Bernini's glorious sculptures grace the Piazza Navona, St Paul's Basilica and Piazza di Spagna, just to name a few.
Contrast, for example, the grace and glorious aromas of Case Basse di Soldera, perhaps the greatest brunello producer, with the power and density of Il Poggione.
Consequently, it is not so much Schadenfreude about getting one over the English that has fed excitement but pride about being good enough to grace this glorious occasion in the first place.
It had been 45 years since Sir Paul and three other mop-topped Liverpudlian lads graced that glorious stage, but the payoff was truly sensational.
She got in that boring Saturday, and then, by the grace of some glorious and merciful god, she did again, four days later.
"What grace, what timing — glorious!" Nobody had ever run a fund like that before, and the press, in particular, portrayed him as an investing genius.
It's an old story that's not often told or told well in Hollywood, but this year's Sundance Film Festival premiered two films --Smashed and Predisposed -- that showcase addiction and all its glorious collateral damage with effective grace and a deft touch, thanks to some outstanding writing and performances.
They were big, ornate and graced by the glorious halo of the illustrious characters who once owned them.
A woman in "The Natural Order of Things," graced with the glorious name of Dona Orquidea, is dismayed when her doctor announces that her kidney stones have dissolved.
When you see it done without a fight, with passion but with grace, there's something glorious about that".
I'll be there again on the 14th when the antique circus parade wagons and glorious horses roll on, propelled by grace, nostalgia and help from friends.
