They were the most magnificent animals I had ever seen—red horses, blue horses, horses of all colors—draped in gold and flowers, heads high, hooves raised as if prancing to the music. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I had imagined that if there were an explosion there we would have 4.3 years to watch the light of this magnificent event spreading across the sky, as if tipped from a giant can. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was Nancy’s Babe, the obedient old dappled mare with flaxen mane and dark-purple eyes like magnificent pansy blossoms. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The First National Bank, like the vessel, was a magnificent, extravagant, enviable Camelot,” he wrote in an opinion in a case involving the bank. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like all magnificent things, it’s very simple. The wood—and the spring—belong to me now.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Frenchified shotgun house, it sported a magnificent garden in the back and a tiny wrought-iron fence in the front. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I bite the pencil in half with my magnificent teeth. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The stone walls were lit with flaming torches like the ones at Gringotts, the ceiling was too high to make out, and a magnificent marble staircase facing them led to the upper floors. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Surely on the feet of Himmler, Master of All the Jews, would be the most magnificent boots of all. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

An absence so decorative, so ornate, it was difficult for her to understand how she had ever endured, without falling dead or being consumed, his magnificent presence. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

More than one of the residents had dreamed of gorging on a magnificent banquet, only to wake up devastated. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Salutations was the fancy way Charlotte first greeted Wilbur and showed off her magnificent vocabulary. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Even more than her magnificent art, this was her legacy. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She was a tall, statuesque, rather silent woman with slow movements and magnificent fair hair. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, initiation into the magnificent world of science brings great esthetic satisfaction, inspiration to youth, fulfillment of the desire to know, and a deeper appreciation of the wonderful potentialities and achievements of the human mind. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

We were sitting across from each other on the bench of a bay window that looked out onto the long, steep driveway that led to their magnificent English Tudor. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Their thoughts were occupied by weightier names: world-record holder Indian Broom; speed demon Special Agent; and above them all, the magnificent Rosemont, king of the East and conqueror of 1935 Triple Crown winner Omaha. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he spat the blood from his mouth and closed his eyes and began to snore, in deep and magnificent snores. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I saw a man, the most magnificent Jackboot I had ever seen, sitting in the backseat of the first car. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He would listen to opera sometimes at night, closing his eyes, riding along with the magnificent voices as they dipped and soared. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I look at the boys I keep thinking of Romulus and Remus, wayward children, what they might say now about their magnificent city of Rome and its citizenry. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I looked around, I saw that a flurry of magnificent mariposas swarmed around us as we stood waiting on the summit of the hill, awed by the surreal beauty that surrounded us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It just grew and grew into something magnificent—it made you realize the true meaning of the term “rallying cry.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Singer, wearing the magnificent robe and holding the carved staff in his right hand, entered from the other side. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later they passed through the magnificent scenery of the Taurus. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew for certain that it would be magnificent. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The houses there might not have been as magnificent or graceful as on some of the other squares in the city, but many had been standing for more than five hundred years. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

What had been magnificent in the moonlight was still so when the sunlight revealed to us all the details ... Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun is shining, the sky is deep blue, there’s a magnificent breeze, and I’m longing—really longing—for everything: conversation, freedom, friends, being alone. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The curtains, usually limp, furled and billowed, magnificent with life. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dreamed of the ship that would take her, a magnificent schooner with sails like angel wings, cutting across the violent sea. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In Jordan College, much was magnificent, but nothing was pretty. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She was holding out his Firebolt, and it looked as magnificent as ever. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Our magnificent theater teacher in London didn't even know I could act. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Transito removed her last veil, and her magnificent nakedness so overwhelmed me that I immediately felt deathly tired. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ruler of India sent the BFG a magnificent elephant, the very thing he had been wishing for all his life. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he comes to school age, the magnificent buildings are already there to receive him; the ample staff of teachers welcomes him with open arms. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Harry ripped the parcel open and gasped as a magnificent, gleaming broomstick rolled out onto his bedspread. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She told them about Frederick Douglass, the most famous of the escaped slaves, of his eloquence, of his magnificent appearance. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mont Blanc, the supreme and magnificent Mont Blanc, raised itself from the surrounding aiguilles, and its tremendous dôme overlooked the valley. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Held in the architecturally magnificent Crystal Palace, the “Great Exhibition of Works of Industry of all Nations” was a celebration of technology and progress. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything from their name to their claws to their magnificent red had me hooked. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Not even the best of tribal schools in Alexandra—in the whole of South Africa—came close to having such magnificent facilities. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you. I’ll remind you of your promise when that joyful day comes, if it ever does,” returned Jo, accepting the vague but magnificent offer as gratefully as she could. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can there be anything more magnificent than that this barbarian lord should have all the things to be found under the heavens in his domain, fashioned in gold and silver and jewel and feathers? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This magnificent animal burst­ing over the ridge at full gallop couldn’t possibly be the same lisdess, bedraggled tiger who was my companion in misfortune? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were darkened with soot and the colors had faded, but you could see how magnificent they had once been. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I love the brief Queens sunlight at the end of the day, the warm lamp always reaching through the westward tops of that magnificent city. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Ear, Eye and Arm walked through the magnificent entranceway and tried not to look like tourists. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He never was to them the mean whining deity of the Iliad, but magnificent in shining armor, redoubtable, invincible. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He painted ink and paper for himself, a magnificent boat for his father, and a luxurious silk robe for his mother. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was magnificent country, as topographically imposing as any landscape on earth, but it wasn’t wilderness, and hadn’t been for hundreds of years. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

One day, while lying in the warm sun staring at its magnificent beauty, I found the perfect name. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We moved quickly northward, heading for Wisconsin through a noble land of good fields and magnificent trees, a gentleman’s countryside, neat and white-fenced and I would guess subsidized by outside income. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath this magnificent hat lay a pair of silver spurs with huge gold-plated, star-shaped rowels. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

While white albatrosses escorted Endurance through the ice on their magnificent, motionless wings, Leonard Hussey, the meteorologist, serenaded the passing wildlife with his banjo. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He said that his regiment had made a magnificent retreat, and the British were, lucky they’d got out of it alive, but it sounded the other way around to me. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aurelia’s home was a magnificent palace right in the heart of the city. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Beethoven’s Fifth, if you please. Do you see what a magnificent magician I am, ladies and gentlemen? I just made a pianist appear out of thin air!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

It was a magnificent thing, a gift from Domingo on Yeste’s wedding day. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Climbing was a magnificent activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

If my skin were darker, would I look more like the magnificent, powerful woman Kareena needs for her play? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but you are back now; and see, you’ve brought with you a magnificent June summer morning.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Once, Nyame, the sky god, owned all stories. He kept them in a magnificent chest, woven from light and dreams. He kept them in...his Story Box.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

—Appian According to legend, Mark Antony hosted a magnificent feast for Cleopatra and waited for praise from Egypt’s powerful queen. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Cradled under one arm was an antlered helm, its magnificent rack shimmering in gold. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The sight of it managed to be both overwhelming and magnificent all at once. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

"His massive figure, commanding, self-confident manner, and magnificent bursts of fiery eloquence, won and held the attention of his audience from the moment he opened his lips." Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was Lancelot, no longer in armour but dressed in a magnificent velvet robe, scalloped and diapered. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biblical writers saw the magnificent, 270-foot-high Tower of Babel as an emblem of man’s arrogance in trying to reach heaven. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was awed by the immense beauty of South Africa, seen from high up in the clouds: rolling hills and plains, meandering rivers and mountain ranges, thick forests, magnificent coastlines, luscious farmland. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soft, warm light filtered through magnificent stained-glass windows in the church proper. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well after midnight, a magnificent high tide arrives, the largest waves smashing against the bases of the ramparts, the sea green and aerated and networked with seething rafts of moonlit foam. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Finally it came, at first a tiny light that flickered from my palm, then a surging magnificent glow. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The stage was massive, with vast red- and-gold curtains drawn back to reveal a magnificent make-believe forest with a rolling painted ocean at the back of the wooden deck. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But then a baffling and magnificent thing happened—one by one, the stars came out, here and there a green flash in the dark. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It was all magnificent beyond description; what they could see of it in the dim light of the lamps. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

For his own part, Oppie was profoundly stimulated by the torrent of experimental results from Lawrence’s magnificent machine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And then the house itself was really most attractive, the view from the terrace magnificent…. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Her sweater’s fallen off her shoulder and a magnificent tattoo is twisting out of her dress and around her entire arm, a red-and-orange fire-breathing dragon. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I praised the response as “magnificent” to the press, lauding our people for “defying unprecedented intimidation by the state.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is a magnificent black, all Arabian fire with a perfect white diamond on his forehead. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A. To create her magnificent new book, Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Maria took elements from the studies she painted in Surinam and produced complex full-page designs in watercolors. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

This shouldn’t be a problem, given your magnificent wealth. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Truly you are magnificent,” Maddox said, repeating the compliment again in a foreign tongue. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In the evenings they sit on the porch in Vivian’s old wicker chairs as the sky turns pink and lavender and red, the colors seeping toward them across the bay, a magnificent living watercolor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They disliked Bilbo and detested Frodo, but so magnificent was the invitation card, written in golden ink, that they had felt it was impossible to refuse. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Some were printed with magnificent colorful patterns, and some were even crusted with pearls and gold sequins. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the grotesque, magnificent shell with a face like Quasimodo’s, there was shame and self-loathing which had been planted there when he was tiny, by something which it is now too late to trace. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hope that we can finally get this magnificent project on film soon because Leola, the unbelievable girl from Harlem, is beginning to bug us about salary. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, I have seen in encyclopedias and the National Geographic Magazine breath-taking photographs of sights from various comers of the globe; magnificent canyons and waterfalls, raggedly beautiful mountains. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Looking now at the magnificent robe, she knew that her sparse collection, a few leftover colored threads that her mother had allowed her to use for her own, was not adequate at all. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scrambling to her feet she watched the pack run along the horizon, a flowing line of magnificent beasts, all cooperating for the sake of each other, all wholly content—except Jello. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem was that this most special, magnificent, brilliant boy was—well, not. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

"This is magnificent — the dragon is almost alive!" Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It is always something of a memorable sight to see that magnificent banqueting hall employed to its full capacity and that evening was no exception. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the girls reached the beach, the tide was high, and the ship — a magnificent reproduction of an eighteenth-century sloop built on a studio lot in Hollywood — listed and limped in the high winds. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

While Ridgeway waited at the docks for smugglers, the magnificent ships from Europe dropped anchor and discharged their passengers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

"Kindness today, this very hour—give generously to those who are not your family, and your generosity will reap a reward more magnificent than you can dream!" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

In her mind she had done a magnificent feat. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Whatever the fate of her lost leg, the remaining one was magnificent. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The houses here were just as old if not quite as magnificent as those in the center. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

All were in the umbra of the magnificent hemlock. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then, for no reason at all, I felt magnificent. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The canvas hood had been folded back because of the mild weather, converting the car into a magnificent open tourer. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She repaid the gift by giving it magnificent care, expert service and maintenance that was given with the emotionless precision of a mechanic. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have to try out my gifts to know they’re magnificent.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The shelves are lined with apothecary bottles that twinkle like jewels, as well as clear jars and magnificent flasks containing resins, balms, waxes, and oils made from flowers, plant secretions, and extracts. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The size of a swan, with magnificent scarlet-and-gold plumage, he swished his long tail and blinked benignly at Harry. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They just laughed and ran in a game that was partly tag, partly piggy-in-the-middle, and partly just a magnificent romp. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

And the surest testament to the magnificent and horrifying level of my virtuosity was that neither had I. When I got to the flat Jack was waiting inside. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sandy follows my gaze over his shoulder to the magnificent stone man. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The hallway was large, dimly lit, and sumptuously decorated, with a magnificent carpet covering most of the stone floor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When she was gone he was overwhelmed with grief and decreed that she should have the most magnificent of funerals. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now show the others this magnificent machine that’s about to carry you to the moon.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too daring, too magnificent for the likes of him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Magnificent. When you see something so magnificent brought low, just to make the crowds happy.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I too crept away, my mind aswim in ringing phrases, magnificent, golden, and all of them, incredibly, lies. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

There the black-and-white images came together, making a magnificent whole—all projected through the ray of light from above and behind. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the carriage trundled toward a pair of magnificent wrought iron gates, flanked with stone columns topped with winged boars, Harry saw two more towering, hooded dementors, standing guard on either side. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was a magnificent mirror, as high as the ceiling, with an ornate gold frame, standing on two clawed feet. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Having my own house key was absolutely magnificent for two reasons. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The light of the traffic beacon showed that his magnificent ears had been split by the wind. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The boy with the magnificent photographs was definitely a find. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared out at a magnificent banyan tree along a route that Pérez’s driver took, and said softly, “I’ve worked for eighteen years in Haiti, and everything has gotten worse.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But it was a magnificent affair, and the stuff that it was made of shimmered like silk in the pale light. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought it would be just perfect for the blog. Such a beautiful house and in this kind of magnificent ruin. Plus peacocks on the roof.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Thank you for the magnificent welcome home. I’m glad to be back. God bless you.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naturally, he couldn’t play it just as it was written without a whole orchestra to back him up, but he was magnificent, all things considered. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that we had the pot barrier broken, it became a magnificent haze of yelling back at the TV; we stopped calling it “watching movies”; we started calling it “chilling.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

And, what is even more magnificent, you might see both. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Huge cars, magnificent cars, with the tops down. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Before him now lay the path, illumined; and when he turned, he saw that the world that had been darkness was returned to him, magnificent in deep blues and grays and black, streaked gold. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they stopped seeing how magnificent it was. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her dark skin always seemed to glow in the stage lights like it was streaked with stardust, and she wore her thick hair in two magnificent globes on either side of her head. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They renamed their club “We Who Will Die Together” and went back to hosting magnificent banquets every night, vowing to enjoy themselves to the end. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

I can see how it worked: The citrus packers walked from those lime green cement-block houses into that packing plant—that huge and magnificent structure. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, there was something magnificent about it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Peru had little money to spend on archaeology, and almost all of it was earmarked for the magnificent stone ruins in the mountains. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The magnificent Pharos lighthouse guided ships into the Great Harbor on the east side of the causeway and the Harbor of Good Return on the west. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Nhamo thought he was indeed a magnificent being as he gazed at the lake where his wife had disappeared. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having never seen so large and magnificent a dwelling, it was all I could do to keep my eyes on Aycliffe as he passed through what appeared to be yet another pantry. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It had a patrician bump on its nose, magnificent curly hair that rested atop a pronounced collarbone, and a broad forehead that reflected in miniature the walls and doors and lampshades around them. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The magnificent mess of curly hair, the gleaming amber eyes, the silver nose hoop, the perfectly proportioned—and super-soft—lips... Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was magnificent, reverent, and like no other place in all the city. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He came swooping over the dusky hill—he was a magnificent skier—and stopped beside me, dirty and tired and heavy-laden. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Kind of flawless. More or less magnificent. Without blemish. Rather on the ideal side.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She added, with a secret smile, “Though she’s even more magnificent doing other things.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

That part of this magnificent day was her personal secret. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

In the center stood a stag, magnificent and virile, gazing sideways at Elena. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Something new, Edna?” exclaimed Miss May- blunt, with lorgnette directed toward a magnificent cluster of diamonds that sparkled, that almost sputtered, in Edna’s hair, just over the center of her forehead. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody knew where he was, although there were those who spoke of a magnificent chestnut mare seen on the meadows beneath Asgard. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Automobiles were coming into use but most of these families still clung to their handsome horses and magnificent carriages. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sensing that I was in awe of his magnificent library, Clyde said, “Do you have this many books in your playroom?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I do not know what you were like as a wood-nymph, madam, but you are a magnificent tree." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Using all the French I could muster, I tried to tell the waitress the meal was magnificent. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The house was fringed with palm trees, magnificent gardens, and concealed but nonetheless imposing outbuildings in which the family indulged its various hobbies. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pulsed with the same gentle light she’d seen in Coney Island as they glided with long, magnificent strides. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Of the Cro-Magnons’ products that have been preserved, the best known are their artworks: their magnificent cave paintings, statues, and musical instruments, which we still appreciate as art today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The tent was empty, tawny and magnificent The wind wailed and the candles guttered. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that made it difficult to get to know him, to figure out what might make their new little family go from fine to magnificent But Cady had a secret weapon. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

To live between the prospects of an unknown eternal sky and a dark, enveloping Earth must have been glorious—for how else could it have given rise to such magnificent expression? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

In one magnificent motion, Rooster Jim jerked the bicycle off course and careened—thunk—into the stacked bundles. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The view was magnificent; we were right in the middle of Times Square. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A magnificent fire burned brightly in a fireplace, and a sparkling chandelier ringed with candles hung from the ceiling. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As they approached the magnificent structure, Gregor noticed there was nothing carved on it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“His magnificent smile was missing from his careworn face. He seemed a spent man.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We suddenly appreciated that San Francisco was truly a city of magnificent distances,” wrote one witness. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was magnificent moonlight and we were only an hour away from the Temples: Could we resist the temptation? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pull back a series of curtains, revealing a glass wall and a magnificent garden alive with roses of every color, flowers of every shape, and plants of every kind. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They must have, been magnificent places when people were still living there. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Beneath his bare chest, he felt the soft folds of the magnificent cloth that covered the bed. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t signed up for this, and I soon grew tired of it, but I kept telling myself it would all be worth it when he turned into a magnificent butterfly. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The deweys with their magnificent teeth ran out from Number 7 and danced a little jig around the befuddled Shadrack, then cut into a wild aping of his walk, his song and his bell-ringing. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The reason for the additional singers was not just to fill the hall with a magnificent noise but to proclaim Beethoven’s hopes for the future. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The zap was probably from not feeling well, and Mrs. Sharpe’s pentomino words were nothing more than a magnificent Charles Fort incident. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Birkway said, “Not to worry! Everyone has something magnificent to say. I haven’t read ' through every page yet, but I wanted to share some of these passages with you right away.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

In some places where they waged war on Indigenous peoples, they destroyed magnificent statuary and artworks just to take the gold and silver the artisans used. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Ernest’s genius, Seaborg perceived, was to draw into his orbit like-minded scientists in every field, not just physics, and imbue them with his own drive to build and perfect his magnificent invention. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He wanted to follow Siddhartha, the beloved, the magnificent. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new greens and pinks on the trees are magnificent. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but not one of them could be prideful of their labor. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

All the flowers suddenly appeared black, the gray rocks became a lovely soft chartreuse, and even peacefully sleeping Tock changed from brown to a magnificent ultra-marine. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

During all those years, Pedro Tercero never got used to the life of a bachelor, despite his success with women, especially the magnificent adolescents whom the laments of his guitar inflamed with love. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her students were old enough that she rarely read aloud to them, but today she wanted them to be able to focus on what she called the “magnificent melancholy of Charlotte’s final moments.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was a magnificent, life-size illustration of the female body, with the skin missing so you could see the muscles and tendons and organs and all that. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The road turned into a wide courtyard lined with magnificent buildings. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Prosperity and peace came to the city, and slowly it became one of the most magnificent cities of the land, perhaps even outshining the emperor's Capital City. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Because it is so magnificent, my book creates a huge stir. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They usually don't return until late in the afternoon, which gives Sunny and me seven magnificent hours of freedom. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a truly magnificent gift, though she knew that Illyrio could afford to be lavish. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It must have been built, red brick by red brick, to be the most magnificent building the workers had ever seen, like a European cathedral. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I have never seen such beautiful paintings and magnificent sculptures. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hercules, who was the most magnificent of all the heroes of Greece, was always in his mind, and the determination to be just as magnificent himself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The majority of Southern Californians simply assumed William Mulholland must have been someone magnificent because he had such a nice road, which meandered through the wealthiest communities in Los Angeles, named for him. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“How dare you besmirch that magnificent image with your vintner’s hands.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was beginning to lose my faith, but your words last Sunday and the charity of this magnificent town have restored my belief that the Lord has a plan for me, and it is majestic.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He had dreamed—or so he thought—of a magnificent church with a great, reaching spire that would rise from the city’s tallest hill. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The Witch, with a magnificent jump, had sprung clear just in time and landed on the horse’s back. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

But as we circled to receive our share of providence, the fat flanks of the magnificent beasts we’d stalked on the hill shrank to parched sinew, the gristle of drought-starved carcasses. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without meaning to, the woman looked at José Arcadio and examined his magnificent animal in repose with a kind of pathetic fervor. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We might be inclined to laugh at the extravagance of his beauty-worship if there were not some-thing almost magnificent in his single-minded dedication to it. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, in the rest of the castle, the usual magnificent Christmas decorations had been put up, despite the fact that hardly any of the students remained to enjoy them. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in a magnificent pink silk wrapper with lace at the wrists and throat. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A magnificent door that was two stories tall stood open, guards flanking either side. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The man’s scowling, slightly brutish face was somehow at odds with his magnificent, sweeping robes, which were embroidered with much gold thread. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then downhill swiftly they all repaired to the father’s house, and there tended him well—so well they soon could send him, with Grandfather Autolykos’ magnificent gifts, rejoicing, over sea to Ithaka. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace had never heard her mother use the word magnificent before. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

One crew did the exterior renovations on what had once been the small Ohio city’s most magnificent building, the Gold Leaf Bank. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Everyone rushed to the waterfront to view the magnificent pageantry of the queen’s arrival. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Gachet arrives for the funeral carrying a magnificent bunch of sunflowers. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The long years of solitude and unhappiness had distilled her emotions and purified her feelings down to a few terrible, magnificent passions, which possessed her totally. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he had worried then, as a child, that when his father was wakened on Judgment Day his first sight would not be glory or the magnificent head of God—or even the rainbow. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a way, I am disappointed, but I’m also relieved: I never have to worry whether your next book will live up to the magnificent perfection of the original. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

But mostly, it’s because I realized something the day she unrolled her magnificent dot game across the lunch table: Maya’s been my friend through thick and thin. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Dany propped herself on an elbow to look up at him, so tall and magnificent. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s the largest and most magnificent cathedral in London,” said Millard, “and if my hunch is correct, it’s also the nesting place of Miss Wren’s pigeons.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

My grandsires owned a vast armory full of magnificent and valued battle equipment. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He was clad in a magnificent robe of thick red velvet, with an ermine collar and shiny gold fastenings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Perhaps because they had fallen into that angry silence, they walked quietly enough to come upon One Horn, the magnificent buck deer who had lost half of his antler rack defending his island territory. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Missy hardly noticed, just hurtled forward full speed, a magnificent roar issuing from her wide-open maw. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A magnificent white bud just beginning to open. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We were feeling exhilarated after Harry’s magnificent performance, and we were also starving. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He always remembered this dolphin, a magnificent ivory-white animal shining on the dock like porcelain. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I've seen more elaborate pyrotechnics at the grand openings of grocery stores, but the audience was kind and everyone made an effort to pretend that the display was magnificent. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Glinting gold in the lamplight, the whiskers made him look like some great yellow beast, magnificent even in chains. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Do you recollect the magnificent lines at the beginning of "Paradise Lost"? The lecturer was lucid in his allusions. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monks in yellow robes wandered along all the paths of the magnificent grove. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We did. It’s magnificent. Unfortunately, some very bad people stole it from us.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He stared down into a forest full of growling tropical creatures and magnificent birds. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Return with the dear eyes dulled, the firm hand still, the magnificent voice silent, the Leader cold? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was messy, but he had a magnificent smile, which immediately ranked him in the category of human beings who deserved to be painted into the gigantic fresco in her bedroom. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A magnificent spray of white carnations, red roses, lavender, and baby’s breath blanketed the length of Great-great-aunt Florentine’s closed casket. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The archway was white and magnificent, even from the opposite side of the park. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

And the first thing I saw, the only thing I could see at first, was a magnificent bed. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a drum Mamita brought back from a trip to New York; a magnificent drum, its sides bright red, crisscrossed by gold wire held down by gold button heads, its top and bottom white. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

"You must grow the most magnificent flower," the father commanded. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A magnificent bird with a long green tail stepped delicately across a walk. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was becalmed in a magnificent adolescence, more and more impenetrable to formality, more and more indifferent to malice and suspicion, happy in her own world of simple realities. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Who are you after you finish something this magnificent—in constructing it you have also journeyed through it, to the other side. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Her stepmother had spared no expense for her eldest daughter that year; there was a different gown for each night, and each one was more magnificent than the one before. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In trails of copper ink guided by an invisible hand, the symbols were applied to the magnificent chest in honor of the gods of the Golden Crescent. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

To her, explanations don’t ruin mysteries; they only make them more magnificent. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Guests received fantastic dinnerware, delicate tapestries, and magnificent furniture. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Fred was delighted and led her up to his bedroom where a truly magnificent blue and yellow parrot sat in a tall cage. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

His head is covered with a leather hood, and his movements seem slow for such a magnificent living thing. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Were it not for her, I would not be hearing that glorious song on top of this magnificent gorge. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora couldn’t make much out of his poems: a visitation of a magnificent presence, a seeker awaiting a message. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The wall of fire disappeared, revealing a most magnificent hall. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The strength of it frightened him, but it was a clean fear such as one might have before a magnificent force of nature—a volcano, for example. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They came at last to a magnificent house with a large lawn and a drive that curved up to the front door. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His son looked on in wonder at the godlike bloom upon him, and called out happily: “Oh, Father, surely one of the gods who are young forever has made you magnificent before my eyes!” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His very best friend was a Negro abstractionist, he said, who made magnificent smears of protest and defiance across the canvas, sometimes slashing the canvas to shreds with a knife. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On each of the towers, giant faces with magnificent headdresses looked out in different directions over our land. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was some thing in this room which interested her more than it interested Digory: all the figures were wearing magnificent clothes. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Their mate, a male with a magnificent mane, reclined atop Lord lywin's greathelm, one paw raking the air as he roared. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was a magnificent boat, solid and heavy in the water, over twenty feet long and carved from the trunk of one giant tree. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Magnificent! You were magnificent! I always love it when a good actor makes me look good.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Even after seeing him play in such magnificent spaces so many times, I still got excited for his moments in the spotlight. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He had an afternoon to himself, alone in this magnificent high country, on top of the wilderness world. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was by far the most magnificent house any of them had ever seen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Two weeks ago, this reporter watched as the boys of the Big Creek Missile Agency launched their magnificent creations at their new Cape Coalwood range. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Sun Mountain Lodge was magnificent. Let’s go there again.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The effect was one of enormous strength and energy and craft; he was quite big enough to carry the absurd overdecoration; on him it didn’t look preposterous, it looked barbaric and magnificent. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her magnificent white hair is tied up with what looks like a piece of dirty string. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Aren’t they magnificent? Thirteen has been studying their aerodynamics here for years. Forward and backward flight, and speeds up to sixty miles per hour. If only I could build you wings like these, Katniss!” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, from the rear of the car there erupted a magnificent, weary, soul-emptying sigh. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Commander Kurt Meyer noted, “The magnificent young grenadiers look at us with laughter in their eyes. They have no fear. They are confident. They have faith in their strength and the will to fight.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Right here in the attic. I was getting ready for a party, a magnificent party, and someone attacked me.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Each of these three was squatting upon a magnificent chair. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The great bird’s wings were magnificent, probably a good five feet at full span. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The highway ran for miles along some of the most magnificent beaches I have ever seen—white sands, a beautiful ocean; and opposite the beach, splendid homes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a feathered cloak of green and orange, magnificent to behold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He acquired a wife from a good family and a magnificent town house as well as a large chateau in the country. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The water butterflies swim in swarms and conceal their magnificent purple glow by hiding among a home of dense vines.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The planes formed behind him and a single vision passed through the mind of Bull Meecham, magnificent in its improbability, in its impossibility, but one that he entertained deliciously for a full minute. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A magnificent company they were—the future Romans, the masters of the world. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The economy is strong, and people are willing to spend money: there are more than thirty galleries in a city where art is revered and has had a long, magnificent history. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

On a magnificent four-poster bed with dusty hangings lay Crookshanks, purring loudly at the sight of them. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“But this has been a magnificent feast,” Turner said. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You know,” Darma says, putting her hand on my door, “I never showed your brother our prize toro. He’s really a magnificent bull.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She looked magnificent, but she did not look like Phoebe’s mother. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He felt ridiculous in this magnificent room, with his tortoise box under his arm and shoes that showed quite clearly that he did a lot of walking for a living. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was sewing Martin the Warrior back in his former position on the corner of the magnificent Redwall tapestry. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

One moment the trees were solid as stone around him; the next it was as if he were standing among grand marble pillars in a magnificent palace. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was as magnificent and beautiful a sight as I have ever seen,” Worsley said later. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“If you come to Germany one day, we have magnificent art.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And she knew then that she could live to be a hundred and she would never again see a thing as magnificent. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She was magnificent in her queenly desolation, and on her face was an expression of sweetness and serenity she never had in her grievous life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The right-hand page had an illustration on it, showing women in magnificent dresses, a fire-eater, acrobats, and a man who looked like a king. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She was dressed from head to foot in black satin, and many magnificent opals gleamed at her throat and on her thick fingers. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

His skin was covered with patches of scraggly red fur, though ninety percent of his body hair seemed to be concentrated in his magnificent eyebrows. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The magnificent robe was laid out on the table in display. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Really, my dude? You wanna explain that magnificent feat of poetic analysis for us?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The only thing magnificent about this man was his uniform. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

So they danced up in the Bottom on the second Saturday in June, danced at the wedding where everybody realized for the first time that except for their magnificent teeth, the deweys would never grow. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Am I not magnificent, Ella? Don’t you wish you could look as I do and go to the ball?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I present to you this magnificent bracelet of thread,” he said in a playful tone as he bowed. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Why how do you do?” she said with a magnificent smile that illuminated not only her face but the entire quarter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a magnificent sight, but Johnny felt a little sick. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earth trees, great mimosas and weeping willows and magnolias and magnificent eucalyptus. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

One magnificent creature with beautifully striped legs swung down directly in front of Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Richard did, not only because of the prospect of writing in a university but also because he would be in the southeast, in the land of Igbo-Ukwu art, the land of the magnificent roped pot. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A sea of faces, some hostile, some amused, ringed around us, and in the center, facing us, stood a magnificent blonde—stark naked. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, the old banqueting hall no longer contains a table and that spacious room, with its high and magnificent ceiling, serves Mr Farraday well as a sort of gallery. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

In surveying the forests from the air, vast blighted areas could be seen where the magnificent Douglas firs were turning brown and dropping their needles. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Just look at that blue sky! Don’t the jacaranda flowers make a magnificent carpet on the green grass?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The orbs lit the night; they powered magnificent machines; they had made Chattana prosperous again. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

There in the light the colors were even more magnificent and Kira felt even more inadequate. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mentality, uncontrollable and wanton as always, whispered to me a scheme so magnificent and daring that I shrank from the very thought of what I was hearing. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few more steps the forest opened before them, and off to the left a magnificent metropolis appeared. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Draco paused to examine a long coil of hangman’s rope and to read, smirking, the card propped on a magnificent necklace of opals, Caution: Do Not Touch. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

At least he had a magnificent new scheme ready for launching against M. Minkoff. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stumbled upon a magnificent ranch sprawling over seventeen thousand acres of California’s remote redwood country, 150 miles north of San Francisco, near a tiny lumber village called Willits. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was nothing primitive about the magnificent city that spread before him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The temple walls are decorated with magnificent detailed carvings of people, cows, wagons, daily life, and battle scenes from long ago. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The source was a magnificent waterfall that poured out of a stone arch and fell a hundred feet to the river below. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was a clean young mulatto woman with yellow almond-shaped eyes that gave her face the ferocity of a panther, but she had a generous heart and a magnificent vocation for love. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“How lovely for you to give your auntie Pezza a ring on this magnificent Sunday morning.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her cooks had prepared them a magnificent meal of honeyed lamb, fragrant with crushed mint and served with the small green figs she liked so much. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I explored a magnificent tomb of a royal family.” I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

I would have given my cousin a dirty look and gone on with my reading if it hadn't been for the magnificent creature he had created. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

That was his dream, daring and magnificent: to go there, half across the world, and solve the mysteries for himself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Still, the Edifice was magnificent in comparison to the ordinary sheds and cottages of the village. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s car sat in a yard twice in one day offering magnificent refuge. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as though he had found some answer, he flashed me a magnificent smile, leaned hard against me and whispered, “I bet you dig this, daddy.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hercules was the strongest man on earth and he had the supreme self-confidence magnificent physical strength gives. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked sadly at the magnificent hemlock and was about to put the fire out and desert it when I said something to myself. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edward looked over his shoulder and there they were, the most magnificent wings he had ever seen, orange and red and blue and yellow. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Your mother sought from the gods magnificent trophies and set them down midfield for our champions. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn could only lie in the road, pinned by Petey’s bike, as his horse, his beautiful, magnificent, impossible horse, thundered toward him, The mare reared up, shrieking, hooves hammering the air. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I remember a time when a magnificent blue sky, chirping birds, moonlight and budding blossoms wouldn’t have captivated me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He had learned to perform magnificent upright charging displays. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hemingway's house had survived the storm, except that the giant swimming pool was filled with brackish water and debris, along with a magnificent sea turtle that I immediately named Ernest. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The tribes of the North and the South have long had contact, at least as far back as the ninth century, as some of the magnificent beads discovered at the historic Igbo-Ukwu site attest. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The new house was decked out with a luxury unrivaled even in those magnificent days before the place was passed down to my father, who left it a ruin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville jumped down from their carriage and dashed up the steps too, looking up only when they were safely inside the cavernous, torch-lit entrance hall, with its magnificent marble staircase. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then, it gives a mighty leap into the air—and blade-like wings extend from either side of it, unfurling in a magnificent display. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Six magnificent white horses drawing a carriage carrying Abraham Lincoln’s coffin made their way up the avenue. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then you’d better take this,” said Mr. Wonka, and he swept his magnificent black top hat of his head, and held it out, upside down, in front of Mrs. Teavee’s mouth. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Everglades are magnificent — one of eeriest places you’ll ever visit — and December through April, which is the park’s dry season, is the best time to go. | The Everglades 2012-01-19T14:00:41Z

