In the past, he has explored partnerships with companies who wound up being "a little apprehensive to hear what the mainstream client would think".
One of New York's better jazz musicians, the trumpeter Jerry Gonzalez flew the coop in 2000 and moved to Madrid, where he has explored flamenco with the same intensity he used to create a new strain of Latin jazz right here.
Through the Stanford Forgiveness Project, he has explored forgiveness therapy with people who suffered from the violence in Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, and the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11.
Milton, in Comus, speaks of the "power that erring men call Chance", and it's a power that Paul Auster has explored, with unerring fascination, since he began to publish in the 1970s.
For Holland, the sailings are a chance not only to follow the siren song of nautical romance, but also to get to know areas of Europe he has explored only cursorily: touring with his orchestra or with 70s chart-topping group Squeeze.
And it takes us deep down beneath the sea, to a world that Cameron has explored with his own toys and equipment in the years since Titanic.
Ackroyd has explored with patience and energy a considerable number of such sources, including the diaries of Eliot's first wife; and where he cannot quote he can paraphrase.
Her friend and fellow crime queen, the late PD James, agreed: "No one has explored with greater sensitivity and compassion those dark recesses of the human psyche".
Take CBS's deceptively procedural-shaped "The Good Wife," which has explored, with surprising granularity, the risks of N.S.A. surveillance and the insidious effects of big money on Democratic politics.
They are suffused with a bittersweet mood that seems eloquently appropriate to a writer who has explored with such unsparing honesty the depths of human suffering and degradation in the great tragedies.
