American novelist and essayist know for his elegant deployment of figurative language and adventurous experiments with genre conceits.
His relations with his family remained distant, and he had only a few friends outside the priesthood whom he corresponded with — above all, the poets Robert Bridges and Richard Watson Dixon, with whom he could share his increasingly adventurous experiments in verse.
After the adventurous experiments of Ang Lee's Life of Pi and Martin Scorsese's Hugo (both of which used the format inventively, but not essentially), Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity was a latterday space odyssey which demanded to be seen in its stereoscopic incarnation.
For this milestone on Thursday, Mr. Ax engaged Mr. Gilbert and the Philharmonic in an adventurous musical experiment.
Neither man had high expectations for the series, which had its debut with Mr. Shipp's 2000 album, "Pastoral Composure" and gained wider exposure two years later with the adventurous jazztronica experiments of his disc called "Nu-Bop".
Occasionally, adventurous southbound travellers experiment with Amtrak, America's national rail company.
At times musically adventurous, the Turtles experimented with psychedelic rock, exotica, odd time signatures, improvisations, theatrics, and satire.
There she joined M-Base, a cooperative organization of adventurous musicians who experimented in jazz, hip-hop, rap, and funk.
But in a few districts, adventurous politicians have experimented with radical reforms: they require civil servants to show up on time, to treat citizens with respect, to do their jobs without being bribed.
The following year he added cabernet sauvignon grapes to the blend and soon other adventurous winemakers were experimenting with Super Tuscan varieties of their own.
