Despite a glowing user review from Jane Smiley, which saw the Pulitzer prize-winning author call it "one of my two or three favourite novels of all time", praising its "magical" prose and "perfect blending of story and style", Our Mutual Friend only picked up 6.5% of readers' votes.
Macdonald's perfect blending of natural description, fact, raw emotion, and references to T.H. White's 1951 classic The Goshawk impressed critics.
The slice arrived at an ideal temperature: just warm enough to melt some of the chocolate into the pecans for a perfect blending of texture and flavor.
The 10 p.m. show, which most likely will not premiere until the fall and is still to be named, will be "the perfect blending of politics and pop culture," Mr. Griffin said.
So today's appearance before a group of mental health professionals in suburban Washington, where she shared a stage and a microphone with her husband, offered the perfect blending of politics and policy, an opportunity to promote her pet issue and her husband's candidacy.
The parallel camera movement that Shimizu uses to describe the final ascent represents a perfect blending of formal beauty and emotional power; it belongs with the climax of Kenji Mizoguchi's "Sansho the Bailiff," also featuring Tanaka, as one of the most devastating moments in Japanese film.
