Robyn Wallace is adding impressive A-level results to some idiosyncratic extracurricular achievements.
While there are undoubtedly singers who bring to Winterreise more lyrical voices, or a wider selection of vocal colours, what Bostridge achieves with his idiosyncratic palette remains an extraordinary achievement.
Along the way a clear sense of Mr. Amis's own aesthetics emerges: he values vigorous, idiosyncratic language and the achievement of an anomalous, potent voice; he believes that "style is morality;" he loathes clichéd prose and clichéd thinking; and he questions whether biographical facts can shed much light on an artist's work.
"CPS is an essential skill in the workforce and the community because many of the problems faced in the modern world require teams to integrate group achievements with team members' idiosyncratic knowledge," the researchers explain.
True expression (whether the first genuine self-expression of the learning speaker, a new scientific meaning, or true artistic achievement) is both totally idiosyncratic, and a re-composition of shared elements; it transforms the old.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' 2003 début album, "Fever to Tell," had gone gold, a considerable achievement for a noisy and idiosyncratic band that lacks a bass player and has a sound that is sometimes thin and spiky.
The interpersonal approach decomposes the variance in self-concept ratings into a "method" part that is due to the student as the rater (perceiver effect), a shared "trait" part that is due to the student's perceived achievement (target effect), and an idiosyncratic self-view (self-enhancement).
As part of a minor tradition which has seen Martin Amis record his strained relationship with his literary father, and Dmitri Nabokov undertake the translation and posthumous publication of his father's works, Borys Conrad's reminiscences are idiosyncratic in their avoidance of Joseph Conrad's literary achievements in favour of a light, often entertaining narrative.
Third, the idiosyncratic self-view had a small positive association with (future) achievement.
In these buildings, and in their masterpiece, St Peter's Seminary at Cardross, Metzstein and MacMillan gave a distinctive poetry to the European modernist tradition, combining admiration for the achievement of Le Corbusier with a wide and idiosyncratic knowledge of history.
