Within Ms. Melnick's finely honed precision, she moves like silk.
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Celeste has finely honed a porcelain facade that people can't see underneath.
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For activists, sharp instincts and finely honed demands hold the key to success.
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But who ever heard of an English toff without an arsenal of finely honed swear words?
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This was a perfect example of Russia's foreign minister exercising his finely honed diplomatic double speak.
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With his glasses and his Instagram and finely honed balance of precociousness and gee-whiz good-naturedness?
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The finely honed collection, made up of 13 pieces, provides the building blocks for a grounded wardrobe.
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The soprano Kathleen Kim brought a nimble and golden voice to the part, and finely honed physical comedy.
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On the field she weaves past other players with dominance, thanks to a decade of finely honed footwork.
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Using finely honed techniques they can drill thousands of wells on the land in an almost industrial manner.
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He knew that his sense of political possibility was more finely honed than that of most outside advocates.
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The rules are finely honed to address what remains a sensitive issue, says Jody Wilson-Raybould, Canada's justice minister.
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Full of humor, finely honed observations and versatile performances, it is a deeply human exploration of a technologically complex theme.
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The tariffs along with China's retaliatory measures make it harder for them to operate and expand their finely honed supply chains.
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Elsewhere, Paul Waldman and Jonathan Cohn explain that the Sanders plan is more a conversation starter than a finely honed proposal.
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On the Verge Cinga Samson's surreal canvases engage obliquely with his identity, but stand alone as testaments to his finely honed craft.
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During his rise to power, President Trump proved he has a finely honed sense of what threats, intimidation and bluster can accomplish.
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And what could possibly make someone more fun to hang out with than a finely-honed ability to make fun of other people?
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What feels like a pell-mell approach is actually a finely honed company strategy, the result of decades of experimentation in each store.
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But however finely honed the ensemble's physical comedy, some of the spoken introductions linking this loose collection of animal-theme music fell flat.
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The sheer optimism and projection of will that emits out from the player into these finely honed worlds is like a laser beam.
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Of course, the 2017 versions are a good deal less restrictive — and pair perfectly well with a finely honed sense of social justice.
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The album is a self-described collection of deliberately downbeat, melancholic tracks that showcase her skill for finely honed character studies and delicate confessionals.
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Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.
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The surrounding performances, under the finely honed direction of Moritz von Stuelpnagel, are less dazzling but no less sharp, either touching, funny or both.
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They're finely honed tools for people — programmers, designers, video editors, administrators, journalists, and many others — who need to do serious work on their computers.
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Refusing to let his body stop him, he relies on spirit, grit and his finely honed sense of humor to roll fearlessly into his future.
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Research shows that for certain cognitive skills, like multitasking and concentration, the brains of competitive distance runners were more finely honed than those of inactive people.
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Great leaders produce extraordinary results by: In my view, leadership is both a science and an art; it's the finely-honed craft of effectively influencing others.
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In essence, the runners seemed to have brains in which certain cognitive skills, including multitasking and concentration, were more finely honed than among the inactive men.
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He was responsible for the finely honed spectacle of the Alexander McQueen retrospective in 21960 and the ambitious but flawed "China: Through the Looking Glass" last year.
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In fact, you can regularly find the Modern Family star wielding her various social media platforms like a finely honed weapon, taking down trolls wherever she finds them.
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" This level of preparation, which often includes elaborate props, tiny mechanisms inside household objects, and finely honed timing, is often responsible for what people interpret as "camera tricks.
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These finely honed death traps come in many forms, from the trampoline-like construction of the sheet web spider, to the instantly recognizable filigree of the orb weaver.
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But Jimmy Garoppolo will need all the screen help he can get for the season's first four games, whereupon presumably Brady's finely honed aerial circus will begin anew.
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Most newborns do little else in their first few months, until their ability to eat is finely honed and the feeding relationship between parent and child is thoroughly established.
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It's a finely honed surveillance device outfitted with a suite of sensors and a camera sensitive enough to detect people standing on the ground from the edge of space.
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Nonetheless, a the administration does not have a finely honed strategy for dealing with North Korea, and Trump evinces no conceptual understanding of how events in North Korea could shape Iran's response.
