Mr. Salonen describes the two long episodes of the second movement, each a burst with flighty runs and languid melodic ruminations, as "Synthetic Folk Music With Artificial Birds," an apt description admirable in its specificity.
But while his restless search for the original insight and the novel description is admirable and often bracingly enjoyable, it can sometimes produce prose of such dense richness that it's almost impossible to digest.
This was published after Wright's death as A Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithmes (1616).
It appeared posthumously as A Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithmes in 1616, and in it Wright was lauded in verse as "[t]hat famous, learned, Errors true Corrector, / England's great Pilot, Mariners Director".
The possibility of continuously refining and enlarging the self is vividly illustrated in Mencius's description of degrees of excellence: Those who are admirable are called good (shan).
It is chilling to read his description of the refusal of seemingly brilliant and otherwise admirable officials in the Johnson administration, of whom he was one, to express their dissenting views about Vietnam policy in writing or in meetings.
This is consistent with the description of the rural Southerners in "Cold Mountain": there is nothing especially nice or admirable about them.
Her works reject the "admirable implements" forged by past realistic novelists such as Honoré de Balzac, particularly the use of biographical description to create full-bodied characters.
And socked over with heartfelt dedication by its young cast and director, it's an unsettling description of a brutal episode that, despite some awkwardness in approach, does its job with admirable sincerity.
