THE fall 2007 men's collections demonstrated a virtuosity with cutting, new fabrics, old jokes and bad hair, but produced few laurels.
Earlier Ms. Tyson had demonstrated a quieter virtuosity in what turned out to be the production's most affecting scene, which takes place on the bus to Harrison.
The final two movements, in which Maria Kochetkova is paired with the dashing Gennadi Nedvigin, demonstrate a surge in virtuosity.
Drawing on 1950s America, and the later buildings of Mies van der Rohe, the G-Star HQ fits into what has been called OMA's "generic" phase, what De Graaf describes as "the more down-to-earth, somewhat understated oeuvre that has ensured since the CCTV building in Beijing – after which we abandoned an obsession with form and a desire to demonstrate a certain amount of virtuosity".
The RIBA judges maintain it "demonstrates great virtuosity and a huge amount of technical skill" – but with little thought for the ends to which that virtuosity is pursued.
Apple's voice is an implausibly virtuosic instrument, but the degree to which she demonstrates that virtuosity is also somehow childish, a kid who doesn't know to use her inside voice in public.
Ebershoff demonstrates abundant virtuosity, as he convincingly inhabits the voices of both a nineteenth-century Mormon wife and a contemporary gay youth excommunicated from the church, while also managing to say something about the mysterious power of faith.
James Fenton's Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968-2011 (finds) finds a senior poet displaying retrospective and contemporary power; while a junior one, Julia Copus, demonstrates both technical virtuosity and autobiographical courage in The World's Two Smallest Humans (Faber).
Douglas Wolf of Time magazine added that "Single Ladies" is a sing-along which allows Beyoncé to demonstrate her virtuosity and "a focused, commanding display of individuality that speaks for every raised hand without a ring on it".
Having a solid ally, Bismarck demonstrated his virtuosity by negotiating a revived Dreikaiserbund in 1881.
