The HD 800 S handle this barrage with unerring composure.
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Even in her final years, her political sense remained unerring.
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I… I show unerring accuracy with my arrow and bow!
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The defining quality of digital things is their unerring and untiring precision.
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The trouser-clad Mathilde, raised by communist parents, is rationalistic and unerring.
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But he had an unerring sense of where the fossils ought to be.
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Maidana's pure grittiness and unerring determination made him one of boxing's most beloved competitors.
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He would be replacing an unerring liberal, a women's rights icon, with a conservative.
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After all, the Davos echo chamber has an unerring knack for getting it wrong.
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Joshua, meanwhile has an unerring confidence which envisages Martin becoming his latest knockout victim.
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A self-proclaimed 'art-junkie', Stone was driven by passion and by an unerring eye.
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It's a pleasure to see how, even in the early work, Parks's eye is unerring.
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It is the precision of his passing, his unerring ability to make the right choice.
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He hit Trumpian themes on immigration and national security, and showed unerring loyalty to the ticket.
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The piling up of ghastly episodes punctured the myth of Big Tech's unerring wisdom and benevolence.
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His stoicism, his dexterity, his unerring calm, his gift for narrative storytelling — they were all pathbreaking.
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Chance's ease in traversing divergent styles and moods without losing himself gives Coloring Book an unerring compass.
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IGNACIO MARTIN VELASCOParis Bartleby has an unerring ability to detect the nonsense emanating from HR (July 13th).
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Everywhere you look, the work is marked by unerring decisions and choices, an unrivaled intensity of concentration.
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He showed unerring command of Berg's devilishly difficult score, but he dispatched it too cleanly and efficiently.
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It is undeniably tough to be ostracized, especially because kids zero in on difference with unerring meanness.
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But, by the same token, Rosenfeld's attack on upper-middle-class pieties is unerring in its aim.
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In real life, crime labs are not the exclusive domain of unerring Gil Grissoms and Dr. Quincys.
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That gives fans one more season of Gladiators, white hats, fixing, political intrigue, and Olivia Pope's unerring style.
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Black backs have an unerring sense for distinguishing weakened, winter-starved birds from the rest of their flocks.
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Shaw was trapped in the corner and on the end of a savage and unerring onslaught of punches.
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Fitzgerald was a jazz singer of unerring instinct and quick composure, crisp and bracing as a classic gin fizz.
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Illegal, yes, of course, but also you kind of do have to admire his unerring dedication to the finesse?
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Despite some early nerves Murray quickly put those fears to bed, dictating the rallies with unerring length and precision.
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Even the nickname for the role, Guardian Angel, was freighted with a presumption of unerring perfection and righteous power.
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I was grateful for an unerring eye — and for the companionship, since I find myself to be miserable company.
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With her unerring gift for comedy, Moore seemed perfectly fashioned to the smarter wit of the new, post-Eisenhower age.
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Due to the uncompetitive nature of this bout throughout its duration, the referee called off the fight with unerring immediacy.
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I get the feeling that she does not take photographs, but that she has an acute, unerring eye for finding them.
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But the Trump administration's fealty to the coal industry is one of its few unerring principles (if "principle" is the word).
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But because of its bright colors and unerring optimism, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has a warmth other dark comedies just don't have.
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The Nobles and UEs present that part of the song in the exact spot where it belongs and with unerring clarity.
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Her biggest challengers are Putin and Erdogan, who share an unerring vision of the retrograde Europe they want to live in.
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Peale paints him with unerring realism, conveying an unembellished sense of strength and wisdom that eschews all trappings of the heroic.
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Throughout his half-century of practice, Mr. Boies has shown an almost unerring instinct for picking clients who burnish his reputation.
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She has an unerring instinct of when to push Lewis — and when to slip away and leave him to his memories.
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The real triumph of the first two episodes of "The Crown" is the unerring emotional focus of Mr. Daldry, the director.
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A product of the New York tabloid world, Mr. Trump has an unerring instinct for saying things that will produce gasps.
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Yet McConnell has shown an unerring instinct for self-preservation across six Senate terms and a record stint as Republican leader.
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Using stereology to take a census of the human brain would require a daunting amount of time, resources and unerring precision.
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No matter how big or complex a work, he now has an unerring mastery both of the fine detail and the architecture.
