ON a warm day in Plovdiv (Philippopolis in Roman times, or the City of Seven Hills to those who walk them today), I took respite in a park where a chunk of ancient colonnade served as a bench on which to eat greasy, cheesy banitza, the local pastry special.
One day, James Brown took respite from his job as the hardest-working man in show business to get a haircut en route to 39. Another time, a colleague bragged, Phil Spector thanked her for pressing the ABKCO button without his having to ask.
One of England's foremost graphic designers, typographers and art directors, and co-founder of the international design firm Pentagram, Alan Fletcher, who died last September, took respites from corporate work by designing a few political posters but also painting, sculpturing and doodling for the pure fun of it.
£49.99 Format Xbox 360 Publisher Microsoft Suffering from writer's block, Alan Wake takes respite at Bright Falls, a town with more secrets thanTwin Peaks.
9/10 Ullapool is a great place to stock up for (or take respite from) camping, but we kept going, turning off towards the Summer Isles and discovering the delightful wild beach at Achnahaird.
Sometimes I'd find myself taking respite beside a stage void of dancers, a visual equivalent to Cage's silent work, finding myself looking at the clear patch of floor as if it might tell me something.
Even then, the corridors were overrun with wheezing patients and a room that had a line of oxygen masks for patients to take respite breaths as they waited, had queues snaking out of the door.
Taking respite between fundraisers in California on Wednesday, Hillary Clinton urged voters to not be swayed by Donald Trump's recent attempts to appeal to minorities. .
We must delight in the wind against our backs and take respite gazing at the view of how far we have come.
By mid-1928, hadhad overworked himself to the extent that he was ordered to take respite by Fysh; this "respite" however involved a 13-week trip to England to study aviation developments.
Tucked away on Mercer Street in Soho, nestled between Spring and Broome Streets, around the corner from the Gourmet Garage, cricket enthusiasts and savvy shoppers alike can take respite at Jack Olive.
