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Inside the park’s north gate is an even larger complex, the Temple of the Azure Clouds (Biyun Si), which ascends the hillside.
Upon his death, the pop artist ascends from the controversial to the canonical.
Others say James ascends from pulp fiction to high art, with well-drawn characters and turns of phrase "of which Jane Austen might have been proud" (Gerald Kaufman, the Daily Telegraph ). (An excerpt is available at Random House's site.)
As soon as Hal ascends to the throne, however, he pretends not to know his old and embarrassing mentor:
From here the coast road ascends very sharply amid sparse, windblown greenery, and the drop seawards can be frighteningly steep.