And this state of strenuous compulsion itself starts to look like a not-quite-sincere series of effects.
We are witnessing not the disintegration of a personality, but rather the careful construction of a series of effects.
I hope very much that her "Swan Lake" won't prove, as her Kitri began to, a series of effects.
Plugged into a series of effects pedals, Krieger's saxophone starts off sounding nothing like the instrument with which many of us would like to throttle buskers.
There are two ways in which artists think about their work: some envisage a series of effects they want to conjure for the audience.
But "EdOx" is startlingly imitative of William Forsythe's later ballet work (down to the dancers' brief shorts and vests) without its physical logic, so that the duo feels more like a series of effects than anything else.
A moody pas de deux danced by Mr. Baecher and Ms. Hanna and set to Rachmaninoff's "Vocalise," it's easy enough on the eye with its sculptural poses, but it feels more like a series of effects than anything else.
Yet the striking visual effects of "Folding" — the stiff-necked scuttling of the dancers in red-trained skirts, the Pilobolus-like piggybacking of the ones in black — are still a series of effects, rather than a dance.
As the United States experiences a snow shortage, researchers have released a study showing that declining snowfall in the mountainous regions of Arizona is causing a cascading series of effects that are proving devastating to songbirds.
Friendly lets you crop profile pictures and also has a series of effects you can apply to photos, such as making them black-and-white or sepia, to name but two.
