrictions imposed by its centrally planned economy, when the chef decided to try Japanese cuisine he found his options were limited. Film celebrates East German chef who cooked up Japanese storm in cold war 2012-11-07T19:08:06Z

Midwestern Emily is sent to Paris after her American company acquires Savoir, a French firm, with a view to easing the transition and imposing American values on the Gallic workplace. "Emily in Paris": Why it’s so hard to admit love for the show despite it being so popular 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z

This year, the university began imposing two new charges on students taking engineering courses or enrolled in the nursing school in order to better reflect the higher costs of running those programs. College tuition’s hidden charges 2013-03-30T12:00:00Z

But who is Bridget Jones without the thing she satirized—the externally imposed pressure on a woman to self-improve? Bridget Jones Abandons Irony 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

What worries me is that the multi-voice model is increasingly being imposed on almost all shows because of television's need and greed for material that the audience immediately recognises. Shameless: when TV shows overstay their welcome 2012-10-10T11:33:37Z

As for the setting, “Bohnice’s buildings are imposing, but not frightening like some kind of Arkham Asylum,” he said, referring to the frightening location from the Batman comics and films. Prague Hospital Is Unusual Venue for Festival 2010-05-25T10:00:00Z

Not the self imposed by parents, racism, sexism or economic disparity. Letters to the Editor 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Last year, laws that impose restrictions on libraries were passed in seven states, including Tennessee, Oklahoma, Florida and Utah, according to analysis done by EveryLibrary, a political action committee for libraries. Attempts to Ban Books Doubled in 2022 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

This book says he imposed a $100 fine for using Vaseline to fake a shine on shoes. Books of The Times: ?The One,? James Brown Biography by R J Smith 2012-03-08T00:53:14Z

The minimalist gallery space resembles a piazza, with side passages, an imposing staircase and a spacious, airy center. ‘Citizens’ Museum’ of Frankfurt Celebrates 200 Years 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

He didn’t ask for any penalty fees, which are often hefty and are frequently imposed by labels when band members try to depart. Lesser-known K-pop bands struggling amid the pandemic 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

But because state courts are not permitted to impose penalties that would violate the U.S. The Stakes in Hulk Hogan’s Gawker Lawsuit 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

To counteract that imposing exterior, the architects are creating three entrances to supplement the existing one. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Expansion Aims for Friendly 2011-11-30T23:36:47Z

“It would be unfair to impose that on someone else.” From journalism to activism: Jose Antonio Vargas’s life on the run

Sanctions may be imposed against individuals and entities identified in such reports. US embassy cables: US works to block Syrian bid to obtain chemical warfare components 2010-12-16T21:30:27Z

The older ones, by comparison, tended to try to impose a European model on American circumstances, a conceptual error their British foes were also prone to make. Battlefields: Recent Books in Military History 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

The imposing Bratislava Castle is the city’s most prominent landmark. Bratislava: Slovakia’s capital makes a remarkable comeback 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

In many ways writing is the act of saying I, of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying listen to me, see it my way, change your mind. Revealing and Obscuring Myself on the Streets of New York 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Theron, at the opposite end of the spectrum, tends to get too screechy; with her imposing height, deep voice and mesmerizing beauty, she's far more powerful when she dials it down. Review: `Snow White' a gorgeous take on fairy tale 2012-05-30T19:46:42Z

They feel an overwhelming need to impose their fixation on the rest of us. Sorry, But the Original Ghostbusters Isn't Even That Good 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

He treasures good times they shared, grumbles about life lessons his father imposed, admires him as an actor and misses him the way any child would yearn for a parent taken too soon. Michael Gandolfini and the Riddle of Tony Soprano 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

But several experts say they don’t think the judge will impose the maximum sentence or that Smollett will see the inside of a prison. Jussie Smollett to learn fate after staged attack conviction 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

It’s a little odder to see how many veterans are willing to impose such an intense and emotional jolt on loved ones. Television Review: Surprise! Daddy?s Home, From War 2011-03-04T23:52:30Z

An assault conviction in Canada has a maximum sentence of five years, but experts doubted the maximum would be imposed. In double legal trouble, Bieber tests positive for pot, meds 2014-01-31T01:23:24Z

Of course, that questions if it's something you are doing for yourself, that you impose a moral standard on this kind of thing. "They play Santa Claus": Humanitarians tested by a stuck Land Rover in savage comedy "Intregalde" 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

In movies, beauty imposes its own morality; in Perry movies, the male characters are purer than the females, and the men are more gorgeous. Madea's Big Happy Family: Tyler Perry's Drag Ball 2011-04-24T14:05:00Z

Mr. Carter, who seemed less imposing and beetle-browed than on screen, was sitting on a dainty chair in a small room filled with chunky film equipment and props. ‘Downton Abbey’: Saying Farewell to All That 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

He wasn't imposing or intimidating, he was a nice guy asking for simple explanations to simple things about which he was curious. There's a little bit of Larry King in every decent interviewer, whether they like it or not 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

There, as one of her characters remarks, "Your eyes no longer impose any limit on the things you can see." Karen Joy Fowler's fine new story collection, 'What I Didn't See,' moves from ordinary to fantastical and back 2010-09-29T21:40:00Z

Still, I can’t get past the "male gaze" problem, and the false sense of normal that these events impose on women and girls. Pinups in the Post-Weinstein World 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

The licenses, created under President Bill Clinton in 1999, stopped being issued in 2003 under travel restrictions imposed by President George W. Bush. Practical Traveler: At Long Last, Legal Trips to Cuba 2011-06-30T14:59:44Z

The grounds of Mohonk Mountain House, an imposing Victorian hotel designated a national historic landmark, include 28 miles of groomed and tracked trails that offer dramatic views of the Wallkill and Rondout valleys. Skiing Without the Lift Lines and Without the Long Drive 2011-02-03T23:15:27Z

By imposing costs on terrorists’ reputations, chances for success, material assets — whatever they hold dear — you “alter the behavior and thinking of your adversary.” Books of The Times: ?Counterstrike,? by Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker ? Review 2011-09-04T22:27:46Z

Standing some 6-and-a-half feet tall and looking a good decade younger than his age, Weston is an imposing figure with huge hands. Portland Jazz fest wraps Friday-Sunday with Regina Carter and others 2011-02-24T21:50:14Z

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Colin Davis said that what he strives for in conducting is to share a performance, not to impose one on the orchestra. Music Review: London Symphony Orchestra, With Colin Davis - Review 2011-10-20T21:57:49Z

In an overlap with his medical shows, he is savagely funny about the consequences of the "performance targets" imposed on public services by recent governments. Can Jed Mercurio's Line of Duty resuscitate the police drama? 2012-06-20T14:33:12Z

Snyder transitions seamlessly from describing these to examining the limitations imposed on their work by mass incarceration and the economics of crime and punishment in America. What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

“Uniform requirements are one thing, but to impose heels and makeup is going too far,” Anette Trettebergstuen, Norwegian Labour Party’s women’s spokesperson, agreed. Norwegian Air says flight attendants must have doctor's note to avoid wearing heels: report 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

The decision to impose a page-count on a dictionary is in fact a painful one. Lexicography unbound 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

But it never seems to get anywhere, taking up space and time without managing to be especially memorable or imposing. Review: ‘Everest’ Revisits a Fateful Adventure in 3-D 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

An imposing figure, he's tall and reserved with cowboy hat pulled down low over his eyes. Alan Jackson shares personal song on new album 2012-06-05T13:23:09Z

One of the authors mentions the dreadful segregationist admissions policy imposed at the Birmingham Museum of Art in the 1950s and 1960s only allowing African Americans in one day per week. The Met Should Be Open to All. The New Pay Policy Is a Mistake. 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

But absent the oppression of a dust-free studio and imposing electronics working to capture sonic perfection, music lives and dies on emotive expression. 'Letter Home' is stripped-down Neil Young in his ragged glory 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

A rendering of Howard Jacobson's imposing profile, designed to be shown off to advantage in a sleeveless top? Written on the body: how about a literary tattoo? 2011-01-14T15:18:54Z

U.S. officials said last week the administration still plans to impose sanctions on Turkey. Russia delivers missile system to Turkey in challenge to NATO 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

He commands every room he enters, even a hall packed with imposing gangsters. "Judas and the Black Messiah" is a window into FBI’s surveillance apparatus 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z

Q: While at your wit’s end you wrote an open letter to your health insurance company — who’d denied you game-changing medicines and treatments and imposed penalties on the medicines they did cover. For author Jenny Lawson, life is brutal — and hilarious 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

The director and his set designer, James Kronzer, present “Angels” in front of a flight of stairs and the giant windows of an imposing facade that suggest a setting both grand and grim. Summoning those better ‘Angels’ 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

The imposing, mastiff-style cane corso goes back many centuries in rural Italy as a farm guardian that also pulled small carts and hunted wild boar. Poodles pop in popularity, but Labs still No. 1 US dog breed 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

We'd do best to admit our shortcomings and recognize that we should not — we must not — impose laws and regulations on something of which we understand so little. Ending a pregnancy in the last days of Roe 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z

“It is an imposing work,” Mr. Cooper said of “Great American.” Inside Art: A Count?s Collection of German Art Is for Sale 2011-04-21T21:50:09Z

She spoke on her own experience and the “tax” that’s imposed when you become a celebrated author. Authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Maxine Hong Kingston dish on war and peace 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

Beijing imposed its security law last summer, in response to months of fierce, at times violent protests in 2019. Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Is Finally Open. It’s Already in Danger. 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

But clever architects outside the group resented having standard types and details imposed on them and jettisoned them whenever they could. Oliver Cox obituary 2010-06-02T17:49:00Z

In a televised speech on Monday, Supreme LeaderAyatollah Ali Khamenei said: "Sanctions imposed on Iran by our enemies will not have any impact on our nation." Iran sentences American to die for spying 2012-01-09T12:02:00Z

Justin Chang for The Los Angeles Times wrote that the movie “belongs to Driver,” and that he “has rarely appeared more imposing in his physicality, more bottomless in his capacity for rage and deceit.” Cannes: Adam Driver on singing, surrealism and ‘Annette’ 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

From my window, I could see the jagged spires of the city’s most imposing church, the Cathedral of SS. In Brno, Drinks for Morning, Noon and Night 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

She has said modern Bond girls have it harder than she did, there now being “so many demands” – she believes, imposed by political correctness. Britt Ekland: 'I was put through emotional and psychological warfare' 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

It’s amazing that Kiarostami was able to work copiously and free-spiritedly within the rigid constraints imposed by the religious and political doctrines of the Iranian regime. Postscript: Abbas Kiarostami, 1940—2016 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

They understood the benefits of not imposing oneself and of leaving some things suggested rather than explicitly stated. Review | Buried deep in a disappointing Rembrandt and Velázquez show are two portraits that demand to be seen 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

We follow all of the civil regulations that are imposed on us. America’s favorite handgun 2012-09-23T15:00:00Z

To impose order on this chaos, the family turned to Airtable, a cloud collaboration platform that companies use to manage big projects. Family Life Is Chaotic. Could Office Software Help? 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

No time is better to impose high-tech social disciple then one marked by economic and social crisis.  Four ways your privacy is being invaded 2012-09-11T13:44:00Z

Ephemeral and imposing at the same time, the gestures suggest the pillars of a monument. Review | In the galleries: At Strathmore, artists illuminate the darkness 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

He does that by imagining that the show’s otherworldly characters, including four gods, pieced together their imposing outfits using discarded materials. Ravaged but Resilient: Creating ‘Once on This Island’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

Justice Alito asked: “Can the mandate be viewed as a tax if it does impose a requirement on people who are not subject to the penalty or the tax?” Obama Administration: Obamacare's Individual Mandate 'is a Tax' 2012-07-06T16:15:36Z

There will be no prize for best musical revival, because the only one that managed to open, “West Side Story,” did so after the retroactively imposed eligibility date. Tony Awards Voting Starts Now. And It’s Going to Be Weird. 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z

The notes don’t feel imposed on the world. Seattle’s Julian Priester helped create jazz as we know it. Now, he’s focusing on teaching the art of listening 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

The narrative becomes not a tribunal but a hospice to language, shelter to the loss of meaning imposed by violence. Anglos, Hispanics and the Formation of America 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

It is hard to say more on the basis of a video broadcast that imposes its own perspectives and emphases on the stage picture. Music Review: Onstage in Milan, Shadowy Giants Visible in New York 2010-12-08T23:54:00Z

Productions like the 1965 Living Theater version in Berlin included what one scholar described as both a “physically imposing” Madame played by a male actor and a satin-and-flower-filled mise en scène. Interpreting ‘The Maids’ Through a Shifting Societal Lens 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

It lead to an elimination of a tax on healthy foods, while imposing a 2 percent tax on unhealthy foods, like soda. For the Navajo Nation, a Fight for Better Food Gains New Urgency 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

In July, Lohan was sentenced to 90 days in jail and another 90 days in rehab for missing alcohol education classes imposed as part of her probation on the 2007 charges. Lindsay Lohan mom blames "hardball" judge for jail 2010-08-13T16:27:00Z

The attempt to make Page 3 the target of draconian legislation imposed by politicians is an overreaction. Never mind Page 3, internet porn is what damages young minds 2013-06-13T14:44:47Z

I kept sane by imposing a routine of reward and work. ‘I cultivated a joy in little things ’ - coping with isolation in the wild 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

But this comedy, the first feature by Ms. Bucher, suffers from technical limitations, perhaps imposed by a tough nine-day shooting schedule. Movie Review: ‘Knight Knight,’ Directed by Christina Bucher 2012-08-24T00:20:43Z

With his pale eyes, flossy hair and rugged features, Crowell is more evidently the country-music grandee – an imposing Texan in a black silk scarf and matching trilby. Emmylou Harris: 'I looked down on country' 2013-03-04T18:22:38Z

The state's top liquor regulator is blocking the town from imposing a midnight bar closing. 2 NJ towns turn down 'Jersey Shore' spinoff 2012-08-09T12:25:12Z

But their A&M record contract tied them to huge touring and album commitments, and imposed musicians upon them. Gerry Rafferty obituary 2011-01-04T19:01:16Z

For the first time since high school, I had a curfew imposed by my hosts, who had no second key and couldn’t have me waking them up to get in after their 8 p.m.  bedtime. Picking a Spot, Any (Undiscovered) Spot, in Mexico 2010-08-18T03:00:00Z

He has a style but is not trying to impose. Mario Testino: 30 Years Behind the Camera 2011-10-02T19:01:46Z

Mr. Ahmad, one of three people on whom Treasury officials imposed sanctions, is perhaps better known for what he collects than what he sells. U.S. Places Sanctions on Art Collector Said to Finance Hezbollah 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

But imposing a new lifestyle on a loved one can become fraught when the beneficiary isn’t able to communicate — or make its own decisions, she said. The Diet Worked For Them. Now Their Pets Are on It. 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Their desires seem imposed on them, and make them almost feral in their hunting, darting, insecure gestures. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z

Somewhere around the midpoint of “10 Years Solo Live,” his elegant, imposing new boxed set, the pianist Brad Mehldau settles into a song as if it were a vintage leather club chair. Brad Mehldau Evolves in ‘10 Years Solo Live,’ a New Boxed Set 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

The book is a hymn to life’s physical and mental chaos, not to the harmonies faith would impose. Review: Orhan Pamuk’s ‘A Strangeness in My Mind’ 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Devereaux, occasionally looking at Spiker in the courtroom, called the career criminal a dangerous man incapable of being rehabilitated, and he asked the judge to impose the maximum sentence, the newspaper reported. Man who asked white supremacist to kill judge gets 60 years 2014-04-03T12:30:00Z

