Outwardly, Hickock seemed to one and all an unusually untroubled young man. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slose was a frail, youngish person, with unusually light, bright eyes and a muted, intense voice; he looked like an idealist, a dedicated soul. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jefferson noticed that Washington seemed “unusually reticent” about his choice, probably because Mount Vernon adjoined the site and Washington also owned considerable acreage within its borders. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Sunday evening air seemed unusually still as the baby blue school bus rolled. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But beyond all that there was something in the air, an outpouring that seemed unusually powerful, almost desperate. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For her age, she was an unusually determined and purposeful girl, quite full of the maternal genes in that respect. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Between that, studying for her classes, and the unusually long, wet winter, she had grown wan and pale and sometimes depressed, so she luxuriated in the fresh air and bright sunlight on the ferry. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The letter finished, he tied it to Hedwig’s leg; she kept unusually still, as though determined to show him how a real post owl should behave. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

All the other students were undisturbed because, just as Mr. Benedict had said, only minds with an unusually powerful love of truth noticed anything was happening. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But it looked like the old Sam Gamgee sitting there, except that his face was unusually thoughtful. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

His mouth certainly looked a good deal compressed, and the lower part of his face unusually stern and square, as the laughing girl gave him this information. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I turn to Henry, who has been unusually quiet through all of this. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was early spring, and there had been good rains so the water was unusually deep. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he discovered that she had an unusually wide vocal range. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The late afternoon sun, trapped beneath a wall of pewter, stained the clouds a yellowish gray, making the sky unusually bright. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

At the time for sharing-of-feelings, he simply said that he felt tired, that his school lessons had been unusually demanding that day. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the rest of us, Chou takes after Pa and has unusually dark skin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard you, mi amor,” she says with an unusually raspy voice. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It had been an unusually rainy spring in New York, and the track was difficult to handle even when dry. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The book was filled with complicated sentences explaining Henrietta’s cells by saying, “its atypical histology may correlate with the unusually malignant behavior of the carcinoma,” and something about the “correlate of the tumor’s singularity.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Good morning,” she said, her smile unusually bright as she handed me a peach basket. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

On the way home for our own dinner, Jay was unusually quiet. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Voldemort was sent to persuade people to part with their treasures for sale by the partners, and he was, by all accounts, unusually gifted at doing this.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“In fact, it feels to me as though there’s an unusually big space underneath.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had very bright, watery blue eyes, a fair complexion, and rosy cheeks, and was unusually tall and broad-shouldered for a twelve-year-old. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

What stays with me is that sense of comfort, the unusual calmness of that unusually warm November night by the lake in Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Revere has a penetrating glance and thoughtful pose which are heightened by the sharp light, lending him an unusually forceful presence. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their gene pool was correspondingly restricted, which meant that Indian biochemistry was and is unusually homogeneous. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But this day Amari was unusually quiet, having been compelled to spend the previous night with Clay, and he had forced her to do things that made her shiver with shame. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

His logic: Since the horse rested himself so much more than other horses, he could stand up to an unusually heavy racing schedule. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voluminous tweed trousers were durable and permitted unusually free locomotion. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reason for this is that, like Beethoven’s late quartets, Chopin’s music is unusually intimate. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They hurried into three chairs right in front of the teacher’s desk, took out their copies of The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self- Protection, and waited, unusually quiet. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Two days after McCandless set up camp beside Lake Mead, an unusually robust wall of thunderheads reared up in the afternoon sky, and it began to rain, very hard, over much of the Detrital Valley. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They see him no doubt much as I first saw him: an unusually tall, husky, and dark youth just entering kemmer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They sometimes kill,” said Ron, who looked unusually grave now. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He stretched out his legs, which were unusually heavy at the thighs, almost like human bodies in themselves. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He was also unusually tall for his age, already three toadstools long, when Seven had only been two when she was a baby. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He seemed unusually chipper and became interested in my interest. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One unusually warm day this week, Miss Gordon brought in fans and spray bottles of water and let us eat Popsicles in class. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was Sunday and an unusually warm evening for October eighth, so Daniel “Peg Leg” Sullivan left his stifling little house in the West Side of Chicago and went to visit neighbors. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hannah ‘felt in her bones’ that it was going to be an unusually fine day, and she proved herself a true prophetess, for everybody and everything seemed bound to produce a grand success. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pearl did not realize, nor would she for a while yet, how unusually self-possessed her mother was for someone her age, how savvy and seasoned. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the way home, I said, “Didn’t everyone seem unusually quiet after dinner?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Moss announced one day, sounding unusually jolly. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Our pond was nestled in an unusually dense section of woods. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

No notice was taken of Amy’s flight, except by her mates, but the sharp-eyed demoiselles discovered that Mr. Davis was quite benignant in the afternoon, also unusually nervous. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calder noticed that she had unusually green eyes—a sea-green surrounded by lots of wrinkles and bones. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

To our delight, an unusually large brood of American Snout butterflies swarmed Eagle Pass by the billions. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Everyone seemed unusually calm and at ease and I thought I knew why. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Take off the locket, Ron,” Hermione said, her voice unusually high. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“And none of us watches television or listens to the radio,” said Kate, “because of our minds’ unusually powerful love of truth, right?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But this time I noticed that the last photo in that album felt unusually thick. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

For one thing, he had arrived with little furniture—a mattress, an old bed, and an unusually large trunk. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It had been an unusually warm October, and his window was still open. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was an unusually foggy morning, so murky that the Owner of the Lost Luggage Emporium at 1 Argyle Road in Poughkeepsie, New York, could scarcely see the ground in front of him. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The conjurer winked at the big, rough, red-hair white man and said, “If he can do that, he must have an unusually keen eye. Could he, mayhap, demonstrate his skill some other way?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

There was an unusually hot day that spring, and Luke and I spent it hauling purlins—the iron beams that run horizontally along the length of a roof. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The botdeneck, Rob explained, was due to the unusually late and heavy snowpack, which until just yesterday had kept any yaks at all from reaching Base Camp. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke to his father, who in turn ventured to speak to Caesar during an unusually informal moment when they were together at the baths. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

A little while later I had the feeling that people were leaving unusually early, but I didn’t pay much attention until Nemur came up and stood in front of me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Amari, unusually weary but not willing to admit it, was glad when Polly suggested they find a thicket of trees to rest in. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Musicologists love to wax on about the ambitious first movement of the Eroica symphony, mainly because it is unusually long and complex, and provides fuel for seemingly endless analysis and scholarly scrutiny. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The girls saw cows and horses, and they seemed unusually fascinated by the chickens. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Rising triumphantly from the center of the table was a butter pagoda, unusually tall and splendid. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nights that spring were unusually cold; this one was colder than most and the heat was on in the dormitories—steam heat, full blast, which made it unbearably stuffy even with the windows open. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I walked upstairs to the church office and found middle-aged Mabel Shorter unusually flustered as she laid down the telephone receiver. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His father was a wealthy white planter and engineer who recognized that the boy whom he had fathered with a free woman of color was unusually smart. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Fly larvae may not seem appetizing to you and me, but that protein-rich diet makes the chickens’ eggs unusually rich and tasty. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

You were unusually docile, swallowing the medicine without any argument. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Lefty Lewis said, “Why, thank you, Officer, I always thought the boy was unusually handsome.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

And there was considerable pain while the wound healed under the unusually septic conditions in the hospitals of that day. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a short, cold trip, but the people were lovely and unusually kind to me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Dad paid no attention except when the blow had been unusually hard. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an unusually long pause as we all waited for the judge to say something. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But on this particular morning, an unusually large group of animals had come out to discuss some important news. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When he came down the steps at last the tanned skin was drawn unusually tight on his face, and his eyes were bright and tired. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He looked unusually clean, as though he had been polished. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Thus if the crux of the problem was to deduce an unusually clever arrangement of inorganic ions and phosphate groups, we were clearly at a disadvantage. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

But the placidity of his face belied an unusually active mind. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“This time, you enter the Pensieve with me...and, even more unusually, with permission.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Not unusually severe for an ice age, it had twin peaks, the first about 70,000 years ago and the second at about 20,000 years ago. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of us are milling around, and the guards are being unusually nice as they try to nudge everyone to their work assignments or back to their trailers. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

By contrast, the noises on the train seemed unusually loud. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was unusually clear and filled with stars, and a warm breeze rustled the trees. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It was unusually foggy; the air was almost smoky with it. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He is very imposing, my father, with broad shoulders and unusually large hands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Edna entered the dining room one evening a little late, as was her habit, an unusually animated conversation seemed to be going on. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overall, this spring has been unusually hot and it’s already nice and warm as I hit the hilly street. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the day, an unusually temperate February morning, one of Dr. Atchley’s cognitive neuroscientist students had asked him about the scientific validity of intelligent design. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The night was unusually warm, and Amari had broken out in a sweat. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next year saw even more fires spring up, mainly because the summer had been unusually dry. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed unusually, almost exaggeratedly, energized, and gave me an impetuous tickle from behind as he passed, which was out of character. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Tendai cried, pointing at an unusually tall tower in the bright beam of the car. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Morrison, whom Agent Burger described as an “unusually shrewd and reckless and self-confessed criminal,” dressed like a dance-hall hustler. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We woke up this morning to unusually cold weather. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I wonder who made this path, and what for,’ said Merry, as they walked along one of these avenues, where the stones were unusually large and closely set. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The moth with unusually dense dorsal tufts spread its wings over both their hearts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Monday morning, July 15, he awoke facing the prospect of yet another day of mind-numbing routine, but when he arrived at headquarters, he found Detective Cuddy in an unusually good mood. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Ran was, by all accounts, an unusually gracious young man. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It had been an unusually hot spring, and Alex was sweating by the time he reached the church, but that didn’t matter. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

And Dorothy was of an unusually independent mind, impatient with the pretensions that sometimes accompanied the upwardly mobile members of the race. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There was the fact that they were an unusually big and athletic bunch, averaging 190 pounds, beefier and stronger on average than the juniors and seniors. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Because he possessed what seemed to be an unusually reliable memory, I was particularly interested to hear how his version of the events jibed with my own. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even the beer halls were unusually quiet, and Mr. Thirsty’s was completely dark. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was these thoughts of him that made her slow as she passed the library door which, unusually, was closed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Moss could hear voices coming from the next room and, feeling unusually bold, he reached out and grabbed Javier’s hand before leading him into the dining room where their friends were. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There sat Dumbledore looking unusually tired; his hand was as black and burned as ever, but he smiled when he gestured to Harry to sit down. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was clear then that the staff would not only have to work extremely hard, and be at their most alert, they would also have to be unusually flexible. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mother was elegant and beautiful, stunning in fact, with an unusually wide smile that lit up everything around her. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

One day, an unusually warm day in spring, I get an idea: I will ride my bike to your house. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He gave a final wave of his hand, and walked off at a surprising pace; but Frodo thought the old wizard looked unusually bent, almost as if he was carrying a great weight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He happened to be an unusually bright child and his mother had worked hard with him at home on spelling and reading. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, for a moment he feared that I was going to be unusually tiresome. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Its pernicious ghost—gray, furry and with unusually dense dorsal tufts—haunted every house that he ever lived in. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Has no one noticed that someone here is unusually quiet?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

For weeks an unusually large supply of wild pigeons had been for sale at the market. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Ralph was an unusually smart mouse, something he had doubted only once in a while. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The kind, brown eyes looked as if they could be stern, and though he was unusually merry, she fancied he had found her out, but didn’t mean to let her know it. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, an eight-oared racing shell—powered by unusually large and physically powerful men or women—is commanded, controlled, and directed by the smallest and least powerful person in the boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She felt unusually clumsy, and missed the old shin-length tunic stashed in her bag. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A training officer named Hill told us that our job would be unusually difficult, because “OJTs irritate inmates.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ginny did not seem to like the idea much, but under her father’s unusually stern gaze, she nodded. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As he picked it out he noticed its unusually dense dorsal tufts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said that the load was unusually light today. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up until Milton’s birth, Lefty and Desdemona had enjoyed an unusually close and egalitarian marriage for its time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She may have been unusually beloved, the precious only daughter, spoiled and mirror gazing because of the affection the family lavished on her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was an unusually tall third grader with two arms, and I got beat out by kindergartner Clay Wurtzel. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s been an unusually warm spring, especially for Springfield, she thinks. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Long years of practice and usage had made her rump an unusually versatile and dexterous thing. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I made my way to the center gate, searching the crowd for an-other gray uniform, I was tremendously relieved to spot Miller, an unusually competent officer from my class, whom I really liked. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never really thought to notice butts, unless they were unusually massive. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Before dusk, Blue Bill, a spunky tiercel with an unusually dark beak, called to his parents, and a snip of liver started his system working. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I thought the people at the end of the row looked queer and unusually short until I realized they were not people, but dogs. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

As an unusually talented and very good-looking orphan, he naturally drew attention and sympathy from the staff almost from the moment of his arrival. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She stood a moment looking down at me, seeming unusually tall. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help but notice how unusually sunny and clear it was. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I wipe my forehead, which feels unusually slick. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

July 31: For the last week the wind has been unusually calm, and in order to make any time at all we have lowered the sails and used the engine. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The dungeon was, most unusually, already full of vapors and odd smells. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

As you can imagine, especially in a prison where there was heavy emphasis on rehabilitation, an inmate was smiled upon if he demonstrated an unusually intense interest in books. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

After my article about the expedition was published in the September issue of Outside, the magazine received an unusually large volume of mail about the piece. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

An unusually “murky pall” hung over the city. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Gaween, my little frog,” he said, pausing, his voice unusually gentle. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A cold moth with unusually dense dorsal tufts landed lightly on Rahel’s heart. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything started to change the winter I was ten and a half One unusually warm day in January all the kids from the apartments were playing dodgeball after school. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered why I seemed unusually agitated today, and asked if anything was wrong. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, and most unusually, they were sitting apart from everyone else and conversing in low voices. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was an unusually hot and humid day, and with the twenty of us crowded into her entryway, it felt even hotter. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes, he’s taken over by a dark mood, an unusually acerbic wit, strange and vitrified. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

On an unusually warm day in early November, she stepped to the open sill of the bell tower. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It is very spacious and has an unusually high ceiling to leave room for the loft that my three brothers share as their bedroom. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, when I come back from pasturing the cow, the Doctorita is in an unusually good mood, listening to music, waltzing around the house, her cheeks rosy. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d left me a voicemail to tell me he might not be home until late, unusually considerate of him. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

She seemed unusually distracted this morning, as if there was something on her mind. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was unusually quiet around me, like he knew I couldn’t stand it if he started making jokes. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He was narrow of face; his eyes were unusually large and bright, and shone with the intensity of his thought when he spoke. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never asked for a promise before, because promises are forever, and forever is an unusually long time. Especially when you’re in a cage.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

We found everyone unusually quiet outside the band room. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

A few made matters worse by offering more: an unusually large starting salary; a reduced teaching schedule; free university housing. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a thick tartan scarf bound around his head, and his nose was unusually purple. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Rachel looked tired and flustered, and even Mercy seemed unusually quiet. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

But to continue was difficult, particularly because he was so unusually wide. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a third consecutive year, unusually cold and stormy weather descended on Seattle shortly after crew practice got under way. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Other objects were positioned in unusually impossible ways. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Why, Mother, she has seemed unusually well since the babies came.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fyfe once ran a project in Dade County, Florida, where there was an unusually high number of violent incidents between police officers and civilians. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I was unusually quiet at school on Monday morning, September 16. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, Native American HLA profiles are dominated by an unusually small number of types. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The day had been unusually mild for January, with temperatures in the mid-fifties, so he had slipped away for an early round of golf. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“And I told you to shut up,” he said in his unusually high voice. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She had long, dark, crazy hair and an unusually large smile. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

C.P.’s father died a few years later, at the age of forty-eight—not an unusually early death by mill standards. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The month had been unusually wet; certain pools of water had reappeared so often on the driveway that Theresa actually recognized them now. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walks unusually slowly, dragging his feet back to my trailer. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The Sunday afternoon is unusually quiet after so many days and years of war. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

That night, when King addressed the overflow crowd crammed into Brown Chapel, he seemed “unusually subdued,” according to some observers. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was unusually bright, accomplished, and ambitious, and he had graduated from Franklin High School two years early, at the age of sixteen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There’s no way he could look paler, but his lips are unusually violet, and he looks like he might pass out. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Germany would present herself to the world as an unusually clean, efficient, modern, technologically savvy, cultured, vigorous, reasonable, and hospitable nation. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As she talked, it occurred to me that Dr. Holden was unusually good at reading stuff. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I would hold open the hem and pray an unusually stupid fish would swim into the trap. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On November 4, they were unusually tired, having stayed up late the night before writing a paper for Russian Lit. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

At this point, an unusually strong cross wind was clearly evident. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was crazy about his kids, and when he was in Seattle he was an unusually attentive father, but climbing regularly took him away from home for months at a time. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The silence hissed in her ears and her vision was faintly distorted—her hands in her lap appeared unusually large and at the same time remote, as though viewed across an immense distance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As Leo edged closer, he realized the guy’s face was unusually golden. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Let us turn our thoughts to wild adventure on the high seas,” she suggested, after an unusually glum breakfast in the nursery. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Coloratura Soprano — This is not really a different range from the soprano, but a coloratura soprano has a voice that is unusually high, light, and agile, even for a soprano. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He was unusually aware of the surface of himself, of the lines of his body and the planes of his face, as though his skin were alive with some subtle vibrations. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You need to see the view,” she said, in a voice that seemed unusually loud. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It’s unusually quiet for a Saturday afternoon, but part of me wonders if the whole block is a little sad that we’re leaving. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He thought he detected an unusually large woman shouldering her way through the crowd. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!” burst out Jo, who was in an unusually up-lifted frame of mind just then. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It often involved solving practical problems or making something new, and that appealed to her considerable and burgeoning intellectual curiosity—a curiosity that had already made her an unusually proficient student at school, scholarly even. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He sat behind his desk, looking unusually put together. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

On this occasion the presents were unusually good. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her forehead is high and smooth, her jawbones sloping and unusually long. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If so, it was an unusually harsh judgment. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Rahel stopped and turned around, and on her heart a drab moth with unusually dense dorsal tufts unfurled its predatory wings. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, it is only fair to point out that my task in this instance had been of an unusually difficult order. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now that I can see the rest of her face more clearly, I notice my cousin’s unusually bright lips, along with eyeliner, and blush on her cheeks. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The room was unusually quiet as students took their seats. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He was wearing an unusually battered fedora—the brim drooping, the crown riddled with moth holes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The temperature had climbed into the high seventies, unusually warm for an October afternoon in Seattle, and some of the new boys had taken off their shirts to soak up the sun. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They were all unusually hungry, having waited nearly an hour, and for a minute no one spoke, only a minute, for Jo exclaimed impetuously, “I’m so glad you came before we began!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

And to this day in Calormene schools, if you do anything unusually stupid, you are very likely to be called "a second Rabadash". The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

While it was not unusual for a scientist with an advanced degree to have read widely outside his or her chosen specialty, Oppenheimer’s range of interests was unusually broad. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He looked unusually well; his face was glowing, his eyes were bright, his manner was all energy. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I arrived at the Wanderers Club in an unusually happy mood, feeling that it was my lucky day. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vernon was last seen two days ago; family members stated he had been acting unusually quiet the past week. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Yishan seemed to be standing taller, his face unusually serious and authoritative. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I had known,” Truman later said, “something that was unusually important was brewing in our war plants.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two girls, accompanied by an unusually quiet Tidbit, walked back to Teenie’s kitchen in silence. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said he was “unusually talented,” and she hoped he wouldn’t let anything discourage him, but would “keep it up.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I’m unusually calm and direct, which is almost the most shocking part of this entire scene. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

For instance: All five of them seemed unusually accident-prone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It is unusually cool for early July, especially considering how hot it was just last week. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It has been known to attack most kinds of large land mammal and, unusually for a dragon, the Ridgeback will also feed on water-dwelling creatures. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was an unusually small letter, of course, and might have gone unnoticed in the letterbox. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

She was unusually pale and very quiet She stood on the front veranda as he quitted the house, and absendy picked a few sprays of jessamine that grew upon a trellis near by. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people became unusually quiet and accommodating, not daring to rock the boat. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Those were some of the advantages that the Fertile Crescent’s flora afforded the first farmers: it included an unusually high percentage of wild plants suitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their voices were unusually loud and Bruno could only make out a few fragments of them: \\ .. to leave Berlin. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z

Lina stepped slowly because of Poppy, and Poppy clung to her neck, unusually quiet, sensing the strangeness and importance of what was happening. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Grandfather, unusually silent, walks with me to the infirmary. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Greeks began a process that became unusually pronounced in Western music: emphasis on a VIP class of performers whose brilliance was intended to strike awe and enchantment into the hearts of the ordinary listener. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

On top of this, the winter of 1607/8 was unusually severe, with heavy falls of snow in Padua, and during March and April 1608 Galileo was severely afflicted with his arthritic complaint. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Prominent journals published and praised Yasusada’s work, which was unusually experimental given his seeming isolation; there was a book in the works. When White Poets Pretend to Be Asian 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

His first act was to give an unusually measured speech in which he promised reconciliation at home, and said that “we will get along with all other nations willing to get along with us.” “Mere” speech has powerful consequences 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Perhaps because of his training as a psychiatrist, Mr. Lobo Antunes is also an unusually observant writer, which in turn seems to have bestowed on him a particular gift for coining unusual but apt similes. Books of The Times: On a Fool?s Mission in a Dying Colonial World 2011-06-29T22:32:48Z

Two unusually plausible points also stand out here: that neither the North nor the South can afford to lose Texas, and that the first president of a C.S.A. might well be Gov. Books of The Times: ‘Better Off Without ’Em,’ by Chuck Thompson 2012-08-21T22:05:37Z

Listen to Delta Machine on Spotify Carried this far by fruitful amounts of denial and dysfunction, both men describe making Delta Machine as an unusually "joyous" experience. Depeche Mode: 'We're dysfunctional. Maybe that's what makes us tick' 2013-03-28T14:03:56Z

He has that solid, low centre of gravity you find in men who are unusually at ease in their own skin, and a twinkly air of old-fashioned amazement at the silliness of modern metropolitan ideas. 'I used to be a raving lunatic' 2010-09-02T20:00:00Z

Whatever the mechanism, we are living in an unusually stable period called the Holocene epoch. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z

“Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art From the Collection” is an unusually optimistic-sounding title for the Museum of Modern Art’s latest installation of works from its permanent collection. Review: ‘Scenes for a New Heritage’ at the Museum of Modern Art 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

The second season of "Atypical," which premiered on Netflix earlier this month, has come out at during an unusually appropriate cultural moment. Watching “Atypical” with autism: Still flawed, but season 2 shows growth 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

Are self-sufficient only children unusually capable of hunkering down with their own company for months or, with playdates cancelled and school on hiatus, is one really the loneliest number, after all? The only child: how is quarantine affecting kids without siblings? 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

The Philharmonia, an orchestra with an unusually high proportion of young players, does not make a lush sound but rather a tightly focused one, harsh even at times. Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia play larger than life on Southern California tour 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

Both the allusion and the explanation are unusually explicit for a spokesman who is typically careful not to offend. Robert Battle on Running Ailey: ‘This Is My Choreography Now’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

Her photographs are always simple and powerful and I love the defiance in this one, where, unusually, the subject isn't looking at the camera. The 10 best photographic portraits 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

In addition to the Rembrandt, there were some unusually esoteric items that were taken as well, like a Chinese gu vessel and a finial off a Napoleonic flag. Netflix's uneven but informative "This Is a Robbery" makes the world's biggest art heist feel stale 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

The triumph of a film like The Thin Red Line is in its often languid pace which allows it to show, for example, the way soldiers are brought into an unusually close relationship with nature. Depicting war 2010-09-18T23:02:00Z

In his recent seasons in Seattle, Dausgaard has also gone beyond “just” conducting, providing unusually rich musical contexts for the audience. Seattle Symphony picks Thomas Dausgaard to succeed Ludovic Morlot as music director 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

True to its title, “Tombstones” is grim and foreboding; somewhat unusually for this type of genre movie, it’s also fairly quiet. ‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’ Adapts Lawrence Block’s Novel 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

At the other extreme, the sound system was unusually effective at bringing out the details in the orchestration, such as Adams’ audacious application of instrument color. From John Adams to Mozart: Dudamel's powerful pairing at the Bowl 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

A slimmed-down orchestra then provided sensitive support to veteran soloist Pinchas Zukerman, his tone grown steely with age, in an unusually probing and introspective account of Mozart’s brash and youthful Violin Concerto No. 5. Budapest Festival Orchestra at Strathmore 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

This had also to do with the unusually bright, vibrant and muscular performance Mr. Morlot drew from the orchestra, a bold approach to a familiar score. Music Review: Seattle Symphony Explores Nature at Spring for Music 2014-05-07T21:12:37Z

Williams, in the last on-screen role he completed before his death this Aug., seems unusually muted, but he simply could have been interpreting the character as written. Review: Did Anyone Have a Good Time Making 'Night at the Museum 3'? 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

She seems unusually rattled that her mobile technology isn’t working, while Cole gets another call from Warden Murphy to hear that “Cooper flew the coop”. Twin Peaks recap: episode nine – stop fretting, we're finally getting answers! 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

With an unusually interesting and adventurous set of pieces, Zhu proved a thoughtful, sensitive performer. Review: Young Concert Artists Is Back, With a Superb Pianist 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Further thoughts about this unusually rich season follow. Savoring the Spectrum of American Ballet Theater’s Rich Season 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

In this instance, the two theaters were unusually good fits for the two particular shows. ArtsBeat: Two Broadway Shows On the Move 2010-12-06T19:23:00Z

Play acting: At the Oscars this year, best actor was an unusually deep field, and it seems to be carrying over to the Tonys, whose lead-actor-in-a-play race is one of the most diverse. Tony Awards 2015: Six story lines to watch 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

I’ve already mentioned the unusually futuristic computers in the otherwise retro Twin Peaks police station; but throughout the series so far there’ve been more conventional signs that it’s taking place in the 2010s. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 12: Hornes Aplenty 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

It is elusive, multi-layered and complex, but there's also something immediately understandable about it – Schubert is unusually clear about his understanding of things, and the way he feels. 'Schubert writes something from another planet' 2011-01-09T00:05:16Z

Patagonia Wine Country Ten years ago, a group of adventurous winemakers set their sights on an Argentine valley called San Patricio del Chañar, an unusually fertile and eerily beautiful corner of Patagonia. 2010-01-09T01:05:00Z

The inspiration for “All the Old Knives,” Olen Steinhauer’s unusually short and wily spy novel, was a television adaptation of a poem. Review: In Olen Steinhauer’s ‘All the Old Knives,’ Exes Recall Love and Blood 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

The short-documentary category has an unusually strong number of compelling individual portraits. | 'The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014': Oscar Shorts, From Surreal to Oh So Real 2014-01-30T22:56:19Z

Set in Victorian Britain and – unusually for children's – without a child protagonist, they resemble Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart quartet, but with a flavour completely of their own. The Last Minute by Eleanor Updale – review 2013-01-11T20:00:02Z

The book was “The Midnight Line” and it was unusually transporting for a Reacher thriller. Jack Reacher Is Still Restless. But His Creator Has Settled Down. 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

“This year’s field of Oscar contenders — films and people — strikes me as unusually jampacked,” Scott Feinberg, who makes closely watched Oscar predictions in The Hollywood Reporter, said in an e-mail. Film Festival Opens With a Crowded Slate 2013-09-06T17:09:25Z

Yet the pandemic-era briefings have become especially fraught — and an unusually barbed exchange with one journalist on Monday raised questions about whether he reserves special contempt for some. Trump’s ‘ask China’ response to CBS’s Weijia Jiang shocked the room — and was part of a pattern 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

Others feel more like an unusually hip and hospitable museum, where the furniture is a form of useable sculpture that complements the art. Art Review: ?If You Lived Here, You?d Be Home by Now? at Bard - Review 2011-08-25T22:30:54Z

