It is indeed as if, as Edward Thomas wrote in The South Country, it "gathers up all the low-lit beauty into one carol".
Unlike Apes, meanwhile, it actually boasts a human worth saving in the delightful Chris Pratt, a leading man at once rakish and rambunctious: as self-appointed "star lord" Peter Quill, an Indiana Jones-style adventurer who finds himself the target of an extraterrestrial bounty hunt, he's a pleasingly dude-ish anchor to all the neon-lit intergalactic activity around him.
While not without its drab quarters, south Nicosia has all the neon-lit amenities of a modern city, its portion of the old north-south drag a pedestrianised commercial Everytown with its Starbucks, Debenhams and McDonald's.
While not without its drab quarters, south Nicosia has all the neon-lit amenities of a modern city, its portion of the old north-south drag a pedestrianized commercial everytown with its Starbucks and McDonald's.
He examined the night outside: the sparkle of the ball game all over Wrigleyville; the lit L train struggling along the Sheridan curve; the Lake Shore skyscrapers on the horizon; the endless darkness beyond.
Paula's been publishing stories for some time now in all the good lit mags, but finally someone (Word Riot Press) got their shit together and put out her first collection.
All the talk in lit-land will soon be of another white, middle-class male American.
They led us by the hand, through dry river beds and between the acacia, all lit by the moon like a film set, to their tented village, where the Tuareg were lined up to greet us, eyes of fire framed by turbans of deepest indigo.
But Ms. Mayfield and the more than 400 production assistants who have gone through the program are the upside to all the klieg-lit commotion.
