Word: uncertainity
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...even with the innovation of the foot pedal, playing the timpani remains a delicate and complex job. Each timpani is different, and in addition, each spot on the taut drumhead has a slightly different tuning, tension and response. And the tuning is still an uncertain science, performed with the orchestra in full swing around the timpanists. They have to find the perfect pitch despite the tooting and sawing of their neighbors and without losing track of the conductor. If you see them stooping over the drumhead during the concert as though they were whispering into a gargantuan ear, that...
...crowd reacted strongly to Gore's freewheeling style, though it was uncertain whether students were laughing with the Vice President or at him. Luke P. McLoughlin '00, president of Harvard Students for Bill Bradley, contended that the mood was pro-Bradley...
...uncertain at change," Allman said. "But coach's idea of a strict defensive game and a creative offense really is great with...
...able to maintain the same level of unshaking intensity that Mamet can create in his plays. Running at nearly three hours, Simpatico as a written work feels rough in places, as though Shepard is simply marking time between the dramatic flashpoints of his play. Kellerman seems uncertain what to do with this between time, with the unfolding of character histories and endless plot complications. At times the dialogue almost becomes a burden to the play, an interruption to its more powerful, silent moments...
...suggest only an individual's heightened predisposition to a certain disorder but do not make a conclusive statement about a person's condition. In the absence of any regulation, this amounts to the undesirable result that state residents may be denied health insurance and employment on the basis of uncertain personal characteristics...