Mitchell's Profile of the octogenarian Hugh G. Flood (which he later admitted was a composite of several old men who used to hang out around the Fulton Fish Market) offers a poignant, yet wildly humorous, look at a man who, while devouring oysters and downing scotch, fears that he's frittering his life away: "I'm ninety-four years old and I never yet had any peace, to speak of.
In telephony the systems aspects are more conspicuous because, at any given instant, the plant is a composite of new and old items, designed at different times in different ways to meet a variety of assumed operating conditions.
A Texas native, Hagman often said he played the character as a composite of "all those good old boys" he had known growing up, "who caught more flies with honey instead of vinegar".
The character, he explained, is partly a composite of his mother; a tough old-school nun who taught at South Catholic High in Hartford; and of his own, no-nonsense sobriety sponsor.
Remember in cartoons how they'd always have the band that was basically a composite of whatever the thousand-year-old animators had heard about rock n roll?
The deep pleasure that ordinary people get from old buildings is a composite – of the site, the design of a building and the artistry of its creators and decorators.
"Debths" is, like most of Howe's books, a hybrid animal, a composite of autobiographical prose, minimalist verse, collaged (and mainly illegible) clippings of old texts, and lots of white space.
The sculpture is a composite of the daughter of a friend, and a 9-year-old Latina girl, Visbal said.
Transfusion of older RBC also was independently associated with an increased risk-adjusted rate of a composite of serious adverse events (25.9% vs. 22.4%, p = 0.001)[18].
