It will be a beautiful crescent, with just 18% of its surface illuminated.
We trudged through the muck of the previous night's rain until we reached the crest of the hill, and, suddenly, a broad, beautiful crescent of beach came into view below.
As twilight brought a beautiful crescent moon, the band ended the evening with its version of "Moonlight Serenade". Glendale residents Richard Shaw and partner Ruth McNevin were sorry to see it end, and they showed no signs of wear from dancing to nearly every selection on the musical menu.
Set in a beautiful crescent-moon bay accessible only by boat, Six Senses' ravishing Water Villa 5 blends luxury with rusticity to create a romantic bubble of barefoot chic.
Harkness Memorial is an idyllic, tree-shaded haven, more of a picnic/kite-flying/Frisbee-tossing place than a beachcomber's delight, but a wooden walkway leads over the dunes to a beautiful crescent-shaped beach that has a tidal stream spilling out onto the sand.
But a couple of years ago, there was Starter for 10 and now in Flying Blind we have a good-looking, fortysomething heroine (the excellent Helen McCrory) living in a flat in a beautiful Georgian crescent overlooking the city from Clifton, working at Filton airport and dining out at suave restaurants in the old central dockland.
We usually ended up dusted in flour and throwing dough at each other while my grandmother filled the multi-tiered cabbage-lined aluminum steamer with beautiful momos, each crescent-shaped dumpling a work of art: edges evenly crimped, ends neatly joined like arms crossing over the plump (but not overly plump) belly of a well-fed householder.
The plate of beautiful grapes, the tiny crescents of apples and pears arranged on ice, could be accomplished by anyone with access to an excellent fruit tree, a grape arbor and a bag of ice.
One particularly beautiful stretch boasts a sandy crescent behind San Terenzo's castle, perfect rows of blue umbrellas lining Venere Azzurra beach, and giant rocks that locals use as sun beds along the promenade in Lerici.
The crescent is very beautiful and perhaps that is all one like I am should or could see; but what I am afraid of, dear God, is that my self shadow will grow so large that it blocks the whole moon, and that I will judge myself by the shadow that is nothing.
It was planned like a southern Mediterranean village, all red-tiled roofs and whitewashed villas, and apartments splayed up a beautiful hillside and around a crescent-shaped bay of pure white sand.
