It may have lacked the panache of an authentic opening night, but it did include an enhancement that nobody expected: two competing teams from the same competitive city, both of which were off to winning starts.
The show launches its final season this week, but it leaves in its wake new openings for authentic television.
A spectacular medieval artillery display and a grand parade featuring knights, ladies, mounted horses and performers all clad in authentic regalia will mark the opening of three days of medieval fun.
But my opening line was utterly authentic: "Angela," I said, "this was a sacrifice.
What is more intriguing and paradoxical, this sense of a profound vulnerability evoked in caregivers, far from presenting an impediment to (re connecting with a dying person, provides an opening for meaningful and authentic connection.
This summer, there's a mini-boom of new Mexican openings, all promising a more authentic take on the cuisine than the assemblies of starch, cheese and ochre slurry that chain restaurants pass off as the real enchilada.
Sky may have Sean Bean, possessor of The Most Authentic Voice In England, but for their opening fixture ESPN had Steven Berkoff.
Stray themes sounded in these opening scenes — the quest for authentic artistic expression, the tensions of social class and erotic triangles based on the rescue of vulnerable women — resonate throughout "Life Class".
It's the least surprising opening to this album possible: Justin Timberlake getting his Authentic Blues Face on over a thinly sketched femme fatale while portentous piano plays.
In the opening seconds of the debate, Mr. Perry called himself "an authentic conservative, not a conservative of convenience".
This is presumably why in the opening chapter of De Anima Aristotle reports a deep and authentic perplexity about the best method for investigating psychological matters (De Anima i 1 402a16–22).