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Its caricatures of spoiled kids and narcissistic parents are unerring and timeless; its satirical takes on human nature are pointed and merciless.
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Peele is unerring in setting up the strange world of the Armitages, but relaxes into tropes when Chris needs to escape it.
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Part of the problem is the automatic deference that society has so often given to technology, as though artificial intelligence is unerring.
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A crystalline example of this pivot was recently provided by that unerring tribune of bubble-headed conventional wisdom, Chris Cillizza of CNN.
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Since when does giving birth and raising a tiny human also require you to remain in a constant and unerring state of fuckability?
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Don't think about why it is that people at the hard end of their fifties have this unerring compulsion to embellish your keys.
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Annamarie V. Sandecki, Tiffany & Co.'s archivist, bidding at the back of the room through unerring nods of her head, was the winner.
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It would be absolutely thrilling to see Norman calmly stand his ground amid flying bullets, while taking unerring aim at a rampaging gunman.
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He is selfless and unerring, and nearly flawless, despite his bad temper (fully on display on the Luther insult generator at ergofabulous.org/luther).
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Alves misjudged the flight and Ronaldo — taller, stronger and much, much better — was composed in bringing the ball down and unerring in his finish.
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The blanket refusal by Trump to cooperate with legislative oversight is both unprecedented and another example of his unerring instinct for undermining democratic norms.
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Ultimately, her unerring focus on the ground operation did not yield sufficient results: She finished third in Iowa, significantly behind Sanders and Pete Buttigieg.
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"Biagiotti has come to represent decorum and fashion nuance unerring in its mainstream elegance," Richard Martin wrote in the reference book "Contemporary Fashion" (1995).
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Not only that, but with the help of evolving technology and their own unerring instincts, they remade parts of culture in their own image.
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Dressel's exploits put Katie Ledecky's unerring speed in the shade as the American routinely swam to women's 800m freestyle gold in eight minutes 12.68 seconds.
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"Big Sky" has all the sizzle of a British fry-up; Ms Atkinson's evocation of the beauty and desolation of faded seaside resorts is unerring.
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There is in this and other drawings an unerring sense of how much to include, and which spaces to fill with color or with lines.
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He may have an unerring feel for what certain Republican primary voters want—to ban Muslims, torture suspected terrorists, build a wall on Mexico's border, etc.
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This unerring sense of purpose in the globalised world is at odds with Britain's own navel-gazing about its role, as it contemplates retreating into isolation.
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Since opening her gallery three years ago, the Danish dealer has built her reputation on an unerring sense of what's next in art, fashion and furniture.
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For more than a century, its voters have been almost unerring in choosing the winning presidential candidate, and last year they broke convincingly for Mr. Trump.
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Over this, the artist makes a pencil drawing of an appropriated, invented, or adapted image, and then proceeds to scratch away the figure with unerring accuracy.
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The cinematographer is Hélène Louvart, who filmed Wim Wenders's "Pina" (2011), and what she brings forth, in unerring style, is a suburban land in a trance.
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Taraji P. Henson's unerring ability to find the core of Cookie's every interaction and mine it for all it's worth is the show's greatest renewable resource.
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We are not talking about any old 'goal' here, but rather a strike of such sumptuous power, such unerring accuracy, that it deserves unironic golazo status.
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The cool as a cucumber American counter-puncher does not blast opponents off court, instead uses her incredible court coverage and unerring accuracy to wear them down.
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In landing somewhere in between, The Purge: Election Year winds up being what is perhaps the most unerring take on US politics we've seen yet this year.
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Although often dour in countenance, Mr Modi is a pithy speaker in Hindi, with an unerring nose for the class-driven grudges that often guide voter sentiment.
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Swinging with metronomic consistency and putting with unerring accuracy, she finished at 14-under 274 at the historic Kooyonga course that has hosted five men's Australian Opens.
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Belgium's nimble artisan David Goffin, on the other hand, goes about his business with the precision of a surgeon — wearing down rivals with unerring accuracy and placement.
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A singer-songwriter of unerring quality, Mr. Kahane boarded a train the day after the 6463 presidential election and, phoneless, rode nearly 2646,7791 miles around the nation.
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Bernstein noted, however, Trump's "unerring sense of the grievances of so many American people," such as decreasing wages, crumbling infrastructure, and the power of the elite class.
