Collectively, the films assume an affective, unexpectedly stately power: a multicultural, multi-gendered blast of inclusivity, and the excavation of a hope-filled past.
The combination of craftsmanship, material exotica and faddish learning in the service of stately power was in keeping with the spirit of the Kunst und Wunderkammern, or art and wonder cabinets, which began to proliferate in the mid-16th century.
For me, it's because the gigantic energies that Sibelius is unleashing in his symphony – whether they're the cosmic dance of the faster music, or the impersonal yet shatteringly moving slow music at the start and end of the piece, or the stately power of the trombone theme – are too massive to be contained by any structure, even one as sophisticated as Sibelius's.
NEARLY three years later, residents of this former British colony still get starry-eyed when they recall the rituals that marked Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty on July 1 , 1997 The stately transfer of power, the blazing fireworks, the lavish receptions and balls.
Unlike the rich and prominent of decades past, who sought to flatter their own sense of power by commissioning stately, idealized oil portraits, the moguls of today live in a more self-consciously complex era.
Sure it has a bright screen, a stately Sense UI, and enough power to take on most Android comers.
Subotsky's Marrakech seemed a world away from Power's still, almost stately, composite portraits of the city and its people and Goldberg's mix of monochrome and colour portraits and landscapes.
It is true that we needed a more realistic symbol for Delhi, with its well-known divides of power and resistance, than the stately monument.
The letters, which have made their way into the Italian news media in recent months, draw a portrait of an ancient institution in chaotic disarray behind its high, stately walls, where various factions vie for power, influence and financial control in the twilight years of Benedict's papacy.
No doubt, Miss Megawati will want to remain stately and reserved as president too, to project power and promote stability.
It was one of those big stately, solid buildings suggestive of the federal government's power; tough-looking stone eagles stood sentinel on its facade.
