Yet as the emperor Charles V ruefully acknowledged, it was the older building's seemingly endless forest of arches, expressing a much more democratic, non-hierarchical conception of the relationship between a worshipper and his god, that came out the winner.
With the Irish at a record of 10-0 in mid-November, and with only lowly Wake Forest and arch-rival U.S.C. in the way, I started doing the unimaginable: I pictured myself in Miami on January 7th, watching our golden helmets take the field to play for a national title.
Soon, we encountered a chain strung across the river to block vessels larger than canoes By this point the estuary's expansive skies had given way to a forest canopy that arched over the river.
He sought to bring Brian Clough, the European Cup-winning manager of arch-rivals Nottingham Forest, back to the club he had left a few years earlier, but when that approach failed he persuaded Clough's former assistant, Peter Taylor, out of retirement to become manager.
Palmyra is the last place anyone would expect to find a forest of stone columns and arches.
Max Ernst's tiny "Forest and Sun" (1931) is all linear arches and loop.
The state's first national park is 229 square miles of canyons, forests, plateaus, waterfalls, rock arches and the Virgin River.
There are the splendid Roman cities of Djemila and Timgad, where wind whistles through the ruins of amphitheaters, arches and forests of crumbling columns.
14]: It is true that our island does not contain the most flashy of natural wonders -- there are no magnificent geysers, grand stone arches or forests of gargantuan trees -- but that does not mean that we should allow what is left of our open spaces to be devoured by developers.
It earns its name for the twin buttes in the heart of a landscape that rise high above the piñon-juniper forests, deep canyons, inspiring arches, and arresting red rock formations that adorn the renowned and majestic Cedar Mesa.
