Were, you see, recently posted a mock tourism poster on his website that began with an offensive expression and got worse: "We've got fucking dragons, stunning birds, hard blokes, tidy mountains, male voice choirs, lots of sheep".
According to Kenneth Rogoff, an economist at Harvard who has long attempted to find rational models for predicting currency fluctuations, "it is stunning how hard it is to explain movements in exchange rates".
It was a poor region, and it got poorer as you went downstream toward Wushan, which was at the center of the Three Gorges — a hundred-and-twenty-mile stretch of narrow mountains and cliffs through which the Yangtze passes, creating a landscape of stunning beauty, hard farming, and fast currents.
After stumbling through the first group stage in second place, the side only really got going in the semi-final group, and even then their performances were staunch rather than stunning: a hard-fought 2-0 win over Yugoslavia, a four-goal second-half blast against the nondescript Swedes, and a gritty one-goal win over a very good Poland side.
I'd love to say I'd noticed a big difference but the truth is iPhone photos are so cleverly processed they have always looked stunning and been hard to beat.
Warner's marketing campaign, while visually stunning, had a hard time clearly positioning Mr. Burton's offbeat movie (is it a comedy? a campy horror movie? an "Addams Family" update?), and some analysts worry that audiences are becoming blas?bout Mr. Depp's eccentric characters.
Warner's marketing campaign, while visually stunning, had a hard time clearly positioning Mr. Burton's offbeat movie (is it a comedy? a campy horror movie? an "Addams Family" update?), and some analysts worry that audiences are becoming blasé about Mr. Depp's eccentric characters.
It's amazing that some locations are so stunning, it's hard to tell if they're real or CGI.
But no: over the last few months there has been a stunning resurgence of hard-money and balanced-budget orthodoxy.