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There is also curiosity about whether she can transfer her finely honed cable-news persona to the fickle waters of network news and different formats like a newsmagazine and a morning show.
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It is, most simply but also most elusively, a sweet and thorny tale of father-daughter bonding with a finely honed edge of generational conflict, propelled by two extraordinarily natural, utterly fearless performances.
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His descending skills were so finely honed that he once avoided a crash on a Pyrenees descent by cutting through a farm field, dismounting, hopping over a ditch and jumping back on his bike again.
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More important, before Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert — and their teams of writers — Ms. Ivins was a one-woman humor mill, churning out finely honed one-liners that would today send President Trump into an envy meltdown.
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In his second report for the World Anti-Doping Agency, he found in Russia an ever more finely honed "well-oiled systemic cheating scheme" that piled up astounding numbers: 30 sports and 1,000 athletes infected by cheating.
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DECISION POINTS Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher's case pits a Pentagon hierarchy committed to enforcing longstanding rules of combat against a commander in chief with no military experience but a finely honed sense of grievance against authority.
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Perhaps the best discovery of the series is "Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate," a finely honed comedy that placed 40th in a list that Akira Kurosawa's daughter compiled of 100 of her father's favorite movies.
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It has often been my own personal experience as a trial lawyer that courtroom bullies who possess a finely honed expertise in the art of humiliating others often have a hard time dealing with attacks directed at them personally.
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Even the most casual followers of U.S. politics know well the insidious practice of congressional lobbying: the finely-honed art of outside interests to press their agenda on Congress through financial contributions, solicitation-campaigns, and even soft promises of future jobs.
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Before her arrival, Jonathan Fensom's handsomely appointed sets are filled with the hum of gossip and one finely honed observation after another, the aperçus delivered by a gathering of aristos for whom gently barbed chat flows as naturally as afternoon tea.
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When news broke Tuesday that Russia has been banned from the 13 Winter Olympics for its massive and illegal doping program, the Kremlin turned to a finely honed response that it's been perfecting for years: We're the real victims here.
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Saul, whose work will receive its first New York museum survey at the New Museum in February, never makes it easy: his paintings are equal opportunity offenders, with a finely honed sense of irony that undercuts virtually every predetermined notion of a topic.
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Rather than sensibly ignoring the social media attack hounds and lacking a judge to provide cover and protection, the lawyers strike back by making full use of their finely-honed verbal and written attack skills -- only to look like fools in the end.
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Selina's finely-honed political persona, the shards of which painfully work their way even into the moments when she is actually trying to be genuine, is a performance within a performance—one that, by now, viewers probably understand better than Selina herself does.
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I'm not sure why pushing the story into the near future was necessary: The dystopian mood gets in the way of the present conflicts that the play examines, and Ms. Bach's social critique is not as strong as Mr. Mondtag's finely honed aesthetic.
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The violent encounter in a faraway land opened a two-year affair that would pit a Pentagon hierarchy wedded to longstanding rules of combat and discipline against a commander in chief with no experience in uniform but a finely honed sense of grievance against authority.
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Though clearly out of the mainstream in his views that sitting presidents should not be subjected to the burden of responding to the subpoena power of the courts and grand juries, Kavanaugh has otherwise demonstrated a finely honed legal mind and a resume brimming with impressive achievements.
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These sums were certainly worth more half a century ago than they are today, but even so, they were sufficiently small that acquisitions required a keen eye, a finely-honed judgment, a close working relationship with the emerging generation of young artists, and a taste for risk-taking.
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As with Kiwami Japan's previous creations, a mastery of knife sharpening is used to create a finely-honed edge that cuts like a razor, and while the aluminum's definitely not going to stay that sharp for long, the important thing here is finding yet another workaround to loading the dishwasher.[YouTube]
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The fashion designer's finely honed routine begins, without fail, with a shirt: "It's not something I do consciously, but I always dress from the top down — that's my ritual," says the former lawyer, who takes no time when it comes to compiling his outfits (but spends ages in the shower).
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The combination of Ms. Jarrar's finely honed aesthetic — which might be categorized as "haute cool," a kind of luxurious minimalism, where every button is its own fetish — with softer, more feminine colors and prints, a legacy of the house's founder, it does not look like Mr. Elbaz's work, which was quirkier and married high romance to a powerful core.
