| 单词 | grandeur |
| 例句 | The contrast of this laughing, luxuriant beauty with the clear-cut, austere grandeur all around arrests the attention sharply. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In Charles’s view of the world, death looked very different, but he found meaning and grandeur in that view. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’ve got to swallow it,” Milo ordained with dictatorial grandeur, and almost broke his neck when he let go with one arm to wave a righteous finger in the air. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Like Davos, the king was plainly garbed in wool and boiled leather, though the circlet of red gold about his temples lent him a certain grandeur. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His august head of a tormented emperor had acquired a strange air of grandeur. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Regulus’s bedroom was slightly smaller than Sirius’s, though it had the same sense of former grandeur. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Rousseau’s disparagement of the English as “a nation of shopkeepers” persists as a belief that a concern with numbers and details numbs one to the big questions, to the grandeur of nature. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The result was that Tod’s Weep workshop surpassed his Syriza office in grandeur, though he did indeed spend most of his time at the drafting table in the corner. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The last sentence now read, “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet there had once been a beauty and grandeur about this place. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Seven decades later, when Pizarro held his victory celebration in Qosqo, it was equal in grandeur to any city in Europe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Ever since single-handedly remodeling our kitchen, Dad has had delusions of plumbing grandeur. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z There was something pathetic about their grandeur, as if they were dressed for a charade but not quite fitted. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z For sheer grandeur, scale, and intimidation value, I doubt if any corporate orientation exceeds that of Wal-Mart. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A caterer served food as music blared over stereo speakers and people remarked on the tasteful grandeur of the house. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In its day its grandeur would have overwhelmed the visitor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The grandeur of the ornate glass structure, built in the Beaux Arts style in the early twentieth century, makes one think it must have at one point been a playground for royalty. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z There was nothing about the grandeur of Ashton Place that Penelope thought could fairly be called “rustic,” but she kept that opinion, along with several others, to herself. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z It was not innocence or delusions of grandeur. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In Rutherford’s time, the Cavendish reveled in its tatty grandeur, the epitome of small science in an institutional setting. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There has never been a collection of hotels of comparable grandeur anywhere, certainly not in a mountain setting. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Above and ahead of them the Aurora was blazing, with more brilliance and grandeur than she had ever seen. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z A touch of the poetic, better suited to the grandeur that Dawkins seeks to invoke than a colorless adjective like massive or enormous. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They relieved the tiresomeness of poverty, gave grandeur to the dead rooms. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet here was a scattered grove of trees, none of them of any particular grandeur. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He oscillated hourly between anguish and exhilaration, multiplying fantastically the grandeur of his victories and exaggerating tragically the seriousness of his defeats. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “The Corcorans have delusions of grandeur. The problem is, they lack the money to back them up. No doubt they think it very aristocratic and grand, farming their sons off on other people.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z How maddening it was to have been bom in a cotton field with aspirations of grandeur. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a seedy grandeur about the man. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Throwing a bag of spaghetti had a simplicity to it, a recklessness, a careless grandeur. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Even in dim torchlight, the grandeur of the place amazed me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Indeed there is not much to come for, except grandeur. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless the somber grandeur of the stories comes through in spite of the style. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z And again, he stopped often simply to absorb by osmosis the immense grandeur, loneliness, majesty, and both frail and cruel beauty of his surroundings. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The White City was a symbol of America’s grandeur. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She didn’t have a study room or a sunroom, just a room, and even she knew that her room was really more like a closet with delusions of grandeur. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I was sitting in Psychology 101 when the professor read the symptoms aloud from the overhead screen: depression, mania, paranoia, euphoria, delusions of grandeur and persecution. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z To this day, the race, Doggett’s Coat and Badge, is still rowed on the Thames each July amid much ceremony and grandeur. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In between revolutions, communes, epidemics and wars, Paris was the Vegas of the nineteenth century, and the grandeur of its opera productions stood at the pinnacle of a glittering high-society scene. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The boys were stunned by the size and grandeur of the West End after their background in a one-room country school. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z No one seemed to notice the car after its abandonment by Ansley Matthews; no one seemed to notice the modest solitaire of Ben in his fall from the grandeur of courting cheerleaders. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a grandeur about the day, about the colossal, barely stirring beeches and oaks, and the light that dropped like jewels through the fresh foliage to make pools among last years dead leaves. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z As I contemplated all this grandeur, an enormous motorcar rumbled through the western gate and the men sitting in the shade immediately arose. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If we multiply by a hundred thousand our sense of loss for this work of Aristarchus, we begin to appreciate the grandeur of the achievement of classical civilization and the tragedy of its destruction. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She had to make a great effort not to throw at them their prissiness, their poverty of spirit, their delusions of grandeur. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “I’m not used to the grandeur of a Master’s lodging. You’ll have to show me which knife and fork to use.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It was the grandeur of the vehicle that disturbed him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z In addition, I would studiously avoid sitting near the middle class in lunch counters and on public transportation, maintaining the intrinsic honesty and grandeur of my being. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Gilded temples, restored to their former grandeur, gleamed in the desert sun. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z She used this trip to stage her comeback and to give her people a chance to experience her grandeur firsthand. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Compared with the soaring office towers surrounding it, it’s squatty but not without grandeur, featuring tall Corinthian columns out front and giant, echoing lobbies made primarily of marble. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It had never been planned; it had grown piecemeal, with past and present overlapping at every spot, and the final effect was one of jumbled and squalid grandeur. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z We got used to it, eventually, sort of—the strange grandeur of our new home and also the constant, quiet presence of others. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Greed, delusional visions of grandeur, the mercenary mercilessness that made every relationship expendable—Midland perfected all these long before they became the standard of the eighties around the rest of the country. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The elegance and grandeur of the theory, however, persuaded him that the observations must be in error, a conclusion drawn when the observations are unobliging by many other theorists in the history of science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He always fell into the grandeur of the High Language, when he was moved. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z If the outside of the Hema reflected what the old tent had once been, the interior clung to its former grandeur with a desperate grip. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In the first edition, Charles had ended the book: “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And for a moment he had wonderful delusions of grandeur. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Together he and his architects had conjured a dream city whose grandeur and beauty exceeded anything each singly could have imagined. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Everything appeared very stately and imposing to me; but then I was so little accustomed to grandeur. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A new grandeur attended his movements as he came through the door and Miyax squeezed his chin. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Barack and I continued to open the White House up to more people, most especially children, hoping to make its grandeur feel inclusive, mixing some liveliness into the formality and tradition. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Eleven winding steps lead to the second floor, which is full of the smells of faded grandeur: an old sewing room, a former maid’s room. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The craftmen’s workshops had glass roofs to let the sky in, while the painters survived in dark hovels that were a paradise of misery and grandeur. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Ishmael knew his father had come to logging with a romantic’s sense of grandeur, viewing it at first as grandly heroic, in keeping with the spirit of manifest destiny. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Rain and all, the entry into Montgomery had a grandeur that was almost biblical.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The scene before me was a hollow pretense of grandeur and gaiety. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But unlike Goddard, they held no delusions of grandeur. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Cleared at least to proceed into the city, the visitor would soon encounter a spectacle of urban grandeur widely celebrated in its time. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I thought if I just ignore them and their allusions of grandeur, then they’ll eventually forget about it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Each one tried to outdo the other, and they worked so hard and diligently at it that before long their cities rivaled even Wisdom in size and grandeur. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z In the distance, the imposing grandeur of the temple came into view. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Still, even in the earliest record Zeus had grandeur. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Today there is just one, the Mount Washington, still imposing and festive with its perky red roof but inescapably forlorn in its solitary grandeur. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The meal proceeded with a stateliness and underplayed grandeur. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I reached for some explanation and strange words came to mind, words I’d learned only minutes before: paranoia, mania, delusions of grandeur and persecution. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Never mind what is said or what you have been told. There is no grandeur in want—or in endurance.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z We watched in silence at the beauty and grandeur of the great fish. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Here and there pendulous clumps of green mistletoe leaves and pale white berries hung from the oak, seeming even more insignificant when seen next to the grandeur of the oak. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z But before the grandeur and intricacy of Nature, he was, like Ptolemy and Kepler, exhilarated as well as disarmingly modest. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Clarke hustled her directly to the drawing room in such a flurry of chatter Penelope barely had time to gape at the grandeur of the house’s vast interior. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z It seems to me that Montana is a great splash of grandeur. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Amaranta would sigh, laugh, and dream of a second homeland of handsome men and beautiful women who spoke a childlike language, with ancient cities of whose past grandeur only the cats among the rubble remained. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I saw two extraordinary novelties, grandeur competing with splendor and the populace striving to exceed their city. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z He knows it, and the knowledge gives him more reality than most people own: a solidness of being, a substantiality, a human grandeur. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z And a little of the courtly grandeur of Versailles goes a long way. Style: At Versailles, Rock 'N' Rococo 2011-07-11T13:01:16Z It’s a moment to breathe in the shadow of this bustling city’s ambitious development and grandeur. Heads Up: In Dubai, a View From the Burj Khalifa 2011-03-25T18:55:00Z Photographs of sinuous hills of the American northwest, and of Texan badlands and craggy fields in Scotland, resist heroic grandeur. Stephen Shore’s MoMA Survey Shows a Restless Reformer as a Master of Photography 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z He is on the small side, but he has grandeur. American Ballet Theater Steadies Itself for Its Next Act 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z Easier to track, and more enjoyable to take in, is the short work’s journey from Neo-Classical austerity to unruly grandeur. Review: A Conductor Unearths Rarities. Will People Listen? 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z There's a hefty grandeur to the panorama at the same time that there's a rushing sense of vertigo at its center. Take a plunge with Seattle photographer Peter de Lory in 'The Falls' at Lisa Harris Gallery 2011-01-20T22:26:09Z Other stretches are spooky and full of blurred, ruined grandeur. The Playlist: Katy Perry’s Limp Olympics Anthem and Justice’s Grooving Return 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z About 25 miles before Campeche, I stopped at Edzná, whose carefully reconstructed galleries, pyramids and open plazas rival Calakmul’s in grandeur. In Campeche, Pyramids Are Everywhere. Crowds Are Not 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z There he is, lurking with rotund grandeur at the very forefront of film greatness, like an over-zealous restaurant manager in a PG Wodehouse novel. What's wrong with Hitchcock's women 2010-10-21T20:30:00Z And despite gorgeous interiors and impressive backdrops, the show as a whole doesn’t have the sweep or grandeur that would let you overlook the glibness and superficiality of the script. Review: Helen Mirren Wears the Crown (This Time, Russia’s) 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z These little structures were intended to embody the gravitas associated with public libraries and also a whiff of grandeur. Why Libraries May Never Stop Being People Places 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z But the overall strategy was lean, eschewing grandeur, setting up the singers to succeed and then getting out of their way. Review | WNO’s new ‘Don Giovanni’ is a monster that feels timely without trying 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z The show was instrumental in shifting the popular landscape genre away from romanticized grandeur, typified by Ansel Adams, and toward matter-of-fact vernacular truth. Frank Gohlke photographs vernacular truths in 'Texas Memories' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z They bring the grandeur of high Modernist sculpture down to earth, from lofty, larger-than-life forms to something you might hold in your hands. With just with carved wood or terra cotta, one artist makes the miniature feel monumental 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z T's pick of the night was Taylor Swift in Donna Karan Atelier, whose eggplant dress simmered with the type of grandeur befitting a modern-day Grace Kelly or Veronica Lake. | The Golden Globes 2013-01-14T17:47:18Z The message was simultaneously terror and power, harshness and grandeur: “The palace of despair,” she called it in the even more aggressively distorted “Panoptikon,” released on her self-titled second album in 1984. Diamanda Galás Gives Voice to Unbearable Pain, Once More 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z When the hotel opened, it was heralded as the “Showplace of the Rockies,” and a century later, that grandeur still shines. Enjoying Glacier National Park’s quiet season 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Gilbert and his players captured the dark side of the spirited Scherzo and brought energy and grandeur to the finale. Review: Alan Gilbert Leads One Last Dance in Central Park 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z For example, early missionaries were fascinated with all the pomp and grandeur of Tibetan Buddhism; they compared it with Christianity, with Catholicism, and they felt that there must be some relationship between the religions. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z But the work’s trippy grandeur and over-the-top virtuosity come through no matter what. Review: Jaap van Zweden Returns to a Changed Philharmonic 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z But this is a ridiculous play that treats a delusional tycoon as if a figure of epic grandeur. Onassis ? review 2010-10-12T23:58:00Z Their radiating geometries of gold punctuated by orbs red, blue or black and white have a Pharaonic grandeur that can also evoke Hilma af Klint, Art Deco building lobbies and peacocks. At the Shed, Frieze II Takes Off 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Writing in the Times newspaper, commentator Matthew Bell said the grandeur of the wedding showed Prince Andrew’s desire to cement his family’s royal status. Holding their hats, guests arrive for 2018's second big UK royal... 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z The Aman is beautifully restored, without the rococo excess of most Venetian hotels; here, the interiors retain their heritage of grandeur, complemented by clean, modern furnishings. Roberto CoinVoice: How To Explore Venice Like A True Venetian 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z He was inspired by that city’s cathedral, whose grandeur is reflected in the solemnity of the fourth movement, colored with contrapuntal brass lines and given a majestic performance here. Music Review: Schumann and Zimmermann at Carnegie Hall 2010-03-22T21:20:00Z The full concerto cycle brings both player and listener from the sparkling Classicism of Beethoven’s early years to a seething grandeur on the cusp of Romanticism. Bronfman Braces for the Five Piano Concertos 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z The space itself, with its high, vaulted ceiling, felt almost like the nave of a country church, imbuing the proceedings with a rustic grandeur. | Rachel Comey’s Intimate Dinner to Kick Off Fashion Week 2013-09-05T16:35:41Z Although Rocky Mountain National Park’s popularity has only increased since its inception, there was a time when the Stanley Hotel’s grandeur diminished. Leaf-peeping and spooky vibes make Estes Park, Colo., a dynamic fall destination 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Shorn of the usual emoting, the music takes on a sense of immense and transcendent grandeur. As cutting edge as cutting edge gets 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z An hour later, Tere O’Connor unveiled the New York premiere of “Sister,” a deceptively simple duet for Cynthia Oliver and David Thomson that maintains an air of courtly grandeur. Two Sides of Contemporary Choreography at American Realness 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z But the BBC Symphony Chorus sang with great richness and splendour, and the fervour and grandeur of Belohlávek's conducting were remarkable. BBCSO/Belohl?vek | Classical review 2010-03-22T22:50:00Z The style balances many opposing tensions: grandeur and democratic sentiment; aspiration and retrospection; and here, abstraction and decoration. Exhibition Review: National Design That?s Hidden in Plain Sight 2011-06-13T22:41:43Z In bel canto works like “Norma,” the protagonist’s grandeur, the heights from which she falls, are established by the soprano’s vocal technique, by the long, confident musical lines she spins. Two Operas, Two Sopranos, Two Very Different Impacts 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z The door is imposing, although the grandeur of the house is difficult to judge. Pursuits: A Mystery Endures in Beijing’s Old Legation Quarter 2014-05-02T18:00:05Z What Grivas reveals is nothing less than the radical simplicity with which Godard creates moments of breathtaking grandeur. “Film Catastrophe”: The Making of a Godard Film that Anticipated a Real-Life Disaster 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z He captured the Beethovenian grandeur of the pensive slow movement and played the finale, a playful homage to a courtly minuet, with crisp articulation and high spirits. Music Review: The Russian Pianist Denis Kozhukhin at Zankel Hall 2010-06-27T21:08:00Z They kept the Wagnerian grandeur of the music, and when Bugs and Elmer start singing along with it, it’s absolutely side-splitting.” Wuvwy Music 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z The cool grandeur of Teresa Reichlen as the lead ballerina in “Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2” transformed the mood entirely, which is what you hope for in a night at City Ballet: variety. Review: ‘La Sylphide’ Is City Ballet’s Bittersweet Valentine 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z The “New Met” opened with the lavish premiere of Samuel Barber’s “Antony and Cleopatra,” tailored to Ms. Price’s radiant voice and prima donna grandeur. Leontyne Price, Legendary Diva, Is a Movie Star at 90 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z In Roksanda’s mix of utility sportswear and graphic grandeur, with giant opera puffers and anoraks sweeping over explosive layers. London Fashion Comes Back to Life 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Finlandia and the Second Symphony inevitably brought with them greater extroversion and grandeur, though both were also uncommonly, even pulverisingly, turbulent. Hall?/Mandeal ? review 2010-12-10T22:00:00Z And as a result, the impact — the grandeur, the art — of “Wuthering Heights” is diminished. Movie Review: ‘Wuthering Heights,’ by Andrea Arnold, With Kaya Scodelario 2012-10-05T00:03:37Z It was a voice powerfully affecting in the quiet close-ups possible in the movies, but it wouldn’t register in the grandeur of an opera house. Charles Wuorinen Adapts ‘Brokeback Mountain’ as Opera 2014-01-24T19:26:19Z “Blue Lake Morning,” an atmospheric set piece with a grandeur established through accretion, was another. Music Review: The Joel Harrison 19, a Big Band, at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola 2013-07-17T20:24:01Z It was inevitably overshadowed by the soaring, personal grandeur of Elgar's Violin Concerto that followed. Philharmonia/Ashkenazy – review 2013-06-14T16:59:51Z Mesmerized, we watched the dancing lightning illuminate the grandeur of the Great Smokies. A backcountry refuge in Great Smoky Mountains National Park 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Still, with its monumental halls, the park offers a fleeting glimpse of the pomp and outsized grandeur of the U.S.S.R. 36 Hours in Moscow 2010-09-30T20:40:00Z The tone is tinged with nostalgia, but amid the faded grandeur of Ilfracombe, Balding takes time to consider how rural communities are reinventing themselves for the 21st century. The Ugly Face of Beauty 2010-07-20T07:00:00Z Gia Kourlas wrote in The Times that she was “the complete package, a mixture of astonishing technique, grandeur and ease.” American Ballet Theater Promotes 4 Dancers 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Working with a boxy aspect ratio and making expressive use of long shots that can turn travelers into specks, Palmason underscores the grandeur of this place and the puniness of those traversing it. ‘Godland’ Review: Another of God’s Lonely Men Goes Amok (Spiritually) 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Humankind takes dominion over nature, while acknowledging its beauty and its grandeur. When are feathers worth more than gold? 'Kingdoms' exhibition answers with spectacular finds 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Or consider their remarkably similar reactions to the phenomenon of Parisian grand opera: their early envy of Meyerbeer, and the lasting impressions that his musical drama had on their attempts at high grandeur. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z Some think “Vexations” is a rebellion against everything Péladan stood for, especially the Romantic grandeur of Richard Wagner’s operas. What It’s Like to Hear the Same Piece of Music for 19 Hours 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The NoMad resides in a turn-of-the-century Beaux-Arts building, and its public spaces are hip yet have the grandeur of a Stendhal novel. A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan 2012-12-14T17:13:34Z He knew that the way to get people to love the ocean is to show it to them with all its beauty and complexity and grandeur. James Cameron and the Cast of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Hold Their Breath 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z There is real beauty and humility in the decision to hold back from the grandeur of creation, to acknowledge the wonder of all the things that exist. Is ready-made art more powerful than painting? 2013-02-28T16:14:23Z Like her music criticism, Davis’s poems are simultaneously intimate and panoramic, reverberating with the depth and grandeur of Black social and cultural life across space and time. Thulani Davis and the Secret History of Women Writing Album Liner Notes 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Vestiges of its former grandeur remain throughout, but especially in the first-floor common area’s burnished wood paneling, velvet sofas and soaring fireplaces. A Classic Dallas Hotel Gets Cool and Contemporary 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Kaluuya’s character rebels with an almost Shakespearean grandeur, weeping and aflame. Daniel Kaluuya: ‘I'm not a spokesman. No one’s expected to speak for all white people’ 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z The movie, meanwhile, expands the schoolbook chronicle of the conquest of space beyond the usual heroes, restoring some of its idealism and grandeur in the process. Review: ‘Hidden Figures’ Honors 3 Black Women Who Helped NASA Soar 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The photographer achieves a classical resonance, grandeur, and complexity by relatively simple, do-it-yourself means. “Welcome to Marwen,” Reviewed 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z Arcade Fire arrived more than a decade ago, bringing grandeur and heart into indie rock, and also some arrogance. Is Arcade Fire Its Own Worst Enemy? 