Implicitly, "The Feud" celebrates the idiosyncrasy of literature rather than its monumentality, and the charismatic Nabokov would seem the perfect embodiment of idiosyncrasy.
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What they don't do is idiosyncrasy, hysteria, rawness, danger, breathlessness.
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Marat Akhmadiyev, the foreman for the project, explained the idiosyncrasy simply.
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And Ms. Variara's affinity for the constellations is not a personal idiosyncrasy.
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They were taking part in an idiosyncrasy of the Australian economic system.
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That blend of outlandish achievement and disruptive idiosyncrasy was central to his appeal.
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"There's a big difference between an idiosyncrasy and a bad habit," he scolded.
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On the Runway The first time could have been chalked up to charming idiosyncrasy.
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With remarkable speed, Mr. Trump's hostility went from foreign policy idiosyncrasy to conventional wisdom.
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Perverse and prosaic, his subjects show that idiosyncrasy is far more common than we realize.
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The group has honed a language unto itself: folksy, sophisticated and full of bluesy idiosyncrasy.
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This show could use more of that strangeness, more idiosyncrasy, more mess beneath the glossy shell.
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Go for it, if you care about authenticity and intensity, about subtlety and idiosyncrasy and maturity.
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The only problem with a field this crowded, however, is that eccentricity becomes commonplace and idiosyncrasy mainstream.
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Much of Hadi's photography explores the complexity and idiosyncrasy of minority communities that are often subjected to stereotyping.
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The series' latter section grows darker and gets rushed, losing any nuance or idiosyncrasy in exposition-heavy dialogue.
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That very idiosyncrasy is what makes it typical for the artist who conceived it, the choreographer Gregory Maqoma.
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The entire exhibition feels like a large canvas packed with ambiguity, spontaneous association, instinctive expression and personal idiosyncrasy.
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But when The Fall's sound became catchier and cleaner, it only served to contrast and accentuate Smith's unnerving idiosyncrasy.
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Although any of us who saw her dance remember how she exemplified it, Tharpism was never truly about idiosyncrasy.
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Trump partisans may well complain: Why is the Italian imperfect tie-knot considered chic and the presidential idiosyncrasy déclassé?
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This is a strange idiosyncrasy, given the amount of attention I pay to minutiae around the rest of the apartment.
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Greek society is tolerant of personal idiosyncrasy but intolerant of perceived hypocrisy, even though both words have equally Hellenic roots.
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The farther out into the wastes you got, the stranger everyone became, the idiosyncrasy rising with distance from other humans.
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Executed quickly, the rainbow-hued canvases are less a study in human psychology than in body language, gesture and idiosyncrasy.
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Most of the designers here are not widely carried elsewhere in New York, and their collections are full of winning idiosyncrasy.
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Unlike Charles Kimbrough, who created the part in the play's 1993 premiere, Mr. Lau invests Austin with very little comic idiosyncrasy.
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I found myself back living in Florida not long ago and wanting to make a film that took on that idiosyncrasy.
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And then there was the bracing idiosyncrasy of everything Miller's staff had been able to do for Sloan at Zen Hospice.
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Hand-clapping routines, rhyming stanzas and intricate rules for tiny competitions; games born of the creativity, insight and idiosyncrasy of children's minds.
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I thrilled to the art of flânerie, mucking around idly via my own feet, every walk a treasure of idiosyncrasy and intimacy.
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It's the meticulousness of it, the loyalty to idiosyncrasy, the respect for emotional complexity, the refusal to repeat one's own rules or habits.
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Their commitment to the idiosyncrasy and unpredictability of their characters creates an unusual kind of suspense, a slightly uncomfortable kind of increased alertness.
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And splashy canvases by Zhang Wei, who was born in 1952, have a careless dynamism and personal idiosyncrasy that Wu would have appreciated.
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As I got closer to the border agents, the people-watching changed from a game of spot the idiosyncrasy to full-on drama.
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But if the movie can come close to the emotional grace and creative idiosyncrasy of Hogancamp's art, then Oscar may not be far behind.
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Chalk this up as another area where Trump's idiosyncrasy breeds strategic uncertainty, raises risk and has US friends and foes wondering where it stands.
