He has wonderful arrangements, writes supremely intelligent lyrics and music that is more melodic than he is given credit for.
Stothard's poetically written, supremely stylish memoir only partly conceals its underlying mission, to insist that antiquity still has urgent things to tell us.
(DeLillo writes supremely well about sport; his underrated 1972 novel about American Football, End Zone, is a cool, bleak classic of that curious genre, the sports novel).
This is also the world, although in a Catholic version, of J. F. Powers, a novelist who wrote supremely well about the Catholic Church in the Midwest between the late nineteen-forties and the late nineteen-eighties.
Having co-written the supremely nasty My Little Eye and gone for the jugular in the viscerally satirical Eden Lake, director James Watkins here foregrounds atmosphere over shocks, looking toward the templates of The Orphanage and The Others with impressively shiversome results.
On the Nazi films, Bach writes, the supremely organized and imperious Riefenstahl "was competing with men she had displaced through a relationship with the Führer that invited speculation she actively encouraged," and who were "disposed to view her presence behind a camera as illegitimate no matter how she got there".
Evil, he writes, is boring, supremely pointless, lifeless, philistine, kitsch-ridden, and superficial.
"As a biographer," Gessen writes, "Loseff is honorable, supremely intelligent, and supernally well-informed".
He's now all grown up, supremely confident, writes Richard Deitsch of SI.com, making people say, "Brady, who?" A few people noticed just how horrendous Tom Brady and the Patriots were, including Mike Reiss of ESPN.com, but those people were largely overrun in Jets mania.
Music author Tom Moon felt that its tempoless mood "gives the themes an extra shot of majesty" and found it "supremely melodic", writing that both Shepp and Parlan "do whatever is necessary to bring the spirit to the forefront".
