AT the advent of the holiday season, the windows of Selfridges, the 94-year-old department store in London, are full of sweets -- including a life-size chocolate statue of Nigella Lawson, the food writer and host of television cooking shows.
As for that new Gorillaz album, who knows what could be waiting at the end of their digital advent calendar, posted this week.
In fairness to the Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife (CPW), their intent for the voucher program at its advent years ago was to give landowners who host big game on their property a "thank you" advantage in drawing tags for themselves and their families to hunt on their own land; a wholly equitable arrangement that I applaud and believe should exist.
At the advent of computer-generated photorealism, "Dr. Katz" cultivated a homemade imperfection.
He set the play in turn-of-the-century Venice, at the advent of electricity, traders and stock markets.
When Prince Charles, at an advent reception, warned that Christianity was at risk of extinction in the lands of its birth, he was not scaremongering.
At the advent of the 2001 recession, industrial companies in the S. & P. 500 had just $352 billion in cash and cash equivalents on hand.
Boehner had hoped to establish an even tone at the advent of his more "adult" Congress, but developments tend to dictate the tone in Washington.
At the advent of sound cinema, The New Yorker's Hollywood-based writers captured the anxiety that talkies induced in the stars of the silent screen.
In some intertestamental literature, such as The Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch, there is an expectation of a universal resurrection at the advent of the Messiah.
