knottily

He would walk a few steps, then break into a lush little spiral or stretch his arms out and up in a knottily dramatic gesture.

As one local analyst has knottily observed: "Is it democratic for an absolute monarch to impose democracy?"

And a program of her dances suggested that she continues even more confidently along her own knottily distinctive way.

Politics is knottily intertwined with sport.

"Romulans, my lumberjack friend," McCoy said knottily.

Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly also compared the series to The Godfather "soaked in blood," calling it "knottily mystifying".

Only a few books, like "Philosophy of Modern Music" and "The Sociology of Music," had been translated, and they were knottily difficult.

And for Mr. Feld at his most knottily interesting, there is "Skara Brae," performed tomorrow night with "Meadowlark" and "Over the Pavement."

Poco, though, has a more specific ambition, analyzing the effects of colonialism on what used to be called the third world, knottily interpreting how postcolonial societies absorb and contend with the West.

While Mr. Crace is imparting life, even jaunty life, to dissolution he is introducing death repeatedly into the knottily individual lives of Celice, Joseph and those they know.

He examines the implications of a doubly incestuous bloodline (which is not new speculation and is knottily complicated: it makes Adolf "a First-Degree Incestuary One Step Removed.")

Mark my words-and wager who will-we'll have a knottily rhymed verse from stout Doarde or some silly acrostic thing of Camena's to puzzle out, with Sandre spelled six ways and backwards, before the music stops in Astibar three days from now."

A loud, acerbic beginning, with grunting low bassoons and shrieking high clarinets, leads into a sequence of seven moody and knottily polyphonic character-pieces, apparently inspired by Oliver's experience of writing new recitatives for the Glyndebourne Clemenza di Tito.

Founded by Robert Hughes, then a student of Lou Harrison, the festival started with a focus on Harrison and his circle of California composers - musicians who looked to the Pacific, not back across the Atlantic, and who created music more sensuously beautiful than knottily challenging.