So much is red in the surroundings, that the eye takes unexpected pleasure in anything that is not red - the gold paint on the inside of the church, the deep blue of Mary's cloak, as she holds the crucified body of Jesus in her arms.
The red-hot favourites for gold were luke warm in their opening match with Sweden - and that's being charitable.
Their faces are often platinum or 18-karat red gold, and the movements, visible through the back crystal, are always rose gold.
On the other side there are murals of Bob Marley and flags of red, gold and green - the colours that symbolise the Rastafarian faith.
" There are avant-guitar freakouts, roots-tuggin' jams and gold-spun pastorals like "Rising Red Lung, " where Jeff Tweedy sums up the record's vibe: "I found a fix for the fits.
The eyes of these creatures glided over the crowd as they rode on tongas, emerging untouched from dark streets where sewage flowed in the uncovered gutters, as prominent as targets in brightest-red silk, lipstick, gold.
Her undeniable magnetism can be attributed to various factors, but chief among them was a soprano voice of unmistakable individuality like a red-hot fire poker dipped in gold coupled with a commitment to dramatic intensity not seen on the operatic stage since well before World War II.
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The best of these carvings have a joyful exuberance, with carved tulips, hearts, animals, or fruit, rhinestones, gold paint, red velvet- lined drawers with secret compartments and pin-release locks.
When I asked another fan, dressed head-to-toe in the red, green and gold of the Ghanaian flag, what he thought lay behind Ghana's success, he shouted out two words - "team spirit!"
There were smart jackets with gold hardware and some with red-and-black brocades, crisp navy suits, and leather harnesses over stretch-crepe dresses with sexy slashes on the bodice and asymmetric peplums and hemlines.
The biggest cheers were reserved for the present queen, who was carried aboard a specially-converted royal barge, opulently draped in red and gold.
Rebels fans filled up about two sections, and the rest of the red-and-black faithful was sprinkled around the blue-and-gold-clad crowd.
More an intellectual than a corporate titan, Vanderbilt created the Platonic ideal of a library: plush red chairs surrounded by built-in walnut bookcases filled with 10, 000 gold-embossed, leather-covered volumes in eight different languages.
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Probably Beijing's best mid-range option, the rooms are furnished in imperial gold, red and green.
The ceremony followed this lead, featuring traditional Chinese drum music and Mickey Mouse dressed in a traditional, red Tang Chinese suit -- a collarless silk jacket with matching trousers, resplendent with gold accents on the embroidered jacket, toggle buttoning and trouser cuffs.
Some companies insist on calling it red gold because of proprietary differences in composition from what they consider to be run-of-the-mill rose.
He is red-faced and aneurysm-popping, tweaked at having put his entire net worth into gold and T bills over the past ten years.
Twenty-three trees, with 224 wreaths, 486 feet of garland and 1, 464 burgundy, red and gold bows among them, grace the building.
The wholly owned Tasiast gold deposit, acquired by Kinross from Red Back Mining Inc. in 2010, is considered a world-class deposit that Paul Rollinson, company chief executive officer, is firmly backing despite the hit.
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To enter the theater now is to be immersed in a delicate pastel world of sage and celadon green, rose-pink, lavender and orchid, a dramatic change at the turn of the century from standard theatrical red and gold.
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