"We've enjoyed a very good season this season and things have progressed brilliantly at the football club compared to last year.
Quite how Morrissey avoided writing a heartbreak anthem called Now I Taste the Tears is a mystery, but thankfully his American forebears did the job perfectly, marrying a brooding psych melody with a vocal that progresses from anguished to brilliantly overwrought.
Anita Dobson, an underrated actress, brilliantly charts Nancy's progress from frozen emptiness to thawed humanity.
I'd love to see them progress but, whatever the result, Paul Buckle has done brilliantly on limited resources.
"It is still early days yet but the pups are making strong progress and mum Naira is carrying out her role brilliantly".
As desperate for affection as he is morbidly incapable of giving it, he stumbles towards oblivion with Mara Galeazzi's depraved Mary Vetsera, his incomprehending progress aided at every turn by the cattish, calculating Countess Larisch, brilliantly interpreted by Hikaru Kobayashi.
Then, in "Facades," Robbins brilliantly matches the music's accumulating repetitions with the incremental patterns and progress of a silhouetted line of dancers.
He's done brilliantly, but I'd like to think we played a role in his progress.
The pieces mostly had the feel of works in progress, with the exception of a final accomplished duo, "Pieces of Wood," by Mr. Sanouvi (brilliantly performed by the choreographer and Moya Michael).
It is, on the face of it, not a picture of enormous progress, even if the match itself – and in particular a first half that Everton largely spent attacking brilliantly and relentlessly – told a different story.