With papercutting art, the tools are simple — a pair of tiny scissors and some paper — but the process is painstaking and the product magnificent. What to look for in Seattle’s National Nordic Museum’s stunning exhibit of intricate papercutting art 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

From the GardenCamellias are beginning to unfold their pristine petals and look magnificent when cut and brought indoors. Winter White 2013-12-26T06:20:07.280Z

“There is nothing tame, or cheap, or trivial — it is all magnificent.” 36 Hours in Zermatt 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

We walked ourselves into cramps, but through magnificent, shining valleys, vistas of greens upon greens. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z

And when she was visiting the ruins of Lollybrach, and the voices of the past were echoing, and then she looked up and saw Jamie at the gateway...well, that was truly magnificent. ‘Outlander’ Season 2 Finale: I Believe You 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z

Bonhams calls the plane "magnificent"--and it’s true: The wing span is just under 50 feet. At Auction: A Glenn Curtiss-Designed Flying Boat 2010-04-12T21:30:00Z

Perhaps then the best of the Barnes would actually speak as clear as the water landing on a drum in that magnificent Bill Viola video. Perspective | Bill Viola’s videos show what art can do and expose what the Barnes Collection lacks 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

"The Argonauts" is a magnificent achievement of thought, care and art. An intimate look at a fluid family in Maggie Nelson's 'The Argonauts' 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

A magnificent solo for Raymonda is about as close as ballet gets to a feminist display. Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Raymonda’ comes slowly to life 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Climb to the top, especially at sunset, for a magnificent view over the bay. In France, Biking Along Arcachon Bay 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

So here I am, on a magnificent black horse, on a cliff, in the rain, and a boiling sea. TV review: Wonders of the Universe, Civilization: Is the West History?, South Riding 2011-03-06T22:15:01Z

And yet, as magnificent as Wells the public-spirited visionary could be, the private man remains more problematic. Review | H.G. Wells wanted to change the world. A new book explores the author’s outsize ambitions 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

Such a magnificent sight, I realized, would be lost on someone inside the castle itself, while his own panorama would be that of the much smaller houses of much poorer people. In the Czech Republic, Moravia and Its Castles 2011-09-23T18:55:00Z

TV writing can be magnificent, as good as any writing has ever been. Game of Thrones despises you. And that’s why you love it 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

Together, Roman says, they form "one cohesive and magnificent testament to human spirituality and passion." Joshua Roman to play a Bach cello marathon 2011-11-23T17:40:09Z

A steady crush of visitors shuffled through the muggy one-way route leading to the payoff: the magnificent Hall of Mirrors. How to beat the crowds as you travel Europe 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

Stopping to catch my breath, I turned and took in the rows of magnificent cliffs that seemed to mirror themselves for miles. Texas’ best-kept secret? A 120-mile-long canyon that’s grand in its own right. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

"There is some magnificent talent here that would not be recognised otherwise." The Help dominates NAACP awards 2012-02-20T16:40:40Z

At the tip of the Gaspe Peninsula, this park offers several magnificent hikes, from easy walks to more strenuous paths. In Quebec, a maritime region’s embarrassment of riches in history and cuisine 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

During a magnificent stretch at the conclusion of the Intermezzo, the line between soloist and symphony blurred, the music exploded into the realm of dazzling energy, and everyone in the hall was breathing as one. Review: A shimmering night of German romantic classics at the symphony 2010-05-14T16:54:00Z

The performance powerfully conveyed the astonishing strangeness of this inventive work; the Philharmonic sounded magnificent. Review: The Philharmonic Hails Sibelius, and Offers Joshua Bell on a Mendelssohn 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Outwardly, Adès is a burly pianist with massive technique and magnificent sound for whom the keyboard seems a way to indulge in an appetite of sensuous pleasures. Spectacular start to Piano Spheres' 21st season 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

At Biga Pizza, we ate a magnificent creation of squash, caramelized onions and two kinds of cheese. What you really want for Thanksgiving is pumpkin pizza 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

The 90 acres of Wrest Park in Bedfordshire are unarguably magnificent, probably Britain's largest "secret garden", with surprises around every wooded corner. 'Secret garden' Wrest Park reopens after restoration 2011-08-01T23:05:17Z

Overhead, a line of flamingos stretching more than 100 feet from first bird to last flies toward the far shore, the trailing edges of each magnificent bird’s hot-pink wings etched in black. On Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas, the flamingos are many and magnificent

“The two emeralds are perfectly matched in both shape and hue, which is a magnificent and totally uniform shade of green.” Special Report: Jewelry: Green Makes a Dazzling Return 2010-05-20T13:30:00Z

She defined opera as “an art form which is a magnificent attempt at combining many, many disciplines.” Fiora Corradetti Contino, Opera Maestra, Dies at 91 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Burdette was also the star of “Emperor,” in which he played the combined role of Death and the Loudspeaker with an idiosyncratic, darkly comic incisiveness that underpinned a magnificent vocal performance. Music Review: Oppressor?s Tale, Written in Oppression 2011-02-02T23:08:54Z

There, his immense imagination, sharp ear for drama, profound lyricism, puckish sense of humor and huge heart find voice through a magnificent and masterly musicianship. Ennio Morricone Was More Than Just a Great Film Composer 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

This tension — between idealism and practicality — is what enlivens projects like the magnificent Redentore church in Venice. | 'Palladio and His Legacy': ?Palladio and His Legacy? at the Morgan Library 2010-04-08T22:16:00Z

Her strong, pure spirit inhabited that character and made a great role magnificent. Evan Rachel Wood Turns Her Trauma Into Good. On ‘Westworld’ and in Life. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

“It’s taken us several years to find the two ferocious, magnificent stage actors that this play demands,” he continued. Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano to Star in ‘True West’ on Broadway 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

You can contain this magnificent lust and manage the risks it entails. I can’t turn off my thoughts 2013-02-01T01:00:00Z

Not just the members of his family but figures like the kind and sympathetic assistant librarian Miss Flushing, “with her magnificent conical breasts poking against a pale-blue angora jumper.” An Irish Flâneur, Greeting the Past on His Present Wanderings 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

But it’s safe to assume race was a running theme in her magnificent life. That sound you’re hearing is classical music’s long overdue reckoning with racism 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

So it’s combining those two things in the film that really is magnificent. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

Jodrell Bank, founded in 1945, remains a thing of ethereal beauty and globally esteemed research – its magnificent Lovell telescope, opened in 1957, is still the world's third largest steerable radio telescope. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-08-26T14:53:45Z

But starting in the 1980s, the Pesaro festival — which ended on Friday — pursued the scholarly rediscovery of even Rossini’s most obscure compositions, together with a dedication to teaching the magnificent fireworks of Rossinian style. Pesaro’s Opera Festival Accelerated Rossini’s Renaissance 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

Long Soldier’s inclusion of this work doesn’t mar her magnificent book, but it highlights the enormity of what she accomplishes with the rest of it. Why you should be reading poet Layli Long Soldier 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

In Laos, there is a wealth of magnificent fiber art. Letters: Seeing Asia in Detail 2011-04-01T18:55:25Z

“It’s a magnificent picture,” Mr. Christiansen said, “and it is an image of an ideal commander that even we don’t have despite the fact that we have the finest collection of Rubens in America.” Inside Art: Met Is Ready to Unveil New European Paintings Galleries 2013-05-09T20:39:52Z

His dramatic elevator-doors-opening entrance is to the magnificent “Psychedelic Shack” by the Temptations, which is the only positive element of this particular plot line. Behind the music on “Vinyl”: Getting Sly & the Family Stone all wrong — at the expense of the band’s women 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

But her magnificent emptiness is not sustained throughout the novel. Idiopathy by Sam Byers – review 2013-04-13T10:01:01Z

And its conclusion, though magnificent, seems to represent a negation of self. From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

The middle section of the episode wasn't as magnificent. The hard cut beauty of "Treme" 2011-05-23T13:24:00Z

There is no better way to honor the legacy of Pei, who died early Thursday at 102, than to spend some time in this magnificent space. Perspective | The best way to honor I.M. Pei? Spend some time at the National Gallery of Art. 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

And while the magnificent achievement of “Budapest Concert” is a source of pride, it’s not hard to see how it could also register as a cosmic taunt. Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

This “Jena Set” undoubtedly saw themselves as magnificent rebels — gloriously free spirits bent on centering the self, in all of its sublime subjectivity, and throwing off the shackles of a stultifying, mechanistic order. These Romantics Celebrated the Self, to a Fault 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

As a plant it is quite magnificent, growing up to four feet tall, with huge, wavy-edged leaves and clusters of bright purple, thistle-like flowers. A weedy root lifts the winter blues 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

The Gorge in Washington State is a magnificent place. Vince Gill Loves All Kinds of Guitars (and Mountains) 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

I rectified this by paying a visit to Steamtown, the magnificent downtown train museum where I actually took a ride on a vintage diesel train. Essay: Postcards From My Literary Staycation 2010-08-27T15:04:00Z

Adapted from an illustrated novel by the writer and artist Phoebe Gloeckner, who based it on her own life, the film left Sundance audiences delighted: “wildly provocative,” “wonderfully amoral,” “honest and magnificent,” critics enthused. The Birds and the Bees as Seen at 15, in ‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl’ 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

"There's something really pleasing about them," Clunes opines of the magnificent creatures as he meets his first, Mandy, at the huge Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. Tonight's TV highlights: The Sinking Of The?Laconia 2011-01-06T00:05:01Z

But what a magnificent villain, with an arc that could have stretched over 10 episodes. Sherlock finale 2010-08-08T21:30:00Z

The terrace offers a 360-degree panorama that takes in the medieval streets of Ljubljana’s old town overlooked by the magnificent castle on one side, to the foothills of the Julian alps on the other. 10 of the best rooftop bars in Europe: readers’ travel tips 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

White South African novelists – such as the magnificent Andre Brink, who is also on this year's list – plus Indian and Nigerian authors often feature on British prize lists. Does the Booker longlist show that we're expanding our literary horizons? 2012-08-03T23:30:18Z

Another town on our route was Ferla, with not one but four magnificent churches posted along the main street, like sentinels. Cultured Traveler: On a Road Trip in Sicily, Churches Everywhere 2013-05-31T18:22:52Z

The explicit subject of Frederick Wiseman’s magnificent documentary “National Gallery” is the stately museum that rises at the northern end of Trafalgar Square in London. In ‘National Gallery,’ Frederick Wiseman Plies His Art 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

He failed to acquire any of Homer’s Civil War paintings, and entirely bypassed his magnificent Reconstruction-era pictures of African-Americans. Art Review: The Impact of Winslow Homer, at the Clark Institute 2013-08-01T22:10:42Z

He was magnificent in all of the roles.  Corin Redgrave: a tribute 2010-04-07T15:44:00Z

The final ten minutes of the play are magnificent, as Skilling asserts that he's not really a villain and characterises human progress as the jagged, upward ascending line of a financial graph. Why doesn't Broadway love Enron? 2010-04-29T11:33:00Z

The big hair, cowboy boots and other displays of Go Texan flair are there, but so are the magnificent quinceañeras and epic Punjabi weddings I attended over the course of my childhood. Perspective | A love letter to Houston: What outsiders don’t get about my home town. 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

Though Cowell’s piano helps construct the magnificent cathedral Jordan is building, the true possibilities unfold once his role shifts. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

But because we were so much smaller than our sprawling Hollywood mothership, I did get to witness, sometimes up close, the often magnificent insanity of film brass. The Sony hack shows movie studios are still insane 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

She tells Moreno that in 1960, she watched the filming of “West Side Story’s” magnificent opening scene on a basketball court from the fire escape of her apartment on East 110th Street. Rita Moreno on strength, stamina and the power of a killer body

As the magnificent dragon hit the ground, I saw Queen Patrice. Your stories: Dragons are not what you expect them to be by Ellathebookworm 2013-01-11T09:00:00Z

Mostly, they’re called upon to act with their jaws, both of which are, at least, quite magnificent. Review: Superheroes Duke It Out in 'Batman v Superman' 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

No. At the end she, and it, were at their best – strong, brave, moving, magnificent. Howard Goodall's Story of Music; Being Human; Borgen – TV review 2013-02-04T07:00:06Z

And George Chakhava, it turns out, wasn't just lead architect on the magnificent Georgian Ministry of Highways, he was also minister of highway construction. Swansongs of a superpower: Russia's secret architecture 2011-02-07T21:31:01Z

Spall, 57, also drew praise from Screen International's Jonathan Romney, who said he was "magnificent" in a film that "may be the most entertaining art biopic yet made". Mike Leigh tipped for Turner prizes 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Everyone who has seen these two magnificent programmes knows the quality inherent in every episode, so comparing them is like asking a mother to pick her favourite son. The Wire re-up: season five, episode seven ? The Wire v The Sopranos 2010-03-29T23:15:00Z

The penultimate chapter alone is a knockout, and its end would have been a magnificent closing for the book had the actual final sentence, a few pages later, not surpassed it. 7 must-read novels to transport you in February 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

One was the fact that Julia’s elegant apartment, magnificent wardrobe and saintly, unruffled temperament were surely unrepresentative of the life of any single working mother of a young child. Diahann Carroll, Actress Who Broke Barriers With ‘Julia,’ Dies at 84 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

The orchestra sounded magnificent in the supple, texturally transparent, contrast-rich reading of Brahms’s Third Symphony with which Mr. Gilbert closed the program. Music Review: Alan Glibert and Frank Peter Zimmermann on Violin - Review 2011-10-06T19:56:57Z

As long as the cooking surface is hot enough, all that turning will yield a magnificent crust and a much-improved interior: juicy and pink throughout, without the usual gray ring under the crust. Steak That Sizzles on the Stovetop 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

His magnificent album “The World According to Andy Bey,” from last year, confirms that his voice is still an extraordinary instrument. Jazz Listings for Feb. 7-13 2014-02-06T23:46:32Z

And in this tiny, magnificent, deeply romantic detail, readers are reminded that we are never more ourselves than when we are connecting with others, no matter the medium. Perspective | Technology is transforming our love lives — and our romance novels 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

There were flashes of the Domingo vocal charisma we remember from his decades of magnificent singing. Review: ‘Ernani,’ With Plácido Domingo, a Tussle to Hold on to a Love 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

That sounds cheesy, it sounds dopey, but when my kid says something magnificent, I try to write it down because it’s a nice dopamine hit later. Author Jennifer Senior: “Kids have almost no responsibility, and I find that unnatural” 2014-02-03T23:59:00Z

But it’s also important — as with any great concert film — for the magnificent performances at the heart of the project to be recognized on their own terms. ‘Summer of Soul’ Reclaims a Concert Documentary Tradition 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

The BPL is a magnificent dense granite treasure trove in the heart of Boston’s Copley Square, and its holdings rival those of the best American libraries. My Five Things: Wicked Novelist Gregory Maguire 2011-11-09T20:51:13Z

Disneynature's magnificent new wildlife documentary, narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, is built around the fierce protect-my-young instincts of a lioness and a female cheetah struggling against the odds on the Kenyan Masai Mara savanna. Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-04-20T22:18:11Z

If you’re yet to experience its magnificent wonders, let me walk you through it, step by glorious step. 'Destruction of the most satisfying kind': in praise of Netflix's 'skip intro' button 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

It is a magnificent affirmation, and not only because libraries are currently under threat. Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z

Trust me, this is one of the best places in the state to see these magnificent trees because it’sjust a few minutes off the highway. Take a fall drive to hunt for golden larches on forest roads above Blewett Pass 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

This is a marvelously complex performance, one that captures Mercury’s emotional fragility as well as his magnificent, beyond-the-rainbow swagger. The Top 10 Movie Performances of 2018 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

The world's fashion elite gathered beneath the magnificent dome of St. Paul's Cathedral Monday to celebrate the legacy of Alexander McQueen, the troubled British designer who took his own life in early February. Fashion greats remember McQueen in London service 2010-09-20T15:44:00Z

In one magnificent burst of tulle and draped cotton underneath the welcome to the lands of Today, Tomorrow and Fantasy, we spun together as perfectly as dancers frozen in a music box. Disneyland with my invisible guest 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z

All of them were in fine form, and Fiona Apple was downright magnificent. ArtsBeat: Governors Ball Day 2: Turning Back the Clock 2012-06-25T14:55:04Z

The graphic sexual encounters were so magnificent, The Guardian wrote, that “they make the sex in famous movies like, say, ‘Last Tango in Paris,’ look supercilious and dated.” Julie Maroh, Author of ‘Blue’ Novel, Criticizes Film 2013-06-05T22:38:32Z

“All of us live together on what you might call a little bit of a farm, with a magnificent view of the ocean,” Ms. Jacobs said. Both Were Once on Death Row, Now They Share a Life Helping Others 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

And whether or not the romantic aesthetic of the Hudson River School is to your taste, the magnificent views — many still much as they were in the mid-1800s — are worth any number of treks. Following the Hudson River School Art Trails in 3 States 2012-08-30T21:34:56Z

Following Jandreau as he recovers from a debilitating brain injury incurred while riding, the movie becomes a meditation on purpose, identity, landscape and human frailty, all set against the magnificent backdrop of the Badlands. Best movies of 2018: ‘Roma’ is intimate, epic and the year’s finest 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

She writes with magnificent pace and narrative skill: “The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture” is a book I have dipped in to for over 10 years and it still keeps giving. Deborah Levy Would Like to Drink With Virginia Woolf 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

I always want to show other people at their most magnificent. Photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin's best shot 2010-07-07T23:05:00Z

“We say this and we say that, we do this and we do that,” she said from a salon in the magnificent Palazzo Crespi. On the Runway Blog: A Week Ended Under the Supermoon 2013-06-25T00:00:19Z

In pursuit of his quest, he delivers a magnificent riff on the bêtise. La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso, translated by Alastair McEwen - review 2012-12-28T22:55:02Z

Around lunchtime we arrive at the pass and a magnificent panorama. The ultimate hike: three tasters of Canada’s Great Trail 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

In Twyla Tharp’s magnificent triple bill at American Ballet Theater last spring, the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House shook off its cobwebs. Best Dance of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

First season director Jean-Marc Vallée made every episode a magnificent little getaway into the lives of terrible and fabulous but often unintentionally funny rich people. "Big Little Lies" is back to stare at the sea 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z

A similar feeling of community and resilience is pervasive in Big Sur, along the winding, magnificent Central Coast south of Monterey. What the Winter Storms in California Mean for Travel 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

I’d seen a lot of magnificent homes over the years, and I was filled with big ideas. House Tour: Shelter Island 2011-09-01T22:17:18Z

“Epic it indeed is, full of magnificent set pieces - sprawling space battles and incandescent lightsaber duels - gripping performances and a number of truly stunning surprises,” said Soren Andersen of The Seattle Times. 'Rise of Skywalker' reviews among most critical in 'Star Wars' galaxy 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

The Mayor’s Tree, a magnificent Douglas fir standing taller than the one on the White House lawn, captures the magic of Christmas in Kansas City. Dazzling Lights of Kansas City 2010-12-01T17:39:00Z

Sentence after sentence is inflated with meaningless intensifiers such as "deep", "powerful", "magnificent", "famous" and "prestigious". CS Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet by Alister McGrath – review 2013-05-08T09:00:04Z

Ms. DiDonato is simply magnificent, singing with plush richness and aching beauty. Music Review: ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Metropolitan, With Joyce DiDonato 2013-01-02T00:03:57Z

It ranged in style from the magnificent, confident Byker estate in Newcastle, with its metropolitan scale and architectural warmth, wit and complexity – to the deeply conservative, low-density, Barratt Homes-like estates built by Liverpool. High stakes 2013-02-12T07:00:01Z

After two magnificent years as head coach at Jackson, poverty is still poverty, earning a livable wage is still a luxury, Ted Cruz is still employed, and Black people are still dying at alarming rates. Coach Prime is not the HBCU savior: On Deion Sanders and the money-making machine of college sports 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

While builders on the Eastern Seaboard assembled cookie-cutter colonials by the thousands, Tucson developers instead adapted the austerities of International Style Modernism to their city’s magnificent though challenging terrain. In Tucson, an Unsung Architectural Oasis 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

What hope, then, for the eponymous Joe, a simple man who joyously calls the things he likes "magnificent" and can't read danger signs? Magnificent Joe by James Wheatley – review 2013-04-26T18:00:02Z

Perhaps the finale seemed more disappointing coming after the orchestra’s magnificent performance of the three familiar movements. Music Review: Simon Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-26T21:18:46Z

The tenor was only 71 and it hadn’t been so long since he was the reigning star of his generation, still giving magnificent performances of his core repertoire into the 1990s. Perspective | Even opera lovers should grit their teeth and watch this mediocre Pavarotti film 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

Another user, u/ OnlyOnHBO, praised the cheesecake's "magnificent consistency and flavor," as well as its "delicious" exterior. 7 bakery items newly spotted at Costco warehouses 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

London’s magnificent Elizabeth line opened last May, and on its first birthday there’s so much to celebrate. A Journey Across London on the Elizabeth Line 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

The lavish ornamentation is at once magnificent and vaguely vulgar. Review | ‘Heavenly Bodies’ at the Met shows just how much fashion and Catholicism have in common 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

And it’s magnificent: what a work of man that is. Literary Brooklyn Gets Its Leading Man 2012-06-22T20:21:18Z

As we were taking out of the river last Thanksgiving, a ranger told us the river is the most underappreciated part of this magnificent park. Along the Rio Grande, a Hot Spring and a Warm Welcome 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

The little old woman was weeping; entwined in pearls and framed in gold, a magnificent Byzantine Empress looked down severely. Stepping Across the Ice: Teffi (1872-1952) 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

It is a magnificent compact, but hardly inevitable. The Life-Giving Defiance of the Charlie Hebdo Cartoonists 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

It has flaws, but it is a magnificent urban experience, a passeggiata played out on multiple intersecting levels. Coming up short 2010-07-24T23:05:00Z

It is a magnificent description, a “bright doom,” and once you’ve heard it, almost impossible to get out of your head as you tour the exhibition. Review | Robert Rauschenberg: A clear-eyed views of chaos, or just chaos? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

“My reputation brings me to do this magnificent project in London, and I am happy,” Mr. Calatrava said. Santiago Calatrava to Design His First London Complex 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Among all the stars, there was only one whom she considered beyond reproach: Bette Davis herself, “The First Lady of the American Screen,” so powerful, strong-willed and magnificent. His correspondence with Bette Davis gave him strength, until it didn’t 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

So many of the books were magnificent; 10 is a very short shortlist. Andrea Gjestvang wins L'Iris d'Or at Sony world photography awards 2013-04-25T21:59:02Z

SALEM, Mass. — The ironies attendant upon the American Revolution — in so many ways a magnificent event in human history — still scald. These ‘missing’ Jacob Lawrence paintings are finally in a museum — and they’re masterpieces 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

All our other magnificent parts — our bladders and our bones and our brains and our blood — are a lesser priority, to our own doctors and to the world outside. Amazon's "Modern Love" got my cancer story wrong – and I'm so angry this keeps happening 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

The newly restored “Saint Martin and the Beggar” and the magnificent “Laocoon” preside over this exhibition. El Greco is focus of two U.S. shows on 400th anniversary of his death

Its landscape is dominated by the Dolomites, which look less like mountains than a crowd of pious giants frozen in stone, some well over 9,000 feet high, reaching heavenward in one magnificent range. The 52 Places Traveler: In the Italian Dolomites, Dramatic Skies and Stone Giants 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

The paint he used was a magnificent muck, and with it he rendered ageing flesh, an Irishman's neck, a dog's fur, a baby's puddingy stare. Lucian Freud's perverse depictions of magnificent muck 2011-07-22T00:34:23Z

Angrand’s magnificent drawings, and the room devoted to the theater, offer another thesis about these artists that isn’t directly explored in the exhibition. Phillips Collection’s Neo-Impressionism exhibit captures movement’s escapist mood

Christopher Clark has argued in his magnificent study of the war's origins, The Sleepwalkers, that it's time to get away from the blame game, and he is right. Michael Gove's history wars 2013-07-13T07:00:05Z

Considered one of the most magnificent works of the High Renaissance, “The Loves of the Gods” shows the divinities romping, rioting and celebrating. In Transit Blog: Palazzo Farnese Now Offers English Tours 2012-01-09T11:00:21Z

The journey onwards to Zermatt takes in magnificent scenery as the train hugs the mountainside. Five great Interrail itineraries across Europe 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z

El Jem’s magnificent Roman amphitheater was then the third largest in the empire. Tunisia After the Revolution 2012-04-06T18:10:20Z

Compare this to the magnificent early sequences in “Saving Private Ryan.” A Forgotten D Day Film 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Rebuilt in the 12th century, the city’s magnificent limestone cathedral has long been associated with Eleanor of Aquitaine, who married Henry Plantagenet there and donated an enormous stained-glass window. In the French city of Poitiers, Eleanor of Aquitaine’s influence is everywhere 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

The edge Colbert has on all these giants is that he is a magnificent comic actor, commenting cuttingly on his egotistical right-wing “Colbert” character even as he seems to live inside it. Stephen Colbert: A Great Talk-Show Host? No, the Greatest! 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

"The Luminaries is a magnificent novel: awesome in its structural complexity, addictive in its story-telling and magical in its conjuring of a world of greed and gold," he said. New Zealand's Eleanor Catton wins 2013 Man Booker prize 2013-10-15T21:03:56Z

“Ultralight Beam” is clearly one of West’s most magnificent songs — a hallucinogenic neo-gospel plea for universal peace in which West seems to have acquired some sort of godly knowledge. Philip K. Dick was a sci-fi prophet. Did he predict the unraveling of Kanye West? 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

Technically demanding, choreographically sound and aesthetically magnificent, “Revelations” is the dance version of Rodin's “The Thinker,” or Leonardo da Vinci's “Mona Lisa.” What makes Alvin Ailey's 'Revelations' an American dance classic? 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

Independently financed and distributed by Soderbergh, Logan Lucky is a magnificent movie that comes disguised as a modest one. Review: 'Logan Lucky' Is a Magnificent Movie Disguised as a Modest One 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

The opera, about the Swiss struggle for independence from foreign rule, has almost no arias and is carried in large part by magnificent choruses. A Legend of the International Culture Scene Arrives in New York 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

“Perhaps all I needed to do was cultivate a magnificent indifference like Garbo,” she thinks. Marlene Dietrich’s extraordinary rise from obscurity to stardom 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

The new Mrs. Tyler was in her 20s when they married and had a magnificent sense of occasion. Sherwood Forest, home of John Tyler, 10th president 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

But hindsight suggests that it was also part of an attempted escape from reality, a sublimation, a magnificent, elaborate diversion from acute terrestrial problems. Perspective | The most stirring photo from the Apollo mission wasn’t of the moon. It was of the Earth. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

For collectors and historians, any Waldseemüller map would be a magnificent find. A rare map of America? Not so fast, experts say 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Marshall and his team make good use of 3D in the exterior sequences so that London landmarks and rocky islands look magnificent. Penelope Cruz adds spice to enjoyable "Pirates 4" 2011-05-12T15:28:37Z

It was barely three inches tall, and it was magnificent. "You never forget spotting your first mushroom in a Finnish forest": My day with the Mushroom Queen 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

His wife Mayuri Upadhya runs a dance troupe and they plan to write a musical together: "It will be a magnificent sight," he promises. Raghu Dixit: Loud enough for Lord Shiva 2011-04-13T21:00:00Z

"James Cleveland is so magnificent and so important, I didn't need to wave a flag about his problems," McGlynn said. Gospel music documentary a spiritual awakening 2011-06-22T21:14:06Z

“He is as magnificent as ever,” says Joyce, a retired history teacher and fan since her 1960s high school days. Johnny Mathis, the voice of the ’50s, was always ahead of his time. Now he’s ready to talk about it. 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

‘Heavenly Bodies,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, explores ‘the complex and magnificent relationship’ between Catholicism and fashion. Painting for the Screen, as Well as the Canvas 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z

For the first time in decades the movie looks magnificent, with deep, burnished browns and yellows and a level of detail that picks out every drop of sweat on Bogart’s brow. DVDs: New on DVD: ?The African Queen? 2010-03-20T04:51:00Z

Firstly, because the book is the inspiration for Martin Scorsese's magnificent film Hugo, which is up for 11 Academy Awards in a fortnight's time. Brian Selznick: how Scorsese's Hugo drew inspiration from his magical book 2012-02-11T19:26:44Z

Fifty years on, Sir Ken remembers his time working for Kubrick as a magnificent adventure - if you could take the stress. The 'adventure' of working with Kubrick 2013-08-16T00:31:17Z

Artists are not always the best judges of their own works; Verdi thought that his magnificent Requiem was unlikely to make history on the music’s merit alone. Critics Pick Recordings to Celebrate Verdi’s Bicentennial 2013-12-26T22:00:58Z

Then, slinking across the frame, a pale mountain lion appeared, svelte and magnificent. The Man Who Listens to Animals 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

The only one of the five senses that is not pleasantly rewarded by this magnificent fruit is the sense of touch. A bilingual painting and how the Huntington's ‘Visual Voyages’ changes the story of art and science 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Ah, here's the magnificent gothic country pile, great fir trees, lawns, a gravel drive, kedgeree and ironed newspapers for breakfast, more big names – Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern. TV review: Downton Abbey and All New Celebrity Total Wipeout 2010-09-27T05:45:00Z

“I am leaving this magnificent institution with a feeling of accomplishment,” Dupont said in the release. Paris Opera Ballet Loses Its Second Head in Six Years 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

Around the corner, the magnificent 18th-century Hôtel de Soubise palace, home to France’s national archives, showcases the last, anguished letter written by Marie Antoinette, bidding “adieu” to her sister before heading to the guillotine. My Paris: Seduced by the Past 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

Mr. Iwasaki’s source of inspiration is a magnificent 17th-century Japanese six-panel folding screen called “Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons,” and his response is an unconventional sculptural version of it. Takahiro Iwasaki, ‘In Focus’ 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

The horse arrived a few days ago — skinny, a little wary, magnificent. Spending My Tenderness on Animals 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

“But to answer your question, I’m glad – because I think our show is just magnificent.” Nick Offerman: 'Trump is about to be presented with a gory butcher's bill' 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Frances Barber, in an overwritten part, is a magnificent maenad, eyes and breasts and hair and voice all at it full throttle. My Dad's a Birdman; Beauty and the Beast; Les parents terribles; Alice in Wonderland 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

Some of the best scenes in these new episodes show Debbie falling apart in magnificent style, white wine in hand, and Gilpin once again makes her character's misery as funny as it is palpable. “GLOW” returns to Netflix with an excellent season 2, right when we need it 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

It's a magnificent turn of phrase, one that succinctly encapsulates the current conundrum of American politics. Piers Morgan is our greatest living artist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Click to view more images of the magnificent Lisbon residence. Pedro Espírito Santo's Romantic Home In Lisbon 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

But shown in slow motion against a black background, the magnificent animal looks as if she is solemnly posing. Godfrey Reggio’s ‘Visitors’ Is a Two-Way Street for Viewers 2014-01-17T21:44:08Z

Some are by artists one would expect, such as a view of quotidian life on magnificent Venetian canals by Francesco Guardi. Santa Barbara's 'Botticelli, Titian and Beyond' a quirky gem 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

Similarly, later that day we showed up at the Musée d’Orsay, home to much of France’s most famous impressionist artwork and housed in a magnificent restored train station. Discovering the City of Lights — and each other — on a mother-son trip to Paris 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

A big, sturdy box containing hard-bound volumes, pamphlets and a tabloid houses Ware’s demanding, melancholy and magnificent graphic novel about the inhabitants of a Chicago building. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z

But this magnificent beast of an instrument must be cared for in its majestic natural habitat — a repertory of important pieces played in full — or it might become truly imperiled. The proof is in: The pipe organ is still the king of instruments 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

Sometimes it's inspired by somebody that I either know or I've heard about who's doing something really magnificent in my community and I want to go and see what they're up to. "I bake for every emotion" — Zoë François on finding connection through cake 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Because in two years, when the magnificent young power fellow in right leaves to become very rich in another city, we will have to rebuild. Style Invitational: Mess with our (or anyone else’s) heads 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

It tends to be taken on the nod that is a magnificent piece of work, not least because it can seem to be about the whole of America. Gatz; The Witness; You Once Said Yes – review 2012-06-16T23:06:06Z

Q. I had the most magnificent noodles and dumplings in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, China, in a simple lunch place in an alley near the American consulate. Hey, Mr. Critic: Maximal Flavor for Minimal Cash 2011-02-10T21:20:05Z