The motto: Fraternity, Equality, Liberty — what it really means is the liberty for all men to impose on fraternity and equality on all men and strip women of their rights. Catherine Breillat, legendary provocateur, on her sexual manifesto on film and why she hates porn 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

There’s a pleasing grandeur in watching the boat’s imposing smokestacks fold down when a low bridge is ahead. The American Queen Paddle-Wheeler Cruises on the Mississippi 2012-06-01T19:22:58Z

Greece's culture ministry, like most state departments, has seen its budget cut as part of austerity measures imposed by the government. Robbery at Ancient Olympia museum 2012-02-17T16:38:39Z

Ford’s mostly middle-aged-male protagonists experience “jarring dislocations,” imposed by divorce or death, and grapple with relinquishing “the sense of an overarching narrative in their lives.” New in Paperback: ‘Thinking Inside the Box’ and ‘The Mountains Sing’ 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

Last spring, Senators Booker, Tester, Merkley and Warren introduced a bill that would impose a moratorium on large agribusiness mergers. Looking ahead: Top food and agriculture stories for 2023 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

If the drama occasionally sags it's more to do with Lothar Koenigs's conducting, imposing in the orchestral set pieces, less convincing in the longer dramatic paragraphs, than anything else. Die Meistersinger von?N?rnberg 2010-06-20T20:31:00Z

“The last foundation they have for the regime is women and imposing the hijab,” Ebrahimi said. An Iranian Exile Channels Her Trauma Into Film 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

The imposing concrete structure is patched here and there with wood, corrugated iron, barbed wire and fences. The Godfather – but with chimpanzees: on set with War for the Planet of the Apes 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

The border was largely imposed on the peninsula by non-Koreans; Ms. Ham’s favorite word to describe this fact is “absurd.” An Artist Unites North and South Korea, Stitch by Stitch 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

A former Treasury secretary and ambassador to Britain, Mellon donated his art collection to the nation and paid for the imposing neoclassical West Building on the Mall to house it. The National Gallery celebrates 75 years, thanks to old-fashioned philanthropy 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

A “small man with a slow smile,” Dice imposes a cultlike discipline on his ragged followers. ‘The Ash Family’ Is a Debut Novel for Our Climate-Anxious Age 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

I wanted her to be absolutely sure that I didn’t impose anything on her. Rita Moreno and Ariana DeBose: From One Anita to Another 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

English clubs were coming out from under their European ban imposed after Heysel and the book marks the moment when football changed, both in England and round the world. Mihir Bose's top 10 football books 2010-06-09T13:50:00Z

Although both stories have originated from local newspapers, they are quickly picked up all over the world, following the global grid now being comfortably imposed upon the earth’s surface. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z

On those terms, Nightmare in Silver is a triumph: the metal monsters prove an imposing presence, upgraded into quickfire warriors. Doctor Who: Nightmare in Silver – series 33, episode 12 2013-05-11T18:45:01Z

Tonight Mr Dohr will be back in the engine room leading an even larger horn section in the imposing launch of Mahler's Third Symphony. In praise of ? Stefan Dohr 2011-02-23T00:03:01Z

Carter began by running through several notable instruction manuals on type and typography, which had "a way of imposing solutions and limiting choices". True to type: why letters are a labour of love 2010-10-16T23:00:00Z

The legislation required the Department of the Treasury to join with other agencies to study whether the stricter regulations should be imposed on the wider art market as well. As Money Launderers Buy Dalís, U.S. Looks at Lifting the Veil on Art Sales 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

He is played by the actor Vikram, who has moved to take over policing a remote part of Northern India filled with jungles, ravines, imposing cliffs and waterfalls. Indian epic romance "Raavan" is breathtaking 2010-06-18T03:30:00Z

Our adrenal gland manages the hormone cortisol, which it releases when something that stresses the body — like calorie restriction — is imposed. It’s time to bust the ‘calories in, calories out’ weight-loss myth 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

The production's success is somewhat surprising – not least because of stringent rules imposed by the Beckett estate, which demand that it has to be staged as if it were a performance for radio. All That Fall: the Samuel Beckett stage play that isn't 2012-11-07T19:00:01Z

The chimney pieces are imposing and carved with 3D figures; the one in the library depicts the Principles of Speech in Caen stone. Stairway to heaven: Jimmy Page’s castle is his home 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

“We wear the mask that grins and lies” is how the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar bitterly summarized the duplicity imposed by post-Civil War white supremacy on its emancipated but disenfranchised victims. Movie Review: ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Stars Forest Whitaker 2013-08-15T16:52:46Z

Unless Congress intervenes, the higher fees will be imposed on tickets purchased on and after July 21, though current lower fees will apply to tickets purchased before that date regardless of the date of travel. T.S.A. Fees For Air Trips to Rise 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

When citywide protests over the killing of George Floyd began, and Mayor Bill de Blasio imposed an 8 p.m. curfew, the bar crowds dwindled, and some bars closed altogether for a time. New York’s New Bar Stool: The Sidewalk 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

The historical lens that’s playfully imposed throws into relief the unresolved nature of these still boisterous conflicts. When feminist debate turns into an ideological free-for-all: It's the Wooster Group's 'Town Hall Affair' 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Rigid understandings of gender are imposed upon cultures where gender fluidity was previously more accepted. No, you can’t identify as "transracial" 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

What better way to come to terms with the inevitable erasure of time than through an ability to break the boundaries time imposes on us? Gotta get back in time: The current explosion of time travel novels goes beyond sci-fi and fantasy 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z

In that spirit he imposed his own changes, cutting and pasting details from his photographs as he adapted them for the canvas. Art Review: ?Snapshot: Painters and Photography,? at Phillips Collection 2012-04-06T00:25:38Z

Degas, for instance, preferred to be known as a ‘realist,’ and to use the word ‘Impressionist’ is to impose a set of criteria on these paintings that isn’t fair.” Charles S. Moffett, Curator Who Focused on Impressionists, Dies at 70 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

McGrath stokes the furnace of his play to the point of explosion with little more than the fuel of everyday ritual and irritations, and without a single imposed cliché. Arts & Leisure: ‘Denial,’ ‘Bofors Gun’ and the London Revival of Rage 2012-06-17T00:00:31Z

It’s really challenging to create a hit show under any circumstances, and tougher still to do so with the challenges imposed by broadcast TV—which has to break for ads, and appeal to advertisers. The Upcoming Fall Season of TV Is Heavy on Nostalgia 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Many American novelists, if they touch on class at all, confine themselves to the broad categories imposed by race and geography. Elena Ferrante’s ‘Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Though his passagework was muffled by his gravelly tones at times, he was an imposing presence, and he did not overplay the king’s brutishness. The Metropolitan Opera Performs Donizetti?s ?Anna Bolena? 2011-09-27T12:51:23Z

Kutik and the imposing pianist Anna Polonsky moved together effortlessly through thickets of dissonance in the first movement and the playful, percussive jabs of the second. Review | Violinist Yevgeny Kutik’s debut at the Kennedy Center has its highlights, and its lowlights 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

It doesn’t impose a story on you the way maybe the Rautavaara does. Fermenting Philip Glass: René Redzepi on Music and Cooking 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

On Aug. 16, the city imposed a mandate requiring all patrons at bars and clubs to be vaccinated or recently tested for Covid-19, seeming to open the door to a new phase of reopening. A Pandemic, Then a Hurricane, Brings New Orleans Musicians ‘to Their Knees’ 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

She added that the project had given the Philharmonic’s staff and players a sense of hope during the difficult moments of the pandemic, when dozens of concerts were canceled and pay cuts were imposed. Geffen Hall’s $550 Million Makeover Is Fully Funded 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

Some residents of Pueblo County are so disturbed by the impact of legalization on their community they have put a measure on November’s ballot to impose a local ban on sales, although not use. 'Commercialization won out': will legal marijuana be the next big tobacco? 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

“But we don’t listen. We impose our will on nature, and we’re suffering the consequences of it.” Zen and the Art of Australian Winemaking 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Its measures reinforce those imposed by the United States as the West tries to force Tehran to return to talks before it produces enough nuclear material for an atomic bomb. Iran to announce nuclear progress: Ahmadinejad 2012-02-11T11:45:00Z

This is a strangely shapeless film from the man whose work usually imposes a ferociously consistent vision on his material….  Roger Ebert: His Dissenting Opinions 2013-04-05T00:06:17Z

"I'm intimidated and concerned about the limitations my health will impose on writing this book, an ongoing process of discovery," he writes in the preface. The future tense of joy: "Deadwood" creator David Milch recaptures memory in "Life's Work" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

Even as winter approaches, coronavirus cases rise and her city prepares to impose new restrictions, she’s trying not to dwell on the darkness. Working moms are not okay 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

"Usher's donation will support this urgent work to counter the brutal conditions like those imposed by Gaddafi and other leaders across the Middle East," the human rights organisation said. Usher to donate Gaddafi concert fee to charity 2011-03-07T10:12:13Z

Obama demolished the idea that Hillary couldn't win because of a "glass ceiling" imposed on women. The Walls That Hillary Clinton Created 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

A more structured learning environment was imposed by subsequent teachers who stepped in after LaFarge. Misguided experiment yields absorbing documentary 2011-01-24T04:21:27Z

You were led in a small group up a hill to the imposing Gothic revival main entrance, underlit for effect. Going Mausoleum Hopping in Brooklyn 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

Since the current AG of Florida and Gov. Scott believe Gay Marriages out of state impose significant public harm to Floridians, should we be excited to visit this state? The Evolving World of Gay Travel 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

“I’m always concerned about people around us, about imposing on their time if Layla is kicking chairs or making noises,” she said. ArtsBeat Blog: Parents and Kids Say They Appreciated Autism-Friendly 'Lion King' Matinee 2011-10-03T19:45:11Z

But the real evil here is Walter trying to impose his point of view on things. No script, no worries: Men in Black 3 shoots anyway 2011-03-10T00:23:47Z

Merriam Webster’s Dictionary: Tax — “a charge, usually of money, imposed by authority on persons or property for public purposes.” BREAKING: Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare's Individual Mandate as a Tax 2012-06-28T14:08:54Z

It’s difficult to create a fully formed character with the strictures Handler has imposed on himself, narrative fragments from a sex-obsessed high school student. Daniel Handler's new novel 'All the Dirty Parts' is raunchy, original and real 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

NCTE’s website again: …About half of states no longer impose such burdensome requirements for driver’s licenses and state ID and growing numbers are streamlining procedures. Voting while trans 2012-10-21T15:00:00Z

Lohan appeared in court for less than five minutes Tuesday to update the judge on her progress in completing strict probation terms that were imposed in November after a series of missteps by the actress. Judge says Lindsay Lohan doing well on probation 2012-01-17T18:16:09Z

The observers immediately enter into a competition, imposing narratives upon the two women. In the House – review 2013-03-31T00:07:00Z

Additional fees may be imposed by the city or county – depending on choice of locations and the "activities you plan to film," according to its website. Low-budget films rely on shortcuts 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Next year, one hopes, they will find a big name to impose a vision on a festival that momentarily, at least, seems to have lost its way – and its spirit of adventure. Les Rencontres d'Arles 2012 – review 2012-07-07T23:06:03Z

Mr. Zhang, however, suggested that the process of making films in China is an elaborate cat-and-mouse game, with artists constantly having to navigate around the limits that an all-powerful Communist Party imposes. ?The Flowers of War,? a Chinese Epic With Many Back Stories 2011-12-17T03:32:15Z

According to linguistic theory, being addressed directly, while it improves clarity, is often perceived as a “face-threatening act” – something that imposes on the addressee and may feel too much like a barked order. Politeness costs nothing, but it may stop people understanding you 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

By the end it was something imposing: surely something at least deserving of a real name. Music Review: 10 Tunes in One, Peeking From a Multitude of Stylistic Niches 2011-05-26T22:15:10Z

A domed mausoleum and some ghosts of cellars are all that remain of Hamilton Palace, once considered one of the most imposing homes in Britain. Reassembling Hamilton Palace, Room by Room, All 150 of Them 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

"I don't want to impose something on the orchestra, but the way my programming is going to look in a few years time will be a little different, I'm quite confident of that." Sakari Oramo's First Night at the Proms 2013-07-10T17:59:00Z

And this new pirate drama, beginning Saturday on Starz, does boast an imposing 140-foot facsimile of a sailing ship, which makes a particular impression when it’s beached for some early-18th-century nautical maintenance. Television Review: ‘Black Sails’ Unleashes Some 18th-Century Pirates 2014-01-23T23:32:17Z

I love spending time with Drew and Don, but I feel very, uncomfortable imposing on them for that long. “No one knows if New Orleans will live again”: A digital diary of Hurricane Katrina, 10 years later 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Wilber seethes at his twin brothers for imposing on his time, consuming his money and disrupting his plans. ‘The Far Away Brothers’ Breathes Vivid Life Into Immigration Issues 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

These laws prohibit unions from imposing mandatory dues on all employees covered by a collective agreement. Unions get a welcome reception in digital newsrooms 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

But her severe prison sentence — 5 years, 3 months — was the longest ever imposed for the crime with which she was charged. Review | Reality Winner’s arrest transcript becomes a scintillating Broadway show in ‘Is This a Room’ 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

To avoid these perceived moral failings of utilitarianism, retributivism envisions the state as a neutral and dispassionate actor who imposes punishment only as a moral imperative of society. “The Wire” is right about everything: David Simon nailed the police, media, politicians 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

Still, the production offers a deeply personal reading of a staple without crossing a line and imposing an interpretation upon it. At Salzburg Festival, Two Bold Directors Claim Their Stages 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

“It is also important that we do not impose the norms of our time on the past,” the statement said. The Sinking of a Bust Surfaces a Debate Over Denmark’s Past 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Here is a redbrick wall rising up flat and imposing before a row of council houses. George Shaw 2011-02-13T00:05:02Z

The setting is as architecturally imposing as it is quietly symbolic: a steep climb, designed to awe. Review: A Haunting Tribute to Josephine Baker Arrives at the Met Museum 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Place, 60, is a sturdy but not imposing figure. From Woody to Lead Belly, the master of Smithsonian Folkways 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

There is a reason so few museums are designed as high-rises: Tall buildings with relatively few windows can look austere and imposing. What a Museum Wants to Be in the 21st Century 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

The Met — along with the Munich Philharmonic and the rest — is now imposing them. Putin’s Maestro, and the Limits of Cultural Exchange in Wartime 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

The fair, along with the rest of Europe’s luxury retail businesses, has been adversely affected by the Covid-related restrictions on “unnecessary” travel that China imposed in May. Sales at Art Basel Fair Don’t Show Signs of Downturn 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

Since Hulot rarely spoke, Tati the actor operated under a gag order of emotional reticence, and Tati the director imposed the same lack of affect on his films. 'The Illusionist': Better Than 'Toy Story 3'? 2010-12-25T11:10:00Z

He also, more intriguingly, tried to impose the worship of an all-powerful Semitic god on Rome. The Bizarre Lives of Rome’s Emperors 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

This is a world of "imposing, craggy cliffs … serene beaches … rich history", and villages in which Ben finds himself "stepping back in time into a bygone era". Harbour Lives – review 2013-07-13T06:01:05Z

By the mid-1850s, Spain seemed all but forgotten as El Clamor Público in Los Angeles advocated the civil rights of Mexicans and decried the “lynchocracy” imposed by vigilantes in Gold Rush California. ‘One Nation with News for All’: Newseum looks at Ethnic media in America

In March, he had been in New York, finishing shooting on a season of his Fox crime drama Prodigal Son – resulting in a “nail-biting” few days of coast-to-coast travel before lockdown was imposed. Dermot Mulroney: 'I remember Charlie Sheen climbing over a balcony, half-clothed …' 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

Nor can we simply label China's economic policies as neo-liberal capitalism: its socialist tradition still imposes constraints. The Struggle for Tibet by Wang Lixiong and Tsering Shakya | The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity by Wang Hui 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