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Film still from My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea Film still from My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea is uniquely excellent because it relies heavily on a resource that few other animated features have: a powerful visual grammar that has been finely honed in the trenches of comics storytelling.
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Tennis is good because it's dominated by people who have played the sport intensely since they were, like, five years old, and they live tennis and they breathe it, and they adhere to all the little rules and etiquettes of tennis, tennis, tennis, tennis, like they dropped out of school to be taught lessons by their mom so they could get more tennis in, tennis is their life, tennis is their blood, they are finely honed athletes with incredible twitch speed and reaction times and strength and power and stamina, and yet also, Serena aside, I feel like I could get pretty much put every tennis player into a headlock and give them a humiliating titty twister, and they wouldn't be able to do anything about it.
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Finely Honed Machine is a song by Foetus Über Frisco, written by J. G. Thirlwell. It was released as a single in 1984 by Self Immolation.
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Srinivasan is an accomplished kuchipudi dancer. She started performing at a young age. Her poised ability to hold difficult balancing poses along with her finely honed sense of rhythm can easily dazzle audiences. In 2006.
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John Pilger, who had interviewed Mitford in 1983 for his series Outsiders, said she "combined a finely honed social conscience and a wonderful gallows humour. She inverted stereotypes. I liked her enormously". The author Christopher Hitchens expressed his admiration for Jessica Mitford and praised Hons and Rebels.
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She made her television debut in 1950 in The Importance of Being Earnest, which allowed her to once again display her finely-honed British accent. More television work followed. Lindsay appeared in only four films during the 1950s and two in the 1960s. Her final feature film was Tammy and the Doctor (1963).
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Havercroft, Chris (16 December 2010)' GUY SEBASTIAN Twenty Ten X-Press Magazine. Archived from the original on 29 January 2012. The Daily Telegraph music editor Kathy McCabe wrote, "Sebastian has matured into a genuine hitmaker, his gift with melody so finely-honed he can pretty much punch out a catchy number in his sleep."McCabe, Kathy (28 December 2010).
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She demonstrates that same good taste, and finely honed skill, throughout Honest Life, resulting in an album at once elegant and deeply moving". Harrison Moore of GIGsoup considered that "Courtney Marie Andrews returns with a coming of age album, rich with introspective lyrics and beautifully arranged". Peter Ellman of Exclaim! said, "Andrews grasps her songs tightly.
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For the radio series, see Earplay. Earplay is a chamber music ensemble founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1985.Kosman, Joshua (11 November 2004) "At 20, Earplay sharp as ever" The San Francisco Chronicle They describe their music as "lyrical and ferocious, modern and Romantic, finely honed and accessible." Earplay was founded in 1985 by a consortium of composers and performers.
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Today, Pool Sharks is best remembered as Fields' first film effort. Film historian William K. Everson critiques the film as an "auspicious debut", with Fields' routines and pacing already finely honed. It was one of two short films Fields made for a company called Gaumont, distributed by Mutual. He and Ross made another short around the same time, His Lordship's Dilemma.
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Harold Drinkwater FRSE (1855-1925) was an English physician. He was usually referred to simply as Harry Drinkwater. He did much research into hereditary diseases but is largely remembered as an amateur botanist and exemplary artist of botanical subjects, creating over 200 exquisite plant portraits largely held by museums in Wales. His work is typically finely honed pastel on a plain grey background.
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These had a good reputation, and the making of them was a finely honed skill. In the 18th century, only a few forges had mastered the technique of using a mechanical hammer. So much was this a problem that French producers couldn't keep up with demand for scythes. They were imported, particularly from Styria, in the south-east of modern Austria, beyond the Tyrol.
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He worked on a weather ship in WW II, where his competence in sending and receiving code by both radio signals and light was finely honed. Gus, now 93 years old, wrote a regular feature in the G- QRP Club’s newsletter, SPRAT, for over 15 years, until last year. It was entitled Antennas, Anecdotes and Awards. He developed many QRP radios over the years and is something of an expert on antennas and tuners.
