The struggle Mr. Brooks describes is one focused "meticulously on technique".
Injuries can happen with all forms of yoga, but one of the safer approaches is Iyengar, which moves at a slower pace, focuses meticulously on proper alignment and uses props.
Even once the movie plunges into battle and Mr. Kurosawa brings his protagonist, Hidetora (Tatsuya Nakadai), into focus, the meticulously staged fight scenes have a painterly quality; like those in the immediate predecessor of "Ran," "Kagemusha," they were clearly conceived in design rather than editing terms, a surprise development in the work of a filmmaker famous for his dynamic editing.
Eventually she'd like to move towards theatre – "I'm very interested in work that would involve movement with some dramaturgy and psychology" – but she's still meticulously focused on her dance technique.
Though meticulously focused on the field, he understands with great awareness the impact he has outside the lines of the gridiron.
Mr. DeWitt will speak Aug. 28 at Monticello, whose gardens have been meticulously restored, focusing on Jefferson as a lover of food, recipe writer and "ardent supporter of sustainable farming".
From there, the story becomes more familiar: the years of working for the Forest Service as fire lookout and ranger, the slow accretion of success as a writer of meticulously observed essays focused on the West, his emergence as the spiritual father of the radical environment movement after the publication of his two seminal books, "Desert Solitaire" (1968) and "The Monkey Wrench Gang" (1975).
The final performance of the evening was given over to a mesmerizing rendition of Morton Feldman's "Three Voices" for voice and tape by the preternaturally focused Canadian soprano Charlotte Mundy, with meticulously balanced electronics by Elliot Cole.
The first of four theme nights at the Republican Party's meticulously planned national convention focused on what has become George W. Bush's signature issue -- education, particularly education for young, poor children.
