(1) Several villages, each linked to the piste, makes up Serre Chevalier.
(2) Hotel Chevalier is about a young couple, played by Portman and Schwartzman, reuniting for a (possibly final) tryst.
(3) A two-part German-South African co-production based on the bestselling Kate Mosse novel, it's a window-rattling potboiler bubbling with ancient religious conspiracies, comely medieval wenches, comely 21st-century academics, fogbanks of swirly past-times skulduggery, evil pharmaceutical CEOs in 10 denier tights, priapic chevaliers and, verily, a script that does dance a merry jig upon the very phizog of credibility.
(4) One evening, Kusturica went to Lisbon to play a concert; another day, he was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
(5) Tracy Chevalier on York Art Gallery I was writer in residence at the gallery in 2008 and so knew it in its old incarnation as well as its new, following the superb renovation last year.
(6) Built by IBM , Watson, as the computer is known, can answer questions in a silky digital voice and knows a hell of a lot of trivia on everything from children's fiction to archaeology and the musical oeuvre of Maurice Chevalier.
(7) In 2003, he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres.
(8) Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier (2001) Chevalier’s 2001 novel introduces the work of the suffragettes as part of a wider exploration of the changing role of women at the turn of the 20th century.
(9) No, the remarkable thing is Hotel Chevalier, Anderson's 10-minute short that appears before the main feature.
(10) Awards: Best Canadian Production Award at the Quinzaine internationale de thétre de Québec '84, for Circulations; Creation Award from the Conseil de la culture de Québec '86; Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres '90; Order of Canada '94.
(11) Excellent atmosphere February 9, 2014 3.29pm GMT France’s Anaïs Chevalier is the last woman to complete the sprint biathlon, but she cannot disrupt the medalists.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest AFP filmed rebel snipers on the strategically and symbolically important castle at Crac des Chevalier west of Homs.
(13) Chevalier de Tromelin was hierarchically just under him; this Chevalier had a character as chilly and stiff as the Bailli was the opposite; both were ambitious and deserving officers, the Chevalier being as much conformist as his "adversary" was fiery and bold.
(14) Suffren played a double-game with his immediate subordinate; not lacking verbal smoothness, he nevertheless abused him in such a way in his reports to the authorities, that when Chevalier de Tromelin, being ill, asked to return to France, he learned that he had been dismissed of the Navy without having ever been heard or able to attempt to defend himself.
(15) Today that year turned from turbulent to terminal as it was revealed that the 58-year-old chief executive had lied to the high court in his attempts to explain how he had met his former partner, Jeff Chevalier, exercising in Battersea Park near his Chelsea home.
(16) His father had died many years ago and Browne lived with his mother who accompanied him to functions in the place of a spouse until her death and later appearance of Chevalier.
(17) Like the massive crusader castle of Krak des Chevaliers , which was held for over a year by rebel forces who could dominate a valley full of Christian villages west of Homs, the Aleppo citadel used to be one of Syria’s major tourist attractions.
(18) Over the weekend I organised a quick petition signed by more than 50 high-profile women, from Helena Kennedy, Shami Chakrabarti, Stella Creasy and Bianca Jagger to Jeanette Winterson, Tracy Chevalier and Sandi Toksvig, asking the BBC male hierarchy not to just automatically give the job to a male without even contemplating alternatives.
(19) Now that these police states have imploded, it’s as if Europe’s outer defences, its barbican, had, like Crac des Chevaliers itself, crumbled.
(20) For a long time now, the actor and experimental theatre director Robert Lepage has been fascinated by the life of the Chevalier d'Eon, an 18th-century French soldier who had a flamboyant career as a diplomat and secret agent for Louis XV, and spent much of his adult life dressed as a woman.
Chivalry
Definition:
(n.) A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.
(n.) The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry.
(n.) The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc.
(n.) A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord.
(n.) Exploit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Normally a very friendly fellow, the reasons for 'Arry's lack of chivalry remain unknown, but it's thought he may have been preoccupied by the prospect of bringing triffic fellas Emmanuel Adebayor and Benoît Essou-Akotto to Loftus Road on loan.
(2) Twelve months ago, Chris Hemsworth, the actor who plays Kevin, was in every multiplex as Thor , he of the unreconstructed chivalry and massive mallet.
(3) But the most surprising thing was the wording in the crimson ring: FOR GOD AND THE EMPIRE, this order of chivalry's motto.
(4) We are so much happier and rested now, and this arrangement lends itself to chivalry; on days when I arrive in the bedroom exhausted to find the fortress has been made for me, I feel spoilt indeed.
(5) Mr Osborne's hero, a self-pitying, self-dramatising intellectual rebel who drives his wife away, takes a mistress and then drops her when his wife crawls back, will not be thought an edifying example of chivalry.
(6) We have already gone through the excruciating experience of having the Queen herself wean us off the teat of the British honours system, a fixture of Australian distinction and chivalry that remained well after those fruity awards had turned rancid.
(7) Johnson was a puncher-boxer and dandy; Dempsey an uncomplicated hitter; Tunney had grace and nerve and fast feet; Louis’s fast hands punched in a blur of combinations, and he had a killer instinct as well as chivalry; Marciano had relentless oomph and steam-hammer cruelty.
(8) The age of chivalry is dead.” The novel’s theme, deftly laid out in a narrative that flashes backwards and forwards, to and from the 1930s, is the education of six wonderfully distinctive, heartless and romantic 10-year-old girls (Monica, Sandy, Rose, Mary, Jenny, and Eunice) and the covert classroom drama that leads to Miss Brodie’s “betrayal”, her peremptory dismissal from Marcia Blaine by her great enemy, the headmistress, Miss Mackay.
(9) Sampson found his book piled high alongside Le Carre's The Spy Who Came in From The Cold , Mary McCarthy's The Group , and Arthur Bryant's The Age of Chivalry .
(10) A few years ago, my novel Dodger took the reader back to times long gone to meet famous names of fact and fiction, and brought them together on a journey – ultimately – of chivalry.
(11) President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s office said in a statement: “History will never forget his numerous achievements in the defence of Arabism and Islam; acts which he performed with honour, honesty and sincerity, guided by truth, justice, chivalry and courage.
(12) Not unless you entertain some outdated idea of chivalry, I suppose.
(13) Jihad “promises adventure and asserts that the codes of medieval heroism and chivalry are still relevant,” Creswell and Haykel write.
(14) Younger women put a greater emphasis on physical characteristics in defining the conceptions and were more likely to note chivalry as an important factor between the sexes.
(15) To be specific, sexism is when men let you jump the queue and get on a crowded bus first in Delhi (to confuse matters further, that's called chivalry) and then the poor dears, willy nilly, get crushed up against you as their hands "accidentally" cup your breasts in a frenzy of misogyny.
(16) Men – some of them – stand up when a woman enters the room, behaviour originating in medieval codes of chivalry.