Sentence examples for saber from inspiring English sources

Prizes named after flowers were awarded yearly to poems by a kind of learned society called the Consistori del Gai Saber ("Consistory of the Gay Science"; see also gai saber), the main aim of which was the preservation of the language and style of troubadour poetry.

Sabre, also spelled saber, heavy military sword with a long cutting edge and, often, a curved blade.

The Old Provençal phrase gai saber is associated with the Consistòri del Gai Saber, originally the Sobregaya compannia dels VII Trobadors de Tolosa ("Very Gay Company of the Seven Troubadours of Toulouse"), a group of seven citizens of Toulouse who in 1323 organized yearly competitions to encourage troubadour poetry, by then in serious decline.

Gai saber, Old Provençal: "gay knowledge" or gay science", the art of composing love poetry; especially the art of the Provençal troubadours as set forth in a 14th-century work called the Leys d'amors.

Vargas formally announced her homosexuality (previously an open secret) in her autobiography, Y si quieres saber de mi pasado (2002).

Other novels of interest were Mário de Carvalho's Quando o diabo reza, Rui Zink's O amante é sempre o último a saber, and Maria Teresa Horta's As luzes de Leonor.

And their foreign policy often collides head-on with corporate interests: neoconservatives favor saber-rattling in places such as China or the Middle East, where American corporations frown on political risk, and favor open relations and increased trade.

It was created by cloudbursts that cut deep gullies in poorly cemented bedrock; its extensive fossil deposits have yielded the remains of such animals as the three-toed horse, camel, saber-toothed tiger, and rhinoceros.

In fact, Gold has to tread carefully throughout, picking her answers with the calm precision of Luke practising his early light-saber moves with Yoda.

"Most disturbing, Moscow's nuclear saber-rattling raises questions about Russian leaders' commitment to strategic stability, their respect for norms against the use of nuclear weapons, and whether they respect the profound caution nuclear-age leaders showed with regard to the brandishing of nuclear weapons," he said.

The A.K.P. parliamentarian Samil Tayyar came out with the winning quote in the saber-rattling category when he said the Turkish Army "could be in Damascus in three hours".