Word: regaled
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...opener, Giacomo Meyerbeer's hoary grand opera L'Africaine, typifies the ills that have afflicted the company. As Vasco da Gama, Tenor Placido Domingo sounds tired and wan, Maurizio Arena's conducting is enervated and Mansouri's own stage direction merely serviceable. Only veteran Soprano Shirley Verrett, as the regal Selika, captures the fiery spirit of Meyerbeer's diffuse and improbable last opera...
...Olympic mountain has two peaks, and many of the athletes are in the process of trying to hold their bodies together after the recent trials for the second climb in September. The strain of it is as heavy as the oofing and puffing of Jackie Joyner-Kersee, the regal heptathlete who has transcended her event. Almost nobody knows what in the world a heptathlete does, but almost everyone knows she is the best in the world at doing...
...Lewis' Pulitzer-prizewinning Edith Wharton: A Biography (1975). Her affair with the journalist was no secret to intimate friends or later biographers, but her private responses to it were. And the dignified vulnerability she displayed during this period softens the austere image she cultivated during her 75 years. The regal bearing and the profile with its generous, slightly prognathous jaw remain intact. It is now possible to see with what effort, and after what struggles, she held her head so high...
...Rolls Royce ad features the famous insignia and hood ornament at the front of the gleaming silver car set against a black background. Against this stark but regal scene stands a quote from Henry James: "Live all you can; it's a mistake...
...clincher is a quote by the 17th century Metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell, which presumably illustrates the regal yet intrepid image of the man for whom the car is designed. (That the ad is meant for men is clear. Women are often called a variety of things, but we're not usually dubbed "princes"). The quote reads in part, "Society is all but rude/To this luxurious solitude...