Bards performed the functions of modern journalists, accompanying their protector on military expeditions and celebrating his exploits in verse, the singsong rhyme of which became engraved in the memory of the people of Al-Andalus.
Sitting alone in her car, drinking peach wine coolers, Kay has one of those moments, not exactly epiphanies, when, in the midst of intense emotion, the eye is suddenly caught by an inconsequential detail that becomes engraved in memory.
During those hours in front of the television, several names became engraved in my mind, forming a part of the scar: Hotel Regis, the Súper Leche, Edificio Nuevo León, Multifamiliar Juárez.
From the first voyages of Christopher Columbus onward, the image of New World Indians as terrifying man-eaters became engraved on the European mind, an elaboration of yet older beliefs in entire races of monstrous peoples — giants, Amazons and strange creatures with wolflike heads (or no heads), huge ears and great feet — that existed on the fringes of the known world or in marginal regions.
Sinatra's exquisite phrasing became engraved on Hoffman's DNA.
After 1661, however, viscomital coronets became engraved, while baronial coronets were plain.
He became engraver at the Royal Mint, London.
And for the better, bien sûr.So will May 2002 become similarly engraved in the collective consciousness, code for a time when the French, especially the young, "went down into the street" in their hundreds of thousands to turn back a tide of xenophobic fascism embodied by Jean-Marie Le Pen in his bid for the presidency?
While it's easy to forget what was on last Sunday night's dinner menu, some events, like your own wedding or a close encounter with a grizzly bear, become permanently engraved in your mind.
