(1) Wang was said to excel in physics and calligraphy; Ye in literature and gymnastics.
(2) Foxconn is proud of the fact that it provides a swimming pool and other facilities to its staff, as well as organising chess, calligraphy, mountain climbing and fishing.
(3) During the early 1960s, Burroughs and his colleague, the painter and writer Brion Gysin , had developed the cut-up as a method of visual and verbal reassembly that was equally applicable to painting, montaged artworks, calligraphy, tape manipulation and the word.
(4) He stays healthy and alert by eating well and practising calligraphy, according to his family.
(5) Thus began the evolution of this city’s distinctive pixação: a style of urban writing that has inspired numerous pixadores to come up with their own variations on this type of calligraphy – according to one estimate, there are more than 5,000 active pixadores in São Paulo alone.
(6) "She was so approachable," said Lu Yuhong, 16, who guided the first lady in writing the Chinese character "eternal" in calligraphy at the Beijing school.
(7) But the man whose calligraphy we ponder - a jobbing scribe, probably - was not the author.
(8) Stores are offering Rooster-themed products, Chinese calligraphy or handing out treats in traditional red envelopes.
(9) But Mo told Der Spiegel that he only joined in with the project because he was "vain enough to take the opportunity to show off with my calligraphy".
(10) Ahmad Salma, a Syrian of Palestinian origin, used the sinuous swirls of different styles of Arabic calligraphy to spell out the names of the provinces of Syria – to emphasise unity in the face of violence and rising sectarianism.
(11) With chainsaws and chisels, carving ice requires techniques from tree surgery to calligraphy.
(12) He left his homeland in the early 60s to spend two years in China, steeping himself in its language and calligraphy.
(13) In the few hours that sunlight enters the dark cell we read what a past cellmate has inscribed on the walls in an elegant Arabic calligraphy.
(14) Let me give you one example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.
(15) Williams, a trained engraver, worked as a map-maker during the war and listed calligraphy among his hobbies in Who's Who , but his astonishing skill has confounded even Nicolas Barker, a former handwriting expert at the British Museum, who has looked at the diaries.
(16) Their ubiquitous calligraphy is composed of straight lines and sharp edges, giving their creations – pixos – a jagged look.
(17) He dropped out after one term, but continued to go to some classes, including a course on calligraphy.
(18) For services to Western Calligraphy and the community in Northern Ireland.
(19) Not only is Mao's own rather wild calligraphy everywhere to be seen in Shaoshan - on paper, on rocks, on walls, on silk - but also that of Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin.
(20) Wen Huaisha, a former Pekin University teacher and a specialist in Chinese literature is in France for an exhibition of his calligraphy at the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris.
Hagiography
Definition:
(n.) Same Hagiographa.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sea of Blood is a war hagiography that gives Kim Il-sung exaggerated credit for victories over Japan in the 1930s.
(2) Perhaps inevitably, their comments gives the film an air of hagiography bordering on idolatry, or even theology – at one point Hana Ali speaks of her mother, Porche, “seeing God in his eyes”.
(3) But surely this can be accomplished without a hagiography of the infamous.
(4) Abigail Disney also spoke out against the film, calling it "a misplaced attempt at hagiography."
(5) Beloved by fans, respected by his peers and the subject of a thousand hagiographies, it’s hard even for non-Yankees fans to hate Jeter – which makes it hard to hope that the Yankees are the villains yet again.
(6) Mr Obama hasn’t even left office, but the cinematic hagiography has begun,” the New York Times commented .
(7) The danger of hagiography "was something we all knew was an issue and that I struggled with every day while I was writing it.
(8) The problem with biography in general is it tends to be hagiography or denigration, in movies even more than books,” Kendall said.
(9) There, official hagiographies claim Xi lived in a cave and – when he wasn’t herding sheep or shovelling coal or manure – pored over the teachings of Mao.
(10) "If there is a problem with it, it is that it is too much of a eulogy, a hagiography."
(11) The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw labelled Hirschbiegel's film "an excruciatingly well-intentioned, reverential and sentimental biopic about her troubled final years, laced with bizarre cardboard dialogue", while the Observer's Mark Kermode called it "a film which has neither backbone nor teeth, swerving drearily between hagiography ('I just want to help people!')
(12) Although audience reaction was strong, reviews were tepid at best, with the Guardian’s Catherine Shoard saying: “it is all but impossible for such a study to not stray into hagiography, and Guggenheim doesn’t really put up much of a fight.” Possible major nomination: Best documentary feature.
(13) These facts were conveniently omitted from his hagiography.
(14) His poetic verse is little more than a memory now because of his tragically diminished state, but on his 60th birthday we have forsaken the hagiography to let Ali speak for himself.
(15) And mentally is where you learn how to fight … it is in the street.” For him a broken link between the street and the stadium should be of urgent concern to Fifa – which was mocked last week for spending an alleged £16m on a hagiography of Blatter that premiered at the Cannes film festival – and football’s other governing bodies.
(16) But a film in the works, starring Tim Roth and Gérard Depardieu , looks likely instead to be a sanitised version of its history and a hagiography of Sepp Blatter, its controversial president.