If the next big blockbuster genre is indeed the young-adult teen literature adaptation, let them all be as technically polished, charmingly written, and splendidly acted as Beautiful Creatures.
The soprano Patricia Racette sings splendidly in the title role, each beautiful phrase chiselled as if from marble.
The opening scene is splendidly staged, as Deronda first sees the beautiful and headstrong Gwendolen gambling in a casino.
The mall was progressing splendidly, and in early December, my wife and I found a beautiful house in Paradise Valley.
I said 'James Joyce.' She said: 'You really are the most perverse man, because when I last talked to you of James Joyce you said he was a phony, and that 'Finnegans Wake' was a wake only for James Joyce.' I said: 'Try me again next time and I'll attack him again with liberal quotations.' She is very beautiful and is married to a most engaging man, splendidly broken-nosed".
A disintegrating country house in South Yorkshire is splendidly conjured up in Bob Crowley's design, with a bar fire and beautiful objects peeping out from swags of protecting fabric.
There are also beautiful orchestral passages and Maurizio Benini conducted the Met orchestra splendidly.
This current offering is an extraordinarily beautiful production, intelligently directed and, with the exception of a few instances, splendidly acted.
"Beautiful" is a production of the New Group, a troupe that has done splendidly by revivals of late-2oth-century plays like Wallace Shawn's "Aunt Dan and Lemon" and David Rabe's "Hurlyburly" but has had less luck with original work.
I should have known, Laura thought, rubbing her arms with her newly cold hands, seeing not Georgie but the Hudson flowing splendidly through the glorious afternoon in the window behind him: It's such a perfect, beautiful day.
