And a glorious instance of that golden mean, for me, is in A. J. Liebling's praise of Col. John R. Stingo, the onetime racetrack reporter for The New York Evening Sun.
The glorious possibility, for instance, of one day owning a bale of matching towels, a crystal decanter, a string of pearls.
It has some glorious comic moments, where for instance his father dies trying on an extremely tight‑fitting pair of trousers.
It doesn't fully translate into sound — unlike the glorious "Lipinski" Stradivarius violin, for instance, which passed through the hands and lives of a number of composers beginning with Giuseppe Tartini, and whose fascinating journey is chronicled on a gorgeous recent CD, "A Violin's Life," with performances by Frank Almond.
For instance, in the glorious Byzantine mosaic of the Last Judgement in the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta on the island of Torcello in the Venetian Lagoon, a swivel-eyed blue ogre with a wild white beard presides over a fiery infernal lake in the bottom right corner.
Say, for instance, Polonius discovered on a glorious fall day that his ladder was too short to reach his leaf-clogged gutters.
What "Restless" lacks is the small grain of perversity that has made other New Order songs as glorious as they are inimitable — "The Perfect Kiss," for instance, from 1985, which includes an interlude of synthesized, ribbitting frogs.
What a glorious moment it was, truly one of those we-come-on instances that are so exhilarating.
For instance, no one has yet identified the pianist in the glorious recording of the "Mephisto Waltz" — assuming (the default assumption) that it wasn't Hatto herself.
Consider, for instance, the sonnet "And Now the Leaves Suddenly Lose Strength", a glorious evocation of autumn and one of Larkin's finest "death" poems.
