Word: flair
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...with the fact that this piece truly brings out the strings and woodwinds—the BachSoc’s strongest sections.The highlight of the night, however, was the masterful performance of Albright, who won BachSoc’s concertio competition. As he swept through countless notes with flair, Albright stayed unassuming—which made it all the more refreshing. Bowed over the piano, his thin fingers gliding over the keys, he played with natural mastery. At a time when displaying excessive emotion seems in vogue among classical musicians, Albright let the music speak for itself?...
...into living rooms and showing off their hand-eye coordination on plastic guitars. No longer “just a game,” many “Guitar Hero” players take pride in being better than their friends and make many attempts to add their own flair to their “performance.”When I recently did a YouTube search of “Guitar Hero expert,” I was surprised to find approximately 41,000 video results. Flipping through them, they were all pretty much the same: either a group...
...prince will be considering his future in the army. He admits he thought about resigning after he was denied the chance to fight in Iraq. He embarked on a career in the British army proclaiming his intention to be treated just like any other soldier - and demonstrating a noticeable flair for the vernacular of the common man. "There's no way I'm going to put myself through [the military academy] Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country," he said in a 2006 interview. He added: "I do enjoy...
...times, Obama showed a lawyer's flair for conceding the small points that aren't worth arguing about. This pattern was most visible in an unexpected exchange over whether Obama has sufficiently distanced himself from Louis Farrakhan's expressions of support for his candidacy. After Obama had said he has long denounced Farrakhan's anti-Semitic statements, Clinton said Obama had to do more and flat-out reject his support. Obama, sensing a tiny opening that Clinton had carved in his performance, asked whether there was much of a semantic difference between the words "reject" and "denounce," but then defused...
...December 1899, when attacking British forces were being repulsed in the Boer War, she declaimed: "Failure? The possibilities do not exist. I'm not talking about failure. I am talking about supreme confidence in the British fleet, superlative troops, excellent equipment. We must use all our professionalism, our flair, every single bit of native cunning and all our equipment. We must go out calmly, quietly, to succeed...