How To Use Triumph In A Sentence
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It sounds like a lot of hassle, a real triumph of so-called style over substance.
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Likewise, it was ixnay on the ommentcay when asked about reports that former show exec producer Nigel Lythgoe is returning triumphant to the show after having been pushed aside a couple of seasons back when that was their Really Bright Idea for jump-starting "Idol" and revving up ratings.
'D.C. Cupcakes' will get second season; only Ryan Seacrest certain on 'Idol'
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His triumph was overshadowed by an uneasy sense of foreboding.
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Instantly, he sprang back, picked up Nick, dodged around the Hand, and sprinted off with a triumphant yowl.
ABHORSEN
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Some might say the club have taken refuge in recent years in the rosy glow of their triumph of 1967 so they might be as well moving permanently to the Portuguese capital.
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Our friendship is a triumph of overcoming every known barrier.
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Her father provided a motivation in her not only to succeed but to triumph.
Times, Sunday Times
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Clach climbed five places into fifth spot after a wash out in the Highland League, with a 2-0 triumph over north rivals Fort William.
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This day wilt thou either bring back in triumph the gory head and spoils of Aeneas, and we will avenge Lausus 'agonies; or if no force opens a way, thou wilt die with me: for I deem not, bravest, thou wilt deign to bear an alien rule and a Teucrian lord.'
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Carol sprawls out on the bed as Simon tears off his cast triumphantly and sketches her, again and again.
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In this alone it stands as a triumph of contrarianism.
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The Twelfth" officially commemorates the July 12, 1690, triumph of Protestant King William of Orange versus the Catholic he deposed from the English throne, James II, at the Battle of the Boyne south of Belfast.
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At the conclusion eight horns (led by Michelle Perry of the Empire Brass) rang out triumphantly.
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After the triumph followed the faire Parthenopeian _Leria_, with a lawrell crowne, accompanied with _Melanthia_, whose habites and voices represented the pride of Greece, [A] whereupon the great Macedon rested his head: She bare a splendent lampe, communicating the light thereof with hir companion, then the rest more excellent both in voice and song.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
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He's always crowing about his latest triumph.
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The President is keen to notch a political triumph that would foster freer world trade and faster economic growth.
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The Christian conspectus or theatre in the old sense has a happy ending, whether the protagonist triumphs or is damned, because God's justice has been done.
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Howard's belated triumphalism in the South Pacific may be no more successful than Mussolini's equally tardy attempts at empire building in North Africa.
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Where's your country hawbuck now?" cried Craven, triumphantly.
Rodney stone
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It was low-key and it was not saturated with triumphalism.
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The climax of these commotions came during the fourth week of September, when the parliament returned in triumph from its exile.
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Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph. Charles Dickens
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Entering the village was like passing under an invisible triumphal arch, quite splendid.
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But Fable Coin Golf is a miniature triumph, brilliantly mixing the dynamics of pinball and shove ha'penny with cunningly compelling results.
The 25 best smartphone games of 2011 (so far) – part one
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The town was kept going by a fine Abbey, whose last church still stands as one of the final triumphs of the Perpendicular style.
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And at last he had returned, not in triumph as a master, but as a pilgrim on sabbatical seeking the holy city of his youth.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Her Wimbledon victory was hailed as a triumph over adversity.
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He felt as if he was on the brink of the greatest personal triumph of his life.
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The long-awaited opening will mark the triumphant end of a battle stretching back up to four years.
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Last year, Wisconsin rallied from a 13-point deficit in the final 4: 07 of a 61-60 second-round triumph over Tulsa.
USATODAY.com
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They triumphed in the zoo challenge, a two-day task where they had to ape the behaviour of a collection of animals.
The Sun
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He dived triumphantly over and a fabulous farewell party for the Samoan seemed likely.
Times, Sunday Times
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We collapse in exhausted triumph with a glass of claret and a chunk of home-made cake.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not sure I can visualise the little carts – but the multitude of vibrant flowers described with intense joy opened a triumphal way to the vision of that extraordinary gypsy lady whose beauty and style impressed you so much.
