Word: grandeur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overcast afternoon he was greeted by 8,000 cheering locals outside and 550 invited guests inside St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, which despite its vaulted grandeur was chosen for its relative intimacy, in keeping with the couple's wish for a low-key affair...
...biological brain disorders, severe mental illnesses can be treated with medication, but other factors also are important. Although delusions of grandeur, in which some people may believe that they are God or, conversely, the devil, sometimes mark the manic phase of bipolar disorders, NAMI believes spiritual faith can play a critical role in an individual's recovery and renewal. For more information about mental illness, readers can call (800) 950-6264. LAURIE FLYNN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Arlington...
...cuts on Mirrorball are drawn from McLachlan's earlier albums, and were recorded live on her spring solo tour. Some of the songs--like the love-racked Path of Thorns, from her 1991 CD, Solace--acquire a spacious, cathedral-like grandeur when performed live with her solo piano. McLachlan's canvas has always been the lovelorn and the obsessed, and her palette, the primary colors of human passions. Mirrorball chronicles her gathering skill at capturing emotional truths. "Emotions are fabulous," McLachlan explains, relaxing in a Manhattan hotel room last week. "I love them because they feed you. You learn...
...wrong card, but it is a low one. You can ask for movies to be gentler, a tiny bit more attentive to the power of the repeated image over the young. But after criticizing what's there, think about what's missing. Can we please have a little grandeur and depth in movies? Not of armies on parade or edifying soap operas, but of stories that touch our essential humanity, told with care and flair. Is it possible for a film to resonate in a billion heads at once, hooking adults as intensely as fairy tales once mesmerized kids...
...movie star, which surely provided the vital luster to her role as figurehead of a country that is little more than a gambling casino on the southern coast of France. The rather louche glamour of Monaco's royal family is nothing compared with the fading but still palpable grandeur of the British monarchy. To those who savor such things, British royals are the first among equals of world royalty, the last symbols of an aristocratic society that has largely disappeared in most places but still hangs on, with much of its Victorian pomp intact, in Britain. Even the Japanese Emperor...