I am currently in the Netherlands, where fields of contented looking cows roam the countryside, and where, in related developments, magnificent wheels of Gouda and Edam groan out of every other storefront. Level up your grilled cheese with crunchy, buttery, dippable Gouda roll-ups 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z

The Grade I-listed manor house, set in eight acres of “magnificent parkland”, has eight bedrooms, a walled garden, a three-bedroom “staff cottage”, wine cellars, a swimming pool and a tennis court. Living the Hollywood high life: movie homes up for sale 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

The road ends in Torrey, a pleasant town of motels and cafes known as the gateway to Capitol Reef, where more magnificent scenery awaits. Utah’s Capitol Reef National Park is like Zion without the crowds 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

A magnificent voice carrying through a spacious opera house. What Shouldn’t Change About Classical Music 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

Doctor Who: 'Matt Smith gets more and more magnificent.' Has Doctor Who really lost its way? 2013-05-17T11:02:27Z

Yelp occupies part of 140 New Montgomery downtown, the magnificent Art Deco former Pacific Telephone tower from the 1920s, lovingly revamped by Cathy Simon, an architect with Perkins & Will, and the developers Wilson Meany Sullivan. San Francisco Repurposes Old for the Future 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

“This session was absolutely magnificent, like a force of nature. Keith was having troubles in the Who. He’s going, ‘We should form a band with this.’” How Led Zeppelin came to be 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

Instead, he revels in learning about the magnificent reptiles that once stomped across the land, foraging for foliage or hunting for prey, depending on the species. Sequim collector turns dinosaur bones into art 2010-03-23T17:48:00Z

Indeed, the Enlightenment has done a magnificent job of increasing our knowledge. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

It’s all faded glory and untapped potential, as though one of Cookie’s magnificent leopard-print outfits got dragged by a city bus for a few miles. Is Lee Daniels' rags-to-riches R&B drama Star better than Empire? 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

The images were as clear as ever: The moose with magnificent antlers and splayed hooves. Trekking With Wolves 2010-02-20T06:14:00Z

Away to our right is a magnificent ancient bridge, spanning the river in two impressive and wildly uneven arcs of stone. The great Eastern European road trip, part two: road trip across Albania 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

He was the best patron and collector of art ever to sit on the throne, and the Royal Collection owes much to his magnificent magpie instinct. George IV: the rehabilitation of Old Naughty 2011-08-28T20:00:05Z

The main level includes a dining room, a drawing room, a sitting room, a kitchen, a study, and a magnificent Richard Turner conservatory. You Could Live in an Irish Castle 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The mammoth tusk was dug up at Ilford, and there is a magnificent rhinoceros skull found near the river below Fleet-street. From the archive, 21 March 1912: Historical exhibits from Roman times 2011-03-21T17:01:26Z

“Grand Central Terminal is a magnificent entity,” he said. Grand Central Food Hall Proposal Nears Approval 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Inside, the magnificent galleries smelled of fresh paint and new carpets, signalling the complete renewal of every aspect of the museum. Rijksmuseum to reopen after dazzling refurbishment and rethink 2013-04-05T15:55:13Z

But as early as the 1850s, in a magnificent winter landscape by Josiah Johnson Hawes, you see photographs doing things that would spur a small revolution in how painters depicted the world. Review | Before the West, there was the East, and it was wild 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Attica Locke, author @atticalocke When I heard, my first emotion was #gratitude that I got to be on the planet at the same time as that magnificent woman.  Maya Angelou: Authors, including J.K. Rowling, pay tribute 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

Next evening, the quartet continues its sold-out tour of Europe with a concert among the neo-classical statues and beneath the chandeliers of Liverpool's magnificent St George's Hall. Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z

But one of the best episodes in this magnificent film is all talk. The wildest, most poignant, or unforgettable movie scenes of 2019 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z

The 16-member orchestra is the magnificent centerpiece, elevated on a colonnade platform that runs the length of the stage. ‘The Light in the Piazza’ Review: Outside, Looking In at Love 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

Yes, it is magnificent, but it's not a magical synthesis of cultures, more like a visual no man's land. The ghosts of ancient Afghanistan 2011-02-27T21:30:00Z

The wretched and the brave, and such is Saunders’s magnificent portraiture that readers will recognize in this wretchedness and bravery aspects of their own characters as well. Colson Whitehead on George Saunders’s Novel About Lincoln and Lost Souls 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

It's been so long since I read it, but what a magnificent book! Chloe Shaw on when she first asked, "What Is a Dog?": "I wrote from a place of specified grief" 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z

No. 1 was a magnificent extrovert, performing his brilliance, steamrolling his colleagues, blowing away admirers with gusts of charm. Review: ‘Labryinths,’ Emma and Carl Jung’s Complex Marriage 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

Past the antelope and the gorilla, the lights dim and you enter a magnificent mirrored room painted crimson. Madison Cox Works His Magic At Paul Kasmin’s Les Lalanne Exhibition 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Then there were seeing war films with my father: The Longest Day, 55 Days at Peking and, during a summer sailing cruise, Zulu at the magnificent Criterion theatre in Bar Harbor, Maine. 'I barely breathed': Tilda Swinton, Emma Thompson, Steve McQueen and more on their most memorable moments at the movies 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

The president described the event as a "wonderful and historic occasion" in a "magnificent venue". Irish culture celebrated in London 2014-04-11T00:00:38Z

What did I mean by using vague adjectives like “magnificent” to describe a thrilling performance? An Essential Music Critic, but Nobody’s Role Model 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

The reward is magnificent – she gets pregnant, at 43. Yes, yes, yes! Welcome to the golden age of slutty cinema 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

And last: Full of great thank I am magnificent Russia not ever no-way infiltrate the Washington Post Invitation to the Style. Style Invitational Week 1255: Tour de Fours XIV — SANT is coming 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

The symphonic response was magnificent, its full mass and strength tautly coiled. Review: Varga, in elegant form, leads SSO in inspiring program 2010-04-16T18:02:00Z

Rivera’s magnificent “Zapatista Landscape” will join the show in February, following a prior commitment to a Paris exhibition. LACMA's uneven new Picasso and Rivera show reveals an unprecedented, must-see discovery 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

It’s the 85th year of the Rockettes, and they are simply magnificent: regal in their precision, radiant in their costumes, exuberant in their high kicks. Theater Review: Radio City Music Hall ‘Christmas Spectacular’ 2012-11-22T21:09:43Z

Many consider it the Mona Lisa of Austria, and to some Austrians, keeping this magnificent work in the country is a matter of national honor. Review: ‘Woman in Gold’ Stars Helen Mirren in Tug of War Over Artwork 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

“He’s magnificent,” Graham yelled as women began to empty their wallets into Playboy’s underpants. Jim Graham served four terms in the D.C. Council. Now, he promotes all-nude stripper nights. 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

With its vocal melody changed, Wonderwall sounds surprisingly rueful and crestfallen, while Slide Away – a song even the most fervent Oasis-loather might be forced to admit is pretty magnificent – is underpinned by a nagging doubt. Noel Gallagher | Pop review 2010-03-26T21:30:00Z

The last vegetated landscape before the rocky Margherita summit camp at 4,485 metres is the magnificent Scott Elliot pass, stately as a Scottish glen with cliffs stained orange with lichen. Mountains of the moon: climbing Uganda's highest peak 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

It’s dominated by a magnificent bronze portrait of the emperor Hadrian, who not only tried to force his emperor-as-god cult on the monotheistic people, but also suppressed the Jewish revolt for independence from Rome. See Ancient Trade Route Treasures at the Met 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Past that, perched on a ledge, is a particularly magnificent porchetta. Must-Eat Dishes, From Myanmar to Mexico City 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

You get to City Kebab and Pizza, and suddenly, towering above you on your left, is the magnificent art deco Broadway Cinema. Cine-files: Letchworth Broadway Cinema 2011-08-16T13:01:54Z

Adam Tooze’s magnificent 2007 book, “The Wages of Destruction,” provided a thorough reevaluation of the economic life and death of Nazi Germany. Book review: ‘The Deluge, the post-World War I global order, by Adam Tooze 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Maybe he would argue he has empowered his feminine characters by giving them voice, by rendering them in all their magnificent pathos. A Lesbian Who’s Not a Lesbian Walks Into a Bar, and ... 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

The best sculpture of the lot is at the Chelsea Boone: a magnificent twisting, almost cyclonic tree trunk whose massive branches are themselves bluntly attached tree trunks — an arboreal Frankenstein monster. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Setting an unusually leisurely pace that stretched the performance, including intermissions, to more than four hours, Rattle drew some magnificent playing from the orchestra. Simon Rattle leads 'Pelleas' in Met debut 2010-12-18T18:31:05Z

The choice of the Grand Canyon as a setting may seem like a magnificent no-brainer, but there's a good reason, too, for spotlighting the less-familiar Gateway. Sesame Workshop project urges kids to visit parks 2013-06-04T11:48:08Z

Mullan is a magnificent talker; after graduating, he stayed on at Glasgow to teach. Peter Mullan: the swot who lost the plot 2011-01-19T21:31:00Z

But now it is a funny, suggestive, magnificent wall relief, nearly 7 by 6 feet, and over 4 inches thick, in aluminum painted a high-gloss black. Critic’s Notebook: Ellsworth Kelly, on View in New York 2013-06-03T21:57:28Z

For Stone, Butler’s film “was just heaven-sent, because it’s such a magnificent film, and beautifully reflects that wish.” Where semi-aquatic Royal Bengal tigers live among people 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

His most recent is a magnificent 197-minute portrait of an institution that is half a world away, in location and tempo, from the French capital. Frederick Wiseman: ‘I’m not a fly on the wall. I’m at least 2% conscious’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Just beautiful...Moving and magnificent, full of love, hope and tragedy'. Teen book club: Is The Fault in our Stars 'sick-lit'? 2013-01-11T09:00:00Z

How magnificent it appeared from afar against a cobalt sky. A Food Snob’s Food Tour Conversion 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

In my life, it was as if I was the captain of a magnificent ship but was somehow always in a dinghy buffeted about in the ship’s wake, about to catch up with myself. I got pregnant by mistake. Was I ready for single motherhood? 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z

"To have a Student Academy Award on your resume, certainly gave you a magnificent, you know, cache and helped open doors here in the industry for sure." What do Spike Lee and Bob Saget have in common? 2013-06-04T17:07:13Z

Arriving at Glyndebourne, near Lewes in Sussex, they stroll the estate’s magnificent gardens, serenaded by cows, also formally attired in black and white. George Christie Dies at 79; Steward of His Family’s Glyndebourne Legacy 2014-05-13T04:28:58Z

The oblique view worked better than one-point at depicting massive, magnificent interiors that tantalizingly suggested spaces beyond what was visible onstage. How a Family Transformed the Look of European Theater 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

I should be able to remove its base with a combination of boiling water and ice, and then use it as a magnificent homemade propagator. The Wonderful Insanity of Collecting Abandoned Treasures on the Street 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

The youthful chorus was magnificent, sounding twice its size in the resonance of bare sets. Review: A ‘Eugene Onegin’ That Fills In Tchaikovsky’s Blanks 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

Eventually, after a few more adjustments, and the sacrifice of many valiant pounds of tomatoes, I ended up with something magnificent: dense, buttery, and rich. The Savory Tomato Pound Cake You Never Knew You Needed 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

“No one has ever called any part of my body magnificent.” Watch John Oliver Read Mean 'Fan Mail' from YouTube 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

It's been 16 years since his last, the collection "The Wonders of the Invisible World," and even longer since his two novels, "Jernigan," a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the magnificent "Preston Falls." 'A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me': David Gates' signature riffs 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

And I have admired many magnificent pines, rising like geysers out of the rubble of old monuments, or bent like arthritic hands beside foggy mountain shrines. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

Happily, in the magnificent, multilayered sprawl of London, such places still exist. London, South of the River (Before ‘Brexit’) 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

“I made my debut at the Metropolitan Opera at the age of 27 and have sung at this magnificent theater for 51 consecutive, glorious years,” Mr. Domingo said in a statement. Plácido Domingo Leaves Met Opera Amid Sexual Harassment Inquiry 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

“War and Peace,” as guided by the quarantine-motivated blog posts on A Public Space of the magnificent fiction writer Yiyun Li, whose entries were so illuminating and endlessly charming! The Last Book That Made Aimee Bender Laugh Out Loud 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

There’s a reason why many of the greatest cinematic stylists—such as Wes Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, and Ernst Lubitsch, creators of magnificent artifice—are also among the greatest cinematic moralists. The Styleless Fakery of “Suicide Squad” 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

There was an astonishing amount of art and a magnificent stone basin in the right-hand recess.” Jane Smiley Explores Ancient Ireland’s Mysterious Tombs 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

"You have to become very discerning about what people mean when they say, 'You are the most magnificent person I've ever met'." Tamsin Greig: 'I always think I'll never work again' 2011-03-03T21:00:01Z

It is a magnificent experience, but a challenging one. Empty-nesters take up where they left off on Spain’s most storied mountain trail 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

The artist expressed his relationship with the town in his “View and Plan of Toledo,” a magnificent late work that normally calls the El Greco Museum in Toledo home. El Greco's 'Toledo' on View in Madrid 2010-10-05T10:02:00Z

A selection of these magnificent photographs is on display in “Structure and Color,” which opened yesterday at New York’s Edwynn Houk Gallery. Michael Eastman photographs at Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

The magnificent drip paintings set both the art world and the general public on their collective ear. 'Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots,' in Dallas, is exciting and enlightening 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

No wonder the Mayans worshipped these magnificent creatures. TV review: The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World; Come Dine With Me 2012-07-29T21:05:01Z

Every afternoon, hundreds flock to tea at the magnificent Fairmont Empress Hotel, or one of the city’s many other tea rooms that fly the British flag. Tea rooms and double-decker buses: Prince Harry may find home in Canada's royal city 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

A friend harvests from a neighbor’s thicket of large-limbed bamboo to form a magnificent tepee for string beans. Reclaim space in a smaller garden with trellis pumpkins 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

One magnificent analogue contraption, the optical step printer, is used to copy damaged reels on to usable stock. A Hitch in time: save the Hitchcock 9 2011-08-18T21:00:01Z

Apart from being such a magnificent writer and so impressive and sympathetic a presence, Toni was a total professional to work with editorially, which is the way in which I knew her best. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Voltaire was right about that, but on the magnificent evidence of the result, he need not have worried. Edmé Bouchardon's extraordinary drawings changed the way sculpture looked 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

"I am sure that then it will be time for somebody else to take on the magnificent challenge that is the Berliner Philharmoniker." ArtsBeat: Simon Rattle to Leave Berlin Philharmonic in 2018 2013-01-10T17:09:50Z

I think Marcel Ophuls is one of the great documentary filmmakers, “The Sorrow and the Pity” and “Hotel Terminus” being two magnificent examples, and he does nothing but interviews. Frederick Wiseman on Censorship, Small-Town America, and Why He Dislikes the Word “Documentary” 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

In a few shots, the spectators taking in these magnificent sights are utterly dwarfed, not just physically but temporally. Take a plunge with Seattle photographer Peter de Lory in 'The Falls' at Lisa Harris Gallery 2011-01-20T22:26:09Z

Colin Firth's performance is magnificent, at least if you like your acting laid on with a trowel. The King's Speech flies the flag for a stiff upper lip that no longer exists 2011-01-10T11:13:19Z

This season, the Mulleavys would present their spring 2019 collection in the New York City Marble Cemetery in the East Village — a setting as tricky as it was magnificent. The Rodarte Sisters’ Dramatic Return to New York 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Free of charge, this gallery showcases magnificent ceremonial coaches once used for baptisms, coronations and funerals. Art-world star brings a contemporary perspective to the magnificent Versailles palace 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

While the director, Ernst Lubitsch, is famous for his comic sophistication, this 1943 feature is also a crystalline example of his magnificent cinematic craft. Movie Listings for June 17-23 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

The exhibition concludes with still more Sahel sculpture, a magnificent ensemble of large-scale figures carved from wood by the Bamana people of Mali in the 18th through 20th centuries. Desert Empires: Wonders to Behold 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

The vertiginous ecstasy of these two magnificent tracking shots, no less than the boy’s solemn urgency, instantly alert moviegoers than Hugo is special, and so is Hugo. Hugo: Scorsese's Magnificent Dream Machine 2011-11-22T20:39:54Z

After leading a magnificent account of Bruckner’s Second, Mr. Barenboim spoke to the audience to defend classical music from charges of elitism. The Best Classical Music Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Grace, in turn, is seen balefully inhabiting a London bedsit, doomed forever to relive her days with a husband she found alternately magnificent and merciless. Review: ‘Faith Healer,’ ‘Unreachable’ and ‘The Spoils’ 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

But just because Nick Hewer is magnificent on The Apprentice, it doesn't mean that his two new shows will automatically be magnificent as well. Nick Hewer: the real star of the Apprentice is unstoppable 2012-07-09T11:52:00Z

In a 1911 diary entry he wrote that the symphony represented “moral purification through one’s own strength, liberation through work, worship of eternal, magnificent nature.” Into the Music: Strauss?s ?Alpine Symphony? Played Twice in One Night 2012-04-13T22:20:54Z

Today, you can view Gutenberg's magnificent Bible of 1454-5 online, and yet, "The first book ever printed in Europe - heavy, luxurious, pungent and creaky - does not read particularly well on an iPhone." Just My Type by Simon Garfield, Manuale Tipografico by Giambattista Bodoni ? review 2010-12-07T15:16:00Z

It’s a surprise ending, a magnificent twist, one that casts new hues over the whole narrative. How I choose to celebrate Diwali as a feminist 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z

People flock here in the summer, my family included, mostly for the magnificent beaches. Personal Journeys: Walking Martha?s Vineyard 2011-08-12T18:55:00Z

The Guardian called the production “superb” and the Independent called it “magnificent.” Campbell Scott to Star in Broadway ‘Christmas Carol’ 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

In these pages, Francisco Goldman called the book “riveting” and “magnificent.” New in Paperback: ‘Women’s Work’ and ‘What You Have Heard Is True’ 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

The original plans for Versailles — the magnificent 17th-century palace situated about 12 miles southwest of Paris — included a waterfall in the garden. Art-world star brings a contemporary perspective to the magnificent Versailles palace 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

But something, and somebody, has to pay for cultural expression, and these magnificent diamonds remind us of the concentrated magic and mystification it takes to support an hierarchical, artistically sophisticated society. At the Met, the artistic riches of India’s Deccan Plateau 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

The most recent triumph was a magnificent traversal of the last five Shostakovich quartets in a concert at Tanglewood in July. Emerson Players and Yefim Bronfman Play Carnegie Hall 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

The fact that the Ortas' commission is a step upward just adds to the sense of shoddy artistic values littering this magnificent public space with well-meaning inanities. Why St Pancras's Clouds sculptures are on the right track 2013-04-18T16:01:53Z

Some of the books were treated as treasures, and customized with magnificent decoration that harked back to the tradition of illuminated manuscripts. A Grolier Club Tribute to the Printer Aldus Manutius 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Fall seemed a little jaded, even if the clothes were magnificent. NY fashion forecasts easy, breezy spring '11 2010-09-17T23:01:00Z

Shot on magnificent locations in Hungary, the opening of “The Duke Of Burgundy” includes credits for lingerie and perfume. Romance and domesticity bound together in 'The Duke of Burgundy' 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

And Matt Smith just gets more and more magnificent – he fizzes with the comedy and stirs with the tragedy. Has Doctor Who really lost its way? 2013-05-17T11:02:27Z

When I later told one of the people who had been with me that it had happened again, he said, “What do they have against their own magnificent chicken?” Llama Inn Lights the Way to Peru by Way of Williamsburg 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

They take place in Manchester locations that will inspire nostalgia in fans of Mr. Simm and Mr. Glenister’s magnificent collaboration in “Life on Mars.” Review: In ‘Prey,’ Rosie Cavaliero Takes Up a Pair of Pursuits 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

It’s a psychological thriller, a scathing political satire, a powerful and upsetting family drama, a dark comedy and a work of magnificent landscape cinematography and startling pictorial intensity. “Leviathan”: A tragic, ironic masterpiece from Putin’s Russia 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Carnegie Hall achieved its stature through architectural beauty; its warm, revealing acoustics; and a growing heritage of magnificent performances. Back to the Apollo, Uptown?s Showbiz Incubator 2011-02-07T15:09:18Z

Aided by magnificent but restrained performances by the veteran Bouquet and the younger Caille, their protagonists couldn't be more realistically conveyed. 'The Little Bedroom' a deft exploration of melancholy, loss 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

In a magnificent malapropism, a woman of my acquaintance once described a man’s wife as “a lodestone ’round his neck.” Ballet Theater’s Met Season, a Mix of Sparkling Moments and Familiar War Horses 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

For the second half of the recital before a small but enthusiastic crowd, Chase offered four pieces from her magnificent latest CD, "Density." Claire Chase creates theater of the lung in enthralling flute recital 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

Those great cities were regenerated by the cultural cachet of magnificent new arts venues. A great act of vandalism that will impoverish us all 2011-03-28T19:30:01Z

He engages the country’s history — and his own personal one — in this set of works that unfurl with gritty magnificent broad strokes. Theaster Gates Turns the Stain of the Past Into Art 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

After touching on relative unknowns, like Hieronymus and Jacob Praetorius, he finished with a magnificent set of works by Dietrich Buxtehude, whose work he has long championed. Review: Boston Early Music Festival Makes Monteverdi Its Main Attraction 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

“It was just such a magnificent property, I couldn’t help it,” he explains. Julian Robertson's Empire Down Under 2012-10-22T13:30:26Z

In her essay, Lee performed a magnificent literary concerto, keeping tempo and hitting the right note with every heartstring pluck. Reflecting on a Lifetime of Reading and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

His brutes alternately wear shining armor and magnificent court attire. Art: The Gloomy Brilliance of Lucas Cranach 2011-03-04T12:00:05Z

William is three dimensional but not exactly realistic; besides the daredevilry and naive silliness, he has a wild imagination, and a magnificent line in sulky rhetoric. From the archive, 13 January 1969: The Peter Pan world of William 2011-01-13T11:26:35Z

On reaching the valley floor we stopped at a stream in the shade of a magnificent tree canopy. Deep in Vietnam, Exploring a Colossal Cave 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

What she does with such regular stuff is magnificent. Renegade abstractions of Polly Apfelbaum and Dona Nelson make for a stellar art show 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Lock thinks, “It plucked at my manhood and incited my sense of the magnificent.” ‘Man on Fire’ review: Salvation through extreme record-breaking 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Yes, Cillian Murphy looks handsome and mysterious in this newsboy cap – of course he does, with that magnificent face – but as to the hat itself? TV's best dressed – from Jon Snow's Ikea cape to The Crown's 1960s take on Princess Margaret 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

The slow movement belonged to the magnificent strings, whose impassioned and plaintive lines Nézet-Séguin sculpted without his baton, a la Leopold Stokowski. Review | Philadelphia Orchestra triumphs in epic Seventh Symphony 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

And your most magnificent and melodic memories of pop icons trying their hand at acting. Pop stars who pop up as actors 2012-07-20T12:29:10Z

Sue is hilarious in small doses and her monologues are magnificent. Can "Glee" be saved? 2011-02-14T16:30:00Z

And while there are people who need to see these magnificent objects in the museum, it cannot be over. LGBT people existed long before 1967 – as the British Museum reveals 2013-06-20T10:48:08Z

And a majestic urban ghost presides over it all: the Boardwalk ends at the magnificent shell of a 1920s-era casino and carousel house. Heads Up: A Jersey Shore Rebound 2012-06-15T18:42:22Z

This most welcome new disc includes three recent examples of his magnificent gloom. Classical Recordings 2011-05-25T21:36:46Z

Then she draws herself up to deliver a magnificent lie. ‘The Truth’ Review: Being Catherine Deneuve 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

But there is still something magnificent – and magnificently out-of-kilter – about this great skirling tide of productivity. BBC's big weekend 2010-06-23T12:03:00Z

Put like that, the experience of designing a brand new piece of software seems akin to that of André-Charles Boulle when he was crafting his magnificent marquetry cabinets for Louis XIV. Special Report: Decorative Arts: The Revival of the Artisan 2011-10-27T11:30:10Z

Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, once business partners and later bitter rivals, both built magnificent estates overlooking Central Park, as did other robber barons of the age. Spare Times for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T01:42:52Z

“I didn’t see very many older women who were having magnificent careers.” Juliette Lewis, an ‘Imagination Freak Fairy,’ Knows Her Worth 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

Reynolds’s purity inspired Kelly’s magnificent tap dance to the title song in “Singin’ in the Rain.” In Hollywood’s golden age, no dancer rivaled Debbie Reynolds’s high-stepping joy 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

And yet, the magnificent paradox of “A Fan’s Notes” is that, in asserting his fantasy, his fanhood, Exley, finally and for the only time, becomes the center of the attention he desires. Frank Gifford and 'A Fan's Notes' 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

Henry Miller's magnificent lady-magnet, Henry Valentine, comes in with a bullet at number 3, in FlavorWire.com's top 30 literary pulling lines of all time. Literature to help you get laid 2011-02-11T16:20:58Z

“We were taken care of in a manner that was magnificent — it just happened to be in the middle of nowhere.” Special Section: Wealth: Life Lessons for Children on a Family Vacation 2011-02-10T07:48:01Z

Gifted with an ample, plush voice of unforced power, Ms. Brewer proved more than capable of holding her own against that magnificent instrument. Review: Christine Brewer in ‘Prayer,’ at Alice Tully Hall 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

At its best, House of Cards was magnificent. From The Returned to Broadchurch to Game of Thrones: the best TV of 2013 2013-07-28T18:00:01Z

I certainly feel like we were all a part of something magnificent. Jennifer Jason Leigh: ‘I've been at this precipice so many times' 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

These magnificent scores are beautifully crafted major works that play well, on their own, as classical music of the first rank. Readers reflect on the staying power of Beatlemania and mourn the loss of Gene Wilder 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

Despite their magnificent effort, Tony, their hulk of a bodyguard, is getting bored. Destiny's Child: 'We wear nothin' with our butt cheeks out, our boobs out' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-04-24T15:46:07Z

“First folios don’t turn up very often, and when they do, it’s usually a really chewed up, uninteresting copy. But this one is magnificent,” Eric Rasmussen, an American Shakespeare expert, told the Times. Someone Discovered a Shakespeare Folio in a Small Library in France 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

It’s in Willis’s performance: He is magnificent with this character’s high and low style. Review | The agony and ecstasy of LBJ are revived in ‘The Great Society’ 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

And now and then, there are glimpses within the music, like a magnificent, purple-suited choir joining Beyoncé to sing “Spirit” a cappella. Beyoncé’s ‘Black Is King’: Let’s Discuss 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

Near the end of it, Neni describes America as “a magnificent land of uninhibited dreamers.” An Immigrant Family Encounter the 1 Percent in a Debut Novel 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Her ferocity is dazzling -- and her swearing is magnificent and utterly satistfying. Does ‘Three Billboards’ Say Anything About America? Well … 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

But their jubilee "pageant" disaster only really served to highlight how hard it could be, and thus how magnificent their Olympics coverage truly was. 2012 review: it was the best of times. It was the worst of times … 2012-12-29T23:46:00Z

But in another sense, it is unbearably sad, because Detroiters was magnificent. Forget Friends! The 25 greatest overlooked sitcoms – from Lovesick to Younger 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Having been sharply critical of this singer in the past, I was humbled to find her such a magnificent recitalist. Two musical season openings were influenced by black culture. One satisfied, the other soared. 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

The magnificent vistas of her home state, of course. Kelly Wearstler Debuts an Outdoor Fabric Line with Lee Jofa’s Groundworks 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

Mills deserves credit, too, for daring to wonder what this magnificent character was feeling in the first place. Annette Bening Is Radiant In 20th Century Women 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

For the last seven years the event was held amid the magnificent sand dunes and rock formations of Wadi Rum, the desert setting for the 1962 movie “Lawrence of Arabia.” Music: Arabian Night: Distant Heat Music Show in Jordan 2010-08-06T22:08:00Z

Writing on the theatre praised him as "a magnificent actor" who was "so brilliant" in the production. Actor Malcolm Tierney dies aged 75 2014-02-20T17:06:40Z

The abundance of observed fact regarding seawater in these magnificent, pitiless paintings is stunning. Winslow Homer: Radical Impressionist 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Two hundred years later, Hegel's view of philosophy is at best a magnificent ruin, and no one can believe in it any more. Less Than Nothing by Slavoj Žižek – review 2012-06-27T11:52:01Z

“He’s a magnificent actor who really shaped cinema.” Delon, set for Cannes honor, says he is 'irreproachable' as an actor 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z

“God Save Texas” also depicts “a culture that is still raw, not fully formed, standing on the margins but also growing in influence, dangerous and magnificent in its potential.” In ‘God Save Texas,’ Lawrence Wright Ranges Far and Wide 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

The observatory entrance, on Fifth Avenue just south of 34th Street, is decorated with traces of Art Deco, a foretaste of the gleaming Art Deco sculptures and paneling employed throughout the building’s magnificent lobby. New York City From a Pint-Size Perspective 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Ms. Graham was true to form, a magnificent stage presence in magnificent voice. Music Review: Boston Symphony’s Two Nights at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-13T21:25:01Z

I feel connected to him in our shared capacity to capture the healing power of this magnificent environment. Returning to the scene of the crash: A survivor of the Uruguayan rugby team plane crash reflects 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z

Absolutely magnificent, and the fact that I can enjoy that kind of entertainment for £5 is simply astounding. Twelfth Night and Jesus Christ Superstar – reader reviews 2012-09-28T14:43:44Z

At that time no one really knew them in the mainstream but I knew that they were magnificent. Erykah Badu 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist' 2010-03-24T11:48:00Z

But what really sets this church apart from the many others is the viewing platform, accessed for a mere 60p, which affords magnificent 360-degree views of the city. 10 of the world’s best city views: readers’ travel tips 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

Urban called Irene's "progress" since her initial audition "mind-blowing," "magnificent" and "exactly what 'American Idol' is about." 'American Idol' recap: Top three sing three as show celebrates self 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The forest backdrop is meant to provide an interesting environment for the action to unfold, and the scenery is magnificent. "Those Who Wish Me Dead" wastes Angelina Jolie's action chops in a film that's more smoke than fire 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

The Indian city of Udaipur was, in the 17th century, a thriving royal metropolis known for its monsoons and magnificent “floating” palaces built in its artificial lakes. At These American Museums, You Can Travel the World 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

“I thought the quality of the bookmaking was really magnificent,” he says. John Green wants you to read tiny books 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

The Banff Gondola rises 2,292 feet to nearly 7,500 feet above sea level and features absurdly magnificent views of six mountain ranges. Better than Banff? In British Columbia, Nelson is a contender 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Will magnificent objects suffer if they are found to have unbeautiful back stories? Making Museums Moral Again 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

As always, Lent traces their progress with poignancy and tenderness in some of the most magnificent prose being written today. Jeffrey Lent’s ‘A Slant of Light’ chronicles a Civil War veteran’s return 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

The magnificent trance-rock centerpiece Moving Further Away even explores some of the same territory as the Chemical Brothers or LCD Soundsystem. The Horrors: Skying - review 2011-07-07T14:29:01Z

A Walk the Line spoof, of all things, gets hijacked by a song so magnificent that it stopped me breathing for 90 seconds. I Think You Should Leave: is this the funniest Netflix show yet? 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

But visit soon: Light pollution from new tourist infrastructure has already begun to dim Elqui’s magnificent skies. 52 Places to Go in 2015 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Dining in this town 13 miles from Paris oddly paid little tribute to its most famous attraction, the magnificent, mostly 17th-century Château de Versailles. Five Places to Eat in Versailles 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Once he soared toward the clouds, the free world’s leaders would witness this magnificent signal and pledge to conquer the Fascists. The day he thought he could fly: How my father broke our family’s silence on schizophrenia 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

“The nights were magnificent,” he said in an interview. Malick Sidibé’s Mali: Scenes of a Rollicking Night Life 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

It’s a magnificent performance because she never displays any emotion stronger than disapproval or disappointment, yet beneath the changeable clouds of Britton’s expression you can sense a locked-down worldview crumbling into ruins. “Bombshell” is a muddled, soapy mess that doesn’t do Fox News nor #MeToo any favors 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

Step inside this magnificent Cape Dutch style home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A Louisiana Home Channels Cape Dutch Style 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Lea Salonga isn’t permitted to sing to a crowd right now but there’s still a way to hear her magnificent voice. James Corden, Lea Salonga return to happier theatrical days 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

Yet those magnificent, mighty brains that allow us to split the atom and touch the moon are the same stupid brains that can’t start an assignment until the day before it’s due. How Do I Get Over My Bad Habit of Procrastinating 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

In his mind, Rome was its glorious past, its imposing ruins, its magnificent Colosseum, not the contemporary Rome that he unexpectedly found before him and that was not in the guidebooks he had read. Read Your Way Through Rome 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

The magnificent cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond has dusty images of life on the road and in blue-collar areas of American towns that stick in the mind. Scarecrow – review 2013-04-27T23:01:06Z

It also featured some of the most magnificent winged celestials ever seen on stage. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z

As this magnificent collection attests, the world that the Continental Op investigates may be “meaningless,” but that nameless “little man’s” work — and Hammett’s achievement — remain momentous. The nameless detective who launched Dashiell Hammett’s career 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