Gens du voyage - French Word-A-Day
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Britain emerged from this struggle in triumph, for the first time clearly dominant over her continental rivals.
WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
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An impression of the original statue group on top may be gained from the chariot groups on the triumphal arch in the relief on the south.
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The spacewalker represents an aspirational triumph over vicissitude and poverty.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wherever tyranny, oppression and brutality have threatened the free world, our two countries have stood for the triumph of good over evil.
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He crows in triumph, and both of us pull as hard as we can and the pipe gives way as half the toilet breaks off and lands on the floor.
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"Reason number three right there, " Faith said with a triumphant smile.
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For one thing, it will force the government to produce a compelling, coherent, consistent, and persuasive account of their programs, their debacles, and their triumphs.
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After an exile of three and a half years, he returned triumphantly to boxing.
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The pupil, who was well assured of the true motive, allowed his governor to enjoy the triumph of his own penetration, and consoled himself with the hope of seeing his dulcinea again at some of the public places in Paris, which he proposed to frequent.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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And she that is by them iudged to haue borne her self beste in that behaulfe, and to haue bene dierest to her husbonde: she in the beste maner and moste gorgeous that she can deuise, triumphing and reioysinge, getteth her vp vpon the funeralle pyle wher her housebandes corps lieth ready to be brente, and ther kissinge and embrasinge the deade body, is burned together with her housebande.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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On their way to the 1991 African Cup Winners Cup triumph over BCC Lions of Nigeria, Power beat Rivatex 4-3 on aggregate in the first round.
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The result is families under siege, war in the streets, the precipitous decline of the rule of law, the rapid rise of corruption, the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit.
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We triumphed because we succeeded in something we have rarely managed throughout our history.
Times, Sunday Times
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The effective cure of the biggest killer in the Western world would have been a triumph for mankind, medicine, and big pharma.
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Among my favorites are the triumphant warrior Fortinbras represented by a pair of barefoot drips in angel costume, he blond and epicene, she a redheaded virago.
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Finally, I mentioned earlier the triumphant car hooters being used to celebrate the England win in the World Cup tournament.
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It was a glorious swansong, and her enormous grin and triumphant punching of the air as she mounted the podium were deliciously infectious.
Times, Sunday Times
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It fights for its own hegemony in literature; wherever it triumphs, the older genres go into decline.
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ANOTHER elf 'n safety triumph.
The Sun
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His epilogue, half desperate, half triumphant, is one of the best I've heard.
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This particular afternoon he had tried to play the seventh hole as it should be played, and though we had both foozled, I had won the hole and romped triumphantly home with the side of pig.
32 Caliber
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The odds were stacked against the 17-year-old Toowoomba student from the start, but he triumphed anyway.
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As the final chord rang through the auditorium, the audience roared their approval and players held their instruments aloft in triumph.
Times, Sunday Times
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Next to that outcome, Pyrrhus won a stupendous triumph.
Russia
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M. le Comte's guests followed closely on the triumphant bridegroom's heels: M. le préfet, fussy and nervous, secretly delighted at the idea of affixing his official signature to such an aristocratic _contrat de mariage_ as was this between M.le. de Cambray de Brestalou and M. Victor de M.rmont, own nephew to M.rshal the duc de Raguse; M.dame la préfète, resplendent in the latest fashion from Paris, the Duc and Duchesse d'Embrun, cousins of the bride, the Vicomte de Génevois and his mother, who was Abbess of Pont Haut and godmother by proxy to Crystal de
The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
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For now there are just the vestiges of the past—triumphs and disappointments alike—and the brightness of things to come.
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They hailed the signing of the agreement as a major diplomatic triumph.
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Commentators analysed how the Japanese industrial model had triumphed over its rivals.
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Though some like to dwell on that horror while others ignore it entirely, I believe it is only true to the remarkableness of America if we acknowledge both the horror of that age and the unique American triumph in overcoming it.
Bart Motes: Hillary Clinton for Supreme Court
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Last year the conservancy scored a triumph by acquiring 525,000 acres of desert land from the Corporation.
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It was not, therefore, an obvious triumph and it was, like Waterloo, a close-run thing.
