The baritone John Hancock made thorny works like "Abraham and Isaac" and "Pribaoutki" alluring; the soprano Lei Xu sang with clear tone and diction in songs by Delage and Stravinsky.
Then, nearer to the Festival, comes the important offer from fixed-odds bookmakers to accept bets on a "non-runner, no bet" basis, making thorny issues such as multiple entries a lot easier to handle.
MAX J. SKIDMORE Overland Park, Kan., March 21 , 2012The Writer Responds Several excellent suggestions emerge from readers' letters, including comments about Oregon's experience with making thorny Medicaid spending decisions, the need to "take some hits" to rein in Medicare spending, and a desire to let the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute perform its job.
Galveston's tangled relationship with the energy industry — and with BP in particular — is made thornier by the explosion at the company's refinery in neighboring Texas City in 2005, which killed 15 workers and injured more than 170.
Marty Ehrlich and Myra Melford, "Spark" (Palmetto) — On their second duet recording, the new-jazz veterans Ehrlich (on saxophone and clarinet) and Melford (on piano) continue to make beautifully thorny music together.
With W.R.F., meteorologists will be able to make notoriously thorny forecasts -- like specifying how much rain will fall on a given location, or predicting where and when a hurricane will touch land -- far more exact.
The Red Sox are relieved that Ortiz rebounded, freeing them from having to bench him or make a thornier decision about his future.
Keeping Claussen would have made those thorny decisions a little easier.
And lately his days have been packed with meetings as he labors to steer an inexperienced Council through budget negotiations made unusually thorny by the city's dire financial condition.
After a delay while a herd of elephants pass, we bounce into a small settlement: each family has a hut inside a fence of tall reed stalks, nearby is a rudimentary kraal made of thorny branches where the cattle are kept at night.
