In the Strand, instead of George Edmund Street's relatively makeshift Law Courts, we could have had Alfred Waterhouse's much more ambitious and romantic urban concept: a magnificent assembly of pitched roofs, towers and walkways, Turneresque in its drama when viewed across the Thames.
There's no problem with the movie's pulp-fiction essence; the problem is that almost all of Besson's formidable imagination went into the science-fiction concept and the magnificent computer-graphic realization of it, and very little of that brain power went into the ordinary framework.
The concept for the Magnificent Mile was part of the 1909 Burnham Plan of Chicago.
"The winning concept will create a magnificent gathering place for visitors and for the families of fallen firefighters," agreed Marie Lemay, chief executive of the National Capital Commission, which helped select the winning design along with the CFFF and art and architecture experts.
My God's magnificent omnipotence surpasses our mortal, earthly concept of humanity and gender, and I believe God is not limited to "Our Father" because God is everything - male, female, and spirit.
You were trying to show people how magnificent and illuminating and useful the concepts that explain sunsets are, but you had to do it without the beautiful prompt of the setting sun.
Danny, Tabor, Elise, and Neal are the Widow Babies, magnificent eccentrics whose first release was a concept record about Minutemen and fIREHOSE bassist Mike Watt's battle with a vampiric Abe Lincoln.
Magnificent bold, mid-century architecture, classic thinking on public space, evocative interiors and programming that understands the concept of celebrating and reinterpreting cultural moments in time.
As Andrew Sarris wrote in "The American Cinema," his magnificent, sublimely eccentric taxonomy of good, bad and fringe directors, "direction is a relatively mysterious, not to say mystical, concept of creation".
