With discipline and good technique, great singers like Alfredo Kraus and Joan Sutherland sang splendidly well into their 60's.
It is also splendidly honest.
Foxx and DeHaan are splendidly cast as good characters (Max Dillion and Harry Osborne, respectively) that have both gone bad.
Commenting in the daily Die Welt, the arts writer Manuel Brug said he had nothing against Dercon himself – "a good man, splendidly well-connected, glamorous but intellectual, contemporary but reputable" – but wondered what business he had running a theatre.
He is the best known of the five thanks to his splendidly Hitchcockian profile, general good copy, many restaurants and television shows and, one hopes, future lines of couture.
In the daily Die Welt, the arts writer Manuel Brug said he had nothing against Dercon himself – "a good man, splendidly well-connected, glamorous but intellectual, contemporary but reputable" – but wondered what business he had running a theatre.
Yet normal immigration rules apply, allowing Britain to block entry to those with criminal convictions or whose presence would not be "conducive to the public good", a splendidly flexible phrase.The most alarming would-be guests, such as Belarus's Alexander Lukashenko and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, are subject to international travel bans so will not be coming.
"Cook has played splendidly, he's been good for the team to bat all day when wickets have been going throughout day.
Splendidly accomplished to a rattling good soundtrack with lovely grace notes throughout, but nothing like that moment of true confession.
"It was good to hear how splendidly everything was going," he said.
In other bad-guy news, I was delighted to see the return of Dot, who makes a splendidly laconic villain and is particularly adept at winding up Arnott, always a good thing.
