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"sweetness and light" Definitions
  1. extreme or excessive pleasantness or amiability.
  2. decorous charm combined with intelligence.
"sweetness and light" Synonyms
friendliness harmony peace amiability concord hearts-and-flowers love and peace pleasantness geniality affability agreeableness cordiality warmth cheerfulness conviviality sociability kindliness good humour(UK) amenity agreeability
"sweetness and light" Antonyms
unpleasantness

103 Sentences With "sweetness and light"

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Once they get what they want, they're all sweetness and light.
Now, surprisingly sweetness and light seem to have replaced war talk.
But that didn't mean all was sweetness and light for China's banks.
So the age of homebrew AI may not be all sweetness and light.
"Something that would bring sweetness and light into the world," adds Reedus, 47.
Britain stands in more need of sweetness and light than it has for decades.
In Japan the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, intends everything to be sweetness and light.
" In the 1920s, Ernest Hemingway characterized Little Women as full of "sweetness and light.
To be sure, not every interaction with government can be all sweetness and light.
Yet sweetness and light are in precious short supply (indeed, the very phrase provokes sniggers).
Britain has a great ability to churn out people who can spread sweetness and light.
"In no way am I suggesting that A.I. is all sweetness and light," Mr. Siebel said.
She has learned, too, that fishing is more than sweetness and light and Zen-like acceptance.
Fairies are not all sweetness and light, they have this nasty or cruel side in historical accounts.
It's an intriguing setting that deserves its own HBO series, but it's not all sweetness and light.
Mainly, she seems to be all sweetness and light, but her mood can swing at any time.
However, to say that everything has been sweetness and light in the Trump foreign policy shop would be premature.
Yes, right away the movie dispenses with the sweetness and light and lyricism of the books by Beatrix Potter.
The assumption is that people will be able to focus on higher pursuits and all will be sweetness and light.
Maybe the role of unexpectedly black foods is to disrupt the everyday, to remind us that not everything is sweetness and light.
And it was because when we started, 4AD put out a mini-album [Scar], an EP [Mad Love] and a single ["Sweetness and Light"].
Harris), and his unseen wife, Halie (Amy Madigan, doing sweetness-and-light turning bitter) is the usual quarrelsome banter of a long-married couple.
On the Runway Maybe Clare Waight Keller, the first female artistic director of Givenchy, isn't as much about sweetness and light as everyone was expecting.
For those buttoning up their calicos in the 21st century, rather than the 19th, they know that docile sweetness and light still has plenty of grit.
And I don't know about you, but in these apocalyptic times – both onscreen and off – a bit of that sweetness and light is just what I need. 
Also unwelcome would be the public tongue-lashings Mr Xi might face from an American president who is currently all sweetness and light in his personal expressions towards China's leader.
Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon said GOP leadership shouldn't expect "sweetness and light" from the rest of the Republican Party if they don't get behind President Trump's agenda.
"If the Republican Party on Capitol Hill gets behind the president on his plans and not theirs, it will all be sweetness and light, be one big happy family," Bannon told the Post.
They'd been on a mission to find teddy bears, and restore some sweetness and light in a sick kid's life, a sick kid who's spent his entire time on earth probably terrified of robot killer dogs.
But while Coco brings a lot of sweetness and light with it (and, undoubtedly, a lot of happy tears), not one story beat includes something to startle the adults in the audience into realizing something new.
High culture pulls society together by popularising the "best that has been thought and known in the world" and thereby encouraging everyone, regardless of their social background, to live together in an "atmosphere of sweetness and light".
On his first day as chief executive of Germany's largest bank on July 1, John Cryan warned employees not to expect only "sweetness and light in the coming months", adding that they must repair a reputation damaged by misconduct.
Mourinho's protestations of sweetness and light convinced few after a season in which the pair's verbal flak has been the overriding soundtrack to another campaign in which Mourinho, once seen as the master man manager, has again failed to coax the best from Pogba on a consistent basis.
