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However they come back with faces of marble.
Every time their subjects are revived, they seem to have a whitish face like marble as they are lying strapped to the laboratory table (big deal).
McIver's wife played by marble mouthed GLORIA GRAHAM wants to get her 2 cents in on this monumental task too.
It is only such wealth gained by the use of virtual slave labor that one could build so magnificent a residence of ebony, teak, and marble.
Nastasya is vacationing in a marble columned resort where a chess championship is being hosted.
I say this because the stunts, the fights and the action my favorite part of the movie is when Jackie Chan jumps off the rail at the top of the esculator at the mall grabs on to a pole surrounded with Chrismas lights and slid down the pole fell through a skylight and finally land on his back on the hard marble floor.
"The marble faun is moving in...he just gave us a washing machine.
A friend of mine says that his defining image of modern China is of a marble facade slapped onto a jerry-built wall; and it's this kind of picture that also emerges from 'The World', a touching movie about the lives of a group of workers in a Beijing theme park in which all the planet's tourist attractions are copied in a single location.
'Man of marble' is usually seen as an bold, anti-communist movie which is strikingly accurate at the deep level of practices within communist countries.
Indeed, hostile ethnic groups are often mixed like a marble cake, rather than neatly separable like a layer cake.
Niyazov destroyed the country’s health-care system and neglected its endemic poverty, while spending billions to turn its capital, Ashgabat, into a Las Vegas-style wonder of white marble and gold.
The Bikaner cluster in Rajasthan is rich in oilseed and the quarrying and production of Makarana marble and limestone.
All of these contribute to the record, just like a good camera was necessary for Ansel Adam's unforgettable photos of the American West, or good marble and sharp chisels for Michelangelo's sculpture of David.
We stood at the Great Leader’s marble feet, surrounded by flowers and funeral wreaths, while the sound of women sobbing was played through huge loudspeakers.
Nowadays, the well-guarded marble facades of Russia's (often insolvent) banks and businesses have assumed the role in domestic demonology once played by the frightening "Big House" on Lubyanka Square in Moscow where the KGB did its night work.
Built nearly four centuries ago by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for his beloved wife, the marble monument was hailed by Rabindranath Tagore, India’s only Nobel Prize-winning writer, as “a teardrop on the cheek of Time.”
But the ECB and the Stability and Growth Pact being what they are, both German parties are what they are: a sculptor who has promised to carve a marble statue overnight but has lost his chisel.
The amount of marble used for renovation seemed excessive, and the understanding of what constitutes luxury appeared to correspond to the standards of a Holiday Inn.
The statistics rehearsed by our guide were staggering: the third biggest edifice in the world, 220,000 square feet of carpet, one million cubic meters of marble, 3,500 tons of crystal.
The enormous marble stairways had to be rebuilt several times to match exactly the steps of the dictator, who was a small man.
On the day she was elected to serve another term in the post, The New York Times published a tweet accompanying an image of her: “Nancy Pelosi, wearing a hot pink dress, ascended to the marble dais in the center of the House chamber to accept the wooden gavel.”
The marble washstand, the dressing-table, the couch, the tables, the bronze clock on the mantelpiece, the curtains and door-hangings were all costly and new.
The walls were plastered with imitation marble and the enormous plate-glass windows were already in place; only the parquet floor was not finished, and the carpenters who were planing a square of the parquet left their work, and removing the tapes that kept their hair out of the way, bowed to the gentlefolk.
Then he showed the marble baths and the beds with peculiar spring mattresses.
On his white skin, the whiteness of an anaemic girl, the scratches and gashes of the coal left tattoo-marks, grafts as the miners called them; and he was proud of them, and exhibited his big arms and broad chest shining like veined marble.
This wood, besides, had become curious to look at, with a yellowish pallor of marble, fringed with whitish thread lace, flaky vegetations which seemed to drape it with an embroidery of silk and pearls.
Among the works of modern art were pictures signed by Delacroix, Ingres, Decamps, Troyon, Meissonier, Daubigny, etc., and some wonderful miniature statues in marble or bronze, modeled after antiquity's finest originals, stood on their pedestals in the corners of this magnificent museum.
While he was taking his sights, he didn't move a muscle, and the instrument couldn't have been steadier in hands made out of marble.
The former, tinted with a bright limestone sheen, would have supplied enough building material to make a whole marble town.
To shut himself up every evening in the dirty public room, to push about on marble tables the small sheep bones with black dots, seemed to him a fine proof of his freedom, which raised him in his own esteem.
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