Over the past few years, Wimbledon has been the commercial London panto to beat, but for all the surface sparkle, the formula seems to be slightly losing its shine.
Yet if this "Arcadia" lacks the uniform surface sparkle it had when I saw it (with a different cast) in London in 2009, it has acquired something more important: an emotional depth, viscerally rooted, to support its intellectual shimmer.
As staged by Mr. Hytner (who as the director of "The History Boys" proved himself a master at imposing cohesive style on a fragmented script), "Southwark Fair" has plenty of surface sparkle and some delightful dialogue, which suggest that the comedy of manners may not be obsolete after all.
Still others walking up and down the banks with their rifles pointed at the surface, sparkling creases, eddies, and points where the dark water parted around rocks.
The stripes remind me of a beach hut and the work surface sparkles like the sea," said Ms. Mason, who now also owns a beach hut on the seafront.
Every surface sparkles with care and love and craft: a very English anarchist idyll, heaving with carvings, mosaics, stained glass, fascinating bookshelves and, in one corner, a tiny dancing Shiva proudly sporting a sticker blazoned with the words "UP YOUR ARSE".
At the 63-suite Devi Ratn (deviresorts.in), red sandstone is made into lyrical domes and arches, and surfaces sparkle with metal inlay.
Both surfaces sparkle slightly.
An infinity pool projects out towards the Atlantic horizon, as the setting sun casts a golden glow across the villa's seamless planes, their surfaces sparkling with Namibian diamond dust mixed into the white concrete.
It cuts right through the stubborn film and leaves surfaces sparkling clean.
Advertisements, usually featuring a man in a scientific white coat and an enthralled housewife, repeatedly raised the bar: clothes needed to be whiter than white, fabrics ever softer, surfaces to sparkle and shine.Dirt-hounding has even become a spectator sport, judging from the success of prime-time reality-TV shows, such as Britain's "How Clean is Your House?".