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Gillespie expressed the wish that the film lasted a little longer to explore its emotional core further. Eric Harrison of the Houston Chronicle considered Road to Perdition "the most brilliant work in this [gangster] genre" since the uncut Once Upon a Time in America (1984). Harrison considered Self's script "so finely honed that the story can change directions in a heartbeat." Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter praised Hanks, Newman, and Craig but called Law's performance "almost cartoonish".
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Like most characters in Watchmen, Rorschach has no obvious "superpowers". He merely has his strong will, peak-human physical strength, and finely-honed sense of timing and precision. Rorschach is very resourceful and creative, adapting ordinary household objects into tools or weapons, such as the use of a can of aerosol spray in combination with multiple matches to set fire to a police officer and throwing ground black pepper to blind another police officer, during a confrontation at Moloch's house.Alan Moore.
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Erlewine remarked that, "Hanson are sharp enough to keep things tight... but the music itself is too finely honed." A review from AbsolutePunk surmises that, "Aside from the trio's penchant for maudlin and borderline campy lyrics, there's little about Shout it Out that isn't infectious". The Entertainment Weekly review praised the album, claiming: "Uptempo jams like Waiting for This shimmer with top-shelf songcraft; Motown vet Bob Babbitt even sits in on bass. But sometimes you wish these whiz kids would act their age".
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Critical reception to Third Eye Blind was generally positive. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic described Third Eye Blind as "easy on the ears," stating that "its straight-ahead professionalism makes it a pleasurable listen for post-grungers". David Grad of Entertainment Weekly described the album as "balancing a cheery ear for harmonies with a finely honed sense of despair". Third Eye Blind was a sleeper hit, entering the Billboard album charts at number 135 and then peaking at number 25 nearly a year after release.
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Packed to the Rafters has received positive critical response from reviewers. In reviewing the pilot, David Knox of TV Tonight underlined that whilst the series's tone was "predominantly light", Rafters "also features some darker, more successful moments".Packed to the Rafters: TV Tonight The Age's Jim Schembri called Rafters a "superbly sculpted series about suburban class warfare", noting that in his opinion, the series was "one of the most enjoyable, finely honed locally produced TV dramas we've seen in ages", applauding the dialogue that "crackles with wit and energy".Packed to the Rafters. Theage.com.
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Growing up in Wetumpka, Ala Joe was active in Junior Achievement and Key Club activities including going to national conventions. It was during this time that a gift for gab was finely honed that aided in future success. And regional and national networking for Junior Achievement campaigns, included working closely with Edgar Welden also of Wetumpka/ Birmingham; Jimmy Massey of Bastrop, Louisiana and Craig Knowles of Huntsville, Alabama. Joe has been married to his wife Sandra McInnes, also of Wetumpka for 46 years and they have a grown daughter and son.
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At the age of 19, Rasbihari had the distinction of being All India Radio approved vocalist in light music to be upgraded in course of time to the Top Grade. AIR, and later Doordarshan, regularly invited him to concerts all over India. He remained the nucleus of musical activities throughout his academic career as a professor of Physics and it was often that talents finely honed by him claimed top places at the university and national levels. For training to students for inter-university events, he was almost always invited.
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In a 1988 Gramophone article James Jolly said of the LSO: > Some would claim ... that it is the most American of our orchestras, > thinking no doubt of the Previn legacy, Bernstein's Presidency and Tilson > Thomas's appointment. Others, looking back further to Pierre Monteux's > reign, think it our most French orchestra, a quality nurtured by Previn and > latterly Claudio Abbado. But what of their essaying of the Slavonic > repertoire under Istvan Kertész, or of Mahler, whose idiom has been finely > honed by Abbado? No, the LSO remains enigmatic, unpredictable and supremely > individual.
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Ned made the transition from bass to drums. Debbie took up the bass - and the new power trio format was born. In 1998 Zonic got back with recording engineer J. Cox and set up camp in Manayunk, PA's Cycle Sound to record the 6-song EP "Here Today..." which Razorcake magazine refers to as: "Lady-fronted dissonant punk rock that won't be pigeonholed." A finely-honed Zonic Shockum was now playing some of the best venues of their career including CBGB and an indoor skate park with cKy, but Ned eventually lost interest in the group and quit.