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The result was an unlikely triumph plucked from the jaws of national humiliation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The triumph also meant a shutout victory for goalkeeper Tim Howard, the first American to play in the final.
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Journal in double triumph Roy Castle takes a break from record-breaking and relaxes with a good read.
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Love triumphs over everthing. Love has no age, no limit and no death.
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The warship is depicted in full sail as she headed for the battle of Trafalgar and triumph over the French and Spanish fleets in 1805.
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The rules require the title to revert to the original champion if a triumphant challenger fails of a doping test.
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And I rejoice that I was left to deal with the Bible alone; for if I had had some theological "explainer" at my side, he might have tried, as such do, to lessen my indignation against Jacob, and thereby have warped my moral sense for ever; while the great apocalyptic spectacle of the ultimate triumph of right and justice might have been turned to the base purposes of a pious lampooner of the Papacy.
Science & Education
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They expressed the triumph of legal equality and state authority over the privileges of the landed aristocracy.
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To the left we had the Champs-Elysees with their noble elms whose terminus is marked, off yonder on an elevation, by the great triumphal arch of Napoleon in the Place de L'Etoile.
France Through Canadian Eyes
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But you trusted entirely these rare moments of triumphant self-expression: every jink and turn by Diego Maradona at the 1986 World Cup was hard-won, brutally paid for and born out of absolute courage and commitment.
World Cup 2010: How a love of Spain can make for a sterile affair
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‘Of course, it was from my help that you passed,’ he gloated with a big triumphant smile.
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It's hard to do justice to the succulence of the pears in light frangipane sponge, encased in triumphant, well-fired, crunchy pastry.
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Apart from the interior triumphal arch, which is pointed, the other arches are semi-circular.
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Everyone was delighted, Eleanor Mercer most of all, because she had had real faith in Bessie, and it was a triumph for her to know that her faith had not been misplaced.
The Camp Fire Girls in the Woods, or Bessie King's First Council Fire
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Another triumph for military intelligence, the finest of all oxymorons.
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I mean tragedy in the classical sense in which the hero's misery is embedded in his triumph.
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This is a triumph of the modern.
Times, Sunday Times
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That troops have been passing over to them all day, and that the triumph of the federalists is so sure, he has little doubt that the following morning will see tranquillity and federalism re-established.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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This is a triumph for Durham and for English cricket in its widest application.
Times, Sunday Times
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That he sang in tune and remembered the lyrics was perhaps its own triumph on a night of innocuous abandon.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is a triumph of his, not a desperate, tragic failure," Anita Thompson said by phone, recounting that she was sitting in her husband's chair he called his catbird seat in the Rockies.
Don't romanticize Thompson's suicide.
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And as performance dates drew close rehearsals became almost terrifying in their propulsive, impelling commitment - pianissimos were scaled to a whisper and fortes forceful and triumphant.
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Was she so crushed by exile and loss that her plays are wish fulfillment fantasies of revenge and triumph?
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Marlene was already flipping through the _American Heritage Dictionary_ -- she had brought it in a plastic shopping bag because of my previous day's challenge of "shim" -- and she triumphantly told me, holding the fat volume in my face, that no such word was listed in it.
Beard
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Maxwell's Theory of Electromagnetism, Light as an Electromagnetic Phenomenon, and the Triumph of the Wave Theory of Light.
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They triumphed in the zoo challenge, a two-day task where they had to ape the behaviour of a collection of animals.
The Sun
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This album is a triumph over adversity.
Times, Sunday Times
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A daredevil returned home triumphant yesterday after carrying out the highest bungee jump in the world.
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With a triumphant smile they were told that it was ten miles round.
Pride and Prejudice
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Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters.
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It was a glorious swansong, and her enormous grin and triumphant punching of the air as she mounted the podium were deliciously infectious.
Times, Sunday Times
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He raised the pole above his head, drove the spike into a log at his feet, shinnied up the pole, and to a chorus of cheers, bowed as he stood upon the far side, triumphant.
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Caesar proconsul of the province of Further Spain; victorious campaign against the Lusitani which permits him to seek a Triumph in Rome.
