"Steel Town" (1937) is the most bracing of the early prints.
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Here are the two tactics I use most: bracing and mindfulness.
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Besides its intrinsic worth, "Open" should bring more attention to a pair of downtown's most bracing talents.
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They intersect most strikingly on "Sonia," a glittery hip-hop-influenced funk song that's one of this album's most bracing.
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Last Witnesses is at its most bracing when it captures the minds of children struggling to adjust to their new realities.
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Perhaps the most bracing one involves the overseas exploits of Stephen Schwarzman, who heads up the giant hedge fund Blackstone Group.
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The most bracing piece I've read on the apparent murder of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi is a Washington Post op-ed by Robert Kagan.
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The most beautiful and most bracing show in town is of paintings, prints, drawings, and painted sculptures by Vija Celmins, at the Matthew Marks Gallery.
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As for the activists, the most bracing moments involves an exchange at the University of Missouri, where a woman passing out anti-abortion leaflets is confronted about her views.
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Cecil Taylor, a pianist who challenged the jazz tradition that produced him and became one of the most bracing, rhapsodic, abstract and original improvisers of his time, died on Thursday at his home in Brooklyn.
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The most bracing thing about the original "Maleficent," though, is that it shifts the narrative weight from the love between a sleeping princess and a rescuing prince to that between the princess and her fairy godmother.
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The most bracing hour, arguably, involves a teenager who is spied upon via webcam (the message "WE SAW WHAT YOU DID" pops up), then blackmailed by his unseen puppet masters into carrying out a mission with escalating stakes.
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Marius Trelinski's dark, fascinating juxtaposition of these one-act operas by Tchaikovsky and Bartok is one of the most bracing examples of directorial entrepreneurship to have reached the Met's stage in recent years, and here it makes its first return since its debut in 2015.
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The song is one of the album's most bracing gulps of self-revelation—which includes streaks of brilliance from collaborators Paul White, Flying Lotus, JPEGMAFIA, Run the Jewels, and Q-Tip, who executive produced the LP—and works as a kind of tonic in a time of social crisis.
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One of Cahn's most bracing images reworks the 19th-century realist painter Gustave Courbet's "L'Origine du Monde" ("The Origin of the World," 1866), a provocative picture that shows a reposing woman's naked genitals and spread-open legs; her robe or nightgown is pulled up, exposing her stomach and the lower part of her breasts.
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On separate composer portraits released by Etcetera, works by Louis Andriessen, Theo Verbey and Otto Ketting benefit from the conductor's fastidious approach, as does Tristan Keuris's Symphony in D. Most bracing is the Norwegian Rolf Wallin's enormously powerful "Act" (Ondine), a 10-minute battering ram recorded with the Oslo Philharmonic that rumbles along with pounding ferocity.
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Speaking to those voters, he chose Charlottesville as a symbol of how the Trump administration has violated those ideals -- citing that event and Trump's reaction to it as the most bracing example of the President's embrace of white supremacists and the chief example of how he has distanced the White House from America's most cherished ideals of equality and justice.
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Except in the mountainous districts, Aberdeenshire has a comparatively mild climate, owing to the proximity of much of the shire to the sea. The mean annual temperature at Braemar reaches , and that at Aberdeen . The mean yearly rainfall varies from about . In summer the upper Dee and Don valleys provide the driest and most bracing climate in the British Isles, and grain grows cultivated up to above the sea, or higher than elsewhere in North Britain.
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In 1984, Nichols directed the Broadway premiere of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing. The New York Times critic Frank Rich wrote that "The Broadway version of The Real Thing—a substantial revision of the original London production—is not only Mr. Stoppard's most moving play, but also the most bracing play that anyone has written about love and marriage in years." The play was nominated for seven Tony Awards and won five, including a Best Director Tony for Nichols. Nichols followed the success with the Broadway premiere of David Rabe's Hurlyburly, also in 1984.
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In his review for The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote that "The Broadway version of The Real Thing – a substantial revision of the original London production – is not only Mr. Stoppard's most moving play, but also the most bracing play that anyone has written about love and marriage in years." The play was revived in 1999 with Jennifer Ehle as Annie and Stephen Dillane as Henry. It played on Broadway and at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Ehle and Dillane both won Tony Awards for their roles and the production won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.
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" Clarence Tsui of The Hollywood Reporter wrote a highly positive review, commenting, "Snowpiercer is still an intellectually and artistically superior vehicle to many of the end-of-days futuristic action thrillers out there." Speaking highly of Bong's film-making, Tsui wrote, "Bong's vivid depictions—aided by Ondřej Nekvasil's production design, Hong Kyung-pyo's cinematography and Steve M. Choe's editing—are exceptional." David Thomson of The New Republic remarked that "The most bracing and liberating thing about Joon-ho Bong's Snowpiercer is not just its lyrical forward motion, but the exuberance with which the film revels in its plot predicament." He furthers praises Nekvasil's "progression of design set-pieces" and Tilda Swinton's performance, saying "She is the life and soul of this riotous party, and you will be sad to see her disposed of, no matter that Mason's ghastly manner has earned it.
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