That climactic moment is ravishingly rendered here, amid candle-lighted shadows and ecclesiastic song.
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These creatures were ravishingly beautiful and sensuous in the way they moved to seduce passing sailors.
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Therefore, the pretext was something of a disappointment and a distraction from getting lost in what actually was ravishingly perceptible.
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Unfolding across the gallery's three floors, it starts with blue-chip opulence: the ravishingly white-on-white canvases of Robert Ryman and Cy Twombly.
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They're ravishingly ugly: Grandpa is huge and pink and hideous, with black hairs sprouting from his hands and angry black lines traversing his forehead.
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I want to contain two different ideas in the same image, so I had to make it sort of disgusting but absolutely, ravishingly beautiful.
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The woman you were closest to in the world, the one who weaned and wiped you, could suddenly seem so ravishingly remote it was scary.
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And then, in one ravishingly realized moment, we seem to enter the camera itself and exist in a world between fluid life and stationary image.
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Every bit as fine was the ravishingly full-bodied performance of "The Dream," staged by Anthony Dowell (its original and definitive Oberon) and Susan Jones.
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"I was waking up always too late in a ravishingly beautiful garden mostly run by thugs, and guess what, I was one of them," Sacks has said.
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In a color series for Vogue from 1984, even in clothes of ravishingly bright emeralds, fuchsias, and mustards, the women have secrets, something keeping them at a distance.
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Darger's "In the Realms of the Unreal," a fifteen-thousand-page work that ravishingly, and disturbingly, depicts erotic fantasies about girls, was discovered by his landlord after his death.
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Anyone who worries whether Sorey has the chops to create "normal" music can sample "Movement," on "Alloy," which opens with a ravishingly melancholy piano solo in F-sharp minor.
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Ms. Suri, ravishingly dressed in cream and gold, at once made the rapid footwork and gestures of Kuchipudi absorbing and, in statuesque positions, she has piercing beauty of line, too.
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If you don't count the helicopter — and the atmospheric set (with period costumes by Andreane Neofitou), ravishingly lighted by Bruno Poet — the show's center now belongs to its distressed lovers, Kim (Ms.
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You know the game I mean: furiously fast and ravishingly red (and black, and yellow) Ferraris, tearing around the place, in the sequel to one of the most famous racers of all time.
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When the superb ensemble sings — tenderly, angrily and often ravishingly — it seems to come from a place their characters could never identify in their conscious minds, but which is essential to their survival.
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But this version, directed by James Macdonald and starring a ravishingly well matched Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill, harrowed and moved me as if I were encountering the show for the first time.
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Over 219 works of painting, drawing, enamelwork, laquerware, carpet, jewelry, costumes, and decorative and ceremonial objects are on display, thematically installed in four rooms that are ravishingly designed by French haute couture fashion designer, Christian Lacroix.
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" Here's part of an entry on the Rheingau producer Georg Breuer: "Early in love we may be ravishingly affectionate or exquisitely gentle, but tenderness takes years; it's the sum of all the things we've forgiven and been forgiven for.
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The revelation of the City Center "Sunday" last November was that Mr. Gyllenhaal had the vocal chops to deliver what is one of Mr. Sondheim's richest and most intricately composed scores, ravishingly performed here by the orchestra, under the direction of Chris Fenwick.
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The eight principal cast members — who also include Matt Doyle, Betsy Morgan, Duncan Smith, Alex Finke, Joseph Taylor and that affable Broadway veteran Brad Oscar — all sing adequately, if not ravishingly, move with shadowy stealth and make synchronized percussive use of cutlery.
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Though it's still early to tell what long-term artistic goals Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Metropolitan Opera's new music director, has in store, this year he led consistently distinguished performances, especially a ravishingly and revelatory account of this Debussy work, with an appealing cast.
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In the succeeding decades, this work has been performed sporadically, always in a radically edited and condensed version, most notably in New York and London in the mid-1980s, in a farcical riff by Michael Frayn called "Wild Honey," starring a ravishingly seedy Ian McKellen as Platonov.
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The role has, this time, landed into the empathic hands of Nikki Amuka-Bird in a ravishingly designed reckoning with a text that keeps one foot in the mystical, just as Tom Scutt's painterly set gives the watery landscape of the title its own enclosed perch onstage.
