Word: splendorful
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...large number of exquisite gowns and robes swirling across the stage makes it nearly impossible for anyone to drink in all of the surrounding splendor simultaneously. An audience member could easily be left with one of two things--either a sore neck from trying to see everything occurring on stage all at once, or sore eyes from squinting to see just how many sequins the Boston Ballet costumers can fit onto one square inch of material...
...soon as I read it, I believed it. By the 1970s we knew that for all her splendor she was a woman who would buy 10 pairs of the same Pappagallo flats, all in different colors. You have to really like things to shop like that. You have to want goods in stores to give you pleasures you're not getting in real life to be like that. You have to be a little sad. Or a total greedhead. I think she was a little...
...human happiness, democracy may be all very well; but for the visual arts, nothing beats 4,000 years of rigorous bureaucratic feudalism presided over by a lofty elite of scholars with a divine Emperor on top. Such is the lesson of the Metropolitan Museum's present exhibition, "Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei." Normally when those spavined cliches "treasure," "splendor" or "masterpiece" occur in the name of an exhibition, doubt rises: Methinks the museum doth protest too much. Not this time. In terms of sheer quality, this show can claim to be the greatest conspectus...
Manichaeism's baroque mythology included a tripartite Jesus: Jesus the Splendor, who, long before the creation of the world, was sent to battle the voracious dark forces that had swallowed up the light; Jesus the Messiah, whose appearance revealed the extent of the unknown God's love for humankind; and, finally, the suffering Jesus, whose Crucifixion symbolized not redemption but, rather, the suffering of light trapped in the material world. Jesus the Splendor lived on the moon, which waxed full each month as light was redeemed from the world and sent heavenward...
...Great Hall is one of the finest creations of the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White and, as such, enjoys a privileged position in their renowned architectural monograph. It is a monument to the splendor of the American Gilded Age and is an irreplaceable example of an historic episode in art and architectural taste. It can no more be created today than one could create a Botticelli tondo or a Cellini bronze: its makers have died and, with them, a precious moment in history. It is the high calling of great institutions--universities, cathedrals and museums--to preserve, protect...