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  • Didn't you tell me that the word 'renaissance' meant rebirth?   (source)
    renaissance = a revival of learning and culture
  • I walk through the aisles, passing out a list of discussion questions on the poem "Renascence" by Edna St. Vincent Mil-lay.†   (source)
  • On that Saturday, Indian summer had descended over the eastern seaboard, bringing shirt-sleeve weather, flies, a renascence of Good Humor men, and to most people that absurdly deceptive feeling that the onset of winter is a wicked illusion.†   (source)
  • Steve went away with the German woman to Indiana, where, at first, came news of opulence, fatness, ease, and furs (with photographs), later of brawls with her honest brothers, and talk of divorce, reunion and renascence.†   (source)
  • I trust he will work that vein further, and recognize that Elizabethan Renascence fustian is no more bearable after medieval poesy than Scribe after Ibsen.†   (source)
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  • The Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution were some of the major signposts on Western civilization's road to modernity.   (source)
  • Pink marble walls and white marble floors were enclosed by arched and vaulted ceilings; an assembly room had been done in the manner of the High Italian Renaissance, another was illuminated by chandeliers flashing with crystal teardrops; there was a wall of fragile French windows overlooking an Italian garden of marble bric-a-brac; the library was Provencal on the first floor, rococo on the second.   (source)
  • She had written reams on the Renaissance and the scientific breakthrough, the new view of nature and Francis Bacon, who had said that knowledge was power.   (source)
    Renaissance = a period of European history known for a revival of intellectual and artistic achievement (14th through mid-17th centuries)
  • On the far wall, across from the sofa, hung an ornately framed reproduction of Picasso's "Mother and Child," and directly opposite, above the sofa, was a painting of a dashing Renaissance courtier, masked, sword in hand, protecting a frightened, pink-cheeked maiden.   (source)
    Renaissance = the period of European history known for a revival of intellectual and artistic achievement (14th through mid-17th centuries)
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  • Probably the raped Renaissance painter: that's the only one of them that gets remembered now The book is on my kitchen table.†   (source)
  • I remembered reading that some people thought that the Renaissance had partly been due to the introduction of coffee in Europe, to the invigorating effect that caffeine had on the psyche.†   (source)
  • Squinting at his surroundings he saw a plush Renaissance bedroom with Louis XVI furniture, hand-frescoed walls, and a colossal mahogany four-poster bed.†   (source)
  • One of them was Armstrong House, a monumental Italian Renaissance palazzo directly across Bull Street from the staid Oglethorpe Club.†   (source)
  • Early in January, when we had all just returned from the Christmas holidays, a recruiter from the United States ski troops showed a film to the senior class in the Renaissance Room.†   (source)
  • They read handouts written in English about the Bengali Renaissance, and the revolutionary exploits of Subhas Chandra Bose.†   (source)
  • A second ventus blasted around the corner of the Renaissance Hotel and linked up with the first.†   (source)
  • Mulch recognized it as his arresting officer from the Renaissance Masters smuggling case.†   (source)
  • Miriam looked like one of those pages in Renaissance paintings.†   (source)
  • On Renaissance Vector.†   (source)
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  • Which would, of course, lead to him pulling me inside the car and kissing me, which always made me somehow forget about studying the dates for the Italian Renaissance, or the periodic table, or Macbeth, entirely.†   (source)
  • The sonnet, on the other hand, is blessedly common, has been written in every era since the English Renaissance, and remains very popular with poets and readers today.†   (source)
  • He sent out three notices about the event, none of which Mae, of the Renaissance, Team Six, answered.†   (source)
  • Here he had assembled all his treasures that had escaped being plundered by the Germans: a wide couch covered with a kelim, two valuable old chairs, a charming little Renaissance chest of drawers, a Persian rug, some old weapons, a few paintings and all kinds of small objects he had collected over the years in different parts of Europe, each of them a little work of art in itself and a feast for the eyes.†   (source)
  • One feature of the downtown renaissance is the conversion of dilapidated buildings into swanky lofts, boutique shops and upscale restaurants.†   (source)
  • Since the Renaissance these modes have worked.†   (source)
