Vera Brittain's 1933 source text may be one of the key works of 20th-century English literature (an authentic feminist voice amid a cacophony of male war novelists and poets), but James Kent's handsomely well-behaved film has the air of a footnote about it.
But it is a handsomely staged, well acted, and affecting story.
Millions of working parents cannot afford good child care, so federal subsidies here would also pay off handsomely, raising well-being and efficiency in the workplace.
Hec. 1, 2, 89: prima certe pensari decet populo utrum, etc., Liv. 34, 58, 8. 2. Esp. of corporeal fitness and symmetry, regularly, symmetrically, handsomely shaped; well-formed; noble: forma, Ov. Am. 3, 1, 9; cf.: habitus decentior quam sublimior, Tac.
In a healthy economy, capital markets and discriminating customers fuel growth and new ventures by handsomely rewarding well-executed ideas, and ruthlessly starving out even long-running ventures that refuse to adapt and innovate.
"Cheerly now... handsomely... very well!" they cry.
First, is Mr Immelt right to believe that greenery can be handsomely profitable, as well as socially responsible?
The film, though handsomely photographed and well acted, ultimately doesn't register as a stinging or especially funny satire of human pettiness and denial.
(Ages 8 to 12) A handsomely illustrated and well-researched introduction to the peak years of European immigration, told through stories of five individuals.
Morgan Stanley's board seems to pay its bosses handsomely no matter how well they do.
