Example sentences of "[art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amnesty knows , for example , what the long term pattern of abuse is in a country : the known torture methods , the likely victims , the agencies regularly implicated in violations . |
| 2 | The kind he likes he calls ‘ detail ’ , as opposed to ‘ long shots ’ — the equivalent , that is , of the long shots over-used by cameramen of the Iranian Revolution : ‘ it is through details that everything can be shown ’ — that truth can be shown . |
| 3 | This was Ursula of the long blonde hair and double-barrelled baronial-barbaric surname ( withheld by Behrens ) , who had fled what survived of ancestral estates — on one view of the matter — and had made her courageous way across Europe , shot at and winged by border guards , to Vienna , and on to London , where she fell among art historians and was counselled by Anthony Blunt . |
| 4 | Pechorin is a cold-hearted , stylish fatalist , experimentalist , existentialist and divided man , a traveller , gambler , heart-breaker and forgetter of old friends , who loves to ride ‘ a spirited horse through the long grass against a desert wind ’ . |
| 5 | I would like to say a last word about Amis 's voices , and about the long words which have been or might be laid on his confident art — a terminology for which he is unlikely to be grateful . |
| 6 | His ambivalence is a bespectacled look at the long legs of the divisional commander , which were ‘ like girls sheathed to the neck in shining riding-boots ’ . |
| 7 | A high point in the novel is the altercation and huff with Gavin and his mates which precedes this : about the long holidays teachers get , or do n't get , about the homework they withhold , and about the rights of weans — children — and the rights of parents . |
| 8 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 9 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
| 10 | The real question , wrote Harsnet , is where the short run ends and the long run begins , since in the long run long and short are also without meaning . |
| 11 | The real question , wrote Harsnet , is where the short run ends and the long run begins , since in the long run long and short are also without meaning . |
| 12 | But just as the mere thought of the long run is liable to blight any work on which one is engaged , so the thought of a tone distinct from though inseparable from the shit is guaranteed to bring even the most promising project to a halt . |
| 13 | And all this , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , in spite of the awareness , always present , sometimes blinding , of the long perspective , the common fate of all , the eventual overheating of the universe or its eventual overcooling , the end of everything . |
| 14 | I am not talking about the long run , he wrote . |
| 15 | I have said enough about the long run already , where there will be no more Reykjavik and no more big glass and not even any more lovers . |
| 16 | Of course all these things are relative , I told him , of course if you take the long perspective there 's never anywhere to move forward to and all advance is illusory , but in the short perspective there comes a point when there is no option except to abandon . |
| 17 | This is the challenge for the brewers and their designers — to survive in the long term they must , in certain instances , address this radically broadened target market . |
| 18 | He would like to open an informal , family-run restaurant in the country one day , so he can eventually imagine returning to the long hours of hotel and restaurant work . |
| 19 | He turned and looked at the display of cakes on the long table . |
| 20 | No — each lady had personally placed her cake on the long table — without assistance . |
| 21 | She looked over at the long table . |
| 22 | ‘ It must be quite difficult for you , ’ Claire said , brushing , brushing , brushing the long black hair . |
| 23 | Raymond Williams ( 1921–1988 ) described himself as ‘ Welsh European ’ , novelist ( BORDER COUNTRY , SECOND GENERATION , THE VOLUNTEERS ) and dramatist ; founder of the New Left and later active in the Socialist Society ; a lifelong commentator on culture , media , the arts and contemporary affairs ( eg. THE LONG REVOLUTION , CULTURE AND SOCIETY , COMMUNICATIONS , TOWARDS THE YEAR 2000 ) . |
| 24 | The government would save so much money in the long run if they built us all homes instead of putting us up in this dump ; it 's ridiculous . ’ |
| 25 | Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway . |
| 26 | In the long term , your heart will stay healthier . |
| 27 | In the long term , too much drink can cause high blood pressure and stomach disorders . |
| 28 | James Menzies and the McLaggans , riding on horses , led the rest away on the long climb of the hill to Dunskiag , a gaunt treeless place where the owner lived without a woman and three great staghounds with long coarse hair slavered to get at them , wrenching their chains . |
| 29 | Carefully he tried again but Cameron took his arm and told him not to hurry unduly , the joists had only been pinned in place and they were still waiting for the long nails from Grandtully . |
| 30 | She glanced repeatedly at her daughter in the long white linen gown which had been her own wedding dress . |