Word: wondrously
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Elizabeth's way of escaping gender restrictions and defining herself as a legitimate ruler lay in consummate imagemaking. She stage-managed her own personality cult. She dressed to kill, glittering with jewels in wondrous costumes to bedazzle her subjects. She went on royal progresses--the equivalent of photo-ops--to show off and get to know her people. She had the common touch, able to rouse a crowd or charm a citizen. She had flattering portraits painted and copies widely distributed. She encouraged balladeers to pen propagandistic songs. Her marvelous mythmaking machinery cultivated a mystic bond with the English people...
Alas, James Joyce's The Dead (adding the author's name still won't boost the group sales) turns out to be neither wondrous nor wacky but just kind of wan. The musical numbers, written in traditional Irish style by Shaun Davey, are, with a couple of exceptions, simply songs being performed at Julia and Kate Morkan's annual Christmastime gathering--a gathering that provides an epiphany for their nephew Gabriel...
Stern spoke passionately about his long career, describing music as a "personal involvement with wondrous ecstasy...
...years with The Crimson, I covered games at seven of the eight Ivy League schools (no love to Columbia). I met Leigh Montville and Nancy Darsch. I stormed the field of the Yale Bowl and watched it being stormed from a frigid press box. My eyes took in the wondrous rolling hills of San Francisco while my body was on the clock...
...good, dungeons and dragon-tails for the wicked. We don't really pay upwards of eight dollars to be squeezed into itchy seats or suck up five dollar watered-down Diet Cokes for the clever lines or the skimpy fashions. Instead, we want the oddly satisfying feeling that wondrous, elusive, ephemeral joy--okay, okay, at least a prom date--does come...