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Elsewhere he emerges limp and dripping from a lake, the opposite of a triumphant James Bond coming to shore.
Meet the best new artists in Britain
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How extraordinary is obvious when Leiser discusses his triumphs over a glass of cranberry juice.
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At the end, the heroes walk triumphantly into the sunset, while some kind of outdoor PA system announces that the ozone layer came back.
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Briefly, in this man of culture and refinement, in whose own mysterious life one might perhaps have found various crimes but not a single act of base improbity, one could divine an implacable, obstinate theoretician, who was resolved to set the world ablaze for the triumph of his ideas.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete
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I turned my pocket cards over and declared a King-high flush, trying to sound matter-of-fact about it, not too triumphant.
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Swarf smiled in triumph, letting the body fall on to the ground.
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Sophie's life, as rendered here, is a series of catastrophes nearly averted, not a string of triumphs.
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However, the line separating circumcision and castration is at times hard to discern in these texts because the mutilation, whether partial or complete, seems to instantiate a form of subjectivity that for all attempts at containment continues to inhere in the narratives and haunts even the most triumphant accounts of victory over Tipu in the early
Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta
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It was a glorious swansong, and her enormous grin and triumphant punching of the air as she mounted the podium were deliciously infectious.
Times, Sunday Times
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The pale, watery crisphead variety known as iceberg triumphed in the United States due to a combination of its durability in shipping and storage—it brought lettuce to the American table year-round in the 1920s—and its refreshing, crunchy-wet texture.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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Introducing a new leading character can spell disaster or triumph for an author.
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Many of the details in the Triumph are paraphrastic repetitions from Titian's three Bacchanals.
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The chariot, drawn by four horses, was wreathed in laurel, and the triumphator was attired like the Capitoline Jupiter in robes of purple and gold.
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I never thought to love him, but, you see, I do, she concluded, a certain faint triumph in her voice.
Chapter 22
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The hiss turned into a scream, this one more like a ship's keel ripping apart under pressure than a triumphant blood-chilling cry like before.
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If this is not the case, then the bureaucratic apparatus triumphs again, and the political leaders and reformers lose.
Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
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Getting back to the task at hand, he scooped visible wreckage away, wary of the glass shards and smiled in triumph as he spotted his quarry.
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I believe that sooner or later good must triumph over evil.
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On June 14 troops marched into the town in triumph to take prisoner 12,000 defeated and hungry troops.
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If ruthlessness is allowed to triumph on the island, it will spawn imitations elsewhere.
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Joshua drove a Triumph sports car with a hole in its muffler: ‘Joshua's Triumph was heard throughout the land.’
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Moab is my washbasin, upon Edom I toss my sandal ; over Philistia I shout in triumph.
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But the man who masterminded the triumph was engaged in very different reflections.
Times, Sunday Times
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High-flying oratory proved utterly inefficacious in winning any major foreign-policy result he set himself to bring home in triumph.
Terry Krepel: John L. Perry's Greatest Obama-Hating Hits
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Not only were they much the stronger during this period, but they were better together, and gained their great triumph most meritoriously.
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It was only when Gov. Charles Robinson assured them that the "unratified and unproclaimed treaty was not a surrender but a triumph of diplomacy" that the mutineers were quelled.
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Look with what a blushless face of triumph she eyes her poor tottering neighbour opposite, who never appears destined "to suffer a recovery.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829
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Freud later developed the technique of free association, a triumph which is often neglected in the discussion of his controversial theories.
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‘We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom,’ he said in remarks that were shorn of all but the most glancing references to the dominant political issues of the day.
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That first time had been a personal triumph, a great adventure.
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So how about a triumphant punting return?
The Sun
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The victory of the Trinitarians in England in the latter half of the seventeenth century was not only as complete, but also as extraordinary, as St. Athanasius’s original triumph.
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The ego's greatest triumph is to inveigle us into believing its best interests are our best interests, and even into identifying our very survival with its own.
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• And finally, the title grumpiest man of the week goes to author Howard Jacobson, whose view of modern life doesn't appear to have been lifted by his long-awaited Booker triumph with The Finkler Question.
