Sentence examples for containing the famous from inspiring English sources

Even Saved, containing the famous scene of a baby-stoning, which provoked outrage at the time, ends with its hero quietly mending a chair, and was once described by Bond as "almost irresponsibly optimistic".

Perched on old garden chairs in a corner of the study, which is cluttered with tapes and endless mounds of papers containing the famous Benn diaries, the Benns demonstrate great affection and admiration.

The quandary of the ending, for which Puccini left a pile of sketches, one of them containing the famous remark "Then 'Tristan,' " has bedevilled opera houses ever since Toscanini conducted the première, in 1926.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 93), with three string quartets (one of them containing the famous "Andante cantabile"), a string sextet, and a big-scale piano trio, often brought moments of orchestral sonority into his chamber music.

A year later, Conrad published Heart of Darkness containing the famous line: "The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much").

It's thought to be roughly 2,250 years old and may hold Lady Xia, the grandmother of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, who brought the many warring states of China under unified rule (and who was buried in an enormous mausoleum containing the famous terra cotta army).

He also finds room for two other classic British horrors: Dead of Night (no 5), the 1945 "portmanteau" chiller which contains the famous story of the ventriloquist who believes his dummy is alive, and the creepy ghost story The Innocents (no 10), directed by Jack Clayton and adapted from Henry James Turnn of the Screw.

The play contains the famous stage direction "Exit, pursued by a bear".

The temple contains the famous early Chola (2nd century bce) bronzes.

It occupies 2,155 acres (873 hectares) and contains the famous racetracks of Longchamp and Auteuil.

On the Moravian side, the Drahanská vrchovina group of limestone hills contains the famous Moravian Karst.