In that city taking form, a subterranean Germany surfaced from decades of self-imposed silence to ask if it could be proud, if it could speak of its millions of World War II dead, if it had done penance enough for the Holocaust, if it had attained "normality," if its Auschwitz-forged sentence was forever to be an economic giant and a political midget.
While it's somewhat audacious for a brand-new restaurant to speak of its own tradition, it's right of Pera to showcase this meal, which, at $46 a person, is a noteworthy value, given the array of food, the size of the platters and the appeal of the meat.
In these projects, both architects exemplified how modern architectural designs do not necessarily entail constructions that are completely devoid of traditional concepts: architecture can, as Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry once put it, "speak of its time and space, but yearn for timelessness".
Perhaps the best way to describe the Hong Kong genre is to speak of its comic-book aesthetic: it is a cinema of incessant action, eye-popping effects, and cartoonlike violence.
Fuelled by justifiable scorn for EL James's genuinely inept softcore bestseller, many failed to note just how neatly Taylor-Johnson and screenwriter Kelly Marcel had stripped it, so to speak, of its clumsiest impulses.
It is no wonder that Astana's new arrivals, mainly government officials and a few businessmen, have yet to develop an affection for the place.Although the Kazakhs grumble about Almaty, the capital it replaces, with its smog and risk of earthquakes, they are used to it and now speak of its virtues.
One critic spoke of "its moral sinew and its delicacy of tone".
In his lecture about Malvern at the Royal Institution, Addison spoke of "its pure and invigorating air, the excellence of its water, and the romantic beauty of its scenery".
Though it offered more obvious fruit, it too spoke of its region with aromas of menthol, licorice and herbs.
So the college speaks of its "financial sophistication" offerings, though it still makes every junior attend.
Many who saw the golden spruce spoke of its peculiar radiance, as if it were actually generating light from deep within its branches.