On the fringes of the UN General Assembly in New York, Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign minister, who in the summer had hectored his South Korean counterpart, Kang Kyung-wha, was suddenly all sweetness and light, making it clear to her that China wanted to resume cordial relations.
Forget what you know about heady, seductive musks: This take on the classic note weaves in components better associated with sweetness and light, like white orchid, jasmine petals, and pink lotus, over an earthy base of patchouli, white cedarwood, and liquid musks, which give it an airiness that smells like your skin, but better.
In Germany, Austria, Croatia and surrounding countries, a guy dressed as Krampus will roam the streets terrifying children and reminding them that with the sweetness and light of Christmas comes an equal and opposite force of darkness and evil, and if you're a naughty little girl or boy, Krampus will cart you off AND EAT YOU. Bye!
Little Women is, in fact, propelled less by its sweetness and light than it is by its internal frisson: between Marmee's placidity and her declaration of anger, between the family's love of their father and his infuriating uselessness, between the novel's embrace of the values of sentimental womanhood and their clear association with death and abjection.
When President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE and Russian President Vladimir Putin emerged from their summit talks, both men exuded an all-is-sweetness and light mien.
The statement from North Korean Vice Minister Kim Kye Gwan blasted the Trump administration in over-the-top terms ("ridiculous comedy") and suggested the North might "no longer be no longer be interested in ... dialogue" with the US. The obvious question: Why is North Korea, which had been all sweetness and light for the past several months of negotiations, all of a sudden saying it might back out of the talks?
The novel's tense moments are offset by long passages of sweetness and light. Or: Fred was all sweetness and light around his ex-wife.
During the 20th and 21st centuries, the phrase "sweetness and light" has more typically been used, not in Arnold's sense, but more mundanely, to indicate merely a friendly demeanor or a pleasant situation. Bob's close friends knew he wasn't all sweetness and light. Or: Our time at the opera was all sweetness and light. The phrase is often used ironically to denote unexpected or insincere pleasantness.
Sweetness and Light was released on 15 October 1990 on 4AD in the United Kingdom. Featuring "Sweetness and Light", "Sunbathing" and "Breeze", it was issued as a 12-inch and CD and was later made available as a digital download. The EP's title track was also released as Lush's first single, pressed as both a 7-inch and cassette single. For the single release, "Sunbathing" was omitted from the track listing and a shortened version of "Sweetness and Light" was used for the 7-inch's A-side.
According to Anderson, Friese-Greene changed the original drum tracks to "Sweetness and Light", as well making several edits to the song's overall structure.
"Sweetness and Light" is regarded as one of Lush's signature songs. It is less "heavy" than the band's earlier post-punk-oriented material and has a "looser, lighter air" in its composition and production. Stylistically, "Sweetness and Light" is a dream pop song featuring elements of shoegazing music. Described as a "pure pop song", it uses feedback and several effects units on Anderson and Berenyi's guitar tracks.
Sweetness and Light is the second extended play by the English alternative rock band Lush. It was released on 15 October 1990 on 4AD. Featuring a less abrasive sound than the band's earlier releases, the title track was also released as Lush's first single and included the B-side "Breeze". Tim Friese- Greene produced Sweetness and Light over a six-week period at the Greenhouse and Wessex Sound Studios in London.
In 1977, architectural historian Mark Girouard used the title Sweetness and Light: The "Queen Anne" Movement, 1860–1900, for his book chronicling the comfortably eclectic architectural style of the middle-class brick country houses that late-nineteenth-century British artists and writers built for themselves. Here "sweetness and light" implied that taste and beauty need not be restricted only to the wealthy aristocracy but could benefit all classes of society.
Later writers, notably Matthew Arnold used the phrase "sweetness and light", to designate the positive effects of a (predominantly classical) humanistic culture in arts and letters (without Swift's emphasis on originality versus imitation).
Paul Taylor writes in The Independent that McEwan, whose early novels concerned "dark and deviant" material, was "too strenuously engaged in keeping the sweetness-and-light levels high".Taylor, Paul. "Vanishing cream: 'The Daydreamer'".