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The problem is it just underscored the fact that if everyone embraces the same wild idiosyncrasy, then they all start to look the same.
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Bookshelf Real New Yorkers are typically defined by their fleet-footedness, but more discerning observers focus on another idiosyncrasy related to our frenetic pace.
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Mr. Hasegawa noted one other idiosyncrasy: Mr. Uematsu had occasionally pulled into his driveway and rammed the front of his car into a concrete wall.
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Heigl didn't get to show the luminance, flintiness or idiosyncrasy of her romantic-comedy forebears; she was given too few moments of wit or insight.
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The gaps between us are no longer a West Coast idiosyncrasy, a courtesy we extend one another as Angelenos, but a kind of martial law.
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She surveys her subject from something like 40,000 feet, at which height human desire and idiosyncrasy, the pillars of dating and its hardships, appear vanishingly small.
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What appears at first as a tender gaze on an anthropological idiosyncrasy turns out to be a slipperier, and more critical, interrogation of cinema's ethnographic ruses.
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You could argue that the decline of mom and pop motels signifies something else lost in contemporary American life: the loss of friction, of distance, of idiosyncrasy.
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"Iron Fists," in which the founding member of Wu-Tang Clan also starred, was a not entirely successful meta-martial arts picture buoyed by some imaginative idiosyncrasy.
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Genuine aesthetic idiosyncrasy isn't born from a conscious choice to do something different — rather, it's the product of someone who can't imagine doing it any other way.
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Kahler's attorneys have argued that an idiosyncrasy of Kansas law prevented their client from receiving fair trial before he was convicted in 2011 and sentenced to death.
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"It's the idiosyncratic story of an idiosyncratic Los Angeles family that shows how idiosyncrasy has become a formula itself," James Poniewozik wrote in The New York Times.
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Full of refreshing idiosyncrasy, it brought out passionate dancing in a young Wendy Whelan and an unleashed bravura in Nikolaj Hübbe (now director of the Royal Danish Ballet).
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It would take giving over the myth of their complete idiosyncrasy, and looking at each other and seeing more than "an old ho," or nobody there at all.
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While the overwhelming message of these numbers is that Mr. Trump is looking good, there's an interesting idiosyncrasy that explains why I'm reluctant to quantify just how good.
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There will never be another musician or celebrity like him, a testament to both the remarkable ways in which the world changed during his lifetime and his sheer idiosyncrasy.
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He said it could not possibly explain the staggering diversity and idiosyncrasy of sexual ornaments — the fact that every closely related sparrow species has a unique embellishment, for example.
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An added idiosyncrasy is that Sinn Fein, a republican party that wants a united Ireland, currently has seven seats but refuses to take the oath of loyalty to the queen.
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A smaller or more parochial corner of America would never contemplate secession, if only because the achievement of such willful idiosyncrasy would come at the cost of isolation and obscurity.
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And the video does something similar: visually it's soft and delicately lit, featuring sweeping landscape shots, but its depiction of a relationship is full of real-feeling sweetness and idiosyncrasy.
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Guo censors her prodigious imagination in her lucrative clothes for rich ladies, and it isn't clear that she or they see any need to embrace an alien notion of idiosyncrasy.
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They argue that the subtlety, flexibility, informality, and idiosyncrasy of scholarly mentorship cannot coexist with the bureaucracy and contestation of a union workplace, from wages-and-hours agreements to collective bargaining.
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If the flavors and traditions seem to clash, this is an intentional idiosyncrasy that is not an opportunistic device, but a vehicle that pulls together difference through shared pleasure and food.
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The idiosyncrasy of these images comes from an organic collision of cultures and artistic styles, one without any of the corporate, mass-produced ad aesthetic that prevails in major film industries.
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This band enjoys an extraordinary rapport with its audience and concerts are communal celebrations of a very particular kind of music, but also of eccentricity, idiosyncrasy, joy, pleasure and, essentially, freedom.
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Such details allow the duo to achieve something that most decorators never do: an inimitable look that only the imperfections of time and the idiosyncrasy of the human touch can produce.
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Right up until the summer of 2009, when Sanford (always an odd duck but someone who had been able to turn that idiosyncrasy into political success as an outsider) went missing.
