Word: synthesise
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John Paul's statement, which makes no reference to the Waldheim audience, was a long-contemplated synthesis of his views on the Holocaust, said a Vatican official, "not a consequence of the Waldheim meeting." But it followed a July session in New York City between Vatican Secretary of State Agostino...
Actually, this combination isn't all that strange; hand-clappin' and foot-stompin' differ from slam dancing only by degree. Nor is the synthesis new or unique; such bands as the Long Ryders and Los Lobos play music that is a hybrid of these same styles--but not with the...
This monstrous synthesis comes to life on such creations as "DMZ." Davis sings in a Louisiana drawl about a dangerous neighborhood, while LeBlanc and bassist Ned "Hoaky" Hickel shout punk-style, "DMZ! DMZ!" Hickel's rockabilly bass thrums up and down the scale, while LeBlanc pounds violently and Davis' guitar...
Naipaul writes that when he was young he did not realize that "[m]an and writer were the same person. But that is a writer's greatest discovery. It took time--and how much writing!--to arrive at that synthesis." It seems he has lost it again.
Scanning Matisse's rooms is like reading a distinguished, reticent autobiography, written before the days when authors were expected to spill all the beans. The calm they radiate is best understood not as an expression of complacency but as a ploy against anxiety. Nice enabled Matisse to stabilize things, to...