At its best the series, a swift half-hour at a time, distilled and defanged the world it represented, giving HBO subscribers a fantasy picture of New York they could both aspire and relate to.
Dove was a master at distilling a sense of place; among his American contemporaries, he was rivaled in this only by Marsden Hartley.
But Ms. Tipton and Ms. Brown are not concerned with simple color coding, and aim, it seems, at distilling an essence, even a dimension that goes beyond words in a performance that is eventually largely dependent on words and music united.
While NYT Now was targeting users who are on the move and do not necessarily want the full-on NYT experience, NYT Opinion is the newspaper's first attempt at distilling a particular vertical section into a standalone, paid service.
That's according to my tasting notes, after sampling a rare stash of pre-Prohibition rye under the tutelage of Bruce Joseph, the master distiller at Anchor Distilling in San Francisco.
He's incredibly adept at distilling an unlikely selection of influences into something that's idiosyncratic without being gratingly quirky.
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The French are so good at drilling down, at paring and distilling, that hardly anyone thinks twice when a saffron farm in Provence opens its doors to paying guests these days.
As a result, oil starts distilling at a temperature much lower than the normal boiling point of its constituents.
Far from exceptional, London is an exaggerated microcosm of the country at large, distilling its inequality to concentrated extremes.