But my assignment with her left me with lasting lessons about how to interview, how to tell stories, how to let the people you meet guide you — rather than imposing narrative from above. How I learned the art of the interview from Jean Stein in the wake of the L.A. riots 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Bakhtin and Benjamin's assessments of literature are obviously tied to the context of their lives: when Bakhtin was studying Dostoyevsky's novels and emphasising the individual, he had just returned from exile imposed by Stalin. Li Er: the future of the novel in China 2013-03-15T15:49:26Z

Consider "The Edge of Victory," from 1987, an imposing work at over 11 by 16 feet. New and unimproved: the spectacle of Julian Schnabel 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Mary moved in with her older sister, Elizabeth Edwards, and her husband, Ninian, in their imposing mansion. Did Abraham Lincoln’s bromance alter the course of American history? 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

“Before ’89, politics was obligatory, it was something imposed from above,” Ms. Stejskalova said. At the Prague Marathon, History Is a Spectator 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

If you’ve ever felt that listening to the murky, bass-starved early Stones studio albums is like hearing them through a wall, this music is for you: nasty, brutish, rhythmically tight, imposing. Boxed Sets of CDs and DVDs for 2012; Critics’ Picks 2012-11-22T21:24:13Z

I was born during the Soviet period, when Russian and Soviet culture were imposed on us, but I like to read, and did my own research. After 145 Years, Bayreuth Festival Has Its First Female Conductor 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

I was tipped off to the 17th-century Goshamahal Baradari, an imposing Masonic temple where, despite the fact that I claimed no allegiance to the Freemasons, I was led through inner chambers clearly labeled “Members Only.” Returning to Hyderabad, Once a Land of Princes and Palaces 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Her story may be of particular note at this moment, as China’s new security law imposes more restrictions on the region. ‘Denise Ho: Becoming the Song’ Review: Pop With a Message 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

Every fashion designer, they say, is an architect manque, intent on imposing a structure on the wayward human form. | Trendspotting: Why Deco Now? 2011-11-22T16:37:08Z

It did not specify exactly what restrictions the new law would impose on EU citizens. Switzerland plans to favour EU citizens in immigration law 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Males devoted countless, typically late-night hours studying short films concerning the reproductive techniques of physically imposing peers. Style Invitational Week 1454: Punku 3 — haiku with a pun, duh 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gillinson began slashing the budget, imposing pay cuts of up to 10 percent for many employees and furloughing many workers. Bruised by the Pandemic, Carnegie Hall Plans a Comeback 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

The film shows touches of Latin American magical realism, spectacular car crashes and a colossal, computer-generated monster - but the effects are pretty much an afterthought to the imposing, theater production. Keaton on form in Venice festival opener 'Birdman' 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

He calls to say, “Don’t do anything in response to the sanctions the United States has just imposed.” Garry Kasparov Says We Are Living in Chaos, But Remains an Incorrigible Optimist 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Next to him stands an imposing example of an actual copper, of either Haida or Tsimshian origin, dated 1840-60. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

The character is both physically and emotionally imposing - Ms. Skelton is neither. ‘Outlander’ Season 2 Finale: I Believe You 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z

Just as the novel imposes a structure on the human experience, speculation about some impending apocalypse seeks to fit a pattern onto all of history. The End of Endings 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

When the band started, the xx imposed its own strictures. The xx Lets the Sunshine In 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

An unseen, oppressive force — presumably some aspect of the government that has harassed Panahi’s father for more than a decade and tried to prevent him from making films — imposes its will on them. ‘Hit the Road’ Review: Wheels Within Wheels 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Another ploy is the imposing readymade, scarred by life and transferred to the white cube of the art gallery for predictably sobering effect. Art In Review: ADEL ABDESSEMED: ?Who?s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? 2012-03-15T21:44:54Z

These are the same folks imposing their political will by mob intimidation by storming school board meetings and town halls railing against masking mandates and vaccination requirements. No, we're not living "The Handmaid's Tale" – it's worse, and a show highlighting how was passed over 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Among its treasures are the imposing golden throne of the King of Kandy and various ancient Buddhist artifacts, including a priceless collection of rare palm-leaf manuscripts. Five Reasons to Visit Colombo 2011-04-14T14:15:00Z

The treatment was part of a sentence imposed after another judge found the actress violated the terms of her probation in a 2007 drug case. Attorneys in Lohan case meet with new judge 2010-08-19T00:22:00Z

In the Muslim world, where secularism was a foreign import, it was imposed during the 19th and 20th centuries so rapidly, and all too often cruelly, that in many quarters it has been discredited. The Blame Game: Karen Armstrong Talks About 'Fields of Blood' 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

The political yoke he imposed was light: Conquered nations were allowed to keep their indigenous gods and Persia’s armies provided welcome protection against the nomadic bands of the northern steppes. Review | We may not be able to leave the house, but these transporting books whisk us to Central Asia 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

But the director fled the United States to his native France before sentencing, fearing the judge would impose more prison time than the 42 days he had already spent behind bars for a psychiatric evaluation. Focus in Polanski case shifts back to Switzerland 2010-04-24T01:27:00Z

The pandemic is imposing rapid changes — to the cost of travel, trust in the state, reliance on neighbors — that surely mean we should get ready for another burst of innovation. The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

House of Representatives, seeks to reduce the royalty rates imposed on Internet radio stations such as Pandora and bring them in line with the fees charged to its digital competition, including satellite and cable radio. Future of Music 2012: A fight over Internet radio scraps 2012-11-14T04:21:00Z

He looks physically imposing as ever, but he emphasizes endearing Ward to the audience where other actors would be content to run and gun the role. "Army of the Dead" is what happens when desperation meets a thrilling zombie conflagration 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

At a lithe 5-foot-11 and 175 pounds, he’s not an imposing figure but projects command of his craft along with an infectious enthusiasm. In the Colorado Rockies, going to extremes with legendary skier Chris Davenport 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

This stern woman is a stickler for black church ritual, imposing nighttime Bible study sessions and inviting her minister to family dinners. ‘Sparkle’ Remade With Jordin Sparks and Whitney Houston 2012-08-10T21:09:42Z

For that matter, plays and movies aren’t immune from propagandistic values, whether imposed on the artists or shared by them. Can a Musical Sponsored by a Toilet Manufacturer Be a Work of Art? 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

Real and lasting democracy emerges from within the singular context of each Arab country and cannot be imposed by outside intervention or manipulation. After Tunisia: Nouri Gana on Tunisia 2011-01-28T13:00:04Z

He is also desperate for something to help him "escape the regimen of perfection and competence" imposed by his work, which "neither allowed improvisation nor tolerated mistakes". Open City by Teju Cole ? review 2011-08-06T23:05:38Z

The answer is, of course, yes and Fuks’s skill lies in his quiet exploration of how exclusion — willed or imposed — shapes experience within families. Contemporary Brazil, Captured in Two Novels and a Journalist’s Collection 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

I have been watching her for years and thought I knew just what to expect: some imposing snow queen, with wide geometric features and a hard feline stare. Cate Blanchett: ‘I used to be very socially awkward’ 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z

Much like this arresting image, “Twilight” imposes a uniquely Hungarian perspective on what might have otherwise been simple pulp material. ‘Twilight’ Review: Film Noir in the Hungarian Hills 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

But it was a relief when Mitchell broke away to impose her personality on at least part of Tam Lin. Anaïs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer – review 2013-03-07T16:33:12Z

Diners tipped more generously, and some restaurants imposed “Covid surcharges” and other fees. The Restaurant Service Charge Isn’t Going Anywhere 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

Since then, the British culture minister imposed a temporary ban on the sale to provide time to seek another solution. Seeing a Cash Cow in Museums’ Precious Art 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

Perhaps, in light of that, we might impose on ourselves another kind of silence, and listen, in humility and with penitence, to God speaking in God's endlessly surprising and confounding ways. Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch – review 2013-04-21T08:00:15Z

Nomadic invaders from Central Asia, the Seljuqs did not impose on their subjects a traditional aesthetic or religion of their own. The Met Explores an Islamic Dynasty’s All-Embracing Big Tent 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

The main characters pursue their desires and ambitions under constraints imposed by custom and by the brute impossibility of men. | 'Le Amiche': A 1955 Antonioni Movie Gets a Film Forum Run 2010-06-17T21:57:00Z

An imposing stone structure, it is inhabited by only three Orthodox monks. On Samos, Aesop’s Fabled Isle, a Mix of Greeks, Migrants and Tourists 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

Two imposing women stand nearby, pointing to their right and either encouraging or admonishing him. 'Noah Davis: Savage Wilds': Trash TV as elegant art 2012-08-02T20:17:14Z

Striding through the halls of Hogwarts, he was imposing and imperious, his inky black cape floating around him as if it, too, were furious with the world. Alan Rickman: A Great Voice, and So Much More 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

He found that his songwriting changed with his voice and he began imposing limits, something no writer wants to do. Loud and clear: Urban enjoys benefits of surgery 2012-04-09T09:46:03Z

Expanding the awards into the parallel Helen and Hayes slots after years of controversy seems to be imposing more logic on the nominations, though it also means there is more to keep track of. ‘West Side Story,’ ‘Salome,’ ‘Avenue Q’ top 2016 Hayes nominations 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

The terror, the uncertainty, the threats, the divisions, and the more and more imposing threat of a new civil war. After Tunisia: Joumana Haddad on Lebanon 2011-01-28T13:00:05Z

Groves replaced the duplex’s imposing statement staircase with a minimalist flight of walnut treads concealed by a zebrawood partition. Essie Weingarten's Sleek Manhattan Apartment 2014-02-13T05:00:00Z

Trade magazine Variety praised "Exodus" as "a genuinely imposing spectacle," while The Hollywood Reporter found faults with the beginning and end, while describing the middle as "a rousing good show." Epic 'Exodus' casts Christian Bale's Moses as reluctant leader 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Dinner with the Gaetzes was intellectual combat; Don was a champion debater in college, and Matt was an imposing and memorable presence on the debate team at Niceville High School, according to classmates. Rep. Matt Gaetz wants you to know who he is, and his plan is working 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Although he is slight and wiry, he raps with a sonorous and imposing voice. Rich Chigga and the Difficulties of Keeping It Real 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

The Holy Fire ceremony typically draws tens of thousands of worshippers to the imposing grey edicule in the Holy Sepulchre that is believed to contain the tomb where Jesus lay two thousand years ago. Holy Fire lit as Orthodox Easter bells echo over near-empty Jerusalem 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z

It is inexplicably imposing and modest at the same time. An architect couple designs a dream house 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

After President Trump’s first attempt to impose a travel ban, restricting people from several Middle Eastern and African countries from entering the United States, Filmatique arranged, in March, a “Banned Countries” collection. Filmatique: Where to Stream Foreign Movies You Can’t Find Elsewhere 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Late last week, a federal judge imposed a preliminary injunction on sweeping changes to the “public charge” rule proposed by the Trump administration. "They go to work, come back, and starve." Why immigrant families are avoiding food assistance 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

And the impressive choristers proved ready to follow an imposing director wherever he wanted to take them dramatically. At Salzburg Festival, Two Bold Directors Claim Their Stages 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

With fear taking hold, regulations — quite possibly over-harsh and irrational — are imposed. Beware the infectious beasts of 'The Blondes' 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

ICE was exempt from any government regulation and didn’t impose any limits on trading. Hedge fund’s wild side: The man who lost $8 billion 2013-06-01T20:30:00Z

Although the book brings them to life in ways that sometimes spill over into the supernatural, she politely rejects the label of magical realism some will impose on it. After a Long and Painful Absence, Writing Her Way Home Again 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

Council voted to impose a sales tax on congressional elections. Style Invitational Week 1109: Fictoids of Columbia — tell us some fake D.C. trivia 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

As music, and as a spectacle, it's imposing, sporadically pretty yet also claustrophobically over-orchestrated. Woodkid – review 2013-05-15T17:27:39Z

When the coronavirus shutdowns began last March, wine importers, distributors, retailers and restaurants were already reeling from the punitive tariffs the Trump administration imposed the previous October on many European foods and beverages. For the Wine World, 2021 Brings Familiar Problems 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

The powerful bass Morris Robinson made an imposing yet trustworthy Sarastro, the spiritual leader of the temple. Review: ‘Magic Flute’ Welcomes Children Back to the Met 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z

The institution, which is a school as well as an exhibition venue and membership society, moved into its imposing home in 1868. Stars of the Royal Academy in a popularity auction contest 2012-10-06T23:06:24Z

Something that could sustain them during the time of isolation and blockade that clearly was going to be imposed on them for a very long time, maybe decades. A Conductor on Why He Stayed in Russia After the Invasion Began 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

The result, Lockyer says, is a considerable pool of "highly skilled, virtuosic dancers ... interested in doing creative research, rather than just working for a choreographer that imposes technique on top of them." Seattle dancemakers claim a spot on national stage 2012-11-20T22:18:06Z

The most imposing presence in the movie isn’t an actor—it’s a vast, glossy, mirrored hall of glass and video screens in the Continental, where the final set piece is staged. “John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum,” Reviewed: Empty Fight Scenes with a Paranoiac Chill 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

The union complaint was filed under a law Congress passed in 2000 that allows the United States to impose tariffs and other trade protections if a surge in Chinese imports damages a U.S. industry. U.S. to Impose Tariff on Tires From China 2009-09-12T08:00:00Z

A federal bill to impose much stricter rules on private ownership of big cats, the Big Cat Public Safety Act, has not passed Congress. Murder, madness and tigers: behind the year's wildest Netflix series 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

Also, the school has imposed an indoor mask mandate and a 20-person limit to gatherings in dorms. Princeton student says his college experience 'basically ruined by COVID' 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

Jeffrey Wright gives a rich, imposing performance as the former “mayor” of Pendleton Correctional Facility, an Indiana prison he is about to leave after 24 years of incarceration. 17 Movies to Enjoy for the Tribeca Film Festival’s 17th Edition 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

Towering over it all is Hogwarts, a perfect reproduction of the imposing, many-spired castle where Harry and his magician friends are students. Orlando Harry Potter park: Quidditch, butterbeer 2010-06-11T15:16:00Z

He looked imposing but a doubtful “the party?” warranted entry. Boîte: Leave Rochelle Out of It, a New Lower East Side Bar 2014-04-09T20:18:32Z

Is there a problem in imposing Berg's private drama so overtly on to the performance? Alban Berg's suite for the jilted 2011-03-17T22:44:00Z

“This would impose an additional burden on the economy and place great organizational challenges on companies. Such leave should continue to be the responsibility of employers and social partners,” it said. Back to work, dad: Swiss government opposes paternity leave 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

The ravenous Mrs. Hughes, growling through a round of strip poker, imposes herself more forcefully on the narrative in five seconds than her “real” character has done in four seasons. 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Do We Really Want Anything to Change? 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

This decision, though, is a perfect example of the regulatory mess into which British TV gets by imposing old values on a new broadcasting environment. TV matters: An ad-free royal wedding 2011-04-07T07:00:02Z

The more you see this dance, the more it reveals — and the less imposing its spiritual overtones. Alvin Ailey Company Offers Asadata Dafora Work From 1932 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

Just don't impose your superstitions on me, what to me is obviously made-up. "That's where I draw the line": David Cross has words for comics who moan about cancel culture 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

I think of vision as the writer’s interpretation of reality or the interpretation he imposes upon it. This Week in Fiction: John L’Heureux on Faith and Not Fitting In 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Thanks to steel frame construction, it would already be possible to construct  a fifty-story building,  but the hydraulic technique imposed a limit of eighteen to twenty floors. The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z

In the end, though, it’s Mekas’s refusal to impose any single narrative on his work that gives it its truth. The Avant-Garde Filmmaker Who Tried to Tell the Truth 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

