It's all mummery and flummery, and conducted with a winning amateurishness.
The west saw sport as open, non-political, self-financing, and conducted with a sense of fair play.
He stood at a window and conducted with a teaspoon, and when he saw we were making fun of him, he flung the spoon at us.
The six lectures were flamboyant one-man shows lasting all evening, in which he played, sang and conducted, with a grand piano on stage.
It helps to have it presented by such a superb cast as this, led by Ildebrando D'Arcangelo in the title role, David Daniels as Tamerlano, and Patrizia Ciofi as Idaspe, and conducted with a nice mix of verve and intimacy by Fabio Biondi.
Through it all, he never altered his style, which involved folksy orations between works -- usually about the music, sometimes about the soloists and occasionally about the orchestra's financial plight -- and conducted with a restless energy that sometimes led him to pace around the conducting area (he didn't use a podium) during performances.
Powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) was used to confirm the solid state properties pre- and post-milling of pyrene, and conducted with a Bruker D-8 Advance diffractometer.
To this end, a survey was designed and conducted with a representative sample size of 400 valid responses obtained through telephone interviews.
To this end, several experiments including stress sweep tests, frequency sweep tests and quasi-static creep tests were designed and conducted with a standard rheometer (HAAKE RheoStress6000).
Andrew Billen of The Times however, felt the finale was "not [a] very exciting episode," and "conducted with a minimum of acting".