Hugh Muir's diary
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As Kipling put it in his poem: ‘If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same…’
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The democratic approach inherent in the guerrilla movement would triumph ultimately.
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His life is a triumph of improvisation.
Times, Sunday Times
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He then goes on to do his own ‘crowing’, that the new treaty is regarded by the French, as a triumph of British negotiation, and that is why they are complaining.
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Eventually, the plot disintegrates into a series of dream-like sequences of revenge and triumph.
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The Papanicolaou test for cervical cancer detection: a triumph and a tragedy.
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IV. iii.148 (410,8) [How will he triumph, leap, and laugh at it?] [W: geap] To _leap_ is to _exult_, to skip for joy.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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We're lucky to live next door to a large number of shops, restaurants and cafes, and - after we'd snarfed a triumphant breakfast of World Cup winning sausages, bacon and eggs - we made our way to search through the second-hand bookshops.
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Their livers were then cut out and borne in triumph to a local restaurant, where the chef was ordered to cook them.
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A few players made triumphant returns from injuries last night.
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Saint Augustine's 'City of God' is an allegory of the triumph of Good over Evil.
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If we keep this mighty nation one and inseparable, we shall have answered it forever; if not, why then those who revile man as vile and irreclaimably degraded may raise their pæans of triumph; the black spectres of antique tyrants may clap their hands gleefully in the land of accursed shadows, and hell hold high carnival, for, verily, it would seem as if they had triumphed, and that hope were a lie.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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He fishes into a battered black holdall, pulls out the manifesto and triumphantly taps his forefinger on the table.
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Neoliberal triumphalism, globalism, a widespread discourse: what were OGXers supposed to do aboutthem?
Archive 2009-11-01
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As a gratifyingly sheepish look passed over my hairdresser's face, I basked in my brief moment of triumph.
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Sexual or cold, scheming or honest, Huston seems as driven to triumph as Lily is.
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Advertisements will feature the car triumphing on the cartoonishly tough streets of an inner city somewhere near you.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nicephorus and Leo, triumphed over the Saracens, the hours which the emperor owed to his people were consumed in strenuous idleness.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Most reports of the now public autopsy results sound a strangely triumphal note.
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The last word, proclaiming the totemism of things that are ‘good to eat,’ is uttered in a cadence of triumph.
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We leaves him doctorin 'himse'f an' picks him up two hours later on our triumphant return.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.)
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Ultimately, however, it was the compère who mattered - who could they find who represented the indomitable spirit of Britain, the calm acceptance of the ever-present risk of death, and, most important, the triumph of love over death?
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He said that he was an 'obsessive barbecuer' — his most recent culinary triumph being a roast chicken.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ward councillors are also sharing in the triumph.
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You are victorious, you are triumphant, that is how it should be, and that is how it will be.
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Despite their difference in age, the two inspire each other to make a triumphant comeback on the stage.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fêted Worcester quartet's latest is a triumph of loose-limbed chutzpah: breezy, funky rock'n'roll to brighten the shortening days.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even the quality papers agreed that it was a triumph.
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From nearly 50 years of complex warfare the house of Wessex had emerged triumphant.
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This event was hailed as a glorious triumph, in which all of mankind was united in celebration.
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Hendry's Brighton triumph dispelled any lingering doubts that he could perform without the piece of wood with which he won seven world titles.
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At length juftice triumphed, the caftle was forced, and a cruel flaughter enfued.
The Jockey Club; Or a Sketch of the Manners of the Age. Part the Third
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Rodolfo Borrell's men followed up their triumph in a prestigious tournament in Tenerife with another success in Villarreal and will now head into next Saturday's clash at Fulham in confident mood.
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The departure came just hours before Clinton triumphantly addressed the convention delegates, who unanimously nominated him for re-election Wednesday night.
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She had just finished hooking the last clasp when Loretta turned to her holding up a delicate silver chain and smiling triumphantly.
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New Orleans, by the way, having executed a triumphant massacre of the yellow fever mosquito (stegomyia) is now undertaking to rid itself of all the other varieties.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.
