When the original version of AfterLight was premiered last year, it seemed a perfect and perfectly contained piece.
The novel, on the other hand, presents the reader with a work that is often too perfectly contained: "Plot is for dead people".
It's a perfectly contained piece of storytelling – the extravagant meal, Richard's desire for aesthetic beauty, Bunny's sense of entitlement, Henry's attitude towards Bunny.
Last year, at the Guggenheim in New York, I fled the excesses of the Matthew Barney exhibition and slipped into a side room where there was a small display of 1920s art including a tiny, understated, perfectly contained Schwitters collage.
Now that we're dabbling in bits of non-Hogwarts magical history -- stories from other continents entirely, in fact -- the degree of building out of the magical world almost seems to be undermining the perfectly contained world Rowling built within Britain and its beloved wizarding school.
But the dream of perfectly contained bacteria received a serious blow in 2003 with a study showing that there was a limit to the efficiency of containment circuits of any type within the range of 10−6 [29].
Stevia in the Raw packets, which sound perfectly healthy, contain dextrose (sugar) as its first ingredient.
Jessica Anya Blau has written a soaring teenage lament, perfectly pitched, containing the single saddest and funniest line of seduction ever uttered".
Obscenity lawyer Myles Jackman, who has been campaigning hard against the Digital Economy Bill, explained that the government will effectively be "turning off" sites which contain perfectly legal material: "It's a shocking intrusion into the liberty of individuals that material which they are legally allowed to view will be blocked," he says.
All the five members of CGFS-type class contain perfectly conserved CGFS as an active site.
In such a case, the paper may contain perfectly valid data supporting a point of relatively specialized interest, but inadequate data in support of its more striking conclusions.
