| 单词 | imposingly |
| 例句 | In spite of everything, Chess felt almost proud that Mom could sit so calmly—imposingly, even—in that cage of a chair. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Leach’s imposingly utilitarian pots were inspired by his love of historic Asian and English pottery. Opening of Ceramics Center Coincides With Crafts Revival 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Act I takes place in a public square in Amiens, which in this production becomes an imposingly spacious railroad station. In Met’s ‘Manon Lescaut,’ Classic Love Story Gets Noir Twist 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Her diction was excellent, though, and she crested imposingly with the orchestra. Danish National Symphony debuts at Segerstrom with Deborah Voigt 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z This is suggested by two imposingly eccentric nudes from 1939 and 1945 and, best of all, a crouching woman from 1940 very much like one of Degas’s bathers but with distended arms. Critic’s Notebook: The Effort to Resurrect the Sculptor Germaine Richier 2014-03-20T21:41:29Z Packed full of objects, images and imposingly scaled rooms, the 9/11 museum is missing one basic feature: the space to be alone with your own thoughts. Architecture review: At 9/11 Memorial Museum, a relentless literalism 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z The corridor is at once imposingly cavernous and celestially illuminated. The Best Part of Calatrava’s Oculus 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z By the end, they have literally grown into big, bold letters that fill the screen imposingly, just like Malik. Design: Making an Art Out of Credit Rolls 2010-03-01T11:10:00Z An imposingly big man who’s often called on to suggest authority, Mr. Gleeson has played cops, criminals and Winston Churchill, and had the recurring role of Mad-Eye Moody in the Harry Potter series. ‘Calvary,’ John Michael McDonagh’s Murder Mystery 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Best performances Male: hangdog French star Vincent Lindon at his imposingly minimalist best in French unemployment drama The Measure of a Man. Cannes 2015, week two report: perfect Pixar but Gus goes gooey 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z For the opera’s rapid return, the production’s least appealing feature, the imposingly naturalistic sets, have been retained. L.A. Opera opens its new season with 'Carmen,' again 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z ‘GUILLAUME TELL’ Performed in October for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera in its original French, Rossini’s final opera was imposingly cast — and conducted, with his usual lucidity, by Fabio Luisi. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Some of Jung’s paintings are imposingly large, but their green-on-green patterns are muted and require close inspection to comprehend. Review | In the galleries: Photos capture a fleeting moment, leave an indelible impression 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Across the street, the Albert Kahn Building, a limestone 1931 Art Deco structure, stands somewhat imposingly even though it has only 10 stories. In Energized Detroit, Savoring an Architectural Legacy 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Preternaturally serene and imposingly tall — roughly seven feet high — with sloping eyes and long fingers expressive of exceptional reach, they speak as messengers from an Afrofuturist-inflected otherworld that all her work invokes. Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z At each performance of “Caroline, or Change,” I look forward to this calming bit of preshow acclimation, even as a Confederate statue stands imposingly at center stage. A Season to Savor a Cherished Musical Again and Again (and Again) 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z And least likely to find himself seated in a vast, stately reception room – green, gold and imposingly Georgian – in Dublin’s Merrion hotel to discuss the film in question, The Favourite. Yorgos Lanthimos, director of The Lobster, on his wild, star-studded life of Queen Anne 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z It will be the most imposingly funky thing to happen on the Westside since the 405 was widened. Around the clubs this weekend: Gallant, Cut Copy, Morris Day and many more 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z He loomed imposingly, singing in a high, true voice of exodus and the Jews' "3,000 years with no place to be". Matisyahu 2010-06-06T20:45:00Z Now he’s this imposingly big, impenetrably chill, multiracial, biker type, sheathed in tribal tattoos, with a long, dark mane. ‘Aquaman’ Review: Our Hero Swims. His Movie Sinks. 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z What impressed this crowd most — no less, it seemed, during an imposingly strong opening set by Sam Newsome, playing unaccompanied soprano saxophone — was the totality of the commitment onstage. Music Review: Together for 10 Years and Still Totally Committed 2010-09-17T20:08:00Z Eight years her senior and imposingly eminent, he collaborated with his wife in founding The Ontario Review as well as Ontario Review Books, a small publishing house that reprinted some of her enormous oeuvre. Books Of the Times: The Shock Of Losing A Spouse 2011-02-14T05:27:15Z The couples — all are ready, it turns out — then repair to the box, which sits elevated imposingly upstage at a three-quarter angle, like a kind of futuristic temple. Couples therapy in 'Sex Box' may be indecorous but it's tame 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The singer set the standard for himself imposingly high. Brian Wilson's lost 'Smile' album finally unearthed, with all the trimmings 2011-11-02T14:39:00Z Harrold is one of the most imposingly gifted trumpeters in jazz today. