With her black gym socks and her down-home sensibility, Ms. Stiles is not trying to appeal to the yoga elite or to the purist.
They sum up both Mr. Samaras's roving, yet always-close-to-home sensibility and his enormous pertinence to the art of the present.
And there is a down-home sensibility rooted in a kind of nostalgia for places where the cowboys are real: The couple estimates that 60 percent of Flaming Saddles' customers grew up in Oklahoma, Texas or Tennessee (even if, Mr. Barnes said, many headed for New York because they were uncomfortable acknowledging their sexuality there).
All were entwined in a recent farewell gift from staff members that symbolized his stated desire to retain a down-home Texas sensibility at the pinnacle of power.
Cotton, meanwhile, took heat for backing out of the local Pink Tomato Festival to attend the Koch affair, with his opponent, Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark)., all but accusing him of lacking home-state sensibilities.
The orchestration further drives home this aquatic sensibility with dreamy harp threads and flutes woven throughout the score.
Ford emerged from his moderate, center right "New South" leanings, suddenly switching center left in an effort to appease his new home's political sensibilities.
"I feel entirely at home with Alan's sensibility and sense of humor," Hytner said.
Like many buildings in cosmopolitan Shanghai, a shikumen combines Asian and Western influences; it is a Chinese home with a Parisian sensibility, a hybrid form both delicate and monumental.
A series of interior monologues, it is less laughter-driven than Ms. Reza's popular "Art," but it shares a raised middlebrow sensibility, presenting home truths with an air of intellectual discovery.
A series of interior monologues, it is less laughter-driven than Ms. Reza's popular "Art" but shares its raised middlebrow sensibility, presenting home truths with an air of intellectual discovery.