  • But during the Renaissance, the Bible was translated from Hebrew and Greek into national languages.†   (source)
  • Sophia made a skeptical face from her bed, where she was halfheartedly reviewing some Renaissance history notes.†   (source)
  • Caroline brought iced tea, and the four of them sat uneasily in the living room, talking awkwardly about the weather, about Pittsburgh's budding renaissance in the wake of the steel industry collapse.†   (source)
  • In the Renaissance book of acting, this grimace of a smile might be captioned, The lady is caught in a smile she cannot escape.†   (source)
  • Klara did not want to give this striking scene a title out of some Renaissance gallery because that would be unkind.†   (source)
  • As a UN Arab Human Development Report put it: "The rise of women is in fact a prerequisite for an Arab renaissance.†   (source)
  • As a bell from the clock tower joins the one from University Hall, 219 professors, in their gowns and caps of crimson, royal blue, and deep purple-like a sedate Renaissance festival-follow the incoming freshmen onto the main green.†   (source)
  • That's what enabled Western man to spend decades building a Gothic cathedral or a Renaissance piazza.†   (source)
  • In the dark, with her face lit in profile by the moon, she was as beautiful as any Renaissance Madonna.†   (source)
  • A religious renaissance, some call it.†   (source)
  • A man driving by pulled his car over to the curb and looked in wonderment at the renaissance of a building that he had passed many times and known only as a crumbling ruin.†   (source)
  • Really Pre-Renaissance-and that game has been analyzed, put down in books.†   (source)
  • With his bright hair and the way he carried himself, he could have been some Renaissance prince.†   (source)
  • Relius had grown more cautious since the renaissance of the Thief of Eddis.†   (source)
  • Max sat down to take a breather, perusing some of the spines before him: Great Works of the Nineteenth Century, Art of the Baroque, Secret Techniques of the Old Masters, Dada and Surrealism, The Genius of Rembrandt, Hidden Symbols of Bernini, A Renaissance of Art and Man, Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century, The Postmodern Dilemma … "David," Max hissed, overwhelmed by the thick books and unfamiliar names.†   (source)
  • Deo stopped on the steps of Low Library and pointed across the quadrangle at another monumental building, a product of the Italian Renaissance Revival, one of many all around us.†   (source)
  • This is the capital of the Renaissance.†   (source)
  • But the white hepcats drifted away, and Harlem became slum territory for decades after World War II, only beginning to enjoy a renaissance in the 1990s, when soaring Manhattan real-estate values made it desirable.†   (source)
  • Yeah, well, I don't think we'll be hanging around to see if there's a renaissance in thieving going on.†   (source)
  • Mr. Levin, we are rather busy studying the Italian Renaissance.†   (source)
  • An ad appeared in Lunaya Pravda announcing lecture by Dr. Adam Selene on Poetry and Arts in Luna: a New Renaissance.†   (source)
  • "Because they don't have to study un-Islamic subjects like English literature or Italian Renaissance painting."†   (source)
  • And two Goyas, a Matisse and some Italian guy from the Renaissance.†   (source)
  • I'm sure it's coming," he said, rising from the chair, adding within the space of a few minutes his prophecy of the long-playing record to that of the Jewish literary renaissance.†   (source)
  • He was dressed in something like a Renaissance costume of orange, red and brown.†   (source)
  • He did not own the paintings either, he owned only the statuary, inexpensive plaster imitations of Renaissance masterpieces.†   (source)
  • Thank goodness for the Renaissance, when our Classical greatness was remembered.†   (source)
  • It's considered the seminal work of the Northern European Renaissance."†   (source)
  • We ought to cover the Renaissance and the seventeenth century as well.†   (source)
  • Names like Garden and the Ousters, Renaissance and Lusus meant little to her.†   (source)
  • "Santi," Langdon said, "is the last name of the great Renaissance master, Raphael."†   (source)
  • Johnny also ordered a beer, a dark, German brew bottled on Renaissance Vector.†   (source)
  • By the Renaissance we mean the rich cultural development that began in the late fourteenth century.†   (source)
  • It was one of the most horrific tragedies in Renaissance art.†   (source)
  • Langdon pointed to a Renaissance art poster on the wall.†   (source)
  • The Renaissance resulted in a new religiosity.†   (source)
  • What would a Templar be doing in a Renaissance V bar?†   (source)
  • Half of the sculpting done in Renaissance and Baroque Rome was for the funeraries.†   (source)
  • You're in a hospital on Renaissance, baby.†   (source)
  • But you could say that a process started in the Renaissance finally brought people to the moon.†   (source)
