They are hypnotic, silent, slightly claustrophobic, brainy and gorgeous, qualities that can seem in lively tension with one another.
But what results are obsessively meticulous photographs, some of them enormous, like mural paintings -- hypnotic, silent, slightly claustrophobic, brainy and gorgeous, qualities that can seem in lively tension with one another.
"Schäfers Klagelied," for example, had a gorgeous silken quality.
Lighter and less obviously rich than some, it's zesty with a gorgeous honeyed quality.
Those songs have a gorgeous, otherworldly quality on record; fighting against one of the shoddiest sound systems in London, they lose much of their ethereal elegance.
So captivated was Oren Moverman, the film's director, by her performance in "You Wont Miss Me" that he rewrote the part, originally conceived for a man, to exploit, he said, "the gorgeous raw quality to her acting".
Gorgeous tone, fleet-fingered technique, rhythmic integrity and textural clarity are also qualities you can count on in Mr. Andsnes's pianism.
They were replaced by something far more gorgeous: museum-quality terra cotta ornamentation in the Arts and Crafts style, designed and manufactured by the renowned Grueby Faience Company of Boston.
GM CEO Fritz Henderson announced that GM would "make the customer the center of everything" and commit itself to "building more of the gorgeous, high-quality fuel-efficient cars, trucks and crossovers that consumers want and getting them into the market faster than ever before".