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z This is not the Eternal City of imperial grandeur, more like a vision of what the Italian capital could become if the nation were to go bankrupt and explode into anarchy. Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus: The Paths of Gory 2011-12-04T18:37:40Z There is something of the grandeur of landscapes, even mountains or peaks. What to See in New York City Art Galleries This Week 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z A master of tasteful grandeur, Adler was adept at interpreting a client’s request by turning to time-honored sources for inspiration and creating beautifully proportioned dwellings that felt venerable but were calibrated for modern living. Miles Redd's Latest Project Features A Paired-Down Palette 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Even when her interpretation or her choice of text seemed misguided, she showed a grandeur and power that surely were a new high for her. Critic?s Notebook: One Classic Ballet, Many Interpretations 2011-07-05T00:25:11Z Whether they are driven by coldblooded entitlement, delusions of grandeur or simple greed, the murderers treat the self-deprecating, ostentatiously low-grade cop with seething annoyance, willful condescension or hypocritical benevolence. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Columbo’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z For this program, the Graham company celebrates the work’s 75th anniversary, showcasing Graham’s skill at physicalizing both domestic drama and social tensions with stoic grandeur. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z And, maybe, the movies will rekindle some of the romance and grandeur that went dormant this past pandemic year. A Cannes (sans kisses) to reawaken our romance with movies 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z But the ballet’s biggest surprise is the sensational grandeur Tchaikovsky gives to the adagio she dances with her cavalier. Critic?s Notebook: The Smallest Dancers Steal Their Own Show 2010-12-22T23:06:19Z Wong’s basic approach was for continual grace and beauty, which could lead to blandness but also impressive robust grandeur. Bach times two: Collegium and Master Chorale double the elation 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Approaching from the indie-rock side was Beach House, with its stately, hypnotic, minimalist keyboard patterns reaching for grandeur. ArtsBeat: A Rain-Soaked Kickoff to the Governors Ball 2013-06-09T21:42:26Z The New York Times said Caldwell “flounces onto the stage like a sparrow with illusions of grandeur.” Actress Zoe Caldwell, Tony winner for ‘Medea,’ dies at 86 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Georgia still basks in the imperial grandeur of “Gone With the Wind.” Harper Lee and Her Father, the Real Atticus Finch 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z George Balanchine’s pure dance masterpiece “Jewels” explores three facets of ballet: “Emeralds” evokes France; “Rubies” captures an angular, energetic midcentury American modernism; and “Diamonds” conjures the courtly grandeur of imperial Russian classicism. Celebrating Balanchine’s ‘Jewels’ With an International Flair 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Ms. Park was equally impressive, bringing a steely delicacy and aerial lightness to Naïla; she had plenty of backbone, but also the grandeur of spirit to make her martyrdom plausible. Guillaume Bart’s ‘La Source,’ From Paris Opera Ballet 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z If M83 was a solid pick to create music for an elegant sci-fi picture, Trapanese was the right man to marry that sound to an orchestra for a touch of cinematic grandeur. ‘Track Stars: M83 and the Music for Oblivion 2013-04-24T12:00:20Z The terror and glamour of the Berserker fighters who tear off their clothing and run naked and blood-streaming into battle unites the books, which still boast a mythic grandeur in keeping with their subject matter. Old stories for young readers 2011-02-24T10:32:26Z Here, the conscious and the unconscious, the intentional and the incidental, the energizing force of provocation in the virtually theatrical conventions of homecoming infuse a small-scale drama with intricate depths and globe-spanning grandeur. “Return to Bollène,” Reviewed: An Arab Man’s Painful Homecoming in the South of France 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Bridges can duplicate the grandeur of personality that was Wayne's birthright, but it's still counterfeit — more an acting job than a proud expression of self. True Grit Review: Trading the Dude for the Duke
2010-12-22T19:25:00Z Jennifer Lawrence, though, was a bit too relaxed, and it’s beginning to seem like a shtick, maybe for offsetting the potentially audience-alienating grandeur of her Dior contract? Fashion Review: Trembling Jeweled Hands on a (Dry) Red Carpet 2014-03-03T03:55:52Z It makes of the Guggenheim spiral a vortex suffused with consciousness of life’s supreme ruler, in both its quotidian daily unfolding and its enveloping, almost incomprehensible grandeur. The Guggenheim Shows First On Kawara Retrospective 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The pier is seen as a workaday place, without charm or grandeur. Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke 2010-08-30T10:24:00Z “This small leaf represents the grandeur of the story of Napoleon,” Osenat said. Golden leaf cut from Napoleon's crown goes under hammer in France 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z There’s no doubt that if he chose, he could play Macbeth as a sustained juggernaut of fissured Olympian grandeur. | 'Macbeth': The Deed Is Done, the Doers Undone 2011-03-25T23:54:57Z To explore them is to witness a grandeur that inspires you, unlike many skyscrapers, which merely surprise you. Art Deco Los Angeles 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z And besides, we weren't aware that we had just been living through a period of baroque grandeur, like the punks could claim in 1976. New band of the day: The Strypes (No 1,396) 2012-11-15T16:37:05Z The sheer grandeur and the quixotic glory of his directorial achievement has clinched it for him. Greatest Oscar winners ever: who is the best director of all time? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z There was noble grandeur in the second movement’s fugue, and fizz to the Scherzo. Music Review: Joshua Bell Leads Academy of St. Martin in the Fields 2014-04-01T23:25:00Z While Ellie Dehn bravely presses her slender soprano to its limits, gaining in power as the performance goes on, she is an oddly recessive Euryanthe, without a certain crucial measure of haunted grandeur. ‘Euryanthe,’ Rarely Heard, Is Mounted at Bard 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z The silliness — much of which is clearly intentional — is blended with some genuine grandeur. Movie Review: ?John Carter,? With Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins 2012-03-08T23:03:00Z In the 1980s and ’90s, Forsythe changed ballet as we knew it, stripping it of grandeur and giving it a thrilling, starkly modern, almost dangerous edge. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z This ballet requires grandeur, sharpness, authority, and we only sense that when we see an artist actively shaping her dancing before our eyes, rather than smoothly passing through it. A sparkling start to American Ballet Theatre’s D.C. engagement 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z The sale features 243 lots of international furniture and art that reflect the grandeur of the 20th century. Gilt-Metal Palm Tree Floor Lamps Are on the Block 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Not only did the coverage lionize the host country with all the grandeur of big-budget ostentation, it included a lengthy tribute to 9/11. Matt Lauer, pleasant corporate stooge: America’s double standard on politicizing the Olympics 2014-02-14T16:34:00Z And whatever his personality, his music does seem to define grandeur and heroism. Beethoven’s 250th Birthday: His Greatness Is in the Details 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z I like this one because you get a real sense of grandeur. Photographer Kudzanai Chiurai's best shot 2011-07-10T20:45:01Z We watch Fry, invariably clad in incongruously bright trousers, awed by the grandeur and history of the Bayreuth Festival and its theater, designed and built by the composer. ‘Wagner & Me’: Love of German composer’s music, tainted by history 2013-01-24T21:59:01Z But even as he strove to evoke medieval grandeur, he embraced Industrial Age technology. A tale of two delightful castles, in Germany and Austria 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z “Life of Pi,” which will be shown in 3-D, is an unusual opening-night choice both for its crowd-pleasing sincerity and for its sheer visual grandeur. Critic’s Notebook: New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center 2012-09-27T22:17:58Z Such errors, although annoying, are forgivable, given the overall grandeur of the project. ‘The Complete Works of Auden’ showcases writings beyond the poetry 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Perhaps no other stretch of pavement is used so often in automobile advertising and other commercial imagery designed to convey the grandeur of mountains, sea, sky and the open road. Journeys: A Big Sur Bath by the Light of the Moon 2014-04-02T18:19:20Z Remember your first solo trip to Europe, and how the grandeur of the buildings combined with the too-frequent sense of loneliness? Review: Artists pack a range of emotion in 'My Summer Vacation' at Winston W?chter in Seattle 2010-08-05T20:36:00Z The latter took a while to gather momentum, though the Fugue, when we reached it, was perfect in its implacable weight and grandeur. Aurora Orchestra/Collon/Joshua ? review 2011-03-10T17:39:03Z Like Per Kirkeby’s set, an unlovely unit, the production sacrifices grandeur for speed, streamlining the three acts of Prokofiev’s score into a compromised two. Dance Review: Peter Martins?s ?Romeo + Juliet? at New York City Ballet 2012-02-16T23:03:47Z The pool was small and overchlorinated, pathetic after the grandeur of Hamilton Fish. The Swimmer: Manhattan Edition 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Lewis charged into the first-movement cadenza with flamboyance and grandeur, then opened the second movement with a pianissimo so delicate that the audience was practically leaning forward in the seats to hear the soft-focus phrases. Pianist Lewis, maestro Denève keep audience on edge of seats 2014-04-18T18:24:56Z Once contact is made, Mr. Williams’s score takes a Romantic turn, blending celestial wonder and the grandeur of a finale. ‘Psycho’ and ‘Close Encounters’ Roll at the Philharmonic 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Succession is brilliant at cooking up moments of operatic grandeur, but even by its own standards, the season two finale was immaculate. 'They're damaged': Succession’s Jeremy Strong on sibling hell – and that cringey rap 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z In the first movement he seemed to be channeling Bruno Walter and striving for grandeur. Critic’s Notebook: Mostly Mozart Opens With Louis Langrée and Lawrence Brownlee 2012-08-01T21:47:28Z It lacked the grandeur to match Tchaikovsky’s music, and offered nothing in compensation. Swans With Glittering Technique, Aching to Break Hearts 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Prime rib is not a steak; it’s a roast, and the difference is what lends it its towering grandeur. Prime Rib Regains Its Place as a Restaurant Centerpiece 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z The grand original image, “suffused with Romantic heroism and grandeur, is reduced to a fleeting commodity.” To address climate change, artist Banksy ‘hijacked’ a painting of Mount Rainier. It’s now worth millions 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z The reworking manages to create a sense of monumentality without imposing any artificial grandeur. Museum Review: The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Renewed 2012-07-14T00:49:03Z He identified one of my 16 great-great-great-grandfathers, a man with the splendid moniker Lycurgus Handy, whose life did not match the grandeur of his name. Elizabeth Warren’s pointless DNA test: Why genetic heritage is irrelevant to identity and politics 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z For me, they evoke the high society of turn -of-the-century Paris and the grandeur of those times. Chasing Balzac: Uncovering the Intimate Belle Epoque Hotels of Paris 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z “The effect of it all, the sadness, the faded grandeur, the society beauties, the death boat and the music, turned the funeral into one of those great moments,” he writes. T Magazine: Rupert Everett Is So Not An American Movie Star 2013-05-10T13:00:54Z For years I kept movie ticket stubs, too, but they didn’t hold the same allure or capture the grandeur of a Broadway performance. Paging Through Broadway While the Stages Are Dark 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z Her collages, sculptures and videos examine the exploitation, resilience and grandeur of Black women, as social, spiritual and mythic beings. Wangechi Mutu: An Imagined World Made Possible 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Stravinsky’s Divertimento from “Le Baiser de la Fée” is parboiled ballet, and Virgil Thomson’s film score “The Plow That Broke the Plains” has its cinematic grandeur. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia 2012-03-04T23:15:57Z The sprightly beginning of the Sanctus barely held together; the Dies Irae lacked grandeur and terror. Review: Verdi’s Requiem Recast as Memorial for Dmitri Hvorostovsky 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z But soon after the songs make their initial splash, grandeur turns to grandiosity. New Music by Florence and the Machine and Meshell Ndegeocello 2011-11-07T22:33:38Z The people milling around on the cathedral steps turn their backs to the Gothic grandeur; at the same time there’s a sense that they are absorbing culture and history just by being there. ‘Thomas Struth: Photographs’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z But I like the touch of flash, which counters the grandeur of the plaza. Critic?s Notebook: A Citadel of Culture Shows a Friendlier Face 2010-12-31T22:50:05Z As his eyes adjusted to the darkness, he tried to block out the graffiti covering the tunnel’s slick walls and summon a sense of grandeur. Interview: Colson Whitehead 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z A deep thinker and a shrewd tactician, Norman has taken on almost mythical grandeur in his comrades’ memories. ‘Da 5 Bloods’ Review: Black Lives Mattered in Vietnam, Too 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z He invests the rituals, grandeur, wonder and hardships of both spheres with a powerful sense of the sacred. A life in writing: Les Murray 2010-11-22T00:05:00Z As the critic Justin Davidson put it, Johnson’s design for AT&T “deliberately made it hard to distinguish between true grandeur and mock grandiloquence.” For AT&T, Balancing Change and Preservation Under the Same Broken Pediment 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z All of them, in their way, were bands that were hoping to restore to rock its long-gone grandeur, to create a sound exponentially different from their peers. Playlist: Fort Lean, Kristen Kelly, Chingo Bling and Other New Music 2012-11-25T01:10:06Z The film’s grandeur was undeniable, and so was its gravitas: It was an epic punctuated with a question mark. Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The form this revenge takes occupies the final section of the book, and is almost theatrical in its psychological grandeur. Françoise Sagan, the Great Interrogator of Morality 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Gilbert led an expressive and structurally coherent interpretation, revealing the Nordic grandeur of the symphony, often thought to be Sibelius’s expression of the Finnish struggle for independence from Russia in the early 20th century. 2010-02-15T01:23:00Z "Golden Void" has a grandeur that could have sustained a 15-minute live edition, even further deepened by Dibs's electric cello. Hawkwind plus Easter equals ... Hawkeaster! 2013-04-02T15:20:32Z The paintings are roughly accurate likenesses but staged to amplify the grandeur and importance of their sitters. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Has faux victimhood ever merged so disruptively with delusions of grandeur? What “unity” with Trump means: For Republicans, winning is everything, principles are swept away and hypocrisy reigns 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z I love the grandeur, but I also love the attention to detail, like how the letters in the name HAL are only one removed in the alphabet from IBM. 50 years of 2001: A Space Odyssey – how Kubrick's sci-fi 'changed the very form of cinema' 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z This walking tour, on Saturday at 1:30 and 2:45 p.m. and Sunday at 12:45 and 2:30 p.m., is a chance to slow down and appreciate Grand Central’s Beaux-Arts décor and grandeur. Spare Times for Jan. 30-Feb. 5 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z From the outside, the Kingstanding still retains a shabby grandeur: three fins strike upwards in a stylish front tower, and the curved frontage and baked ceramic tile evoke a dated glamour. Rediscovering Birmingham's movie meccas 2010-03-30T15:38:00Z The sense of growth, occasional struggle and artistic temperament shown in the downstairs gallery plays well against the grandeur upstairs. Art Review: ‘Charles James: Beyond Fashion,’ a Retrospective at the Met 2014-05-08T13:04:04Z It was a final display of the force of two institutions: the concentrated grandeur of the British monarchy and the power amassed by television to bring viewers to every corner of the world. Her Majesty’s Last Broadcast 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Few natural vistas can compete with the awe-inspiring grandeur of Yosemite Valley. Inspirational Travel Destinations 2010-12-09T17:15:00Z Both the grandeur and the grime, the tugging weight of life on the circuit, is seen in each tattered tent, each murky banner. When Production Design Plays a Supporting Role 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z The songs don’t try your patience or call for dissection, but they do impart a hint of indie grandeur in its most manageable form. Music Review: Chief?s Mellow Guitars and Harmonies at Joe?s Pub 2010-08-18T22:35:00Z In the vision scene, she found a new grandeur as Queen of the Dryads. Alban Lendorf Performs in ‘Don Quixote’ 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z But its grandeur was hard to maintain as fortunes waned for the self-aggrandizing, nonroyal coal magnates who called it home: the Dukes of Hamilton. Reassembling Hamilton Palace, Room by Room, All 150 of Them 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Photograph: Allstar If you wish to make a movie about the collapse of an age-old social order, it helps if you have enough money to convey the epic grandeur and sweep of such an event. Luchino Visconti's The Leopard cost a fortune and it was worth every penny 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z All too predicable, however, is the majestic ending — but it’s easy to forgive Mr. Lin’s heavy hand while swept up in the filmic grandeur and sparkling cheer of Mr. Ma and Ms. Wu. Review: Yo-Yo Ma and Wu Man Play With Cinematic Sweep 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z This is the fourth consecutive Black Keys album produced by the band with Danger Mouse, whose obsession with spaghetti-western grandeur has been absorbed into the band’s bloodstream. New Music: New albums by the Black Keys and Swans 2014-05-12T22:08:25Z Emily Bills, a curator of that show, said some of his best images captured not just the distinctiveness and grandeur of architectural works but also how people actually inhabited them. Pedro Guerrero, 95, Dies; Captured Another Dimension of Art 2012-09-14T01:52:46Z It is death that brings them grandeur; united in death, they rob Caesar of the triumph of his conquest. Antony and Cleopatra ? review 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z Heat needs its 170 minutes to establish the grandeur of its story. Is The Hobbit simply too long? 2012-12-12T16:15:00Z With string arrangements soaring over his plaintive voice and twangy guitar, “Bella” echoes the grandeur of Roy Orbison hits, and on certain songs his voice spirals into the same ethereal realm. The Artistry Is Apparent, So Where?s the Audience? 2011-02-06T22:52:21Z White Street, which opened last month in New York City’s Tribeca neighborhood, is a sophisticated new restaurant with a grandeur and scale well suited to the building’s 146-year history. White Street Is a Casually Elegant New Tribeca Eatery 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Painters like Albert Bierstadt captured the scenery in panoramic tableaux, bringing back to audiences in the East the grandeur of nature. Natural Wonder 2010-06-01T04:00:00Z At the edge of Glacier Point’s 3,200-foot cliff, one of the most iconic places in Yosemite, the absurd daylight grandeur of Half Dome and the forested slopes exert their solemn gravity. ‘Entering Burn Area’: Yosemite After the Fire 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Turns out they suit the wailing grandeur of her voice perfectly, though, and she can’t help but make them her own thanks to the fiery force of her musical personality. Best Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z In recent seasons, however, it has been repeatedly spoiled by intrusive furniture and twee nondance photographs, as if in an effort to turn its marvelous grandeur into something cozy. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the Koch Theater 2013-01-16T22:42:20Z The glimpse of real grandeur in that voice makes this trifle of a play seem even smaller. Review: Renée Fleming Plays Against Type in ‘Living on Love’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Its shabby grandeur, narrow alleys and sweeping views of the Bay of Naples with Vesuvius as a backdrop make the city a natural open air film set. Naples, a City of Contradictions, Is Once Again a Home for Cinema 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z He showed the clarity, the subtle balance of modesty and grandeur, expected in a lieder concert but all too rare on the opera stage, where Mr. Gerhaher, best known as a perceptive recitalist, appears infrequently. Review: A Writhing, Emotional Revival of Wagner’s ‘Tannhäuser’ 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The “Ring” I remember was musically imperfect but visually awesome, with moments of stunning grandeur. The Met Opera’s ‘Ring’ Works Best From the Cheap Seats 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z His portrayal of the preposterous yet admirable courtly knight was superbly thought through, vividly capturing his grandeur and despair. Don Quichotte – review 2012-11-26T15:36:33Z This idea – the ineluctable gastronomic grandeur of Gaul, first reached me on a warm June day in Westport, Connecticut, in the 70s. Why American gastronomy owes so much to France 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z The artist will premiere large new artworks that will speak to the grandeur of the architecture. In the Gallery Race, Shainman Expands Beyond Chelsea to TriBeCa Landmark 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z All three do share a certain grandeur, which was certainly illuminated in an exemplary performance of the concerto by the cellist Alisa Weilerstein. Music Review: Philharmonic?s ?Modern Beethoven? at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-10T00:43:09Z Chavez’s struggles to unionize exploited farm workers — his long marches, his hunger strike — make for moving moments but rarely achieve grandeur. ‘Cesar Chavez’: a noble portrait of the civil-rights leader 2014-03-26T18:56:20Z Work in black-and-white grandeur smooths these subtleties just as well as it frames the consideration of legacy. Review | ‘Letter to You’ is a concept album by, and about the endurance of, Bruce Springsteen 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Yet as fine as it was, that interpretation also seemed to confirm the conventional perception that for all its raw strength, “Bridge” is an imperfect work, awkward in its aspirations to timeless grandeur. Review: ‘A View From the Bridge’ Bears Witness to the Pain of Fate 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z The shows - featuring female models lounging on seats reading magazines, or men swaggering in gothic kilts and leather jackets - proclaimed a new Danish style that rejects grandeur for simplicity and irreverence. At Copenhagen Fashion Week, simple designs for austere times 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Act III, too, has transformed: Its ceremonial theater piece seemed sharper, or maybe I understood better that we need the grandeur of a chanting masked chorus to communicate apocalyptic horror. Revisiting a Post-Apocalyptic Play in the Pandemic 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z “Looking down from two miles above the surface of the earth,” he says, “it is impossible not to be impressed by the sheer grandeur and splendor and power of the natural world.” Not Enough Snakes in Your Nightmares? See ‘Planet Earth II’ 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Middleham was the childhood home of Richard III, and no modern child could fail to be impressed by the grandeur of the castle or its setting in Wensleydale, best admired from the viewing platform. My best bit of historic Britain: historians' and authors' top tips 2012-08-17T21:45:07Z Nightclub Tradition Gets a Jolt Of Youth Stately grandeur and youthful intensity: the annual New York Cabaret Convention at the Rose Theater has never lacked for great ladies and refined gentlemen. Music Review: Nightclub Tradition Gets a Jolt Of Youth 2010-10-08T22:54:00Z Shows this big often rely on grandeur and inaccessibility as a kind of cudgel, but for Lorde, dismantling those things to reveal the person within is the real weapon. Review: In a Big Room, Lorde Protects the Small Moments 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z But even the grandeur of the five-story-high Endeavor paled when Halle Berry finally appeared. Halle Berry launches into a new era of control with CBS' 'Extant' 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z When I applied for my visa, I saw your grandeur, I saw your authenticity and I longed to visit you. A letter to … London, where my girlfriend and I could be out and proud 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z But for a home with character, grandeur and aesthetic appeal, several million may still seem like a deal. 2010-02-03T21:00:00Z He opened with Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man,” played with magnificent grandeur. Dudamel and Beethoven — and Vin Scully — for the common man 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z I forgave it because, for once, all this grandeur, all this grace, is in the service of a tale of a woman, Hirut, as indelible and compelling a hero as any I’ve read in years. Maaza Mengiste Sings a Modern Song of War 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z He possessed grandeur of soul and was a stranger to humour. My hero: Dag Hammarskjöld by Timothy Mo 2012-05-25T21:55:11Z The noise and bustle of Bryant Park seemed to fade as the work unfolded in meditative, celestial grandeur. Music Review: The JACK Quartet Plays Bryant Park 2013-07-28T19:41:00Z He played with clean articulation, warmth and power in both toccatas, his improvisatory flair illuminating their grandeur and dramatic scope. Music Review: Jeremy Denk?s Recital at the 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-06T23:30:10Z What she lacks, as yet, is heroic grandeur, especially in adagio; and without it, “Swan Lake” misses the tragic dimension. Savoring the Spectrum of American Ballet Theater’s Rich Season 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z “On the one hand, we have classical art in the classical building with the grandeur of 19th-century public spaces. And on the other hand, this slick, modernist, white-cube museum.” The Royal Museum With a White-Cube Gallery Inside 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z The orchestra played beautifully for him: the brass and woodwind choirs in the Andante moderato were exceptionally fine, and the string playing captured the work’s suppleness as well as its grandeur. Music Review: Many Different Sounds In a Wide-Ranging Week 2010-10-15T21:26:00Z Their sympathy identifies something heartbreakingly beautiful about the city — that the patriarchs and prophets, like Naples’s grandeur and dignity, remain unbowed by age and a million tribulations. Neapolitan Church Portraits Speak to the Earthly World 2013-01-15T16:43:33Z There is a quiet grandeur in these scenes. Why Roma should win the best picture Oscar 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z “The Power of the Dog” builds tremendous force, gaining its momentum through the harmonious discord of its performances, the nervous rhythms of Jonny Greenwood’s score and the grandeur of its visuals. ‘The Power of the Dog’ Review: Wild Hearts on a Closed Frontier 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z What grandeur are they bemoaning the loss of? Review: ‘The Royal Family of Broadway,’ This Time in Song 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Spinella, on the other hand, seems to channel the grandeur of the conflict in his more august, less contemporary-inflected portrayals of figures like Agamemnon. Theater Review: ?An Iliad? at New York Theater Workshop 2012-03-08T03:00:16Z His clipped, effective prose did not rise to those heights, nor did his ideas about art have the generous scope and grandeur of Ruskin's cultural vision. Clement Greenberg: the art critic who refuses to flatline 2011-03-11T15:12:34Z Ms. Birrittella was asked to make an eerily elderly twang at one point, and to rise to grandeur near the end, in a long final monologue with music by Emma O’Halloran. A Dance Steals the Show at an Opera Festival 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Everything takes on a lot more grandeur than it deserves. | Mather Zickel: Mather Zickel ‘Reports’ the News for Adult Swim 2013-01-17T15:40:14Z Typically, her earlier work had a definite grandeur in its scale, bright, opaque colors, thick surfaces and opulent patterns. A New Level of Ambition in Art by 3 Women 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Unlike his Method brethren, Wallach didn’t go for tragic grandeur; he was not one to mumble or mope. Remembering Eli Wallach: The Good, the Bad and the Gifted 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z His tendency to envelop the material in sheer sonic grandeur sometimes worked against it, especially when the high level of amplification employed on this occasion was factored in. Bryn Terfel – review 2012-07-05T17:00:01Z Glass handles this with music of stirring intimacy, inexorable persistence and stunning grandeur. An opera about Walt Disney, in commuting distance of Disneyland 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The grandeur of a big European city can get drowned out quickly by the hubbub of humanity and cacophony of cars. Finding urban getaways in Europe’s top cities 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Her arm positions still need to acquire more formal grace, but her new mixture of grandeur and impulsiveness is highly engaging. Dance Review: ‘Apollo,’ ‘Orpheus’ and ‘Agon’ at City Ballet 2012-09-19T21:19:09Z Back in the 1980s, Blunkett and his councillors gave me lunch in the marbled grandeur of the town hall. