(n.) A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome.
(n.) The collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them; as, a divinity of the Greek pantheon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The MPC likely will place much more weight at next week’s meeting on the weak official data for the first quarter than on April’s better PMIs, and we expect Kristin Forbes to remain alone in voting to raise interest rates,” said Samuel Tombs, the chief UK economist at the consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics.
(2) Sadly there's a distinct lack of bushy facial features on show in Germany this summer, although should Gennaro Gattuso steer clear of a razor and Italy go all the way, then he'll surely be eligible to join Batista in the pantheon of hirsute legends.
(3) No place for Suarez in the Uruguayan World Cup pantheon alongside Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Alcides Ghiggia and Obdulio Varela (who would have dealt with Giorgio Chiellini by giving him a sharp clip around the ear, and got away with it too, but that's another story).
(4) In the pantheon of this comedian's attacks on Thatcher, it was a retort that probably won't be treasured longer than the best lines from The Young Ones.
(5) Few figures in the pantheon of the NSW barristers’ trade union are more saintly than Sir Garfield Barwick.
(6) (Cripps, chancellor in the final period of the Attlee government, was a symbol of austerity in the Labour pantheon).
(7) In the pantheon of American poets, Woody belongs midway between Walt Whitman and Bob Dylan , but it is his roots in Oklahoma that give his work an authentic voice, ringing out from the dusty midwestern plains: a welcome antidote to the easy jibe that, if you're poor and white in this part of the world, you're bound to be a redneck.
(8) It's hard to say why Felt and Denim never enjoyed the success of many of their peers, or why Go Kart Mozart haven't been included in the pantheon of XL-approved heritage acts.
(9) I got a whole pantheon of Sally Field references in here,” he grins, tapping his head, a reference to the hysterically anti-Iranian 1991 film.
(10) There is very small pantheon of great reforming education secretaries who have genuinely created change.
(11) In some quarters, the reception has been so adulatory that you could have been fooled into thinking that he had won himself a place alongside Abraham Lincoln in the pantheon of great orators and the Gettysburg Address now had a rival in the Bloomberg Speech.
(12) Other surveys pointed to continued recession, said Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at the consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics.
(13) She said the other major site under threat from the militants was Ashur, a Unesco world heritage site on the banks of the Tigris not far from Mosul , named after the chief god of the Assyrian pantheon.
(14) Perhaps greater regulation of the food industry, with its love of marketing at children with a pantheon of quite horrible cartoon characters and its happy facilitation of access to sugars and fats in inappropriate places, would help?
(15) However grudging the judgment sounds it will stick to him in the pantheon.
(16) Losses look inevitable, and a pantheon of psephologists predict 150, 190, more,” said the BBC’s deputy political editor, John Pienaar just 24 hours ago.
(17) In between winning three Oscars , having four children, keeping bees and studying music, Murch recently investigated new links between the architecture of the Pantheon, the work of Copernicus and the origins of heliocentrism in western astronomy.
(18) 1991 Graduates with a master of laws and a master of advanced studies in criminal law from Pantheon-Assas University in Paris, France's leading law school.
(19) For all his achievement and worth, I don't think Perry Anderson quite fits in the pantheon the obituary suggests.
(20) This is the prize all physicists want , a chance to be remembered in the same pantheon as Max Planck , Richard Feynman , Niels Bohr , Marie Curie , Werner Heisenberg and, of course, Albert Einstein .
Parthenon
Definition:
(n.) A celebrated marble temple of Athene, on the Acropolis at Athens. It was of the pure Doric order, and has had an important influence on art.
Example Sentences:
(1) George Clooney has strolled into one of the most bitter and longest-running controversies in the heritage world, saying it would be "very nice" if the British Museum sent the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece.
(2) The comments, which follow Clooney's repeated claims over the past week that Britain should return the Parthenon marbles to Greece, were reportedly made in Milan at a press event during which the film's cast posed in front of the famed Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece The Last Supper.
(3) One is that Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman empire in the early 19th century, denuded the Parthenon of much of its sculpture immorally, or even illicitly.
(4) I won't dilate too much about the experience of seeing the marbles close up, which is something the ancient Greeks never did, because they were placed high on the Parthenon, but what is moving is the human detail of the sculptures – the snapshots of people turning round to see what's going on, struggling with a bullock that is about to get loose, and men expiring at the hooves of centaurs.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sir Richard Lambert, chairman of the British Museum Trustees, poses next to the Parthenon marbles in the British Museum, London.
(6) Price said the issue was timely because the Greeks are preparing for the official opening in June of a new €129m Acropolis museum to showcase the Parthenon sculptures.
(7) DEBT MARKET TERMS An EU flag flies over the temple of Parthenon on Acropolis hill in Athens.
(8) It is these statues, once known as the Elgin marbles now as the Parthenon marbles , that have caused bitter controversy for 200 years.
(9) Amal Clooney, the human rights lawyer, has said it is only prudent that Greece seeks legal advice in its attempt to reclaim the Parthenon marbles from the British Museum , but hopes an amicable solution can be found to the decades-long dispute.
(10) In my view returning the Parthenon Marbles to Greece is the just thing to do,” said Clooney on the first day of a three-day visit to Athens in which she held talks with the Greek culture minister to discuss the country’s legal options.
(11) Today, in the midst of those efforts, we learn that the British Museum has decided to loan Russia part of its hotly contested property, the Parthenon marbles, also known as the Elgin marbles.
(12) Desperate to lure outsiders to this far-flung, sparsely populated region, officials have ordered the construction of a replica of the Great Sphinx of Egypt ; the Parthenon ; Beijing’s Summer Palace and Forbidden City, and even of a stretch of the Great Wall of China.
(13) Designed by Pericles's master sculptor, Phidias, the marbles were part of a monumental frieze that adorned the Parthenon.
(14) From the Parthenon to the Hill of Pnyx, these crop up unannounced on street corners in Athens the way shops do in other cities.
(15) The actor-director's initial comments about the Parthenon marbles came at the Berlin film festival on Saturday while promoting The Monuments Men , the story of an Allied team trying to save art from the Nazis.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest One of the Parthenon marbles sculptures at the British Museum.
(17) "Prime minister, history and future generations will honour you, as will Greece, if you take that one small but monumental step of amending the 1933 Museums Act to allow for the return of the Parthenon sculptures," said his open letter.
(18) She has started work on her latest case , in which she is advising Greece on a bid to have the Parthenon marbles, currently in the British Museum, returned to the country.
(19) Those photographs from Greece last week sent me straight round to the chief site of that abuse, the Duveen Gallery at the British Museum , where the Parthenon marbles are displayed and there are as many diaphanously clothed virgins as you would wish to clap eyes on.
(20) In loaning the Parthenon marbles statue of Ilissos to Russia ( Loan shatters Elgin marbles claim, says Athens , 6 December), the British Museum has acted insensitively and foolishly.