Steiner argues, with some justice, that Berg's music makes Woyzeck eloquent and that a cunning orchestration gives speech to his soul.
What seems, on the surface, a panegyric to the victor of the battle of Agincourt is, in the ironies of its structure and the antitheses of its speech, a cunning commentary on the hypocrisy of political personality.
With his turban and camouflage jacket, his ornate Arabic and harsh vows of continued terror against America, Osama bin Laden revealed in his speech the instinctive cunning that has made him such a formidable foe.
The notion of making music out of Donald Rumsfeld's press conferences, which include such T. S. Eliot-like ruminations as "As we know, there are known knowns," sounds like a throwaway joke, but Kline, a composer with a keen ear for speech rhythms, delivers a cunning portrait of a bureaucrat's soul.
Stealth skills allow the player to crack locks, haggle for goods, use speech to manipulate people, and apply cunning in combat (through the use of a bow or with a sneak attack).
The technique resembles Janácek's assimilation of ordinary Czech conversation in operas such as "Jenufa" and "The Cunning Little Vixen"; in Reich, as in Janácek, speech-melody creates an extraordinary transparency, so that whatever voice or mood or psychology is under examination hovers right in front of you.
Wilson's speech was in part that of a cunning political operator, exploiting techno-futurism in just this way.
I deplore most of Clint's politics, yet this speech was not a disaster but an act of cunning, like many of his public appearances.
[ image: /photos/5909543a2179605b11ad3d65] I deplore most of Clint's politics, yet this speech was not a disaster but an act of cunning, like many of his public appearances.
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