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z “It’s a typical example of English grandeur that it is using the wrong word because ‘pardoned’ is not what’s necessary, ‘apology’ is really necessary,” Everett said. Wilde's struggle has echoes in some countries today, says 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z But is the woman known for her grandeur nearly as much as her 19 No. 1 hits really going to sweat over a hot stove? All Mariah Carey wants is you to enjoy her Christmas special 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z This is music of stark shifts between celebration and melancholy, ballroom grandeur and drawing-room wistfulness, between forcefulness and expansiveness. In Cleveland, Schubert Outsings Even the Mighty ‘Otello’ 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z She adds grandeur and glamour to their synthesised tinklings, but also shares their pop sensibility. Readers recommend songs with special guests: the Results 2010-10-21T21:59:00Z “Smoke + Mirrors” tries hard to channel the grandeur of U2 in its prime. Imagine Dragons’ new album is good, even if no one will admit it 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Apatow is a romantic whose attraction to outsized, wild characters implies a perception of dimensions of grandeur and sensibility in what seem to be crudeness, bitterness, ugliness, or naïveté. Everyone Is a "Trainwreck" 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z There’s a Shakespearean grandeur to the deluded Borkman as he staggers shaggy-haired into the snow, speechifying to the night sky like Lear cast out into the storm. Dark Clouds Over London Stages 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The designer — let’s call him a couturier — has such a deep understanding of opulence that the embellishment was absorbed into the silhouette, making the collection seem regal in its grandeur. Special Report: Fashion: Leaving the Big Country 2011-02-17T19:00:58Z Monumental and textural, its moments of grandeur still carry a wonderful dramatic charge. Carr?/Laborintus II | Classical review 2010-03-22T22:15:00Z His interpretation combines French objectivity with a close and deeply personal reading that opens up the vast topography of this Romantic masterpiece onto vistas of rare grandeur. CD reviews: Breathtaking moments in new song cycle ‘let me tell you’ 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z What they all share are vivid renderings, saturated colors and a sense of mysterious, vanished grandeur. In the galleries: The eclectic art of the Dominican disapora 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Andrew Davis conducted the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, gradually warming to the score after a slowish start, but eventually achieving a passionate grandeur that swept you away. Tha?s ? review 2011-08-19T11:38:44Z Melodrama runs on a contrast that borders on absurdity—the grandeur of passions arising in ordinary circumstances involving everyday people. Blake Lively Lives Forever 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Today they have converged on Berlin, where the grandeur of the Hotel du Rome, its high-ceilinged corridors thronged with journalists and TV crews, affirms that Depeche Mode aren't in any danger of downsizing. Depeche Mode: 'We're dysfunctional. Maybe that's what makes us tick' 2013-03-28T14:03:56Z Rickman gives him chilling grandeur as he refuses to acknowledge the failure that nevertheless haunts him, denying the possibility of change. John Gabriel Borkman ? review 2010-10-15T20:45:00Z In any case, there was no easy grandeur enacted here, no possibility for corniness. Review: Wayne Shorter Goes Solo With the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z In her surviving letters, at least, Eliot did not remark upon the grandeur of her surroundings, though her correspondence does reveal that she endured the usual discombobulation of moving house. What Michael Bloomberg Could Learn From "Middlemarch" 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z “He was never a rebel,” Varina corrects him, displaying an effortless ability to deflate her husband’s delusions of grandeur. Fiction Chronicle: First Lady of the Confederacy 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The awe and grandeur of mountain scenery is surely a universal instinct. The magic of mountains in art 2011-02-08T10:54:44Z The problem with Copland’s Third Symphony is grandeur. The short and the long of the American conversation in Wynton Marsalis' Concerto in D at the Bowl 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Trump threw another movie title in: “Sunset Boulevard” – Billy Wilder’s seminal 1950 noir on faded Hollywood grandeur, which was subsequently embraced by the gay community. Trump's Oscars rant? He just wants Hollywood to see he's a star 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z I was astonished by its grandeur and power and by the brutality of its battle scenes, but also by the compassion that illuminates even the darkest moments. Pat Barker on Trauma and Myth 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z A mining tycoon, he should embody a superficial power and grandeur that impresses his fellows but which we, the perceptive audience, can see straight through. Titanic, TIME and Me 2012-04-04T20:24:41Z But though Levee’s thwarted ambitions will probably take on an even more tragic grandeur after Boseman’s death, Davis encourages the actor’s fans to focus more on the cultural truths Boseman meant to convey. First Look: Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z His grandeur enraged, Loki spumes, “There are no men like me!” Marvel's The Avengers: A Superhero Roundup That's Almost Super 2012-04-25T12:25:56Z The transposition confers a hardness on a piece that is sometimes sentimentalised, and reminds us that the is as much about the abrasions of reality as the grandeur of passion. La Boh?me ? review 2010-10-19T22:00:00Z While the Paparoa Track is the first new Great Walk in 25 years, it’s not as if the South Island is lacking in natural grandeur. On New Zealand’s Stunning West Coast, the Beauty Doesn’t Stop 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Again, the placement of a tiny human figure on top of the bridge's harplike strands creates a sense of wonder at how small we are in the grandeur of our surroundings. Review: Mercer Island photographer Roger Ressmeyer has eye on the heavens, his mind on the cosmos 2011-01-14T21:25:05Z Its sardonic and even romantic brilliance now gives it the dislocated grandeur of a baroque statue on a municipal dump. How Margaret Thatcher left her mark on British culture 2013-04-13T17:00:00Z Paul thankfully knows to rein in the grandeur while probing these topics, and he takes a tasteful approach to the deeply intimate Act 1 finale, “I Believe.” Review | ‘Spring Awakening’ lights up Round House Theatre with visual flair 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Still, the Texan band reliably produces LPs filled with a formal grandeur - all overtures and interludes - presumably bankrolled by their mystifying periods spent on major labels. This week's new live music 2013-02-16T06:00:00Z "Ghosts" has seldom been seen in its full grandeur since it debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1991. L.A. Opera goes for the epic with 'The Ghosts of Versailles' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Orchestrated with the forces of maximal Romantic grandeur, the Rachmaninoff concerto tends to overpower soloists — who, denied a traditional cadenza in the first movement, must often settle for hand-cramping virtuosity that hardly anyone can hear. Review: Two Artists Arrive at the Philharmonic, Loudly 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z He catches “the sweep, the grandeur, the calmness” of their songs. Books of The Times: ?The Doors,? by Greil Marcus - Review 2011-11-15T21:52:12Z Somehow, he still composed music of cosmic grandeur. Review: A Rediscovered Symphony Radiates Cosmic Grandeur 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Despite the grandeur of the setting and its deep history, the museum’s name reflects the humiliations that free people of color, no matter how wealthy, endured before the Civil War. Descendants Tell Stories of Free People of Color 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Wrapping a triumphal arch is a way of creating something beautiful that also says: Enough with your delusions of grandeur. Perspective | Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s wrap of L’Arc de Triomphe reads like a salient point on hollow glory 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z “Heaven’s Gate” manages to capture both the grandeur and unblinking brutality of the West. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘The Night Of’ and ‘The Circus’ 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z In Season 1, Tiffany “Pennsatucky” Doggett is a villain whose intense racism, homophobia and illusions of grandeur culminate in her attempt to murder Piper. Pennsatucky’s redemption: How “Orange Is the New Black” pulled a reverse “Breaking Bad” 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Those who have entertained delusions of literary grandeur will squirm in their seats. Movie Review: In ‘Adult World,’ a Naïf Dreams of Literary Glory 2014-02-13T23:21:16Z He pared drama of vision; the deliberate grandeur of perception. Andrei Rublev: Archive review 2010-10-20T10:54:00Z Images of shattered architecture, nude men and children in turn-of-the-last-century clothes combine to suggest the Homeric grandeur and autobiographical intimacy of Cavafy’s poetry. Art in Review: JOHN O?REILLY: ?Recent Montage? 2011-06-30T21:24:36Z Did Cristóbal Balenciaga have a dark side to his Spanish couture grandeur? Special Report: Fashion: Down and Dirty: Balenciaga and Balmain 2010-09-30T18:09:00Z "Sometimes I write with a grandeur in mind," says Star Anna, an Ellensburg native. Blue Scholars, Alice in Chains inspire composers for 'Sonic Evolution' 2012-10-23T14:31:03Z In the first movement, rather than just going for stirring energy and grandeur, he seemed intent on bringing out the intricacies and inner textures of the music. Review: Michael Tilson Thomas, a Podium Hero, Returns 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z But her alertness to the texts and the unassuming grandeur of her presence made the night riveting. Review: Anna Caterina Antonacci Charms With French Art Songs 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z With an emphasis on bucolic farmland that seems very British, they nonetheless convey the grandeur of nature, still the mother of us all, and of all art. Art Review: Recent David Hockney Work at the de Young in San Francisco 2013-12-23T23:10:14Z Sublimity, however, is what has been avoided; and the grandeur of ballet, as many old works still reveal, was one of its glories. Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Do Your Thing sounds chintzy, and with Good Luck hoves into view, one is only reminded that, at their peak, orchestral grandeur was just one of Basement Jaxx's many powers. Basement Jaxx: Basement Jaxx vs. Metropole Orkest ? review 2011-07-14T21:40:01Z This is riveting history, containing a suprising amount of camp grandeur. TV highlights 04/03/2013 2013-03-04T07:00:00Z A. O. Scott wrote in The Times, “The film’s imperfection, like its grandeur, arises from a passionate, generous impulse that is as hard to resist as the call of the open road.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Into the Wild’ and ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Sante admires the engineering expertise, and the grandeur, of the reservoir system. How New York City Got Its Fresh Water 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Jefferson abandoned Washington's ceremonial sword and pretensions of grandeur, shocking Washington by padding around the White House in slippers and clothing deemed too casual for his office. 'The Art of Power': Thomas Jefferson shapes the republic 2012-11-20T21:35:18Z The finale began beautifully but progressed towards a rather blowsy grandeur rather than genuine exaltation. RLPO/Vasily Petrenko 2010-05-24T21:31:00Z I would argue that, in keeping with the band's final album, The Visitors, the track's power lies in its layering of boredom and grandeur, transience and doom. Could an Abba reunion ever top The Day Before You Came? 2010-09-30T12:42:00Z At its finest, especially in the eerie whistling of the soldiers going into battle, or when momentary visions of grandeur tumble into harmonic disarray, it shows the composer near to his best. CLC/RPO/Wetton – review 2012-11-27T17:32:33Z Now he births A Million Ways to Die in the West, a sagebrush comedy whose visual grandeur and appealing actors get polluted by some astonishingly lazy writing. REVIEW: A Million Ways to Die in the West, But Few Ways to Laugh 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z It's a quietly beautiful place whose grandeur lies in the subtle mix of cultural and natural history. Along the Rio Grande, a Hot Spring and a Warm Welcome 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z The article noted archly that his wealth and comfort had led to “Twombly being suspected of having fallen for ‘grandeur’ ” and to a view among American critics that he had “somehow betrayed the cause.” Cy Twombly, 1928-2011: American Artist Who Scribbled a Unique Path 2011-07-06T01:29:42Z His musical discourse, on the other hand, is often surprising, occasionally violent and prone to mysticism and grandeur. Composer John Adams does double duty at Strathmore with BSO 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Gilbert's sensitive pacing of the orchestral accompaniment here gives the scene the near-tragic grandeur it deserves. Review: Collaborative `Cosi' scores at Juilliard 2012-11-15T16:05:08Z Naples, in fact, is the book's fifth principal: Vesuvius, the bay, "the arches and towers and polychrome domes", the serial cataclysms and sudden grandeurs. The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z An Arab love song sung by an Englishman, tenuously linked, if at all, to the real grandeur of Arabic literary tradition, the poem is a cunning disguise. Poem of the week: An Arab Love-Song by Francis Thompson 2012-12-17T10:52:15Z Beethoven’s name is embossed on a plaque high above the stage here, and this was a performance of grandeur sufficient to justify the honor. Andris Nelsons Brings Old World Flavor to Boston Symphony 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z This isn’t a spectacle on the order of the Olympics, but it is surface grandeur nonetheless. Beijing Dance Theater’s ‘Wild Grass’ at the Kennedy Center: A superficial spectacle The story of a sad bird seems almost too ephemeral for the grandeur of the resources, yet in the right hands the piece becomes a transcendent expression of bewildering grief. Hall?/Mark Elder ? review 2011-03-20T18:01:00Z That being said, The Dark Knight Rises has an intelligence, epic thrust and visual grandeur far beyond its present box-office rival, Joss Whedon's Avengers Assemble. The Dark Knight Rises – review 2012-07-21T23:05:32Z Toward the end, a brief viola solo attained a moody grandeur worthy of the late Romantics. Five Nights of New Music, From Gentle to Terrifying 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Even if her dancing falls short of grandeur, she uses her delicate build to evoke a rare sense of vulnerability: a quicksilver shiver of pirouettes, a tremulous fluttering foot. English National Ballet ? review 2011-03-24T22:00:02Z There is a case to be made that the minimalism of “Requiem Canticles” is false modesty for a composer well aware of his gigantic importance, and Dudamel was intent on giving grandeur its due. The draw of Yuja Wang and Bartók brings surprising consequences 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Raimondi, too, was an associate of Raphael at the heart of Roman grandeur. Are these Shakespeare's dirty pictures? 2010-12-10T13:46:00Z While it can't match the cinematic grandeur of the famous movie, talking heads from both the British and Arab side shed some retrospective light on Lawrence. TV highlights 20/02/2013 2013-02-20T07:00:01Z For the Oscars, McLane was tasked with honoring the grandeur and splendor of the event but also injecting a bit of his wit, too. Tony Award winner brings Broadway to Oscars 2013-02-22T14:13:10Z She embodies the movie’s belief that — deprived of the only thing they love, and resolved to fight for it — anyone can rise to heroic or tragic grandeur. The Venice-Toronto Express: Three Films at Two Festivals 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Their third No. 1 was “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” performed in 1963 with a gentle pop lilt rather than the original’s operatic grandeur. ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’: From Broadway Tear-Jerker to Covid-Era Anthem 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z He then proceeded to play this warmly expressive piece superbly, with tone that ranged from a meaningful whisper to a positively overwhelming grandeur, and with a considerable variety of timbre in the music’s frequent pizzicatos. At chamber-music fest, program and performance in harmony 2013-01-22T18:54:33Z If the spooky grandeur of its deep-sea setting is somewhat shortchanged by the home viewing experience, the movie compensates with many topical terrors — such as characters’ arguing about the need to self-quarantine. ‘Sea Fever’ Review: A Timely but Derivative Contagion Thriller 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z It’s the other Titanic, the story of a mighty ship sunk not by the grandeur of nature but by the grimness of man. Erik Larson’s ‘Dead Wake,’ About the Lusitania 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The opening theme returns one last time, quietly, with no changes in tempo or dynamics that would have given it the grandeur of an ending. Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ Doesn’t Deserve Your Eye Rolls 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Often hailed as the finest film Britain ever made, a 70th anniversary re-release will see it return to cinemas with the government much in the market for symbols of national grandeur. Why The Third Man is an essential primer for no-deal Brexit 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z In Phyllida Lloyd's 2011 film The Iron Lady, she had become a lonely and confused old dear, whose flashes of grandeur and hauteur at political soirées were the more poignant for being so fleeting. Margaret Thatcher: the Iron Lady of British film 2013-04-09T07:00:06Z All of the figures are endowed by costume designer Maggie Morgan with a painterly grandeur. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z It's the blend of grimy images and orchestral grandeur that makes it work. New band of the day ? No 841: Devlin 2010-08-05T14:29:00Z The revelations are utterly at odds with Obama's long-held myth of his father's grandeur, a myth propagated by his well-meaning mother. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z The overpowering grandeur of Dudamel's Mahler Third is ultimately and irresistibly utopian. Gustavo Dudamel brings out the full force and awe of Mahler's Third Symphony 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Bleak House is Dickens’ grandest, most virtuosic achievement, but with all that grandeur and virtuosity it still makes me cry for Esther Summerson. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 1: Bleak House 2012-02-07T09:59:35Z Set pieces that in other would form the heroic denouement occur with frequency, while the triumphal architecture of the first Halo is back, lending the game an epic grandeur. This week's new games 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z Yet when we reached the corner of Eddy and Mason Streets, home of the Ambassador Hotel, I was struck by its grandeur. Uncovering Gay History in San Francisco 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Films are shown in cramped, confined backrooms or in the faded grandeur of art deco picture palaces from the colonial era. Cinemas in Africa – from cramped shacks to screenings in the Sahara 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Her voice hasn’t the tiniest drop of the voluptuous lushness that imbued Vaughan’s friskiest performances with a semioperatic grandeur. Music Review: Cyrille Aimée and the Surreal Band at Birdland 2012-11-23T22:27:45Z In Uchida’s hands, that finale — in Beethovenian fashion, a journey from profound despair to euphoric heights — achieved a kind of holy grandeur. Review: Mitsuko Uchida Revisits Beethoven’s Final Sonatas 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z There’s grace and grandeur in a shot of men working on a mist-wreathed train track, but also a sense of how destiny becomes manifest. Bruce Baillie, a Film-Poet Collapsing Inner and Outer Space 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z On the opposite hill, find huntsman grandeur at the Buzzard Bar, which has a mahogany bar top that’s twice as old as man-made Table Rock. 10 Secrets of Big Cedar Lodge 2010-03-24T20:56:00Z The movie also gives the neighborhood’s tall apartment blocks a touch of fairy-tale grandeur, at one point panning up a pair of buildings so as to emphasize their looming bulk. A fairy tale with a real-life grit 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Still, “the anthem-like grandeur of songs from his later period was perfect for the setting.” From the archives: A look back at Elton John’s very energetic Seattle-area concerts 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Artist Ruben Toledo’s unobtrusive set designs convey an appealing mix of grandeur and warmth. Review | At the Kennedy Center (at last), Miami City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ is a perfect Thanksgiving story 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z As the title suggests, El Royale — a motor lodge with pretensions of grandeur, which seems like an apt metaphor for this movie — isn’t a place for a good night’s sleep. Review: Hard-Boiled Play in ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z “Isfahan” Ellington was a master of mood and atmosphere who could turn the most fleeting of impressions into indelible musical grandeur. Duke Ellington: 5 Essential Tracks (To Celebrate His 114th Birthday) 2013-04-29T21:29:17Z But France’s national operator, the SNCF, is trying to reclaim some of its old grandeur — creating new units to improve train food quality and to restart the Orient Express line in the next five years. A Writing Retreat by Rail, From Paris to the Côte d’Azur 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z “It’s a typical example of English grandeur that it is using the wrong word because ‘pardoned’ is not what’s necessary, ‘apology’ is really necessary,” Everett said. Wilde's struggle has echoes in some countries today, says 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z “Gosford Park,” like “The Remains of the Day” and “Atonement,” limned the grandeur of a fading aristocracy with glints of delusion and corruption. Critic?s Notebook: ?Downton Abbey? Stokes Flames for Season 2 - Review 2012-01-06T17:33:23Z Precision of attack let even this modest-size group take on fearsome grandeur when singing of the ripping of the temple’s curtain as Jesus was crucified. Les Arts Florissants Returns to New York, Endangered 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Teuscher is the complete package, a mixture of astonishing technique, grandeur and ease. Devon Teuscher, a Poet in Ballet Shoes, Takes On ‘Swan Lake’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z It’s the most dramatic-looking newcomer this season, with more than 300 seats; such grandeur is typical of the owners, Tao Group Hospitality. In Fall’s Biggest Openings, Experience Is on the Menu 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Harris’ “Peak” is an especially luminous stylization of icy, precipitous grandeur. Art, science, eco-concerns meet in ‘Vanishing Ice’ exhibit 2014-01-17T22:53:03Z The real magic is how its characters see grandeur in the mundane, like the Shamroxx employees holding medieval jousts atop shopping carts in the restaurant parking lot. Review: ‘Lodge 49,’ Where Beautiful Losers Join the Club 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z In a grand display of of female power, opera veteran Deborah Voigt brings Wagnerian grandeur to Episode 11 as the Queen of Sweden. They filmed the opera 'Vireo' on Alcatraz. Soon you can stream it on your iPad or phone 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z To match the high-end grandeur of the crew’s lyrics, the DJ booths were fashioned after sports car chassis. Review | A$AP Mob continues the legacy of the New York hip-hop crew 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z In last week’s episode of “The Last of Us,” Ellie waded through a flooded hotel lobby, delighting in the decaying grandeur of a social institution she had only read about. ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 3: One More Good Day 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z When “Fury Road” reaches for emotional grandeur it relies on the faces of its cast — Ms. Theron could be a silent-movie heroine, despite the noise that surrounds her — and on Junkie XL’s superb, full-throated score. Review: ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: Still Angry After All These Years 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z In our current moment of identity politics and multicultural Balkanization, Murray offers a vision of America in all its grandeur and maddening complexity. If You Could Add One Book to the High School Curriculum, What Would It Be? 