(1) That crowded, baroque city, with its high tally of wooden buildings, was incinerated on the night of 13 February 1944 in a man-made firestorm that destroyed 90% of the city centre.
(2) For Merkel, the meeting is the start of a week of whirlwind diplomacy that will see her meeting heads of state in Tallin, Prague and Warsaw before hosting first the leaders of the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, and then the presidents of Slovenia, Bulgaria and Croatia at Schloss Meseberg, a baroque castle outside Berlin.
(3) The first museums on history of nature were opened in early Enlightenment and had originated from baroque curio galleries at most of the European courts.
(4) In an unusual move seen as evidence of their good working relationship despite their differences on key issues, Merkel invited Cameron to bring his wife, Samantha, and their three children to stay at Schloss Meseberg, an elegant baroque manor set in picturesque grounds.
(5) He has also moved towards building up a sense of culture shock through withholding information rather than lathering on baroque descriptions.
(6) Professor Padre Erico Hammes of the Pontifícia Universidade of Rio Grande do Sul said Francis's direct and simple speaking style was in marked contrast to the baroque language of his two predecessors.
(7) 9.46pm BST 45 min: Messi skips along a baroque route down the right.
(8) "Bavarians live the baroque life," says Angela Schmid, head of the German housewife association's Württemberg branch.
(9) Just the fact of its being there at all took my breath away - a discordant modernist appendage to the gilded baroque former courthouse which is the entrance to the museum, and thus a symbolic reproach to bürgerlich Berlin itself.
(10) Why the bodies of the saints have remained intact is a mystery – legend has it that they have special powers – but the church's exquisite baroque façade is arguably just as magical.
(11) Official advice on low-fat diet and cholesterol is wrong, says health charity Read more Artichokes are still a Roman delicacy, and when it comes to diet in Renaissance and baroque Italian art, this is a clue.
(12) Listening to Temples' Prisms three and half decades on, to its shimmering Beach-Boys-in-66 sonics and baroque arrangement (warning: features prominent use of flutes), you might feel similarly baffled.
(13) Van Helmont has been qualified as a medical exponent of the baroque spirit.
(14) Underneath its ghoulish milieu, Penny Dreadful throbs with a big, bruised heart and a baroque web of emotional nuance.
(15) So it's therefore doubly fascinating to see that the artist whom Francis holds in highest esteem is Caravaggio, the Baroque gay icon and street brawler who used prostitutes and rent boys as models for his work.
(16) Like the jazzy nest of some mutant raver-crows, it is a curious arrival to the sleepy medieval lanes, a 90m-long torrent of orange sticks between the classical law courts and the baroque bell tower.
(17) Over time, however, the film world caught up with Scott’s floridly conceived baroque visuals, and it’s fair to say it has become the industry norm, in this era of superhero fantasies and effects-driven thrillers.
(18) The figures and speech of passion are clinically polymorphous and heterogeneous: from the baroque of the mystical ecstasy, the iconophily of religious and political ideologies, the collector's usual fetishism and the paranoiac insanity of hatred to the passions of knowing and loving.
(19) Germany's parliament has voted for the baroque castle that used to exist here to be rebuilt.
(20) He left his mark on the sensibilities of the cultural commissars from the moment of his literary debut in 1956, when, on the strength of one article published in a new magazine, Kveten, he was invited to take part in a conference held to introduce – and keep an eye on – young authors at the Writers' Union's grand country quarters in the baroque palace of Dobris.
Variant
Definition:
(a.) Varying in from, character, or the like; variable; different; diverse.
(a.) Changeable; changing; fickle.
(n.) Something which differs in form from another thing, though really the same; as, a variant from a type in natural history; a variant of a story or a word.
Example Sentences:
(1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
(2) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
(3) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(4) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
(5) In this study, the role of psychological make-up was assessed as a risk factor in the etiology of vasospasm in variant angina (VA) using the Cornell Medical Index (CMI).
(6) Moreover, homozygous deletion of the FMS gene may be an important event in the genesis of the MDS variant 5q- syndrome.
(7) The diagnosis of variant- or Prizmetal-angina is difficult because if insufficient specificity of the tests.
(8) A variant t-PA (G K1 K2 P), which contained only one of the two fibrin binding sites, i.e.
(9) In the DAUDI cell system, the acquired capability of tumor cell variants to grow in the presence of a relatively high concentration of vinblastine (VBL) is associated with a marked increase to NK and LAK susceptibility.
(10) An infant with a Sturge-Weber variant syndrome developed progressive megalencephaly and eventual hydrocephalus, which required shunting.
(11) Three distinct antigenic regions of bovine somatotropin (bST) were identified on the basis of the ability of a set of monoclonal antibodies to bind to proteolytic fragments and deletion variants of recombinant bST (rbST) in Western blot analyses.
(12) Furthermore, they seem to suggest that most cases of cycloid psychosis are not variants of either schizophrenia or major affective disorders.
(13) Structurally altered polymorphic variants with reduced activity, such as tetrameric interface mutant Ile-58 to Thr, may produce not only an early selective advantage, through enhanced cytotoxicity of tumor necrosis factor for virus-infected cells, but also detrimental effects from increased mitochondrial oxidative damage, contributing to degenerative conditions, including diabetes, aging, and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
(14) A variant of the FitzHugh-Nagumo model is proposed in order to fully make use of the computational properties of intraneuronal dynamics.
(15) All four human MBP variants were identical except for the insertion of deletion of two peptide fragments corresponding to those encoded by exons 2 and 5 of the MBP gene.
(16) Proliferation of untransformed FDC-PI cells and the emergence of variants with improved adaptation to in vivo conditions appear to be important and possibly necessary steps in the pathogenesis of the disease.
(17) The results are discussed with respect to Q phase variants and receptor binding properties.
(18) In small cell line NCI-H69 the growth inhibitory effect of VRP alone is greater in the resistant variant than in the parent line.
(19) A deficient G-6PD variant was discovered in 4 males of one family from northwestern Germany.
(20) Methods of analysis for some deterministic and stochastic variants of the integrate-to-threshold neural coding scheme are presented.