"They are finely trained and highly talented, but for a variety of reasons, work professionally in other fields -- anything from the stock market to window washing".
There are haunting contrasts in this scene: on the one hand the wanton end product of a nihilist people's desperation, exploding insanely in all directions and killing; on the other hand, the reflexes of orderly existence persisting in chaos, so finely trained that they obey, at least for a moment, traffic lights rather than basic instinct.
The relatively warm weather is somewhat dangerous for recreational runners, who are not as finely trained as the professionals and are on the course longer.
That said, an attraction of ChamberFest is hearing finely trained young players coming to terms with music that requires them to sacrifice polish for something deeper.
People who succeed there are sort of finely trained, they're conditioned to succeed in that environment.
Devaney is a finely trained logician, and she effectively shows that the law of noncontradiction is never really violated.
And, of course, there's a cute, finely trained Toto, too.
Another relatively realistic obsession turns up in "She Wasn't Soft," the finely wrought story of an athlete named Paula as she trains for a triathlon.
Those happen because the players are so well trained and finely tuned that tears and the like are an issue.
Even for highly trained staff, it's easy to forget, he says, that a baby who appears stable can have a condition that means it's very finely poised between living and dying.
