The pianist Joseph Kalichstein, a longtime colleague and friend of Mr. Laredo's, characterizes his personality and his artistry together as a combination of "warmth and elegance".
"It has a combination of warmth and intimacy, and gives the psychological benefits of continuity and tradition," said Noam Weinstein, 23, a singer and online magazine writer.
With a deft political touch, and a combination of warmth, relaxed manner and exacting standards, he succeeded in merging two schools that were more than the sum of their parts.
Then there's his logorrheic Twitter feed, a series of exultations and barks, and often more thoughtful and intimate Formspring page, where he answers fan questions with a combination of warmth and indignation.
Many of the pictures have the look of photo-file orphans, thanks to Bernard's avoidance of images that are artistic, famous, or loved, and yet he manages to include a number of scenes that linger in memory..... Ragpickers, flaming buses, and guerrillas acquire a combination of warmth and distance.
Sometimes her laughter, which comes easily, is low and breathy, like a throwback to girlhood, and yet her speech has a grown-up, rugged quality to it, a combination of warmth and skepticism that draws you in quickly -- as if to say, before anything is even in question: You and me, we're not going to fall for any bull, are we?
She had a combination of fearlessness, warmth, and natural enthusiasm that drew people to her.
Alto Adige's growing environment, however, is all its own, a combination of Mediterranean warmth (especially on the valley floor), cooling winds off Lake Garda and the effects of mountain elevations and soils.
Fluent speakers appear to perceive PWS as being likeable individuals who are poor communicators, a combination of high-warmth and low-competence that elicits pity and passive harm from listeners according to social psychologists (Cuddy et al., 2008).
It called for a special combination of warmth and toughness, while still being very feminine.
A key to deflecting the stereotypes is learning to communicate in ways that tap into our best selves — in terms of expertise and personality — and to connect through a compelling combination of warmth and strength.
