Once he has set up Yoav's arrival and David's soft patriarchal anticipation, he largely moves his focus away from David's American scene and fills in, at some length, Yoav's experiences as an Israeli soldier during the 2014 Gaza War.
Messiaen, in his note to the score, speaks of a paradoxically beautiful terror in this section -- "enormous blocks of purple fury" -- and here the effect was indeed hair-raising, not just when the music was clamorous, but also when it was weirdly soft, soft with the anticipation of mightiness to come.
Much has been written about Ella – the eery sense of anticipation, those erotically soft hands – but what impressed most was his utter lack of visible anxiety while on the field.
Picture a player with quickness, anticipation, leaping ability, soft hands and one of those genius basketball IQs one sees only a few times a decade: Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Chris Mullin, John Stockton.
"Art in public spaces can awaken us to the potential of everyday life," Sharon says on a recent afternoon while standing beneath the clouds, which were being installed in anticipation of a soft launch Tuesday and public opening on Saturday.
The 13-song mix of original Yuletide classics (like "White Christmas" and "I've Got Your Love to Keep Me Warm") and new, softer offerings captures the joy, anticipation, nostalgia and even melancholy of the Christmas season.
The use of softer intelligence for monitoring and anticipation of problems receives little mention in official policy.
4 The use of softer intelligence for monitoring and anticipation of problems receives little mention in official policy.
I stood there taking it in: the angles of the buildings, the contrast of the darkening sky and the soft electric lights, the energy and anticipation swelling here and everywhere across Paris.
In an evolutionary context, Bennett explained, it makes sense that we are built in anticipation of pain: we are soft, and the world is a dangerous place.
Weather forecaster Al Roker had little patience for Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, who said this week that America was "getting soft" for closing schools in the Midwest in anticipation of record-breaking low temperatures. .
