He finesses the old question of whether political art can be beautiful.
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How the administration finesses this issue could affect the WTO's ability to resolve future trade disputes.
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He weaves and finesses warm with cool and figure with ground like a cardsharp shuffles cards.
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McCann finesses "Dancer" — his fictionalized account of the life of Rudolf Nureyev — with letters and diary entries.
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Peep the twinkle in his eye when he finesses a crying mother and her son out of a stack.
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Hazard gets behind the defense, finesses it past the charging keeper, and has an empty net to shoot into.
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The report finesses this inconvenient truth by defining socialism as any effort to increase the government's involvement in the economy.
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Once a piece feels render-ready, I move onto post and generally enjoy adding in painted light, surreal finesses, etc.
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After all, a strong coat game is one of her five signature outfit moves — and it's the one that she truly finesses this time of year.
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Even when he wants to be a little more reserved with it, he still finesses it in a way that's like lacing butter over some bread, you know what I mean?
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") Lou finesses his way out of the Catskills and into the Waldorf Astoria, where they get caught in a love triangle with a brassy blonde named Tina Vitale (Mia Farrow). "Mr.
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The contenders: Arrival, Hacksaw Ridge, Rogue One, 13 HoursWhy La La wins: This category is for the final post-production blend, which a mixer finesses from the creations of the sound editor.
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In a scene puzzlingly late in the film, Mr. Blahnik, who apparently still makes samples by hand, walks through his factory and finesses a sensuous heel out of a stump of wood.
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The chef, Jason Aldous, forages and then finesses hyper-fresh ingredients — fiddlehead ferns, ramps, organic duck eggs, local oysters — into dishes that highlight the crisp brine of the waters and earthiness of the terroir.
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It's a technique that flirts with geometry, calligraphy and cartography; plays with varying degrees of flatness; and finesses its way between the emotionality of Abstract Expressionism and the formal ecstasies of Color Field painting.
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But while the commission — unable to reach a consensus — finesses the problem by consigning the work to the "complexity" slot, certain other groups in the recent past have taken judgment into their own hands.
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The Metropolitan Museum's renovation of the Marcel Breuer building, which reopens this month, has left it largely in the same state we all remember, and, with the exception of a few touchups and finesses, largely unaltered.
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And the album's superb sound — courtesy of James Farber, the engineer — puts you in the room as she finesses Kurt Weill's standard "My Ship," with a tip of the hat to Mr. Rollins and John Coltrane but also a persuasive self-possession.
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In a sense, declarer has 13 tricks: three spades, four hearts, two diamonds with the finesse, and four clubs with repeated finesses. But there aren't enough apparent entries to the South hand to take all those finesses. South finesses the Q, cashes the A, and runs the hearts. The fourth heart squeezes West (South throws the 7): A club discard lets South pick up the clubs with two finesses, using the 10 to force a cover or retain the lead, so only one entry to the South hand is needed.
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Some positions require correct reading of opponent's holding, and involve a combination of basic finesses with other techniques, such as dropping or pinning opponent's honors.
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Finesses which involve a second-round drop or pin are sometimes referred to as "intra- finesses". In the first diagram, the declarer must lead a small card from hand towards the dummy's jack for an "indirect" finesse. If West plays the queen, East's king can be finessed against in the next round. If West ducks, the declarer will drop the queen by playing the ace.
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An Ann Gallagher finesse is a special sort of two- way finesse. Instead of deciding which way to finesse, though, declarer finesses both ways. This is the classic example: Against South's 4 contract, West leads the K, removing an entry that might have proven useful later. South leads the 2 from dummy and finesses the J. West can see that, with the clubs probably running, South will have no problem if West wins his Q. So West ducks smoothly.
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Contrast Minor suits. ;Major tenace: The highest and the third highest remaining cards in a suit, held in the same hand. For example, the AQ before spades have been played. Tenaces define the structure of finesses.
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Under the title "The musical illustration for a radio play" ("Die musikalische Hörspiel- Illustration") he sought to encourage expansion of "music illustrating texts" as background music ("Geräuschmusik") and wrote of the importance of the "finesses of microphonoes" ("Finessen des Mikrophons").Franz S. Bruinier: Die musikalische Hörspiel-Illustration. In: Rundfunk-Rundschau. 1927, p. 736.
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6, Paris, Lefèvre, 1824 This is the case for the General History of Thieves François de Calvi published in 1631;François de Calvi, Histoire générale des larrons : divisée en trois livres. I. Contenant les cruautez & meschancetez des Volleurs. II. Des ruses & subtilitez des Couppeurs de bourses. III. Les finesses, tromperies & stratagèmes des filous, Paris, Rolin Baragnes, 1631, 270 p.
