What's the difference between barbican and fortress?
Barbican
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Barbacan
Example Sentences:
(1) "Our common sense is often our worst enemy," said Marcus du Sautoy , the Oxford maths professor who will be appearing in the Barbican season.
(2) Three winners will each receive a pair of tickets to the Observer Ideas festival at The Barbican in London on Sunday 12 October 2014.
(3) A new strand, BBC Arts At ... will feature tie-ups with the Royal Academy of Arts , Opera North, the Barbican, the British Museum and the National Galleries of Scotland.
(4) It included Louise Jeffreys, director of arts at the Barbican, and Anthony Whitworth-Jones, a former boss of both Glyndebourne and Garsington.
(5) It’s thoroughly appropriate that the last large-scale piece he completed was a community and children’s opera, The Hogboon, which will receive its first performance at the Barbican in London in June ; it’s based on an Orkney legend of supernatural beings who inhabit the prehistoric burial mounds that are found all over the islands, and who are entirely benign.
(6) Or the planes that fly behind the towers of the Barbican against a cloudy blue sky; even the notebooks on the floor of my workroom, which stand out as coloured rectangles against the floor.
(7) A 1960s cultural complex, the Lincoln Centre is, like the South Bank and Barbican centres in London, based on the theory that it's a good idea to group several venues in one place, and had similar problems of awkward circulation and hard-to-use public spaces.
(8) The 1992 retrospective at the Barbican finally demolished the patronising view of Gill as a Catholic sculptor, setting him in the mainstream of modern British art.
(9) Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, the architects behind projects including the Saatchi Gallery and Barbican Arts Centre, have been appointed to develop the wider plans.
(10) The big surprise of the tour though was the fact that the Barbican probably isn't Brutalist either."
(11) In a statement issued on Wednesday, Gergiev, the artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg for more than 25 years, said: I am aware of the gay rights protest that took place at the Barbican last week prior to my concert with the LSO.
(12) · Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture is at the Barbican, London EC2, until May 21.
(13) Although no one could compare to Nusrat, the group remain formidable, and can be seen next month as part of the Barbican Centre's Ramadan Nights, which also features Sufi street singer Sain Zahoor, a more classical Arabic Sufi group, the al-Kindi Ensemble with Sheikh Habboush, and whirling dervishes from Syria.
(14) I hope that when Lyndsey Turner’s Barbican production is officially unveiled to the press, it will not be judged simply as a test of Cumberbatch’s classical skill: Frankenstein alone proved he had the lungs for the part.
(15) Alternatively, they can listen to the soundtrack created specifically for the show by Scottish band Mogwai, who played at The Barbican Centre in London.
(16) Tatchell said the new statement was not enough to call off the protest which will take place outside the Barbican on Thursday before Gergiev conducts the LSO in Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust.
(17) · Will Oldham is playing at the Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2 (020 7638 8891) on 24 November as part of Further Beyond Nashville.
(18) It's Saturday morning, three weeks into my research for Reading the Riots, and I get a call from a young man I interviewed a week earlier to say four more rioters are willing to meet, and are happy to travel from Stockwell to the Barbican to be interviewed.
(19) JW3 Jewish centre Hampstead "We would like to be mentioned in the same sentence as the Barbican," confirms Viner, "along with the Southbank Centre, or the Roundhouse or Rich Mix."
(20) I've done the same watching classical concerts at the Barbican or jazz in a basement club.
Fortress
Definition:
(n.) A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
(v. t.) To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nuptials drew crowds of fans eager to witness the glitzy event, but they were kept far away from the heavily walled 16th-century fortress, which offers stunning views of Florence and surrounding Tuscan hills.
(2) In one way they were right to state the obvious – because Celtic were utter plod at the back – but hubris is best not displayed until you are beyond the reach of vengeance, as opposed to being about to walk into the fortress of the foe you have just mocked.
(3) Captain America kicking open the door of what looks like a European mountain fortress suggests the Nazi offshoot Hydra might be rearing its many ugly heads once again.
(4) After a stirring speech urging the ushering in of a new era of politics delivered to a packed convention hall in the Ghanaian capital Accra, Obama and his family toured the white-walled slave fortress to the sound of beating drums and chanting from a huge crowd outside.
(5) The fortress-like villages perched on rocky mountaintops we saw when we visited the north of the country are reminders that Yemen has constantly been invaded, or otherwise meddled with, by outsiders, from the Turks onwards.
(6) "Now we know our fortresses are secure," says their president, Tim Farron, a smirk of triumph in his voice, "we can collect 25 or 30 more Tory seats."
(7) Arab Iraq may still try to retake the province, but it is too focused on turning Baghdad and the Shia south into a fortress.
(8) However, much as MI6 hides in plain sight in their huge postmodernist fortress on the south bank of the Thames, at least one BAE building is very visible indeed.
(9) The original fortress was built in the 13th century but was raised to the ground by clashing clans and today is largely a 20th-century Grand Designs-style restoration thanks to Lieutenant Colonel John MacRae-Gilstrap, who bought the ruin in 1911.
(10) Founded in 1088, the monastery’s fortress-like walls dominate the island’s skyline.
(11) So when Bill Gates pitched into the debate last week with a proposal that robots should be taxed , just like human workers are, you can imagine the splutters of outrage from the neoliberal fortresses of Silicon Valley.
(12) It's like a giant fortress in the middle of the city, taking up more than a traditional housing block (a whole street was annihilated for it).
(13) Canada has budgeted more than C$1bn (£644m) for security for the two summits, leading to accusations from activists that Toronto had been turned into a fortress.
(14) I further call on the international community to do everything in its power to protect the affected civilian population and safeguard the unique cultural heritage of Palmyra.” However, Isis has often cherished its destruction of cultural artefacts, releasing long, well-produced videos of their destruction of objects in the Mosul Museum and their detonation and bulldozing of much of the ancient fortress city of Hatra in Iraq.
(15) So the Super Fortresses were stripped to fly at 32,000 feet.
(16) The bank has repeatedly made it clear that a big loss – even of $6.2bn – cannot take down a bank with the size and strength of JP Morgan – a bank that has, in its own favorite phrase, "a fortress balance sheet".
(17) A sensationalist and scruple-free press seems eager to collude in their “noble lie”: that a Middle Eastern militia, thriving on the utter ineptitude of its local adversaries, poses an “existential risk” to an island fortress that saw off Napoleon and Hitler .
(18) In an interview with Fox News last Sunday , Trump accused Beijing of “building a massive fortress in the middle of the South China Sea, which they shouldn’t be doing”.
(19) Some 35% of Labour supporters voted yes on 18 September and three of the party’s traditional fortresses – Glasgow, North Lanarkshire and Dundee – were among the four local authorities out of 32 to back independence.
(20) Dun Totaig Distance 4 miles Start Letterfearn, Grid Ref: NG884238 Further information and maps Eilean Donan castle ( eileandonancastle.com )is one of the Highlands', indeed Scotland's, most iconic landmarks – a picture-perfect stone fortress surrounded by water (and often thronging with visitors).