Word: brilliantly
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...ceramics opposite are by J. J. Kaendler, chief modeler at Meissen from 1733 to 1763, and the most brilliant in Meissen's history. Kaendler's pieces were intended chiefly for banquet settings of a sort that had previously been made in candy or wax. He could turn his patron's dining table into a miniature park or stage alive with glistening birds or gaily obscene mimes from the Italian Commedia dell'arte. Sometimes he would create a hunt, a concert, or a table-top display of drawing-room conceits. The Hand Kiss is part...
...Never before in our state," said Kansas' Republican Governor Fred Hall, after his election in 1954, "has a governor owed so little to so few and so much to so many." His meaning was clear: the people of Kansas had elected a spellbinding, brilliant politician on his own merits, and the governor owed nothing to the Old Guard Republican organization. Owing nothing, he would give nothing...
...unity, balance, atmosphere, expression-in fact all the most important and moving qualities in a work of art. But after these terrible cleanings, little of all this remains . . . Falling upon their victim, [the scientific restorers] commence work on one corner, and soon proclaim a 'miracle'; for, behold, brilliant colors begin to appear. Unfortunately what they have found are nothing but the preparative tones, sometimes even of the first sketch [made] in preparation for the execution of the finished work. But the cleaners know nothing of this, perceive nothing, and continue to clean until the picture [is] mortally wounded...
...sets the tone for this whole collection of 25 short stories by V. S. (for Victor Sawdon) Pritchett. At 55, Pritchett is perhaps the best literary critic now writing in English. He is also a subtle interpreter of national character and environment (The Spanish Temper) and an occasional but brilliant dabbler in fiction. He calls his short stories "the only kind of writing that has given me pleasure [and] always elated me." The elation is shared by the reader...
...Doctors (Kingsley-lnternational) is a French movie in which, as in most movies about doctors and most movies made in France, the part of the anatomy most affected is the heart. Based on Andre Soubiran's international bestseller, it tells of a brilliant but cynical Parisian medical student (Raymond Pellegrin) who acquires an understanding heart as a country doctor...