But they display amazing dexterity, patience, and attentiveness to flavor.
It was an extraordinary display of dexterity and focus, if not a little sardine showmanship at the end of the line.
The lion fish, so called because its carved meat flowed backward from the head like streamers from the kind of dancing-lion masks you see in Chinese New Year parades, was about 90percentt crunch, but seemed to exist primarily to display the dexterity of the student chefs.
It does not help that Jelinek's style displays verbal dexterity, that she juggles high diction together with low dialect and jargon, erudite reference with wordplay and puns.
With a dozen instrumentals credited to both artists, it enacts a busy dialogue between bluegrass and classical music, with blinding displays of dexterity as well as stretches of poplike lyricism.
Throughout the season he was shy and humble, even as his fingers, as applied to his guitar, displayed serious dexterity, and his voice, scratchy and earthy, showed real range and power.
No doubt United paid over the odds for a player who uses his height and reach to good effect, and who sometimes displays surprising dexterity and a warrior's determination.
Still, he credited Mr. Phillips with real talent, even if he tended to hide it on the show: "Throughout the season, he was shy and humble, even as his fingers, as applied to his guitar, displayed serious dexterity, and his voice, scratchy and earthy, showed real range and power".
The first 10 variations, all fast, gave Trifonov every chance to display both his dexterity and the astonishing aural imagination that, above all, sets him apart.
Well, the display of manual dexterity, hybrid beauty of style and skeptically earnest vision all make Ms. Moyer very much an artist for our era -- a period in which artists have turned with a mix of hope and disillusionment to art from the 1960's and 1970's.
In a display of manual dexterity and preternatural concentration, a 14-year-old from Grapevine, Tex., Danny Johnson, set a world record Wednesday in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, often considered the benchmark in the fast-growing category of music-based video games.
