How To Use Bullfighting In A Sentence
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The run is a 825-metre stampede from the corral where the bulls are kept to the outdoor bullfighting arena where they will be invariably killed by matadors later in the day.
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As a result, bullfighting was left to the plebeians who in turn enthusiastically took up to its practice, and took it to heart as a symbol of something genuinely Spanish.
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Today bullfighting is big business in Spain with the top matadors earning comparable salaries to the nation's top soccer stars and rock idols.
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In the field of bullfighting this verb is the quintessential factor in a well-fought corrida, and it has a lot to do with the rhythm of the bull's charge.
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The run is a 825-metre stampede from the corral where the bulls are kept to the outdoor bullfighting arena where they will be invariably killed by matadors later in the day.
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The important thing is to thrust the banderilla into her - forgive the bullfighting image - to see where the bull will lead us or, should I say, the young heifer.
The Shadow of the Wind
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Polls show that although only a third of Spaniards back a ban on bullfighting, two thirds have no interest in the pastime.
Times, Sunday Times
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About 11,000 fans gasped as Tomas went airborne and crashed hard to the ground - and then raved with cheers after he literally ate the sand of the ring, rose ungored and went on to kill the bull, prompting huge praise from Spain's bullfighting critics.
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As a child in France, Petit was already wire-walking to the beat of a different drummer â also teaching himself equitation, fencing, carpentry, rock-climbing, drama, drawing, and bullfighting.
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In addition to the palace, Granada gives off the air of a ‘real’ Spanish city with cobblestone streets, bullfighting arenas and winding streets.
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Without a doubt, the characteristic trait of this matador from Seville is bullfighting using the cape.
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His theory began with the Andalusian music of cante jondo or "deep song" to the art forms of dance and bullfighting, but certainly his own poetry ripples with this irrational wind, so far from traditional metaphor and sweet artifice.
Tamsin Smith: Sketches of Spain
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College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. Elbert Hubbard
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The macho spectacle of bullfighting has long been an integral part of Spanish life, with the image of a colourfully dressed matador baiting a bleeding bull being one the whole world associates with the Mediterranean country.
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Although there are still supporters of bullfighting, only the Monumental bullring now holds fights in the Catalan capital.
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The development of bullfighting in Andalusia was preceded by bull rituals and cults.
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College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. Elbert Hubbard
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College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. Elbert Hubbard
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Sadly, bullfighting is still very much alive in Spain, with the colorful posters covering every bare space of public wall with the lionized torero or bullfighter shown in regal splendor.
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San Miguelito, cater-corner from the Convention Center, has a great restaurant and a bar that resembles a bullfighting arena.
Night life in Morelia
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Suki turns and blows a kiss to the five men in her cuadrilla, handsome in their bullfighting finery.
The Lady Matador’s Hotel
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GREAT news that bullfighting is banned in Barcelona.
The Sun
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At first glance, bullfighting seems simple: Bull bucks rider, bullfighter jumps around in front of bull.
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The Herald says the leftist president may be trying to bolster support among the lower classes, which are drawn to cockfighting, while targeting bullfighting, which is popular among the wealthy.
Ecuador's efforts to ban bullfighting has some fans seeing red
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Lawmakers in the tourism-rich region centering on Barcelona acted on a bill prompted by a petition from a citizens lobby group that calls bullfighting a form of cruelty to animals.
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He raised the highly emotive issue of bullfighting.
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There are those who argue that bullfighting is not a sport but a cruel spectacle.
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We don't want politicians banning bullfighting.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is a passionate and eloquent defender of field sports and his argument that hare coursing and bullfighting are both in the general interest of the species is persuasive.
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The 34-year-old is attracting sellout crowds amid dwindling interest among young Spaniards in bullfighting, which dates back as far as 1090 when a "corrida" was held to celebrate the marriage of King Alfonso VI's daughter.
Bloomberg
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The common characteristic of the matadors in this group is that they interpret bullfighting in an unorthodox manner.
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As she rose to go, she saw Le6n Ledesma looking at her admir - ingly, for he approved of the steps she was takin& and impulsively she picked up his hands and kissed them: Te6n, you're the one honest human being in bullfighting .. you and the bull.
Mexico
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The common characteristic of the matadors in this group is that they interpret bullfighting in an unorthodox manner.
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* Can't resist a bit more Tynan from this neglected masterpiece-- what happens when a great drama critic does bullfighting, which is to say, eclipses Hemingway.
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Bullfighting as we know it today, started in the village squares, and became formalised, with the building of the bullring in Ronda in the late 18th century.
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His theory began with the Andalusian music of cante jondo or "deep song" to the art forms of dance and bullfighting, but certainly his own poetry ripples with this irrational wind, so far from traditional metaphor and sweet artifice.
Tamsin Smith: Sketches of Spain
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Opinion polls have consistently shown that Spaniards would like bullfighting to end - some Spanish cities have already outlawed all bullfighting and bull runs.
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Or if you were lucky enough to come from a rich bullfighting family, the corridas were waiting for you.
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The World Society for the Protection of Animals has for many years worked to end forms of cruelty to animals overseas, such as bear baiting, bullfighting and captive dolphinarias.
