• But inside, an entirely different aesthetic prevailed: Abstract Expressionist paintings by family friends and frequent visitors like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman were positioned beside Minimalist sculptures by the sisters' father, Tony Smith, who was both a celebrated art theorist and something of a homebody.

    WSJ: Kiki and Seton Smith, Sisters and Artists

  • We were joined beside the bridge by ironworkers, laborers, and carpenters from the area, some of whom have been out of work for months on end.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama at the Brent Spence Bridge

  • It was served in the primmest parlours, but also quaffed by labourers beside the roads.

    ECONOMIST: Sugar

  • By nightfall there is a full house, and I sleep cheek by jowl beside a variety of strangers.

    BBC: Nomadic Kyrgyzstan

  • Behind the collectorate building in one outlying district, men urinate beside five rusting four-by-fours.

    ECONOMIST: Bihar's remarkable recovery

  • He died of malaria during the journey, and was buried beside the Nam Khan River by his servants, who arranged for his journals to be sent back to France.

    BBC: Free e-books provide unlimited holiday reading

  • Prince Charles and Princess Diana, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan all improved their moral standing by appearing in public beside her.

    ECONOMIST: Mother Teresa | The

  • But as I wrote in the piece, the discussion of what most mainstream scientists believe is shoddy and biased work by Howarth is somewhat beside the point.

    FORBES: New York Times Blunders into Advocacy Role on the Fracking Debate -- Children are the Victims

  • It can benefit American children who attend school with our kids, American men who share pews at our churches, and American women sitting beside us in office cubicles, by keeping their families together.

    CNN: Do we want an America that wrecks families?

  • His body, found beside his bed just after 0210 BST by visitors to the Gloucester Street ground floor flat, was fully clothed.

    BBC: Brighton CCTV image

  • Slovenia's concern, beside a fear of re-colonisation by neighbours after only ten years as an independent country, was the stability of its currency in the face of large capital inflows or outflows.

    ECONOMIST: Grab and smash

  • Questions regarding the rights of children have a certain force, but other arguments, quoting authorities like Aristotle and Maimonides, who otherwise would not be given a tad of credence by the perplexed, are beside the point.

    FORBES: I'm Not Making This Up Dept.: San Francisco Mulls Ban On Circumcisions

  • Anyone who reads the story as they stand beside the graves cannot fail to be moved by it.

    BBC: North East Wales

  • He was sitting beside the woman, two kitchen chairs side by side.

    NEWYORKER: Teaching

  • The incinerator plans have long been opposed by many of the residents in the area beside Lough Neagh.

    BBC: Lough Neagh incinerator campaigners urge caution

  • That is hard to know, and rather beside the point: economists aside, few are excited by the difference between a mild recession and a period of sluggish growth.

    ECONOMIST: California

  • The best place to saddle up with a board is at the thatched shack beside the tourist information centre in Hangaroa, easily spotted by its bright orange walls.

    BBC: Surfing on Easter Island

  • Ben Bernanke has dropped his kimono entirely and revealed that fiscal policy is being set by the Fed with regard to almost nothing beside meeting the confidence threshold.

    FORBES: In Our Fear-Based Economy, Fiscal Cliff Talks Obsess Over Income, Ignore Net Worth

  • Home after home was destroyed by the flooding after the breach in the levee beside the Industrial Canal.

    CNN: Lower 9th Ward like a surreal movie set

  • Although this still pales beside America's corporate-bond market, it grew by 235% last year, even though global issuance fell.

    ECONOMIST: Bidding for the future | The

  • Mr Clinton's visit coincided with Kosovo's first substantial snowfall and many who were driven away by the Serbian offensive are still sheltering in tents beside the ruins of their burnt out homes.

    BBC: News Online

  • Action has been stymied by fears on the part of the small economies that they will be swamped by South African goods (like the United States beside Mexico, South Africa dwarfs its neighbours).

    ECONOMIST: Opening South Africa

  • Nor is he yet a great philanthropist: his pledge to leave 10% of his estate to charity pales beside the promise to give away most of their wealth made by signatories of the Giving Pledge for American billionaires launched by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.

    ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

  • Could Dante have walked beside me across that dreadful place, which had been transformed by human agency from a peaceful countryside to a garbage heap, a cesspool, and a charnel-house combined, he would never have written his 'Inferno, ' because the hell of his imagination would have seemed colourless and tame.

    WSJ: Reflections on Champagne

  • When looking at the thumbnail grid of images that appear beside one large image, select a bunch of photos at once by holding one finger on the first image in that group and a second finger on the last image.

    WSJ: The Digital Solution: Letting Your Fingers Do the Photo Editing

  • Mr Robertson began his speech by declaring a member's interest as Mr Q was beside him in the chamber.

    BBC: Assistance Dogs are Working Dogs Too debate

  • Beside the ruins of a Dominican monastery is a modest beach restaurant run by a man dressed entirely in black, with an impressive pipe curling from his mouth.

    BBC: Sailing in Croatia

  • Hartnett does his best, hampered only by a recurrent, grieving expression which suggests that somebody is standing beside the camera and blowing smoke in his eyes, very hard.

    NEWYORKER: Wicker Park

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