How To Use Triumphal In A Sentence

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.
It was low-key and it was not saturated with triumphalism.
Entering the village was like passing under an invisible triumphal arch, quite splendid.
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
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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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
Apart from the interior triumphal arch, which is pointed, the other arches are semi-circular.
Neoliberal triumphalism, globalism, a widespread discourse: what were OGXers supposed to do aboutthem? Archive 2009-11-01
Most reports of the now public autopsy results sound a strangely triumphal note.
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
And triumphalism has a certain quality of unsustainability about it.
His successes are commemorated in a number of grandiose effigies, triumphal arches, vast frescoes and victory columns.
Macarthy – switching from truculence to triumphalism as fast as the cockiest small boy; buckling a fine swash for the children in the audience; offering adult eyes a suggestion of pathos, of knowing that he is trapped in a dream yet still bewitched by its promise of "fun" – certainly has something to crow about. Peter Pan – review
Tom climbed the last pitch, set up his belay and greeted each of us with a triumphal smile as we rounded the summit.
Media pundits and think tanks hailed this popular participation as a breakthrough for democracy - a triumphalism, as Fraser shrewdly notes, that mirrored American exaltation at winning the cold war.
Tom climbed the last pitch, set up his belay and greeted each of us with a triumphal smile as we rounded the summit.
The following day, de Gaulle staged a triumphal procession which confirmed his position as liberator and leader of France.
“archangels” — although the word archangel was not then known — that the flames formed themselves round him into a triumphal arch without touching him; that his body had the smell of baked bread; but that, having resisted the fire, he could not preserve himself against a sabre-cut; that his blood put out the burning pile, and that there sprung from it a dove which flew straight to heaven. A Philosophical Dictionary
Attention to such matters has led to both sloppy filiopietistic triumphalism and much uninformed finger-pointing. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The triumphalism flowed, he notes, from a deceptively simple rationale.
How could such euphoria and triumphalism end only two years later in the political cul-de-sac of voter apathy?
Other Roman remains include the public baths and triumphal arch of Augustus.
But if the speech was designed to avoid triumphalism, the venue sent out the reverse message.
After a triumphal festival performance in California last month, Smith and co will soon tour with a string of acolytes supporting.
Onward they marched, those wearers of the cross, the square, the circle, the crescent, the star, the lozenge, and the tripod; emblemed representatives of the interests of a common humanity in the triumphal march that the world is witness to, of the progress of Universal Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac
Formerly senior lecturer in classics at Royal Holloway, Peter Howell is writing a book on triumphal arches.
Finally, like so many millions of Cubans, they had been content to make no further comments contrary to the triumphalist slogans, to ensure they would not be put in the "hypercritical" category and perhaps be taken as dissidents. Yoani Sanchez: Where a Simple Suggestion Equals Dissent
Yet that is what sober, scholarly assessments are for: to throw doubt on easy triumphalism.
Schumacher is arrogant, triumphalist, sneering and a routine breaker of the rules.
There wasn't a hint of triumphalism in her acceptance speech at the awards ceremony.
The equestrian statue in Union Square and triumphal arch in Washington Square Park were adorned with flags and peace signs.
In place of the usual triumphal victory speeches and photo-calls, the two candidates issued only brief statements.
The Corinthia consists of two curving towers, one slightly taller than the other, linked by a cavernous reception area topped by a triumphal arch.
In The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony are accurately described a large number of antimonial preparations, and as Basil was supposed to have written this work some time in the fifteenth century, these preparations were accordingly concluded to have been, for the most part, his own discoveries. Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
The rope and the gibbet is to be his portion; die he must; and what honour a man wins or saves, by that which gives him an opportunity of being hanged, is hard to be understood; but he that mistakes the cart for a triumphal chariot, or the gallow-tree for a triumphal arch, may apply himself to the obtaining such victories as these. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
Neoliberal triumphalism, globalism, a dominant discourse: what were OGXers ostensible to do aboutthem? The Original Generation X, 1954-63 by Joshua Glenn
Yes, at the heart of the gospel is an ineradicable triumphalism, a conviction that the victory over evil and death has been won; but it is also a victory yet to come. Medpundit
Shortly after his triumphal entry into Havana in January 1959, Castro spoke on television for seven hours without a break.
No matter what the triumphalists say, there's no money in blogging and probably never will be for most people.
The triumphalists have given very little thought to these issues.
If there was a strand of triumphalism in American conduct, why should there not have been? Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
Fine: then what is called for now is not triumphalism and gloating, but an abject apology.
