Then they lovingly pour on the syrup, photographing everything minutely.
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The angle of the display can be minutely adjusted during flight.
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And each of them changes the odds of developing diabetes minutely.
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" Boot minutely describes a disillusionment that wasn't only "painful and prolonged" but "existential.
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More variations on the theme in minutely detailed bows and swirls and swags.
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But as they stumbled, their movements were captured minutely by a motion capture rig.
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Closer examination revealed minutely differing degrees of density in the black of the shadows.
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She's a divorcee who directs her pent up organizational skills into planning the weekend minutely.
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Ms. Tomes writes a fluent and immensely readable chronology, minutely referenced, instructive and ruefully entertaining.
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Thus begins "Still Here," Lara Vapnyar's minutely observed, razor funny and wholly wonderful third novel.
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Her work was astonishing, as minutely detailed as any Copley, with a feminine, folkloric twist.
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Trade pacts are usually inspected minutely by lawyers on both sides before they are signed.
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In addition, nearly all aspects of daily life and religious practice have become minutely regulated.
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He tells minutely how women and men are dressed, the color, the cloth, the fit.
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However, he said that a rise in China's January producer and consumer prices "minutely hurt" gold.
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Ms. Warren may call herself a capitalist, but her panoply of minutely detailed plans suggests otherwise.
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For the first time, we are able to quantify our physical and physiological activities so minutely.
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Fritzsche's book minutely describes this nationwide slide from credulous delusion to a willful embrace of catastrophe.
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The photograph has been styled minutely, but it is hard to extract meaning from the picture.
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The place was dimly lit, and there were minutely drawn maps and fake frescoes on the walls.
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I also spent a lot of time minutely adjusting the shape of the spiral in different ways.
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To then minutely dictate the experiences and actions of those slaves to serve its whim and benefit.
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The complaint minutely chronicled an odyssey of embezzlement, global money flow and lavish spending in the United States.
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Their dogs ran alongside, barking minutely; their travois poles, slung from ponies, etched faint parallels in the ground.
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And they are faults that make for a reading experience some will think hugely colorful and minutely observed.
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Here, too, Mr. Toyota created a minutely modulated acoustic "skin," this one carved into sensual waves in oak.
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From headline to headline Trump stumbled, ending up with the last thing he wants: a minutely scrutinized life.
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The minutely choreographed policies of central banks act to suppress the market volatility that hedge funds thrive on.
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The ability to minutely detect and filter out background noise is particularly important when working with rodents, said Coffey.
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Throughout their brief relationship, the narrator minutely observes both Mitko and his country, as well as his own past.
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He'd often finish them by repeating an anthemic, singable melody, altered minutely until its intensity helped it lift off.
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Having invaded their lives as minutely as possible, he would dismiss them without a second thought or a second read.
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And as before, two systems setting out from two minutely different starting points would soon be on totally different tracks.
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Shriver's dystopia is imagined as minutely as a pointillist image, with every detail adding another dot to the overall picture.
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Stop-motion is a time-consuming filmmaking process in which animators advance the movements of models minutely with each frame.
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Then he looked at a small pad on which he had created rows of what looked like minutely etched hieroglyphics.
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In future, victory will belong to whichever party can master the art of waging tens of millions of minutely personalised campaigns.
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When the two sides meet at the Stade Vélodrome on Thursday evening, they will be well met and minutely well matched.
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The early director's promise that the manuscripts would be "minutely investigated" was limited at the time by the technical means available.
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Some behavior raises alarms and should be stopped, like secretly sharing minutely detailed personal profiles with political operatives to turn elections.
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That would buy time to negotiate a more comprehensive deal, including a minutely sequenced road map that will require sustained diplomacy.
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The risk for the disease, in research speak, is polygenic: Each of the numerous genes changes the odds of developing diabetes minutely.
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The kiosk seemed to give Brennan minutely personalized flight information as he walked by after automatically scanning his face in just seconds.
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These were hyper real, minutely detailed scripts that played on the walls of their minds for great chunks of their waking hours.
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With "Rethink Shinola," scholar and artist Rebekah Modrak has created a biting, minutely researched critique of an appropriative re-branding of Detroit.
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AltSchool's learning practices—in which schoolwork is done on a tablet, and then tracked and minutely analyzed—anchors children to their machines.
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But that approach does not provide the level of control over how limbs minutely adjust and react that researchers previously thought it might.
