Its melodies, sweet, its drama gut-busting, Carmen is Bizet's most treasurable gift to the world. From Wordnik.com. [Donna Perlmutter: Dudamel Opens a New View at Hollywood Bowl] Reference
Hitch-22 sparkles with funny stories, treasurable quotations, witty apercus and deft descriptions. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hitchens's Memoir 'Hitch-22' Is Brilliantly Witty, But Where Are The Women?] Reference
A sunburned nose may be a treasurable possession away from town, but back among the hosts of the city it is a different matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
But as always with this city, like a sparky relationship between work colleagues, it's the little moments which infuriate but are also treasurable. From Wordnik.com. [Feeling Listless - "Taking the credit for your second symphony."] Reference
There was a special mention of the treasurable Lucia Popp, a much-beloved Czech soprano who excelled everything from Mozart to the lighter heroines in Wagner and who died way, way too young. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
That's a treasurable quality -- almost as much as a giant panda. From Wordnik.com. [Movie City News] Reference
I had but two treasurable things in the world: my friend and my soul. From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Christophe Journey's End] Reference
Yet it's also so acute, well realised and beautifully acted that it feels treasurable. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Those other items are treasurable souvenirs in their own right, but the big news here is the. From Wordnik.com. [Blog updates] Reference
While individual moments are treasurable, the whole feels like a string of different takes on. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Among them all, are there any more treasurable than two of the simplest, "Home Thoughts from Abroad" and "Night and Morning"?. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Robert Browning] Reference
Among them all, are there any more treasurable than two of the simplest, “Home Thoughts from Abroad” and “Night and Morning”?. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Robert Browning]
The first four efforts - two for other producers and two self-produced - were all unsuccessful, although one of them was the treasurable-if-unprofitable. From Wordnik.com. [Playbill.com : News] Reference
He has never known anything but a print shop and his mother, and has had no experiences that were treasurable until the foreman took him fishing and he connected with the eel. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Comments] Reference
Nikolay Myaskovsky - that modest, noble-minded 'musical conscience of Moscow' who composed 27 symphonies and 13 quartets, some of which do speak with a unique and treasurable voice. From Wordnik.com. [signandsight.com] Reference
Supporters' Trust to come out with one of the most treasurable soundbites of the whole farrago when they asked whether the Glazers' ambition matched not only Rooney's but that of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
"Pauline": most capable judges agree that, with all its shortcomings, it is a work of genius, and therefore ever to be held treasurable for its own sake as well as for its significance. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Robert Browning] Reference
Some of his phrasing is uniquely beguiling-the swooning surge into fig. 4 is one of a host of treasurable details on the new recording and it is typical of his sensitivity to emotional ebb and flow. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
However, barrenness of imaginative creative activity can be only very relatively affirmed, even of so long a period, of years wherein were written such memorable and treasurable poems as 'James Lee's Wife,' among Browning's writings what. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Robert Browning] Reference
No critic will ever adventure upon so severe a censure of “Pauline”: most capable judges agree that, with all its shortcomings, it is a work of genius, and therefore ever to be held treasurable for its own sake as well as for its significance. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Robert Browning]
The letter seems to me as treasurable for what it conveys to us of the sort of young man Foch found among his officers and soldiers (there were many such!) as for what it tells us of the impression Foch created even in those days before men's souls were set on fire with fervor for France. From Wordnik.com. [Foch the Man]
However, barrenness of imaginative creative activity can be only very relatively affirmed, even of so long a period, of years wherein were written such memorable and treasurable poems as 'James Lee's Wife,' among Browning's writings what 'Maud' is among Lord Tennyson's; 'Gold Hair: a Legend of Pornic;'. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Robert Browning]
For not believing in evolution, for being as narrow-minded and mean-spirited as Scrooge on Christmas, for assuming that all American IQs were no higher than your shoe size, for thinking you could do a Houdini with shockingly expensive couturier fashions, for making the great Joe Biden, a distinguished, solid, national treasure, look and seem even more treasurable. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
The BBC, under the treasurable headline “Tories admit to Wiki-alteration“, report the following. From Wordnik.com. [What do Dr Mark Pack and the painter Titian have in common?] Reference
A truly useful and treasurable system of domestic management, and a book of matters-of-fact and experience. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829] Reference
In the hearts and minds of Bradbury enthusiasts, Green Town, Illinois, is as treasurable in fantastic literature as Baum’s Emerald City or Lewis’ Narnia. From Wordnik.com. [Subterranean Press » 2008 » August] Reference
A treasurable release. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
Tried by the severest tests, not merely of substance, but of form, not merely of the melody of high thinking, but of rare and potent verbal music, the larger number of his "Men and Women" poems are as treasurable acquisitions, in kind, to our literature, as the shorter poems of Milton, of Shelley, of Keats, and of Tennyson. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Robert Browning] Reference
Tried by the severest tests, not merely of substance, but of form, not merely of the melody of high thinking, but of rare and potent verbal music, the larger number of his “Men and Women” poems are as treasurable acquisitions, in kind, to our literature, as the shorter poems of Milton, of Shelley, of Keats, and of Tennyson. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Robert Browning]
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