Reading the church building itself as a text, she renders its language of marble and mosaic into a splendid narrative whose subject is how an architectural space can both express and recall epiphany.
Apart from the low-keyed P strand, it is mostly splendid narrative, including the Elohist's account of the (aborted) sacrifice of Isaac by his father in response to God's command, a terse story packed with meaning, and the Joseph story about the son of Jacob who is sold into slavery by his brothers, rises to a high post in the Egyptian court, and ultimately helps his family to settle in Egypt.
It is possible that the film would not have worked if it were simply a bio-pic of Julia Child — that it derives its narrative thrust and commercial potential from the interplay between a young woman idolizing and relying upon Child in the more or less present and the splendid story of Julia Child's past.
In Embassytown, his metaphor – which is in a sense metaphor itself – works on every level, providing compulsive narrative, splendid intellectual rigour and risk, moral sophistication, fine verbal fireworks and sideshows, and even the old-fashioned satisfaction of watching a protagonist become more of a person than she gave promise of being.
Word from the wise: Go for this hatke (different) experience!" Zee News also rated the film 4 out of 5 and said, "Bhardwaj has once again delivered a powerful film that completely bowls you over with its splendid script, riveting narrative and stellar performances by lead pairShahid and Priyanka [who] have a cracking on-screen chemistry that certainly reminds you of yesteryears on-screen couples".
It might be splendid if this triumphant narrative held true, in Britain and in New York City.
Still, he creates unforgettable images that beautifully reflect Bach's sublime music, as when the Evangelist, Paul Agnew, a splendid tenor, begins the narrative just seated at a plain wooden table, like a host telling dinner guests the most extraordinary story he knows.
Sho recently sat down with me again, this time to talk about his splendid new album, The Narrative, its inspiration, reuniting with Lecrae, making adult contemporary hip-hop, his decision to sign with Humble Beast, his love for the Lakers, and more.
Cavendish offers a more artful and richly developed narrative, beautifully balanced between splendid scenes of Wolsey's glory and vanity and ironically contrasting scenes of disgrace, abasement, and painfully achieved self-knowledge.
A load of exposition is needed to set Tolkien's stage in Middle Earth, but with the narrative engine under way, splendid magic will delight Tolkien fans and grip the uninitiated.
"A South African Childhood" (1954) evokes the sun-drenched Transvaal landscape in lyrical prose; "Pula!" (1979) recounts a visit to Botswana in a narrative that brims with splendid descriptions: the Kalahari desert is a "vast sand-tray" in which thorn trees are "lead toys stuck upright".
