What a delicate, elegant marvel these movies have been.
I mean the original "Scream," a delicate and raw marvel in oil, pastel, and casein on cardboard, which hangs in Norway's National Gallery, not the inferior remake (one of three, none of them quite right) that was stolen from the Munch Museum.
Things got even better after that; Chopin's Impromptu No.2 in F-sharp major and the Scherzo No.2 were delicate and ethereally beautiful marvels at the hands of this storyteller.
In this kindergarten, a peacock feather is anything but ostentatious, and Mr. Kenna records it as a pared-down marvel, with delicate tendrils flowing from a straight stem, atop which is a cropped fan-shaped tuft of dark feathers.
It is a strange and beautiful place, an architectural marvel, simultaneously rugged and delicate.
It is a marvel that something so delicate and lovely holds water, can be the vessel for the stuff of life itself, and that it can last forever if lovingly cared for.
One ends up marvelling again at Williams's play, with its delicate verbal echoes as Blanche's confession of her "intimacies with strangers" anticipates her famous last line, but I emerged impressed without quite being overwhelmed.
There will be much to chew on in coming weeks, but it is worth a moment to marvel at the bill's mere existence, and at the delicate balancing of competing interests that coaxed this broad set of compromises into being.
Other marvels of mimesis include an actual-size ladybug by Tom Friedman, a field of delicate red mushrooms by Roxy Pain and a lovingly carved and painted dead duck by Michael Combs.
The opening sea storm is a marvel of theatrical ingenuity, its roaring, spumy waves conjured from the most delicate of billowing silk.
