Word: triumphant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...commerce and gold would breed nations along the Pacific, the disenchanting screech of the locomotive break the spell of weird mysterious mountains, women's rights invade the fastnesses of the Arapahoes, and despairing savagery, assailed in front and rear, vail its scalp-locks and feathers before the triumphant commonplace." Or, Parkman might add today, how a security-minded society and government would seek to remove all risk from the life of the citizen. Have prosperity and a plenitude of leisure softened the American, converting him into a creature fit only for paper shuffling, patio living and petunia potting...
...longed for the freer life, and just as the Berliner Ensemble was completing a triumphant London engagement, he chose to defect. He easily received a West German passport, a temporary home with his married half-brother outside Cologne, even a job offer. Yet, only eight days after he arrived in the Rhineland's Lorelei-land, he returned to East Berlin. His brother tried to understand. "Christian obviously stood in conflict between his loyalty to the company he loved and his desire to quit East Germany," he said. "I recall a similar experience. In 1945 I was cut off from...
...empathetic exercise, Blood on the Doves is profoundly frightening and enlightening; as a literary experiment, it is even more remarkable-a triumphant attempt to develop a surreal subject in a cubistic style. The previous novels (Victorine, Honey on the Moon) of Author Maude Hutchins, former wife of former Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago, have established her reputation as a richly ironical imagist. Here, however, she has performed the impossible: she has transformed accurate psychiatry into living literature...
When the Boston Symphony made its triumphant debut in Moscow in 1956, Russian audiences were shocked to discover what the outside world had long acknowledged-that U.S. orchestras were the world's finest. Russian cultural circles began buzzing with talk of the "orchestra gap." One of the most outspoken critics was Kiril Kondrashin, then conductor with the Bolshoi opera, who bluntly declared that Russian orchestras had to shape up. Four years later, when Kondrashin was appointed conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic, he admitted that "the U.S. orchestra is the ideal I am working toward...
...repose and permanence. Andre Derain's Girl with Long Hair has gained a depth of dimension it never had in France's Chardin Gallery, and the razor-sharp shadows endow Henry Moore's prowlike Standing Figure with a new monumentality. As for Renoir's Venus Triumphant, with her well-rounded grace she looked ready for installation above it all in the Parthenon itself...