The most beguiling promise of fantasy fiction is that of self-knowledge.
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But the sunrise over the Bagan plains is the most beguiling gold of all.
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Among the most beguiling and subtly transfixing are the digital interventions of Porpentine Charity Heartscape.
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It's the first prologue, though, that is the most beguiling, and perhaps the most meaningful.
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Perhaps the most beguiling work is a charming gas station created by Jean Prouvé in 1953.
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Whatever Fortnite's allure as a game to play, it is also apparently the most beguiling one to watch.
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Wanderlust With its Baroque architecture and thriving textile scene, this former colonial capital is among Central America's most beguiling destinations.
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The mystical, quietly haunting progressions in the first movement of the Symphony No. 5 show Mr. Branca at his most beguiling.
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You wouldn't know it from a look at his IMDb page, but he remains one of the most beguiling young actors around.
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Two of the most beguiling myths in "Trickster" come from writers whose longer work you should also consider reading with your granddaughters.
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"Étants Donnés" (1946–66) was the final and most beguiling puzzle created by an artist who reveled in subterfuge and sleight of hand.
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The slow middle movement is the most beguiling, a neo-Romantic Adagio with an intensely soulful viola theme cushioned by soft, wistful strings.
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One of the most beguiling and beautiful pieces of music made in the late 20th century didn't involve backbreaking workshops and endless brain-wracking.
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So grab your thumbprint and wander with me through the best and most beguiling morsels to have graced the plains of Instagram this week.
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Even though it was announced the best part of a year ago, the Oppo Find X is arguably still the most beguiling Android phone around.
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And Keough swirls in a sly bit of menace, making Christine into one of the most beguiling and perhaps frightening TV characters in recent memory.
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The theme of suicide is heavy in "Certified," a laser-focused portrait of Laurie, one of The Leftovers' most beguiling and hard-to-know characters.
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On Wednesday, with the full voice of 49,000 or so Yankee fans behind him, Tanaka saved his most beguiling pitches for the most critical moments.
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But what makes the Aventador S most beguiling to drive is the delirious sensation of pushing that accelerator pedal to the floor for a few brief seconds.
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Researchers at the University of California, Irvine programmed a machine learning algorithm that can solve that most beguiling of human puzzles, the Rubik's cube, in less than a second.
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We recommend you stop whatever it is you're doing right now and tuck straight into one of the most beguiling and beautiful videos we've seen for a long, long time.
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But for me, exploring its impact on heavy metal has been the most beguiling, because the synth has been with it since its beginnings—and will be there until the end.
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One of the most beguiling twists in Mueller's investigation concerns Konstantin Kilimnik -- a Manafort business associate who was so obscure that it took news outlets months to find a photo of him.
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"Keep Running" is an apt opener: Not only is it one of the record's most beguiling tracks, but in the late summer of 2015 it was also the jumping off point for the collection.
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They don't speak, but they make eyes at each other, and she dances to the most beguiling, sexy, funny, tragic dance in his general direction to the Tommy Roe song "Sweet Pea" to get his attention.
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Her dreamlike visions of China's full-tilt economic development, and the social dislocation and environmental abasement that have come with it, were the most beguiling and unnerving parts of her acclaimed midcareer retrospective at MoMA PS1 in 2016.
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Disneyland visitors who know what they're looking for take note of the lamp burning in the partially shaded window above the fire station on Main Street (which is, despite its naked mercantilism, still the most beguiling of the many "lands").
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PHOTOS WITHOUT CAMERAS The booth of the photography specialist Hans P. Kraus Jr. contains perhaps the most beguiling work in the fair: "British Algae," a book by the English botanist Anna Atkins that documents aquatic plants via cyanotypes, or impressions on photosensitive blue paper.
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" Describing his project as "a kind of a day of the dead celebration," Perlin delivered one of the most beguiling, salient lines of the conference, and one that can easily serve as a motto for the promise of VR: "everyone gets to be a spirit in the spirit world.
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When he returned, he was always noticeably out of fashion (or maybe just ahead of it) until the mid-70s: In 1967, he released an album of very traditional-sounding folk music, John Wesley Harding, in 1969 he made Nashville Skyline, a country album, and in 1970, he released Self-Portrait, one of the most beguiling albums ever made.
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But celebrity social media's most beguiling quality is its ability to convince us that the star himself is controlling the narrative: that the images before us, and the overarching understanding they create, reflect the star's authentic self, or, at the very least, the way the star thinks of himself and his image, as opposed to the way a publicist and studio think of the star and his image.
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Cruel Inventions received mostly favorable reviews from critics. At Entertainment Weekly magazine, David Browne gave the album an A, writing that it "...is fraught with both beauty and tension, making it one of the year's most beguiling records." Browne named it his sixth favorite album of 1991.
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The album was well-received by music critics. CMJ New Music Monthly described it as "an eccentric psych-pop collection". Andy Gill of The Independent called it "one of the most beguiling debuts of the year [...] a fortuitous collision of Brian Wilson, Neil Young and the Pixies which throws out a stream of understated pop gems". AllMusic noted similarities to the bands Pavement and Weezer, and described it as "a fairly brilliant album, combining a warm, earnest and rustic feel with sometimes goofy experimentation".