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A typical example is shown where spades are trumps and the lead is in dummy (North). The 3 is led. If East ruffs low, then declarer overruffs low and cashes the ace and king of spades. If East ruffs high, declarer overruffs with the K and finesses West for the Q to make the remaining two tricks.
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Also, ;Related terms A finesse is said to be onside or on if the finessable honor is favorably placed and offside or off if it is not. Many finesses involve a which is a combination of non-touching honors in the same hand, e.g. A Q or K J. The term hook is a colloquialism for finesse. Similarly, "in the slot" is a colloquialism for onside.
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The IMP scale's effect is to reduce the weighting of very large differences, thus making it less likely that the outcome of an entire match will depend on one board only. :2) (Verb) To perform the IMP score conversion. ;Intervenor: The first player on the other side to make a call other than pass when one side has opened the bidding. ;Intra-finesse: A technique that involves successive finesses against both opponents.
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Normally the claiming player exposes his hand and describes the sequence of play for the remaining tricks (but such plays as finesses, unless already proven, are disallowed). A claim is best made only when the play of the rest of the hand is obvious. Claims are often inadvisable: apart from the possibility of a mistaken analysis, it can take longer to explain the line of play than to play it. See also Concession.
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South wants five tricks from this suit. If the opponents' cards split 3-2 and they defend rationally, South must lose at least one trick - dropping a singleton king won't help South. However, if East holds the singleton jack then South can begin by lead the queen and pinning the jack. Provided declarer can re-enter his hand at least once, he can then take up to two finesses to capture the king.
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There are also a number of illegal coups: ;Alcatraz coup The Alcatraz coup is performed by purposely revoking when declarer is uncertain which defender to finesse. After the trick is over, declarer knows which defender to finesse, "notices" and corrects his misplay, and finesses the correct defender. ;Superglue coup The Superglue Coup is where a defender pulls out two cards together (as if they were superglued together). Declarer sees the cards and assumes they are adjacent in rank in the defender's hand.
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A Michaels cue bid is usually "colors first," but a takeout double is usually more "values first." ;Combination # Suit combination. # A combination finesse is one of several tactics in play of the cards that includes multiple finesses in one suit or combines another technique with a finesse. ;Combination play: A line of play that offers more than one chance to take additional tricks: for example, playing to drop an honor in a longer suit and then finessing for an honor in a shorter suit.
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Don, who was in the midst of a heterosexual encounter of his own at the same hotel, finesses this uncomfortable situation through a coded conversation about their current client, London Fog. He suggests the tagline "Limit your exposure". Later in Season 3, Sal rebuffs the sexual advances of Lee Garner Jr., the drunken playboy son of Lucky Strike's founder and a key client. Angered by the rejection, the client demands Sal be removed from the campaign and Roger fires Sal in order to appease the client and keep his $25 million account.
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Free finesses often happen due to the defense guessing wrong about high cards in declarer's hand, especially on the opening lead. But it is also possible to force the defense to give you a free finesse, by endplaying them. Consider the two-way finesse example again, but with an additional card: Nobody has played any spades at any point, so the defense is known to have 7 of them, and their other card is known to be a heart. Declarer leads a heart, losing to whichever defender holds the high heart; and that defender is now on lead with nothing but spades.
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If, when South plays another suit, West can be forced to discard the K, then the Q and the A can be cashed on separate tricks. Notice the presence of the 2, a companion that releases the clash menace to be cashed separately from the A. The 2 also serves as a simple menace against East, requiring West to retain his clash-menace guard to allow his partner to guard the suit.Coups Finesses Squeezes and Other Strategems, Henry B. Anderson, p.182 Clash squeezes were described and analyzed by Chien-Hwa Wang in Bridge Magazine, in 1956 and 1957.
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The K is cashed, and then another diamond to South's hand allows dummy's last two losing diamonds to be discarded on the Q and the established heart. If West ducks the A at the second trick, South sets up a heart via ruffing finesses as before, discarding dummy's losing spade on the established heart. Now a third diamond from South either wins or establishes dummy's 10, and South has twelve tricks: one spade, one heart, three diamonds and seven clubs. Gray points out that to defeat the contract, West must lead the 2 at trick one.
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Albert Dupuis was born in Verviers on 1 March 1877. The son of a music teacher, Dupuis studied the finesses of the violin, the piano and the flute from the age of 8, at the conservatory in his hometown, Verviers, where Guillaume Lekeu, composer of classical music, and Henri Vieuxtemps, composer and violinist, had also taken residence. Orphaned at age 15, he worked as a tutor at the Grand Theatre of Verviers while pursuing his studies, including from Francis Duyzings for harmony. As he was a brilliant and precocious student, he composed his first comic opera already at the age of 18.
