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The Mayan people were governed by a system in which the priesthood and the nobility shared the power to make and enforce laws that affected all of Mayan society. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
He treats all the important people in East Africa: the corrupt politicians, the actors and actresses who get sick on safari, the decayed English-African nobility. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Like Hernan Cortes, who conquered Mexico, Pizarro was born into the lower fringes of the nobility and hoped by his exploits to earn titles, offices, and pensions from the Spanish crown. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
He was a short man like his mother, extraordinarily dark with a fine high-cheekbone structure to his face that gave his whole demeanor a darkly brooding nobility. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
“So, as I’ve warned you,” Henry says as they approach the doors to the Royal Box, “Philip will be here. And assorted other nobility with whom you may have to make conversation. People named Basil.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
There was no nobility in falling, in being bound, in living oppressed, and there was no inherent meaning in black blood. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
She shrugged again, a silent comment about the inexplicable desires of the nobility. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
Because Mai, as her mother reminded people, was born in the year of the dragon; and that meant nobility and power and strength. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z
Before them, the nobility strutted across the floor of the court, gossiping, scheming, seducing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
Britain and France had hereditary nobilities; Britain still has a queen. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
She admired Iorek almost without limit, and she was glad to find confirmation of his nobility. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z
You have heard it, and it—this true story of rich implication, this living parable of proven glory and humble nobility—and it, as I say, has made you free. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
It occurred to me that an ugly, used lute might not sell very well in a city full of nobility and prosperous musicians. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
It should have been determination pulling her forward, the surety of her quest, the nobility of her heart. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z
In his mesmerizing voice, Shelton laid out the awful plot against the white race and its pinnacle of nobility, Southerners. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
With wealth and immortality the bait, the European nobility found itself transferring large sums to the practitioners of this dubious art. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
“It must have been fascinating, to rub elbows with all the glorious flower of elfin nobility and knighthood.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z
There had been no time to organize the gallowglasses, and such of these as did remain with the nobility were demoralized, or leaderless. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
I felt a twinge of anxiety, but I knew rubbing elbows with the nobility was something of a necessary evil. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
They had given them to the women of the nobility as favors, and he’d snagged one from the basket as it was passed around. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
For friendships acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of spirit are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper time cannot be spent. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z
Woodhull married a wealthy English banker and lived comfortably the rest of her life; Tennessee Claflin married Francis Cook, a member of the British nobility, and became Lady Cook. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
He had spread rumors, made threats, and generally turned the nobility against me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
The common people as well, seeing that they cannot resist the nobility, give their support to one man so as to be defended by his authority. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z
The canvas or sacking screens of their perches moved heavily in a breath of wind, like banners in a chapel, and the rapt nobility of the air kept their knight's vigil in knightly patience. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
And he looked up as we entered, his great eyes resigned but still aflame with nobility and courage against the white of his pillow; and he looked at his friend and smiled. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
This was usually not a heavy burden, as the nobility who frequented the Eolian usually gave money or gifts to performers who pleased them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
“You must tell me who cuts your hair ...” Anyone with a lick of common sense knew how to deal with arrogant nobility. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
His uneasiness at my reply led me to suspect that, had she had the scars he inquired after, the proof of her nobility might have been made more sure. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
They—the kings with the tank-like knights of their nobility —were prepared to take a sporting risk. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
She engaged in disputes that annoyed the local nobility, and she sold soporific and perhaps hallucinogenic drugs as do contemporary Mexican curanderas. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Elihu Root said the fair led “our people out of the wilderness of the commonplace to new ideas of architectural beauty and nobility.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
It was easy enough to tell the nobility from her competitors. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
But the arms, shoulders and heads would be those of villeins, and the blows which rang, without removing many limbs, would be exchanged by the iron nobility. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ world of eighteenth-century European nobility, the in-house composer was definitely Downstairs, even one with an international reputation as prestigious as Haydn’s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z
I maintain that one reaches this princedom either with the favour of the common people or with that of the nobility, since these two different humours are found in every body politic. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z
The Jews were helping the nobility, but in doing so, in collecting taxes from the serfs and peasants, for example, they were building up against themselves the hatred of these oppressed classes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z
I had never seen a dwarf before, but I knew they were special people, sent to the earth marked for this sacred life of duty to the nobility. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z
He was street nobility incarnated in someone who still believed in dreams. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z
Any nobility resided in his powerful brow; his other features necessarily surrendered to it. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
Over time, through intermarriage and social affiliations, a black nobility emerged in Durham, with few links to working people like Ann Atwater. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
It’s just that Martha is a perfectly respectable daughter of nobility, and Philip is a prince. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
“Is it true that the Modegan nobility regard haggling as a contemptible activity for those of any highborn station?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
In the presence of such nobility, I lowered the fiddle and bow, and fixed my eyes upon the ground. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
This is yet another example of goblin savagery, their lack of nobility and chivalry. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z
There was a nobility to her walk that lent a grace to the small figure. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Sirs, while I would liefer commend the nobility of restraint, here must I endorse rather the vigor of lively opposition, lest, peradventure, we find that inaction is in itself the occasion of profligacy.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
Nonetheless, because he was a military man and knew how to win the people over and to secure himself against the nobility, he succeeded in waging war against them for many years. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z
It is to stain their nobility, to make them vulnerable, fallible, breakable humans. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
The opulent fur-trimmed silk and gold ornaments told of the woman’s wealth and nobility, but those were mere faded trappings compared with her loveliness. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
Bodega had an unforgettable blend of nobility and street, as if God never made up his mind whether to have Bodega be born a leader or a hood. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z
In afterdinner conversation, he sometimes referred, in a tone of utter boredom, to summers spent with the European nobility in the castles of Liechtenstein or the Cote d’Azur. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You have not seen the beauty, intelligence, and gentility of the elfin nobility.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z
She walked there in the round courtyard with the Governor’s wife, who used her with great kindness, knowing the nobility of her blood. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
A principality is brought about either by the common people or by the nobility, depending on which of the two parties has the opportunity. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z
As the credits rolled, he took off his headphones and said, “Sorry, I was awash in the nobility of sacrifice. What were you saying?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z
Though of great age, its metal shone clear and untarnished, and its very plainness had the beauty of true nobility. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z
All loved him for his goodness and admired him for his nobility, but they had no idea that he intended to try to kill the Minotaur. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
“It is past the hour when one habitually receives nobility.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
Curiously, the image of his beloved only ever comes into his mind associated with a musical theme, which - passionately - reminds him of her nobility and shyness. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z
This nobility of his, this dignity: are they not my work? Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z
It had impressed journalists, TV reporters, statesmen, and readers in comfortable homes who were thrilled by the high-sounding phrases and the nobility of the sentiments. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z
Where once the building had seemed almost a palace—not for its architectural nobility but for what it promised—now it looked drab and worn. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
But the graduating classes themselves were the nobility. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the traditional Japanese class system, samurai ranked just below nobility; then came farmers and those who worked the land. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Balance and modest extraction are crucial to guard the nobility of the wine.” The Wines of Irouléguy, in French Basque Country 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z
Even at his most idealising, however, as he sought to impart nobility of sentiment to his scenes, he kept a real landscape at the heart of the picture. Constable, Turner, Gainsborough and the Making of Landscape 2012-11-23T22:55:21Z
Even when under extreme stress, Armstrong projected an air of embattled nobility. Review: ‘The Program,’ a Docudrama on the Fall of Lance Armstrong 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z
At every turn they achieve what is expected in Elgar — nobility, hush, pomp — and yet seem uneasily to undermine it, in a reminder that Elgar’s world was Mahler’s, too. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z
Despite his high-culture aspirations, Mr. Chen, 58, is minor Communist nobility. Sotheby’s New Major Shareholder Is Already a Power in Chinese Art 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z
And all this ill-will and mardiness trickles down from the king through the social hierarchy, from the nobility and church to the man in the street. TV review: The Pillars of the World and The Secret Millionaire 2010-10-18T05:45:00Z
Although it was loaded with emotion for her, she presented it in a very official, formal way, with great nobility. Gwendoline Christie on ‘Game of Thrones’ and Brienne’s Love Triangles 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z
It’s like nobility: you become a part of this select group of people. Oscar Nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film Discuss Work 2012-02-20T22:38:12Z
When two designers introduce their collections talking about “heads held high,” you realize that this new decade’s view of the strong woman is about nobility, rather than aggression. Special Report: Celine's Chic Severity 2010-03-07T18:39:00Z
As Brutus, Brandon J. Dirden — an actor of intrinsic warmth and gravitas — communicates Brutus’s nobility, though to sell it he often falls into the rhythms of a sermon, and even this characterization feels thin. Review: In ‘The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,’ the Political Thrill Is Gone 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z
The General's steadfast dogs, which were primarily bred for hunting purposes, became symbols of nobility and embodiments of great courage and pride. The value of Pumpkin on "The Gilded Age," descended from a breed that's all about the good life 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z