It has been a year of struggle and experimentation for the television industry, which has had to learn on the fly while trying to create new diversions for an unusually captive home audience. TV Production Adapted to Weather the Pandemic. Now What? 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

The group’s singer, Dan Klein, had been adding ink at an unusually accelerated pace. With Wounded Spirits, the Frightnrs Rally Around Their Frontman 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

It was one of the final, frenzied days before the opening of the Metropolitan Opera’s season, when an elevator ride through the building gives it the feel of an unusually loud and glamorous department store. A Frenzied Run-Up in a House Full of Divas 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Tom may have ignored Amber’s voice at a critical moment, but otherwise he’s an unusually sensitive guy. Sex, consent, gender, race: A potent cocktail in 'Actually' 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

In Maor's estimation, Shah, the youngest of five siblings, is an unusually rare talent. New York-bound, a ballet star rises in Bollywood's heartland 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

Each time they heard the same recording: JetBlue was experiencing unusually high call volume because of the storm. Practical Traveler: How to Fight Back When Your Flight Is Canceled 2011-01-26T03:55:00Z

Desperately trying to distract the world from his unusually privileged upbringing and his previous career as the frontman of an objectively terrible indie band. The X Factor: who deserves to win? 2010-12-08T15:25:00Z

These works perfectly illustrate Hay’s insistence that his art arises from circumstances of an unusually mundane sort. Alex Hay, Comeback Painter 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

Film critics describe 2016 as an unusually buoyant year for women, even as much of America convulses with anxiety about gender rights under the new Trump administration. From La La Land to Jackie, women lead the way at this year’s Oscars 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

Two days later, an unusually contrite Mr. Toscani said on Twitter that his comments had been taken out of context. Benetton Severs Ties With Oliviero Toscani 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

Everything always is in this kind of movie, but this one plays with some unusually dark and upsetting material. | 'Kung Fu Panda 2': A Noble Panda Takes On a Nightmare Enemy 2011-05-25T21:42:30Z

The network calls itself the fastest-growing of the three, although it is rebounding from unusually low ratings last year. One billion dollars profit? Yes, the campaign has been a gusher for CNN 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

With that dance-floor presence and a clear beat, he got results, even if the Philharmonic’s playing was, at times, unusually ragged. Krzysztof Urbanski Leads the Philharmonic in Dvorak 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Special mention should be made of the chorus, which has an unusually large role in this opera. Wagner's 'Tannhaeuser' in time of war 2010-12-13T15:00:00Z

Meanwhile, in Manhattan, it also contributed to an unusually contentious onstage debate about Israel at the 92nd Street Y, which took an unusually dramatic turn when one participant simply walked out. ArtsBeat: A Walkout, and a Furor, During Debate on Israel at 92nd Street Y 2013-12-17T17:28:33Z

Both had unusually ambitious mothers: Cersei understands the “game of thrones” better than most, while Caligula’s mother Agrippa the Elder fought to have him inherit the throne. Here are the Real-Life Queens that may have Inspired Game of Thrones 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

But the glower lightens, the voice is unusually pretty and youthful, and the interplay between men who have played together for decades is humbling to witness. Neil Young and Crazy Horse 2013-06-11T14:14:53Z

Is the city unusually vulnerable in that sense? 'L.A. Plays Itself,' but do films get it right? 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

That’s because musicians listen to him: Whether in Berlin or in Munich, where he has been the Bavarian State Opera’s music director since 2013, players are unusually devoted to Mr. Petrenko. Musicians Love the Conductor Kirill Petrenko. It Shows. 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

Gleaming yachts packed the harbor around the giant cinema complex, the rich and famous filled the five-star hotels and organizers hoped the 2011 festival lives up to this year's unusually high expectations. Woody Allen film charms Cannes, Lady Gaga surprises 2011-05-12T09:41:21Z

Actually, “Rogue One” is unusually dark, but only in the literal sense—its cinematography enshrouds the characters in a surprisingly murky depth of shadows. “Rogue One” Reviewed: Is It Time to Abandon the “Star Wars” Franchise? 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

In the final section, the pummeling “Sacrificial Dance,” he took an unusually slow tempo. Music Review: Philharmonic Opens Season at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-09-20T16:22:20Z

He took up the piano at the unusually late age of 17. Einojuhani Rautavaara, Composer, Dies at 87; His Lush Music Found Wide Appeal 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

These September sales featured an unusually desirable group of single-owner collections. Cozying Up to Chinese Art 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

An unusually high proportion of tracks will compete for both record and song of the year. Beyoncé and Sam Smith Lead in Nominations for Grammys 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

At the unusually young age of 23, he produced a self-portrait that hangs in the show. For Britain’s National Gallery, a Raphael Show Comes at the Right Time 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

Police said the scam was identified in 2009 after a major auction house saw that an unusually large number of Husain paintings were offered for sale. UK sentences art forger to 2 years in jail 2012-05-03T20:24:14Z

The Letterman on display throughout the lengthy interview is unusually candid and introspective, reflecting thoughtfully on the highs and lows of his 33 years on late-night television. 7 highlights from David Letterman’s illuminating exit interview 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

In conversation, Paul Feig is unusually candid about his experiences: upbeat, openhearted, but not falsely modest. With ‘Welcome to Flatch,’ Paul Feig Comes Home 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

The first and most significant reason is that the dinner jacket is, as David Mitchell remarked, a "tremendously reassuring" way for men to look unusually smart. It's not elitist to dress up for the opera 2012-10-04T09:48:12Z

If they seem unusually devoted, it's because they nearly didn't make it this far. Sister act 2011-05-24T07:08:40Z

They gave "Fifty Shades" a C+, an unusually poor score for a movie that storms the box office. 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and the dawn of movie hate-watching 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Such moments remind me of the missing part between us and the unusually large space we fill for each other. She Stood In for My Mother. Could I Do the Same for Her? 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

A notebook from the early 1980s, when his practice established an unusually morality-driven constitution, reads "wealth like power corrupts and provokes greed + envy = no real community can be formed". Richard Rogers: the world as it could be 2013-07-15T17:45:01Z

More below, but an unusually strong spoiler alert: Watch “Investigation” before reading on. House Watch: Who's the Rat? 2012-04-03T10:45:26Z

It’s an unusually serious and, to use a word the producers would probably rather not see, intellectual endeavor for television, one that doesn’t make many compromises for short attention spans. Television Review: Those Perpetual Bedfellows, Religion and Politics 2010-10-10T21:47:00Z

There was a sense that the budget for the Getty Center, while not unlimited, was unusually generous. Richard Meier on the Getty Center as it turns 20 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Mr. Irwin is an unusually amphibious stage star, equally skilled as a professional classic clown and an intense dramatic actor. Review: Wrestling With a Master in ‘On Beckett’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Neemuch, a dusty town in central India is best known, if at all, for its opium production and the unusually high number of locals who donate their eyes after death. India's 'child Picasso' puts on his goggles and takes aim at the canvas 2012-07-03T13:40:55Z

But unusually for a show in which they are featured, the focus here is not on them. See Ancient Trade Route Treasures at the Met 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

It is unevenly cast, and so unusually slow and solemn that the comedy often feels weighed down. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: When Shakespeare's Comedies Draw Tears 2011-02-24T20:24:53Z

The festival was prompted rather unusually by the closure of Staithes post office which led to much local discussion about ways of keeping the village alive and flourishing. Forgotten lantern slides shine new light on Laura Knight and Staithes artists 2012-08-30T10:00:00Z

She is best known as a painter of unusually sympathic portraits of beautiful women of high rank. She Painted Marie Antoinette (and Escaped the Guillotine) 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

As Stravinsky goes, this is unusually cheerful music, and both Mr. Serkin and the Philharmonic played it with the warmth and suppleness you expect in Beethoven but hear too rarely in performances of Stravinsky. Music Review: New York Philharmonic in the Modern Beethoven Festival 2012-03-02T22:43:08Z

Here, unusually, all was arm gesture, part of a beautiful flow. Violette Verdy, Ballerina With Flair, Dies at 82 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

The OTO crew there was unusually young and rigorous, and they held their ceremonies in a former Christian church they’d recently converted into an ornate temple. Witches of America: how I became immersed in a growing movement 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

But upon returning to Holly Grove, she encounters a friend from high school who lost a leg while serving in Afghanistan but proves to be an unusually attractive and sympathetic man. A chilling look at crimes against women in ‘A Good Killing’ 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

It might rather be said, as numerous people have suggested, that the leaders' debates most closely resemble a game show, one with unusually tricky questions and a seriously impressive star prize. Stage-managed? Theatre and the leaders' debate 2010-04-29T14:36:00Z

The Macs beat the Terpettes, 80-48 — despite, according to an Associated Press story about the game, turning over the ball 29 times, an unusually high number for the defending champs. 45 years ago, the first nationally televised women’s college basketball game was a blowout 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

The film may have been somewhat tasteless, but it was an imaginative attempt to challenge public apathy over climate change, and, highly unusually for attempts to communicate about this subject, funny too. Backlash over Richard Curtis's 10:10 climate film 2010-10-02T18:38:00Z

Child’s writing seems unusually expressive in this novel, possibly because of its intimate subject matter. Cold Cases and Hot Emotions: Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Ariana Grande’s hosting stint put forward the unusually sharp wit and all-around comedy chops of a performer known best in her short career just for singing well. Ariana Grande's 'SNL' Performance Was a Triumph 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

A friendship developed between them, and Picasso, unusually for him, was happy to nurture the aspiring young artist’s skills. Christopher Wood’s Brief Life, Richly Expressed 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

The book's quietly irreverent humour and delicate use of magic realism are unusually sophisticated for a young audience. Top 10 books on the ancient world 2010-09-29T12:08:00Z

This combination — the artist with strangers — continues in an exhibition of unusually gripping portrait photographs. Art in Review: Laurel Nakadate: ‘Strangers and Relations’ 2013-06-20T18:11:24Z

The exhibition is unusually compelling, given its directness and simplicity. Exhibition Review: Natural History Museum Explores the Wonders of Pterosaurs 2014-04-10T14:00:02Z

Japan's imperialistic legacy and the role it played during the Second World War has always been criticised in Asia, but now one play in Singapore is showing it in an unusually sympathetic light. VIDEO: Play on Japan's Singaporean legacy 2014-04-11T10:32:09Z

Although magnolia leaves are unusually durable, they appear poignantly fragile inside such enclosures. Review | In the galleries: A focus on sensitive portraits with biographical elements 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

The first indication that he was an unusually assured stand-up was his 2017 debut on “The Tonight Show,” where he opened with a joke about how, racially, he’s perceived differently from city to city. Jaboukie Young-White: A Comic Prodigy With a Veteran’s Killer Moves 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

Barbara constantly reminds her colleagues and the audience of the extent to which America's public school educators are undervalued, unusually devoted and certainly not in their profession for the money. Amazingly, "Abbott Elementary" finds laughter in the challenge of teaching in underfunded schools 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

Most other Broadway musicals and plays experienced the fall-off at box offices that typically happens in the week after Thanksgiving, a holiday period that was unusually lucrative for shows this year. ArtsBeat: Strong Week for Broadway’s Carole King Show, Still in Previews 2013-12-09T21:52:30Z

The musical, reflecting Jackson’s stature, features an unusually acclaimed creative team. Michael Jackson’s Estate Is Developing a Broadway-Bound Bio-Musical 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

Mark Sanford of South Carolina, was having an affair, one of them reacted in an unusually worldly way. 2010-02-03T21:40:00Z

Nonetheless, the passage of time may be weighing on the country music veteran, who seemed unusually wistful. Willie Nelson, country music's royal crooner, returns to Puyallup Fair 2012-09-08T16:33:50Z

It wasn't tremendously exciting – unusually quiet for a mass stabbing – but then you had to remember that a lot of its audience would have been dozing in an armchair by 9pm. Rewind TV: Doctor Who; The Nativity; Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express; Come Fly With Me 2010-12-26T00:05:17Z

This “maybe, maybe not” in the face of “one musts” or “we all shoulds” brings us into the heart of Carolee’s unusually generous and unbossy approach to the aesthetics of liberation. The Re-Enchantment of Carolee Schneemann 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

The commentary over this year's race has been unusually apocalyptic, even by Hollywood's standards. The Oscars: Who calls the shots? 2011-02-24T21:45:00Z

He moved into academia, first at University College London and then, from 1962, as an unusually young fellow of King's College, Cambridge, but found it unsatisfying and decided, aged 30, to freelance as a writer. John Gross obituary 2011-01-11T18:09:15Z

Fritz’s breaking of the Nutcracker is well timed to the music, but so, unusually, is his callous laugh afterward. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: Dreaming of Snow 2010-12-23T12:00:37Z

As they travel across the region with their hand-built hardwood and fiberglass kayaks, they find that the people who live in this part of Wisconsin are unusually kind, Ms. Hamby said. On Wisconsin Islands, a Warm Welcome and Brisk Waters 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

This portrait of Balanchine is made by one who saw his beauty deeply, his otherworldly beauty, his transcendent art but, more unusually, his human beauty, so singular. Balanchine and Toumanova, in a Teenager’s Eyes 2012-07-19T23:27:56Z

Scenes from Shlomo’s earlier days feature a strikingly different chorus — leaping, dancing Yeshiva students with an unusually energetic approach to studying the Talmud. Theater Review: ‘Soul Doctor,’ a Musical About Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach 2013-08-16T02:00:40Z

The "Willow Song" and "Ave Maria" in Act 4 were the highlights of the evening, an unusually spontaneous-sounding outpouring of fervent emotion from a woman who rightly fears for her life. Review: Jose Cura takes over as Verdi's Moor 2013-03-22T15:18:08Z

Curiously dandified in his late-Victorian costume, Mark Stone registered as an unusually well spoken and sophisticated Jack Point; he sang the role with brio, if not quite enough pathos. Prom 49: The Yeomen of the Guard – review 2012-08-20T11:30:57Z

Percussion rounds out the ensemble, taking on an unusually prominent role for a classical work of its time. Stravinsky?s Devil, Reignited 2011-06-03T18:21:16Z

"The Midnight Sky," does manage one nice, sentimental moment — an unusually soulful exchange between Augustine and Sully — but Clooney builds up to this almost by accident. With "Midnight Sky," George Clooney directs a visually arresting post-apocalyptic yawnfest 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Last Thursday's premiere in Los Angeles was an unusually quiet affair, and on Tuesday the movie's stars, Seth Rogen and James Franco, canceled upcoming media appearances. Some theaters drop 'The Interview' amid Sony hacker threats 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Yet word of the wedding segment has been kept unusually quiet. ArtsBeat: Grammys to Feature On-Air Weddings of 34 Couples 2014-01-26T14:55:51Z

But for various reasons--unusually high demand, constrained production capacity or just odd timing of model changeovers--certain 2011 model cars are hard to find right now. The Hardest To Find Cars 2010-12-20T19:00:00Z

Colorado’s unusually low snowfall last winter — 66 percent of average — coupled with an extremely warm, dry spring, has made organizing a fishing outing in Colorado a bit challenging this summer. Casting in Colorado, Away From the Crowds 2012-08-22T19:37:27Z

What’s more, my dates to the play, my colleagues, all had run-ins with former co-workers and friends as the lingering theater crowd spilled into the street on this unusually warm fall night. The Welcome Return of the Run-In 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

But, despite Keats, and although Thomas is specifically addressing "English words", it's a poem that seems unusually attuned to the London-born poet's Celtic origins. Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas 2013-02-25T10:51:18Z

Some say Hollywood’s unusually liberal culture give unions power. Can unions save the creative class? 2013-03-18T16:25:00Z

The Discord call, Bailey and Beverage remember, was unusually quiet for a moment — then erupted in laughter. When your friend group has that one person who won’t get vaccinated 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

It would appear to be an unusually meaty role for an actress who, too often, has been wasted in projects like Grown Ups 2. Watch Salma Hayek as a Trained Assassin in the 'Everly' Trailer 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

Some of these are just the flesh-and-blood people in Norman’s life, the bullies and teachers and even relatives who, with degrees of impatience and love, chastise the 11-year-old for his unusually morbid habits. ‘ParaNorman,’ About a Boy and Zombies, With Elaine Stritch 2012-08-16T21:44:18Z

With the combination of sharp writing and comically savvy female hosts, “Saturday Night Live” this season has been unusually rich in funny, provocative female-focused moments. Television: Anna Faris and Other Female Hosts on ?Saturday Night Live? 2012-02-26T03:04:12Z

Baffled researchers concluded that the man’s unusually thick body fat made him, in effect, part seal. Baltasar Kormakur Directs ‘2 Guns’ in the U.S. 2013-05-10T19:33:59Z

He was unusually congenial and accessible to interviewers, while cannily embellishing touchstone anecdotes about his underclass youth in a racist America to fit the medium and his mood. August Wilson and the long awaited triumph of “Fences” 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

He left the stage for an unusually long stretch, leaving the audience uncertain whether he would return. D’Angelo's Apollo Theater Show Featured Signature Songs and Style 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

The Oscar nominations always bring with them a fair amount of controversy and dispute, but this year, there was an unusually high amount of WTF in Thursday morning’s announcements. Was this Oscar’s worst snub? 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

They brush their teeth together for an unusually long time so that they don’t have to part. Books of The Times: Vivid Years on the Arm of a Kennedy 2011-03-23T21:57:13Z

Youth, at least, is on Venice's side, with the average age of filmmakers in the main competition an unusually low 47. Venice festival gambles on youth and movie mavericks 2010-08-29T10:50:00Z

If these scenes are not especially graphic, they are unusually specific in their mapping of power and desire. To Make ‘Fellow Travelers,’ Ron Nyswaner Had to Fall in Love 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z

The two new hours of New Year’s Eve merriment, from 8 to 10 p.m., drew about 8.3 million viewers, an unusually high number for a Saturday night. ArtsBeat Blog: 'New Year's Rockin' Eve' Draws Strong Ratings 2012-01-01T19:53:28Z

Her hair's a bit bedraggled, there are bags under her eyes and, unusually for Kidman, you can see traces of wrinkle on her forehead. Can Nicole Kidman pull an Oscar out of a Rabbit Hole? 2010-10-27T09:58:00Z

The past few months have been an unusually vocal period for Hollywood actresses. 10 A-list actresses speak out about sexism: Has Hollywood reached a feminist tipping point? 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

West and Wheeler, the Comet’s real estate agent, described it in The Seattle Times listings for March 4, 1912, as “an unusually attractive building.” Built in 1910 as the Comet Apartments, they became a Star 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Modifications are under way to the set design, which was unusually spare in Cambridge, and some of the music will be in a different key for Broadway. ?The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess? Is Less Changed for Broadway 2011-11-14T23:31:01Z

It’s an unusually interior mood for an action film, but it’s typical of Prince-Bythewood’s work. Gina Prince-Bythewood: 'Films about black women are the hardest to get made' 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

The images released this week reflect that attitude and are unlikely to change the perception, widely held among architects and curators, that the Zumthor design has been unusually slow to evolve. More details emerge on Zumthor plan for new building at LACMA 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

This is a big regional, with this year’s table count helped by the unusually cold weather in central Florida. 2010-01-30T05:25:00Z

Seriously, though: how is it still possible that, every time it snows or gets unusually cold, people are so eager to make the inane argument that global warming is a hoax? Science explains Donald Trump: Why cold weather makes people doubt global warming 2014-01-14T15:24:00Z

The book also includes his unusually frank remarks on Islam, immigration and the president's girlfriend. French leader tries to calm angry judges after tell-all book 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

An unusually public battle is being waged between Amazon and one of America's top five publishers, Hachette. Amazon and Hachette: The dispute in 13 easy steps 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

One irony highlighted by this show is that whereas Hokusai’s prints were prized in Europe for their “exotic” Japonisme, he himself was unusually receptive to Western influences. Riding the crest 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

“They’re unusually good at being adaptive to what different artists need,” said Daniel Fish, whose “Most Happy in Concert” also originated at Bard. At 20, an Upstate Arts Haven Keeps Breaking New Ground 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

Its companion piece, Fauré's Requiem, was done, unusually, on colossal scale. LPO/N?zet-S?guin ? review 2011-01-25T18:55:00Z

Yet his voice and face are unusually plastic. Review: Dan Hoyle’s ‘Border People’ Blurs Lines 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Plexiglass shields have sprouted between booths, the high tables by the bar are a bit farther apart and a new ventilation system made the air feel unusually robust and fresh. A giddy crowd welcomes the reopening of Jazz Alley 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

“I just call it art,” says Sally Tallant, executive director of the Queens Museum, which has an unusually long history of community engagement. As Museums Become Her Ally, Suzanne Lacy Brings Her Activism Inside 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

The Challenger crew was unusually diverse: Physicist Ron McNair was the second Black man in space; mission specialist Ellison Onizuka was the first Asian American. Review | ‘The Burning Blue’ is a compact, suspenseful chronicle of the Challenger disaster 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

As young artists, they have unusually solid scaffolding. Punk Rock’s New Hope: The Ferocious, Joyful Linda Lindas 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

But it's a mostly earthbound show, one that's unusually attentive to tiny details of body language, clothing and decor. "The Killing": A murder mystery with brains and soul 2011-03-31T12:32:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement She was unusually perceptive about working life, a subject that still gets short shrift in American letters. Review: ‘A Manual for Cleaning Women,’ Lucia Berlin’s Soul-Baring Stories 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Edward Nelson, sounding handsome and polished, turns the Barber into an unusually compelling factotum. Review: ‘The Silent Woman,’ an Opera About Putting on an Opera 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z

In the clanging, noisy world of New York comedy he’s unusually low key, displaying hints of surfer dude and Southern drawl. Critic?s Notebook: Todd Barry at Caroline?s Comedy Club 2012-03-21T20:54:48Z

Instead they were hoping to pinpoint genes that were unusually active in the brains of people with the earliest stage of Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer's link to herpes virus in brain, say scientists 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

“Don’t Quit Your Day Job” at Hasted Kraeutler, a photography gallery in Chelsea, is an unusually playful, if also fraught, example of the form: It delves into the artistic ambitions of art dealers themselves. Art Review: The Art and Heart of the Dealer 2011-08-04T22:07:12Z

Both investigations were produced amid unusually harsh criticism, including from the president himself. The Washington Post wins 2 Pulitzer Prizes for reporting on Russian interference and the Senate race in Alabama 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

For someone who made a living in criticism, he was an unusually positive force, largely free of the cynicism that often plagues the profession. Review: Thumbs up for Ebert doc ‘Life Itself’ 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

The circular logic is symptomatic of a field with an unusually high propensity for ignoring evidence that does not fit its conventional wisdom. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

The Andante is a wistful pas de deux between the first violin and the first viola, here the Calidore’s Jeremy Berry, who produced an unusually bright and tangy sound. Review: A Quartet With Sunny Energy and Grunge-Band Grit 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

On an unusually sunny morning in July, the Viking Sky docked in Lerwick, the capital of the Shetlands, on the largest island, known as Mainland. Shetland Isles to Norway: Cruising the land of the midnight sun 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

Pride about an unusually diverse theater season permeated the Tonys this year. Diversity Questions Raised About Nascent ‘Prince of Egypt’ Musical 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement In an unusually extreme move, Mr. Ryman affixes “Pair Navigation,” a painting on fiberglass perpendicular to the wall, supporting its outer edge with short metal rods, evoking a very low foldout table. In ‘Robert Ryman,’ One Color With the Power of Many 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

The title protagonist, a PTSD-riven agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration played by Michael Jai White, lives with his family in a house that sits on an unusually barren plot of land. ‘The Commando’ Review: Mickey Rourke, Still Standing, Barely 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

This allows for an unusually generous open hall and staircase, as well as a dedicated ground-floor home office – attempting to change the suburban street from a desolate place into a little working community of "shopfronts". Stirling prize 2013: shock of the new as five first-time nominees shortlisted 2013-07-17T23:01:00Z

But here’s an ode to the train line’s quiet car, an unusually civilized way to travel. Walkabout: Airlines Say So Long to Turbulence, Hello to Cramped Seating 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Biden appeared himself, unusually for a nominee on the first night of a convention, hosting a round table on race and policing, his guests arrayed on a semicircle of screens. A D.N.C. Opening Night for the New Abnormal 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

This year, though, the book has been adopted by an unusually large and passionate audience. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Except in unusually rainy vintages, he has been successful. Experiments in birds, leaves and vines

At the time of writing, Britain is in the grip of an unusually cold spell. Northern exposures: how to take a perfect winter wildlife photograph 2010-12-02T10:52:00Z

Cirque du Soleil’s first Broadway venture, “Paramour,” is off to an unusually strong start at the box office, drawing large crowds to see this musical-theater-meets-acrobatics spectacle at the cavernous Lyric Theater. Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Paramour’ Has Strong Start in Broadway Grosses 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

There was something unusually unfocused, scattered and flat about Izzard's material and presentation. Alexander Armstrong hits back at 'tribal aversion' to posh comics 2013-05-14T15:04:06Z

In an interview, Mr. Shere said he didn’t think he was targeting Mr. Trump for unusually harsh ridicule. Muslim Comics in a Mordant Act of ‘Resistance’ 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

"Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition" is an unusually absorbing show. Making photos, not taking them; the distinction in 'Perfect Likeness' 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Perhaps announcing retirement is an unusually ostentatious method of getting something all artists need, especially commercially harried directors: time to recharge. Why are so many directors un-retiring? 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

The process has been an unusually long one; Ms. Taylor-Corbett began working with the dancers in August, asking them to improvise characters and try out imaginary situations. Not Quite a Revival, But Still a Sinful Hybrid 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z

Trump’s relationship with the news media, of course, has been unusually rocky. Mainstream media puts out the call for pro-Trump columnists 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

The lanky lines of this first poem run headlong into the margins of the unusually wide pages of the new Graywolf edition. D. A. Powell’s Unruly Elegies 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

But the sequel faced unusually strong competition — especially for young men, the target “Age of Ultron” audience — from a megawatt pay-per-view boxing match, baseball, the Kentucky Derby and basketball and hockey playoff games. ‘Avengers’ Dominates Weekend Box Office 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

That does happen, but not to any unusually revelatory degree, in “Asterisms,” a show by the sculptor Gabriel Orozco at the Guggenheim Museum. Art Review: ‘Gabriel Orozco: Asterisms’ at the Guggenheim 2012-11-15T21:37:24Z

I wasn’t surprised at his triumphantly funny but also unusually humane interpretation, because I’d seen his prior work, but I remain impressed by his range. In Praise of Repertory Theater: Macbeth at the Matinee, Miller at Night 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

He is also surely right that America faces unusually heavy challenges in future. G force 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The open shell of the ear is unusually large, tensing the rim. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

With an unusually large audience, the orchestra was engaged and the conductor infectiously dynamic with performances of Beethoven, Bartok and Tchaikovsky. Andris Nelsons Brings Old World Flavor to Boston Symphony 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hayden, with the cherubic good looks of a former choirboy, gives a complex, satisfying performance as an unusually tormented Angelo, humanizing a character whose behavior is almost entirely repellent. | 'Measure for Measure': Hold Onto Your Morals: Life Is Tough 2011-07-01T02:30:38Z

The revival of “Death of a Salesman” broke the record at the Barrymore Theater for the seventh time last week; its top premium ticket price is $475, an unusually high price for a play. ArtsBeat: High-Priced Tickets Help Make For A Record Year at the Broadway Box Office 2012-05-29T21:28:35Z

Though they were crafted with Jones's usual style and intelligence, the images proved unusually distracting. London Sinfonietta/Jones – review 2012-11-25T12:17:23Z

The majority of players on the 32 participating national teams — including, most likely, the promising but unusually young United States squad, which has qualified for the first time since 2014 — stand little chance of winning. What to Read During the World Cup 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

The daytime menu used to offer a basket of some of Ms. Weller’s finest work, including a slice of chocolate babka, some unusually tender rugelach and one of the best oatmeal cookies in existence. What a Difference Daytime Makes at Sadelle’s in SoHo 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

But, unusually, the talent programmes of the last decade were raised on territory previously occupied and assumed derelict. Ten years of The X Factor, the show-off show with a talent for survival 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

