Word: instrumentality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...violinists, led by Anna L. Dickerman ’05 and Ian K. Goh ’06, are particularly remarkable and at times sound almost as if they are playing a single instrument, as they easily synchronize to toss off some difficult violin licks. To keep the music from becoming too heavy during the opera’s emotional ballads, the strings section play using specialized bow strokes with an expertise that betrays their experience as seasoned players...
...Physician-Assisted Abuse "The Abu Ghraib scandal you don't Know" described how the prison's medical system became an "instrument of abuse, by design and by neglect" [Feb. 14]. It is inexcusable that the U.S. did not provide adequate medical services and supplies for prisoners. All the abuses and atrocities committed at Abu Ghraib must continue to be reported to the American public. U.S. citizens need to know and to demand an accounting and restitution by our officials. Karen A. Netwal St. Paul, Minnesota...
Jackiw stood calmly and confidently in a twilight-blue shirt, his face only perturbed by the compression of his brow on particularly tender passages. The color of his violin so matched the dark mahogany of the theatre interior that his instrument seemed to disappear; he seemed to be performing a dance with...
...Ghungroo” itself is the name for sets of bells worn on the ankles in traditional Indian dance, and thus it was appropriate that this instrument be featured in the first act of the show, a classical dance called “Arabhimaanam.” Accompanied by traditional vocal and instrumental music, the dance combined storytelling with graceful dancing, and served to open the audience up to the heritage of Indian dance, essentially providing a background with which to judge all that would follow...
...separating parents work out a parenting plan before their anger and hurt - perhaps occasionally stoked by lawyers - can mutate into intransigence. And a task force, established by the government last August and headed by University of Sydney law professor Patrick Parkinson, will report soon with ideas on reforming that instrument of justice that enrages separated parents, mostly fathers, as nothing else does: the wage-garnishing Child Support Scheme. On the eve of the changes there's cause for both optimism and hardheaded caution. "I'm not convinced I'll put in place the perfect system," says Ruddock...