Similar messages were hidden on the vinyl pressings of Scar and Mad Love. A promotional music video for "Sweetness and Light" was released in 1990. At the time of its release, the video received acclaim.
The Allmusic review by Tony Wilds said "Whether Rainy Day is best saved for one remains in doubt, but at least the concept balances the many mod albums selling nothing but "Madison Avenue"'s sweetness-and-light".
It is considered to be McEwan's first book for children, or second if taking into account the picture book Rose Blanche (1985). Critics praised McEwan's imagination, but noted that the book had high "sweetness-and-light levels".
A promotional single, featuring both edits of the song, was released to radio in the United States to support the release of the compilation album Gala in December. Upon its release, Sweetness and Light entered in the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 47 in its first week of release. The title song was a considerable independent success in the US, receiving heavy radio airplay and peaking at No. 4 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart as a result. Critical reception to Sweetness and Light was mixed.
Melody Maker considered the single "sorely over-produced", while NMEs Terry Staunton considered the EP "glorious" and "pure Lush". A 13-date headlining British tour was announced in support of Sweetness and Light, featuring support from Faith over Reason. The tour began on 21 October 1990 at Zap Club in Brighton and concluded on 5 November at the Town & Country Club in London. On the tour, "Sweetness and Light" became a fan favourite and a staple of Lush's setlists for the subsequent 1990 tours in both the US and Japan.
A gunfight ensues, in which the hoodlums are killed, and Menlo reappears just in time to prevent Bannon from killing Jackpot. All ends in sweetness and light, with a fight scene between the two original partners which throws back (or forward) to "Gilligan's Island".
The film was very popular at the box office.Churchill, Douglas W. The Year in Hollywood: 1934 May Be Remembered as the Beginning of the Sweetness-and-Light Era (gate locked); New York Times [New York, N.Y] 30 Dec 1934: X5. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
The film was a success at the box office.Churchill, Douglas W. The Year in Hollywood: 1934 May Be Remembered as the Beginning of the Sweetness-and-Light Era (gate locked); New York Times [New York, N.Y] 30 Dec 1934: X5. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
Both Berenyi's lead vocal and Anderson's backing vocal (which drew comparisons to Bilinda Butcher of My Bloody Valentine) are mixed low and obscured. According to NME writer Steve Lamacq, the vocals were "half-hidden" as they were symbolic of the band's "withdrawn" approach towards pop music and their "reluctance to become a "blatant" part of the current 'indie' rush to the charts." Drummer Chris Acland (pictured in 1994) performed "Sweetness and Light" in a style reminiscent of Madchester music. "Sweetness and Light"s drum and bass instrumentation—performed by Chris Acland and Steve Rippon respectively—are arranged in a Madchester style and drew comparison to the Stone Roses.
Now and Forever was released on August 31, 1934. It was popular at the box office.Churchill, Douglas W. The Year in Hollywood: 1934 May Be Remembered as the Beginning of the Sweetness-and-Light Era (gate locked); New York Times [New York, N.Y] 30 Dec 1934: X5. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
This film was successful at the box office.Churchill, Douglas W. The Year in Hollywood: 1934 May Be Remembered as the Beginning of the Sweetness-and-Light Era (gate locked); The New York Times [New York, N.Y] 30 Dec 1934: X5. Retrieved December 16, 2013. In 1936, David Harum became a radio serial, which was broadcast until 1951.
Sugar Coated is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Michèle Hozer and released in 2015."Sugar Coated is not all sweetness and light; Documentary blames sugar industry for many of our health problems". Montreal Gazette, August 21, 2015. The film explores the impact on human health of the heavy use of sugar in the contemporary diet.
He can also be selfish." He also stated that "[Al]'s certainly got his flaws and is quite edgy at times. He's not all sweetness and light." Croasdell went on to say that "he's a bit of a surfer [and] I think he slightly resents being back for those reasons because he's quite outdoorsy, but his mum comes first.
My first real success, the turn of the tide, came right after I fell in love with her. Then I formed my own production company and we sold The Rebel."Kathleen Post, TV Radio Mirror, July 1961, Vol 56 No 2 p.66. However, in the same interview Nugent said, "Let's not overdo the sweetness and light.