A Best of Phoenix album would sound unusually coherent, merging Californian warmth, European reserve and teenage yearning in a way that brings to mind the soundtracks of thoughtful high-school movies. Phoenix – review 2013-04-23T14:10:11Z

Director Jenny Sullivan sustains momentum and interest through the play’s two acts — an unusually long stretch by today’s solo-show standards. Before Black Lives Matter there was Clarence Darrow, brought to life onstage in Ventura 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Last week's final firefighting sequence was unusually extravagant, no doubt because it was the last one. After seven seasons, "Rescue Me" ends with a cough and a smile 2011-09-08T02:01:00Z

Cumberbatch, who is the child of two actors and grew up in the London arts community, seems unusually alert to this danger. Waiting for Cumberbatch 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

“It is never easy to be a good imperialist,” Blight writes, in an unusually wry aside, “but the old abolitionist did his best.” A Big New Biography Treats Frederick Douglass as Man, Not Myth 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

He tried to shed his driller-killer personality and to play with some light and shade; but, as a result, his speech was unusually flat and boring. The enemy within: how Machiavelli would have dealt with Gordon Brown 2010-10-09T05:59:00Z

Step back 20 feet from one of his “garbage” paintings, and all you’ll see is that his rendering of his mountain Arcadia is unusually rich in texture. Dozono’s ‘Clackamas’ series: a paradise made of garbage 2013-03-14T20:54:00Z

But Benny rebounded unusually quickly, fielding offers within weeks of his dismissal from media organizations eager to get a piece of the addictive new breed of storytelling perfected by this 29-year-old. Benny Johnson got fired at BuzzFeed. You will believe what happened next. 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

It is unusually brief in form and unusually intimate in content. Caveh Zahedi Has So Many Stories to Tell 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z

She was unusually frank about the insecurities of performers at the mercy of producers who audition them and critics who judge them. Review: Julia Murney in Honesty Mode at Feinstein’s/54 Below 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

This does not only mean unusually severe hurricanes and tornadoes, or unexpected droughts and flooding. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z

In Des McAnuff’s frisky and engaging new production of ’s late play at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival here, the music is prominent and the magic unusually flashy. Christopher Plummer in Stratford, Ontario 2010-07-09T04:28:00Z

In the game of thrones that is the annual battle between publishers, change was unusually dramatic, and possession of one or more of these mutiple hit-makers was often key. Bestselling books of 2012 – commentary 2012-12-28T22:55:06Z

Mr. Chernevich’s Astrov is unusually dry and unusually dissipated at the same time, the withering away of his soul obviously occurring in concert with a steady pickling in vodka. | 'Uncle Vanya': Maly Drama Performs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2010-04-08T22:50:00Z

In a stylistic choice that may polarize viewers, Sinclair opted to explore the couple’s interior lives through the prism of Susan Edwards’s unusually fertile, movie-fueled imagination. In ‘Landscapers,’ True Crime Meets Hollywood Fantasy 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

But she hadn't really apologised, she told her unusually attentive pupils. Jimmy Carr said sorry. So did William Shatner - but without apologising 2012-06-21T19:00:01Z

He commissioned the portraits from his friend, and Rubens delivered a trio of works that are unusually intimate in style and format. Paintings reunited at National Gallery of Art for first time since 1881 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

The lyrics he wrote for his band Sebadoh seemed to excavate the loneliest and weirdest secrets of his inner world — subject matter that invited Barlow’s listeners to form an unusually close relationship to its singer. The Folk Implosion’s Music From ‘Kids’ Is Returning. The Band Is, Too. 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z

Even the unusually muscular solo part, which Nancy Allen, the Philharmonic’s principal harpist, performed with focused sound and impressive rhythmic dexterity, offers little emotional guidance. Review: New York Philharmonic’s Chinese New Year, From Breezy to Languid 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

Rembrandt's self-portrait shows, unusually, an exuberant and laughing artist. Let Rembrandt's self-portrait leave Britain 2013-07-17T15:21:26Z

But an unusually clear image of Nessie upends her studious life. Review: A Search for Dad, and the Loch Ness Monster, in ‘Fossils’ 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

And yet it’s true that the American Midwest, in the century after Jefferson purchased it from Napoleon, provided unusually fertile soil for schools as well as corn. Democracy’s Fierce Defender 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Gee, the festival must be doing unusually well to have such a generous travel budget. The Bobs, now Seattle-based, celebrate 30th birthday 2012-08-22T23:14:03Z

They are whole without the disparate parts of his welded works and are actually monoliths, albeit unusually slim ones. Art Review: ‘David Smith: The Forgings’ at Gagosian Gallery 2014-01-02T21:55:28Z

On Saturday at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Gaithersburg, Md., this 26-year-old fair will have an unusually large number of booths selling nothing. Antiques: Horace Walpole?s London Home Is Restored 2010-04-15T21:29:00Z

The 2019 exhibition calendar was unusually crammed with heavily hyped shows, not to mention floating suspense and sudden combustions of fear and loathing. Perspective | In a year of upheaval, the best art was also the bravest 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

The Curtis crew was just one of many pleasures taken in by an enthusiastic, multigenerational crowd dressed down in shorts and sandals and enjoying an unusually sunny Labor Day weekend. Bumbershoot Day Two topped by Tony Bennett 2012-09-03T02:04:03Z

Forecasts call for temperatures in the low 50s at show time, unusually crisp for Los Angeles. `King's Speech' poised for Oscar coronation? 2011-02-27T17:16:04Z

He studied at the local conservatoire with Victor Gallois who, unusually for the time, made him work at harmony and counterpoint almost simultaneously, instead of regarding the first as a preparation for the second. Henri Dutilleux obituary 2013-05-22T17:43:25Z

A dainty portion of salt-baked trout, also finished in the oven, is unusually delicate, prepared not in a rich French style but with preserved lemons, black olives, and plenty of chervil. Amelia Lester: Elaborate Throwback Cuisine at the Runner, in Clinton Hill 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

He also has an unusually close relationship with his readers. David Sedaris Leaves His Audiences Weeping. And Still Wanting More. 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

The second time, even more unusually, he does the plié with the ballerina’s support. Review: At School of American Ballet, Passing With Flying Colors 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

Since tastemaking music site Pitchfork awarded Cerulean Salt an unusually high 8.4 score, and after a breakthrough performance at Austin's South By Southwest in April, she's been constantly on the road, having countless photos taken. Meet Waxahatchee: she's like Lena Dunham with a guitar 2013-06-28T12:00:00Z

The show brought in some 5,000 visitors, an unusually large number for a museum where, Ms. de Chefdebien said, “many hesitate to push open our doors.” Special Report: Jewelry: Jewelry That Sparkles With Stories and Gems 2011-05-12T13:49:21Z

The nominators were unusually merciless as they sorted through the crush of 35 plays and musicals that opened on Broadway over the past year. Tony Nominations 2015: ‘An American in Paris’ and ‘Fun Home’ Emerge as Favorites 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

The verse, by Emily Brontë, which continues, “It vexes me to choose another guide,” proves peculiarly apt for Mrs. Tetherow, who emerges as Meek’s prime skeptic and becomes an unusually vocal opponent. Oregon Frontier, From Under a Bonnet 2011-04-01T20:53:01Z

Mr. Lindsay-Abaire is a small, chunky man who seems unusually at home in his own skin and seldom stops smiling. A Return to Southie, by Way of Broadway 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z

Their intentions are made unusually clear in this “On the Town,” which includes postcoital scenes that find the boys dazed and happy in their underwear. Theater Review: In ‘On the Town,’ Sailors on Leave Look for Love 2013-06-19T21:10:16Z

This charm offensive turns “Maze” into an unusually quiet, watchful thriller: Aside from one early skirmish and the rather chaotic escape itself, Burke’s thoughtful script mostly unfolds without the usual prison-movie tumult. ‘Maze’ Review: A Prison Break and a Confidence Game 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

He’s always allowed himself to come across as wide-eyed, mystified, and curious during his interviews; in so doing, he has elicited unusually insightful commentary from his interlocutors. The Critic Who Convinced Me That Criticism Could Be Art 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Keller's production was seen at the Met in just 36 performances over three seasons, an unusually brief appearance for a core opera. Review: One dull `Don Giovanni' replaces another 2011-10-14T19:06:15Z

Mr. Galassi, who has promised Mr. Stein that he can return if the Paris Review effort goes bust, said the magazine is becoming more “purely literary,” a reflection of Mr. Stein’s unusually picky tastes. Lorin Stein, the Paris Review?s New Party Boy 2011-02-25T19:58:16Z

In her review of the film version, Janet Maslin wrote: “ ‘The Last Unicorn’ is an unusual children’s film in many respects, the chief one being that it is unusually good. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: 'The Last Unicorn' 2011-02-04T17:36:05Z

If the building in places seems unusually refined by the standards of Gehry's career, the sheer scale and the dramatic way the massive details of its construction are everywhere exposed keeps it from seeming muted. Paris' Louis Vuitton Foundation epitomizes Frank Gehry's genius 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

But one stakeholder group was unusually easy to influence: the prisoners themselves. Re-inventing college for prisons 2012-12-15T17:00:00Z

An early specialist in nuclear imaging, she was in unusually high demand then, driving all over Milwaukee to read scans at various hospitals. ‘Humility Is What Drew Me to Him’ 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

Instead, the final product is an unusually austere action film that peaks with an improvised scene in which a real Navy medic examines Mr. Hanks, exactly as she would any other damaged sailor. Filmmakers Embrace Reality, on the High Seas and Beyond 2013-07-17T15:36:51Z

Guadianao, it turns out, is unusually frank about films he doesn't approve of. Tilda Swinton and Luca Guadagnino: a match made in arthouse cinema heaven 2010-04-01T21:30:00Z

If 11 out of the 18 points are unusually tender, it supports the diagnosis. Fibromyalgia: the chronic pain that thwarted Lady Gaga’s tour 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

It doesn't have much of a tick-tock, but Hook displays an unusually developed death wish. Peter Pan ? review 2011-01-04T22:00:00Z

It was a naked-and-dead year because actual nakedness and actual deadness seemed to be in unusually abundant supply, at least in certain parts of the TV spectrum. Staring at the End, in Several Senses 2013-12-13T19:29:33Z

Many, many women have doubtlessly miscarried around this mark without ever knowing it—they would assume they were just having an unusually heavy period. The Messiness of Reproduction and the Dishonesty of Anti-Abortion Propaganda 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

He reasoned that it might have something to do with the unusually large field of candidates and the complications of double and triple-checking results from hundreds of precincts. ‘Oh! So frustrating indeed!’: Not even Wolf Blitzer could take the agony of waiting for Iowa 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Arsonists, she explains, are at once, oddly, extremely difficult to catch and unusually likely to be wrongly convicted. The Library Fire That Ignited an Author’s Imagination 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

We won $59.41, an unusually generous prize, and got digitally foisted onto the internet’s shoulders: I heard from a colleague, a Twitter follower, my friend’s mom. How HQ Trivia Became the Best Worst Thing on the Internet 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

The painting was fragile, Mr. Gordon said, because of its age and the fact that it was painted on an unusually large single plank of wood. Inside Art: Now Starring in Chicago, a Prime Rauschenberg 2011-06-09T20:38:07Z

Understood as a self-help book, “The Price You Pay for College” represents an extraordinary achievement: It is comprehensive and detailed without being tedious, practical without being banal, impeccably well judged and unusually rigorous. How to Pay for College (and Not Lose Your Shirt) 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

That first scene paints the performers as a bunch of boisterous and unusually flexible teenagers, happily one-upping one another as they demonstrate their best moves. Review: Chen Shi-Zheng’s ‘Double It,’ Feats of Derring-Do, With Vignettes 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Not that that pregnancy had been unusually scary. Ending a pregnancy in the last days of Roe 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z

Though the Beverly Crest house is marked by an unusually sympathetic relationship between architecture and site, Lautner's disdain for Los Angeles was well known. Investor donates his gravity-defying John Lautner-designed home in Beverly Crest to LACMA 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

So I was in an unusually open frame of mind when I stopped at the village of Willow Creek, whose China Flat Museum and Bigfoot Collection is known to sasquatch enthusiasts worldwide. T Magazine: The High Life 2011-03-25T17:30:04Z

But the current alignment of stars is unusually illuminating. 3 celebrities portray Shakespeare’s uncommon men 2014-02-03T06:51:22Z

Commentary in Japanese and English focuses on the 13 bridges that slip by overhead, but the real point is the unusually open perspective on this congested city. 36 Hours in Tokyo 2013-05-02T23:55:04Z

Björk is an unusually complete artist — a visionary musician, singer, composer, actress, dancer, poet and perhaps, most impressively, an omnivorous creator of fantastically rich musical arrangements. Björk, a One-of-a-Kind Artist, Proves Elusive at MoMA 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

The producers chose a theater with an unusually large number of orchestra seats, many of which they can sell at premium prices that top out at $300 apiece. The Critics May Rant, but ?Addams Family? Rakes It In 2010-04-14T01:23:00Z

Charles and Camilla, who are in Scotland, appeared outside a front door, in unusually casual attire by their standards. Prince Charles and his wife join UK round of applause for carers 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

But the mere fact that they existed made this year’s Golden Globes an unusually political ceremony. Golden Globes Recap: At This Show, Politics Only Go So Far 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

The hall’s acoustics were unusually reverberant with so few of the sound-absorbing patrons in the hall. Seattle Symphony welcomes an audience back to Benaroya Hall for the first time in 14 months 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

After an unusually long delay before beginning the post-auction press conference, Christie's officials emerged to say that the Richter had been sold following the auction, to an undisclosed buyer, for 5.5 million pounds. Christie's auction to save Austrian museum generates own drama 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Mark LaFramboise, a book buyer at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C., said the store often struggles to get stock of a new Nobel laureate, but this year it’s been unusually difficult. He Won the Nobel. Why Are His Books So Hard to Find? 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

Since it was an unusually busy night, she was apparently caught off guard by what came next. Alaskan man becomes latest patron to leave massive tip in social media trend 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Last year’s encounters with red admirals started unusually early, on May 27. For more than a decade, butterflies have repeatedly landed on me. I think I’m blessed by the red admiral. 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

After weeks of unusually warm, occasionally downright balmy, weather, a blizzard watch is in effect for the tri-state area from Saturday morning through Sunday afternoon. Flight Canceled Because of the Winter Storm? What You Need to Know 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

Ms. Sarandon was critically lauded for “The Meddler,” he noted, and might have made some headway were it not for the unusually stiff competition for best actress this year. The Art of the Oscars Long-Shot 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

I found myself wishing that the baritone Brian Mulligan, who sang the Herald with unusually vivid intensity, had that larger part instead. Review: A Blunt New ‘Lohengrin’ at the Met Stars a Shining Knight 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

The performers in the playwright and director William Burke’s “Comfort Dogs: Live From the Pink House” are unusually brazen. Review: ‘Comfort Dogs’ Explores the Solace of Communing With Canines 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

The fact maven Norris McWhirter was, unusually, standing outside the studio in the distinctive concrete doughnut of TV Centre, acknowledging the applause of thousands of members of his centre-right pressure group the Freedom Association. Farewell, BBC TV Centre. You were Britain's very own Disneyland 2013-03-31T00:05:37Z

Their surfaces are unusually dense, worked over, for Richter, even passionate. Gerhard Richter Rides Again 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

Most surprisingly of all, Mordechai himself gives an interview to podcast’s host, Kathleen Goldhar, and hearing from him in addition to all the women he conned offers an unusually layered picture. 6 True-Crime Podcasts: When Love Is a Dangerous Con Game 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

His main objective in this bold, dynamic, unusually vivid book is to bring an adult’s perspective to events that he could neither fathom nor forget. Books of The Times: Hampton Sides?s ?Hellhound on His Trail? Traces Martin Luther King Jr.?s Killer 2010-04-21T22:24:00Z

The expanded list makes for an unusually deserving set of contenders. The Oscars: the hot tips from those in the know 2011-02-20T00:05:33Z

I’d like to peel apart the methodological issues here with a cool and well-informed eye, except that the methods section of the paper is unusually vague, and Jean Decety isn’t responding to my polite emails. Are kids from religious backgrounds really more selfish than their nonreligious peers? 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

The theater’s hip, edgy work attracts an unusually young crowd: 70 percent of the audience is under the age of 35, according to Mr. Miller. It’s a Theater, With Craft Beer and D.J.s Until 6 a.m. 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

Mr. Redford finds himself with an unusually large presence at this year’s festival. Sundance 2015: Robert Redford, Minding His Own Business 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Despite the popular image of a bunch of straight white men playing loud guitars, punk has often been an unusually progressive arena for women and people of different races and sexualities. Punk is still the sound of youth rebellion 2012-06-01T15:39:56Z

They represent an unusually earnest, and long overdue, effort to explore a fascinating question: What is it like to live or work inside a piece of art? 2010-01-30T05:18:00Z

McGregor choreographs with an unusually wide palette, channelling Frederick Ashton for the eccentricities and robustness of his human characters, and Merce Cunningham for the scattered asymmetries of the raven chorus. Royal Ballet: Raven Girl – review 2013-05-27T16:39:13Z

And this show is unusually, almost unfashionably, forthright about those politics, foregrounding them with a string of pronouns. Art Review: Identity Politics in ‘I, YOU, WE’ at the Whitney 2013-06-20T22:13:11Z

U.S.-based ComicConnect described it as "the most important comic book in the history of comics," and said its unusually good condition added to its value. First Superman comic sells for record $2.2 million 2011-12-01T15:22:58Z

On their own since Anna was little, they are unusually close. Review: An Online Chat Turns Unnerving in ‘The Thing With Feathers’ 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

The afterlife of campaign merchandise is unusually literal, because, after Election Day, these objects experience something like death. What Does the MAGA Hat Mean Now? 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

Sitting on the edge of his seat, with a cup of tea, next to his latest singer-muse, a young Irishwoman called Franky Riley, he gives the impression that the world is looking unusually sharp-edged. Tricky: 'I can still be really dark in my mind' 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

But its run will be unusually short for a best musical winner in recent years, when the prize has often had more box office impact. ‘A Strange Loop,’ Which Won Best Musical, to End Broadway Run 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

While Christie’s claims “an unusually uniform scholarly consensus” that the painting is by Leonardo, some respected experts on Renaissance art who have seen the work have failed to succumb to Stendhal syndrome. Get in Line: The $100 Million da Vinci Is in Town 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

“From beginning to end,” he wrote, “this soul-crusher of a show is unusually awful.” Turner Prize Goes to Charlotte Prodger for Films Shot on iPhone 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Under Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, the city is aiming to build monuments at an unusually rapid rate to honor women, people of color and others previously overlooked. New York’s Race to Build Monuments Runs Into Friction on the Ground 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

This isn’t an anomaly or the result of a new deadline or an unusually busy week. Work-Life Balance and the New Night Shift 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

That allowed her slow movement to remain unusually and disarmingly placid, with the ground continually shifting under Beethoven’s feet. Yuja Wang slays Beethoven's monster piano piece — and makes it look easy 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

This ballet is often staged as a little girl’s dream, but here that fantasy is unusually poignant. Critic?s Notebook: ?Nutcracker? Nation: Yes We Can! 2010-12-08T23:32:00Z

But Osipova takes it at such an unusually ferocious tilt that the anguish of her mortal self still seems to be beating in her ghostly body. The Mikhailovsky Ballet and a tale of two Giselles 2013-03-25T15:15:16Z

Atmosphere A corner cafe, sun-filled by day and candlelit after dark, with unusually handsome plates, glasses and so forth — all for sale. French Cafe Food, Not So New but Very Much Improved 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

The supporting cast, most of whom appear in “All’s Well” at alternate performances, is unusually fine, especially the quartet of women whom Richard widows, taunts, haunts, marries or murders. Blame Canada (or at Least Ontario) for a Wealth of Smart Revivals 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Well, brace yourself and allow me to introduce the mighty, moody Prospera, the stay-at-home sorcerer played by Olympia Dukakis in Shakespeare & Company’s jolly, quirky and unusually cozy production of “The Tempest.” Theater Review: ‘The Tempest,’ Presented by Shakespeare & Company 2012-07-30T22:19:52Z

All the same, Cheever's sense of double-dealing seems to have run unusually deep. What drives writers to drink? 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z

The biennial is an unusually diverse exhibition of work by 63 artists and collectives; nearly half the artists are female and half are nonwhite. Painting of Emmett Till at Whitney Biennial Draws Protests 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

This unusual and unusually popular game represents a marked shift in our definition of a game, and a return to individual experience — an introspective one at that. In defense of Solitaire, the “perfect game”: Mindfulness, video games and the importance of downtime 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

Although Eve Stockton’s pictures are unusually large for woodcut prints, their scale suits her subjects, which include sea, sky and sun. Review | In the galleries: An artist conjures images from oceans to a micro view of nature 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

So is the horse; and the filming of the great race is unusually well done. Elizabeth Taylor: how Guardian critics rated her films 2011-03-24T08:30:00Z

At 64, though, Springfield is something of an anomaly: an old hand unusually focused on what's next. Rick Springfield can rock a sci-fi novel too 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

The unusually precise wording caught the internet’s collective interest, sparking an abundance of memes and an entire Heinz campaign. How a cybersecurity attack at Clorox caused a Hidden Valley Ranch shortage 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z

But for the most part he denied that his wartime experiences inspired his art works, which he emphasized were simply paintings of an unusually physical kind. Alberto Burri, a Man of Steel, and Burlap 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

I was, she remarked, “unusually sophisticated for an American.” Letters to the Editor 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

When it was suggested, though, that it must have been unusually rewarding to paint someone like that, Ms. Sprung demurred. Painting Michelle Obama Took 9 Months. Keeping it Secret Took 6 Years. 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

The limestone walls on the Irish island of Inis Meain are unusually expressive with different shapes and sizes of stones positioned to create exquisite patterns. Design: Dazzling Ingenuity of the Dry Stone Wall 2011-10-09T12:48:09Z

Each of these — down to the smallest part — is embodied with comprehension and confidence by an unusually well-balanced ensemble. Review: A Cool-Tempered ‘Othello’ for Warm Central Park Nights 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

You might think that these strangers are unusually talkative. A Short Film About Hidden Agendas and Flashes of Danger 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

The prospect of becoming vulnerable and dependent on strangers in a nursing home may be unusually alarming for people who have been stigmatised or threatened with violence for being trans. 'Age has nothing to do with it': how it feels to transition later in life 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

An unusually large number of actors appear in two—or even three—movies nominated for the best-picture Oscar this year. How to Ask Someone Out Online: Tips From the Writers of ‘The Big Sick’ 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

Ms. McGregor indulges some excesses of sound and lighting design, but she elicits strong and unusually physical performances. ‘brownsville song (b-side for tray),’ at Lincoln Center 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Mind you, Yorkshire Tea's approach to addressing this gap in the market seems unusually labour-intensive. The Hard Sell: Yorkshire Tea 2011-03-12T00:06:35Z

It reveals his career as a vital, unbroken through line from Pop to 1970s Conceptual Art to 1980s appropriation art, a movement that is unthinkable without his unusually direct influence. Art Review: Tweaking Tradition, Even In Its Temple 2010-10-21T21:30:00Z

The company also said in a statement last week that the vast majority of its trips faced no interruptions, even though water levels on the Danube remained unusually low. Low Water Levels Disrupt European River Cruises, a Favorite of U.S. Tourists 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z

The gala — and particularly the anti-corruption comedy routines — were panned by viewers, who took to social media to denounce them as unusually boring.  Live from Beijing, it's Saturday Night? China wants own version of 'SNL' 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

The Crown, Stranger Things, Endeavour, Call the Midwife and Downton Abbey are among recent hit shows which, like an unusually proactive policeman in an old film, keep telling people what the time is. Race against the clock: why is so much TV jumping through time? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Though she was not partial to infants, both she and Albert could be unusually doting parents. Review: ‘Victoria the Queen’ Delves Into Her Epic Reign 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

They will compete against Iron Maiden, The Rolling Stones, Status Quo and, unusually, solo artist David Bowie for the band of the year title. Black Sabbath awarded rock honour 2013-08-09T10:52:49Z

But in its second week the series suffered an unusually steep ratings drop, to about three million viewers. The Palins Ensure They Stay in the News 2010-11-23T22:36:00Z

Woodward has never been a graceful writer, but the prose here is unusually wooden. In ‘Fear,’ Bob Woodward Pulls Back the Curtain on President Trump’s ‘Crazytown’ 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

This is still an unusually large cast for contemporary opera; the financial exigencies of the art form have generally encouraged smaller forces, but Mr. Adès clearly had different ideas. Your Guide to the Met Opera’s ‘Exterminating Angel’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

And Colin Firth, as the king, had a specific worry: George VI, known as "Bertie" in his family, was unusually thin. 'King's Speech' costume designer Jenny Beavan brings history to life 2011-02-18T22:04:44Z

The choir’s projection and enunciation were unusually clear. Music Review: Ivan Fischer Leads Beethoven Program at Avery Fisher Hall 2010-03-29T21:12:00Z

Listen closely and you’ll hear that the brasses have an unusually, if still subtly, prominent place in the harmonies, giving the piece a golden glow. This Conductor’s Mozart Isn’t for the Faint of Ear 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Weaver’s husband, meanwhile, has been understanding of her higher profile, unusually for a man of his generation, perhaps. Sigourney Weaver: 'I’m asked to play awful people all the time' 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

The author is unusually qualified to write on this subject, and not merely because his surname is nearly an anagram for “selfie.” In ‘Virtual Unreality,’ Charles Seife Unfriends Gullibility 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

On Monday’s “Daily Show,” Louis C. K. tried to bridge the gap: he suggested that men listen more, though he was unusually mealy-mouthed expressing the comedian’s point of view. Critic’s Notebook: When the Comic and the Heckler Both Take Offense 2012-07-17T22:36:45Z

Less problematic gay issues, but ones that struck a deep chord with me, include the unusually sophisticated knowledge of superficial cultures – pop music, fashion or film, for example – among many gay men. Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z

The strike took on an unusually nasty tone. ArtsBeat: Detroit Symphony Orchestra Has Tentative Deal 2011-04-04T14:18:09Z

The past year was an exceptionally active, unusually silly and indubitably worrying one for pop music lawsuits. It’s Got a Great Beat, and You Can File a Lawsuit to It 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

Department of State, Schook described Ali a Mutu as “unusually committed to the literature of his home nation, and he believes his role is to promote it from within the Congo.” Congolese author couldn't get a visa, but he'll still take part in tonight's ALOUD program — via Skype 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

The planning time for the entire exhibit — two years — also is unusually short. SAM snagged a show that is big for art lovers, could be big boost for museum 2010-10-03T02:07:00Z

The childlike innocence she shared with Mr. Gorak made their interplay in Act I unusually affecting. From Ballet Theater, Some Goodbyes and a Promise for the Future 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

As Gary herds volunteers and directs his candidate in photo shoots, the camera listlessly follows, as if responding to Carell’s unusually subdued performance. ‘Irresistible’ Review: The Voters Are Red, the Message Is Blue 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

That it’s coming from one of hip-hop’s most promising young stars newly signed to a major label makes it unusually scandalous. Chicago Hip-Hop’s Raw Burst of Change 2012-10-07T04:49:05Z

The $50,000 cash that accompanies the prize is unusually high for a literary award. These authors are in the running for the $50,000 Kirkus Prize book awards 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

The prototype for the current commission is the Met’s rooftop series, which offers an unusually immediate engagement with new art. Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Still, if the play is, at times, dramatically weak, its rhetoric and arguments are unusually strong. Review: ‘Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine’ Takes On Race 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

I’d already interviewed the cop’s unusually forthcoming partner, whose testimony matched the complainant’s. Policing the police 2012-08-29T18:11:00Z

He plays a fast sanshin and guitar, and his reggae-inflected, electrified versions of old folk songs are infectious and unusually accessible to a Western ear. T Magazine: Island Records 2012-11-16T18:00:23Z

And unusually for a show about aspiring comedians, actual comedy only made up about a quarter of each episode. Show Me the Funny: a slow painful death 2011-08-25T11:05:21Z

