When we read the autobiography now, the village parade is a gorgeous panoply: Strachey "in a tangle of his own arms and legs," and Virginia Woolf playing bowls in the garden, the indefatigable Sidney and Beatrice Webb, the jungle, the fishermen, the labors of the Hogarth Press, the different desolations of the two wars, here the struggle, there the failure, here again the unusual triumph.
This huddle of lovely, simple traditional huts (and a more luxurious traditional Swahili house) is situated in a tangle of serenely gorgeous mangrove forest and estuarine mudflats.
The costly AKG K495 ($350), for example, is the Lexus of headphones: gorgeous brushed-metal design, luxury materials, tangle-free cloth-covered cord, extremely comfy.
With Julie as its star, "Bergdorf Blondes" could have been a gorgeous, cruel mash-up of naïve-brilliant beauties tangling over men and social power at the expense of their humanity.
Calamari are gorgeous too, quickly seared and set on a green tangle of herbed pasta.
Whilst the abrasive Julie manoeuvres him into an expenses-paid wedding to be covered by her magazine employer "Bridal-360", Jonathan's heartstrings get tangled up with other romantic contenders: a gorgeous French baker, an androgynous colleague, the aforementioned British vet.
At the Mobius Fields tent, buyers were marveling at a tangle of garlic scapes, or shoots (10 for $2), and gorgeous red Russian kale ($3 per bunch).
"Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.
"A gorgeous, gorgeous man".
