Word: hallmark
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Baldwins are proud to display the rampant eclecticism that is widely accepted as the hallmark of talent. They wind between genres with sinuous ease, never entirely shedding the lithe upright bass lines and high-hat/scratch duels that are their signature sound. “The Bionic Jam” verges on techno, with its driving samples and “Better, faster, stronger/ We have the technology” sloganeering. The Baldwins then swerve into the appropriately kitschily titled “Lava lamp,” which playfully flirts with the sound of elevator muzak in its psychedelic...
...PEAR’s hallmark studies, Jahn sought to see if human consciousness could affect the behavior of a device that randomly dropped 9,000 billiard balls into a series of 19 cartons. When the balls were dropped without any human interaction with the experiment, there was a consistent cascading effect in which the center carton received the most balls while those to its left and right received progressively fewer. After a human participant was asked to concentrate intently on psychically altering the experiment’s outcome, however, the bulk of the ball distribution shifted to the right...
LITTLE DELIGHTS Dim sum is an institution more than a cuisine. Literally "touch the heart," the delicate dump-lings and scrumptious small dishes are a hallmark of Chinese food from New Jersey to New Delhi to their origins in Guangzhou. Specialized chefs train for decades in their preparation, and Cantonese gobble them up with almost ritualistic reverence from morning to midnight...
While the Crimson’s goaltending has been in a state of flux through much of the year, stability between the pipes has become the hallmark of its opponent...
Themes of interdisciplinary collaboration were a hallmark of Rudenstine’s administration. But success came only in the form of isolated programs. Summers used his institutional pulpit to argue for a change in Harvard’s sometimes balkanized culture...