  • But at last comes the Renaissance; the long school-day is over.†   (source)
  • Plus your research material's at the library on Renaissance V. Why here?†   (source)
  • The hole was then covered with the Renaissance equivalent of a manhole cover.†   (source)
  • Previously we spoke of the Renaissance, the Baroque period, and the Enlightenment.†   (source)
  • Most Renaissance cathedrals were designed as makeshift fortresses in the event a city was stormed.†   (source)
  • A woman in gaudy Renaissance Minor garb pointed my way.†   (source)
  • During the Renaissance, what we call anti-humanism flourished as well.†   (source)
  • Hanging out in a Renaissance Vector library can't pay much.†   (source)
  • "These?" asked Mike as he dangled a Renaissance necklace from his fingers.†   (source)
  • But Renaissance humanism was to an even greater extent characterized by individualism.†   (source)
  • I shall summon you to a meeting on the Renaissance.†   (source)
  • She looked young but not noticeably younger than when they had waved goodbye on Renaissance Vector.†   (source)
  • The expression arose during the Renaissance.†   (source)
  • Then the Renaissance arrived with its new view of man.†   (source)
  • And now we see the beginning of the Renaissance, the 'rebirth' of antique culture.†   (source)
  • That gives you some background on the Renaissance.†   (source)
  • And the Renaissance humanists lost their restraint?†   (source)
  • In the Renaissance the world began to explode, so to speak.†   (source)
  • Today I shall tell you about the Renaissance.†   (source)
  • There were many similarities between the Renaissance and Romanticism.†   (source)
  • It was also significant that the Renaissance brought with it a new view of nature.†   (source)
  • If she was not much mistaken, this was a typical Renaissance costume.†   (source)
  • Many great artists of the Renaissance took part in this building project, the greatest in the world.†   (source)
  • You said the Renaissance humanists were individualists too.†   (source)
  • Ever since the Renaissance, mankind has been more than just part of creation.†   (source)
  • Printing played an important part in spreading the Renaissance humanists' new ideas.†   (source)
  • We could say that the Renaissance is Europe's fifteenth birthday!†   (source)
  • Above all else, the Renaissance resulted in a new view of mankind.†   (source)
  • The humanists of the Renaissance took as their point of departure man himself.†   (source)
  • He's the sort of elf who goes to Renaissance festivals."†   (source)
  • The year before, we did a whole Renaissance thing.†   (source)
  • Avery had never bothered to come after her, nor had Mr. Renaissance.†   (source)
  • But there's to be a Second Renaissance in the world.†   (source)
  • Mr. Renaissance was charming and exotic, and she'd fallen for him quickly.†   (source)
  • Quickly and calmly, she told him about Mr. Renaissance.†   (source)
  • Their house this time was in the style of the Italian Renaissance, with an arched portico and a lot of glazed earth-tone tiles, and the indoor pool was bigger.†   (source)
  • There was something Renaissance about the pose, but it was princes I thought of, not coiffed and ringleted maidens.†   (source)
  • Langdon dubbed it Sterile Renaissance.†   (source)
  • Mae searched her calendar and realized there had been a party on Friday, open to everyone in the Renaissance.†   (source)
  • But it was straight ahead, to the east, through the archway, that Langdon could now see the monolithic Renaissance palace that had become the most famous art museum in the world.†   (source)
  • Afterward they walk together through the Center for British Art; there is an exhibit of Renaissance works on paper, which they've both been meaning to see.†   (source)
  • This occurred during the Renaissance in Europe, but when Western and Oriental art encountered each other in the1700s, Japanese artists and their audiences were serenely untroubled by the lack of perspective in their painting.†   (source)
  • The whole Renaissance is supposed to have resulted from the topsy-turvy feeling caused by Columbus' discovery of a new world.†   (source)
  • He edges through the compartments, his duffel bag heavy with books for his Renaissance architecture class, for which he has to write a paper over the next five days.†   (source)
  • If the idea of truth had been allowed to perish unrediscovered by the Renaissance it's unlikely that we would be much beyond the level of prehistoric man today.†   (source)
  • At 1:44 Mae entered the Renaissance, felt, above her, the greeting of the slowly turning Calder, and took the elevator to the fourth floor.†   (source)
  • The breakthroughs Katherine Solomon had made within the SMSC would risk opening floodgates of new thinking, starting a new Renaissance.†   (source)