Born in Delft, van Aelst studied with his uncle, the still-life painter Evert van Aelst, and, unusually for a Netherlander, spent time in the artist community of Paris as a teenager. Art Review: Willem van Aelst Still-Life Paintings at National Gallery 2012-08-10T04:50:08Z

“In just 30 minutes the water levels jump by over six feet as the storm surge and the unusually high tides combine,” the narrator says. Television Review: ‘Megastorm’ on the Discovery Channel 2012-11-17T01:17:18Z

It is not a state demographically friendly to Clinton and it is exceptionally and unusually kind to Bernie Sanders. Even when Hillary wins, she loses: In Iowa, I saw plenty of excitement for Clinton, too — but Sanders’ surge is still the big news 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

The show, she wrote, “reveals his career as a vital, unbroken through line from Pop to 1970s Conceptual Art to 1980s appropriation art, a movement that is unthinkable without his unusually direct influence.” John Baldessari, Who Gave Conceptual Art a Dose of Humor, Is Dead at 88 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z

That said, the framing delivers an unusually forceful and imaginative depiction of a child’s-eye vision of the grown-up world: a fearsome urban jungle peopled by expressionless, robotic beings weighed down by responsibility. Review: Fanciful Classic ‘The Little Prince’ Is Turned Into Modernist Fable 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

The unabashed visual richness of these works attests to the power of the decorative while extending the tenets of Conceptual identity art into an unusually full-bodied form of painting. Art Review: ‘Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe,’ at Brooklyn Museum 2012-09-27T22:04:12Z

But the documentary and foreign film races were unusually spirited this year. Oscars 2017: What to Watch For 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

In fact, they said, the detractors this day were unusually mild. Battle lines stark as Wisconsin recall push nears end 2012-01-13T14:53:00Z

“It is comprehensive and detailed without being tedious, practical without being banal, impeccably well judged and unusually rigorous. But the main title hints at a sensibility deeper than friendly advice.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

Crowe's respect for Hicks's work may stem from the fact that the hard-to-please comedian was unusually complimentary about the New Zealand-born actor's adopted home country, Australia. Russell Crowe to direct Bill Hicks biopic 2012-07-24T11:31:37Z

Many people remarked that it was an unusually fun Met Ball, looser somehow, especially as they watched Debbie Harry and then Kanye West perform. On the Runway Blog: Costume Institute Gala Is an Experience, From Head to Toes 2013-05-07T15:55:20Z

To be precise, Mr. Miko’s abstract paintings, made with enamel and lacquer, serve as screens of different sizes for unusually slow-moving animations by Mr. Thayer. Art in Review: TOM THAYER: ?Scenographic Play? 2011-01-27T22:52:23Z

In the Second, that meant unusually expansive readings of the first two movements, offset by speedy accounts of the scherzo and the finale. Music Review: Ivan Fischer Offers Beethoven at Alice Tully Hall 2010-03-26T20:50:00Z

Surprisingly, the Moors’ art was embraced by their conquerors, and an unusually large number of glorious fortified palaces and cathedrals that incorporated Moorish design survive. In Andalusia’s three key cities, one of history’s great architectural mash-ups 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Director Aladag spent six years working on it, and he rehearsed the actors for an unusually long seven months. German, U.S. films win top prizes at Tribeca festival 2010-04-30T01:05:00Z

The self-effacement is also characteristic of a poet who, unusually, says he is "more interested in other people's poems than my own". Dear Life by Dennis O'Driscoll - review 2012-06-29T21:55:02Z

But tenor Russell Thomas' Pollione, who casts off Norma for the younger Adalgisa, presents an unusually believable combination of haughty authority and punishing vulnerability. 'Norma' and 'La Clemenza di Tito' make for a Roman feast 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

And it would be, if Ms. Heiny had not started out with her own powers of writerly seduction and had an unusually long time to hone them. Review: ‘Single, Carefree, Mellow,’ Except for That Illicit Affair 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Gently funny and disarmingly poignant, “Together Together” is unusually attuned to the isolation of single fathers. ‘Together Together’ Review: A Conceivable Plan 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

But we do know that he created beautiful clay pots, and we also know that — unusually for a slave — Dave could read and write. Prize-winning children's books by African Americans 2011-02-19T00:39:28Z

The film is a heartfelt and unusually revealing tribute to the creative force of nature that was Yelchin. Sundance: Anton Yelchin celebrated in intimate documentary 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

Not only was he extraordinarily prolific, his work was unusually eclectic, reflecting the diverse, often conflicting, styles and ideologies with which he experimented over the years. Design: Gio Ponti, Designer of a Thousand Talents 2011-06-19T18:00:05Z

The movie was unusually location-intensive, filming about 40 locations over 40 days from January through March. For 'The Gambler,' filmmaker sought a less familiar side of L.A. 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

It began with an unusually barbed aside from Styles clearly inspired by his San Diego surroundings. How Harry Styles accidentally saved a One Direction concert 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

In Benjamin Dickinson’s dour, visually stunning “First Winter,” the visitors at an upstate New York yoga retreat find themselves cut off from the outside world during the dead of an unusually harsh winter. Movie Review: ‘First Winter,’ a Benjamin Dickinson Film 2012-11-16T00:09:10Z

Polli agreed to that different route and – unusually for him – said he would follow behind. Into the void: the fast life and shocking death of a wingsuit-flying superstar 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

Over the years Mr. Harrison’s unusually large and successful shop had been featured in local newscasts and included in the Comedy Central show “Insomniac With Dave Attell.” Television: Redeeming Value of the Reality Show ?Pawn Stars? 2010-06-05T01:56:00Z

For now, let us focus on particular people and, in particular, an unusually candid conversation among two bankers and two journalists in a Wall Street bar. How Fox News created a new culture of idiots 2012-10-28T12:00:00Z

And the house was set unusually far back from the street, producing privacy and an illusion that a small, gently sloped front garden was actually large. How I Created My Very First Garden From Scratch 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Seshadri is fluent in an unusually wide range of forms — he ranges here from rhymed quatrains to fat blocks of prose — and his voice is typically chatty, probing, importuning, self-mocking. A Poet Who Mesmerizes by Zigs and Zags, Hopping From Idea to Idea 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

Nathan was sarcastic and slouchy and unusually stylish for a camp full of spoiled East Coast Jewish kids. My inappropriate relationship 2013-03-24T01:00:00Z

More unusually, she can write in a fresh way about the natural world – even bird-poems which don't induce immediate symptoms of avian déjà vu. Poem of the week: Pissarro's Orchards by Marianne Burton 2013-06-24T10:20:03Z

Apart from the suicide — a balcony leap — the story is unusually low on dramatic action. Review: A Chic but Dull ‘Tenant’ With James Whiteside 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

At the same time, I was unusually critical. Motherlode Blog: Struggling to Let Go of My College-Student Daughter 2012-08-01T15:34:57Z

“Panorama,” which is performed mostly in English, is unusually accessible by Motus standards. Review: Who Am I? ‘Panorama’ Says There Is No Easy Answer 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Is being a therapist the key to an unusually long showbiz marriage? Pamela Stephenson 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

Molly’s has a range of Irish beers on tap, from Guinness, Smithwick’s, Harp and, unusually for an Irish bar in America, Murphy’s – all served “to Irish standards” in 20oz rather than American 16oz glasses. 10 of the best Irish bars in New York 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

Mark said that the audition process for this role was unusually lengthy. Brie Larson on The Gambler, Why She Hates Mirrors and Playing Amy Schumer's Sister 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

These Emmys were uneven and unsettled, and thus unusually interesting by the standards of this telecast. The Joyous, Fragmented, and Slightly Anxious 2019 Emmy Awards 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

Wilson, a critic and the author of “Literary Seductions: Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers,” is unusually candid about her own mixed feelings toward Lawrence. Review | ‘Burning Man’ presents D.H. Lawrence in all his flawed brilliance 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

It’s a western of sorts, and a romantic rebel movie of sorts — there are hints of “Viva Zapata!” and “Shane” and a half-dozen other underdog classics — but with an unusually clear ideological focus. Review: Matthew McConaughey Rebels Against Rebels in ‘Free State of Jones’ 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

It’s unusually contemplative and visual, as if she literally needed this breath of fresh air. Tana French’s Irish Western Features a Retired Lawman and a Missing Boy 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

The legal disclaimer in the small print at the front is strikingly worded and unusually definitive: “Nothing in this book is true of anyone alive or dead,” it reads. A Timely Novel of Anti-Progress by Louise Erdrich 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

At the Tuesday matinee, City Ballet performed for an unusually responsive audience. The Youngest (and Liveliest) ‘Nutcracker’ Audience of the Season 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

And this summer, New York has been hosting an unusually large and varied selection of artifacts of its most celebrated literary son in honor of his bicentennial birthday, which was on May 31. 33 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

"Filigreed Levitation" is the liveliest of these, its "crest" like an elaborate variation on a fleur-de-lis — or maybe just an unusually complicated coat rack. Range of works by Seattle artist Juan Alonso explores the depths 2010-08-23T23:53:00Z

The foliage looks unusually healthy and clean for so late in the season, a product in part of the near-constant breeze up here. Can container gardening wipe out urban food deserts? These folks think so. 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

And yet she was unusually sensitive to sound. The Troubadour and the Lady 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

The first lady, who so often comes across as sphinx-like herself and has often remained silent amid the din of her husband’s administration, was unusually outspoken. Melania Trump wraps first solo international trip in Egypt with comments on Kavanaugh and Ford 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z

And the theory was soon accepted that in the Earth’s mantle, below the crust and above the core, are places unusually hot compared with the surrounding mantle. Four destinations that feel like geologic theme parks 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

And so imagine my utter delight as we rolled into Arches, not a line in sight, right up to the ticket window where a woman said the park was unusually empty. More U.S. Parks and Attractions Are Offering Online Reservations 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Breeding this spring was boosted by a combination of unusually warm waters, an absence of strong winds and good stockpile management, it said. 'White gold' on deck of French trawler signals bumper haul of scallops 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

Perhaps unusually for a child actor, people speak about Danes’s humility. Claire Danes profile: ‘She has intensity and immersion in the character’ 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

As filmmakers were shooting "Get Hard," a draft of the shooting script called for Ferrell’s character to defend by name the tax loophole  that he and his firm enacted, an unusually specific parsing of capitalism.  'Get Hard's (sort of) loftier intentions 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

We were looking at the ocean and he was unusually quiet, and then he said: "I came here when I was your age, as part of the postwar effort." Danny DeVito: I still miss my father 2012-06-15T23:05:18Z

There are rotating contemporary Israeli art installations in the lobby and more art in the guestrooms, which are unusually spacious for Tel Aviv. | Tel Aviv 2012-09-21T13:00:55Z

On the nonfiction end, an unusually large chunk of titles center on sports and athletes: basketball, football, baseball, ice hockey, rugby, mixed martial arts and even IndyCar racing are represented. The Tribeca Festival Has a Story to Tell 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

Although coordinating seven personalities can be challenging, it gives Arcade Fire an unusually strong gang mentality – a mutual support structure. Arcade Fire: 'It's a lot easier to get smaller' 2011-02-10T21:36:01Z

Tuesday’s performance, unusually, lacked heart, and the work’s optimism felt forced. At Alvin Ailey, Finding Shelter in One Another 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

He’s five minutes late and – unusually for an actor – apologetic about it. Succession's Kieran Culkin on villainy, Home Alone – and Michael Jackson 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Shortly after Jelinek won the prize in 2004, the American distributor of her book The Piano Teacher ran out of copies because demand was so unusually high. Why You Haven't Heard of Patrick Modiano, Winner of the Nobel in Literature 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

This show will include the recently attributed Dürer drawing of an unusually relaxed Madonna and Child that has excited old masters circles. Drawing, a Cure for the January Blahs 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

As the podcast hits its six-month anniversary and 35th episode, the “Bobbycast” has unwittingly become a treasure trove of unusually candid anecdotes and inside information about country music. How does country music really work? Bobby Bones’s podcast is an unlikely gold mine of insider info. 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

The Little Lad community is an unusually kind corner of the internet. The Little Lad? Berries and Cream? Call It Performance Art. 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Jean is unusually passive for a main character, which would be problematic if she didn’t win our sympathy as an underdog. ‘The Widow’ review: Can she find love in a killer marriage? 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

Measuring nearly 8 feet by 7 feet, the painting is unusually large and of vibrant orange and reds. Inside Art: Rothko, Warhol and Pollock Works Headed to Auction 2012-03-29T22:29:47Z

The bride said that she, too, found the blind date to be unusually comfortable, though, after such a successful initial meeting, their mutual friend advised Dr. Hamidian to wait a week before calling her. When a Friend Grabs Your Phone and Starts Texting 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z

An unusually long preview period and the show's less-than-forthcoming public relations strategy has prompted some critics to publish their own preliminary reviews, breaking a customary rule. Lead actress in Broadway's 'Spider-Man' drops out 2010-12-31T01:03:11Z

The initiative was an unusually public statement from an industry where until recently employee objections about diversity and other issues were made either anonymously or privately. Publishing employees organize ‘day of action’ against racism 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

The play joins what is shaping up to be an unusually busy summer on Broadway. ‘The Shark Is Broken,’ a ‘Jaws’ Comedy, Plans Broadway Run 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

His small alt-weekly has been receiving such an unusually high number of news tips that they are having trouble keeping up. The standoff between owners and journalists that’s eviscerating Pittsburgh’s biggest newspaper 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

The lighting by Kevin Adams would make a rat clap, and the unusually ugly set by David Zinn seems weaponized against intimacy. Review: In Lea Michele, ‘Funny Girl’ Has Finally Found Its Fanny 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

The stage setup was elaborate with what looked like at least two different sound systems and rows of acoustical baffles, and the result in this notoriously difficult-to-amplify hall was unusually sensitive. 'The Reef' concert had a chance to catch a new wave of fans by pairing surf sounds and scenes 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

She and her husband were both “unusually tired and in need of a holiday this year”, despite a good work-life balance and holiday allowance. Mid-year burnout: does it exist or are we all just permanently tired? 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

It delivers all that but they throw in plenty of nice twists and, unusually for this sort of thing, the plot actually gets to advance. Tonight's TV highlights: The Culture Show 2010-10-20T23:05:00Z

Their mother died in childbirth, and the orphaned siblings are unusually close. ‘The Honorable Woman,’ Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

"Here, it's unusually difficult because the organist plays from the balcony and the organ is suspended from the ceiling." Ore. chapel's circular pipe organ is one-of-a-kind 2012-06-13T13:38:09Z

Breuer chose what he called "close to Earth materials," but everywhere their roughness is countered by an unusually fine sense of proportion and detailing. The restored Met Breuer (formerly the Whitney) has a new energy as well as a lived-in look 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

The unusually large order reflects the original agreement that FX made for the sitcom, which marked Sheen's quick return to TV after he was fired from "Two and a Half Men." FX orders 90 more episodes of 'Anger Management' 2012-08-29T17:59:49Z

Investigators in the Houston case found several bottles of prescription medication in the Beverly Hills, Calif., hotel room where she died Saturday, although Winter has said they weren't an unusually large number. Coroner seeking Houston medical, pharmacy records 2012-02-15T17:51:08Z

But studio supervision, a useful form of quality control on mediocre filmmakers, risks diluting the distinctive qualities of unusually gifted filmmakers such as Trank, regressing to the mean without fulfilling the norm. "Fantastic Four" Should Have Been Great 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Taken together, the eligibility rulings do little to clarify the unusually wide open races for the best play and best musical Tonys. ArtsBeat: In Tonys Derby, ‘Inishmaan,’ ‘Cabaret,’ ‘Hedwig’ and ‘Violet’ Eligible as Revivals 2014-04-25T19:27:58Z

But just when things get comfortable, in drops Jay Electronica, hip-hop metaphysician, with some confidently delivered and unusually phrased truisms: “Reality is kinda hard to face/Like actual facts is to flat-earthers.” The Playlist: Justin Bieber Boosts a Friend, and 14 More New Songs 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

Before he finished his walk on Thursday night, Petit paused for an unusually long time at the other side of the wire. At 73, ‘Man on Wire’ Philippe Petit still dances high above the void 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

These are the stories shared in the foreign-language films vying for the Oscar this year, an unusually strong field. Oscars 2015: Powerful foreign-language film nominees incite with insight 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

The reason given in the film is accurate: his, er, moral oblivion was unusually large. Kinsey: No sexing-up required 2010-07-08T09:14:00Z

It’s no straightforward survey, and fittingly so: Mr. Le Roy, a former microbiologist who discovered dance well into his 20s, approaches choreography from an unusually expansive lens. Xavier Le Roy’s ‘Retrospective’ at MoMA PS1 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

He was speaking in his office this week about the travails, triumphs, noble struggles and sheer folly in the unusually rich stew of morality tales that are this year’s nine best picture nominees. Rabbi Marvin Hier Talks Best Picture Nominees 2012-02-02T22:55:22Z

And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter. Why the Pilgrims were actually able to survive 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

EDT on Comedy Central, something remarkable and unusually tender happened along with Stephen Colbert being mauled by a bear. 'Night of Too Many Stars' shines on one who's not 2012-10-18T17:47:14Z

Even the amoebalike ensemble, which sometimes seems to swell to include the entire audience of 1,800 citizens, does unusually fine work: a crucial element in a play about the manipulation of crowds. Review: Can Trump Survive in Caesar’s Palace? 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Even given its size and complexity, the World Trade Center has taken an unusually long time to rebuild. What Took So Long? Why the World Trade Center Still Isn't Finished 2011-09-09T09:00:00Z

Although the vast majority of the residents were Magellanic penguins, we also saw a small colony of Gentoos and — unusually — two confused King penguins, a species not normally found in Tierra del Fuego. A father-daughter adventure in Argentina and Chile 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

There is something unusually cacophonous about the displays, and soon enough you work out the reason: unlike in a real supermarket, there is only one of each item. Happiness is a glass half empty 2012-06-15T22:00:43Z

She said it would also be important to look at Hopkins’s founding bequest — which envisioned a hospital that, unusually for the time, treated Black patients, but in separate wards — through a fresh lens. At Johns Hopkins, Revelations About Its Founder and Slavery 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

The notion held promise, but much of the music failed to deliver, and some performances seemed unusually tentative. Music Review | American Symphony Orchestra: Loosening the Reins on Composers After Stalin 2010-03-01T05:50:00Z

Ms. Anderson and Kronos emerged from the avant-garde fringes during the early 1980s, blazing unorthodox trails that would prove durable and unusually popular. Music Review: Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet at Montclair State 2013-05-12T21:34:28Z

Some of that spirit seemed, on Thursday, to fuel an unusually enjoyable evening. Review | ‘Justice at the Opera’: Ginsburg takes center stage at WNO and brings down the house 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

Inspired by the museum’s historic collection of percussion instruments and by the techniques used to play the bodhran, a traditional Irish frame drum, Mr. Dennehy’s “Surface Tension” incorporated an unusually wide spectrum of pitches. Review: ‘Surface Tension,’ Inspired by the Met’s Percussive Collection 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

It’s unusually contemplative and visual, as if she literally needed this breath of fresh air.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

For example, she estimates that 50 percent of this year’s berry harvest molded in unusually heavy spring rains. Why does a strawberry grown down the road cost more than one grown in California? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

“We were all very happy, but not unusually jovial because of liquor,” Esther Newberg clarified. What really happened at Chappaquiddick? A new movie explores the truth we’ll never know. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

The wistful opening movement ventured into unusually dark territory, while the hard-driven finale verged on bombast. Escher String Quartet takes an aggressive approach to chamber music 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

Both have had a lot of success and are considered to be unusually competent at what they do. A New Movie About Female Power Might Explain the Election 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

In faster ones, his playing was often unusually driven, though never so aggressive that the transparency of Bach’s textures or the distinct profiles of his individual lines were sacrificed. Music Review: Intricate Journey Contained in One Multifaceted Work 2011-02-02T22:20:45Z

The capable and unusually capacious supporting cast is likewise fine. | 'Leaving': A New Play by Vaclav Havel Has Its American Premiere 2010-06-08T22:24:00Z

Here again, one suspects that, in its time and place, this was not merely as moving as it remains, but also unusually courageous and dissident. The First English Translation of Hayao Miyazaki’s Favorite Childhood Book 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Long occupying a cherished place in its country’s musical psyche, with an unusually well-defined identity based in British music, it is the kind of orchestra that everyone roots for. A Critic’s First Orchestra Defines Britain’s Musical Soul 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

"I am the sensor," he said, unusually insistent in response to suggestions that the piece be interactive and open-source. T Magazine: Bright Idea 2012-11-29T22:30:55Z

Tony had many strong characters around him and yet it was an unusually harmonious No 10. 'Tony Blair called back to see if I had blown myself up' 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

Yet the musical’s typical weekly gross of $1.3 million is barely enough to cover the unusually high running costs of this technically ambitious show. A Final Bow for Julie?s Taymor?s ?Spider-Man? Vision 2011-04-15T10:33:35Z

The sunlight over Los Angeles looks unusually gray and muted throughout “The Way Back,” set largely in the isolated coastal neighborhood of San Pedro, where, in the late 1920s, homes toppled into the ocean. ‘The Way Back’ Review: Seeking Redemption on the Basketball Court 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

The palm wine served in a hollowed-out gourd has an unusually delicious hint of fermentation, one of Mr. Thiam’s flavoring specialties. A Rare Gem of a Restaurant in Lagos 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

Three decades ago, the economist Sherwin Rosen wrote a paper called The Economics of Superstars, which argued that technology would give unusually talented people in entertainment and sports access to a global market. How to have a pop culture hit like La La Land and Rae Sremmurd 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Today, the NSO does not always communicate the same sense of urgency, though it sounded unusually full and warm in the beautiful acoustics of this iconic hall. ‘There’s still high culture in America’: Why the National Symphony Orchestra went to Moscow 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

My Lion Family is shot in the private South African reserve of Kevin Richardson, who has developed an unusually intimate and relaxed relationship with the 38 lions who live on his property. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-03-02T08:00:02Z

The actresses playing these true-to-life Gen Y losers are unusually privileged in real life. Television Review: Lena Dunham?s ?Girls? Begins on HBO 2012-04-12T18:49:02Z

In an unusually, maybe uniquely, funny amicus brief to the Supreme Court filed last month, The Onion defended him, specifically arguing that for parody to work, mimicry needs to be executed with a straight face. Hey, Elon Musk, Comedy Doesn’t Want to Be Legal 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

Also unusually, its interior is largely undamaged since the Gaskells lived there. Elizabeth Gaskell's Manchester home to get £2.5m restoration 2013-02-13T08:17:36Z

The last year has seen an unusually high number of retirements — six principals have left since October. Chun Wai Chan Promoted to Principal Dancer at New York City Ballet 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

I tell him that he looked unusually nervous when he appeared before the Chilcot inquiry. Jack Straw: 'I didn't have a nervous breakdown, but I was close to one' 2012-09-29T23:07:05Z

Completed in 1791, just months before Mozart’s death, “Clemenza” was written to serve an emperor’s coronation and to earn an unusually handsome commission. Music Review: Mozart’s ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-11-19T23:09:15Z

Another concern: this year’s Tony Awards feature an unusually diverse group of nominees, reflecting the increasingly diverse array of shows staged on Broadway since 2020. How America’s Playwrights Saved the Tony Awards 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

The skeletons were unusually accurate because they were drawn by a trained anatomist, and they also proved prophetic. Dead good 2012-11-14T18:50:22Z

The singer appeared unusually shy but happy in her brief appearance on the catwalk to take in the audience's applause. Rihanna, Issa light up London Fashion Week 2013-02-17T02:46:04Z

It was an unusually adventurous lineup for the Chamber Music Society, which tends to sequester newish or offbeat music in a much smaller recital space, the Kaplan Penthouse. Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Spotlights Albéric Magnard 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

Domestic revenues this year are dragging at $2.2 billion, a 19 percent drop from 2010, whose first quarter was unusually strong because of big business from 2009 holdover "Avatar" and a few other hits. 'Wimpy Kid' rules weekend with $24.4M opening 2011-03-27T19:16:03Z

Trump, who famously declared himself to be “unshackled” from the GOP in a Tweet last week, was unusually calm as the debate began, and unusually, almost free of the sniffles. The Las Vegas Puppet Show: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s substantive final debate signals the show’s almost over 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

It’s a welcome, unusually introspective interlude that slips into the ecstatic when she scrambles up a rock wall and twirls on its summit, laughing, happy, free and alone. Movie Review: ‘Brave,’ Pixar’s New Animated Film 2012-06-21T17:25:04Z

At a ceremony on Monday near the United Nations, Justice Department officials are scheduled to turn over to Mongolian representatives the unusually complete skeleton of the giant raptor, 8 feet high and 24 feet long. Dinosaur Skeleton to Be Returned to Mongolians 2013-05-06T03:00:01Z

The film’s emotional core is Acosta’s complex relationship with his late father who - unusually given his macho, humble milieu - sent him to ballet school to keep him out of trouble. Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta stars in own biopic 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

“Because I think Stephen saw a man with a rather unusually shaped domestic arrangement, he thought: ‘Ah! Hugh Grant contemplates the complexities of a film actor’s life 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

This was an unusually powerful and eloquent rendition of the music, which is a singular collage of items by Felix Mendelssohn, culled from multiple scores by George Balanchine for his two-act drama. City Ballet Closes Its Season With Power and Glow 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

Granted, this Met season has been unusually narrow: In 2015-16, 71 percent of performances have been of operas by Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti or Rossini. The Met Opera Is Struggling. How Can It Fill Those Empty Seats? 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

But despite speculation by some scholars that the cathedral is full of Goodyear’s quirks, Tallon found the building to be “unusually, I’d even say extraordinarily, in plumb.” Washington National Cathedral goes under the microscope

Westlife are one of the last remaining bands from pop's late-90s boom period and have enjoyed an unusually lengthy run of success. Westlife bow out after 15-year ballad career based on hit formula 2012-06-20T13:37:05Z

It was an unusually congenial match, if not an affluent one. Louise Farrenc, 19th-Century Composer, Surges Back Into Sound 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

The acting is solid, with an unusually low-key Juliette Lewis, as the boys’ sympathetic aunt, doing her best to pierce the film’s miasma of pent-up testosterone. ‘Hellion,’ by Kat Candler, Explores Adolescent Alienation 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Sting notes that the volcanic ash from prior eruptions made the ground on the island unusually fertile and lush. ‘Under the Volcano’ Review: Making Music in Paradise 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

The wine list covers the historic old appellations of France, but it also embraces emerging ones and exciting regions from other countries while pricing bottles in a range that’s unusually democratic. Top New York Restaurants of 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

But audiences can expect an unusually punchy Harper, not a hazy victim. She Was About to Quit Acting. Then She Got the Role of a Lifetime. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

But “The Flash” and “Supergirl” and the DC Comics family of shows have something those other programs don’t — casts that have an unusually high proportion of musical theater stars. Can Superheroes Sing? The Flash and Supergirl Give It a Whirl 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

But in Forgetting Natasha, dance, poetry and film integrate with unusually economic force to portray the sad, lonely world of dementia. State of Flux: Forgetting Natasha 2011-08-18T14:52:26Z

Commentators said while the latest film was unusually personal and may have left Miyazaki with a rare sense of completion, they doubted his retirement would hold, noting he had "retired" several times in the past. Japanese anime master Miyazaki hangs up director hat 2013-09-06T09:34:45Z

“This wine is unusually complex, its aroma is full of dried fruit, from apricots to mango and dried figs,” said Tibor Vittek, the editor in chief of the Slovak wine magazine Vinoteka. In Slovakia, a Wine Region Waiting for the Spotlight 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

A former critic for The New York Herald Tribune and New York magazine, Mr. Gruen wrote about music, art, dance and theater, an unusually diverse portfolio for one writer. John Gruen, Cultural Renaissance Man, Dies at 89 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

A ‘Homeland’ in Its Original Packaging, Subtitles, Too The ties that bind Showtime’s “Homeland” and the Israeli show “Prisoners of War” are unusually strong. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Prisoners of War,’ the Israeli Original of ‘Homeland’ 2012-07-24T21:58:51Z