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We fear terror attacks, shark bites, Ebola outbreaks and other minutely remote dangers, yet over 83,000 people die worldwide each year after falling.
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The guru examined Mr. Modi's public addresses minutely and requested videos of his tours and speeches, the prime minister said in his eulogy.
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We fear terror attacks, shark bites, Ebola outbreaks and other minutely remote dangers, yet over 420,000 people die worldwide each year after falling.
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There are dozens of tiny problems that contributed to its decline, each one of them minutely nudging utopia into the grot of reality.
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Dinesh, assuming that he will soon die, makes rituals of bodily actions, burying his excrement and minutely analyzing his new wife's every movement.
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A literary mystery drives the plot of "Possession," A. S. Byatt's witty, minutely textured Booker Prize-winning 1990 novel set in two eras.
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Most of what's here, though, is "Homage to the Square" material, in the form of minutely annotated color studies or full-scale paintings.
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Porter hedged when asked directly if a legacy of racism is at play, adjusting his tie so minutely that the change was almost indiscernible.
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Like his first film, Moonlight is a patient, restrained, and minutely detailed work that finds beauty and pain alike in unexpected places and connections.
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As people strive ever harder to minutely quantify every action they do, the sensors that monitor those actions are growing lighter and less invasive.
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In the wake of minutely reported and perspective-shifting books like "The New Jim Crow" and "Ghettoside," this is a peculiar omission at best.
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She lives in this village of a few dozen homes and has minutely chronicled the lives of peasants, priests and nobility here before 1918.
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In researching the site more minutely, and assessing the surrounding properties that we thought would be available, we were looking for more than 100,000.
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Most scientists agree that these kinds of activities build skeletal strength by generating sudden, sharp forces that minutely bow or deform the affected bones.
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Mr Abrahamsen, now 67, has often proved his mastery of winter music through minutely detailed scores that build into shimmering, fractal wonderlands of sound.
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It's also about putting together minutely-detailed and often incredibly silly costumes, the kind that will spark smiles of delight and recognition in fellow fans.
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The hefty tome, minutely detailed yet dauntingly broad in scope, offers a lively portrayal of the evolution of American living standards since the Civil War.
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And he packed them with visual information: many variations on gestural painting, no two alike, each minutely choreographed, with mysterious images — numbers, words, pictographs — added.
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Say your camera is good enough to track objects minutely — what good is it if you don't know how to separate objects from their background?
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As we enter a scientific era where these modulations might be possible, how can we tell if an animal has gotten smarter, even minutely so?
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His attention never strays far from nature, and his writing in these bird passages is minutely detailed, exquisitely observant, deeply informed, and often tenderly sensual.
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Given the scrutiny Mr. Trump's tumultuous first week attracted, and the passionate debate in England over Brexit, the meeting was certain to be minutely dissected.
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But in another world, where courts gather and examine evidence more minutely, with standards of proof that are difficult to meet, the battle was only beginning. ●
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Dr. O'Connor and his colleagues have been infecting pregnant female macaques with the Zika virus, minutely recording their symptoms, and giving them blood tests and ultrasounds.
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In a universe where the best basketball prospects are minutely dissected from their freshman years of high school, the collective whiff among the cognoscenti is stunning.
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"Better Things," like Sam's life, is full to bursting: full of mess, passion, resentment, regret, rebellion and optimism, and minutely observed down to the subatomic level.
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"Better Things," like Sam's life, is full to bursting: full of mess, passion, resentment, regret, rebellion and optimism, and minutely observed down to the subatomic level.
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The seismic waves from a nearby earthquake will deform the cable minutely, leaving the returning light slightly out of phase with the light emitted by the laser.
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As far as losing a generation of students to Google's relentless compiling of personal data, our children are already tracked minutely by Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others.
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Written and recorded over two years, the album is testament to obsessive craftsmanship, and how minutely tweaking and shaping a sound can give it its own life.
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"Not only would I benefit financially, albeit minutely, it would make the process of recycling simpler and easier," said 30-year-old train driver Ahmed said on WhatsApp.
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The shorn gum print, the broken marble, the dashed commercial hopes and annihilation of minutely mapped feng shui; horrified interns, livid gallerists, scandalized gallery-goers, my reputation forever demolished.
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And you can play through the entire game this way, though it turns out that it only minutely changes the story and adds little actual value to the experience.