In the late third century the site was levelled, including the triumphal arch, and a larger Saxon Shore fort constructed in stone, the walls of which now dominate the site.
Nature, like a proud conqueror, appeared to have put on a triumphal garb, in exultation of the devastation she had committed the night before. The Scottish Chiefs
The triumphalists hadn't predicted it either, let alone noticed the hollow centre of this great victory, but that is beside the point.
Nothing was seen or heard further of Durbeyfield in his triumphal chariot under the conduct of the ostleress, and the club having entered the allotted space, dancing began. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Rome also had numerous triumphal arches constructed throughout the city to celebrate military victories.
Behind the column is the vast triumphal arch that joins the two wings of the General Staff Building.
The scale of the triumphal arch is gargantuan and this is reinforced by its highly simplified architectural detail.
Begun as a soft, reverent chant, it was now a triumphal march, a celebratory paean accompanied by a tim - pani of sword clashing against shield, of stomping feet and clap - ping hands. Dragons of a Fallen Sun
Sometime in the past generation or so, constitutional history was recast - turned on its head, really - as a story of judicial triumphalism.
In August, Philip visited Poitiers in a triumphal procession.
Cleopatra wants a bench of Egypt to deplane to her sons; Caesar agrees, nonetheless in fact, Dolabella tells her, he intends to lead her serf to Rome to uncover off in a triumphal procession. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
He took his title from the Book of Revelation, via the triumphalist 1861 Battle Hymn of the Republic, reprinting it in full at the beginning of the novel.
This is the moment of his most complete triumph - but it is no time for triumphalism.
His successes are commemorated in a number of grandiose effigies, triumphal arches, vast frescoes and victory columns.
Its ramparts, in a state of partial preservation, are still to be seen; also a magnificent triumphal arch, with three openings about 82 feet wide by 29 high; a "naumachia", or circus for naval combats; two theatres; the forum with fifty-five columns still standing; the great colonnade which crosses the city from north to south, and which still retains from 100 to 150 of its columns; several aqueducts; some propylaea; a temple of the Sun, the columns of which are about 40 feet high, and several other temples, baths, etc. Greek and Latin inscriptions are very numerous among the ruins. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
It was also reported that at numerous places on the road from Levens Hall to the entrance to Kendal, several triumphal arches and other forms of decorations were on show.
Unclean, unclean, unclean, unclean: Sulla kept repeating the word over and over as he hurried home, there to bathe and clothe himself this time in toga praetexta-a man did not have more than one set of triumphal regalia, and that one set only if he had triumphed. Fortune's Favorites
The triumphal arch is used to honour the victorious military leader, and the arch of brotherhood is used to symbolise unity, equality and protection.
Any triumphalism, filtered through the eyes of a child, is open-mouthed in its surprise and gratitude.
The Corinthia consists of two curving towers, one slightly taller than the other, linked by a cavernous reception area topped by a triumphal arch.
_carmen triumphale_ of the poetess is a worthy accompaniment. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 288, Supplementary Number
The most common rewards were crowns of different forms; the mural crown was presented to him who in the assault first scaled the rampart of a town; the castral, to those who were foremost in storming the enemy's entrenchments; the civic chaplet of oak leaves, to the soldier who saved his comrade's life in battle, and the triumphal laurel wreath to the general who commanded in a successful engagement. Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
The immense triumphal arch, a gigantic mouth protended to swallow up the Cathedral! The Torrent Entre Naranjos
Both groups have demanded that he should receive a fair trial, helping to put the dampers on the muted triumphalism that greeted his capture and imprisonment.
In his case, it is toff triumphalism that may be his undoing. Times, Sunday Times
The Saints duly went marching in, although it was more of a triumphal swagger in the end, and it seemed that everyone in Paisley wanted to be in that number, which of course was one.
And their postmillennialism provides the kind of optimism, not to be confused with triumphalism, that spurs them and their adherents to living this faith diligently in their daily lives, holding fast to the belief that such efforts would do more than save their souls, but would also works towards the reconstruction of a truly Christian order. Archive 2009-06-01
At the triumphal procession through the streets of Rome that followed in 44, Messalina was permitted to follow her husband’s chariot in a mule-drawn carpentum, ahead of the victorious generals from the campaign, and the couple’s son, hitherto known by the name Tiberius Claudius Caesar Germanicus, received the new sobriquet Britannicus in recognition of his father’s great victory. Caesars’ Wives
The city grew up around its Roman monuments, which include a semicircular theatre and a triumphal arch.
