A beautiful procession of sushi came before me, which had me fairly swooning, until the arrival of a piece of fatty tuna – bluefin.
They all formed a small but beautiful procession on the cold muddy streets and we followed them as they blessed each corner of their shabby little village for what had passed that year, and what might lie ahead.
And October is one of the main months for colourful festivals, such as the Jidai Matsuri (22 October) in Kyoto, a beautiful procession of Japanese period costumes and weaponry throughout the ages, from the Meiji era (1868-1912) back to the Heian (794 1185).
As each course is finished, it is cleared away for presentation of the next, the kaiseki meal a beautiful procession of contrasting tastes and tactile sensations.
Hundreds of young revelers dance through the cobblestone streets and during Holy Week beautiful torchlit processions take place.
As John Szwed argues in "So What," he was also a significant cultural figure: with his clothes, his procession of beautiful wives and girl friends and his nonchalant manner, he exemplified cool.
In striking contrast with the unexampled blizzard which spoilt President Taft's inaugural procession four years ago, beautiful weather prevailed, and it was amid a flood of sunshine that the new President and his predecessor rode from the Legislative Buildings to lunch together at the official residence of the Chief Executive.
About 10 years ago there was a TV advert for men's the deodorant Lynx that, in its own particular laddish fashion, presented a procession of beautiful "ideal women" who could be persuaded to display counterintuitive attitudes when confronted by a man liberally doused in a cloud of the brand's macho, musky scent.
He has cultural capital, but on "Life," a new series that begins tonight on NBC, a Los Angeles police detective, Charlie Crews, has literal capital, enough to accommodate a mansion, a Bentley, real-estate investment and a long procession of beautiful young women gliding up and down his spiral staircase — women for whom his lifestyle prompts no accusations of shallowness.
Following closely the trajectory of his own life, from the prestigious Buckley school in Los Angeles to Bennington College in Vermont, and then to New York, where he found fame among the literary Brat Pack, Mr. Ellis's canon is a procession of the beautiful and the damned of his generation from one sadistic bacchanalia to another.
His off-grid, utopian villages in the Siberian woods "have attracted a very creative crowd", Bendiksen says, "all these beautiful rituals with choral music and processions amid these harsh conditions".
