' He had that rough, plain Kansas blood and that very elegant sophisticated French polish.
In her work, rough, plain melodies meet up with displays of avant-garde virtuosity; voices sing and squawk, instruments emit pure tones and raw noise.
The ornaments here were not simply occasional trills and appoggiaturas, or the taking of obvious opportunities like the sustained notes on the phrase "rough places plain".
And the interventionist bent is sealed in the opening recitative and aria, "Comfort ye...Ev'ry valley," with the tenor Ross Hauck adding elaborate ornaments to paint "the crooked straight" and "the rough places plain" to a faretheewell.
But the art is there in his pictures, rough and plain as day.
While Ms. July's palette is rougher and plainer than Mr. Malick's, both seek out routes from the everyday to the sublime, and challenge audiences to follow them.
Israeli politicians say that Mr. Sharon appeals to the voters in part because he presents himself as a nonpolitician, a rough-hewn, plain-spoken military man who disdains chasing television cameras to the scenes of attacks.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exhalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
King cited the Prophet Isaiah's proclamation: "Every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight".