  • Aringarosa grumbled his hello and followed his host into the castle's foyer—a wideopen space whose decor was a graceless blend of Renaissance art and astronomy images.†   (source)
  • The controversial, neomodern glass pyramid designed by Chinese-born American architect I. M. Pei still evoked scorn from traditionalists who felt it destroyed the dignity of the Renaissance courtyard.†   (source)
  • He puts away the course guide and opens up a library book that might be helpful for his senior thesis project, a comparison between Renaissance Italian and Mughal palace design.†   (source)
  • They stood before the Renaissance, another building with a forty-foot atrium, a Calder mobile turning slowly above.†   (source)
  • He was the ultimate Renaissance mind—artist, philosopher, alchemist, and a lifelong student of the Ancient Mysteries.†   (source)
  • Admittedly, history's list of famous Rosicrucians was a who's who of European Renaissance luminaries: Paracelsus, Bacon, Fludd, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Newton, Leibniz.†   (source)
  • He thinks of her constantly, while leaning over the slanted board in his drafting class, under the strong white lights of the studio, and in the darkened lecture hall of his Renaissance architecture class, as images of Palladian villas flash onto the screen from a slide projector.†   (source)
  • Mae hurried down to the lobby of the Renaissance, where a few hundred Circlers were watching the wallscreen.†   (source)
  • French kings throughout the Renaissance were so convinced that anagrams held magic power that they appointed royal anagrammatists to help them make better decisions by analyzing words in important documents.†   (source)
  • In a bizarre attempt to reflect this theme of modern enlightenment and yet stay within the decorative register of Renaissance architecture, the stairway banisters had been carved with cupidlike putti portrayed as modern scientists.†   (source)
  • She feels very bad about causing worry and emotional distress to Alistair—not to mention threatening the delicate ecology of the Renaissance.†   (source)
  • Sophie wondered which of the fireside antiques she was supposed to sit on—the Renaissance velvet divan, the rustic eagle-claw rocker, or the pair of stone pews that looked like they'd been lifted from some Byzantine temple.†   (source)
  • This knowledge moved underground, resurfacing in Renaissance Europe, where, according to most accounts, it was entrusted to an elite group of scientists within the walls of Europe's premier scientific think tank—the Royal Society of London—enigmatically nicknamed the Invisible College.†   (source)
  • "You'll be in the Renaissance, over here," Renata said, pointing across the lawn, to a building of glass and oxidized copper.†   (source)
  • Contrary to common perception, Renaissance cathedrals invariably contained multiple chapels, huge cathedrals like Notre Dame having dozens.†   (source)
  • "In the Renaissance, as you know, we're in charge of the customer experience, CE, and some people might think that's the least sexy part of this whole enterprise.†   (source)
  • Renaissance architects lived for only two reasons-to glorify God with big churches, and to glorify dignitaries with lavish tombs.†   (source)
  • Glitch No. 5 616ARN/MRH/RK2 Day: Tuesday, June 11 Participants: Mae Holland, Alistair Knight Story: Alistair of the Renaissance, Team Nine, held a brunch for all staffers who had demonstrated an interest in Portugal.†   (source)
  • LET'S Do ALL OF THIS, until Renata arrived and brought her to the second floor of the Renaissance, into a large room, the size of a basketball court, where there were about twenty desks, all different, all shaped from blond wood into desktops of organic shapes.†   (source)
  • He was amazed how few people knew Santi, the last name of one of the most famous Renaissance artists ever to live.†   (source)
  • Mae left the Renaissance and was greeted, just outside the door, by a group of young Circlers, all of whom wanted to tell her—all of them on their tiptoes, bursting—that they had never voted before, that they had been utterly uninterested in politics, had felt disconnected entirely from their government, feeling they had no real voice.†   (source)
  • Perched precariously on the upper stacks he found the fattest ledgers of all-those belonging to the masters of the Renaissance-Michelangelo, Raphael, da Vinci, Botticelli.†   (source)
  • Sol farcast to New Earth and Renaissance Vector, to Fuji and TC2, to Deneb Drei and Deneb Vier, but everywhere the Shrike temples were closed to him.†   (source)
  • We'd worked out the timing ahead of time and I was waiting for him on Renaissance V, standing back in the shadows of the colonnade.†   (source)
  • The room was a lushly adorned Renaissance library complete with inlaid bookshelves, oriental carpets, and colorful tapestries …. and yet the room bristled with high-tech gear-banks of computers, faxes, electronic maps of the Vatican complex, and televisions tuned to CNN.†   (source)
