O2 ABC, Glasgow, Wed & Fri; The Ritz, Manchester, Thu; touring to 18 Apr JR The international jazz festival at The Sage Gateshead nails its customarily ambitious colours to the mast by headlining Friday's opening night with the great US soul saxist David Sanborn and his blues-boppish guitar compatriot John Scofield.
From China to the Czech Republic, a profusion of new colour is inspiring ambitious home horticulturists to read what the experts have to say.
It's the kind of loaded euphemism that could be applied to this flamboyantly ambitious but uneven film, which switches colour palette and time period as casually as Nureyev swapped lovers.
In her I see the personification of strength through an unguarded and accepting presence". Sandy Nairne, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, described the work as "ambitious and beautifully painted, with superbly controlled colour and tone.
He was involved in an ambitious project, led by the shipping magnate Charles Booth, to colour-code every street in the capital according to its social make-up.
JA: When I worked at Penguin UK, I found that manuscripts by new authors were too ambitious, like a painter who can't settle on one colour and uses the whole paintbox.
Some are a little ambitious: "I got one request to make the client taller, one to change the colour of their eyes..
It sounds like something an ambitious but clueless marketing person would come up with having sized up wine's annoyingly limited colour palette and convinced their bosses what Generation Y really want is a brand new colour of drink.
Not the most ambitious of the year, nor the most original, however it is the best: detail, mood, muted colours and melancholic undertone.
The ambitious, arty Track of the Cat (1954), starring Mitchum, was a moody psychological western in which Wellman used colour cinematography but limited his palette almost exclusively to black, white, gray, and brown.