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Asked if the stark lighting in some of the interviews — in particular with Cobain's imposingly stoic father, Don — represents a manipulation of the viewer, Morgen scoffed. How 'Montage of Heck' takes viewers inside Kurt Cobain's troubled mind 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Now out of print, it set an imposingly high bar for any excavation of unheard Miles Davis music. Music: Miles Davis Reissue, ?Live in Europe 1967? 2011-09-09T16:30:32Z Behind the building’s imposingly chic facade, the Suite 8 offices appear functional and somewhat familiar: “Star Wars” figurines and miscellaneous stacks of paper — hallmarks of cubicle life everywhere. A co-working space for working writers 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z At Maria Kiang, an imposingly large Western Han dynasty bronze horse exudes high, almost Pixar levels of animation, and a small Western Han bronze bull wags its head in cheerful stubbornness. Art Review: New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show in a New Space 2010-03-25T21:27:00Z The 185-room hotel has a sleek glass and steel facade and an imposingly vast and minimalist lobby — the entrance warmed, only just, by modish gas flames encased in glass. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: The Fairmont Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh 2010-08-14T05:01:00Z Opening the recording with a Frescobaldi toccata, Rondeau places two more — the first imposingly grand, the second lush and lonely, a child playing in an empty castle — at its core. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z “I’m Not a Man,” at nearly eight minutes, might have been the album’s epic, like one of the imposingly long songs on “Southpaw Grammar,” from 1995. Morrissey Releases ‘World Peace Is None of Your Business’ 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z The building, dating back to the late 19th Century, sits imposingly on the high street and has been on sale for a handful of change shy of £250,000. Bank closures causing cash shortages in Bromyard, traders say 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Kentridge rarely works on the scale of the Rome project, of course, but some of his prints are imposingly large. Review | In the galleries: Images of consciousness and the expanding universe 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Even with some strangely perfunctory plot pivots and an abruptly unsatisfying ending, “The County” benefits from Egilsdottir’s central performance, which is both delicate and imposingly stalwart. Review | A farm woman of iron will yet surprising delicacy anchors this Icelandic drama 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z A military hospital ship is docked, imposingly, in New York harbor. Desolate New York: eerie photos of a ghost metropolis 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z The left-wing version of Donald Trump – perhaps soon to be his nemesis – could well turn out to be a highly groomed and imposingly articulate best-selling author of spiritual books. Marianne Williamson: can love beat Trump? 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z An imposingly large man with a neat mustache, Mr. Remus, 59, grew up in Western Nebraska and speaks deliberately. The Fight to Tame a Swelling River With Dams That May Be Outmatched by Climate Change 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Once, someone asked my younger brother what it was like to grow up the son of a sportswriter and author, and his imposingly elegant and successful wife. Dan Jenkins: Another side of Dad - Golf Digest 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z And that cellular factory, like its man-made counterpart, is imposingly large. Thomas A. Steitz, biochemist who won Nobel Prize for mapping crucial molecule, dies at 78 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z “I don’t buy the conventional wisdom of what is viable here in Albany and what’s not,” he said as he looked at the dozens of state legislators arrayed imposingly above him in the hearing room. On ‘Tin Cup Day,’ Mayor de Blasio Sees a Role Reversal of Sorts 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z It was one of the world's most opulent railway stations, sitting imposingly on the French-Spanish border - but then it fell into disrepair. Is Europe's ghostliest train station about to rise again? 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z The show has a melancholy, literary title, “Under-Song For A Cipher,” and consists of seventeen paintings hung low, depicting a set of striking individuals, all slightly larger than human scale, though not imposingly so. