This exquisite, wistful observation reflects the troubled gaze through which Mr. Gurney, like so many Americans, sees a distant land that seems to keep moving closer to home.
The Elegies go on to offer, with exquisite lyrical compression, observations about, descriptions of and exhortations to love and lovers ("Fling the emptiness out of your arms / to broaden the spaces we breathe").
In assured, elegant prose, McEwan unfolds a compelling plot with exquisite subtlety and acute observation.
A sensitive test of neurologic function in these individuals, i.e., touch sensation, based on the experimental observation of the exquisite vulnerability of Pacinian corpuscles in acrylamide intoxicated cats, is presently under consideration.
Said another: "His talent is unparalleled: no curse words, simple everyday observations, turned into exquisite narrative".
Exquisite arrangements furnish howlingly bleak observations: just as Hell kicks into a jaunty, showbiz swing, Bejar starts singing, "It's hell down here, it's hell".
The observations show in exquisite detail how, at the base of the chloroplast, the tips of thylakoid membranes fuse with the inner membrane of the chloroplast envelope.
And so it continues, offering bright gleams of insight and observation, delivered in rippling, exquisite prose.
The named and numbered objects are presented one thing after another; every exquisite possession and every little piece of observation is carefully itemised.