Even after that minor-key finale, upstate New York remains a part of the world unusually rich in orchestras. Orchestras in Albany, Rochester and Buffalo Stay Nimble 2014-04-30T12:32:12Z

It's an unsettling start that ushers us into a riveting, if unusually dark, interpretation of a work commonly described in terms of autumnal wit. Falstaff – review 2012-07-23T16:35:38Z

Ballard, unusually for the time, insisted on raising his three children — the “miracles of life” of his memoir’s title — by himself. ‘Miracles of Life’: J.G. Ballard tells his own story 2013-02-28T00:08:09Z

Some jarring comic absurdism is added through the unusually obtrusive presence of Aunt March’s parrot. Review: ‘Little Women,’ Through British Eyes 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

In a splendid chapter called "Reworkings", the authors show how Munch both needed to revisit images and ideas, and was unusually interested in, and sophisticated about, the 20th-century ability to reproduce and record images. Edvard Munch: the ghosts of vampires and victims 2012-06-22T21:55:13Z

An unusually restrained account of the first movement's exposition was followed by a development section of considerable wildness. Prom 19: BBCSO/Dausgaard – review 2012-07-29T11:10:19Z

The ceilings were unusually high, and light streamed through the tall windows and glass-paned French doors, which opened onto a narrow balcony facing the central courtyard. At Turin Hotel, a Minimalist Mood, With a Dash of History 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

Fans of Loehmann’s attested that its fabled Back Room offered unusually upscale inventory. Loehmann’s Stores Close for Business 2014-02-26T23:27:16Z

The co-directors draw on an unusually rich lode of film and television images that chronicle the family's rise and violent fall. 'Bhutto': A fascinating documentary about the late Pakistani leader 2011-03-03T21:01:04Z

The first album by the Australian band Royal Headache was better than good — rushed, trebly, volatile garage-punk, with a singer who took his job unusually seriously. Review: Royal Headache Releases Its Second Album 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

This production is unusually strong in suggesting the dysfunctional dynamics that operate among Lear’s daughters. Theater Review: ‘King Lear,’ With Michael Pennington, Opens in Brooklyn 2014-03-28T02:00:01Z

Even in the best, least-gratuitous dramas, the naked people of television tend to be unusually good-looking — and mostly women — which is what makes Lena Dunham's normal-body nudity on "Girls" so potent. Comedy should have the last laugh in television 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Christopher Job made an unusually young and attractive Basilio, played as a kind of lounge singer — again, funny, but without the full vocal power to back it up. Thwarting expectations with the standard repertoire 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

The author is treated to an examination of Krebs's brain, preserved for medical research and unusually developed in areas associated with language accumulation. Mezzofanti's Gift: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners by Michael Erard – review 2013-07-28T08:00:00Z

It’s proving to be an unusually cold summer in Hollywood, a sun-drenched town suddenly facing a rather worrying frost. Box office blues: can Netflix save the movie star? 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

It looked unusually neat for a writer’s workplace, but perhaps he’d tidied it up before we arrived. Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

Both of Biden’s predecessors were unusually fashion-forward, and their state dinner ensembles revealed much about how they wanted us to perceive them. Perspective | At the state dinner, Jill Biden stays understated 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Its walls were built unusually high, topped by 2ft of barbed wire. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z

“Sing,” a coming animated movie about a koala-produced vocal competition, may have elbowed its way into the race for best big-screen cartoon, an unusually competitive category this year. Harvey Weinstein Gets Oscar Boost After ‘Lion’ Screening 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

You are unusually sensitive when talking to others today, which will give you a clearer sense of what is going on in their mind. Search Menu Menu The Washington Post ProfileSolid ProfileSolid The Washington Post Wp ArrowRight Comment GiftOutline Loading... 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

Mr. Trump was unusually solicitous about Mr. Schwarzman during the campaign, and reportedly asked aides numerous times if there had been any luck getting him to pledge allegiance. The Man Who Bought New York 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z

All those Americans arrived in town on the back of an unusually strong dollar, cheap rents and cheap food. A writers' weekend in 1920s Paris 2013-02-06T12:17:49Z

It also was an unusually uplifting weekend for Hollywood, with "Dolphin Tale" and the rest of the top-five movies all telling inspirational stories. 'Dolphin' deposes 'Lion' with $14.2M to grab No. 1 2011-10-02T19:46:03Z

If anything, its memorable imagery and range of registers, coupled with a formal restlessness that encompasses everything from loose quatrains to tumbling prose poems, make it an unusually animated and refreshing read. Dear Boy by Emily Berry – review 2013-03-22T19:00:01Z

Naked puppets do freak some people out, and the anatomy on display here is unusually detailed. Review: In ‘Chambre Noire,’ Puppets Make Poetry Painfully Real 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

From that point on, the orchestra's awareness of its own sound, collectively and individually, became heightened to an unusually compelling degree. Prom 36: BBCSO/Bringuier 2010-08-13T10:48:00Z

Though a gifted public speaker, Conlon was unusually unprepared for his remarks and missed a real opportunity in not inviting Arlen onstage for a conversation. 'The Poet in Exile' at the Wallis lacks full picture of Walter Arlen 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

The images are spellbinding: small, exquisite and mostly in color of an unusually subtle kind, due to the complex dye transfer process Porter used. Art Review: Trisha Donnelly in MoMA’s Artist’s Choice Series 2013-01-02T15:59:43Z

The stakes are unusually high in this case. Can Vanna Venturi House and other landmark homes survive the test of new owners? 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

It was an unusually long concert and yet it seemed to pass all too quickly and effortlessly: the tempos judicious, the touch sure, the phrasing eloquent — and the impact elusive. Review: Andras Schiff Deconstructs Sonatas 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

In fact the entire show almost forms an unusually sumptuous graphic novel. Salman Toor, a Painter at Home in Two Worlds 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

It was unusually sentimental for a comedy podcast, but that these old friends got to share this final moment of connection is no small thing. Louie Anderson and the Compassion of America’s Eternal Kid 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

An unusually upbeat beginning to the festival, then, or at least it would have been were Dennehy's upbeats more easily distinguished from his down. Crash Ensemble; Nicolas Hodges – review 2012-11-19T17:53:07Z

Carlson has re-created her 1981 installation “Tough Shift for M.I.T.” by once more taking up a pastry tube to squeeze regularly spaced, unusually tactile little flowers across the walls of a gallery here. Pattern & Decoration: A Movement That Still Has Legs 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

Rebecca is a film about abusive relationships, and the way power might shift within them – and, most unusually, even for its time – its hero is the worst of the abusers. My favourite Hitchcock: Rebecca 2012-08-07T10:54:25Z

Pierce and his colleagues looked at Denmark primarily because the country keeps unusually complete records, allowing them to easily match demographic information with medical prescription records. Study: Earning less than your wife is bad for your libido 2013-02-06T18:38:00Z

Still haunted by the legend of a vampire count and the legacy of a communist dictator, Romania is complex — with an epic history, a multifaceted ethnic mix, and an unusually rich cultural heritage. Bucharest, Romania: Little Paris of the East 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

The jury seemed to take an unusually painstaking approach to deliberations, asking to rehear testimony from half of the prosecution witnesses and to look anew at evidence. Mistrial declared in Bill Cosby sex-assault trial 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

This was unusually cruel, Stitch writes, “because everybody knows how poor Larry loves his winter pickles.” A Wild, Caustic Satire Packed With the Absurd 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

His approach is sly, which makes his Zenith Gallery show the most complex among the unusually large number of current local exhibitions of representational painting. In the galleries: New perspectives on Old Masters 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

It is a small, round oyster with an unusually smooth shell and a distinctive black stripe. Ken Cuccinelli’s post-politics endeavor: oyster farming 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

Unusual amounts of skin are exposed, in unusually direct ways. ‘Claws’ on TNT: That Manicure Comes With a Murder 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

It made unusually visceral his continual harassment by two guards, who either crowded him physically or interrogated him. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

The nose is unusually long and slender, the cheeks gaunt, the baggy skin suggesting a person much older than 25. Newport Beach Film Festival: 'A Brave Heart' shows Lizzie Velasquez's fight 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

But this season brings us an unusually large — and unusually good — selection of books on football. Review | Who says all the best sportswriting involves baseball? Here are six great books on football. 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Making predictions is unusually difficult this year, with few clear-cut favorites, more wild cards than usual and some fierce races involving Hollywood stars, veteran stage actors and past Tony winners. Shoo-Ins Are Few in Heated Tony Race 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Interestingly, the majority of the songs clock in at three minutes or less - making for an unusually taut, focused record. Royal Blood rewrite the rules of rock 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

Dancers and choreographers who have worked with the company say that rigorous training, which includes ballet and folkloric styles, produces a corps of unusually tough, athletic dancers. Cuban Dancers Complete a 5-Decade Trip to New York 2011-05-09T21:17:34Z

He is Andrew Noble, a young scientist from Yale interested in studying the town’s unusually high number of deaf people. A Deaf Girl Finds Her Voice on Martha’s Vineyard in the 19th Century 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

Beyoncé tore open these issues in grandiose, sometimes gothic fashion on “Lemonade,” and Jay-Z addressed them in his unusually introspective album “4:44” last year. Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Ode to Happiness in “Everything Is Love” 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

It is a book that gets unusually close to its subject. Books of The Times: Her Life Since Then: Different Views of It 2011-08-18T23:00:12Z

This is also an unusually literate movie, one that cites Heisenberg’s own famous uncertainty principle the better to bring it to bear on the scenario itself. Review: ‘The Catcher Was a Spy’ Shares a Peculiar History Lesson 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

He got pneumonia and was in intensive care when he should have been touring the nation’s chatshow sofas and, unusually, he genuinely seems to enjoy answering my questions. Michael Moore: ‘Trump inspires his side. It’s like Munich in 1932’ 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

The words carry so much emotion that, unusually for opera, song proved superfluous. The Emails Behind the Opera ‘Eurydice’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

Taking on the major challenge of Siegfried, Andreas Schager generally acquitted himself with distinction, if occasionally sounding stretched; physically, he registered as an unusually plausible young hero. Prom 20: Götterdämmerung – review 2013-07-29T11:54:00Z

The Boston Public Library gained an unusually high profile when it filed a police report in late April: Two artworks worth more than $600,000 had been stolen. Good news and bad news for the Boston Public Library 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

But Jon Hamm is also a celebrity—and one who is treated with unusually probing curiosity by the public at large. Why Jon Hamm Can't Escape Don Draper 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

He puts the two stars' decision to come to Edinburgh, alongside other unusually illustrious names, down to the appeal of creative risk-taking. Edinburgh fringe: A-listers arrive for a renaissance of live theatre 2011-08-06T18:49:17Z

But whether this makes him an unusual, or unusually perfect, choice for the role of Supreme Pontiff in HBO’s “The New Pope,” he would rather not consider. ‘The New Pope’ Looks a Lot Like John Malkovich 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

“Eventually, Black began keeping unusually colored rats, which he decorated with ribbons and sold to women as pets,” Dr. Kalof said. The Cutest Animal on Instagram Is Possibly in Your Trash Can 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

Thompson, the director, does a fine job keeping the narrative clear and moving on a relatively simple two-story set and helping to develop an unusually rich collection of characters. ‘Appomattox’: A superb night at the opera 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

We get the impression that there are, unusually, a lot of them – almost a swarm. Poem of the week: The Man by Maitreyabandhu 2013-07-01T10:29:17Z

Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Last summer, I introduced an event in which a group of writers read pieces they had written for a collection with an unusually specific theme: a single road. Black Vodka by Deborah Levy – review 2013-02-18T19:00:02Z

Maybe because the Rihm was still in my ears, the slow, extended introduction to the first movement seemed unusually elusive, almost evasive. Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

It isn't just that he has the support or encouragement of a good, albeit unusual librarian, and that he has the love of an unusually good stepfather. Irving explores bisexuality in latest best seller 2012-06-28T18:18:42Z

But on a beautiful late afternoon, the band sounds unusually languid. Lollapalooza Day 2: Rain, retro and Eminem 2011-08-07T06:50:00Z

But, an unusually warm and sunny September helped to turn the situation around and several organic growers said they felt vindicated in sticking to their principles. How Organic Champagne Growers Survived the Bad Summer 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

It wasn't quite MI5 phone-tapping, but it wasn't quite cricket either: her mission was to discover what the "ordinary" person thought about the war, and her methods were unusually forensic. Listening to Britain, edited by Paul Addison and Jeremy?A Crang 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z

Turnout for “Top Gun: Maverick” was unusually strong in some areas of the United States that tend to be overlooked by Hollywood, including Tennessee, Oklahoma, Utah, Oregon and northern Florida. ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Lands Triumphantly on Opening Weekend 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z

“Heroes, Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece,” a rousing exhibition at the Onassis Cultural Center in Midtown Manhattan, offers an unusually down-to-earth look at some major heroic figures. Art Review: Those Greek Heroes, Sometimes Behaving Badly 2010-10-21T20:45:00Z

Wearing these garments is unusually revealing, as if you’re wearing a shirt with your own face on it. Shirts for Lifelong New Yorkers and Those Who Would Like to Pass for One 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lubimov is known for playing an unusually broad repertoire, from Baroque music on early instruments to 20th century and contemporary works. Russian Pianist Receives First Cage Cunningham Fellowship 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

The arrival of Love, Simon, an unusually glossy studio comedy about coming out, was a grand step but genuine 3D, IMAX, $100m budgeted visibility is a washout. Stop telling us about LGBT characters in blockbusters – show us instead 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

He likened the choreographic process — a brisk two months, which is unusually fast for him — to watching “Betsy” grow up, just as a person would. Neil Greenberg’s New Dance ‘Betsy’ Is a Wild Child 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

His partners on the album, rejoining him in an unusually chic club setting next week, are the bassist Michael Bisio and the drummer Newman Taylor Baker. Jazz Listings for Jan. 15-21 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

In 2000, Mr. Martins hired her, at 17, to dance in the company’s corps de ballet after six weeks as an apprentice — an unusually quick promotion. A Dancer’s Farewell, Not as Choreographed 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

The Deep Listening Band, a long-running collaboration with the trombonist Stuart Dempster and others, pursues slow, ritualistic improvisation in unusually sonorous acoustics. The Composer Pauline Oliveros Stays Busy at 80 2012-08-11T22:02:08Z

The dimensions of the songs are unusually clear, by Panda Bear standards. Critics? Choice: New Cds: Wrapping Up Life and Death In One Album 2011-04-11T21:45:09Z

A lot of Arthur’s movie-star life is recapitulated, particularly his romance with Miranda, a talented artist who seems to write unusually good comic books. Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Station Eleven,’ a Flu Apocalypse 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

This was an unusually schizophrenic shortlist — a reminder that some 6,000 Academy members fill out ballots and have trouble agreeing with each other or possibly themselves. Oscars 2015 Nominations Analysis: Who Will Take Home the Awards? 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

So began an unusually candid conversation — largely in public view — among the producers of all five shows on Thursday nights at 8 on the major broadcast networks. Guarded Pals In a Critical TV Rivalry 2010-10-06T22:05:00Z

But let’s not forget that there were some unusually strong performances throughout that show: I liked Billy Porter a lot and Brandon Victor Dixon. ‘Hamilton’ and Company: Tony Award Nominees in a Season That Reflected the World 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

He was locked into a Christmas Day release, giving him an unusually short window to complete a film of this scale. ‘1917’ Was an Impossible Mission. Here’s How Sam Mendes Pulled It Off. 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

The average age of filmmakers in the main line-up this year is an unusually low 47, and includes Oscar winner Sofia Coppola, 39, with comic drama "Somewhere." Venice film festival opens and gambles on youth 2010-09-01T11:11:00Z

It’s an unusually weighty roster of roles so early in a career.We fell even harder for Miller when he oh-so-casually announced that he was queer in Out magazine. Salon’s Sexiest Men of 2012 2012-11-14T13:22:00Z

The musical made a profit, unlike most Broadway shows, running for 910 performances, and succeeded in attracting an unusually high number of black theatergoers. 'Color Purple' Revival Names Its Celie and Shug 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

That is what a lot of nominated comedians who missed out on a British comedy award last night will be thinking today, despite painting on obligatory smiles at the unusually well-behaved ceremony in London. British comedy awards: worthy winners? 2012-12-13T09:33:46Z

In an unusually fruitful bit of self-revelation, Gilbert begins her memoir with the realization that she doesn’t want to be both a mother and the primary breadwinner in her household. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

Mr. Jacobson accepted the award to unusually loud and sustained applause at an awards ceremony in London on Tuesday night. ArtsBeat: Booker Prize for Howard Jacobson 2010-10-12T21:43:00Z

Womack spoke didactically, because the question of legacy has become unusually urgent in pop music, and particularly in hip-hop. Lil Peep and the Dilemma of the Posthumous Album 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

They make a memorable conclusion to an unusually tight, idea-filled and troubling show. Review: ‘Kongo: Power and Majesty’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

It helps, of course, that unusually for a polemicist, Bragg was always much more attuned to the mysteries of the human heart than he was versed in political theory. My favourite album: Life's a Riot With Spy Vs Spy by Billy Bragg 2011-08-24T14:13:00Z

Mr. Brötzmann responded with a stretch of unusually songlike playing, one long tone after another, before resuming his eruptive norm. Music Review: A Kind of Orthodoxy Built on Improvisation 2011-06-09T22:53:47Z

With that in mind, on Thursday Mr. Killen published an unusually candid essay on his personal blog, thelettereleven.blogspot.com, pleading for “Lone Star” viewers to recruit more viewers, replete with the humorous offer of yard work. Just Tune In. Please. He?ll Do Anything. 2010-09-24T23:26:00Z

Viewed in that light, connective strands binding the works Mr. Aimard played during a recital at on Wednesday night were unusually direct and clear. Music Review: Strands Tied Into a French Knot 2010-12-10T22:54:00Z

And when Salisbury noted that the end of “Seven” was unusually depressing for Hollywood, Fincher laughed. David Fincher, the Unhappiest Auteur 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

As a whole, this was an unusually well-balanced, well-blended vocal quartet. L.A. Master Chorale delivers a mighty, thrilling Verdi Requiem 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

The show’s finely wrought presentation of objects, furnishings, drawings, photographs and archival material forms a moving, unusually comprehensive look at the art, business and collaborative nature of design. Museum & Gallery Listings for Sept. 30-Oct. 6 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Seats are being offered on the bus; the “excuse me”s and “thank you”s and “after you”s, those minor gestures of politeness that lubricate busy urban life, seem unusually abundant. New York Stands Up to Trump 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

But the themes in “Notes From the Field” are unusually personal, she said in an interview in Cambridge, Mass., in late August. This Time, Anna Deavere Smith Cuts Close to Home 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

It's an unusually slow night for the sellers. Street music: Why face-to-face mixtape selling still matters 2011-01-13T22:30:02Z

Like its show, it is unusually revealing, providing well-rounded views of a complex artist who generally aims to irritate and frequently succeeds. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

The palette is unusually acidic, in the hot and stinging sense. TV Picks: 'Altman,' 'Poirot,' Cartoon Hangover shorts, 'The Killing' 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

But the introductions to the shows and performances were mostly sleekly shot videos, rather than descriptions by celebrities; presenters kept their comments extremely spare, which left more time for unusually well-filmed production numbers. ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Wins Best Musical Tony and ‘Leopoldstadt’ Best Play 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z

It was an unusually mournful hour even for this series. The poignant wisdom of "Men of a Certain Age" 2011-06-08T12:09:00Z

Best animal appearances The little owl with an unusually mobile neck in A Lullaby for the Sorrowful Mystery. Berlin film festival 2016 roundup: serious gems and stylish risks 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

For one thing, unusually for us, there are two concerts focused on Bach. Ingrid Matthews says farewell to Seattle Baroque Orchestra 2012-10-04T20:04:07Z

Even if the “traditional” carries an unusually high occupational hazard rate. How the fearless Wallendas keep their high-wire act going as circuses disappear 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Ms. Beard is unusually good-humored about many of her adversaries. Mary Beard and Her ‘Battle Cry’ Against Internet Trolling 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

The people of Cremona are unusually sensitive to noise right now. To Save the Sound of a Stradivarius, a Whole City Must Keep Quiet 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

All this makes the pope's gesture unusually astute. Raphael: Cartoons and Tapestries 2010-09-06T14:32:00Z

Still, the performance did the job, the music is infectious, and Mr. Gilbert led an unusually urgent “Waltz of the Flowers.” Music Review: The Tried and the True Step in After the Storm 2010-12-29T22:05:42Z

But onstage, singing any of a couple dozen songs about wounds and what it takes to lick them, he clenches tight, as if determined to lift an unusually heavy barbell, and nailing it. Zach Bryan Is Music’s Most Reluctant New Star 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

The festival started unusually early this year, drawing lighter crowds over the Fourth of July weekend. Seattle Chamber Music Society summer fest ends on high note 2013-07-27T21:19:21Z

An unusually physical performer, Mr. Campbell, who is backed by a pop quartet, illustrates songs with broad, decisive gestures that suggest an entertainer still bent on world conquest. Music Review: Broadway Cowboy of Australia 2010-12-01T05:15:00Z

Note: Much of the exhibit lighting is dim to protect the fragile drawings and newsprint, and some of the labeling is in an unusually small font. Pootwaddles and Dunklewimps: Rube Goldberg’s glorious cartoons at MoPOP 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

Former Utah Gov. , asked whether he was too moderate to galvanize Republican voters, responded with unusually strong language as he attacked the lack of trust in Wall Street and the dysfunctional government in Washington. Gingrich under fire in GOP debate 2011-12-16T04:04:00Z

She was said to be unusually good at crying on command. ‘Babylon’: A Guide to the Characters and Their Real-Life Counterparts 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

But unusually the Black Eyed Peas spent the longest amount of time on “Joints & Jam,” their first hit, from when they were as much dance crew as chipper rappers. Music Review: Black Eyed Peas Play Central Park Benefit Concert - Review 2011-10-02T21:57:48Z

Discovered last year in a lump of frozen mud near the city of Yakutsk, the deceased puppy is unusually well-preserved. Prehistoric puppy discovered as Russia’s Far East warms 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

But in Mr. Moayed’s performance, he’s also an unusually well-behaved Hamlet, deferential to the point of meekness. A ‘Hamlet’ Poised Between Cultures (and Languages) 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

But even after the film was shot, Paramount continued to drive an unusually hard bargain. ?The Fighter? Has a Long Count Before Its Release 2010-08-09T22:03:00Z

At its zenith, from roughly the late eighth through the 10th centuries, Córdoba was a place of unusually peaceful coexistence between Christians, Jews and Muslims. The Enduring Echoes of Moorish Spain 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

“My Zoe,” Glenn Kenny wrote in The New York Times, “is an unusually compelling domestic drama with sharp ears, a sharp eye, and up to a point, sharp teeth.” Julie Delpy, Science-Fiction Filmmaker? It’s True 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

I papered my dorm room with art posters and pages from the New Yorker and an unusually beautiful black-and-white shot of Marilyn Monroe. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z

Her talent and charisma, as well as her unusually early interest in choreography, led to a collaboration with Roland Petit while she was still in her teens. Janine Charrat, Ballerina and Choreographer, Dies at 93 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Probably this was just a matter of their unusually long symphonies and inscrutable mysteries contained therein. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Bruckner at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-04-25T21:50:09Z

The Brahms variations followed, played with an unusually light and athletic touch which was not wholly persuasive but nevertheless gathered momentum for the towering fugal conclusion. Leon McCawley ? review 2010-12-03T22:30:00Z

Still, it’s a movement, one that is making it increasingly hard to tell whether you are in a restaurant with unusually good drinks or a bar with unusually good food. A Blurry Line Between Bar and Restaurant 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

That’s part of what makes this director special, and makes “First Love” an unusually satisfying romp. ‘First Love’ Review: Eluding Assassins With the Help of a Boxer 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

I did notice, however, an unusually large number of people wearing hats. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Season Begins 2014-04-30T17:50:19Z

The bees loom large, like creatures from some mutant planet; dangle together in a delicate chain; and fill the air, floating like unusually vivid dust specks. ‘More Than Honey’: A fascinating look at bees 2013-07-11T22:07:21Z

But as portrayed with little ostentation and much insight by Michael Stahl-David, Kevin possesses an honorable commitment to his craft that makes him attractive in an unusually low-key way and quite possibly doomed to fail. | 'Picked': Actors Live Their Double Lives, Both on the Screen and Off 2011-04-21T02:17:30Z

Packaged in an unusually high-quality edition, this book is the next best thing to viewing the artifacts in person or, given Holzer’s thorough explanation of the history of each object, it might be even better. ‘The Civil War in 50 Objects’: emblems of a bloody conflict 2013-07-11T18:49:15Z

Still, she surprised me one evening at an unusually casual dinner I had with her, Quin, and Lucia. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

While the orchestra was relatively large, he kept the performance unusually light. Schubert's surprising relevance: Dudamel mines the promise of youth in trying times 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

"However, I noticed my wife was taking an unusually long time on the toilet. By the time the train arrived, she was still gone." Wife ditches husband on wedding anniversary over alleged 'fat shaming,' says Reddit user 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

It is an unusually bitter, and open, rupture. Seattle Maestro Resigns by Email and Says He Felt ‘Not Safe’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

“The Americans” is an unusually clever, subtle drama that uses the conventions of a Cold War thriller to paint a portrait of a complicated, evolving but not unhappy marriage. ‘The Americans’ Returns to FX With Season 3 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

They are joined in Gioni's exhibition – which features more than 150 artists – by an unusually large number of mid-career and senior British figures, many of them women. Venice Biennale to showcase new generation of young British artists 2013-03-18T19:36:10Z

More dramatic is Chin’s ode to chocolate: unusually intense milk chocolate mousse set on a sliver of devil’s food cake and garnished with brown butter ice cream and a thin hoop of Valrhona chocolate. The Grill Room review: A new reason to go, thanks to Frank Ruta & Co. 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

In an unusually candid interview, Bill Gates merrily accepted the label of “geek.” Teach girls to embrace their inner nerd: Making Silicon Valley look less dorky won’t solve its gender problem 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

Celebrity meltdowns are the stuff of cliché, both on stage and on Entertainment Tonight, but Quilter and director Terry Johnson have made this one unusually particularized, authentic and nonjudgmental. Newsboys Striking, Garland Freaking: Broadway's Newsies and End of the Rainbow 2012-04-03T10:45:13Z

This new drama sounds like some unusually heavy stuff for the network. TV picks for Tuesday: ‘Twisted,’ ‘Total Blackout’ and ‘The Voice’ 2013-06-10T16:58:23Z

Givens said: “Our meta-analysis included an unusually large number of participants. We are confident that our results are robust and accurate.” Eating cheese does not raise risk of heart attack or stroke, study finds 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

Every audience is different, the cast like to say, and on the Saturday the matinee audience was unusually subdued. Wouldn't it be loverly? Behind the scenes at My Fair Lady in Sheffield 2013-01-13T00:05:36Z

Our last Labor Day weekend was unusually quiet, absent the marquee concerts that compete with Airbnb getaways for end-of-summer entertainment budgets. Seattle’s biggest concert weekend in 2 years is here. And it feels kinda weird 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

Rigoletto is initially presented as unusually chilly and detached, with precious little warmth even for his beloved daughter. Review: Santa Fe Opera Offers ‘The Daughter of the Regiment,’ ‘Rigoletto’ and ‘Salome’ 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Somewhat unusually for an Ailey dancer, he had an impressive career before he arrived at the company. Ailey’s New Secret Weapon: The Heroically Unmannered James Gilmer 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

The question of what will become of the great 20th-century American houses has a particular urgency in Southern California, where an unusually high percentage of architectural landmarks are hidden away in the private realm. Can Vanna Venturi House and other landmark homes survive the test of new owners? 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

It’s been an unusually strong set which makes predictions rather tough but here’s a look at what films are in with a decent chance. Cannes 2016: follow the ceremony as the winners are announced - live! 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