It’s understandable if Majok’s intention is to demystify these misfits, nor impose a tidy plot on them. Satori Group takes you into the wild 2013-03-07T04:16:08Z

He imposed his presence and personality on a work that was once the Cinderella of the of the final sonatas, but which is nowadays rightly seen as fully the equal of its two great companions. Paul Lewis – review 2012-11-14T16:17:45Z

Sigmund Freud, a prolific collector of art, believed collecting served to impose order in the world. Tech destroyed trading cards. Then tech (and the pandemic) brought the hobby back. 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

What was, in Spain, a between-meals snack became in this country a freewheeling and inventive meal without the limitations imposed by the appetizer-main course template. Small Plates Grow Up 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

Instead of imposing a narrative on passers-by, the sculpture invites, even requires, activation by viewers. Monuments That Celebrate Communal Struggles, Not Flawed Men 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

It would be hard to argue that the changes he imposes are, on paper, anything but a major improvement. What Happens After ‘Restaurant: Impossible’ Leaves Town 2012-07-10T21:00:58Z

Photograph: Mae Ryan for the Guardian This is achieved, he says, by imposing physical and psychological stress until people break, a process begun the moment they sign the waiver. Extreme haunted house: inside the real life kingdom of masochists 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

It’s the primal scene of American hard-boiled detective fiction: A private investigator, resentfully dressed up in his best suit, drives up to an old man’s imposing mansion. Bosch is back in Michael Connelly’s masterful ‘The Wrong Side of Goodbye’ 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

Built from 1867-77 by the Midland Railway Company, this imposing edifice of red brick and stone is, writes Bradley, "the grandest single monument of the Gothic Revival in Britain". St Pancras Station by Simon Bradley ? review 2011-04-08T23:06:12Z

Right after the event, images of the imposing skyscrapers were even scrubbed from already filmed scenes in several movies. Mexican soap opera takes close look at 9/11 2011-08-26T14:22:08Z

But for someone who still idealizes the nontransactional freedom of those park jam sessions, it’s a little rich to impose behavioral standards on every crowd. Critic’s Notebook: Keith Jarrett and His Trio Will Play at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-10T22:18:15Z

So the source of modern federal immigration law – which limits and regulates immigration and imposes national quotas – lies in a statute that was passed to exclude a particular racial group from the country. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

“We didn’t choose it; it was imposed war on our generation. How long do we bear this?” What does Afghanistan need? Some major rebranding, says its 32-year-old ambassador. 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

The U.S. government says the deal sends the wrong message to Russia at a time of economic sanctions imposed by Western states on Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine. World leaders gather for D-Day tribute, hope for thaw on Ukraine 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

They want to impose sharia law on us. ArtsBeat: Malian Musicians Call for Peace 2013-01-20T19:05:44Z

Even from a distance, she is an imposing presence, taller than either of the men who are helping her walk. First Up in La MaMa’s Return: Strange, Enchanting Puppetry 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Shannon is an imposing screen presence and it’s easy for him to dominate his scenes, which happens too often here. Review: ‘Frank & Lola,’ Retreading Old Ground 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Yip-Williams writes with a savage honesty about the strains her illness and treatment imposed on her children and husband. Review | ‘Live, friends. Just live,’ a writer urges us in a memoir published after her death 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

There’s gut-punch potential in that line about girls and imposed maternity, but in the context of this wan production, it merely evaporates. ‘Romeo & Juliet’ Review: Older, Gentler Star-Crossed Lovers 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z

But the most effective altered ready-made is just passing through: an imposing pre-Columbian plumed serpent’s head lent by the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Danh Vo: An Artist at the Crossroads of History and Diary 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

It would be a mistake to impose too much coherence on such a kaleidoscopic, open-ended collective portrait. ‘Futura’ Review: Youth, Italian Style 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

More refined was the baritone Marco Nisticò, too light in voice and manner for the imposing French governor, Montfort, who turns out — in a twist that makes no one happy — to be Henri’s father. Music Review: Verdi’s ‘Les Vêpres Siciliennes’: How Paris Helped Him Soar 2013-07-07T21:44:22Z

No wonder America is confused: everyone wants the American way – so long as it is not imposed by America or called American. Stars and stripes in our eyes: what's so special about the American way? 2011-03-03T11:12:56Z

But the galleries are also small enough, like the modest spaces in an urban office building or townhouse, to retain the paintings' imposing, sometimes even dramatic punch. 'Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots,' in Dallas, is exciting and enlightening 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

Jane, an aspiring producer, is just weeks into her administrative pay-your-dues assistant role at a company steered by an imposing man we never see, and only hear in occasional berating phone calls. 'It makes people uncomfortable': inside the Weinstein-inspired thriller about complicity 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

The first “obstruction” imposed by von Trier, for example, was that the film had to be made in Cuba, using shots of no more than 12 frames. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

As the Betties help one another grow past their imposed limitations, whether cultural, sexual, marital or otherwise, they are creating, even within a spoof, solidarity. Review: ‘Collective Rage’ Is ‘The Vagina Monologues’ Times 5 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

A mosaic of heavy and imposing military-style boot prints mixed with the light impressions left by sneakers. “There is no mistaking that she is dead”: Am I robbing her of her dignity to photograph her corpse? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

And yet even as they consumed high culture, they seemed to resent those who felt duty bound to impose it on them. Everyone's a critic now 2011-01-30T00:06:14Z

Is it intolerably dictatorial to impose a political litmus test on loved ones? Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

It’s an old-fashioned film, said its writer-director, a physically imposing figure who has white hair and a bristly beard. He Gave David Lynch His Start. Now, at 82, He’s a New Director. 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

It’s an artful portrait of a world that refuses the order we try to impose on it when we close ourselves off to heartache, doubt and pain. Review: In ‘The Grief of Others,’ Mourning Becomes Eclectic 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

The problem is that he doesn't impose the 'Varvakeion ideal' through the body of the film per se. God Loves Caviar serves up a hero for Greece 2012-11-20T16:17:00Z

For instance, a cattle farm in Brazil that supplies beef to a transnational retailer overseas would now be obliged to comply with emission-reduction measures imposed by that retailer. Farmers are bearing the brunt of big food companies’ decarbonization efforts — here’s why 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z

A confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West of trying to impose decadent values on other countries, saying Wurst symbolized its "ethno-fascism". U.N.'s Ban praises Conchita Wurst's gay rights fight 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

Being an African-American gay man, he says, imposes on him a responsibility to live his life “as if the world worked differently.” Exploring Afrofuturism in Film, Where Sci-Fi and Mythology Blur 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

"Age is a number that's imposed on you," she says robustly. Never a Dahl moment: Esio Trot on TV 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

The lockdown imposed on Jan. 23, 2020, was eventually extended to surrounding areas in Hubei province, confining some 56 million people to their homes. New Chinese film praises Wuhan ahead of lockdown anniversary 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

Debord's map depicts a directionless "drift" through the streets of Paris, as if to argue that the city is created through individual experience and collective memory, rather than a rigid plan imposed from above. Grand plans: how the simple planning diagram has shaped our cities 2012-11-22T15:24:06Z

That is one of the purposes of turning flesh into imposing stone. Memorial Review: Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Opens in Washington 2011-08-25T12:00:00Z

Sonny, always a powerful physically imposing man, rapidly shed powers like a snake shedding skin. Why the Irish get death right 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

Taking this device to an extreme that feels strangely novel, Mr. Krasinski imposes rigorous restrictions on his cast and crew that produce unexpectedly sensual benefits. Review: In John Krasinski’s ‘A Quiet Place,’ Silence Means Survival 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

After millennia of imposing ourselves on the landscape, this radical reversal offers a deep satisfaction. Returned to the wild: A 3,500-acre estate outside London is ruled by nature 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

He's a big man, with an imposing presence. Review: 'Dying City' illustrates the elusive nature of closure after soldier's death 2010-03-25T21:47:00Z

In the 1970s, Warhol carried his Polaroid camera around as “his date,” as he called it, a tool that enabled him to engage his subjects while imposing distance at the same time. Andy Warhol Through the Lens 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

Meantime, another Nursalim-affiliated company, Giti Tire, one of China's largest such producers, is trying to block a special duty being imposed on its exports to the U.S. Rolling Ahead 2011-03-03T23:00:00Z

If it used to be an imposing or even functional structure, it was tough to tell. Music Shows With a Brooklyn Feel, but Getting to Them Is a Hike 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

In northern Vermont in the nineteen-eighties and nineties, where I grew up in a town whose name was French but where everyone spoke English, the nearby Canadian border was not imposing. What Are Borders For? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

The imposing physicality, the menacing lyrics, the rapper gear, the don’t-mess-with-me eyes: I had expected Mr. Jackson to land somewhere between intimidating diva and serial killer. 50 Cent, Renaissance Man 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, West African nations have imposed stringent new measures to stop the spread of Ebola as two new cases emerged in Nigeria that appear to indicate a widening of the circle of those affected. Ebola outbreak: British national living in Sierra Leone tests positive for virus 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

Rather, it depends on the “nature of our institutional structures themselves and the view of reality which they impose on the human beings who are part of them.” Review | Zoe Leonard speaks straight to your soul 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

Various studies, including a long-term analysis published by Guttmacher in 2009, show that for the most part, abortion trends have not been significantly affected in areas where authorities have imposed access restrictions. It’s not just forced ultrasound: Abortion rights under assault 2012-10-21T12:00:00Z

She is a living, breathing dynamo, coming of age in the Jim Crow South, breaking out of the restrictions imposed on her. Review | In ‘Memorial Drive,’ Natasha Trethewey reclaims her mother’s life from the man who took it 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

A few hundred feet away was the immigration station, an imposing red-brick structure with limestone trim and copper-covered spires, which is now a museum. Dustin Lance Black, the Screenwriter Behind “Milk” and “When We Rise,” on Coming Out As a Gay Activist 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

The museum tells the story of Qatar, from prehistoric times to the present day, including ongoing political events such as the blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia and other neighbors. Qatar National Museum Tells a Country’s Story at Every Turn 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

This wiry aging waif feels more vulnerable than the screen Annie did, partly because she lacks Ms. Bates’s imposing physical solidity. Review: In ‘Misery,’ With Bruce Willis and Laurie Metcalf, the Ghost of Productions Past 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

She remembers her first encounter with Mr. Geisel, a tall, imposing figure with a wicked sense of humor. Dr. Seuss Book: A Discovery in a Box, and Then a Reconstruction 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

It makes you feel like you don’t belong, like you’ll never escape the torment and spiritual violence imposed on you by bad and broken theology. Why I outed a Christian star 2012-08-12T16:00:00Z

The mosque is an imposing sight but also a welcoming one; ticketed tours are available daily, in several languages, at the entrance. What to Do in Casablanca 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

He remains well-loved by the company’s audience for his rich, warm voice, his imposing characterizations — and commanding height — and his relish for the words he sings. Bryn Terfel Returns to the Metropolitan Opera. (Sort Of.) 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

Congress imposed military rule throughout the South to create new civilian governments that protected black voting rights and ratified the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing citizenship to anyone born in the United States. The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Some show their eventual shape will be imposing; others are much smaller in scale. Public art: What is it for? 2012-09-18T02:15:48Z

The enormous paintings of Pope Pius VII, Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher and Charles, Archduke of Austria, can usually be seen hanging in the imposing Waterloo Chamber, which was created for them. National Portrait Gallery shines light on forgotten artist Thomas Lawrence 2010-08-04T18:38:00Z

A brilliant colorist, he became known for emancipating his paintings from the flat rectilinearity imposed by wood stretchers. Sam Gilliam, Abstract Artist of Drape Paintings, Dies at 88 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

It's there for a reason; it's not just imposing it. Peter Pan's Neverland could become forever-land 2011-08-02T15:07:03Z

It allows both to reach their potential without limits being imposed on how they think or what they can be when they grow up. A feminist's guide to raising boys 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

As the number of daily COVID-19 cases and deaths decreases the government is relaxing lockdown restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the virus. Rome's coronavirus-hit Raphael exhibition to reopen in June 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

“Once we impose any kind of control over it, it’s no longer free.” Who Can Play the King? Representation Questions Fuel Casting Debates. 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

Caputo imposes a shot quota – a number of demerits each guard has to impose on inmates each day. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: All They're Missing Is a Black Market Etsy 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

What everyone I talked to agreed on though, is that the United States government isn’t doing enough, even as the Canadians impose limits on whale watching in their waters. Loneliness and Its Antidote on Orcas Island 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

The Farm Burger, juicy and imposing, comes topped with ham, thick bacon, and a free-range egg, all sourced in Tennessee. Nashville's New Flavor 2012-11-15T22:20:04.597Z

Abbott often rails about the “overreach” of the federal government, claiming it continually usurps states’ rights by imposing burdensome, sweeping regulations. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

At the time, the Taliban were in power in the strategic valley after they took control over the region and imposed strict Islamic rules, including their opposition to women's education. Pakistan's Malala: idol to the world, outcast at home 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

But after two of her young cousins — brothers — killed themselves, she felt she could no longer avoid writing about the impact of imposed inferiority, she said. Her Culture Was Suppressed for Centuries. Now It Powers Her Best Seller. 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

Learning to be guided by your body also allows for flexibility and long-term sustainability, without the high likelihood of “failure” imposed by extreme external rules. High on fat, low on evidence: the problem with the keto diet 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

The kids largely disappeared with the flood as their families moved away, and locals worried about other people imposing their vision on the town. Hurricane Irene, one year later 2012-08-27T16:42:00Z

Each feels shaped by the practices of the trio rather than imposed from the outside, with a style governed by the full sweep of jazz tradition, and by hip-hop, blues and gospel besides. New From Roots, Travie McCoy, Jason Moran and Nina Nastasia 2010-06-20T23:48:00Z

In the face of ongoing hardship imposed by a society that denies them agency, and in spite of men who succeed in usurping their desires, they make choices each day about how to live. The Radical Ordinariness of Carol Shields’s Literary World 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z

She writes in detail of the rules allegedly imposed and says that she was forced to diet to near-starvation. Review | A Jeffrey Epstein accuser shares scathing allegations in a new memoir: ‘My book is my day in court’ 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

If you stay home, count yourself among the hundreds of thousands now being disenfranchised by the relentless parade of restrictions that Republicans everywhere are imposing and enforcing. What We Can All Do at This Moment Is Vote 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

He has tanned skin and a personality as imposing as his physique. Why I'd like to be ... Val Kilmer in Tombstone 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

He added that the imposing structure of his 1881 novel was laid on a “single small cornerstone, the conception of a certain young woman affronting her destiny.” 'Mrs. Osmond' takes up where Henry James' 'Portrait of a Lady' left off but falls a bit short 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

“Even so, at the reading, her talent made you forget the Scarlett Johansson brand that the movie industry has imposed on her.” Scarlett Johansson in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ 2012-12-19T19:23:30Z

But on a recent Thursday, Dieudonné, charismatic and imposing with big rings and full beard, said he didn’t care. Dieudonné, French Comic Behind ‘The Anti-Semite’ 2012-06-24T01:27:16Z

As well as imposing a clear division where none exists, Mr Osborne airbrushed much that is clear. George Osborne: paying the price of failure 2013-04-02T20:46:29Z

Reminiscent of the shape of Kaaba, the sacred Muslim site in Mecca, the piece is at first glance an imposing minimalist construct. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Going His Own Way, a Pakistani Artist Arrives 2010-10-13T13:00:00Z

But, if this sin of omission exists, the charitable explanation would be that the subject imposes a double penance on schedulers. House of cardinals: why is TV so obsessed with Catholicism? 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

The risks you take now, you impose on everyone around you. Dan Savage has been dishing out sex and love advice for 30 years. Some questions still surprise him. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

