Sentence examples for imperial world from inspiring English sources

But we know from literary sources how important was the making of more personal likenesses in the Roman imperial world.

Like the Babar tales (which also grew out of the milieu of 1930s Paris) they have an almost colonial-era vision of the uncultivated naïf at large in the imperial world.

Stitched together from the Genji stories as well as Murasaki's diary fragments and collected poems, her quiet, dignified voice guides us behind the strategically placed screens and carefully oblique allusions of the imperial world "above the clouds".

And in "Romanov Riches" he pays homage to them as patrons of the arts and apostles of power, sweeping the reader across 300 years of Russian history from the accession of Czar Mikhail in 1613 to the violent collapse of the imperial world in 1917.

To my mind, the most relevant finding is that this whole process of economic development and state formation in the non-imperial Europe of the first millennium was the result of a developing range of contacts with the more developed imperial world.

The King's Speech uses one man's enunciation stress as an excuse for a nostalgic glance at the last time, on the cusp of the second world war, when Britain enjoyed imperial world prestige – a little backwards patriotic fling for 2011 audiences prior to the jubilee and the London Olympics.

It then details the emergence of the major urban centers of Taxila and Charsadda and their subsequent incorporation into the imperial worlds of the Mauryan, Indo-Greeks and Kushans.

The truth is that yoga has gone global without some imperial, world-dominating Hindu agenda accompanying it.

But the company's top brass remained wedded to imperial values in a post-imperial world.

In any case, many Britons are unsure about what, in a post-imperial world, they have to feel patriotic about.

Amid the spectre of nuclear annihilation, the post-imperial world was once again divided into rival camps as the cold war took root and spread.