That, in essence, is what the magnificent play “The Lehman Trilogy,” at the Park Avenue Armory, both is about and, more important, simply is. Review: A Magnificent Road to Ruin in ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

And one of you — “a remote, collateral descendant of the magnificent Lorenzo,” according to one historian — backed the instrument maker who invented the piano. Talking Across the Centuries to the Medici Family 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

But Weinstein has also swooped on Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and is, I hear, preparing the magnificent Naomie Harris for a long Oscar campaign. Trailer Trash Cannes 2013-05-25T11:00:03Z

At about noon, we reached the peak of Cozia Mountain, where we stopped on the terrace of Cabana Cozia for a picnic lunch, surrounded by magnificent scenery. Romanian rhapsody — exploring an unsung destination in Eastern Europe 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Putin and I talked only about the protection of these magnificent animals, not politics,” DiCaprio explained, according to International Business Times. Leonardo DiCaprio 'Would Love' to Play Russian President Vladimir Putin in a Movie 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

You get magnificent views of Mount Si and other peaks to the north and east and at Grand Prospect, plus views up the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River. Top 10 snow-free (mostly) winter hikes within a yodel of Interstate 90 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

And if many works by distinguished directors are fated to disappoint their viewers, there’s always the chance of a magnificent surprise. What Cannes Needs: More Fireworks! 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Again, Siobhan had this magnificent voice that got all swallowed up in vagueness and ambiguity. "American Idol" recap: Crystal Bowersox saves 2010-04-21T13:22:00Z

As Roger Egbert wrote in his review of the film: "The trouble with "Funny Girl" is almost everything except Barbra Streisand. She is magnificent . . . It is impossible to praise Miss Streisand too highly." Why "Funny Girl" matters: a breakdown of the revival's casting issues 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z

He also happens to be one of the most magnificent human beings I have ever met. Spring Performance: Theater: Been There, Done That, and Now Going to This 2011-02-20T02:01:27Z

From high points in the city, I captured magnificent images of the ocean, the postcard-worthy sunset. Documenting with dignity in the Ebola zone

And finally this week we received a magnificent review by Silva L. Wood of the novel Divergent by Veronica Roth. Reader reviews roundup 2013-07-19T09:06:14Z

Nash also created the sham palaces of Regent's Park, and sliced Regent Street through London's West End to provide Carlton House with a magnificent approach. George IV: the rehabilitation of Old Naughty 2011-08-28T20:00:05Z

This brings lads like 12-year-old Matthew Mason down from the magnificent studio his father Mark, from a coal-mining town ravaged by pit closures, lovingly built him in the back garden at Gants Hill, north-east London. Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z

Linger for a while in its cafe, which occupies the beautifully restored Lotz Hall, originally a ballroom done in spectacular neo-Renaissance style with magnificent ceiling frescoes. | Budapest, Part One 2011-09-21T19:56:07Z

Rome is a magnificent, tangled urban forest, rich in art, culture and history. Seeing ancient Rome: The things that were Caesar’s 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

“It says ‘This is our community and we are beautiful and magnificent, and we come at it from a whole lot of different points of view and perspectives. The ‘bois’ are back: After a powerful reception in 2018, Dani Tirrell’s ‘Black Bois’ returns for a one-night performance 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

"This magnificent work by Rubens is one of the most important works by the artist to remain in private hands in the U.K.," said Richard Knight, of Christie's. Rare items from home of UK's Diana to be auctioned 2010-03-29T20:01:00Z

If you’re lucky, as we were, an invitation to join a picnicking local family and share in food, beers and cheers might cap this magnificent experience. 20 of the world's best waterfalls: readers’ tips 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Their goal: to create for their clients the most magnificent, whimsical and amazing treehouses in forests and backyards across America and around the world. Animal Planet unleashing a new season of shows 2012-04-04T15:58:12Z

“Felina,” the last episode ever of the magnificent series Breaking Bad, was a kind of machine gun of narrative, knocking down all of those questions with auto-fire efficiency. Breaking Bad Watch: Say Hello to My Little Friend 2013-09-30T04:37:59Z

With their compact, powerful bodies, Biles and Hernandez are different kinds of artists, who use their petite frames with magnificent authority. It’s hard to look like a swan when you’re doing a wolf turn 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

The show concludes with a series of magnificent late bathers and dancers whose saturated colors and rough textures expand the freedoms of monotypes into much larger works in oil or pastel. The Modern Degas You Haven’t Seen 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Sometimes a pup will score two touchdowns in a single magnificent run. Forget the Big Game. "Puppy Bowl" vs. "Great American Rescue Bowl" is the match-up to watch 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z

It would be eerie if it wasn't so soothing; anyone who has watched her on stage knows that this magnificent projection of calm often ends up a wild, sweaty, ecstatic mess. Abida Parveen: 'I'm not a man or a woman, I'm a vehicle for passion' 2013-07-08T17:10:27Z

Late-summer wildflowers are on the verge of surrendering to the onslaught of fall color that elevates this country from merely gorgeous to magnificent. In Asheville, N.C., foraging for food with the Mushroom Man

But after the second world war these magnificent ideas, combined with those of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus, produced an anonymous, international style with high-rises that shut people up with geometric precision. Mondrian and De Stijl at the Pompidou Centre, Paris ? review 2011-01-11T14:00:19Z

For the show to devise and dismantle this magnificent scheme is a sign of its absolute commitment to making Richard miserable. ‘Silicon Valley’ Season 3, Episode 3: Julia Roberts and 11 Men 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

And Ms. Stephens’s arch, angry Klytemestra, who brandishes her fatalism with a snarling smile, is rather magnificent. London Theater Journal: The Greeks All Over Again 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

Only Girl, meanwhile, is a magnificent stab of rave R&B, the unstoppable mutant genre that's taken over pop; Rihanna laughs and prances and appears to be enjoying herself. Rihanna – review 2012-11-25T00:05:37Z

In this case, the author's truth helps forge his fiction into a magnificent story addressing the Arab-Israeli conflict and the corrosive effects of war. 'To the End of the Land': A mother's grief and a country's corrosive burden 2010-10-06T23:08:00Z

When the battle is over, and won, it's a sorrier sight; the extraordinary creature pulled out on to ice by its magnificent spike, half whale, half unicorn. TV review: Human Planet 2011-01-27T23:05:00Z

A photo exhibit that opened Thursday at a gallery in New York includes images such as these, as well as magnificent landscapes, drab cityscapes and visits by foreign dignitaries. Photo exhibit documents life inside North Korea 2012-03-16T16:43:08Z

After treating Ms. Goldberg to speck and other imported delicacies, Mr. Batali leaned into his guest and hungrily asked for tips on how to attract what he described as her “magnificent American audience.” The Tv Watch: Celebrity Chefs on ?The Chew? on ABC 2011-10-02T22:01:29Z

The finale includes a magnificent — and perilously chromatic — horn solo and a return of the vigorous, Stravinskian scoring of the first movement. Philharmonic to Present H. K. Gruber?s ?Frankenstein!!? 2011-12-04T04:23:05Z

“It is horrendous,” Belinda admits, “but then it’s magnificent. Something to look forward to.” TV's changing view of the change: The menopause conversation is getting better, finally 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

“First folios don’t turn up very often, and when they do, it’s usually a really chewed up, uninteresting copy. But this one is magnificent.” Shakespeare Folio Discovered in France 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

His clothes — the knife-pleated skirts, the faux-fur capes, the metallic cocktail dresses — tell the story of finally managing to buy that great apartment with the magnificent view of the city. Perspective | Fashion Week celebrated what it means to dream — culminating in this one moving Marc Jacobs moment 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

But, if there’s only one way to steam a stalk, there are countless ways to turn it into soup – so what’s the best way to give this magnificent vegetable the respect it deserves? How to cook the perfect asparagus soup 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

The tale of the awakened patients is, though, miraculously captivating and, in Umbrella, receives another magnificent reimagining. Umbrella by Will Self – review 2012-08-10T21:55:01Z

The great surprise of “The Recovering” is that the second half is close to magnificent, and genuinely moving. Leslie Jamison’s Memoir Finds Its Footing in Sobriety 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

For there, he says, they get a magnificent view of all the trees “illuminated by the glow of the rising sun”. Tree of the week: 'Our olive tree is very expressive. It tells you when it’s thirsty' 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

“We truly don’t know if the region will ever be as magnificent as it is now.” New Cruise Ships to Set Sail for Antarctica 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

That opening salvo was magnificent — an ideal balance of warmth, penetration and power that didn’t seem to strain her one bit. Lise Davidsen Shows Her Vocal and Theatrical Power in Recital Debut 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z

While Edward Lear was a magnificent painter of exotic animals and places, he nonetheless found immortality in his work for children. For the art lover, the naturalist, the child in your life, a new book on Edward Lear 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

It’s a magnificent reserve, swallowing you up in endless expanses of acacia trees and emerald green swamps and tawny savannas. A Family Adventure in the Wild Heart of Tanzania 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

It is as though Finnegans Wake has been unselfishly rewritten, with coherent sentences and a story, and it offers a magnificent evocation of totalitarianism, inhumanity and farce. Alan Sillitoe obituary 2010-04-25T14:15:00Z

It's all sung a cappella, with occasional minimal percussion and magnificent harmonies throughout. Coope, Boyes and Simpson: As if ... 2010-05-27T21:45:00Z

Then those magnificent puppets appear — the slinky cheetah, the lumbering elephant with its baby in tow, the birds fluttering above like kites. Perspective | ‘The Lion King,’ ‘Hamilton’ and ‘Wicked’ return to Broadway — and it’s the heart that sings 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

It’s a magnificent shock because of the askew blocking, the patient misdirection of the editing and Hershey’s committed performance. ‘Insidious: The Red Door’ Review: The Ghost of Jump Scares Past 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z

With a jewel like this one, he's magnificent... watching Craig and Weisz - an offstage husband and wife - explore the unique capacity of a married couple for mutual cruelty adds another fascinating layer. Press views: Weisz and Craig in Betrayal 2013-11-04T11:37:56Z

He drew surging, organic and vividly detailed performances of these two immense scores from the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, which, as always, sounded magnificent in this acoustically magical space. Music Review: Wagner’s ‘Ring’ Opens at Bayreuth With Reality-Cam Touch 2013-07-28T21:38:06Z

What bound the performance together was the BBC SSO itself, which surged and swept and swooned through act three with a magnificent breadth of sound built in its collective muscle memory. BBC SSO/Runnicles – review 2013-04-12T18:43:18Z

Pelicans dove, magnificent frigate birds glided overhead, and a great blue heron took flight from the water. On Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, a voyage of discovery 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Bullock projected a magnificent aura of implacable spiritual grace in the face of danger. Why 1791 in 2017? Gustavo Dudamel searches for meaning in Mozart's last year 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Eventually, the truth came out, not thanks to any especially determined investigative journalism, but because Ellis cheerily admitted on Facebook that his tale of magnificent idiocy was a fiction. The age of banter 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

While working on it, he fell in love with the magnificent ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, who starred as the maiden. Poetry in motion: Mariinsky Ballet brings Russian fairy tale to the stage 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Sometimes the story, in all its magnificent ridiculousness, seems like mere scaffolding, propping up the ritual of the performance. Is ‘The Mikado’ Too Politically Incorrect to Be Fixed? Maybe Not. 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Merle’s magnificent voice had more power and range to begin with but today sounds even more ravaged, compromised up top, raspy rather than crisp. No More Country for Old Men 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

“His misfortune was complicated, yet his magnificent and beautiful nature never flagged,” Ball writes in the foreword. A Widower and His Son Find Kindness and Cruelty on the Road in ‘Census’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

“My small hands will get bigger — honestly, magnificent! — as long as I salute the one who controls my every move.” Style Invitational Week 1214: The alternaugural address 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Longborough has found a magnificent Brünnhilde in Rachel Nicholls, a singer so versatile that she has also had a career as a Bach specialist. Götterdämmerung; BBC Proms – review 2012-07-21T23:05:54Z

The most magnificent element, though, is Prince’s vocal — a fantastically acrobatic falsetto come-on, punctuated with firecracker exclamations and climaxing with roof-raising shrieks. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

That meant ignoring Pixar’s Cars 2 and George Miller’s Happy Feet Two, which, whatever you think of them, boast magnificent designs and color palettes. The Oscar Finalists: Silent Picture Double Feature 2012-01-24T19:13:28Z

On the way up, try to sit on the left side for a magnificent view of the Hudson River. Escape to Storm King Art Center, Playground of Giants 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

At rehearsals, I gather, he repeatedly urged his magnificent orchestra to keep the volume down. Proms 14 & 15: Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review 2013-07-27T23:07:04Z

And he’s like, ‘The only one of the five senses that is not pleasantly rewarded by this magnificent fruit is the sense of touch.’ A bilingual painting and how the Huntington's ‘Visual Voyages’ changes the story of art and science 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

The desert farms are magnificent 20th century monuments to unsustainable agriculture. Don’t censor the school-lunch blog 2012-06-15T16:15:00Z

Why would anyone shatter the silence of this magnificent setting with the whine of a drone? Two hikers blaze their own trail at Utah’s Arches National Park 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Here are seven of the city's most magnificent cocktails and where to drink them. Seven of New Orleans' most magnificent cocktails and where to drink them 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Bach’s magnificent Suites for Unaccompanied Cello with three of the Machine House’s special brews. Bach, beer pair up for a different kind of classical event 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

The Best Made Company Axe Shop there promises customers “a lifeline in the wilderness, and at home it’s a magnificent window into that wilderness” and includes $400 styles with names like Lincoln, Fortitude and Smithereens. Pioneer Women Are Roaming the City 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

In places, I abandon the main trail to explore side routes, discovering groves of twisted ancient trees, and then emerge suddenly into the magnificent gardens of Frederiksborg Castle. Great Danes: the Denmark of Hamlet and Karen Blixen 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

"Electric Brick Wall" was just released by her longtime label Drag City, and it's an odd, curiously magnificent record unlike anything else you'll hear this year. Jennifer Herrema's Black Bananas rock on to distinct artistic groove 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Still, Catherine Lutes’s camera catches magnificent views of Revelstoke, British Columbia, that are worth watching as you wait 18 minutes for the next semi-interesting scene. Review: In ‘Mountain Men,’ Two Brothers Are Forced to Work Things Out 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Both works hang in this show’s central gallery, crucial hinges between the artist’s searching early efforts and his magnificent late works. Robert Colescott Throws Down the Gauntlet 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

Seated at a table in a hotel room, the actors appear somewhat less than magnificent. Denzel Washington on diversity western The Magnificent Seven: ‘Audiences like to know who they’re rooting for’ 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

I fall in love with the clunky, magnificent cheese cart. A Labor Day tribute to restaurant workers, cooking and serving food they can’t afford to eat 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

Plus, here is the first proof that the touring organ is no pipe dream but a genuine dream organ, a fantastically versatile electronic instrument with magnificent sounds sampled from Carpenter's favorite organs around the world. Joy, daring in Cameron Carpenter's 'If You Could Read My Mind' 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Within the grounds there are examples of work by some of the most famous names in English gardening and architecture history, including Thomas Archer, who designed a magnificent baroque pavilion in 1709-11. 'Secret garden' Wrest Park reopens after restoration 2011-08-01T23:05:17Z

He was magnificent as the mouldy old white-haired janitor, master of the mop and bucket, supervising an invisible gathering to hear the very last message for humanity. Richard Briers: the sweetest of men 2013-02-18T14:31:30Z

Find the bench next to the magnificent oversized jar made by an anonymous Nyoro artist from Uganda, sometime in the middle of the last century. Perspective | Here are the 10 best places to sit down, relax and enjoy art in Washington 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

It was because she was so magnificent that there wasn't a way in to her soul. Why I celebrate Lena Horne 2010-05-11T10:43:00Z

Mr. Ax is a magnificent Chopin interpreter even at normal concert hall distances, but watching him work his magic at close quarters in the Kaplan Penthouse was a particular treat. Music Review: Emanuel Ax Plays Chopin at Mostly Mozart 2010-07-30T21:24:00Z

Three magnificent beasts, Taaka, Shiso and Arrow, all rescues and all varying degrees of wolf, roam the grounds - and an adjacent nine-acre citrus grove - freely, not fully able to believe their good fortune. T Magazine: The Happiness Project 2012-11-27T22:00:33Z

Both singers launched massive and magnificent concert tours earlier this year, and on Sunday night, they did their best to squeeze those shows into the context of an awards-show telecast. At the VMAs, ‘this is fame, bruh!’ And not much else. 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

“It’s about this state of enlightenment, and living with a sense of uncertainty in the most magnificent way.” The Artist Nick Cave Gets Personal About Race and Gun Violence 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Slightly higher on the Mr. Clean-o-meter is Shanghai River, a magnificent Shanghainese restaurant on the ground floor of an office building. 2010-02-03T13:38:00Z

A magnificent incredulity flows, as hot and coursing as lava, from Frank Langella’s King Lear when he discovers that people are no longer quaking when he commands. Theater Review: Frank Langella, Roaring at Defiance in ‘King Lear’ 2014-01-17T03:00:02Z

With the depth of its intelligence and the breadth of its vision, “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois” is simply magnificent. Review | ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is the kind of brilliant epic that comes around only once in a decade 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Onstage at Lincoln Center, the holiday endures for another 10 days with the magnificent conifer in “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” growing nightly to impressive heights. 4 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Addressing one survivor, the judge said, “Leave your pain here and go out and do your magnificent thing.” After Trauma, a Silenced Vocalist Sings Again 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

In our prime — which is to say, practically anytime in recorded history but the last 35 years or so years — we men invented important stuff and made magnificent art and thought great thoughts. Critic’s Notebook: NickMom, a Late-Night Programming Block on Nick Jr. 2012-11-08T22:51:46Z

I crawled through all five volumes of Michael Reynolds’ biography of Hemingway and both volumes of Brian Boyd’s magnificent biography of Vladimir Nabokov. I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem 2012-01-11T17:47:41Z

Because history is a major draw for our group — we’ve all read up on the Great Siege, for instance — our first stop is Valletta, the compact, walkable capital overlooking Malta’s magnificent Grand Harbor. Malta, the island nation just below Sicily, is an increasingly popular stopover 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

After lunch, tipped off by a friend in Paris, I spent a lazy afternoon at the magnificent Plage de L’Espiguette, a six-mile long strand of dunes and white sand just outside Le-Grau-le-Roi. France’s Chicest Hotel Family Has Come to Languedoc. Is That a Good Thing? 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

These magnificent buildings survived the fire largely intact because they were constructed of marble and stone, rather than the timber and tile used for most Yuanmingyuan structures. China Remembers a Vast Crime 2010-10-21T12:26:00Z

A magnificent show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art chronicles the phenomenon. Chinese paintings at LACMA captivate with their delicacy 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

It's a magnificent opportunity for us to have these pictures seen together anywhere, never mind in London – there is no county museum service covering Cornwall, so we're used to battling it out alone. Fish tales: new art show at Two Temple Place trawls Cornwall's past 2013-01-25T17:45:35Z

"It was thrilling to act it in the actual locations, especially the magnificent Castel Sant'Angelo; standing on the ramparts at night – I want to bring that sky into the confines of the theatre." Prima Donnas 2010-05-13T21:45:00Z

Child writes beautifully about the vast open spaces of the West, with its physical landscape that’s magnificent but a human landscape that’s often not pretty at all. In Lee Child’s ‘The Midnight Line,’ hero Jack Reacher seeks justice amid the opioid crisis 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Riesling, of course, especially from Alsace, Germany and Austria, would be magnificent. Spicy Pork Kebabs, Fast Enough for a Weeknight 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

Here are some great sites and dedicated festivals for making the most of this magnificent moment. 10 of the best views, festivals and events for the US total solar eclipse 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

It's a magnificent red wall cliff with turquoise blue water. The west on film: Nevada, Utah and Colorado in the movies 2013-07-19T23:10:00Z

Onyebuchi’s voice work is magnificent, sharp and whipping, and he shifts from macro to micro with confident flexibility. Visit These Science-Fiction Worlds to Make Sense of Our Own 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

All three shows are the products of years of research, and all boast magnificent loans. Review | The Met is the world’s greatest art museum. Three under-the-radar shows confirm it — again. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Trocchi, on the other hand, is the real deal, a magnificent and tensile writer who even in his throwaway works never shied away from the abyss. For April Fool's Day, a celebrated literary hoax 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

“We didn’t expect it to be this magnificent. We keep hearing stories from people but this is way more than we thought it would be,” she said. Saudi antiquities site, long seen as haunted, tries to woo visitors 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

This hospitality is manifest in Berat, known as “the town of a thousand windows,” a magnificent legacy of the Ottoman Empire situated in central Albania. In Albania, age-old traditions and Mediterranean beaches on the cheap 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Lacy, who has often played bland nice guys, is whinily magnificent, and Bartlett plays the manager as a coiled spring who spends the week disastrously unwinding. Review: ‘The White Lotus’ Offers Scenery From the Class Struggle 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

We started using it less often and hated to see this magnificent 220-year-old structure sitting empty. House Tour: Converted Barn in Erwinna, Pa. 2010-06-17T21:34:00Z

"First folios don't turn up very often, and when they do, it's usually a really chewed up, uninteresting copy. But this one is magnificent." Shakespeare Folio found in France 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Within the Victoria Memorial’s magnificent marble walls are some interesting artifacts and exhibitions. In Kolkata, a Love of Literature, Fried Street Food and, Mostly, Sweets 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

This is the Kungsleden – the King’s Way – and it is magnificent. 10 epic long-distance walks around the world 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

The spectacle provided by the incomparably rich birdlife of South America is easily outclassed by the magnificent extravaganza that is the Rio carnival in 3D CGI. Rio's extinction fears are for the birds 2011-04-11T09:48:52Z

People have been out there cleaning up the city with brooms and that's magnificent," he piped, "but I've played a Queen record. A week listening to ... BBC London 94.9 2011-08-12T09:45:19Z

The magnificent Waterford vase with the doors of Ireland etched into the crystal? Field Notes: When You Can’t Forget the Gifts You Didn’t Get 2013-08-23T17:00:50Z

To some visitors, the Morgan exhibition will be an archival array of magnificent objects and images created for visual delectation, but locked in an earlier age. Art Review: ‘Illuminating Faith’ at the Morgan: Images of the Eucharist 2013-07-04T20:22:28Z

This perfect art retreat is set in 33 acres of stunning gardens, with cacti standing like magnificent statues. 10 of the best off-grid adventures in Europe: readers’ tips 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

For a relatively simple experience, it's truly magnificent. Eat your way through Niagara Falls 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

Assessing its gilded, opulent, over-the-top main hall, the critic Eduard Hanslick asked if it “was not too sparkling and magnificent for a concert hall.” So You Have $500 Million? Here’s a Shopping List for the Philharmonic’s Hall. 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

The Venezuelan American Devendra Banhart was casual, almost to a fault, but through his occasionally magnificent songs confirmed an ambition that belied his laid-back whatever happens, happens persona. Caetano Veloso gigs the Hollywood Bowl; Bird and Banhart offer support 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

Further on, visitors can peer down into Borromini’s magnificent Chapel of the Magi through the second floor galleries. In Transit: New Roman Museum Highlights Baroque Church 2011-02-09T11:00:34Z

I mean, I could not go on enough about what a magnificent human being he is. "I'm a Scottish witch, I think": Shirley Manson on the prescient lyrics in Garbage's dark new album 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z

All the accolades this band have thrown at them over the years stem from one thing: on that stage they continue to be quite magnificent – the ultimate bar band, who deliver every time. Rolling Stones win best live band at NME awards 2013-02-27T23:00:01Z

There's tenderness, too, but Gahan's brooding power is central to possibly his best work since Depeche's 1990 Violator: magnificent songs about demons and failings, morality and mortality, regret, faith and devotion. Soulsavers: The Light the Dead See ? review 2012-05-17T21:15:01Z

It’s a magnificent, humbling space, full of ancient interest, but my attention is drawn to the playful, elegant multicolored checkerboard stained-glass windows at the southern end, created by German artist Gerhard Richter in 2006. Dusseldorf vs. Cologne: A rivalry you can grin and beer 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

So now, my magnificent, spiky artichoke plants are topped with deeply purple globes. Perspective | New artichoke variety puts purple on your plate faster 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

A magnificent example of the fifties ice-cream parlour, testament to the fact that not only are they relevant in this day and age, but can be a thriving business. The wonder of seaside cafes: neon, nougat and knickerbocker glories 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

Crossing the brilliant economics and object-empathy of Edward Carey’s “Heap House” with the careful character and setting work of Fonda Lee’s “Jade City,” “Foundryside” is a magnificent, mind-blowing start to a series I’m hungry for. The Best New Fantasy Novels 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Like the accompanying images provided by Spanish artist Ricardo Cavolo, McClanahan’s prose is intoxicating, taking care to detail magnificent anecdotes from Johnston’s life while simultaneously shedding light on ineffable notions like culture, psychology and fame. The mystique of Daniel Johnston: “There’s something ancient in all of this — the notion of the eccentric” 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

“This extraordinary resource will provide scholars and students with unprecedented insights into Professor Morrison’s remarkable life and her magnificent, influential literary works.” Toni Morrison's Papers to Be Housed at Princeton 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

I never forgot that kindness or the way she talked about sharing the stage with the magnificent Kim Stanley in "Bus Stop" and being transfixed by her at every performance. Elaine Stritch's originality blazed fiercely on Broadway 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Skeptical and timid, I eventually shimmied underneath the wire and gingerly approached these magnificent beasts which, to my surprise, held perfectly still while eyeing me, as if posing. On horseback through the symbolic heart of Hungary 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Save time for the city’s Duomo, a magnificent red and white striped cathedral, Romanesque on the lower part and transforming into Gothic as it ascends. 36 Hours in Verona, Italy 2013-06-07T18:48:09Z

Still, there’s one thing that is absolutely perfect about “A Wrinkle in Time”— that magnificent, hauntingly evocative title. Perspective | ‘A Wrinkle in Time’: Let’s hope the movie is better than the book 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

Alone at an isolated waterhole, I watched an elegant saddle-billed stork snapping what I assumed were fish with its magnificent red and black and yellow bill. Frugal Traveler: D.I.Y. Africa 2014-03-28T17:21:42Z

“Because he really is a magnificent problem solver.” In ‘A Simulacrum,’ Steve Cuiffo Has Nothing Up His Sleeves 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

There was something noble and magnificent in Ted's insistence upon healing everyone before himself, in assuring that everything is possible if people simply believe. In the final analysis, "Ted Lasso" is all about a man, a team and their daddy issues 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

Say what you will about last night’s winter finale of “Scandal,” “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”—I found it a little sloppy—but on the issues, it’s magnificent. Olivia Pope’s right to choose: “Scandal”’s daring on-screen abortion and fantasy filibuster for reproductive rights 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

The foliage was magnificent, but the field offices bustling with idealistic 22 year olds left me cold. Young Democrats in love 2012-11-02T23:30:00Z

Everything in the film may be in the past or may just be in the eternal, magnificent, maddening present that is Mr. Reygadas’s consciousness. Movie Review: ‘Post Tenebras Lux,’ Directed by Carlos Reygadas 2013-04-30T21:31:18Z

Shows like “The U.S.-Mexican Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility” tackle pressing current issues; others, like a career retrospective of the magnificent Chicana muralist Judith F. Baca, write histories long overdue. A West Coast Spotlight on Latino Artists Leads the Fall Art Season 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

“Celebrating so many amazing nominees, particularly women nominees … is so incredibly magnificent and so many are my friends,” Keys said. Alicia Keys says Grammys will be about the ‘power of music’ 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

The magnificent 13th-century chapel was built by Saint Louis to house the Holy Relics. Medieval city on the sea is a repository of French history — and unexpected U.S. connections 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

But watching the magnificent new Blu-ray edition of “Fort Apache” from Warner Home Video I was struck this time by the film’s reflective, inward quality, by its emotional climate of loss and uncertainty. DVD: John Ford?s ?Fort Apache? on Blu-ray From Warner Home Video 2012-03-25T01:23:02Z

All of this togetherness leads the author to a deep affection for her subjects, the “magnificent men and women of Camp Etna, past and present.” A Sympathetic Look at Spiritualism Past and Present 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

One magnificent silver collar found in Norway has an inscription in runes saying the Vikings came to Frisia and "exchanged war garments with them" – but that may be a black joke. Biggest Viking exhibition in 20 years opens – and this time they're angry 2013-06-19T15:13:55Z

The archival footage of Balanchine’s company in its prime becomes the visual relief to their verbal frustration, the magnificent evidence that it is possible to master an indescribable method. ‘In Balanchine’s Classroom’ Review: Teaching the Ineffable 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Ms. Staunton, a magnificent Momma Rose in “Gypsy” two years ago, is surely the frowziest, most compellingly neurotic Sally ever. Showgirls, a Monster and a Drag Queen: Singing Songs of Self 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

It is magnificent stuff and the Albert Hall is a great venue to experience it in. A bite of William Tell 2011-07-15T22:55:03Z

This magnificent painting, and those inspiring words, are off view for now. Perspective | A great artist’s life was interrupted by internment. Now an exhibition of his work is interrupted by a virus. 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

On Don Juan’s magnificent tomb in El Escorial is a Latin inscription: “For the memory thereof is immortal.” Spanish capital en ruinas 2013-02-19T16:42:00Z

Screen International critic Jonathan Romney wrote: "It is a shame to think of this heroically uncompromising director shutting up shop, but if he does, The Turin Horse is a magnificent farewell." Iran vs Hungary in race for top Berlin film prize 2011-02-17T11:38:40Z

Penn doesn’t flinch from the sadness of McCandless’s end, but he imbues his story with lyricism and beauty, by way of the magnificent settings the young man traveled through, and the people he met. Perspective | Movies to satisfy your pent-up wanderlust 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

Greenland, with its magnificent glaciers threatened by global warming and new airports on the horizon, made it, too. How We Picked the 2020 ‘Places to Go’ List 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

A leading light of the Spanish Renaissance, he was the subject of a magnificent show I saw last year at the Grand Palais in Paris. Perspective | Compassion. Claustrophobia. Originality. Why El Greco inspired so many great modern artists. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

“What one saw was magnificent, but it was what one didn’t see – no humans, no environmental degradation. It was like an idealised biosphere on another planet.” The real David Attenborough 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

The titular setting is the once magnificent garden of an English estate, long since fallen into disuse and decay. On London Stages, Britain Considers Its Divided Soul 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

Some 350 cross-country skiers with rubicund faces from three days of playing outside were packed in the nave that caterers had transformed into a magnificent dining hall. In Quebec, a Winter Celebration on Skis 2013-01-25T18:23:12Z

The only character more compelling than Frank is his wife – Robin Wright’s magnificent turn as Claire Underwood exposed the metastasizing ambitions of a political partnership, and her riveting trajectory resonated with real events. How the reality of Trump's America outpaced House of Cards 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

"We are honored to be part of her legacy and remain committed to seeing her magnificent work `Lucky Guy' shine on Broadway," Callender said in a statement. Producer 'committed' to staging Nora Ephron play 2012-06-28T19:31:10Z

The performances are magnificent: bold and fresh, technically fluid and musically insightful. Music: Leonard Shure and Henri Temianka?s Beethoven Sonatas 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z

In the autumn of 1988, Public Enemy released their magnificent It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, a flaming torch of righteous indignation. How NWA came straight outta Compton and went mainstream 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

And Cash's compensation for perpetuating this modern form of voluntary slavery is magnificent. "Sorry to Bother You" speaks the hidden truths of "white voice" out loud 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

It’s so idealized, with all the magnificent musicians. Joan Baez on Her Next Chapter: ‘I Don’t Make History, I Am History’ 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

“You have one magnificent chance to beat this corrupt system and deliver justice for every forgotten man, every forgotten women and every forgotten child in this nation.” The science of white working class pain: Trump’s appeal is rooted in the body as well as the mind 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

Now, at long last, there is a follow-up, which includes this magnificent traditional song of pain and parting. The F&M playlist 2011-07-07T20:37:01Z

Fittingly, when that episode ends, it is with a shot not of the main characters but of the eventual Derby winner magnificent in victory, relaxing in his stable. Your next box set: Luck 2012-11-08T18:29:00Z

Ignoring that weakness, bidders responded instead to the magnificent light and shadow effect and sent the Mueller soaring to £2.07 million. 2010-02-03T15:25:00Z

Head here for sundowners and marvel at the skyline, including the magnificent neo-gothic style Fisherman’s Bastion against a mountainous backdrop. 10 of the best rooftop bars in Europe: readers’ travel tips 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Against the magnificent landscapes surrounding the northern village of Teriberka on the Barents Sea, the film was shot over 67 days in late 2013. Filmmakers see a bigger message in Russia's 'Leviathan' 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

We work meticulously on each individual measure, one by one, and it’s fascinating to see him slowly build the opera into a really magnificent edifice in which every piece fits perfectly. ?Attila? and Muti in Debuts at the Met 2010-02-19T18:03:00Z

There are seven magnificent performances in this finale that have nothing to do with something that happened five months ago, or 15 years ago. ‘And Just Like That,’ the Show Is Over 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

