Punctuation marks

Usage examples of periods.

The entries for some days are exceedingly detailed, but there are also long periods of time during which nothing at all is reported.

More important, it was about this time that a number of highly promising artists returned from periods of study in France, Italy, and other Western countries.

Meiji and early Taisho periods were pessimistic or skeptical about the values of a modernized Japan.

In part, the Takarazuka Revue was an effort to appeal to movements under way in the late Meiji and early Taisho periods to advance the rights of women and to bring women into activities that had previously been virtually all male, such as the theatre.

Japan was launched upon one of the most vigorous and sustained periods of economic growth of any country in modern history.

Exhibitions of arts and crafts, ranging from ancient Buddhist statuary and paintings to the utensils of the tea ceremony and signs used by merchants in the Tokugawa and Meiji periods, have drawn large crowds in the United States and other countries.

Ambrose we have a characteristic representation of the influence which the Church has exerted upon music in all periods of its career.

These characters were written above the words to which they applied, and they had additional marks for duration, especially in the later periods of Greek music.

To the neat and symmetrical periods of the Haydn symphony and sonata, with their fresh, thematic treatment, Mozart added a tender grace and sweetness like the conceptions of a Raphael in painting.

He made many concert tours in different periods of his life, and his playing was highly esteemed from one end of Europe to the other.

But when we have the songs, the five or six hundred of them, the operas and other vocal works, in which music is so lovely in and of itself, yet at the same time so descriptive, so loyal to the changing moods of the text, we necessarily interpret the instrumental music in the same light, especially when we know that there are no distinct periods in the short life of this composer concerning which different principles can be predicated.

Gluck, but it is only at rare moments that one will find in the music of the later master the symmetrical periods of the Gluck and Mozart epoch.

The opposition of two periods which he endeavoured peacefully to reconcile could not in this way be permanently set aside.

Among the investigators of our age, Renan above all has clearly recognised that there are only two main periods in the history of dogma, and that the changes which Christianity experienced after the establishment of the Catholic Church bear no proportion to the changes which preceded.

Each of these six Periods is followed by a General Reference Summary of that period.