| Like the mythical emperor's new clothes, the obscurity of highbrow discourse was merely a mystique that charlatans used to confound the gullible. |
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| The emperor's jacket was unbuttoned, his lace cravat untied, and his crown of golden leaves sitting crooked atop uncombed dark hair. |
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| The shameless profligacy of the emperor's life was such as to shock even a jaded Roman public. |
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| Since everyone buys into the sham, there's no one around with the guts to notice the emperor's new clothes. |
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| There's no choice but to speak ill of the dead and ask impertinent questions about the emperor's clothes. |
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| Then suddenly the emperor's new clothes slipped away and the lack of inventive creativity became obvious. |
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| He soon moved against the imperial family, executing first the emperor's mother, Maria, and then young Alexius himself in November. |
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| Some have thought that this dhamma was identical with Buddhism but, though informed by Buddhist morality, it was essentially the emperor's own. |
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| At noon, the recording of the rescript was broadcast, and the nation heard the emperor's voice announcing Japan's final capitulation. |
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| He is respectfully received at the emperor's court despite having waged war against the state. |
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| In a dramatic confrontation the governor attempted to murder the emperor's legate but, failing to do so, committed suicide. |
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| Could he go up to the emperor's personal advisor like this, covered in blood and perspiration? |
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| The expression has been attributed to the emperor's desire to seem royally superior, but evidence suggests it could mean other things as well. |
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| Recognizing the emperor's vulnerability, he also chose to divide authority among four rulers, known as the tetrarchs. |
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| However, the Roman senate did not share their emperor's enthusiasm for the new faith. |
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| Even the emperor's throne, the bejeweled peacock throne of Shah Jahan, was packed on elephants and carried away to Persia. |
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| The Ain-i-Akbari and the Akbarnama chronicled and deified the emperor's rule. |
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| The emperor's talent for showing himself open to all cultures was also well demonstrated by his relationships with the Jesuits. |
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| Unlike the terracotta soldiers protecting the emperor's tumulus, the identity and purpose of the standing figure is still a mystery to scholars. |
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| These myths of the emperor's blamelessness were designed to maintain national unity. |
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| His work On Justinian's Buildings, was composed at the emperor's behest, and is panegyrical in tone. |
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| The suspicion that the emperor's death had been faked gained more and more adherents. |
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| The emperor's arteries and veins lie close together so that blood is pre-cooled on the way to the bird's feet, wings and bill and warmed on the way back to the heart. |
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| One indication of its importance is the incidence of lead pigs or ingots, many stamped with the emperor's name or that of a lessee, which have been found across Britain. |
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| Unable to pay 20 gold napoleons for his stay, the poor man was thrown into debtor's prison before being drafted into service in the emperor's army. |
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| There's a scarlet dining-room, with distressed metal walls, a Chinese emperor's daybed for lounging about on, and a fabulous collection of primitive art and antiques. |
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| The newly appointed Grand Secretary, Yang Tinghe, announced the rejection of the Portuguese embassy the day following the emperor's death. |
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| Cassius Dio presents this as Plautius needing the emperor's assistance to defeat the resurgent British, who were determined to avenge Togodumnus. |
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| Wishing to make it clear that he alone gave Constantine legitimacy, Galerius personally sent Constantine the emperor's traditional purple robes. |
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| At least one extra levy provoked desperation and rioting in which the emperor's statues were destroyed. |
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| The women of the emperor's family often intervened directly in his decisions. |
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| He personally saw the massive statue of Nero in Rome, which was removed after the emperor's death. |
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| Consular dating had already been abolished in 537, when Justinian introduced dating by the emperor's regnal year and the indiction. |
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| Later, she took the emperor's ashes to the Flavian Temple and mingled them with those of his niece, Julia. |
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| In 223, the Praetorian Guard murdered their prefect, Ulpian, in Alexander's presence and despite the emperor's pleas. |
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| However, it makes dating aspects of each emperor's life and the events of the early Roman Empire difficult. |
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| With the emperor's departure, divisions in his opponents' ranks allowed Roger to reverse his fortunes. |
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| The mariners were reassigned to load grain on barges of the Grand Canal and to build the emperor's mausoleum. |
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| Foreign kings had to reaffirm their recognition of the Chinese emperor's superior status by presenting tribute. |
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| On one occasion he forced his way through a crowd that surrounded the emperor's carriage, and mounted on the footstep. |
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| The people were appalled by their emperor's complicity and pelted him with rocks and darts. |
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| During the Qing dynasty, Manchus at the imperial court were required to speak Standard Manchu or face the emperor's reprimand. |
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| He refused to play the emperor's role in government, and delegated many responsibilities to eunuchs, who made up their own faction. |
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| Gregory's successors were largely dominated by the Exarch of Ravenna, the Byzantine emperor's representative in the Italian Peninsula. |
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| After his fall from the emperor's favor, the general was posted to a remote outpost. |
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| If the emperor's health is not good, it should eliminate those appointments which seem nonessential,'' Ozawa told the magazine. |
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| He also compromises his privileged status among the Sassanians as the emperor's protege by refusing to endorse their belligerent move against the Romans. |
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| Until 1367 AD several were used during each emperor's reign. |
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| Some of the most beautiful articles were saved for the emperor's royal fifth, which included vases, imitations of plants and animals, and a fountain. |
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| Until 1867 several era names were used during each emperor's reign. |
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| He ordered temples built in his honor throughout the Ming Empire, and built personal palaces created with funds allocated for building the previous emperor's tombs. |
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| As it was effectively considered Augustus' private property rather than a province of the Empire, it became part of each succeeding emperor's patrimonium. |
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| In 14 CE, just after Augustus' death and the accession of his heir and stepson Tiberius, a massive raid was conducted by the new emperor's nephew Germanicus. |
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| The desired effect was to confirm the Han emperor's Heavenly Mandate through the continuity offered by his possession of these same sacred talismans. |
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| The Carolingian Empire was the largest western territory since the fall of Rome, but historians have come to suspect the depth of the emperor's influence and control. |
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| The practical source of an emperor's power and authority was the military. |
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| While these functions were clearly defined during the Principate, the emperor's powers over time became less constitutional and more monarchical, culminating in the Dominate. |
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| The English became the predominant element in the elite Varangian Guard, until then a largely Scandinavian unit, from which the emperor's bodyguard was drawn. |
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| The emperor's forces pushed north as far as the River Tay, but little appears to have been achieved by the invasion, as peace treaties were signed with the Caledonians. |
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| Among contemporary sources, Seneca the younger ascribed the emperor's death to natural causes, while Josephus only spoke of rumors on his poisoning. |
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