(1) "That'll knock some sense into all those socialists and Muslims – send them a big old British Jacobean book and see how they like that!"
(2) Antony and Cleopatra is in many ways a reflection of Jacobean court extravagance and decadence.
(3) (1966), worked with Simpson, Arnold Wesker and John Arden , and, having staged Howard Barker ’s Cheek in 1970, collaborated with him in 1986 on the audacious Women Beware Women, adapting Middleton’s Jacobean original with poisonous puritanism.
(4) The intimate and atmospheric theatre will offer a glimpse of how audiences originally experienced the bloodthirsty Jacobean tragedy when it was first performed by the King's Men – Shakepeare's own company.
(5) At the moment, however, the six tapestries are on show at Temple Newsam House in Yorkshire, a Tudor-Jacobean mansion owned by Leeds city council, one and a half miles from the nearest train station and accessible by bus only in the summer months.
(6) Might we take a tremendous leap now from the Jacobeans to Nurse Jackie ?
(7) One day there will be a giant respiratory multinational that will own all new lungs For all I know, there’s a cabal of trillionaires sitting in a Jacobean library somewhere discussing how they might trade futures in trading futures.
(8) And Doran has explored the outer reaches of the Elizabeth-Jacobean repertoire and, in his current production of David Edgar's Written on the Heart , which transfers to the Duchess theatre, London, in April, proved that he can work with living writers.
(9) The NPG considers the self-portrait one of the world's finest and while Van Dyck may have been Flemish he was very much the leading court painter in England and had an enormous impact on British portraiture by moving it away from the stiff formality of Tudor and Jacobean painting.
(10) In 1999 Robert and Nicky Wilson took on a fading Jacobean manor house between Edinburgh and the Pentland Hills.
(11) Bowles's increasing reputation as a composer led to lucrative work on Broadway and he would go on to compose the music for a number of Broadway productions, including Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine; the stage version of South Pacific; Jacobowsky and the Colonel, directed by Elia Kazan; and John Ford's Jacobean tragedy 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
(12) It’s an architectural mix-up of Elizabethan, Jacobean and William & Mary.
(13) "He decisively turned it away from the stiff formal approach of Tudor and Jacobean painting developing a distinctive fluid, painterly style that was to dominate portraiture well into the 20th century," Nairne said.
(14) That the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras were as much about the vitality and wildness of the Boar's Head (Falstaff's den of booze and wit and broken hearts) as they were about the decorum and intrigues of the court.
(15) For many observers, the V for Vendetta mask has nothing to do with a Jacobean conspirator or a modern comic-book slash movie.
(16) The Wanamaker, and its matching dark Jacobean drama, is the place for intimate movements that can pick up on the sexual connections of dance – fingers that briefly touch, bodies that shadow each other, steps that evade and check – a rare chance for a sentence spoken between otherwise segregated sexes wearing heavy clothes.
(17) It was like a great Jacobean, Shakespearian or Greek Tragedy.
(18) I steer us away from Malfi and she is too obliging to complain, although the hour might easily have vanished with Jacobean drama as our only theme.
(19) No other painter had such a dramatic impact on British portraiture, helping turn it away from the stiff formal approach of Tudor and Jacobean painting.
(20) I am reminded of this whenever I visit any of the Jacobean and Georgian-era great houses that are dotted around Barbados .
Jacobite
Definition:
(n.) A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after his abdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor of William and Mary.
(n.) One of the sect of Syrian Monophysites. The sect is named after Jacob Baradaeus, its leader in the sixth century.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Jacobites.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Supporting Pakistan or the Windies at cricket is no more evidence that someone has failed to integrate than wearing a kilt to a wedding is proof of Jacobite sympathies.
(2) History echoes through this part of Scotland, where Bonnie Prince Charlie raised the Jacobite standard of rebellion, and many other battles and feuds have been fought since.
(3) Its six permanent galleries explore different themes, including clan warfare, the Jacobite uprisings and the Highland Clearances: a seventh gallery hosts a changing exhibition.
(4) Adult £26, kids £19.75 Jacobite Steam Train, Fort William, the Highlands Photograph: Alamy Trips don't come more "classic" than a West Coast Railways Jacobite steam-train ride.
(5) He believed it united citizens on either side of the border from the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 until the dawn of Thatcherism and that the cornerstone of the union and its main pillars have either crumbled or become rotten.
(6) He had a huge collection of books about Scotland, concentrating on its history and reflecting his special interest in the Jacobite rebellion in the 18th century and the splits in the church in the 19th.
(7) Not that protest songs are the exclusive domain of the left: the folk tradition has encompassed Jacobite rants and classics such as the royalist civil war song, Dominion of the Sword , while contemporary singers such as Morrissey and Gary Numan have pitched in for the political right.
(8) The Scotland I grew up in largely identified itself in terms of its military history in service of the British empire – the charge of the Scottish Greys at Waterloo, the Thin Red Line at Balaclava in the Crimean War – on the sporting field and by a sort of faux Jacobitism with a royalist hue to it.
(9) Supporting Pakistan or the Windies at cricket is no more evidence that someone has failed to integrate than wearing a kilt to a wedding is proof of Jacobite sympathies.
(10) It’s not a romantic romp in the heather or a doomed Jacobite jolly.
(11) Alan Breck (Stewart), described by Balfour as "a condemned rebel, and a deserter, and a man of the French king's", represents the proud spirit of the Highlands after the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, fiery, reckless, romantic and doomed, with a brilliant line in memorable dialogue.
(12) Along with the famous Fairy Flag, the castle collection includes impressive paintings, Jacobite relics and a wealth of clan history.
(13) The Jacobite Express used in the Harry Potter films chugs between Mallaig and Fort William twice a day, charging across the Glenfinnan Viaduct with its spectacular view down Loch Shiel.
(14) In the Collected Works of Stevenson , it boasts one of the longest and most elaborate subtitles in English literature: "Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751; How he was Cast Away; His Sufferings in a Desert Isle; His Journey in the Wild Highlands; His Acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other Notorious Highland Jacobites; with All that He Suffered at the Hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, Falsely So-Called.