Nearby, a young man painstakingly noted minuscule imperfections in a lustrous moonscape of midnight blue.
The late maestro Evans' music was nothing if not cinematic in its harmonically lustrous dreamscapes, and on Monday night guitarist Bill Frisell – whose composing similarly glows with rootsy blues chords and idiosyncratic harmonies – supplied his own cinematic commentary for Bill Morrison's remarkable silent film on the 1927 Mississippi disaster, The Great Flood.
Pushkin rhapsodized that her hair was more lustrous than daylight and darker than night.
The orchestra was the real problem: Puccini's lustrous instrumentation went missing for much of the evening.
Written by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman and directed by Alexander Mackendrick, the film is extraordinary for its depiction of a now-vanished New York night life (shot on location in lustrous black-and-white), for the spiraling viciousness of Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis (as the king of the gossip columnists and his press-agent toady), and for the plot, which hinges on a smear campaign.
The former savior of the party, midwestern union nemesis and Harley rider is now but an unverifiable folk legend of a man tall as the dickens and with a bald spot on a head of lustrous brown hair like the moon hanging full at midnight.
This evening's steamed toffee date pudding is heady with lustrous Armagnac sauce, but it is a confection of meringue rounds layered with tangerine curd on a pool of blood-orange gelée.
Each leaf, a slim twist of the darkest, most lustrous green, reflected what light there was left in the afternoon, and along its branches was the peppering of flower.
When she strolled out in front of the cameras at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night, Tipper Gore was sheathed in blue, her lustrous coat by Ellen Tracy lending her an aura of beatitude.
Early the next morning, I went to the jeweler and bought it, its pink, turquoise and lustrous white finish changing magically in front of my eyes.
