Tweeters at the Olympic opening ceremony rehearsal yesterday said it was "epic", "a treat", "out of this world", "breathtaking", "spectacular, clever, charming, moving and awe-inspiring" – but almost to a person have heeded director Danny Boyle's request to "#savethesurprise".
Tweeters last night called the rehearsal – which we know starts with a mock-up of the British countryside, including real-life farm animals, cricket players and people dressed in Victorian clothes – "epic", "a treat", "out of this world", "breathtaking", "spectacular, clever, charming, moving and awe-inspiring".
Vang Thao of Fresno always sets out a breathtaking display of exotic crops such as gorgeous fresh ginger, six kinds of basil, Asian bunching shallots, and taro leaves and stems.
Maybe that's because the view from the mountaintop of leverage that he carefully constructed to be the springboard to the rest of his career turned out to be something short of breathtaking.
See amazing images of snowstorms, as seen from space, in the pictures below, then check out more breathtaking pictures of the 'earth as art', captured by the Landsat 7 satellite.
It looks out across breathtaking views of Hong Kong's harbour and several islands.
This was the milieu — which, if not hostile, was not exactly encouraging — out of which Saul Leiter created a series of breathtaking, almost miraculous, photographs.
It was a strike of breathtaking beauty.
The second movement had the inexplicable clarity of a dream; the thirty-second notes in the fourth variation were spun out with breathtaking serenity.
"It's sort of breathtaking.
