(He conveniently provides supporting evidence in the shape of a picture of himself at Giza).Another recent book discusses the achievements of both Leonardos far more captivatingly as it builds up to the story of a remarkable proof made in 1824 by Niels Abel, a 21-year-old Norwegian mathematician, who died in poverty a scant five years later.
I was always mad about the theatre," her captivatingly theatrical voice lengthening the "mad".
Dalle gave a memorable performance as a blind taxi passenger in Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth (1991), and was at her most captivatingly subversive in Claude Lelouch's epic La Belle Histoire, released the following year.
For depression Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Swap your 21st-century trials for more rural concerns as you revel in Hardy's captivatingly sensual descriptions of the struggles of Gabriel Oak and Bathsheba Everdene and their life in pre-industrial Wessex.
It is a great shame, because the opening promises much, introducing nine-year-old Rachel in a captivatingly gothic tale.
Golf courses around the globe can be captivatingly beautiful, from the heart-stopping Cape Kidnappers (00 64 6 875 1900; capekidnappers.com) – a New Zealand clifftop miracle – to the glorious Alpine spectacle that is Crans-sur-Sierre (00 41 27 485 97 97; golfcrans.ch) in the Valais region of Switzerland.
(Fans of the book club may want to check out the captivatingly sweet animation of a Lydia Davis sentence chosen, like all the picks, by the author).
But her voice — rendered by Brooks with exacting attention to the language and rhythm of the seventeenth century — is captivatingly true to her time.
Her choreography, generally small in scale and narrow in emotional range, may be pedestrian or peculiar, but it is always particular, often captivatingly so.
The legendary musician-engineer Martin Bisi will be playing tunes from his latest release, the captivatingly dark and weird "Ex Nihilo," which he rounds out with noise-driven improvisational interludes.
This girl's voice — rendered with exacting attention to the language and rhythm of the seventeenth century — rings captivatingly true.
