"If you think 'thin defense' plays well politically, well guess what, thick plays better".
He stated baldly that "the United Kingdom, Western Europe (and by extension you Americans too") were now back in the thick of playing the Great Game.
In Mr. Rorem's "Autumn Music" (1998), Ms. Kavafian was unfazed by demands that ranged from thick chordal playing to speedy passage work and an array of ornamentation.
The prince said the UK, along with Western Europe and the US were "back in the thick of playing the Great Game" - a reference to the 19th Century struggle between the British and Russian Empires for control of Central Asia.
"That's nit-picking, isn't it?" responds Nigel Tufnel, the band's fecklessly thick guitarist, played by Mr. Guest in a performance so low-key as to be near subsonic.
And though we don't see cards, we feel as if we were in the thick of card playing.
The Orioles won 18 games in August and are right in the thick of it, playing as if they are planning to stay.
The walk there — a right after the giraffes and under a canopy of trees — evokes a safari, but at the end the gorillas sit behind a thick windowpane, alternately playing and bickering, not unlike their primate cousins at the No. 5 subway station nearby.
In Woman in Gold, a bracing historical drama directed by Simon Curtis (My Week With Marilyn), Mirren speaks in a strudel-thick Austrian accent, playing a woman who is feisty, haughty, plucky, jaunty and much else besides.
"I'm in the thick of youth culture, playing 90s music.