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z But that said, there was one moment of grandeur in the weekend. Scottish Composer James MacMillan Opens Cumnock Tryst 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z But it wasn’t another lover, and it wasn’t the scenic grandeur or sparkling nightlife. Capturing the Joyful Spirit of a Montana General Store 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z HBO’s “Silicon Valley” lampoons the arrogant grandeur of today’s tech industry, and shows like USA’s “Mr. Robot” and Netflix’s “Black Mirror” examine the darker aspects of tech in our lives. ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Clears Its Cache for Season 3 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Root, whose filmmaking concentrated on the natural wonders of Africa, was known for inventive shots that captured both the grandeur of gigantic herds and up-close images of animals and their behavior. Alan Root, Oft-Bitten Wildlife Filmmaker, Dies at 80 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z But it's a tour-de-force of fine technique, too, from the floating grandeur of its red-dyed ostrich feathers, up top, to the lace ruffles on the couple's bodices below. Review: In 'Exquisite Allegory' at Winston W?chter, every picture tells at least one story 2011-02-03T21:03:05Z His Bruckner steered a middle course, neither aggressively craggy or ingratiatingly moulded; there was grandeur when there needed to be, also a wonderful sense of line in the opening and slow movements. BBC Philharmonic/Mena - review 2010-10-17T21:46:00Z In Bridge's Rebus Overture, a crisp little opening idea is transformed into something of lush, optimistic grandeur. Prom 37: BBCPhil/Lazic/Sinaisky - review 2011-08-12T10:37:25Z His mother, for one, wondered why he did not commemorate the grandeur of the Old South — the plantation mansions and magnolias. William A. Christenberry, Photographer of Rural South, Dies at 80 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z The scenes of their disastrous passage at sea are drawn with gorgeous and horrible strokes, sometimes Melvillean in their grandeur. Review | ‘What Strange Paradise’ is a visceral account of a refugee’s desperation 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z The master plan is careful to respect and give breathing room to the 1939 building, which achieves an unusual balance between grandeur and pedestrian scale, not to mention between ornament and spare abstraction. Metro's Union Station master plan a significant shift 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Like the sacrificial fairy-tale hero of the title, he’s a martyr to his self-destructive impulses, but Mr. Everett gives him a grandeur that prohibits pity. Review: In His Last Years, Oscar Wilde Is Far From ‘The Happy Prince’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Given a context, fragments of statues regain some of their former grandeur. Land of reinvention 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z A digital print by Sou Fujimoto Architects of Tokyo, in which pines soar deliriously overhead, captures the museum-as-national-park feeling with particular grandeur. Art Review | 'Contemplating the Void': Take This Museum and Shape It 2010-02-19T05:56:00Z But it's powerfully done, with real fervour in the choral singing, and Nelsons gets the difficult mix of austerity and ritual grandeur absolutely right. Stravinsky: The Firebird; Symphony of Psalms 2010-05-13T21:40:00Z Whether fact and fancy, the intersection of Whitman’s grandeur, grandiosity and tenderness is similarly believable. Walt Whitman's operatic America in 'Crossing' gets its West Coast premiere 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z “I suppose it’s the grandeur, the scale; it’s heroic, it’s also pure sculpture,” he said then of the jet. As the 747 Begins Its Final Approach, a Pilot Takes a Flight Down Memory Lane 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z There’s a grandeur to the homes that you don’t find anywhere else in Brooklyn. In Bed-Stuy, a New Store Is Like a Petting Zoo for Clothes 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z And despite its ornate grandeur, there lies something rather plain and wrenching at its heart. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-06-03T22:22:00Z Even more than Mr. Malkovich did, Mr. Driver makes us aware that real grandeur doesn’t always come in the expected, esthetically pleasing packages. Review: Adam Driver Heats Up a Wobbly ‘Burn This’ 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z He found his way to the paternal concern in those characters, but Nabucco’s madness and grandeur eluded him. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Iolanta’ at the New Mariinsky II in Russia 2013-05-05T19:20:13Z "Her voice swoops and soars with superb grandeur and her extraordinary dance routine, in which she seems physically to vibrate as she goes into a trance, is a wonder to behold." Critics praise 'sparkling' Lansbury 2014-03-19T11:39:46Z Inevitably, the replica does not reproduce the original cave’s air of mystery and grandeur or the sense of a profound encounter with the past. The Chauvet Cave’s Hyperreal Wonders, Replicated 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The orchestra performed with verve and a suitable sense of grandeur, but the piece, full of bombastic flourishes, lacks Tchaikovsky’s trademark melodic flair, and it sometimes sounded like much ado about nothing. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Tchaikovsky at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-07-08T20:24:36Z Anderson is the auteur who made the sky rain frogs in “Magnolia”; in front of his camera, even Southern California’s normally placid weather has the potential for grandeur. Paul Thomas Anderson Goes Back to the Valley With ‘Licorice Pizza’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z It’s mixing all those elements of home with the grandeur and amplification that you need for TV. | Q&A: Designing Sets for Oprah, Ellen, Tyra and Now Ricki 2012-09-05T22:45:37Z Guest pianist Cédric Tiberghien, 37, born in France and winner of multiple international awards, will take on the piece’s expressive grandeur. Romance and Romanticism in Valentine’s Day concerts 2013-02-07T23:24:23Z Liszt’s brooding transcription of Schubert’s song “Der Doppelgänger” emerges out of the shadowy ending of Liszt’s B minor Sonata, its grandeur and intimacy both captured here. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z So they obviously loved them in the way writers love characters who spread their own wings, so to speak – whose malignity has a certain grandeur. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak: Part Two 2013-05-15T10:31:24Z It had Byzantine, Egyptian, Spanish Colonial and Roman architectural influences and, at 90 years old, it truly exemplifies the grandeur of early Art Deco. Art Deco Los Angeles 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z But Nolan is sure to bring the grandeur and the logistics. Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z But the recent evolution brings a human scale and an appealing American idealism to spaces where self-conscious and overbearing grandeur have held sway for too long. America’s front yard 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The full triptych, in all its glittering grandeur, opens on Friday and continues through Sunday. Dance Listings for May 23-29 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z In this miniseries, Sorrentino seeks to tell the story of the politics of the Roman Catholic church as well as it formality and its grandeur in every aspect of each scenes. “The Young Pope” creator is “happy that it is a meme on Twitter”: “I’m happy that it is a meme on Twitter”: Salon interviews Paolo Sorrentino 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z The interior pile oozes grandeur with original stone walls, wood panelling, a suit of armour in the hall, and huge fireplaces. French châteaux: 10 princely stays at affordable prices 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Yet those qualities of extremism and grandeur that we think of as essentially Beethovenian were, on occasion, missing. Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie/J?rvi 2010-07-28T10:49:00Z Longborough has been the making of him, above all for the pacing and fluency of his conducting, which brings to mind the grace of Clemens Krauss's Ring rather than the grandeur of Goodall's. Der Ring des Nibelungen - review 2013-06-24T10:32:45Z Their punishing grandeur sometimes overwhelmed the tiny room, hiding Ms. Lotz underneath them. Review: Petal Played Soft Tunes and Rousing Thrashers at Silent Barn 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z “I’ve felt for a long time that if classical music is going to survive, we have to embrace the intimacy of it rather than the grandeur,” he says. The Met is betting on a blockbuster lineup to make up for this canceled year. The future of opera may depend on it. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z “It’s a good counterpoint to the grandeur of Lincoln Center’s other spaces,” said Daniel H. Stern, the society’s president. Renovations That Seek to Put Film Out Front 2011-05-15T21:56:16Z The original Alien was planned as an intergalactic spin on Jaws, another terror looming from the dark to upset humanity’s delusions of grandeur. Alien: Covenant – why Ridley Scott's facehuggers and chestbursters will never die 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z On the ground floor, Shake Shack dishes burgers amid the grandeur. A Storied Chicago Hotel With a Modern Spirit of Play 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The grandiose vistas he photographed in Yosemite are not only sublime evidence of God's grandeur or America's glory, like the same scenes when looked at through the cameras of Carleton Watkins and Ansel Adams. Eadweard Muybridge 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z “It’s still really raw and rough,” he said, comparing the area to Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood, with its faded shipyard grandeur. Copenhagen’s Latest Draw? An Abandoned Shipyard 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z The overwhelming grandeur of the cathedral’s architecture brings Alexander’s work into sharp focus. | Jane Alexander 2013-04-19T13:00:31Z An icon of the stage, Makarova was beloved for her grandeur and spontaneity, the same qualities that led her, in 1970, to become the first Russian ballerina to escape the Soviets. How Natalia Makarova changed the ballet world with this landmark production 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z But in performance, Ms. Ferreira is a chameleon known for her probing, psychologically layered portrayals and the sweeping grandeur of her singing, not to mention her energy. Bibi Ferreira, Brazil’s Grande Dame of the Stage, Can’t Stop Singing Even at 94 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z The use of drone cameras, ubiquitous and often gratuitous throughout this year’s festival, is fully justified here, and the grandeur calls for a theater-size screen. The Dance on Camera Festival Turns 50, Embracing Its Niche 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z And then there is North Dakota, which is sheer grandeur, but you have to get off the freeway and get out of the car and walk. Q&A: Where Garrison Keillor Gets ?Carried Away? 2012-05-19T00:30:02Z In their minds, they're offering something thrillingly different from the 2013 norm, and they've clearly spent a bundle to ensure that this comeback gig is enveloped in the right sort of frosty grandeur. Hurts – review 2013-02-10T18:30:18Z He told The Daily Dot that while shooting “typical landscape photography” in New Zealand, the grandeur of a concave glacier gave him the idea. Nutscaping, the latest selfie trend: Dudes shoot their balls inside beautiful landscapes — because they can 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Moments of grandeur and bursting passages of lively unevenness, though, felt like they were still settling in on Monday. Review: A ‘Rake’ Takes a Treasured Spot in the Opera Season 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Vibe: Business-friendly grandeur in an Ministry of Defense building used by spies in World War II. T Magazine: Artful Lodging 2011-03-22T18:03:21Z The imposing yet airy three-tiered set, by Daniel Conway, combines the grandeur of an old seafaring galleon with the rumpled beauty of a traveling circus. ‘The Tempest,’ á la Steampunk, in Cambridge, Mass. 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z She doesn’t carry herself with aloofness or grandeur but rather like someone who still has faith that simple, hard work is rewarded. Samira Nasr, a fashion first at Harper’s Bazaar: ‘I just want to bring more people with me to the party’ 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z The Coens see the absurdity and the narrowness in the grandeur of the Hollywood mythology on which they were raised. The Coen Brothers’ Marvellous “Hail, Caesar!” 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z The movie aims for a kind of epic grandeur that taps into the atavistic legends of the forests and mountains of the Pacific Northwest but misses by a mile. Twilight Saga: Eclipse 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z The portrait of Beethoven that Yannick Nézet-Séguin creates through his conducting tends to be one of monumental grandeur, of this composer as a towering Great Man. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z I am not a psychologist, but both his words and actions reveal a man with dangerous illusions of grandeur. Ghazi al-Gosaibi obituary 2010-08-24T17:43:00Z Decayed grandeur Miss Havisham, the distraught woman wedded to the finery of her broken marriage, made a second appearance as inspiration in the New York season. Special Report: Fashion: Leaving the Big Country 2011-02-17T19:00:58Z Díaz is at his best when he hovers just on the edge of the abstract, whether his starting point is a figure on an evening walk, a distant farmhouse or the grandeur of Mount Baker. A&E highlights: Take a bite of festivals, theater and music 2013-07-11T21:37:04Z The stirring grandeur came through, and the playing of the expansive, episodic movement was confident and full of character. New York Youth Symphony Plays Copland’s Symphony No. 3 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z It was a day I shall always remember, because it coincided with the death of my beloved white mouse, Fiona, and all that tragic melancholy seemed to give grandeur to my own. A Battle of the Hamlets 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z He was especially impressive in that first cantata, where he added power to power in the aria “Great lord, O mighty king,” supplying vivid ornamentation and giving full weight to the rhetorical grandeur. Music Review: Christmas Oratorio at St. Paul’s Chapel 2013-01-06T22:28:27Z “I’m not talking about sheer decorative overloading. I’m talking about grandeur in the best possible sense. That expectation has to be met.” Hollywood? Nope. The Met Will Do for David McVicar. 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z That same sense of natural grandeur gripped Walter de Maria. Farewell, Walter de Maria 2013-07-29T16:19:50Z In their featureless grandeur Mr. Adams’s works create containers for a kind of listening that dissolves expectation and constantly turns attention back to the present moment. Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z But once Sumac re-invented herself, forced like many performers to create a new sound in the name of success, she embraced the role with haughty grandeur. On the trail of Yma Sumac: The exotica legend came from Peru, but her career was all Hollywood 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z At Vaquera, where models stomped down the runway like toddlers in the throws of a hissy fit, the collection mocked the tasteless grandeur of the moneyed class. Marc Jacobs marks a poetic end to a fashion season of reassuring upheaval 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Viewed that way, Mozart seems like just the ticket for the orchestra — and its audience — to pause for effect, without skimping on magnitude or grandeur. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s ‘All-Mozart’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-06-21T21:44:31Z They have eaten and hugged, as it were, and have thereby rescued this ballet from its sometimes tedious grandeur. Ratmansky’s Beauty Wakes Up 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Adams, meanwhile, focused his lens on the grandeur of the landscape, for instance California’s Sierra Nevada or Yosemite National Park. Hotshots 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Free time is spent at the racetrack and sightseeing in Paris, though the grandeur of the Arc de Triomphe pales beside the allure of underage betting. | 'Lads & Jockeys': ?Lads & Jockeys,? Documentary on French Horse-Racing School 2011-12-02T05:14:06Z The isolated grandeur of this sculpture's display in Margate is a bit like the solitary splendour of Michelangelo's David in its immense niche in Florence, and it powerfully focuses attention on the greatness of Rodin. Why Rodin's The Kiss was made for Margate 2012-05-28T13:38:52Z Mr. Wadsworth’s staging is characteristically period-conscious, and balances the high stylization of Rameau’s time — down to the grandeur of the gestural vocabulary — with the more casual naturalism of ours. Review: France Once Fought Over This Opera. Juilliard Shows Us Why. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z In a tasteful reading full of sense, Mr. Gersen evoked a grandeur of announcement in the declaratory opening movement, and a calm, seraphic lyricism in the slow. Review: New York Youth Symphony Fearlessly Tackles Beethoven’s Ninth 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z The almost indescribable sense of grandeur, meant to inspire through beauty or magnitude, is why a work lasts. Review | Poet Stanley Plumly takes a lyrical look at John Constable and J.M.W. Turner 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z I simply hadn't known that – and I loved the grandeur of the word "diptych". Colm Tóibín 2013-02-19T18:17:50Z Everything about the shape, pacing and grandeur of Mr. Jansons’s account suggested that he and his players took Mahler’s grand design to heart. Music Review: A Dutch Orchestra Plumbing the Depths 2010-02-19T04:35:00Z One might expect Mr. Bowles to be uncomfortable in any other world but that of the aristocratic grandeur he loves to study. Hamish Bowles, He Was Born Dandy 2013-09-06T21:34:19Z Instead of knocking you over with Hollywood grandeur, Cocker whispers gloomy hotel gossip in your ear. Perspective | A hotel room more interesting than the cosmos: In praise of the downsized concept album 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z His camera floats over cornfields listening to the rustling of the stalks, but the somewhat graceless stabs of grandeur in "At Any Price" don't register in this uneven but respectably ambitious heartland drama. Review: 'At Any Price' doesn't register 2013-04-24T22:52:09Z Ms. Bergstein wanted a setting that conveyed the grandeur that Catskill resorts were known for in the middle of the last century, and the Mountain Lake Lodge certainly did that. ‘Dirty Dancing’: Where Kellerman’s Came to Life 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z I chose for us to meet at Grand Central, fancying that its classical grandeur was the ideal backdrop. Modern Love: A Once-Upon-a-Time Romance 2011-03-03T20:37:34Z And Mr. Carlyle’s period choreography, though often charming, lacks the grandeur and precision of Bennett’s. | 'Follies' : ?Follies? on Broadway - Review 2011-09-13T02:01:08Z In the early stages of that show's elephantine birth agonies, director Julie Taymor was trying to duplicate the surreal grandeur and technical legerdemain of a Cirque Vegas event. Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana: The Summer's Great Stage Show 2011-07-03T05:50:00Z With dramatic theatricality, but in a realistic style, the country’s leaders are portrayed almost as religious icons, while workers appear as heroes, and landscapes accentuate the power and grandeur of its natural scenery. Korean Art Goes on Show, With Protests From North and South 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z As visitors approach, the grandeur of the place emerges: the gold leaf applied around the outside of the very tall windows and the seemingly countless classical statues that punctuate the terraces. In England, a trio of stately homes illuminates a bygone age 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Pip cares little for such grandeur, but she thinks the project’s powerful servers might help her locate her missing father. Review: Jonathan Franzen's Purity Examines Wealth and Identity 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z "Theatre Is Evil" echoes the Beatles' muscular, crackling artifice, studio-based layering and epic grandeur. Amanda Palmer and Grand Theft Orchestra play Neptune Theatre 2012-09-27T20:24:14Z Its scale and ingenuity are certainly impressive, but it lacks the grandeur of, say, the Basilica Cistern in Istanbul. Matera: Italy's magical city of stone 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Under Labadie’s baton, the music was unwaveringly measured but balanced; its flashes of grandeur didn’t need to be overstated to land powerfully. Review: A ‘St. Matthew Passion’ Balances Grandeur and Calm 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z The essential grandeur of the piece wasn’t neglected either, and nothing got tangled in the intricate goings-on in the finale. Hollywood Bowl closes out its classical season with satisfying, gimmick-free Mozart 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z It lent Simon’s songs a sense of scope and grandeur that allowed them to transcend and outlive the folk revival. Art Garfunkel’s greatest interview ever: “Paul and Artie can be very squirmy around each other” 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The slabs were found centuries later, deliberately interred face-down in sand, practically the only testimony to the palace’s grandeur. The Art Lovers Who Founded Cairo 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Having sat patiently at his instrument during the introduction, Kanneh-Mason, 22, became suddenly animated, matching the ensemble’s grandeur with his own: fiery vibrato, dramatic phrasing, richly voiced yet crisp forzando chords. Review: The Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason Makes an Entrance 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z This incipient partnership will be intriguing to watch, though, with Bychkov favoring an epic grandeur at odds with the fleet and folksy Czech approach to Dvorak. Review | Czech Philharmonic showcases musical birthright 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Act one puts the principals front stage and allows Scarpia a dramatic entrance, but misses the sense of the church grandeur that the climactic Te Deum demands. Tosca – review 2013-07-10T18:20:00Z And as it rises three levels skyward, it takes on the grandeur of a crown. He’s designed hats for Dior. Now, he’s created one inspired by the African American Museum. 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z There is less of a sense of puffed-up grandeur than any of the band’s recent outings, but grandeur was something Coldplay did well, if too often. Coldplay’s ‘Ghost Stories’: This is what a conscious uncoupling sounds like His own compositions run toward an evocative style often described as cinematic — Mr. Collin maintains a sideline in film scoring — and distinguished by dark grandeur, dynamic swells and a chamberesque layering of texture. Review: ‘Press Enter,’ From the Pianist and Composer Romain Collin 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Some are large and fill the wall with a paradoxical sense of both grandeur and intimacy, heroic visions of vulnerability, commanding sculptures that depict the minimal but electric space between intertwined bodies. Review | This visionary artist lives on an island. Does that make her insular? 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z It all felt small-scale, a surprise after a rendition of the final interlude from “Wozzeck” that captured that work’s furious grandeur. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra and Simon Rattle at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-19T21:44:32Z The renovation returns the great hall to its original grandeur, complete with stone floors, soaring ceilings and skylights and ornate molding and detail. The dinos are coming (in another 18 months)! Natural History Museum returns first fossil to gallery 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z The whole journey comes to a close with an original ballad titled “The Bond,” which slowly builds from a chiming soliloquy to a sweeping, bittersweet grandeur. The Playlist: AlunaGeorge Says No and Radiohead Says Goodnight 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The use of the Bhagavad Gita throughout keeps the opera enigmatic and poetic, endowing Gandhi’s evolution from lawyer to activist with epic grandeur. A Jaw-Dropping Philip Glass Opera Is Finally on Video 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Photographers come clean on how they created their favourite works 'I like this because you get a real sense of grandeur' ? Photographer Kudzanai Chiurai's best shot 2011-07-10T20:45:01Z This score shows Rossini balancing the florid Italianate bel canto style with pioneering dramatic grandeur, setting the stage for the French grand opera era. Review: A New, Abstract ‘Guillaume Tell’ at the Met Opera 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z A few years later, the architect Richard Morris Hunt argued that what the “silent stretch of rural landscape…” lacked was the “artistic grandeur of Paris.” 10 Places That Define New York City, Reimagined 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z But, while Stephens admirably embodies Danton's anti-heroic aspect, there is a perverse grandeur to the man whom Carlyle dubbed the "Titan of the Revolution" which subtly eludes him. Theatre review 2010-07-23T00:13:00Z It’s still true, and a flurry of new hotels there blend whimsy, eclectic grandeur and funky design to charming effect. A comeback for the Big Easy with music, art and energy 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Thus the almost unimaginable grandeur of nature is shovelled up and deposited for our contemplation in a typically clinical white-cube contemporary art gallery. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-08T23:05:26Z It was the grandeur and hyperreality of Jewel I was most looking forward to when I first arrived for our Changi vacation. My 27-Hour Vacation in Singapore’s Changi Airport 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z In the years that followed, using an extensive archive of prewar photographs, the city worked to rebuild it stone by stone, to restore as much as possible of its prewar grandeur. In Munich and Dessau, Art and Design Call. But History Is Even More Compelling. 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Yet the creators also showed a strong command of that flash and grandeur, using it to frame a good story. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 1, Episode 8: Ramble On 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z His language, a mix of Hollywood grandeur and primal, percussive vitality, was consistent throughout the evening, yet each segment had its own distinct sound. Music Review: Evoking Forbidden Love and Flying Ancient Armies 2011-08-14T21:21:17Z Delusions of grandeur and illusions of the apocalypse cloud their vision. Donald Trump is the white boomers’ last gasp — believe it or not, the future looks brighter 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z A victim of the 1970s boom in overseas travel — the British swapped Margate for Mallorca — it has endured a period of sullen decay, its plight only heightened by the disheveled grandeur of its Edwardian inheritance. Britain’s oldest roller coaster is ready to ride after a $30 million park makeover 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The sweeping, throat-catching grandeur of the coastline awed us, but it was tiny miracles that stopped us in our tracks. Slow Travel: Walking in Wales 2013-05-24T17:03:36Z Today Hotel Paris is very chic, exuding luxurious comfort, but four decades ago it gave off an air of faded grandeur. Once upon a life: Paul Bailey 2011-01-09T00:05:19Z The grandeur and portent of the cavern are to die for, as several of the crew members soon find out. Prometheus: Alien Minus One 2012-06-05T13:20:45Z While there is less grandeur and poetry in these productions, the great virtue is that the company can perform in towns not usually on the ballet circuit. This week's new dance 2010-12-11T00:07:00Z This weekend of super-retro entertainment in the Essex countryside seeks to replicate the fun and grandeur of a genuine Victorian country house May Day event. Maldon Mud Race, Ely Eel Day: new events this week 2013-05-04T05:00:21Z It aims for epic grandeur, ethical clarity and also a measure of historical credibility. Review: ‘Hostiles’ Grapples With the Contradictions of the Western 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z It lends grandeur and dignity to their doings, and allows them to look down on the notionally more successful societies of the West as doomed and decadent. The in crowd 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Still, it has a certain grandeur, if ultimately it's an inspiritingly ambitious folly. Cloud Atlas – review 2013-02-24T00:06:09Z If the production as a whole made up for the diminished dramatics with ample attention to its intellectual grandeur — as it does in the trial scene — it might even have seemed bracingly modern. Review: In Shaw’s ‘Saint Joan,’ a Sane and Sensible Martyr 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z I mean, he’s very bad, but his malevolence is laced with melancholy, and there is a ghastly grandeur to his ambition. ‘Avengers: Infinity War’: It’s Marvel’s Universe. We Just Live in It. 