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Imaginary Portraits 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Having sat through a meteor shower of imposingly well-made Marvel products, the too-pleased-with-itself “Guardians” felt to me like an intensely scripted politician trying to smugly crack wise. Review: ‘Guardians’ returns and it’s better than the first 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Bourdain, who is sixty, is imposingly tall—six feet four—and impossibly lean, with a monumental head, a caramel tan, and carefully groomed gray hair. Anthony Bourdain’s Moveable Feast 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z He stalked across the stage, and hovered imposingly behind her. Scorched earth on a split screen: Trump is unbowed in the second debate 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Morse, provides the same imposingly handsome visual flair of the last outing, meshing antique sensibility and cinematic fluidity with smoothly shifting architecture and projected archival footage. Sherlock Holmes meets an ‘American Problem’ in new Seattle Rep play 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Far more imposingly, his memorial monument stands in an intimate, public garden outside the main entrance, at 10th Avenue and 58th Street. Mount Sinai Sheds Roosevelt Name as Hospital Moves On 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z By 1889, in a print by A Weston and Co from Boston, the sphinx sits imposingly between two pyramids, its giant feet visible in the foreground. Sacred mystery: the photographers obsessed with the crumbling sphinx 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z The nicer subdivisions were encircled by imposingly high brick fences, while the humbler neighborhoods had only six-foot wooden ones. Reporter learns about Oklahoma City’s culture during walk 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z Like President Lyndon Johnson, he leans imposingly into a group of men, invading their space, telling a private joke that makes everyone laugh. In Nevada, cowboy commissioner rides a career as a political maverick 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z A mural of Red Bulls coach and club legend Mike Petke – Supporters’ Shield lifted above his head, the New York City skyline behind him – hangs imposingly before the arena. America’s Football Factory and the pint-size rebellion 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z It is not particularly grand, not imposingly big, not strikingly beautiful. The Joy of Six: favourite football grounds 2012-11-09T10:41:28Z On his final night, one man, imposingly muscled and taciturn, who hadn’t yet spoken to Mr. Miyakawa, broke his silence, telling him, “All these famous artists suffered before they became famous.” Designer Takeshi Miyakawa Returns From Rikers Island 2012-06-07T03:27:17Z After a brief voyage farther along Broadway the suppliant outcasts entered a great hall imposingly decorated with winged bulls and other Assyrian symbols. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z She saw him to be imposingly superficial; she perceived him to be a man whose polished filigrees would ring hollow at so much as one sincere tap of the finger-nail. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z The southern slope of it is steep, but that to the north is imposingly precipitous. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z Perhaps that sun itself, which now beams so imposingly, is only an old warmed-up jest. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z The university intends to build four new buildings within Washington Square Village and Silver Towers — modernist housing complexes that rise imposingly north of Houston Street. City Room: N.Y.U. Relents a Bit on Acquiring Parkland Near Planned Housing 2011-09-15T22:17:28Z And beyond, the town-front with great palm trees and other curious dark trees, and behind these the large square buildings of the south rising imposingly, as if severe, big palaces upon the promenade. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z The effect produced by the high-souled Romola is not unlike that of an antique statue, at once splendidly beautiful and imposingly cold. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z How imposingly he exclaims in his Confessions:— What art Thou then, my God? The Limits Of Atheism Or, Why should Sceptics be Outlaws? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.300Z One was a pretty young Rascian in her picturesque national costume, the other was a coquettishly clad peasant from the Alföld, of imposingly tall stature. The Strange Story of Rab R?by 2011-07-17T02:00:30.943Z A week later, there was talk of a new, even more powerful force rising in the women's game, in the imposingly casual form of Petra Kvitova. Tennis.com: Earning 'A' grades at Wimbledon 2011-07-05T17:28:05Z The Countess's only son was the very image of his father, and quite as imposingly wooden. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z He wore a suit of light-gray check, and was as imposingly handsome as usual. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z Its lofty grey silhouette, which, viewed from afar, dominated everything so imposingly, as a castle of giants would dominate the houses of dwarfs, now seems to have crouched down to hide itself. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z Mrs. Glendinning slowly rose to her feet, and her full stature of womanly beauty and majesty stood imposingly over him. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z Oleg Grabar, a historian of Islamic art and architecture whose imposingly broad range and analytical subtlety helped transform the Western study of Islamic culture, died Saturday at his home in Princeton, N.J. Oleg Grabar, Historian Who Studied Islamic Culture, Dies at 81 2011-01-13T02:01:08Z There was enough mist in the autumn air to magnify the low hills along the Sound to an imposingly vague bulk, and to turn the cloudless sky to a threatening bluish gray. Manslaughter Please buy,” reared its head imposingly over the articles, and five little maids, neatly dressed, stood in expectant attitude eagerly watching each passer-by in the hope of a customer. A Daughter of the Union A tragedy queen would hold herself more imposingly—and would have taken better care of her hands. Fidelity A Novel With no chartered aristocracy, and no law of entail, how can any family in America imposingly perpetuate itself? Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z "Far from it, Madame," said the Countess, imposingly. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Suzanne had watched her mother a long time and concluded that she loved to talk imposingly in an easy, philosophic, at times pompous, way, but that really there was very little in what she said. The "Genius" For the younger Miss Rathbawne was, very evidently, not the sort of triumph which is achieved by recourse to an imposingly ample bank-account, nor yet by two months' loyalty to the exigencies of the training-table. The Lieutenant-Governor A Novel He presently returned with a large colored woman sitting imposingly in the back seat, her capable hands folded in her lap, a look of intense satisfaction on her ample countenance. Cloudy Jewel Mr. Pilgrim rose and walked several times across the room; then addressed Henry mysteriously and imposingly: 'I've got the finest theatre in London.' A Great Man A Frolic The central belfry, albeit of a base, though pretentious, rococo design, follows no accepted style, but adds imposingly to the general outline. The Cathedrals of Northern France The structure of a tremendous future had stood one moment imposingly before her eyes. Counsel for the Defense There was only one of her—and that one a quite ordinary and insignificant personality compared with these imposingly splendid lords and ladies-in-waiting. In Brief Authority Paul was just congratulating himself upon his escape when the door opened wide, and the Doctor marched slowly and imposingly into the room. Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers Her four red-and-black funnels loomed up imposingly above her black hull. The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code A pompous, well-fed man was Willets Starkweather—and always imposingly dressed. The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City To build well, and to do so at a low price, is always desirable; and to build artistically, imposingly, attractively, does not imply elaborate finish or profuse ornament. Woodward's Country Homes In the middle of the great side wall lodged a full-throated fireplace above which rose imposingly an elaborately wrought overmantel, whose central panel was devoid of any ornamentation. The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution "I have seen your trunks all beautifully new, and imposingly labelled," he smiled, "and I have searched them." The Secret House Tarlac, accustomed to the imposingly massive beings, still found them impressive. Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel What makes me the maddest is that my wife says I'm an imposingly poor whist player at that. At Good Old Siwash The countess, in spite of the anxious contraction of her dark brows, looked imposingly handsome. Fairy Fingers A Novel The young men were quite imposingly marshalled in military array. The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago She glanced at him curiously, for one reason because every newcomer counted for so much in the social life of the place, for another because he was so imposingly large. Mary Ware's Promised Land His inner self became visible, and that imposingly. The Long Roll Lloyd called the entire family into the butler's pantry to admire it, as it sat imposingly on a huge silver salver. The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor From it a footpath leads through green, well-wooded stretches to the foot of the heights which look down imposingly upon the valley. Heidi (Gift Edition) When Faraday approached the house, he felt quite timid, so imposingly did this great structure loom up from the simpler dwellings which surrounded it. The Spinner's Book of Fiction That a grown man, much more imposingly uniformed than an American general, should blow it to start a real train of cars was the source of patriotic sarcasm whenever its plaintive, reedy note was heard. A Little Swiss Sojourn Ewell's camp, spread over the rolling hills and lighted by a splendid sunrise, lay imposingly. The Long Roll The house stood well, and even imposingly, on a high wooded knoll that overlooked the undulating park, and the open valley at its feet. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance The sword was always the most imposingly ornamented Page 125 part of a knight's equipment, and underwent various modifications which are interesting to note. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance I had never seen him so imposingly erect. Romance Nor did the great slapping brown horse, Hercules, turn out less imposingly than his master. