The film's political subtext seems relevant and troubling because Mr. Leconte sees the past as a region not of quaint mores and pretty costumes, but as a volatile frontier, a realm of artistic and moral risk.
But the transitions from one to the other are continuous: witticism blends into epigram, caricature into portrait; and whether one considers architecture, medicine, chess, or cookery, there is no clear frontier where the realm of science ends and that of art begins: the creative person is a citizen of both.
The patrons of this priory were members of Alan's own family, a powerful kindred that had recently begun to expand its influence westwards from Renfrew, to the frontier of the Scottish realm and the fringes of Argyll.
In a book from the Prose Edda additional information is given about Surtr, including that he is stationed guarding the frontier of the fiery realm Múspell, that he will lead "Múspell's sons" to Ragnarök, and that he will defeat Freyr.
After touching a copper bell, the frontier between the land of the living and the realm of the divine, each man in the troupe – here too they take the female roles as well – starts to apply makeup using the stem of a coconut leaf.
With one notable exception, establishing the frontiers of the Danish realm had proved to be much easier than determining the extent of the king's power.
So was the senior civil service, where the frontiers of the public realm had been most zealously guarded, and in which its values had been most thoroughly internalised.
The nineties were filled with CDs and bubble gum pop-stars, and with the turn of the century came a whole new realm, a new frontier if you will, YouTube.
From 133 bc he launched attacks on the nomadic Xiongnu people, who constituted China's principal threat on the northern frontier, and thereafter he committed his realm to the expansion of the empire.
It demanded otherworldly sounds, some sonic landscape to match the disembodied System of the robot realm that is the new frontier of life that the opera imagines.
