During the séance, at the heart of the piece, Marsh is enthrallingly weird, his eyes darting nervously, his forehead beaded with sweat as he becomes a channel for multiple, fragmented voices.
And for those who do not yet know Bolaño, it is a fine novel in itself, enthrallingly written and well translated by Natasha Wimmer.
But Schiff is not one to emphasize the cosmic hugeness of the conception, as Sviatoslav Richter did in his notoriously — though enthrallingly — slow readings of the sonata.
Suddenly the artifice of the images and that of the drama cohered enthrallingly, making perfect sense — and both were hard-won.
It wasn't easy, she wrote at eighty-five, "to leave the present behind," but she managed to write an enthrallingly disingenuous seven-hundred-page memoir, taking her epigraph from a complaint of Einstein's: "So many things have been written about me, masses of insolent lies and inventions, that I would have perished long ago, had I paid any attention".
He builds situations and scenes that enthrallingly and intricately construct Jobs's subtle and farsighted maneuverings.
But with the Saturday matinee cast, featuring Ms. Grinder, Mr. Kupinski, the Effy of Louise Ostergaard, and Alexander Staeger as the Gurn who becomes Effy's bridegroom, "La Sylphide" becomes, enthrallingly, a story of the confusions and lessons of youthfulness itself.
To Alvin Curran's taped collage of sound and music, two men — Neal Beasley and Lee Serle, arrestingly different in height and physicality — moved, largely in sync, enthrallingly displaying how an impulse that begins in a shift of the torso or a lift of the arm can create a momentum that the body, effortlessly it seems, converts into a phrase of shape and texture.
What initially seems ordinary becomes consistently and enthrallingly surprising.
Such is the fate of a principal character in The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins's robustly, enthrallingly clever bestseller, which appeared in 1860, just before Cameron started making her portraits.
It's the dark impenetrable mess of it all that's so enthrallingly real: the accusations and counter-accusations, the dirty bottles with traces of treatment for foot-rot, the sickly baby Jean, the hundreds of dolls sent by the public for little Doris, the extraordinary crowds in the Gloucester streets to see Beatrice walk free.
