The main showroom is a percussive playground: bass drums, tom-toms and snares neatly stacked four and five high, their shells lustrous shades of mahogany, indigo, copper and champagne sparkle, accented by winking chrome.
Netrebko, whose appearance at the Metropolitan Opera on Dec. 15 in Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette" will be broadcast live in movie theaters around the world, has a captivating voice that is both high and deep, lustrous and velvety, and she is one of that growing breed of opera singers who can actually act.
Here he learned the lustrous, high-finish, persuasive techniques of advertising, which were later adapted for cinema under his own signature.
The most striking similarities shared by the 24 elements in question are that they are all metals and that most of them are hard, strong, and lustrous, have high melting and boiling points, and are good conductors of heat and electricity.
The high-resolution graphics are lustrous, with neither a plain polygon nor pop-up, the phenomenon in which scenery suddenly appears out of nowhere.
She has the same lustrous hair and high cheekbones as Garbo and projects a similar sense of glamour.
At the same high level are lebni, the lustrous dip of yogurt, dill, cucumbers and walnuts; hummus, the chickpea-and-sesame spread; patlican salata, the smoky, garlic-laden eggplant salad; and sigara boregi, fried cigar-shaped wrappers filled with feta cheese.
Osmium is a hard but brittle metal that remains lustrous even at high temperatures.
The songs were ballads, waltzes, marches and shiftier concoctions, placing her lustrous voice low and high, humble and insistent, sometimes gliding, sometimes making wide leaps.
Ms. Netrebko sang an elegantly sad aria with lustrous warmth, aching vulnerability and floating high notes.
