Word: bravura
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...Inside, Mayne has provided another bravura gesture, a stairway framed in places by a fluid, torquing gridwork of white-painted steel that whirlpools upward through the building's multistory atrium. Appearing sometimes like a sort of trellis, sometimes as an open-grid wall, it has so much visual energy the stairs seem in some places to be climbing themselves...
...bravura performance. It was also unprecedented. Outsiders should understand: big, state-owned companies in China (and most everywhere else) tend to be stodgy, intensely conservative organizations. Often, top executives will practically read from a script prepared for them by minions when meeting foreigners. Not Xiong. (See pictures of Chinese investment in Africa...
...released in India, and the third highest for any U.S. release ever in that country - behind Spider-Man 3 and Casino Royale. The Indian critics, too, have been enthusiastic. "Hats, caps and wigs off," wrote Khaled Mohammad in the Hindustan Times on Sunday, calling it a "masterwork of technical bravura, adorned with inspired ensemble performances and directed with astonishing empathy." Added critic Rajeev Masand, "It's a great, fun film with a big heart. The success of the film lies in the fact that it's told using the Bollywood idiom - the West has embraced this unique, unusual format...
...looks like he's in a battle," says Painter Peter Hurd, his brother-in-law. "He stabs at the work as if with a stiletto, dabbing with a bit of Kleenex, slashing with a razor blade." The water-colors materialize by the hundreds, spattery with a bravura immediacy...
...were a Friends episode) consists of a ruthlessly precise forensic catalog of those killings, complete with torn nylons and vaginal swabs, along with the stories of the victims and the investigating detectives. It is a police procedural straight from the precinct of hell. It is also as bravura a display of novelistic mastery and as devastating a reading experience as you are likely ever to encounter. By the time Archimboldi does show up in Part 5, a belated Godot, we are very far past the possibility of any redemptive epiphany...