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Featured in the gallery's upstairs front room are scale models of the lower galleries, with small video-projection machines minutely reproducing the images and sounds of the exhibition below.
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And other objects here, including a tiny, hinged wooden prayer bead that opens to reveal a minutely carved devotional scene, extend our view of European religious art beyond painting.
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He cleverly implies that his own sensibility — playful, minutely observant, ticklishly alert to life's "terrible, stupendous mire of trivia" — is exactly what's needed to detect a swindler like Chichikov.
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He is lithe, sinewy, and deeply tanned, with a torso that, for decades, has appeared so exquisitely and minutely muscled that an onlooker might reasonably assume it was painted on.
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Yet in the VR experience, you are shrunk down to miniature size, and able to walk through the exploded layers of the biblical scene, and see his minutely-carved face.
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It's an impressive feat of photogrammetry — which, if you didn't know, is the technique of minutely tracking features in a series of images to determine their absolute sizes and positions.
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Many of the materials from his year outside will be exhibited, including minutely detailed maps of his daily wanderings and stark photographs of the solitude of life on the street.
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Mr. Macron is trying to establish the revolutionary idea that over two centuries of laws and court decisions minutely regulating work — the contents of the code — can now be bypassed.
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The American artist-writer-curator Donald Shambroom has written a breezy but minutely detailed book, published by David Zwirner on the 22th anniversary of Duchamp's death, entitled Duchamp's Last Day.
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Mr. Kim's meeting with the dovish South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, was heady stuff, minutely choreographed to stir the hopes and longings of a nation bitterly divided for 70 years.
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The houses along the road were like that too: jammed together, the balconies cramped with cycles, boxes, brooms, pots, clotheslines, buckets, the city minutely recreating itself down to the smallest cell.
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While private to the last, she maintained close ties to three French presidents during her lifetime and was never far from the society pages, which pored over her family relations minutely.
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But some are worried about the future of the quarries: Jobs here are passed almost exclusively from father to son, the heft and movement of the rock taught and felt minutely.
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" Mr. Ruff said he was especially impressed by Mr. Künstler's skill in using gouache, a kind of watercolor, to create minutely detailed scenes, even in "fantastical subjects, like his pulp fiction work.
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Now, minutely turn one of the three cricket balls that sit in a bowl on a side table, keepsakes from Mr. Peck's days as an exchange student at the University of Exeter.
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The houses along the road were like that too: jammed together, the balconies cramped with cycles, boxes, brooms, pots, clotheslines, buckets, the city minutely re-creating itself down to the smallest cell.
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Her life may be only minutely different from those around her — her marginally exotic cooking, the pronunciation of certain words when under stress, her attendance of a no-nukes march — but that's enough.
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In this interactive production, Erth, a troupe from Sydney, Australia, takes children on a multimedia tour of prehistory that uses giant, minutely detailed puppets to portray dinosaurs and a few of their forebears.
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The metaphorical implications of this are dizzying, if you stop and think about them: It means that in every perfect storm, in some minutely measurable quantity, lies the signature of our own individual responsibility.
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Every tiny element has been considered and innovated upon, like high-performance sportswear — not in service of speed, of course, but instead for the most exquisite fit and the pleasure of minutely engineered detail.
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While the government has introduced a relatively generous social welfare system, it's thought to have pulled only some 356,000 people above the official poverty line, leaving the majority to live in minutely subdivided flats.
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"Atonement," Ian McEwan's sweeping, minutely imagined novel, begins at a family home in England in 1935 when 13-year-old Briony Tallis makes a dreadful mistake that ruptures her older sister Cecilia's nascent romance.
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This sense of suppressed violence and an eerily sterile industrialism is emphasized by the trough-like cement forms positioned throughout the space and the minutely vibrating punching bags hanging from thick chains from the ceiling.
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To bring dignity and inclusion to Venezuela's poor, he aggressively set out to break up that US-bourgeois alliance by minutely regulating every aspect of economic life and centralizing all decisions in his own hands.
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While the film is minutely focused on one person, it still feels universal; this is a movie about you, and me, and anyone who struggles with who they are and who they want to be.
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A perfect performance can't happen without a full supporting cast of personalities and months of strategy and planning; every aspect of the experience—from talent scouting to lights and visuals—needs to be minutely orchestrated.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Nathlie Provosty's current exhibition at Nathalie Karg Gallery, (the third ear), is a study in the emotional, sensuous (and sensual) potential of tightly bound, minutely considered, rigorously constructed abstraction.
