Word: sketched
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...contemporary rock music’s most soulful and intelligent singer/songwriters. Adams’ posture was delicate as he skirted the stage, fingering his newly-cut hair. He lit a cigarette, drew slowly and deliberately, sipped wine from a plastic cup and finally sat, guitar in hand, to sketch the opening measures of “Oh My Sweet Carolina.” The crowd responded, grateful, but Adams abridged the song: “Don’t do that,” he gestured at the applause, “that makes me nervous. Just pretend you don?...
...that night said they saw five motor launches ferry in large groups of men from the boat wearing black turbans, long beards and traditional Islamic salwar kameez. Their towering height suggested these travelers were foreigners, and the boxes of ammunition and the AK-47s slung across their shoulders helped sketch a sinister picture. Then in July, a senior member of Bangladesh's largest terrorist group, the 2,000-strong al-Qaeda-allied Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), told TIME the 150 men who entered Bangladesh that night were Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters from Afghanistan. Three senior Bangladeshi military...
...three decades in the U.K. The closest she came was with an opera house for Cardiff; she won the competition, but her design got buried by Welsh political intrigue. "It was a nightmare," says Hadid. "Nowadays it's less the open competition system. They get you to do a sketch and you go to a meeting and they decide whether they can work with you or not. This doesn't help those who are not part of a clique, and in my case, who are not part of the boys' network. I can be accepted up to a limit...
...first sketch illustration of Collodi's often adapted Adventures of Pinocchio, by Enrico Mazzanti...
...first sketch illustration of Collodi's often adapted Adventures of Pinocchio, by Enrico Mazzanti...