England has dukes and earls and various forms of nobility; the United States has cowboys.”  Galley Girl: Linda Lael Miller and the Rise of the Cowboy Romance Novel 2011-12-02T18:30:19Z
“The Light Between Oceans” begins to suggest an overly plotted, high-end Nicholas Sparks film awash in tears, pleas and threats, and acts of treachery and nobility. Review: A Baby in a Boat Changes Everything in ‘The Light Between Oceans’ 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z
Crucially, until the 19th century, hunting in Europe was traditionally restricted to members of the nobility who had the express permission of the king to hunt his land. Scalia’s elite hunting pals: Meet St. Hubertus, patron saint of rich guys with guns 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z
Headlines of the day reported on the gala — which drew 800 guests, including erstwhile nobilities as well as Princess Grace of Monaco wearing a jeweled tiara — as if it had been a prize fight. American Fashion?s Coming-Out in Paris 2011-01-12T22:38:19Z
“It brings a little more nobility to shooting someone.” Urban Athlete: Archery Tag Offers a Tame Version of ‘The Hunger Games’ 2014-05-08T22:15:54Z
Suffering, embattled nobility and a dash of whimsy. Oscar-Nominated Shorts, Mirroring a World of Pain and Fortitude 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z
There were evasions and white lies — in college, Mr. DeMeyer said he was the son of German nobility — but for the most part, Mr. DeMeyer’s flights of fancy seemed relatively harmless. The Wine Thief 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z
The nobility and haute bourgeoisie imitated the royal routine, but in so doing transformed a piece of court ceremonial into a flamboyant exercise in taste and sociability. The lap of luxury 2011-07-29T22:55:02Z
There was defiance as well as agitation in the string phrases that answer the opening motto, nobility as well as nostalgia in the Andantino, and moments of heady elation in the finale. Prom 53: GMJO/Davis ? review 2011-08-25T09:59:05Z
The third act progressed toward a finale of controlled nobility; the opening of the fourth was an elegy of mellow, mournful winds, their music seeming to exhale into being taken up by the low strings. In Cleveland, Schubert Outsings Even the Mighty ‘Otello’ 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z
There is always a nobility present, even in Attila’s music.” ?Attila? and Muti in Debuts at the Met 2010-02-19T18:03:00Z
It’s like nobility; you become a part of this select group of people. The Carpetbagger: A Crime Tragedy, not a Crime Drama 2012-02-16T14:11:26Z
They included dramas focusing on nobility, adventure and war stories, and comedies. 'Essential' film copyright protection turns 100 2012-08-24T18:02:12Z
It’s actually the Countess, with a simple stroke of moral nobility, who turns, with the suddenness of revelation, into the opera’s heroine. “The Marriage of Figaro” at the Met 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z
“The Authority of the Court” reads like what it is — an avuncular polemic constructed by an exemplary technocrat, blithely secure in the nobility of his intentions. Revisiting Justice Stephen Breyer’s Curious (and Strangely Timed) Defense of the Court 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z
By contrast, Juliet’s tenderness, and the nobility of feeling that inspires her transports of lyricism, are only faintly glimpsed. Theater Review: Love?s Flames Amid a City in Flames 2011-07-12T21:27:37Z
Originally the preserve of monarchy and of the high nobility, the full-length portrait was later adopted by those a little lower down the social scale. When the Old Masters Were the P.R. Agents of the Rich and Powerful 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z
Chamber music developed in the 18th and 19th centuries in the palaces of the nobility, but also in the front rooms of ordinary rich people. Rock the house: Off-the-grid home concerts make musicians and audiences very happy 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z
Over the years, I've watched day-long events involving the English nobility carving itself to pieces in The Wars of the Roses, as well as conflict between good and evil in The Mahabharata. Michael Billington on marathon-length theatre 2012-07-01T20:30:01Z
I saw grace in form, nobility in form, and that’s what I wanted to donate my life to. From Nosebleed Seats to the Stage, Actors Discuss August Wilson 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z
Once past that awkward opening, Semishkur gets the difficult balance between genuine nobility and self-destructive arrogance exactly right. Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex; Les Noces 2010-06-10T21:40:00Z
Aside from being a skilled photographer, his portraits zero in on why we consider dogs to be man’s best friend: he emphasizes the nobility and soulfulness of his subjects without diminishing their playfulness. Canines of New York: a day behind the lens with The Dogist 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z
Now in the autumn of his career, Acosta remains a dancer of nobility and consequence, even if one senses that his performance in this role has begun to shade into ritual. Giselle ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:54Z
In that review, I quoted a couple of scenes that, for me, captured the essence of Thrones' attitude toward fantasy, nobility and morality. Game of Thrones Watch: Talk to the Hand 2011-05-23T16:45:00Z
It is perfectly honorable to dwell on the damaged nobility of a tragic figure like Pavel, with his sorrowful mien and gentle voice, than to wallow in the small, vindictive soul of his son-in-law. | 'Kawasaki?s Rose': The Interplay of Politics and the Heart 2010-11-23T23:43:00Z
He insisted that Britain’s role in the world was “marked by nobility and courage.” Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z
We cherish the nobility of the war, but then that lyricism is stripped away.” The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: Green Valleys, Golden Sunsets and 'War Horse' 2011-12-21T19:13:47Z
Oleaginous and vain, Mr. Minter’s Egeo nevertheless reveals the nobility of his birth through a warm and vibrant tone that remained even across his dazzling runs. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in ‘Teseo,’ at Mostly Mozart 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z
Arbus thought her fringe dwellers belonged to a kind of nobility. Review: Arthur Lubow’s Diane Arbus Biography Recalls an Underworld Voyager 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z
I considered telling her that inter-familial marriages were once very common, even the stuff of the old nobility. Trying to Keep Up With Grandma’s Love Life 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z
Consciously or not, pop culture was now in step with the “lost cause” narrative, which had striven to dissociate the Confederacy from slavery and racism, aligning it instead with nobility and heroism. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z
Among the company’s other men, the young Chase Finlay — a principal since February — is evidently still learning, but his blend of seriousness, bloom, nobility and amplitude make him continually eye-catching. Critic’s Notebook: Peter Martins and City Ballet Over 30 Seasons 2013-06-11T21:24:09Z
Some people believe there is nobility in suffering, and my family and doctors expected that my peers would respect my vulnerability. Skout’s minor problem 2012-06-19T23:20:00Z
It remained, however, a treat for nobility, as it slowly spread throughout Europe. Bean-to-cup: Where hot chocolate comes from 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z
Tombs of the 17th-century Catholic nobility who inhabited earlier buildings on this site punctuate the walls – as does a kind of liquid thunder from a cupboard-size speaker in an alcove. Bill Fontana: Caught by the river 2010-04-15T21:20:00Z
Lévy is less interested in weighing consequences than he is in celebrating the purity of intent, the nobility of the cause, the heroism of the stand. New Directions for American Foreign Policy 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z
Courage and discord went to Syria, while nobility and hypocrisy found themselves in Iraq. Iraq and Syria’s Poetic Borders 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z
His inherent nobility is both a strength and a weakness and gets him in trouble time and again. 'Game of Thrones' writers on season finale and why 'All Men Must Die' 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z
Gaveston was low-born, arrogant, prone to insulting the nobility, and was hoovering up titles and wealth at the expense of those who thought themselves more entitled. 11 of the most influential royal lovers in British history 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z
Iron corsets, transforming into multi-stitched doublets and codpieces, were worn by the nobility. In Paris, Underneath It All 2013-07-29T10:37:16Z
For all the objective nobility of Morgan’s decision about how to exist in the world, it doesn’t really answer the question about what he owes everyone else, and how best to satisfy those obligations. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 4: The Price of Inner Peace 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z
After all, she noted, when Voltaire published “Candide,” a coming-of-age adventure story that doubled as a vicious critique of the European power structures, “the French nobility did not enjoy it.” A Crop of New Novels About Race and Racism Finds Freedom in Satire 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z
It’s that very British combination of nobility and the stiff upper lip – this enormous sense that emotion is deeply felt, but is managed rather than lived externally. Uplifting music, deep themes: Seattle Symphony to perform Elgar’s ‘Dream of Gerontius’ 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z
On the show, race becomes a factor that brings an extra pressure to new nobility. From race to incels, the modern "Bridgerton" twists hold a mirror up to today's shortcomings 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z
It’s the upward arc of its music, which finds a plaintive hunger to loom large, if only for a moment, that gives lost souls something like nobility. Review: ‘Jerry Springer,’ Sacred and Profane, Triumphantly Sings Again 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z
Fleming began with some paleness of tone, but grew in command through the evening, past her characteristic propriety to a kind of somber nobility. Review: ‘The Hours’ Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z
As in “Tales of Ribaldry,” this heat is all conversation: nobility and mutual understanding. Rowr. “Game of Thrones”: The Things We Do for Love 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z
The association of the nobility attracted the Dutch bourgeoisie to the format in the 17th century. When the Old Masters Were the P.R. Agents of the Rich and Powerful 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z
“Blue” might seem like a new kind of opera — one that addresses issues of race and class by telling the stories of everyday folks, not nobility or mythological figures. ‘Blue,’ an opera on police violence named best new opera, opens in Seattle soon 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z
That nobility would live in such a rat trap is laughable. Review: One dull `Don Giovanni' replaces another 2011-10-14T19:06:15Z
Having loved the apparent selflessness with which he ascended to superstar status, I can’t help hoping he finds again the less self-conscious nobility that once made him so touching. Many Giselles, but Only One Osipova 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z
“Of course,” he added, “I’d be happier if they discovered not just their utility but their nobility as well.” ‘Charge the Cockpit or You Die’: Behind an Incendiary Case for Trump 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z
The refusal to give up, the hope of a glorious future, gives all of them a sad nobility shared with their creator. Richard Yates and Easter's rising despair 2010-04-01T13:00:00Z
Jimmy bobs and weaves, moving between naked opportunism and glimmers of nobility, on an endless cycle of glee and guilt, without ever coming into focus. ‘Better Call Saul’ Starts Its Fourth Season, Still Waiting for Saul 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z
Almost the composer's final work, the ode exemplifies Parry's impressively solid technical skills, its measured nobility encompassing striking musical imagery for the "iron coursers shuddering through the bay". CLC/RPO/Wetton – review 2012-11-27T17:32:33Z
That early faith in nobility is reflected in his early plays, and transmuted into the cynicism of his later writing. Rocket to the Moon revived 2011-03-19T00:06:40Z
There was nobility and wistful longing to the searching slow movement. Music Review: Three Rising Stars Perform in Young Concert Artists Gala 2014-05-08T22:04:37Z
He reintroduced the special benefits of the monarchy, granting titles of nobility to 3,000 of his favorite citizens, including family members. French leader Napoleon Bonaparte has a complicated legacy 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z
He prefaced his first publicly released volume, Hours of Idleness, with a kind of pre-emptive apology that made heavy weather out of his youth and nobility. Rereading: Childe Harold by Lord Byron 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z
Her distinctive sound — full-bodied and sumptuous but never forced — ideally suited the passages of melting lyricism and nobility. Review: A Conductor’s Exciting Return to the New York Philharmonic 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z
In the past, she affected an aura of dispossessed nobility, dressing in lace-collared frocks, stiff swingy coats and knee socks. Marianne Faithfull, as Years Go By 2011-12-23T21:47:23Z
On Tuesday, Julie Kent played Marguerite’s self-sacrifice with grace and nobility. Dance Review: John Neumeier Makes a Feminist Point 2010-05-26T21:24:00Z
“The elegance, for one thing; nobility, for another; extreme attention to people and relationships and the slow and patient way that Jim has, and that Henry James has.” Film: James Ivory Rebuilds After the Loss of Ismail Merchant 2010-04-09T03:54:00Z
