Word: loveliest
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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley), was an 18th century scandal magnet for having both a swine and a swain--an icy, cheating husband (Ralph Fiennes) and a Whig politician lover (Dominic Cooper). This middling drama is less a history lesson than a tour of sumptuous real estate. The loveliest acreage is Knightley's alabaster back...
...quiet, leafy street in the loveliest neighborhood of Colombo, Dr. Lucien de Zilwa christened his new house Tintagel. It was the height of British colonial rule in Sri Lanka, but de Zilwa didn't choose the name - that of King Arthur's legendary birthplace in Cornwall - out of any attachment to empire. He was a fashionable man, living in the most fashionable part of the city, and it was the vogue at the time among the local élite to give wistful English names to their villas...
...rains. The leaves of the tall oaks brushed against one another caressingly, and when the wind came in short breezes the leaves gasped like the ocean. Out in the small orchard, the plum trees sagged, their branches laden with ripe fruit. Frederick thought it was the loveliest pastoral tableau that he had ever seen.Slowly, inevitably, his attention was drawn back to the terrace, back to Felicity, back to the table laden with porcelain which sat between them. There was nothing more to say of the garden, though they would probably return to the subject over next afternoon?...
...With his eternally gorgeous wife at his Geneva bedside, Ponti died Tuesday at 94 of that loveliest of incurable maladies, extreme...
...loveliest genre of all is the drunken photos. A growing number of Harvard undergraduates have a penchant for posting photos of themselves and their friends guzzling from beer funnels or passed out on the sticky floor of a sweaty dorm room in Currier House. The captions for such photos usually involve the phrase “OMG was so EFFIN’ trashed DO NOT REMEMBER THIS AT ALL,” or something along those lines. This sort of thing has always puzzled me. What is the value in that pre-hangover photo, and what memory does it preserve...