Word: eclat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chosen envoy was William Pitt Amherst, Earl of Arakan and nephew of famed soldier of the King, Lord Jeffrey Amherst. In July 1816, William Amherst reached the North China coast. He was most hopeful, as his secretary later recorded, that "the eclat of an embassy from the Crown of England" would persuade "Oriental barbarism" to grant commercial privileges. But the high & mighty mandarins who escorted him ashore and inland to Peking soon demolished his hope...
...Renaissance overtones and technical eclat, Dali's canvas did no honor to its great subject. Compared with the religious paintings of such consistent moderns as Georges Rouault and Henri Matisse, Dali's was approximately as chill and shallow as a bent watch...