Word: virtuoso
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...literary anecdote, though they dwindle to that when Wyeth's delicacy falters. But at his best, his images become hermetic, despite their apparent candor; a peavey or a hanging cornhusk seems to brim with undisclosed biography. When the elusiveness at the core of his imagination reacts with his virtuoso power of rendering the soberest nuance of light, texture and weight, Wyeth becomes a formidable artist...
That soul, on the evidence of the early short cartoons-made before Disney or anyone else devoted any time to consumer analysis-was anarchic, occasionally cruel, broad and barnyard in its humor. If it did not comfort the afflicted (except by providing them with virtuoso entertainment), it certainly afflicted the comfortable. It was a direct spiritual descendant of the great silent screen comedies...
...poem also remains a testament to Gardner's virtuoso technique, his deft control of the cumbersome epic. Take, for example, his handling of the narrative point of view, his own relationship as writer to his story. The first person narrator is cast into an epic-dream, brought to Corinth by the gods to record for posterity the sad details of Jason's split from Medeia. While this anonymous poet is only a neutral observer, he tries desperately to alter the course of events by reconciling the couple. Only Medeia can see him, and she thinks he's a devil. Gardner...
...Crimson stretched the lead to 6-3 early in the second period, as Hagerty and Frisbie continued their attack. Kittredge, on a virtuoso clear, hit "Hags" near the crease, and the captain sidestepped two defenders and backhanded it in. Frisbie added another goal...
...image for this owl-eyed, leathery stump of wrinkled vitality was Proteus: the Odyssey's old man of the sea, whose power was to assume any form -beast, wave or tree-at will. He is the tutelary saint of virtuosos, and Picasso's virtuosity is the one fact of modern art that everybody knows something about. Stories about it begin in his early childhood. It is said that his father, a provincial art teacher in La Coruna, Spain, turned over his own brushes and paints to this alarming offspring, confessing that little Pablo had already surpassed...