I liked the technique of layering elements in a footed glass bowl.
He especially liked the technique of measuring heart rate with a fake egg.
"We've never really been an issues-driven show," said Mark Ellis, a creator and producer of "Flashpoint," which follows the efforts of an urban police department's elite Strategic Response Unit, a SWAT-like team that also employs the techniques of talk therapy in hostage negotiations.
So I kept my eyes and ears, to say nothing of my taste buds, open to the kind of writer-cook who was particularly gifted, like Julia, at explaining the techniques of a different cooking culture".
But for a small company like EHX to embrace the techniques of e-marketing with a passion adds value for everyone.
In his new book, Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln (Crown, $14), James Humes describes the techniques of history's most renowned speakers, pointing out that Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address which might win a poll as the greatest speech ever delivered made a compelling case for the Civil War in only two minutes.
For all the memoirs and histories, nobody, not once, told what it was like from the inside using the techniques of literary fiction.
She also experiments, as a poet would, with language: the techniques of sewing, like making a blind stitch, typically invisible, show up as a detail of a design.
From the swift montage of characters and New York streets in the opening credits to the thumping music between scenes, the series applies the techniques of dramas like "N.Y.P.D. Blue" and "Homicide" to gruesome reality.
The techniques of consulting firms like Gradient evoke the tobacco industry's strategy of creating doubt about science.