  • In the morning Johnny farcast to Renaissance Vector at about the usual time, waited a moment in the plaza, and then "cast to the Old Settlers" Museum on Sol Draconi Septera.†   (source)
  • Not only had Milton made a well-documented 1638 pilgrimage to Rome to "commune with enlightened men," but he had held meetings with Galileo during the scientist's house arrest, meetings portrayed in many Renaissance paintings, including Annibale Gatti's famous Galileo and Milton, which hung even now in the IMSS Museum in Florence.†   (source)
  • Those five months were agony for Sol and his wife, and by the time the medical ship put in at the Renaissance farcaster nexus, they had imagined the worst a thousand times.†   (source)
  • For all this, Sad King Billy has an insightful mind and a passion for the arts and literature which has not been equaled since the true Renaissance days on old Old Earth.†   (source)
  • Crew clones swept away the dishes and brought dessert trays showcasing sherbets, coffees, treeship fruit, draums, tortes, and concoctions made of Renaissance chocolate.†   (source)
  • I farcast to Renaissance VectOr and then to Parsimony, where ! boarded a spinship for the three-week voyage to Asquith and the crowded kingdom of Sad King Billy.†   (source)
  • This place was tucked on a second floor of a decaying building in a run-down neighborhood two blocks from the Renaissance library where Johnny spent his days.†   (source)
  • Eight standard weeks after she arrived on Renaissance, Sol and Sarai waved goodbye to Rachel and Melio at the Da Vinci farcaster multiport and then farcast home to Barnard's World. l don't think she should have left the hospital," muttered Sarai as they took the evening shuttle to Crawford.†   (source)
  • A week before word came that the Hegemony would allow the Yggdrasill to sail with pilgrims for the war zone near Hyperion, I used a Temple farcaster to "cast to Renaissance Vector where I spent an hour alone in the archives there.†   (source)
  • The last charge on Johnny's credit flimsy had been the bar on Renaissance V. I'd checked it out the first day, of course, talked to several of the regulars since there was no human bartender, but had come up with no one who remembered Johnny.†   (source)
  • Kassad volunteered and discovered that he enjoyed the discipline and cleanliness of military life, even though the John Carter Brigade saw only garrison duty within the Web and was dissolved shortly after G! ennon-Height's cloned grandson died on Renaissance.†   (source)
  • I was wearing my best clothes-a suit of black whipcord, a blouse woven of Renaissance silk with a Carvnel blood-stone at the throat, a cocked Eulin Br6 tricorne-when Johnny and I farcast to TC2 the next day.†   (source)
  • On the same day I was being decanted in the Company Hospital, Helenda farcast to Renaissance where she showed my Cantos to her sister Felia, who had a friend whose lover knew an editor at Transline Publishing.†   (source)
  • But in its day the City of Poets was fair indeed, a bit of Socrates's Athens with the intellectual excitement of Renaissance Venice, the artistic fervor of Paris in the days of the Impressionists, the true democracy of the first decade of Orbit City, and the unlimited future of Tau Ceti Center.†   (source)
  • The credit flimsies confirmed that he had held to the agenda on the week he was murdered, with the addition of a few extra purchases-shoes one day, groceries the next-and one stop at a bar on Renaissance V on the day of his "murder."†   (source)
  • General Index told him that Mamet Spedling had been a minor explorer affiliated with the Shackleton Institute on Renaissance Minor who, almost a standard century and a half earlier, had filed a short report with the Institute in which he told of hacking his way inland from the then newly settled Port Romance, through swamplands which had since been reclaimed for fiberplastic plantations, passing through the flame forests during a period of rare quietude, and climbing high enough on the…†   (source)
  • You remember that the Renaissance humanists had drawn attention, almost triumphantly, to man's freedom and independence?†   (source)
  • Mike dumped out some flowfoam cubes and then removed some jewelry of the type I'd seen handcrafted on Renaissance Vector, an inertial compass, a laser pen which might or might not be labeled a concealed weapon by ShipSecurity, another Harlequin costume-this one tailored to his more rotund form "and a hawking mat.†   (source)
  • So the first Sol and Sarai heard of their daughter's accident was when the Hegemony consulate on Parvati fatlined the college that Rachel had been injured, that she was stable but unconscious, and that she was being transferred from Parvati to the Web world of Renaissance Vector via medical torchship.†   (source)
  • Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.†   (source)