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No one understood as well as he did that the Republican field was relatively weak, not strong, and he has an instinct for the jugular that is unerring.
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In a word: No. That said, most of the less familiar songs heard on Sunday had an unerring grace and facility, along with a diminished sense of scale.
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But the White House press secretary has an unerring obligation to keep all sides of government officials and journalists aimed toward the truth and not away from it.
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Swift isn't an especially powerful vocalist, but she's long had an unerring sense of how to deliver tsunami-grade melody, knowing when to lean in to a buildup.
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But Ms. Wall's life, not her death, was the unerring focus of Wednesday's memorial, which was attended by about 100 people, including family members, former classmates and professors.
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But Goethe, with the unerring instinct that seemed to guide him throughout his long life, had chosen the existence he needed—an existence as unlike Werther's as possible.
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It's stitched together precisely, the zipper works with an unerring smoothness, and I'm left with the impression of real quality every time I pick it up and use it.
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She is reminiscent of long-forgotten characters like Harry Ford, a poetry editor with "an unerring ear," according to his obituary in The New York Times, and Mr. Koshland.
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On occasions, I find myself transfixed by their sensational detail and realism, and going back to other, simpler headphones makes me appreciate just how smooth and unerring the KSE1500s are.
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The mutual enhancement especially clarifies both Nadelman's debt to folk art and his original use of it: his playful but unerring perfection of line, shape, facial expression and applied color.
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Trump hit him with a $250 million lawsuit for defamation but then, with his unerring nose for exploitable moral weakness, hired Wallach and turned him into a pummeled foot soldier.
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"Currency and bitcoin, in this sense, is about faith, and this faith is unerring for hard line libertarians, no matter how many hacks and scandals," he told CNBC in an email.
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Louvres are cut with a machine so ancient that no employee can accurately date it, and not by using lasers and computers, but by the unerring eye of a long-serving worker.
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What the comic captures is the mix of political shamelessness, unerring showmanship, media dynamics, social media dynamics, and public despair that led many to prefer Trump's postmodern cynicism to politics as usual.
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While many still laud them for their impeccable positional play, their determination, organisation and penchant for unerring tackles, there are even more who remember them subconsciously from film, literature, music and media.
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The potentially blasphemous question rears its head again: if it's a curse to be a Sidenius, is Per cursed by generations of unerring piety, or by that ancestral aberrant flash of madness?
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His songwriting evinced not just a keen eye for narrative detail but also an unerring ear for spoken vernacular and a wry, existentialist bent akin to that of Kris Kristofferson or John Prine.
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In allowing such access, students of church policy said, Mr. Monson presided over an unprecedented era of openness about church history, while reassuring the faithful that theirs was the one true, unerring faith.
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Female pop stars might seem to offer the yin to football players' yang, but in the music-video era, these women's work requires its own athleticism, timing, discipline and unerring performance under pressure.
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New Vectorian initiates Minister of Zion Yasmin Ben-David, Minister of Fire Lydia Graves, and Minister of Mathematics Nic Nunogawa will also make certain gestures in the proximity of my unerring and ineffable word.
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And at the height of the battle, one of Pence's greatest political strengths -- his unerring ability to deliver the message he wants despite dogged questioning -- became a crippling weakness under the national media spotlight.
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Cantone brought his interpretation to the impression, telling Vanity Fair that he contributed the Italian expressions to the sketch, but he credits the show's writers for the unerring execution of the former investment banker.
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In the play, the humans are degenerates who stop procreating and succumb to their most selfish and strange whims—while the robots remain unerring in their calculations and indefatigable in their commitment to work.
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Where the earlier book turned on the crystalline austerity and reserve of its narrative voice, guided by Strout's unerring sense of what Lucy would omit, the new work almost literally undoes the older one.
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Working in a naturalistic comedic tradition that black female playwrights such as Lorraine Hansberry and Alice Childress helped shape, Gurira has a nearly unerring ear for how to make popular theatre without compromising authenticity.
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They do not matter in the context of how many people, by comparison, showed up to Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony, nor should they be seen as an unerring harbinger for the resistance to come.
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I watched you, unerring, as you vanquished my mouth, my red lipstick staining your sex, and I'll never forget the ferocious bliss in your eyes, and your agony of moans as you quickened your rhythm.
