In "The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton," Kathryn Hughes's scrupulously researched, definitive study, Mrs. Beeton, as she was universally known, emerges as a fascinating blend of Betty Crocker and Emily Post, with a little Martha Stewart or Nigella Lawson thrown in for good measure.
This is not universally accepted, but I find it fascinating.
Both alien and universally appealing, its producers are a fascinating portrait of the country's colonial influence: an Angolan kuduro shuffle here, a lithe Brazilian samba there, all rendered in cold 21st-century ones and zeroes.
The data is not only fascinating but, surprisingly enough, universally understood.
Northumbria University's Dalton, who has studied the building for several years and has edited a book about it, says she finds it fascinating that a place so "universally admired by architects … can be so dysfunctional".
A.G.S.: Well, what's fascinating is that, when Bill Safire died, he was mourned universally across our audience.
The leading Bach pianist, universally respected, Mr. Schiff in his recital at Carnegie Hall was predictably creative, fascinating, impeccable -- and his performance may have left some people unmoved.
It is a story of inspiring persistence and fascinating permutation, told by one of the most entrancing, universally beloved artistic materials (Smith).
It is a story of inspiring persistence and fascinating permutation, told by one of the most entrancing, universally beloved artistic materials.
