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The final refrain is expanded with more hymn-like authority, yet the sudden tonic triad which concludes the colourful orchestral coda is deceptively affirmative.
Fetis in particular was notorious for his colourful embellishment of the truth, often yielding conjectural and sometimes offensive narratives.
Its harmonic vocabulary features nothing more colourful than a passing secondary dominant until the two secondary diminished sevendis that colour this cadence in bar 41.
But the architectural climate was changing, becoming less hospitable to the colourful, throwaway image.
For instance, the faces of the characters vary in shades of brown, the comic is colourful and attractive.
The grey exteriors and the colourful interiors are really a sort of protection against the obsessively logical view that inside and outside should agree.
Predictable fun is poked at some of the more colourful characters.
It also tears itself away from the rigid requirements of its narrative to offer occasional colourful descriptions.
Colourful vignettes abound, some of them horrific reminders of the uncertainties of colonial urban life.
The stories in the first half of the book are more colourful than in the second.
The colourful sails now functioned visually and as counterweights air-resistant to motion.
Again, pendulums were fitted with colourful sails and set in motion by an oscillating fan which ran continuously.
That they are colourful, inventive, unusual or provocative does not detract from this basic characteristic.
Many of these were colourful characters with lives determined by the vicissitudes of the ice.
Once again the sound-world of canons, hymns, fugues and ceremonial marches abounds but the music is relentlessly inventive and colourful.
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