Instead of mixing them, he laid them side by side.
"He needed to change it up more, but instead of mixing it, he just hit harder".
Instead of mixing rum-and-Cokes, Mr. Marx, of the Upper East Side, was dispensing milk and sugar for coffee.
Instead of mixing brews of dubious content, he uses computer modelling to study materials for batteries and renewable energy sources at the level of the atom.
For all our talk as a nation about our great melting pot, we're too often clinging to the sides of the bowl instead of mixing.
You realize how effective it can be to let documentary pieces cluster around a theme, instead of mixing hard news with lighter fare in the standard newsmagazine way.
And instead of mixing eggplant with tahini, he layers the two ingredients so that you can appreciate each individually; the result is an inspired baba ghanouj.
Instead of mixing and playing songs from a computer the way many contemporary D.J.'s do, he creates music by manipulating sounds on records to produce new melodies.
Instead of mixing old songs with specially commissioned ones, he says, "Luhrmann should have made a genuine jukeboxer out of Ballroom and saved everyone a lot of time and money.
Ball has the height — 6 feet 8 inches — and the wingspan of many players in the N.B.A., but instead of mixing it up with the Yaos and Nowitzkis and Bryants of the world, he has played volleyball in Greece and Italy and Russia.
