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Nothing that man creates, no matter how glorious or how stable it might appear, endures by its own power.
We passed a glorious looking scene today, in a big snow cavern.
An officer was in a unique position of immense prestige and power, particularly following the glorious victories of the so-called wars of unification.
The homily against the peril of idolatry, of course, offered far more detailed and graphic warnings against the ' glorious decking ' of churches.
They had to see that what seemed self-evidently glorious and right to them might be morally odious to others.
However, such a glorious start was soon overshadowed by political and financial problems, which lasted a long time.
I remember that glorious dawn of the welfare state as seen through the eyes of a young married couple starting to raise four children.
There are many glorious images of planetary surfaces, usually reproduced at sufficient size to do them justice.
I am confident this release - another glorious milestone - will prove popular, and it deserves to earn some awards.
In sum, a concise and compelling 18-minute piece, successfully incor porating such diverse elements as jazz and folk, along with microtonal effects and a glorious diatonic melody.
In the story of the lost file we see the character and workaday requests of this clientele, the city's glorious past and the power of the saint all drawn together.
The first song features artless, child-like vaulting piano figurations clipping through gauzed string harmonics, providing glorious accompaniment to the soloist's soaring line, punctuated by gently resonating temple bowls.
The search for origins, so characteristic of nationalism, projects back in time to a glorious past to legitimate through historical continuity, the claim for a state in the future.
In contrast, towns which could offer visitors little or no evidence of a glorious present, as opposed to a glorious past, could suffer greatly from such comparisons.
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