A striking form of mid-Victorian virtuosity was the cameo glass produced by Stourbridge glassworkers.
What's most striking about Schick's playing, aside from his extreme physical virtuosity, is the narrative momentum he elicits from even the most abstract schemes: he is always telling stories with sounds, even if you can't put those stories into words.
Though her axe-like jawline and striking red hair led to offbeat roles, it was her social virtuosity that contemporaries remember: "I don't particularly recall Thelma being a shining star," says her classmate, the producer and actor David Conville.
The most striking piece, "Zerrinnendes Bild" ("Streaming Image"), was a study in tightly compressed virtuosity.
The Cleveland and Mr. Dohnanyi showed us another kind of virtuosity and a deeper one: the ability to rise above color and striking effects and create lines that grow and ebb, phrases that have beginnings, middles and ends in the profoundest sense.
The Cleveland and Mr. Dohnanyi, on the other hand, showed us another kind of virtuosity and a deeper one: the ability to rise above color and striking effects and create lines that grow and ebb, phrases that have beginnings, middles and ends in the profoundest sense.
The most striking aspects of "Classical Symphony," as seen on Friday, are the sheer exuberance of its often unorthodox ballet virtuosity, its eagerness to tip and twist the torso vividly while dancing lower-body movements, and its preparedness to make drastic but happy juxtapositions of contrasting ballet positions and steps.
More striking was the sheer range and emotional power of the words used (n = 250) showing both a remarkable virtuosity (encroaching upon the vulgar) and a lack of precision in how students expressed themselves when speaking about people with mental illness (see Table 3).
There's a confident swagger to the virtuosity of Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, and Chamayou articulates bittersweet melodies such as Pavane pour une Infante Défunte with striking straightforwardness.
— and striking riffs for Mr. Boyett, an excellent actor with crack timing, who can reel off long, tongue-twisting speeches that gain in speed and virtuosity.
