"Replete with a festive mandolin and a midtempo beat to bring new heights to her as-ever splendid vocal," this song is "destined to enrapture" top forty and AC the first time through, at last stripping away mainstream radio's gripe that Dion is "too adult".
That might be completely frustrating if it weren't for the top-shelf cast, including the ever-splendid Deirdre O'Connell and Zach Grenier.
The xx last night put on a thrilling and vibrant show within the ever-splendid and intimate backdrop of Somerset House.
BBC1 Scotland gave us the thrillingly unsettling Limmy's Show, while BBC4's ever-splendid Getting On supplied us with empathy, clipboards and the most devastatingly effective deployment of the phrase "plop-plop" in comic history.
Within five minutes, on his return from the Virginian wars, he had woken his late father's manservant, Jud Paynter, the ever-splendid Phil Davis, not with a warm greeting but a cold bucket of water, and his Jud-treatment didn't improve one whit, despite the latter taking a barrel of punches for the marster towards the end of the hour.
Many are called, to ever more splendid surroundings, and at ever younger ages.
Beyond here, the buildings become ever more splendid, with Italianate balconies and glazed tiles lining their façades, until you reach Vasaplatsen, a road that slopes gently past a jumble of cafés and design emporiums.
The Red List of threatened species of plants and animals display themselves as ever more splendid publications with sharply reproduced color photos of species that are "critically endangered," "endangered" or "vulnerable".
As for this curse called "the territories" or "the borders of the Promised Land" or "the tombs of our Patriarchs" -- depending on how you like to wear your straitjacket -- I shall simply state that ever since the splendid victory in the Six Day War, the State of Israel has been preoccupied with nothing but the territories -- with them, their metastases and their consequences.
To order a copy for £24.60 including UK p&p visit the guardian bookshop Mark Vanhoenacker, pilot and author In the late 1990s, on a weekend break in Copenhagen, some friends and I stopped at a cafe and ordered what turned out to be the best sandwich I'd ever had: a splendid, open-faced, pesto-laden creation that I would talk about incessantly.
Active and handsome as ever, Butterfield is a splendid advertisement for the southern California climate.