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This, however, was no unwonted mood of passion with Darsie Latimer, upon whom Cupid was used to triumph only in the degree of a Mahratta conqueror, who overruns a province with the rapidity of lightning, but finds it impossible to retain it beyond a very brief space.
Redgauntlet
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As usual, he prepared to bestraddle his English-made Triumph hog by hiking up his pants, but little did he realize that in doing so he had inadvertently switched on the Strapocaster's industrial-strength electromagnet.
Word Magazine - Comments
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But his glacial blue eyes reflect a glint of triumph.
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I entered just as the choir practice reached a triumphant crescendo.
Times, Sunday Times
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a frank courageous heart...triumphed over pain
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Then it suddenly soared above the branch to hover triumphantly high.
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A broad panorama of the triumphs and follies of humanity, an exploration of the quirks of the mind, of the nobility but more often the meanness and sheer malevolence of human nature, the collection was knit together by a web of self-consistent thinking, a skein of ideas woven from a lifetime of close reasoning on life, art, and literature.
William hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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An old woman is sitting on the front steps with a triumphant smile on her face.
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Encouraged by the discovery of streptothricin and stimulated by the triumphal development of penicillin treatment, the research team headed by Dr. Waksman continued their untiring search for new antibiotic-producing microbes.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952 - Presentation Speech
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Edmund Burke wrote, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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And that is idealism: a belief that good can triumph over bad, that principle can defeat expediency.
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Her whole adult life was a triumph of determination over a body that could have condemned her to permanent invalidism.
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Last night, he returned to parliament, in triumph.
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“Congratulations to you all, Butterflies, for you have this term risen from bottom place to second, and you were very nearly top,” declares Duckworth Butterfly housemaster Mr. Valentine Corrado in the December 1927 issue, adding grandly, as if reflecting on the outcome of a military battle, “to the very end it was uncertain whether you or the Duckworth Grasshoppers would triumph.”
Storyteller
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It was a personal triumph over her old rival.
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The film certainly succeeds in doing that - but it also taps into Barrie's well-documented yearning for a world in which playfulness and whimsy would always triumph over seriousness and propriety.
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And triumphalism has a certain quality of unsustainability about it.
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In triumph, he picks people up, hugs them, shouts with glee; in defeat, his face carries a frightening scowl and the pearly teeth disappear from view.
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All indications are of a triumphant return.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is no defence against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
Essays and Tales
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We are pleased to note the overall Oxford triumph, sealed in thrilling fashion as Craig Heasman threw the winning dart to once again seal glory for the men and women of the Pelican.
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The union scored a triumph in negotiating a minimum wage within the industry.
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He had attended Eton and Oxford, two schools still acquainted with the study of classical antiquity, and it’s conceivable that in the media’s terms of endearment he recognized the debt owed to the very ancient Greeks, who allowed their sacred kings to rule in Thebes for a single triumphant year before putting them to death in order that their blood might fructify the crops and fields.
Lewis Lapham: Domesticated Deities: About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It
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His eyes gleamed with/in triumph.
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In her widening influence, growing liberty, and freedom, I see impearled a prophecy of an altruistic era -- a civilization triumphant -- rising against to-morrow's purpling dawn.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891
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His successes are commemorated in a number of grandiose effigies, triumphal arches, vast frescoes and victory columns.
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He hated how she made him think she accepted him, and then crushed all his hopes and smiled triumphantly as he walked away dejected.
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Figo converted and Real Madrid proceeded to shine and (mostly beyond them this season) showboat their way to a rattling 4-2 triumph.
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Mademoiselle Prévost, alarmed at such a triumph, intrigued with such success that Mademoiselle de Camargo was soon forced to fall back to the position of a mere _figurante_.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
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The polyester fleece will be reinvented so it is no longer viewed as the triumph of comfort over style.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scene was a triumph of decorum, until Harmon, an enormous cat, entered the room, carrying a dead goldfish.
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The teenage comedy arc is fully intact: geek is a geek, geek becomes popular, geek faces insurmountable odds, geek triumphs.