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In "Origins of Totalitarianism," Hannah Arendt writes: Like the earlier mob leaders, the spokesmen for totalitarian movements possessed an unerring instinct for anything that ordinary party propaganda or public opinion did not care to touch.
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"The Birds," her short story that was the basis for the Hitchcock film, is such a perfect piece of narrative tension, it feels less written than administered; it acts upon you with unerring, hypodermic efficiency.
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There are a few fun new supporting characters, notably a blind warrior with unerring faith in the force, played by Donnie Yen, and a robot that can only be described as "sassy," voiced by Alan Tudyk.
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People can see through the ropes and back in time: It's there, at that spot that a person can allow the unerring strength of humans past to envelope them — and let trickles of hope seep in.
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Coker made it to Alabama—and before that, to Florida State—on raw arm strength, which separates him from Sims's hare-like scrambles, McCarron's unerring poise, McElroy's moxie and resourcefulness, or Wilson's immaculate high school pedigree.
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As such, the process of climbing is challenging to the point of impossibility; the game's unerring physics engine punishes any deviation or mistake with a tumble that could potentially take you all the way down the mountain.
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The smooth-swinging 36-year-old possesses the accuracy off the tee and short game necessary to tame the Sentosa Golf Club's fiendishly difficult Serapong Course with an unerring proficiency that even he finds difficult to explain.
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A really, really good, super stripped-back club-ready rocket that's set to turn the entire world's decent dancefloors into a state of absolute and unerring frenzy, the likes of which the planet's not seen for decades.
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The joy, if we can call it that, came from seeing bold thematic concerns—de-individualization, the erosion of urban space as we know and understand it, "fully automated luxury communism"—presented with total and unerring conviction.
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It bolstered his image as a different kind of politician, without patience for cable news mini controversies and an unerring focus on the actual big problems: inequality, stagnant wages, and the rich's domination of the political process.
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Singapore blackened death/thrash quartet Rudra has long been one of the most outsized voices in East Asian metal, amplified by both the band's tenure (they've been active since 1992) and the unerring quality of their discography.
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The award from Doris Duke, she acknowledged, felt like a sign that the world was starting to "catch up" with what she'd long been espousing: stylistic openness, social engagement and an unerring belief in jazz's power to unite.
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In "Head in the Clouds," Hanlon once again shows an unerring sense of what distresses children (that "bunchy" winter coat), what excites them (candy canes discovered in pockets), and what they fear (a tooth fairy delivery gone astray).
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But then came the 45th minute and Chelsea's first meaningful attack of the game — a clever, if slightly hopeful, cutback from Hazard, and an unerring finish from N'Golo Kanté, the most dutiful, most dogged chaser of them all.
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He had an unerring eye for catching every fashion wave well before anyone else, and doing so not just on runways (though he loved designer fashion shows), but out there on the pavement of good old gritty Gotham.
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People often imagine, based on a misunderstanding of the (anyway faulty) efficient markets hypothesis, that a market reaction to an event is a more or less unerring guide to its impact and the changing distribution of possible future events.
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"He is 'Swiftboating' her by throwing shade on what should be a strength," Ms. Conway said... The disconcerting thing is that Trump has proven time and again that he has unerring sense of how to cut down his opponents.
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They'll be able to blast an unerring forearm into the softest meat of you and pulse around inside until they find the organ they want, which they will snip out neatly as you bleed beneath them on the floor.
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Boutier drove the ball with unerring accuracy en route to a 69 while Liu recovered from an early bogey to pile up six birdies and card a five-under-par 66 that matched the best score of the day.
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Her style resists translation, because it is full of colloquial French structures and expletives; she deploys them with abandon and an unerring sense of rhythm, lending the performance a directness that works well in the compact Théâtre de l'Atelier.
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Admired for their blend of expressiveness and restraint, Mr. Johnson and his bandmates honed a less-is-more approach to playing marked by a seemingly unerring knack for hitting the right note at just the right time and place.
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"I was supposed to do the MA with Professor Louise Wilson but she put me up for the job with Kanye," recalls Hedlund, referring to the late Professor who was renowned for her unerring ability to spot new talent.
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Schools will no longer offer math or science classes because there will be no need — AI robots will be unerring in those disciplines, so it will be uselessly redundant for humans to learn subjects at which they will never excel.
