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Recent Examples of rondel
But the showstoppers are the windows: high, arched, and set with leaded glass that includes rondels of colorful scenes (a white castle under attack by griffins, a golden lion wearing a tiny golden crown).
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Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 19 Jan. 2023
Some store fronts are embellished with elaborate sculptures, like a rondel depicting a pair of women exchanging scandalous gossip.
—New York Times, 20 May 2022
Testifying to flexible convictions, the Morgan show includes a rondel painting by Holbein, circa 1532, of Erasmus’s thin-faced, pointy-nosed mien, and also a small portrayal, circa 1535, of Luther’s most efficacious disciple, Philipp Melanchthon.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
Crown of Emara features a meaty double rondel that sprawls across two central boards.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2018
In addition to the pistol dog, the dig team also found pieces of Spanish armor and a rondel dagger, popular in Europe in the late Middle Ages.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2018
The team has also found Spanish armor parts and other artifacts, including a rondel dagger popular in Europe in the late Middle Ages, at the site.
—Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 9 Mar. 2018
The Asian rondel is a coffee table top that originally belonged to Jen’s grandmother but had become too fragile to stand on its own.
—Star-Telegram, star-telegram.com, 3 May 2017
Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 19 Jan. 2023
Some store fronts are embellished with elaborate sculptures, like a rondel depicting a pair of women exchanging scandalous gossip.
—New York Times, 20 May 2022
Testifying to flexible convictions, the Morgan show includes a rondel painting by Holbein, circa 1532, of Erasmus’s thin-faced, pointy-nosed mien, and also a small portrayal, circa 1535, of Luther’s most efficacious disciple, Philipp Melanchthon.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
Crown of Emara features a meaty double rondel that sprawls across two central boards.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2018
In addition to the pistol dog, the dig team also found pieces of Spanish armor and a rondel dagger, popular in Europe in the late Middle Ages.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2018
The team has also found Spanish armor parts and other artifacts, including a rondel dagger popular in Europe in the late Middle Ages, at the site.
—Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 9 Mar. 2018
The Asian rondel is a coffee table top that originally belonged to Jen’s grandmother but had become too fragile to stand on its own.
—Star-Telegram, star-telegram.com, 3 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rondel
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The Eater line is a partnership between Heritage and the food site that launched last year, but six new pieces were added this year, including a mini sauté pan ($120) and a roomy six-quart rondeau pan ($180) that’s perfect for searing, pan roasting, and simmering.BYChris Morris, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2024
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The set includes a saucepan, saucier, frying pan, and 5.2-quart rondeau.Molly Allen, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2024
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At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
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After this is a setting of a Whitman poem for chorus a cappella in the style of a sixteenth-century madrigal, followed by a section in which a line from Dante’s Inferno is sung by a vocal trio in the style of a medieval motet.Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
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Elongated and paved with bricks, the path is a closed form, a kind of physical villanelle that thwarts the experience of continuity or the feeling of finitude.Hamilton Cain, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
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Susan Kinsolving’s villanelle obsessively circles the same two rhymes, keeping pace with the anxiety of a mind trying to cope.Clare Bucknell, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2020
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Artificial intelligence has never been more powerful, constantly expanding its litany of flexes — from generating sonnets and fantastical images to believably mimicking emotions, all while churning through mountains of data faster than any human being could.Adriana Lee, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024
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And that a major plot in the novels involves sentient, talking animals that love sonnets and science?Constance Grady, Vox, 20 Nov. 2024
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Inside the nave, choirs sang psalms, and the cathedral’s mighty organ thundered back to life in a triumphant interplay of melodies.Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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The great organ's 8,000 pipes, which were covered in toxic dust after the fire and have been disassembled, cleaned and retuned, will also play a psalm as the doors re-open.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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English Pen, a human rights organization, translated one of her poems to raise awareness.Salma Abdelaziz, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
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In an interview with Parents magazine in 2020, Duff revealed that Luca wrote a poem about their family and read it aloud at her and Koma's wedding.Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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On his plane plastered with Trumpian epigrams, Vance makes the case for Trump’s second-term vision of enhanced executive power.Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
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No one could tell the clock by him; no one could quote an epigram of his; no one could ever remember his being a friend of their daddy—or even their granddaddy.E. L. Doctorow, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
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That latter category includes my No. 1 title, an ode to the glories of cinema that ends, in an utterly magical sequence, with all its major characters entering a movie theatre.Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
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The film is an ode to Cincinnati and the Janson brothers Despite their lack of acting experience, the Jansons' on-screen performance was anything but amateur.Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Rondel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rondel. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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