The women form ChimaTEK, a company whose products transform customers, enabling them to transcend ordinary limits, including those imposed by racism, ethnocentrism and sexism. Saya Woolfalk: ‘ChimaTEK: Hybridity Visualization System’ 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

The red uniforms stood out brightly against the fake wood paneling of the wall, as did the shock of thick white hair on the most imposing man on the poster: coach Bob Knight. "Hoosiers" and Indiana basketball made me believe 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

Mason portrays the imposing matriarch, Fanny Farrelly, a diplomat’s wife who, along with her son, is hosting not only her daughter’s family, but also a Romanian count, working with the Germans. Marsha Mason, still putting the pedal to the metal 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

They tell us, with the reductionism of hindsight, that this inheritance was “a burdensome responsibility imposed on Brahms by the musical intelligentsia of his day.” Music Review: Similar Tradition, but Translation Required 2011-03-01T22:00:11Z

These rules were imposed by the state attorney general in 1972, after an investigation into the museum’s sale of pieces from its modern art collection to help finance the purchase of Velázquez’s “Juan de Pareja.” The Permanent Collection May Not Be So Permanent 2011-01-26T22:59:45Z

Farhadi, who looks older than his 39 years, with his sparse hair and goatee, says that his film-making choices were not entirely governed by imposed limitations. A Separation's Asghar Farhadi: 'We need the audience to think' 2011-07-15T15:54:42Z

The imposing skyscrapers of Caracas are a testament to decades of oil wealth, adding to the sense of bewilderment now at barren shelves and near-worthless bundles of cash. Venezuelans find solace in comedy amid economic travails 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

“He’s almost imposing it onto the venue and the audience as opposed to us as a venue or as a festival creating a context for an artist.” For This Choreographer, One Size Does Not Fit All 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

In its sheer mass and multiplicity, her endless stuffed art holds a mirror up to the frantic state of buying imposed by our consumer culture — and by today’s art culture as well. A ‘Fauxdega’ Where the Real Ones Have Been Priced Out 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

This is not the institution you thought you knew for its Beaux-Arts mansion, imposing research library and elegant botanical gardens, including one inspired by Suzhou, China. The Huntington Gets Hip 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

In between, it recreates how Boenish fostered the sport in its early days, filming jumps he and companions made off places like El Capitan, the imposing rock formation in Yosemite National Park. Review: ‘Sunshine Superman,’ About the High-Flying Daredevil Carl Boenish 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Raemond Martin, singing with an insinuating, hooded baritone, was an imposing presence as Scarpia, all the more menacing for his reserve. Music Review: ‘Tosca,’ With New York Grand Opera, in Central Park 2012-06-28T21:08:27Z

Overhead an imposing grid of lights shifts its angle, seeming like nothing more than a spaceship coming for its cargo. Dance Review: John Jasperse?s ?Canyon? at Brooklyn Academy of Music - Review 2011-11-17T22:18:12Z

Mr. Wampach emerged for the first work, “Auto,” in a long blond wig, imposing black heels and a plunge-top black dress that showed off his luscious back and arm muscles. David Wampach in Queer New York Festival at Abrons Center 2012-06-13T21:19:11Z

Biographical sketches of major figures are imposing: José Martí, a supporter of Cuban independence, came to the city in 1880 and worked as a journalist, while establishing New York’s Spanish-American Literary Society and writing poetry. Exhibition Review: Looking South, Not East, Into New York?s Past 2010-09-16T22:55:00Z

But Obama’s vivid description of her and her husband’s working class backgrounds didn’t emphasize the external limitations imposed on their parents’ success. The Evolution of Michelle Obama, Convention Speaker 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

The penalties that took effect Sunday impose fines ranging from $500 to $1,000 for unauthorized use of placards, plus towing and storage costs. New crackdown on disabled-parking misuse 2012-01-31T17:30:00Z

He was taller than I expected, more imposing, and he radiated something that I didn’t expect at all. Obama as folk hero: To be what he’s trying to be — black, idealistic and president — is nothing less than superhuman 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z

Critics of the industry dismiss hype as a kind of brainwashing imposed from above, but hype only works if the excitement is widely and genuinely shared. Daft Punk's retro album Random Access Memories gets Shard debut 2013-05-14T16:12:38Z

Most of the original castle was destroyed in the English Civil War, but you can still get a sense of how imposing, drafty and unpleasant it must have been in its day. In Search of Oxford 2014-03-21T16:22:35Z

A film director has “a gut which imposes itself through an inadequate tuxedo like somebody mooning through a gap in curtains.” Newly Released Books 2011-05-18T22:35:53Z

It allows collectors to sidestep the 17% value-added tax imposed on art and the customs duty on works brought into the country. Shanghai is racing to become China’s cultural capital 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

The resulting work in progress is “Earth Poetica,” an imposing sphere four meters in diameter, made up of metal-framed panels and an inner skeleton of bamboo segments filled with plastic. Israeli Artist Turns Plastic Pollution Into ‘Earth Poetica’ 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z

Registering as a sex offender automatically imposes scores of restrictions on convicts’ lives, which is essentially why most people favor them. It’s a sex crime not to report a change of address 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

On big citrus estates, limonaias would often be tall and elaborate buildings, built around imposing columns and cathedral-like as a result. The Bright Magic of Citrus in the Baking Pan 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

The mementos range from the mundane — such as a pair of white dress shoes, which came with a note reading, “She tried to impose her fashion sensibilities on me” — to the emotionally fraught. When Relationships Fail, This Museum Keeps the Stuff Left Behind 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

He wants, quite rightly in our opinion, to seriously regulate the financial sector and to stimulate economic growth rather than impose more austerity. “The Intouchables”: Racial comedy, French style 2012-05-22T20:45:00Z

Pyramids made of concrete blocks that would be imposing in a gallery are dwarfed by buildings surrounding the park and look too much like temporary piles of construction material. Critic?s Notebook: Sculptural Surprises Grace the Streets 2011-08-18T22:26:28Z

But there he was last year, at the First Lutheran Church in Boston, playing Bach’s “Clavierübung,” Part III, an imposing opus consisting of 21 chorale preludes bracketed by the glorious “St. Anne” Prelude and Fugue. Early Music Festival: NYC Opened Its Inaugural Season 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

The imposing wooden walls of Hamlet’s university become the walls of Elsinore’s palace, with not much else denoting place or atmosphere. Review | Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘Hamlet’ doesn’t sizzle, but its star does 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

I want to play with all this stuff, but I don’t think it would be fair to impose my reading of the movie on you. ‘Colossal’ director on his lifelong fascination with creature features 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

Prices reach six figures for the more imposing pieces. Antiques: Suddenly, Lalique Is Back in Vogue 2011-06-23T21:22:39Z

Back in mid-March I assumed I would spend much of my time in lockdown reading — still and always my favorite activity, ideal for an indefinite period of mandatory solitude imposed by, say, a pandemic. ‘Killing People in Fiction Was Fun’: Mysteries That Have Stood the Test of Time 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

But in early 2012 an alliance of Tuareg separatists and jihadists from Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb occupied the north and imposed sharia law. Along the Niger River, the Beat of the Sahel 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

And of course there’s the snooty sommelier who intimidates diners with an impenetrable wine list and an imposing demeanor. Perspective | When restaurant wine lists intimidate even the dining pros, something needs to change 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

The humility imposed on him by the pilgrimage survives in his new professional life. Strapping On His Cello for a 600-Mile Bach Pilgrimage 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court judge’s decision to block Everett from imposing a dress code for businesses. Bikini barista coffee shop slams city, claims it focuses more on outfits than 'drugs and our homeless' 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lamaar finds solace in the practice just the same, partly in the strength to push back against the socioculturally imposed limitations of race and class. Manifesting, for the Rest of Us 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

Hear the music and you understand why: At 54, Ms. Vaughan is in luxurious, imposing form, working with the nonchalant conviction that any possibility in a song is within her reach. CD Reissues: Van Morrison, Sarah Vaughn and More 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

On Friday, Spain imposed a 15-day state of alarm that restricted free movement except for those traveling to work, to get food or health medication or for caregiving. Join our happy thread: things that bring a smile in these hellish times 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

The closer researchers looked, the more baffling the cancer cell became, especially once they realized that the disease wasn’t something imposed from outside. Review: In ‘Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies,’ Battling an Opportunistic Killer 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

"Migration" marked his debut as a leader, and the album's cast couldn't be more imposing. Drummer Antonio Sanchez's group Migration makes Seattle debut at Jazz Alley 2010-03-29T04:01:00Z

Photograph: Matt Squire/BBC/Red Productions He strides across the polished tiled floor, past imposing columns and heavy, intricately carved doors. Christopher Eccleston: from superheroes to Sophocles 2012-06-27T16:58:42Z

And when that happens, it’s always the power-mad, the manipulative, the greedy, the delusional who bid highest, who swarm into the vacuum, who impose their own self-serving reality on everyone else. Review | You’ve probably never heard of these artists, but they painted reality in a way we’ve lost sight of 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

The title was inspired by a William Blake line, "And all the hills echoed," with "hills" changed to "mountains" to suit Afghanistan's imposing terrain. Hosseini discusses new novel at NYC reading 2013-05-22T06:54:09Z

The founding fathers weren’t trying to impose religion on America. Forget the theocracy, North Carolina 2013-04-03T19:57:00Z

Minsk has imposed no ban on imports from the EU and has a customs union agreement with Moscow, which means products can be brought into Belarus legally and shipped to Russia with no border checks. 'Parmigiano-Belarussiano' and other secrets of Russian chefs under food ban 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

As the Mistress, Elizabeth Debicki is a flouncing yet imposing presence. The Maids - review 2013-06-09T03:47:23Z

William Wordsworth once wrote that he liked the sonnet because he was happy with the formal limits it imposed. Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day 2012-02-10T22:52:01Z

The surgery’s inclusion can be taken as evidence of Wiseman’s broad curiosity and of his sly sense of humor, a warning to anyone who would try to impose a unifying interpretation on the film. Review: ‘Monrovia, Indiana’ Is a Sharp, Lyrical Look at Small-Town America 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Charles Durning may not have been a household name, but with his pugnacious features and imposing bulk he was a familiar presence in American movies, television and theater, even if often overshadowed by the headliners. Charles Durning, Prolific Character Actor, Dies at 89 2012-12-25T09:19:03Z

Now 27, Ms. Shawkat never fell prey to the homogeneous beauty standards imposed by the industry, and she is comfortable with her own curly-haired hipster look. Alia Shawkat Owns Her Curly-Haired Cool 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

When restrictions were imposed last year, “I had extrovert friends who were just losing their minds,” says Sólo. Meet the introverts who are dreading a return to normal 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

The characters are all as desolate as the land, and Bana cuts an imposing figure as he observes the townsfolk, deducing their secrets that could incriminate them. "The Dry" is a desolate, engrossing mystery in which everyone – even Eric Bona – is guilty 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

And in the Middle East, rampaging Islamists are committing mass murder to impose a caliphate run according to the rules of the Koran. A bit of a mess 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

As he and his cohorts started to make music, they imposed an impressive discipline on themselves, doing two or three years of woodshedding at DJ Muggs’s home before seeking out a recording deal. ‘Cypress Hill: Insane in the Brain’ Review: Influential Rappers, Still Smokin’ 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

In other cases the drive to sanitize comes from the left, eager to impose its own multicultural, feminist worldviews and worried about offending religious or ethnic groups. Critic?s Notebook: Light Out, Huck, They Still Want to Sivilize You 2011-01-06T23:26:12Z

But it “imposes artificial time pressure,” he said, especially given that some tasks require more than 25 minutes. Set a tomato timer? Eat a frog? Be like Ike? Comparing 5 common productivity systems. 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z

The piece’s character suffered as Ms. Wang imposed her own rhythmic style. Osmo Vanska Conducts the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

He did occasionally contemplate the role of government, as when he wrote, “The State should forbid no religion, impose no religion, teach no religion, pay no religion.” Secularists are not atheists 2012-09-09T16:00:00Z

In the past, Mr. Franzen tended to impose a seemingly cynical, mechanistic view of the world on his characters, threatening to turn them into authorial pawns subject to simple Freudian-Darwinian imperatives. Books of The Times: Jonathan Franzen?s ?Freedom? Follows Family?s Quest 2010-08-15T21:30:00Z

Perhaps it takes such a physically imposing production to impress on us how we’re all part of that unbearable big picture. Review: ‘Judgment Day,’ an Allegory of Blame, Goes Big 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

The youngest Colantuono brother, Franco, tall and imposing in a dark cowboy hat, rode a sleek black horse in front, flanked by two teenage nieces, wearing cowboy hats, neckerchiefs and red-checked shirts. ‘Oh-Oh, Ay-Ay!’ Riding to an Italian Rhythm on the Transumanza 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

HBO's experience is a vivid illustration of how new ways of watching television are imposing difficulties on people whose job it is to pin down how many people actually experience something. HBO's 'Game of Thrones' may -- or may not -- have recorded its most-watched episode ever this week 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

But no ban was imposed, at least in recent decades. Opera News Will Stop Reviewing Metropolitan Opera 2012-05-22T03:06:11Z

And like Christopher, we are all continually trying to impose internal symmetry on the bewildering world outside. 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' Opens on Broadway 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

Prices are often a bargain, but what happens to both the price and availability - avocados? - if the executive branch wants another distraction and decides to impose tarriffs? Most of America’s Fruit Is Now Imported. Is That a Bad Thing? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

“This is the model by which high-income countries think they know everything and tend to impose it on others,” he said. UK and US 'must learn from poor countries' to solve ageing crisis 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

She doesn't want to impose an arranged marriage on every young woman in the kingdom. Brave by name, bland by nature 2012-08-20T10:03:02Z

He agrees that in choosing an Egyptian subject, Verdi was ascribing to orientalist notions of "using the east as a way of examining ourselves or imposing our values on those cultures." David McVicar's Aida: the sound and the fury 2010-04-01T21:15:00Z

The imposing shadow of Beethoven the monumental symphonist meant nothing to Chopin. Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Encyclopedias, being time sensitive, are the most ephemeral of imposing objects. ‘American Cornball: A Laffopedic Guide to the Formerly Funny,’ by Christopher Miller 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

“The committee is also studying the costs and trade-offs that may come with imposing any new accessibility standards.” Smaller Bathrooms on Planes Pose Challenges for Passengers 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

The resentments that boil over in the play reflect some of the distorted priorities that white standards for physical perfection have imposed on the rest of the world. Review | Mean girls are at home in Ghana, too 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Attention is continually divided between the imposed narrative and the truth of individual moments. ‘The Uprising,’ a Masterpiece of iPhone Cinema 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

This is an argument that can be imposed on to any topic – Germany, the countryside, boating. Scenes in the life of a liberal Jew | Eva Wiseman 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

They were a local, social, human-scaled landscape, removed in favor of imposing a national vision of grandeur, progress and rationality. Is architect Bjarke Ingels’s bold remake of the Smithsonian Castle grounds mere folly?

