These opinions, decanted from a complex personality that partook equally of passion and parody, were essentially a social tactic, a means of drawing a line between those who, like Ashbery and Gorey, were subtle or hip enough to hear all the tones and those who, like the poet Donald Hall, weren't.
Both actors and audience sit around it — a reminder that everyone partakes equally of this feast.
Alphaville is one of his more approachable works, a sort of retro-futuristic noir that partakes equally of Raymond Chandler, Jean Cocteau and Leon Trotsky.
It partakes equally of the fantasy-adventure tradition of the "Star Wars" pictures and of the gritty, somber realism of the New Hollywood.
The performance style at Le Crazy Horse is hard to describe, since it partakes equally of ballet (the women are sometimes on pointe), the circus, modelling, striptease, and vaguely masochistic pornography.
Mr. Twombly's sculptures partake equally of the additive tradition of modern assemblage that begins with Cubist collage and the more stripped-down, reductive semi-abstract one credited to Brancusi.
Anna's legacy, apart from a room heaped to the ceiling with books, poetry manuscripts and drawings, lies in her unique artistic temperament, beholden to no cultural dictates, fiercely reclaiming her rights as a woman and a Jew, but partaking equally in art as a theatre of linguistic and visual delight.
"It is not in the Hercules, nor in the gladiator, nor in the Apollo; but in that form which is taken from them all, and which partakes equally of the activity of the gladiator, of the delicacy of the Apollo, and of the muscular strength of the Hercules.
Closely tied to number one is your willingness to partake equally in your marriage.
We would start with hot canapés while we partook of sherry.
This Christmas, as we partake in our merriment, we might think of the lonely souls who have no one.