This is very encouraging except now we stand naked in judgement. It > has to be really good with two to three million dollars invested. The last > version, with Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff and Merle Oberon as Cathy, > portrayed him as a regular nice guy and her as sweetness and light. That was > not the truth and Hollywood now goes in for the truth.
Kellman noted how the material on Gala was a direct influence on Chapterhouse and (though he criticised the production on the tracks from Mad Love and Sweetness and Light) concluded that Gala was "one of the band's career highlights". In 2016, Pitchfork ranked the album at No. 8 on its list of "The 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time".
Writing for The Spectator in 1935, Graham Greene praised the film for having toned down "the pious note" of the original play, and noted that to his surprise he had enjoyed it. He criticized director Viertel, however, for the film's difficulty in portraying the moments of "sweetness and light" with equal truth and realism. (reprinted in: ) The film was voted the fourth best British movie of 1936.
The Hartford Courant wrote: > Hello Sister is a typical James Dunn picture, full of sweetness and light > and young romance. … James Dunn gives his usual ingratiating performance and > Miss Mallory is delightful. ZaSu Pitts competently handles the comedy > relief, and Terrance Ray is about as disagreeable a villain as one can > conceive. Minna Gombell is excellent as the girl whose morals aren't proof > against diamonds.
The film was very successful at the box office.Churchill, Douglas W. The Year in Hollywood: 1934 May Be Remembered as the Beginning of the Sweetness-and-Light Era (gate locked); New York Times [New York, NY], December 30, 1934, page X5; retrieved December 16, 2013. According to MGM records, it earned $890,000 in the US and Canada, and $565,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $784,000.
The cleaned fish flesh is boiled in water mixed in spices, including tamarind juice, garlic, shallot, ginger, turmeric, lemongrass, galangal, chili pepper, daun salam (Indonesian bayleaf), citrus leaf, shrimp paste, palm sugar and salt. The soup usually also contains pieces of chili pepper, tomato, cucumber, lemon basil and pineapple. This soupy dish has a pronounced sourness with a hint of mild sweetness and light hot spicyness.
Helen in "Helen, the Authoress". Andy and Helen have many pleasant social outings: they attend dances, picnic at Myers Lake, and double date with others (usually Barney Fife and Thelma Lou). Their relationship however, is not one of complete sweetness and light. The two have frequent disagreements, sudden jealousies (particularly on Helen's part, most often needlessly so), misunderstandings (also mainly on Helen's part) and lover's quarrels.
Brother Sun, Sister Moon received mixed reviews on its release. Roger Ebert harshly criticized the film, writing that it had "an excess of sweetness and light", and that its dialogue consisted of "empty, pretty phrasing". The New York Times reviewer Vincent Canby similarly wrote that the film "confuses simplicity with simple-mindedness". Canby contrasted it negatively with The Flowers of St. Francis, a 1950 film on the same subject.
Daugherty claimed credit for persuading Harding to run, "I found him like a turtle sunning himself on a log, and I pushed him into the water." According to Harding biographer Randolph Downes, "he put on a campaign of such sweetness and light as would have won the plaudits of the angels. It was calculated to offend nobody except Democrats." Although Harding did not attack Foraker, his supporters had no such scruples.
P. G. Wodehouse, esteemed humorous writer employed the phrase often, sometimes with a slight nod to the phrase's dual-edge. Originally, however, "sweetness and light" had a special use in literary and cultural criticism meaning "pleasing and instructive", which in classical theory was considered to be the aim and justification of poetry.English for dulce et utile (literally "sweet and useful") from Horace's Ars Poetica (18 B.C.E.) Jonathan Swift first used the phrase in his mock-heroic prose satire, "The Battle of the Books" (1704), a defense of Classical learning, which he published as a prolegomenon to his A Tale of a Tub. It gained widespread currency in the Victorian era, when English poet and essayist Matthew Arnold picked it up as the title of the first section of his 1869 book Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism, where "sweetness and light" stands for beauty and intelligence, the two key components of an excellent culture.
