He's not against a sturdy arrangement idea: in the down-and-out narrative "Wavering Lines," a string section creeps in and methodically spreads tension; in "Coming Through," he remonstrates over an anachronistic soul-band chug.
It takes basic components — male-female harmony, sturdy pop arrangements with light brushes of country, an unerring sense of when to shift a song from desperate to redemptive — and arranges them in several different ways, with mostly similar results.
Though he rarely works with much beyond piano, he writes sturdy melodies and arrangements, solid enough to carry his bleak lyrics, doled out frugally.
The West Elm Parsons desk looks less sturdy than Carrie's arrangement, but at four by two feet, it is exactly the size of my lousy desk: a good thing, as it happens.
This, and the arrangement of their sturdy limbs, gives the platypus and echidna an ungainly lizard-like gait; swinging their sprawled limbs out to the side as they move, rather than bringing them directly under the body like other mammals.
These rooms are airy and light, with enormous front-facing windows, sturdy bleached lodgepole-pine furniture and inviting arrangements of comfortable overstuffed chairs -- each equipped with a small refrigerator, microwave, coffee maker and fan.
Recent revivals of Sondheim shows using chamber orchestrations have shown how sturdy his music is, even in drastically reduced arrangements.
Perhaps, like many sensible citizens, you read Investor's Business Daily for its sturdy common sense in defending free markets and other rational arrangements.
Played by a 14-piece acoustic band, they range from drifting, mesmeric arrangements for the duduk Armenian woodwind to subtle, sparse passages, or more sturdy dance pieces played on the zither-like kanon, the oud or the santur dulcimer.
These works are stripes in real space: paintinglike horizontal arrangements of strips of MDF board painted black that might be called slats if they weren't so sturdy and beautifully finished.
