Word: gusto
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...effect of Britten's composition was, however, rudely shattered by the last selection, Brahms' familiar Tragic Overture. I cannot understand why anyone would want to close a concert with this piece, and to do so after the Serenade was a programmatic catastrophe. The orchestra performed with commendable precision and gusto, but Brahms' overture was never more tragic. Poor programming caused an otherwise fine evening to end in this most unsatisfactory...
...Pirajino. Highly reminiscent of The Leopard and written, as was that excellent novel, by an aging Sicilian duke, Ippolita draws an evocative portrait of semifeudal Italian society amid the first revolutionary stirrings in the early 19th century. The author depicts princes, peasants and his skinflint heroine with melodramatic gusto; but his most exact and memorable character is the past itself...
...Pirajno. Highly reminiscent of The Leopard and written, as was that excellent novel, by an aging Sicilian duke, Ippolita draws an evocative portrait of semifeudal Italian society amid the first revolutionary stirrings in the early 19th century. The author depicts princes, peasants, and his skinflint heroine with melodramatic gusto, but his most exact and memorable character is the past itself...
...Pirajno. Highly reminiscent of The Leopard, and written, as was that excellent novel, by an aging Sicilian duke, Ippolita draws an evocative portrait of semifeudal Italian society amid the first revolutionary stirrings in the early 19th century. The author depicts princes, peasants, and his skinflint heroine with melodramatic gusto, but his most exact and memorable character is the past itself...
Jane Quigley, every bit as versatile as Mr. Barstow, is a quite magnificently scornful Polish Lady (a circus acrobat as well), and if her accent often thickens dangerously, her gusto becomes almost unbounded. Richard Hornby, the alternately tearful and sternly moral Gunner, also occasionally lapses from his proper voice (a deadly Cockney whine); but the Peter Sellers mustache and 'onest workman cringe that he adopts are entirely successful--this is compentent character interpretation indeed...