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Livio waved his hand towards a large new hotel that stood imposingly on the hill just behind the town. The Lee Shore All day long he strolled about the street, from store to store, or leaned imposingly against every post that presented itself conveniently. The Daughter of Anderson Crow He had seen the men who figure so imposingly in the stage-processions of history too nearly. The Function of the Poet and Other Essays "Oh, a very wealthy man!" she continued, imposingly, "and he bought a lovely house, with a garden; a lovely garden!" Mount Music "Sir," began the lawyer imposingly. "—wakened in her the primitive instincts of humanity, and her instinct took the deplorable and fanatic form of your own courts," finished the prince. Romance Island It is one thing to sit imposingly at the steering-wheel until something goes wrong, and quite another thing to repair and go on. Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" It towers over the city far more imposingly than Chartres Cathedral towers over Chartres. Over There War Scenes on the Western Front Rows of candies, better known among children as "barber's-poles," looked imposingly out of the window, and these were flanked by piles of pea-nuts, apples, etc. A Grandmother's Recollections His silky light brown hair curled naturally about his brow and set it off imposingly. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage The weather had turned cool, and his imposingly tall old person was wrapped in a cape-overcoat. The Bent Twig His beard flowed imposingly downwards, out of sight, between the two brown hands gripping the edge of the table, and his persistent glance made sombre by the wide dilations of the pupils, fascinated. Falk A Reminiscence Before she had time to think what her next move might be she was confronted by an imposingly attired lady, who seemed to be taking a prolonged mental inventory of her clothes and looks. Beasts and Super-Beasts On the way from Châlons-sur-Marne to Nancy we catch glimpses of other noble churches that stand out from the flat landscape as imposingly as Ely Cathedral. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" They carried on their heads pagodas of tinsel and coloured glass that towered imposingly aloft. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places It is difficult to give any idea of the citadel, so imposingly commanding the wide valleys and curling rivers at its foot. Holidays in Eastern France The hill was wooded on that side to the top, and the castle crowned it, rising above the trees in irregular outline against the sky imposingly. The Heavenly Twins Blocks of palatial buildings loomed imposingly along the broad streets. The Old Homestead It was not imposingly large, but, as Mrs. Wilmington caused Annie to observe, it was as big as the hat shops and as ugly as the shoe shops. Annie Kilburn : a Novel In a small room he took his seat, very imposingly attired, upon a couch. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 I hold but little discourse except with one and then chiefly of my own affairs," returned the old man, without the least observable apprehension, and pointing imposingly upward; "a Judge; and Judge of all. The Prairie But all this is now repeated for us more imposingly, more grandiosely;—it is wrought upon a larger scale than anything we have yet seen. Two Years in the French West Indies You may meet the King indeed, who is as ugly, as imposingly ugly, as some idols, though not so inaccessible. Italian Hours At that instant Jinko, the chow, pushed the door open with his black nose and strolled imposingly into the room. A Fool and His Money In forty-seven years they have swept an imposingly large number of unfair laws from the statute books of America. Following the Equator, Part 4 Meanwhile the British guns were not idle; but shot and shell ploughed fast through the ranks of the stately array of veterans that still moved imposingly on. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo Those two old woody gods, Warrenheip and Buninyong, stood out more imposingly than by day; but the ranges seemed to have retreated. Australia Felix When I saw two automobiles, packed imposingly with uniformed figures, speed up the drive to the chateau, hope stirred in me. The Firefly of France At the same time he meant to become imposingly rich. The Titan It was an astonishing situation, and imposingly dramatic. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories She turned and paced slowly up and down the long parlor, a tall woman, commanding of aspect, yet of a winningly attractive manner, erect and light-footed, still imposingly handsome. The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) So, feeling terrified enough actually to offer up a prayer, she took the imposingly addressed letter into the library. T. Tembarom On the other side of the fire, imposingly calm and large, sat Mr. Stonor, jammed tight into a capacious Windsor armchair. A Set of Six To me he was merely playing there, surrounded by big books and bundles of documents, labelled profusely but consisting only of blank papers; by japanned tin boxes, lettered imposingly, but for the most part empty. Paul Kelver, a Novel While following the creeks in the marshes back of Sullivan's Island, the compact mass of buildings of Moultrieville, at its western end, at the entrance of Charleston harbor, rose imposingly to view. Voyage of the Paper Canoe; a geographical journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the years 1874-5 |
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