Why don't these same critics say similar things about Tom Waits Mr Dylann has always furnished his songs with thinly (and sometimes thickly) veiled retorts and regrets but rarely has he presented himself as nakedly as this.
There were predictions in the press – sometimes thinly disguised hopes – that it would go bust.
The steep southern slopes of the mountain, moistened by the ever prevailing trades, are extensively if sometimes thinly covered with sedges, spurges, ferns and grasses, cedars and guava, not to mention some gorse, which was eventually introduced about 100 years after Forster first suggested the idea.
Unfortunately, biographers need to rely on insecure, mainly late sources, with the result that sometimes thinly attested conclusions gain credence only by dint of repetition.
In thinly-veiled, or sometimes stark, terms, we're told that a non-verbal child could have developmental delays, even be "on the spectrum".
Burgundy wines, which can sometimes be thinly endowed, were often blended with the more robust produce of the sunny South of France or Algeria, then a French colony.
Deng carried on writing for other publications, penning a highly successful series of essays, "Evening Chats at Yanshan," in which he opined eloquently on numerous topics and sometimes offered thinly veiled political critiques.
In the thinly populated American West, hikers sometimes find it necessary to cross private land in order to link between national and state parks.
And if there is a serious connection between the fragmented Close close-up portraits that are among the backdrops and the sometimes Chopin-like, thinly pretty ripplings of Mr. Glass's music, Mr. Elo's choreography does not point them out on a first viewing.
Which is not to say that Gergiev is a bad conductor, far from it, but over the past decade and more he has consistently spread his considerable talent far too thinly, so that routine and sometimes under-prepared performances have been far too frequent, and his concerts with the LSO have included more than their fair share.