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The statute would therefore outlaw the sale in the United States of a bullfighting video produced in Spain (since bullfighting is not legal in the United States), the sale of any hunting video or magazine in the District of Columbia (since no hunting is allowed in the District) or the sale of a crossbow hunting video or magazine in the many states which allow hunting with compound bows but not with crossbows.
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The 55-year-old dad-of-two from Worsley has been told by the best doctors on Spain's bullfighting circuit that he should hang up his cape and sword.
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It was a time of racing cars and bullfighting and Jimmy did it.
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They start cursing what they call "uppity Catalans," accusing Barcelona - the capital of Catalonia - of turning the world against bullfighting.
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College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. Elbert Hubbard
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Earlier, Hemingway tells us all about bullfighting long before we ever see a bull.
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It is the decadence of the modern bull that has made bullfighting possible.
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Ratón It is a nearly religious ritual with ancient undertones of man-versus-beast rivalry, says Juan Medina, a bullfighting blogger and professor of economic theory at the University of Extremadura in Badajoz, Spain.
Spain's Most Famous Bull Since Ferdinand Is Hardly a Shrinking Violet
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Sadly, bullfighting is still very much alive in Spain, with the colorful posters covering every bare space of public wall with the lionized torero or bullfighter shown in regal splendor.
2010 March 06 « The BookBanter Blog
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The foot-and-mouth epidemic sweeping Europe and causing the cancellation of numerous race meetings will not affect Spain's bullfighting season.
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He is a passionate and eloquent defender of field sports and his argument that hare coursing and bullfighting are both in the general interest of the species is persuasive.
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And then there is bullfighting, which is not considered a sport by its fans but a form of theatre, the object of which is the demonstration of courage in the face of death.
Why Darting Isn't Hunting
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Separatists see bullfighting as a cultural and ethnic marker to distinguish Catalonia from the rest of Spain.
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He raised the highly emotive issue of bullfighting.
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Unlike Spanish bullfighting, the animal is not killed.
Times, Sunday Times
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In an afternoon of bullfighting, six bulls are usually killed by three different matadors.
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They have banned bullfighting in Catalonia.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, the three toreros who participate in the Saturday f ight - matadors Calesero and Pepe Luis Visquez, and the rejoneadora Conchita Cintr6n - are real persons in the history of Mexican bullfighting; I wanted to pay my respects to three friends who helped teach me about their profession.
Mexico
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The regulations on bullfighting define in exacting detail the structure and procedure of bullfighting in Spain.
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Historically, the natural competition between two matadors that has existed in bullfighting, has always included toreros of contrasting styles and appeals, such as the classic matador against the unorthodox or charismatic one.
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The young people of Spain are becoming impressed with bullfighting again, the language of the fight part of their hip patter.
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Catalonia is also not the first region within Spain to ban bullfighting.
Times, Sunday Times
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The two groups commissioned a survey which found that 63 percent of respondents in Barcelona wanted an end to bullfighting.
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Spain's best-known bullfighting fiesta faces an uncertain future.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is extremely energetic and nimble in the ring and gives the impression that he adores the art of bullfighting.
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He cited Spanish bullfighting as an example of how an entire people retained something of its primordial vigour in this quintessentially Spanish ritual.
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I told him I'd enjoyed his spirited discourse on the state of bullfighting at the arena.
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Now we have Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, that tale of doomed romance set against the backdrop of ex-pats living dissolutely in Paris and the bloody bullfighting in Spain.
Michael Giltz: Theater: ERS Tackles Hemingway; Nelson Tackles 9-11
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He is a classical torero with the purest style of bullfighting, especially with the cape.
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And even more disturbing is the grinning faces of those who've investigated details for the purpose of gossip and their pride en par with a torero, in a bullfighting arena, who has gracefully thrown himself over the horns of the fighting bull performing a perfect estocada -- the act of thrusting the sword ensuring a "clean death.
Fahad Faruqui: (Not) Giving In To Gossip
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In an afternoon of bullfighting, six bulls are usually killed by three different matadors.
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His manner of bullfighting is irregular but when he receives a bull, there is not one person in the arena who is left unimpressed by his passes.
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If bullfighting is banned, no one is going to keep one as a pet.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bullfighting season in Spain is April to October.
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The Spanish national sport of bullfighting originated in Andalusia, where Spain's oldest bullrings are located (in Seville and Ronda).
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Sadly, bullfighting is still very much alive in Spain, with the colorful posters covering every bare space of public wall with the lionized torero or bullfighter shown in regal splendor.
2010 March 06 « The BookBanter Blog
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Ivan Aguinaga/Associated Press Jallikattu is an ancient Pongal, or Tamil harvest festival, tradition in south India, though it's not as well known as the bullfighting that originated in Spain.
Taming Bulls in India
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Thus, in a remote corner of Medieval Spain, the beginning of what today is the national Spanish spectacle of bullfighting was created.
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The Spanish original is 'rejoneo' which is a form of bullfighting where the bull is stabbed repeatedly with a wooden lance from the back of a horse.
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