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z He’s stuffed tight with delusions of grandeur and fetid grievances. Review | ‘The Doll Factory’ is a guilty pleasure wrapped around a provocative history lesson 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z You might assume that they’d be all impersonal grandeur and showy virtuosity, but no. How ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Tells Its Story Through Ballet 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z The grandeur and portent of the cavern are to die for, as several of the crew members will soon find out. Prometheus: Alien Minus One 2012-06-05T13:20:45Z Still, the paradox of Beyoncé has meant that even as she has slipped somewhat on the charts, her larger cultural prestige has remained supreme, driven by the mystique and grandeur she brings to each project. Is Beyoncé’s Latest Album Rollout (Gasp!) Conventional? 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z They may lack the grandeur of old masters collections in other cities, but the medieval and Renaissance European paintings at the Gemäldegalerie must be some of the world’s most alluring. 36 Hours in Berlin 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z “Warmth” isn’t a quality you normally connect with computer music, and some of Pampin’s works have a mighty and terrifying grandeur to them. The UW mixes art and science with worldwide talent 2014-03-05T21:10:38Z Her judgment seems severe and unfair, but she also possesses an undeniable grandeur, a seriousness about family, power and her own identity that is noble as well as cruel. Review: ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Is a Party With a First-Rate Guest List 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z A scene in which two aged patrons are revealed to be two of the martial-arts stars has the intimate grandeur of a grizzled Wild West fadeout. Movies 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z With his passing, we lose a poet of grandeur. Derek Walcott's poetry had grandeur, an exuberance of language 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z In the process he fails to deliver on most of the elements — grandeur, historical sweep, genuine pathos — that would have made the film worthwhile. | 'The Flowers of War': ?Flowers of War?: Zhang Yimou on Nanjing Massacre - Review 2011-12-20T19:28:33Z The huge canvas, unstretched, and flat to the wall, has the grandeur of a Renaissance fresco. Painting From the 1980s, When Brash Met Flash 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z With a reduced orchestration and a company of 10 actors, his staging, with choreography by Bill T. Jones, won’t have the grandeur of grand opera or the dazzle of Broadway. ‘Carmen Jones’ Is Back, and Its Director Knows What You’re Thinking 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z “And tourists wandering around in all that emptiness — where was the Flatiron, the Empire State — looking for past grandeur. Imagine good old New York someday just like Egypt.” New York’s Midcentury Art Scene Springs to Life in ‘The Loft Generation’ 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z The later Rattle moulds the great paragraphs of the Brahms Piano Quartet in a way that tends to blur its outlines and undermine the stark grandeur that emerges so powerfully in the earlier performance. Schoenberg: Accompaniment to a Film Scene; Chamber Symphony; etc ? review 2011-08-25T21:15:02Z In Paris, it means restoring an old apartment to the Platonic ideal of Haussmannian grandeur and then bringing in contemporary furniture that somehow throws the plaster cornices and marble fireplaces into sharper relief. | Striking a Balance 2014-04-09T15:00:26Z The camera carries its own gaze with dreamlike detachment, often from within the vast sea of sheep as they are guided up and into the harsh grandeur of a Big Sky paradise. 'Sweetgrass' follows sheep up majestic mountains of Montana 2010-03-25T21:33:00Z Instead of aspiring to grandeur, we surrender to pettiness and accommodation. ‘Self and Soul’: Mark Edmundson’s biting critique of modern complacency 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Nature echoed the story’s grandeur and hysteria, even if Catán did not. Music Review: Gotham Chamber Opera Offers ‘Hija de Rappaccini’ Outdoors 2013-06-21T19:28:50Z The place exuded a grandeur that describes the man, too. At 85, the Jazz Bassist Ron Carter Still Seeks ‘A Better Order of Notes’ 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Each player has their own distinct touch, and inside Leppin’s compositions, the collective seemed to be approaching maximum sensitivity, generating momentum without grandeur, cultivating intimacy without sentimentality. Review | Janel Leppin’s Ensemble Volcanic Ash is making a jazzlike sound you can look forward to 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z Obama describes the dizzying sci-fi epic, a collaboration between Kubrick and renowned author and thinker Arthur C Clarke, as a film that “captures the grandeur and scale of the unknown”. Barack to the future: what can we learn from Obama's sci-fi movie list? 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z This is not a place to seek out the glow and grandeur of fully achieved masterpieces. Critic?s Notebook: New Directors/New Films at the Film Society of Lincoln Center 2012-03-20T22:30:26Z They were entering the lobby of the Isarphilharmonie, a new concert hall far from the old-fashioned grandeur of the Bavarian State Opera or the Herkulessaal, inside the former royal palace. A Temporary Concert Hall Hopes for a Permanent Audience 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z “Just Like Love” hints at both Enya and girl-group grandeur as it urges victims of harassment, “They’re rough, smother them with velvet” and adds, “When it happens again/Baby hold on and stare them down.” Perfume Genius Grows Brasher and More Introspective on ‘No Shape’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z That was certainly the case in Mr. Hobson’s interpretation, in which the beauty, grandeur and overall structure of the piece succumbed to the enormous effort merely required to get through it. Music Review: Chopin and Schumann, at 200, and Their Inspirations 2010-08-25T21:13:00Z He became the first Chinese ruler to assume the heaven-kissed title of emperor — Qi Shihuangdi, or First Emperor of Qin — and built a tomb near Xian, in northwestern China, to match its grandeur. ‘Age of Empires’: How 2 Dynasties of Art Forged China’s Identity 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Entitled Blood and Opulence, it was unisex and featured greatcoats and gowns with the grandeur of the Russian Revolution, brought down to earth by blood and mud. A Designer’s Suicide and the Clothes He Left Behind 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Pavilion is a vision of symmetry and scale, ambition and grandeur. Prominent pavilions at the Venice Biennale 2013-06-01T06:26:10Z Ms. LeCrone made good use of Ms. Reichlen’s sunny grandeur and Mr. Angle’s aplomb as a partner: His one-handed support of Ms. Reichlen in pirouettes made them both look regally secure. Dance Review: From Emery LeCrone, Two Dances to One Bach Partita 2014-03-25T21:50:23Z But instead of terror, it evokes grandeur — even awe. Seattle Symphony strikes somber note with pairing of ‘4’33,’ ‘My Beautiful Scream’ 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z “Rising High” slots cleanly into a genre of rich-dude movies that encourage us to revel in their characters’ grandeur. ‘Rising High’ Review: From Rags to Riches, Without a Conscience 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z But these issues are evident in the contrast between the glorious theatrical grandeur of Crystal and the alluring near-neutrality of Harlow. “The Queen”: The Documentary That Went Behind the Scenes of a Drag Pageant Years Before “Paris Is Burning” 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Brutal realism is offset by romanticism, idealism, even a flawed human grandeur. What films have you been watching? 2012-11-05T17:03:19Z Krasin wanted Lenin's mausoleum to be a site that surpassed Jerusalem and Mecca in grandeur and significance. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z The music is denser and more intricate, conjuring symphonic grandeur alongside overdriven noise. That Dog. Made Its First Album in 22 Years. A Lot Has Changed. 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Le Monde felt that it was his "remarkable performance that brought a sense of tragedy to the film and, at moments, its grandeur". Laurent Terzieff obituary 2010-07-21T17:58:00Z Mr. Frühbeck de Burgos molded this sound into a reading rich in drama and grandeur, and emphasized those same qualities and sonic attributes in a brisk, magnificently emphatic rendering of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Music Review: Dresden Philharmonic Led by Rafael Fr?hbeck de Burgos at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-12T22:35:40Z In terms of grandeur and bombast, the Icelandic quartet ably matches and often exceeds that of its contemporaries. Lollapalooza Day 3: Jack White, Florence + the Machine, At the Drive-In and the amazing Amadou and Mariam 2012-08-06T06:00:00Z Gražinytė-Tyla deferred to him as the concerto’s narrator, with modest accompaniment and rarely blooming grandeur. Review: A Conductor Takes a Victory Lap With Her Orchestra 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Burns has none of the grandeur of a traditional Broadway diva. Review: Andrea Burns at Feinstein’s/54 Below 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Phil was Apollo's orchestra, however grim, every minute dazzling in its grandeur. Gustavo Dudamel, L.A. Philharmonic focus on Apollo 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z They get delusions of grandeur and I think it can be very lonely. Sun, sea and silver service: what’s it like crewing on a superyacht? 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z You felt, during a single note, the Swan’s grandeur in flight. Jookin in Memphis, Celebrated 2012-11-18T04:50:46Z Monkman’s paintings engage directly with both the architectural grandeur of the museum and its traditional display of history painting. Perspective | America needs an epic narrative right now. Painters are working on it. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z For all of its bombast, grandeur, melodrama and over-the-top chest-clawing ridiculousness, opera at its most grand is art at its most human. Review | Washington National Opera returns to the stage, and it’s something to sing about 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z So there you are, soaking in the grandeur of the gorgeous set. I won big on "Jeopardy!" So why does it still haunt me? 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z The start of the Adagio of Trio No. 1 is especially memorable, its hushed, fragile strings alternating with a piano line played by Mr. Vogt with both softness and grandeur. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z And he sat in a fuzzy silver-gray armchair, too reflective to be truly tasteful, but offering up the comfort and aesthetics of a doctor’s office with delusions of grandeur. “SNL”’s Donald Trump trainwreck: Welcoming a racist megalomaniac under the guise of edgy humor blew up in the show’s face 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Each chapter takes a simple aspect of nature, such as a chewed-off shrub branch or the season's first flower, and mixes in science, observation and philosophical musings to reveal the grandeur of nature. 'The Forest Unseen': a very close watch on nature 2012-03-14T19:56:10Z There was grandeur, too, in Valerie Coleman’s “This Is Not a Small Voice,” her new setting of a poetic paean to Black pride by Sonia Sanchez that weaves from rumination to bold declaration. Review: Without a Note of Beethoven, an Orchestra Shines 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Once a haunt for the Kennedy clan and Marilyn Monroe, the Café Carlyle retains its reputation as a stronghold of old New York grandeur. Suzanne Vega Is Tidying Her Home and Tending Her Soul (in Sensible Jackets) 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Stanley was above all that; he plied his craft in solitary Olympian grandeur. Stanley Kauffmann: The Old Master of Movie Criticism 2013-10-09T23:03:45Z In terms of both its visual scheme and its social scene, it is a caricature of Manhattan drafted with a passion for Romantic grandeur and a nostalgia for preppy totems. “Neo Yokio: Pink Christmas” Is the Most Eccentric TV Special of the Festive Season 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Onstage, prowling runways that projected him into the audience, he would build a tune to operatic grandeur, then tear it apart with a sobbing coda. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z Mr. Schiff played the opening chords with appropriate grandeur and the charming final movement with witty panache. Music Review | Andras Schiff: Sharing Affinity for Haydn 2010-03-01T05:49:00Z The ship herself was thing of glorious bigness and frailty: imagining her might and grandeur as Henry VIII's flagship while contemplating her delicate timbers created a strange thrill of history recovered and power decayed. The Mary Rose museum has cast me adrift on a sea of 80s nostalgia 2013-05-30T16:00:01Z From a two-dimensional page, they must conjure three-dimensional grandeur; their words must help readers envision spaces that were meant to be experienced, not described. Sunday Reading: Cityscapes 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z The Lynx lodge has a history steeped in grandeur, but it’s now mainly a sometime rental hall and watering hole for an ensemble of castoffs. Review: ‘Lodge 49,’ Where Beautiful Losers Join the Club 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Recorded with producer Wally Gagel, who Bruno said encouraged the band to experiment with its arrangements, the album at times recalls "Celebrity Skin," Hole's 1998 ode to the poisoned grandeur of Hollywood. Best Coast reaches a higher state with 'California Nights' 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z She brought that same grandeur to showing off her friends: bona fide Hollywood celebrities and wealthy power brokers. In first lady, Nancy Reagan found the role of a lifetime 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Sculptures bookend the sofa, paintings and prints decorate the walls and the overall atmosphere is one of beauty, historic grandeur and repose. ‘Love at First Sight’ Inspired This African Art Collection 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z With no words and barely a pause, a Lamborghini going from zero to 60 in the blink of an eye, the orchestra launched into the galloping grandeur of Szymanowski’s Concert Overture. A Conductor Considers Her Future 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z That face, a crevassed landscape that suggests sorrow and history, has the granitic grandeur of W. H. Auden in his later life. | 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy': ?Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,? With Gary Oldman - Review 2011-12-09T00:00:43Z “Preserving the sweep and grandeur of a story like this requires bold, innovative thinking,” Mr. Jenkins said in a statement. Barry Jenkins’s ‘The Underground Railroad’ in the Works at Amazon 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Some of the movies that follow rise to social fury and historical grandeur, with performers deeply committed to the men and women they portray. Mandela in the Movies: 10 Films About Apartheid 2013-12-06T21:21:59Z However, there was criticism of the grandeur and cost to the taxpayer for a minor royal. UK's Princess Beatrice to marry at St James's Palace in May 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Then it's a circular route back along the canal to the Victorian suburb of Jericho, where the industrial, brooding, Jude the Obscure atmosphere complements the grandeur of medieval Oxford. A Perfect Day... in Oxford 2012-03-05T03:35:00Z Hannah is the kind of person who frets, while taking in the grandeur of Alaska, about the way that “thoughts about how small you are always feel small themselves.” The Heroines in Curtis Sittenfeld’s First Story Collection Are All Grown Up 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Now his family members watch him perform on USA Network's "Monday Night Raw," and they see a David Otunga they don't recognize: a conceited character with delusions of grandeur. David the Goliath gets what he wants 2011-03-22T21:55:00Z "We're only making a musical, it's not changing the world. But they did change the world... with such little sense of self importance or grandeur." Arterton praises 'Dagenham ladies' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Their interpretation was primarily hampered by disparities of approach and unequal concepts of grandeur. Proms 69 & 70: RSNO/Den?ve; Ensemble Matheus/Spinosi 2010-09-07T11:11:00Z Page could also be called the first crossover artist: having throughly assimilated the throaty grandeur of big-band thrushes, she retained an Oklahoma freshness. Patti Page: The Oklahoma Thrush With ‘The Tennessee Waltz’ 2013-01-04T21:54:52Z Choosing that isolated, sparsely populated and energy-deprived area to present the work of one of the most power-dependent artists in the world is truly a folie de grandeur. In Argentina, Wine, Art and Altitude 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z The way this show enacts that frustration, though, often lapses into tediousness, closer to the worst goopy grandeur of “Dawson’s Creek” than the energetic cleverness of “The O.C.” Review: ‘Looking For Alaska’ but Finding Talky Teens 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z In his industry, Milch is well known for his writing style, which blends articulate grandeur with defiant obscenity, and for his appetites. David Milch Still Has Stories to Tell 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Gardiner never imposed grandeur on these scores, preferring to emphasize the lucidity afforded by a period orchestra. This Is How to Do a Beethoven Symphony Cycle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z But Jeffery Kissoon admirably brings out Antony's echoes of lost grandeur even if, in the present, he exists in a state of sexual enthralment and is sustained by constant recourse to a hip flask. Antony and Cleopatra - review 2010-10-15T00:54:00Z In a 180-degree turn from the gilded, glam-slam collection of a year ago, this one put the lush grandeur into the fabrics: mink for a vest, the goatskin of a jacket, a crocodile suit. Fashion Review: Tom Ford, Glamour Cowboy 2014-02-18T09:40:38Z Both were romantics, but Waters’s idealism faced forward, while Tower’s nostalgia sent him ceaselessly back to the grandeur of the past. Jeremiah Tower, a Forgotten Father of the American Food Revolution 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z But the conductor’s steadfast refusal to linger robbed key moments of grandeur, most crucially the magical lead-in to the finale’s main theme and the climactic brass chorale. Pianist and conductor diverge, clash during their BSO debuts 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Worse yet, the film, using the 3-D technology that helped make such a gorgeous experience, lacks visual grandeur. Sanctum Review: A Soggy, James Cameron-less misadventure 2011-02-03T17:35:00Z We'll also see a lot of the grandeur of the old myths, which will explain why they were so popular for so long. Comics: Thank God it's "Thorsday" 2011-05-04T17:48:04Z Their mixture of acoustic instruments and rumbling electronics creates an icy sonic grandeur, straying into drill 'n' bass. Unsound Adelaide: Lustmord, Demdike Stare, Pole, Ben Frost - review 2013-03-17T07:50:00Z His work is deeply evocative of Indian history and culture, drawing on the grandeur of shrines and temples, the bustle of city streets and the local materials from his grandfather’s furniture workshop. Top Architecture Prize Goes to Low-Cost Housing Pioneer From India 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z They were a local, social, human-scaled landscape, removed in favor of imposing a national vision of grandeur, progress and rationality. Is architect Bjarke Ingels’s bold remake of the Smithsonian Castle grounds mere folly? Step into the stark lobby of this 1870s Haussmann-era building, and the stately grandeur of Paris immediately evaporates. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: W Paris-Opéra 2012-06-01T19:32:43Z But Aucoin gives the sequence an orchestral accompaniment of Wagnerian grandeur, rising to a pitched climax, as if the father had just built Valhalla. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Eurydice’ Tries to Raise the Dead 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z But mostly there was a feeling that everything at Rochas was big: bold shapes, rich fabrics and women affluent enough to invest in such grandeur. Fashion Review: Dries Van Noten: Optical Illusion 2014-02-26T19:28:00Z Captive in Iraq, Stymied by Voice Mail “Buried” is a horror movie with delusions of moral grandeur. | 'Buried': Captive in Iraq, Stymied by Voice Mail 2010-09-23T23:03:00Z “She told this story about the grandeur of the venue, and how she even remembered the coat check,” Caskey said of Parker. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick revive a Broadway tradition: An out-of-town play tryout 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Sinaisky conveys the work's impacted grandeur and its cast-iron structural integrity very well indeed, and the Malmö orchestra rises to the challenge of its great climaxes most impressively. Schmidt: Symphony No 4; Variations on a Hussar's Song ? review 2010-12-02T22:45:00Z As presented here, Holmes harbored delusions of grandeur but couldn’t cope with the messy realities of bioengineering. How One Company Scammed Silicon Valley. And How It Got Caught. 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z And after so many careful permutations of proximity, the yawning grandeur of the hall felt strangely ordinary. Music Review: The xx Play to Small Audiences in a Big New York Space 2014-03-20T11:33:13Z With no loss of drive, the dance maintains a grandeur befitting its ancient Greek subject. Dance Review: Sokolow Theater/Dance Ensemble at Cunningham Studio - Review 2011-11-13T23:09:41Z To Flinders, its corals were a “new creation” with shapes “excelling in grandeur the most favourite parterre of the curious florist”. A world in water 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Her communications director admitted to being slightly concerned about what they would cake onto Pelosi’s face, given the show’s knack for grandeur. Why Nancy Pelosi was hanging out at a D.C. gay bar watching ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z At the start of the Adagio, hushed, husky, fragile strings alternate with a piano line played by Mr. Vogt with ineffable softness, yet a quality of looming grandeur. Classical Playlist: Lewis Spratlan, Beethoven and Brahms 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z The grandeur of the hall makes an immense impression at all times, surrounding people with drama. The Art of Summer: Art of Summer: Grand Central?s Fluid Human Dance 2011-08-31T12:02:00Z On Thursday, Ms. Davidsen didn’t appear to shrink her voice, treating the room as if it were the Met, while Mr. Baillieu matched her with the grandeur of Liszt’s Wagner transcriptions. The Met Opera’s Newest Star Returns, on the Small Screen 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z “First Man” falls short of that kind of grandeur, though not for lack of trying. Review: ‘First Man’ Takes a Giant Leap for Man, a Smaller Step for Movies 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z This collection is far more than an homage to past grandeur. The Colorful History of the Little Black Dress 2013-08-05T10:41:12Z Even the prickly interdependence of the spinster and her mulish employee has less drama than the relationship of the two to the grim grandeur of their environment. The Wild West in the South of France 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z And, for a wine of less grandeur, his 2015 sylvaner, a grape practically unknown in the United States, is floral and zesty. Alsatian Wines Strike a Balance of Dry and Sweet 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Ms. Amato exudes imperial grandeur as Calantha, which comes in handy in the peculiar scene in which she is brought news of various deaths and yet keeps dancing at a steady pace. Theater Review: In ?The Broken Heart,? Tainted Love, Onstage at the Duke 2012-02-14T23:28:52Z Gilbert asks: I have to say, hearing you describe those performances makes me miss the grandeur of a concert hall, sort of in the same way I miss the largeness of a movie screen. Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z In this memoir, he captures both the grandeur of orbit and daily details like interplanetary bathroom techniques. Fascinating new nonfiction 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z They must find where to breathe, but also where to maintain momentum, in music full of emotional extremes and Romantic grandeur. Leif Ove Andsnes on Chopin’s Ballades, ‘the Peak of Romantic Piano Music’ 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Sims, with simplicity and grandeur, imbued Mr. Ailey’s classical steps with the grounded, soulful spirit of modern dance without relinquishing their aqueous flow. Alvin Ailey Troupe in an Evening of Mostly Ellington 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Chickpeas, when enjoyed in their crispy grandeur, can not only elevate a meal as a side, but they can also be the focal point. Canned chickpeas are better than soaked ones 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z With their tawdry, topsy-turvy grandeur, these works appropriate the bare concrete floor, which faintly reflects them, as a “Stingel.” Validation successful. There was an error saving this asset. Please contact System Administrator. 2011-03-24T22:20:23Z Beyond the red carpet, fancy gowns are also back in favor, but worn subversively without hauteur or grandeur. A Celebration of Dressing Up 2012-05-21T12:30:29Z Bradley Peterson’s projections, which dominate the simple set, use images of nature to amplify the piece’s sly grandeur. Review: ‘Ipsa Dixit’ Makes an Unlikely Opera Out of Aristotle 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z No contemporary portrait of Budapest could overlook its grandeur: its opulent architecture, its stirring public spaces, its many richly appointed interiors. Reckoning With Memories of Budapest 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z What delusional grandeur made me think I could tame the unpredictable, mercurial and gloriously messy ride known as life? If this is my final tweet 2012-06-29T23:30:00Z But he also reveals, unintentionally, its distance from authentic grandeur and sublimity. “The Walk” Falls Short of Artistry 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Phelan, who danced the matinee Dec. 16, was the more regal and warm of the two: an exquisite performance, with moments of sweeping grandeur. New York City Ballet Introduces Its Future With a Flurry of ‘Nutcracker’ Debuts 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z It’s a powerful introduction to this foursome that exudes a steely sense of grandeur and mystery, but soon enough Ms. Sperber trades experimentation for ornamentation. Review: Anna Sperber Plays With Light, Movement and Architecture in ‘Ruptured Horizon’ 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z At a time when many racing games try so hard to capture the majesty of machines and deliver grandeur and photo-realistic settings, it's worth celebrating an exhilarating game full of chaos. Game On: 'Apocalypse' chaotic brilliance 2011-05-04T17:29:04Z Yet, in striving for grandeur, the ponderous sometimes prevailed. Music Review: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-02-04T23:37:45Z They are not led astray by the artist's delusions of grandeur, alienating a virtuous, right-thinking public. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z Ticket prices approaching the astronomical come with an expectation of grandeur: somewhere, a milliner is bending eco-friendly materials into a sturdy, Gaga-head-shaped frame. The Week Ahead: May 9 ? 15 2010-05-06T18:46:00Z She soars in her rich depictions of intimacy and relationships, in all their grandeur. So You’re Rivals? And You’re Fake-Dating? Classic. 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z And his interpretation is at times low-key, with some of the big setpieces, particularly the Rose Adagio, notably lacking in grandeur. Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty – review 2013-01-10T22:15:03Z The awe-inspiring journey continues on guided quarry tours, where visitors are taken deep inside the mountain to experience the caves’ majestic grandeur. Overnighter: In Tuscany, Carrara Tempts Eyes and Mouth 2010-10-01T14:14:00Z It retains the full respiratory grandeur of his large seascapes, the nearly abstract polychromes of his late whaling pictures. J.M.W. Turner: The Romantic Turns Reformist 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Delusions of grandeur can be tricky to shake. The new Smirnoff advert 2012-11-17T00:05:22Z The West is more immediate and can still overawe the spectator with substantial remnants of its old annihilating grandeur. Review | Before the West, there was the East, and it was wild 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Ashley’s staging follows suit, going for grandeur but, in its haste, reaching only the clamminess of farce. ‘Diana, the Musical’ Review: Exploiting the People’s Princess 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z The long history of war writing — from Tennyson to Pat Barker to Adichie — tends toward the grandeur and grace we call “the sublime.” Maaza Mengiste Sings a Modern Song of War 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Greif seems not to realize that his own book is a lasting monument to precisely such inquiry, and to its grandeur. Among the Disrupted 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z These guys knew what they were doing when they chose, for the album’s cover, a painting by Julie Mehretu, whose retrospective this year at the Whitney Museum of American Art had the same accumulating grandeur. 10 Works of Art That Evaded the Algorithm This Year 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z But by all means this natural grandeur must be totally defended. A Prairie Prologue in Nebraska 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z And her soaring vocal line as she moves toward victory and then gives voice to doubt imbue her character with a kind of tragic grandeur that words alone could not achieve. New opera's success is beyond `Doubt' 2013-01-27T21:59:08Z Like the hordes of tourists before me, I took pictures of the massive trees and wondered why I couldn’t ever capture their grandeur. Rich in Surprises and Secrets, There’s a State Park Waiting for You 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z This array of instruments is used to create often gently gloomy, edgy soundscapes, with the melancholia occasionally broken by passages of quiet grandeur. The Big Eyes Family Players & Friends: Folk Songs II – review 2012-08-02T20:45:01Z The plot has a light dusting of “Hamlet,” but the movie — with its wide-screen, black-and-white compositions and its corrosive indictment of the Japanese business world — teems with a tragic grandeur distinct to Kurosawa. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z The dress’s generous train spread out behind her with in regal grandeur. Perspective | The Oscars red carpet was diverse, even if the nominees weren’t 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z If I had to pick one movie to display the grandeur, complexity, and vast imaginative scope of the silent cinema, it would be F. W. Murnau’s “The Last Laugh,” from 1924. Five Films to Stream on Kanopy While New Yorkers Still Can 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Composed of a series of seven vertical slats connected by fritted glass, the facade both inhibits natural light flow while lacking the sense of grandeur typically associated with major metropolitan cultural institutions. 50 Years of Art in the Bronx 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z "Its problem is that Raymond is too sleazy, comic and superficial a character to take on any kind of tragic grandeur," wrote Macnab, giving it three out of five stars. New film puts pioneer of London's sexy Soho back in spotlight 2013-04-16T16:48:45Z Rome is a sort of high priestess, or minister, of women’s grandeur. “Magic Mike XXL” Grabs Our Convoluted Fantasies of Pleasure 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z But the “grandeur that was, the rhetorical once,” can operate with unpredictable force on the contemporary mind: Making Art in a Time of Rage 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Degas stepped on a lot of toes in bestowing his snub-nosed adolescent with an insolent grandeur. ‘Little Dancer’: Big roles for women in the Susan Stroman, Tiler Peck ballet musical “Mariners Apartment Complex” is the first song she’s released in advance of her forthcoming sixth album, and it doesn’t vary much from the woozy grandeur she typically luxuriates in. The Playlist: Lana Del Rey’s Smoldering Return, and 12 More New Songs 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The evening dresses of crepe, velvet, plissé and brocade, mostly nocturnal navy and occasionally caped, possessed the discreet grandeur that is the real promise of couture. | Valentino 2012-07-05T15:30:30Z And Rattle propelled the score with transparent details and, in the final instrumental interlude, crushing Mahlerian pathos and grandeur. The Ups and Downs of Europe’s Most Interesting Opera Festival 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z In her new role, Princess Grace moved swiftly away from costume and toward Paris haute couture, donning the fussier grandeur of a Balenciaga-embroidered jacket. Review: Grace Kelly: A Legacy of Wholesome Elegance 2010-05-03T11:30:00Z With scope and grandeur, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Emperor of All Maladies” presents the history of the science of genetics and examines the philosophical questions it raises. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z When you see these maps, you appreciate how teensy these little appellations are in relation to their fame and grandeur. You can be a wine snob too! 2013-01-02T12:45:00Z One of these substitutes was spectacularly convincing: Danny Huston, the director’s son, can effortlessly fall into his father’s hoarse grandeur. How Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” Was Rescued from Oblivion 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z There was vigor and élan in the first movement but also shape and grandeur. Music Review: Cleveland Orchestra Performs Berg?s ?Lulu? Suite 2010-05-23T21:25:00Z In full chiaroscuro grandeur, the immigrants’ anxious faces are highlighted during a moment of treacherous crossing, and, perhaps, imminent capture. At Tacoma Art Museum, portraits that reach out and touch you 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z No detail escaped attention, even as shapes of entire movements were brought into focus with sweep and grandeur. Welsh pianist’s infallible technique, calm authority hold the audience 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z This show represents the period when the rhetorical grandeur of Church’s earlier work was being criticized as passé compared with the noonday candor of emerging French Impressionists. ‘Frederic Church: A Painter’s Pilgrimage’ Review: A Voyage Into the Past 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The show is an extended meditation on nature’s grandeur and what it means to exist, to see and to be an artist. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z These works expand on the grandeur of nature with sly jokes, and they redesign its vistas into flattened shapes that keep elegance and bluntness in even balance. Art by Milton Avery, Joe Bradley and Chris Martin 2010-03-11T21:54:00Z But the kind of grandeur Walcott embodied was different; his was a bold declaration of self and place. Derek Walcott's poetry had grandeur, an exuberance of language 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z “It’s an impressive building, and has a certain grandeur,” said the saxophonist Joshua Redman on Wednesday. Critic’s Notebook: At SFJazz Center, a Genre’s Boundaries Are Flexible 2013-01-26T15:43:57Z Chase Finlay, her partner, heightened all of her virtues: his combination of spacious grandeur, modesty and nobility is very moving. Critic’s Notebook: Versions of Sugar Plums at New York City Ballet 2012-12-29T01:10:26Z The pearly moderation that makes Lewis’s Schubert so movingly humble sometimes keeps his Brahms shy of grandeur and especially mystery. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Trees are the surest bet, and while the East lacks some of the West’s terrifying grandeur, not much beats the full-bore thrill of a classic Vermont tree run. ‘Snow Snow Snow’ at Jay Peak, Stowe and Stratton in Vermont 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z There's even an element of Shakespearean grandeur to "Down Terrace," although I'm not sure a movie as intimate and domestic as this one can really pull it off. Pick of the week: "Down Terrace" 2010-10-22T11:01:00Z A director turned playwright based in Tuscany, Mr. Massini, 43, is known for finding tragic grandeur in an eclectic array of real-life subjects. ‘Who Will Remember Her, Once She Is Buried?’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Verdi, who failed to travel to Cairo to attend the premiere, described ancient Egypt as possessing "a grandeur and a civilisation I could never bring myself to admire". David McVicar's Aida: the sound and the fury 2010-04-01T21:15:00Z "Icarus," the season finale, is set in a world where "Turn Off the Dark" already exists, so there are various references to both its massive flop and Taymor's illusions of grandeur. "Law & Order" takes aim at "Spider-Man" musical 2011-06-20T17:50:00Z Seen through his eyes, Roman architecture took on an awe-inspiring complexity and superhuman proportions, emphasized by his pigmy-like figures dwarfed by its overwhelming grandeur. Review: Piranesi's Elevated Etchings 2010-10-20T11:22:00Z The puffed-up grandeur of his work, mounted on a white Corian pedestal, tells us that the classical tradition will triumph over all. When Jeff Koons painted Michel Jackson white 2013-06-10T16:18:00Z Again there is talk of rebuilding, to allow visitors to experience the fortifications in all their imposing grandeur. Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain, by Charlotte Higgins – review 2013-07-24T10:06:01Z The narrative sweep was genuinely captivating in moments, such as the magical lead-up to the Act 1 battle and the majestic grandeur of the climactic pas de deux. Canadian pianist continues daring performances 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z So you may suspect that a Southern California theme park that relies on evoking a fantastical world of grandeur would view the water restrictions in the wake of the state’s drought as onerous. Drought Tests California Tourism 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z “I had dreams of grandeur,” one character says. Robert Boswell’s ‘Tumbledown,’ and More 2013-08-28T19:05:14Z A screening of fashion shows, from the haughty grandeur of the 1950s, through the cheeky 1960s to the flower-power 1970s, captures the breakdown of a class-ridden society in the “swinging London” years. A Celebration of Dressing Up 2012-05-21T12:30:29Z Mr. Picker’s “Dolores Claiborne,” which opened at the San Francisco Opera last year, took an intimate Stephen King novel and blew it up to exaggerated grandeur. ‘An American Tragedy’ and More at Glimmerglass 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z And her persona is enthralling: she’s both shy and imperious, combining elusive grandeur with tender surprise. Dance Review: ‘Jewels’ Returns to New York City Ballet’s Repertory 2014-01-23T23:23:37Z The essence of melodrama is the revelation of tragic grandeur in everyday life—and the contrast, even the conflict, between the mighty nobility of everyday people’s emotions and the workaday circumstances of their lives. Eugène Green's “The Son of Joseph,” a Grand and Comedic Drama of Father and Son 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Countless bands and producers would learn from Pink Floyd how to fuse grandeur and malaise, how a few well-placed sounds can say far more than a showy display of virtuosity. After Half a Century, ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ Still Reverberates 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Mariele Neudecker's work frequently alludes to German high Romanticism, and the idea of a mountain range set atop the plinth has a certain grandeur. Fourth plinth battle: the heroic child takes the cake 2010-08-19T14:44:00Z For me she did not convey the audacious, almost crazed grandeur of the opening Allegro. | Martina Filjak: Birthday Gift: New York Debut 2009-12-17T05:42:00Z The galloping suggests urgency; the camera movements imply narrative grandeur, or maybe directorial ambition. Movie Review: ‘In Secret,’ Directed by Charlie Stratton 2014-02-20T22:51:13Z But it’s the quiet grandeur, the imperious glower that set him apart. Safe House: Can Denzel Washington Ever Be a Bad Guy? 2012-02-09T16:00:14Z “Half the Battle,” featuring Mr. Rosenwinkel, is a shadow-realm prowl suspenseful in its harmonic irresolution, an excellent disquisition on the dark grandeur of the unknown. The Playlist: Bruno Mars Gives His Funk a Flashy Makeover 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Now music director of the Hamburg State Opera and its orchestra, Nagano led his local forces in a riveting, inspiring performance that was an idealistic blend of elegance, grandeur, warmth, commitment and passion. At the G-20, Beethoven is played and the world listened (maybe) 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z "You just hope it kind of works. I never had any thoughts of grandeur." Chris Rock is just being his biting, brazen self in 'Top Five' 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z And Shine, bless her, brings some grandeur and a sense of the majestic to the enterprise. Theater review: 'Henry V' asks, 'Ain't war grand?' 2010-04-20T20:25:00Z It reminds you of the sublime and enigmatic power of cinematic images without quite supplying the grandeur of mystery. Review: ‘The Assassin’ Finds Delight in a Deadly Vocation 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z “It suits the grandeur that is France,” he said. Exhibition Review: ?Printing for Kingdom, Empire & Republic? - Review 2011-12-24T01:47:25Z Inside, the shop's walls recall the faded grandeur of stately English homes, clad as they are with white plaster panels and acanthus carvings that, up close, are compounded barnacles, feathers and foxgloves. | The Alexander McQueen Men's Store 2012-11-19T19:01:56Z There is as much grandeur in the soil of a backyard garden as there is in the canyons of Zion. ‘An Immense World’ Is a Thrilling Tour of Nonhuman Perception 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Each glows with weird grandeur, fed by the human cost. Thinking About Empire and Economy, With a Poet’s Mind and a Lawyer’s Words 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Inserted into this grandeur, with relentless skill, is its opposite—closeups so extreme that we can trace the arcs of dirt beneath individual fingernails. Martin Scorsese’s Strained “Silence” 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Poor old Cleo, mourning her Antony in between blasts of grandeur and self-pity. Critic?s Notebook: Performa 11?s ?Me, Michelle? and ?Antigone Jr.? - Review 2011-11-16T23:59:21Z “Many ancient cities of great fame have disappeared or are now shells of their former grandeur,” writes Klaus Jacob. Sandy recovery: Walls won’t stop superstorms 2012-11-06T19:20:00Z There are moments of grandeur and panache and naughtiness, but you cannot walk round and take in the strange juxtapositions together as you can at Leicester. Does Stirling work? 2011-04-01T23:05:23Z Yet this book appreciates and communicates the grandeur of its subject’s accomplishments. Books of The Times: A French Thinker Who Crossed Continents and Cultures 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z More bracing, though still without a certain grandeur in this performance, was Sibelius’s great song “Luonnotar,” heard here in its arrangement for piano rather than the more common orchestral version. Music Review: The Soprano Lucy Crowe Gives Her New York Recital Debut 2014-04-10T23:14:25Z The title is meant to be a little funny, leaning into the feelings of grandeur that accompany obsessive heartbreak. Conan Gray, a Budding Pop Singer Who Feels It All 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z This approach occasionally leaves me wanting more — accustomed as I am to the bloated grandeur of stereotypical 20th-century performance practice or the leaner, speedier sound of historically informed styles — but it is most often clarifying. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Conductor Is the Star 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Webb seems to have been hired mostly to keep Sony’s Spider-machine going, a tricky task given that the character doesn’t have the mythic grandeur and gravity that make Batman and Superman seem endlessly exploitable. Movie Review: Andrew Garfield Returns in ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ 2014-05-01T12:00:02Z And while Mr. Armiliato, conducting both this revival and “La Traviata,” kept things moving briskly, the approach stinted the grandeur and atmosphere of the public scenes. Stephen Costello and Tamara Wilson Show Opposing Approaches 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z She may well represent love; her duet with Mr. Gomes has both a grandeur and an intimacy that set it apart from the rest of this ballet. Review: In Gala, American Ballet Theater Is Open to Debate 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z On a postcard of earthrise as seen from the moon, though it’s still sort of funny, the same drawing bears witness to modernity’s grandeur. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The language I have used to describe them already implies a grandeur they eschew – for they are works of random experiment and play, not intense meditation. Off the scale: why Gerhard Richter towers above the artists of today 2010-11-22T14:51:00Z The chorus sang with grandeur, and it was aided and made even grander when the Los Angeles Children's Chorus joined in. L.A. Master Chorale brings sense of community to 'St. Matthew' Passion 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Inevitably missing from proceedings at this point is Michael Volle's Scarpia, the most consistent of the three leads, his huge and intimidating baritone giving his police chief a dark but undeniably epic grandeur. Tosca – review 2013-03-04T18:30:03Z There is beauty, of course; without the crowds, it is easier to see the architectural grandeur. Showtime, Suspended 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Ethereal and dewy — with Debussy’s music just about pouring out of her limbs and pliant back — Afanasenkov is a curious mix of qualities: modern, but with a rare old-world grandeur. Standing (and Dancing) Strong at New York City Ballet 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z The finale draws heavily on the huge political and social idea of liberty, and he created a vision that would later be called Wagnerian in its grandeur. A bite of William Tell 2011-07-15T22:55:03Z In particular, the role of Terpsichore is helped by a length of leg and foot, a grandeur of line, that the otherwise exceptional Ms. Peck doesn’t possess. New York City Ballet Dances Stravinsky, by Balanchine 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Gaiman relates all these splendidly and when quiet grandeur is needed, as in this description of a magic horn’s purpose, he delivers: Review | Neil Gaiman’s suspenseful and surprising ‘Norse Mythology’ 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Charming and small-scale, with no chorus or other signs of Golden Age grandeur, “Saturday Night” exemplified the changing texture of musical theater — or would have, had its lead producer not died. Now You Know: A Critic’s Guide to Sondheim 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z But she was thinking more about craft and artisanal work than the grandeur of haute couture. In Paris, Nature Meets Craft in Jewelry 2012-01-30T14:00:43Z Music wants to be democratic; and the Kennedy Center wants to be all things to all people, while signaling a nod to grandeur. Perspective | Surround sound made visible: the new Terrace Theater 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z What we said: It’s bulging with giant confidence and packed with outbursts of that mysterious epiphanic grandeur, like moments of sunlight breaking through cloud-cover, with which Audiard endows apparently normal sequences and everyday details. The best films of 2016 so far 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Although Zhao puts Jandreau and his family and friends into a lightly fictionalized narrative, “The Rider” possesses the authenticity of documentary, with the result being a style best described as grounded grandeur. Best movies of 2018: ‘Roma’ is intimate, epic and the year’s finest 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z The attractive, little-known cast devotes full vigor to their roles. Csokas, liberated from his pruny-swain roles in Alice in Wonderland and The Debt, gives Barts a seedy grandeur and an aristocratic smirk. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: Four-score and Seven Corpses 2012-06-21T13:40:09Z It’s a place that can be modest about its grandeur, where work is honored and sadness is part of the light. Review: Edie Falco Shines as an Everywoman in ‘Morning Sun’ 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Other than Jolie’s grandeur, and a bit of Fanning’s freshness, the movie’s got nothing. REVIEW: Maleficent: Sympathy for the Rebel 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z More than once, film of a piano student of 9 or 12 adequately playing a composition dissolves into film of the same student, five years or so later, wresting grandeur from the same keys. ‘Botso,’ Healing Through His Students 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z And Mr. Pigott-Smith finds a deep poignancy in the disconnect between the grandeur of Charles’s expression and the emptiness of his existence. ‘King Charles III’ and ‘The Ruling Class’ in London 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z The gallery walls are low, the office carpeting threadbare, the lobby lacking any sense of grandeur. Studio Museum in Harlem Unveils Design for Expansion 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Sometimes they succeed and find a measure of real grandeur. Movie Review: In ‘Pacific Rim,’ Pilots Inside Robots Face Alien Invaders 2013-07-11T12:00:01Z Although elephants are an unconventional choice for a pet in today's day and age, Hanno was revered as a spectacle and became a symbol of grandeur. 5 Popes who formed a holy bond with their animal companions, from cats and dogs to even an elephant 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Lester packs into those sentences a lifetime of grandeur under siege. Theater Review: ‘Red Velvet’ Recalls One Shocked London Audience 2014-04-01T13:23:28Z Charles Munch’s grandeur brought out all that might be Romantic in the composer. The global implications for a Scottish piano concerto based on the Rosary 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z "So I was intrigued by the idea of ancient architecture—its weight, proportion, grandeur, and materiality." An Extraordinary Paradise Valley Residence 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z But in its second season, London Collections: Men proved that there was more to male style than Downton Abbey grandeur versus downtown city style. London Men's Collections: Glamour vs. Downtown 2013-01-11T11:17:42Z Most Mall museums are squat blocks, rooted in neo-Classical tradition: Timeless grandeur and stability are their messages, and you barely look at them twice. Review: The Smithsonian African American Museum Is Here at Last. And It Uplifts and Upsets. 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z While its programming grows, the armory is undergoing $200 million in work that is a combination renovation and restoration, modernizing the building while maintaining its 1881 décor and romantic air of faded grandeur. The Park Avenue Armory, Indisputably Big 2011-12-21T21:04:21Z Jonathan runs on vodka, orange juice, bile and delusions of grandeur. Movie Review: Paul Weitz?s ?Being Flynn,? Starring Robert De Niro 2012-03-01T22:37:28Z Suites in the adjoining property conserve the grandeur and spirit of place but in a fun way, and are full of quality curios, desirable retro furniture, and lots of original art. Lisbon city guide: what to see plus the best bars, restaurants and hotels 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z The holidays are a time for ambition and grandeur, pomp and camp, cheese and glitter, and this show was all of those things. Mariah Carey Brings Christmas to the Beacon Theater 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z It aims to capture not just the familiar grandeur but also some of the fragile idiosyncrasies of the between-lands, as an argument for leaving them alone. The Grand Canyon Needs to Be Saved By Every Generation 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z With this in mind, I expected a certain grandeur from the 30-year-old star – perhaps that sullen coolness she often exudes on screen. Léa Seydoux: ‘For Bond, you have to be up for it. I had to work, to get fit’ 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Passing through lakes, rivers and canals, the trip takes in rural villages, towns and cities ranging from epic grandeur to rustic simplicity. The sights and sounds of summer 2011-08-08T19:30:02Z Chappel was racing against time and the changes wrought by people; Balke painted images of relatively timeless nature in all its grandeur and indifference. Wild Waves and Quiet Streets: 2 Artists Working From Memory 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z “When we started out, we didn't want to do another straight ‘progeny’ sequel and wanted to have a little fun poking at the grandeur of the original film,” Rogers says. We just solved a major mystery in the "Lion King" franchise 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z When I saw that film, I just loved it: the mystery, the grandeur, the gowns and her bedroom! Painter Patssi Valdez on capturing energy, an L.A. fashion installation 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z With this epic – one of the best tracks from a great year for electro – Section 25 finally achieved the grandeur that they had always sought. Jon Savage on song: Section 25 ? Looking from a Hilltop (Megamix) 2010-03-23T12:08:00Z “I like the grandeur; it works really well in the garden.” Chihuly complements — and sometimes competes with — nature at New York Botanical Garden 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z It was a performance as brief as my delusions of grandeur, yet no one seemed to mind. How Dolly Parton Nearly Hired Our Columnist Away 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z The country's former capital Mdina was used to represent the central city of Westeros to great effect; the many well-preserved, historical buildings fit perfectly with the theme of exotic, medieval grandeur. Five 'Game of Thrones' Destinations Fans Should Visit 2014-04-04T11:27:45Z B&B or self-catering is also available in the Groom’s Cottage or, for a little more grandeur, stay in one of the opulent bedrooms in the main house. The best garden B&Bs, cottages and campsites in the UK 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z It also shares some of the surrealist compositional wit and taste for epic grandeur that was a hallmark of Magnum’s old masters. Nothing but Pictures: Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin’s “Congo” 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Visual pyrotechnics are of course the calling card for all things Rubens, an artist for whom the sumptuous grandeur of vivacious color and lively brushwork was simply essential. Peter Paul Rubens was a brilliant sensationalist 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z It’s hard to imagine a more intense and convincing performance than that of Ms. Rojo, whose portrayal has a maturity and dignity that imbues her Marguerite with a kind of grandeur. Dance Review: In 'Marguerite,' Sparks Between a New Star and a Senior Ballerina 2011-10-17T11:43:13Z An accessibility tour allows visitors to use an elevator entrance to see Mammoth Cave’s grandeur without steps. Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky’s underground rock star 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z What the opera does have is Mr. Eotvos’s music, a troubled, trippy texture that can be suddenly charged with anxiety or grandeur without ever feeling clotted. Review: ‘Angels in America,’ Carved to the Bone and Into an Opera 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z The speed of her footwork bubbles with witty high spirits, the unfolding grandeur of her adagio gives her emotions a resonating depth. Cinderella 2010-04-12T21:00:00Z It really captured the spirit, the grandeur and the magic of Hollywood. ‘Legally Blonde’ Oral History: From Raunchy Script to Feminist Classic 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Whereas Manhattan is built upon hard rock, London — ancient, sprawling, famously self-deprecating — has its roots buried in a bed of clay, sand and chalk, an unlikely foundation for high-rise grandeur. Cultured Traveler: Underground London 2014-01-17T21:43:10Z Leaving her work’s scale and grandeur intact, she has stripped everything down, using photography in several ways, emphasizing transparent layers instead of opacity. A New Level of Ambition in Art by 3 Women 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z At the midway point, Fohr’s operatic voice explodes in all its dark, ululating grandeur. Circuit des Yeux battles through grief to create an artistic triumph 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z What McLaughlin’s design lacked in formal grandeur, it made up for in what Goldberger describes as its “benign quirkiness”: the ad hoc arrangement of its grandstands, its famously shallow left field. Summer Reading 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z In both the Second and Third symphonies he enforced a sense of Old World grandeur without lapsing into staid Old World stodginess. Dohnanyi, Ax and the CSO produce Brahmsian splendor at Ravinia concerts 2011-07-17T05:00:00Z Eggers had recently returned from a trip to Iceland inspired by the grandeur and brutality of the landscapes and armed with classic sagas. A Viking epic to conquer them all in ‘The Northman’ 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z But Mr. LaChiusa has the courage of his audacity, and he cannily balances grandeur against triviality, the eternal against the mundane. Review: In ‘First Daughter Suite’: Unelected but Still Under a Microscope 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Unlike the American West, where a road trip usually means long, high-mileage days crossing vast distances, New Zealand’s wild and rustic South Island offers comparable natural grandeur with much less driving. In New Zealand, Sauvignon Wishes and Sashimi Dreams 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Opera Orchestra, enhancing the grandeur of this journey through the American musical theater songbook. Audra McDonald soars in her stirring tour through the American musical 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Because the prayer ends at dawn, the music does, too, with the luminous, Pearly Gates grandeur of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. Review: Thomas Adès Charts a Journey Through Hell and Heaven 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z The sleek, unornamented Classicism of fascist and Nazi architecture meant to modernize the ancient grandeur of Greece and Rome to glorify the Third Reich. 'Paintings of Moholy-Nagy' gives only a taste of the artist's eclectic body of work 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z It’s a love letter to the modest, treed-in landscape of Vermont, which Barclay wouldn’t trade for all the grandeur of Montana. A Polite Drive for Secession in ‘Radio Free Vermont’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The brightly lit washing in the foreground acts as a handy scaling device, allowing you to appreciate the full grandeur of the mountain. A journey through Wales 2012-07-16T13:17:47Z It is a truly engrossing volume, whose epic sweep reflects the grandeur and paradoxes of its subject. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z Just as “I’m on a Boat” seemed to be making fun of rap music while basking in its grandeur, Lil Nas X appears to be poking fun at country music while tapping into its majesty. Perspective | ‘Old Town Road’ is a smash. Will it mutate into ‘Baby Shark’? 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Perhaps overacting is the wrong word, with its connotations of sloppiness and grandeur run amok. How Marian Seldes Took the Stage 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z “HeartTones” brims with 11 exquisitely charming tracks, many of which build into blossoming grandeur. Preview: Julia Massey trio at the Croc to showcase kids’ music for adults 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Beloved by this orchestra, particularly in this composer, Bronfman built imperceptibly through the first movement to organ-like grandeur in his cadenza. Review: The Philharmonic Tries Out Another Temporary Home 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z The Suzanne Farrell Ballet is ending much as it began nearly 20 years ago, with a simplicity of purpose and quiet grandeur. Critic’s Notebook: A bittersweet triumph for Suzanne Farrell and her company 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Victor Williams, familiar as Deacon Palmer to viewers of “The King of Queens,” brings sitcom ease to Eddie’s wheedling enthusiasm, but also an almost tragic grandeur. Review: In ‘Cost of Living,’ a Familiar Alienation 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z And yet, for all of its beauty, force and grandeur, the real promise of “Fire” is profoundly simple — it feels like a starting point for something new, a refresh of where opera can take us. Review | With debut of ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ at the Met, a watershed moment for American opera 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Still, you never want to underplay Bruckner, and Tilson Thomas has no problem with grandeur. Bruckner as a holiday treat? The L.A. Phil thinks so 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z A simple sleek, dark foyer leads to the dramatic, square Bar Room, seating 50, that captures some of the soaring grandeur of the old Four Seasons. A ‘Landmark’ Restaurant Returns: A Preview of the Four Seasons 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z The scale of Hollywood’s appetite, its unrivaled power to vacuum up ambition and artistry from around the world, is part of its legend and grandeur. Arts & Leisure Preview: A Golden Age of Foreign Films, Mostly Unseen 2011-01-27T17:15:40Z “This is where we’ll build a giant barn. It will feel like a cathedral. The cloister will be here,” he said, making reference to Chartres, and Oxford, and the grandeur of medieval cathedrals. The Man Who Knew Too Little 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z What gives Warhol an unexpected grandeur is his perhaps religious sense of tragedy. ‘Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again’ Review: Pop Art’s Tragic Prince 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z For all his grandeur and fame, Valentino appeared quite comfortable in a sparse ballet practice room scattered with a few instruments. Valentino's new runway is the ballet stage 2012-09-19T17:30:18Z But she made up for the lulls with a finely honed sense of grandeur. Ariana Grande, a Pop Princess, Leaves Nickelodeon in the Rearview Mirror at Madison Square Garden 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z "It wasn't politic to emphasise the grandeur of Pushkin's lifestyle in Soviet times," she says. St Petersburg's homely tributes to Russia's great artists 2012-11-20T13:56:01Z The overture to The Marriage of Figaro brought scurrility and grandeur into collision, with often unnerving effect. OAE/Cohen review 2011-01-05T22:01:01Z As we stretched upward toward the sky and down to the cool earth, taking in the grandeur of our surroundings, we succumbed to profound relaxation. A Teetotaler’s Guide to Sonoma County 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Suddenly this great piece of architecture appears that illustrates the grandeur of Cairo during this very exceptional dynasty. The Louvre’s New Islamic Galleries Bring Riches to Light 2012-09-19T12:01:06Z Following the pageantry and grandeur of the sixth verse, the seventh follows in meaty unison. ‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Do you favour the choppy guitar rock of Arctic Monkeys or the operatic grandeur of Muse? Readers' panel: Which band represents the best of British? 2012-09-25T14:05:37Z Mahler's fourth, usually regarded as nearly classical in scale and reach, expanded to achieve tragic grandeur in Monday's impeccable performance. The world's best orchestra 2011-02-27T00:04:15Z Puffing on a cigarette with haughty grandeur, she moved with such relish it seemed she was leaving behind a trace of herself on the stage. Standing (and Dancing) Strong at New York City Ballet 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Look, she seems to say as the camera pulls up and away — and cuts the two human travelers down to humble size — look at all this grandeur, all this unspoiled beauty. Review: ‘Leave No Trace’ Is a Very American Story About Survival 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Like so much in Louisiana, if you’re looking at Independence with eyes hoping to see grandeur, glamour or charm — European capitals, New England villages — you’re not going to get it. Literary Louisiana 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Those elements may not form a coherent whole, but each connotes money and grandeur. Why we love to hate McMansions, but still buy them 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Highlights and high points: The beauty and grandeur of the Badlands in North Dakota and South Dakota were beyond what we expected. North and South Dakota tourism bureaus, are you hiring? 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z As Dewdrop on Friday, Sara Mearns was typically explosive, yet her grandeur was too tragic for the Waltz of the Flowers. Review: ‘George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker’ at Lincoln Center 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Lake was a seminal figure in the movement to Europeanize rock ’n’ roll by blending it with classical music and presenting it with symphonic grandeur. Greg Lake, of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Dies at 69 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Certainly there is no lack of grandeur in Ms. Frisell’s budget model, which took the stage again on Saturday afternoon. Review: An ‘Aida’ at the Met That May Not Be Zeffirelli’s, but It’s Big 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z What really gripped him was the grandeur and danger of structural ruin, and the people who occupied it. He Captured a Clandestine Gay Culture Amid the Derelict Piers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Here, in front of a magically cough-free audience, the quiet, swirling textures of Feldman’s hypnotic work were able to unfold in all their subtle, unhurried grandeur. Music Review: Resonant Bodies Festival at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn 2013-09-06T22:26:20Z She seems too lightweight to inspire devotion even in a stalker, but when she slips into her TV persona, a soldier in a gold breastplate and a micro-mini, she suddenly takes on a mythic grandeur. When superstar and superfan collide: It's 'Future Thinking' at South Coast Rep 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z It's the same with the supplications of the tenor soloist – here, the excellent Barry Banks – that ripple over the massed ranks of the choir and orchestra with fragile grandeur. Grande Messe des Morts – review 2012-06-28T17:11:53Z The ceremony was a celebration of Britishness and the notion of monarchy, filled with sweeping allusions to the outsize grandeur of these tiny islands in hymns, anthems and readings. Sealed with 2 kisses 2011-04-30T05:15:58Z But much of the idiosyncratic grandeur of the room was untouched, like its scalloped balconies, Art Deco wall designs and, above the stage, an old canvas painting of falling balloons. Webster Hall Is Returning With Its Old Grit (and New Bathrooms) 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z That the Emmys lack the glamour and grandeur of the Oscars is an indicator of their odd cultural situation. The 2018 Emmy Nominations: There Is a Lot of Television to Watch 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Whatever the longueurs – and on a first night lasting nearly six hours there were a few – you have to praise the enterprise, the risk, the grandeur and the star quality of the cast. Les Troyens; Le nozze di Figaro; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel – review 2012-06-30T23:07:11Z The film’s music soundtrack is deployed like a cudgel: A musical-comedy-like refrain adds a comic buoyancy; a hard-rock cue suggests Gonzalo’s defiance; a stirring Prokofiev crescendo lends grandeur to the climax. Review: ‘The Apostate’ Chronicles a Rebellious Catholic 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z And our story, in all of its nuance, grandeur and humanity, goes untold. Perspective | Our clothes tell our story. What happens when the narrative is just pajamas and sweats? 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z But even the filmmaker’s occasional misfires, like the 2011 The Skin I Live In, have elements of creepy grandeur. I’m So Excited!: Almodóvar’s Bumpy Flight 2013-06-27T18:36:06Z The second movement’s funeral march was merely glum, without grandeur when it turned expansive. Music Review: Bernard Haitink Leads the New York Philharmonic 2014-05-09T21:23:31Z There’s a pleasing grandeur in watching the boat’s imposing smokestacks fold down when a low bridge is ahead. The American Queen Paddle-Wheeler Cruises on the Mississippi 2012-06-01T19:22:58Z "Lloyd's production looks physically constricted, misses the sweep and grandeur of Shakespeare's chronicle and, in place of the demonic exuberance, offers us a peculiarly bloodthirsty display of office politics." Critics split on complex Richard III 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Too pure to seem tawdry, their affair has an undercurrent of myth and mock operatic grandeur. Welcome to His World: Bela Tarr’s First Meteorological Event 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The title, in both its grandeur and its suggestion of a school of philosophy, is apt. Burgers’ ‘Eternalism’ : flower power with philosophical twist 2013-01-10T22:12:03Z In the past, he said — citing “A Man for All Seasons,” “8 ½,” and “The Searchers” — there was a grandeur to films that delivered long-form storytelling on very large screens. Hollywood Seeks to Slow Cultural Shift to TV 2012-10-28T21:41:05Z Instead of stately grandeur Hunter gives us an Egyptian queen who is small, mercurial and witty. Review|Theatre|Antony and Cleopatra, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon|Michael Billington 2010-05-10T23:18:00Z She combined grandeur, musicality, wit, fervor and acumen to phenomenal degrees. A Balanchine Muse and Star Returns to New York City Ballet 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Spielberg’s presence at Comic-Con, his first appearance there, had the grandeur of a state visit, but with 3-D glasses. In His Year of Working Furiously, Spielberg Makes a Summer Stop 2011-07-22T23:39:18Z Their songs, however – often regarded as secondary achievements – frequently took on the character of operatic sketches, requiring elements of grandeur or virtuosity in performance. Crowe/Maltman/Johnson – review 2013-01-06T18:04:43Z But without the distraction of Mr. Jones’s Shakespearean grandeur, the play’s flaws, as well as its strengths, are more clearly visible. | 'Fences': Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in August Wilson?s Classic 2010-04-27T02:03:00Z “This small leaf represents the grandeur of the story of Napoleon,” Osenat said. Golden leaf cut from Napoleon's crown goes under hammer in France 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z There’s no grandeur to Mr. Dawson’s Henry, and the whims of his mercurial mind feel less sudden than scripted. Review: No Battle of Wits in This Mild ‘Man for All Seasons’ 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z New regulations notwithstanding — including compulsory masks, half-full theaters and no intermissions — it often felt like business as usual: a bustling festival for a wealthy and elegant audience amid the grandeur of the Alpine landscape. It’s (Almost) Business as Usual at the Salzburg Festival 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Steiger speaks in reverential tones of the poet Mary Oliver, her awe at the natural world’s grandeur. Work Songs of the Cowboy Poets 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z They include building big – "everything is wildly, fantastically oversized" – installing gold, glass and images of oneself everywhere, and emulating everywhere a particular style of ancien regime French grandeur that is wholly fake. Gaddafi compound reveals dictator's taste for bling - and Condoleezza Rice 2011-08-25T18:54:20Z The space had been completely stripped of its original details, and Mabille saw an opportunity to recreate its lost grandeur, but through a whimsical lens. In His Paris Apartment, Alexis Mabille Creates a Singular Universe 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z His chronic dysfunction lent a tragicomic grandeur to the Chatsworth Estate. Rewind TV: Shameless; Episodes; Kidnap and Ransom; Human Planet ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:49Z The music was all there in its power and grandeur. Music Review: Romantic Temperament Applied to Monuments 2011-07-31T22:03:40Z Instead of grandeur and immensity, a new feeling for the mysteries of intimacy takes hold. Review | Japanese artist’s ephemeral fogscapes transform Boston’s Emerald Necklace 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z There was a grandeur about her that matched the music. From Donna Summer to Derek Jarman: gay stars reveal the artworks that changed their lives 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Don displays a certain ambiguity when confronted with spaces so obviously about money and power, which perhaps explains why he prefers the slightly unkempt grandeur of the parkland at the Château de Courances. TV highlights 01/02/2013 2013-01-31T20:00:01Z The depressing lesson here is that success can produce such exaggerated delusions of grandeur that the relationships that built that success are destroyed. Movie Review | 'Waking Sleeping Beauty': Meeting Animators Behind a Decade of Disney Hits 2010-03-26T00:25:00Z “I try to capture the grandeur of that special glow that emanates from the land.” Landscape photographer lets imagination color his world 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Writing in the Times newspaper, commentator Matthew Bell said the grandeur of the wedding reflected Prince Andrew’s desire to cement his family’s royal status. Crowds gather for second big UK royal wedding of the year 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z His divinity is neither forced nor satirical, it just is, and though the painting, with its tremendous grandeur and respect for its subject, isn’t a self-portrait, it’s tempting to see it as one. The Man Who Taught a Generation of Black Artists Gets His Own Retrospective 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Mr. akLaff said the pieces could be described as ceremonial music, having a “deep, dark grandeur.” A New Focus on Eric Dolphy, in Washington and Montclair 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z There is virtue in the creeping myrtle’s lack of grandeur — and that antic, humble, low and resilient growth may be what makes grandeur possible in the first place. There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely: A Biographer Considers Edward Lear’s Art and Its Sources 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z The Annapurna Circuit marries natural grandeur, cultural immersion and relative luxury in a union found nowhere else. Hiking the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal Before Roads Take Over 2010-03-20T00:19:00Z Hayden said she wants casual visitors to be inspired by the reading room’s grandeur, but there’s a delicate balance between providing access and encroaching on researchers. The Library of Congress wants to attract more visitors. Will that undermine its mission? 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Clark Kent playing at cartoony mundanity, then bursting free into hallucinatory grandeur before cloaking himself at the end and winking knowingly to the reader. The Amazing Spider-Man and the iron law of the superhero genre: less is more 2012-07-04T19:29:29Z But what we haven't quite left behind is some expectation of top shelf grandeur that forefronts high style even if that comes at the expense of substance. "Perry Mason" is a stylish, Depression-noir reboot that doesn't exceed its basic procedural roots 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z When Hapsburg grandeur rubs up against a more relaxed Italian style and a higgledy-piggledy mix of ethnic elements joins the fray, the result — as Svevo would say — is original. In a Quiet Corner of Italy... Trieste 2011-04-29T19:35:37Z He continued, “The holidays are a time for ambition and grandeur, pomp and camp, cheese and glitter, and this show was all of those things.” Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Dec. 19-25 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z As his camera swoops down on the climbers from above — and, on a few vertiginous occasions, from below — you feel some of the grandeur and terror of their undertaking. Review: ‘Everest’ Revisits a Fateful Adventure in 3-D 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z But there’s so little human grandeur, naughty or nice, in The Hateful Eight. Review: Quentin Tarantino's Hateful Eight Revels in Snow, Not So Much in People 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Rose views both the grandeurs and the terrors of the rural woods with an artist’s senses. Review | ‘The Hare’ is a richly told tale of female resilience 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z And his namesake collection seemed to adopt a touch of the grandeur of the couture house. On Top of the World 2013-01-17T17:58:13Z The trappings of the life that Guadagnino portrays represent the signal achievement of Milanese modernism, its grandeur of classical proportions rendered in fine materials and spare forms. Milan in Bloom 2010-10-07T18:20:00Z But Ms. Close deploys the declarative physical vocabulary of silent-movie acting to convey a genuine grandeur of spirit and an equally outsize force of will. Review: That ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Close-Up, Finely Focused 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z For all its Tolkienesque grandeur, the Battle of Winterfell felt oddly inert, main characters ostensibly fighting for their lives though we never really believed they were in jeopardy. Stop the nitpicking! This season of Game of Thrones is miraculous 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z His parents, however, were not convinced, with his mother deciding, as they returned home, that Roth had "delusions of grandeur". Philip Roth picks his best novels 2013-01-17T14:43:49Z The group, led by Joyce Gold History Tours, will meet at 10 a.m. in front of the Frick Collection, whose neo-Classical grandeur inspired the mansion in the comic book “The Avengers.” Spare Times for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T01:42:52Z In its self-contained grandeur and eerie harmony, the piece evokes a Mondrian windmill. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Transported from suburban London, I dreamed about foreign lands and the grandeur of the Great Gate of Kiev – the finale is based on a design for the gate by the composer’s friend Hartmann. The evocative music that inspired my travels: readers' tips 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Ever since those ancient days of magic stones shipped from Ireland, Stonehenge has satisfied a yearning among the citizens of these lands for mystic grandeur. Stonehenge enjoys a moment in the sun at summer solstice 2012-06-21T09:04:49Z Her ebullient scenes of archers and guitarists, activists and pallbearers, have a stentorian grandeur equal to the frescos all around this city, applied at last to those pushed to the sidelines of European history. At Venice Biennale, Contemporary Art Sinks or Swims 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z There was something visceral in the music Sunday night which transcended the festival’s corporate grandeur. ArtsBeat Blog: Rock Returns to Rio With a Righteous Beat 2011-09-26T15:03:24Z In a city with so many ancient architectural masterpieces, a quest to find a modern structure of equal grandeur seems like folly. Revelations in High-End Rome 2012-09-28T18:24:21Z It is in these moments of revelation that the most ordinary life takes on a kind of grandeur. William Trevor’s Quiet Explosions 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Too many palaces can send you into a furniture-wax coma, but as a sightseeing experience and for simple visual grandeur, Blenheim is among Europe’s finest. England’s castles and manors have a story to tell 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z "Keeping that poise and that grandeur was hard." Florence Welch says no tricks on new, stripped-down Florence and the Machine album 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z In the “Gran Partita” Serenade, Mozart achieves an uncanny blend of breeziness and grandeur. Review: Mostly Mozart Returns to Lincoln Center, Quietly 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z Three books that explore the culture, art and grandeur of The Eternal City, perfect for travelers or those on a reading staycation. These books lead to Rome 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z The cupola and slate roofs; the swinging window shutters; the simple, whitewashed woodwork: here is the democratic side of pillared grandeur. Exhibition Review: National Design That?s Hidden in Plain Sight 2011-06-13T22:41:43Z But their surroundings often achieve a quiet grandeur, an intimation of divine presence. Movie Review: ‘Ida,’ About an Excavation of Truth in Postwar Poland 2014-05-02T12:20:44Z The Times - Alex Hardy The first episode, set exclusively in the dark grandeur of the men's flat, was ostensibly a wake for a dead friend. ITV's gay sitcom fails to impress 2013-04-30T10:12:43Z In 2010, a complete renovation returned the house to its original grandeur. Capri, Italy : Stunning Villas, Castles, and Modernist Retreats to Rent This Summer 2014-05-05T04:00:00Z So was The Corrections, but in this book there is a moral grandeur and a relentlessness that burned its way that much deeper into my imagination. Jonathan Franzen's Freedom: the novel of the century 2010-08-23T11:18:00Z But Mr. Morris’s “The Letter V,” showing the dancers at their best, made a case — and space — for real grandeur. Review: Mark Morris Fits Houston Ballet to a ‘V’ 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The music emerges with freshness, grandeur and infectious spontaneity. Classical Recordings: Two CDs of Beethoven?s ?Fidelio,? From 1960 and Today 2011-10-02T02:55:23Z Its first works often aspired to, and reached, passionate arena-rock grandeur. On Arcade Fire’s ‘Everything Now,’ Pop Can Reach Deep 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Of the Young and Baiya have something of Muse's more electronic grandeur. Delphic: Collections – review 2013-01-24T21:30:02Z It gets under your skin, with its mix of grandeur and grubbiness, its French-style apartment buildings and majestic trees looming somewhat wearily over perennially torn-up sidewalks. Why Are There So Many Great Argentine Dancers? 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Kenneth Branagh’s no stranger to spectacle, it’s just that he usually gets his grandeur from the backlog of the Bard instead of Walt Disney. From tragic to magic: what's the best Disney remake so far? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z The residents of the houses picked up on it too: that alongside the ambition and moments of grandeur in these houses was something darker, even tragic. Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Why his Los Angeles houses deserve a closer look 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z About the enormity of many of his buildings, she notes: “Far from diminishing you or making you feel antlike, the grandeur elevates you to its own level.” The Dramas and Intrigues of Louis Kahn, Monumental Architect 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z The grandeur and power of this concerto were fully realized, yet Bronfman also drew back for lyrical, sensitive playing: delicate, quicksilver arpeggios, as well as keyboard thunder and lightning. Review: Pianist Yefim Bronfman and Seattle Symphony earn thunderous applause 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Although Liberty speaks with the grandeur of an empress, in the poem's idealised vision she remains a universal mother, offering home and hearth to the destitute, and the hope of a more prosperous future. Poem of the Week: The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 2012-06-04T10:42:44Z Of course, but with less grandeur and gilt. Peak, With 101st-Floor Views, Opens in Hudson Yards 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Maybe because of this focus, the finale didn’t have the grandeur of the often visually epic miniseries. RECAP: Fargo Watch: Like a Good Neighbor 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z The Shunt Lounge, their home underneath London Bridge station, was a shabby palace of subterranean grandeur in which they helped support and develop a dizzyingly range of work. Share your theatre memories of 2010 2010-12-29T09:43:57Z While my attempts to capture Hawaii’s grandeur in photos are largely futile, each stop allows Kai, 8, and Christina, 5, a chance to reset their equilibrium on solid ground. On Maui, seeking out the hidden wows of wild Hawaii 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Writing in the Times newspaper, commentator Matthew Bell said the grandeur of the wedding showed Prince Andrew’s desire to cement his family’s royal status. Hold onto your hats: Princess Eugenie marries in grand UK royal... 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z The score never acquires the entrancing richness of Mr. Glass’s music for “Einstein,” which added elements of grandeur and momentousness to that production’s willfully meaningless libretto, justifying its epic length. Theater Review: ‘Life and Times: Episodes 1-4,’ at the Public Theater 2013-01-23T03:00:48Z "His anatomy may sometimes be a bit rubbish, but overall the quality of his work is amazing – the delicacy of the colouring, the grandeur of the composition," says Paine. Greenwich's Painted Hall shipshape after restoration 2013-05-02T15:14:40Z According to Kenneth R. Bowling, a leading historian of Washington, many wanted the capital to “outshine Rome, London and all the capitals” that had come before it in its urban grandeur. Perspective | Washington is now a cool city. That’s terrible news for American democracy. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z But the extreme lightness of sonority robbed the monumental work of nine tenths of its grandeur. Beethoven Loses to Piazzolla at the Seattle Symphony 2012-12-29T18:39:04Z In the latter, her tone was richer, by the end almost organ-like in its amplitude and grandeur. Review: Cleveland Orchestra Plays Mozart, and to Its Strengths 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z The O'Brien homestead, Drewsboro, was a house in decline: the remnants of its grandeur are given as sops to the persecutory peasantry that surrounded it. Country Girl by Edna O'Brien – review 2012-10-12T21:55:03Z Anthony Ward's clever design shows a pub dining room hung with antlers and landscapes, striving for draughty country-house grandeur. Posh 2010-04-17T23:10:00Z The plan brings transparency, surprise and civic grandeur to a narrow lane; and by revealing Wren’s building, it invents a pas de deux, the Rothschild tower nodding to the tower of St. Stephen. Critic’s Notebook: A Rothschild Building in London 2013-01-09T21:32:09Z A magnificent achievement, aspiring to an almost Shakespearean grandeur. What is the best Oscar-winning film of all time? 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z These are seedy, small-time cops and robbers, but their story is sometimes ennobled with almost startling touches of visual grandeur. Review: ‘True Detective,’ Season 2 on HBO, Plays a Symphony of Misery 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z She loads the table with whole pineapples for Georgian grandeur, adding in little bowls of chocolates, Florentines and festive sweets such as marrons glacés and crystallized ginger. How to Decorate for the Holidays, the British Way 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z It doesn’t strive for the operatic grandeur of the “Godfather” movies or for the tragicomic flair of Martin Scorsese’s mobster movies. Movie Review: ‘The Iceman,’ With Michael Shannon as Richard Kuklinski 2013-05-02T22:01:34Z A few blocks away, the Customs House sprawled in neoclassical grandeur, a monument to the wealth that once fueled the West Indies. The West Indian Island That Shaped Alexander Hamilton 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z But there's a grandeur to them now that was missing from the surfing scenes. 'How To Train Your Dragon' co-director Dean DeBlois now calls Seattle home 2010-03-24T23:18:00Z To give the sandworm’s gaping maw some grandeur, Green recorded a friend’s dog as it gnashed its teeth, while Mangini added grumbling whale noises that matched the rhythm of the thumper — gunk, gunk, gunk. The Secret Sounds of ‘Dune’: Rice Krispies and Marianne Faithfull 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The music becomes muddy and laborious before regaining its former grandeur in a tremendous choral setpiece, "Tree of Beauty". Dr Dee: An English Opera ? review 2011-07-09T23:06:01Z Nézet-Séguin took a long view of the work, beginning in mysterious quiet, as if descending into the symphony from a great height, and building toward relentless grandeur in the “Ode to Joy” finale. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Opening night for Seattle Symphony, as always, entails grandeur, gowns and a ticketed gala celebration following the concert. Superstar soprano singing Björk? Welcome to Seattle Symphony’s season opener 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z The architecture of the long gallery is itself a daunting demonstration of spatial majesty – an unfurling of absurdly generous proportions – and the maps mirror its grandeur. Here be monsters 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z The soundtrack of the commuter’s daily life acquired a purple grandeur, with Bowie, Labelle and Madonna assuming the velvet cloaks of Verdi and Puccini. Review: Hit Songs to Sin By in a Smashing ‘Moulin Rouge!’ 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Your line delivery in “Her Smell” is this bizarre combination of punk patois, Shakespearean grandeur and manic rambling. Elisabeth Moss Has a Reputation for Darkness. ‘Her Smell’ Is No Exception. 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z "There are no illusions of grandeur or Hollywood sensation." Rachael Ray, the new queen of US cookery ? and she can't bake 2010-12-05T00:07:00Z Throughout his long career, the Egyptian star Omar Sharif, who died Friday at the age of 83, was known for both the subtlety and grandeur of his roles. Omar Sharif's film legacy as diverse as the roles he played 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z As an Atlantic Monthly correspondent, a farmer of herbs, a rustic wanderer and a writer of children’s books, Beston fell in love with the primitive grandeur of the New England seaside. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z After all the silliness, “The Forbidden Room” ends on a note of comedic grandeur. Review: In ‘The Forbidden Room,’ a Submarine Full of Dark Imagery 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z The club had the “grandeur” of their original location, Ms. Miller, 30, said. Looking for a Wedding Favor? Try the Best-Seller List. 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Most enthusiastic was the London Evening Standard's Sarah Sands, who found in Franzen's "almost perfectly written" family saga "an emotional grandeur worthy of Tolstoy", and "the best portrait of a marriage I can remember reading". Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z Through them, Douglass' grandeur and passion echoes across the ages to resonate in our era. HBO's "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" makes the 19th century agitator the star he always was 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z In my mind, the Vanlose Stairway of Van Morrison's song was always a majestic affair; not quite the full Scarlett O'Hara, but certainly something with a little grandeur. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2011-03-31T21:33:00Z For all the abnegation suggested by the self-muffling techniques Ms. Fure demands from her players, there is an old-fashioned, richly satisfying grandeur to the resulting music. Review: Ashley Fure Highlighted in a Composer Portrait at Columbia 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z The idea was to show the grandeur of Imperial France, and the benefits its colonies brought to the mainland. In a Palace of Colonialism, a ‘Quiet Revolutionary’ Takes Charge 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Rather often when people call comedians "geniuses", the grandeur of the word is being used to cloak the fact that they're not laughing. Comedy gold: Hans Teeuwen's Live in London 2013-05-27T10:05:08Z For all its public grandeur, the reason that Henze's music matters and will continue to matter is that it's a distillation of his essential, generous humanity. A guide to Hans Werner Henze's music 2012-10-29T16:23:35Z But in aiming at something of the grandeur and ferocity of Cormac McCarthy, Robinson overreaches and falls flat. Room by Emma Donoghue and Forgetting Zoe by Ray Robinson 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z There was something in the excitement in his voice and the grandeur of his vision that just got me going. George Packer: Don’t CEOs have any shame? 2013-05-26T18:00:00Z Mr. Levit played the church-bell-like bass line with an unwavering rubato that led gradually to the grandeur of a vast cathedral. Review: A Pianist’s Profound Vision of ‘Life,’ in Just 2 Hours 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Herman Roth told him that Roth's mother burst immediately into tears and said, "he has delusions of grandeur." Philip Roth and no complaint: not quite unmasked, but surprisingly charming 2013-03-15T15:23:23Z The word “epic” when applied to movies usually suggests sweep and grandeur, world-shaking events and a cast of thousands. Here’s What We Would Nominate for Best Picture 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Directed by Anne Kauffman, the show, which scored a nomination for best play revival, is a polemic against puffy-chested, lefty bohemians — mostly men — and their delusions of intellectual grandeur. Miriam Silverman Is ‘Unafraid of Embracing the Darkness’ 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Even in moments of agitated sorrow — as in the opening chorus of Part 2, telling of Jesus’ arrest — the restraint enhances the music’s tragic grandeur. music: Passion, Not Hyperbole, in Frank Martin?s ?Golgotha? 2010-07-16T23:38:00Z To the right is the Ritz Hotel, about to close for nearly three years of renovation, but still with its gilded grandeur and its crowd of tourists star-spotting at the doorway. Bedazzled at the Place Vendôme 2012-07-09T12:37:02Z A photo of the two dancers in “Theme” makes plain Alonso’s firm, upright grandeur, and her corporeal energy that overflows the frame. How American Ballet Theatre spun cowboys and killers into international fame Beyond that threshold "City of Angels" is mostly an excellent, well-meaning concept that doesn't quite live up to the grandeur of its intent. "Penny Dreadful: City of Angels": Glam Nazis menace LA in this high style, no heart spin-off 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z Blackburn, and the grandeur of the Stairway Icefall slowly pouring down the 13,000-foot Regal Mountain. Touring Alaska in an R.V. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Elaborate façades and majestic reading rooms lent the nations forming identities an essence of grandeur and wisdom. The Harvard Graduate School of Design Presents an Exhibition on National Libraries 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Bas Jan Ader definitely did put himself in harm's way to commune with, and communicate, the sublime grandeur of the ocean. Jonathan Truss's brush with death to paint great white sharks 2013-05-29T14:00:45Z He had the right look of ruined grandeur and was suitably full of breast-beating anger after the defeat at Actium; what he lacked was much sense of physical enslavement to his captivating Cleopatra. Antony and Cleopatra – review 2012-05-28T16:08:31Z Martin adopted a tone of exaggerated grandeur as he replied, “You’re welcome.” Why Are Steve Martin, Selena Gomez and Martin Short Working Together? It’s a Mystery. 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Semionova, too, possesses grandeur, and her movement unfolds with imagination and dignity. Dance Review: ‘Swan Lake’ Returns to American Ballet Theater 2013-06-18T19:59:17Z But there were shadows plucking at the grandeur, a sense of magnificence dissolving into dissonance. Stephen Sondheim, the Man Who Felt Too Much 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z It lacks the austere grandeur of “All Is Lost,” the spiritual hoo-ha and digital gee-whizzery of “Life of Pi” and the technological bravura of “Gravity,” which it most resembles in terms of plot and mood. Review: Shailene Woodley Braves the Elements in ‘Adrift’ 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Furthermore, their music has a certain questing grandeur and cultural weight that has people talking in terms of U2 and "next levels" and "bigness", all of which leaves the band feeling a little nonplussed. Arcade Fire: 'It's a lot easier to get smaller' 2011-02-10T21:36:01Z Like so much that counts as “front of house” at the Vatican, the “backstage” of the pope’s private apartments has, for all its privacy, a monumental grandeur. Henschel Quartet Offers Solace for Pope Benedict 2010-03-26T16:30:00Z Along one side of the dance hall, which exudes faded grandeur, men sit at tables trying to catch the eye of a potential partner on the other side. 36 Hours in Buenos Aires 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z “Soon groups like Kansas and Styx picked up on the pomp, minus any experiments. Asia imitates the imitators, inflating conventional pop songs with pseudosymphonic grandeur.” John Wetton, Rocker With King Crimson and Asia, Dies at 67 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z For wherever the ivory that once belonged to Mlima goes, so goes an entire baleful history of imperiled natural grandeur, leaving stains like marks of Cain on every one of its exploiters. Review: An Elephant’s Ghost Stalks the World in ‘Mlima’s Tale’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z Its imagery suggests the urban crowd of the machine-age city: piercing strokes of amazing grandeur, excitement and wit occur. It Was a Happy Month, Mostly, for Modernists 2011-04-01T21:14:26Z It's in this context that synthetic innovator 's latest album conveys its calm grandeur best. Brian Eno: Lux – review 2012-11-11T00:05:21Z Its constituent parts – in many instances adapted from a variety of his own earlier pieces – form a remarkable unity brought together with an often sublime grandeur. Prom 26: The English Concert/Bicket – review 2012-08-03T17:25:24Z Strip away the hype and you’re left with a reasonably good video podcast with delusions of grandeur. Internet doomsday, explained 2012-05-16T11:45:00Z Even the great imperial museums of Vienna, London and Paris make an argument: they are meant to reflect the power and grandeur of their creators. Critic?s Notebook: To Each His Own Museum, as Identity Goes on Display 2010-12-28T23:04:19Z Even though director Alan Taylor was best known for working on "Game of Thrones," he failed to bring the sense of epic grandeur to the series that Branagh gave to the first "Thor" film. What's the legacy of The Infinity Saga? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Really, though, the awfulness and grandeur that “American Honey” discovers is the product of Star’s restless Emersonian consciousness. Review: Youthful Recklessness Finds Adventure on the Road in ‘American Honey’ 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z True, you long for a certain grandeur at times, and those moments are better served by the Rattle recordings with the Berlin Philharmonic. Schumann, via Simon Rattle, Robin Ticciati and Nézet-Séguin 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z With the fall of this Eden looming in the wings of the novel, what a careful and caring choice to spend so much time in the grandeur of the lives of the banished. In ‘This Other Eden,’ a Historical Tale of Paradise Lost 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Blackshaw was assiduous in observing Mozart's repeats, allowing each work its full structural grandeur. Christian Blackshaw – review 2013-01-07T18:23:54Z We drove that stretch of road many times during our visit, and our wonder at its grandeur never diminished. A family shares the grandeur of Wyoming 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Wu mostly roams New York like an old-time street photographer, exploring its grandeur and desolation, returning regularly to Trump Tower, as if to a riddle he can’t solve. An Exhibition Worth Thousands of Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z From Castle Hill to Heroes’ Square, Budapest is renowned for its grandeur. The 41 Places to Go in 2011 2011-01-07T21:03:56Z “Serenade to Life” quotes from Rautavaara’s 1991 opera “The House of the Sun,” a tragicomedy about two Russian aristocrats who die in exile, clinging to dreams of past grandeur. A Composer’s Notes Echo After His Death 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Eugenie’s nuptials had much of the same pomp and pageantry as Harry’s, but the grandeur for a “minor royal” attracted some criticism. Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter marries in Gatsbyesque splendor 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z More striking was the grandeur she had conveyed earlier as Odette in the ballet’s luminous second act. Review | At Wolf Trap, a ‘Swan Lake’ with streaks of light 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z But inside, the restored medieval murals painted with local ocher spoke of artistic and biblical grandeur. The childhood home of lauded author Colette is open to the public in this small French village 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z I think of all those stately homes I visited, and the attention to detail and design, the grandeur of it. Painter Patssi Valdez on capturing energy, an L.A. fashion installation 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z The final movement of the Third Symphony charts the journey of a C-major chord as it builds, swirling, in intensity and grandeur. Review: The Minnesota Orchestra’s White Light and White Heat 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z That we’re too eager to conceive of Lear as a figure of grandeur may help to explain why on too many occasions, the play itself feels grandiose. Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ Standing on the mostly bare stage, actor Sean Hayes took a moment to absorb the towering grandeur of his new dominion. As God in 'An Act of God,' Sean Hayes has his OMG moment 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z But extraordinary human feats often share this kind of grandeur. Three Days, Four Helicopters, One Bone-Shaking Opera Marathon 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z At top volume and density, there’s blare where there should be grandeur. Geffen and Gustavo: Mixed Boons for the New York Philharmonic 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z The Los Angeles band, led by Mikel Jollett, has always favored music informed by moody '80s alternative music, cinematic indie rock and the artistic grandeur of acts such as David Bowie. How Airborne Toxic Event's album "Hollywood Park" became the "soundtrack" to Mikel Jollett's memoir 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z It is, I’m sorry to say, a rightfully overlooked work, but there’s a crazy grandeur to the music and, in the tortured Puritan minister Wrestling Bradford, at least one vibrant character. Classical Music This Week: The Met and the Mets, Female Conductors and Schiff’s Pedal 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Its grandeur attracts its visitors, and is in turn amplified by their presence: the true urban symbiosis. The Rose Reading Room and the Real Meaning of “Luxury” in New York City 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z FOR years, Vienna has lingered in the fading glory of the fin-de-siècle era, understandably satisfied with the grandeur of its Hapsburg-era architecture and parks. 36 Hours: Vienna 2012-01-05T15:57:17Z It’s not a good name for a way of thinking about aesthetics, but much of the grandeur of the Romantic imagination was dismantled by the 20th century. Twyla Tharp Creates ?The Princess and the Goblin? Ballet 2012-02-03T15:40:07Z The work has its raucous moments, as in a climactic section, “The Lord Is Good,” in which grandeur melts into a smoothly integrated succession of references to mariachi melodies, pop songs and Chopin. A Dave Brubeck Cantata Boasts Star Soloists: His Sons 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Glamorous as some of the outfits were, they competed with the over-the-top grandeur of the space. Sienna Miller and Anna Wintour Celebrate ‘American Woman’ 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z It was music that was unafraid of grandeur, generous but often caricaturish. Iasos Raises Musical Consciousness at Baby’s All Right 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Then the designers played with essentially three elements — cabaret sequins; maroon and cream striped governess shirting; and camo — mixing and matching them in the tropes of historical grandeur and red-light districts. Seeing the Oscar Challenge to Fashion Week and Raising It One 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z The juiciest moments of his decades onstage crackle with impish grandeur. Only Gilbert Gottfried Could Be So Dirty and So Heartbreaking 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Kandor is a place of loss and hope, fragility and grandeur. Mike Kelley's Superman moment: 'Kandors' at Hauser & Wirth 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z It's a hypnotic road trip that, like the song itself, has delusions of grandeur but works best as a simple tale about trying to find someone who makes you happy. New music: Girls ? Vomit 2011-08-08T10:26:36Z It was coming from my neighborhood and walking into the Met — it was so overwhelmingly beautiful; it was the way people dress up; it was the grandeur; it was like walking into a palace. Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z No doubt it will be a thing of imposing grandeur. On the Met?s Roof Garden, Sculpture at Play 2011-04-29T13:42:59Z "Basically, I think he's suffering from delusions of grandeur," he said. Could model airplanes become a weapon? 2011-09-30T00:07:00Z “The music was everything he had hoped and prayed it would be, gliding from intimacy to grandeur to heart-wringing sadness. Effortless, the music seemed to bridge the 85 years between then and now.” James Horner, Whose Soaring Film Scores Included ‘Titanic,’ Dies at 61 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z “Burnt Sugar” fits right into “Look Now,” which recalls the grandeur of those highly arranged, early ’60s pop hits written by artists like you, Carole. Elvis Costello, Carole King and a Song 20 Years in the Making 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Instead, the clothes connote stately grandeur and dignity. Grief as a fashion statement in ‘Death Becomes Her’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art The effect is almost too cosy; music of this grandeur seems to demand more space and detachment. Guerrero: Missa L'Homme Arm?, etc - review 2011-03-24T22:15:00Z Decisions that are logistical — keeping audience members in their cars; providing context through poetic narration by Marsha Music; reducing Wagnerian grandeur to a handful of players — are also fitting. Think Outside the Opera House, and Inside the Parking Garage 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z The title character of George Kelly’s 1924 play “The Show-Off” is a boasting buffoon named Aubrey Piper — a vain, dissembling blowhard with an obvious toupee and galloping delusions of grandeur. Review: A ‘Show-Off’ Who Doesn’t Know When to Shut Up 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z “Columbia Icefield,” his new work for quartet, isn’t really about depicting the grandeur of nature, à la Strauss’s “Alpine Symphony.” Review: The Prettiest, Most Progressive Campfire Music Ever 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Published last month by Thomas Dunne Books, a Simon & Schuster imprint, “True Crime Addict” is a strange beast—one that embodies every problem that arises when online obsessives are infected with delusions of detective grandeur. “True Crime Addict” and the Problem of Internet Sleuths 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z An equally illuminating show at the museum grounds the proto-Minimalist abstract paintings of Josef Albers in the geometric grandeur of Mesoamerican monuments in Mexico. Art for the Holidays: A New York Visitors’ Guide 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z He effortlessly created stage hierarchies; specialized in effects of grandeur, scale and formality; and glorified women. Jerome Robbins, Ballet’s Mr. ‘Take It Easy, Baby,’ at 100 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Kennedy found the Post Hotel and what he calls the area’s “epic grandeur” somewhat by accident. Searching for a cure to writer’s block in the Canadian Rockies 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z His playing was not always pristine; “The Hut on Fowl’s Legs” was particularly ramshackle in its ferocity, “The Great Gate of Kiev” likewise in its grandeur. Music Review: Mikhail Rudy in ‘Pictures at an Exhibition,’ at the Guggenheim 2012-09-29T01:39:38Z The pandemic temporarily halted tours, but you can get a sense of the stonewalled distillery’s vintage grandeur through a towering window facing the road into the village around back. In Scotland, a ferry-borne exploration of the Inner Hebrides 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Why can't the planetary forces, in all their grandeur and terror, carry a narrative on their own? Where are the good volcano novels? 2010-04-21T13:26:00Z The animal's luridly ruddy hue heightens the painting's drama and enigma, while the title — inserted along a dotted line that transects the buck's neck — nicely sabotages the piece's potential grandeur. Creatures with a purpose: the heightened 'naturalism' of Skagit Valley painter Robert McCauley 2010-12-30T20:48:04Z Brezonick said in a recent Skype interview that his intention was “to capture the grandeur and adventure that I find so interesting” surrounding Hemingway. Hemingway on film: 6 films that take him from a WWI hotshot almost to the bitter end 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Thanks to the mood shift from melodrama to Gothic horror, and especially to Frid’s haunted grandeur, Dark Shadows exuded a spooky, sub-camp aroma for the next couple of years. Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows: Death Warmed Over 2012-05-10T10:45:28Z One song, "Theatre of Evil," he writes, "echoes the Beatles' muscular, crackling artifice, studio-based layering and epic grandeur." Weekend preview: Cheap fun and pricier pleasures 2012-09-28T17:52:50Z In Love With Italy Mr. Twombly fell in love with Italy, which reminded him of the faded grandeur of Lexington. Cy Twombly, 1928-2011: American Artist Who Scribbled a Unique Path 2011-07-06T01:29:42Z Seasons, Stars and cavaliers dance a slowly unfolding choral ceremony in which Cinderella and the Prince perform a bridal adagio of immense grandeur and chivalry. Dance Review | Joffrey Ballet: Enchantment in a Race Against the Clock 2010-02-22T23:39:00Z Collectively, they tell a story that is part political thriller and part courtroom drama, with moments of Shakespearean grandeur and swerves into stumblebum comedy. Review: ‘Watergate’ Shocks Anew With Its True Tale of Political Scandal 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z I took dozens of pictures, but none of them truly captured its scope and grandeur. Colliders, Sundials and Wonder: When Science Is Your Destination 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z |
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