His diction is plain-spoken, but the cadences are lovely and swell his sentences to unusual, sinuous length.
And an encore by Bellini ("O quante volte") was lovely, its ornate swells and long phrases illuminating the text.
An enchanted hush fell over the hall during "Now the Powers of Heaven," an achingly lovely hymn that swelled to a brief but powerful climax.
The lovely, gasping choral swell of Cosmonogy's chorus communicates a sense of wonder at the universe's vastness more directly than the accompanying stuff about orbital ratios and holistic imperatives can.
Lovely but directionless, "The Swell Season" is a time capsule of scattered impressions and isolated moments.
His mostly English-language ballads swelled with lovely, intuitive grandiosity in loose imitation of Italian arias.
The middle section of the show was highlighted by a couple of sweet, melancholy ballads: "Broken Dream," one of six songs taken from the new album, and the 1978-vintage "Forever Autumn," in which the rich, romantic swell of lovely sorrow, tinged with sampled flute sounds for a touch of olde English stateliness, was the next best thing to a four-minute walk on Wuthering Heights.
Grey shriveled flesh, smelling faintly of death. of swinging butchers to chubby hopes, chopping swollen lovelies.
It reminds us of the shape of a lovely brooch or cameo on the handsome swell of a painted bosom; it enhances our conviction that what we have here is pure, decorative, eye-bogglingly self-conscious spectacle.
Tom Pye's set is lovely to look at, and the orchestra sounds swell.
