Concerts of African music appeal to a largely white audience attuned to the rhythms of world music.
For both his enemies and his supporters, the episode seemed to crystallize a widespread sentiment here that Mr. Booker, who was raised in a manicured, largely white Bergen County suburb, is not entirely attuned to the culture and sensitivities of his constituents.
I respectfully disagree, and would cite the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and the civil rights movement as just three examples in which dramatic political action largely disrespectful to accumulated practice and highly attuned to their particular circumstances changed our country and the world for the better.
Still, Legend's presence reiterated a pleasant fact about the N.B.A.'s impressive, and continuing, rise in popularity: that it has occurred without a departure from the basic and quite overtly acknowledged understanding, on the part of the league, that its core fan base is largely black, located in cities, and uncommonly attuned to the twin velocities of popular culture and the Internet.
Banville, who has largely ignored Dublin in his literary fiction, is attuned to the city's cultural history, and lived for a time in the same building as Yeats's daughter, the painter Anne Butler Yeats.
The movie's vision of this life is unabashedly romantic but convincing, thanks largely to Bill Wittliff's economical screenplay, which keeps its ear attuned to the Yankee dialect.
At GW, for example, we chose to not participate in the project, largely because we were uncertain about whether the methodology was attuned to the subtle differences between teacher preparation at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Yet he is a member of parliament for rural Corrèze, President Jacques Chirac's heartland, and mayor of a town there, so he may be more attuned to the grass-roots than he seems.The Socialists' recent electoral success came largely by default, however.
Hansen, a two-time Olympian, a four-time Olympic medalist and a former world record-holder in the breaststroke, told the story to drive home two points: swimmers in his specialty events — the 100 and 200 breaststroke — are largely born, not made, and their natural gifts can easily escape the notice of people not attuned to the quirkiest of the four competitive strokes.
Catalase is largely regarded as a less informative diagnostic enzyme than inducible peroxidases which can be more finely attuned with environmental conditions [63], [66], [67].
