(n.) The supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations.
(n.) The whole class of divinities to whom the name Baal was applied.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government thinks that this will be a hub of disease, there’s nothing like that,” Baale Emma told me in 2014 at the height of the Ebola scare.
(2) He went straight into another movie, Becket (directed by Peter Glenville , 1964), with Burton, and he elected to do Brecht's Baal on the London stage as it was the kind of rogue play no one else would touch.
(3) An acquaintance of mine, meanwhile, tried – briefly and without success – to resurrect an interest in the unfashionable Phoenician deity Baal.
(4) She and Gaskill took their style to Stratford for Richard III (with Christopher Plummer, 1961), set on a wooden floor and backed by a sinister metal grille, and staged the British premiere of Brecht’s Baal (1963), framing Peter O’Toole in a cyclorama enclosing beautifully stylised bare trees and gappy buildings.
(5) You become aware of a colossal idea,” he wrote after visiting the International Exhibition, showcase of an all-conquering material culture: “You sense that it would require great and everlasting spiritual denial and fortitude in order not to submit, not to capitulate before the impression, not to bow to what is, and not to deify Baal, that is, not to accept the material world as your ideal.” However, as Dostoevsky saw it, the cost of such splendour and magnificence was a society dominated by the war of all against all, in which most people were condemned to be losers.
(6) He appeared in the German movie Christiane F (1981) and wrote music for the soundtrack, and his lead role in the BBC’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s Baal (1982) was accompanied by his five-track EP of songs from the play.
(7) At this moment he appeared to me the way every celebrity I have met in the flesh does, like a living pagan idol awaiting sacrifice, a puff-faced Baal.
(8) Last week, the group detonated explosives in the ancient Baal Shamin temple , an act that the UN cultural agency, Unesco, called a war crime aimed at wiping out a symbol of Syria’s diverse cultural heritage.
(9) The strong language comes a day after Isis was said to have destroyed the temple of Baal Shamin in Palmyra, which was begun in 17AD and was expanded under the reign of the emperor Hadrian in 130AD.
(10) One of them is Emmanuel Shemede, crowned in 2005 as the Baale of Adogbo Village.
(11) The temple of Baal Shamin was built in the first century AD, a house of worship dedicated to the Phoenician god of storms and the sky, who evolved into a major deity worshipped during the time of Queen Zenobia and her husband Septimius Odaenathus, the King of Kings of Palmyra.
(12) We have voted against this deal because we think there is a much better way to spend billions: in renewable energy,” said Mark van Baal, founder of Follow This, a group of Shell investors supporting green energy .
(13) Simon Maghakyan Denver, Colorado Armenia is wiping out Azerbaijani cultural heritage | Letters Read more • Gertrude Bell, that great traveller, archaeologist and poet, on first seeing Palmyra in 1900, wrote: “The towers, the avenues of columns and the immense Temple of Baal are the loveliest things I have seen since Petra.” Let us pray that most of this beautiful oasis city can yet be saved, so that future generations can still have the chance to wonder at its architecture and ponder on its symbolism; for example, its tolerance of diversity 2,000 years ago.
(14) It then destroyed the Temple of Baal Shamin , a first-century structure expanded under the Emperor Hadrian’s reign.
(15) The destruction of the temple of Baal Shamin, which was confirmed by activists, is the first major incident of destruction in the city since it was seized by Isis after a week-long siege in May.
(16) Baale Shemede’s house is built from wooden planks, and rises, like every other structure here, on stilts out of the brackish water.
(17) The Baale thinks politicians’ first terms are periods of respite: no one wants to needlessly alienate critical voting blocs when there’s a second term to be won.
(18) Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities Read more Isis proceeded to do just that, destroying the ancient Temple of Bel and the smaller Temple of Baal Shamin last year, as well as beheading Palmyra’s former antiquities director, Khaled al-Asaad .
(19) Then it blew up the ancient temple of Baal Shamin, built in AD17.
(20) Baal, an early play by Bertolt Brecht, which opened at the Phoenix Theatre in February 1963, had never been performed during his life.
Phoenician
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Phoenica.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Phoenica.
Example Sentences:
(1) An acquaintance of mine, meanwhile, tried – briefly and without success – to resurrect an interest in the unfashionable Phoenician deity Baal.
(2) The temple of Baal Shamin was built in the first century AD, a house of worship dedicated to the Phoenician god of storms and the sky, who evolved into a major deity worshipped during the time of Queen Zenobia and her husband Septimius Odaenathus, the King of Kings of Palmyra.
(3) Carthage, a former Phoenician city-state in present-day Tunis, had an empire extending over most of the north African coast as well as the southern tip of Iberia.
(4) Sirte, built near the site of the ancient Phoenician city of Macomedes-Euphranta, is one of Gaddafi's key military hubs.
(5) The prehistoric, ancient Phoenician, Greek and Roman art from the National Museum in Tripoli is superb.
(6) Byblos, a once groovy Mediterranean resort in Lebanon, is possibly the first Phoenician city, founded in 7000BC – not as old as Jericho, maybe, but at least it can claim continuous habitation since 5,000 BC.
(7) The date palm's Latin name, Phoenix dactylifera , refers to the sea-faring Phoenicians who spread its cultivation.
(8) The monument has been variously attributed to Greeks, Romans, Phoenicians and the Jews.
(9) This haplotype is quite uncommon in Europeans and may reflect gene flow from Eastern populations (Phoenicians?)