Word: sharpness
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However, the successful foundation of the ambience was quickly interrupted when the solo trumpeter, the only performer on the stage, entered sloppily, spitting the notes out of an under-formed embouchure. In addition, the four flutes positioned in the balcony were sharp but slightly out of step with each other during difficult atonal passages...
...outpatients. There was very little war-related treatment going on." In the summer of 2003, with staff reeling from the flood of patients following the U.S.-led invasion, the hospital received another jolt to its system: Colonel Rhonda Cornum. Her appointment as head of the hospital was a sharp break after 50 years of all-male leadership. Her combat credentials were impeccable, however. As a flight surgeon on attack missions during the 1991 Gulf War, Cornum's Black Hawk 214 was shot down over southern Iraq. Five of the eight people aboard died, and she ended up in enemy captivity...
...popular Gen Harwood (Hayden Panettiere), the skater Casey is studying, is training for the regional championships under her mother (Kim Cattrall), a type-A, washed-up skater herself, who projects her longtime goals onto her typically-Disney sharp-skating, sharp-witted, blonde daughter. Gen, though, would rather be eating a hamburger with her boyfriend than practicing triple-axles at 5 a.m. Who knew? Everyone knows pretty girls can’t eat burgers...
...sharp and unexpected rebuke of University President Lawrence H. Summers, members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted yesterday that they lack confidence in his leadership...
...sharp and unexpected rebuke of University President Lawrence H. Summers, members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted yesterday that they lack confidence in his leadership...