Some of the sounds — lustrous keyboards, muttering bass lines — have long been part of Mr. Eno's vocabulary; others, like certain raucous drumbeats, hint at Mr. Hopkins's experience as a dance-club D.J. Above all the album extends Mr. Eno's long and downright scientific fascination with backgrounds.
Oddly, however, given Heggie's growing reputation as a writer for the voice - his more than 50 published songs have been recorded by some of the most lustrous names in the singing world - the one nagging uncertainty concerned his handling of the vocal line.
DURING a stretch of several months in 2010 the soprano Renée Fleming made what looked to be some startling shifts in her lustrous career.
Some, just to scratch the lustrous surface, are as familiar as the bronze charioteer from Delphi or the Victory of Samothrace, which now stands atop the Daru staircase in the Louvre.
Although it is present as silvery-gray, highly lustrous platelike masses in some rocks, it is most widely encountered as the henna-red pigment of many diverse rocks—e.g., red sandstones and many other red beds.
The card at Ayr this afternoon is the most interesting and valuable by some distance, though the scratching of Lustrous, who was due to make her debut for David O'Meara, takes a little of the shine from the feature event, the Listed Rothesay Stakes.
Mother-of-pearl or nacre is the naturally occurring lustrous layer that lines some mollusc shells.
White tells how phoney messages from a mate were contrived - in a lather of galloping horses and lustrous seals - to impress some Franciscans.
Some creative touches among the mediocrity: a lustrous black gown for shopping, feathers sprouting from jacket backs, an organza bubble coat, a gilded picture frame worn as a necklace, padded gloves embellishing a shirt, and a color-coordinated dog, the ultimate accessory.
