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His chemistry with Keira Knightley is finely developed and, as expected, the songs are stellar.
It's impressive when you look at the film's 0% Rotten Tomatoes rating but less so when you look at the opening for the first film, which was a stellar $31.8m.
A series of increasingly eye-catching screen roles followed, including Ada in the BBC's Bleak House, a guest shot on Doctor Who, the best friend in an ITV drama of another Austen, Northanger Abbey (playing second fiddle to Felicity Jones), and that stellar Seagull at the Royal Court, also in 2007.
Its stellar quarterly growth figures contrasted sharply with the dire fortunes of high street chain French Connection, which now expects to plunge into the red this year.
The defense and goalkeeper Luis Robles have been stellar , matching the team record for shutouts in a season, even though their momentary lapses have been comical.
So much so that Andrew Osagie's last-place finish was one of the stellar British performances of the Games.
1/1-13 University Ave, Canberra 11am: Sculpture at the National Gallery of Australia By all means, take a quick tour of the gallery itself (the works by Pollock, Bacon and Hockney are stellar , and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art collection is, understandably, the best in the world), but save some time for the secluded sculpture garden, which most visitors skip over.
Richardson said her priorities would be maintaining Oxford's stellar reputation as one of the world's top research and teaching universities, and that balancing the university's admissions procedures was part of that effort.
Stellar box office figures, sobbing acclaim and – astonishingly – near-blockbuster status in the US, means that Paddington has mutated into a bona fide cinematic hit.
The showrunner will have three of her dramas airing back-to-back on Thursdays in peaktime on ABC from the autumn: Grey's Anatomy at 8pm, Scandal – which has had three stellar seasons – moving to 9pm, and her new drama, How to Get Away with Murder, airing at 10pm.
Germans, eh? Mertesacker does not even mention the Wembley friendly between the nations from last November, when he headed his country's winner – a personal high in a season of stellar levels.
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The primary grammatical function of "stellar" is as an adjective . It modifies nouns to describe something as exceptionally good or outstanding. As Ludwig AI points out, this usage extends beyond literal references to stars, encompassing figurative meanings of excellence.
Expression frequency: Very common