Onstage with his band, Little Feat, George—unusually—played slide guitar almost exclusively, working a Stratocaster with a Sears Craftsman 11/16-inch socket worn on his left little finger. Bonnie Raitt and the Fugitive Emotions Evoked by Slide Guitar 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

When the week was over, the bandleader Will Osborne, whose orchestra famously included unusually many trombones and slide trumpets, offered him a contract, and they headed east. Jim Copp, the Forgotten Virtuoso of Children’s Storytelling 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

“There was an unusually large public interest in the proceeding,” Dixon said. Rebel Wilson to have $1.1m legal costs paid by Bauer Media after losing bid for more 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

This summer it gets one, secondhand, in “Lush Life,” a big and unusually ingenious group show spread over nine galleries, all but one on the Lower East Side. Art Review: Galleries Interpret Richard Price?s ?Lush Life? 2010-07-08T22:35:00Z

I’ve never seen Winston Churchill’s paintings in person, but what strikes me vividly even in reproduction is their unusually open and lucid sense of space. Churchill’s Aura, and Bright Colors, Draw New Fans to His Art 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

Also, there's likely to be death, danger and grime under the nails in good kids' historical fiction; and unusually, it appeals across the board to both girls and boys. Old stories for young readers 2011-02-24T10:32:26Z

Museum validation helped push up the price of this unusually approachable image of a sunset seen through exotic foliage. A Rothko Tops Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Auction 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

None of these smart choices would matter if the performers could not make hay of them, but Sher has assembled and tuned an unusually fine cast of opera singers who can actually act. Review: In ‘Intimate Apparel,’ Letting the Seamstress Sing 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z

Hoadley said the trial garden was probably unusually prone to the disease because of the concentration of aster-family plants grown there over a long period, including coneflowers. Coneflower options abound. A recent trial sought to find the best ones. 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

“Blue” will have a sixteen-week run at the Apollo — unusually long for the theater, which is in the midst of an expansion of both its physical spaces and its programming. Phylicia Rashad to Direct ‘Blue’ at the Apollo Theater 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

Its structure is unusually egalitarian, with equal billing given to composers, choreographers, filmmakers, writers and designers. Satellite Collective Puts on Varied Program at BAM Fisher 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Theirs is playing of unusual, and unusually effective, liberty. This String Quartet Has a Line of Craft Beer 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Natural gas supplies nationally were plentiful, gas production was unusually high, and by midsummer storage facilities were brimming with the stuff. Hedge fund’s wild side: The man who lost $8 billion 2013-06-01T20:30:00Z

“The storytelling in ‘Atlanta’ is dreamlike, which is another way of saying that it’s unusually realistic,” Poniewozik wrote in his review of the second season for The Times. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘grown-ish’ and ‘Atlanta’ 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

The Huntington, unusually for the announcement of a major acquisition, declined to provide any images of the materials. Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

Doesn’t the number of dance farewells this year seem unusually large? Goodbyes to the Lord of the Dance and Mademoiselle Non 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Get ready to make a long trek to Washington state this summer, because the Sasquatch! music festival has announced its lineup and it’s an unusually strong line-up. See Outkast, Robyn & Royksopp, Soundgarden and Frank Ocean at Sasquatch This Summer 2014-02-04T16:13:48Z

Consumers have . . . been unusually willing to accept higher prices lately. Big food raking in huge profits from price hikes as US hunger persists 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

It ran in late 2012 at the same time as the Pacino-led “Glengarry” revival, which was a box office smash during an unusually long preview period before opening to mixed reviews. Al Pacino Will Return To Broadway in New Mamet Play 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

It was scripted as shot — they wanted a single shot of him walking away out of frame, waiting an unusually long moment, and then returning and, without pause, throwing himself off the building. Miguel Sapochnik on ‘Game of Thrones,’ and Making 70 Horses Feel Like 3,000 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

Hader, who directed much of the series, including the full final season, is unusually talented at depicting mayhem for someone from his comedy background — although maybe his gift owes something to that background. In the ‘Barry’ Finale, Hollywood Gets Away with Murder 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

The Sept. 11 attacks fall into the category of what some psychologists call flashbulb memories: moments of collective trauma about which people have unusually vivid recollections. 6 Podcasts That Go Deeper on the Headlines 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

Several people noted that they often exceed that goal, but 2020 was an unusually distracting year. Perspective | Conquer ‘Moby-Dick,’ finish ‘Infinite Jest’: Avid readers share their resolutions for 2021 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

The last time I saw Ms. Plummer she was unusually subdued, bringing clarity and restraint to an earlier Williams misfit, Miss Alma in “Summer and Smoke,” in a 2006 production in Hartford. Theater Review: Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif in Tennessee Williams Rarity 2013-06-21T20:53:00Z

You don't have to be unusually sensitive to make a good stab at what prompted that sentence, that italicised "are". Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin ? review 2011-08-04T09:00:06Z

As "Finding Neverland" prepares to open Wednesday after a gestation period of nearly five years and a budget of at least $20 million, the theater world finds itself with an unusually big bet. 'Finding Neverland' ready to fly after a bumpy trip to Broadway 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

His sense of humor on the ceremony's center stage was so caustic that Downey, Jr., remarked on stage that Sunday's ceremony was "unusually mean-spirited." Golden Globe audience up, Gervais' hosting panned 2011-01-17T20:20:57Z

Bada is an unusually charismatic figure, one whose life encompassed dramatic shifts of fortune, and whose work holds mysteries yet to be understood. Review: Bada Shanren, Chinese Art Superstar, Takes a Bow at the Freer 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

The success of Frieze New York can be attributed to its points of difference — fine-food offerings and a serpentine, unusually light-filled tent — but also some basic market factors. Frieze New York Expanding Its Scope 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Intensely curious, he was unusually open-minded and eager to explore new ideas. Design: Gio Ponti, Designer of a Thousand Talents 2011-06-19T18:00:05Z

Every so often, Britain's biggest concert halls transform themselves into ceilidh barns, honkytonk bars or folk cellars, as musicians try to recreate the spirit of an after-hours jam session for an unusually large audience. The Floating Palace ? review 2012-02-09T18:05:00Z

She’s also been a finalist in a Jamie Oliver contest on healthful foods, a regular TV guest on Q13, and a genuine if unusually young evangelist for the joys of nutritious meals. Woodinville wundercook brings skills to Food Network 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

For years, an unusually star-studded social life has been for Mr. Cohen, 42, a perk of his work in television, originally at CBS News, where he worked for 10 years, then in entertainment. The Six Degrees of Andy Cohen 2011-01-07T22:42:55Z

Gutierrez, who had a podcast called “Are You for Sale?,” has been unusually frank about the financial precariousness of artists’ lives in New York. Miguel Gutierrez Awarded New York Live Arts Residency 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

Together these exhibitions provide an unusually complete picture of his subversive wit and rather restrained, almost classic sense of beauty, not least because he uses the two locations for call-and-response exchanges. Last Chance: Martin Creed’s Solo Shows at Gavin Brown and Hauser & Wirth 2013-12-17T22:13:14Z

Mr. Perrotta owes at least some of his prominence as a novelist to his success in Hollywood, where he has an unusually high hit rate for adaptations. Tom Perrotta Returns to Familiar Turf: Sex, Schools and Suburbia 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

And several parking garages by Jasper D. Ward, another local and underappreciated architect, reimagine the most banal of building types as concrete sculptures, unusually alert to their urban context. Louisville Wrestles With Freeway Dilemma 2012-09-26T14:52:51Z

Episode two of the final season of Game of Thrones was called A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, a grand and unusually courtly title for a drama defined by political opportunism and devious backstabbing. This week's Game of Thrones: a booze-fest – and the most moving episode yet 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

The program is geographically and stylistically diverse, as usual, but it is also unusually strong, one of the best in years. Critic?s Notebook: Modest Methods, Big Ambitions 2011-03-22T22:58:03Z

That was a scenario that anyone could identify with, he added, even if “unusually, John and Holly cannot apologize to each other because of terrorist action.” Yippee Ki Yay: ‘Die Hard’ Comes to the Christmas Stage 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

She asserts that the most important aspect of the park may be its costumed interpreters, who are unusually well trained. Theme Park Review: Where Park Visitors Answer a Call to Battle 2011-06-21T17:14:18Z

He offered an unusually robust account of Mussorgsky’s “Bydlo” movement, and let the chords linger sumptuously in “The Old Castle.” Jon Kimura Parker’s ‘Rite’ packed with power | Classical review 2013-05-09T17:32:36Z

Her new picture, “My Zoe,” in which she also stars, is an unusually compelling domestic drama with sharp ears, a sharp eye, and up to a point, sharp teeth. ‘My Zoe’ Review: Julie Delpy’s Provocative Family Drama 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

It was a beautiful wine to savor on the patio on an unusually cool August evening. A 3-point plan for choosing wine you really want to drink 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

Mostly, this unusually dynamic “Streetcar” plays more on our nervous system than with our hearts. Review: A Darwinian ‘Streetcar’ With a Feminist Streak 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

“We had a relationship that was unusually … intense,” she said of her affair with Brody. ‘Homeland,’ Season 6, Episode 9: Why Is Everyone Stating the Obvious? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

It opens at No. 2 with 137,000 copies, about 87 percent of which were digital downloads, an unusually high proportion. ArtsBeat: Lady Antebellum Bests ‘Great Gatsby’ on Album Chart 2013-05-15T18:45:01Z

The store is overrun by a mob of unusually lumpen bargain hunters, and the riot that ensues is a bloody doozy, coming off like an amalgam of George A. Romero and Jean-Luc Godard. ‘Thanksgiving’ Review: Gobble, Gobble, Gasp 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z

In a neighborhood of carefully maintained majestic brownstones and an unusually strong block association, NYRP's long-standing practice of respecting community values played an essential role in the resulting design for the space. McLeod’s Community Garden : Bette Midler's Green Thumb Revitalizes Community Gardens 2014-05-05T04:00:00Z

An overflowing crowd stood on all sides of the small stage, but I was fortunate to be seated unusually close to the dancers. Nrityagram Dancers at the Temple of Dendur at the Met 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gordon’s “Clouded Yellow” was unusually bright and airy; in “Love Bleeds Radiant,” by Dan Visconti, a sentimental theme purred through recorded crackle and explosive outbursts to a peaceful resolution. Music Review: A Quartet Mixes It Up With Younger Voices 2010-10-11T22:00:00Z

Samuels promised the guests would be "unusually emotional and painfully candid". Men's Hour kicks off with Louis Spence's digestion woes 2010-07-18T22:46:00Z

The TV series used only 10 minutes of the interview — said to be unusually candid and controversial — but the remaining 59 minutes of it have recently been discovered in London and restored for this film. At A Theater Near You: SAM's 'Asian Light' film series and more 2011-11-10T22:21:04Z

From the start, Whiteside has been unusually candid about his experience, taking to social media to discuss his injury and rehabilitation. After a Severe Injury, James Whiteside Is Dancing on a New Knee 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z

Hiccups, some more serious than others, accompanied both my meals at Kaliwa, where my first taste of lumpia was of raw ground pork in the center of an unusually pale fried roll. With three cuisines on the menu, Kaliwa takes diners on a journey 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

One minute into the video is a rare photo of a very young Balanchine looking unusually puckish and wildly alive. Balanchine and Toumanova, in a Teenager’s Eyes 2012-07-19T23:27:56Z

That changed this year, making it an unusually active run for coffee books. | Books for the Coffee Lover 2012-12-14T16:59:58Z

One girl, unusually expert, mentioned that her grandmother had sheep on her farm. Review: Shakespeare for the Very Young (Sheep Ears Included) 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

"In a way, unusually for most pop singers, they actually got better as they went on," he says. Bee Gees 'on a par with Beatles' 2012-05-21T15:36:29Z

During their quarrel I thought, with absolute earnestness, “Wow, these porcupines have an unusually spacious apartment.” Review: ‘Sing’ Gives Animated Belters a Stage 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

It will focus on Dalí after World War II — an unusually long late phase when his publicity stunts made him a celebrity but also alienated the art world. Week Ahead: Aug. 1-7 2010-07-29T14:33:00Z

The diversity of the movies was unusually strong. Global box office 2012 sales up 6 percent; China sales spike 2013-03-21T22:48:43Z

This unusually humane gesture has a feline motivation, too. The Bittersweet Announcement of a New Beatrix Potter Book 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Some sculpture entries are unusually strong and/or playful this year. Seattle Erotic Art Festival marks its 10th anniversary 2012-06-21T20:30:06Z

All four shows are making huge sums because of dynamic pricing, a supply-and-demand strategy that is a primary reason why Broadway has weathered the economic downturn unusually well. New Pricing Strategy Makes the Most of Hot Broadway Tickets 2011-11-25T02:45:52Z

This is hardly a criticism, since Dr. Kandel is an unusually engaging person with a pretty amazing biography. 2010-01-08T03:32:00Z

Stonestreet shoots his final scene with Lily and wraps his day just before 6 p.m., about an hour later than expected but unusually early for an actor on a weekly series. On the "Modern Family" set with Eric Stonestreet 2010-04-13T03:29:00Z

But Ms. Cattrall has been unusually fortunate in the caliber of her collaborators. She and Her New City: Kim Cattrall Does London 2010-04-02T15:08:00Z

When I saw "Captive State," the theater was unusually empty. "Captive State" is boring 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Perseverance brings rewards: the haunting funk grind of The Seer Returns or the unusually pretty Karen O-sung Song for a Warrior, an ethereal country ballad. Swans: The Seer – review 2012-08-23T20:00:01Z

But the evening mostly feels like a night at the karaoke bar in the company of unusually talented singers. | 'Power Balladz': Head-Banging Anthems at Midtown Theater 2010-08-20T02:01:00Z

Newly divorced, Calvin is unusually empathetic and selfless; he takes in Teddy, who arrives from Illinois completely numb after Sabrina’s disappearance. Can You Illustrate Emotional Absence? These Graphic Novels Do 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

He was signed by the august record label Deutsche Grammophon when he was just 15, and at 18 was named an unusually young Young Artist of the Year by Gramophone magazine. Jan Lisiecki, Piano’s Doogie Howser, Comes of Age With Chopin 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

Perhaps most important, this gathering also celebrates unusually ecumenical, eyes-first ways of looking — the search for convincing ratios of innovation to authenticity. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

And – unusually – there's a lot of happiness in it too. Eleanor Birne's top 10 books on motherhood 2011-03-30T15:44:16Z

The three dehydration deaths in 2013 — two of them men in their 20s doing geological research — was an unusually high number. Deep in the heart of Big Bend National Park 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Anthony Howell's Trigorin, the destructive celebrity author, is unusually convincing: not a swaggerer or a smirker but a lethally hesitant presence. The Effect; The Seagull; The Trojan Women – review 2012-11-18T00:06:26Z

Comparisons with previous years are difficult, given the extra day's holiday this year and the fact that Easter was unusually late. Royal wedding apathy matches passion in Britain 2011-04-28T11:51:35Z

How interesting that play will be is hard to tell from the two episodes sent to critics, which are mostly spent setting up what feels like an unusually elaborate premise. Television Review: ‘Banshee’ on Cinemax 2013-01-10T23:03:47Z

My inspiration was the old 1940s horror movie The Wolf Man, starring Lon Chaney, in which – unusually – the werewolf was portrayed as a victim. How we made An American Werewolf in London 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

And in a society defined by placing unusually high value on group conformity, their forthright espousal of abnormality becomes a creative source. Art Review: Anxiety on the Fault Line 2011-03-17T22:31:02Z

What bothered me more than not hearing “I’m sorry” was that nobody acted as though half an hour was an unusually long time to keep customers waiting. Adventure (Try a Goat’s Head?) Is Still on the Menu at Babbo 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

This would have mattered less had the film been illuminated by any unusually distinguished acting. Elizabeth Taylor: how Guardian critics rated her films 2011-03-24T08:30:00Z

This season saw an unusually large number of works by Black writers, and that created more opportunity for Black performers, directors, and designers, some of whom were nominated for Tonys. ‘A Strange Loop’ Nominated for 11 Tonys as Broadway Lauds Comeback 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

With more than 6,000 customers accounting for more than 35,000 different locations — mostly restaurants and bars — HotSchedules has an unusually clear view of how the pandemic has shocked the service industry. Inside the Social World of Shift-Scheduling Apps 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

But as this is the policy a well-adjusted movie star might adopt, talking about it only reinforces the impression of someone unusually at peace with himself. Michael Fassbender: ‘I was a bit of a worrywart. I’ve tried to work on that’ 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

There was the visceral appeal of Mr. Kavakos’s beautiful tone, which is unusually even across the range of his Stradivarius. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace at Zankel Hall 2014-03-05T23:16:12Z

In song recitals she has an unusually gregarious stage presence and dispenses with the often off-putting formality of recitals, which she says needs “to be booted into the 21st century” to survive. Joyce DiDonato Takes On ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Met 2012-12-30T05:03:03Z

An unusually high number of those first-timers came back to the ballet, she said: about 7 percent. A Giant Photo Connects Fans to Ballet Stars 2014-01-27T03:25:00Z

On an unusually mild Monday morning in December 2015, Heather Purdin was fiddling with her ponytail, just as she always does when she is nervous. Anorexia: you don’t just grow out of it | Carrie Arnold 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

"We acquired it because we believe Jonah Lehrer is an unusually talented writer with a distinctive approach to a subject with enormous appeal," Karp said. Jonah Lehrer has deal for new book 2013-06-07T03:33:08Z

The Finale was, unusually, more moving, with its seesawing between peace and war; in van Zweden’s smooth, happy-minded rendition of the work, neither too heavy nor hectoring, it was no surprise which side eventually triumphed. The Philharmonic Tests Its New Home With the Classics 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

His willingness to bare his soul and tell us his culinary secrets is unusually generous. In ‘Zahav,’ Michael Solomonov Explores Israeli Food 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Papanek wasn’t the first designer to advocate a sustainable, inclusive approach to design — R. Buckminster Fuller did so in the 1920s — but his vision was unusually coherent. Design: Victor Papanek: An Early Champion of Good Sense 2011-05-15T17:30:06Z

Even so, the puppets are making rehearsals unusually taxing. The gay puppet stars of Or You Could Kiss Me 2010-10-03T20:59:00Z

Instead Mueller opted for youth -- the average age of directors in the main competition is an unusually low 47 -- and Hollywood misfits rather than A-listers this year. Venice film fest fights its corner as crisis bites 2010-09-07T10:50:00Z

It was still nearly three months before the album release — unusually early for such a high-profile booking. Sam Smith, Up For Six Grammys, Is Getting Used to Arenas 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

And in an unusually subtle way -- for "Rescue Me" -- everything seemed to dovetail. "Rescue Me" recap: Season 7, Episode 2: "Menses" 2011-07-21T14:30:00Z

The result is an unusually self-revealing show, especially when you factor in the 16 de Kooning catalogs vandalized into hybrid collaborations; the fictive, mad-bibliophile library; and a catalog to die for. 28 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

An unusually sweet moment in the current exhibition is a group of 16 miniature works, displayed in a vitrine as if in a little gallery, that Burri sent the Sweeney family at Christmastime. Alberto Burri, a Man of Steel, and Burlap 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

If such pictures are unusually spare, they don’t break with the artist’s established style. Review | In the galleries: Studies in ‘anti-landscapes’ and seeing the unseen 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Antitrust is an unusually arcane area of the law, not easily accessible to a wide public. Amy Klobuchar on Breaking Up Giant Corporations 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

At the end of the fifth episode this season, Midge looks out a cab window to see him passed out in a gutter, like Edgar Allen Poe, in an unusually dark moment for the show. Why Midge and Lenny are the Carrie and Big of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

It was a clever decision to follow it up with Fauré’s Requiem, an unusually sunny and hopeful setting. Review: Ginastera and Fauré, With a Nod to Prince 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

The composer himself conducted most of the rest of the score, which was recorded over an unusually lengthy period of about six months. 'Star Wars' surprise: Gustavo Dudamel conducted parts of 'The Force Awakens' score 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

And after several performances, the walk home features a sky full of unusually bright stars. Dance Review: Vail International Dance Festival Presents 4 Premieres 2012-08-07T21:57:02Z

Variously comical, stately, architectural and gestural, these pieces erupt from the gallery’s expansive concrete floors like unusually well-shaped mesas, turning the totality into an exhilarating indoor landscape. Art Review: Sculpture in High Relief 2011-05-19T22:00:20Z

Corea was unusually attentive in the way he worked with musicians, his sense of generosity and mentoring. Chick Corea, the Master Mixer of Jazz’s Past and Future 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

Adams writes for unusually versatile singers equipped with Broadway goods and classical training. John Adams' 'Ceiling/Sky' remains earthbound 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

In this etching the figure of Fame slouches beneath a weed-strewn bust, in an unusually ambivalent meditation on artistic celebrity. Art in Review: GIOVANNI BENEDETTO CASTIGLIONE 2012-06-28T19:45:37Z

The medieval comedy follows two bickering princes on a quest to rescue a kidnapped bride, and unusually was filmed entirely in Northern Ireland. VIDEO: Your Highness is 'best movie ever' 2011-03-29T15:52:12Z

Then there's this scene, of a woman falling from an unusually great height onto something. Flick Teaser: Craving Craven? Scream 4 more 2011-01-19T13:00:10Z

But despite this twist the piece seems in total little more than an expert, unusually conceptual waxwork. Art Review | 'Skin Fruit': Anti-Mainstream Museum?s Mainstream Show 2010-03-04T23:28:00Z

The two are naked and depicted in an unusually natural way, curvy and fully human unlike much of the art from the Byzantine era, which tends to be more stiff and formal. Discovering the Ruins of Italy’s Ionian Coast 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

The revocation was an unusually strong step for the Academy. The Carpetbagger: Academy Rescinds Song Nomination for ‘Alone Yet Not Alone’ 2014-01-30T02:12:49Z

But many of those gains were erased in the last three years, following an unusually warm winter in 2007, and then the recession. Furriers Lure Young Designers 2010-03-10T23:53:00Z

While the concert didn't yield the Pecknold/Newsom collaboration some fans probably hoped for, it was nonetheless a tale of two voices, each unusually moving, backed by strong and un-showy musicianship. Concert review: Joanna Newsom and Robin Pecknold at The Moore 08/04/10 2010-08-05T18:14:00Z

The horns played beautifully in the Adagio, and Schwarz went for the big contrasts in the finale — an unusually quiet opening statement of the big theme, followed by a dramatic and powerfully effective crescendo. A mighty Ninth and soaring voices 2011-12-29T17:30:06Z

There's also a Wag skit, which – unusually – avoids the cliches, and exaggerates to absurdity these women's total acquiescence to their partners' lives and careers. Katy Brand 2010-04-23T21:00:00Z

Best vampire: Didn’t it seem like an unusually snappy and sunny year, just because we didn’t have to watch another “Twilight” movie? Film tradition continues with ‘Dubious Achievements’ 2013 2014-01-02T22:59:42Z

Dance Project, all accomplished, are unusually vivid and individual. L.A. Dance Project Has Vivid Performers and Fine Repertory. There’s Just One Problem. 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

An unusually high number mounted only two in the four-month fall season. When the Art Stared Back and Other Trends 2010-12-17T14:43:28Z

But after an unusually wet winter, all the couples in the area broke up and Mr. Kahn, then 39, and Ms. Creed, 27, got together. The King of D.I.Y. Dwellings 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

In some cases, they’ve been injured through confinement; in others, their unusually shaped bodies make their lives harder. Are Disability Rights and Animal Rights Connected? 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

But it is an unusually forceful one, visual as well as aural. Poem of the week: Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson 2011-03-14T11:48:11Z

Since forming in 1999, Good for Cows has been an acoustic band, if an unusually noisy one. Playlist: Making Mischief Along With the Melodies 2010-02-27T03:47:00Z

The audience at the Capitol cinema in London during the middle week of April 1926 witnessed an unusually bold declaration of authorship. A Hitch in time: save the Hitchcock 9 2011-08-18T21:00:01Z

What is unusually wrong with this Maxim Korea cover? Worst headline of 2014? 2014-02-15T23:00:00Z

He is aided here by an unusually small performing area that forces the singers into close proximity with one another, albeit as part of a less than satisfactory stage arrangement. Review: Iphigenia Travels From Aulis to Tauris (and Back Again) on Brussels Stage 2009-12-16T07:25:00Z

For a show aimed at children, this bleakly whimsical import from the Slingsby theater company in Adelaide, Australia, seems unusually comfortable with sorrow. | 'The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy': An Orphan?s Adventures, Ripe for the Telling 2011-05-02T21:32:52Z

“But most folks will agree that a super bloom entails an unusually large and colorful display of wildflowers that result from substantial and well-timed rains.” 10 Places to See Wildflowers in the West 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z

Most unusually, for a work of conceptual art, this masterpiece of montage is deliriously entertaining. | Tick, Tick, Tick 2011-01-28T20:10:58Z

But he dismissed it as just another bad night, just as he dismissed the feeling of being unusually tired the next day. A $30 Alarm Can Stop a Silent Killer. Why Many Hotels Don’t Install Them. 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z

The project represents an unusually large financial commitment by the city to move an arts organization — in this case, a critically acclaimed theater company from Manhattan — into Brooklyn. Shakespeare Troupe Starts Building Brooklyn Theater 2011-06-24T23:34:25Z

Coming back to the South, I see now how the landscape is unusually strong. Q&A: Frances Mayes on the Lure of Southern Landscapes 2014-04-24T17:45:21Z

Loosening the Devil’s Grip in Louisiana The Devil is in the entrails in “The Last Exorcism,” an unusually restrained and genuinely eerie little movie perched at the intersection of faith, folklore and female puberty. | 'The Last Exorcism': Loosening the Devil?s Grip in Louisiana 2010-08-27T00:30:00Z

It’s an unusually dark Christmas at the movies. What Movie Should You See This Christmas? 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Still, boasting a brisk pace, a jubilant tone and a generous endowment of gags and masks, this 90-minute “Miser” is an unusually accessible, enjoyably lively rendition of a classic. Faction of Fools’ ‘The Miser’ generates a windfall of wit 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

Expect the unexpected: This is an unusually fluid awards season, and most of the top categories still feel up for grabs. What will be nominated? Our expert makes his predictions. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

The method allows her to blend colors and results in unusually vivid hues. In the galleries: ‘Spring Solos’ at Arlington Arts Center 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

As this summary suggests, the life recounted here is one of unusually intense emotional extremes of the sort that can make for powerful writing. What’s More Appealing: Eight Seasons of ‘Suits’ or Six Volumes of Karl Ove Knausgaard? 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

Such prose was clearly unpublishable in its time, and is still unusually explicit today. House of Earth by Woody Guthrie – review 2013-02-14T12:00:01Z

The music did the talking as a rapt audience made for an unusually tranquil atmosphere compared to the usual festival bustle. The Complete Glastonbury Festival Post Mortem: 30 Top Moments 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

On Aug. 20, 1910, unusually vicious winds whipped through Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene Mountains, where firefighters had been keeping a number of small yet pesky wildfires in check all summer. Are the American West’s Wildfires Inevitable? 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

Other big budget new releases, Jupiter Ascending and Seventh Son, fared poorly in a field that was unusually crowded for early February. Spongebob unseats 'American Sniper' at top of U.S. box office 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Yet another boon, at least in terms of its literary pulling power, is the unusually high degree of technology even in relatively unsophisticated office chairs. Design: Taking a Zoological Approach to Chairs 2011-04-24T14:48:15Z

This indicates that Andrew’s story is being narrated, unusually, as part of the trajectory of the long Jewish past. An Unusual Jewish Novel, Full of Blood and Incense 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

Coming from a prominent Austrian family, and with long experience in journalism, politics and business, Rabl-Stadler, 73, has indeed been unusually — perhaps uniquely — suited to the job of Salzburg’s de facto chief networker. After a Quarter-Century, the Queen of Salzburg Calls It Quits 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

As Payne and Chakrabarti acknowledged when I talked to them for Radio 4, both plays make unusually hard demands on their performers. Why theatre awards are the hardest to give 2012-11-28T12:28:39Z