And though it hasn’t been easy or perfect, I haven’t raised my kids within the church to impose upon them an obligation. My uneasy Catholic motherhood 2013-05-26T20:30:00Z

Get a glimpse of the imposing La Moneda presidential palace a few blocks over. A savvier Santiago puts itself on travel map 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Pointed discussions of race and class erupt as often as testy personality clashes in Ms. Diamond’s play, set in an imposing manse on Martha’s Vineyard over a few fractious summer days. | 'Stick Fly': ?Stick Fly? at the Cort Theater - Review 2011-12-09T03:01:07Z

She acted older, bolder and more assertive, pushing all limits that anyone dared impose. A brother’s mourning clothes: I wanted a uniform of grief 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

It is also an affirmation of an Afrikaner identity that spent years in the doghouse after 1994 elections and the end of apartheid, the system of white minority rule imposed by Afrikaner nationalists in 1948. South African musical creates a 1950s fantasy 2013-01-11T13:01:05Z

So it will be interesting to see what happens when that structure tries to impose itself. 'Evan Hansen,' 'Great Comet,' 'Come From Away': Tony contenders gather to hash it out 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

The group’s discography can seem imposing if you’re not familiar with all of its twists and turns, and don’t have anyone to guide you through it. The Brilliance of Blur 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Onuf arrived wearing a Jefferson-themed tie, which seems appropriate for a scholar who holds the imposing title of Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation professor emeritus at the University of Virginia. Thomas Jefferson, Neither God Nor Devil 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

Labeling Mr. Daoud an apostate and “an enemy of religion,” he called on the Algerian state to impose a public execution of Mr. Daoud for the “war he is leading against God and the prophet.” An Algerian Author Fights Back Against a Fatwa 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

The Consumer Review Freedom Act, being considered by Congress, would void any contract that prohibits, restricts or imposes a penalty on customers who write a review. Write a negative online review and get sued? It can happen, but maybe not for long. 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

We intended to make the best drama we could while living up to a historical standard that we imposed upon ourselves, and that the History Channel imposed upon us as well. ArtsBeat: Camelot Revisited: The Creators of 'The Kennedys' Speak Out 2011-03-24T14:07:03Z

“The historical lens that’s playfully imposed throws into relief the unresolved nature of these still boisterous conflicts.” Essential Arts & Culture: What L.A. loses if we lose the NEA; starchitecture in Hamburg; Kerry James Marshall at MOCA 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

He's imposing, rolls out a delicious Southern drawl and looks generally shady. "Murdaugh Murders: The Movie" trailer: Hear Bill Pullman's Southern drawl as the infamous patriarch 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z

But unlike Israel’s so-called ‘anti-photoshop’ law, French legislation that takes effect this month imposes fines and jail sentences on those who fail to comply. Israel targets fashion industry over underweight models 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

He slipped so effortlessly out of the character for which he was known into such a different one that it was as if he was imposing amnesia on the audience. Departing Showtime boss out-HBOed HBO 2010-06-28T05:24:00Z

This is Mr. Vanska’s first official appearance with the orchestra since September 2012, just before management imposed a lockout of the players for their failure to agree to a draconian new contract. Minnesota Orchestra Conductor Returns ... For Now 2014-03-26T19:00:02Z

As the choir of the Patriarchate in the imposing new Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi, however, the choristers sing in a more Westernized classical style. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z

“These bills appear designed to chill academic and educational discussions and impose government dictates on teaching and learning,” the report says. Bans on Critical Race Theory Threaten Free Speech, Advocacy Group Says 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

There's no sense of the first violin dominating or imposing her ideas on her colleagues; everyone contributes, so that every line seems freshly imagined. Mozart: String Quintets ? review 2010-12-23T22:00:00Z

What surprised him was that the exemption process also included the local ANC, which could impose stipulations to lessen the impact of a fast-food operation. Restaurateurs enraged as D.C. bars some fast-casual eateries 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

Kingsley, standing next to him, is taller and a good deal more imposing, at least until you notice that his arm is in a sling. In Chicago, an ambitious biennial for architecture banishes the stars and anoints a new generation 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

To pay for the bill, Republicans shun Obama's proposal to impose a surtax on millionaires. House approves payroll tax cut extension 2011-12-13T23:49:00Z

The Elbphilharmonie, which opened here in January, is the world’s most imposing concert hall. What does this critic hear at the new Elbphilharmonie concert hall? The sound of the future 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

Were we inappropriately imposing our Oprah-style enthusiasm about the healing power of truth onto a culture that didn’t accept or even want it? Modern Love: Untying a Birth Mother’s Hands - Modern Love 2012-08-02T20:18:22Z

Attempting to impose meaning on the conflict's senseless sprawl, Bartle fastens on a promise inadvertently given to the mother of his friend Murph – younger, softer, less robust – that he would "bring him home". Kevin Powers on The Yellow Birds: 'I felt those things, and asked the same questions' 2012-11-13T17:00:04Z

The novel showed me the distinction between understanding others and imposing my views on them, and the transformative power of empathy. How ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Changed Their Lives 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Jews within Venice therefore found a secure place to live despite the restrictions imposed on them, and were soon joined by others fleeing persecution in central Europe. 500 years of the Venetian ghetto: commemoration and history 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

However naive the dramaturgy or child-like the humour, Vick respects it and never tries to impose an extra veneer of sophistication. Mittwoch aus Licht 2012-08-23T00:44:22Z

“Only the terror imposed by the government on the people.” Review: ‘Closer to the Moon’ Recounts a Bizarre Bit of Romanian History 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

No dogmas were imposed, there was a total freedom. Can Foster and Acosta rescue Cuba's lost temple to ballet? 2012-11-25T00:05:43Z

Bringing together the Holocaust and Alzheimer’s – in a thriller! – has every potential for a car crash of contentiousness, but Egoyan carries it off with compelling grace, and Plummer’s affecting, imposing performance provides an authoritative centre. Venice film festival – plenty of punch to disturb the peace 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

A potato bun with a hefty hamburger patty sandwiched between two halves typically imposes a one hamburger cap per person, and who wants to be limited like that? Sourdough baps are the ultimate burger buns (yes, we said it!) 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

The bitterest legacy of all was the harsh peace imposed on the losers, which all but guaranteed that a resurgent Germany would one day seek revenge. Narrative history of WWI focuses on war resisters 2011-05-02T11:11:09Z

Butler and Miles are accused of imposing the discipline and Hendershott is accused of knowing about it but not stopping it, the newspaper reported. Ex-jail employees charged for playing ‘Baby Shark’ on repeat 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

No matter how intelligent a person might be, certain political issues require life experience; they’re much more complicated than the black and white frames imposed by partisan America. I was a right-wing child star 2012-07-08T12:00:00Z

Sure, many other folk will impose their notion that Chinese food should be inexpensive, but why reinforce that notion here? Imagination Worth the Added Price at Midtown’s La Chine 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

So a couple of months, I guess, into the process of writing, I found that I was looking at a few pages and trying to impose that kind of style on it. Johnny Marr returns: “I was an 18-year-old guitar player … I wanted to be modern” 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z

The Hardest Working Man in Show Business can be a terrifying employer, imposing his will on subordinates and the women he sometimes abuses. REVIEW: 'Get On Up' Is a Loud, Proud and Oscar-Worthy James Brown Biopic 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy described it as “unprecedented” for the federal government to impose an “affirmative duty” on people to buy a product. Justices signal trouble for healthcare law 2012-03-27T17:10:00Z

His foundation continued as a patron until last year, when sanctions were imposed on him and his company, and the Justice Department told the park’s caretakers to stop taking his money. Oligarchs, as U.S. Arts Patrons, Present a Softer Image of Russia 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

Pelosi brought her caucus together, imposed a limit on how long she would serve as speaker, and rewarded new members with plum assignments. ‘Makes going to work look easy’: Decades before she was House speaker, Nancy Pelosi had an even harder job 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

One summer, in my early teens, while visiting my grandparents, my imposing grandfather with a round belly and stern face hired a doctor to figure out why I was so fat, maybe a size 10. I was born in Iran, and misogyny pushed me away from my culture. Now I have hope for Iranian girls 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

It felt imposing and luscious all at once, almost nurturing in its complete shell of protection. | Self Edge: Jeans Made to Be Tough Enough for the Demanding 2010-04-13T22:37:00Z

It’s all very well, she says, to impose a 9-5 norm across the board, but we can’t expect people who work in construction or on the land to work in the heat of the afternoon. Siesta no more? Why Spanish sleeping habits are under strain 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

Take a note from all those clever Crufts trainers and impose a totally unemotional reward-based system where good behaviour gains her access and treats while bad behaviour sees communication curtailed. My mother-in-law should apologise to me | Mariella Frostrup 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

His parents grew up on Palm Island – a place where curfews were imposed, and where segregation thrived. Aboriginal humour: 'the flip side of tragedy is comedy' 2013-06-19T01:08:50Z

She later finds herself rejecting the Christianity imposed on her by her pious mother and being drawn to the life she once knew. Shining a Light on Black and Brown Representation in Film 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

Kahn’s design, with imposing tetrahedral ceilings, remains controversial as an art setting. Art Review: Yale University Art Gallery Reopens After Renovations 2012-12-13T23:11:46Z

The boundless array of restrictions imposed on women over the centuries has included a ban on their singing polyphonic music in the Middle Ages. Music Review: Anonymous 4 at Corpus Christi Church - Review 2011-10-25T22:00:50Z

One night at Limelight, the former church that became a famous dance club — now defunct — he paused before painting on the imposing red Gothic revival door. The Return of the Shadowman 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Lincoln Center used to look and feel like a citadel of culture, with imposing concert halls and opera houses buttressed by travertine walls and columns. Critic?s Notebook: A Citadel of Culture Shows a Friendlier Face 2010-12-31T22:50:05Z

She wrestled with contemporary questions of feminism and colonialism without imposing them on the values of Homeric Greece. New & Noteworthy 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

Their furniture, with dynamic diagonal supports and imposing scale, had “the presence of small buildings, complete with gables, balustrades, capitals, columns and doors,” Ms. Veith and Ms. Harvey write. 5 Design Books That Are Easy on the Eyes 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

It’s symbolic of something right-wingers so often love to do: entirely ignore the will of the people and impose an agenda on them that has nothing to do with what they actually asked for. Punk rock made me a lefty 2012-08-24T15:13:00Z

Now state lawmakers are thinking about imposing a $5 skin tax to get into strip clubs. Illinois strip clubs could face $5 'skin tax' 2012-02-16T11:00:00Z

However much there is, impose a weekly limit on how much of the rest can be eaten ... Keeping Britain Alive: the NHS in a Day; The Great British Bake Off Easter Masterclass – TV review 2013-03-27T07:00:21Z

This new movement ballyhoos instances of liberal students’ and deans’ imposing outlandish, censorious strictures to stop other students – often young white men — even from saying things and making gestures that might make others “uncomfortable.” The coddling of the conservative mind 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

That we are not strong enough to impose our thinking. | Miuccia Prada’s Circle of Influence 2013-05-27T13:00:48Z

His achievement was to show how a work of art, unlike a cobbler’s boot, is not just the product of manual dexterity but of a singular personality that imposes its own sensibility and rules. How Giorgio Vasari Invented Art History as We Know It 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

A top-hatted spirit of death in Haitian Voodoo culture, the character made full use of the actor's imposing physique and physical dexterity. Bond villain Geoffrey Holder dies 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

I am not attacking the works themselves — through my performances I criticize the interpretation imposed by the institutions which present them. Deborah de Robertis: Shocking for a Purpose 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Increasingly, it seemed Turnage's idea of hope is embodied in the writing and performing of music, rather than in any external programme or narrative imposed upon it. LSO/Harding – review 2013-02-08T12:46:35Z

But gradually patterns emerge, the actors impose themselves on the material, and the elegant simplicity of Supple's production takes effect. One Thousand and One Nights ? review 2011-08-22T12:34:36Z

But in a show organized along national lines, the decision to devote an entire pavilion to people whose identity transcends the territorial boundaries long imposed on them makes a strong political statement. At Venice Biennale, a ‘Different Notion of Nation’ 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z

It is difficult to imagine how the government would impose the stricter travel measures. Perspective | Evolving restrictions have travelers on edge 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

When the Crucible staged Benefactors and Copenhagen together, you began to understand how all of Frayn's characters wrestle with the problem of seeking to impose structure on an intractable universe. Michael Billington on playwrights' seasons 2012-11-11T18:30:01Z

I headed southeast to the snow-covered coast, skirting imposing mountains to arrive at a guesthouse called Vellir, on Route 219 off the main highway, where I planned to spend the night. Frugal Traveler Blog: Iceland in Winter Means Deals and Fewer Crowds 2011-12-27T17:53:47Z

Working with his set design team, he filled the huge Met stage with an imposing wall: a movable, three-tiered thing with doors and windows. Peter Gelb?s Tenure at Metropolitan Opera 2011-11-25T15:13:27Z

This may be because many of the other countries that impose the death penalty, like China, Iran and Saudi Arabia, do not have news media free enough to report the details of executions. Last Meals on Death Row, a Peculiarly American Fascination 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

Examples of this are Strassera's professional past as federal prosecutor during the dictatorship, when he didn't confront the military's abuses in several cases, and the surveillance he imposes on his daughter. Democracies don’t bounce back post-dictatorship. "Argentina, 1985" shows how justice looks afterward 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z

The imposing “Gateways” incorporates Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths, while the smaller “Dancers” features poetry by Rumi, the 13th-century Islamic Sufi mystic. Review | In the galleries: A wide array of media carry election-year messages 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

Sadly, the film's costume department appears to have imposed a 1950s sense of propriety on the actors. Beau Brummell: friends without benefits 2012-10-05T13:12:00Z

Its purposely “detuned” sound darts out from behind the imposing edifice of Wang’s playing in the concerto’s first section, just after six minutes and 45 seconds have passed. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

Governments can rally nationalist fervor through homophobia; accusations against the European Union for imposing “homosexual dictatorship” are central to right-wing rhetoric in the Ukraine and other former Soviet states. Queer rights are human rights: Fighting for freedom is polarizing the world 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Liszt's fiendish transcription of Isolde's Liebestod, no less, was the imposing encore. Igor Levit – review 2013-04-03T17:47:45Z

Trump unilaterally abandoned the agreement negotiated by the Obama administration and imposed economic sanctions, leaving European powers struggling to maintain it. The TV pundits are talking about the prospects for war with Iran, and it sounds a lot like 2003 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z

Their park, completed in 1994, is now almost universally hated, criticized for redoubling the square's sense of isolation and replacing grass and trees with imposing walls and towers in purple, orange and bright yellow. Two downtown L.A. parks and the tricky task of designing them to best serve the city 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

When I arrived, Isakson — who, by the way, was a multimillionaire real estate executive in addition to being a senator — seemed almost apologetic, as if he were imposing on a friend for the ride. Perspective | Johnny Isakson was a truly likable politician. That’s rare. 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

“I am also very opposed to excessive ‘girl’ stuff being imposed on girls, especially when it is their parents’ projection,” Dye said. High heels for babies are a thing: Should the first steps into sexualization happen before girls can even walk? 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

As Mr Smee makes clear, the strain of creativity imposed almost unbearable pressures on those involved. Creative tensions 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

“It gladdened the hearts of the management to observe the imposing throngs at the doors of the Music Hall for its initial performance as a cinema,” Mordaunt Hall wrote in The Times in 1933. On Video: Buster Keaton’s Talkie ‘Free and Easy’ Comes to DVD 2014-03-23T19:49:40Z

In addition a number of communities, including African-Americans and Hasidic Jews, see fur as an important part of their cultural heritage, one on which lawmakers should not be permitted to impose their own voter-pandering morality. The California Fur Ban and What It Means for You 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

“They are getting happiness more but I think we need to understand that politicians imposed failed reckless austerity, which broke down social ties even more.” I thought I had hit the age of peak happiness. How wrong I was 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

He playfully forces his band to do solos again and again, first faster, then slower, like a circus ringleader, but he almost never imposes directives on his audience. Yanni Is Still Chilling, 25 Years After the Acropolis 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

Frances Flannery: The danger is that when politicians cherry-pick from the Bible without understanding that there are other interpretations, they in effect take their faith position and impose it on everyone else. Faith in ignorance: Politicians who quote the Bible often don’t know anything about the Bible 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

Seven states, including Florida, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Utah, passed laws last year that impose limits on material in libraries, according to analysis done by EveryLibrary, a political action committee for libraries. Book Bans Rising Rapidly in the U.S., Free Speech Groups Find 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

