renaissance

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The improvement in Williams's fortunes paralleled the renaissance of Savannah's historic district.  (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994

Didn't you tell me that the word 'renaissance' meant rebirth?  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

Of all the people who have ever lived, in all the eras in history ....we are in that narrow window of time during which we will bear witness to our ultimate renaissance.  (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

Caroline brought iced tea, and the four of them sat uneasily in the living room, talking awkwardly about the weather, about Pittsburgh's budding renaissance in the wake of the steel industry collapse.  (source) Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, 2005

I walk through the aisles, passing out a list of discussion questions on the poem "Renascence" by Edna St. Vincent Mil-lay.†  (source) Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility, 2012

As a UN Arab Human Development Report put it: "The rise of women is in fact a prerequisite for an Arab renaissance."  (source) Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky, 2009

Steve went away with the German woman to Indiana, where, at first, came news of opulence, fatness, ease, and furs (with photographs), later of brawls with her honest brothers, and talk of divorce, reunion and renascence.†  (source) Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, 1929

One feature of the downtown renaissance is the conversion of dilapidated buildings into swanky lofts, boutique shops and upscale restaurants.  (source) Steve Lopez, The Soloist, 1995

I trust he will work that vein further, and recognize that Elizabethan Renascence fustian is no more bearable after medieval poesy than Scribe after Ibsen.†  (source) George Bernard Shaw, Man And Superman, 1903

Relius had grown more cautious since the renaissance of the Thief of Eddis.  (source) Megan Whalen Turner, Queen of Attolia, 2000

On that Saturday, Indian summer had descended over the eastern seaboard, bringing shirt-sleeve weather, flies, a renascence of Good Humor men, and to most people that absurdly deceptive feeling that the onset of winter is a wicked illusion.†  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

A man driving by pulled his car over to the curb and looked in wonderment at the renaissance of a building that he had passed many times and known only as a crumbling ruin.  (source) W. William Winokur, The Perfect Game, 2008

An ad appeared in Lunaya Pravda announcing lecture by Dr. Adam Selene on Poetry and Arts in Luna: a New Renaissance.  (source) Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, 1966

The Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution were some of the major signposts on Western civilization's road to modernity.  (source) Dinesh D'Souza, What's So Great About America

I wonder which Artemesia they have in mind... Probably the raped Renaissance painter: that's the only one of them that gets remembered now.  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

I remembered reading that some people thought that the Renaissance had partly been due to the introduction of coffee in Europe, to the invigorating effect that caffeine had on the psyche.  (source) Matthew Mather, Cyberstorm, 2013

A second ventus blasted around the corner of the Renaissance Hotel and linked up with the first.  (source) Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero, 2010

Langdon pointed to a Renaissance art poster on the wall.  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

One of them was Armstrong House, a monumental Italian Renaissance palazzo directly across Bull Street from the staid Oglethorpe Club.  (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994

Early in January, when we had all just returned from the Christmas holidays, a recruiter from the United States ski troops showed a film to the senior class in the Renaissance Room.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

Mulch recognized it as his arresting officer from the Renaissance Masters smuggling case.  (source) Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, 2001

In the Renaissance the world began to explode, so to speak.  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

Here he had assembled all his treasures that had escaped being plundered by the Germans: a wide couch covered with a kelim, two valuable old chairs, a charming little Renaissance chest of drawers, a Persian rug, some old weapons, a few paintings and all kinds of small objects he had collected over the years in different parts of Europe, each of them a little work of art in itself and a feast for the eyes.  (source) Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist, 1998

The sonnet, on the other hand, is blessedly common, has been written in every era since the English Renaissance, and remains very popular with poets and readers today.  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

Which would, of course, lead to him pulling me inside the car and kissing me, which always made me somehow forget about studying the dates for the Italian Renaissance, or the periodic table, or Macbeth, entirely.  (source) Sarah Dessen, Dreamland, 2004

With his bright hair and the way he carried himself, he could have been some Renaissance prince.  (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls, 2012

You're in a hospital on Renaissance, baby.  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

He sent out three notices about the event, none of which Mae, of the Renaissance, Team Six, answered.  (source) Dave Eggers, The Circle, 2013

Mr. Renaissance was charming and exotic, and she'd fallen for him quickly.  (source) Nicholas Sparks, True Believer, 2005

This is the capital of the Renaissance.  (source) Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

His boyhood had been saturated with Ruskin, and he had read all the latest books: John Addington Symonds, Vernon Lee's "Euphorion," the essays of P. G. Hamerton, and a wonderful new volume called "The Renaissance" by Walter Pater.  (source) Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, 1920

At the same time, Homeric epic attests to a sudden rise in cultural ambition that is so rapid and widespread that the eighth century is sometimes called the Greek Renaissance.  (source) Homer, The Iliad, -850 B.C.

I see no purpose in doing Renaissance villas.  (source) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

Plus your research material's at the library on Renaissance V. Why here?  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

"You'll be in the Renaissance, over here," Renata said, pointing across the lawn, to a building of glass and oxidized copper.  (source) Dave Eggers, The Circle, 2013

Avery had never bothered to come after her, nor had Mr. Renaissance.  (source) Nicholas Sparks, True Believer, 2005

I'm going to expand the mills-and if she can give me three-day freight service to Colorado, I'll give you a race for who's going to be the capital of the Renaissance!  (source) Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

She looked young but not noticeably younger than when they had waved goodbye on Renaissance Vector.  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

They stood before the Renaissance, another building with a forty-foot atrium, a Calder mobile turning slowly above.  (source) Dave Eggers, The Circle, 2013