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The controversy surrounding him reached an apogee when the majority of the graduating Class of 1881 called for his removal from office. Subjected to an investigation by the Trustees, Bartlett employed what had become a legendary wit and finely honed intelligence to explain his actions and defend his administration. As a result, the charges—that he had alienated the faculty, ignored important administrative duties and generally conducted himself in a way unbecoming a Dartmouth president--"melted away," in the words of one chronicler. President Bartlett remained in office until 1892, when he resigned to become a member of the faculty.
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Saul notes that Richard had made similar interventions in the burial of other supporters and friends, including those of John Hawkwood and Archbishop Courtenay, suggesting that his "finely honed sense of the theatrical possibilities of burial" was a strategy to project an image of power.Saul, p.461 After Richard's downfall and death, he was buried in All Saints, King's Langley in 1400, but later re-entombed in Edward the Confessor's Chapel in Westminster Abbey in 1413. Waltham's grave is located in the north-west corner of the chapel, close to the tombs of Edward the Confessor and Richard II and Anne.
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Her duet with Deborah Cox, "In His Eyes," one of the best songs in the show, is masterfully and gorgeously realized by both ladies." BroadwayWorld Durham: "The dark horse of this trio is the seemingly unassuming Wicks, who ends up blowing away the audience with her finely honed and quite impressive voice. She sings just as well in her upper register as in her chest voice, and, in the classiest way possibly, steals the show." BroadwayWorld Denver: "Teal Wicks dominated the stage as Dr. Jekyll's fiancée, Emma Carew and totally stole the show and my heart.
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The finely-honed writing that distinguishes Jourdain's work must be partly credited to careful pre-editing by her lifelong friend and domestic partner, the novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett. The couple lived together from 1918 until Jourdain's death in 1951. Members of their circle might speculate on whether they were lovers: Compton-Burnett referred to herself and Jourdain as "neutrals". Jourdain's papers are archived at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, but some of her unpublished translations of poems by Jose Maria de Heredia, Pontus de Tyard and Gérard de Nerval are among Compton-Burnett's papers at King's College, Cambridge.
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The Beatnuts are known for their sample-heavy beats and explicit party-ready lyrics. In early records, the beats had a jazz and funk-influenced sound, but later songs were influenced by Latin music. Critics have commented that The Beatnuts have consistently good beats, but lack in terms of lyrics. JuJu addressed this in a 2004 interview: Their production is noted as some of the most accomplished, if unheralded, in all of hip hop, often intricately detailed (as in their finely honed work for Mos Def on two tracks from Black on Both Sides) but more regularly barnstorming, club-friendly, flourish-laden party music.
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68 and knives with 150mm (6-inch) to 200mm (8-inch) blades were common. The large-bladed fighting navaja or santólio was eventually refined into a pattern named the navaja sevillana, after the region in which it saw much use. The navaja sevillana was a fighting knife characterized by a ratcheted locking mechanism, a long and slender blade with a prominent clip, a needle-sharp point, and a finely honed, razor-sharp cutting edge. During the 18th and most of the 19th century, large navajas were traditionally worn pushed into a belt or sash, with the distinctively curved, fish-shaped handle left exposed to ease removal.
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Erkomaishvili's vision was to break through ethnic boundaries of regional styles while performing ethnographically authentic music from all of Georgia. The Rustavi's performance style synthesizes the powerful, rough-hewn sound characteristic of the traditional regional folk choirs with a newer, cleaner, more finely-honed aesthetic whose orientation is towards concert presentation - nowadays on an increasingly international scale. While striving to preserve, and in some cases recreate, authentic voicings and vocal timbres, the Rustavi singers have simplified the complex scales used by the earlier choirs in order to create firmer, more brilliant harmonies. The use of a smaller number of singers for certain songs has also helped to clarify their musical structure.
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Siren remains one of Roxy Music's most critically acclaimed albums. Critic Dave Marsh described Siren in 1983 as "Roxy's masterpiece, calling the listener back by virtue of its finely honed instrumental attack and compelling lyrical attitude". In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that Roxy Music's unabashed embrace of dance and pop music on Siren, while resulting in their distinctive "artier tendencies" being toned down, produces "a thematic consistency that works in [the album's] favor" and elevates it "into the realm of classics." Rob Sheffield refers to Siren as "the first Roxy Music album without any failed moments" in 2004's The New Rolling Stone Album Guide.
