How To Use Barbican In A Sentence
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Former world champion Steve Davis chalks his cue as the UK Snooker Championships got under way today at York's Barbican Centre.
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The World Champion became only the fifth man to hold UK and World Championships in the same year as he drubbed Ken Doherty 10-1 in the final at the Barbican Centre.
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The York National Book Fair, which will be taking over the ground floor of the Barbican Centre on Friday and Saturday, is the largest rare, antiquarian and out-of-print book fair in Europe.
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Tickets £7.50 + bkg fee from Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891
World Music Central
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His theatre and auditorium commissions of the 1960s – the new Nottingham Playhouse, the Royal Shakespeare theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon, the five auditoria at the Barbican Centre – culminated in providing the seating for 38,000 people at the Mexico City Olympic stadium.
Robin Day obituary
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Known as a barbican, this part of the castle would have a drawbridge, a portcullis, arrow slits, machicolations (murder holes) - any devise that was thought to be useful at stopping the enemy.
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For one thing, the programmes completed a Barbican cycle of Beethoven's piano concertos with the American soloist Richard Goode.
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Barbican part of the shell of the house was still standing, roofless, disfloored, diswindowed, and pickaxed into utter raggedness, as so much rubbish yet waiting to be removed from the new railway gap.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
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The Barbican is the only pool on the south side of York that is within walking distance of the city centre and Yearsley serves a wide area.
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The elevated walkways must connect with the non-residential Barbican plan.
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A large, rapt Barbican audience gave it a standing ovation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ascending the steep and shady avenue, we arrived at the foot of a huge square Moorish tower, forming a kind of barbican, through which passed the main entrance to the fortress.
The Alhambra
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New features included barbicans, walls, and other outworks guarding the approach to an entrance.
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Yet, at a mere ten minute's walk from the city centre, and just opposite Fishergate bar and the now-closed Barbican, it is not far off the beaten track.
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Access has not altered since the fourteenth century, when the maritime republic, then known as Ragusa, completed its two land gates, with barbicans, and two sea gates feeding the harbour.
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Within the barbican was another group of veteran invalids, one mounting guard at the portal, while the rest, wrapped in their tattered cloaks, slept on the stone benches.
The Alhambra
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The York City Baths Club is pulling out of swimming lessons at the Barbican due to another extortionate price hike, this time at the council-run pools.
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No, I refer to judgements made about a decade ago regarding the York Barbican development.
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It was then, probably, that the towers were made along the embattled walls, and especially one of those peculiar towers called a barbican, contrived so as to give an outlook on approaching foes.
Chatterbox, 1906
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Every few months Hugh de Tracy would mutter about seeing to the building of a proper barbican over the postern.
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Having first championed them 10 years ago, the Barbican brings back Ghibli classics, from Laputa: Castle In The Sky and My Neighbour Totoro the best one for young viewers, right up to previews of their latest, Arrietty, a version of The Borrowers.
This week's new film events
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The Barbican's new-found success as home to the world's second-biggest snooker tournament must surely be weighed in the balance when the council decides its future.
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The preserve, called “occult jam,” is part of a surrealist art show at London's Barbican Art Gallery that includes exhibits by Salvador Dali and Rene Margritte.
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Yet the response to its plan to shut facilities at the Barbican Centre or Yearsley has prompted a tidal wave of condemnation.
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A cheerful change for him may have been the larger house in Barbican, with his son's forgiven wife in her proper place in it and more numerous pupils going in and out, and at last the birth of the infant-girl that made his grandfatherhood complete in all its three branches.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
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This plush velvet theatre is far more suited to comedy than the modern minimalism of the Barbican Centre but that is not to say it is ideal for a regular comedy club night.
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The original gate was built in the early 12 th century, the archway still showing Norman influence; in the 14th century it was heightened to accommodate a portcullis, and a barbican was added.
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Workmen have been busy this week refitting and modifying the Barbican Centre to accommodate the second most important tournament in world snooker.
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Over in the Cue Zone - a great white marquee set up on the Barbican's first-floor balcony - I decided to try my hand at potting.
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The portal, which led from the inner-wall of the barbican to the moat, and which corresponded with a sallyport in the main wall of the castle, was now suddenly opened; the temporary bridge was then thrust forward, and soon flashed in the waters, extending its length between the castle and outwork, and forming a slippery and precarious passage for two men abreast to cross the moat.
