NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyans are once again waiting anxiously to see whether their president and prime minister will do something that may seem elemental: sit down and talk to each other.
The 120 or so bands that turned up at the 29th Reading Festival last weekend represented a cacophony of musical styles -- from the last feeble echoes of techno to the blare of nu metal -- but all anyone wanted to talk about was elemental, stripped-down rock, and whether its rebirth is more than just a blip.
Humble yourself and push your elemental tendencies down when calling the others.
She grasped two things: the value of naming and the nostalgia inherent in what you might call the modern memorial sublime, the way Minimalist art and its Post-Minimal legacy, precisely because of its stripped-down, elemental forms, evokes a kind of long-lost grandeur.
"The Grey," directed by Joe Carnahan from a script he wrote with Ian Mackenzie Jeffers (based on Mr. Jeffers's story "Ghost Walker"), is something else entirely: a stripped-down, elemental tale of survival in brutal circumstances, as blunt and effective — and also, at times, as lyrical — as a tale by Jack London or Ernest Hemingway.
The other nice thing about the relationship was that language gets pared down to elemental expressions that reflect basic emotions.
Most of them seem to feel, deep down, some elemental respect for the Iraqis and sympathy for what they have endured.
Having laid down his elemental division of the circle into merest quadrants, he proceeds to work up a chaos.
Many oxygen-containing xenon compounds are toxic due to their strong oxidative properties, and explosive due to their tendency to break down into elemental xenon plus diatomic oxygen (O2), which contains much stronger chemical bonds than the xenon compounds.
Such sharp peaks result in high resolution (of neighboring signals) and permit convenient multi-elemental measurements down to the low μg/l level.