233 his success led many commentators to suppose that fast leg theory would thenceforth prove ineffective. The series was tied 1–1 and, in the words of the writer-historian Ronald Blythe, "all was sweetness and light".Blythe, p. 142 Leslie Ames, is centre picture; Jardine is third from right The third Test, which began at Adelaide on 13 January 1933, has been characterised by Wisden as "probably the most unpleasant [Test match] ever played".
In 1991, Mac formed a side-project, Itch-E and Scratch-E, with fellow Sydney-based electronica artist, Andy Rantzen of the group, Pelican Daughters. Both provided keyboards and samplers. Itch-E and Scratch-E became their main focus with the success of their debut album, Itch-E Kitch-E Koo (1993), and its related single, "Sweetness and Light" (1994). At the ARIA Music Awards of 1995 the single won Best Dance Release.
Sweetness and light. Houghton Mifflin Company. In Culture and Anarchy, Arnold identifies himself as a Liberal and "a believer in culture" and takes up what historian Richard Bellamy calls the "broadly Gladstonian effort to transform the Liberal Party into a vehicle of political moralism." Arnold viewed with skepticism the plutocratic grasping in socioeconomic affairs, and engaged the questions which vexed many Victorian liberals on the nature of power and the state's role in moral guidance.
The recording sessions took considerably longer than Lush's previous sessions with Robin Guthrie and John Fryer, but resulted in a more atmospheric dream pop sound. Sweetness and Light received mixed reviews upon release, but led to Lush's first major headlining national tour and placed in the national charts. The single was particularly successful in the United States, where it placed at No. 4 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and received heavy rotation on radio.
Sweetness and Lights packaging was commissioned by 4AD. Vaughan Oliver, who had designed the album sleeves for Scar and Mad Love, was head of direction and designed Sweetness and Lights artwork. The artwork features photography by Jim Friedman. The run-out matrix codes on the groove of the 12-inch record pressing of Sweetness and Light included two obscure messages: "Cool, fresh, milk float" on side 1 and "What's hiding under the sheets?" on side 2.
Lush were signed to Reprise Records on a licensing and distribution deal in the US a week after the release of Sweetness and Light, and the EP was reissued as part of Gala in November 1990. A remastered version of the title track was included on Ciao! Best of Lush, a compilation album released in March 2001, and the song was made available as downloadable content for the Rock Band video game series in July 2009.
No Greater Glory is a 1934 American Pre-Code allegorical anti-war film directed by Frank Borzage and based on the novel A Pál utcai fiúk by Ferenc Molnár, known in English as "The Boys of Paul Street." The film's box office performance was described as "dismal".Churchill, Douglas W. "The Year in Hollywood: 1934 May Be Remembered as the Beginning of the Sweetness-and-Light Era", New York Times [New York, NY], December 30, 1934: p. X5; retrieved December 16, 2013.
This scene was inspired by the cover of the "Sweetness and Light" issue of National Lampoon magazine. The staff thought that Cary Grant would have been ideal for the pig in Homer's dream sequence, but he died nine years before the episode was made, so they used cast member Hank Azaria for that voice. Joan Kenley guest starred in the episode as the telephone lady. The staff flew her down from Northern California to record her part for the episode.
At the 1988 ceremony a fracas developed between band manager, Gary Morris, accepting awards for Midnight Oil, and former Countdown compere, Ian "Molly" Meldrum, who was presenting. They conflicted over visiting United Kingdom artist, Bryan Ferry, who had also presented an award. Morris objected to Ferry's presence and insulted him, Meldrum defended Ferry and then scuffled with Morris. In 1995 electronic music group, Itch-E and Scratch-E, won the inaugural award for "Best Dance Release" for their single, "Sweetness and Light".
In contrast to her arch-rival Hedda Hopper, who was notorious for her column's crass tone, Parsons' writing style was often described as "sweetness and light" or "gooey". She received criticism for her casual chatty tone and casual regard for dates and places. She countered that "the best gossip" is informal and that the speed at which she needed to complete her daily column did not allow for much rewriting or polishing. She stated that she would rather get the word out than potentially disappoint her readers.
