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participants, and the momentousness of the choice presented by the
The significance of signatures: why the framers signed the Constitution and what they meant by doing so
21) To begin with, conjuring the momentousness of the ceremony, the egwugwu are deemed "the most powerful and the most secret cult in the clan" (Achebe 1996, 63); their voices are represented as "guttural and awesome" (62).
The possibilities and pitfalls of ethnographic readings: narrative complexity in Things Fall Apart
Recalling the imperial orb, this fragile globe suggests the momentousness of Paris's decision for the fate of the ancient world.
Pleasure & politics: Cranach's the judgement of Paris: the Kimbell recently acquired an extremely well preserved Judgement of Paris by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Nancy E. Edwards explores the painting's meaning and investigates the possibility that it was made for Hendrik III, Count of Nassau-Breda, whose portrait by Gossaert is also in the museum
The momentousness of that change is tempered by the fact that the paper had a daily circulation of around 1,000 and mainly publishes legal announcements.
Preparing for the end: newspapers should be planning for a print-free future
Collins's choice of the seduction plot framework for her novel, as well as its romantically aristocratic Old South setting, may seem jarringly out of touch with the epoch during which she wrote it, oblivious to the momentousness of the year 1865 in the history of African America.
"'Ruse it well": reading, power, and the seduction plot in The Curse of Caste
It's all fascinating stuff, dripping with the momentousness of jazz history revisited, when the real giants of the music still roamed, if not the earth, then the jazz clubs of Manhattan.
Culture: Perfect opportunity to act on Impulse and hear where it all started
They knew full well the momentousness of their decision.
Horse Racing: Battle far from Ova; RACING: ALL EYES ON FORMER CHAMPION KIEREN AS HE CONTINUES HIS CAMPAIGN AGAINST BAN FALLON SEEKS IRISH PRIZE AS HE VOWS TO FIGHT ON
With these words, Clifton bends us into the fear of death, the longing of survival and the momentousness of the past.
Mercy
The spoiled, self-centered-sounding parents interviewed at Kenter Canyon Elementary missed a wonderful opportunity to show their children the momentousness of the president of the United States' motorcade.
PUBLIC FORUM
In my defence, my irrational state of over-excitement had been caused by the momentousness of the occasion - my first-born's tour of the primary school that he'll start going to in August.
Shari Low: School! Where have all those years gone
But sitting in the Al Hirschfeld Theatre ten days before the opening and three days after a querulous article in The New York Times about the show's skimpy advance, the newly minted director-choreographer appeared utterly unfazed by the momentousness of it all.
Dance theater
The mundane and comical always undercut the momentousness of the historical.
Paradoxes of power in Russian ark

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