It is the triumph of confident articulation that sets these comedies and their heroines apart and turns them into a genre.
A. O. Scott, who wrote the perceptive introduction to the reissued essays, attempts gallantly to justify McCarthy's "witty savagery" by saying that underneath it lay "seriousness," the "confident articulation of a coherent point of view".
He too would subscribe to the need for a more confident articulation of the good life, having built his philosophical reputation attacking the idea of a free-floating "unencumbered" self that is at the heart of John Rawls's hugely influential Theory of Justice.
What he looked for, he wrote in the exhibition catalogue, was "the skilled and confident visual articulation of engrossing ideas by individuals who have not been sufficiently recognized for their accomplishment — despite substantial histories of such accomplishment".
What he looked for, he wrote in the exhibition catalogue, was "the skilled and confident visual articulation of engrossing ideas by individuals who have not been sufficiently recognized for their accomplishment despite substantial histories of such accomplishment".
His main theme is, 'If you work hard at something, you get out what you put in.' " She spoke in a confident and affectionate tone, and with the articulation one might expect from a student who has a 3.7 grade-point average, earned straight A's last year and is taking courses like calculus and advanced-placement chemistry.
Christian Tetzlaff was on astonishingly impressive form, with a big, rich, confident tone that soared above the orchestra, remarkably clean articulation and a bracing freshness throughout.
The confident delicacy of her attack masks fascinating details—her varied articulation of different words in the same phrase, as on the intricate "Molambo," arranged with a bolero beat, and, in her own haunting "Sutilezas," an exquisitely plaintive series of rising four-bar phrases that resolve and then rise again.
The confident delicacy of her attack masks fascinating details — her varied articulation of different words in the same phrase, as on the intricate "Molambo," arranged with a bolero beat, and, in her own haunting "Sutilezas," an exquisitely plaintive series of rising four-bar phrases that resolve and then rise again.
(I am not, of course, singling out Professor Schwitzgebel in any particular way. I am fairly confident that his views are mainstream in the academic study of philosophy -- his was simply the articulation of this view that I was exposed to).
Articulation, pedalling, dynamics.
