In 2014, the videos for "To Pimp a Butterfly," a difficult, pluralistic blues album, were darkly resplendent: "i" depicted Lamar leaning out of the window of a moving car, his eyes closed in the moonlight, his torso a whir of urban recklessness; in "Alright," he hung upside down, lifted by a mass of grinning black men.
As early as 1921, he had written to his father, "I am going to be at a frightful disadvantage for some years, sheepish and put-upon, but when I am discovered things will be vulgarly resplendent; I vend a cake Americans will hug".
"The open at Muirfield, with Sergio and Lee resplendent (ok, I can dream) on their way to the title, Miguel puffing away in the clubhouse with a large vermouth, while at Lords we have another rearguard action by Sir Ian Ronald Bell and Johnny Bairstow, and in France, Chris Froome's tackling the fearsome Alpe d'Huez not once, but twice in a single day?
As the hope of ever receiving my resplendent rug fades, I leave Morocco.
So Khuram and I, resplendent in green sashes, were in the call centre, working the 8am to 4pm and 10am to 6pm shifts.
And there, in all of its resplendent, horrific, hulking majesty I found the leviathan I'd been chasing this entire time: a $29 lobster roll.
You look at the picture of the young protestor, rising above the serried ranks of the police, resplendent in her This Is England haircut and Hatful of Hollow T-shirt.
I was resplendent in a three-piece suit along with his retinue of lawyers, his manager, valet, and assistants, including Brown's surrogate son, spiritual adviser, and road manager -- and my contemporary -- the Rev. Al Sharpton.
I was quite resplendent, too.
My daughter was around seven at the time, and I remember her resplendent in neon green Spandex bike shorts, pink top, turquoise helmet and matching Santa 's-Christmas-present-two-wheeler 's-Christmas-present-two-wheeler 's-Christmas-present-two-wheeler 's-Christmas-present-two-wheeler 's-Christmas-present-two-wheeler
I know the time because the duomo, candy-coloured and resplendent behind us, has struck the hour, and I realise I have just heard the death knell of my blind date.
