Word: rigorously
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...arbitrary - they are the names of places around Rio de Janeiro, picked off a map. But they accord well with the tropical exuberance and intensity of Stella's new colors, the metallic yellows, fuchsias and purply blues that give the paintings their extraordinary mixture of lushness and rigor...
...waiting list of 150 pupils. She would like to expand Westside but refuses to apply for any federal grants. Says she: "I don't want any experts telling me what's good for these kids or telling me how to teach." Meanwhile. Westside's rigor is apparently as attractive to pupils as to their parents. Collins' brood even requested homework over the Christmas vacation...
...seating ruckus was all about. I suppose it must be traditional by now that a pretty young thing gets escorted onstage so the thirteen finger-snapping young men can ooh, aah, ooh at her while 1400 ticketholders in the audience can only pity the young thing who gapes out, rigor-mortified, at the shadowy mass. Even if this was where Anita Bryant got her big break, is it really worth all the trouble...
Peter Wirth's Old Prince Bolkonski is static at the other extreme, delivering each line with the dry rigor of orders given in battle. "Orders cannot be changed; order is order forever, un-changeable," Wirth pronounces with a monotony that characterizes all his tones and actions. It is as if the dead delusions of historians have triumphed in a way greater than even this part demands...
...Frye himself, in Spiritus Mundi, insists that he neither wants nor trusts disciples, but it's not difficult to understand why he attracts them. In many ways, Frye is the consummate humanist. A vigorous exponent of the autonomy of art, he has brought to its study a quasi-scientific rigor. A devotee of the imagination, he exemplifies the critic as creator, combining a vast erudition with a penchant for clear and orderly exposition...