Except for the modern era, this was probably the most prolific period of printmaking.
It's a big project, as of course the Victorians invented everything good that exists in the world, except for the modern and still relatively untested concept of letting foreigners run their own countries.
Dozens of graphite-on-paper studies for the painting are on view, and except for the modern subject matter, they would not look out of place in a 19th-century landscapist's sketchbook.
A better indicator of the health of the humanities would be the total enrollment in the fields, but such data are not systematically collected, except by the Modern Language Association for foreign languages.
When you rigorously consign each element of knowledge to its own classroom, what you are left with is a sort of poor cousin to rote learning a memorizing of facts without true meaning--except that under the modern system, few can actually even repeat the facts!
But Roman occupation left no permanent imprint, except to give the modern city its name, derived from Mamucium ("Place of the Breastlike Hill").
Urban folklorists collect stories that have much in common with the tales collected by the Grimm brothers, except that in the modern narratives the lone traveler is likely to be threatened, not by a werewolf, but by a phantom hitchhiker, and the location of his danger may be a freeway rather than a forest.
Virtual lack of gneissic or granitic clasts in any of the gravel outcrops (except those in the modern stream deposits) indicates that the crystalline rocks have only recently been exposed to drainages feeding the northern Fang basin.
Except that the modern-day Murray, the one who crashes karaoke parties and Swedish golf carts alike, and who pops up uninvited at strangers' weddings to dispense relationship advice, isn't the incarnation that I idolise.
And that is what the Court did on Friday, in Obergefell v. Hodges, a case that is, in every sense except ease of pronunciation, the modern analogue to the Loving case.
