Word: victorian
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...dangers of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, "shouldn't be left to face these issues alone." But instinctive support for Washington isn't the whole story. Blair is one of the few modern European politicians comfortable thinking of the world in moral terms. There's a strain of Victorian rectitude in him that explains why he's convinced of Saddam's venality. The soon-to-be-published British dossier on Saddam's behavior, say two sources who have read it, will stress the Iraqi leader's brutality - his use of torture, the fact that he killed perhaps...
...uses her tight smile to convey the pained radiance in Christabel's wisdom. These actor-poets make love like chamber music--two cellos playing each other. "Did you not flame," Christabel asks Ash, "and I catch fire?" When Possession finds its true home, lodging in the convulsive certitude of Victorian romance, it does indeed catch fire--and warms any viewer in the mood for love...
...built at the apex of a deep harbor, creeps up the precipitous mountainsides. Its atmosphere reflects a myriad of influences. Chinese temples share streets with grocery markets. The aroma of fresh-baked Portuguese castella cakes wafts out of bakeries standing amid sake bars decorated with red lanterns. Victorian-style European buildings have been preserved at Glover Gardens, a well-tended hilltop refuge named for Scotsman Thomas Glover who made his fortune in shipbuilding in Japan in the late 1800s. According to local lore, Glover's home inspired the setting for Puccini's Madame Butterfly...
...that someone actually show passion. We know how Tom feels about the changing moods of the South China Sea, and how Sister Maria feels about God, but we aren't given a single overt clue as to how they feel toward each other until Lanchester stoops to the positively Victorian device of a misplaced letter. Lanchester neither shows nor tells, infuriatingly keeping every important moment of emotional revelation offstage. That sort of writerly reticence would exact a stiff toll in a shorter book; in an epic, it's lethal...
Richard Leese is a rare man in local government. He not only thinks good architecture and design matter, he also makes fine buildings happen. As the leader of Manchester City Council, he runs a municipality that was once rich in 19th century commercial architecture - buildings with Victorian arches and polychrome brickwork - but became overrun with ugly concrete buildings in a misguided redevelopment effort in the 1960s and '70s. Now, just in time for the Commonwealth Games, Leese has shown that Manchester could overcome that legacy of drab functionality with the help of the best architects he could find - in Manchester...