On her Twitter account, Ms. Rowling called him a “magnificent actor.” Alan Rickman, Watchable Villain in ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Die Hard,’ Dies at 69 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Highlights and high points: The scenery was magnificent, especially sailing into fjords with giant mountains and cascading waterfalls on either side. Exploring the land of the Vikings by boat 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Ms. Blythe is magnificent, but Ms. Lynch is timid, especially as the Sorceress, which is essentially a drag role. Review: Mark Morris Shows the Gift of Intricate Simplicity 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

On Monday she was more robust if slightly absent compared with her colleagues: the magnificent dancers, worthy of their own hourlong performance, and her band, outfitted in shimmering tops and matching white headpieces. Music Review: Santigold at Music Hall of Williamsburg - Review 2012-01-18T15:29:25Z

And even for listeners who know this score inside out, the vividness of the playing was a reminder that Bernstein’s score — with Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics and the Ramin-Kostal-Chaplin orchestration — is a magnificent, timeless creation. Music Review: ?West Side Story? Orchestral Film Screening - Review 2011-09-08T22:05:59Z

Yet he was one of the world’s great builders — an instinctive architectural genius who planned, sited, sourced and landscaped magnificent structures of classical antiquity. Herod the Great’s Israel 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

No. There are so many people who do magnificent, significant things, and I don’t. T Magazine: Deeda Blair’s Elegance of Conviction 2013-05-31T17:00:11Z

In other words: Count this magnificent kingdom as another place where the residents are tired of being judged by elves. ‘The Rings of Power’ Season 1, Episode 3: Island Time 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

"We should have had 20 years, 30 years of his magnificent mind and his beautiful heart." Bee Gees singer's 'final goodbye' 2012-06-08T15:53:03Z

Even Rudolf Serkin, my pianist hero at the time and a magnificent Beethoven player, approached these masterpieces with humility and awe. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

A magnificent diptych in the upstairs gallery balances gold and marigold, mauve and a tincture of misty green so that none is predominant and none declares a foreground or background. Martin Creed: Down Over Up; Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project; Joan Mitchell 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

The production was magnificent and the talent undeniable, but how it was received depends heavily on the beliefs and biases of the individual viewers. The Passion review – Jesus Christ turns superstar in live broadcast 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

In this taut, elegantly assembled production, which opened on Sunday night at the Public Theater, a magnificent specter stalks this planet, contaminating the lives of everyone he encounters. Review: An Elephant’s Ghost Stalks the World in ‘Mlima’s Tale’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

In among the dross there are revelations, there are magnificent descriptions, there is writing of remarkable force and power. Sons and Lovers: a bad book by a very good writer 2013-06-20T15:35:02Z

“Pacific” was accompanied by excerpts from another magnificent Harrison work, “Trio for violin, cello and piano,” where the rumblings of a kind of sonic Siberian peat bog yielded gradually to a shower of light. Mark Morris Dance Group’s many surprises flow naturally at GMU 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

By the end of this magnificent drama, Mr. Butterworth has connected the contradictions with a skill that takes the breath away. Review: A Thrilling ‘Ferryman’ Serves Up a Glorious Harvest Feast 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Towards its end TC makes the magnificent discovery of owls nesting on a patch of urban waste ground. Clay by Melissa Harrison – review 2013-01-25T22:55:01Z

Listeners agreed that the music was magnificent, but many did not hear anything “American” in it, after all. Did Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony Transform American Music? 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Those performances and others showed the extent to which Mr. Volkov meant to celebrate Harpa by using its magnificent spaces and resources to their fullest. Critic’s Notebook: Ilan Volkov’s Tectonics Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland 2013-04-23T21:48:02Z

Ms. Chancellor’s Tekla is a magnificent amalgam of vanity, imperiousness and just enough lingering self-doubt to be taken advantage of. | 'Creditors': Deconstructing Marriage: Strindberg at Harvey Theater 2010-04-21T22:25:00Z

“Nothing will ever be scarier than that. It goes from complete absolute terror to the most magnificent bliss you’ve ever felt,” he added. Will Smith feels 'absolute terror' in Grand Canyon bungee jump 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

On those roller coasters, I kept my glasses on, and the views of the surrounding Smoky Mountains, dotted with sugar maple trees and magnolias, were magnificent. Have vaccine, will travel: How a road trip served as a needed jolt from the blahs at home 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Then she did this magnificent, adorable crack-up, but I stopped the video too soon. My girl problems 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He holds in his magnificent memory a panorama of American culture in the nineteen-thirties and forties, which, in the wake of the great European emigration to Southern California, included several towering figures of twentieth-century culture. The Magnificent Memory of Norman Lloyd 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Sadly, Orr’s magnificent career was cut short in his 10th season at age 27 by a serious knee injury. Perspective | In the NHL, sometimes the best offense is a good defenseman 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

Liza Minnelli called the veteran performer "a magnificent woman in every sense of the word... her talent and spunk will be greatly missed". Tributes paid to stage star Stritch 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

He directed Fanfare for Elizabeth, a celebration of the Queen's 60th birthday, at the Royal Opera House in 1986, and Olivier's magnificent memorial in Westminster Abbey in 1989. Patrick Garland 2013-04-22T15:35:16Z

Time here is summarised as "a parade of black-tie dinner parties and reeling balls and trips to magnificent houses in the Highlands". This Bleeding City by Alex Preston ? review 2011-01-02T00:03:02Z

The brilliant and poetic components of his artistry found ideal balance in his magnificent performance of “Kreisleriana.” Fleeting Fingers and Red-Eye Flights: A Pianist Is a Study in Stamina 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

They couldn’t work and were running out of money when, a few months before the 2016 election, Rosso got a magnificent, terrific, fantastic idea. ‘Trump’s job creation certainly helped me!’ says a Donald Trump impersonator who is making bank 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

For me, it almost cheapens that sense of magnificent joy, that sense of rightness, to tie it down too closely to creeds and priestcraft. Belief is unnecessary, but knowledge helps 2010-08-25T10:30:00Z

After all, which orchestra wouldn't sound magnificent in their hall? Happy 125th birthday, Concertgebouw 2013-04-11T18:11:17Z

But the coif is magnificent, an exposed ego of an updo that communicates all the shoestring pretensions of the world Eugene and Jane occupy together. Review: In ‘Wobble Palace,’ a Relationship Hangs by a Stringy Toupee 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

This cake is magnificent in its damp blackness. The 20 best Nigella Lawson recipes: part 4 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

With all symbols flagged up and clashing together, this is Williams past his magnificent best. Let the Right One In; The Amen Corner; Sweet Bird of Youth – review 2013-06-15T23:05:22Z

At one point, I was holding a magnificent print dress I’d selected for a friend, and a clerk asked me where I’d found it. Critical Shopper: Teamwork Conquers New Forever 21 Store in Manhattan 2010-07-28T23:08:00Z

For a traditional meal in a magnificent setting, there is no place like Hosteria Dos Chorreras, a half-hour drive from downtown Cuenca through mountain passes and grassy slopes dotted with cattle and eucalyptus trees. Three Sides of Ecuador 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Channel 4/PA The final episode of the magnificent My Mad Fat Diary on E4 was aired last night. My Mad Fat Diary gives us the bigger picture 2013-02-19T10:00:02Z

To say that this is a gripping and awesome journey is to sell short the whole magnificent and complex endeavour. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

Bad things happen, because, you know, life is pain — in the meantime, though, do enjoy the magnificent digs, the designer threads and the frolicking nude stars. Review: ‘A Bigger Splash,’ With a Speechless Tilda Swinton, Is Ready for Its Close-Up 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Situated a five-minute walk from the magnificent Queen Victoria Market, this modern, friendly hotel is perfect for food-lovers who want to cook as well as eat. Getting the buzz on Melbourne: A coffee lover’s guide 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

As if the couple were trying to set a record for cost-benefit ratio in a homestay, Theodora cooked us a magnificent dinner of sliced beef, whole fish, mustard greens and bean sprouts. In Papua, Indonesia, a Visit to the Welcoming Dani People 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

It was, from the top of the ensemble to the bottom, magnificent. Bruckner as a holiday treat? The L.A. Phil thinks so 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

Two of the three are in magnificent shape, but just as interesting are the intricately carved wooden sleds and other artifacts retrieved from the graves. Frugal Traveler Blog: A $100 Weekend in Oslo 2012-06-26T18:55:24Z

Architecture is the star at the InterContinental Hotel Dieu, where every corner reveals a magnificent curved archway, a graceful shadow or a stately plaza. Hotel Review: InterContinental Marseille Hôtel Dieu 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

Fans of whimsy need not fear; there is plenty to enjoy, including a magnificent art history lecture on the disciple Thomas, the original doubter, complete with visual aids. Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind ? review 2010-11-21T00:06:00Z

But nothing was overdone in this magnificent recital. With a magnificent Piano Spheres recital, Mark Robson resonates in the new year 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

“As this magnificent new museum demonstrates, Charleston isn’t just a city where history happened — it’s a city where history is still being made every day,” said John Tecklenburg, Charleston’s mayor, in a statement. International African American Museum Sets Opening for June After Sudden Delay 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

The accumulated meaning of her aching lyrics and the magnificent vocal music she produces add to the melancholy beauty. Toni Morrison's ghostly 'Desdemona' blends words and music in lyrical revision of Shakespeare 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

"It always bothered me, these great singers when I heard them again and again, remembering how magnificent they sounded once and no more," she said. Mezzo-soprano opera star Rise Stevens dies at 99 2013-03-21T21:20:11Z

This was an easy listening panacea for the Woodstock children and testament to the magnificent healing power of pop, even if the Simon and Garfunkel coalition would soon fall apart. The best No 1 records: Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water 2012-05-31T20:42:00Z

The Legend Of Xanadu was the quintet's only number one, a magnificent moment of mariachi melodrama, which defied all of Jimmy Savile's attempts to pronounce it when they performed it on Top Of The Pops. The best No 1 records: Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich – Legend of Xanadu 2012-05-31T20:44:00Z

“He won’t learn anything, he’s lazy and he’s too pleased with himself,” he wrote, conceding that “all the same his voice is magnificent.” When Puccini Came, Saw and Conquered New York City 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

After clawing through the city and its suburbs, the highway begins rising up Mount Hood through a magnificent forest of Douglas firs. Journeys: Correspondents Select Some of Their Favorite Roads 2012-05-20T22:47:22Z

The exhibition opens with a gathering of saints, capped by two large, magnificent lime wood carvings by the great Tilman Riemenschneider. Martin Luther broke Europe in two, and Albrecht Dürer painted it back together 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

There’s something magnificent he did in terms of making us feel more comfortable with our machines – they have become extensions of ourselves. Steve Jobs' widow pulled out of documentary on late Apple chief, claims film-maker 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z

Which, given that he is striding about Rome, examining sacrificial livers, unpicking its anti-Christian grafitti and uncovering the joys of its magnificent sewers – "a twilight canyon of filth" – would be practically non-stop. TV review: The Town; Rome: a History of the Eternal City; The Inbetweeners USA 2012-12-05T23:05:01Z

Even when he’s talking extremely loudly and incredibly quickly, Oskar remains shatteringly articulate and his pain rings as clear as a bell, particularly in his scenes with the magnificent von Sydow. Brace Yourselves for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2011-12-21T15:15:09Z

The camera tracks away from Garland — she’s that powerful; she needs space — and frames her with silhouettes from the magnificent horn section. Why we keep gazing at ‘A Star Is Born’: From Gaynor to Gaga 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

The resulting image suggests a magnificent edifice trying to hold its own against crude erosions and incursions. February gallery shows ponder architectural possibilities 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

At the same time, she was always ready to throw on costumes from any era and look magnificent. Paglia on Taylor: "A luscious, opulent, ripe fruit!" 2011-03-24T02:58:00Z

But its two mighty strengths are the magnificent O'Sullivan herself, and the way she embodies both violator and violated. The Rape of Lucrece – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-23T14:25:26Z

Hayek has taken on the project of impressing Pinault, a man who she says has a “magnificent eye,” as fixedly as she has dedicated herself to other pursuits. T Magazine: The Real Housewife of Paris 2011-02-25T21:00:47Z

Chris Burden's dear friend, the painter Ed Moses, called Burden "the most magnificent person to ever appear in California as what we call an 'artist.'" Remembering Chris Burden: 'Testing the limits of everything,' friends say 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

One of the most magnificent is Bolton Abbey, often referred to as “the jewel in Yorkshire’s crown.” Yorkshire celebrates the writing Brontë sisters, 200 years later 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

So it is perhaps understandable that Mr. Anderson makes only passing and none too flattering reference to David Lean’s magnificent film about Lawrence. Books of The Times: Scott Anderson’s ‘Lawrence in Arabia’ Revisits Legends 2013-09-08T20:10:15Z

Our reviewer, Mitchell S. Jackson, called the book “magnificent.” New in Paperback: ‘These Truths’ and ‘There Will Be No Miracles Here’ 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gatti’s magnificent account of the sublime Adagio made a convincing case for it as a fitting end to this work: a composer’s farewell. Review: Concertgebouw Orchestra Shows Off Its Legacy at Carnegie 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

It is a work of committed, almost magnificent tedium. Can a List of Someone’s Stuff Double as Literature? 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

I think that sometimes when you have to look harder or work harder to find a beautiful place it’s actually more magnificent than an easy beauty. Cheryl Strayed: “Tackle love” 2012-07-08T01:00:00Z

The collection, called "A Tale of Two Cities," was "inspired by the breathtaking Taj Mahal and the rich, buoyant colors of magnificent India," according to the designer. Acid attack survivor from India makes runway appearance 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Another current running through the residence is an equine theme, from a bespoke rocking horse made by the tony English firm Stevenson Brothers to Klein’s own magnificent images of horses. Steven Klein’s Moody Hamptons Compound 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

Experiencing this 1954 classic is more than addictive; it’s nourishing, from the opening party scene to the magnificent tree, which grows to 40 feet, from 12. Finding the Right ‘Nutcracker’ for You and Yours 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

A magnificent edifice atop a rock in the Mediterranean may not be everyone's idea of a "normal" spot for a holiday. Monsieur Hollande's holiday looks set to pass normality test 2012-07-24T14:17:41Z

When she sings, “I’m a queen on the throne, I’m magnificent,” over the crackling backbeat of “Shame,” she’s not bragging. The Passions and Travails of a Jazzy Everywoman 2011-06-20T21:40:37Z

It was magnificent, and the newlyweds took it with them to their new Brussels home. Small Shows at the Metropolitan Museum 2010-08-05T22:21:00Z

Elizabeth Rosario, 43, a Dominican housekeeper for Mount Sinai Hospital, grew up swimming in Highbridge Pool, a magnificent, free-to-the-public complex with two Olympic-size pools, where the movie’s centerpiece dance number was filmed. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘In the Heights’ comes home 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

The book’s magnificent opening chapter, “What to Think About Before You Start, & While You Are Cooking,” lays out the philosophical blueprint for every New American and California-casual cookbook that followed. The Best Cookbooks of the Century So Far 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z

The sky at night was truly magnificent due to the total lack of light pollution. British Sea Power: Our memories of making Valhalla Dancehall 2011-01-05T15:57:45Z

"Oh, you did?" she guffaws, a magnificent, dirty laugh. Anjelica Huston: 'I find extreme characters irresistible' 2011-07-21T20:00:01Z

The estate’s design masterminds included Frederick Law Olmsted, of Central and Prospect Park fame, and the architect Robert H. Robertson, whose original house and magnificent gabled barns remain. 36 Hours in Burlington, Vermont 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Fuel's magnificent Electric Hotel delivered a wondrous theatrical experience to thousands by transporting its entire hotel set lock-stock to Latitude. Theatre finds its music festival feet 2011-07-21T13:40:45Z

The trials of the humble honeybee are magnified to epic proportions in the meticulous, magnificent documentary “The Pollinators.” ‘The Pollinators’ Review: Fight of the Honeybee 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

The tinkly Disney effects look and sound magnificent on 3DS, belying the astonishing complexity of interlinking systems that's always characterised Final Fantasy and its spin-offs. This week's new games 2012-07-20T23:05:00Z

Morlot chose to switch them, ending with the symphony; a good choice, as it would be hard to add anything after the magnificent triumphal end to its final movement. At SSO, remarkable Wagner, majestic Saint-Saëns 2013-06-28T19:54:33Z

Ms. Baye, one of the great living French screen actresses, is steely and magnificent, even as it is Ms. Bry who finally captures the film’s energy and the sympathy of the audience. Review: In ‘The Guardians,’ Trouble on the Home Front in Wartime France 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

This unique ancient pottery studio with its magnificent kiln is another window into the artistic history of the region. The childhood home of lauded author Colette is open to the public in this small French village 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Within a few years, he owned 14 properties, including a lot on which he built a magnificent three-story mansion. On a Memphis street, a microcosm of American culture 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

But that doesn't stop him from literally bellowing in the face of his singing partner in this magnificent medley. Six to watch: Alan Partridge's best bits 2012-06-22T11:05:44Z

LENOX, Mass. — She is a magnificent specimen: the hair big and honey blond, the clothes snug and revealing, the jewelry copious and gold. Review: In ‘The Comedy of Errors,’ Twins Lead to Confusion 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Its magnificent late-12th-century carvings rivaled those of Angkor, telling the stories of a king’s triumphs and defeats alongside scenes of everyday life. Homestay among the ruins in Cambodia 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

There are many modern lessons in this story, with several poignant themes, but mostly it is about the magnificent silliness of journalism. Perspective | How to make the Internet bug out 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

And so far, the hard work has paid off, as reviews have been positive with The Guardian calling it "superb" and The Daily Telegraph singling out Swinton's performance as "magnificent." Maternal torment 2011-05-16T08:23:43Z

He said he thought it was “a magnificent thing to see the human imagination wrestling with the mystery of the universe.” Physics and culture collide 2012-07-13T18:32:00Z

The best place to learn about her is at the magnificent Sudeley Castle and Gardens. 36 Hours in the Cotswolds 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

The magnificent European cave art we find in Paleolithic caverns in France, Spain, and Italy gives us one of the earliest glimpses of the evolution of consciousness and symbolic thinking. Science doesn’t disprove God: Where Richard Dawkins and new atheists go wrong 2014-04-19T15:00:00Z

Within a few yards of shore, I was floating above a magnificent coral garden. The Cool, Wild and Very Remote Andaman Islands 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z

The most magnificent of all might be the Alhambra in Granada, a 14th-century palace-fortress built under Moorish rule; set against the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, it is the single-most visited attraction in Andalusia. In Transit: Q&A: Multigenerational March Vacation in Europe 2011-02-01T18:40:44Z

“You work your whole life on some magnificent records, but this is a really great artistic record, and it feels good to get it attention.” Latin Grammy win by Seattle musicians Jack Endino and Barrett Martin highlights Seattle-Brazil connection 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

In 2010, he published Hebrew Poems and Translations, a magnificent work of poetry, including Hebrew, English, French, Latin and Greek. Raphael Loewe obituary 2011-08-04T18:00:49Z

Along the way he stopped to see several sites, including the magnificent Les Baux de Provence, where a medieval village and fortress ruins are perched high in the mountains. Q&A: From London to St.-R?my and Avignon 2010-07-29T17:00:00Z

It’s no surprise that the scenery in “Tracks” is magnificent; but Davidson’s interior journey winds up being the real story. Perspective | Movies to satisfy your pent-up wanderlust 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

But who cares what unknown forces shaped her mouth into its magnificent moue? Rewind TV: Hunted; Monroe; Arena: The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour; Best Possible Taste: the Kenny Everett Story; Exposure: the Other Side of Jimmy Savile; Welcome to India – review 2012-10-06T23:05:46Z

These magnificent collages preoccupied Bearden for the rest of his life and have tended to overshadow the rest of his multifaceted career. Romare Bearden’s Rarely Seen Abstract Side 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

It’s a magnificent object lesson in cinema as an art of ideas. Kitty Genovese’s Brother Reëxamines Her Famous Murder 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

I was shocked at how much grime was removed by this magnificent cloth. How to clean brown stains from a formerly white Corian kitchen sink 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

He was also remembered as a magnificent reader of his poetry. Andrei Voznesensky, 77, Celebrated Russian Poet, Dies 2010-06-01T20:19:00Z

In July 1982 the Blues and Royals Mounted Squadron rode out from Hyde Park barracks – and what a magnificent sight those shiny black horses were. My hero: Sefton, by Jilly Cooper 2010-12-18T00:07:41Z

Literally, in the case of his protégé Gareth Pugh, and figuratively in the lineup of other designers with a magnificent obsession for signature silhouettes and a passion for the dark side. Fashion Review: Rick Owens and a Vibe From the Tribe 2012-03-01T19:23:40Z

We clambered around the steep hills, our jaws slack at the magnificent condition of ancient Meersburg Castle, whose origins stretch back to the seventh century. Biking and baring it all on a tour around Europe’s Lake Constance 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

And yes, there are clothes — magnificent examples of couture and costuming, including some of the exact pieces worn in the paintings. John Singer Sargent, À La Mode 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z

Set three years after the traumatic events of Shane Meadows's Bafta-winner, we catch up with a newly coiffed Woody and Lol on their wedding day – the peroxide bride magnificent in an androgynous trouser suit. Holidate 2010-09-07T07:00:00Z

The massive stainless steel tubing that runs up the side of the building and then half fills the interior of the dome is frankly hideous to behold and does violence to this timelessly magnificent building. Art: Venice Biennale Thrives Despite Tough Economic Times 2011-06-06T12:30:05Z

Lane as the tortured soul at the play's heart is magnificent - showing sides that are charming, witty, savage, self-destructive and yearning. Review: Nathan Lane shines in 'The Nance' 2013-04-16T01:16:05Z

Well into the magnificent fugue that ends the Brahms variations, a few lines before the composer begins repeating the powerful pedal point that will build tension to the end, Brahms seems to get stuck. French pianist Aimard delivers strange recital at Library of Congress

Instead, they opted for the magnificent Grand Hall, which comes complete with an organ. Little Bulb: natural born lyres 2013-03-27T08:00:06Z

And so, yet again, for what seems like the zillionth time, a heart-tugging Hollywood film transforms a harrowing and magnificent period of African-American life into a story of once-blinkered white people becoming enlightened. Why Hollywood keeps whitewashing the past 2011-08-12T15:20:00Z

It is magnificent and I'm sorry to say the first episode of The Night Of is such a disappointment by comparison that I don't intend to watch it.. ‘The Night Of’ Series Premiere: Fate at the Wheel 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

Colorado is filled with other wonderful towns as magnificent as Boulder, where Bohemians can afford to live. In Boulder, Where Inner Peace Meets Outer Beauty 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Instead, she becomes like one of these tribal leaders – she gets more magnificent and more impressive. Patti Smith: how she rocks our world 2012-05-26T23:15:26Z

What might have been House of Cardinals becomes, in Sorrentino’s hands, something more like The Pope Who Fell to Earth – magnificently strange and strangely magnificent. House of cardinals: why is TV so obsessed with Catholicism? 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Some of them, including Detroit's magnificent Danny Brown, feature here on a collection that sees El-P update his sound and his flow to combustible effect. El-P: Cancer for Cure – review 2012-05-24T20:15:01Z

Neither of us could resist ordering beers on the hotel’s magnificent deck perched high over a valley weeping with waterfalls. The Swiss Alps on an Electric Bicycle 2011-08-26T19:00:31Z

The 17 drawings – 15 of which belong to the Soane, with the two on loan from institutions in Paris and Amsterdam – depict the three magnificent ancient Greek temples in Paestum, south of Naples. Piranesi works drawn together in London for first time since 18th century 2013-02-14T18:13:07Z

Chaplin's response to the "talkies" was to keep his Tramp mute and concentrate on creating magnificent soundtracks for his films. The Life and Times of Charlie Chaplin 2011-12-23T14:00:34Z

He also keeps a magnificent pipe organ in an old barn, which he plays beautifully while his cheese matures. National treasures: Yotam Ottolenghi on his new food heroes 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

There are luxurious furnishings from the plantation period, including a Japanned cabinet from Europe and one of the oldest known pieces of Virginia-made furniture — a magnificent court cupboard. In Jamestown, a new exhibition pays homage to the women history overlooked 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

Undeterred, I grew my hair, planning magnificent spikes. The awkward years 2011-08-12T22:01:37Z

Ultimately, this is a magnificent monster that offers hundreds of hours of fierce challenge and riveting gameplay. Monster Hunter Tri 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z

Only when she dispensed with amplification to sing “My Man’s Gone Now,” in a “Porgy and Bess” suite, did her magnificent sound unfurl in scorching tongues of fire. Music Review: Br?nnhilde Meets Broadway at Benefit for Collegiate Chorale 2011-05-20T21:17:07Z

The windows of his parlor floor apartment were magnificent in scale but ominously opaque. Remembering the Marvelous, Maddening Mario Buatta 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z

The younger Mr. Schley was not spoiled by his childhood in one of New York’s most magnificent apartments. Streetscapes: Streetscapes — The Real 666 Park Avenue 2012-09-30T04:47:05Z

Urban treasures: Museum of London unveils its new look This magnificent 1928 lift from London's Selfridges department store, is a luxurious example of Art Deco design. In pictures: Urban treasures ? Museum of London unveils its new look 2010-05-18T15:33:00Z

It's a posh affair, shot in the lobby of a magnificent former vaudeville theater in Manhattan's Washington Heights. Not the same old song-and-dance as 'Smash' returns 2013-02-04T15:28:08Z

Actually, I could yell, or roll out a yoga mat in front of the magnificent sculpted fireplace, or set up my laptop on one of the wood tables created by a local 3-D-printing enterprise. In the French city of Poitiers, Eleanor of Aquitaine’s influence is everywhere 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Some survived, among them La Guarida, a hugely popular restaurant that serves some of the city’s best food in a bohemian garret atop a magnificent, decayed, early 20th-century palace. Journeys: Private Restaurants Try to Expand Cuba?s Menu 2012-03-16T21:28:01Z

For his first subscription concert of the new season at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Thursday night, Dudamel led a magnificent account of the composer's monumental Fifth Symphony. Twigs break, cans bang and L.A. Philharmonic soars with Mahler 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Has it really been 17 years since the publication of “The Amber Spyglass,” the final volume of Philip Pullman’s magnificent “His Dark Materials” trilogy? Philip Pullman’s ‘The Book of Dust’ is an enthralling prequel to His Dark Materials 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

It’s over eight centuries of Dublin’s history, layered into one magnificent building. Read Your Way Through Dublin 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

“Jazz” tells the story of the magnificent art form Americans invented, but it was invented by Americans who were born in a community that had the peculiar experience of being unfree in a free land. Ken Burns: Why the African American history museum belongs to all of us 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

The trees of the Scott Arboretum represent 150 years of commemorative plantings and replantings and include magnificent specimens of American elms, swamp white oaks, black gum and catalpa. If any place can get young minds to unplug, it’s a college sitting on an arboretum 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

The resonance is almost high Victorian; magnificent when it's juxtaposed with the rest of her compressed, stylish reserve. The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War – review 2013-01-18T09:00:02Z

It may initially seem foolhardy of them to compete with such a magnificent setting — but once they strike their first notes, your eyes are on them as much as the mountain spectacle. In Leavenworth, the hills come alive with the sounds of chamber music 2011-07-15T20:42:37Z

His choice was as terrible and unavoidable as the fact of death itself, which, of course, Ralston's magnificent survival has not modified one iota. 127 Hours ? review 2011-01-06T22:05:00Z

After a few weeks on the trail, she writes, “my stench was magnificent.” Books of The Times: ?Wild? by Cheryl Strayed, a Walkabout of Reinvention 2012-03-27T15:51:40Z

"Black Swan" features some of the most magnificent ballet sequences ever created for cinema, but Nina is supposed to be a dancer whose prodigious technique is a little cold, mechanical and even fearful. "Black Swan": Even better than you've heard 2010-12-03T01:30:00Z

But the supporting cast, which includes a few apprentices from A.C.T.’s MFA acting program, is secondary to the star, astral bodies spinning around a magnificent sun. An actor transcends age: John Douglas Thompson melts away the years to play Hamlet at A.C.T. 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

I was part of something magnificent which broke the Guinness Book of Records, but in the end, what are you going to get out of it? The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z

Of the big money conversion, one of the patrons, a local publisher who declined to give his name, said, “It’s a magnificent structure, but it was going to be magnificent no matter who got it.” A Partisan Crowd Watches the Debate at the New Trump Hotel 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

He released the flimsy padlock and pushed open the doors, revealing two grand staircases that curve to fuse into a magnificent egg-shaped atrium. Returning to Hyderabad, Once a Land of Princes and Palaces 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

But he also demonstrated a magnificent eye for the finest of avant-garde painting. Albert Barnes and his pursuit of non-French art in Paris 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

The Sound and the Fury was always the book that Faulkner felt "tenderest toward," he said, "the most gallant, the most magnificent failure" of all his novels. Sarah Churchwell: rereading The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 2012-07-20T21:55:05Z

“And she is a young mother — I was afraid, at first, that she would be too young for the part — but she is magnificent as the uprooted woman.” A Finale True to Festival's Theme: Loss 2010-05-24T12:30:00Z

To Winslow’s mounting irritation, Wake also guards the key to the lantern room, a glowing, near-mystical chamber with a magnificent prism that provides the film with blasts of bright light. ‘The Lighthouse’ Review: Dark Nights, Troubled Souls, Hairy Men 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

Picture the magnificent sculptured rocks of Utah’s and Arizona’s national parks, surround them with a lush forest, and you get a sense of what the Red River Gorge looks like. Kentucky's Red River Gorge 2010-04-07T20:54:00Z

For the final chorus of divine praise, Ingalls lighted the Disney organ with a radiance that felt downright supernatural as Dudamel reached for the last magnificent ounce of spiritual uplift. A 'Creation' for a troubled planet: The beginning (and end?) of the world in music and video 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

Built in 1927 and reminiscent of a magnificent, flamingo-hued Moorish castle on the beach, here’s the most exotic lodging at Waikiki. Wonderful Waikiki: 5 ideas for millennials and 5 ideas for boomers 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

These characters are not naturals, though, for the kind of magnificent implosion practiced by the troupe upon the African-American railroad porter in “Emperor Jones” and the love-sickened queen Phèdre. Review: ‘Cry, Trojans!’ Is the Wooster Group’s Take on ‘Troilus and Cressida’ 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Polaski was magnificent, singing with bright, sometimes steely yet always expressive colorings, abundant Wagnerian soprano power and great textural subtlety. Music Review: Pierre Boulez Conducts Met Orchestra at Carnegie 2010-05-17T22:00:00Z

Q magazine declared it a "masterpiece", Rolling Stone praised the "magnificent" title track, and the record charted at number one on both sides of the Atlantic. Arcade Fire: 'We want to save Potter' 2010-12-22T08:38:13Z

The magnificent view of the State House and downtown gave Lovecraft inspiration. How to Find the Spirit of H.P. Lovecraft in Providence 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

She preens contentedly in a magnificent red dress during a coronation scene that features a luxury sedan for the new ruling couple, and she cradles a candle during the sleepwalking scene. Review | The king feels more like a pawn in updated, political ‘Macbeth’ 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

I ended up buying a piece of land in central California because this magnificent female mountain lion was living there. Charlie Hunnam Is a Cat Person 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

Then, if you look at The Fighter, and you look at those sisters, they’re just so magnificent. Quentin Tarantino Thinks 'True Detective' Is 'Really Boring' and 'Awful' 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

It does a magnificent job of detailing his rise and fall without moralizing or painting him as a monster. Steve James picks his 5 favorite sports films 2012-09-20T21:52:08Z

In fact, though, the antecedents of “The Vanishing Year” are far older and in a sense more innocent, less laceratingly modern, than Flynn’s magnificent “Gone Girl.” Six New Thrillers for Fall 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

So a veritable feast: three performances of this magnificent work in three cities within seven days. ArtsBeat: The Consolations of a Schubert Sonata Surplus 2013-07-31T19:37:44Z

Pageant Master Adrian Evans said the royal barge "must be a jewel - the most magnificent vessel in the flotilla." Plans for Diamond Jubilee river pageant unveiled 2012-01-18T12:20:09Z

“Wild” is a moving, engaging and deeply sincere story, set against some of the most magnificent scenery on the planet, and most of Strayed’s fans should be reasonably content. “Wild”: Reese Witherspoon sends mixed messages in a gorgeous liberation fable 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

Yet if trained, this magnificent Darwinian weapon will choose your arm as its perch. Death from Above: Falconry in Scotland 2011-09-29T16:25:00Z

After each grueling day, we were treated to a magnificent display. Our Natural World 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

Closer still is the magnificent basilica of St Simeon Stylites, the ascetic who lived for years on top of a 12m column, the remains of which lie in the centre of the site. Letters: Syria – destination for tourism and torture 2012-07-08T20:00:11Z

They have proclaimed the music "jaw-droppingly different from the norm" and have variously hailed the album "immensely powerful" and "heartbreakingly wonderful", concluding that it is "one of the most magnificent debuts in recent memory". New band of the day – Alt-J (No 1,275) 2012-05-24T15:26:10Z

Emma is alert, magnificent, often wrong, but her voice is absolutely clear.” The Consolations of Jane Austen 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

The setting is the magnificent — and protected — Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, home to many of the world’s last mountain gorillas and the region’s best hope for economic stability. ‘Virunga,’ a Searing Documentary Set in Congo 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Our room was comfortable and spacious, with huge floor-to-ceiling windows offering a magnificent view of Toronto's downtown. Ackee and saltfish bites, lamb tarts and custom-made sneakers: A travel writer's guide to Toronto 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