  • She was still wearing Web fashions then, involved in Post-Destructionist music theories, reading Obit and Nihil and the most avant-garde magazines from Renaissance Vector and TC2, feigning sophisticated weariness with life and a rebel's vocabulary-and none of this jelled with the undersized but earnest history major who spilled fruit cocktail on her at Dean Moore's honors party.†   (source)
  • Thus the basis was created for two powerful upheavals in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, namely, the Renaissance and the Reformation.†   (source)
  • Renaissance.†   (source)
  • But there were those even in the Renaissance who said that every single one of us now had a more central position than before.†   (source)
  • This is not least true of our next key phrase, a new scientific method, another Renaissance innovation which I will tell you about.†   (source)
  • In the morning he had breakfast at a local cafe and then farcast to Renaissance Vector where he worked for about five hours, evidently gathering research of some sort in the print archives, followed by a light lunch at a courtyard vendor's stand, another hour or two in the library, and then "cast home to Lusus or to some favorite eating spot on another world.†   (source)
  • Yes and no. A characteristic Renaissance feature was his emphasis on the individual and the individual's personal relationship to God.†   (source)
  • From the grand dining hall on Renaissance Vector, I can see the bronze skies and the verdigris towers of Keep Enable in the valley below my volcanic peak, and by turning my head I can look through the farcaster portal and across the expense of white carpet in the formal living area to see the Edgar Allan Sea crash against the spires of Point Prospero on Nevermore.†   (source)
  • The Renaissance O divine lineage in mortal guise It was just twelve when Sophie reached Joanna's front gate, out of breath with running.†   (source)
  • I might add that the humanism he was referring to took a far bleaker view of the human situation than the humanism we met in the Renaissance.†   (source)
  • He wrote his greatest plays around the year 1600, so he stands with one foot in the Renaissance and the other in the Baroque.†   (source)
  • Allowing the language of the people to take precedence over Latin was also a characteristic Renaissance feature.†   (source)
  • Hilde read how Alberto told Sophie about the Renaissance and the new science, the seventeenth-century rationalists and British empiricism.†   (source)
  • In the same way, the Renaissance middle class began to break away from the feudal lords and the power of the church.†   (source)
  • One of the central figures of the Renaissance was Marsilio Ficino, who exclaimed: 'Know thyself, O divine lineage in mortal guise!'†   (source)
  • But a precondition for all the technical development that took place after the Renaissance was the new scientific method.†   (source)
  • Irregularity was typical of Baroque art, which was much richer in highly contrastive forms than the plainer and more harmonious Renaissance art.†   (source)
  • You cannot single out particular thoughts from antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, or the Enlightenment and say they were right or wrong.†   (source)
  • The humanism of the Renaissance brought a new belief in man and his worth, in striking contrast to the biased medieval emphasis on the sinful nature of man.†   (source)
  • Following the heady rediscovery of man and nature in the Renaissance, the need to assemble contemporary thought into one coherent philosophical system again presented itself.†   (source)
  • With this slogan Luther wished to return to the 'source' of Christianity, just as the Renaissance humanists had wanted to turn to the ancient sources of art and culture.†   (source)
  • During the Renaissance there was a tremendous thirst for trying witches, burning heretics, magic and superstition, bloody religious wars—and not least, the brutal conquest of America.†   (source)
  • The Dark Ages, as they were also called, were seen then as one interminable thousand-year-long night which had settled over Europe between antiquity and the Renaissance.†   (source)
  • But before we take a closer look at the ideas of Renaissance humanism, we must say a little about the political and cultural background of the Renaissance.†   (source)
  • We also speak of Renaissance humanism, since now, after the long Dark Ages in which every aspect of life was seen through divine light, everything once again revolved around man.†   (source)
  • It means viewing nature as a whole; the Romantics were tracing their roots not only back to Spinoza, but also to Plotinus and Renaissance philosophers like Jakob Bohme and Giordano Bruno.†   (source)
  • The Renaissance humanists saw it as their cultural duty to restore Rome: first and foremost, to begin the construction of the great St. Peter's Church over the grave of Peter the Apostle.†   (source)
