Leviathan is a forbidding and intimidating work, a return to Zvyagintsev's earlier themes, and away from the more domestic drama of his previous, awarding movie Elena, but it has a magnificent ambition and scope.
Rail The Australian network is sparse in its scope but magnificent in its scale.
Now that the government of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has approved a North American Free Trade Agreement which promises to make Mexico commercially one with its neighbors to the north, there is little scope for magnificent sorrow in the average citizen's life--sorrow that has its roots in ranchera music.
Since Cervantes's magnificent knight's quest has cosmological scope and reverberation, no object seems beyond reach.
For The Globe and Mail, Sol Chrom lauded the epic scope, calling it a "magnificent achievement", and for The Belfast News Letter, the reviewer called the novel "extraordinary, ambitious, poetic and powerful".
"The setting was magnificent".
Stick the scope into the water and check out the magnificent underwater world.
Examining Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr during the critical 1800 election, the historian Edward Larson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his book on the Scopes trial, both deifies and debunks the founders in "A Magnificent Catastrophe".
Their symbolic versatility befits an exhibition in which nature is, by turns, magnificent, cute and enduring, while also increasingly dangerous and endangered, thanks to the widening scope of human indifference and exploitation.
