Lieder singing has always required special, sometimes seemingly contradictory, skills: delicacy and power, attention to detail and an appreciation of broad arcs, generosity of spirit and restraint.
"How can they get married?" Though children of immigrants may generally know the broad arc of their parents' lives, the details — of lives lived before America, of hardships in leaving and struggles to adapt — are frequently lost in the rush of assimilation, a time of forging ahead rather than looking back.
They formed a broad arc of thousands of vehicles, shoulder to shoulder in a sprawling phalanx facing north and visible to journalists scouting the area.
Large-scale military raids continued in Baghdad and across a broad arc of territory north and west of the capital, resulting in the arrest of more than 400 people since Monday, military officials said.
In between, there's a broad arc of seafloor, with a large part of the plate's edge running offshore of the Indonesian archipelago.
To the west, a series of small bays, backed by exclusive homes and more parkland, offer great surfing spots all the way to the broad arc of Main Beach, which fronts the thriving township of 7,000.
You start adding it up, and one hundred years is not very much time in the broad arc of geologic history, and the actual rate of extinction is well on its way to being on track with the other extinctions".
Throughout, Oberst pivots a broad arc of American music styles, even utilising one, in the case of Soul Singer in a Session Band, as a metaphor for being, as he puts it, "trapped in a circumstance where you don't belong".
The poignancy of that statement is that it is not really a fair account of the broader arc of American history, or even of the Democratic Party.
The most imposing houses in the Gardens are on the broad arc of Greenway North.
