This is not to say that there aren't superb, insightful passages to be found throughout the book, passages that often draw on southern Asia's visual and sensual collisions.
Because the author-character openly discusses her rights and responsibilities in trying to reconstruct the family in which her mother grew up, there's no moral queasiness, no need to ask "Is that true or are you making it up?" And because her skill and powers of invention are superb, the imagined passages are completely satisfying.
The passage was superb: calm, hot, and blissful.
"Some of the comedy is very funny," wrote John Dugdale in the Sunday Times, "and Pynchon's novel is also full of superb dialogue and lovely descriptive passages that show that, at 72, the outstanding gifts that led in the 1960s and 1970s to comparisons with Joyce and Melville have not deserted him.
Joshua Modney, the violin soloist, was superb in Berg's more introverted passages but could have applied a sharper edge elsewhere.
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As I hope the above passages demonstrate, Henkes has a superb sense of rhythm, which, for picture-book authors, may be even more essential than empathy and wit.
Jo Potter has also been quick to make her mark this season, scoring a superb free-kick against Liverpool to secure Birmingham's passage to the last eight of the FA Cup.
Leader Andrew Haveron was also impressive, both in his command of the entire ensemble and in his numerous solo passages, in which he showed off a glorious tone and superb musicianship.
Andrew Veyette, an impressive partner, dances with greater athletic power but no special stylistic grace; Jonathan Stafford, Mr. Fairchild and Adrian Danchig-Waring Ms. Pollackk's partner) show tension amid passages of racing power, while Mr. Finlay and Zachary Catazaro, another superb partner, have more style than brilliance.