In particular, unusually for a well-favoured suitor, he's prepared to contain his carnal urges lest their gratification harm his beloved. Twilight: the franchise that ate feminism 2010-07-12T16:07:00Z

And — unusually for curators these days, he said — he rolls his own. In Search of Enheduanna, History’s First Named Author 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

The expression on the mother’s face here is an unusually complex mixture of tenderness and worry. Parenting While Black: Titus Kaphar’s Starkly Powerful Works 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

The title of this movie proves unusually apt: You will figure out its climactic plot twist within the first 10 minutes. ‘10 Minutes Gone’ Review: A Forgettable Shoot-’em-Up 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

“We would try to accommodate such visitors, saying in an unusually loud voice, ‘It is not a museum, but we’d be delighted to show it,’ ” Fred wrote. In the footsteps of Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Noah Webster 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

It is a bit of an oddity on Broadway — more subtle than showy, long on loneliness and short on spectacle — with aching performances and unusually artful lyrics. 2018 Tony Nominations: ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘SpongeBob’ Lead the Way 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

The dispute grew unusually bitter, with the orchestra cutting off health insurance for the striking players. San Antonio Symphony to Dissolve Amid Labor Dispute 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

But Magnusson is keen to credit Bergman for the unusually powerful and intelligent roles he created for his actresses. Beauty and the beast: Ingmar Bergman’s flawed way with women 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z

The lack of clear structure, much less traditional linearity, turns reading into an unusually active process. Books for Art Lovers 2012-11-22T20:15:43Z

They are distinguished by their unusually flaky crusts and wide selection, which run from traditional fillings like callaloo and ackee to a beef-and-cheese mixture that imitates a cheeseburger. Discover Miami’s Eclectic Bakery Scene 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

So, why not start off your next soirée with a cocktail both unusual and unusually revitalizing? Two Cocktails to Try Before Summer Ends 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

“It used to be the weather,” she said, but because the forecast calls for unusually balmy temperatures next week, now it’s “my final checklist.” With $90 million raised, Trump’s inaugural team is ready to party 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

He is also unusually obsessed with grief and loss. This Novel Surprised Our Reviewer: It Didn’t Make Him Cry 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

“Jess is unusually gifted in so many ways,” Mr. Mayer continued. Jessie Mueller, as Herself, After a Starry Night 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

Today the exposed lake bed is a strange feature, wet in some sections and white with saline in others — an unusually visible example of the effects of water diversions. Rugged Country, Rugged History in California?s Owens Valley 2010-05-06T21:41:00Z

The curious emphases in Mr. Sheeran’s rhyme schemes read as unusually lumpy in the hands of such a polished group. Critic’s Notebook: One Direction Rides Boy Band Wave With ‘Take Me Home’ 2012-11-14T17:42:27Z

But such records tend to be for advance ticket sales or most trailer views – they do not tend to register unusually high levels of online dissatisfaction. Ghostbusters trailer is most disliked in YouTube history 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Richie Carlsen, a lobsterman who runs a gym and coaches the high school soccer team, said Salt was unusually bustling and refined. Wanted: A Nice Dinner Place for a Maine Island With a Long, Hungry Winter 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

But it was unusually lopsided, with the first half devoted to a single work, L-E-V’s “Killer Pig.” At Fall for Dance, Flamenco, Clowning, Classical Moves and a Bit of Homicide 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

Coming a day after nominations for the bellwether Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Globes nominations may help those who monitor such things find order in the chaos of an unusually scrambled awards season. The Carpetbagger: What to Look for in the Golden Globe Nominations 2013-12-12T11:00:24Z

It is, he told The New York Times in an interview, unusually expressive and personal. Review: Doleful ‘Vespers’ Pray for an Earth in Crisis 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

Once Mr. Cogeval consented to the exhibition, the men faced another challenge — an unusually short 14 months to organize in order to fill an opening in the museum schedule. Paris Gawks Again at the Guillotine 2010-05-07T11:44:00Z

On a recent, and unusually balmy, summer evening in the Marylebone neighborhood of London, families strolled outside landmark Georgian townhouses and into small playgrounds with lush gardens lined with oak trees. Adding Celebrity Sizzle to a London Neighborhood 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

The new film “Dina,” which advertises itself as a “real-life romantic comedy,” is an unusually penetrating example of this type of picture. Review: In the Documentary ‘Dina,’ a Differently Abled Love Story 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Poet and author Ruth Padel, who chairs this year's judging panel, hailed the lineup's "unusually wide range". Forward poetry prize avoids Nobel laureate clash 2010-07-20T22:59:00Z

Heflin, a gifted actor whose tortured, interiorized performances helped pave the way for Method acting in Hollywood, plays an unusually extroverted character here. DVDs: Visions From 1951, Noir and Psychedelic 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z

Security costs are expected to account for 10 percent of the expenditure on the event by Kan. A spokeswoman for the broadcaster said she believed the figure was unusually high. In Tel Aviv, Eurovision songfest braces for pro-Palestinian boycott... 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z

The dramatic structure, unusually for Lully, buckles under the weight of an overly protracted exposition, while Phaëton himself, motivated solely by ambition, is too one-sided to rouse our empathy. Phaëton – review 2013-03-10T17:47:39Z

The BBC Trust, the supervisory body which governs the BBC, expressed some unusually strong language in the corporation’s annual report this morning. BBC Restructuring Costs: £287,000 For Every Net Job Lost 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

When I arrived, loudspeakers were broadcasting students reciting the Quran at a mint green oceanfront mosque with fuchsia trim, setting an unusually melodic soundtrack for a seaside retreat. In South India, a Low-Key and Cheap Alternative to Goa 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

The role is subtle, but it’s another reminder that this year’s best-actor race is unusually fierce. The Oscar Field Has Narrowed. Who’s on Top and Who’s in Danger? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

The program — a Beethoven Concerto and a Mahler Symphony — was unusually conventional, at least for a venturesome conductor. In a tumultuous world, conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is focusing more on the present 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

As a director, he was unusually diverse in his choice of material. Mike Nichols' theater legacy: Laughter and tears with equal genius 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

It retains an unusually high number of its staff members each season. In an ?NCIS? Milestone, Mark Harmon?s Agent Gibbs Looks Back 2012-02-06T23:27:10Z

It remains long and tunnel-like, with an unusually low arched ceiling. Boîte: This N That, a New Williamsburg Gay Bar 2012-09-19T23:12:45Z

Most unusually, I can't call it and am unsure as to what might have grabbed the attention of jury president Tim Burton, who said he was looking for a film that would "surprise" him. Cannes round-up by Jason Solomon 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z

While widely anticipated, the announcement of the move came, unusually, even before the Off Broadway reviews were published. ArtsBeat Blog: Even Before Off-Broadway Opening, 'Once' Announces a Move To Broadway 2011-12-07T00:17:19Z

The unusually happy vibe of the performance is a function, I think, of the radical hospitality of the undertaking. Review: ‘Up and Away,’ a Trip Into the Clouds for a Special Audience 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Although that situation was an unusually perfect storm primed for controversy, the fear lingers, particularly with an issue so complex. Country music avoided politics this year. Then Las Vegas happened. Will anything change? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Using imagery of real-life gun violence tragedies in order to tell a story of one man’s laudable genius at violence does feel unusually difficult to take at the present moment. USA Network Pulls 'Shooter'—But Would It Ever Have Been Appropriate? 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

Surprisingly well, since Meacham’s access and lack of ideological fervor allow him to paint Bush the man in unusually subtle colors. Jon Meacham’s ‘Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

The prosthetic has a hyper-realistic feel and, unusually, is dark in color, matching perfectly the tone of Sunday’s skin. Nigerian artist makes dark skin prosthetics to boost patients' confidence 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

A layer of clouds had settled over the area, and the water level was unusually high. Chasing Redfish Off the South Texas Gulf Coast 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

The pasts of both candidates are unusually crowded with ghosts and the political version of D-list celebrities. The non-roar of the invisible crowd: Stage design at the first Trump-Clinton debate 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

Though facing yet another expensive divorce, Roger was unusually chipper in the office the next morning, thinking about his future. Mad Men Monday: Roger and Don take trips 2012-04-23T16:59:06Z

An isolated restaurant in a downtown district will always struggle after dark unless it makes an unusually compelling case for itself as a destination. A Brooklyn Landmark Holds Its Head High Again 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

Yet from within that weird, slippery texture, a set of solid, repeating, consonant chords emerge, bringing the movement to an unusually eerie, slow finale. Classical Recordings: Jefferson Friedman: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3; Remixes 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z

The studio has been unusually insistent in its pleas to critics not to reveal plot points. Review: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Tries to Honor the Original and to Slip Free of It 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

Hillary Rodham Clinton is the obvious inspiration, but this is Hillary with a human face: Téa Leoni, who has a husky voice and a loose, engaging manner, is an unusually likable beauty. ‘Madam Secretary’ and ‘The Good Wife,’ TV’s Mighty Women 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

The state’s fossils and quarries offer traces of extraordinary expanses of time in an unusually compressed space. Museum Review: The Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City 2012-03-23T22:08:01Z

Soon after “What Do We See” begins, it seems to be settling into storytelling gear with an unusually staged and framed encounter. ‘What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?’ Review: But I Digress 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Crucial to its plot is an enameled pendant, intricately worked in the design of a peacock, unusually colored in purple, white and green. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Ayelet Waldman’s ‘Love and Treasure’ 2014-05-02T19:16:15Z

Mr. Nézet-Séguin approached Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5 as a colorist, one unusually concerned with warm yellows and reds. Review: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Leads the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

A fun game, yes, and the honesty is unusually bracing. !!! keep the party going with Thr!!!er 2013-04-26T13:00:00Z

The stage crew felt Kim was eager to collaborate and unusually humble. She’s Making History in Opera. Can She Help Ensure Its Future? 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Back in 2017, while preparing for a role in “Myth,” a climate parable, he began reading books about climate change and became alarmed by the unusually warm summer he was experiencing in England. Amid Climate Talks, an Actor’s Call to Action Unfolds Onstage 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

Her singing is clean and beautiful, but also unusually textured and plush for the part. Metropolitan Opera Opens With ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

What you see is a bygone world in three dimensions, experienced from an unusually privileged perspective. Perspective | This enormous glass sphere represents the entire world, as it was in 1935 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

While he is there, in a little town called Jodie, he falls enchantingly in love with the local librarian, Sadie, in ways that make this an unusually romantic novel for its author. Books of The Times: Stephen King?s ?11/23/63? - Review 2011-10-30T22:44:25Z

Hank Green, who is no stranger to explaining scientific matters to his followers, said he first suspected something might be wrong when his armpit swelled unusually. Hank Green, Novelist and YouTube Star, Announces He Has Cancer 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

Organisers said this year's winners both featured "unusually dark finales". The Bunker Diary wins book prize 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

As a guest speaker, the author had been unusually popular in Fadiman’s class. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

The celebrity rule of three took an unusually cinematic turn Thursday as news broke of a group of movie legends who all passed away. Troubled Thursday: Christopher Lee is among a trio of film legends to die 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

They have simply developed an unusually strong affinity for an artist and his music. Bob Dylan, Fanboy 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

Due to the celebrity status and personal histories of the people involved, there’s no doubt that the allegations trail behind them an unusually baroque weave of complexities. Crimes and misdemeanors: Woody Allen and what we get wrong about sexual abuse 2014-02-06T13:00:00Z

In an unusually wind-tormented garden, you might also try sowing in parallel rows with the plants 12 inches apart, using a stake-and-weave technique. Growing sweet corn? Here’s how to keep your stalks from toppling. 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

His fingers, brawny and unusually flexible, raced up and down the keyboard. Close at Hand with the Pianist Igor Levit 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

On unusually cold days, it turned out, the their participants were far less likely to say they were concerned about climate change, or even that they believed it was happening. Science explains Donald Trump: Why cold weather makes people doubt global warming 2014-01-14T15:24:00Z

Drawing on unusually candid interviews with a series of tech insiders and writing in terms that nontechnical readers can understand, Ball pulls away the software curtain to reveal a more complex institutional and corporate history. The Problem Is in the Internet’s Bones 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

That said, thanks to the inclusion of a van, it's likely that this must be a witty riff on the "person falling from an unusually great height onto a van" scene from last year's Devil. Flick Teaser: Craving Craven? Scream 4 more 2011-01-19T13:00:10Z

With another actor replacing Hugh Grant as an unusually eligible prime minister? Do you love ‘Love Actually’? Then here's everything you need to know about ‘Love Actually Live’ 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Rojas said the attack had been unusually quick. Anne Hathaway attacks 'white privilege' after death of black teenager in California 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

The loss of staff and funding meant a lot of replanting rather than buying new plants, and 6:30 a.m. starts to avoid the heat of an unusually warm summer. The Mansion Is Closed Because of Covid. No One Told the Deer. 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, with an unusually stodgy format and dialogue that either dishes up facts or broods — in blunt and repetitious fashion, about the elusiveness of truth — the play is frequently tedious and exasperating. Review | At Theater J, Albee’s ‘Occupant’ takes a lifeless look at the life of Louise Nevelson 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

All the same, the biggest impression is of the actors' energy, subtlety and fun in an unusually polemical comedy. Stones in His Pockets – review 2012-07-12T16:53:38Z

And the key with which Alice struggles to gain entrance to another world is not merely unusually agile but also vocal: she sings, as she points out, in key. My Dad's a Birdman; Beauty and the Beast; Les parents terribles; Alice in Wonderland 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

Perry also played down the unusually public dust-up between members of a group whose history has been littered with divisions, drug abuse and debauchery. Not as close as once were, Aerosmith back to Europe 2010-04-19T14:14:00Z

Players use their fingertips to tap and harvest drops of sunlight, which are the currency needed to plant unusually combative crops on the left side of the screen. Video Games: Rayman Legends, Total War: Rome II, Plants vs. Zombies 2, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and Puppeteer 2013-09-11T21:39:06Z

Attending the first two concerts on Tuesday and Wednesday, I heard six of the nine singers, an impressive group — and unusually racially diverse for the classical music world. Review: Resonant Bodies Festival Blends Freedom With Radiance 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

The bill that night also included ’s Fifth Symphony, and Mr. Jarvi recreated that juxtaposition here, giving the Fifth an unusually brisk, visceral, texturally transparent account. Music Review: Recreating a Bill of the Obscure and the Familiar 2011-02-25T23:59:27Z

The mommy wars turn unusually violent in Anna Moench’s drama for the Playwrights Realm. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

But perhaps the most insidious lie is that “we are experiencing an unusually high volume of calls,” which is always part of their message, meaning it is by definition not unusual, and is phenomenally annoying. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Your call is unimportant to us 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

What followed was an unusually concise and chirpy ceremony that lasted less than 80 minutes. Scene City: No Poker Faces at Star-Struck Fashion Awards 2011-06-07T21:58:46Z

I know an unusually large amount of people from New Jersey, and I remember once having a conversation about Bruce Springsteen with one of them. Kesha’s Week: Digging Springsteen and Meeting Nicolas Cage 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

There's a supposedly endearing lion voiced by Stephen Fry who, unusually for his kind, is a vegetarian. Animals United defeat themselves 2010-12-20T11:11:45Z

The friend set up meetings with businessmen in the region, and development money started coming in, in exchange for unusually long-term profit-sharing guarantees if “Amazing Grace” made money. ‘Amazing Grace,’ a Faith-Based Musical, Aims at Broadway 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

Ferrier’s voice was remarkable not only for its unusually low range and striking timbre, but also for the expressive, yearning qualities that often reduced audiences and colleagues to tears. Kathleen Ferrier and Her Centennial CD 2012-07-08T02:54:24Z

His name is Michel, and in the wake of the murder, he and Franck begin an unusually intense affair. Movie Review: Death and Desire in ‘Stranger by the Lake’ 2014-01-23T23:17:56Z

“Drake understands how people live with music, how it helps us get through life, whether it’s a breakup, a court date, or an unusually long jog.” Sunday Reading: The Grammys 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

I went to Catholic school and went to church as a kid and – perhaps unusually – I only have good memories of it. Elvis Costello 2010-10-16T23:04:00Z

Her voice was not large, nor, in the opinion of critics, was it unusually beautiful. Licia Albanese, Exalted Soprano, Is Dead at 105 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

“A Little Later,” a lively froth of white and purple, applied with tossed cloths and some smearing, is an unusually delicate gloss on Abstract Expressionism. Art Review: Two Shows Offer a New Look at Julian Schnabel 2014-04-25T20:17:33Z

"Red Car" has a jazz/rock beat, and "Blues for Blanche" showcases Pepper's love of unusually wide intervals, quirky phrase lengths, sudden silences and surprise "wrong notes." An Art Pepper jazz retrieval, two Souzas and one from The Physics 2012-08-27T20:58:04Z

An unusually warm winter in Washington means that the city’s colorful cherry blossom trees are expected to bloom about three weeks earlier than usual. Washington’s cherry blossoms may bloom earlier than ever this year 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

It’s an unusually fast start for a new “SNL” player, particularly now that the on-air cast has swelled to 21 people. A new ‘Trump.’ SNL’s Johnson attracts attention for mimicry 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

Daniel Goldin, the owner of Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee, Wis., said he was “thrilled” by the unusually deep selection of big fiction titles. Tom Wolfe, Ian McEwan and J. K. Rowling Among Fall Authors 2012-09-04T21:31:02Z

Artha, which started quietly three years ago, operates in an unusually off-the-cuff manner. The Artha Project Supports Emerging Artists on a Small and Personal Scale 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

It was an unusually warm and pleasant night here in New England, where we’ve had one of the latest springs on record, and there was an air of excited and happy expectation about the place. We live in the Age of Trauma 2013-05-01T23:30:00Z

That she continues to inspire young fans was evident Thursday evening in Benaroya Hall, where the packed house was unusually full of youthful listeners. Hilary Hahn brings youthful listeners to their feet in Seattle 2013-04-26T19:27:18Z

"Amour", Austrian director Michael Haneke's moving portrayal of death, bagged four nominations, an unusually high number for a film in a foreign language. "Lincoln" leads BAFTA film nominations with 10 2013-01-09T10:34:03Z

The collapse of “Pan” increases the pressure on Warner, which finds itself — for a second year — unusually vulnerable. ‘Pan’ Bombs at the Box Office 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

To distinguish itself from all the other shows taking place in New York at the same time the organizers have decided to offer visitors an unusually large number of one-artist booths. Inside Art: Art Comes to Taxi TV; ‘German Expressionism’ at Neue Galerie 2013-01-03T22:24:54Z

At an outreach session held in a rural province, an unusually large number of citizens proclaim that only the president ought to be permitted to appoint judges. Review: ‘Democrats,’ Chronicling Politics in Zimbabwe 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Nearly three quarters of queries online are from first-time boat buyers, an unusually high number, he said. The Boat Business Is Booming 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

This private stock of sturgeon did not, as of yet, exist, but the slicer obligingly found her an unusually sleek specimen. Restaurant Review: Russ & Daughters Cafe 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

He was more than unusually withdrawn in the run-up to his final recital, when the nine of us played to each other. Play it again: conquering Chopin's Ballade No 1 2013-01-12T06:30:01Z

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, deaths from the current flu season reached “epidemic” levels, in part because of an unusually severe flu strain. Illness Walks the Runway 2013-01-30T23:31:57Z

It is simply that I have an unusually sophisticated palate, broadly eclectic tastes supplemented by the lack of an “ewww” factor, and a huge appreciation for culinary inventiveness. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: You can’t make me eat these foods 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

The kids are accustomed to this routine, which was common in the days before refrigeration, until one year they develop an affinity for an “unusually playful and intelligent” carp destined for the Passover table. The Great Gefilte-Fish Lie 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

For the rest of the program, Valitutto offered unusually and not unwelcome modest applications of the organ in works written since Feldman's piece. The proof is in: The pipe organ is still the king of instruments 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

An imaginative, unusual setting can enhance a fresh new face, whereas even an unusually vibrant new voice can be muffled by a stale, conventional format. ‘Jane the Virgin’ on CW and ‘Cristela’ on ABC 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

This year, as in most years, I looked to smaller museums and university galleries for unusually inspiring and instructive shows. Best Art of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

In New York this summer we are dining – or rather feasting – on unusually ambitious and knotty plays. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Highlights From a Decade of Watching Shakespeare 2011-07-21T16:23:35Z

But Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop retelling of the nation’s founding turned out to be one of several shows making for a strikingly diverse, unusually urgent season. ‘Hamilton’ and Company: Tony Award Nominees in a Season That Reflected the World 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Her topmost register is unusually lucid and effortless. At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It’s Never Been Sung Before 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

My parents had been to Paris days before they split and returned, unusually, with a gift for each of us. When parents split up – your stories 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Levine made the kinship unusually clear partly by emphasizing the work’s late Romantic accents rather than its early modernist ones. Music Review: The Brahms Behind the Schoenberg 2011-04-11T20:30:33Z

The play's structure is unusually free, with scenes overlapping and flowing into one another almost imperceptibly. Landmark Aids play gets London revival 2013-08-09T07:19:16Z

Owing perhaps to this love or to Stengel’s unusual status, an outsider afforded unusually intimate access, “Mandela: The Lost Tapes” rarely questions or judges its subject. In ‘Mandela: The Lost Tapes,’ a Veteran Journalist Finds Himself 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

The narrator that opens this novel is a fig tree — an unusually talkative fig tree. Review | In Elif Shafak’s ‘The Island of Missing Trees,’ a surprising narrator makes sense of surreal events 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

He managed to be both aggressive and charming all at once and allied this with an unusually cogent ability to spot rising talent. John Rety obituary 2010-03-18T18:22:00Z

Reviewing the building in Architectural Forum in 1959, Ogden Tanner called it “an unusually strong, well-knit composition” that “sets a thoughtful example in the art of putting buildings together — and relating them to others.” Robert Geddes, 99, Transformative Architecture Dean at Princeton, Dies 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

In its full statement, Delta did not confirm the cause of the “mechanical issue,” although a passenger aboard the plane reported hearing an unusually “loud noise” before the emergency was declared. Delta flight declared emergency after crew reported a 'vibration' on the plane, FAA confirms 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

And–as last night’s episodes emphasized–each is unusually blunt in showing that, seen from outside the glass walls of the partners’ meeting, it is not always a benevolent setup. Earning It: Office Darwinism on Mad Men and The Good Wife 2013-04-22T14:31:05Z

And these days, New York includes an unusually large and varied amount of its most celebrated literary son. On Walt Whitman’s Big Birthday, 10 Glorious Relics 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

For a conductor, Mr. Marriner was unusually self-effacing, a trait that endeared him to his colleagues. Neville Marriner, who led renowned Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, dies at 92 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

Shrimp toast, one of those foods that are likable even when they’re bad, is exceptionally good at Public Kitchen, where the crunch of water chestnuts is pitted against tender, unusually sweet shrimp. Lost in New York at Public Kitchen 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

He's also an acclaimed novelist and his an unusually luxy study. Neil Jordan: post your questions for the Byzantium and Crying Game director 2013-05-24T12:16:01Z

With all but one late-arriving work reproduced, this volume conveys an unusually compelling and accessible picture of the artist, his philosophy, his working methods — as well as his rather astute career management. Théodore Rousseau Retrospective at the Morgan 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

His parents divorced, unusually for the time, and he was nominally brought up by his father, although he learned young to look after himself and spent time in a children's home. Norman Wisdom, last survivor of the music halls, dies aged 95 2010-10-04T23:21:00Z

Much of the rest of the country, including the Cantabrian and Catalan coasts, are likely to see unusually high temperatures: above 35C. The heat is on: record 48C temperature on the way for Spain and Portugal 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

At its best, and most fully realized, it feels like a program made by unusually sophisticated, precocious children for their friends. A Comedy Special for Kids That Gets Their Dark Sense of Humor 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

The show is unusually thoughtful — a stately, gorgeous tutorial. Review: At the Costume Institute, Couture Meets Technology 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

She seemed unusually vibrant, perhaps because of the nearly unanimous praise she’d earned for her stewardship of the club through difficult days. A Hong Kong hangout for journalists stands up for press freedom amid protests and pandemic 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Perhaps because of its Catholic sensibility, Cologne was unusually open to visual culture. T Magazine: Grand Teuton 2012-11-12T16:00:53Z

“If I can put it absolutely morbidly, I know that ‘Hamilton’ is the first line in my obituary,” Miranda says with an unusually chipper tone for someone contemplating their death. At Sundance, Lin-Manuel Miranda shares the spotlight 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

As luck would have it, that world is unusually visible in a small corner of Midtown Manhattan. Art Review: Picasso Prints at MoMA and Marlborough 2010-04-08T22:17:00Z

In scattered musical interludes he performs convincing and anguished folk songs which, unusually, are given the space to play out from start to finish. Cannes 2013 round-up, week 2: Gosling for breakfast, skinflicks for lunch 2013-05-25T10:59:01Z

Photograph: Rex While its sister festival in Reading became a mudbath, bright sunshine helped the northern leg of this year's veteran rock event in Leeds get off to an unusually civilised start. Leeds festival 2010 2010-08-29T17:04:00Z

Breeding this spring was boosted by a combination of unusually warm waters, an absence of strong winds and good stockpile management, it said. 'White gold' on deck of French trawler signals bumper haul of scallops 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

Sometimes that melancholy had a political context and Scissor Sisters are unusually alert to the deeper meaning of disco. Long live disco 2012-05-21T17:55:01Z

Cima was a consummate craftsman, lavishing as much attention on his landscapes and architectural features as on his realization of figures and draperies, achieving an unusually consistent harmony between these elements in picture after picture. Ode to Cima From Conegliano 2010-04-09T13:55:00Z

There, she develops an unusually strong bond with a horse. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ and the World Cup 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

It’s an unusually abashed turn from Irons: scant eye-contact, emotional gaps. Jeremy Irons: ‘I have the natural tendency of a benign dictator’ 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Not until years later did she hit on a possible explanation for the instrument’s unusually good condition. Her 300-year-old instrument was in perfect condition. Had it been interred? 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

It was sombre, unusually quiet - compared with the public funerals of other high profiles celebrities. Last song 2011-07-26T17:33:45Z

The unusually eventful post-season at the Metropolitan Opera continued on Wednesday morning when some administrative offices inside the opera house were vandalized with spray paint, the police and the company said. Metropolitan Opera Offices Vandalized, Police and Company Say 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Thanks to a capital campaign it embarked on in 2018, Ars Nova started the current fiscal year with an unusually large cushion of working capital — six months’ worth. As Theaters Stare Down Uncertainty, Ars Nova Buys Itself Time 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

Despite unusually sunny weather and another record year for the fringe, which sold nearly 2m tickets, the book festival's organisers believe the recession led its audience to buy fewer tickets. Edinburgh international book festival sees dip in ticket sales 2010-08-31T13:04:00Z

Is the professor unusually patient and conscientious or completely delusional and possibly racist herself? Sex, Lies and Subterfuge Roil Joyce Carol Oates’s New Story Collection 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

We had an unusually easy time at Kennedy International Airport, with our separate check-in desk and cordoned-off section of the departure lounge, but I already felt pretty ropy. Would 19 Hours and 16 Minutes in the Air Make Me Crazy? 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

This soprano’s performance in the first act was the glory of the weekend, including her unusually assertive take on the aria “Caro nome,” more womanly than girlish. 4 Operas in 48 Hours: A Critic’s Marathon at the Met 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

Gruntz, who has died aged 80, was one of the few internationally acclaimed Swiss-born jazz musicians, and had an unusually broad vision. George Gruntz obituary 2013-01-21T13:41:05Z

Mr. Kaphar’s aesthetic efforts walk along an unusually fine line between art and activism. Parenting While Black: Titus Kaphar’s Starkly Powerful Works 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

The arrangement is low on art-viewing ambience but turns out to be — who knew? — unusually well suited to selfies. Tuning Out Digital Buzz, for an Intimate Communion With Art 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

I stepped into her backyard vegetable garden in Northern Virginia on a recent damp, chilly day to find a garden that would have been unusually precocious in a normal spring. This gardener has the secret to tomatoes in May. (Hint: It’s not a greenhouse.) 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