Newcastle crown court is an imposing red sandstone building that dominates the quay by the river Tyne, fronted by pillars and a wall of tinted windows. 'It's always high drama. It's somebody's life at stake': inside British rape trials 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

These imposing images appear at first to be purely geological, but further study finds them hallucinatorily animated. Art Review: Llyn Foulkes Retrospective Opens at the New Museum 2013-06-20T23:05:46Z

He contrasts this with today’s liberal international order of multilateral institutions backed by American power, which he derides as an “imperialist” project that will inevitably seek to impose its will on all of humanity. Modern Political Ideas 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Instead we chose four themes that might impose an order on the material: belief, family, crime and the dark side of pleasure. 'I was definitely a bit of a tool': Louis Theroux on 25 years of documentary-making 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

Romney focused on the $1.6 million that Gingrich's firm received from , the federal mortgage guarantor that many blame for the housing crisis that ravaged the nation’s economy and imposed outsized pain on Florida. Romney's triumph doesn't deter GOP rivals 2012-02-01T12:36:00Z

“The current initiatives have been imposed on Africa from European and North American people who are not engaged in the daily labor of cocoa farming,” she said. Everything You Need to Know About Chocolate 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

Between 221 BC and his death in 210 BC he imposed the Qin penal code, created a single currency, standardized weights and measures and imposed a single written language and bureaucracy in China. China's terracotta warriors march to Liverpool museum 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

It is an untranslatable and often imposing term for a very basic idea: that agricultural products are shaped by the soil, climate and culture where they are grown. Can Liquor Have a Local Taste? They’re Banking on It 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

Jahangir Kothari Parade promenade, once an imposing British heritage site, is now obscured by a maze of overpasses and the shadow of Pakistan’s tallest building. Pakistan's crumbling architectural heritage 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Rather than imposing some sense of order on the movement, Mr. Gatti lavished expressive beauty and majestic restraint on the music. Review: Concertgebouw Orchestra Shows Off Its Legacy at Carnegie 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

In particular, the modern right defines itself against the cultural elites who supposedly cluster on the coasts and conspire to impose their values on an unsuspecting public. Are the Movies Liberal? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

The wiry Weller is a more compact Eddie than we normally see; a hulking Mark Strong played him on Broadway as a far more physically imposing man. The 1955 play topical as ever: ‘View From the Bridge’ revival storms into D.C. 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

Barbara Bush eloquently describes the aura in a building rich in imposing artifacts. Review: ‘The White House: Inside Story’ on PBS 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

The Hubble pictures are all in black and white; colors are imposed to approximate hues suggested by frequency data. Exhibition Review: ?Beyond,? the Solar System at Air and Space Museum 2010-07-28T22:01:00Z

But Picasso, though long gone from her life and by then long dead, nevertheless remained an imposing and, as a giant of 20th-century art, overshadowing presence. Françoise Gilot, Artist in the Shadow of Picasso, Is Dead at 101 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

What is stopping someone from creating hundreds of Bitcoin accounts and voting to impose a bogus “consensus” on the state of the database? Is Blockchain Technology Overhyped? 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Womad submitted a revised proposal for policing by the imposed deadline. Police challenge Womad's licence 2012-06-21T16:20:33Z

Pulled from ledgers, maps and other correspondence, this is a chronicle of beleaguered officials’ attempts to impose some structure and economy on the royal household. 3 Books That Take Us Inside the Lives of Britain’s Royals 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Radio formats sometimes impose themselves on the music. Genre busting: the origin of music categories 2011-08-25T21:04:01Z

In conversation, Mr. Brown is as soft-spoken and introspective as he is imposing on the stage. Clifton Brown, an Alvin Ailey Favorite, Returns to the Fold 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

The arts cuts, he argues, are regrettable but inevitable, given the harshness of the general reductions in funding imposed by central government. Newcastle council leader: arts cuts are inevitable result of coalition policy 2013-01-08T12:30:01Z

Sensible financial management is another: the city has balanced its budget since Congress imposed a Financial Control Board from 1995 to 2001 to stop the rot. A tour of a changing capital 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Its photographic element, its sense of style, emerges from her experience and her perception, rather than being imposed from outside. “Cassandro, the Exotico!,” Reviewed: An Intimate Portrait of a Lucha-Libre Star 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

The photographs remind us, repeatedly, that the racial delineations imposed by society are often arbitrary and flimsy, always fraught. An Artist’s Costumed Alter Egos Cross Racial Lines 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, band members are on guard against being forced into a specific genre, something the music industry sometimes imposes on rising artists. Chicago News Cooperative: Kids These Days: A Group With a Sound if Not a Genre 2011-07-31T02:45:26Z

That is to say, 4.2 people that I can call out of the blue and not feel like I’m absolutely imposing on their time. You’re not alone in feeling alone: Why it’s so hard for adults to make friends 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z

In Sierra Leone, a new amendment to the country's health act was passed, imposing jail time of up to two years for those caught hiding Ebola patients. Ebola outbreak: British national living in Sierra Leone tests positive for virus 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

He and Mr. Maltman were part of the Salzburg run in 2008, and Mr. Guth’s production was clearly envisioned with their imposing physiques and charming connection in mind. Music Review: ‘Don Giovanni,’ Staged by Claus Guth at Staatsoper in Berlin 2012-07-08T19:24:24Z

Mia is enchanted by the imposing statues that depict her as a king, complete with beard. Our big exotic sleepover: a single-parent tour of Egypt 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Fujikura imposed order as well, ending his score with a long, shapely flute solo for Ms. Chase. Music Review: International Contemporary Ensemble at Le Poisson Rouge 2010-04-28T22:13:00Z

He also synthesized forms from the deeper past — the imposing split skirt of the 18th-century robe à la française, several kinds of bustles, army greatcoats — but his best garments exude an undeniable modernity. Art Review: ‘Charles James: Beyond Fashion,’ a Retrospective at the Met 2014-05-08T13:04:04Z

A silent film moreover imposes a certain way of experiencing the film on the spectator, so melodrama and a love story fit best with that format. Ssh, no talking: Silent movie charms Cannes fest 2011-05-15T14:31:11Z

The reworking manages to create a sense of monumentality without imposing any artificial grandeur. Museum Review: The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Renewed 2012-07-14T00:49:03Z

Hardened Compton messenger YG is a straight shooter with an imposing physicality making party music. Made in America lineup is a vivid look at rap's competing interests 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Another New Deal reform, the Investment Company Act of 1940, imposed heavy restrictions on investment companies, which were intended to protect investors from excessive risks, fraud and scams. Six reasons we may have another bank crisis 2012-08-20T17:53:00Z

We drive 5km up through pine forests beneath the imposing mountains to a small bar and car park by the Manzanares river. Different strokes: wild swimming in Spain 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

The imposing bronze Beethoven monument on the Münsterplatz, which the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt helped pay for, remains one of the city’s defining images. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Rather, the problem is the norm and expectation that's long imposed this more revealing uniform on young women and girls competing in the sport, regardless of their feelings of comfort. The German gymnastics team's unitard is just the latest example of fighting sexism in sports 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

Sautner last month had imposed the same sentence on Lohan for violating her probation, and the two terms will run concurrently. Lindsay Lohan expected to serve jail term at home 2011-05-12T01:22:56Z

And that’s because, past the seductive beauty of the Big Easy, Louisiana is all about nuance, possibility within the boundaries imposed by climate, landscape and, in many places, poverty. Literary Louisiana 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Defying the WHCA’s newly imposed capacity limits, he invited representatives from such reliably Trump-friendly outlets as One America News, the Gateway Pundit and the Epoch Times to the briefings. The White House’s new press briefing seat chart says a lot about where each reporter stands 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

She might then shoot herself with stimulants and have her eggs retrieved, fertilized and implanted, hoping that science and the gods of modern fertility would conspire to impose their good will. | 'Google Baby': Surrogate Pregnancy Goes Global 2010-06-15T21:41:00Z

As we approached, the castle grew until it was inescapable, an imposing stone edifice with an immaculate, geometric garden at its base. In Maastricht, a Taste of Joie de Vivre 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

His approach, upon entering a museum “is not that of awe-stricken acolyte; I do not knee-tremble up the imposing marble stair.” Review | In ‘Short Life in a Strange World,’ paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder help an author make sense of his existence 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

French shows convincingly that China’s goal is now to displace the American barbarians and correct historic humiliations imposed by those who dethroned China from its rightful position at the center of the world. America’s Collision Course With China 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

It’s a grave and imposing album, thick with intrigue. The Week Ahead: Feb.13 ? 19 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z

Destroyed and past, meaningless, unending pain, orphaned, what’s left: as if he’d never been, my father — called Max, but later bore the imposed name Israel, with dignity. A Physician Examines His Novels 2010-09-03T22:26:00Z

Claveloux’s comics encapsulate the desire to change or reinvent oneself — but also to undermine society and the absurd sense of order it imposes. Psychedelic Comics Like Beautiful Tattoos 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Each was self-contained, without much overlap or imposed cohesion, but all together, they were a reminder that Coleman long ago embodied the kind of interdisciplinary entrepreneurship that’s taken for granted today. Ornette Coleman’s Innovations Are Celebrated at Lincoln Center 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

You get a glimpse of Mr. Gomes’s artistry and integrity here, and Mr. Vasiliev manages to impose himself as a star. Dance Review: Big Names, Good Looks and Nude Body Stockings 2014-03-20T12:08:35Z

But it takes a particularly unique lack of ego — one that’s painfully rare in modern American politics — to understand and to practice the ideal that a leader serves the people, not imposes his own desires. Mario Cuomo: Catholicism’s best defender of choice 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

A cluster of gems creates the corolla of a camellia flower brooch or a single sumptuous stone makes an imposing ring. 'Gilded Lily' Sheds Her Treasures 2012-03-19T13:00:40Z

In large-lot suburbs like Lawrence, the loss of a single house is less jarring because it is not perceived as part of an ensemble, as a row of Manhattan mansions or imposing brownstones might be. Why Does the Demolition of a Marcel Breuer House Matter? 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

Constructed piecemeal over five years on different levels of the hill, the house doesn’t look imposing or looming so much as dry-docked. Pablo Neruda’s love nest in Santiago: Like his poetry, it’s filled with passion 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Directed by Alfred E. Green in 1933, a year before the production code was strictly imposed, “Baby Face,” with its brazenly sexual lead, was too racy to make it into theaters uncensored. Just a Maid in Movies, but Not Forgotten 2011-04-22T23:23:02Z

And while that should make her imposing, it has the opposite effect on the people around town who expect her to solve all of their problems. With HBO's "Mare of Easttown," come for the murder but stay for Kate Winslet and Jean Smart 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

It seems imposed on the actual objects rather than growing directly from their importance. Museum Review: Cleopatra?s Underwater Kingdom 2010-06-03T21:59:00Z

Blade Runner, whose original version had a happy ending imposed on it, had a happy ending as a project. Blade Runner at 30: Celebrating Ridley Scott's Dystopian Vision 2012-06-25T14:31:59Z

The necklace has the air of a speculative artifact, an imposing piece of treasure that suggests the distortional effects of power. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

I want for us as a field to become mature and not get trapped in these horrible, infantilizing roles that the economic conditions of making our work almost impose onto us. Frank Conversations About Making a Living in Dance 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

Whether in the front row or at parties, Ms. Dean cuts an imposing figure. Up Close : A Profile of Cecilia Dean 2013-05-08T19:45:33Z

It was left to Liebman and her brother, and the rest of the people in their lives, to fill in the blanks, to impose their aspirations on the images before them. A 50-year-old mystery: Who’s that wading in the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

In Jacksonville, Fla., even as the mayor imposed an indoor mask order, the Alhambra dinner theater is continuing to stage “Cinderella.” Beyond Broadway, the Show Does Go On 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

Early that morning, I told them about the bold step I was planning to take after school, in the hope some kind of wartime bond would fuse us together as one imposing unit… Wrong. Here's What Ryan Reynolds Is Thankful For 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The deaf story line also provides some historical context: In the late 1800s in Europe, deaf educators imposed oralism — speaking or lip reading — and forbade deaf students to sign. Deaf West Theatre makes Tony winner 'Spring Awakening' all its known 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

The work strains against its academic traces and doesn’t quite break free, but its combination of scale, rendering and surface tension is imposing, almost sculptural. Paula Modersohn-Becker and Her Thwarted Ambitions 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

But it is not imposing or clinical-looking because the top half is broken into sections of different colors and shapes. 10 buildings you must see around the new boom-time Washington 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

The Pérez Art Museum Miami, named for a local developer, had seen its share of contention long before its opening two months ago on an imposing site overlooking Biscayne Bay. Behind the Smashing of a Vase 2014-02-18T23:01:51Z

"Never been kissed" imposes a surgical mask on an old woman whose eyes are bright, stark, intense. Review: Artists breathe rambunctious new life into faded treasures at Seattle's G. Gibson Gallery 2011-03-31T20:39:09Z

The rules will also impose a four-hour limit on tarmac delays for international flights. In Transit: U.S. to Announce New Rules to Protect Air Passengers 2011-04-20T13:11:27Z

Nuclear power was pursued as an economic panacea and a source of prestige, with Politburo officials imposing preposterous timetables and equally preposterous cost-cutting measures. An Enthralling and Terrifying History of the Nuclear Meltdown at Chernobyl 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

The tax will be imposed on overnight stays at hotels or bed-and-breakfast inns with six or more rooms. Brookhaven voters approve 2 percent hotel tax 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

It “didn’t add much to the story and also somewhat detracted from that imposing nature of the villain Maleficent,” Fox Carney, the research manager from Disney’s library, told USA Today. A Disney Discovery in Forgotten Sketches 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

Grandpa Jack was an imposing man, a patriarch of the family and someone people around the county treated with great respect. Matt Bondurant: 'We discovered Grandpa Jack had a dark history' 2012-08-25T23:05:49Z

National and regional administrations are trying to overcome the timid, clearly insufficient restrictions imposed by the EU and protect fisheries' right to fish eels. Eels have fascinated us for ages. Here's why we need to stop eating them 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z

Mr Miliband welcomed the proposal, arguing it must be imposed retrospectively, so that he and Mr Cameron publish all details of meetings with media executives dating back to the last general election. News Corp withdraws bid for BSkyB 2011-07-13T20:36:57Z

Slink Johnson, an imposing actor with a suitably beatific expression, plays Black Jesus, who may be the son of God or may just be a big-talking con man with an unusual game. Slink Johnson Is ‘Black Jesus’ on Adult Swim 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

Altogether he spent nearly 40 years learning to impose order, in the form of names, theories, and family trees, on the chaos of the natural world. Descending Into Madness, a Russian Scientist Turned to Drawing 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

It’s all part of the measures imposed by Venice organizers to try to safely host the first major in-person festival of the COVID-19 era when others canceled or went online. Venice opens “miraculous” film festival, but veterans lament 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

I don’t mean to impose an unfair comparison on Bieber, but he sort of demands it, and on this evening he falls so nonchalantly short of these idols. Justin Bieber, Young Thug, and Guarding the New Guard 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

But translating “Cowboy Bebop” to live action and satisfying the sky-high fan expectations around this beloved space-western was an imposing endeavor. Netflix’s ‘Cowboy Bebop’ reignites a debate: Is Jet Black a Black anime character? 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

While Braun’s exact brand of awkwardness doesn’t quite match the stumbling, yet unearned air of superiority that Robert possessed in the original story, he does manage to be imposing while also looking a little lost. ‘Cat Person’ Review: A Viral Short Story Padded for the Big Screen 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z

This guy's not as imposing as a sputnik, but just as many bulbs. The best lighting for maximum kitchen visibility 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z

Looking out its front window, we saw a small but distinctive brick courthouse across the road with five imposing rounded arches at the front. On a Virginia driving tour, tracing patriot Patrick Henry’s path to history 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

