But the judges struck down the ban with arguments that strikingly echo today's ruling.
Its tone and project strikingly echo Memorial, Alice Oswald's radical 2011 retelling of Homer's Iliad.
That change echoes, strikingly, the change that brought George back to his native Chicago 17 years ago.
But in the end, she said, echoing a strikingly common sentiment here, she decided there might be safety in numbers rather than risks.
"The Shadow of Night" -- which the Cleveland Orchestra and Christoph von Dohnanyi commissioned, played for the first time last weekend and will bring to Carnegie Hall on Friday -- is like all its predecessors: something strikingly new but heavy with echoes from the past and, indeed, the future.
The production, too, is part of that skin, and it's generally when it's stripped down that Ms. Lovato confesses to any weaknesses, as on "Shouldn't Come Back," the latest in a suite of songs aimed at her estranged father, and also on the outstanding "In Case," strikingly written by Priscilla Renea and Emanuel Kiriakou, which echoes the pomp of her 2011 hit "Skyscraper".
Instead, it has been accompanied by a strikingly conservative rhetoric of "no excuses" that echoes previous invocations of the black "culture of poverty" and the misguided emphasis on personal responsibility.
In "Credo," written for Yehudi Menuhin's 80th birthday, two solo violins and a clarinet etch wistful, dark and increasingly intense lines over dissonant, rumbling orchestral echoes and chords before finishing in a strikingly tonal triad.
It's a strikingly beautiful piece – a real discovery – which fades away with echoes of the last song in Schubert's Winterreise.
