It would be Mr. Protas, she wrote, the untiring acolyte who for nearly 25 years shadowed her on rehearsals and tours with a yellow legal pad and dark, oversize glasses, scribbling down her dance commentary and absorbing her technique.
Winemaker Ernesto Jiusan has spent many months in California and France, absorbing the techniques and tastes that result in world-class wines.
Deficient resuscitation skills have been linked to students absorbing inaccurate techniques from television programs such as ER [ 14].
"I hope the music absorbs the technique," the composer said.
"I easily absorb every technique I'm interested in and go from one to the other without blinking an eye.
He became passionate about modern dance, absorbing the Graham technique (which he describes as his "dance roots") and, later, Cunningham in classes given by Viola Farber.
When solving acoustic field equations by using numerical approximation technique, absorbing boundary conditions (ABCs) are widely used to truncate the simulation to a finite space.
It was while absorbing Glander's technique for preparing his dry-aged beef (sear it first, then cook it at 212 degrees F or less for maximum moistness) that I heard my only sad story of the weekend, the one about the husband of the woman next to me who'd given this all up to stay home for a Dallas Stars hockey play-off game.
The villagers eagerly absorbed these techniques and built their own copies of the tried-and-true devices.
Just as your research can be helped along if you absorb basic techniques from fellow researchers, so your writing will benefit from the feedback of fellow writers.
While their prints show how Japanese artists had absorbed some techniques from Western art, the popularity of their works outside Japan and influence on foreign art is a measure of the sophistication Japanese culture reached in Edo times.
