Word: conquering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...problem of the U.S. was to keep Russia in the war, and so block the movement of Germany's Eastern divisions to the Western Front. The problem of the Bolshevik leaders was simply to get out of the war-as they had promised their supporters-and still conquer and keep power...
Among his early distinctions, Vanderlyn was the first American painter to conquer naked flesh. Actually, he had small choice in the matter; his patron, Aaron Burr, decided it by sending him to Paris instead of London for training. The earnest student from Kingston, N.Y. struck the French capital in 1796, when Jacques-Louis David and his neoclassic followers were preparing the stage for Napoleon's posturings. Trapped in the doctrinaire icebox of neoclassicism, Vanderlyn conscientiously set about acquiring its basic asset: figure drawing. He also acquired its defects: stale colors and chill poses...
...official taps on the saucer and calls, "Are you there?" and the tune that cuts in immediately is: "I hear ya knockin' but ya can't come in." Announcer: "Have you come to conquer the world?" Tune: "Don't want the world to have and hold." Announcer: "The Secretary of Defense has just said_" Tune: "Ain't it a shame?" Announcer: "I believe the spaceman has a final parting word." Tune: "See you later, alligator...
Final Reckoning. Floating graciously through Como's golden villages and classic villas, Madame Solario is pursued timorously by an Englishman, Bernard Middleton, and tenaciously by a barbaric Russian, Count Kovanski. Natalia Solario does not stoop to conquer. Yet her adroitly detached existence ends abruptly one evening when brother Eugene returns, penniless and impenitent, from his twelve-year exile. At this point, Madame Solario shifts from waltz time to offbeat fandango...
...main difficulty that Watson has, and that several others in the cast share with him, is an inability to conquer Shakespeare's lines and to speak them naturally. The audience in Sanders can always hear Watson and almost always understand him. Through his sincere and intelligent performance, it can accept him as Henry V. But somehow it can never forget that he is up there reciting lines that are not Henry's but Shakespeare's--and often reciting them in a regrettable sing-song voice at that. Some of the other actors are more successful with their words. Thayer David...