Word: bravuraed
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Etching has all the bravura of needlepoint. It helps to be a recluse to master etching. One who was, and did, is James Sydney Ensor, Belgium's premier fantasist of the 20th century, who spent only three of his 89 years of life away from the seaport town of Ostend...
...podium, Dunn is free of all bravura mannerisms. He conducts with a spare clarity of line that emphasizes the beauty of the music through its style and structure. His approach is that of modesty in the face of genius, seeking out the composer's intent, never willfully imposing his own "interpretation...
Darker Fears. Always the spirit Charles evokes is melancholy, even among those who respectfully call him by his press-agent nickname-"The Genius." Those who brood over his willingness to sing valueless songs also see with horror in the bravura, spotlight style of his band a hint that he may yet turn out to be a grinning bandleader some day. But other, darker fears call up his past arrests on narcotics charges, his occasional lapses into moments of incoherence, the grotesque contortions that sometimes seize him. Behind his dark glasses, there looms a man in trouble with himself...
...though he tries too hard to keep the story hoppin' like Hellzapoppin, galloping like a nightmare. Like Kafka, Welles adapts the methods of nightmare to narrative. Time at times turns rubber in his hands, and images live a violent private life; even Welles has seldom matched the visual bravura of The Trial. Much of the film was shot on one of the most spectacular sets a camera ever saw: the abandoned Gare d'Orsay in Paris. Once the great terminal was a cast-iron cathedral of transport. Now it is a colossal hunk of Victorian junk, a sagging...
...thinking might be broader than that. Bell writes in The End of Ideology, "But where the problems are, as Karl Popper put it, of 'piecemeal technology,' of the prosaic, yet necessary questions, of school costs, municipal services, the urban sprawl, and the like, bravura radicalism simply becomes a hollow shell." And Schlesinger in New Statesman writes "Apart from civil rights, the contribution of the utopian Left to the discussion of domestic issues has been unimpressive...