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It is at the same time an absurd sendup of inequality (and a commentary on the runaway wealth inside the art world) and a kind of gift to the museumgoer, a rare chance to spend private time with something so ravishingly beautiful it's hard to believe it's real.
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Tarantino fashioned his newest effort as a capital-E Event in the tradition of the spectacle films of yore; the 70mm format and its dazzlingly rich colors, lush sound, and ravishingly detailed image were originally used to lift epics such as Ben-Hur and Lawrence of Arabia to godly proportions.
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So there's an added shiver of anticipation when the characters in John Doyle's ravishingly reconceived production of "The Color Purple" (adapted from Alice Walker's novel and first seen in more leaden form on Broadway in 2005) start singing that women better lock up their menfolk because Shug Avery's back in town.
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It's comforting to imagine that Christians generally accept the notion of a hell of eternal misery not because they're emotionally attached to it, but because they see it as a small, inevitable zone of darkness peripheral to a larger spiritual landscape that — viewed in its totality — they find ravishingly lovely.
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It is said Madame de Pompadour had the flower beds at Château de Bellevue planted with thousands of ''fake'' porcelain flowers, thereby not only ensuring constant work for the Sèvres manufacturers, but also the creation of ravishingly beautiful artworks that fooled no one and delighted all — and, of course, whose rarity and value today are incalculable.
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It is this consummate control of form, and the palpable presence it engenders, that felt so vital even against a Neo-Conceptual backdrop: the helmet-like head and dangling foot of "Leigh Bowery (Seated)"; the divan in "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" (1995); and, most ravishingly, the fabric patterns in "Sleeping by the Lion Carpet" (1995-96) and "Portrait on Gray Cover" (1996).
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Most moving to many will be the pages devoted to Susana in her pre-Walton years, both ravishingly beautiful and sparkily tomboyish in her Argentinian youth.
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Jadoo was not warmly received by David Gritten of The Daily Telegraph; he concluded that it was "dreadfully predictable". Roger Pratt was praised, the film being described as "ravishingly photographed".David Gritten (5 September 2013) "Jadoo, review", The Telegraph. Retrieved 2013-09-14.
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Another lesser known Yakshi is Mangalathu Sreedevi also known as Kanjirottu Yakshi. She was born into a Padamangalam Nair tharavad by name Mangalathu at Kanjiracode in South Travancore. She was a ravishingly beautiful courtesan who had an intimate relationship with Raman Thampi, son of King Rama Varma and rival of Anizhom Thirunal Marthanda Varma.Kaimal, Kesava.
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It features Mark Fite, Jim Turner, Dave Gruber Allen, and Craig Anton. Clowntown City Limits was well-received, with the LA Weekly describing it as "ravishingly brilliant ... as funny and pointless and circuitous as life on the margins", and it was still playing well three years later, described as "hysterically imbecilic repartee" tinged with "a loathing resentment".
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They have a brilliance akin > to life's rosiest products–insects' wings, birds' feathers, shells, petals. > No painting can match the force or delicacy that appears in these subtle > associations of bits of dyed silk. Stitch after stealthy stitch adds up to > the texture of sumptuousness. Even flesh tints are ravishingly reproduced, > and the incalculable artfulness of a needle comes to delightful fruition in > the modeling of a shoulder or a breast.
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Since 2006, the Munich Volkstheater publishes the magazine "Volksmund" once a year instead of a season magazine. The 2007/08 issue was described as a "ravishingly funny" (by tz ) and a new discovery with a "feuilletonist claim" (Münchner Merkur). In 2013, The Kurt Wilhelm's play "Brandner Kaspar and Eternal Life" had its 250th performance with 170,000 visitors. It had its premiere on 30 March 2005 at the Volkstheater.
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His modus operandi was, in his own words: "Nothing which wouldn't have for goal emotion, poetry, heart." The conductor Sir Henry Wood said, "The quality of tone was ravishingly beautiful.... He seemed to get more colour out of a violin than any of his contemporaries."Sir Henry Wood, My Life of Music (Victor Gollancz 1938), pp171, 173. Possibly the most distinctive feature of Ysaÿe's interpretations was his masterful rubato.