Sweetness and light is an English idiom that can be used in common speech, either as statement of personal happy consciousness, (though this may be viewed by natives as being a trifle in earnest) or as literal report on another person. Depending upon sense-of-humour, some may use the phrase with mild irony. For example: The two had been fighting for a month, but around others it was all sweetness and light.Christine Ammer, The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997).
When the run of the play was over I hated the idea of parting from the musicians and so formed "Ceoltóirí Chualann", of which, during the few years we have been functioning Sonny was a mainstay. I would not suggest for a moment that our association was all sweetness and light. Many the argument we had – it is well known that musicians argue more fiercely about traditional music than about anything else. However, we always saw eye to eye in the finish and each argument served only to make us better friends.
The film was the biggest hit of the year for Twentieth Century Pictures.Douglas W. Churchill, 'The Year in Hollywood: 1934 May Be Remembered as the Beginning of the Sweetness-and-Light Era', The New York Times, December 30, 1934: X5 The film was one of United Artists most popular films of the year. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. A scene from The House of Rothschild was used in the German antisemitic propaganda film The Eternal Jew (1940) without the permission of the copyright holders.
Trees, hedges, and planting > add considerably to the setting of the houses and are in the spirit of the > 'Sweetness and Light' philosophy behind the Queen Anne style. In general the > architecture of Stroud Green remains intact and has survived the damaging > changes that have eroded the character of other neighbourhoods in the > borough, e.g. replacement windows, loss of boundary walls, unsympathetic > cladding &c.; It is a unique example of a small area exhibiting the full > range of domestic building styles from around 1870 to the end of the 19th > century.
The Daily Telegraph commented, "For years, the Opera House was a byword for mismanagement and chaos. Its innermost workings were exposed to public ridicule by the BBC fly-on-the-wall series The House".Thomas, David. "All's well in Tony's house – Where chaos and darkness once reigned, all now seems sweetness and light – and profit". The Daily Telegraph, 29 August 2004 In 1995, The Royal Opera announced a "Verdi Festival", of which the driving force was the company's leading Verdian, Sir Edward Downes, by now returned from Australia.
He was led on from literary criticism to a more general critique of the spirit of his age. Between 1867 and 1869 he wrote Culture and Anarchy, famous for the term he popularised for the middle class of the English Victorian era population: "Philistines", a word which derives its modern cultural meaning (in English – the German- language usage was well established) from him. Culture and Anarchy is also famous for its popularisation of the phrase "sweetness and light," first coined by Jonathan Swift.The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition.
The band began to fragment in the early 90s. The last Wrong Kind of Stone Age performances were in 1991, with a hard-edged instrumental dub set, performed by Gavin Williams (guitar, rhythms, percussion), Drew Mayson (guitar), Andy Lonsdale (synthesizer, tapes, mixing). Miriam Williamson recorded with Pelican Daughters, and Itch-e & Scratch-e (formed by Andy Rantzen and Paul Mac), in the early 1990s; she is creating new material as Princess Universe. Itch-e & Scratch-e, with Miriam, won an Aria award for their track Sweetness and Light (Itch-E & Scratch-E, Itch-E Kitch-E Koo, Second Nature/Volition, 1993).
He extolled his own mystical interpretation of the religion as the most true, deeming it superior to others. However, one of Cochrane's friends, "Taliesin", also produced an article for the newsletter in which he claimed to be a member of a Goddess- focused hereditary tradition based in the West Country. In several articles published between May and December he extolled his own tradition and scornfully criticised others. In one of these articles he criticised Valiente's speech at the WRA dinner as exemplifying "the Gardnerian atmosphere of sweetness and light coupled with good clean fun under the auspices of a Universal Auntie".
An art book entitled Sweetness and Light has also been published, containing the best art featured in the Pelican from its founding until 1943, as well as photographs of the University of California from 1868 to 1943. Copies of the magazine appear frequently on eBay with most of them in very good condition. A magazine titled "The Pelican" with a subtitle "Magic, Myth and Religion" was purchased on eBay and states that it is Volume 81 Number 2. This magazine states that the editorial and business offices were in the Pelican building on the UC Berkeley Campus.
