"The first one was simple: as Venus slowly made its way across the sun's face, we marvelled at the magnificent clockwork precision of celestial mechanics.
This ship is England, he proclaims, and "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," which opens nationwide today, makes his point with magnificent vigor and precision.
"Fox's achievement," wrote Margaret and Michael Rustin in Narratives of Love and Loss: Studies in Modern Children's Fiction (1987), "is to write with magnificent restraint and precision about the interplay of personal and historical, inner growth and outer framework, the process of learning to think about oneself and the world".
It's the 85th year of the Rockettes, and they are simply magnificent: regal in their precision, radiant in their costumes, exuberant in their high kicks.
The equations have a precision and elegance, a magnificent serenity, an indisputable rightness.
However, for all its mosaic of nice details, including Ida Random's magnificent production design and Carol Littleton's editing precision, "Silverado" is still a faintly hollow creation--constructed, not torn from the heart.
Towering above the garden's green architecture is a magnificent row of eight hornbeam cones, cut with military precision atop a living hedge that runs along one side of the garden.
Irons is perfectly cast as the love-bitten English gentleman, and the Oscar-nominated Streep is magnificent in her double role--oozing passion as Sara, and cool precision as Anna.
Irons is perfectly cast as the love-bitten English gentleman, and the Oscar-nominated Streep is magnificent in her double role -- oozing passion as Sara, and cool precision as Anna.
