At its best, modern British architecture has been much influenced by the intelligent humanism of the most gently articulate and highly persuasive Scandinavian design.
Rather, he offers didactic clarity in the way he distinguishes one phrase from another, switching on a dime from a passage of sweetness to digging into an allegro, gently articulating individual notes rather than succumbing to the lure of legato.
Stella even learns to trust George, who gently articulates the book's most important theme while examining a shattered sand dollar left behind in the cottage called Tern: "See, broken things always have a story, don't they?" She also learns that appearances are not always what they seem.
In some cases, the Feldman legacy is immediately audible - his love of beautiful sonorities, gently articulated, can be heard in the music of the Canadian composer Linda C Smith, for example - while in others his ideas have been transmuted into something less obviously Feldmanesque.
Use sophisticated vocabulary and talk gently and be articulate.
The young soul singer Chris Turner sings the tune's gently teasing melody, articulating its halting lover's plea.
As veteran visitors to Parisian bakeries know, the superior, all-butter croissants are already commonly articulated as straight pastries or, at least, as gently sloping ones while the inferior oil or margarine ones must, by law, be neatly turned in.
She talks fast and gently, scrunching her curls with her hand, articulate to the point of intimidating.
In this light Synthetics is a deeply important and comprehensive book, for it gently asks us to re-cast the history of this period with newly articulated detail.