The band were unfamiliar with his work—though Anderson and Berenyi purchased copies of Talk Talk albums just prior to the initial recording sessions—while Friese-Greene was already a fan of Lush. Sweetness and Light was recorded at the Greenhouse, a mid-range studio in London, in August 1990 with Friese-Greene and engineer Ed Buller. The sessions were unusually long for Lush; overall production was done over a six-week period, with mixing completed at Wessex Sound Studios. Greene's approach was considered as "enthusiastic" by Berenyi, and Anderson regarded his techniques as significantly different than Mad Love producer Guthrie and Scar producer Fryer.
Although McKelway found it "hard to accept Miss Shearer in her role", he called it "sensibly handled from beginning to end, and every now and then Mr. Laughton creates moments as effective, I think, as any you have seen on the screen." The Barretts of Wimpole Street topped the Film Daily year-end poll of 424 critics as the best film of 1934. The film was also a big hit at the box office.Churchill, Douglas W. "The Year in Hollywood; 1934 May Be Remembered as the Beginning of the Sweetness-and-Light Era", archives [subscribed access], The New York Times, December 30, 1934: X5.
It was recorded at two Sydney studios, The Lab and Masking Tapes, with Mac and Rantzen as producers. Kristian Hatton of Haarp Media, in July 2015, listed the album as one of his Top 100 Albums in Niche Electronic Music, and explained "[it] showed that electronic music in our country – although always influenced by America and Europe – could gain attention from a mainstream audience despite being from the underground." The lead single from the album, "Sweetness and Light", was released in May 1994, and was co-written with Justin Brandis (of Pelican Daughters). It became their best-known work, and peaked at #65 on the ARIA Singles Chart.
" Jim Farber of Daily News noted that "Cole's assertions of sweetness and light hardly prove as seamless, or simple, as her songs declare". He declared that "her makeover feels less like a day at the spa than a night at the shrink," going on to say that "instead of seeming harrowing or dark", the album's result is "soulful and fulfilling". Ken Capobiano from The Boston Globe said, "On her first two records, good grooves and great singing were matched by her healthy arrogance and fire. Here she's reining in some of the 'tude, and, along with her star producers, showing a sweeter and supremely sexy side [...] Cole emphatically dares to be different—and pretty great.
Gala was compiled by Lush's record label, 4AD, as an introduction to the United States and Japanese markets. The album features the band's debut mini album Scar (1989) and Mad Love and Sweetness and Light extended plays (1990) in reverse chronological order. A cover version of ABBAs 1975 song "Hey Hey Helen"—which had been recorded for an abandoned anti-poll tax compilation—was included, as well as a rerecording of Scar song "Scarlet" that had been previously released on the Melody Maker compilation Gigantic! 2 in March 1990. Gala was released on 13 November 1990 on 4AD/Reprise in the US and on 21 November on 4AD/Nippon Columbia in Japan.
Harvey Mason's straight up funky soul number "Love Makes It Better," takes the set out on a high note, with gorgeous guitar vamps by Gale, the three-horn line playing a sparse but pronounced melody line, and Grusin filling the middle with enough sweetness and light to offer the drums and percussion room to really pop. Washington's tenor solo is sophisticated and tasteful; its emotion ratchets up the dynamic in the entire tune. The bottom line on A Secret Place is that while the set did well commercially, it got nowhere near the critical praise of its predecessors. That's a shame, because it is a truly fine album whose grooves and pleasures stand the test of time easily.
In 19th-century England, highlighting the distinction between Hellenism ("Athens"/reason or "sweetness and light") and Hebraism ("Jerusalem"/faith), Matthew Arnold defended the ancients (most notably Plato and Aristotle) against the dominant progressive intellectual trends of his times. Arnold drew attention to the fact that the great divide between ancients and modernists pertained to the understanding of the relation between liberty/reason and authority. Countering the thrust of much of 20th-century intellectual history and literary criticism, Leo Strauss has contended that the debate between ancients and moderns (or the defenders of either camp) is ill understood when reduced to questions of progress or regress. Strauss himself revived the old "querelle," siding with the ancients (against the modernist position advocated, e.g.
