These are traditionally figural, but there are also fine instances of something far less representational.
Sex is "just a hug in motion," he silently protests, "a bloodless piece of body friction," one of the novel's many fine instances of Haig's wit.
At the Rivoli Theatre.While E. A. Dupont, producer of that shining example of film work, "Variety," has lent to his first Hollywood production, "Love Me and the World Is Mine," some fine instances of his directorial skill and imaginative composition, together with a pleasing conception of Viennese atmosphere, this current offering is by no means comparable with his Ufa masterpiece.
And so another fine instance of British bathos bites the dust.
A fine instance of this, among others, is the Open Humanities Press, an impressive collection of journals and open access monographs with a strong scholar backing.
Olivia Laing's To the River (Canongate) is a fine instance of the new school of landscape-writing pioneered by Robert Macfarlane, vividly charting a slice of Sussex.
But it's also interesting as a fine instance of a strikingly newish kind of thing: the serious and even scholarly biography of a much gossiped-over pop figure, where the old Kitty Kelley-style scandal-sheet bio is turned into a properly documented and footnoted study that nonetheless trades on, or at least doesn't exclude, the sensational bits.
Replete with superior acting and visual splendor, the film is a fine instance of the overly familiar made fresh.
The drought is a fine instance of the argument that just because you can buy something – in this case, as much water as you like, even with penalty pricing – doesn't mean you should.
True, it is also a problem for Wall Street's finest: for instance, Deutsche Bank recently had to take over some Manhattan buildings belonging to Harry Macklowe, a well-known developer, after he failed to refinance $7 billion of short-term debt used to pay for them.
Design purists tend to regard his 1932-33 Zigzag chair, for instance, as a finer example of reductionism.
