Ranging from novel synthetic routes to post-synthetic functionalisation of frameworks, host guest properties to sensing abilities, this review takes a sidestep away from increasingly 'traditional' approaches in the field, and details some of the more curious qualities of this relatively young family of materials.
And along with introducing the series' basic themes, it exempiflies a curious quality of egolessness that runs through what has sometimes been taken for a narcissistic art.
In the early years of this decade, one to one, he could easily launch into the sort of windy lecture on the curious qualities of certain ingredients that would make even the most diehard food head want to stab themselves in the hand with a fork.
He began with three late works by Schubert, the Allegretto in C minor and the first two of the Drei Klavierstücke, in performances that demonstrated both the alluring and the curious qualities of his artistry.
However, all the examples listed share a very curious quality: none of those cases could have conceivably been prevented by voter ID requirement.
Of course, Lee could have thought that the novel was not up to the standards she held herself to, but after trying to complete subsequent books, would she not be curious about the quality of the manuscript that never made it to publication?
Their biggest crime just might, however, be a lack of soul and authentic-feeling feelings; a lack of the curious quality that Federico Garcia Lorca termed duende.
The other half of the diptych was intended to capture a curious existential quality of Assange's confinement: on the one hand, he was estranged from the hundred and ninety-seven million square miles of the planet outside the Embassy; on the other, his likeness and his words were continuously circling the globe in digital form, refracted through the biases of supporters and detractors.
Geological and archaeological, her sublimated prismatic surfaces have the curious visual quality of grave-rubbings, in which content emerges in layers, as long-hidden ideas are excavated before one's eyes.
This gap in Euro-euphoria is a symptom of a curious kaleidoscopic quality of this supranational "Europe": Everybody is looking at the same thing, but everybody sees something different.
