Thanks to Attenborough's distinctive, wisdom-soaked tones, it's easy to forget you could watch these documentaries on mute and still be astonished.
But Carnegie's choral workshops have long held a special place in this constellation: the very first of the professional training workshops were those the great choral conductor Robert Shaw directed with his distinctive blend of experience, wisdom and inspiration.
The Wisdom books have a "distinctive identity" in the context of the narrative of Scripture; there is, Alter writes, "little... that is specifically Israelite".
In this famous prison movie, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella, he is the hero's friend Red and the film's narrator; his utterly distinctive voice confers a kind of wisdom on the whole movie.
Apatow likes to watch, but not with a Chancelike passivity: he brings a distinctive point of view, a hard-nosed worldly wisdom to his subjects.
This 1952 costume adaptation of three stories by Maupassant matches the originals in frank sensuality and comic irony but the director, Max Ophüls, reshapes the material with his distinctive blend of visual genius and bitter, worldly wisdom.
THAT American classical music came of age after World War I, when Aaron Copland and others conceived a distinctive "American" sound, is an article of conventional wisdom now more than half a century old: old enough to invite second thoughts.
LE PLAISIR Though Max Ophüls's 1952 costume adaptation of three stories by Maupassant matches the originals in frank sensuality and comic irony, the director reshapes the material with his distinctive blend of visual genius and bitter, worldly wisdom.
What elevates that cliché to wisdom is Willie's diminished-yet-still-distinctive voice, always a bit brittle but now chipped and worn, particularly at the bottom of his range.
The bittersweet strains of his violin represent the invisible thread of narrative — the signature that carries in its distinctive ambivalent refrain the culture's memory of loss and of wisdom.
In the virosphere, the conventional wisdom is that viruses have evolved from a few distinctive lineages separately.