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He often photographed them without sky or ground in the frame, creating minutely etched, almost abstract images, sprinkled with touches of humanity, like hanging laundry or a silhouette of a teddy bear in a window.
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" Its near-drone accompanies a minutely examined and revelatory emotional upheaval, a view of a failed romance sung with meditative grace and intimations of heartache, ending with a forever unanswered question: "Could you not see?
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The system she minutely describes is scary enough (I now have a clearer picture of why the Pokémon Go app, a real data gobbler, was offered for free) without dialing the volume up to 11.
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Mr. Hrusa is a charismatic conductor with a particular knack, evident in "Scheherazade," for minutely shaping a string melody so that an entire section appears to play with the same effortless freedom as a soloist.
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But back then state visits were minutely choreographed affairs in which every utterance and gesture was laden with diplomatic nuance, and the hosts and guests were expected to show respect and deference for each other.
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And they showed that by running a series of seemingly innocuous commands on their minutely sabotaged processor, a hacker could reliably trigger a feature of the chip that gives them full access to the operating system.
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The reason for this was that, while putting her ball down on the green after marking her putt during play on Saturday, Thompson had minutely and apparently inadvertently moved the ball slightly closer to the cup.
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At the same time, if you were standing very close, which you were, in this very small apartment, they were very minutely attended to, with detailed brushwork to create the surface, which was many, many layers deep.
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For the unenlightened, Fosse was the world's most celebrated show choreographer, adored, in particular, for his distinctive movements: "jazz hands," slouched shoulders, minutely pivoting pelvises, a style that was at once erotic and awkward, liberated and possessed.
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During cross-examination, Weinstein's lawyer Damon Cheronis focused minutely on what happened inside the bathroom, asking Young how "a big fat man" could pull a "ninja move" and take his clothes off as fast as she'd suggested.
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On tracks like "Love song" and "Happiness is a butterfly," she puts simple piano arrangements and Carpenters- and Carole King-esque chord progressions to work in service of minutely observed personal narratives about relationships and fleeting satisfaction.
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He produced a series of flora and fauna of varying scale — isolated renderings of cockerels on decorative display scrolls, or a leaping carp in a waterfall — that show unbelievable consistency, painterly confidence, inventiveness, and minutely observed detail.
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The trill that recurs in the D-minor Sarabande has the quality of a prolonged shiver, a tremor of the spirit; Ma minutely varies it with each repetition, so that it becomes an extension of the nervous system.
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While distant bricks are minutely rendered, flowers in the foreground are depicted as an even row of little black blots that look as if I, a non-artist, drew them, in seventh grade, with a felt tip pen.
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The idea that a "minutely accurate reconstruction" of one person's life can be said to make broader points about the nature of the human experience does not (yet) apply to the life and experiences of a female person.
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Factum Arte spent two days on site in Rome taking over 2,20153 high-resolution photographs of the Chapel's surface, from which Photogrammetry software extracted data detailing volume, dimension, and color, resulting in a minutely accurate digital 3D model.
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I can hand customers the chicken salad they ordered, or show them where the rice would be if it wasn't out of stock, but it's clear that no one's day is being improved, even minutely, by these actions.
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But the show's cocreators, Joe Egender and Leeor Kaufman, say DIY Crispr is just one subplot in the larger narrative about what happens when nature can be minutely controlled, when humans might even preside over their own evolution.
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Because he is so minutely observant, and because he has clearly spent so much time marveling over his own childhood, Knausgaard's attention to detail results in a high level of insight when it comes to his own children.
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Since the Japanese were forbidden to travel abroad from 1615–1868, he made a bird's eye view in "Picture of Famous Places in China" (1840) minutely labelled, as well as decorative images of heroic, ancient Chinese mythical figures.
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Throughout his minutely detailed survey, Bouverie rightly rejects the arguments of revisionist historians who claim that Britain's lack of military preparedness, as well as the strength of pacifist public opinion, justified its determination to offer repeated concessions to Hitler.
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A yellow gold armature, minutely articulated with invisible hinges to enable movement, was handcrafted to connect the lapis to the triangular web of multitone diamonds, which seem randomly arrayed, like stars, though in reality their arrangement is perfectly precise.
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Chip-design teams with centuries of experience in their art minutely specify the operations their circuitry needs to undertake; suites of programs break it all down into a stream of logical statements and back up into a physical design.