She says many don’t realise how gifted their children are until they begin education and socialising; while they fit in in their own, often intelligent, households, others notice their precociousness and impose identities on them. ‘I’m a human calculator’: what’s it like to be a child genius – or to raise one? 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

It’s the first Hollywood movie sequence shot in Cuba since the United States economic embargo was imposed more than 50 years ago. F. Gary Gray on Shooting in Cuba for ‘The Fate of the Furious’ 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

The door is imposing, although the grandeur of the house is difficult to judge. Pursuits: A Mystery Endures in Beijing’s Old Legation Quarter 2014-05-02T18:00:05Z

It is a large car park with a less imposing town attached, and I feel my look back in Ongar has been justified. London Underground at 150 - a birthday journey 2013-01-09T05:21:53Z

The reader watches as the narrator turns Frances’ life to chaos, imposing on her his own perception of the fleeting nature of human relationships, and of meaning itself. A Psychological Thriller Asks, Are We All a Little Stalker-ish? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

I was, however, asked to sing and give speeches and answer probing questions in identities that were imposed upon me. London Theater Journal: Feeling The Pain 2010-07-19T16:58:00Z

The musicians issued a release Tuesday saying they voted on a plan "to extend the hand of friendship" and return to work under conditions the orchestra's management previously imposed. Detroit musicians offer to return without contract 2011-03-01T19:13:10Z

Creator Heidi Thomas said the story would not "impose a modern mindset", but would reflect the 1960s setting. Popular British TV drama to feature female genital mutilation plotline 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

In warm weather, get-togethers are held on the roomy, old-fashioned screened porch, with stout Belgian seating that looks like chic recycled packing crates grouped beside an imposing redbrick fireplace. Rebecca and Jon Bond's Stylish Family-Friendly Home in The Hamptons 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Usmanov is one of the “Russian elites” on whom the United States imposed sanctions and who, in the words of Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen, support Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “war of choice” against Ukraine. Yacht justice: A new front in the war drags Russia’s oligarchs into the spotlight 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

I didn’t know who she was, except that she had these dark eyebrows and she seemed to be very tall and imposing and she was responsible for this whole mishegoss, and I had to curtsy. Jane Fonda, Intergalactic Eco-Warrior in a Red Coat 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

I doubt the mood in Los Angeles will impose undue punishment – especially not if Polanski volunteers his regret and his presence. End game for Roman Polanski 2010-04-15T20:30:00Z

In 2001, in the midst of a budget crisis, authorities imposed restrictions on bank withdrawals, triggering massive protests that swept the government from power. Amid fresh meltdown, Argentine film gives last laugh to victims of... 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

A law enacted in 2013 effectively bans street protests, imposing jail sentences for violators. In Cairo, Alone Time With the Pharaohs 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

France has adopted a national policy that imposes curfews on outdoor lighting and drastically limits the amount of light that can be projected into the sky. A Manifesto for Loving the Darkness, and Not Metaphorically 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

My first impression is that, despite the constraints imposed by English Heritage, the family had succeeded in imprinting their own heritage onto a quintessentially traditional English setting. Carlton House Terrace: The Hindujas' New $500 Million Real Estate Masterpiece 2013-10-08T14:00:00Z

“She was a very elegant person. She imposed that on the women that were dressed by her.” On The Runway: L’Wren Scott: A Legacy of Elegance 2014-03-21T21:01:46Z

Literature, therefore, must fight against the convenient and collective amnesia that is imposed from above and shaped by ultranationalism. Read Your Way Through Istanbul 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

There is a slew of baby books such as Bringing Up Bébé focusing on the fact French mothers apparently impose stricter boundaries, focus less intensely on their children – and drink more wine. ‘Snowplough’ and six more controversial parenting techniques 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

Remember those quaint days, just six or seven months ago, when the wine world was up in arms about potential 100 percent tariffs the Trump administration was considering imposing on European wines? Trump tariffs on European wine are on the table again, adding more stress to a struggling industry 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

The Opposition supported his plans for stepping up the power of magistrates to impose both fines and compensation of up to £100. Mods and Rockers an urgent priority for MPs: From the archive, 24 June 1964 2013-06-24T06:30:00Z

“I don’t like to impose on people,” he says. Dog traveling with you over the holidays? Know your petiquette. 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

I don't want my religion imposed as law in this land. "That's where I draw the line": David Cross has words for comics who moan about cancel culture 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

Even in an environment where we don't need to satisfy basic human needs, we insist on imposing calculable value so we can make a buck. Untangling the web with Aleks Krotoski 2011-03-20T00:05:19Z

The restrictions the chef imposes might sound like a gimmick, but in his hands, it is an organizing principle. Tel Aviv Restaurant With Local Ingredients, Global Influences 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

I approached a bend in the road in Lorne, near three majestic conifers, and stopped at the imposing Grand Pacific Hotel, an 1870s landmark that was originally accessible only by sea. Stunning Vistas and Wildlife Along Australia’s Great Ocean Road 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Metropolitan Cathedral and the National Palace flank this historic public square, and an imposing Mexican flag, raised and lowered daily, waves over the scene. These Are the Most Visited Tourist Attractions in the World 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z

Australian courts impose such orders to shield defendants from negative publicity that could prejudice future jurors in upcoming trials. An Australian court’s gag order is no match for the Internet, as word gets out about prominent cardinal’s conviction 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Come September, if a work shutout is imposed, and the talks are not resolved, New York could be left without any. Let’s Talk About Risk at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

An imposing 710-foot-tall work of concrete, it is 300 feet wide at its base and stretches even wider as it spans two cliffs. The U.S. Issue: The Mighty Colorado at a Glide 2010-05-14T21:08:00Z

They sound imposing without ever rushing the tempos; they're as inexorable as lava spilling from a volcano. Trouble returns to swing metal 2013-08-06T05:00:00Z

He was an imposing presence in Zero Dark Thirty, showing up late in the movie. James Gandolfini's film career: much more than just another wiseguy 2013-06-20T17:00:00Z

He meant that Burlington tried to impose what we might now call a minimalist sensibility on early 18th-century Britain, preaching the architecture of Andrea Palladio, a calm, elegant style. Britain's garden state 2010-06-08T20:29:00Z

It is a case of steering and allowing rather than imposing and defining. Jonathan Nott: conducting the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra 2011-08-12T21:55:18Z

“It is the only survivor of a clump of pines on Raddon Top, an imposing site of bronze age and Neolithic remains,” he says. Tree of the week: 'I whispered to the Lone Pine, asking it to hold on until we returned' 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

In the 1980s, the people suffered when, under U.S. influence, its government imposed severe economic austerity. What your organic market doesn’t want you to know: The dark truth about quinoa 2014-04-24T11:50:00Z

Human beings are extremely violent animals, and the violence they are always ready to use in order to impose their own eternal, salvific life vest, while shattering those of others, is frightening. “Writing Is an Act of Pride”: A Conversation with Elena Ferrante 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

I didn't want to impose my perspective on the film. Compliance: would you strip-search a colleague if the police ordered you to? 2013-03-19T18:35:00Z

During the dictatorship we lived under for years a beggar mentality was imposed on us, which put the brakes on the evolution of the youth. Jupiter Bokondji: 'The cultural riches of Congo are immense' 2012-08-25T23:08:00Z

“The last thing we wanted to do was impose a spectacular art event that hurt the flora or fauna.” Smoky Artwork by Judy Chicago at Desert Zoo Is Canceled 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

Her previous book, “Burned Bridge,” examined how Cold War divisions in a German town were not so much imposed on ordinary people as they were actively — and sometimes enthusiastically — propagated by them. Once Viewed as a Savior of Children, Hans Asperger Is Now Called a Nazi Collaborator 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

Interspersed with more atmospheric inked, painted and bleached passages, they also impose a sort of interruption, breaking up the field like the stuttering streaks of a poor television signal. Cynthia Ona Innis' painted topographies resonate 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

The code is meant to address long-standing issues in the industry, including grocery retailers imposing large fee increases on suppliers without notice. The new Grocery Code of Conduct should benefit both Canadians and the food industry 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

“Our survey found domestic violence is related to machismo, the prototype of an imposing and dominating man over a submissive woman,” Saldana said. Colombian women to party away as men face curfew night 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

“So I don’t want to impose how a play should be done. And I have been surprised so many times by the innovations that the directors here in Europe bring.” Ayad Akhtar Gets a European Welcome, With Conditions 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

For one thing, they impose a moral framework that conforms to a contemporary, progressive political consciousness, even more forcefully than Rose’s did. Review | Government shutdown aside, Ford’s Theatre stays open and percolates with a multiethnic ‘Twelve Angry Men’ 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Dynastic marriage, as so often, is a means of imposing harmony on potential chaos. Brave by name, bland by nature 2012-08-20T10:03:02Z

"I really didn't want to impose too much design on it." James Franco's 'SNL' doc plays at Tribeca Fest 2010-05-03T01:30:00Z

Doubled in size this year, it now occupies a three-quarter-acre slope between an imposing but tired greenhouse and a large open field below. In a monastery garden, Pope Francis’s environmental message is taken to heart 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

All major European states imposed colonial mastery over Africa and Asia. The best of times 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

I want to impose a new and different image of women.” Music: Carving Out a Bold Destiny for Fado 2011-03-25T19:38:43Z

One idea about addiction is that it’s a way to impose structure on a chaotic world. Cat Marnell, a Former Beauty Editor, on Her New Addiction Memoir 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

But the Roman Catholic art developed in Spain, and later passed on to, or imposed on, the Americas, was, formally and emotionally, a world of its own, a world little acknowledged by major museums. With Splendor and Saints, Hispanic Society Shows Its Treasures 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

It is a devastating story about a black girl who is destroyed by the low self-esteem imposed on her by a society in which her type and color are diminished as ugly and unworthy. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

This year, the chatter will be about what penalty the league may impose upon Mr. Kraft for “conduct detrimental to the league” — code for making the owners look bad. Robert Kraft Awaits Your Judgment: ‘I Am Truly Sorry’ 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

They seemed to chafe at the long hours imposed by O’Neill, who wanted them to work until 9:30 p.m. Mistrial declared in Bill Cosby sex-assault trial 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

But the set looks chilly and imposing, and often dwarfs the characters. Metropolitan Opera Opens With ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

In February an LA judge questioned whether Brown completed the six months' community labour sentence imposed as part of his five-year probation. Chris Brown could face jail over minor car accident 2013-05-28T11:08:46Z

With his towering physique and unforced charisma, Mr. Pape looks regal and imposing. Music Review: Ruthless Czar, Haunted by Doubts 2010-10-12T19:51:00Z

Today, wearing natural Black hair is a statement of pride, a repudiation of an imposed beauty standard and a determined declaration of Black identity. Black Women Make Waves in Hair Care 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

He’s an imposing presence, over six feet tall, with intense dark eyes and a concerningly pale complexion. Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time 2012-04-07T00:27:22Z

That apartheid government imposed a cultural blockade, so to speak, on certain songs, including mine. Tear down this Israeli wall 2011-03-11T21:30:03Z

“It felt so alien and uninviting,” he recalls of the area’s imposing architecture and implicit sense of wealth — “a different world” from the north London council estate where he and his family lived. The Artist Who Dreamed Up a Kaleidoscopic Basketball Court for London’s Canary Wharf 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Aziz is not shy when discussing his goal of imposing Shariah law on the country. Review: In ‘Among the Believers,’ a Cleric Holds Sway 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

The story features lost cities, pirates, anarchists, an exotic carnival and a rigid Watchmaker who imposes precision on every aspect of daily life.” Dude vs. Chick Rock: Is There a Music Gender Divide? 2012-06-12T13:29:51Z

Harry Dean Stanton’s face was itself the landscape: really for the first time in his career, he was allowed to be still, simply to let his mute presence impose itself on the screen. Accommodating Harry Dean Stanton's unique character-player starpower was not easy 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

Because of the virus, the government imposed a national lockdown, halting public transportation. For Planet Earth, No Tourism Is a Curse and a Blessing 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z

She also felt new limitations in her marriage — imposed, not by the president, but by his presidency. Books Of the Times: ?The Obamas? by Jodi Kantor - Review 2012-01-08T22:47:03Z

Also imposing is Daniel Lai’s stairway installation of discarded books turned into pinwheels. Review | In the galleries: Exhibit upends male-centric myths, legends and folklore 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

And to anyone watching her house tour, its imposing grayness is tantamount to a flapping red flag several stories high. "The Girl Before" confirms the villainy of minimalism 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z

The cooking times are equally imposing, requiring a commitment of eight to 12 hours or even longer. Brisket for Beginners 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

The bad news: Prices are a little higher this year because of the 25 percent tariff imposed by the Trump administration in October. This deep pink rosé is a favorite — and a steal at $16 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

Nathan insisted that it’s about looking for the “natural evolution” of the show: “If you follow the characters, rather than impose what you want the characters to do, they lead you in different directions.” Emmys 2014: In today's TV landscape, it's evolve or die 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Network TV representatives decided Monday not to fight restrictions imposed by Donald Trump’s campaign on reporters covering the Republican presidential front-runner. TV networks can’t find common ground in dealing with Trump 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

More than a thousand years of Turkish history are told in the form of military history, and the narrative winds around an imposing building that was the military academy where Ataturk himself studied. Museums: In Turkey?s Museums, Sacred and Secular Interweave 2010-05-25T22:26:00Z

A decade of political wrangling culminated in a decision last year to bring the imposing center back to its full size. Europe's biggest contemporary art center opens 2012-04-12T17:41:08Z

They arrived home March 20, cutting their trip short by three months, and entered a self- imposed quarantine. With the pandemic shutting borders, digital nomads find it harder to roam 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

I was outside what your religion bound you to and I dared to question what was gradually imposed on me. A letter to … my ex-boyfriend’s mother, who led me into a cult 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z

The moment the writer writes, attempting to impose form on the grist of the universe, chaos erupts; yet the moment the writer tries to instill his work with chaos, patterns emerge. Jung Young Moon weaves a metafictional dream in 'Vaseline Buddha' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

As well as filling several buildings with anything he could find, Otlet created the standard index card to impose order and invented a telescope so people could access documents remotely. 10 of Europe’s oddest attractions and events 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Was he abandoning his homeland to avoid Hollande's plan to impose an emergency tax of 75 percent on personal income of more than a million euros a year? | France's Trouble With Money 2012-12-07T22:03:24Z

For starters, there is dramatic natural beauty, including the imposing mountains that wall the coast and inspired 15th-century Venetians to name it Monte Negro, or Black Mountain. Returning to Montenegro 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

“I did not and I would not presume to impose my urgencies upon white poets writing in America,” Jordan wrote. A Monumental and Rapturous New Anthology of Black American Poetry 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

And the mood in Jessie Makinson’s imposing diptych “Skin Spy,” which shows a kind of elfin garden party, is only slightly tense. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

The imposing fortress in the city of Famagusta on Cyprus’s eastern coast was first built by Lusignan conquerors in the 14th century. Hurt by division, Cyprus's Othello Tower gets new lease of life 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

His most evocative songs are infused with a man's struggle against burdens both self-inflicted and imposed. Sound of the White Buffalo can be found between tenderness and a growl 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

He made words matter and conveyed the self-delusion of thOis likable laughingstock, a character convinced that his girth is actually an imposing physique with natural appeal for cultured women. Music Review: ‘Falstaff,’ Part of Prelude to Performance at Kaye Playhouse 2012-07-15T21:49:41Z

In one respect it elevates a building, invoking the classical past that the founding fathers had also looked to for inspiration; the place is meant to be imposing, worthy of allegiance and devotion. Exhibition Review: National Design That?s Hidden in Plain Sight 2011-06-13T22:41:43Z