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Yet Lewis wasn't rigid in her depictions of the seasons; she toyed with nature, sometimes popping colorful autumn trees into winter landscapes or covering evergreens in cherry blossoms — a charming Lewis idiosyncrasy.
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The idiosyncrasy was on full display earlier this month during the summit with Kim, as the president mostly put aside warnings that the meeting would amount to a propaganda win for Kim.
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Lincoln Kirstein, the eminent patron of the arts (and writer about them) who loved to complain that modern dance was governed by the cult of idiosyncrasy, made an exception for Mr. Taylor.
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But in all this art for art's sake, Jared Buckhiester's glazed stoneware sculpture "Urinal (Full Back)" (2016) stands out for the power with which it leverages its formal idiosyncrasy to emotional ends.
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Dr. Lockwood said a secondary caution for anyone entering a burned site is human idiosyncrasy, in the things people store in garages, use in their hobbies or just never got around to throwing away.
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"It's the idiosyncratic story of an idiosyncratic Los Angeles family that shows how idiosyncrasy has become a formula itself," James Poniewozik wrote of this Golden Globe-nominated comedy last season in The New York Times.
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Thanks to the internet, younger artists — emerging from platforms that privilege intimacy and make room for idiosyncrasy — have been able to negotiate the genre's new terms out of the long shadow cast by hip-hop.
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A certain tolerance of idiosyncrasy goes along with that — a certain "Oh, it's just old Uncle Fester doing his thing" — as well as fear when it comes to criticizing the power player in the room.
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But that happened partly because, for all his idiosyncrasy, he had real intellectual and political strengths: He was intelligent, literate, well-versed in history, had long experience in government, and knew what he stood for.
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For years, US political and media elites have treated GOP climate denialism as a kind of peculiarity, an idiosyncrasy, occasionally to be mocked or "fact-checked" but mostly, like climate change itself, to be politely ignored.
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DIVERSIFY YOUR GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS—CAREFULLY Although a quick Google search yields all kinds of scholarships for every idiosyncrasy under the sun, Greenberg argued it's not necessarily a good idea to apply to as many as physically possible.
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And the intensification is in the direction of idiosyncrasy, which the gawky Ms. Dorrance both embodies and encourages in her dancers, especially in solos that help offset a machine-dance quality that hardens some of the ensemble sections.
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W magazine declared him one of their Modern Renaissance Royals (an extremely Yeezy turn of phrase, now that you think about it) and filmed an interview that packs an almost lewd amount of idiosyncrasy into less than three minutes.
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Ms. Dorrance's let-it-all-hang-out style — as much about knees and elbows as it is about her speedy feet, a contemporary physicality nothing like that of Fred Astaire or even Savion Glover — inspires kindred idiosyncrasy in others.
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What makes us deem this good rather than bad style is that they telegraph a set of contradictory virtues: femininity, seriousness, playfulness, idiosyncrasy, glamour, ease and a lack of vanity or seeming effort that is complemented by natural beauty.
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The Artaud Paintings hewed to conventional formats — individual sheets of standard-size paper oriented horizontally or vertically — despite the idiosyncrasy of their content, which included fragmentary images in gouache accompanied by handwritten quotes from Artaud in English and French.
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But, looked at another way, the idiosyncrasy of the list may actually hurt rather than help the EO defenders when it comes time for a different judicial test: an assessment of whether the EO is appropriately tailored to achieve its ends.
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BTS is at the vanguard of a musical export that, contrary to fears of outsized Western bias in globalized culture, has not only remained true to itself, but has exerted considerable influence on contemporary Western pop with its maximalist sound and lyrical idiosyncrasy.
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Thanks to the attention of the salesclerk, a spectacularly dressed gentleman with the most phenomenal idiosyncrasy — one exquisitely bent strand of hair shooting out several inches from the rest of his bushy beard — I did my best to imbibe the lavish life.
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They were an odd band in the sense of their deep idiosyncrasy: they had an intense sense of style, a crucial part of which was their understanding of the ways that normal life can (and should) be made alluring and affecting in art.
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What Burton brings to all these ideas is his own joyous idiosyncrasy — his ability to meld the ominous and the frightful with a sense of whimsy, and then turn that unholy duet into part of the act and the art of being a tortured outsider.