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The study, conducted by NASA and its partners on the American astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly, minutely monitored the twins vitals to see what if any changes occurred to the twin in orbit (Scott) that didn't to the twin below (Mark).
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There was little unintended damage and not much indication whether the missile had been armed (nuclear weapons are designed to resist accidental explosion—the warhead is encased in a sturdy re-entry vehicle and detonation sequences have to be minutely timed).
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In this case, "Notorious" — Hitchcock's darkly brilliant masterpiece, in this viewer's opinion — is hastily dismissed in a couple of pages, while the self-important "Vertigo" (which seems to be enjoying a surge in popularity these days) is minutely analyzed and dissected.
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Downstairs, vivid renderings of Manhattan serve as time capsules of the city's perpetual ebb and flow, like an axonometric map from 5003 for which the German cartographer Hermann Bollmann translated 67,000 photographs into a minutely detailed bird's-eye view of Midtown.
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These are minutely precise observations that have been translated into a grossly exaggerated and seemingly crude medium, and heightened by Berg's sensitive and rich scores; the result is a surprisingly intimate confrontation with themes that most visitors would probably rather ignore.
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It's a strategy that other stars of his stature might soon adopt, especially now, when even the most minutely unorthodox comment from an interview lands leads to near-simultaneous howls of outrage (those howls sound like The Mummy screams, only with more growling).
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And it's here that his ideological commitment to minutely representing reality — or, rather, his fervent belief that the particulars of our lives, in their complexity and their vivifying incoherence, always trump any attempt to impose ideology on them — achieves a strange fulfillment.
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The goldsmithing clearly played into his distinct drawing style; designs for goblets and fantastical water fountains are crammed with minutely observed flourishes, grotesqueries, and tightly coiled decorative curls that anticipate the densely articulated surfaces of his engravings and woodcuts, consuming the pictorial space.
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The system works by making daily calculations, employing Newtonian physics and Einsteinian relativity, to minutely tweak the time broadcast from each GPS satellite as it moves through space—the high-tech version of tuning your grandfather clock to within 100-billionths of a second.
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Nate romantically pursues Hannah only after minutely cataloguing her physical defaults (her brows are too heavy, her features too pointy, and "while she had a nice body, she was on the tall side and had something of the loose-limbed quality of a comic actor").
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Such is the vast, richly colorful and minutely detailed scene depicted by Hubert and Jan van Eyck in "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb," an assemblage of 383 wooden panels that form one of the most famous (and most often stolen) masterpieces of medieval art.
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Letter From Europe LONDON — In these times of flux and challenge, when Britain's post-imperial place in a globalized world has rarely been so minutely scrutinized and the nation's very identity can appear to be little more than a work in progress, pity the poor parish priest.
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" As a result, the appellate court ruled that "in denying waiver, the trial court minutely considered the circumstances of the offense, made an independent assessment of the juvenile's culpability, and considered G.M.C.'s prior good character and 'the input of the victim or the victim's family.
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There is a section break, some white space, and then a paragraph of fish facts that, in the context of his father's impending death, reads like a prose poem: With those minutely oscillating fins, a pickerel treads water in much the way that a hummingbird treads air.
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The findings represent a sharp rebuke of China's treatment of the activists that will be all the more unwelcome to Beijing, as it coincides with a weeklong Communist Party congress setting China's course for the next five years — an event minutely choreographed to avoid any signs of dissent or disaffection.
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In this respect, they call to mind Russo's terrific novel "Nobody's Fool" (1993), a panoramic and minutely observed book that did away not only with a conventional plot but also with any sort of easy resolution for its stubborn and charismatic protagonist, the day laborer Donald Sullivan, known as Sully.
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"The overall trend is minutely supportive for the U.S. dollar as we are seeing a global recovery led by China and Europe and there is a lot of cash sitting on the sidelines, waiting to buy European assets," said Peter Chatwell, head of European rates strategy at Mizuho International in London.
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Answers in hand — bright jewel tones, mornings, playing board games with their 7-year-old daughter, Margherita — the director began composing a storyboard in the form of a workbook, a thick volume that encompassed a minutely detailed inventory of the exemplary collection of 20th-century furniture that Marchetti had been amassing for years.
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The eight actors from the Schaubühne company play dozens of roles; the costume and set changes are minutely choreographed and, at times, frenetic, as a grand reception room gives way to an airplane cabin, Constantinople or a 21st-century interior, since Ms. Mitchell brings the end point of "Orlando" from 1929 to the present.
