Though declaring that Tron: Legacy was "eye-popping", San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli asserted that the special effects were "spectacular"—albeit cheesy.
As a result, novelty stands in for personality, and "Company" is exposed as the song cycle that it really is — albeit a spectacular one.
And I thought his lean, no-nonsense shapes — free of tricks, corsets (albeit with spectacular embroidery for evening) — expressed a rare degree of self-assurance.
A few nights later, we discovered a more sophisticated, albeit less spectacular, version of the Chez Ali dinner, at Dar Marjana, an elegant restaurant in the medina, reached by walking through a long lantern-illuminated tunnel, with better food and a much more sedate, yet elegant floor show.
Yet Ransome had always seen his career as a mere fact gatherer as a detour, albeit a spectacular one in which he had witnessed the Bolsheviks' seizure of power at first hand and known Lenin and Trotsky (whose former secretary he married) personally.
The installation pieces are the most spectacular, albeit the emptiest and most generic.
The Avengers, which last week enjoyed the biggest North American opening in history, recasts 9/11 in the Bush years' dominant movie mode, namely the comic book superhero spectacular – albeit with a heavy dose of irony and added stereoscopic depth.
In a more spectacular, albeit costly, example, the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (a suspension bridge across the Narrows of Puget Sound, Washington) on November 7, 1940, was the result of the large amplitudes of oscillations that the span attained as it was driven in resonance by high winds.
The win brought back memories of McIlroy's first Tour win, which came at the same venue two years ago - albeit in more spectacular fashion as he finished with a course-record 62. Fowler said of McIlroy: "We've always had a great camaraderie, been good buddies.
