A handful of string instruments, usually just one or two at a time, accompany her settings of poems by a 16th-century Christian mystic (St. Teresa of Ávila) and an 11th-century king of Seville (al-Mutamid, among others).
She was confined, Dickens said, "in a marble cell, impervious to any ray of light, or particle of sound," lost to language beyond a handful of words unidiomatically strung together.
It featured an ardent, well-equipped soprano in Kate Royal, the competent singing of the Concert Chorale of New York and the American Boychoir, the excellent Orchestra of St . Lukes and a handful of its principal string players who stepped out of the ranks as the Loma Mar Quartet.
With the help of William's forgery skills, and an allegedly corrupt Swiss lawyer, Kallakis quickly had a handful of banks financing a string of trophy property acquisitions between 2003 and 2008.
Neversink Valley is not the only museum to turn to crowd funding in recent months; at a time when the sagging economy is leading potential donors all over the country to tighten their purse strings, a handful of other museums have taken this Internet-enhanced approach to pay for exhibits, too.
It is here in Galicia that a handful of families have pulled the strings of a transnational network of vessels.
Despite being restricted to only a handful of appearances for Rennes' second string last season, the offers still came flooding in.
The problem is to pick out the handful of strings that do not link contradictory statements.
Mr. Scofield often bends and unbends strings, making a handful of notes curve together into true harmony and then curdle into dissonance.