Karloff was third billed in the Twentieth Century Pictures historical film The House of Rothschild (1934) with George Arliss, which was highly popular.Douglas W. Churchill, 'The Year in Hollywood: 1984 May Be Remembered as the Beginning of the Sweetness-and-Light Era', The New York Times, 30 December 1934: X5 Horror, however, had now become Karloff's primary genre, and he gave a string of lauded performances in Universal's horror films, including several with Bela Lugosi, his main rival as heir to Lon Chaney's status as the leading horror film star. While the long-standing, creative partnership between Karloff and Lugosi never led to a close friendship, it produced some of the actors' most revered and enduring productions, beginning with The Black Cat (1934) and continuing with Gift of Gab (1934), in which both had cameos.
In The New York Times, Caryn James wrote that although Švankmajer "strips away all sweetness and light, he does not violate Lewis Carroll's story", and called Alice an "extraordinary film [which] explores the story's dark undercurrents". James described the animation as "remarkably fluid" and held forward the dynamics of the film, which contrasts visually captivating elements with superficiality: "Mr. Švankmajer never lets us forget we are watching a film in which an actress plays Alice telling a story", although, "with its extreme close-ups, its constant motion and its smooth animation, the film is so visually active that it distracts us from a heavy- handed fact - this is a world of symbols come alive." Upon the British home- media release in 2011, Philip Horne reviewed the film for The Daily Telegraph.
Music critics like John Bush of All Music Guide and Andy Gill of The Independent labeled it as one of the album's best tracks. Ann Powers wrote a positive review about "I Gotta Feeling", noting that "the Peas do let in some human sweetness and light" on the song and that it uses "a repetitive, warm vocal line to signify a good mood coming on." Ben Westhoff of Las Vegas Weekly dismissed the song as a blend of house, electro and dancehall beats that do not work compared to songs on The E.N.D like "Imma Be" and "One Tribe". Mike Schiller, a writer for PopMatters, found the song to be irresistible, writing that it "is one of those dance tunes that's impossible to hate thanks to something like good natured naïveté".
The Victorian poet and essayist Matthew Arnold, who was also an inspector of schools, popularized Swift's phrase as the theme and title of the first chapter of his celebrated book of cultural criticism, Culture and Anarchy. Arnold contends that the most valuable aspect of civilization is its ability to confer "sweetness and light," and he contrasts this to the moralism, hatred, and fanaticism of some of the would-be educators and materialistic improvers of mankind. For Arnold, sweetness is beauty, and light is intelligence – and together they make up "the essential character of human perfection," which had its fullest development, he believed, among the ancient Greeks."Indeed, the Greeks (albeit very selectively characterized) are the unacknowledged heroes of Culture and Anarchy", Stefan Collini, introduction to Culture and Anarchy and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Matthew Arnold, Stefan Collini, editor (Cambridge University Press, 1993) p. xx.
She was not exactly my idea of sweetness and light. It didn’t concern me that she lacked the good looks of dad’s past wives and girlfriends, but those innocent eyes, certainly her strongest feature, didn’t deceive me”. Michael Sellers also bluntly acknowledged his intentional hostility and lack of respect towards Lynne when they first met: “I’m afraid we weren’t very kind in our judgement of Lynne. Sarah thought she wasn’t too bright. But our views didn’t really count for much. Because whatever our opinions, they would be of purely academic interest”. Months after Frederick's death in 1994, Victoria remarked “I feel now that she’s in hell - I don’t know but that makes me feel better.” When she made the film Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), the director, Franklin J. Schaffner, arranged for Lynne and her co-stars (Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderick Noble, Ania Marson, Candace Glendenning, and Fiona Fullerton) to live together as a family during the nine month production period, as to add more authenticity to their performances.

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