But beneath that surface calm lies a churning cauldron of ambition and practicality, full of rising and falling stars eyeing the national stage, and issues that touch how Americans actually live their daily lives.
The poet's father called his diary a "log", as if he were always at sea, and his son expanded his terse comments on day-to-day farming matters in a charged and poetic idiom which is still grounded, full of humour and practicality.
Understanding root-reinforcement of vegetated slopes is hindered by the cost and practicality of full scale tests to explore global behaviour at the slope scale, and the idealised nature of smaller-scale testing to date that has relied on model root analogues.
Where electronic data quality and practicalities allow, full electronic medical records of consenting participants will be accessed and securely downloaded to obtain information on symptoms, diagnoses, prescriptions and referrals.
Nickel cobalt aluminum material (NCA) was used as a cathode in the full cell to evaluate the practicality of the new Si graphene material.
Air was preferred to pure oxygen to maintain the practicality and possible full-scale feasibility of the supercritical water flame system.
While Khrushchev's responsibility lay in political affairs, he involved himself in the practicalities of resuming full production at the mine after the chaos of the war years.
The proposed QuickDASH-9 had a unidimensional structure and similar psychometric precision to the full-length DASH with improved practicality and completion time.
Often, one person is overwhelmed and passive, and the other is running around, full of agency and focussed on practicalities — but then, in time, the roles switch, only to reverse again a few months later.
John's marvellous models for his designs were beautiful objects full of exquisite detail, imagination, learning and practicality.
