It is worth remembering that Spain was once a global empire, and that during that 16th and 17th centuries, "Golden Age" Spain had access to dazzling amounts of New World gold and silver.
This dazzling soup requires a fair amount of ingredients, but once you've assembled them all, the rest is a breeze, as Chef Farmerie shows.
Sadly, though, this serves mainly to highlight the fact that no amount of gusto or dazzling technique will ever render a big-band version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer listenable.
"Breaking Bad" was heralded for its dazzling plot twists, but a significant amount of its appeal lay in its willingness to let a middle-aged family man team up with a 20-ish punk kid and effectively destroy his community with a recklessness more suited to a much younger man.
But in the main, "Counter Space" sprints with dazzling speed and pinpoint precision across an amazing amount of social and aesthetic history, and shows how these histories are connected.
A painting like this asks to be seen all at once -- it's dazzling -- and it also asks for an impossible amount of viewing, from an impossibly patient viewer.
But overall, Evolution manages to explain a remarkable amount of evolutionary biology within its pages, with a dazzling array of interesting, up-to-date, and not yet overused scientific discoveries presented.
Whereas other pianists were noted for technical flash and dazzling dexterity, Basie was known for his use of silence and for reducing his solo passages to the minimum amount of notes required for maximum emotional and rhythmic effect.
The artist has "an incredible amount of control over the color, tone and contrast of an image," Mr. Singer says, while sharing dazzling information such as the fact that each nozzle of the Iris printer produces one million drops per second.
