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Перевод: magnificence
[существительное] великолепие; парадность
Тезаурус:
- Everyone knows the fantastical splendours of that fairy-tale citadel called St Pancras and the lost magnificence of the Euston Arch, but beyond them in the rest of Britain stood other wonders: the medieval Gothic abbey that was Richmond Station, the handsome Jacobean mansion that was Stamford East, the elegant French Renaissance chteau of Southport Lord Street, the trim Alpine hunting-lodge that was Kendal, the airy Edwardian summer-house that was Wemyss Bay.
- The whole hotel of which this was the Sanctum sanctorum gave an impression of earlier magnificence now a little dusty and down at heel.
- But as I tried to follow his instructions, keeping my fists up and my chin tucked in and learning a new kind of dance on the balls of my feet, the sight of his bare, hairless chest, so brown and muscular, would suddenly fill me with more than muscular weakness, and I felt I would collapse, not under the playful blows he landed on my discombobulated body, but under the sheer spell of his magnificence.
- There is calm and joy, too, when the mind can focus on the magnificence and beauty of the transcendent.
- Though always happy at Saint Cloud, the Emperor had a weakness for the great palace of Fontainebleau, perhaps because of its associations with Napoleon I. Because of the magnificence of the palace it was impossible to live a quiet family life and so June was a month of great social activity, a sort of informal summer Court, at which was to be found the glittering society so indelibly associated with the regime.
- There are, apparently, three such places in the world and I wonder how the others compare in magnificence.
- Magnificence is admirable if not always comprehensible, humility is very unattractive to the modern Western mind.
- They must be produced by some other spirit, and if we attend to their "constant regularity, order, magnificence, beauty, and perfection", we see that they must be produced by an "eternal, infinitely wise, good, and perfect" spirit, which is God.
- Although seriously damaged in World War II the museum has now been returned to its original magnificence.
- Defoe described the Lake District as "the wildest and most frightful", and as late as 1767 John Brown of Penrith condemned the Lake and Vale of Keswick for their "horrible grandeur - steep and shaggy sides, dreadful heights, rude and terrible magnificence".
- "Never before", wrote Joseph Husband, "had such a car been seen; never had the wildest flights of fancy imagined such magnificence."
- Combining elements from his childhood reading with his reading about recent political thought and events, Eliot shows the man-child who has not evolved a cry, and so for whom "the lost word is lost", as trapped in a corner, paralysed for all his magnificence and that of his City.
- Their daughter, Georgiana , is a pathetic creature, utterly crushed by the magnificence of her parents; she falls an easy prey to the Lammles' schemes to marry her off to Fledgeby, but is saved at the last moment by a change of heart on Mrs Lammle's part.
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