renaissance

Example Sentences

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He has survived multiple damaging scandals and found his way back to power every time, like a wily Renaissance courtier or an unkillable horror-movie villain, and may well survive this one.

From Salon

Pyramids share first place in Group A with Renaissance Berkane of Morocco, who were also 3-0 winners, against Power Dynamos of Zambia.

From Barron's

A Renaissance painting found underneath a garage workbench has sold for more than half a million pounds at an auction house in Banbury.

From BBC

Add to that the rise in mid-century nostalgia fuelled by shows like Mad Men, and bourbon was due for a full-blown Renaissance.

From BBC

“Harlem” is an acoustical enrapturement of the legendary Harlem Renaissance and one of the great symphonic portraits of a place in the repertory.

From Los Angeles Times