Paul’s hangdog nobility is a fine addition to the show, even if Caleb reads an awful lot like a gloss on Harrison Ford’s Deckard in the original “Blade Runner.” Review: The Perfect Timing of ‘Westworld’ Season 3 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z
Gil effuses about Hemingway’s work, and the great writer dispenses wisdom about what war does to men and offers his opinions about truth, courage, nobility and bravery. Hemingway on film: 6 films that take him from a WWI hotshot almost to the bitter end 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z
“For a long time you had to show nobility in all eight of your great-grandparents to become a knight,” he said. A Black-Tie Ball Fit for a Knight 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z
"Commands" will carry you deeper into the ongoing saga of Ringil Eskiath and his companions, as they refuse the corrupt trappings of nobility. 3 new titles in speculative fiction 2011-11-17T00:25:06Z
“Rebellion” is as good a showcase as any of the Kurosawa films for Mifune’s ability to portray unforced but passionate nobility. Mifune’s Transcendent Films, With and Without Kurosawa 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z
It was she who bestowed nobility upon the Duke of Hastings’ predecessors, positioning him to inherit a dukedom. With ‘Bridgerton,’ Scandal Comes to Regency England 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z
The High Middle Ages, with its tradition of courtly love that reflected the bonds of reciprocity between vassal and lord, offered a much friendlier playing field for women—particularly those in the nobility. Obsessed with Anne Boleyn 2012-06-18T22:01:00Z
A small number of yeoman property owners vs a sea of peasants, with the nobility pulling the strings to keep things in check. How California Turned Into a ‘State of Resistance’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z
“I do think there’s some nobility in trying to do a show for more people, as opposed to doing a show for less,” Mr. Meyers said. Jimmy Fallon Was on Top of the World. Then Came Trump. 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z
Either way, it restores nobility to the term “leisure class.” Review | Édouard Manet spent his final days in excruciating pain — and creating his most thrilling art 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z
Her muscular approach illuminated the nobility and monumental sweep of “Funérailles.” Music Review: For Liszt?s 200th, a Youthful Tribute 2011-02-22T00:00:09Z
Its rhetoric may be laconic and folksy, but its fury and its nobility seem distilled from Shakespeare. The Front Row: “Home from the Hill,” One of Hollywood’s Most Powerful Family Dramas 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z
Rowling has ever discussed the Battle of Britain as an influence on her fantasy universe, but she's precisely the right age to have been raised on such national mythological tales of Churchill-era nobility and sacrifice. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2": An action-packed curtain call 2011-07-14T00:01:00Z
The Awakening of Jacob, from 1974, impresses with its intense nobility. Penderecki: Fonogrammi; Horn Concerto; De Natura Sonoris I etc – review 2012-08-09T20:38:00Z
While Lofting never fails to give his Africans a measure of nobility, he is also quite certain of their savagery. Doctor Dolittle’s Talking Animals Still Have Much to Say 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z
Mr. d’Amboise is clear that Apollo is “a wild, untamed youth who learns nobility through art.” Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z
In “His Shot,” Lin-Manuel roars, “I am not gonna let Broadway rot” — and both the swagger and nobility of his ambition come through. 'Spamilton': Musical spoof lands its punches softly, and with a smile 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z
They represent a world of wealth without grace or nobility, a transnational ruling class with no class at all. ‘The Laundromat’ Review: Meryl Streep in a Cycle of Spin 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z
In light of present-day reality, the nobility of its language might seem archaic, false, and dead. Making Art in a Time of Rage 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z
Trade with India also left its mark in textiles as gold leaf was added to hand-painted cloths arriving from the Coromandel coast of India, a wearable form of investment for the nobility. Review: A Long Parade of Cultures Leaves a Rich Trail in the Art of Sumatra 2010-08-04T14:00:00Z
As the haunted Babs, Mr. Akinnuoye-Agbaje has an imposing physicality and understated nobility, while Ms. Graham fleshes out the resolute if underwritten Savannah. Review: ‘Wetlands,’ an Excursion to Noir on the Jersey Shore 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z
No longer content to pattern themselves on European nobility, these capitalist barons began spending their money “in an American way,” Fellowes said. ‘The Gilded Age’ Finally Arrives on HBO 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z
“Don’t hate the player; hate the game”—his words were usually taken as confirmation that he either did not belong to the nobility or was unworthy of it. The Pen, the Sword, and the Duel 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z
One reference to nobility just wouldn’t be enough for the heir of one of hip-hop’s royals, apparently. Lil' Kim Gives Birth to Baby Girl, Names Her Royal Reign 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z
The exhibition takes place in lavish recreations of the king and nobility’s quarters in the city, many of which have been opened to the public for the occasion. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z
For the two centuries in between, the common perception was that, as Mr. Kerman wrote, “Lully’s recitative is bloodless, its vigor carefully paced, its passion channeled, its nobility stereotyped and labored.” ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z
You gave him a real nobility or dignity in the first scene, when he stands up to the Captain and tells him that the poor can’t afford morals. Method to the Madness: Peter Mattei on Becoming Wozzeck 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z
The series is designed to inspire black people about the nobility of our tradition in this country, and to inspire ALL people about the nobility of that struggle. Charting 5 Centuries of African American History 2013-10-21T14:43:26Z
My father used to roll his eyes at Sumac’s claims of Inca nobility. On the trail of Yma Sumac: The exotica legend came from Peru, but her career was all Hollywood 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z
“The nobility in his heritage and the values that could complement his positive growth and sense of manhood are denied him,” he wrote. Harry Belafonte on His Artistic Values and His Activism 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z
Douglas makes him vivid and bright; a solitary man, with moments of unexpected nobility. 'Solitary Man': a familiar role, brilliantly fulfilled, for Michael Douglas 2010-06-17T20:18:00Z
Built by our own megalomaniacs who consider themselves modern-day nobility. Fontainebleau: A Forgotten Treasure 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z
Here, resident falconer Andy Hughes demonstrates why his hunting art was so prized by the nobility in the Highlands and elsewhere. Scotland’s northeastern scenery circuit — 500 miles of sheep, history and whisky 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z
This act of renunciation drives home one of Burroughs’s main themes: That despite a brutish, not British, upbringing, Kala’s son possesses unassailable nobility and fineness of character. Review | A look back at how Tarzan swung into immortality 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z
The moment raises an early red flag, in that this scene’s writing ask us to take the nobility of military service seriously. Crash landing: Space Force is not the Trump satire we need right now 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z
I felt that in New York, we talked much more about the nobility of our profession, how important it was and also how much fun it was. Sigourney Weaver Has Us All Fooled: She’s Really Quite Silly 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z
Jónsi’s twinkling, glockenspiel-laden music mirrors the wonder that Crowe’s characters feel as they settle into their new home and discover the majestic nobility of the wild animals they are now responsible for. Cameron Crowe: Hollywood?s Most Predictable DJ 2011-12-27T17:46:08Z
The feudal nobility knew how to fight back. I depict a riot 2011-08-09T13:28:10Z
By showing us how to cook well, Child lent nobility to our daily lives and a renewed appreciation of the necessary task of making dinner. The joy of HBO Max's Julia Child series, a deliciously affectionate celebration of an icon 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z
Syllabubs date back to pre-colonial days in England, where eggs and other farm products were rare as land could only be owned by the nobility. Celebrate the holidays with syllabub, the festive cocktail that is the precursor to eggnog 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z
And if it's not exactly an acting stretch for the ex-wrestler, Johnson brings a deft physical urgency and larger-than-life nobility to this ancient superhero. Dwayne Johnson's 'Hercules' packs action-filled punch 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z
Accessories included long silk necklaces like the ones worn by the Bhutan nobility, and a backpack to replace the more urban handbag. Large coats a mainstay for next winter from Milan 2013-02-21T22:50:18Z
If they are noble savages, the emphasis falls more on the savagery than on the nobility. | 'The Eagle': Back Then, a Man?s World of Loyalty and Adventure 2011-02-10T22:21:36Z
"I still believe in the nobility of journalism," Morgan said. BBC drama 'The Hour' back to make the 1950s sexy 2012-11-28T18:16:04Z
Edgar Barens’s “Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall,” made for HBO, is much darker, sadder portrait of old age, but not without nobility. | 'The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014': Oscar Shorts, From Surreal to Oh So Real 2014-01-30T22:56:19Z
This coolly nonchalant scion of the nobility wins the right to the first shot but misses. Capturing the essence of Pushkin, the revered poet killed in a duel at 37 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z
In her books, nobility is achieved in the here-and-now and nowhere else. Knausgaard or Ferrante? 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z
This tall young Korean dancer is a new star with the Mariinsky Ballet; he jumps astoundingly, turns with prowess and carries himself with nobility. Review: American Ballet Theater Revives ‘La Bayadère’ Using Familiar Choreography 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z
Waller-Bridge was educated at private schools and descends from titled nobility on both sides of her family. Phoebe Waller-Bridge defends Fleabag from poshness criticisms 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z
The first was "Black Sheep's Wool," a melodrama about the troubles of European nobility who came to North America. 'Essential' film copyright protection turns 100 2012-08-24T18:02:12Z
It bemoans the decline of the English nobility: in this sense it becomes a "meditation on the state of England". The deep foundations of the country-house novel 2011-02-01T10:31:28Z
"But some things are priceless," he added in a tone affecting nobility. Elon Musk and "Tucker Carlson Tonight": A distracting match made in misinformation paradise 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z
Barons, viscounts, earls, marquesses and dukes are all orders of British nobility, in ascending order of prestige. William and wife now duke, duchess of Cambridge 2011-04-29T11:34:09Z
Traditionally boredom, as Kierkegaard noted, was an expression of nobility, and that doesn't sit well in our democratic age. One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z
They say "There's a certain tenderness that is captured by the camera in all his performances and a kind of masculine nobility that appears in all his characters." Javier Bardem: is he the best ever Bond baddie? 2012-10-27T23:21:00Z
Hal is petulant, childish and arrogant, but he’s smart and charming enough to get away with it, and Sewell both embodies the charm and shows us the flashes of doubt and nobility that redeem him. ‘The Diplomat’ Review: Save the Marriage, Save the World 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z
Mozart and Da Ponte lend this nobleman a true nobility of character, which is what makes his tyrannical arrogance no mere transgression but a tragedy. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z
It is an unanalyzable fact that when the many commit to caring for the few that all of us achieve nobility, and our lives meaning. Theater Review: ‘Storefront Church,’ by John Patrick Shanley 2012-06-12T02:00:13Z
As written by Mr. Hibbert, Seretse Khama is a character of stock wisdom and nobility — on introduction, practically his first words are “I see an Africa that’s about unity, inclusion and equality.” Review: ‘A United Kingdom’ With Love That Tested Racial Tolerance 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z
Swelling music and Kelsey Grammer’s refined narration supply the appropriate sobriety, but the film is too intent on promoting the nobility of its cause to worry about engaging the uninitiated. Movie Review: ‘Until They Are Home,’ a Documentary Directed by Steven C. Barber 2012-08-31T00:31:54Z
The fine voicing of the slow movement created an aura of touching nobility and grace. Review | Piano-violin duo brings mature eloquence to Phillips Collection 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z
Thatcherism was hard enough to tolerate; worse were the wannabe Sebastians brandishing teddy bears and yucking up their enthusiasm for the English nobility of yore. Your next box set: Brideshead Revisited 2012-08-30T15:01:00Z
In this movie to be a politician’s wife is to be granted a share of tragic nobility. Review: A Sex Scandal Upends a Campaign in ‘The Front Runner’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z
Mr. Pinsent recalled his delight when poor weather stranded film’s nobility at the hotel. Gordon Pinsent, Actor Known for Playing Twinkle-Eyed Rogues, Dies at 92 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z
