What she possessed, beyond her beauty, physical grace and natural acting ability, was a resplendent voice that conveyed enormous warmth and feeling.
There is also a resplendent garden that grows "in the air" — full of "palms, banyans, and coconut trees, as well as some other unusual plants".
In 2000 our reviewer, Julie Gray, called this a "resplendent novel" that is filled with "just the right amount of political and historical detail".
It wrote that the "blessed royal family of the Hungarians is adorned with resplendent pearls that irradiate all the earth".
Resplendent in that, with costume designs by Alexander McQueen and lighting by Michael Hulls, the piece is never less than beautiful; flawed in that its formal elements are in permanent tension.
The most resplendent was that in Rome in 1992 – 39 pieces dating from 1960 to 1987, superbly displayed in the ancient Trajan's Markets in Rome.
Even a simple two-piece suit, he went on, was for him a kind of armor, a protective and often resplendent shield that he excelled in providing for others, if not, in the end, for himself.
Gaps between rich and poor have been growing, but our national lands are a rare space of utter democracy: the poorest citizen gets resplendent views that even a billionaire is not allowed to buy.
The Gwozdziec Synagogue, built in the 17th and 18th centuries, was a "truly resplendent synagogue that exemplified a high point in Jewish architectural art and religious painting," the architectural historian Thomas C. Hubka, an expert on the building, has written.
That is just the skeleton of a story to hang the putrid and often transfixing display of human flesh -- rotting and resplendent -- that Daniels is putting before us.
Backed by beats and strings and resplendent in headgear that suggests a 22nd-century Cleopatra, Björk plays the most uncompromising festival headline set imaginable.
