In The New York Times Book Review, Justin Cronin said the book "plays out in splendid good fun, bouncing from one James Bondian locale to another, bon mot to bon mot, the text saturated with literary and cultural references".
It all plays out in splendid good fun, bouncing from one James Bondian locale to another, bon mot to bon mot, the text saturated with literary and cultural references from Joseph Conrad to Susan Sontag, often more than one per page.
(Simm and Maxine Peake are also splendid, but it looks more fun playing ghastly toffs).
The result is "a splendid, entirely satisfying book, intelligent and fun and revealing and troubling in the correct proportions, resolutely skeptical but not at all cynical, brimming with fabulous scenes as well as sharp analysis," Kurt Andersen said here in 1999.
It's been a splendid day: a melding of art, science and fun with something concrete to show for it at the end.
This contradiction is solved in Caroline Byrne's splendid revival, which stages The Taming of the Shrew as thumping good fun while also taming the play's ideological toxicity.
Either way, he is having fun provoking Russia's corporate giants, and (coincidentally, of course) getting splendid publicity for himself and his bank.
They have built sports facilities, parks, and a splendid corniche in the capital with a seaside promenade and parkour stations; hosted fun runs with hefty cash prizes; set up free body mass index and blood pressure monitoring stations.
It was splendid stage for the premier players in baseball to strut in a game that is supposed to be fun and about the fans.