This attempt at nobility was her fatal flaw. Why do we love a trainwreck? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z
If “The Railway Man,” like many films about combat, is reflexively antiwar, it unabashedly celebrates the nobility and courage of British soldiers. Movie Review: ‘The Railway Man,’ a True Tale of Wartime Torment and Reconciliation 2014-04-10T22:30:18Z
The resort was a huge hit with American celebrities and European nobility alike, hosting stars such as Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Clark Gable and Janet Leigh. Near Idaho’s Sun Valley, choppers give intrepid skiers an all-access pass 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z
But undiluted nobility is kind of Glenn’s thing. 'The Walking Dead' Season 6 Premiere Recap: 'First Time Again' 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z
"The nobility love me because I've turned the palace into a big party and delicious buffet," he declares to Catherine in one scene, "and women love me because of my massive c**k!" "The Great" is the cheeky post-enlightment balm we've been waiting for 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z
In the show’s only nod to the nobility of seeing a job through to completion, however, those who are eliminated don’t leave the show. Review | CBS’s ‘Tough as Nails’ tries to celebrate hard work, but its tough talk smacks of class divide 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z
It’s livelier than the Broadway version, which felt leaden with nobility. Review: Rupert Everett Brings Oscar Wilde to the Stage in ‘The Judas Kiss’ 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z
What’s striking is how she conveys the novel’s singular first-person voice, one that is described in the introduction as “a certain abject nobility.” Review: In ‘Zama,’ Trying to Say Goodbye (Cruel) New World 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z
She is the only one who displays all of the traits of nobility one would expect in a queen and dragon tamer. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 8: I’m Still Me 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z
Although most of the characters in “Homegoing” are black, the whites and Africans who populate this world are equally capable of kindness and nobility, savagery and weakness. ‘Homegoing,’ by Yaa Gyasi: A bold tale of slavery for a new ‘Roots’ generation 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z
But Mr. Jones’s performance emphasizes Caliban’s poisoned depravity rather than hinting at any innate nobility corrupted by his enslavement. Theater Review | 'The Tempest': Air Sprite, Feral Creature, Rapturous Love and Other Sorcery 2010-02-26T03:15:00Z
It all sits very uneasily with the nobility of Gluck's music. Il Trionfo di Clelia – review 2012-06-25T15:51:28Z
But it does at least honor the nobility of the brutes on the screen as it caters to the appetites of the brutes on the couch. ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Review: Let’s You and Him Fight 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z
This Doctor is just a bit difficult, a man who holds his nobility behind a tendency to speak as he finds and to hell with the rest. Doctor Who recap: series 34, episode one – Deep Breath 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z
I hope you’ll walk away renewing your faith in the nobility and importance of public service, and convinced that we are a country that was founded on noble ideals. With a Possible Presidential Bid in 2020, Kamala Harris Talks About Her New Book 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z
All of this feel-good nobility could get icky, but in the premiere, at least, it was touching. 'True Blood' Recap: Back to the Beginning 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z
His story about romance unfolds the essence of romanticism; his tale of Austrian nobles reveals the essence of nobility. Max Ophüls’s “From Mayerling to Sarajevo” 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z
For an addiction that affects around one in 12 Americans, there’s a remarkable lack of genuinely well-constructed films about the effects of alcoholism and Wilder’s intent initially wasn’t one of nobility. My favorite best picture Oscar winner: The Lost Weekend 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z
Many villas are owned by the region’s “impoverished nobility.” Nature and romance permeate in Italy’s lakes district 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z
Blankfein hired Reid Weingarten, a famous white-collar defense attorney who had once said of his work, “I feel like I’m in the French Revolution, defending the nobility against the howling mob.” America’s Top Prosecutors Used to Go After Top Executives. What Changed? 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z
However, pride of place in this well-rendered evening goes to Hunt Stafford and Cohn — dazzling as a pitiable pair whose ascent to a kind of nobility is as unexpected as it is emotionally cathartic. 1950s tales of loneliness and redemption told with conviction in 'Separate Tables' 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z
One of the reasons they’re a mainstay is because there is an inherent nobility in the idea of being a cowboy. Galley Girl: Linda Lael Miller and the Rise of the Cowboy Romance Novel 2011-12-02T18:30:19Z
For all but a tiny proportion of the landed nobility, the money ran out and everyone had to go to work. Patrick Melrose and the Fall of the English Élite 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z
News coverage of the recent accidents, as well as historical research, has constantly underscored for the creative team the nobility of people in mining communities who face daily reminders of their loved ones’ mortality. Mining Deaths Sharpen ?The Burnt Part Boys? 2010-05-22T06:47:00Z
Yelchin conducted his far- too-brief career with understated nobility: whether the work in question was a Shakespeare adaptation or a summer entertainment, he poured his soul right in. Review: Star Trek Beyond Is a Case Study in Interstellar Race Relations 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z
Perhaps her shadow is a metaphor for the fate of that annoying Austro-Hungarian nobility — always tagging along, unwanted and uninvited. What the Shadow Knows: Picture Books on Runaway Reflections 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z
He was, for instance, the first Brutus I'd ever seen to suggest that behind the character's surface nobility lay a self-regarding vanity. John Wood: an actor who made us see things anew 2011-08-11T12:32:33Z
To get in touch with Tatiana’s sensibility, Netrebko said she tries “to remember nobility, sincerity, honor, sacrifice — all those words which we are not using anymore much.” Russian Diva to Open Third Met Season in a Row 2013-09-16T14:39:33Z
The dwindling nobility favored portraits, preferably of themselves, as if to confirm their survival. Review: Rembrandt and Vermeer at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z
Beyond that, the card is striking for the rugged nobility conveyed in the face of its subject. Metropolitan Museum Opens Huge Show of Baseball Cards 2013-07-11T21:15:02Z
The SEALs’ debate and their decision regarding the Afghans’ fate is the key to the underlying nobility of their sacrifice. ‘Lone Survivor’: a true-life tale of a doomed SEALs mission 2014-01-09T00:28:49Z
In the Larghetto, sometimes nicknamed “Indian Lament,” Mr. Hoopes used tasteful slides to imbue the melody with a vocal quality of great sweetness and nobility. Review: ‘American Visions,’ a Graceful Take on Race, Patriotism and Longing 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z
These chilling stories, never before published, prove her literary nobility as James considers the coldest of cold cases. New books by dead authors 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z
A running fantasy of wronged divorced-dad nobility, the series here continues its ritualized plot points. ‘Taken 3,’ Starring Liam Neeson 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z
He's a man of low social standing, unlike Bruce Wayne, Diana Prince or Clark Kent, whose social nobility somehow infers a level of trustworthiness. In the end, "Peacemaker" is the villain-turned-hero worth crossing the TV galaxy for 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z
“Mary Magdalene” dutifully telegraphs the nobility and compassion of its title character while remaining noncommittal about everything else in its path. ‘Mary Magdalene’ Review: A Revision in Need of Revision 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z
That monologue, if you recall, compares the alleged nobility, honesty, kindness and decency of men with the “exasperating, irritating, vacillating, calculating, agitating, maddening and infuriating hags” of the opposite sex. Music Review: Betty Buckley at Feinstein?s - Review 2011-10-06T19:55:50Z
Yet always the nobility of human stoicism shows through, tinctured with wise, deep humour. Annie Proulx 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z
“There isn’t an ounce of anything like nobility in what these people do,” Detective Inspector Nicola Tanner hotly informs her colleague Tom Thorne. In the Best New Crime, Lethal Lasagna, Honor Killings and Nanny Cams 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z
It’s all still amusing, and the notes of strangled romanticism and just-perceptible nobility are still in place. Review: It’s ‘The End’ of the World, and You’ll Know It 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z
Yet what I will most remember is the tranquil elegance and nobility he brought to the slow movement. Music Review: Philharmonic Opens Season at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-09-20T16:22:20Z
It was said sneeringly, but Lévy embraces it: The United States “is an empire, if you will, but a recalcitrant one, whose nobility has always been to balk at imperialism.” New Directions for American Foreign Policy 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z
The revolution of 1789 caused an exodus among the country’s nobility. Woman of the world 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z
But now I envy her; I envy the sense that she was building something larger; I envy the nobility and honor that comes with being part of a civic endeavor. My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z
The encompassing warmth of Jessye Norman’s voice made it ideal for Christmas music, to which she brought nobility but also tenderness. Missing ‘The Nutcracker’? How to Get Your Holiday Fix at Home 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z
Like Ms. Sidibe’s fantasy gowns and boas in “Precious,” it telegraphs the nobility of a character with a difficult, if not an altogether benighted life. A Wizard Who Works With Color and Pattern 2009-12-17T17:19:28Z
Smith arrived in Kandahar full of optimism and a sense of the "nobility" of the mission to oust the Taliban. 'The Dogs Are Eating Them Now' an unflinching account of Afghanistan 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z
But “beautiful” in the Aristotelian sense can also refer to kalon, a Greek word that can indicate a moral beauty, a nobility of spirit. The art of David Ortiz: Is Big Papi himself a work of art? Let’s consult the experts 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z
The priests at Chavín would lead supplicant nobility into the tunnels after drugging them heavily with a cocktail of mescaline and ayahuasca, a potent combination. Peru: take the high road to Inca glory 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z
But despite its affection for the quirks of its characters and their milieu, the film is most memorable for its gravity, for the almost tragic nobility it finds in sad and silly circumstances. Review: In ‘Rams,’ Brothers at Odds Face a Shared Threat to Their Livelihood 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z
For 150 years Portugal and Kongo remained on peaceful terms, founded on trade and conversion of the nobility to Christianity. Angola, Figures of Power - review 2010-11-23T13:59:00Z
The essence of melodrama is the revelation of tragic grandeur in everyday life—and the contrast, even the conflict, between the mighty nobility of everyday people’s emotions and the workaday circumstances of their lives. Eugène Green's “The Son of Joseph,” a Grand and Comedic Drama of Father and Son 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z
Felt, who finally claimed credit for being Deep Throat in 2005, emerges as a hero in Landesman’s movie, an avatar for the nobility of public service and self-sacrifice. Perspective | At the Toronto International Film Festival, you can feel anxiety in the air — and on the screen 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z
And yet, there’s a nobility in Millie’s inability to fake it. Two Novels for and About Lost Millennial Women 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z
Two films temper horrifying images with stories of courage and nobility. Oscar-Nominated Shorts, Mirroring a World of Pain and Fortitude 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z
As Pip grows up and seeks his fortune in London, he receives many lessons about the nature of the upper classes and the ways their snobbery is frequently at odds with the definition of nobility. Olivia Colman on her "Great Expectations" for Miss Havisham: “There's such darkness inside her" 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z
And their shared starting point, a vanished white girl, plays into a vicious colonial trope: purity, savagery and the quiet nobility of hardscrabble pastoralists. Murder in the Brain-Broiling Heat and Red Dust of the Outback 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z
But he has demonstrated, over and over again, in high schools and libraries and state legislatures and schools, that nobility and ridiculousness are entwined in our DNA. Review: ‘Monrovia, Indiana’ Is a Sharp, Lyrical Look at Small-Town America 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z
Like flipping through a catalog or picking at a box of chocolates, it’s a little temporary indulgence that makes you feel, if only for a little while, like nobility. Downton Abbey, I Am Too American to Love You 2013-01-04T18:45:35Z
