The building that the hotel occupies was a convent in the 16th century, and many other things after that; for much of the last century it served as City Hall, and after World War II, in which the Dutch suffered so much and which the British prime minister helped lead with his special intensity, he made a celebratory appearance here.
Its inclusion was well timed: however exhilarating the preceding intensity and tumult had been, this celebratory music offered a welcome respite.
Along the bottom is an arcade of red sandstone, pink granite and brightly colored, glazed terra cotta, complete with a celebratory entrance arch, all possessing an exuberance and intensity that call to mind the work of Frank Furness, the great 19th-century Philadelphian who is one of Mr. Venturi's heroes.
As this realization takes hold, the noisy, celebratory atmosphere of the crowd becomes charged with a profound undercurrent of intensity.
During Act III the Carthaginians, in celebratory mode, sing the praises of Didon, their queen, and the radiant sounds and sheer intensity of the chorus and orchestra were overwhelming.
It's not parochial in any sense: it's more celebratory of the fact that life goes on here – in these out-of-season resorts – with the same intensity and passion, the joy and tragedy, the same mundanity and tedium, as it does anywhere else in the country – or in the world, come to that.
A celebratory postgame shower.
Besides providing even more intensity, a bit more gas at this point would have highlighted the connection to the Shostakovich's furiously, perhaps bitterly celebratory fourth-movement Burlesque.
