Pure lanolin, which is made from the oils produced by sheep to keep their wool supple, also works very well.
I loved Nashashibi's 16mm film, Lovely Young People (Beautiful Supple Bodies), a work of outstanding empathy and grace.
"The Barbarian Invasions" is just as unsparing and, if anything, wittier, yet it's also a deeper, more emotionally supple piece of work.
But she proves her point about the expansive nature of this kind of universality in supple analyses of works by Aleichem, Kafka, Babel, I. B. Singer (and his brother and sister), S. Y. Agnon, Mr. Wiesel, Saul Bellow and more than a dozen other authors.
And on the purely technical side a listener had to admire the evenness of Mr. Alexeev's chord voicings and his supple balancing of the work's themes and supporting figuration.
Robin Ticciati's intimate, supple reading of the work now known as The Siegfried Idyll set the tone for a performance in which the Scottish Chamber Orchestra subverted the traditional associations between volume and dramatic tension.
But beyond the attractions of a tone that ranged from throaty and textured to meltingly supple, Mr. Rostropovich played the work with a tension and drama that made it sound vibrant, even surprising -- a remarkable feat in a work so familiar.
Friday's triple bill also included Martin Sexton, a virtuosic solo performer whose syncopated guitar work and supple voice let him wring plenty of entertainment out of a basic vamp.
NEW YORK CITY OPERA Samuel Barber's "Vanessa" — one of his loveliest creations — is an American "Adriana Lecouvreur," a work of supple lyricism and gentle beauty with a lead role (created by Eleanor Steber at the Met in 1958) that is a gift to mature sopranos.
