Word: splendor
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...dressed (the mind boggles at just how much Adjani's dress must have cost), kneel in the cathedral while a chorus the size of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings in the background. Chereau impresses the luxury and pomp of the scene upon the viewer's mind, but undermines the splendor when, after Margot refuses to say "I do," her brother Charles IX (Jean-Hugues Anglade) hits her in the back of the head so that she assents...
...Many have lamented the loss of the LP, and with it comparatively vast acreage for album-cover art. True, no CD packaging on the market today can match the eye-dazzling splendor of original pressings of Frampton Comes Alive. But CDs are becoming miniworks of art, as our favorite recent examples attest...
...those who do not agree? John Paul's most recent encyclical, Veritatis splendor -- The Splendor of Truth -- makes it clear that clerics and theologians are bound to a "loyal assent." He has imposed the equivalent of ecclesiastical gag orders on those who, he feels, have challenged church teaching, including Kung, American moral theologian Charles Curran and Brazil's Leonardo Boff, an exponent of Liberation Theology...
Primal Disney on the African plains: a lion cub survives banishment and his father's death. This cartoon feature (directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff) has the glories of narrative savvy, voicemanship, lively songs and scenic splendor -- familiar Disney virtues but still fresh and fine...
...with his new wardrobe from Barney's, certainly dresses the part of University president. But I pick Lee not for his sartorial splendor but for his fundraising abilities. He might even do a better job than that Donald Kennedy fellow at Stanford...