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Sir Henry Wood said, "Whenever he stole time from one note, he faithfully paid it back within four bars", allowing his accompanist to maintain strict tempo under his free cantilena. Incidentally, this kind of rubato fits the description of Frédéric Chopin's rubato. Although Ysaÿe was a great interpreter of late Romantic and early modern composers — Max Bruch, Camille Saint-Saëns, and César Franck, who said he was their greatest interpreter — he was admired for his Bach and Beethoven interpretations. His technique was brilliant and finely honed, and in this respect he is the first modern violinist whose technique was without the shortcomings of some earlier artists.
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E.G.D. Cohen, a student of Uhlenbeck's, described his teacher: > ... [Uhlenbeck] often admonished me that rather than trying to be original, > it was much more important to be clear and correct and to summarise > critically the present status of a field in the Ehrenfest tradition. He > wisely observed that what is often of lasting value is not the first > original contribution to a problem, but rather the final clearly and > critically written survey. That is certainly what he did in this Brownian > motion paper! Describing Uhlenbeck's work, Cohen writes: > Uhlenbeck's papers are all relatively short and stand out by their > conciseness, precision, and clarity, finely honed to a deeper understanding > of a basic problem in statistical physics.
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He admits to faking the supernatural aspects of his skills, often asserting that "there's no such thing as psychics," yet he has finely honed skills in cold reading, hypnosis, and picking pockets, as well as his intuitive observations and an immense insight into the human psyche and the behavior of witnesses. His associates at the CBI include colleagues Wayne Rigsby, Grace Van Pelt, and Kimball Cho, and their boss, Teresa Lisbon. Various directors and recurring civilians come across as the show unfolds, including: Bret Stiles, Gale Bertram, Kristina Frye, Madeleine Hightower, JJ Laroche and Walter Mashburn. As the show progresses, the focus shifts from general cases during seasons one to three, to solely catching Red John, throughout seasons four to six.
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Strategies must be able to adjust during implementation because "humans rarely can proceed satisfactorily except by learning from experience; and modest probes, serially modified on the basis of feedback, usually are the best method for such learning."Woodhouse and Collingridge, 1993. p. 140 In 2000, Gary Hamel coined the term strategic convergence to explain the limited scope of the strategies being used by rivals in greatly differing circumstances. He lamented that successful strategies are imitated by firms that do not understand that for a strategy to work, it must account for the specifics of each situation. Woodhouse and Collingridge claim that the essence of being “strategic” lies in a capacity for "intelligent trial-and error" rather than strict adherence to finely honed strategic plans.
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In 2003, Show of Hands released two albums, the instrumental release The Path, released to commemorate the silver jubilee of the South West Coast Path, and the acclaimed Country Life. The latter was showcased the duo work on harder-edged songs that were more politically, socially and environmentally concerned, including songs based on rural issues. The title track, a "stirring" and "finely honed rant about the desecration of British country life" and "an acerbic indictment of modern values", brought the band renewed attention. The album itself, described by one journalist as the duo's "most ambitious" and "exciting" release up to that point, was voted the 22nd all-time favourite album by Devonians in a BBC Radio Devon poll in April 2004.
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Born documents Frank Castle's time serving as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps during his final tour in Vietnam in 1971. The story is told primarily through the eyes of Stevie Goodwin, a young Marine counting down the days of his service and Frank Castle, a tough Captain with a finely honed killer instinct and survival skills who is described as being "in love with war". The story chronicles a crucial 4-day period of the platoon stationed at Firebase Valley Forge, a remote strategic outpost on the South Vietnamese- Cambodian border. Valley Forge is an outpost on its last legs; half of its Marines are addicted to heroin and its commanding officer is an apathetic alcoholic who pretends to have malaria whenever someone comes to inspect the base.
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Amanda seems doomed to relive her failed try-out for the gymnastics team, her mother being fired from her job and, worst of all, the party that even her best friend leaves early—to go to the party hosted by her former friend, Leo. The two have celebrated every previous birthday together (they were born on the same day), but a misunderstanding on their 10th has gone unresolved. Girls will relate to Amanda’s insecurities, and the confidence and insights she gains will resonate with them. Mass’s expertise with pacing keeps the story moving at a lively clip, and her understanding of this age group is as finely honed as ever.” 11 Birthdays has been nominated for and received numerous awards, including the William Allen White Award for grades 3–5 in 2012, and has been chosen a 2009 Library Guild Selection.