  • And these three discoveries—the compass, firearms, and the printing press—were essential preconditions for this new period we call the Renaissance.†   (source)
  • On the one hand there was the Renaissance's unremitting optimism—and on the other hand there were the many who sought the opposite extreme in a life of religious seclusion and self-denial.†   (source)
  • The Enlightenent …from the way needles are made to the way cannons are founded Hilde had just begun the chapter on the Renaissance when she heard her mother come in the front door.†   (source)
  • The technical revolution that began in the Renaissance led to the spinning jenny and to unemployment, to medicines and new diseases, to the improved efficiency of agriculture and theimpoverishment of the environment, to practical appliances such as the washing machine and the refrigerator and pollution and industrial waste.†   (source)
  • I expect things to be better next month, when we'll get away from the Greeks and Romans and into Mediaeval and Renaissance.†   (source)
  • Mr. Renaissance?†   (source)
  • The first piece I noticed, a couple of days after their return, was a framed print by some Renaissance painter of a hugely buxom woman posing in a garden.†   (source)
  • A little farther down the mosaic path sprawled a more complete skeleton in the remains of an embroidered red doublet, like a man from the Renaissance.†   (source)
  • Despite the fading of memories and technologies, Rowan managed to prosper like a great city of the Renaissance rather than some Dark Ages backwater.†   (source)
  • Max sat in silence, peering below at crowds of humans, hags, goblins, and vyes streaming about the squares and marketplaces in what might have been a Renaissance fair.†   (source)
  • You would put strawberry preserves on the popovers, which forget it, all life from the Renaissance onward it pales by compare.†   (source)
  • We've finished the Mediaeval period, with its reliquaries and elongated saints, and are speeding through the Renaissance, hitting the high points.†   (source)
  • The maid stares down at the interlaced hands she holds before her, a gesture that Yolanda remembers seeing illustrated in a book for Renaissance actors.†   (source)
  • Where my mother was an academic scholar with a smart, sharp wit and a nationwide reputation as an expert on women's roles in Renaissance literature, Heidi was … well, Heidi.†   (source)
  • It was all windows, large, old-fashioned double-hung windows that looked out on a grand geometric collage of rooftops and round wooden rooftop water towers and restored, imitation-Renaissance facades across the street.†   (source)
  • Earlier today, she'd gotten a big chunk done on a paper for her Renaissance art class, which wasn't due until Tuesday.†   (source)
  • But behind her, hanging on the wall, like emblems in the Renaissance, or those heads of animals, moose or bear, you used to find in northern bars, is another face, covered with a white cloth.†   (source)
  • The Second Renaissance-not of oil paintings and cathedrals-but of oil derricks, power plants, and motors made of Rearden Metal.†   (source)
  • Not that there was anything outlandish about them, but out on the streets in their evening clothes they seemed to me a little like time capsules themselves: blond, long-legged Nancy dressed like an art student, in sandals and worn corduroys, interesting earrings (with Russian constructivist designs on them), and a floppy Renaissance beret; and Charlie with a trimmed beard, and a plain Parisian beret perched on his gray hair.†   (source)
  • I'm going to expand the mills-and if she can give me three-day freight service to Colorado, I'll give you a race for who's going to be the capital of the Renaissance!†   (source)
  • She told him that in the Renaissance the most famous dukes were known for their aesthetic taste and patronage of the arts, and this idea appealed to him.†   (source)
  • There were no superfluous objects, but she noticed a small canvas by a great master of the Renaissance, worth a fortune, she noticed an Oriental rug of a texture and color that belonged under glass in a museum.†   (source)
  • She didn't mention Mr. Renaissance.†   (source)
  • …the supporter of his own destroyers, the provider of their food and of their weapons-Ellis Wyatt being choked, with his own bright energy turned against him as the noose-Ellis Wyatt, who had wanted to tap an unlimited source of shale oil and who spoke of a Second Renaissance…… She sat bent over, her head on her arms, slumped at the, ledge of the window-while the great curves of the green-blue rail, the mountains, the valleys, the new towns of Colorado went by in the darkness, unseen.†   (source)
  • As the evening had worn on, she found herself comparing Jeremy to both Avery and Mr. Renaissance, and to her surprise, Jeremy more than held his own.†   (source)
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