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For mild-mannered Ovid Ross of Rattlesnake, Montana, struggling to gain his footing among the city slickers of New York City, the Telegog Company seems to offer a solution to his social problems. Its proprietary technology allows the inept to have their bodies taken over remotely by experts who easily steer them through awkward situations. After hearing salesman Mr. Nye's sales pitch and meeting in-house professionals Gilbert Falck and Jerome Bundy, Ross signs up and receives the necessary implant. Ross first signals his "guide" on facing a terrifying job interview with Timothy Hoolihan, tyrannical director of The Garment Gazette trade journal; Falck takes over and under his control Ross effortlessly finesses Hoolihan and gets the job.
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Varre Vartiainen made his recording debut as a leader with his trio Husband in 2003. The record Husband contains nine original compositions of Vartiainen that range from raunchy funk of “Sir Dalud”, via jazzy “Baritone” and soft ballad “Le Mu” to percussive world music celebration of “Koiruus”. The tight Husband consists of bassist Harri Rantanen and drummer Anssi Nykänen who have backed dozens of Finland's top artists together during the last two decades. Guest musicians are the cream of the crop in the Finnish music scene today: Abdissa “Mamba” Assefa increases the percussive power, saxophonist Timo Lassy brings in shades of classy, sophisticated contemporary jazz, vocalist Sami Pitkämö finesses the melodies and Timo Pratskin with keyboards, Jarmo Savolainen with Rhodes/synths and vibraphonist Arttu Takalo both enhance the harmony of the music.
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'Half-way House of the Soul' Landfall Review Online. February 1, 2012 Siobhan Harvey, prominent poet and critic, writes about Johnson's last book of poetry, To Beatrice Where We Cross the Line, 'A skilled practitioner at whatever literary craft he turns his hand to…Johnson is a writer at one with the word, its power, its airy finesses and everyday solidities, its resourcefulness, its craft.'Lasavia – Hold My Teeth Writing in the New Zealand Herald on Johnson's critically well-received English to English translations of the Dang Dynasty poet, Li He (The Vertical Harp – the selected poems of Li He) writer and critic Iain Sharp wrote: ‘Mike Johnson is the most underrated of all living New Zealand authors. Sometimes gothic, sometimes lyrical, sometimes both at once, his output over the past three decades has been extraordinary.
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That which must be seen in the > painting is not a luncheon on the grass; it is the entire landscape, with > its vigors and its finesses, with its foregrounds so large, so solid, and > its backgrounds of a light delicateness; it is this firm modeled flesh under > great spots of light, these tissues supple and strong, and particularly this > delicious silhouette of a woman wearing a chemise who makes, in the > background, an adorable dapple of white in the milieu of green leaves. It > is, in short, this vast ensemble, full of atmosphere, this corner of nature > rendered with a simplicity so just, all of this admirable page in which an > artist has placed all the particular and rare elements which are in > him.Émile Zola, Édouard Manet, 1867, et lps 91 Émile Zola incorporated a fictionalized account of the 1863 scandal in his novel L'Œuvre (The Masterpiece) (1886).
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That which must be seen in the > painting is not a luncheon on the grass; it is the entire landscape, with > its vigors and its finesses, with its foregrounds so large, so solid, and > its backgrounds of a light delicateness; it is this firm modeled flesh under > great spots of light, these tissues supple and strong, and particularly this > delicious silhouette of a woman wearing a chemise who makes, in the > background, an adorable dapple of white in the milieu of green leaves. It > is, in short, this vast ensemble, full of atmosphere, this corner of nature > rendered with a simplicity so just, all of this admirable page in which an > artist has placed all the particular and rare elements which are in > him.Émile Zola, Édouard Manet, 1867, et lps 91Émile Zola, Édouard Manet, > 1867, link to English translation Zola presents a fictionalised version of the painting and the controversy surrounding it in his novel L'Œuvre (The Masterpiece).
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The album has received mainly positive reviews from music critics. The aggregate review site Metacritic assigned an average score of 73 to the album based on 31 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". In a positive review by AP, reviewer Paul J. Weber characterized the album as "wonderfully noisy and hooky, shimmering with guitar-pop accessibility". Steven Hyden of Pitchfork compared the album to The Big Roar, stating, "If anything, Wolf's Law is a weirder, proggier record that explores a wider range of textures and sounds than the relatively monochromatic Roar". In a similar statement concerning the album's dynamics, Arnold Pan of Pop Matters commented, "The Joy Formidable proves on Wolf’s Law that it can create grandeur and awe by letting contrast and touch speak volumes more than overpowering brute force can". The lyrics on the album were also praised, with Noel Murray of The A.V. Club claiming that "...the most important trick that The Joy Formidable finesses is to take that sense of grandeur and apply it to today’s world, to ordinary people trying to cope with stress and loneliness".
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