Sentence examples for french circle from inspiring English sources

Cirque, (French: "circle"), amphitheatre-shaped basin with precipitous walls, at the head of a glacial valley.

I staggered out, visually intoxicated, on to adjoining Logan Square, which is actually a rather grand French circle.

There is a mood of great optimism, as well as suppressed excitement and anxiety, in highest French circles.

In French circles, however, isorhythm (use of complex underlying rhythmic repetitions) was applied to the motet and also to sections of the mass.

Ms. Duteil has started artistic projects that take her out of strictly French circles, such as running an art gallery in the South Bronx.

The statements come amid a recognition, even in official French circles, that the strategy used by Mr. Chirac and his outspoken foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, to promote the righteousness of the French position may have backfired.

A notable exception to this claim was the Epicurean cosmology resembling some aspects of Lucretius' poem, developed by the French philosophe Benôit de Maillet (1656 1738) in his privately circulated manuscript Telliamed that was known in French circles for ten years before its publication in 1748.

The French police circle the perimeter twenty-four hours a day – only entering to demolish shelters or teargas protesters – but remain uninterested in what actually goes on inside the camp.

Yet in French cultural circles, Robert Wilson is no ordinary American.

Mr. Plenel has long been a polarizing figure in French journalism circles.

For that matter, the term wasn't even endemic in French cinephilic circles.