On the right-hand side was a triumphal arch in three-quarters view, with two quadrigas on top. Crusader Gold
The band strikes up with the triumphal march out of Ada. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
Some topographers have denied that a street of this name ever existed, but inscriptions referring to the ‘curator ‘of the Via Aurelia Nova, Via Cornelia, and Via Triumphalis confirm its reality.’
This huge triumphal arch was erected at the beginning of this century.
These panels recall the painted versions of battles that Roman generals carried in triumphal processions.
The lower frame is modelled as a triumphal arch flanked by bound captives.
I was always revolted by that triumphal sense of an achieved empire - to me it was appalling.
Special details within the church render it unique including the fifth century mosaics of the central nave, the triumphal arch dating back to the pontificate of Pope Sixtus III (432-440) and the apsidal mosaic executed by the Franciscan friar Jacopo Torriti at the order of Pope Nicholas IV (1288-1292). The Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore
But, a hundred years after Amundsen, the journey ended without a triumphal on-ice celebration.
a triumphal procession
It must stop exalting its own worst excesses and re-invent itself as a cultural organisation free of the taint of sectarian triumphalism.
That feature most symbolic of entrance, the triumphal arch, is to be found only at the foot of the Capitol, where the ancient texts place it.
His days there could only have been called triumphal. The Prize
The truth is that the Orange Order can no longer parade in a nakedly sectarian and triumphalist fashion.
Towering over the remote monastery at Masham there was even a triumphal column celebrating not the victories of kings but of Christ and his saints.
But yours is the soul of a poet: surely you are not deluded by this triumphalist charade?
On it was erected a triumphal arch in Augustus's honor.
Nay, we have seen numberless processions of healthy kine enter our native village unheralded save by the lusty shouts of drovers, while a wretched calf, cursed by stepdame Nature with two heads, was brought to us in a triumphal car, avant-couriered by The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
Twelve roads radiate from the Triumphal Arch.
There they were made to wait beneath the gaze of the carnifex and his assistants, trembling at the thought of their fate, while the distant roars from the direction of the Triumphal Gate signaled that at last their conqueror had entered the city. CONSPIRATA
they built a triumphal arch to memorialize their victory
There was a touch of triumphalism about the occasion.
He made his triumphal entry into Mexico City.
“Even when the queen came here,” Victor told me, striking a certain triumphal tone, “before the Troubles started, my father got arrested and put away for a couple of days to make sure no harm came to the queen.” Double Blind
Fewer still envisaged a triumphal march that would prompt his retirement just when he had finally come of age. Times, Sunday Times
The pastor's daughter in the bulky pinstriped trouser suit seems to think better of her brief triumphal gesture.
I saw upon this superb and triumphal vehicle a white swan in amorous embrace with Theseus's daughter, an illustrious nymph of unbelievable beauty. Archive 2006-12-01
There's no room for triumphalism, no room for big victory smiles.
Contrary to the triumphal boosterism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Brechin offers imagery of despair with the city as maelstrom.
The level of triumphalism and belligerence churned out by our columnists has been embarrassing to behold.
a triumphal arch
The scale of the triumphal arch is gargantuan and this is reinforced by its highly simplified architectural detail.
They saw advancing towards them, to the sound of this pleasing music, what they call a triumphal car, drawn by six grey mules with white linen housings, on each of which was mounted a penitent, robed also in white, with a large lighted wax taper in his hand. Don Quixote
Especially rich were the half-dome of the apse and the wall-space surrounding its arch and called the _triumphal arch_; next in decorative importance came the broad band of wall beneath the clearstory windows. A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
Triumphalist diasporic maps became commonplace. The Times Literary Supplement
Today all that remains of the triumphal arch that greeted visitors to Roman Britain are its foundations. Times, Sunday Times
He does not tend toward vindictiveness or in-your-face triumphalism.
Postmodernists are disillusioned with this triumphalist view of science dispelling ignorance and making the world a better place.
But troops loyal to the general foiled the attempt and he emerged with his customary grin and triumphal air-punching.
If you go to Rome today you can visit Titus' Triumphal Arch which bears the engraved image of the Menorah from the destroyed Temple in Jerusalem being carried victoriously into Rome.
None of this is victory, and it's far too early for triumphalism.
In the famous triumphal procession the chorus sings ‘Gloria’ with faces totally devoid of expression.
But troops loyal to the general foiled the attempt and he emerged with his customary grin and triumphal air-punching.
Foreign policy conservatism has become colored by triumphalism and crusading zeal.
Today, as you step out of Liverpool Lime Street Station and are confronted by the classical triumphalism of St. George's Hall and a cobbled public space vaguely reminiscent of an Athenian agora, that urban ideal is instantly apparent.
