Word: flawless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later, during a 70-minute pipe-puffing press conference, Clerides fielded questions in flawless English and turned vague on only one essential subject. Makarios, the constitutional President, was welcome back, but Clerides added that the archbishop's immediate return "would be very unwise under the present conditions." When Makarios does return, or perhaps even before, Clerides said, the presidency would be "a question for the people of Cyprus to decide." He promised a quick election to facilitate their decision...
Starker, whose reputation as an un sentimental musical intellect is as familiar as his flawless intonation, is almost buoyant with his new toy. Even the so bering milestone of a recent 50th birthday could not blight his joy. "I love it so much," he says with uncharacteristic exuberance, "that I am doing things I could never do with anything else. For me, emotion must give way to form and structure. But I love this piece so that I'm inclined to let my hair down." Starker is balding...
...book seem misguided. "The French phrase rien de grave is idiomatic for. . . 'It's nothing serious.' Associate 'Ran the grave' to 'It's nothing' in some ridiculous way and you've memorized it." Yes, you have, and in a flawless Kankakee accent...
Royal astrologers in Thimphu, Bhutan's capital, had delayed the ceremony until they were satisfied that all the signs were in order, but the investiture, once begun, proceeded with flawless splendor. As the King approached the courtyard of the Tashichhodzong, the fortress and monastery that serves as the seat of government, lamas wearing miter-shaped red silk hats and red woolen robes walked in procession ahead of him, and barefoot male dancers in wide silk skirts described intricate patterns in the courtyard. Forty more monks stood on the roof of the building and blared out a discordant fanfare...
Part of the problem lies with the rash use of theater-in-the-round. Close audience proximity places harsh demands on the facial features of amateur actors; group scenes require complex and flawless stage directions in this circular space; lighting is made difficult; technical effects more intrusive. Virtually all of the play's striking visual moments--as when the rapacious soldier lurches bare-chested and vain from the bedroom of the Jew's fiance--would have been as effective on a conventional stage...