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"Where populists see a single unerring popular will (which they supposedly just have to implement), technocrats assume the existence of a single rational policy (which they supposedly just have to implement)," Muller wrote in an article for the Aspen Institute.
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They pull together several strands — Surrealism, biomorphism, a prescient Pop Art buoyancy — in ways that almost always seem just right, supported by an unerring color sense and broad knowledge of the various ways oil paint can be applied to canvas.
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Even when he is considering writers he's assessed many times before (Saul Bellow, Philip Larkin, John Updike, Christopher Hitchens), his aim is so unerring that he resembles a figure out of Greek myth, firing arrows through ax-heads lined up in a row.
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Part of the problem he has identified is the sheer number of people the Clintons talk to on any given day, and the unerring certainty that each had in the quality of their own advice compared with what Mook and his team offered.
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"It looks like Kim has a serious delusion that he is capable of helping or ruining Trump's reelection, but no one in Pyongyang can stand up to the unerring leader and say he's mistaken you don't want to be dead," the diplomat told Reuters.
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"It looks like Kim has a serious delusion that he is capable of helping or ruining Trump's reelection, but no one in Pyongyang can stand up to the unerring leader and say he's mistaken – you don't want to be dead," the diplomat told Reuters.
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PERSONAL DISCOMFORT 5 (Thirsty, venue pervaded by popcorn smell) DEDUCTIONS -3 (Mesmerized by Brazilian "girl power" synchro routine, we linger too long at the pool) 12:35 P.M. With unerring precision, we arrive at the gymnastics arena just as morning practice is winding down.
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A 6-foot-3 former football and volleyball player from Grass Valley, California, the muscular 27-year-old looks like a personal trainer created by an algorithm (his unerring form during ab exercises and cardio-heavy warmups betrayed no hint of effort or exhaustion).
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I asked Mr. Redlich to define how he does it — that effortless, unerring movement — but it would have been like asking Pablo Neruda to parse one of his poems or Lionel Messi to analyze how he beat five people on his way to scoring a goal.
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Setting aside who comes out the best individually, though, the three artists do make a trio as neat as any geometry lesson, with Picasso's unerring sense of the human body as a mass in space, Klimt's fixation on gauzy planes and surfaces and Schiele's potent, monomaniac line.
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Almost no band is more effective at this tightrope walk than Turnstile, a multiracial five-piece outfit from Baltimore with rigorous bona fides and an unerring instinct to color just beyond the lines in ways that unflamboyantly but purposefully illuminate the beauty of the lines themselves.
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It is this that has opened the way for a party refusenik such as Mr Macron—who, should he win, will have to get the people to break their unerring habit of resisting the change they have just voted for, a habit that accounts for much of their frustration.
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He has an unerring sense for how to command media attention, whether it was assuming a pseudonym and leaking the "Best Sex I Ever Had" myth to the New York tabloids, or dominating water coolers across the country by attacking NFL players who kneel during the National Anthem.
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Her kind of talent will always feel startling and sui generis: The music of her sentences, and their discipline; her unerring sense of psychology; the fullness with which she endows each character, which must be understood as a kind of love; the plots that commandeer whole hours and days.
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With his unerring eye for approaches that are not only cruel but also offensive and tasteless, President Trump has announced that the White House will host a temporary memorial to people who've died from prescription opioid overdoses that consists of a wall depicting 22,000 faces engraved on pills.
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Not everyone's forgotten him, though, and Francis is an artist who deserves to be remembered fondly and listened to still, for very few acts out there are able to plumb the depths of total and unerring sincerity and romanticism without falling into the death-trap that is over-done earnestness.
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" Mr. Tri Quang grew so influential that Time magazine put him on its cover in 1966, calling him South Vietnam's "mysterious High Priest of Disorder" and describing him as having "an unerring instinct for politics, a perfect sense of timing and a control over his followers that borders on the charismatic.
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Though Singleton had focused more on producing and directing for television in recent years, the six films he made in his first decade of work (from 1991-2001), showcase a filmmaker of variety and intelligence, skilled at telling stories on canvases big and small, with an unerring eye for new talent.
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But what sets Buffon apart from his contemporaries is the unerring fashion in which he embraced the faults and sought to repair, rather than replace, the shortcomings of himself and those around him; helping him to find victories even more valuable than he could ever have found without experiencing such loss beforehand.
