Word: interplay
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dosage with hormones of the cortisone family, which relieved her pain and kept her joints reasonably flexible. But Still's disease weakens a child's bones and hampers growth; ironically, cortisone aggravates that part of the problem. By a feedback mechanism in the body's complex interplay of hormones, cortisone tends to shut down the pituitary gland, source of the all-important growth hormone. In five years, Betty grew only four inches. Off cortisone for a while, she grew five more, but after that she seemed condemned to live out her life...
...personality and emotional problems. But it has one drawback: interpretation of the results is a difficult job in which even experts often disagree. Rorschach testers often have to ask questions to draw out more than one response to each blot, and judgment may be colored by the interplay of personality between tester and tested. Attempts to devise a standardized scoring system have generally failed. Now University of Texas psychologists have produced sets of carefully selected inkblots which they feel sure will make the results of Rorschach-type testing far more consistent and precise than they have ever been before...
Then Saskia died, and that same year Rembrandt suffered a professional calamity. He painted on commission The Shooting Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (better known as The Night Watch), in which he infuriated many of the patrons by hiding them in his brilliant interplay of shadows. After that, Rembrandt was to know bankruptcy and the death of one loved one after another, including his only son. The years of tragedy were upon...
Feiffer stated that he was entering the three-dimensional world of the theater to express "the sense of real interplay between characters, not just veiled disintegrating relationships...
Also in contract to the school of spontaneity was Alan Kemler's pointlessly disciplined see the pearl of night. Kemler has superimposed on tape six readings of a poem of his own and has carefully controlled sound qualities and interplay of voices. Whispers hissed above brisk utterances, and the sound swelled to an offensive cacophony which subsided with "love's a pool of blood/and death a soaring sparrow." The jerky rhythms were tedious and the sounds at times quite unpleasant. Use of total control in so artless a fashion shows just why the school of spontaneity has rebelled from fixed...