Scott Alarik wrote: "As his lovely, demanding and brilliant debut album Say Something attests, there is a precocious credibility and emotional truth to his real-life ballads".
There are no capes, or lovely assistants, or demands that we look into his beard, the beard, the beard, not around the beard, don't look around the beard, look into his beard.
In the nineteen-seventies my small family, then consisting of my very young son Nick, and my very lovely wife (she who demands to remain nameless) went on a visit to Disneyland.
My editor is hyper-intelligent, exacting, demanding, but really lovely with it.
This program looks terrific, with a little-known work by Jiri Kylian, "Indigo Rose," originally created in 1998 for the Nederlands Dans Theater's junior troupe; the much-in-demand Crystal Pite's lovely "Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue," and a new work by the young Greek choreographer Andonis Foniadakis.
("I didn't expect to have such a lovely response," she said after the audience demanded an encore. "I never expect anything anymore").
Prince Andrew came, I was told - but only with his bodyguards, not a girlfriend - and also 'lovely' Princess Caroline of Monaco with her less lovely husband Prince Ernst August of Hanover, who demanded that the fridge be filled with Cristal champagne.
On next Tuesday, thousands of those Americans will demand to confront those executives in the lovely halls and conference rooms of the Ritz.
Max is clearly a lovely man, but the challenging nature of his music demanded a more challenging response.
It's possible to have a lovely evening and a very good meal here, but it demands a wiliness worthy of the prince himself.
