Cheng's writing is rich with vivid and profound definitions, penetrating and exact articulations of complex performance modalities, and vibrant, spirit-charged prose that transports the reader into an image-filled dream realm that well approximates the experience of first-rate performance art, reminding us of "the scars left on flesh by fire spitting tongues" (65).
Slight but gracious, this music elicited some of Mr. Meyer's most exacting articulation.
The trumpeters Kris Ingles and Carl Albach, wielding instruments that were little more than long, looped tubes, mustered exacting articulation and sterling tone.
He brushed particularly close to Ives and Bartok: Ives for his meticulous celebration of disorder, Bartok for his exacting articulation of irregular rhythm.
However arbitrary the placement of these particles might have seemed, each was precisely notated and painstakingly exacting in articulation and dynamics.
Presacral vertebrae provided the lengths and representative heights of vertebral elements, but were not preserved with the lateral aspect visible in sufficient quantities to determine the exact curvature of articulation in the neck and back.
The novelist, like the poet, can make the inchoate thoughts and feelings of a society come to articulation through the exact and imaginative use of language and symbol.
Landmarks may be single-minded in its pursuit of the exact, the particular, but in its articulation it sounds a chord of voices – of communities, writers, literatures – that may include the reader's own.
Of course, we can introduce a new expression to mean exactly whatever an old expression means but since poems can be about their own articulations, substituting synonyms will not result in an exact paraphrase or translation.
To ensure that differences between spectra of recorded sweeps were caused by differences in articulation and not by position-dependent filtering due to remaining room resonances, we took care that the exact position of both the microphone and the bird preparation did not change between recordings.
