Picture this: a stately room full of empty chairs set up two rows deep in a semi circle.
But just beneath Portland's bohemian top layer is a stately town that's almost Midwestern in its decency, set against a stunning natural backdrop.
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The picture has a stately, waltz-like rhythm, as the narrator (Marcello Mazzarella, a dead ringer for the real Proust) guides us through the declining fortunes of his friends under the shadow of the First World War.
Exuding a stately academic atmosphere, the college campuses are especially attractive when decked out in autumnal hues.
Out of fragments full of imperfection was indulgently raised up a stately and inaccessible whole.
The daily job of running a stately consumer-goods company is hardly the most exciting of tasks.
She was born in a stately home in Shropshire, and was taught by governesses.
Now the newspaper industry seems locked into a stately death spiral of declining circulation and aging demographics.
It was a decent summer by English standards, and Tony set a stately pace to the day.
The estate produces only one wine, a stately Bordeaux blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Petit Verdot.
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The New York State Militia, First Division, by contrast, opted for a stately navy blue coatee with matching trousers.
Now living in a stately home just two blocks off of historic St.
Human remains, found at a stately home in Cornwall, are thought to be those of the man who built it.
Leaning back in the cyclo, moving at a stately pace, makes it easy to appreciate the aesthetic attractions of the city.
When the park first went up, Bostonians undoubtedly felt like Kubla Khan must have when a stately pleasure-dome he did decree.
Work being carried out at a stately home in Cornwall could reveal the final resting place of the man who built it.
His bones were wrapped in an Austrian nettle cloth and placed in a stately urn that his travel companions transported back to Denmark.
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To give the formal areas of the house a stately feel, he installed black double doors, stained black walnut flooring, and blue velvet curtains.
In the background, there was wailing on the corner of London and Ellis streets, in a stately cluster of Victorian-style houses with wraparound porches.
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In the background is public wailing on the corner of London and Ellis Streets, in a stately cluster of Victorian-style houses with wrap-around porches.
Moreover, the Lange 1 was an instant design icon, a stately reserve of squares and circles that would have warmed the heart of Pythagoras himself.
He projected a stately demeanor helped by his profusion of gray hair -- which grew at an early age -- and an equally steely facial expression.
Settled in his chambers around the corner from Turin's courts of justice, with a stately grandfather clock ticking in the background, Mr Grande Stevens appears every bit the establishment toff.
He talks about dealing with "mostly drunken teenagers" but he did on one occasion help disarm a knife-wielding trespasser at a stately home before handing him over safely to the police.
The picture has a mournful, slow rhythm, rather like that of prayer or a stately ballad, and clearly Kiarostami is saying something about the value of putting down roots versus modern restlessness.
Mr. Twist shows his man and woman to us as a courting couple and as a duo performing a stately gavotte, as indicated in Stravinsky's score, to which the tickled Carolina audience expressed audible delight.
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But the slide has been going on for years: the old crusty guys working their beat at a stately pace in town here, the high rates for shipping, the poor (and expensive) tracking, and now the cutbacks in service.
That her forebears include Northumbrian miners and her mother was formerly an air stewardess, that her parents made their own money, and that she met the prince at university rather than a stately home, can only do her good.
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This year it may expand by 3%, though the official forecast is still a more stately 2.5%.
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