Word: skillfully
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...coming jazz pianists are hardly underrepresented in New York City, but few are generating as much buzz as Glasper, who has wowed local audiences with his improvisational creativity and technical skill. On Canvas, Glasper shows his chops as a composer, with nine original tunes that evoke the muscular lyricism of Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett while still feeling fresh. Glasper is at his best on the title track, playing off tenor saxophonist Mark Turner in a minor-key vamp that constantly shifts mood and meter but never loses touch with its simple, soulful melody...
Let’s be honest, though: it doesn’t take much skill to pick Columbia to lose. But throw 30 points the Lions’ way, and you’ll still pick them to lose, you might think about it a bit longer...
DiSalvo defends the importance of teaching to students to sympathize with the “needs and values of others”—an essential skill often dismissed in today’s jargon as “soft” or “non-cognitive.” And Cioffi suggests an alternate path to ethical development through his defense of the humanities. Literary study, he says, “will help us to live better, more considerate, and crucially, more moral lives...
...enter the room, or the doctor who thinks she’s doing you a favor just by treating you with an iota of dignity. Maybe that’s what makes you too emotionally taxed to go to the $2,000 class that will teach you a skill in six months that might land you a job if your employer doesn’t mind that you may not look like a “real” man or “real” woman...
Injuries took a heavy toll on the home team, leaving it without the consistent skill in the line of Brian Lapham or a secondary capable of shutting down the short pass. When big plays were needed for a big rally, Harvard was without a big play threat like Corey Mazza downfield...