The line between nobility and stolidity kept blurring, with an exaggerated slowdown into the final bars of the second movement just one of the performance’s mannerisms. Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z
And Oz, for all its mortal hazards, offered Dorothy an adventure through which she could brandish the love and nobility that no one thought to ask her to display at home. Oz Revisited – Part 3: A Parable of Empowerment 2013-09-18T15:30:10Z
I am the last generation who really remembers those Southern women; they had an elegance and nobility, and a real charm and style. A ‘Menagerie’ That Fulfills a London Dream 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z
“I suppose you could say that. By being parasites on the nobility they had better lives than servant women or farmer’s wives, but that was a question of class.” My mentor, Anaïs Nin 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z
Even Ned Stark, whose demise is a byproduct of his stupidity, dies because he unwisely believes that members of nobility were bound by honor. “Game of Thrones” recap: “Beyond the Wall,” an adventure into thin air 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z
One thousand years ago, this mountainous area was a summer retreat for the nobility — a tranquil place to escape the heat. Riverside Sanctuary: Hoshinoya Kyoto 2010-12-02T11:50:00Z
When they are at last rescued by a Bedouin, Saint-Exupéry equates him to “the nobility and generosity” of “Man” himself. Taking to the skies in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s ‘Wind, Sand and Stars’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z
The sophisticated nobility he wears in “The Sleeping Beauty” is nothing like the boyish excitement he brings to Siegfried. Critic’s Notebook: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Swan Lake’ 2013-06-23T21:47:42Z
She will experience true royal pomp when she receives her award at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace next year, but she is no stranger to nobility, coming from an aristocratic family. Screen queen, golf kings get royal honors 2011-12-31T00:01:41Z
Wine was elevated to a luxury good, and grapes were placed in a caste system and ranked by their “nobility.” France Defines Natural Wine, but Is That Enough? 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z
The series about civil war, nobility, mythical creatures and treachery was seen by an average of 6.6 million viewers on Sunday, topping it's all-time high audience of 5.5 million. HBO renews 'Game of Thrones' for two more seasons 2014-04-08T18:45:23Z
“Being born into the United States rather than the Congo is like being born into the nobility rather than the peasantry in the Middle Ages,” he explained in an interview with the Washington Post. On this dark day for DACA consider what open borders really mean 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z
The latter, also known as portrait busts, were made as lifelike memorials for the dearly departed, typically carved of marble and owned by the nobility. The Bust Economy Is Booming 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z
Something about the nobility of forest elephants regularly raises concern for their extinction. The Forest Elephants of the Central African Republic Are in Peril 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z
This documentary directed by Alex Winter opens with a portrait of the ostensibly outrageous musician Frank Zappa in a moment of nobility. ‘Zappa’ Review: Portrait of a Rock Star and a Nation’s Hero 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z
The lingering nobility of Europe put him up in their castles, invited him to balls and lent him their horses. A Walk From Vienna to Budapest 2010-05-22T02:41:00Z
He also explains how the term "Uncle Tom" unfortunately entered the American lexicon as a derogatory label, ignoring the nobility of the book's namesake character. 'Mightier than the Sword': How 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' changed the course of American history 2011-06-15T19:38:03Z
The great danger is that the play becomes a study in suffocating nobility. Berenice – review 2012-10-02T23:48:56Z
Rare enough as a sympathetic depiction of a European of color from before the French Revolution, the portrait has something more: nobility of spirit. Art and Museums in NYC This Week 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z
The long, singing lines of the adagio attain a tender nobility. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z
In Europe only the highest nobility could wear purple clothing; in China, they wore yellow. Seeing Color: A Matter of Nature, or Culture? 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z
Newman, who believes the queen was not Black and had no links to Portuguese nobility, echoed other critics who have said the show effectively helps whitewash British racism. Here’s What to Know About ‘Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story’ 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z
That legendary movie imbued the mob with an undeserved nobility and grandiosity. Review | ‘Goodfellas’ turned 30 this year. ‘Made Men’ explores its lasting influence. 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z
The depravity, high-handedness, and cruelty of an authentically sophisticated nobility, both as a ruling class and as a model of refinement and character, is tragedy—Don Giovanni’s, his fiefdom’s, and all Europe’s. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z
The nobility would often use the full-length portrait to celebrate the union of two influential families. When the Old Masters Were the P.R. Agents of the Rich and Powerful 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z
I would love to have written “Scoop,” by Evelyn Waugh, that vicious but affectionate satire of journalism, exposing our trade in all its insane competitiveness, bravery, inefficiency and strange nobility. By the Book: Ben Macintyre 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z
In her first scene, when Mary is given a moment of freedom and sees the fields and the trees, Ms. DiDonato infuses her lines with a tender mix of nobility, uncertainty and sadness. Music Review: ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Metropolitan, With Joyce DiDonato 2013-01-02T00:03:57Z
Not too tight, not too loose, his swimwear always appeared to enhance his excellent claim to savage nobility. | Float, Memory 2014-05-06T13:00:33Z
With the Jubilee fresh in their minds, he added, designers are no less inspired by the trappings of nobility: fur panels, lavish brocades, evening slippers and royalty’s reigning emblem, the crown jewels. In Fashion, Are Trends Passé? 2012-08-22T23:58:16Z
In Imperial times, nobility built villas on the island, exploiting its vistas as they relaxed in swimming pools hewn from rock. Overnighter: Off the Roman Coast, Bobbing for Views 2011-05-06T20:15:00Z
She exits first; Sanz, with a simple nobility — he is a just man, not a hero — looks on for a moment before departing into the opposite wing. Review: Jerome Robbins Delivers the Hit of City Ballet’s Season 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z
From his first moment, quizzically interviewing the unlikely secretarial candidate Miep, everything Schreiber wants us to know about Frank is apparent: the stiff reserve, the shrewd pragmatism, the quiet nobility, the sneaky sense of humor. ‘A Small Light’ Review: A Profile in Extreme Courage 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z
But nor do I think this is the occasion to get on our high horses and preach to one another in our echo chambers about the nobility of our artistic mission. Let the power of 'Hamilton' speak louder than a Twitter feud 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z
In this enormously entertaining scripted nonfiction show, Dana Schwartz delivers deep dives into how members of the nobility lived and died throughout history. 5 Podcasts About the Royal Family 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z
“Be proud of all the Fatimas who clean working women’s houses,” she reads, and her words resound with the determination and quiet nobility of a woman who, however downtrodden, knows her own worth. Review: In ‘Fatima,’ a Muslim Mother Working in France Hits Her Limit 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z
When she goes back to work, assuming she ever goes back, she isn’t sure what will be left of nobility. Trump’s government was a very bleak workplace for many. Then it shut down. 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z
The three-dimensional warrior on one of the ear ornaments, hung exclusively from the stretched lobes of ancient Andean nobility, is fashioned after the regalia the lord wore in his tomb. For curators, the quest to build 'Golden Kingdoms' for Getty exhibit leads to stunning surprises 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z
Television may have cornered the market on stories about the nobility, but it was theater that traditionally got into the heads of heads of state and tried to understand what they were thinking. 11 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2021 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z
Even if he were, there’s a strange nobility to this downward odyssey that’s hard to shake off. Review: ‘Entertainment’ Features a Comic Who Is Cracking Up 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z
“The Shakespeare Requirement,” like “Straight Man,” sublimates Professor Stoner by using his gentle shade as fuel for humor; the book leans into Fitger’s haplessness but remains attuned to his essential nobility. “The Shakespeare Requirement” Is a Sad-Professor Satire That Burns with Moral Anger 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z
He identified with the Indians’ nobility, but also thought the subject might appeal to German collectors. Marsden Hartley Gets His Due in Berlin 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z
The tragedy is that these impulses cost him his soul, but there is an undeniable element of heroism, of nobility, in his desire to transcend human limitations. ‘Faust’: Alexander Sokurov’s version casts a dreamy spell 2014-01-09T21:21:26Z
But the character’s nobility — her insistence that even the fallen are capable of grace and generosity — is poignantly etched. | 'Vieux Carr?': The Boarders Put the Polish on Eccentric 2011-02-23T03:01:40Z
A painting of the wedding — presided over by Emperor Maximilian — that had helped ensure their ascent into nobility in 1515, served to remind guests of their significance. In the Czech Republic, Moravia and Its Castles 2011-09-23T18:55:00Z
The show drops this expository tidbit during a key scene between two Black members of the nobility. From race to incels, the modern "Bridgerton" twists hold a mirror up to today's shortcomings 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z
Cole is the show’s repository of nobility, however, so — in a development that seemed to stretch the limits of time and traffic — he ended up attending both dinners. ‘The Affair’ Season 2, Episode 7: The Prize Turkey 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z
Smetana's Shakespearian symphonic poem, meanwhile, is apt to confuse us because it evokes a mood of fraught, almost Byronic nobility that sits uneasily with our perceptions of the play. BBC Philharmonic/Noseda 2010-09-27T22:40:00Z
Courage, nobility and a refusal to compromise are admirable qualities — and generally fatal in Westeros. 'Game of Thrones' writers on season finale and why 'All Men Must Die' 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z
The public areas had been rather garishly redone — blood red carpets and lots of shiny gold trim, in a manner that spoke more to Eastern Europe than the Austro-Hungarian nobility. In the Czech Republic, Moravia and Its Castles 2011-09-23T18:55:00Z
“It was a local vogue and a show of power. The nobility wanted to prove their power in life and in death.” A morbid tourist attraction in Sicily? Of corpse! 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z
Best of all were two songs by Ivor Gurney, performed with moving nobility. From Stephanie Blythe to Ian Bostridge, Favorite Recitals of the Year 2011-12-17T05:03:15Z
He got it all: the rhyme sequence, the high nobility of the language and the silliness of some of the text. How we made: Ivan Fischer and Tom Randle on ENO's The Magic Flute 2012-10-08T17:51:31Z
As adapted for the screen, she added, “War Horse,” without the puppetry of the stage play, is “about the nobility of real horses.” Holiday Movies: The Season of Spielberg 2011-10-28T16:42:47Z
“Like Garbo, Hara came to represent an ideal of womanliness, nobility and generosity,” David Thomson wrote in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film. Setsuko Hara, Japanese Star of Films by Ozu and Kurosawa, Is Dead at 95 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z
Not that long before Shakespeare was born, Edward VI had tried to leave the throne away from his half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth, and he only failed because the nobility wouldn't go along with it. Was Noah's ark bigger than Oasis of the Seas? 2013-05-29T14:15:01Z
With nobility, personal reputation was often equated with the reputation of the Nation. “Game of Thrones” finale: Cersei’s public shaming has deep historical roots 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z
Jaime’s devotion to her is the obstacle between him and the inner nobility that some part of him is desperate to embrace. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 8: I’m Still Me 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z
Out of excess pride and nobility, he rejects her offer of $100 million to solve the duchy’s problems: “We are waiting for your country to offer the world something more than money.” Review: Without Ethel Merman, a Limp ‘Call Me Madam’ at Encores! 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z
The text insists we view nobility in terms of individual humanity rather than class. Cherubini: Lodoïska – review 2013-05-08T16:54:33Z
Ms. Bauman has altered a few words in the play’s last scene so that instead of nearly everyone returning happily to court, only the nobility get visas. Making Shakespeare Their Own, Serious and Silly 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z
The show has softened Harry — he has a more visible nobility — and Cole’s performance feels hesitant and unsure, neither here nor there. ‘The Ipcress File’ Review: In the Footsteps of Michael Caine 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z
