The novel's irreverence — Batman is a frequent reference — undercuts its efforts to create an air of intrigue, but the questions it raises regarding empathy and loneliness are explored in moving and idiosyncratic ways.
You don't have to understand every language the 73-year-old Italian composer sings in here (French, Spanish, Neapolitan and English as well as Italian) to know that his single-malt voice is gruffly crooning about lost loves, lost time – perhaps even lost luggage – all adding up to a moving yet idiosyncratic reflection on his own mortality.
The pendulums, however, are programmed to move in idiosyncratic ways, so that shadows and light surge across the room and disorient visitors in a captivating and individual manner.
As visitors traverse the space, the pendulums were programmed to move in idiosyncratic manners, so that shadows surged across the room and sounds bounced off the chamber walls.
Holt, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, combs through a number of obscure texts, ancient and modern, in his fast-moving, idiosyncratic survey of humor and its vagaries through the ages.
Intuitive development tools like Game Maker and Twine have made game creation accessible for all, resulting in offbeat, idiosyncratic and moving experiences like Papers Please, Actual Sunlight and Dys4ia.
Ms. Truscott is often on her own, aurally isolated by headphones as she zips about the elegantly bare black theater, moving through angled and idiosyncratic phrases with a dogged, even obsessive persistence.
Finally, for your pure art fix, the Barnes Foundation has recently moved from its idiosyncratic grounds on the city limits to a new location downtown, and is one of the most curious collections of impressionists (and plants) in the US.
The voice is my favorite instrument because it's so idiosyncratic, human, and moving.
The composer helps himself to harmonies of almost Mahlerian richness, but he devises his own idiosyncratic syntax for moving from one chord to another.
Audiences traveled through three floors of the charmingly idiosyncratic East Village building, moving up and down little staircases for the work, which was presented in two parts, separated by a short film.
