But when Ms. Smith opened up her chest-voice vowels, or walked the line between singing and chanting — as on a highly recited version of her song "Birdland" (another tune about communicating with the dead), and a cover of the O'Jays' "Love Train"— she was fire, and her band whacked out simple, well-practiced stomps.
A stager's practiced eye can also spot simple, inexpensive improvements that can add that extra oomph.
A consensus sequence for a subgroup of Tc1 elements of our interest (1,610 nt, supplementary fig. S1, Supplementary Material online) was generated from the top 300 blast hits using a simple majority rule as practiced previously (Pace et al. 2008) and was subsequently used as a query to search for closely related sequences in the aforementioned sequence data using BLASTN.
While the couple's cat, Ruby, oversaw the proceedings, Ziegelman next threw together a simple creamed spinach, slicing fat slabs of butter with practiced ease.
Smith introduced himself as a "liftport ambassador". Apparently, "liftport" is the proper term, the corporate euphemism — for use among polite company, presumably more skeptical about such things — for "space elevator". "The physics are the simple part," said Smith, who talks with the easy gusto of a practiced booster.
Even the simplest animals display such primitive forms of adaptive activity as habituation, the elimination of practiced responses.
Judging from past exposure to the Russian National Ballet and similar ensembles, they are likely to offer simple touring productions as staid and traditional as their repertory, and dancing that ranges from earnest to practiced to, sometimes, very good.
(She had practiced that).
Mr. Light foot sports a practiced‐but‐soft baritone and tends toward simple songs about open air, traveling, trees and the like.
