Of Shen's longer works of fiction, Biancheng (1934; The Border Town; filmed 1984) is generally considered his best; in it he combines his doubts about modern civilization with an idealized view of the beauty of rural life.
Despite showing little interest in politics and initially dismissing Sly & the Family Stone as "a passing fancy", Whitfield realised Motown was ripe for change and he could be at the centre of it if he combined protest with psychedelia.
But his oatmeal portion was too large given that he sat at a desk all day, and in addition to topping it with fruit, he combined it with a smoothie, which was really a meal in and of itself.
After it cools, he combines it with 2 cups of juice freshly squeezed from about 16 lemons, adds 6 cups of water and chills it completely to make enough lemonade for 10 people or one sidewalk stand.
But it would be much more effective if he combined it with strong ideas of his own for how to fix the economy, rather than the thin agenda he is now promoting.
His vocabulary was ballet, but he combined it with loud rock music and in-your-face sexuality, and collaborated with artists such as Leigh Bowery and Sarah Lucas.
In his early plays, he combined it with prose and a 10-syllable rhymed couplet; he later employed a blank verse dependent on stress rather than on syllabic length.
Though useful, Mr. Obama's new proposal would have a stronger effect if he combined it with forceful efforts to get Fannie, Freddie and private banks to reduce the principal on underwater loans.
He combined it all in a final flourish, saying that the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and Hurricane Sandy were both Allah's response to the injustices done to him by the legal system.
Hilbert's book made clear the new axiomatic methodology that had been shaping up in connection with the novel methods of set theory, and he combined it with the axiomatic trends coming from projective geometry.
