Sentence examples for destruction of les from inspiring English sources
He found the "engineer's progress and his setbacks are narrated in a patient, tight-lipped present tense, and just as the novel rarely concerns itself with anything that doesn't impinge on the destruction of Les Innocents, so it rarely deviates from its obsessive regime of description and dialogue".
While the corpse bride's parents connive to wring a proposal out of Baratte, Ziguette, who opposes the destruction of Les Innocents "as if she felt the shovels on her own skin," plots something far more sinister.
They set poems by Émile Cammaerts for narrator and orchestra: Carillon celebrates Belgium's bell towers as a symbol of the country's resistance; Une Voix dans le Désert depicts the desolation and destruction of the Flanders battlefields, while Le Drapeau Belge dwells on the symbolism of the Belgian flag.
Author of Les Fleurs du mal.
Wall has found a telling passage, too, on the complete destruction of the house in Croisset, in an article in Le Figaro the year after Flaubert's death.
"This massive bombing on a crowded market and the repeated destruction of the few available medical facilities breaches everything that the rules of war stand for," said Brice de le Vingne, director of Syria Operations for MSF. .
Rungis, the dreary suburb to the south where the city's abattoirs and markets were relocated after the destruction of Les Halles, would be transformed into a contemporary version of the old food halls.
The engineer's progress and his setbacks are narrated in a patient, tight-lipped present tense, and just as the novel rarely concerns itself with anything that doesn't impinge on the destruction of Les Innocents, so it rarely deviates from its obsessive regime of description and dialogue.
The destruction of Les Innocents consumes the novel, from first line to last, but the consequences of the project are never made to matter to the reader as much as they matter to the engineer; the dark results are not dark enough.
The destruction of buildings was undeniable.
