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Films like 'Babel' can transcend the one point-of-view formula that has reigned for so long. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves. -- Charles Duhigg
Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians. -- Theodore C. Sorensen
The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them. -- John Strachan
The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
The bohemian life that reigned in Paris until the end of the '50s is gone. The artists had more time to think, to reflect; success didn't come so suddenly. -- Pontus Hulten
Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose. -- Jean Hanff Korelitz
But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years. -- Ezra Stiles
Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology. -- Trofim Lysenko
Our jovial star reigned at his birth. -- William Shakespeare
The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. -- Victor Hugo
You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell. -- Christopher Marlowe
Chaos reigned, and the survivalists eagerly unwrapped the kidskin from their crossbows. Phase one of Opal's plan was complete. -- Eoin Colfer
Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures. -- Pipilotti Rist
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves. -- Elizabeth I
The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. -- Elizabeth I Tudor
[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. -- Elizabeth I Tudor
When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned. -- Lord Acton
Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it. -- Bentley Little
It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds. -- Terry Pratchett
After all the screaming in our house, there reigned, that winter on Middlesex, only silence. A silence so profound that, like the left foot of the President's secretary, it erased portions of the official record. -- Jeffrey Eugenides

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