splendrous

An ancient Greek tragedy by way of Japan, it is visually and aurally splendrous — a large-cast spectacle, with hypnotically paced choreography borrowed from the tradition of Noh theater.

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Splendrous was the preliminary singing of a grand Te Deum in the National Cathedral at Bucharest, with the Patriarch of Rumania, bearded Miron Cristea, presiding in his twinkling medieval mitre.

Whatever the event there would be no slightest break in that splendrous super-human continuity which endures, not the King but the Crown.

Conversely, an expression of utmost anguish mitigates the authority suggested by the splendrous vestments of Monsignor James Loughlin.