Degas's preoccupation along this line takes nothing away from the soaring quality of his works, but it helps to explain their intensity.
The solo cello line, too, has a lilting and sometimes soaring quality that draws on the characteristic sweetness of Mr. Ma's sound, without letting that quality undercut the work's own poignancy.
Any Name Goes to the Park, for instance, is a lovely bit of wish-fulfilment – its production values aren't particularly high, but it has a soaring quality belied by its pamphlet-thin appearance.
Perhaps the Amphion players meant to convey the bird-of-prey aspects of Ms. Thomas's "Eagle at Sunrise," but you had to wonder whether the singing solo cello line and the rising, angular violin writing should not also have evoked the eagle's graceful, soaring qualities.
Production soared but quality often suffered.
Malpractice premiums are soaring, and quality problems are rampant.
It turned out to be the perfect decision, Vangelis's lyrical accompaniment lending the tale a soaring, timeless quality.
Over the following two decades the paper soared in quality, all the while making more money than ever and expanding the Times Mirror empire of media properties.
"I knew in my heart I could not really afford the house, but they gave it to me anyway," said Mr. Fullenkamp, 22. "I thought, 'Wow, I'm surprised I pulled that off.' " As the number of loans has soared, random quality control checks have decreased sharply, F.H.A. staff members say.
And once chimneys became a fixture in the English home by the early 1600's, home use soared and air quality deteriorated.
