Operatic careers work in mysterious ways, particularly for performers with strong, idiosyncratic ideas.
It may be hard to believe, navigating the unruly mob of idiosyncratic ideas cataloged on Kickstarter, but the reason it works is that somebody is in charge.
I remember exactly where I stopped in "2666," too — right after Bolaño explains Amalfitano's theory of jet lag: Amalfitano had some rather idiosyncratic ideas about jet lag.
Thus Sacagawea, the teenage Shoshone captive who helps to guide the expedition, is given voice through dreamlike passages and idiosyncratic ideas of geography.
For all her vitality, she is drawn away from the mainstream, where she can give voice to the misfits, oddballs and idiosyncratic ideas that populate her films.
For Fard was not a theorist but a fantasist: a man of many disguises, an uncertain background and some very idiosyncratic ideas.
Mr. Fischer, who has relationships with both this orchestra and the Budapest group (which he founded), and is also the principal conductor of the National Symphony in Washington, has distinct, sometimes idiosyncratic ideas about this music.
Reviewing Ms. Ginsberg's Mimi in The New York Times in 1987, Bernard Holland praised her "passionately idiosyncratic ideas on phrasing" and her "desire to say something — to be Mimi — rather than just make pretty sounds".
At times he has used adventurous ornamentation to make his points, and in some cases — a notable 1985 recording of Handel's "Messiah" for example — he has found reason to experiment with idiosyncratic ideas about scoring.
They believe that politicians live entirely separate lives, shaped by their own entirely idiosyncratic ideas, and that they spend a good deal of their time looking down on the rest of us.
He could become a big mainstream success as a cartoonist and maker of animated films, or he could stay in the fine-art world and pursue more idiosyncratic ideas for a smaller but more discerning audience.