His earliest work centered on animals: besides the hedgehog, there was a turtle, a leaping fish, a magnificent sea horse and much else. Eric Joisel, French Sculptor of Origami, Dies at 53 2010-10-20T04:06:00Z

Once set, the filling was unctuous and barely solid, silky and magnificent on the tongue, but I’m still wondering about those last 10 degrees. Dorie Greenspan’s ‘Baking Chez Moi,’ reviewed: It’s no mere puff project

BBC One is honoured to be the broadcast host of this magnificent concert to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee. Jubilee gig line-up is announced 2012-02-07T15:25:31Z

It wasn’t the Soviets, with their magnificent temples to the arts, that haunted him; rather, it was the fear that American talent might be wasted. Perspective | John F. Kennedy became a hero to American art lovers — but he wasn’t one himself 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

Adrian celebrated all, rousing the audience at the end of each act with: "Wasn't that magnificent?" Adrian Bunting obituary 2013-05-20T14:34:02Z

The other half is from the south: land of magnificent temples, hot blistering beach towns, lotuses, coconut trees, Kanjeevaram silk sarees, and bunches of jasmine woven through your hair. Perspective | One country, endless dishes: A love letter to Indian cuisine 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

The most celebrated artwork in Dutch culture is the culmination of the magnificent Gallery of Honour, the lofty hall that brings together the greatest works of the Dutch golden age, including its Vermeers. Rijksmuseum to reopen after dazzling refurbishment and rethink 2013-04-05T15:55:13Z

“Once I get a chance to experience the magnificent organ and the symphony together, we’ll explore on the spot,” he says. Seattle Symphony ends season with Wagner, Saint-Saëns 2013-06-25T18:30:10Z

"They were magnificent in these really difficult circumstances," she said. Australia to investigate boat deaths 2010-12-16T13:31:44Z

And for the first time in three decades, it's on public view, part of the V&A's magnificent celebration of Diaghilev's troupe, the Ballets Russes. Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 2010-09-23T20:30:00Z

By the seventh century, as Silk Road trade flourished, there were more than 1000 caves decorated with magnificent statues and murals. The Secret Art of the Silk Road 2013-10-23T09:17:27Z

Fresh from the bottle, it was a magnificent swirl of coconut, chocolate and booze. Goose Island to release Bourbon County Stout 2014 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Tacky Mozart mementos and confections vie for tourists’ dollars with magnificent performances of his music. Critic’s Notebook: Salzburg to Lincoln Center, Spirituality Is on the Program 2012-07-26T02:37:36Z

A magnificent work of literary scholarship and dedication. Beyond the bestsellers: Michael Dirda picks 12 books for the holidays 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Gulmarg is Kashmir’s underdog ski resort, tucked in the snowy Himalayas, a place of magnificent skiing and no frills. A Family Ski Adventure in the Himalayas 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

Architizer tours Hitchcock's greatest architectural feats, from the neighborhood he built for Rear Window to the magnificent Victorian mansions that serve as ominous plot tools. Links We Love: What We're Reading This Week 2014-01-10T05:00:00Z

But to her surprise, and everyone else's, she got a magnificent third act when she was appointed as consultant to the Costume Institute at Museum of Modern Art. Diana Vreeland by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart – review 2013-03-01T12:00:01Z

Jones was magnificent in that cancer diagnosis episode and, simultaneously, on the Fox comedy "The Last Man on Earth." Who will get an Emmy nomination in the drama acting categories? 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

There is a robustness and majesty to "Bluebeard," thanks to Bartók's magnificent score, which unearths many levels of meaning. L.A. Opera goes cutting edge in double bill of Purcell, Bartók 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

The songs, which just happened to invent an entire genre of music, still sound magnificent, from “N.I.B.” to “Iron Man.” Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z

The sailing is world famous, the scenery magnificent and the villages unspoiled. Five Reasons to Visit The Isle of Wight 2010-09-16T13:40:00Z

The Atlantic Ocean as a backdrop against the sand dunes was a truly magnificent sight. What a trip: Namibia’s scenic landscapes, fit for a king and queen of the desert 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

The scallion and bacon cream cheese I had there was magnificent, and this is my attempt to replicate it. Grab the cream cheese! Cathy Barrow shares 3 creamy, punchy schmear recipes for a better bagel 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

Atul Gawande’s “Better” — a doctor writing about his work, with a special emphasis on the treatment of cystic fibrosis — is just a truly magnificent piece of descriptive writing. Claire Tomalin’s Favorite Fictional Heroine? It ‘Must Be Natasha’ in ‘War and Peace’ 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

The Harry Potter author’s crime was to praise Scotland’s performance by saying the team was ‘magnificent’ and had done ‘us proud.’ J.K. Rowling Trolled After Showing Support for the Scottish Rugby Team 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

What Mr. Fish has otherwise done so beautifully is elicit what has always been just below the surface of this magnificent musical. Review: ‘Oklahoma!’ Preserves a Classic While Adding Punch 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

A magnificent set of 16th-century Benin bronze plaques were among thousands of items ripped from shrines and altars by British troops in 1897, then auctioned, and auctioned again. Philadelphia Offers a Full-Fledged Summer of African Art 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

It looks more magnificent and mad than ever, one of the great folies de grandeur of 1970s cinema, an expeditionary Conradian nightmare like Coppola's Apocalypse Now. Aguirre: The Wrath of God – review 2013-06-06T20:00:03Z

Under Tillim's lens, workaday sights and magnificent vistas meld into a single vision. A contemporary photographic look at Gauguin's Polynesia 2012-02-23T21:29:05Z

This magnificent insight into the staggering beauty at the heart of life is fractionally over a page in length. Caspar Henderson's top 10 natural histories 2012-10-10T10:33:31Z

Also:  ”I side with substantiated proof when media/society is attempting to destroy a magnificent Legacy.” Jill Scott on Bill Cosby: “I stood by a man I respected and loved. I was wrong” 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

Full of spectacle and fun — and some magnificent voices — this abridged, filmed version of the Julie Taymor-directed Mozart favorite is great for families. 4 classical-music events to catch this week 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Not until the Mahler performance was it evident beyond doubt that the orchestra is in magnificent shape. Music Review: A Dutch Orchestra Plumbing the Depths 2010-02-19T04:35:00Z

Medieval towns, natural beauty, cultural riches, magnificent castles, great food, a thriving cafe culture — all at affordable prices and with no tourist crowds. Overlooked by guidebooks, Slovakia is a worthy European destination without the crowds 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Reading it is like a very long conversation with an old friend trying to understand something magnificent. Jeanette Winterson Owns the Entire Oxford English Dictionary 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Colman is magnificent as Leda, a woman whose tough exterior masks an equally hard interior. Olivia Colman is magnificent in the mysterious "Lost Daughter," which hooks you and doesn't let go 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

Sims, who recently wrote a beguiling book about the origins of “Charlotte’s Web,” proves an ingenious investigator in this magnificent work of scholarship. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Huguette lived a life of unimaginable privilege in one of New York City’s most magnificent mansions. ‘Empty Mansions’: preying on the pocketbook of an heiress 2013-08-28T22:21:51Z

Recently I played at the Garfield Park Conservatory, a magnificent place on the West Side, with botanical gardens and a giant greenhouse, trees, flowers and plants, and it’s in the heart of the ghetto. 'Everybody knows everybody' – what the blues has given Chicago 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

“It’s also at the same time as our magnificent jewelry sale.” Weldon Collection of Paintings to Be Sold at Sotheby’s 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Picnic on the sand, snorkel on magnificent reefs where sea shells the size of Bluebeard’s treasure chest gape up at the rays and sea snakes. The 50 best beaches in the world 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Dries Van Noten ’s show Wednesday was a magnificent sweep of imagination and invention compressed into elegant, modern clothes. Special Report: Fashion: A Photo Gallery to Wear from Dries Van Noten 2011-09-28T17:44:01Z

He likes darkness, pictorially and of the soul, and in Getty Sr. he has a magnificent specimen. Review: Christopher Plummer Dominates ‘All the Money in the World’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z

As one reads Friedman, words like “magisterial,” “masterpiece” and “magnificent” floated through my thoughts. The Religious Roots of Our Free Enterprise System 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

The concert was magnificent - Handel, Mozart, Rossini - and then I believe at the very end there was a very Fellinian situation. Soprano Bartoli: My voice has more colors, shadow 2012-12-27T14:42:49Z

It wasn't quite the magnificent game-changing auricular spectacular we were expecting. New band of the day – Prince Rama (No 1,337) 2012-08-23T15:42:26Z

That’s the kind of headlong moment meant for a public reading — which is, of course, only enhanced by the textured pacing, the preacher’s resonance, of Baldwin’s magnificent voice. Listening to James Baldwin (and others) in 'Calliope Author Readings' 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

Onlookers marveled at acrobats, stilt-walkers and the magnificent noble costumes of the age as they followed the festival procession to the Grand Place, the dramatic square in front of Brussels' Town Hall. Brussels celebrates annual Ommegang festival, costumes and all 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Grant is magnificent as a cruel, past-his-prime genius burdened by terrible guilt over an earlier family tragedy, and Delpy — well, can any actor express so much with a single, withering look? ‘The Lesson’ Review: Carefully Taut 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

But the guitar solos are untamed, and there’s a smart Costello twist in the chorus, using just a pause: “It’s the way you make me feel magnificent/Hurt.” Elvis Costello & the Imposters Are Still Blasting Away 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Yet his performance is immediately magnificent, its impact intensified by a sense of the generous energies involved for such an introverted artist. Gurrumul at Vivid Live 2013 – review 2013-05-29T00:41:49Z

Parental love is many things: devotional, magnificent, demented, myopic. Can Surrogacy Remake the World? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

We headed for St. Justinian, where we would turn inland for what is said to be the smallest city in Britain, St. David’s, and a magnificent cathedral with a 12th-century nave. Slow Travel: Walking in Wales 2013-05-24T17:03:36Z

Thus a modern reader can — like Montaigne, who loved the book — still read Diogenes for intellectual entertainment, especially in this magnificent new edition packed with illustrations and notes. Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

The slow movement, a noble funeral march, was magnificent, almost Mahlerian. Review: Michael Tilson Thomas, a Podium Hero, Returns 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

“But on the other hand, it will be a magnificent hall and, in a way, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” A Concert Hall in Paris Aims to Bridge Divides 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

I believe that everything is recycled at El Moore and I will say that everything is built in a magnificent manner. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

You may drive or trek into mountains, for instance, expecting magnificent views, vast scale, sublime vistas. Review | Japanese artist’s ephemeral fogscapes transform Boston’s Emerald Necklace 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

He played magnificent solos, like a human voice and fast witty passages that sparkled above the orchestra. Your First Crush 2013-07-17T16:03:16Z

Literacy is actually killing off this tradition, Dalrymple suggests; only the illiterate seem to have the brain capacity to absorb and remember these magnificent relics of oral history. 'Nine Lives': the everyday practitioners of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam in a changing India 2010-06-19T00:36:00Z

“The Klimt is magnificent,” one person admired of “The Kiss”-inspired painting. Couple creates art gallery for gerbils during quarantine, complete with rodent-inspired paintings 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

In the 1970s the Golden Lion was owned by Charrington: delicate tiling spelled out the name of the British brewery in magnificent celebration on the bar-back. The death and life of the great British pub | Tom Lamont 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

The main attraction, though, was four magnificent tablescapes celebrating the summer season. Bronson van Wyck and Celerie Kemble’s Summer Tablescapes 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Ms. Price is a magnificent Tosca, singing with vibrant, throbbing intensity when it is called for, and spinning Tosca’s coyly romantic phrases in Act I with sensual lyricism and grace. Met?s Archive Yields Past Treasures 2011-03-25T14:26:04Z

Refn's film is bloated, corpulent and borderline repulsive – yet there's something magnificent about it just the same. Cannes film festival diary: day eight 2013-05-22T14:44:16Z

The ship was a magnificent object that nourished the king’s egomania: It featured sculptures of lions, which represented the king, before whom cowered sculptures of the enemy — Polish noblemen all atremble at their impending deaths. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Am I judging Trump too harshly? He isn’t the only infantile leader the world has ever seen. 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

They are diffident when pretending to be who they really are and magnificent when uttering Anouilh’s lines. Movie Review: ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet,’ by Alain Resnais 2013-06-07T00:57:27Z

Also worth remembering, for one night only, singer-provocateur Taylor Mac, with a magnificent band, glamming up the Kennedy Center with three hours’ worth of his 24-hour “A 24 Decade History of Popular Music.” Perspective | Best of theater 2018: Distinguished visitors and hometown heroes 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

A magnificent chasse from the first decade of the 13th century still wrought in the Romanesque spirit cost him/her €361,000, nearly three times the estimate. Auctions: Glamorous History Drives Divine Surprise 2011-11-18T12:30:13Z

Oh, and they – register offices – don't get any more magnificent than Belfast's city hall. Town with Nicholas Crane; Love and Death in City Hall – TV review 2013-05-22T06:00:16Z

Flashlights in hand, my husband and I headed down a tunnel for a self-guided tour around what turned out to be home to magnificent stalactites, stalagmites and other intricate formations. West Virginia: Wild and wonderful and, okay, a little bit weird 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

“He literally sleeps overlooking the most magnificent view in an Italian custom bed in the former bedroom of the greatest pop star in the world.” Millionaire pooch selling Miami villa once owned by Madonna 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

His predecessors embarked on a shopping spree, filling the gaps with genuine antiques, others made to look centuries older, and some magnificent fakes. Tower of London's Line of Kings continues 400-year-old narrative 2013-07-07T14:40:26Z

But nothing was as magnificent as when the performers gracefully wove pieces of fabric around a maypole and then unraveled them. Dance Review: The Dances of Africa, as Filtered Through the Americas 2011-05-29T21:58:56Z

But all over the archaeological site at Palmyra you see the same symbol—on architraves and lintels, and especially on the magnificent Bel temple. Stones that speak 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

More is the pity because of the magnificent performance of the uncut score by the conductor Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic, which is in the pit for all three new productions. Opera Review: Provocations at the Salzburg Festival 2011-08-16T11:30:19Z

The ghost of Walter Benjamin, the leftwing thinker of a mystical bent who fled occupied Paris and committed suicide at the closed Spanish border, presides over this magnificent meditation on limits and boundaries. The Invention of Paris by Eric Hazan and Parisians, by Graham Robb 2010-04-16T23:07:00Z

He returned on Tuesday to play the church’s new Manton Memorial Organ, a magnificent French-built instrument rare to New York that was dedicated in May. Music Review: Jon Gillock Plays Messiaen - Review 2011-11-16T22:40:23Z

How unexpected: Theodore Roosevelt established a ranch in North Dakota that is now home to the magnificent national park bearing his name. North and South Dakota tourism bureaus, are you hiring? 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

As we pushed on, the valley opened up farther — magnificent, lime green hills rising all around us. Deep in Vietnam, Exploring a Colossal Cave 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Varese, once a holiday destination for noble Milanese in the late 19th century, contains magnificent villas and gardens. Heads Up: High in Lombardy, Italy, a Less Crowded Pilgrimage 2012-04-06T19:37:00Z

“It was, from the top of the ensemble to the bottom, magnificent,” writes Times classical music critic Mark Swed. Essential Arts & Culture: Art and the West, L.A.'s queer Chicano networks, Harry Potter architecture 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z

But in this eloquent performance the music sounded magnificent, especially the mysterious finale. Review: At Carnegie Hall, Brahms Piano Quartets, With a New Baby as a Coda 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

That walk was an adventure made for its own sake through magnificent wild landscapes. India's final frontier 2010-12-11T00:06:21Z

Today, the village is essentially a Geneva suburb, and one of the most exclusive residential addresses in Europe, divided into the magnificent estates of chief executives, sheiks and assorted celebrities. Lake Geneva as Shelley and Byron Knew It 2011-05-27T19:00:27Z

“You are as timeless as these films are; you’ve done a magnificent job and it’s been for all of us to work with you,” Malek said. With 'No Time to Die,' Daniel Craig's license as James Bond expires 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

The Mexicans-and-drugs plot was compacted by comparison, until the magnificent tracking shot that opened Episode 8. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2 Finale: The Ultimate Betrayal 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

San Francisco was “magnificent” in the 50s, says Perloff, who is “93 and a half”, though he looks a good 20 years younger. California dreaming: the homes where the spirit of the 60s lives on 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

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

In the grandest numbers – the superb chorus He Comes to End Our Woes, with its bravura horn parts, and the lengthy final choral sequence, with its thrilling trumpet writing – the overall effect was magnificent. Esther – review 2013-04-28T14:55:01Z

No one who heard it will ever forget it, nor the magnificent interpretation that led up to it. Prom 20: Götterdämmerung – review 2013-07-29T11:54:00Z

If Mr. Kobrin seemed more inclined to paint Schumann’s forest in pastel hues than in vivid primary colors, he loosened up considerably in “Carnaval,” the composer’s magnificent parade of characters, real and imaginary. Music Review: Alexander Kobrin at Mannes College Keyboard Festival 2012-07-25T21:45:48Z

Another band to make magnificent use of the mark are New Hampshire duo Giraffes? From Help! to Build A Rocket Boys!, exclamation marks rock! 2011-01-15T00:07:06Z

To create his magnificent ceiling, Michelangelo required the patronage of Pope Julius, who often commissioned murals when he wasn’t busy subjugating Italian regions. Auctions, protests and controversial patrons: the three big ways art and money clashed in 2018 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

She howls wordless "ahs" while banging on the piano, and she is magnificent. Regina Spektor – review 2012-07-07T23:05:38Z

The view from the little balcony off my straw-roofed bungalow stretched from the river across a magnificent, pristine jungle valley to low mountains in the distance. Going way off the beaten path with a trip to Papua New Guinea 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

The comparison with the magnificent painting collection of Oxford's great rival, Cambridge's Fitzwilliam, was particularly mortifying. Ashmolean exhibition of old masters marks museum's 330th birthday 2013-05-24T16:48:06Z

The trap in the ceiling went off several times during the night, like a pistol fired in an empty chapel, the unholy racket magnified by the oddly magnificent acoustics. How Do You Know When It’s Time to Break Up? 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Its four plush guest rooms face the sea from a magnificent perch overlooking plantation grounds. A Caribbean Without the Crowds: Bequia, a Caribbean Getaway From the Getaways 2011-11-11T19:45:00Z

The connection that flesh and mechanics made in the magnificent closing image seemed definitive — but all through the piece there was an ambiguity as to who or what was manipulating what or whom. Chunky Move troupe visits Seattle with 5 dancers, a giant mobile 2012-04-13T16:50:04Z

A glass-walled kitchen, towering ceilings and magnificent views of Hyde Park conspire to offer the restaurant a sense of openness and accessibility. Critic?s Notebook: In London, Stalking the New 2011-05-25T04:14:30Z

Most hotels on the Bosporus are luxury affairs set in magnificent, palatial complexes. Check In/ Check Out: Hotel Review: House Hotel Bosphorus, in Istanbul 2011-08-19T18:55:00Z

His notes teased at some magnificent reward, albeit one that seemed forever out of reach. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

“Time holds no nobler story, no more heroic, no more magnificent achievement than that of Renoir.” Art Review: Artist in Retreat: ?Late Renoir? in Philadelphia 2010-06-17T21:18:00Z

It has just been republished in a magnificent new edition that includes Baker's The Hill of Summer and his Diaries, with an introduction by Mark Cocker. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

It was simply too magnificent, too moving, to want to experience through a viewfinder. Through the Eyes of the Maasai 2013-08-09T19:14:58Z

The grand orchestral music seemed to be eroding as I listened, like some magnificent sand castle dissolving in the tide, as sweet notes slid into sourness. ‘Follies’ Was My First Broadway Show. 50 Years Later, I Remember It All. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

Both houses feature examples of each artist’s work and, better still, both today have access to some of the same magnificent views of the Catskills that first inspired paintings back then. ‘River Crossings,’ a Contemporary Art Exhibition at 2 Historic Sites of the Hudson River School 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

He's about to release his debut EP on Transparent, the label that brought us the magnificent Washed Out, the Smith Westerns, Active Child, Yuck and, of course, Perfume Genius. New band of the day ? No 758: Lonely Galaxy 2010-03-31T15:58:00Z

Ruth Asawa's magnificent suspended sculpture of interlocking ovoid forms in iron and copper wire adds another layer. Surprises abound in the illuminating 'Leap Before You Look' at UCLA's Hammer Museum 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

“Here comes this series, based on two Booker Prize novels with magnificent actors and a substantial investment of time and money,” Mr. Kosminsky said. ‘Wolf Hall,’ a Six-Part TV Series, Tackles Hilary Mantel’s Books 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

It’s a magnificent work, stylish, playful and highly serious and, despite its protagonist’s sometimes harrowing ordeals, exuberantly uplifting. Daniela Vega: the transgender star lighting up the film industry 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z

Even in Soviet times, the Golden Ring was a draw for tourists, starting with the magnificent walled monastery in Sergiyev Posad, about 43 miles from Moscow, dominated by bright blue and gold cupolas. Driving Russia’s Revived Golden Ring 2012-08-31T19:01:44Z

The Oscar nominations are announced on 25 January and it would be staggering if the Academy overlooked either actor because both are magnificent. Sibling rivalry: Paramount bets on True Grit but The Fighter is winning 2010-12-20T14:19:09Z

Attalus had himself crowned king, and he and his successors set about building a magnificent marble complex on the city’s acropolis, designed to evoke the iconic Acropolis at Athens. A Show About the Hellenistic One Per Cent 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

As I floated above Misool’s magnificent reefs, I found myself elated by the fact that here was a piece of the natural world that still cohered and was largely undisturbed by man’s predations. Favorite Place: Sharing Paradise With the Barracuda 2012-09-07T17:12:11Z

“But then I thought, I cannot compare myself to those magnificent actresses, particularly when the job is not done yet.” How Marion Cotillard Tackled One of the Most Coveted Roles of All Time 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

Dickens’s “Martin Chuzzlewit” — not his best, but the prose is magnificent as always, and it has some wonderful depictions of skulduggery. Phillip Lopate Is No Fan of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

Others might recognize the magnificent artwork of singer-guitarist Jon Langford, whose distinctive portraits of classic country stars have earned him a following in the fine art world and have ended up as album covers. Unsung Mekons are a musical beacon of persistence and creativity 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Brooks is right to alight upon this passage: it’s a magnificent expression of a resonant theme. David Brooks’s Search for Meaning 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

By that point, he said he felt as if he had forgotten enough about his old painting life to begin to see something “magnificent about these marks.” Farm to Gallery: Peter Nadin?s Comeback 2011-07-03T05:30:29Z

In the two big choral scenes, the first-act tempest and the gathering of the entire ensemble in the second scene of Act 3, the CSO choristers were simply magnificent. Triumphant 'Otello' marks Muti's return to CSO 2011-04-08T16:30:00Z

Can you really not see anything wrong with a loud, smelly, dirty kebab-shop situated right next to magnificent buildings of Gothic and Renaissance architecture? Kebabs as a Political Statement in France 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

This is obvious enough in fiction, but wonderfully eccentric stylists such as, say, Jan Morris or Harold Bloom don't need their magnificent non-fiction to be turned into Google Notes. The lost art of editing 2011-02-11T14:05:33Z

And when, by the end of the season, Claire does begin the process of figuring out what Claire actually wants, it’s magnificent. Let us praise Claire, the true hero of "Fleabag" 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

"There is none. He's an old friend. We've known each other for about 10 years now. "He is the most magnificent actor. Hawking and Budapest lead Bafta field 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Only seconds before, I had been feeling so utterly alone while mere metres from such a magnificent sight. My swimming odyssey: ‘It felt like a last chance to prove what I was capable of’ 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

The two shows even share the same composer—the magnificent Ramin Djawadi—whose pulsing theme songs set the tone and propel the action forward. The Latest “Westworld” Reveal Shows It’s No “Game of Thrones” 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

The sole actor who has unwavering command of a Wisconsin accent is Ms. Wieland, whose Bree is a magnificent creature: all broad, nasal vowels and adolescent angst. Review: ‘Breitwisch Farm’ Brings Chekhov to Wisconsin 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z

But Walken is the funniest performer here; his delivery of the line “I don’t know this guy” at the aforementioned funeral is magnificent. ‘The War With Grandpa’ Review: Robert De Niro Gets Juvenile 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Had it been an hour shorter, it would have been magnificent. Perspective | Reexamining opera, one classic at a time 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

It’s very alluring as a project, the story is magnificent, and almost absurd at the same time.” 2010-02-11T08:28:00Z

Named for a Native American legend, Marys Peak is home to one of the last pockets of pure, old-growth noble fir, along with some magnificent Douglas firs. Top 10 national and state parks in Oregon 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

One way for the Met to honor the best elements of Levine’s hopelessly tarnished legacy would be to save the magnificent orchestra he built. Taking Stock of James Levine’s Tarnished Legacy 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

Brabbins and his hordes did a truly magnificent job, and those who were there are unlikely to forget the experience, but the Gothic Symphony is no spurned masterpiece. Prom 4: Gothic Symphony ? review 2011-07-18T09:55:53Z

The Guardian called it "the film equivalent of a magnificent banquet composed of 78 sweet courses." Sorrentino, Bruni Tedeschi bring Italy to Cannes 2013-05-21T17:46:11Z

Catherine was so magnificent, I felt I had to stop there. Cannes Film Festival: Alain Cavalier's 'Pater': Private Musings of a Public Sort 2011-05-18T14:00:05Z

The technological marvel around which the "Devs" narrative spins represents an extreme broadening of that concept that is, to some, magnificent and to others magnificently terrifying. "Devs" is Alex Garland's aesthetically mesmerizing and engrossing modern horror story 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

It’s still too soon for people mourning the loss of the Corcoran as an independent, local arts institution to celebrate the absorption of its magnificent art collection into the National Gallery of Art. The National Gallery’s great feast 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

In the concluding Libera me, Ms. Meade’s voice soared commandingly over the orchestra and chorus — an operatic feat, undoubtedly, and a magnificent one. New York Philharmonic Performs Verdi’s Requiem 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

“I was drawn to the colors, the beauty, to all the joy of it. It was something magnificent,” he said. For Jewish Israelis of Yemenite Heritage, Reviving a Past 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

On her magnificent third album “Little Oblivions,” though, Baker is telling a new story, one without the safety net of those familiar beats. Julien Baker Explores the Art of Doubt on ‘Little Oblivions’ 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

As Andrew Sarris wrote in “The American Cinema,” his magnificent, sublimely eccentric taxonomy of good, bad and fringe directors, “direction is a relatively mysterious, not to say mystical, concept of creation.” The Oscars Issue: How Michael Haneke and David O. Russell Told Love Stories 2012-12-28T16:46:27Z

King was flawed and he was complex and magnificent. Oscars: Selma writer tells his side 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

Mills deserves credit here, too, for daring to wonder what this magnificent character was thinking and feeling in the first place. Annette Bening Is Extraordinary in '20th Century Women' 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

It was a consoling and magnificent performance, one of the artistic high points of Mr. Masur’s tenure. Music Review: Mahler?s ?Resurrection? From Philharmonic - Review 2011-09-11T22:08:40Z

An unfolding transformation from the socially stratified dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz to an egalitarian socialist ideal would be visualized — and sanctified — in magnificent civic paintings. Thrilling new exhibition shows modern Mexican art is bigger than murals 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Steven Spielberg won his second Academy Award for best director with this World War II epic that our critic called “soberly magnificent.” The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

"We really hope that this magnificent statue will stimulate and inspire future generations to discover the genius of his writing and his passionate campaign for social justice." Charles Dickens statue unveiled 2014-02-07T04:36:25Z

In her magnificent, four-volume survey of Leonardo’s career, “Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered,” Carmen Bambach underscores the importance of the head — particularly the center of the cranium — within Leonardo’s exploration of anatomy. Perspective | In real life, Jerome was a combative intellectual. Artists made him lovable. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

How magnificent to be able to put the audience actually on the wire. ‘If you hate heights, you won’t be comfortable watching’: Robert Zemeckis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt on high-wire drama The Walk 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

This magnificent writer’s latest variation on that form reaffirms such tales’ power to warm us even as they warn of the unspeakable dangers in the wide, dark world beyond. Review: In ‘Escaped Alone’ Fears Small (Cats) and Large (Apocalypse) 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

"This magnificent show will reconnect us to the natural world, teach us about our past, and fuel our interest in saving what we are losing daily." Ghosts of Gone Birds: exhibition enlists artists to save endangered species 2011-08-24T06:00:02Z

“She was a magnificent grandmother,” her daughter said. Shelagh Delaney, Playwright, Dies at 72 2011-11-25T02:20:01Z

No matter how ordinary or powerless the character, to each unfortunate soul yet inheres a magnificent, perhaps infinite, capacity for suffering. Stories That Double as a Field Guide to Women’s Desires and Miseries 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

I said that the performance was indeed amazing, but that actually, yes, I had heard a comparably magnificent performance on the same stage a few months earlier during a recital by Stephen Hough. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z

His magnificent exhibition of abstract paintings at Ace Gallery in Beverly Hills fills the towering main space with the perfect combination of visual wallop, funky nuance and breathtaking sensitivity. What to see in L.A. galleries: Andrew Masullo's off-kilter world, plus Gary Lang and Ruth Pastine 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

The essay includes nine remarkable photographs of grain elevators, "the magnificent FIRST-FRUITS of the new age". Patrick Keiller's 10 favourite books with pictures 2012-08-29T14:29:00Z

The biggest party, however, takes place at Victoria Harbour: The city’s magnificent fireworks display shoots off from almost every skyscraper. The Best Places to Celebrate the New Year 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

The complexity of Woodruff’s representation of the bull, in a de Kooning palette of grays, is a magnificent foil to the black and white floral figures that envelope the image of Africa. Review | African American artists embraced modernism. But the art world didn’t embrace them. 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

The best universities will keep their magnificent libraries to be visited by those who can afford the fees. We must protect and reinvent our local libraries 2012-11-23T08:28:01Z

The scenery, taking in Qing-dynasty Beijing, the ghost city of Xinjiang and other extraordinary Chinese locations, is magnificent. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: No 9 2010-10-19T10:46:00Z

Almost every shot of wildlife, distant mountains and violent seas is magnificent. Review: ‘The Penguin Counters,’ Cheery in Treacherous Conditions 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

The magnificent tenacity of plants and animals thriving in the city provides solace for four disparate characters in Melissa Harrison's first novel, Clay. Debut author: Melissa Harrison 2013-01-26T17:00:01Z

If you like magnificent old houses, this is the book for you. 15 books for the readers on your list 2012-12-13T00:35:33Z

Dawn French's vicar in knickers was Boadicea Geraldine Granger, a babe with a "bob cut and a magnificent bosom" as well as a love of chocolate. Six to watch: TV priests and vicars 2013-01-24T15:00:00Z

The objects found in it, while magnificent, seemed hurriedly placed and were found to be largely second-hand; even the boy-king’s famous gilded funerary mask sports the strangely unmanly feature of pierced ears. What lies beneath? 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

The same went for occupancy at Porta’s two properties on the shores of Lake Atitlán, a vast, clear lake about 55 miles from Guatemala City that is overlooked by three magnificent volcanoes, he said. Visiting Guatemala After a Deadly Eruption 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

And during the assault on a character’s compound, the camera drifts from the action to show us magnificent palm trees that have been set aflame, their leafy crowns now a starburst of destruction. Venice Film Festival: ‘Dune’ Leaves Us With 3 Big Questions 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

At the end of the day, we stopped at a magnificent white-sand beach a short drive from town. Retracing the Spanish Path of My Ancestor, the Founder of the Whitney 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Conceptually magnificent, these books offer literature something new in thought, expression and structure. Deborah Levy Would Like to Drink With Virginia Woolf 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

This is a great old house, clearly owned by a magnificent eccentric. Dolittle trailer – Robert Downey Jr talks his way into all sorts of trouble 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

I can still remember his magnificent disdain for Albert Speer's disingenuous semi-contrition for his role in the government of Nazi Germany, although I can't remember the TV show that must have occasioned it. Young Arts Critics 2010: critical conditions 2010-05-24T20:30:00Z

“We really like the voice and the tone of the show, and the look is just magnificent,” said Stuart Snyder, who oversees Cartoon Network as chief operating officer of Turner Broadcasting’s kids media division. For Looney Tunes, a Big Left Turn at Albuquerque 2010-05-19T22:35:00Z

In subsequent months the birth mother provided details, including near-naked photos of her magnificent growing belly. Modern Love: The Complexity in a Sperm Donation - Modern Love 2013-06-03T20:04:42Z

The Kino DVD, with a restoration newly mastered in high definition, is the place to begin study of this magnificent, monstrous monolith. Madea Meets the Ku Klux Klan 2011-11-17T15:13:07Z

If the objects were slightly less magnificent or bizarre or rare, one might think a bit more about the juxtapositions. Review | The Met looks at the body, stripped of its old ‘whiteness’ 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

I studied the Tarot and thought that the Wheel of Fortune was a magnificent symbol for her. Philippa Gregory's how-to on writing about the Tudors 2011-12-29T21:08:06Z

"My mother and sister were magnificent collectors, they amassed an amazing and diverse collection in their lifetimes," Reynolds' son Todd Fisher said in the statement. Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher home and property going up for sale 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

