As a business venture Cha Cha Cha was clearly conceived as a way for the three to combine and multiply their clout and bargaining power.
Although the items collected in this volume are, technically, private letters, in reality some of them were clearly conceived as semi-public statements.
Lincoln in the Bardo was clearly conceived before the present circumstances, but it is nonetheless inflected with the tensions between the individual and the commonwealth that characterise the American psyche.
What was clearly conceived two weeks ago as a quick battle using air power and strikes on specific targets with commando raids to degrade Hezbollah's resources, particularly its stores of thousands of rockets, has turned into a crisis.
Although Mr. Ratner says he still plans to build the towers, possibly hiring an architect for the first one by the end of the year, the current design was clearly conceived to be able to stand alone, and it is hard to see how it would be integrated into a larger, convincing urban whole.
Even once the movie plunges into battle and Mr. Kurosawa brings his protagonist, Hidetora (Tatsuya Nakadai), into focus, the meticulously staged fight scenes have a painterly quality; like those in the immediate predecessor of "Ran," "Kagemusha," they were clearly conceived in design rather than editing terms, a surprise development in the work of a filmmaker famous for his dynamic editing.
The arrangements, outsourced to a handful of seasoned orchestrators, varied greatly in mood and texture, though each was clearly conceived as a black-velvet cushion for Sting, who at 58 still has his distinctive croon, rounded and foggy in the lower depths and tersely silvery near the top of his range.
