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  • “Ogni personaggio incrocia il successivo con un gioco di scale e prospettive, ed il tutto culmina nella riunione di tutti i personaggi insieme, per lanciare il messaggio dello spot.”

    No Fat Clips!!! : Yalumba: Talk Eat Live Laugh 2009

  • Convelli culmina videmus, prosterni sata, &c. 1183.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Vt enim Domus et edificia nostra nihil depredicamus: ita eorundem nos nihil pudet, quòd contenti paupertate nostra Christo gratias immortales agamus, qui à nobis vili tecto non dedignatur recipi, quòdque templa et domus nostras quas Munsterus Krantzius et Frisius piscium et balenarum ossibus non verè dicunt extructas, non aspernetur magis, quàm illa extraneorum culmina marmorea, parietes vermiculatos pauimenta tesselata reliquùmque id genus ornamenti.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Vt enim Domus et edificia nostra nihil depredicamus: ita eorundem nos nihil pudet, qu騞 contenti paupertate nostra Christo gratias immortales agamus, qui � nobis vili tecto non dedignatur recipi, qu騞que templa et domus nostras quas Munsterus Krantzius et Frisius piscium et balenarum ossibus non ver� dicunt extructas, non aspernetur magis, qu鄊 illa extraneorum culmina marmorea, parietes vermiculatos pauimenta tesselata reliqu鵰que id genus ornamenti.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • TYSON: I think you should see the decision on Motorola as the culmina -- it was on a certain timetable, which existed before the framework talks and continues to exist through tomorrow.

    Press Briefing By Laura Tyson Chair Of Cea ITY National Archives 1994

  • All we have done is to view it externally, noting that it reached a sort of culmina -

    NATURALISM IN ART FRITZ NOVOTNY 1968

  • Gewebelehre (1858), was in some respects a culmina - tion of older trends.

    HEALTH AND DISEASE OWSEI TEMKIN 1968

  • The culmina - tion of everything is the conversion of Constantine, who achieves supreme worldly success through mira - cles, and appears as something like a wonder-child himself.

    HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

  • Te cano, Patria, semper et atria ingenuum; laudo virentia culmina, flumina; sentio gaudia caelicolum.

    A Handbook for Latin Clubs Susan Paxson

  • Iuli iugera pauca Martialis hortis Hesperidum beatiora longo Ianiculi iugo recumbunt: lati collibus imminent recessus et planus modico tumore vertex caelo perfruitur sereniore et curvas nebula tegente valles solus luce nitet peculiari: puris leniter admoventur astris celsae culmina delicata villae. hinc septem dominos videre montes et totam licet aestimare Romam,

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

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  • Plural of culmen.

    December 3, 2017