Despite the death and devastation in the widows' stories, the most powerful imagery in the Hidden Half of the Moon emerges from simple scenes of tenderness, even romance.
Baëlen shares with The Creators Project, "For this series, I used colored pigments on people, real couples kissing or having simple time of tenderness surrounded by nature, flood, smoke, clouds, pollution, or industrial environment.
Instead, his improvisations cling to the original melody, adding ornaments or making a simple tune peal with tenderness or mournful poignancy".
But when tenderness is called for, a simple melody on a consoling oboe or a wash of chords, like out-of-focus Debussy, is subtly heard.
Principal component analysis, simple correlation of gene expression levels with tenderness scores, and then multiple regression analysis provided the means to detect the genes within two families (heat shock proteins and energy metabolism) which were the most associated with beef tenderness.
There is loyalty too, and tenderness, but not as pain's simple antidote.
The symphony ends with the Mahlerian equivalent of a simple, soulful church hymn, performed here with affecting tenderness.
Using simple pen and ink, his drawings infuse humor and tenderness into surrealistic images.
But there's a consolatory tenderness to songs like "Note To Self" and "Simple As This" that's entirely in keeping with his Bohemian skiffle style.
It was the lamb, rubbed with a simple chili-inflected and mustard-based paste, cooked to a perfect tenderness, gently flavored with smoke.
