For the Paris of the 19th century, there is the spiky novel by Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami (Penguin Classics), with its lovely comic structure, based on exponentially increasing, unassailable good luck.
For a city that has felt few qualms about destroying innumerable lovely colonial structures, it is an odd one to preserve.
Here, shiny shopping malls are replacing lovely older structures and even classic movie theaters like the beloved Emek, which long hosted the film festival and where protesters gathered this week to oppose its planned demolition.
The town's former covered market — a lovely wrought-iron structure from the 1880s — bustled with boutiques and restaurants.
To the baseball-bitten the box score is not only informative, pictorial, & gossipy, but lovely in aesthetic structure.
Our No. 1 wine, the 2007 Rippon from Central Otago, was lovely, graceful and structured.
Whitehead manages, what's more, to wrest from the book's essentially static structure a lovely, satisfying ending.
The roman baths are in Morgan County's oldest building, circa 1815, a lovely Classical yellow brick structure with a green tin roof.
The Jones family replaced the old house at No. 122 in 1858 with an exquisite business structure of lovely, caramel-colored Dorchester sandstone, with elaborately carved decorations on its arched lintels -- a still-existing facade that is worth a trip to see.
It was, for sure, one simple structure, busily divided, lovely and pleasing, an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest house ever built.