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Jay Weissberg from Variety (magazine) states in 2009, "The power of desire has rarely been so ravishingly lensed" but "without dialogue and awash in naked male-on-male couplings", it would be difficult to sell the film to audiences. Armond White from New York Press on 10 June 2009 noted "[Director] Hernández further develops his ideas on form, romanticism and spirituality. His images are beautiful and intriguing enough to win the popular audience he deserves".
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Young later went on to say that the relationship with Sho and Arrietty "touches the heartstrings with gentle yearning", and praised Yonebayashi for its direction. In the opening remarks made by David Gritten of The Telegraph, he said that the film was "ravishingly colourful and textured". He also praised the animation, saying that "animation doesn’t get better than Arrietty." Gritten gave the film a rating of 4 stars out of 5 stars.
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Melody Makers David Stubbs felt it was "less strong" than Steve McQueen but "more ambitious". Vogues Barney Hoskyns commented "at least seven of its 10 songs are more accessible, more ravishingly beautiful than anything McAloon has written". Both Record Mirror and Hot Press ranked the album number 5 in their "Albums of the Year" list. Additionally, the album was included in "Albums of the Year" lists in Q, The Village Voice, Musikexpress, Spex and Rockdelux.
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Section 6, p. 2. Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times called it "the motion picture equivalent of one of those very large, very heavy, very expensive, very elegant and very dull books that exist solely to be seen on coffee tables. It is ravishingly beautiful and incredibly tedious in about equal doses, a succession of salon quality still photographs—as often as not very still indeed."Champlin, Charles (19 December 1975).
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After the release of The Crusades, Paramount negotiated a new contract with DeMille and cancelled Samson and Delilah in 1936. Ten years later, on August 15, 1946, DeMille publicly stated that Samson and Delilah would be his next project after Unconquered. DeMille later recalled in his autobiography that the Paramount executives had doubts about financing a "Sunday school tale." They approved the project when DeMille showed them a sketch by artist Dan Groesbeck depicting a "big, brawny" Samson and a "slim and ravishingly attractive" Delilah.
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Kanjirottu Yakshi (Sreedevi) is a folkloric vampire. According to the myth, she was born into an affluent Padamangalam Nair tharavad by name Mangalathu at Kanjiracode in Southern Travancore (now in Tamil Nadu). Being a ravishingly beautiful courtesan she had an intimate relationship with Raman Thampi, son of King Rama Varma and rival of Anizhom Thirunal Marthanda Varma. According to the story, she was murdered by her servant and she turned into a Yakshi, (a class of mythical beings in Malayalam folklore) waylaying men with her beauty and drinking their blood.
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His cuts were so severe - omitting, for instance the prologue and the concluding elegiac chaconne - that the music which he had left out would have filled most of a third CD. He had also added "an organ which played no part in Rameau's orchestra" and "a very anachronistic, Italianate cello solo". Anderson found Leppard's cast a mixture of good and bad. Like Salter and Salzman, he thought José van Dam's Isménor unequivocally magnificent. Frederica von Stade's Iphise was "ravishingly beautiful- sounding", but not sung in an authentically Ramellian style.
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36 Printemps, in a breeches role, played and sang the young Mozart, with Guitry as the composer's patron, Baron Grimm. Gielgud recalled, "she seemed ravishingly youthful and touching in her powdered wig, black knee breeches and buckled shoes, while Sacha hovered over her with avuncular authority, not attempting to try to sing himself, but contributing a kind of flowing, rhythmic accompaniment with his speeches, delivered in a deep caressing voice." After playing successfully at the Théâtre Edouard VII,"Mozart", The Times, 17 December 1925, p. 14 the company presented the piece for a three- week season in London in June and July 1926.
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Madeleine Masson was born Madeleine Levy in 1912 in Johannesburg to a French banker, Emile Levy, and Lili, "a ravishingly beautiful creature with Viennese antecedents". On a trip to Paris with her parents, 18-year-old Madeleine met 40-year-old Baron Renaud Marie de la Minaudière. As she put it in her autobiography, I Never Kissed Paris Goodbye, "I was a small-town South African who was being offered Prince Charming on a platter, decked with yachts, châteaux, sable coats, jewels, townhouses and a coat-of-arms equal to that of the Valois." Madeleine took her surname "Masson" from one of the Baron's subsidiary titles.
