DAN TEPFER Drawing on his poise in both jazz and classical disciplines, Mr. Tepfer, a perspicacious young pianist, takes on an obvious challenge with "Goldberg Variations/Variations," not only performing Bach's famous work, but also attempting to put his own spin on it.
The lesson here is obvious: you can't take on yesterday's men and hope to survive.
At least Hildebrand, 45, was seen as the obvious choice by the market to take on the task.
The physical toll it has taken on him was obvious -- his hands were those of an old man.
Jemma's brother is an obvious candidate to take on one of the angelic roles, but there are others: a boy who hid in the hospital even though he wasn't ill; an amnesiac man they call Ishmael who is an improbable survivor of the deluge, and others it would be a shame to give away here.
Proyas is not the strangest choice to direct Paradise Lost, the forthcoming big-screen adaptation of John Milton's 17th century poem about the fall of man, but neither is he the most obvious candidate to take on one of the greatest and most controversial works of English literature.
Here, on the other hand, the water can take on a more obvious symbolic aspect, as it does in nine movements beginning with "Baptism".
The decision was taken on the basis of obvious pressure from the military.
Hopefully one of the returns to Çanakkale will take on more than the obvious, flag-waving viewpoint; one in six isn't bad odds on that.
Yet the book now takes on a dimension beyond its obvious historical importance as a work of Victorian reportage and insight into the genesis of Marxism.
