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Cours du Soir (Evening Classes) is a thirty-minute short film in which Jacques Tati demonstrates the art of mime to a group of enthusiastic students. Amongst skits performed are those of a tennis player and a horse rider – sketches that initially brought Tati acclaim on music hall stages in the 1930s.
esprit de corps lit. "spirit of the body [group]": a feeling of solidarity among members of a group; morale. Often used in connection with a military force. esprit de l'escalier lit. "wit of the stairs"; a concise, clever statement you think of too late, that is, on the stairs leaving the scene.
Effets de soir (also called effets de soir et de matin) [1] are the effects of light caused by the sunset, twilight, or darkness of the early evening or matins. They appear frequently in works by such painters as Vincent van Gogh, [2] Bernhard Fries, [1] Armand Guillaumin, [3] and Camille Corot. [4] [5] Literally, it means "effects of evening ...
Eduard von Grützner's depiction of Falstaff, a literary character well known for his joie de vivre.. Joie de vivre (/ ˌ ʒ w ɑː d ə ˈ v iː v (r ə)/ ZHWAH də VEEV (-rə), French: [ʒwa d(ə) vivʁ] ⓘ; "joy of living") is a French phrase often used in English to express a cheerful enjoyment of life, an exultation of spirit, and general happiness.
Esprit D'Air ("Spirit of Air" in French) is a British-Japanese progressive metal band formed in London in 2010 with members from Japan and England. In 2013, the band increased in popularity as their single "Shizuku" became the first playable song in the J-rock category in the video game Rock Band 3 (and now Rock Band 4 since 2023) but disbanded in the same year as members went back to Japan.
A file photograph from 2004 shows Notre Dame's organ. - Stephane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images. Latry had, in his words, lived with the organ “day and night” since joining the cathedral in 1985 ...
Ils ne connaissaient que le “non-mal”. Tout comme il n’y avait pas de vérité, mais seulement le “non-mensonge”. Après la mort, on devenait un esprit, et le monde était plein de ces esprits ancestraux, nuisibles s’ils n’étaient pas apaisés, et vénérés par la population.
The police chief for the University of California at Los Angeles, who was criticized for the handling of a violent mob attack in May on pro-Palestinian activists encamped at UCLA, has left the ...