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Sifting through these relics left Yates in a more wistful mood than usual.
And they eventually seem to concur in their wistful conclusion that if Celebration is a bit of a corporate harlot, it yet has a heart of gold, or at least of honest brass, and does not deserve the easy contempt of its oh-so-sophisticated detractors.
The extravagant ballroom and soaring allegorical frescoes like Giambattista Tiepolo’s Merit between Virtue and Nobility in the “Throne Room” (actually for Rezzonico weddings) and others, more wistful, by Guardi all catch the tone of a declining Venice and the frivolous lives of the idle rich.
I have to say the Peanuts thing is making me wistful, too.
You hated 'em, but you also seem wistful for the pre-Rudy days.