Hence, nineteenth-century excavators, to some extent still under the spell of the Renaissance topographers, identified remains near the Via del Pellegrino in the Campo Marzio as belonging to the Via Triumphalis.
The last element to be added was the magnificent triumphal arch at the entrance from the Piazza del Duomo.
How strange a contrast to the triumphal entry of ancient warriors and conquerors into the cities which they had taken! Christianity Today
Peer Steinbr ü ck , the German finance minister , a special booby prize for premature triumphalism.
Part of that triumphalism is the ungracious winner's desire to put his shoe on remaining critics, to silence small voices so they hear nothing but praise in their victory march.
Even the greatest obstacles, whether of language or customs or religion, have not been able to check that triumphal progress.
Most of them were monuments to Leopold himself: triumphal arches, palaces, seaside resorts, museums, parks, royal châteaux and even golf courses.
Marriage-sheds are erected at the houses both of the bride and bridegroom in accordance with the usual practice, and just before the marriage, parties are given at both houses; the village watchman brings the _toran_ or string of mango-leaves, which is hung round the marriage-shed in the manner of a triumphal arch, and in the evening the party assembles, the men sitting at one side of the shed and the women at the other. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
The result would be ladderlike and appear to be a triumphal march to the Rhesus Macacque, with apes merely a stage along the way. Casey Luskin embarrasses himself again - The Panda's Thumb
He made a triumphal entry into the city.
Affirming papal authority in that context is a far cry from triumphalism.
While the solid branches were reserved for the construction of the booths, the lighter branches were carried by men, who marched in triumphal procession, singing psalms and crying "Hosanna!" which signifies, "Save, we beseech thee! Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
There wasn't a hint of triumphalism in her acceptance speech at the awards ceremony.
In 1778, after an absence of 28 years, he made a triumphal return to Paris, where he was lionized for four months in a way few writers can ever have experienced.
I don't think the public has yet forgiven the press for that episode of arrogance and premature triumphalism.
There is none of the confident triumphalism I heard before.
But other churches in the neighbourhood of Morlaix are well worth visiting; churches typical of the Finistère, with their wonderful calvaries, mortuaries and triumphal arches. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891
The songs and the chants are an end in themselves, triumphalism for people who experience precious few real triumphs.
That these arches are triumphal is made clear by the frieze on the nearer of the two, which refers to Vespasian, whose joint triumph with Titus was well known from Josephus's account, discussed above.
And the terrible thing was that it was infectious, this triumphalist victimhood. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
He erected so many magnificent gates and arches, surmounted by representations of chariots drawn by four horses, and other triumphal ornaments, in different quarters of the city, that a wag inscribed on one of the arches the Greek word Axkei, "It is enough. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 12: Domitian
The triumphalism gives way to the mourning contemplation of a dear departed friend's great qualities of heart and mind.
The city grew up around its Roman monuments, which include a semicircular theatre and a triumphal arch.
I interpret this latest little burst of controversy as signalling several things: Some traditionalist Catholics I'd call them Catholic triumphalists would like to over-catholicize the Taize movement. Philocrites: Brother Roger's communion with the bishop of Rome.
Naples possesses several interesting Early Renaissance monuments, chief among which are the +Porta Capuana+ (1484), by _Giul. da Majano_, the triumphal +Arch of A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
How could such euphoria and triumphalism end only two years later in the political cul-de-sac of voter apathy?
They accuse the Order of being sectarian and triumphalist.
The question remains, though, what is fueling this liberal triumphalism?
On that day, Mobutu made a triumphal return from four months of convalescence abroad after prostate cancer surgery.
Part of any negative reaction will be a response to the rhetorical tone of several chapters, which have an air of self-congratulation bordering on triumphalism.
There wasn't a hint of triumphalism in her acceptance speech at the awards ceremony.
Her popularity has declined since her triumphal return from exile two years ago.
a triumphal success
This was no triumphal march into the knockout rounds. Times, Sunday Times
Readers who have been positioned as admiring subjects of Cavendish's deific heroines will understand that the author's creations have a great need and desire for triumphal vindication and adoration.
Instead of seeing the cross as a reminder of God-with-us in the flesh-and-blood sufferings of the world - a theologia crucis - the cross has been turned into a sanitized symbol of victory and ecclesial triumphalism - a theologia gloriae. Rev. Patrick S. Cheng, Ph.D.: Art, Censorship, and the Scandal of the Cross
It almost surely will not end with a triumphal celebration, like VE Day and VJ Day in 1945.
In the ruins of the Roman forum, a giant triumphal arch still bears his name. Times, Sunday Times
And before the triumphal lunch of the following day is even contemplated, there is Christmas Eve supper to produce.
