Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, who directed Sean Penn as a faded rock star in This Must Be The Place, is in the running with his film The Great Beauty.
Like that other great Florentine family, the Medicis, the Guccis produced great beauty and great soap opera.
Although the movie is elegantly made and has moments of great beauty, it somehow falls short of delivering the tremendous emotional impact that it promises.
"Sometimes, though, there is great beauty in the local and focused, " he says.
James Daunt, managing director of Waterstones, said the nominated books contained "great beauty, humour, intrigue, imagination and important things to say, but most crucially all are fantastically good reads".
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But even if you'll never be able to afford a treasure like the Duke-Semans mansion, take comfort that the museum across the street allows access to the trappings of great wealth and beauty--for as little as a penny.
Until now, contemporary Chinese film making has been identified in the West with historical peasant dramas of great visual beauty which allude only allegorically to modern-day politics or society.
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The power of this form of tacit knowledge is embodied in the great Gothic cathedrals of Europe masterpieces of beauty, craftsmanship, and stability, all erected without blueprints or books.
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There was a sweeping dismissal of emotional expression and of art that represented the capacity to take great pains to achieve Classical refinement and beauty.
The beauty of college athletics is that there are always great story lines fueled by history, politics, and brand name bragging rights.
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The beauty of a public charter school lies in its great autonomy and self-determination -- this is what drew me to charter schools in the first place.
Chess, with its great beauty, layered strategies and psychological gambits, was the testing ground to resolve this issue.
Contrary to Fitch's judgment, they find that the eclectic team that built Vizcaya produced a work of great and original beauty.
The beauty of digital is it's very effective--great ROI and very efficient--to talk directly to consumers and to give them customized and more relevant information about what the brand can do for them.
Five years ago, Orvis introduced the original Helios, a light-yet-strong beauty, arguably its first great rod in many decades.
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Then you'll find yourself in an oasis of beauty and solitude, in a hotel located in the Daintree Rainforest and right by the Great Barrier Reef.
Years of watching her peers suck down cigarette after cigarette to stave off hunger, the now 49-year-old beauty knew there had to be a better way to look great and feel healthy.
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Jobs compares the crafting of a great idea with the long and arduous task of slowly refining a dusty, ugly rock into a polished beauty.
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