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In his book Old Books, Old Friends, Old Sydney (1952) and its sequel Postscript: Further Bookselling Reminiscences (1957), Tyrrell has left us a record of a "formative period in Australian cultural history", principally the years 1888-1905. In a series of finely-honed observations, mainly in anecdotal form, these books provide portraits of the "bookfellows" that he knew: booksellers such as Robertson, Dymock and Wymark; writers such as Lawson, Paterson, Archibald, C. J. Dennis, Brennan and Brereton; artists and illustrators such as the Lindsays and Low; book collectors such as Mitchell and Dixon; book-loving public figures such as Parkes and Hughes; and international visitors to Sydney such as Twain and Stevenson. Tyrrell was an avid bibliophile and a keen student and collector of Australiana. He had one of the largest private collections of books in Sydney.
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Shaoni Bhattacharya in New Scientist noted that while the book "can be a little academic", Shapiro manages to explain "complex molecular biology clearly" and that it "really comes alive, though, when she describes her own expeditions". Writing for National Geographic, Brian Switek describes Shapiro's writing style as "sharp, witty, and impeccably-argued" and that she writes "finely-honed prose" that "cuts through the hype that has clouded the debate" on whether it is possible to clone extinct animals and also whether such efforts should instead be directed toward assisting species that are currently in danger of extinction. Caspar Henderson for The Spectator called the book's writing "lively, skeptical and nuanced" and stated that Shapiro covered topics with "great clarity". In an article for Science, A. Rus Hoelzel characterized the writing as "rich in anecdote and scientifically precise".
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In his review of Block's fifth installment of her Weetzie Bat series, Charles de Lint notes that, "she touches on dark matters...but she does so with warmth, humor, truth, and a whimsical nature that never manages to undermine the more serious concerns from which her stories grow". Further, he claims that while her books may be filed in the YA section, "her stories are timeless and are as suitable for an adult as a teenager". In regard to Baby Be-Bop, de Lint states that the book includes some "wonderfully surreal scenes" that provide a "true no-holds-barred glimpse into both the turmoil of what it's like to be young and different". Diane Roback and Elizabeth Devereaux, writing in Publishers Weekly, called Baby Be-Bop a "keenly felt story" with "extravagantly imaginative settings and finely honed perspectives".
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This is not to say, however, that more confident tracks are banished from the album: "Reunited States of Love" and "Someone Will Love You Today" are perfect examples of this, and yet still exemplify in their tentativeness a decisive split from Brittle Heaven-era songs. Critical reception was as muted as always, and mixed where evident; Big Takeover complained that it was 'too light and airy', but vaguely appraised the work as 'finely honed and pleasant'. The following year, 1995, was to be an important year for Borland; not only was the album Cinematic written and released, but his work with Carlo van Putten, Claudia Uman, Florian Brattman and David Maria Gramse in The White Rose Transmission came to fruition, with the side-project's self-titled debut appearing that year. They would continue to perform intermittently throughout the 1990s, Borland being a major contributor.
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The UTT was tasked with providing close-in battlefield support to the dual-rotor H-21 troop carriers. By flying in formation with the troop carriers and employing a unique circular daisy chain pattern at the landing zone so that each Huey was covered by the one immediately behind it, five to six Hueys were able to protect up to 30 H-21 troop carriers at one time. Under Slavich's command, the UTT quickly earned a reputation for "innovative use of helicopter-borne firepower, finely honed aviator skills, and aggressive support of the ground soldier". Slavich and his men again and again proved that the highly maneuverable and extremely tactical Huey gunships were far superior to fixed-wing aircraft when it came to the kind of close-in support that was required for a Southeast Asian battlefield, especially when lines often blurred between enemy camp and civilian village.