The following spring Manual made a triumphal entry into the city and established himself as the unquestioned suzerain of Antioch.
The answer lies not in the fact that he led a triumphal life but rather that at one particular pivot point in history he was there and did what was right.
Now while that celebration was deserved, if a little gauche and overly triumphal, the reasons for it must be analysed.
Thugga is now Dougga, a village of Tunis, famous for Its ruins, among which are the temple of the Capitol Built under Marcus Aurelius, a theatre, three triumphal arches, Roman necropoli, and a Punic The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
The axes, allées, triumphal arches, colonnades, rigidly symmetrical planting and carefully controlled vistas of past landscapes are vivid expressions of domination.
The reverse commemorates the building of his triumphal arch, which still stands in Rome beside the Coliseum.
I was always revolted by that triumphal sense of an achieved empire - to me it was appalling.
Airbrushing, "interpolations," positing non-existent weather stations, creative "algorithms," frauds and flim flams in general - such is "science" in the age of ideological trumpery and triumphalism. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
To argue that blogs are different goes well beyond “triumphalism” — I’d call it grandiosity, or narcissism. Defying definition « BuzzMachine
For when Alexander ordered the Greeks to furnish him with purple robes to wear at the sacrifices on his triumphal return from war against the barbarians, and his subjects contributed so much per head, Theocritus said, "Before I doubted, but now I am sure, that this is the _purple death_ Homer speaks of." [ Plutarch's Morals
The soldiers were making a triumphal march through the city.
Remnants of the city's forum, basilica, temple, ramparts, oil mills and a huge triumphal arch are well preserved.
The trio was given a triumphal parade up Broadway, followed by a reception at city hall.
But there was no victory parade or military march-past at the event - in keeping with the theme of remembrance rather than triumphalism.
Most people found this paucity to be a cause for pluralistic triumphalism. The Times Literary Supplement
The surviving Greek public buildings were swept away and replaced by two forums, a triumphal arch, Imperial temples, a theatre, a basilica, and other purely Roman urban elements.
This is hardly triumphalism, but calling a callow frat boy out on his bullshit. Firedoglake » This Just In…
We are beginning to realise that the triumphalist narratives of ‘progress’ always come with considerable ecological and cultural costs.
The areas outside were enclosed and equipped with triumphal arches and calvaires - essentially Crucifixion scenes on poles, set about with extraordinarily rich biblical scenes.
In Roman baths and on triumphal arches there were other ways of expressing height.
And if you have accepted the addresses of a deserving man, do behave sensibly and honorably, and not lead him about as if in triumphal chains, nor take advantage of his love by playing with his feelings. A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding
Poet to whose _human_ sense those hard hostile walls dissolved and cleared away, till he could see the Volscian wives clasping _their_ loves, as they 'came coffined home'; it was the Poet who dared to stain the joy and triumph of that fond meeting, the glory and pride of that triumphal entry, with those _human_ thoughts; it was he who heard above the roll of the drum, and the swell of the clarions and trumpets, and the shout of the rejoicing multitude above the herald's voice -- the groans of mortal anguish in the field, the cries of human sorrow in the city, the shrieks of mothers that lacked sons, the greetings of wives whose loves '_came coffined home_.' The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
The twenty-kilometre journey from Sandwich to Canterbury became a triumphal procession.
The Roman triumphal arch was one of the main sources of Neo classical expression with it tripartite division of four equal columns unequally spaced.
His successes are commemorated in a number of grandiose effigies, triumphal arches, vast frescoes and victory columns.
The triumphal arch was to span a distance of 285 feet and rise 325 feet, dwarfing the Eiffel Tower.
For all the pomp and pageantry, though, there was little triumphalism on display. Times, Sunday Times
It is likely, therefore, that the idea behind this capriccio is the Pons Triumphalis rather than the Pons Aelius.
Neither a triumphalist nor a champion of conservative ideas, Mr. Allitt writes as a historian analyzing the trajectory of conservatism, perhaps to find, as he puts it, "continuities" in all the variation. The Past's Partisans
The hegumen (or abbot) of the monastery, St. Theodore (d. 866), began with the triumphal canon for the great festival that commemorated the victory of the icons, with his canon on the Last Judgment which is described by Neale as "the grandest judgment-hymn of the Church", and with numerous other hymns. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
The triumphal arch and ossuary are very inferior to St. Thégonnec, but the calvary is a magnificent monument, unequalled in Brittany, richly sculptured and ornamented. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891
We think that it will induce humility rather than triumphalism.

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