Word: momentous
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...Venice in the 1500s was a splendid and self-regarding republic on the cusp of a long decline, in its last years as a genuine regional power but arriving at its supreme moment as a center of the Western imagination. The first flowering of the Renaissance had taken place in Florence and then Rome, by way of art that emphasized clear drawing and firmly contoured forms - disegno, as the theorists of the day called it. But by the first decades of the 16th century, Venice had developed a mighty alternative, under the shorthand term colorito, building forms through a multitude...
...entire concept of privacy. We don’t only willingly reveal ourselves, but we have also come to expect it and desire it of others.This voyeuristic desire cannot help but influence our attitudes towards the returning of war dead. Do we really have the right to a moment that is so personally devastating to the friends and families of those lost? All egoism aside, would you really want the transfer of your body from the morgue to the funeral home televised? And our generation is perhaps the first in which this is not an entirely rhetorical question. With...
...moment of bonding,” Hickey said...
...search of new talent for the Crimson’s roster, was one of the architects behind last season’s recruiting class and has been instrumental in building what is expected to be an equally impressive haul next year.“It is a bittersweet moment for us,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said in an e-mailed statement. “While we are disappointed to lose Will, he has a tremendous opportunity at VCU, and we are thrilled for him. We’ll certainly miss him greatly and the terrific...
...space next to Butler’s countenance. Even as he laments the cultural deadening of that old-time American religion—namely, consumerism—one of its emblems pops up, neon-bright, just through his cab’s window. It’s a perfect moment; except, the scene ends what amounts to a 70-minute advertisement for Arcade Fire. “Miroir Noir,” Vincent Morisset’s new Arcade Fire concert film, combines scenes of the band’s performances and offstage antics with bits of found footage...