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One was "Santa Bring My Baby Back (to Me)" and the other (selected by Presley to open the album), was a blues-based rock and roll number, "Santa Claus Is Back in Town," written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. This writer/producer team was responsible for some of 1950s rhythm and blues and rock and roll's most finely-honed satire in their work with the Coasters, as well as penning "Hound Dog" for Willie Mae Thornton and providing Presley with some of his biggest hits, including "Jailhouse Rock" and "Don't." Presley asked the pair to come up with another Christmas song during sessions for the album; within a few minutes, they had the song written and ready for recording. Originally titled "Christmas Blues", this slyly risqué number is given a full-throated treatment by Presley who, aided by the gritty ensemble playing from his band, was determined to ensure that this Christmas album would not be easily ignored.
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The New York Times characterized her playing as producing “both fireworks and a singing tone,” the Washington Post praised the “finely honed bowing and stylistic finesse” of her playing, and Strings Magazine described her tone as “gorgeous, intense, and variable, flawlessly pure and beautiful in every register.” At the latest since winning the first prize at the renowned International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, Iceland-native Judith Ingolfsson celebrated the final breakthrough as an internationally sought- after soloist and has performed in many of the world’s most famous venues, including, for example, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Tokyo City Opera, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and New York’s Carnegie Hall. She has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Tokyo, the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jena Philharmonic, the Philharmonischen Staatsorchester Mainz, the Bollington Festival Orchestra (UK), and the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt (Oder). She had collaborated with conductors such as Wolfgang Sawallisch, Raymond Leppard, Gilbert Varga, Jesús López-Cobos, Rico Saccani, Gerard Schwarz, and Leonard Slatkin.
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Sellers described his experience of working on the film as "so humbling, so powerful", and co-star Shirley MacLaine found Sellers "a dream" to work with. Sellers's performance was universally lauded by critics and is considered by critic Danny Smith to be the "crowning triumph of Peter Sellers's remarkable career". Critic Frank Rich wrote that the acting skill required for this sort of role, with a "schismatic personality that Peter had to convey with strenuous vocal and gestural technique ... A lesser actor would have made the character's mental dysfunction flamboyant and drastic ... [His] intelligence was always deeper, his onscreen confidence greater, his technique much more finely honed": in achieving this, Sellers "makes the film's fantastic premise credible". The film earned Sellers a Best Actor award at the 51st National Board of Review Awards; the London Critics Circle Film Awards Special Achievement Award, the Best Actor award at the 45th New York Film Critics Circle Awards; and the Best Actor – Musical or Comedy award at the 37th Golden Globe Awards.
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Richard Roeper, writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, called the film "one of the best superhero movies of the century" and said audiences should watch the film if they appreciate "finely honed storytelling with a Shakespearean core; winning performances from an enormously talented ensemble; provocative premises touching on isolationism, revolution and cultures of oppression, and oh yeah, tons of whiz-bang action sequences and good humor". Brian Truitt of USA Today awarded the film four out of four stars, and called it Marvel Studios' best origin film since Guardians of the Galaxy. Truitt also praised the "superb cast" and stated, "While the themes are deep, Black Panther is at the same time a visual joy to behold, with confident quirkiness, insane action sequences and special effects, and the glorious reveal of Wakanda". Also giving the film four stars, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called it unlike any other Marvel film, "an exhilarating triumph on every level from writing, directing, acting, production design, costumes, music, special effects to you name it".
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Judt (2005), pp.736-46 While both historical Fascism and contemporary neo-Fascism are xenophobic, nativist and anti-immigrant, neo-Fascist leaders are careful not to present these views in so strong a manner as to draw obvious parallels to historical events. Thus both Jean-Marie Le Pen of France's National Front and Jörg Haider's Freedom Party of Austria, in the words of historian Tony Judt, "revealed [their] prejudices only indirectly". Thus Jews would not be castigated as a group, but a person would be specifically named as danger who just happened to be a Jew.Judt (2005), pp.742-46 The public presentation of their leaders is one principle difference between the neo-Fascists and historical Fascists: their programs have been "finely honed and 'modernized'" to appeal to the electorate, a "'far-right ideology with a democratic veneer'". Modern neo-Fascists don't appear in "jackboots and brownshirts", but in suits and ties. The choice is deliberate, as the leaders of the various groups work to differentiate themselves from the brutish leaders of historical Fascism, and also to hide whatever bloodlines and connections tie the current leaders to the historical Fascist movements.
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