The much-anticipated trilogy-capper is pulled in too many directions by a story that borders on incoherent, but it's bracketed by some truly spectactular action set pieces, and is held together by the sheer electromagnetism of star Robert Downey Jr., whose fourth turn in his now-signature role demonstrates yet again why he's worth every penny of his mammoth, Tony Stark-esque paycheck.
It is bracketed by Mendelssohn's famed connection to the dramatist Lessing, a portent, it once seemed, of countless comparable relationships in the future.
Intimacies weren't the whole concert; it was bracketed by renditions of Sun Ra's "Nuclear War," a swinging, jovial chant about the threat of annihilation, with a dozen children joining in the second time.
It is bracketed by grandiose choirs, but Martin's words in "Always In My Head" have depression's flat truth: "I think of you/ I haven't slept/ I think I do/ But I don't forget".
He doesn't mind it being bracketed with Game of Thrones but says it isn't a fantasy show, but real history.
It was bracketed by two red cards, one for Elliot Daly four minutes from the start, another for Enrique Pieretto four minutes from the finish.
Rommel's panzer divisions struck east, trapping the bulk of the remaining British armour in a narrow corridor where it was bracketed with converging fire.
The copper plumbing at the black slate sink must have been added later, since it was bracketed to the walls and groaned and rattled whenever the faucet was opened.
Graced with such purpose, the middle of the film proceeds like an off-beat detective thriller, a sweet centre of flirtation and intention, but it is bracketed by dissonance, dispute and aimlessness.
