Max is clearly a lovely man, but the challenging nature of his music demanded a more challenging response.
Paul Cartledge Oliverr, that is an exceptionally challenging response, especially insightful perhaps in the light of Anthony Appiah's recent book on "The Honor Code" as reviewed here in the New York Times.
The governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, often attains this quite well - a realistic assessment with a sturdy, forward-looking and challenging response.
"When he called me at home at night or over the weekend, it meant that we were about to embark on another interesting and challenging response to a major public health emergency".
No matter how strange and mysterious mass psychogenic outbreaks appear, or how misunderstood, they remain a powerful group activity and a challenging collective response to our modern lives.
The centuries-old question, "What is art?," gets a challenging contemporary response at Woodbury University in the exhibit "Interdisciplinary". Curated by Los Angeles gallery owner Sue Spaid, the show presents the work of 15 Los Angeles-area artists who have been inspired by ideas and elements from such diverse fields as women's studies and architecture, anthropology and furniture design.
Instead of going through the motions of the usual five-borough shout-out, for example, Ms. Stone presented a challenging audience-response segment: a battle of the sexes played out as a singalong to the Isley Brothers classic "For the Love of You," with extra skills required from the women asked to sing harmonies during the men's lines.
When he had his climate change epiphany, he, too, raced to the prospect of a silver-bullet techno-fix, without pausing to consider viable – if economically challenging – responses in the here and now.
Originating as the Tanner Lectures delivered at Princeton University, the book includes challenging responses by classicist Richard Seaford, historian of China Jonathan Spence, philosopher Christine Korsgaard, and novelist Margaret Atwood.