It was only when the magnificent actress Nina Hoss appeared beside him that the makers realized they were looking at a small miracle of romantic failure. John le Carré on Philip Seymour Hoffman 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Was there something daring, even magnificent, in his utter unawareness of good taste? Jerry Lewis: a knockabout clown with a dark and melancholy inner life | Peter Bradshaw 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

Records will release “A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle,” one of only two known live recordings of Coltrane’s magnificent, spiritually inspired suite. How John Coltrane’s Seattle recording of ‘A Love Supreme’ was found, thanks to 2 local saxophonists 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

It’s a magnificent farrago of best guesses, classical locations, Biblical myth, and not a lot of sea. Start with the Map 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Sublime objects, on the other hand, are vast, rugged, powerful, magnificent. Looking for the Sublime? It’s in This Swiss Valley 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Read more Killian Fox said: The longer running time does increase the sense, both terrible and exhilarating, of being trapped in Kubrick's magnificent, malevolent nightmare, never to escape. What films have you been watching? 2012-11-05T17:03:19Z

The brilliance of these productions is inseparable from the magnificent teamwork on display.  And the winner is ... the ensemble cast: How Broadway's best acting was a group effort 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

But the magnificent brain that went grazing there is gone. Postscript: Andrew Porter (1928-2015) 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

Gerald’s magnificent memoir, “There Will Be No Miracles Here,” opens with the same anecdote that began his TED talk, though in the book, he punctuates the retelling by announcing a kind of thesis. The Odyssey of a Gay Black Football-Star Banker, From ‘Peasant Boy’ to the Mountaintop 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

In the parking lot, the car full of Marlboro smoke, I opened the book and stumbled onto a magnificent stroke of luck: I fell in love. Toni Morrison, Remembered By Writers 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

Death perhaps lurks around every corner — but those vistas are magnificent. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla shows why she's moving up in latest L.A. Phil show at Disney Hall 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

Most of the arrangements were skeletons, but what skeletons they were, firm enough to support her magnificent howls and her peripatetic stage antics. Playlist: Screams That Charmed, and Other Overlooked Highlights 2010-12-31T19:54:24Z

She became his manager and edited the magnificent monograph on Crozier published in 2007. William Crozier obituary 2011-07-15T18:14:26Z

Er, not exactly: the final moments of The French Connection are a powerful, even magnificent repudiation of the modern piety of redemption and sympathy. The French Connection: shock of the old 2011-07-14T11:24:26Z

Most memorably, there is the pairing of Rascel with Giulio Calì, the gaunt, gangly actor who plays the tailor who makes Carmine’s magnificent new coat. DVD: A Version of Gogol?s Short Story ?The Overcoat? on DVD 2012-01-13T18:02:55Z

Though the attention could at times be heady, it was also sour—not like the unequivocal admiration another girl might elicit for being great at field hockey or having a magnificent mane of blond hair. Confessions of a Prep-School Feminist 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

His performance was magnificent, in part because a great German artist was embracing a distinctively American piece and, in doing so, conveyed its universal resonances. Review: A Baritone Ends His Residency With a Poetic Homage 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

In "Temporary Kings", Powell's fictional conference delegates are reluctantly granted access to the Palazzo Bragadin on the Grand Canal, where they admire a magnificent Tiepolo ceiling. Aperitifs and frescoes: in Venice honoring novelist Anthony Powell 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

But then I encountered a bustling scene behind a magnificent Gothic church on the way back to my hotel. In Brno, Drinks for Morning, Noon and Night 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Olivier is the saturnine widower Max de Winter who marries Fontaine’s shy and mousy lady’s companion and brings her back to his magnificent Cornish home, which is all but haunted by his first wife: Rebecca. What is the best Oscar-winning film of all time? 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

France’s culture minister announced his death Thursday, hailing him as “a magnificent performer, a generous musician” who dedicated his life “to serving all kinds of music.” Ivry Gitlis, a violinist who spanned genres, dies at 98 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z

The Old Town’s stately main square, ringed by outdoor cafes and dominated by the twin spires of a magnificent church? | 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Krakow, Poland 2011-09-29T20:00:00Z

Though she takes inspiration from the magnificent, black-barked briskets of Central Texas, she also thinks of her style as her own. In Search of the California Barbecue Tradition 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

Thompson’s voice, that magnificent instrument, finds the tragedy’s tone of hushed urgency. An actor transcends age: John Douglas Thompson melts away the years to play Hamlet at A.C.T. 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

The most magnificent cave art is in the Lascaux cave, another 28 minutes up the road in the town of Montignac. In France’s Dordogne region, a land of castles and caves calls for deep exploration 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

The choruses, like a magnificent one that closes the first act, float; the singing and playing are exquisitely precise. Classical Playlist: Verdi, Schubert, Michael Gordon and More 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

The final movie in the "How To Train Your Dragon" series is a tour de force, a visually magnificent and poignant story that serves as a fitting close to the series. "How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" is a beautiful, heartwarming finale to a great trilogy 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

I know how to help them navigate it, and when they deliver something magnificent, I know enough to realize it’s good and stay out of their way. The Visionaries: How Quentin Tarantino Concocted a Genre of His Own 2012-12-19T13:00:00Z

Without any cars or buildings to mar the view, the sand dunes are magnificent. Undiscovered Beaches 2011-06-01T13:20:03.727Z

But equally magnificent, and unexpectedly grand, is Andy Warhol's vast Vesuvius, in which the mountain is erupting in lighting-strike lines and explosions of irradiated colour that clash and repercuss. Volcanic splash 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

With a colour spectrum ranging from Spam to candyfloss, Cartland's wardrobe was a magnificent commotion of pink, often accessorised with a small fluffy dog and turquoise eyeshadow. Liberace to Carmen Miranda 2013-06-06T09:58:14Z

A magnificent view of what happens to your mind if you never let facts get in the way of it. Robin Ince's top 10 truly bad books 2010-07-05T13:23:00Z

The album’s more-significant surprise, though, was Church’s slow, steady, magnificent transition from blowhard to balladeer. Are you listening to country music? Or just gossiping about it? 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

In this Texas room, aqua accents in the pillows, throw, and rug mimic the ocean’s dazzling blues, and the pops of bright orange are inspired by the magnificent hues of the setting sun. 15 Beach-Style Decorating Ideas 2010-03-13T00:22:00Z

“None of us could move on with our magnificent lives and successful careers while this was happening to another child,” Radulovic said. Serbian rape charges spur cross-region #MeToo-like response 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

Your first bottle of Krug will taste as magnificent as your last bottle. Champagne Seeks to Discover Itself in Single-Vineyard Wines 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

Children can see a variety of species close-up, including the endangered Rodrigues bat and the magnificent Malayan flying fox, and learn about the key role these creatures play in pollination, particularly in Mexico. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 9-15 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

The garden is magnificent and chaotic, full of blues, reds, yellows, purples, greens. Space traveller: dancer Akram Khan’s final meal | My last supper 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Gray reinterpreted the ancient geometric patterns found on the magnificent dome of Iran’s early-17th-century Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque in Isfahan—a Unesco World Heritage Monument—into striking, modern-day designs for her latest collection. The Ruby Tree Collection for Harrods 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

He has been campaigning vigorously against the vast and vulgar Gazprom tower, designed by British architects RMJM, which is threatening to destroy the skyline of what remains one of the most magnificent cities on Earth. Swansongs of a superpower: Russia's secret architecture 2011-02-07T21:31:01Z

The book is full of magnificent photography, and includes an exhaustive survey of producers around the world who now work in these styles. The Best Wine Books of 2018 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

“When I got here it was a wonderful institution, with talented people and a magnificent faculty, but I felt that it was not a community,” Mr. Polisi said during a recent interview in his office. Transformative Juilliard President Will Step Down After Three Decades 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

Southwest gathered fine musicians, including the magnificent Mexican percussion ensemble, Tambuco. Southwest Chamber Music celebrates Elliott Carter's late career surge 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

On Tuesday, National Geographic released a batch of entries from this year’s National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest, and they are magnificent. 2015 National Geographic photo contest reveals breathtaking images from all over the world 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Barnes acquired some magnificent works, but few of them have any room to breathe. Perspective | Bill Viola’s videos show what art can do and expose what the Barnes Collection lacks 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

Even the otherwise magnificent Great Expectations sags in the second half as the Compeyson mystery unfolds at the expense of the Pip story. Reader reviews roundup: Critic picks 2012-02-13T16:26:39Z

In the magnificent "Mr. Turner," the life of the aesthetically adventurous 19th century British landscape painter J.M.W. 'Selma' crafts an intimate portrait of the civil rights movement 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

To hear Mitchell hit certain notes again in that inimitable voice was like glimpsing, in the wild, a magnificent bird long feared to have gone extinct. Joni Mitchell Returns to the Stage, Golden, Glorious and in Control 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z

First performed in 1966, “Orbs” is ambitious, but it’s more than that — it’s magnificent. Dance Review: Aligning His Planets for Another Star Turn 2011-03-04T23:15:49Z

The result was a wall of magnificent but empty sound. Bavarian RSO/Jansons/Uchida ? review 2011-03-29T16:57:06Z

With just a few records they've achieved a magnificent amount, and they know it. ZTT: 'Every record company panicked after Two Tribes' – a classic feature from the vaultsZTT: 'Every record company panicked after Two Tribes' 2013-01-01T11:00:00Z

Next, magnificent drawings by Louise Bourgeois and especially Willys de Castro foretell swerves in style from the organic to the geometric and back. Beyond Abstract Expressionism: MoMA Rethinks the Art of the 1950s 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

“It wasn’t until I quit drinking, until my sobriety allowed me this magnificent clarity, that I realized I’d had a teacher all along — my dad,” Frank recalls, snapping his fingers. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: The Personal Is the Clinical 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

Of course, long before this “Making of Americans,” there was Gertrude Stein’s magnificent novel of the same name. Dance Review: The Language, and Footwork, of Farewell 2011-04-14T21:38:00Z

Copious flashbacks hint at How It Came To This, with Tom Hollander delivering a magnificent performance as Thomas at various stages of his life. TV Picks: 'Grimm,' 'Death Comes to Pemberly,' 'A Poet in New York' 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

My hotel was a good place for a drink, because my hotel was magnificent. Discovering the Douro 2010-05-28T14:25:00Z

"Porgy and Bess" shines here not just in the gleaming vocal and orchestral treatment of George and Ira Gershwin's magnificent score, but also in an understanding that this is a portrait of a community. Seattle Opera's new "Porgy and Bess" something to savor | Opera review 2011-08-01T04:46:04Z

I always thought Alexandra Palace in London had terrible acoustics until I saw Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds there: they sounded magnificent. The insiders' guide to the arts 2010-10-17T20:31:00Z

It’s the magnificent Gorge, it’s wheat fields, it’s vineyards and just 7 miles after that exit, it is music to be savored, until it all starts over again next year. In an area bloated with festivals, Sasquatch! still stands out 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

By taking a magnificent piece of theater history and giving it such a cynical gloss, however based in reality it might be, Norris is almost telling Hansberry that her hope was audacious … and foolish. “Clybourne Park” makes us all look bad 2012-06-11T20:20:00Z

“The flowers are so magnificent there,” she said. An Unfinished ‘Phantom Opera’ Is Completed With Love 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

The satiny azure fireworks in Gainsborough's magnificent "Blue Boy" anchor the next room. Alex Israel spells everything out at the Huntington 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

In recent years Dance, seen in the magnificent BBC adaptation of Bleak House, has been impressed by British productions such as Sherlock, Wolf Hall and Happy Valley. Charles Dance: 'Thank God the BBC didn't make Game of Thrones' 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

He is magnificent in his great aria of a black man reminding the miners this “Fourth of July is yours, not mine.” Where to look for treasure in California's new gold rush? Try John Adams' new opera 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z

Piranesi lives in a house of many halls, filled with magnificent statues and flooded by curious but calculable tides. Dealmakers and Wanderers: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

At a time when America was suffering desperate unemployment, “A Chorus Line” was the magnificent musical about needing a job; it ran for 16 years on Broadway. The birth of 'Hamilton,' told by the man who was in the room where it happened 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

The exhibition includes the magnificent 1633 full-length portrait of Charles’s wife, Queen Henrietta, depicted with a monkey and a dwarf, borrowed from Washington’s National Gallery of Art. At the Frick, clothes do make the man, and the woman 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

In the modest, magnificent work of Edward Lear, we hear those voices reaching toward a statement they will never not make, an endearment they will never not offer, a promise they will never not keep. There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely: A Biographer Considers Edward Lear’s Art and Its Sources 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

The exhibition includes more than 30 paintings, a gallery of portraits and about 20 works on paper, including magnificent prints, which often reveal the energy lines of his paintings with even greater impact. Review | Rubens had it all — fame, fortune, good looks. But you can’t hate him. 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

This summer I’m looking forward to reading the German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck’s “Go, Went, Gone” — I thought her previous novel, “The End of Days,” was magnificent — and Dorthe Nors’s “Mirror, Shoulder, Signal.” What to read this summer? Ten authors weigh in with their picks. 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

The red granite structure is magnificent, and imposing, and the portraits, statues and paintings celebrate Texas figures, from Davy Crockett to Gov. Frugal Traveler Blog: $100 Weekend in Austin, Tex. 2012-01-31T18:39:03Z

But if this period piece is ludicrous, it's also magnificent. F&M playlist 2010-07-22T22:00:00Z

One can enjoy open-air baths, hammocks suspended over the water and magnificent vistas, but all in the context of sustainable luxury. Favorite Place: Sharing Paradise With the Barracuda 2012-09-07T17:12:11Z

I had been delivered from a hotel in suburbia to this magnificent historic property with a view of Fort Sumter. My Friend Dorothea Benton Frank 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

How magnificent to be able to put the audience actually on the wire. ‘If you hate heights, you won’t be comfortable watching’: Robert Zemeckis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt on high-wire drama The Walk 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Ask the knowledgeable and gregarious docents to show you the Brito, a magnificent dictionary of theological words that was handwritten by scribes in the 1300s. 36 Hours in the Cotswolds 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

A magnificent place where no one’s judgment mattered, my needs were met, and my emotions could explode in a tantrum. My drinking years: ‘Everyone has blackouts, don’t they?’ 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

There was a hike to its highest point, where I marveled at a 360-degree view of the Caribbean crowned by St. Lucia’s magnificent landmark, the Piton Mountains. A Chocolate Tour of the Caribbean 2012-11-09T19:17:51Z

In the afternoon we drive south to Seneca Rocks, the magnificent rocky tower of white-gray Tuscarora quartzite rising 900 feet above the North Fork River in Monongahela National Forest. In West Virginia, my family tried to connect with the land — and disconnect from our devices 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

And once it bursts forth from the ground, the beanstalk itself is magnificent. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2013-02-28T02:07:11Z

If you want to geek out over behind-the-scenes movie magic and walk through magnificent, detailed film sets, London wins. Whether in Orlando or London, Harry Potter tourist attractions cast a magical spell 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

La Terre, monumental in its intensity and magnificent in its sheer chutzpah, projects a seething macrocosm of souls struggling against the odds to grace mere survival with meaning. Brian Ferneyhough: Total Immersion ? review 2011-02-28T22:00:00Z

“They never told us about your beautiful flowers, magnificent hotels, beautiful houses, beaches, great hospitals, schools and universities,” he told reporters. Black Panther: does the Marvel epic solve Hollywood's Africa problem? 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

By the time the film's main action begins, he's a magnificent wreck of a man who's slowly learning that the world isn't responsible for his misery – he is. Michael Douglas: The last great antihero 2010-05-21T12:01:00Z

At the first, we got lucky: Two magnificent harpy eagles high in the canopy were carrying clusters of dried branches to their growing nest in the crown of a ceiba tree. Bears, Binoculars and Bucket-List Birds: A 15-Day Tour in Ecuador 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Basking in the fabulous social setting of Southern France by the magnificent Mediterranean coastline, memories may transcend the outcome. Vive La Cannes! Will Revenues And Oscars Follow The Artistry This Year? 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

The magnificent waterfalls and the exhibits in the museum will do their job of assuaging the event. Memories at Ground Zero 2011-07-30T23:03:01Z

All that most people saw of it was the magnificent red brick archway rising over a narrow channel of water leading there, and glimpses of its red brick warehouses. Heads Up: Creativity Sprouts on a St. Petersburg Island 2012-08-24T18:26:51Z

“If you were funny or weedy or magnificent or strange, if you were a guy who weren’t sure how your body or personality fitted into the dance landscape,” she said, “here was something for you.” Boys Will Be Swans: ‘What Is That Show, and How Do I Do It?’ 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

To hell and back describes the psychological journey of the great Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado in the magnificent documentary “The Salt of the Earth.” The DOC NYC Film Festival Returns 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

But visit soon: Light pollution from new tourist infrastructure has already begun to dim Elqui’s magnificent skies. 52 Places to Go in 2015 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Fischer's inventiveness extends and enriches the already magnificent colours available from this orchestra. Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-27T11:27:14Z

On "magnificent autumn nights," he would hurry home and read about everything from Egypt to physiology. 2 brief Bradbury works out this fall 2012-11-08T20:10:11Z

The past catches up with Thomas Cromwell in the searing finale of Hilary Mantel’s magnificent trilogy. Review | ‘The Mirror and the Light’ is a masterful finale to Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

It's a transfixing vision of clockwork loveliness, and it's also an empty simulacrum of real life, a magnificent gadget that replicates human actions without any of the warmth of flesh and blood. The relentless whimsy of "Micmacs" 2010-05-28T00:20:00Z

A challenging read, Human Landscapes nevertheless adds up to a magnificent portrait not only of ordinary and often marginalised Turkish lives, always at the heart of Nazim’s art, but of the 20th century. 10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

The spirit of Stanford White lingers approvingly over the neighborhood’s magnificent limestone buildings. Six New (and Affordable) Boutique Hotels in New York 2010-06-18T21:58:00Z

"The Desolation of Smaug," the second in the series, brought us that magnificent dragon deep inside Lonely Mountain, as well as far better storytelling, balancing emotions with action. 'Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' too often overwhelms 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Munch was clearly taken with her lively personality and dark beauty as he wanted to make "the perfect portrait" of her, which he arguably did in his magnificent lithograph 'The Brooch.' Edvard Munch was my grandfather, says Surrey-born nun 2012-08-27T15:51:00Z

Scarlet Moreno’s vibrant costumes included a tiered turquoise quinceañera dress and a stunning two-piece indigenous dance outfit with a magnificent feathered headdress. Outdoors in Bushwick, Gardens of Theatrical Discovery 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

“Divine! You all look magnificent and adequately equipped for whatever the day may throw at you!” another exclaimed. Bridal party’s 'power pose' showing off pockets goes viral 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

Everywhere in the world, especially the English-speaking world, the films, the plays and the novels of that period were magnificent in content. Screenwriting guru tells all 2010-04-21T15:06:00Z

Long, empty roads cut through the solidified lava fields, taking us on to the bleakness of the black beaches of Vik and the many magnificent waterfalls. The evocative music that inspired my travels: readers' tips 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

But Young and Beautiful, her contribution to the Gatsby soundtrack, sounds magnificent. Lana Del Rey – review 2013-05-17T17:30:55Z

Plus, he’s now on the cusp of publishing his second book, “You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes,” which offers readers a magnificent photographic view of something very familiar: Earth. Celebrated astronaut Chris Hadfield: Curiosity is “the core of everything” 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

Someone found me a magnificent house umbrella without me asking. Gramercy Tavern: A Classic Still on the Move 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

It's been like seeing a magnificent plant grow into this jungle with flowers and animals! Meltdown 2012 – Joan as Police Woman: 'I've watched Antony Hegarty grow into a political force' 2012-07-29T23:05:05Z

The magnificent displays and the absence of price tags or signs of labor transformed the commercial objects into vehicles of symbolic value. Holiday windows: The allure of showing and hiding makes us look 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

"The screenplay is the most magnificent one that I've ever read but I couldn't find that same emotion on screen," Penn told Le Figaro. Terrence Malick cut top stars' performances from To the Wonder 2012-08-30T11:14:29Z

“Love” — the most magnificent of all human pursuits — “is just another name for what never gets old.” Jonah Lehrer returns with 'A Book About Love.' Can it rescue his reputation? 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

He added: “The point about the landscape there is: It’s very deadly. It’s not friendly. It’s magnificent, but if you screw around with it, you get into trouble.” Charles Wuorinen Adapts ‘Brokeback Mountain’ as Opera 2014-01-24T19:26:19Z

His magnificent seven are merely so-so, a bunch of dudes we settle for with a sigh, as if it were our fault for expecting more. Once Cool Magnificent Seven Now a Middling Septet 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

In the wall of the only bedroom, he’s designed a hatch into the small ensuite bathroom with its magnificent copper bath so that he wouldn’t miss the fun of seeing his young twins at bathtime. Inside Ronnie Wood’s cottage studio 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

It is impossible to describe the amount of magnificent disdain Ms. Smith managed to cram into the question. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Missing Maggie Smith 2011-02-17T18:40:33Z

But Bond's magnificent 1973 play, excellently revived by Angus Jackson, is itself a study in contradiction. Bingo 2010-04-25T20:45:00Z

“Yet what it singularly had was itself, the magnificent and largely undamaged city that appealed as much as ever to the Western mind and imagination.” Review | As Paris was liberated during World War II, another invasion began 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

And of course the idealized friendship between Betsy Ray and Tacy Kelly, epitomized in that magnificent hyphen linking the two names together, testament to their girlish bond. ArtsBeat Blog: A New Edition of Betsy-Tacy Greets Fans, Old and New 2011-11-08T15:14:56Z

The high tea that awaited them was truly magnificent. Katherine Rundell's top 10 descriptions of food in fiction 2013-07-23T14:23:39Z

Oscar de la Renta pointed out backstage that he had two magnificent gardens — in Connecticut and in the Dominican Republic, his country of origin — to draw on for inspiration. Special Report: American Style Is No Tea Party 2010-09-19T12:20:00Z

Whatever the underlying message, this Gaultier collection was a magnificent meld of imagination and skill. 2010-01-29T05:30:00Z

"Every scene is different," Tompkins says of these delightful tableaux of railway life etched into the side of a magnificent building that began life, in 1873, as the Midland Grand Hotel. St Pancras Chambers: no place like home 2010-05-02T20:30:00Z

But what grew between Erik and me was a magnificent something-else, and it delivered me back to New York with the conviction to leave and close that chapter of my life for good. ‘Crushes Thrive in Small Spaces’ 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Wearing bow ties and expressions of withering disdain, these magnificent fluffballs jumped through hoops, played leap frog and scampered across a ladder upside down. Review: The Big Apple Circus Still Delivers 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

For example, the most common image now associated with Bletchley Park is of the Bombe, a magnificent machine whose clicking rotors are also often used in “The Imitation Game” as evidence of Turing’s genius. Where the Real 'Imitation Game' Happened 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

One of the most magnificent is the stately Villa Carlotta, a former marquis’s mansion dating from the late 17th century that today functions as a museum. 36 Hours: Lake Como, Italy 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

He lives in a grand mansion in Mexico City with a “magnificent enameled bathtub imported from Belgium.” If you enjoy Netflix’s ‘The Time in Between,’ you’ll love María Dueñas’s new novel 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

“His ear is magnificent,” says Vanessa Williams, a former D.C. art teacher who started singing with Smallwood in 1993, two years before he started Vision. The Richard Smallwood you know: 4 Doves, 10 Stellars, 8 Grammy noms 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

The beginning of an answer appeared last week, when ECM released “Sunrise,” a magnificent new record from a 2009 session, with the bassist Thomas Morgan and Mr. Motian. Masabumi Kikuchi Finds New Direction With ?Sunrise? 2012-03-25T01:43:04Z

Ladies step gingerly across stones in babbling streams to reach magnificent medieval abbeys, while steam trains chuff merrily across viaducts overhead. TV review: U Be Dead and The Yorkshire Dales On Film 2010-09-06T05:45:00Z

Fondest memento or memory: The photographs of the magnificent birds of Costa Rica were the physical memory we brought back. Exploring Costa Rica, from one side of the ocean to the other 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Anyone who reads this magnificent memoir will partake of that luminous transformation. A Young Poet, a Mysterious Stranger and an El Salvador on the Brink of War 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

It’s no spoiler to reveal that “Sky Ladder,” the art project, eventually succeeds, and its fleeting existence is magnificent. Review: Fireworks in ‘Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang’ 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

The difference between success and failure, even between pretty good and truly magnificent results, is often a function of accurate measuring — of flour, in particular. This simple device will take your baked goods to the next level 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

And it is difficult to conceal one’s wonder beneath Chagall’s magnificent ceiling in Paris’s Opéra Garnier, a masterwork that was unveiled on this day in 1964. Chagall’s Opéra Garnier Ceiling Celebrates 50 Years 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

“There’s this magnificent brain that’s inside that whole package,” he said. Cat Marnell Is Back From the Brink 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

The big one is a magnificent study that depicts all I know in you, the devastating beauty & charm which 10 stormy years of married life have not chilled. Liveright to Publish Nelson Mandela’s Letters From Prison 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

It feels like the most nihilistic American movie ever made, and like a magnificent insane, almost orgasmic release of purgative violence. 'Bloody' Sam Peckinpah: wasted, insane and indestructibly pure 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

The first season had a little more of that punch-in-the-gut feeling, but the second season is still magnificent. Let’s start arguing about the Emmys now: The critic’s dream ballot that could come true 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

In Ferri’s magnificent performance of Lea, the sweeping eloquence of her body and her ability to evoke subtle shades of feeling with a glance are as strong as ever. An affair to remember: Martha Clarke’s dance-theater version of Colette’s ‘Chéri’

And Ms. Bartoli’s Norma, however improbable it once may have seemed, is magnificent. Review: Cecilia Bartoli Has Dramatic Depth as ‘Norma’ at Salzburg Festival 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

His works are some of the most challenging and important, as well as magnificent and rewarding, in the whole of European culture. Richard Wagner was no ranter 2011-07-25T21:00:01Z

“This attack on our liberty, our magnificent liberty, must be stopped,” the president said. Perspective | Trump got his crowd and his fireworks, and peddled his fiction 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

Davis is magnificent in the role, playing it broad and turning from growling to glowering from scene to scene. How to Get Away with Murder: Shonda Rhimes' take on the procedural 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Later on, six drawings from 1956 indicate an awed response to the smooth fronts, curved corners and imaginative shapes of the magnificent dry stone walls of Sacsayhuamán, the Inca citadel near Cuzco, Peru. Georgia O’Keeffe, ‘Modernized’ by MoMA 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

The searching look veiled by polished court manners and the poise of the woman, conscious of her magnificent attire, sum up the art of Jonson, cool and intense. For Old Masters, It's Dealers' Choice 2010-07-16T13:00:00Z

These trees exemplify what Schoeffler seeks to protect - the “magnificent beauty” he said too many people don’t realize exists. Group: Create big Atchafalaya national park 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

Ferris’s collection is a magnificent black carnival of discord and delusion. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Shouldn’t the magnificent Persian epic “The Shahnameh” be among the elect? Review | The ultimate literary bucket list: ‘1,000 Books to Read Before You Die’ 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

Iran, which was a Zoroastrian country before Islam arrived, is home to some of the world’s most magnificent historical and archaeological sites with ancient ruins, glittering mosques and spectacular landscapes. Tourism to Iran set to rise sharply after nuclear deal 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Earth Day becomes Mother's Day in "African Cats," a magnificent new wildlife documentary from Disneynature. 'African Cats': fiercely entertaining ? and kid-friendly, too 2011-04-21T22:13:34Z

“It’s magnificent for these animals to get to experience a large and complex place like this in their lives.” Former circus elephants just arrived at a new sanctuary. They are swimming and grazing on fruit buffets. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

It is a weird and magnificent sequence that distills many ideas and motifs in Ferrante’s novels, her vision of motherhood as life-giving, comforting, terrifying and deathly, all at once. Elena Ferrante’s Picture Book Embraces the Dark Side 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

A lion statue’s magnificent, calm face is smeared with graffiti. Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers Is Being Tended Once Again 2012-07-19T21:45:31Z

My favourite place in South Korea is Jeju island, it’s a tropical paradise with sandy beaches, turquoise waters, and the magnificent Geomunoreum lava tube system of underground caves. My escape from North Korea: ‘I’m free to travel at last’ 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

Venice today is famously sinking, its magnificent piazzas under constant threat. The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

Rather than letting his magnificent, gospel-fired voice carry the show, Green starts and stops songs, admonishes the audience for lacking enthusiasm, and comes off as a cranky, distracted presence. Lollapalooza Day 2: Rain, retro and Eminem 2011-08-07T06:50:00Z

The magnificent spring of culture that brought us “Don Quixote,” the Escorial palace, El Greco, and Velázquez. How Colonial Artisans Dazzled the New World 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

And while the soundtrack isn’t as magnificent as that of “The Harder They Come,” it’s still a lively mix of pop and reggae. ‘No Place Like Home’ Review: Self-Discovery in Jamaica 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

“This extraordinary resource will provide scholars and students with unprecedented insights into Professor Morrison’s remarkable life and her magnificent, influential literary works,” Mr. Eisgruber said. Toni Morrison Papers Will Go To Princeton 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

Another option is to visit either the magnificent Botanical Gardens or the Ekebergparken Sculpture Park, which offers modern art and history, stunning natural surroundings, and views over Oslo. If you want a more intimate Norwegian experience, head to Trondheim instead of Oslo 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

The new location, a former skating rink, was billed as “a magnificent metropolis of melody and merriment.” Taxi Dancers to Gaga: Roseland’s Life and Death 2014-03-27T22:11:12Z

Planters built magnificent houses high above their sugar cane fields, and lived lives of idleness, gorging on drink and wanton sex with slaves. Jamaica, Beyond the Beach 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

And as a purveyor of high-end adventure, he can usher Off the Beaten Path clients onto some of the West’s most magnificent landscapes, uncluttered by development. Journeys: Ranches Where Guests Do Everyday Cowboy Work 2010-07-09T16:48:00Z

When the great Anna Netrebko, summoning her magnificent voice and full dramatic conviction, describes the flowers she is cradling as lilacs, they become lilacs. Anna Netrebko Summons the Intensity of Russian Romances 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

But Trump’s magnificent estate is exactly where it’s always been: Poised in the center of an island less than a mile wide, vulnerable by land, air and sea. Palm Beach used to be a nice town for billionaires. Then Trump came along. 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

But these lone villains are routinely depicted as abusing a huge and magnificent, fundamentally benign spy apparatus. Hollywood has inured us to NSA-style surveillance 2013-06-14T16:28:00Z

It’s a magnificent film, closely modelled on the silent version starring Belle Bennett, and featured Anne Shirley as Stanwyck’s daughter, who is increasingly mortified by her brash, working-class mother. From femme fatale to cattle rancher: how Barbara Stanwyck bucked convention 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

As my sponsor says, the progress here is magnificent nonetheless. My awkward sober sex life 2012-10-28T16:01:00Z

Walter, who is at the peak of her powers as an actor, is, here and throughout, a magnificent source of fascination and energy. Women Beware Women; Bingo 2010-05-01T23:11:00Z

But this role ideally suits him, and he was a magnificent Simon. Music Review: This Time, a Baritone as a Verdi Baritone 2011-01-21T23:47:28Z

It is messy and overblown, soap-operatic in its many twists and revelations, and ultimately magnificent. Venice: Women’s Stories 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z

Among the best picture nominees, there is Christopher Nolan's Inception and the magnificent Toy Story 3, whose status as an animated picture will probably, and scandalously, count against it. Oscar nominations: king for now, but Colin Firth could run into a boulder 2011-01-25T16:18:14Z

Possibly because of its magnificent backing, Boardwalk has felt free to take chances. Boardwalk Empire Watch: The Crate 2012-11-19T13:30:43Z

Scorsese’s wintry mob drama is a magnificent film, one of his very best. Golden Globes: who will win and who should win the film awards? | Peter Bradshaw 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

His last work, the magnificent flying machine "Ode to Santos Dumont," will remain on view for five weeks in the Resnick Pavilion. Chris Burden's 'Ode to Santos Dumont' inspires wonder, delight 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

It allowed the Chamber Orchestra of Europe to blossom in Brahms as deftly as it contained the magnificent sonority of the Bavarian forces in Tchaikovsky. Critic?s Notebook: A Jewel of a Spring Festival, Not Selling Out, but Still Sparkling 2011-04-20T22:16:56Z

“Your wife is magnificent, too. What beautiful children you make.” John Legend Plunges Into the Celebrity Rosé Business 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

And on the final page of this magnificent book, he returns to Hitler’s political testament to show that he remained consistent in blaming the Jews for Germany’s defeat in 1918. Two New Books Look at the Holocaust in Civic and Military Terms 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

With a few cavils, I thought it was magnificent, and will be glued. Rewind TV: The Newsroom; Twenty Twelve; Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies; Volcano Live – review 2012-07-14T23:06:06Z

Thus, early in this 90-minute play, the robe worn by the character identified only as Dad abruptly turns into the magnificent, bedraggled silhouette of an immense crow. Review: What the Crow Knows in ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’ 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

She opens with a magnificent and moving version of My Country 'Tis of Thee, America's alternative national anthem. Calm operatic voice for civil rights 2014-04-09T07:07:48Z