While Shakespeare referred to addiction in”Henry V,” nobody at the time advocated treatment centres for debauched nobility. Addiction is not a disease: How AA and 12-step programs erect barriers while attempting to relieve suffering 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z
Mr. Ohlsson brought a nobility and tenderness to his interpretation, beautifully juxtaposing the contemplative characteristics with outbursts of raw emotion. Music Review: Garrick Ohlsson Summons Stamina at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-12T22:56:52Z
But there is quiet nobility to the duets near the melancholy end for the two leading ladies, who sing with sensitivity and grace. A Hotbed of Operatic Innovation Wins With Tradition 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z
This enigma fits nicely with the marketing surrounding "Queen Charlotte" and its fictionalized realization of an inclusive British nobility. The question isn't why cast a Black Cleopatra but rather why not profile another African queen? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z
“Royalty and nobility made the act of eating an art,” one of the characters explains. Review | At this show, you get to eat cake. But you might feel a little guilty about it. 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z
In an important distinction from Western practice, the boyars — Moscow’s version of nobility — held status and property solely at the czar’s pleasure, with no rights of private ownership. The Myths That Made, and Still Make, Russia 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z
Under the gun, thanks to last week’s revelation that he faked the Penguin’s assassination, Gordon was forced to play a little rougher than usual on Monday, in a welcome smudging of his typical nobility. 'Gotham' Recap: All Hail the Penguin 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z
But it showed the designer working with the subtle textures of raw cotton and washed leather, creating nobility from fluidity. Special Report: Radical Surgery on Regular Menswear 2010-06-28T11:14:00Z
More than her innocent beauty, it is the nobility of her character that ensnares him — and by extension us. 'Romeo and Juliet' is a potent production still finding its way 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z
But the latter, he says, uses its horrors in the context of a tale of endurance: “This film has much more nobility, and much more motivation to inspire.” Alejandro González Iñárritu: 'When you see The Revenant you will say "Wow"' 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z
Seal Team also contrasts the expertise, valor and nobility of America’s soldiers with the cruelty of their foes. The war with no end: why American television refuses to leave the trenches 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z
But there are Flemish answers for some urgent American questions — not least, how to memorialize the dead of a conflict with no nobility. How to Remember a War Without Glory? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z
Speaking of nobility, Irving sits in custody because he confessed to two murders he didn’t commit. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: A visit from Franklinstein's reanimated monster 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z
In medieval times, the town had a thriving leather business, but the tanning process made for pungent merchandise that didn’t sit well with the gloved nobility. A Perfume Devotee in the Land of French Fragrance 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z
He may be both physically and emotionally scarred, but Kidd has integrity and nobility. Tom Hanks' "News of the World" is a toothless throwback Western 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z
Centuries later, Venetian courtesans clopped around in towering chopines, while during the reign of Louis XIV, red heels were a mark of nobility. Makers: Who Made That Stiletto? 2012-04-13T18:26:02Z
Or the Betty inside her, who wields a hauteur to mask deep suspicions of helplessness, who considers being called frigid an insult but ice queen a nobility title? Mad Men Watch: Don Draper’s Baby 2013-06-17T14:54:15Z
You cannot read it without experiencing the nobility and exaltation of these creatures — canine and human alike — in their lonely occupations. The Essay That Made Jo Ann Beard Want to Write Nonfiction 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z
On a sweltering Wednesday evening audience members sat on the sides of Daniel Zimmerman’s two-tone set, cleverly evocative of the 17th century, cooling themselves with provided fans as court nobility might. | 'Hater': An Updated ?Misanthrope? at the Ohio Theater 2010-07-22T22:11:00Z
The shoes, first designed for court nobility commonly carried around in sedan chairs, are made with more than 40 types of tools, in a specific sequence of more than 90 steps. Made in China since the Qing dynasty: Beijing shoemaker taps into... 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z
You were one of the readers not persuaded by Atticus Finch’s nobility in the original novel. Harper Lee’s lingering Civil War ghosts: “Go Set a Watchman” is “a very accurate perspective of what’s going on here in the South” 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z
Even Shakespeare’s deep-dyed villains are most compelling when their humanity — their corrupted nobility — glimmers through the sulfurous smoke of their dirty deeds. | 'Julius Caesar': Cry Havoc! The Blood Sport Called Politics 2011-07-31T22:23:03Z
Their account did complete justice to the work’s nobility and expressive appeal. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2010-05-10T22:14:00Z
‘Dream’ has all the same qualities of those pieces: the eloquence, the excitement, the nobility. Uplifting music, deep themes: Seattle Symphony to perform Elgar’s ‘Dream of Gerontius’ 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z
He showed genuine nobility and jumped out of a window on the second floor.” T Magazine: First Man Up 2011-03-08T14:00:35Z
Unlike Mozart and Haydn he refused to defer to nobility, asserting that a composer is of greater value, in the cosmic scheme of things, than a prince. Books of The Times: ?Beethoven in America,? by Michael Broyles - Review 2011-12-18T22:36:08Z
The woman is clearly of the nobility, since she is attended by servants and wears jewels. ‘La Toilette’: Art Show Explores Women’s Bathing Rituals Through History 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z
But he lacks the nobility that needs to be established to make his fall seem tragic. Before I Sleep; Eurydice; Macbeth 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z
I don’t think bloodlines will matter so much following the destruction of most of Westeros’ nobility, and Davos is by far the purest character. 'Jon will murder Dany then reign': you predict who will win Game of Thrones 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z
“But undiluted nobility is kind of Glenn’s thing,” I wrote, and on Sunday we saw what that got him. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 3: ‘Thank You’ 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z
Polyamory was practiced in ancient Greece and Mesopotamia, among European nobility and in communes. Meet Janie and Maggie and Cody, a throuple surviving the pandemic together 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z
The same sense that, by contrast, the propertied classes, our local nobility, would tolerate Jews so long as we helped them get richer but did not cross some invisible boundary—the presumably unavailable daughters. Leonard Cohen's Montreal 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z
They are cocksure, and probably for good reason — these are the intellectual nobility, the winners. Gene Weingarten: How do you tell Snap, Crackle and Pop apart? Who cares? 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z
Despite Willy’s delusions and moral evasions, Miller always insisted on the nobility in his struggle. Spring Performance: ?Death of a Salesman? Arrives on Broadway Right on Time 2012-02-24T15:54:51Z
She exudes the nobility and practicality of artisans who come from a line that goes back for generations. | Where You Can Find the Most Beautiful Brushes in Germany 2013-07-22T21:59:23Z
In Mozart’s time, the nobility had political power as well as great wealth. Remember When ‘Figaro’ Was Set in Trump Tower? 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z
“The camera sees things that the naked eye doesn’t and with Bogart, the camera found an incredible nobility.” ‘The Maltese Falcon’ returns to theaters at ripe age of 80 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z
It’s hard to keep all the corpses from reawakening, for example, when the rules allow you to burn peasants but not the nobility. 5 New International Series Visit 5 Far-Flung Crime Scenes 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z
During Shakespeare’s lifetime, Queen Elizabeth, her successor, King James, and various members of the nobility all sponsored theater troupes, who put on public and private performances. For Shakespeare, the Trump-stabbing “Caesar” would be business as usual 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z
Nevertheless, the 2019 film not only made the examination of fading nobility larger than life on the big screen, but was a commercial success, bringing in over $194 million worldwide in its theatrical run. Another "Downton Abbey" movie is the Christmas gift you're getting, but didn't know you needed 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z
After a savage climax, a slow, occasionally discursive string threnody takes over, during which the brass intrusions gradually lose some ferocity and the music moves towards a tentative nobility. RLPO/Petrenko – review 2012-06-11T17:10:04Z
There is no doubt of the symphony’s nobility and weight, yet it has always left me a little cold. Cult Fame and Its Discontents 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z
Every aspect of the practice is associated with European nobility and the upper class. Making etiquette for everyone again – despite, or because of, its weaponization 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z
Yet I will forever be inspired by his nobility, his grace and his epic talent. Comedian Patrice O'Neal dies, had suffered stroke 2011-11-30T20:57:50Z
This play would seem to promote the inborn nobility of the monarch's blue bloodline, if it were not for the fact that Prince Hal's fat sidekick steals the show. The top 10 literary works about ancestors 2013-07-17T13:50:01Z
One organisation wrote to a national newspaper saying that whatever I believed about literature, its nobility and reach, I couldn't escape the politics of my decision. Ian McEwan on winning the Jerusalem prize 2011-02-24T11:30:36Z
Sonya Yoncheva brings sensitivity and nobility to the Countess, but her soprano takes on an unattractive edge in her upper register, disrupting the purity of the Mozartean line. CD reviews: Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s latest Mozart is a missed opportunity 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z
It captures all the nobilities of the sport, in all its splendor, in two minutes flat. The Top 10 Baseball Films of All Time 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z
In 2010, playing the title role in Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov,” he survived a last-minute directorial switch and sang with nobility — if also, perhaps, a degree of detachment. René Pape in a Solo Recital at the Metropolitan Opera House 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z
The melody is a statement with the nobility of a Greek temple, a quiet expanse broken only by a playful little burst of a scale, like a giggle atop the Acropolis at sunrise. Bronfman Braces for the Five Piano Concertos 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z
The writing’s as smooth as good whiskey, the plot is satisfyingly twisty, and the narration perfectly captures Marlowe’s bone-weary sadness and tattered nobility. New in crime fiction: tales from Wales, Los Angeles and Cairo 2014-03-10T07:02:36Z
He’s a bit of a rock in print as well — his letters and diary entries evidence nobility but rarely shine. Two New Books Have Anglophiles and Bibliophiles Covered 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z
And he brought nobility to the lyrical twists of the wistful Adagio. Music Review: ‘The Baroque Vanguard,’ at the Miller Theater 2013-04-30T20:55:35Z
Courtiers gained Elizabeth’s favour through exploits of land and sea, to the consternation of the old nobility. Smart redhead 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z
Snarky jokes about Jacquees’s nobility may have been abundant online, but the fans piled into Irving Plaza were very much real. The New R. & B. Is Here, Reflecting Confused Modern Love 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z
So did Rome’s emperors, barbarians and clerical nobility. My Rome: Still a Classic Beauty 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z
Pascal claims to be descended from Norman noblemen, though nobility isn’t the first thing called to mind by this sardonic handyman with rough hands and bedroom eyes. ‘Beast’ Review: In Hot Pursuit of Love and Danger 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z
With “Dead Prince College” printed on T-shirts and coats in vivid purple Neoprene, the designer unveiled his story: the need to ignore nobility and embrace the Facebook generation — and to put craftsmanship ahead of entitlement. Special Report: Fashion: Hats Off to Easy Elegance 2011-01-24T18:21:28Z
The Vatican condemned their affair as "erotic vagrancy", an "insult to the nobility of the hearth". Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter: being Burton and Taylor 2013-07-13T08:00:00Z
With all the new pieces, Hahn fans also were grateful for the nobility of the Bach Violin Sonata No. 1, the exciting rush of the Beethoven Sonata No. 2, and the warmhearted Brahms "Sonatensatz." Hahn, Lisitsa mix old, new with dazzling results 2011-10-18T18:26:04Z
The family of the liquor baron Sam Bronfman, who supported these institutions, were our nobility. Leonard Cohen's Montreal 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z