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A theme that is quite overtly explored is the dichotomy between a composer who is an egotistical and tyrannical monster and womaniser (his blindness and paralysis were the result of tertiary syphilis contracted at Paris brothels and with other women), but who writes ravishingly beautiful, lyrical, sensitive music. Fenby himself comments "I can't reconcile such hardness with such lovely music". Russell explored the possibility of making the film at the Delius home at Grez, but that proved impractical. Budgetary considerations meant it could not be made in France at all, so it was filmed mainly in Surrey, with extra scenes in Scarborough and the Lake District.
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When the films debuted in New York's Public Theater in 1973, New York Times movie critic Vincent Canby noted that while not difficult, the austere style of the films, "as well as Rossellini's total lack of concern for what might be called performance, take some getting used to. Yet once you've grasped the method and the rhythm of the films, they are a ravishingly beautiful experience": > The actors make few attempts to act. They recite as they walk about > magnificent locations, sounding and looking like ferociously gifted dress- > extras. The talk has been rather flatly dubbed into English so that it's not > always possible to tell who is speaking.
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126–130) 126.p.) In a late version of the Medusa myth, related by the Roman poet Ovid (Metamorphoses 4.794-803), Medusa was originally a ravishingly beautiful maiden, "the jealous aspiration of many suitors," but because Poseidon violated Medusa in Athena's temple, Athena transformed Medusa's beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn onlookers to stone. In Ovid's telling, Perseus describes Medusa's punishment by Minerva (Athena) as just and well earned. In most versions of the story, she was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who was sent to fetch her head by King Polydectes of Seriphus because Polydectes wanted to marry Perseus's mother.
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The main story is set about two decades after the death of the ravishingly beautiful yet evil Rebecca de Winter and follows the attempts of the former magistrate Colonel Julyan to uncover the truth behind her enigmatic life and death, with the help of his daughter Ellie and a mysterious young scholar. There is also a "prequel" section that reproduces a journal that Rebecca wrote shortly before she died. The novel summaries the original events from Rebecca to the extent where it can be read alone, though reading it as a sequel is preferable. It has been criticized for Beauman's revisionist interpretations of characters created by du Maurier, and for certain aspects of her own invented characters.
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In connection with the première, writing in La Nouvelle Revue (1 June 1894) the author and librettist Louis Gallet refers to "la charmante Mlle Laisné, qui joue et chante à ravir le rôle d'Aurore" (the charming Miss Laisné who plays and sings the role of Aurore so ravishingly). Le Matin discussed her charming voice and effective execution,; also quotes Le Figaro. and Le Figaro discussed how she agreeably chirped and trilled her way through Aurore. In 1898, Le Matin praised her performance in Fidelio, stating "Mlle Lai[s]nè a une voix d'une pureté délicieuse, qu'elle sait conduire avec un art consommé" (Miss Lai[s]né has a voice of delicious purity, which she knows to use with consummate art.), page 3.
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" > What sets The Nightingales of Troy apart from so many other precocious debut > collections is Fulton's knack for the ineffable, for creating stories that > are more than the sum of their intricately assembled parts. Her best stories > not only exhibit her architectural prowess, they also remind the reader of > the near-magical capaciousness of the story form. Donna Seaman notes that "Fulton displays extraordinary verve in the originality of the predicaments she creates for her irresistible characters, her evocation of the majesty of the land and the rise and decline of the town, and her ravishingly inventive language" and that she draws "brilliantly on the vernacular and ambience of each decade.""Fulton's prose thrives on the tactile, and, as in her poetry, the language is brilliantly precise.
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Saylor, p. 163 The only work that the composer designated as an opera is the comedy Sir John in Love (1924–1928). It is based on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. Folk song is used, though more discreetly than in Hugh the Drover, and the score is described by Saylor as "ravishingly tuneful".Saylor, p. 159 Although versions of the play had already been set by Nicolai, Verdi, and Holst, Vaughan Williams's is distinctive for its greater emphasis on the love music rather than on the robust comedy.Kennedy (1980), p. 218 In 1931, with the Leith Hill Festival in mind, the composer recast some of the music as a five-section cantata, In Windsor Forest, giving the public "the plums and no cake", as he put it.
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