Technically it was brilliant, dextrous fingerwork allied to resourceful bowing, whether springily bouncing or virtually eating the strings; but it lacked the necessary sweetness of tone to offset the incidental sardonic paragraphs which threaten this fairytale
evocation, and Oleg's presentation was decidedly inward, communicating little to the outside world.
Most problematically, Lerner writes about awe in a language from which the
evocation of awe has been banned: the language of psychology, sociology, business, and advertising.
After discussing at length impediments which past industrial projects present to future economic development, Leboutte concludes with an
evocation of the "solidarity" in industrial communities as "their most precious wealth" (555) - itself a contribution to the complicated cultural history of representations of industrial society, a subject dealt with only tangentially in the text.
The result is perhaps the most sensual
evocation of an artist's milieu since John Huston's dazzling nightlife tableaux for the opening of Moulin Rouge.
The prologue of Hongerwebben (Hunger Webs) is a long
evocation of the life and fate of fungi that are eating away human edifices, destroying buildings, totally unaware of the harm they may be doing.
The cold air blew so strongly that viewers could scarcely bear to stay and contemplate this disquieting garden, as if one's mental discomfort at this
evocation of intellectual repression had been made palpable--and nearly insupportable.
Renko slowly sorts through happenings and personalities to finger the culprits, and that process is fun to follow, but the most absorbing aspect of this book is Smith's
evocation of life as it has unfolded in the radioactive hell that surrounds the nuclear power plant that imploded in 1986 (the site will cool in 25,000 years).
Standout contributions--those that transcend the musings for the in-crowd--include Janice Ross's brilliant introduction to Anna Halprin, Arlene Croce's reflections on the genesis of Ballet Review, Jill Johnston's
evocation of that heady era, and Leslie Satin's fascinating survey of James Waring's too-brief career.
Edward Berty's book produces this pleasure of surprise in its
evocation of the culture of the hunt in early modern England, and in its pursuit of the metaphorics of hunting in Shakespeare.
Hadrian Predock is the son of Antoine Predock, the noted South-West regionalist, and his emerging body of work reflects a strong kinship with his father's in its attempts to merge an image of the powerfully surreal desert landscape with an
evocation of the region's complex cultural ancestry to create architecture that transcends both historicism and regionalism.
Young gay readers will enjoy it for its lively
evocation of a memorable time in gay history, while more mature gay readers will identify with the odyssey of one man's involvement.
157) Tn a careful
evocation of a now vanished fragment of society Istvan Teplan shows how, in St.