Born a commoner, she won the affection of King Louis XV in 1745, becoming his chief mistress and gaining nobility. Inside France's $100 Million Palace Pompadour, A Royal Chateau Restored By A Press-Shy Philanthropist 2013-03-28T11:00:00Z
Once a beloved character known for his nobility and sense of justice, he's now shown to have started out as a bigot. Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' sells 1.1 million copies in 6 days 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z
Those in Supreme’s inner circle see nobility in Mr. Jebbia’s unwillingness to cash in. Guerrilla Fashion: The Story of Supreme 2012-11-21T22:29:38Z
While writing for “Sunny,” he decided to loosely adapt the book’s rules for chivalry and nobility as a script. David Hornsby Juggles Multiple Jobs on Multiple Networks 2011-09-29T00:06:15Z
Progressing with somber uncertainty but unfailing nobility, it’s a strong piece. How the Philharmonic’s New Home Sounds, From Any Seat 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z
And he may be our only hope for Peace on Earth and all that, but he’s just so annoying with his sadness, quiet dignity and unflinching nobility. 'Homeland' Recap: It's Back, With Quinn in the Driver's Seat 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z
The nobility and restraint of Simionato's performance is preserved on a recording. Giulietta Simionato obituary 2010-05-07T15:19:00Z
His Greeks and Romans are, above all, exemplars, showing readers what it takes — and costs — to live a life of nobility and consequence. ‘The Age of Caesar’: A fresh look at the key players in a time of historic unrest 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z
"All my boyhood and youth I thought of the word nobility and what it meant," he wrote. Rocket to the Moon revived 2011-03-19T00:06:40Z
But this brand, which previously stood alone with a lofty nobility, now has joined the luxury fashion pack. Fashion Review: At Givenchy, Sweet Tranquility 2012-10-01T18:52:38Z
He warned that opening the profession to anyone who wanted to be a doctor endangered the well-being of society and the nobility of a profession dedicated to service. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z
"Bridgerton" is equal parts promising and frustrating, in that it shows a type of period piece traditionally presented as entirely white and places Black nobility in a central role. From "The Bachelor" to "Bridgerton," examining the fraught dynamics of interracial romance on TV 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z
It’s bloodless even in the midst of all its bloodiness; its characters are devoid of nobility, even the horrible kind. Review: Quentin Tarantino's Hateful Eight Revels in Snow, Not So Much in People 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z
The backbone of the Owens style is a head-high nobility that makes tailoring seem graphic, especially this season when the designer introduced horizontal stripes that complimented light bars on the backdrop. Special Report: Fashion: Nicolas Ghesquiere at Balenciaga Mixes Heritage and Style 2011-09-29T17:18:23Z
Feeling For | Hermès Equestrian Collection Although it is perhaps better known for its iconic handbags, the French brand Hermès originated as a harness and bridle maker in the 19th century for European nobility. | Hermès Equestrian Collection 2013-05-01T16:25:24Z
The precise Christopher Bloom brought to Don José both a boyish nobility and a hangdog defenselessness. Ballet Hispanico’s Take on ‘Carmen’ in ‘Carmen.maquia’ 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z
Spielberg, who directed Hanks in films including "Saving Private Ryan," singled out the actor for showing America the "nobility of our men and women in uniform." For Tom Hanks et al., a capital evening at Kennedy Center Honors gala 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z
And while Robinson, with some reluctance, had nobility and greatness thrust upon him, Chavez was a humble farm laborer who set out to be an agent of change. ‘Cesar Chavez’: a noble portrait of the civil-rights leader 2014-03-26T18:56:20Z
To cite a quote of disputed origin often attributed to Ernest Hemingway, "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self." Making etiquette for everyone again – despite, or because of, its weaponization 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z
Maid Marian is also a member of the nobility – in Prince of Thieves she is King Richard’s cousin. How the Robin Hood myth was turned on its head by rightwingers 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z
In his hands, these well-worn tricks give restaurants the battered nobility of a vintage Saab. Restaurant Review: Keith McNally’s Cherche Midi 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z
Field began composing nocturnes for piano while living in St. Petersburg, Russia, in the early 19th century, where he enjoyed a lavish, Lisztian life as a darling of the nobility. Music Review: Celebrating an Irishman Who Preceded Chopin 2011-03-14T23:00:13Z
The concept — a middle-aged, insecure man-child whose narcissism and disdain for the world are undercut, and given a kind of backhanded nobility, by his sentimental attachment to baseball — holds up. Review: ‘Brockmire’ Is the Dystopian Baseball Comedy We Need 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z
A century ago, Yale University served as the clubhouse for America’s untitled nobility, offering a code along with the sports, connections and light reading. John Kerry Describes Politics as It Used to Be 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z
Filtered through Rhimes' romantic treatment, they are champions of integration whose burning love for each elevates members of London's Black elite to the status of nobility. She is very brown: "Queen Charlotte" explains how the integrated ton was won, but what is left out? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z
Much of this later work emerged from his fascination with and measured affection for American popular culture, or at least those aspects of it that embody a “nobility of usefulness.” Fraught and Fabulous: Art That Shows a Passion for Democracy 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z
Konieczny brought unusual charisma and nobility to the designated villain of Wagner’s epic tetralogy, and his Dutchman is likewise a complex creation. Review: A Singer Returns to Shore at the Met in ‘Dutchman’ 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z
De Havilland won the first of two Oscars in this beautiful exemplar of a “women’s weepie,” which finds her suffering with heartbreaking nobility until the very last, bittersweet scene. 9 Great Olivia de Havilland Movies to Stream 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z
First are “ternary” societies divided into functional classes — clergy, nobility and everyone else. Thomas Piketty Turns Marx on His Head 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z
Three supernumeraries — usually crotchety servants, sometimes brooding henchmen — undercut nobility in scene after scene. Music Review: Mozart, Puccini, Handel and Copland at Glimmerglass 2010-08-09T22:43:00Z
“I think that’s why the monarchy and the high nobility had such a strong hold on that format. They made it associated with them and them alone.” When the Old Masters Were the P.R. Agents of the Rich and Powerful 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z
But the place to contemplate the nobility and sadness of that day is above ground, where the names of those who died are inscribed on the square rims of Arad’s memorial. The 9/11 Memorial Museum doesn’t just display artifacts, it ritualizes grief on a loop
Just as Anderson reveals the moral nobility of true manners in “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” Ophüls sees into the depths that surfaces so subtly suggest. Movie of the Week: “Letter from an Unknown Woman” 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z
How, the novel wonders, will a young man flush with King’s words and imprinted with the nobility of the U.S. Review | In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z
Look, for example, at “Breakfast, Trail’s End Restaurant, Kanab, Utah, August 10, 1973,” which endows a meal of pancakes and half a cantaloupe with the nobility of a Dutch still life. Stephen Shore’s MoMA Survey Shows a Restless Reformer as a Master of Photography 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z
This is a fictional story, and it’s definitely not going to earn you an academic expertise in all things Shakespeare.But the show is a welcome challenge to some of society’s notions about European nobility. Review | Shonda Rhimes plus Shakespeare? It’s a no-brainer. 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z
Chase Finlay, her partner, heightened all of her virtues: his combination of spacious grandeur, modesty and nobility is very moving. Critic’s Notebook: Versions of Sugar Plums at New York City Ballet 2012-12-29T01:10:26Z
She yearns for nobility of the spirit rather than of the family coat of arms sort. Edmund White’s High-Octane Saga of Twin Sisters and 1950s Texas 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z
I thought of Canetti as I made my way, one recent evening, to the grand hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, a soaring, colonnaded space built in 1839 for the city’s nobility. Teodor Currentzis Brings His Intense Verdi to New York 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z
His heritage was Bavarian, and members of his family had been part of the European and South American nobility for centuries. Rupert Loewenstein, financial adviser who helped create Rolling Stones’ empire, dies at 80
We were joined by Mireille Massip, a French author who was in town to attend, among other events, a big White Nights gathering of returned St. Petersburg nobility. White Nights of St. Petersburg, Russia 2011-06-03T19:03:09Z
Despite their nobility and fortitude, he suggested, Indians were still defeated. A New History of Native Americans Responds to ‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee’ 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z
But the themes often lacked an essential nobility, stopping short of transcendence. Music Review: Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-08T20:57:19Z
This imaginary woman isn’t an exaggerated statement on nobility. Perspective | Kerry James Marshall paints a masterful image of history and hope on the cover of Vogue 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z
It’s in Brown Dog’s relationships, with the young and vulnerable and the old and irascible, that Harrison teases out his character’s nobility. Jim Harrison’s ‘Brown Dog’: full life for a mischief-maker with a noble heart 2013-12-18T22:50:20Z
“Arthur and the heroic, charismatic autocratic nobility essentially disintegrate and recede into the heavens,” Botstein said. A King Arthur Rarity Is an Apt Way to Return to the Opera 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z
In Act II his romantic nobility is picturesque, without tragic weight. Dance Review: Osipova, Vishneva and Cojocaru: 3 Giselles at Ballet Theater 2012-05-21T04:14:04Z
But missing from her vision, as eager to absorb the overwhelming newness of the place as she was, were Hawaii’s true nobility: the hundreds upon hundreds of native species that exist nowhere else. O’Keeffe’s Paradise, Lost and Found 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z
And only later I realized that this was, in its simplest terms, about raising a black woman up — such easy, unpretentious nobility seen in a typically male, sports-oriented gesture. What It Takes to Raise a Black Woman Up 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z
This new Washington was to be a figure of classical restraint and nobility, rather than youthful revolutionary vigor. A George Washington Monument, Rediscovered in Fragile Plaster 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z
He has a rough nobility about him, but it is laced with base alloy of mischievousness. Jonathan Rhys Meyers on being a bold boy playing amoral men: "Nobility can be a little bit tedious" 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z
Reviews consistently noted the subtlety, sincerity and nobility of his playing. Jules Eskin, Cellist With Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dies at 85 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z
Hollywood is often an ugly place — not on the outside, perhaps, but certainly on the inside — and tales of nobility and selflessness, while they certainly do happen, are painfully rare. Gillan's great point about "Guardians of the Galaxy" 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z
What Charles Frend wanted me to see was human nobility struggling against the elements. Rewatching a film 50 years on showed me something about modern memories 2012-12-28T16:45:01Z
As Chisolm, Washington grinds away at the movie’s spirit with his dull nobility. Once Cool Magnificent Seven Now a Middling Septet 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z
But it is the nobility of the slow movement’s three-note pattern, which expands and contracts as necessary, where Reich reaches a quiet yet climactic sublimity. Steve Reich at 80, his finger on the pulse of a bewildered country 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z
"In this way, may they demonstrate the nobility of politics and not its shame". Climate change and its human causes cannot be denied, papal document says 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z
But the plays still reach us with their clarity, nobility and wisdom. What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us About Grief 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z
A symbol of status, carmine red was already employed by the nobility of Mexico’s Indigenous peoples to dye garments, and widely used in the arts, to write codices, decorate ceramics and paint murals. Family in central Mexico struggles to preserve the natural way of producing intense red dye 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z
Not much is known about his early life and training, but he made a steady living with commissions for portraits of nobility, historical subjects and church altarpieces — more skilled journeyman than virtuoso. Review: A Getty show of Giacomo Ceruti's 18th-century paintings reveals much about our modern wealth gap 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z
