In splendid detail, Jonnes examines the importance of the tower in its own historical moment.
This animosity, though, assumed epic proportions, as Drake, with her insiders feel for fashion-world cattiness, shows in splendid detail.
Nathan's piece detailing the impact of warm moist air colliding with cool air, with original sources from the Colorado Weather Bureau, contained some splendid detail.
A scene of wild sexual gratification features the splendid detail of buttons flying off a blouse and skittering across a wood floor.
There is an exhibition at the O₂ Arena in London that lays out in splendid detail many of the highlights of Ali's career.
One stop and less than four minutes later I had arrived at Union Station, the Mission-style hub with splendid Art Deco detailing that is used for Amtrak and other rail lines.
In "Eiffel's Tower: And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count," Jill Jonnes examines — with splendid attention to detail, if not always with writerly finesse — the importance the tower assumed in its own historical moment.
This short book manages to touch on most of Dostoyevsky's career -- his years in a czarist prison when he was a young man, his run-ins with critics and fellow writers like Turgenev and Goncharov and, most movingly, his death in St . Petersburgin 1881, described in splendid and stirring detail.
Like "Mad Men," "Downton" was a historical theme park of splendid interiors, exquisite domestic details and costumes to die for — with characters just modern enough to resonate.
Juliet Barker's splendid book omits no detail of this: bulk orders of arrows, in sheaves of 24, and of goose feathers, six from each goose; muster rolls of lords' retinues and personal indentures for war service; the hiring of Flemish ships and, above all, the raising of funds.
