It is hard to describe the slippery quality of Martín Kohan's Spanish.
The swinging legs and feet have the slippery quality of moving on ice.
The novel's slippery quality and muted emotions struck me as a kind of private stocktaking, the author's personal inquiry or catharsis disguised as plot turns.
Though major social network and techonology companies have thousands of employees working to identify hate speech and posts, the sheer quantity, combined with the "slippery" quality, means that hate continues to thrive on the internet.
Dawid's clarinet playing is garrulous and slightly wayward, with a wonderfully slippery quality that sometimes invokes Eric Dolphy, particularly on Cape Town, a freely improvised duet with South African drummer Asher Simiso Gamedze.
In keeping with this slippery quality, Mr. Strassberger and his design team have set the opera in a time and place hovering somewhere between Aeschylus' period, Taneyev's and our own.
The sound, amplified through miniature speakers, is a spoken-word rendition of Bob Dylan's "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)." One senses, here, some clever metaphors for the death of print and the slippery quality of its replacement.
When such a slippery quality manifests in a vehicle costing $25,000, something special is afoot.
And at the same time, as a testament to your intrinsic power and glory just as you already are, without even trying to, you have wound up offering our society an opportunity to learn something we are desperately needing to learn -- namely about the social-constructedness, the infinite complexity, and the elusive, slippery quality of race.
The pulse showed an empty quality of the Heart, Lung and Kidney positions and a slippery quality in the Spleen position.
With the slippery, bendable qualities of English, the evolution of comedy from physical to verbal was a much smoother transition in Britain than in Germany.
