But Mr. Adès enshrouds them in the opera's most rapturous music, an extended duet with sighing vocal lines and quizzical orchestral sonorities.
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It's the kind of vaulted and perfectly proportioned space that we imagine painters see, like dogs closing on rabbits, in their most rapturous dreams.
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Their performances without any other instruments drew the most rapturous response, partly because Mr. Bluiett stuffed the band's underbelly with so much texture and power.
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Mr. Salonen certainly proved himself a stunning conductor of repertory works this spring, when he led the most rapturous and truly electrifying "Elektra" you could hope to hear.
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Netflix hoards its ratings deep in a Los Gatos bunker, but BoJack has long drawn the company's most rapturous reviews, from the Jesuit magazine America to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.
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Some of the most rapturous of silent films were made by Alexander Dovzhenko, a Ukrainian director who worked in the Soviet Union and, during the sound era, bore Stalinist constraints stoically.
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Confusing lore aside, this one's fun from the start when Jam Master Jay—in Santa hat and red track suit—makes children scream, "Ho Ho Ho," prompting one of the show's most rapturous receptions for any musical guest.
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" In the memoir's most rapturous passages, which recall Albert Camus's essays on his Algerian childhood, Matar evokes his rediscovery of the Libyan landscape, the luminous Mediterranean coast and the austerity of the interior, where the earth "stood as all the unpeopled landscapes of Libya stand, clean and witnessing.
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Her darker feelings are shown with an expressionistic blend of upper-body gesture and lower-body steps; the most rapturous moments of her duet with the Fairground Boy (Andrei Chagas), beautifully timed to the music, are caught in formally academic-ballet terms — notably, an upright lift in which one leg is classically extended to the side, as if catching both her expansiveness and her aspiration to orthodoxy.
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" Their gig four days later in Melbourne was praised by the Herald Sun, which said: "From opener 'Dressed for Success', they had one of the most rapturous reactions the Rod Laver Arena has seen in years." The West Australian praised the entire band, writing that they "owned" Challenge Stadium during their two concerts at the Perth venue at the end of February. Fredriksson's performance at the Manchester Arena on 4 July was singled out for praise from The Guardians Dave Simpson, who said that "the poignancy she invests into their more wistful lyrics suggests [that performance is] part of her recovery." In a review of their 31 August show at the Bell Centre, the Montreal Gazette praised Gessle's songwriting, saying: "There's much to be said for the way [he] has been able to take the eternal beauty of the I-IV-V chord progression (think "Wild Thing" or "Twist and Shout") – one of rock's most basic and perfect statements – and use it as a foundation for his own evergreens, which still sound pretty fresh.
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