Sentence examples for second of may from inspiring English sources

Significant paint losses to the left side of the Second of May have been deliberately left unrepaired.

It has as its ostensible excuse the refurbishment of "The Second of May, 1808" and "The Third of May, 1808," the landmark pictures from 1814 about the Spanish uprising against French troops.

Called simply the "Second of May, 1808" and "Third of May, 1808," the works depict a brutal street fight one day and the even more brutal repercussions, with a firing squad, the next.

Mr. Giménez said that a laboratory in Madrid specializing in art identification has performed X-ray and chemical tests on the pigments, oils and canvas, and it has so far correlated the painting with two Goya masterpieces: "The Second of May, 1808" and "The Executions of the Third of May, 1808".

People here still talk of the day in hushed tones, referring to it only as "the events of the Second of May".

Goya commemorated the uprising in his The Second of May, which depicts a cavalry charge against the rebels in the Puerta del Sol square in the center of Madrid, the site of several hours of fierce combat.

In The Third of May, however, there is no attempt to find transcendence, and no sense that the sacrifice of life will lead to salvation.

Illumination by torch or candlelight took on religious connotations; but in The Third of May the lantern manifests no such miracle.

This was the second of what may become an annual event.

The second of these may also have implications for why some women respond better than others to in vitro fertilization.

In the first half of May the crisis in the euro area was uppermost.