Ms. Tan, on the music but never in it, gave a mild, dainty, sweet account of a role that surely needs spaciousness, grandeur, glamour, cool.
Those dreaming spires and grizzled dons create an atmosphere more conducive to old-fashioned grandeur than cool comfort, a mood as manifest in the city's hotels as anything else.
Rugged Marseille is an intriguing mix of Gallic chic, Arab cool, industrial graft and ancient grandeur.
With four acres of grounds tinkling with fountains, the main villa has the requisite faded grandeur: volumes of cool space, flights of stone staircases, terracotta floors, frescoed walls, chandeliers, heavy antiques, marble basins with serpent-head taps.
This solemn, rain-washed period gangster film based on a graphic novel is a cool but stately work that achieves the grandeur of a classic Hollywood western.
This was powerhouse stuff, but in its wake, Fountains of Rome seemed curiously cool despite its beauty and moments of grandeur.
Scènes de Ballet (1948) is based on the template of Petipa's Rose Adagio, but its cool, taut structure comes shadowed with romantic grandeur and edged with a very period New Look chic.
From the weathered grandeur of Hawksmoor's churches to canalside cooling towers, Nairn scoured the postcodes seeking the unique.
It is hard not to be impressed by Jaeggy's own spiritual and aesthetic grandeur, which casts her stories in such a compellingly cool light.
