1.   And no design, however beautiful or evocative, can eliminate the feeling in the pit of the stomach come April.

2.   However beautiful the music, opera is too precious a medium for its audiences to miss the words and their meaning.

3.   However beautiful it was, it needed its context, it needed Shalom or Gisele, or at least a cloth-and-wire Stockman dressing dummy.

4.   No poem, or thought, however beautiful, will become permanent.

5.   The Russians need to look at the tape to see Slutskaya, however beautiful and talented and graceful, having a mediocre silver-medal night.