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It's playful but pointed.) Her scat improvisations are as unerring as her intonation, but some of the most jaw-dropping singing unfolds in slow motion: on "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)," over a moseying bass line, or "Time After Time," with just piano, at a gently billowing tempo.
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To the right of the entrance, four framed drawings of a white, radiating circle on a square, black field are hung within concentric rings created directly on the wall via Braun's unerring fingerprint technique, in which she dips her fingertips in charcoal dust and presses them in symmetrical patterns against a surface.
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But Olivia and Ethan are not as odd as all that, and thanks to the appealing actors who play them under Rob Ruggiero's unerring direction, Courtney Rackley and Patrick Ball, you just can't help rooting for them to get together — even with all the obstacles Ms. Eason has quite deliberately put in their way.
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Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter: In the much-anticipated follow-up to his auspicious debut feature Ex Machina four years ago, writer-director Alex Garland shows an unerring hand in building a sense of unease about what evil lurks in a forest that's been taken over by some kind of "other," and then making it pay off.
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With an unerring eye for the poetry of the everyday, he trained his camera on subway riders and pedestrians in New York — the unceasing human ebb and flow in the old Penn Station — and ordinary Parisians going about their daily rounds, like the woman walking her dog on a deserted and misty Avenue de Chatillon in 21972.
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Because he had been arrested twice before — once on a charge of jumping a turnstile and another time on a suspicion of possessing marijuana — and had missed certain court dates associated with those arrests because, like most teenage boys, he failed to maintain an unerring Google calendar — the bail set for him that night was $500.
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With her deep Queens accent and unerring deference to her boss (she has always referred to him as Mr. Trump or, usually, as Mr. T), Ms. Graff, 64, is a familiar voice to New York's business leaders, the nation's political reporters and now old associates hoping to circumvent the normal channels of communication to reach Mr. Trump.
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The first two stories are sensitive and subtle, but it's the quiet, spacious moments that fill the third episode—a series of late-night diner rendezvous, a nocturnal horseback ride by the side of a highway—that show off one of Reichardt's great powers as a director: her unerring feeling for the climate and mood of American places the movies tend to neglect.
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There, he slowly struggles to win the kids over—they do not trust him or truly believe he is cool until, after a mishap in the kitchen, he has to distribute the dinner trays at lunch time, which he does by karate kicking them with unerring accuracy across the room (soundtrack: "Who Let the Dogs Out?" by the Baha Men).
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The greatest danger from a man so unerring in his detection of human weakness, so attuned to the thrill of cruelty, so aware of the manipulative powers of entertainment, so unrelenting in his disregard for truth, so contemptuous of ethics and culture, so attracted to blood and soil, was always that he would use the immense powers of his office to drag Americans down with him into the vortex.
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Goldblatt is an unerring portrait photographer, but he is also a master of absence, able to materialise the invisible subject by photographing the tools and spaces associated with labour, even when there is no worker in sight: a pile of miners' shovels or a black maidservant's quarters in a prosperous northern suburb, monastically tidy, with a flattened cardboard box for a mat and a copy of a newspaper announcing that the Apollo 11 mission is on its way back from the Moon.
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Ms. Spencer never lost her soft Mississippi accent, although her literary voice might have been anyone's, as Michiko Kakutani of The Times noted in a review of the "Jack of Diamonds" stories: "Whether she takes the viewpoint of a teenage girl, a young newlywed or a middle-aged widow, her ability to capture their voices sympathetically is unerring and precise; and she conjures up, with equal ease, a variety of milieus, moving fluently from the genteel gardens of the South to the grimy streets of Montreal, from the rustic summer cabins of Lake George to the fairy-tale courtyards of Florence and Rome."
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Talk of Arsene Wenger is always couched in identifying how he is different, how this foreignness is extraordinary, how he came over here, with his broccoli and his love of academia, and his unerring Frenchness, and he sat Tony Adams down and patiently explained pints weren't an ideal isotonic pre-match drink, Tony, maybe try water instead, and he reached a pinnacle of the game so unmatchable – an entire season, unbeaten – that he had to invent another game to keep his mind sharp, so he reversed the boosters, turned the rocket right around, developed a previously unheard of brand of anti-victory, crafting team after team of beautiful feather-legged losers, played a weird game of stadium moneyball against himself, lost a League Cup final to an Obafemi Martins goal.
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