There was also fine work from the Continuum strings, with Renée Jolles providing a sure top line and Mat Fieldes equally effective in the important bass part.
The all-star lineup of journalists who appear in "Herblock: The Black and the White" concur that Herblock (the editorial cartoonist Herbert Block, who adopted that pen name), was a rare talent: an incisive satirist, a prescient judge of character, a wielder of a sure graphic line and a class act to boot.
The Pigeon is whiny, shortsighted, narcissistic, needy, relentless and nakedly manipulative; in short, the Pigeon is a thinly veiled 4-year-old, drawn by Willems with a sure, simple line and a keen sense, as the pages turn, of comic timing.
To be sure, line closures and phantom out-of-service trains are a source of undeniable agony for many.
If you live paycheck to paycheck, obviously you will need to make sure you have a "sure thing" lined up in terms of another job before telling your boss to take this job and shove it.
Stand on the machine and make sure lines are long enough for the added height.
Sure, a line is a surface mark longer than it is wide, or a point moving through space; but one of those is physical and tangible, while the other is an immaterial idea.
Dozens of the green, metallic blue and bright red futuristic automobiles are lined up at the edge of a rail line, a sure sign that G.M. is discontinuing a vehicle that it once heralded as "the car of the future".
Play with lines a bit, making sure one line is long and that all the lines are curly.
Kane was such a sure dramatist: the last lines of "Psychosis" reads, "It is myself I have never met, whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind".
