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Designer Nicky Rieti's extraordinary, immense decor for "Salomé" might be a potentate's palace or a magnificent temple, with a soaring ceiling and light filtering in through huge mashrabiya panels of decorative latticework.

Dark and Light Brilliance Judy Fayard 2011

The large scale of "Balthazar's Feast," the dramatic lighting and the sweeping diagonal gesture of the Babylonian potentate's arms stretching from corner to corner of the painting in horrified surprise relate this work to the intense violence of "The Blinding of Samson," also in the Prado exhibition.

Rembrandt's Rich Banquet 2009

Mr. Hook tells of sitting in the marbled splendor of an Eastern potentate's palace trying to sell a $7 million painting by Claude Monet.

Secrets of the Art Experts 2009

The former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff excoriated his one-time boss with regard to the potentate's insistence upon redefining Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention.

"IT IS UNACCEPTABLE TO THINK..." 2006

A young peasant, Ramaiah, rebels against the corrupt rule of the Nizam, and when his girl friend has to submit to the potentate's sexual coercion, Ramaiah leaves.

Archive 2006-07-01 Abhay N 2006

The old palace, adjoining the new, is a much finer building, being mostly of marble, and is purely Oriental in its stairways, doorways, closets, balconies and delightful roof-gardens, as one's preconceived notions expect an Eastern potentate's palace to be.

Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

It is well, therefore, sometimes to withdraw a little from the dust and smoke of the battle, which, with us at least, announces the spread of this potentate's power, and to try to disentangle the real questions at issue in the struggle from the eternal complications produced by short-sighted politicians and popular issues.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

Marco Polo, who had been attached to the court of Kublai Khan and who subsequently had described that potentate's realms and the wealth of

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

We can imagine the scorn with which Troubridge would have received the potentate's reply had he given the same advice as Nelson.

Drake Nelson and Napoleon Runciman, Walter 1919

Any man who disregarded the potentate's summons was thrashed by him, and thrashed in such a way that for three days he was prostrate.

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917