The chop came doused in an oversweet teriyakilike gravy and the pernil, which works best as a mixture of tender meat with a bit of crunchy skin, was all mush with an overwhelming vinegar taste.
Jamal is 71 now, but his music is as vivaciously restless a mixture of tender, softly-struck lyricism, percussive chordwork, ensemble tautness and jump-cut impressionism as it has been at any time since he came to prominence in the 1950s.
Along the Amalfi coast southeast of Naples, at Don Alfonso 1890, the local San Marzano tomatoes, Italy's best, go into an ethereal pasta sauce; local wild garlic provides a foil for a spun-gold mixture of tender fried fish, and local, uniquely sweet lemons perfume a sorbet.
Ms. Regan's Irene, however, consistently summons that violent, tender mixture of rage and compassion that has animated Mr. Wilson's best work (1 30).
But now that I have been there, I have little hesitation in applauding the Chinese for managing this most extraordinary of sights — using a mixture of ruthless discipline and tender care.
With a mixture of brutal candor and tender sympathy, it charts the rise of an ambitious, difficult woman, taking note of the obstacles and opportunities offered by her time, place and circumstances.
"With a mixture of brutal candor and tender sympathy, it charts the rise of an ambitious, difficult woman, taking note of the obstacles and opportunities offered by her time, place and circumstances," A. O. Scott said in The New York Times about the film, which was directed by Anne Fontaine, also one of its screenwriters.
"With a mixture of brutal candor and tender sympathy," the film "charts the rise of an ambitious, difficult woman, taking note of the obstacles and opportunities offered by her time, place and circumstances," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times last September.
"Their griefs are transient," he wrote, and their love lacked "a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation".
Nigger's love was "more an eager desire, than a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation", and of "the senses only".
The score, completed in 1938, is a complex mixture of hope and foreboding with a current of tender wistfulness running through the variations in the Andante tranquillo.
