At their best, Zeman's Roma were scintillating.
I was fortunate enough to see your Macbeth in Manchester, it was absolutely scintillating!
Juventus had conceded in each of their previous five games across all competitions, while Alessio Cerci's scintillating form had helped Torino to score six goals in their last three.
A shame, as the city and its surroundings have continued to undergone massive changes, and to be sclerotic and scintillating at the same time: congested freeways, massive real estate price inflation, absurd wealth on one side of the city and deprivation on the other, racial conflict and exhilarating cultural hybridity.
It is also not scintillating, nor even engaging.
Still, Romania is rich in talent and resources: its best days are ahead.Also well worth reading is the NEE interview with the Polish-born American historian of Russia, Richard Pipes (whose scintillating memoirs I reviewed in the Economist print edition a few years ago).
Watching Corin Redgrave embody the one-time wordsmith, wit and apparent sexual fetishist Kenneth Tynan is to open one's eyes to a kind of genius that is both scintillating and not a little sad.Richard Nelson's play, adapted in collaboration with Colin Chambers from Tynan's own diaries, has anecdotes to spare, as one might expect, and a degree of pathos which one might not anticipate.
But it amounts to a less than scintillating pitch.The axeman reconsiderethMr Cameron and his clan have suffered multiple embarrassments recently.
Lest you fear that the meteoric numbers on the night may outdazzle the art, a strutting, primary-coloured "Cockerel" by Joan Miró, and a scintillating Fauvist masterpiece, André Derain's "Bateaux à Collioure" (1905), both in Christie's evening sale of impressionism and modern art, remind one why this sector is once again resurgent.
One has to wonder, for instance, why Konrad sits silently, lips pursed, while Henrik delivers what for all intents and purposes is one long speech and not a terribly scintillating one at that.
Traditional fairytales, such as "The Sleeping Beauty" and "Cinderella", have fared much better.There is one scintillating Shakespearean exception.
