Hints and tips:
...Kauffman wanted to be taken seriously: she emphasises her modesty, erudition, classical allusions to what art historian Johann Winckelmann called “noble simplicity and serene grandeur”....
...Jeffrey Boakye’s Black, Listed (Dialogue Books, April) is a stimulating collection of up-to-the-minute essays on black culture, and Nicholas Blincoe’s intriguing-sounding More Noble Than War (Nation Books...
...Is it then possible that you can leave your good old friend and servant sighing for your noble presence for so long?”...
...In the title role, Florin Cezar Ouatu’s smoky, passionate tone sounded underpowered until his show-stopping prison aria in the last act, when everything made sense....
...But Darrell has less noble ambitions and his own special twist on the concept of retail therapy....
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