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"Dashing, dazzling, and altogether magical, The Thief of Bagdad is an enchanting fantasy for children of all ages".The film was Korda's most successful in the US. The film was also a success in Europe selling 5,135,145 tickets in France becoming the seventh most attended film of the year. The New York Times reviewer Bosley Crowther enthused that the film "ranks next to Fantasia as the most beguiling and wondrous film of this troubled season". Crowther praised "its truly magnificent color" and the performances of all five main actors.
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The critic Michael Billington wrote in his review of the production: "The more I see Love's Labour's Lost, the more I think it Shakespeare's most beguiling comedy. It both celebrates and satisfies linguistic exuberance, explores the often painful transition from youth to maturity, and reminds us of our common mortality." In late summer 2005, an adaptation of the play was staged in the Dari language in Kabul, Afghanistan by a group of Afghan actors, and was reportedly very well received.Qais Akbar Omar and Stephen Landrigan, "Shakespeare in Kabul", in East-West Diwan: in Memory of Mark Linz, Gingko Library 2014 pp.
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Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine said that the song has the typical ensuring quality of the production of Timbaland and Justin Timberlake, and bears the "pair's distinct, modern stamp, making Hard Candy more than just a throwback to Donna Summer, Anita Ward, and Quaaludes." Chris William from Entertainment Weekly made the observation that "Miles Away" was one of the "few actual confessions on this dance floor [Hard Candy]—enough to give the tabs speculative fodder." He also compared the song to "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around". Jim Farber of the New York Daily News called it the album's most beguiling tune.
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In 2009 The Times called it the "most Wildean" adaptation of the novel, boasting "perhaps the best Dorian" and mentioning that John Gielgud "steals the show, having of course been given the most beguiling lines by Wilde". This version accentuates the gay subtext of Wilde's novel more than other versions; e.g. when Dorian wants Alan's help in the disposal of Basil's body, it is strongly suggested that the two had a sexual relationship in the past and when Dorian's seduction attempt fails, he apparently threatens to expose Alan as a homosexual. In the novel and other adaptations the precise nature of Dorian's hold over Alan is mostly left to the imagination of the reader or viewer, respectively.
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Enfant Bastard (also known as Les Enfant Bastard) is the performing name for Cameron 'Cammy' Watt, a musician and artist formerly based in Edinburgh, Scotland who has released albums spanning a number of genres including indie, alt-folk, Lo-fi, Chip music and House. He now resides in Gothenburg, Sweden where we works as an artist. Enfant Bastard was a prominent member of Edinburgh's alternative music scene of the 2000s alongside artists such as Meursault and Withered Hand. His work has been critically acclaimed in the Scottish music press, and he has been described by The Scotsman as 'Edinburgh's most beguiling musical innovator' and as a 'lo-fi genius' by The Skinny.
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The aria for Senesino in the role of Ottone, Ritorna, o dolce amore, a siciliana in 12/8 time, is praised by musicologist Paul Henry Lang as "exquisitely turned...one of his most beguiling melodies". The three star roles for women singers are characterised by Handel with entirely different music. Teofane's music is pure and melting; her entrance aria Falsa imagine, with its "fine" cello obbligato is, according to Lang, one of Handel's greatest arias, and she too is given a "bewitching" siciliana to sing, the aria Affanni del pensier. The music for Matilda, as her mood swings wildly in the course of the action between hatred, anguish and love, is completely different in character from the "gentle and maidenly" music for Teofane.
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Although the Ichabod part of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is silly and bumbling, Mr. Toad's half is good enough to convince Disney admirers that the old master can still display the bounce and vitality he had before the war." Time particularly praised the first half, writing, "This lighthearted, fast- moving romp has inspired some of Disney's most inventive draftsmanship and satire." Disney film historian and film critic Leonard Maltin, writing in his book The Disney Films, wrote that the film was "one of Disney's most beguiling animated features: The Wind in the Willows in particular has some of the finest work the studio ever did." Altogether, he claimed "these sequences form a most engaging feature, with as the saying goes, something for everyone.
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" The A.V. Clubs Christian Williams wrote that "its great strength and most beguiling feature is its ability to sand spiky textures down into soothing ones, and to transform the anodyne into the anxiety-inducing, simply through repetition." Spins Philip Sherburne called Replica "both lyrical and hypnotic" and "a deeply romantic testament to the possibilities of life in the Cloud." Phil Mongredien, writing in The Observer, called Replica "an ambitious electronic song cycle" that "rewards repeated listening". K. Ross Hoffman of AllMusic stated that though the album's reliance on samples of commercials "makes for an intriguing compositional back-story—and it clearly provided him a rich sound palette from which to draw—it's rare that that source material is specifically evident while listening; at best it functions on a more energetic, subconscious level.
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Barbara Fite died in 1986, and her family continues to administer the organization. Opus 40 remains a popular tourist attraction, as well as a wedding and concert venue. In 2001 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Brendan Gill, in the March 1989 edition of Architectural Digest, called Opus 40 "one of the largest and most beguiling works of art on the entire continent," and he has also called it “the greatest earthwork sculpture I have ever seen.” Though Fite was not associated with the Land Art or Earthworks sculptural movement of the 1970s, he came to be known as a pioneer of that movement, and was recognized in 1977 by the Hirshhorn Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, in a show entitled “Probing the Earth: Contemporary Land Projects,” as a forefather of the earthworks movement.
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