Singer Jenny Lewis's voice is a nimble, syrupy instrument, telling candid tales of moral back-sliding and heartbreak.
Kirk Knuffke is its trumpeter, which could likewise fill you in: learned, nimble around the instrument, tight and articulate with unexpected accents and fast runs.
They make a huge contribution to the economy but a much smaller one to domestic employment, accounting for well under 10% of Swiss jobs, because much of their business is abroad.The second category covers small, nimble companies in sectors such as engineering, biotechnology, medical instruments and watchmaking that spend a lot on R&D and export most of their output.
Bishop's journey into the center of the guitar is about the relationship between huge, fixed landmarks (like the instrument itself) and individual modifications to those landmarks (his nimble but unshowy lines).
As he did for a concert at Carnegie Hall a few years ago, Mr. Haynes joined Mr. Rollins in a trio with the bassist Christian McBride, 38, whose nimble style and enveloping sound make the absence of a chordal instrument seem negligible.
The Belgian was no novelty turn, however, but a remarkable musician who adapted the advanced harmonies, hairtrigger accents and nimble melodies of the bebop idiom to a 19th-century Austrian instrument originally intended for the more leisurely rhythms of folk music, and who matched his jazz virtuosity with considerable emotional expressiveness and warmth.
Spectrophotometry offers a simple and nimble way to accurately measure the bulk concentration of high quality DNA and instruments such as the NanoDrop Spectophotometer are readily available.
By Alan H. Olmstead The New Yorker, May 5, 1962 P. 33 We watched a bulldozer burying a brook the other day, & it was obvious from the nimble skill with which the operator slashed & slammed at his target that he felt himself to be wielding the right instrument in the right place.
Photograph: Paul Edmondson/Getty Images Once listed in Guinness Book of Records as the easiest musical instrument to play, the ukulele has long laboured in the shadows of its larger and cooler brother the guitar - but recently there have been signs that this nimble pint-sized instrument is ready to take its place in the musical spotlight.