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These goggles were just for demonstrations—the cows I was looking at were recorded—but a future version will show real-time imagery overlaid with data linked to individual animals, enabling farmers to minutely monitor the health, eating and drinking habits, and inter-cow behavior of their herds, all without having to interfere with their lives.
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Eschewing her more polemical feminism for leotard-like body suits instead of her usual playsuits, Ms. Chiuri layered on Isadora Duncan dresses of draped jersey, macramé'd tulle tea frocks, combined it all with faded denim and folkloric work wear, and then brought on the unforced romance of tie-dyed over-embroidered florals and minutely layered feather appliqués.
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Instead, Garrow has expended a huge amount of energy — his bibliography, including interviews with more than a thousand people, runs to 35 pages — on giving us minutely detailed accounts of early chapters of Obama's life, like his years at Harvard Law School, his time in Chicago as a community organizer, and his work in the Illinois State Senate.
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Here's a Google-provided comparison of Night Sight and a low-light image from an iPhone XS.Image: GoogleMeanwhile, in lieu of adding a telephoto camera to the back of the Pixel 3, Google has created a new feature called Super Res Zoom that takes minutely different photos and then combines them in software to create a single, high-resolution pic.
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This gendered double standard is tiring for everyone (except perhaps the men in suits), so while we should absolutely stop scrutinizing women's red carpet and black tie style so minutely (and judging it so cruelly), there is a useful takeaway from this outing of Barack Obama's international fashion secret: suits are always stylish, no matter how many times you wear the same one.
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They still have pride of place in the company mythology, not to mention the company shop — they hang, each on its own individual hanger, at the renovated and repainted Calvin Klein boutique on Madison Avenue — but they have been minutely adjusted à la Raf, from the logo to the brand name (which now includes 2100W39, the address of the company headquarters).
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As the visitor moves among their books and engravings, their landscape designs and botanical drawings, the portraits of the men they knew and admired—including Sir Isaac Newton, George Frideric Handel and William Hunter, whose book on the uterus lies open at a minutely detailed full-term fetus in the womb—there is a sense that there was nothing they were unwilling to try.
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It was adopted by the Buddhist sages as a symbol of the diamond-like clarity and brilliance of the mind's true nature, and has come to stand for a special class of Buddhist teachings [the Vajrayana] … A dependable way to introduce one's self to the brightly colored and minutely articulated visionary inner worlds, to "see" with Vajravision, is through an entheogenic or psychedelic experience.
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Steer your most precocious 12- and 13-year-olds toward "Purple Hibiscus," Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's debut novel — an intense family drama narrated by 15-year-old Kambili and set against a backdrop of political unrest in 1990s Nigeria — and "Black Swan Green," David Mitchell's minutely conjured, mystically mundane story of a year in the life of a 13-year-old English boy with a stutter.
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The juvenilia is a minutely detailed history of an imaginary world of magic: first Glass Town, which was created by all four children but which Charlotte and Branwell, as the eldest, claimed as their rightful territory; then Glass Town's extension Angria, created solely by Charlotte and Branwell; and then Gondal, created by Emily and Anne so that they had their own kingdom to work with.
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In his minutely detailed CITY OF GODS: Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens (Empire State Editions/Fordham University, paper, $35), the historian R. Scott Hanson uses the story of Flushing — which calls itself the birthplace of religious freedom in America and is now the hub of the most religiously diverse large county in the United States — as a "case study" of the promises and drawbacks of pluralism.
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So conspiracy theorists create increasingly minutely detailed timelines and surround them with ever-more baroque theories, as when One Direction announced it was going on hiatus and everything that didn't fit the Larry narrative was declared a casualty of an all-out PR war between the band's old team (which was anti-gay and intent on tanking the 1D brand if they couldn't own it) and their new team, an enlightened group which would finally allow The Coming Out to come.
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Well-financed sushi nuts have already had the $145 omakase and been served on both sides of the counter by the profoundly courtly employees of Kosaka; tried Sushi Zo's $200 omakase, the rice almost invisible under very long and very soft and unadorned ribbons of fish; sat down to Ichimura's $300 sonata of fish cured and seasoned in an emphatic style that descends from the days before refrigeration; and handed over as much as $2 to Sushi Ginza Onodera for nigiri and other dishes that are as minutely detailed as the interior is soaringly grand.
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