"Street language is lyrical, plus it has this blend of the standard English and the sermonic, as well as the colloquial, you know — that is what I wanted to polish and show, and make it a literary vehicle," Morrison said.
Subtlety may be in short supply — Doris's preacher father hands her his Bible with his dying breath — but the blend of gospel standards, spiritual uplift and broad family melodrama proves hard to resist.
Consequently, there currently are three distinct tiers of blended Scotch whisky that consumers should be aware of: standard blends, or the inexpensive frontline blends that bear no age statement; deluxe or prestige blends that offer an age statement, usually from 8 to 12 years; and luxury blends, or the very expensive blended Scotch whiskies that are older than 12 years old.
The show is a carefully chosen blend of originals and standards wrung from the inside out by a singer who has the dramatic focus of a method actor.
Friday's performance was characteristic, opening with a Duke Ellington medley and moving on to a blend of originals and standards that effectively spanned Mr. Brubeck's career.
As the leader of a young and precociously talented quartet, he is indulging in a blend of old jazz standards, Scottish folk tunes, famous movie themes and roaming, Coltrane-like originals, all delivered with considerable panache.
A mathematical procedure has been developed in order to deconvolute these chromatograms and has been validated, thanks to blends of polystyrene standards.
This problem could be a result of inhomogeneous distribution of the drug solution in the tableting blends, as high values of standard deviation implied.
Inside you see, in addition to the standard blend of peanuts and insect parts, a bright pink plastic frog.