Ivanhoe
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But this was an auspicious Barbican debut.
Times, Sunday Times
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She seems to suggest that the process by which approval was given for the Barbican complex lacked legitimacy.
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The loss of the barbican had also this unfortunate effect, that, notwithstanding the superior height of the castle walls, the besieged could not see from them, with the same precision as before, the operations of the enemy; for some straggling underwood approached so near the sallyport of the outwork, that the assailants might introduce into it whatever force they thought proper, not only under cover, but even without the knowledge of the defenders.
Ivanhoe
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It has to be the octogenarian pianist's majestic performance at the Barbican.
Times, Sunday Times
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-- - Here be two arblasts, comrades, with windlaces and quarrells The arblast was a cross-bow, the windlace the machine used in bending that weapon, and the quarrell, so called from its square or diamond-shaped head, was the bolt adapted to it. -- - to the barbican with you, and see you drive each bolt through a Saxon brain.
Ivanhoe. A Romance
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The flamboyant frontman of rock group Queen will be remembered at the concert at The Barbican in York on Saturday November 24.
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The council squad has teamed up with staff at the Barbican, Courtney's Gym and Fitness First to limber up for Sunday's big event, and have been training since March.
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The white-out in and around the city caused match promoter Martin Witts to put the Barbican meeting between Jimmy White and Alex Higgins on hold.
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Could there ever be a venue more redolent of York's history than the Barbican?
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There's a new Royal Shakespeare Company production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' at the Barbican.
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‘I am amazed and deeply disappointed that the Barbican can be so ungenerous,’ Hall says.
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More than 2000 Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, Rangers and Guiders from York, Selby and Tadcaster packed into York's Barbican Centre for their Millennium Thinking Day.
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The word ‘barbican’ describes a fortified outpost of gateway, and it is a good fit for the angular, sharp architecture of this London development.
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He was left to represent himself in court, where he was ranged against council and Barbican Venture lawyers.
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They were due to televise the contest from the Barbican centre in York to local pubs and clubs.
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The Red Shoes Dance Studio has had to move twice since Christmas, the first time as a result of difficulties at York Barbican Centre, the second time because of the Priory Street Centre's unsuitability for tap dancing.
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The gatehouse is approached via a brick barbican, a defensive outwork furnished with arrow slits and end turrets.
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When I was last in Barbican part of the shell of the house was still standing, roofless, disfloored, diswindowed, and pickaxed into utter raggedness, as so much rubbish yet waiting to be removed from the new railway gap.
The Life of John Milton
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It has to be the octogenarian pianist's majestic performance at the Barbican.
Times, Sunday Times
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Granted, the Barbican pool desperately needs a revamp, particularly the poolsides and the changing areas, but these are excellent facilities that just desperately need some tender loving care.
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At the Barbican there was no doubting the emotional bond between the artist and the many expats in the audience.
Times, Sunday Times
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On entering the small outer barbican, which is reached by a lane from the market-place, we come to the base of the Norman keep.
Yorkshire
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Barbicane knew this opinion of the German selenographer, an opinion shared by Boeer and Moedler.
Round the Moon
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It opens with a prelude for car-horns and concludes with a relentless passacaglia; a concert performance of the piece by the BBC Symphony Orchestra is the finale of the Barbican's festival.
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If it had been so minded, the Barbican could have filled a whole month of its schedules with a representative selection of what has been produced there just in the past decade.
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A barbican is a city's first line of defence: and Railtrack is a company under siege.
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The castle moat divided this species of barbican [Footnote: A barbican is a tower or outwork built to defend the entry to a castle or fortification.] from the rest of the fortress, so that, in case of its being taken, it was easy to cut off the communication with the main building, by withdrawing the temporary bridge.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
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Meanwhile, a powerful folkish strain could be enjoyed at the Barbican.
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But this was an auspicious Barbican debut.
Times, Sunday Times
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Warwick Arts Centre is the second largest Arts Centre in Britain, surpassed in size only by London's Barbican.
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Not a word more did he utter, but darting from the apartment, was soon seen before the barbican-gate, armed from head to foot.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Ascending the steep and shady avenue, we arrived at the foot of a huge square Moorish tower; forming a kind of barbican, through which passed the main entrance to the fortress.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number)
