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terrestrial
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terrestrial

Dealing with the earth. See terrestrial link.


terrestrial
(of animals and plants) living or growing on the land


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Inspired by the telluric, primordial geology of the famous Giant's Causeway in the north of Ireland, the three blocks that make up the hotel and apartment complex have craggy, massive facades, suggesting permanence and solidity in a rapidly changing urban environment.
To trace this theory in terms of ethnic studies, Dorfman's memoir, at first reading, seems to present us with a bicultural self that straddles the borders of a North American, individualistic, materialist subjectivity and one that is Latin American, collective, telluric, and political.
For its all-Stravinsky program, La Scala Ballet obtained the exclusive European rights to perform Bejart's celebrated Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring), which, since its creation in 1959, is considered in Europe to be the most thrilling dance translation of Stravinsky's telluric score and is still a hit at the box office.
 
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