"Heart's Needle" was followed by another book of controlled and intricate stanzas, "After Experience," which was, if perhaps not quite so arresting, more richly varied.
Hewitt is serving for the Championship he so richly deserves and quite obviously desires.
I can find no precedent for this, and while his cake is richly flavoured and quite delicious, it's not a simnel.
For this performance the soloist was Measha Brueggergosman, a young Canadian soprano with a warm, richly colored yet quite light voice.
There is, thank goodness, one genuinely touching character – Michonnet, the loyal impresario whose love for Adriana is unrequited, and whose performance here by baritone Richard Burkhard is richly sung and quite beautifully judged.
But there's simply nothing else out there that drives quite like this, yet still caters so richly to our decadence.
It's the social hypocrisy of John Major's day, and would be richly comic if it wasn't quite so… potentially imminent.
If his analysis is neither as harsh nor as deep as Shaw's, and his richly upholstered dialogue never crackles with quite the same head-spinning dialectical wit, his plotting is felicitous and his characters vivid and lifelike.
It demonstrates Shorter's gifts as a composer-improviser, bringing classical and folkloric elements into a richly nuanced whole where every track is quite different.
I like Ken's method best – the others seem to give large, dryish flakes of egg, which remain quite separate from the rice, while his rice is richly golden all the way through.
