Word: pinpointing
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...paintings show Kupka's sizeable vocabulary of line and color, the grammatical expertise of his construction, and the complexity of the thought he is trying to convey. But the majority of the works fail to make an artistic statement. It's hard to pinpoint Kupka's shortcomings. Certainly he had a clearly defined idea of his art (even if it's hard to follow...
...will never be made again, these are presents that won't be forgotten. Since this is the only collection of its kind in the world, each one is cataloged and numbered. Long after the last one is sold (nationwide sales have already eliminated five categories), our master catalog will pinpoint each owner and every jar. Each is accompanied with its certificate, signed by our curator, and a special illustrated booklet detailing the history of Agassiz, the collection, and the New England Glass Company, where they were made...
...only does Lewis pinpoint the influence of Wharton's past experiences on her work; he also uses her novels and stories as revealing source material on the conflicts that plagued her during various periods in her life. These two techniques are obviously most useful when they are complementary, since extrapolating an author's personal characteristics on the basis of her fictional creations alone is a tricky business at best. Unfortunately, Lewis occasionally gets slightly carried away, blithely matching up Wharton's characters with members of her literary set, without much regard for the intervening creative process. It is not that...
...second half began with Tufts displaying some nifty stickhandling and pinpoint passing, but Radcliffe's Karen Linsley caught the defense napping. Her drive from ten feet out (3:15) made the score 2-0, and Crimson domination became apparent. Tufts settled down and brought the play to the Cliffie's territory, but key defensive plays by Radcliffe's Ann Dupuis thwarted any major scoring bids...
...repeatedly denied he was taking on something of the scope of a similar study (known as the Redbook) in the 40s, by the Committee on General Education in a Free Society, that had had huge national reverberations. This, Rosovsky maintained, was just an in-house program, designed to pinpoint specific flaws in Harvard College and then go about solving them. If anything more sublime emerged, fine. If not, also fine...