"He wrote very specific things about the music," Thordson said.
They cared about the venue, and whether it was a love story, and very specific things about the plot that they were convinced determined the outcome more than anything else.
There are specific things about the composition I wanted to achieve: seeing both of the dog's eyes, and keeping the horizon lower than the dog's body so he cuts through the landscape.
Later on, you can go and say, "Oh, this is what that's kind of saying," and unlike what I just said, a lot of songwriters have very specific things about the songs.
You start describing specific things about that one person, and you lock other people out.
What is one specific thing about yourself (your crazy curls, your post-baby bod, your anxiety) that you can fully accept today and lean into, love on, and explore more deeply?
"We can go into more specific things about technical approaches, and about the opponents.
Starting with "The Normal Heart," however, art about AIDS, whatever its genre, tried to do very specific things about a very specific situation -- not the virus (which was insensible to aesthetic arguments) but the medical bureaucracy and homophobic culture that in essence harbored it.
But then, once we started going through the interviews because I was pretty much asking everyone the same questions, you know, specific things about language and their upbringing and their connection to tradition and their relationship between the Puerto Rican community and the African American community in New York, etcetera.
The best way to learn specific things about a sport is to read up on it.
