Regina Carter imbued her violin with a hauntingly vocal quality on an exquisite reading of "Come Sunday," the Duke Ellington hymn.
Reviewing that film, Ms. Kael, who often praised Ms. Simmons's intelligence and grace, metaphorically threw up her hands: "Jean Simmons gives a reserved, beautifully modulated performance that is so much better than the material that at times her exquisite reading of the rather mediocre lines seems a more tragic waste than her character's wrecked life".
His description of that community makes for exquisite reading, with everything from LSD to comic books to Puerto Rican conjunto musicians thrown in.
There are little panelled nooks where visitors can sit and read, exquisite stained glass, carvings and metalwork, as well as lovely gardens.
Read about the exquisite dining scene in traditional Kyoto, and about riding a bike in Tokyo, along one of Japan's busiest commuter routes.
The merits of all adaptations will definitely be up for discussion this month, alongside a more general – and hopefully joyful – read through this exquisite book.
Having finished "Fathers," I now want to read Robert Irwin's "Exquisite Corpse," a 1995 novel depicting the blitz, because Byatt has shown enough of it to persuade me it's something special.
In more than 30 years of reading The Times's Sunday arts section, I have never read a more exquisite or elegant article than David Thomson's achingly beautiful paean to the pleasures of summer movies ["When Summer Movies Understood the Season," June 17].
André's words are free to be the shapes of letters, space and sound--exquisite drawings that can be read vertically or horizontally without relying on a particular base orientation.
The sensitivity and technical skill of Ali's playing, and his ability to create a sense of momentum despite the absence of a regular tempo, are clearly evident in such Coltrane recordings from 1966 as Live at the Village Vanguard Again!, with its exquisite rubato reading of the ballad Naima, and Live in Japan, which includes lengthy passages of ferocious collective incantation.
