The set, with all its bourgeois trappings, falls away, and the play moves from comedy of manners to vision: in a surreal and exquisite encounter, which plays as a "mad pilgrimage of the flesh," to borrow Tennessee Williams's phrase, Dr. Givings and his wife face each other in their snowy garden.
In that, it is a beautiful analysis of our own confused food culture, where the low-tech, rabbit-skinning ways of the past encounter the exquisite fancies of the global marketplace, often on the same menu.
The film has a Cowardian feel with its overt sentimentality – a sentimentality turbo-charged by alliance with the war effort – but compared to, say, Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter, the exquisite Greer Garson looks like a creature from another planet.
For me, the most compelling is "Bodies of Society" (2006), also the title of her show at the museum, in which she circles a bicycle with a steel pipe, caresses it and then beats it till it shatters, choreographing the emotional arc of a painful relationship, or a sadomasochistic sexual encounter, with exquisite economy and no small measure of erotic glee.
Their apartment, which Pilar Viladas wisely and beautifully documents in this issue, is one of the most beguiling spaces I have ever encountered -- exquisite, cultured, ridiculously pretty -- and a tribute to the dreamy preoccupations of two very grounded Midwesterners.
This first novel's narrator, a brilliant but artistically blocked cellist, is stirred back to life when she encounters an exquisite 16th-century cello that, like her, has a history deeply linked to the Holocaust.
Those who have encountered these exquisite events internally have been required to a leap in soul consciousness that has very real implications in how we are to live each day.
When you encounter something with exquisite design, it's soothing.
THE Pond House Café in West Hartford, which sits at the edge of a largish pond in Elizabeth Park, offers one of the most exquisite restaurant landscapes I've encountered in the Hartford area — a wonderfully unexpected oasis of greenery and riotous color just a few blocks from the Hartford border.
There, he'd encountered Tuareg blacksmiths creating exquisite silver jewelry using a trembling hand technique.
The Kneehigh "Brief Encounter" may be the most exquisite set of fan's notes ever to take form on a stage.
