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Puget Sound is the splendorous center of our water-blessed region, and our ferries offer even people of modest means the chance to cruise through all that beauty.

Outdoors, two regular-season games on a rink at the 18th hole of a golf course and without fans, was to create a picturesque precedent for national television, with a splendorous blend of snow, sun, water, mountains and trees as an organic backdrop.

"Having said that - It looks utterly glorious. The animals are perfectly rendered and the Art-Deco universe is splendorous."

When one day that tree shows off its plumage, it will honor her love of country — la tierra — and help make her beloved Puerto Rico as splendorous as she once remembered it.

“The Burning Girl” is at its best when it amplifies that subtle, piercing shift between Cassie and Julia, made brighter by passages of sheer splendorous prose: “She said to Peter, who repeated it to me, that it was only there — in the park, the prickly packed earth under her and the maple’s scaly trunk behind her, its limbs above still winter-bare, that she understood that she was a runaway.”