At Christian Dior, Pat McGrath freehanded what looked like masquerade-ball masks, piling on iridescent discs, gold sequins and amber rhinestones on the models' eyebrows and upper and lower lids.
In his program notes Mr. Schepkin argued that pianists are often too freehanded in their readings of Mussorgsky's score and that the composer's untouched original holds its own nicely.
He freehanded a splash of half-and-half from a carton, added a beaten egg, and scattered a small amount of all-purpose flour and breadcrumbs from a can.
The Kanō school developed two distinctive styles: one featuring bright, opaque colours on gold or silver backgrounds, brilliantly amalgamating bright colour and bold brushwork, and the other a more freehanded, mannered, and bold interpretation of traditional ink monochrome themes.
(As his tenure wore on, he became more freehanded, and ultimately he left Bloomberg a gap of nearly five billion dollars).
As a younger filmmaker working with scant means and the people at hand, Swanberg often did his own camera work and lighting, and his compositional sense was sometimes impetuously freehanded, sometimes drastically static.
Unfortunately, the flat-footed version that opened last night under Mr. Edelstein's direction, from his own freehanded adaptation, seldom conveys the urgency of the play's genesis.
It is a bloodstained horror movie, a dark comedy, a noirish psychodrama of crime and punishment, a melodrama of mad love, a freehanded literary adaptation (of Émile Zola's "Thérèse Raquin") and, of course, a vampire movie.
His prose echoes now Henry James or Edith Wharton, now Hemingway or the modest 50's naturalism of, say, Richard Yates; and there's more than a touch of Fitzgerald in the reveries of Dix "drawn back to his freehanded youth," to "summer dances under high-topped tents" and a chance conversation with a "scandalous girl" to whom he pours out his secret ambitions.
