How else to explain the many rough passages and overall aimlessness?
Executing Rossini's virtuosic roulades and runs, she throws her whole stocky body into the effort, which sometimes causes rough passages.
Mr. Kundera submerges the reader in the undercurrents of political life, the rough passages of far-too-recent vintage and the personal repercussions of an invasive, claustrophobic time.
Over all, the orchestra performed well too, despite a few rough passages and some intonation problems in the Suite No. 3 from Respighi's richly orchestrated and melancholic "Ancient Airs and Dances," inspired by Renaissance lute songs and melodies.
Does anyone gazing at Rembrandt's sensitive portrait of his longtime companion, Hendrickje Stoffels, fret about its being "unfinished," because it includes some rough passages of loosely applied paint?
Derailments, such as the one that sent seven cars spilling coal into a British Columbia creek last week, raise further fears, as does the possibility of bunker fuel spills once tankers set out to sea through narrow, rough passages.