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That dedication to following his own North Star, one visible only to him, has resulted in a series of structures that, as Nikil Saval writes, astonish for their idiosyncrasy and strangeness; they are pure expressions of form, inimitable iterations on his particular vernacular of shape.
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Their collection of art and objects, which range from Ming dynasty vases and vintage Gibson guitars to early 20th-century drawings by Jean Cocteau and a quartet of watercolor portraits from the early 2000s by the contemporary British artist Chris Ofili, heighten the dwelling's idiosyncrasy.
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As a Yankee in the early 22005s, he enjoyed brief stardom as a hard-throwing right-hander, with a fastball and curveball that he delivered straight overhand, a violent motion that caused him frequently to lose his hat, an idiosyncrasy that became a trademark.
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As a Yankee in the early 22005s, he enjoyed brief stardom as a hard-throwing right-hander, with a fastball and curveball that he delivered straight overhand, a violent motion that caused him frequently to lose his hat, an idiosyncrasy that became a trademark.
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The writer and critic Simon Reynolds once pegged the sort of isolationist grooves associated with the crew's output as nu-IDM or art techno—a less-than-generous reflection of a form of post-dubstep techno that is barbed and awkward, favoring idiosyncrasy over cohesion and danceability.
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Playlist: "Body Count" / "KKK Bitch" / "There Goes The Neighborhood" / "Invincible Gangsta" / "The End Game" / "Talk Shit Get Shot" / "99 Problems BC" / "Institutionalized 2014" Momentarily putting aside the streetwise bonafides of those first four essential solo albums, a certain idiosyncrasy has always been a part of Ice-T's modus operandi.
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There are many beautiful spaces out there, but we're always looking for something beyond beauty — that elusive sense of personality, of idiosyncrasy, the sense that its owner is deeply selfish, by which I mean that she is thinking only of whether she will like it, not anyone else.
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But now this peculiar creature, famous for its regenerative abilities (like when some grew two heads in space), may have another unforeseen idiosyncrasy: It not only reacts to light after decapitation, but it gradually recoups an ability to see finer aspects of light as its eyes and brain grow back.
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For example, while the Beastie Boys may have been initially criticized for biting black culture, their hard-partying frat boy personas soon demonstrated their idiosyncrasy, and their sophomore album, Paul's Boutique, established them as masterful samplers and exemplified a particular way of loving the rap art form that was understood and acceptable.
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It's tempting to call his worldview "conservative" but more accurate to say it tends toward the starboard flank of the good ship Idiosyncrasy: The best Douthat columns stake out political positions that align with no particular voting bloc and wage philosophical battles whose relevance to the average reader is not immediately clear.
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In a land with a history of violence so heinous it obliterates nuance, a land still reckoning with unpardonable crimes, and a land that is lushly layered with projections, the exhibit is an exploded diagram of how it feels to be Southern from the inside, with all the diversity, idiosyncrasy, and conflict that it entails.
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Far from being a charming idiosyncrasy of his mother's, the tropism of Eastern Jews toward France was one of the magnetic pulls of the period: Paris was the great light of emancipated Jewish life, and it was not as eccentric as Gary needed to pretend for his mother to dream of his making a life there.
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And be gladder that from the acid-etched local color of "A Good Day in Nashville" to the DIY bile of "Come Here Go Away," he serves up so much lyrical idiosyncrasy—topped for me by the nonstop "I Sold It All," where I understand the meaning of every line without being sure I know what the damn thing's about.
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CARAMANICA The saxophonist, flutist and bass clarinetist Eric Dolphy led just five studio sessions in his brief lifetime, yet he's seen as one of jazz history's great possibility-expanders — an improviser who squirreled away his masterful abilities under layers of evocative idiosyncrasy, packing his notes with more breath than they could fit, letting them bloom and quiver well beyond their natural pitch.
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So you have this idiosyncrasy: A lot of people, including British people who live in Britain and know it not to be true, have this idea of the nation as a kind of period drama with bunting over it, whereas, actually, we really do lean more toward getting knocked out with one punch outside a nightclub and eating a meat feast in the back of a cab.
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