The Chisos Mtns are magnificent and hiking around the trails in the park was truly an other worldly desert experience, far superior to what we experienced in the Grand Canyon. Along the Rio Grande, a Hot Spring and a Warm Welcome 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

This year they were all huge and magnificent. Bless the soul who first saw celeriac and said, ‘Let’s eat it’

I saw the sad, skinny moggies who came to me with broken spirits and blossomed into the most magnificent felines, making themselves the matriarchs of our multi-cat household of eight. Cats can make you laugh, cry, lose sleep – and then break your heart 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

Clearly, it's a distortion of the animal care we provide 24 hours a day, seven days a week for this magnificent species. Lily Tomlin speaks up for elephants in documentary 2013-04-24T18:32:11Z

“It is very hard to do justice to this magnificent novel in two hours or less,” he said. 60 years on, 'Catch-22' lands on TV in new age of absurdity 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

As a result of penny-pinching maintenance, even the magnificent gardens had lost their splendor. The Return of Nemours 2010-03-01T00:00:00Z

The exuberance of his magnificent Roman films was gone; Salò is the work of a dispirited man. Pier Paolo Pasolini: No saint 2013-02-22T11:01:01Z

And now the matter is shelved, because the Hawks were just eliminated in Round 1 by the Heat, which means Trae Young is gone, which means so is that magnificent unsolved mystery of a haircut. Trae Young: Your Hair Is an Unsolved Mystery. But a Magnificent One. 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

For me, the final moments of their relationship are a startling, even magnificent repudiation of sentimentality and an insistence on sex. Looking for casual sex? Head for the cinema 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

But what is most important is that Mary Poppins comes from the world of myth, where she is a magnificent and significant figure. ‘Mary Poppins’ creator P.L. Travers is even more fascinating than her fiction 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

But when it’s made with care, cioppino is magnificent — so delicious I can’t believe how often, and for how long, it’s been dismissed as tourist bait. Cioppino This Good Can’t Be a Cliché 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z

A few generations later, an even more passionate gardening duke bought and flattened another neighbour's property and added magnificent features including the longest conservatory in England, filled with camellias imported from China and the Himalayas. ?12m facelift for historic gardens of Chiswick House 2010-06-14T17:39:00Z

And so, our stomachs full from our Bun Thang Ba Duc meal, we headed for the magnificent Hanoi Museum of Vietnamese History, which houses Hindu, Buddhist and Confucian art and artifacts. In Vietnam, Street Food Moves From Sidewalk to Storefront 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z

Finally, we were let in, through the gantlet of security and metal detectors, down the stairs and through the bowels of the giant complex and onto the magnificent arena floor. You Can’t Beat These Wedding Singers 2014-01-31T20:17:22Z

A magnificent site for "when the facts are too confusing", Fake Science presents a series of infographics on topics such as how solar power works, or why bacon tastes good. Internet picks of the week 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

This year’s Bonnaroo peaked early with a spectacular set on Friday night by Radiohead, which is more than ever a hard act to follow, especially when heard through Bonnaroo’s magnificent sound system. Critic’s Notebook: Bonnaroo Festival, With Radiohead, Phish and D’Angelo 2012-06-11T22:47:19Z

“I didn’t even look at the previous scripts — I’m sure they were magnificent, but I wanted a blank page.” Four Musicals on Three Continents: An Australian Company’s Big Bet 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

He was "an enormous role model", she continued, who demonstrated how a "love of music and visual art and poetry could be brought to bear to produce magnificent poems". Poet Peter Porter dies, aged 81 2010-04-23T15:56:00Z

“I am honored to return these 55 magnificent cultural treasures to the people of Greece — our largest such transfer of antiquities to this nation.” Manhattan DA returns artifacts worth $20 million to Greece 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

But below, in the official rooms of the residence, two fresh, cut trees are already in full regalia, the larger a towering 15-foot fir softening the gridded fenestration of Oswald Ungers’s magnificent contemporary architecture. A trendy Tannenbaum: German ambassador’s residence blends Old World traditions with modern digs 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

I was fortunate enough to see my all-time favorite play, Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties,” in a magnificent revival by Roundabout Theater Company. Upon Further Review: Readers Tell Us What Deserved to Be Top 10 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

The crown jewel is the Hotel Faust, a magnificent two-story building made of stone block. 36 Hours in Texas Hill Country 2013-05-16T21:32:27Z

We stop at a magnificent larger-than-life picture of Ali's arm and fist wrapped for work. Jay-Z: good from the hood 2010-11-20T00:03:00Z

It was a magnificent way to hear a side of Schubert you otherwise couldn’t: a symphony that started and finished and kept emerging throughout with assurance and maturity, but one too incomplete to be played. Review | Fleming’s beautiful Schubert trumped by poignant restoration 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

Our Harry Potter adventure culminated in a magnificent holiday sound and light show projected onto Hogwarts Castle, followed by Universal’s New Year’s fireworks show. At the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, conjuring a memorable family vacation 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

A new era of a truly United States was ahead, and after the inevitable capture of Osama bin Laden, a new City on the Hill would rise, along with that magnificent Freedom Tower. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z

The chef dances, free and easy, as if a basil leaf was the most magnificent thing in the world. How a Teeny-Weeny Chef Became a Great Big Star 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

“Elaine was a magnificent woman in every sense of the word … a true trail blazer. Her talent and spunk will be greatly missed by so many of us.” Reactions to the death of Elaine Stritch 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

He proposes marriage, and Wharton, describing a dinner at the Marvell family home, takes another opportunity to fillet her protagonist, even as she keeps us hooked on Undine’s magnificent, incorrigible selfishness. What Edith Wharton Knew, a Century Ago, About Women and Fame in America 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Plenty of the best songs star in more than a couple of the episodes, and they all weave a magnificent soundscape fit for the kings and queens of New York. Hear Each Song From The Get Down Missing From the Soundtrack 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

Brian Cox is magnificent as the cantankerous Jack, showing how Valerie's arrival dredges up all the memories of lost love he has strenuously tried to suppress. The Weir – review 2013-04-26T12:31:37Z

Our images would flicker on the screen inside, soaring above that old footage of our shattered, magnificent city. Megaphone by Natalie Bakopoulos 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z

But these lone villains are routinely depicted as abusing a magnificent and fundamentally benign spy apparatus. How Hollywood softened us up for NSA surveillance 2013-06-16T18:00:14Z

Staying in one place for long periods is a large part of what allowed this civilization to evolve to such a magnificent apogee in a harsh desert landscape. Searching for the Ancestral Puebloans 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Elaborate interiors from the 17th to 19th centuries offset magnificent display rooms that illustrate the part Aston Hall and its residents have played in British history. Historic Britain: days out and short breaks 2012-08-17T21:45:06Z

Mrs. Obama’s is magnificent for the dress and elegant, but entirely misses the mark facially for me. Obama Portraits ‘Push Us to Think More,’ Readers Say 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

This is a magnificent, highly corrective history of this still splintering nation. Review | Best new audiobooks to listen to this month 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Advertisement The film opens in an unlikely spy den, a shabby studio in a Brooklyn tenement where Abel – a magnificent Mark Rylance – is staring into a mirror. Review: In ‘Bridge of Spies,’ Spielberg Considers the Cold War 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Yet one concert never quite took flight, while the other soared in a showcase of the Clevelanders at their most magnificent. Review: Carnegie Hall’s Season Opens With Two Faces of Cleveland 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rattle is clearly conscious that symphonic interpretations of the “Passion” have been criticized for stolidity and heaviness; he and his magnificent players keep the tempos and textures weighty but always in motion. In DVD of ‘St. Matthew Passion,’ Hints of Sellars’s Future 2012-06-08T19:21:28Z

We neither live in nor are we nearby a "pizza city" where magnificent pies are readily available. Two classic Italian favorites meet in this satisfying, cheesy Pizza Pasta casserole 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z

If I’ve been allowed to ride shotgun on a magnificent cross-country drive and the car breaks down in Reno? ‘Summerwater’ Makes an Intimate Study of Social Class Out of a Long, Rainy Day 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

People came to the region year-round for the fresh air, the quaintness of a fishing village and the magnificent rock formations, which also lured many artists before and after Monet. Seattle Art Museum has a new Monet exhibition. Is it needed? 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

A rare and magnificent opportunity to witness seven lives lived in fast forward before your very eyes.” Review: Children Growing Very Old in ‘Before Your Very Eyes’ 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

It has been a magnificent performance, and yet the evidence of his recent quantum leap suggests that the best of Plan B is yet to come. Plan B 2010-10-11T20:31:00Z

Diners sit in a gloomy, yet magnificent 500 sq metre storehouse; with gridded concrete ceilings and brick walls, eating on long communal tables on mismatched furniture. 10 of the best industrial-chic spaces worldwide 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

I went as the King of Hearts and looked ridiculous, but he said I looked “magnificent”. What it was like to work on a film with Stephen Hawking 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Indeed, he viewed the war as a magnificent opportunity. Book review: Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

The Cutting Season is set in the fictitious Belle Vie plantation, where the magnificent antebellum mansion sits uneasily cheek by jowl with the restored slave quarters. The Cutting Season by Attica Locke – review 2012-09-28T07:00:01Z

The magnificent landscapes of the Anaconda mountain range in Montana present a pointed contrast to the hardscrabble mobile homes and their inhabitants in the eponymous city below. ‘Mickey and the Bear’ Review: Trapped in a Small Town, With Dad 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Favorite memento or memory: I will never forget directly looking into the eyes of these magnificent animals in their natural surroundings and feeling completely at peace. In the polar-bear capital of the world, a dream is realized 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

The room is magnificent—what I could see of it. How an impeachment unfolds: Inside the 1974 Nixon hearings, day by day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

Cage’s nemesis slowly pulls his extra-long chainsaw out from behind a pile of rubble, drawing out the magnificent reveal. Mutant bears, flying heads and chainsaw duels: the best movie moments of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Swans' brutal noise assault is a magnificent achievement. Swans – review 2013-04-05T17:00:39Z

The really bad boys were dubbed “the magnificent seven” for their ability to take the blame for misdeeds even when they weren’t necessarily guilty. ‘My Last Year with the Nuns’ recalls 1966 Catholic Capitol Hill 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse were magnificent, and it was exciting to be there after seeing so many photographs over the years. North and South Dakota tourism bureaus, are you hiring? 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Duke referred to Shangri La as a “Spanish-Moorish-Persian-Indian complex”; whatever you call it, it looks magnificent in this show and the accompanying book. Art Review: ‘Doris Duke’s Shangri La’ at Museum of Arts and Design 2012-09-06T21:15:21Z

How magnificent to be able to grow one’s own. The Envies of Eating in Springtime 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

The town has gone to great lengths to coexist with these magnificent animals. In the polar-bear capital of the world, a dream is realized 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

A magnificent achievement, aspiring to an almost Shakespearean grandeur. What is the best Oscar-winning film of all time? 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

There is magnificent promise here, awaiting full realization. Review | In ‘The Gone Dead,’ a woman’s questions about her father’s death reveal a town’s racist history 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

“I often think it would be fantastic, a magnificent experience, to make the same picture over and over, year after year,” he told LA Weekly in 1984, “to watch it evolve — to see things differ.” Carlos Saura, a Leading and Enduring Spanish Director, Dies at 91 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

It is the world's biggest collection of ancient human fossils and the team there has done a magnificent job in excavating the site. Scientists are accused of distorting theory of human evolution by misdating bones 2012-06-09T23:07:18Z

Some are still in armour, but most are now displayed as magnificent sculptures. Tower of London's Line of Kings continues 400-year-old narrative 2013-07-07T14:40:26Z

On a recent visit to a stunning atoll about 35 miles east of Belize City, the divemasters — and the national government — all but implored us to kill this magnificent monster. Add adrenaline to a beach vacation and save the Belize Barrier Reef by hunting lionfish 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

It is a magnificent, toweringly ambitious and visionary work – brilliantly shot by Emmanuel Lubezki, passionately felt, and deeply serious in its address to the audience. The Tree of Life ? review 2011-07-07T14:00:01Z

Putting on those shoes allowed me to walk into this magnificent world of dance, and, step after step, it continues to be life-changing. Alvin Ailey’s Robert Battle on His First Real Dance Shoes 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Slatkin's resources were slimmer, but the Bowl's robust amplification provided sonic enhancement, and the conductor treated Rimsky's magnificent musical evocation of stories from "A Thousand and One Nights" with solid storytelling gusto. Leonard Slatkin is traditional and bracing at Hollywood Bowl 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

“Putin and I talked only about the protection of these magnificent animals, not politics.” Leonardo DiCaprio: 'I would love to play Vladimir Putin' 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

You’ve created 3-D type where the letters are both quirky and magnificent. New dimensions of type 2012-06-11T00:00:00Z

Biting into an apple becomes magnificent: the joy in savoring something just for itself. Ishion Hutchinson on his poetry and the inspiration of Lee 'Scratch' Perry 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Named after the Greek goddess of memory, the magnificent, nearly 40-minute score is meant as a study in musical memory. L.A. Phil's vision of Grand Avenue as a shelter for new work, ideas 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

It's hard to say who is more indomitable, Penny or the magnificent colt she called Big Red, who capped his Triple Crown with an unbelievable 31-length victory at New York's Belmont Stakes. "Secretariat": A gorgeous, creepy American myth 2010-10-07T00:30:00Z

The timepiece is “appealing to both the serious watch enthusiast, with magnificent manufacture movements, and the aesthete who appreciates classical, low-key yet stylish design,” he said. The Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Watch Turns 80 2011-12-02T23:17:22Z

Nolde sails through the show’s big second gallery, working in nearly every print medium — his three lithographs of a fashionable couple presage Pop Art — with magnificent results. Art Review: Bleak Visions From Early-20th-Century Rebels 2011-03-24T22:07:05Z

Mr. Holloway’s hair and grin are as magnificent as ever, and he and Ms. Callies, along with the show’s modest, quiet style and pace, keep us engaged through the early episodes. Review: In ‘Colony,’ on USA, Los Angeles Is Occupied 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

One might gaze at the happy painted figures moving among those magnificent ruins and imagine oneself not just a viewer, but also a participant in the spectacle. Hubert Robert, the painter for the ‘don’t go there, live there’ crowd 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Quietly magnificent, Moore plays Alice the way Pablo Casals played the cello, with delicate power and masterly vibrato. Review: Still Alice: Julianne Moore Reveals Alzheimer's From the Inside 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

She is magnificent and shrunken, harrowed and harrowing. | 'The Road to Mecca' : ?Road to Mecca? at American Airlines Theater - Review 2012-01-18T03:01:07Z

Crazy and magnificent stuff that surely must feature in Matt Bellamy's record collection. F&M playlist 2011-02-10T23:00:01Z

The nature and animals are magnificent as you would expect, but so are the smiles of the people. What a Travel Adviser Can Offer That the Internet Can’t 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

There are extravagant mansions, brocaded costumes and magnificent vistas. ‘Persuasion’ Review: The Present Intrudes Into the Past 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

A room by Scheerer is a magnificent, tailored and cheerful thing, but most important, a plain thing. | The Great American Designs of Tom Scheerer 2013-08-21T13:00:58Z

The setting for President Trump’s early Fourth of July celebration was magnificent, as the Black Hills of South Dakota tend to be. Perspective | Trump got his crowd and his fireworks, and peddled his fiction 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

Cycle 400 magnificent miles with locals across the mountain passes of Colorado by taking part in the annual, fully supported Ride the Rockies bicycle tour. Great outdoor activities in Colorado: readers’ tips 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

“Computer imaging tends to flatten our magnificent, multi-sensory, simultaneous and synchronic capacities of imagination by turning the design process into a passive visual manipulation, a retinal journal,” Mr. Pallasmaa argued. At This Museum Show, You’re Encouraged to Follow Your Nose 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

“So I wouldn’t hold the hand of this other magnificent prince, who was José Greco’s son.” A Special ‘Nutcracker’ Bond 2013-12-10T22:13:32Z

The ensemble is returning on July 30 for another free concert, offering, among other enticements, the fine tenor Nicholas Phan singing Britten’s magnificent Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings. | Classical Music: So Rhapsodic That the Birds Join In 2013-07-18T21:26:34Z

The "magnificent" little guy clocked in at 8:28 a.m., weighed in at 8 pounds 2 ounces, and measured 20.5 inches. Kelsey Grammer has sixth child — a baby boy with wife Kayte 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Tate Britain's massive and magnificent forthcoming exhibition of Eadweard Muybridge's work will prove Hockney wrong. Eadweard Muybridge 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z

Now the former 10,000 Maniacs singer was back with a versatile country band, and the result was magnificent. Cambridge Folk festival 2010-08-01T21:01:00Z

But giants of the theater belong to a magnificent species that is fast disappearing. | 'Driving Miss Daisy': Stooped and a Bit Slow, but Still Standing Tall 2010-10-26T02:00:00Z

The magnificent aromas, the satisfying glug of rich liquid pouring from the bottle, and, of course, the drinking. Chinese cooking wine brings tangy depth to, well . . . everything 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Procaccino’s Gerry is a magnificent villain — belligerent, dangerous and so habitually, casually vicious that he chews on a nail as he gives Irene a devastating, off-the-cuff list of reasons he married her. Review: Tim and Tyne Daly Are Dysfunctional Siblings in ‘Downstairs’ 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

He also left the museum a magnificent eighth-century high-relief sandstone Buddha, which had been chiseled free from a cave wall in northern China by unknown hands. Harvard Art Museums, Revamped and Reopened 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Take advantage of the great outdoors by driving, biking or hiking along the Historic Columbia River Highway for some magnificent waterfalls and other attractions, including a 10-foot-long Sturgeon named Herman. 5 things to do this weekend: hit the highway, adopt a pet and more 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Britten's magnificent if uneven War Requiem, an amalgam of the Requiem mass with poems by Wilfred Owen, calls on large orchestra and chamber ensemble, two choirs and soloists. War Requiem; King Priam; Caligula – review 2012-06-02T23:05:59Z

On Friday at 8 p.m., they take Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony and Mozart — the Clarinet Concerto, with the magnificent Anthony McGill as soloist — to Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Classical Music Listings for June 17-23 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

So Butler was in my thoughts as I read these four magnificent new picture books. Picture Books About Kindness, Compassion and Peace in a Turbulent World 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

It’s a magnificent accomplishment, but it wasn’t flawlessly executed every time. Review | Ten Vermeers, but a whole world of Dutch art 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

In a magnificent conjoining of traditions, the Costas’ side dish of my Thanksgiving present managed to include a nod at my Thanksgiving past. ‘I Became a Thanksgiving Orphan’ 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

"The screenplay is the most magnificent one that I've ever read but I couldn't find that same emotion on screen," he said. Sean Penn on The Tree of Life: 'Terry never managed to explain it clearly' 2011-08-22T10:00:32Z

Just after 10 p.m. on Saturday, its equine star, Joey — that magnificent puppet – will gallop offstage at the New London Theater for the last time. ‘War Horse’ Closes in Britain, but Its Influence Gallops On 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

There are several conclusions to be drawn from the Museum of Modern Art’s magnificent if somewhat flawed survey of Cindy Sherman’s brilliant career. Art Review: ?Cindy Sherman? at Museum of Modern Art 2012-02-23T23:32:21Z

As such, they can either be treated as if carved in stone or they be nimbly tweaked and revised, digital-age style, as was the case with the MFA’s magnificent 2019 “Ancient Nubia Now” exhibition. America’s Big Museums on the Hot Seat 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

Some include local landmarks like the Capitol Records building and the Griffith Observatory, of which Mr. Van Sant has a magnificent view from the deck where he usually paints. Gus Van Sant’s Next Picture Will Be a Watercolor 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

The fitness maven looked magnificent in a see-through black blouse under a fitted gold jacket. Hollywood's big weekend at the Governors awards – what we learned 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

There were levels of unfriending culminating in that magnificent big gun, “dead to me,” a phrase my family wrapped their mouths around with a relish other people saved for steak. I Was Misinformed: Unfriending Someone, Before Facebook 2012-10-04T21:09:20Z

And it is still a magnificent beast: bold, confident and venturing off in new directions. Review: Game of Thrones Explores Uncharted Territory in Season 5 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Water from melting glaciers oozes, splashes, crashes down sheer cliffs, creating magnificent new waterfalls. Kayak the Alaskan glaciers of Blackstone Bay while they’re still here 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

"The few people who decide to build audacious things are badly understood, and it's only when the project is finished that you hear, 'My God, it's magnificent!'" Frank Gehry's Louis Vuitton art museum sails onto Paris skyline 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

That’s a universal truth, yet in the case of Lawrence of Arabia, even failure has seldom looked so enviable, so magnificent. The early years of the real Lawrence of Arabia 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

This is magnificent scholarship, and a model of how art history can provide us new tools to understand a new power’s place in the world. The Best Art Books of 2017 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

With Anne Manson conducting, the Juilliard Orchestra gave this magnificent music a solid, exquisitely shaped reading at the first performance, on Wednesday evening. Music Review: Juilliard Presents ?Dialogues des Carm?lites? 2010-04-22T21:17:00Z

Manchester's magnificent Grade II listed London Road fire station, currently empty and decaying, looks like being granted a reprieve. Manchester fire station granted a reprieve 2010-07-20T21:45:00Z

Cryer – then a top TV writer for Morecambe and Wise, among others – was magnificent, rifling off one-liners and letting the comics get on with it while keeping their egos intact. Six to watch: panel show hosts 2010-10-21T14:49:00Z

And I thought, ‘Well, this is just a magnificent opportunity.’ How Ian McEwan, Novelist, Became Ian McEwan, Movie Consultant 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

Cut to the elegant hotel corridor, Gimme Shelter screaming on the soundtrack, and Denzel emerges, swaggering and magnificent in full pilot's uniform, ready to go to work. Flight: Denzel Washington's performance saves the day 2013-01-28T06:00:00Z

An especially magnificent recent painting offers a close-up of the porcelain fragment. Deep Looking, With Vija Celmins 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Along the way was a magnificent rendition of the Tears for Fears classic "Mad World" - not a Christmas special per se, but certainly in the spirit of the thing. British folk group mixes rural traditions with Christmas 2011-12-22T09:05:01Z

Mr. Owens, the artist in residence at Glimmerglass this season, was also magnificent in “Lost in the Stars” on Friday night, a co-production with Cape Town Opera from South Africa. Music Review: At Glimmerglass, ‘Aida,’ ‘Armide’ and ‘Lost in the Stars’ 2012-08-06T22:15:41Z

In the pantheon of cello gods, a place is surely reserved for the late, great Pablo Casals — not least for rescuing from obscurity the six magnificent suites for solo cello by Johann Sebastian Bach. Paying homage to a man and his instrument 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

There is a larger statement overarching these magnificent digressions, and it is essentially a confessional. Review | The Met looks at the body, stripped of its old ‘whiteness’ 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

He was not silly, though, but magnificent from his first moment to last. Beethoven's messy opera 'Fidelio' is in fine hands in San Francisco 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

It’s surprising how close these animals come, and you see these magnificent landscapes that go on for miles. Drones, viral videos help ‘Nature’ thrive after 40 years 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

There’s the magnificent New Mexico History Museum, opened last May, a light-filled multilevel edifice that also incorporates the nation’s oldest continually occupied municipal building, the Palace of the Governors. 2010-02-06T04:33:00Z

It's as if the sun were always shining on Sophie, when in fact it's the kind of lighting that is magical, whether the sun, the moon or a magnificent crew is responsible. 'Magic in the Moonlight' is an amusing trifle of a film 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

“In this garden, we will bring back the magnificent paintings which so influenced world civilization, back to the Afghans, right here in this historical environment,” he said. Rare Kabul exhibition brings taste of Mughal art back home 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z

Instead, the actor is called upon to contort his body, and Gilbert creates a magnificent illusion, twisting his arm, hunching his body and distorting his mouth. STAGEright’s ‘Elephant Man’ a potent, powerful show 2014-03-13T20:20:36Z

It was not only a profound theater event that changed our prospective on the impact of addiction- But one of the most magnificent performances I have ever witnessed. The Best Theater of 2017 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Highlights and high points: The city rolls up the mountain from Lake Maggiore and is full of old townhouses, magnificent courtyards and narrow alleys. Film fans give Locarno, Switzerland, four stars 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Barenboim conducted the Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor from the keyboard, and it was magnificent. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

And to see this magnificent black artist portraying that role was as wonderful as hearing her magnificent soprano voice sing it. Debating ‘Otello,’ Blackface and Casting Trends 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

A didgeridoo boomed magnificently, for instance, and then a magnificent whale came into predictable view. 'The Reef' concert had a chance to catch a new wave of fans by pairing surf sounds and scenes 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

Yet there’s a magnificent moment, when Anastasia and Christian dance at a party among other dancers, and suddenly, their story becomes everyone’s. The Accurate Erotics of “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Berlioz’s epic opera has rarely been given such luxury treatment as in this magnificent live recording from France. The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

Section for section, and as a unified whole, the ensemble produces a magnificent sound. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-26T23:41:47Z

If The Good Dinosaur had opened as scheduled, the news now would be about Maleficent’s magnificent box-office weekend. 7 Reasons Nobody Went to the Movies on a Summer Holiday Weekend 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Sweeping shots capture every magnificent glint and spray the ocean offers up, veil the eyes with greenery, and drape the imagination with otherworldly lighting. "The Luminaries" is a simple, heavenward gaze at an affair interrupted by a con 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z

London's Tate opened its first regional outpost, Tate Liverpool, in 1988, in a magnificent warehouse given a makeover by James Stirling. What's the big idea behind the Pompidou-Metz? 2010-04-06T20:30:00Z

There are 64 pieces of jewelry in the sale, including a magnificent emerald and diamond necklace and earrings for which Vincent Astor selected the stones in 1958. Contents of Brooke Astor's homes going to auction 2012-09-23T21:16:04Z

What made it strange was that I was on my way to see “Edward Hopper and the American Hotel,” a magnificent exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Review | This Edward Hopper exhibition on hotels is worth an extended stay 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

The critic for the daily Le Monde said Ms. Traoré had an “absolutely magnificent presence” but found fault with Ms. Morrison’s text. Toni Morrison?s ?Desdemona? and Peter Sellars?s ?Othello? 2011-10-25T21:57:27Z

The sea around the Farne Islands is full of chances to meet magnificent marine life in the warmer months and you can even see the huge, docile basking sharks in July and August. Scuba diving trips around the world: readers’ tips 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

We had marveled at the location during a visit five years before, due in no small part to the magnificent Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa. Waikiki Beach is only two miles of Oahu. The rest is well worth checking out. 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

This evening, crowds will gather at cinemas all over Britain to watch Pompeii Live, a cinecast of the British Museum's magnificent exhibition about ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum. Look and learn: live art screenings, a new global phenomenon 2013-06-18T15:03:00Z

The latter is simply magnificent and at one point, I swear, uses her formidable bosom as a means of registering her indignation at seeing her territory threatened. The Game 2010-09-26T20:29:00Z

The difference is that "300" and Singh's past movies, such as the magnificent "The Fall," had strong stories. 'Immortals': powerful Greek gods in weak tale 2011-11-09T23:42:03Z

But visitors’ perceptions of these magnificent items is solely intellectual, and also somewhat passive. Italian Wine Museums Appeal to the Intellect, but Not the Palate 2010-12-28T00:06:02Z

For the show's producers, it is nothing less than a magnificent controversy. Magnificent Century divides Turkish TV viewers over the life of Suleiman 2011-03-20T00:05:54Z

These zones, in turn, are being anchored by increasingly ambitious — and often architecturally magnificent — public spaces. Critic?s Notebook: Preserving Heritage, and the Fabric of Life, in Syria 2010-12-26T22:35:14Z

His performance, it goes without saying, was magnificent. At Tanglewood, You Can Hear 8 Concerts in 3 Days 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

At the Corn Exchange, a magnificent Victorian oval hall with a feel of the Roman Pantheon, the owls appear to hold up the domed roof. In Leeds, England, searching for the city’s many owls is a real hoot

Better still was the Jardin des Plantes, one of the oldest botanical gardens in France and a magnificent trove of Mediterranean flora. In France, a Visit With the In-Laws (Finally) Becomes a Vacation 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

When Carlisi elegantly tangles herself in a telephone cord revealing the magnificent geometry of Graham’s technique or performs Graham’s iconic shrouded solo “Lamentation,” the mood of these scenes shifts into an almost awe-inspiring register. The life of dance legend Martha Graham, step by step, falls and all 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

While these magnificent parks receive international acclaim, it is the areas between and connecting them that are at risk and require dedicated stewardship. In words and pictures, the story of the wild Rockies is revealed 2014-04-30T04:00:00Z

When she watches a magnificent herd with Teddy, he’s like “Never understood how you keep them all headed in the same direction.” The Complete Guide to All Westworld's Many References 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

The crown of all Moorish castles is the magnificent Alhambra in Granada. The Enduring Echoes of Moorish Spain 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

His first classical role was, says Henry, "a magnificent giant firework up the jacksie that made me reconsider everything". Critic's comedy choice 2011: Lenny Henry on tour 2011-01-03T07:59:01Z

Its underwater view of a magnificent octopus, its tentacles all a-dance, is punctuated on the lower right by a rising trail of air bubbles. Creatures with a purpose: the heightened 'naturalism' of Skagit Valley painter Robert McCauley 2010-12-30T20:48:04Z

I CAN NOT get over the incredible sets & the magnificent costume design, each with such attention to detail you'd swear this was made for the big screen. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Wounds We Carry 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

A rich and gorgeous film, crowned with a magnificent, extended ballroom scene. Film review: The Leopard 2010-08-26T21:30:00Z

Iván Fischer’s endlessly magnificent orchestra arrives in town for two programs, consisting entirely of Beethoven, a composer whom the conductor interprets willfully, at times. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

My feeling for the Sand Hills competes with the magnificent Pacific Ocean. A Prairie Prologue in Nebraska 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

"We had a great stunt team, a great second unit and a magnificent cast," he declares. Ben Affleck: 'It's in the hands of the movie gods' 2010-09-23T21:00:00Z

Filmed in natural light, the craggy desert vistas beneath a cloudy sky evoke a magnificent desolation. Review: In ‘Last Days in the Desert,’ Ewan McGregor Is a Conflicted Jesus 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

“You are a magnificent creature,” a megalomaniacal scientist named Jeremy tells his cool cousin Mimi, trying to flatter her into a spot of time travel. Review: ‘Harry and the Thief,’ a Trip Back to the Plantation 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

"I regret this never actually took place. ... it would have been magnificent." 1969 Hendrix telegram: Can Paul come to play? 2013-05-10T06:32:08Z

The pageantry was magnificent, as described in the article. The Palio di Siena: A Survivor’s Tale 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Bewildering at first, even overpowering, it turned maddeningly beautiful and — to these ears, at least — magnificent, and as intoxicating as a drug. As cutting edge as cutting edge gets 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Spirituality — love of the gods, of ancient texts, of uplifting and comforting ceremonies and magnificent architecture — is high-minded, moral, inspiring, and Taseer praises the Brahmins for their spirituality. A Pakistani-Indian Journalist Attempts to Rediscover His Roots 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

But the Nelson family home base is here in the Pacific Northwest, where the trees are at their most magnificent. Treehouse hunters: Getting to know the local builder behind Fall City’s bespoke arboreal playhouses 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

Diaghilev, watching an “Apollo” rehearsal and turning to the composer Nicolas Nabokov, said of Balanchine: “What he is doing is magnificent. This is classicism, classicism such as we have not seen since Petipa.” Bringing It All Back Home: City Ballet Begins Again With Balanchine 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

At this event presented by Book Soup, he puts his fingerprints on our imagination, talking about the book, creative process and his magnificent career. 7 great books and bookish events for fall 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

We all like to ooh and aah over our region's many magnificent sights. Things Every Southerner Must Do! 2010-07-14T22:49:00Z

One of the great heroines of all time and a magnificent book filled with great dialogue. Anthony Bourdain: By the Book 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

“Esther Williams had one contribution to make to movies — her magnificent athletic body,” the film critic Pauline Kael wrote. Esther Williams, Who Swam to Movie Fame, Dies at 91 2013-06-06T17:42:45Z

She wants Howard to be as unhinged as possible, envisioning him as “a latter-day prophet, a magnificent messianic figure, inveighing against the hypocrisies of our times.” Review: An Electrifying Bryan Cranston Is All the Rage in ‘Network’ 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

It was magnificent — a mesmerizing recital by a supremely elegant and charismatic singer. Siberia's bleak, beautiful baritone sweeps across L.A. Opera 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

Brooklyn is a magnificent site, right on the water overlooking the skyline of Manhattan. A Hotelier’s Take on Eco-Friendly Rooms 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Not that Mr. Kirchner’s magnificent chords, as Daniel Phillips described them from the stage, were slighted, let alone those of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Performances at the 92nd Street Y and the Brooklyn Academy 2010-04-20T22:44:00Z

He was a magnificent actor & a wonderful man.” 'We are all so devastated': tributes pour in to Alan Rickman from acting world 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

In the second album we got a magnificent organ sound, although the actual live sound from the organ hadn’t changed. You Must Hear This! Fields’ debut album 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Now it has been restored and placed in a magnificent new trophy frame based on a recently discovered Matthew Brady photograph taken at the fair. American masters get new life at NYC's Met museum 2012-01-15T19:16:04Z