Word: piquantly
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...elegantly played by rising Manhattan Pianist Charles Rosen. Although the piano's origin is closer to Mozart's day than Scarlatti's, the gem-pure Scarlatti pieces are more effectively unveiled. Through Pianist Rosen's subtle fingers-and the piano's remarkable characteristics-the piquant upper lines take on the diamond-point clarity of a harpsichord, while the sonatas' lower notes emerge with something like a modern piano's warmer, darker mass of tone. The total effect is a fusion of contrasting elements into a near-perfect whole...
...snippet from Coppélia, choreographed in 1896 by Danish Hans Beck after the French ballet-master, Saint-Léon. If the Delibes music was as familiar as an old song, the peasanty dancing was like hearing it sung in another language, and audiences loved the piquant combination...
While the Premier bustled about Washington, Mme. Mendès-France was busy fulfilling her own social obligations, including tea with Mrs. Eisenhower and a luncheon with Mrs. Dulles. Wherever she went, the Egyptian-born Lily Mendès-France was an instant hit-for her piquant beauty, her gentle good humor, and her dazzling wardrobe of Parisian gowns...
...literary heroes, Julien Sorel. the ambitious provincial, Lucien Leuwen, the morose bourgeois, Fabrizio del Dongo, the romantic idealist. But to all of them and to all the young men who set out to conquer the world, Stendhal's message was plain: be insincere. It is one of the piquant paradoxes of the diary that Beyle offers the advice in all sincerity...
...after her sea-crazed lover sails away, and of her marriage to a widower who loves her and craves a child-is a ticklish compound of sentiment and hard sense, of ruefulness and worldliness, that requires delicately simple treatment. As a play enfolded in music, it could be both piquant and touching. As a grandiose spectacle-with undersea ballets, waterfront fandangos and full-rigged ships crossing the stage -the story becomes both sluggish and slapdash. The heaping portion has been substituted for the proper food...