One issue with "Elektra" is that, for all its splendid ferocity, it lacks a degree of internal tension.
It was sporting its splendid breeding plumage: the breast suffused a delicate shade of pink, and the head appearing almost blue.
My endorphins made a Proustian leap at this new opportunity, hugging it and feeling all its splendid corners.
It is renowned for its splendid beaches and diving - and, increasingly, for the boatloads of desperate migrants who are smuggled here from north Africa.
Its splendid tagline says it all: "If you have nothing better to do or say.
Here it is, Washington in all its splendid, sordid glory: the pols, the pundits, the Porsches.
It commissioned and moved into its splendid pink granite-and-steel headquarters, designed in the International Style, on East Forty-third Street, near the U.N.
Faithful to its splendid roots, generous and forgiving, it restores the city to the little people who made it great.
Barbara Graziosi, professor of classics at Durham University, says: "It is getting classics out of its splendid isolation, finding intellectual common ground in antiquity.
To its splendid series of classic political texts, it is now adding a monumental, six-volume history.
We learned about the war's global impact — how it eventually drew the United States out of its splendid isolation — and its social impact, which included a big boost to gender equality in Britain and other countries.