And now I look back at 247 years of triumph and tragedy, of dreams and illusions, of nobility and achievement, at the times when we lived up to our ideals and those when we didn’t. As long as the Spirit of ‘76 endures, America will never die 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z
As Talos, Mendelsohn, too, projects a kind of worn nobility and makes a good foil for Jackson. 'Secret Invasion' review: A closer look at Nick Fury and the Skrulls 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z
“One is a kind of old nobility,” European soccer consultant Olivier Jarosz told The Associated Press about Inter, “and one comes from a working-class family that has made a nice marriage with money.” Man City, Inter Milan meet in Champions League final of contrasting club history 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z
There’s a nobility to his portrayal of Davenport — even his voice carries a heroic resonance. After four decades, 'A Soldier's Play' is still urgent in Tony-winning revival 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z
The upper ranks of the Church — bishops, archbishops, cardinals, and the popes themselves — were almost exclusively drawn from the European nobility. The Birth of Europe 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z
This made him a people’s hero, and it terrified the nobility in Rome because he was able to bypass the usual Roman political machine and simply pay for his wars himself. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z
To increase the government’s wealth, he also sought to tax the French nobility, though unsuccessfully. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z
In most societies, male members of the nobility, often the only ones who could afford to purchase and pay for the upkeep of horses, had formed the core of the fighting forces. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z
The facility was like a dude ranch, where the nobility played winemaker for a day. News at a glance: A new malaria vaccine, a Parkinson’s test, and editors resign 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z
Here, the pinnacle of Roman nobility got their hands dirty, playing farmer and winemaker for a day. Roman winery 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z
It also had a very weak monarchy under the ruling Valois dynasty, who were kept in check by the powerful nobility. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z
Notwithstanding Napoléon’s brief autocratic reign, the French Revolution successfully dismantled the nobility’s and clergy’s disproportionate share of power and defeated the strongest absolute monarchy in Europe. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z
Over time, the Persian nobility adapted to the practice and used enslaved people to work their land. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z
“He believed in the nobility of public service, he believed in fighting corruption,” she said. Harris visits site of grandfather’s old home in Zambia 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z
A duke is the highest ranking member of the English nobility, followed by marquesses, earls, viscounts and barons. Prince Edward Receives a New Title on His Birthday 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z
Both categories of nobility were far more likely to be owners of land exploiting their peasants than warriors. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z
As in China, wealthy families and nobility of the former dynasty dominated the exams, because only the men in these families had the time and money to acquire the education necessary to do well. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z
European rulers sought to restore the status quo and ensure the nobility had sufficient access to peasant labor by passing laws that fixed wages at pre–Black Death levels. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z
Velázquez could take liberties with his portraits of little people and jesters because they were neither members of the royal family nor nobility. Perspective | When Velázquez painted marginalized people, it liberated his genius
Certainly the British nobility are stereotyped as unemotional, reserved and stoic. Prince Harry says he wasn't shown physical affection as a child. Here's what that can do to children 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z
Even nobles of the robe who had only joined the nobility within the last generation tended to cultivate a practiced loathing for mere merchants, their social inferiors. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z
Members of Kongo’s ruling family and nobility converted to Roman Catholicism and adopted Portuguese names. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z
Emboldened by the shift in power and angered when the nobility attempted to limit their economic opportunities, peasants launched rebellions that further damaged the foundations of feudalism by calling into question the lords’ traditional privileges. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z
Descended from nobility and the son of divorced parents, he shares a strong affinity with Benedict and his conservative allies, but has remained on good terms with Francis. Cardinal says book by Benedict XVI’s secretary ‘unseemly’ 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z
Francis praised Benedict’s nobility and faithful prayers in his final years, but otherwise stuck to a previously prepared homily about the need for kindness and dialogue in today’s world. Benedict death paves way for protocols to guide future popes 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z
The nobility proved astute at reorganizing agriculture along more capitalistic lines, and in turn their land-hunger prompted laws of “enclosure,” especially in Britain. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z
The common people of Ndongo and some of the lesser members of the nobility supported Nzinga, while more powerful nobles, who hoped to benefit from engaging in the slave trade with Portugal, supported the Europeans. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z
The formerly thriving cities of the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt quickly deteriorated, and in Europe, the psychological toll of the plague’s trauma led many to question the traditional privileges of the clergy and nobility. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z
The veritas gives “Titanic” a nobility it doesn’t quite earn, but nonetheless it’s part of the movie’s power. How does ‘Titanic’ hold up 25 years later? Moira Macdonald re-watches 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z
He also sought allies among fellow aristocrats, traveling to Austria and Switzerland to court German-speaking nobility for donations to finance his plot, officials familiar with his travels said. The Prince, the Plot and a Long-Lost Reich 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z
In turn, the power of the nobility ensured that any dream of far-reaching reform was out of the question. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z
The nobility, who were the Second Estate, represented roughly 3–4 percent of the population but held upward of 30 percent of the country’s lands. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z
It skillfully portrays the forms of entertainment, manner of dress, daily routines, and moral code of the Heian nobility at the height of the Fujiwara clan’s power. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z
The young Americans had made headway in their rebuilding efforts, but with this delicious matchup, they could measure their progress and engage with global soccer nobility. Undaunted USMNT earns draw against England but faces an unsettled World Cup future 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z
Be thankful for the nobility the war has elicited from those attacked, and for the demonstration that individual leaders still matter. Opinion | Be thankful for the pugnacious Zelensky’s magnificent resistance to suppression 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z
The nobility owned a significant percentage of the land of France outright – about one-third – and had lordly rights over most of the rest of it. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z
Since the clergy and nobility generally shared common interests, their votes typically defeated any initiatives the Third Estate might propose. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z
This decision further alienated him from the Turkish nobility of Anatolia. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z
“He represented a nobility and honesty that transcended sport. … He was a true champion both on and off the floor and our gratitude is endless.” Celtics honor Bill Russell prior to season opener vs 76ers 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z
In his autobiography, Dior said the "brilliant company" included the new ambassador of France and his wife, and "all the Scottish nobility" including the "delightful Duchess of Buccleuch". Christian Dior: The French designer who brought chic to Scotland 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z
He reluctantly came to realize that only taxing the nobility and, perhaps, the Church could possibly raise the necessary revenue. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z
Yet in accepting his suffering, he leaves an image of terrifying, sacrificial nobility, a figure of blind humanity shouldering the shame and error of his life. Review: Deaf West confronts passion of 'Oedipus' at the Getty Villa in expressive new version 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z
The risk of trusting in the Turkish nobility had become clear at the Battle of Ankara when Bayezid I’s Turkish vassals fled, abandoning him to the Mongols. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z
Mirren, who won the lead actress Oscar for her portrayal, wrote on Instagram, “I am proud to be an Elizabethan. We mourn a woman, who, with or without the crown, was the epitome of nobility.” Netflix's 'The Crown' will likely pause production 'out of respect' for Queen Elizabeth 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z
Dame Helen, who also starred in a Platinum Jubilee pageant this summer, added: "We mourn a woman, who, with or without the crown, was the epitome of nobility." British cultural giants join tributes to 'inspiring' Queen Elizabeth II 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z
When his efforts to increase tax receipts met with resistance from the nobility, Louis XVI first called an Assembly of Notables to deliberate with him. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z
"I’m mourning along with the rest of my country, the passing of a great Queen. I’m proud to call myself of the Elizabethan age. If there was a definition of nobility, Elizabeth Windsor embodied it." Factbox: Elton John, Helen Mirren and other celebrities mourn Queen Elizabeth 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z
Each region was then broken down into a number of provinces, organized generally along ethnic lines and ruled by an imperial governor selected from the Inca nobility. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z
“I am proud to be an Elizabethan. We mourn a woman, who, with or without the crown, was the epitome of nobility,” she said on Instagram. 'The epitome of nobility': Her knights and dames mourn Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z
A son of Malay nobility, Najib is believed to be close to some of Malaysia's sultans - the country's traditional rulers who take turns to be the monarch in a unique rotational system. Jailed Malaysian ex-PM Najib seeks royal pardon 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z
Class collaboration was not a possibility, as the wealthier bourgeoisie and the nobility recognized in socialism their shared enemy. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z
The new constitution eliminates the nobility rule as well as the tradition of Grand Masters being elected for life. Pope dissolves Knights of Malta leadership, issues new constitution 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z
Monarchs in France and the Two Sicilies laid the groundwork for strong royal bureaucracies to keep the nobility in check. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z
The school was meant to welcome 40 students, serving “not only the nobility, but also children with ability and desire for learning and education,” according to the school’s website. Bullying and Sex Abuse Scandal Engulfs Elite Danish School 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z
Its dazzling, duck-beak orange color — originating from a dyeing mistake — became fashionable with Florentine nobility, while women opted for a bright green hue that was originally used for the coat linings. Can an Iconic Italian Wool Survive a Changing Economy? 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z
The emancipation, however, had surprisingly little immediate impact on Russian society, because the serfs legally owed the government the money that had been distributed to buy their freedom from the nobility. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z
“It will be more democratic. The question of nobility has now become secondary,” Tomasi said. Pope dissolves Knights of Malta leadership, issues new constitution 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z
While theoretically the ultimate authority in the land, the power of the kings was limited by customs, taboos, and the consent of the nobility and the priestly class. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z
Having been golf buddies with U.S. presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump and other world leaders, the British-educated son of Malay nobility will now count murderers and drug traffickers among his fellow inmates in Kajang. Malaysia ex-PM Najib moves from luxurious lifestyle to lockup 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z
A son of Malay nobility, Najib is believed to be close to some of Malaysia's sultans who take turns to be the country's monarch in a unique rotational system. Explainer: Behind bars, Malaysia's Najib has few 'get out of jail' cards left to play 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z
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