Prosthetic limbs have come a long way from the heavy, solid hands and legs of yesteryear, but it's still difficult to pack a range of motion into them without complex or bulky machinery.
A boxer with solid hands and unrelenting pressure, he recently moved up a weight class, only to suffer a swift and devastating knockout at the hands of Stipe Miocic in May.
The guitars pound away, and the drummer just lends a solid hand.
The rest of the house is furnished with solid hand-me-downs, but details aren't easy to spot.
Despite a solid hand with leather pieces, like studded lace-up pants, many of their looks verged on Proenza Schouler's style.
I shake his hand, a square and solid hand, more in keeping with the mobster and bare-knuckle boxer image he's cultivated of late than the stick-thin, knock-me-over-with-a-feather campness of yesteryear.
While the piece might have been conceptually decanted from one of his patently fake shipping boxes, it could also be Warhol's take on Jasper Johns's 1960 sculpture of two Ballantine Ale cans (not in the show), which Mr. Johns cast in solid, hand-painted bronze.
Having previously turned in 12-hour sets in his native London, he's also a solid hand when it comes to keeping a rave on its toes for hours at a time, a skill he'll be effortlessly demonstrating during this All Night Long session within the atmospheric basement of The Shipping Forecast.
It was an important reminder that Lohan, an earner since toddlerhood, has been held up as an object to be desired, then derided, then pitied, then cast away, and that this trajectory might make some psychological sense of her yearning for the seemingly solid hand of a controlling despot, for mafioso-style protection.
Sure, she talks too fast when her feathers are ruffled and the fact that she's played this game so long has led to a certain level of attrition, but Curran's still just about in the game and played a reasonably solid hand last night.
With the Castor example in hand, Spain's fracking critics have been dealt a solid hand.