From the cat-and-mouse present-day discussions that alternate chapters with the original short stories, we discover that Julia is an unusually perspicacious detective as well as a sharp-eyed editor. Recreational Adrenaline: Three Sizzling New Thrillers 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z

A book release, an upcoming movie, a lighting ceremony at the Empire State Building and the usual questions about Harry Potter: It's been an unusually busy month for J.K. J.K. Rowling: new book, charity launch, Harry Potter rumors 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Biden took some unusual — and unusually blunt — questions when the session was opened up to all the journalists in front of him. Biden’s news conference takes abrupt, lengthy turn 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

He will move into her New York apartment, and the two of them, rather more unusually, will make a movie about his dying, partly by enacting it. ‘Dick Johnson Is Dead’ Review: A Father’s Painful, Funny Goodbye 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Surprisingly few, was the answer, but not because I’d led an unusually virtuous life. How do I tell our sons about their father’s criminal past? 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

“Dave Matthews?!” exclaimed one passerby who inquired about the unusually long line. Dave Matthews treats Seattle fans to intimate, invite-only Columbia City Theater show 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

To contribute to a citywide symposium investigating cultural attitudes toward death, Anthology is screening movies that take an unusually forthright approach to an uncomfortable subject. 6 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

This latest revelation about Von Saher’s family is just one more chapter in the tangled history of “Adam” and “Eve” and their unusually fraught journey over the past century.  Centuries-old paintings, a Russian aristocrat, an obscure Nazi past: Why nothing about the Norton Simon 'Adam' and 'Eve' case is simple 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

And even the supertitles are presented unusually, sometimes with lines of text seeming to dissolve as letters fly away from words. Guo Wenjing’s ‘Feng Yi Te’ Mixes East and West 2012-07-20T17:11:45Z

That gift, which must have been instinctive, made him unusually adaptable, able to survive for four decades every shift in Hollywood’s winds, and to assemble, over the years, such a bewilderingly diverse body of work. William Wellman Retrospective at Film Forum 2012-02-12T07:47:46Z

The filmmakers had unusually free access to Mr. Nasheed and his team, filming him in internal strategy meetings, with his family and in discussions with leaders from other countries and global organizations. ?The Island President? and Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives 2012-03-28T12:00:00Z

This year, it seemed unusually vigorous, producing several feet of growth as early as May. Perspective | Vines are a romantic addition to the garden — until they go rogue 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

A third judge, last year's winner Gideon Koppel, of Sleep Furiously renown, called The Arbor "a remarkable and moving portrait that – unusually – describes the internal landscape of a character." Guardian First Film award: The Arbor 2011-01-27T21:59:00Z

Paul Dergarabedian, a senior comScore analyst, said that movie-theater turnout in Texas was unusually low — the likely result of Harvey, which made landfall near Corpus Christi on Friday and caused catastrophic flooding in Houston. Hollywood No Match for Mayweather vs. McGregor 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

We all noticed an unusually high, strong rip tide that morning, but it was not until we returned to the hotel that we learned how lucky we had been. Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala – review 2013-04-03T07:00:01Z

It’s been an unusually strong set which makes predictions rather tough but here’s a look at what films are in with a decent chance. Cannes 2016: follow the ceremony as the winners are announced - live! 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

After a brief period of the doldrums, a reinvigorated Child bounced back with an unusually impassioned story. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Cash enjoyed creative control over his career and it showed in his restless inquisitiveness and unusually open-minded approach to music. Review: Box sets from Cash, Kiss, Jackson, others 2012-11-20T19:58:14Z

We attended a small, private, hippie-leaning alternative elementary and middle school that was a universe unto itself, and formed unusually close bonds with our teachers. I was raped — and now I can finally say it 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Her unusually sophisticated upbringing did nothing to prepare her for the stultifying demands of traditional motherhood. Review | Decades after his mother’s disappearance, a man searches the past for clues 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

But, unusually, Mr. Ninomiya’s clothes save their aggression and their punishments for the world, not their wearer. Noir Kei Ninomiya: The Look of Strength 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

All the same, the suggestion that Jews were unusually clever was used to explain their malign global hegemony. Blaxploitation spoof Black Dynamite may be witty, but is it racist? 2010-08-16T11:25:00Z

In fairness, that was largely because other aspects of the place were unusually interesting. At the Four Horsemen, the Food Catches Up to the Wine 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

Last Flag Flying is also about time passing but, unusually for Linklater, it doesn’t feature young adults looking ahead but rather older individuals looking back. Richard Linklater on Last Flag Flying: 'We're not meant to kill. We're not cut out for it' 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

Captain and crew operated under unusually egalitarian rules and hit the jackpot in 1695 when they captured an Indian treasure ship bearing members of the Mughal imperial court returning from Mecca. Review | This summer: Audiobooks that make you feel like you’re on a vacation 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

In Different Hands, an Assortment of Moods The blazing surge to the end of Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony at on Sunday afternoon was unusually satisfying. Music Review: In Different Hands, an Assortment of Moods 2010-10-04T21:42:00Z

Crisp images of the front row of the theater, juxtaposed with smoky backdrops and ghostly lighting, make the audience appear on the same level as the performer, creating unusually striking images for stand-up comedy. In Chris Rock’s New Special, a Humbler Master at Work 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

“I can’t be your midnight love/When your silver is my gold,” she sings on “Midnight Love,” with vocals suggesting an unusually spooky Dusty Springfield. Chloe Moriondo and girl in red, Maestros of Growing Pains 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

Movies that find dark edges in our lighter moments promise an unusually complicated season. ArtsBeat Blog: A Hockey Enforcer Has His (Dark) Day 2011-09-09T11:58:32Z

Coger said he thought Raymond’s standards for a caregiver were unusually high and pointed out that many people leave their children with family members. Usher to Keep Custody of His 2 Young Sons 2013-08-10T11:32:19Z

All three presentations include School of Music students prominently involved in the production, both as an unusually active chorus and as instrumentalists playing with PMW’s Baroque orchestra. UW music school, Pacific MusicWorks join forces for ‘Semele’ 2014-05-09T19:58:13Z

Her background made that unusually hard — she had just escaped from an Indiana cult leader who had held her captive for years. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ and ‘The Americans’ 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Otherwise, it’s unusually quiet in your apartment: Your ex has taken your son upstate for a few days, and there’s no one to beg you to play Minecraft. Our Kinder, Gentler, Nobody-Moves-Out Divorce 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Ward is emerging as an unusually imaginative composer. Top 10 jazz albums of 2010 2011-01-04T01:00:07Z

After an unusually introspective press tour for the film, Cage is looking forward to returning to the desert outside Las Vegas, where he lives. Nicolas Cage faces off with a new foe: Himself 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Note: While this isn't a coffee- table book, its color reproductions of work by Freud and others are unusually fine. A sitter's experience with painter Lucian Freud throws open the whole world of portraiture 2010-12-22T22:06:08Z

An unusually curious and adventurous optometrist spent an afternoon with me. Seeing and Hearing for the First Time, on YouTube 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

From her director’s perspective, Ms. Gardiner described the making of this choreopoem as a process of unusually pervasive collaboration. ‘For Colored Girls’ Is a Choreopoem. What’s a Choreopoem? 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

In “Parts Unknown” and other far-flung travel shows that feasted on not just indigenous foods but a wide spectrum of culture, history and shared passions, Bourdain became an unlikely, and unusually authentic, television icon. Anthony Bourdain doc ‘an act of therapy’ for an acute loss 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

Organizers called it an unusually good turnout for their niche activist group, in which fans of J.K. Why these Harry Potter fans are standing with the LGBTQ community against a J.K. Rowling tweet 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Pilati, 45, who was wearing a gauzy white T-shirt with sleeves so long that they rolled back half a foot over the cuffs of a tailored blazer, seemed unusually calm, days before a show. Paris Fashion Week: Balanced on Fashion?s Wobbly Pedestal 2011-03-04T20:37:01Z

Fondest memento or memory: One night over dinner at the gite, the conversation was unusually animated, with everyone talking excitedly and gesturing. What a Trip: A pilgrimage to France, land of faith and flirtatious French men

As the gates opened on Wednesday, the usual wild rumours whipped around the unusually sun-scorched fields. Glastonbury 2010: Sun sets on another 'best ever' festival 2010-06-27T14:19:00Z

Quite unusually,   the company charges no rental fee to those seeking a place to put on a show.  Theater news: The Rep taps Kaminski, Pocket Theatre opens 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

A third sits between them with an unusually large baby sprawled on her lap. Art Review: Captured: A New York Minute, or One in Havana 2011-06-09T23:00:29Z

This has been an unusually strong season for romantic pas de deux, what with the fantasy choreography in “On the Town” and “An American in Paris.” Review: Chita Rivera Stars in Kander and Ebb’s ‘The Visit’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

The rest of the program was devoted to selections with Fleming — an unusually generous number of songs with the soloist. Renée Fleming launches Seattle Symphony season in high style 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

It’s worth pausing here to warn that “Piranesi” is an unusually fragile mystery — as delicate as the slender fingers and wispy petals on the marble statues that fill the House. Review | Susanna Clarke’s infinitely clever ‘Piranesi’ is enough to make you appreciate life in quarantine 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

A reception honoring military families at the White House took on an unusually high profile Monday night. ‘She wouldn’t miss this for anything’: Melania Trump holds first White House event after 24-day absence 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

But at the museum, his diligent examination of Stoker’s letters and other documents offers an unusually accurate account of the author’s Whitby sojourn. Where Dracula Was Born, and It’s Not Transylvania 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

The app also allowed an unusually high degree of user interface for a work that was a collection of music. MoMA acquiring Bjork's phone app, shows pixels are as vital as paint 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

"Every ledge of the Eiger is covered in the sediment of history," says the mountaineer Stephen Venables, who is unusually forthcoming for a climber and has a lovely way with words. TV review: Eiger: Wall Of Death and Waterloo Road 2010-09-02T06:00:00Z

When a crestfallen Adam says no, an unusually subdued Max says to no one in particular: "Just me." Parenthood – box set review 2013-01-24T16:40:01Z

Nashville stars remain unusually silent about their political thoughts, as they did before the election. Should country singers speak up about politics and Trump? We asked them. 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

The Grassi carpet painting is his biggest ever, the first to cover both walls and floors at once, and unusually freighted with history. Critic’s Notebook: Rudolf Stingel’s Carpeting Makeover in Venice 2013-08-20T22:13:15Z

With Andrew Kennedy's unusually lyrical Evangelist at its heart, this was Bach as intimate chamber music rather than hectoring religious experience, favouring the beauty of the writing over its angularity. St Matthew Passion | Classical review 2010-03-23T22:20:00Z

His tone is unusually wispy, but it suited the score's oscillating detail. LPO/Alsop; Var?se 360? 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z

THE Monday evening after Thanksgiving, Bacchus House was unusually quiet. Sean Parker Brings Facebook-Style Skills to New York Social Scene 2011-12-17T12:39:01Z

The past feels unusually and urgently present right now, as a fund of alternative ways of dreaming and, perchance, of being. A Fearful Frenzy: The Art Market Now 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

After working through the ideas, Hardy concluded that Ramanujan was an unusually brilliant man, striking up a correspondence, partnership and eventually a friendship. Simon McBurney Discusses His ?Disappearing Number? 2010-07-02T08:19:00Z

It’s based on a battery of interviews, including nearly 200 alone with Balanchine’s former dancers, whom as a group Homans refers to as “unusually eccentric and fascinating” and “forbiddingly tight-knit.” A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

Sundance has long been a showcase for HBO documentaries, but the premium cable channel has an unusually large number of entries this time around. HBO's Mike Nichols Documentary to Show at Sundance 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

And her unusually frank, often humorous social media accounts offer glimpses into what it’s really like to be a 21st century opera star, which rarely bears much resemblance to popular pearls-and-furs prima donna stereotypes. A Soprano Survived a Vocal Crisis. The Met Found Its Brünnhilde. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

The drama, shot in Taiwan and playing for an unusually long 2 hours 45 minutes, will open in U.S. movie theaters on Dec. 23 before expanding nationwide. After 28 year-journey, Scorsese's faith movie 'Silence' arrives 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Writing in The Times, A. O. Scott called it “an unusually insightful and funny mainstream American movie about the predicaments of modern marriage.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Goliath’ and ‘Haters Back Off!’ 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

That space thriller ended up winning seven Oscars, leaving “12 Years a Slave,” a period drama about a free black man kidnapped into slavery, with unusually light voter support. ‘12 Years’ Enjoys a Seemingly Narrow Victory 2014-03-03T21:12:52Z

Even as he enjoyed unusually quick success, he remained obsessed with the specter of failure. David Chang Bets Big, Using Silicon Valley Money 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Portland's Pacific Youth Choir upped the Christmas quotient, most impressively with a "Deck the Halls" that took unusually tricky rhythmic twists. Review: China Forbes, Ari Shapiro, perfect Pink Martini 2011-12-04T18:33:43Z

Plus, unusually, I moved to California – which strangely did nothing to ameliorate the last mentioned category of “the usual.” Curtis Sittenfeld’s updated Jane Austen influences: “CrossFit, reality television, Skyline chili, Gloria Steinem” 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Among Dr. Seuss’s books, “The Lorax” is strikingly apocalyptic and unusually polemic. Perspective | Is Dr. Seuss’s Lorax real? These professors may have solved a 47-year-old mystery. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Rosenbaum compared Bergman’s “fluent storytelling” and “deftness in handling actresses” to the “skills of a Hollywood professional like George Cukor,” and in Bergman’s earliest films one feels the touch of an unusually engaged classicist. Viewing Ingmar Bergman Through a Glass Less Darkly 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Nonetheless, there’s an unusually, and refreshingly, abrasive aspect to “Christopher Robin” that raises it above the usual run of children’s movies, and it’s matched by the abraded surfaces that the movie presents onscreen. “Christopher Robin,” Reviewed: Disney’s Pleasantly Abrasive New Spin on Winnie-the-Pooh 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

In three weeks, Weinstein Co. is planning to expand the movie to more than 3,000 theaters –- unusually wide for a small, low-budget picture -– and launch an ad campaign around Valentine’s Day. 'King's Speech' may be recut for lower rating 2011-01-26T02:43:16Z

This last bit leaves them unusually vulnerable to predators. Is it normal for couples to swap sides? How to share a bed and be happy 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

More unusually, euphonium theft and personal disgrace also featured in his life history. TV highlights 15/08/2012 2012-08-14T19:00:02Z

Mr. Krauthamer found Ms. Wolfe unusually attentive, especially for someone so busy. ‘Waitress’ Star Has a Tip for You: Marry Your Best Friend 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

It's got the gravitational pull of a good novel and an unusually genuine voice that envelops the reader swiftly. 'Poser': Yoga as metaphor for earnest young parents seeking to do right 2010-12-29T23:02:04Z

The sets themselves, each designed to look like a brightly lit version of a neutral upscale kitchen, or sitting alcove, or living room with two other living rooms inside it, felt unusually cavernous. QVC: Quarantine, Value, Convenience 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

But like everyone, he has also been unusually homebound, lately baking challah and playing guitar. Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ Doesn’t Deserve Your Eye Rolls 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Hollywood had an unusually strong first quarter last year because of "Avatar" and a few other early hits, but revenues are down about 19 percent so far this year compared to 2010. Hollywood leaders say weak business will rebound 2011-03-29T22:23:10Z

The highlights-only approach is a problem in most biographical musicals, exacerbated in “Funny Girl” by its unusually high quotient of fictionalization. Review: Broadway’s First ‘Funny Girl’ Revival Shows Why It Took So Long 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z

J. Paul Nicholas, the director, has a smart, unusually thoughtful script to work with — one that convincingly appears not to side with the abortion rights advocates or the abortion foes. Theater Review: ‘The Water Children’ at Theater 54 @ Shetler Studios 2012-10-07T21:50:50Z

There is – unusually for the National – only one absolutely full-strength performance. Richard III; The Doctor's Dilemma; The Fire Garden – reviews 2012-07-28T23:06:10Z

But with its strong, unusually eclectic lineup — Jackson Browne and Jason Derulo? All of the L.A. arts events and exhibitions to check out this fall 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

“Idea Man” is unusually selective about the parts of Mr. Allen’s story that it chooses to tell. Books of The Times: The Reclusive Other Half of Microsoft?s Odd Couple Breaks His Silence 2011-04-18T23:23:20Z

The show, which has no star performers and yet has attracted a steady and unusually racially diverse audience, received eight nods, the fourth highest. No Obvious Front-Runner in Tony Race 2010-05-04T18:24:00Z

“I do think our section was unusually harmonious,” he said, adding “if there is any cause beyond coincidence, it’s the warm environment that Mr. Hanson fostered.” Love and Law: Recent Mergers in 1L, Section 6 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the US saw the number of skiing days rise on its west coast, which enjoyed an unusually dry period.. France loses skiing pole position as US leads winter sports destinations 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

This gleeful mind- and memory-bender finds its creator in an unusually nostalgic frame of mind. Theater Review: Richard Foreman’s ‘Old-Fashioned Prostitutes’ 2013-05-08T02:00:01Z

But the place itself — its physical layout and especially the manners and speech patterns of its citizens — breathes with an unusually delicate sense of reality. Movie Review | 'Blood Done Sign My Name': A Town Torn Asunder by Racial Killing in ?70 2010-02-19T04:53:00Z

Asked whether filling a rare senior position with a white man and former colleague contradicted her commitment to staff diversity, Feldman was unusually terse. National Gallery of Art director responds to allegations of harassment and diversity issues at the museum 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

There are 21 new dealers, an unusually large number. Important Arts Fair Looks for Balance in Miami Beach 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

There’s a delay, in case something unusually gruesome happens. Policeman. Reality Star. Recent Ex-Boyfriend. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

Yet in the final movement of the last of the Opus 33 Quartets, an unusually stately set of variations, they displayed the depth to find gravitas in every phrase. Review: Attacca Quartet Continues Its Haydn Project 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Perhaps they went to the movies instead: Box-office analysts noted that ticket sales on Sunday, normally a slow day at theaters, were unusually brisk. Oscars Show Growing Gap Between Moviegoers and Academy 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Hers is a first-person, unusually understated commentary about the sex slave industry that could just as easily be posted by an organization that combats human trafficking. Vice, the News Entity, Grows on HBO and Online 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

But the exhibition itself leaves no doubt that the Quays are masters above all of an unusually entrancing form of stop-action animation they unveiled in 1979. Art Review: Quay Brothers Retrospective at MoMA 2012-08-10T05:34:12Z

Why, you might ask, did an unusually sensitive and mild-mannered man—delicate of physical and mental constitution—choose to travel to a hostile, faraway island inhabited by thieves, hustlers, and murderers? Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

If Orbit's comments about Albarn seem unusually direct, he took a similar tone writing about Madonna last week. Blur have abandoned album sessions, says William Orbit 2012-05-24T11:48:27Z

This book distributes space so unusually that Mr. Follett is nearly halfway through it before he gets past 1963; he devotes almost 200 pages to that year alone. ‘Edge of Eternity’ Completes Ken Follett Trilogy 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Step 2 is “drag,” the stroke itself, executed under unusually high pressure, at unusually slow speed and with unfailing steadiness. For a Violinist, Success Means A New Low Point 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z

It’s easy to believe that Mr. Macdonald is unusually funny while also understanding the limits of his career outside of clubs. Norm Macdonald’s Often Funny, Always Fabulist ‘Based on a True Story’ 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

But this year the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of 80 or so mostly freelance writers, will announce its picks just four days before the unusually early onset of Oscar voting. The Carpetbagger: Golden Globe 2013 Nominations 2012-12-13T12:20:54Z

But Redford’s involvement in “All the President’s Men” was unusually complex and deep, predating not just Goldman’s involvement but also the conception of the book itself. William Goldman Turned Reporters into Heroes in “All the President’s Men” 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

In “Iguana,” Mr. Owen — who adroitly plumbed the depths of sexual compulsion in the film “Closer” — is an unusually virile, almost gangsterish Shannon, with little of the expected touch of the poet. Hot Priests and Wayward Libidos Run Wild on London’s Stages 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

“In Between,” Ms. Hamoud’s debut feature, is an unusually welcoming and engaging film, inviting you to become a part of the circle of friends it depicts with such energy and warmth. Review: ‘In Between’ Tells of Three Women Fighting Patriarchy in Tel Aviv 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

“As Glenn as Can Be” is a celebration of individuality but also a reminder that, despite Gould’s determined solitude, he left an unusually generous legacy to us all. Books to Kindle Children’s Curiosity About Classical Music 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

One of my guidebooks had mildly ridiculed the park as having an “unusually shallow pool with a strange shed overtop.” How I learned to stop worrying and love RV-ing

Spreading himself “super thin” with an unusually packed schedule is a purposeful choice, Mr. Harris says. Neil Patrick Harris Prepares for ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ 2014-02-19T13:00:18Z

Ms. Mearns is not yet back to peak condition after her long injury — her shoulders seem even more unusually high than before, her backbends less rich. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet’s Tchaikovsky Celebration 2013-01-26T01:22:39Z

On top of the usual rigours of hosting a daily TV show, there has been, unusually, no comedown after the election; if anything, the political pace has stepped up a notch. Seth Meyers: ‘I couldn’t have asked for a better target than Trump’ 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

Funeral directors tend to be unusually discreet, sensitive people — their livelihoods depend on it. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Distinguishing the mentally ill friend from the mental illness 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z

Coming after the Adès/Couperin work, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 18 in B flat sounded unusually full-bodied and thickly textured. Music Review: David Zinman Leads Philharmonic in Mendelssohn and Mozart 2013-12-06T22:21:02Z

Setting an unusually leisurely pace that stretched the performance, including intermissions, to more than four hours, Rattle drew some magnificent playing from the orchestra. Simon Rattle leads 'Pelleas' in Met debut 2010-12-18T18:31:05Z

The committee itself acknowledged this by bringing on James Goldston, a former ABC News producer, to shape the broadcast, and by airing it, unusually, in prime time. The Jan. 6 Hearing Put a True-Crime Drama on Prime-Time TV 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

Ulysses, an unusually thoughtful and compassionate man, will never forget that lesson, but he has no reason to think he’ll ever see Evelyn again. Review | Sarah Winman’s ‘Still Life’ feels like a Saturday night among old friends 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

A rather small audience heard three orchestral classics on an unusually cool August evening, officially marking the 20th anniversary of the United Kingdom ceding control of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China. Review | Asian Youth Orchestra, Chang play favorites to sound of crickets 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Moving beyond the written historical record, Whipple interviewed living chiefs of staff, and their insights make “The Gatekeepers” an unusually candid and illuminating study of presidential power. New spring nonfiction dips into social issues and politics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

But charming, sleepy Serifos, with its unusually dramatic peaked landscape, outshines both, while its lack of an airport deters the crowds. Serifos, Greece: great interiors, even better outdoors 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

Even more unusually, the senior citizens of the place are mostly safe. The Last Living Bohemian in Chelsea Tells All 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Shot on Sable Island, a narrow, wild land strip 100 miles off mainland Nova Scotia, the film takes its cues from the scenery in unusually direct ways. ‘Geographies of Solitude’ Review: Exploring a Wild Island 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

The wave system, a modular array of more than 500 speakers, uses acoustical trickery to reproduce organic sounds with unusually high fidelity. Surround Sound? You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

All dance companies are, inevitably, in perpetual transition, but that’s unusually pronounced just now at Pennsylvania Ballet, which opened a program of 21st-century choreography on Tuesday night at the Joyce Theater. Review: For Pennsylvania Ballet, Transitions Onstage and Off 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

And Mr. Shorter made several references to the cryptic wisdom of Miles Davis, slipping each time into an unusually convincing imitation of that trumpeter’s throaty rasp. Wayne Shorter’s New Album Is ‘Without a Net’ 2013-01-31T17:38:26Z

The troubled, vulnerable Valerie is a strong and believable character, and she and her colleagues amount to an unusually admiring portrait of police work. ‘The Killing Lessons’ review: A thriller for abnormal psychologists 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

Now, after the George Floyd protests and with a Jordan Peele-produced sequel imminent, interest in this unusually sensitive piece of Hollywood product is white-hot. Tony Todd on Candyman, Black Lives Matter and seeing stars cry on the set of Platoon 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

It has been, one suspects, an unusually interesting year to be Meryl Streep. Meryl Streep's newfound politicisation fires up timely drama The Post 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

His main contribution to the Sunday Times was a long stint as television critic, an unusually influential one in his insistence that the medium should develop a strong visual language and character of its own. Peter Lennon obituary 2011-03-20T17:10:17Z

That may sound flip, but I consider my own threshold for cinematic misery to be unusually high. Biutiful Review: Overdosing on the Tragic Human Condition 2010-12-22T19:25:00Z

The result is an unusually compelling character study, one that, commendably, opts to end on a humane note rather than a dark judgment. ‘Madre’ Review: A Tense Depiction of a Mother Undone 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Bagginess and disarray have their excuses here: this is a political play which, unusually, sets out to demonstrate as well as to debate. Earthquakes in London; The Good Soldier; FIB 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

Some material documents the Trial of the Thirty, including Fénéon’s unusually dapper mug shot. Félix Fénéon, the Collector-Anarchist Who Was Seurat’s First Champion 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

And there were the unusually colorful reports from New York magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi, who was the “pooler” for Vice President Pence on a final campaign swing through the Midwest. In the waning days of Trump’s presidency, White House press pool reports are getting snarkier 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

It might be an unusually gifted "bubble sculptor." Bottoms up for martini trapezes in always surprising Moisture Festival 2012-03-08T22:04:06Z

And much of the text of the climactic masque, with its multiple murders, is cut to be replaced by a phantasmagoric jazzy ballet which suggests an unusually wild night at Ronnie Scott's. Review|Theatre|Women Beware Women, Olivier, London|Michael Billington 2010-04-27T23:29:00Z

This one is hugely challenging, but when it works, unusually rewarding. Review: In ‘Pool Play 2.0,’ the Audience Is Welcome to Make a Splash 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

“It’s very emotional this movie, it’s very raw, it’s very authentic,” an unusually somber and admittedly nervous Hilton told a TV critics meeting on Saturday. Paris Hilton reveals private side in upcoming documentary 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z

For whatever reason, such art — in paint and other mediums — is unusually visible in Manhattan galleries this summer. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z

Mr. Heatherwick noted that the process of making the steel pieces was unusually complex. A $150 Million Stairway to Rise at Hudson Yards 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

That said, the theme for Saturday evening’s concert at the museum’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium was unusually explicit. Music Review: Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert - Review 2011-12-19T23:04:37Z

Hornstein, quite unusually for someone working in this field, is interested in patients telling their own stories. Jocelyn Pook: inspired by mental illness 2012-11-23T22:55:11Z

Among the leading pianists of our time, Mitsuko Uchida is known for her unusually detailed knowledge of the piano’s mechanics and her high standards. Why Do Pianists Know So Little About Pianos? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

The darkness may be liberating for the audience, but it leaves the comedians unusually exposed. Comedians are turning the lights out … 2012-10-07T19:00:06Z

“The Birth of a Nation,” Nate Parker’s debut feature as a director, presents an unusually vexing and complicated case. Review: In Nate Parker’s ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ Must-See and Won’t-See Collide 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

But, unusually for one of Mr. Vongerichten’s recent restaurants, a number of dishes don’t achieve liftoff. Lost in New York at Public Kitchen 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

If Neil weren’t a lawyer, he wouldn’t have been troubled by the transcript of Joe’s sentencing hearing, which was unusually short and glib. The priest, the exonerated death row inmate and their continued battle against the death penalty 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

And in a city where the past weighs unusually heavily on the present, these are traditions that nurture and sustain the rebels and radicals and protesters of today. A People's History of London by John Rees and Lindsey German – review 2012-06-22T21:55:20Z

And the audience was small but unusually sticky: put the show up against American Idol, the numbers held; put it on hiatus and they came back. Community Without Dan Harmon? Suits Axe Auteur, and Fans Lose 2012-05-19T21:30:18Z

Mr. Langmann apparently pushed his production at an unusually rapid pace. Two Versions of ?War of the Buttons? Open in France 2011-09-14T22:15:45Z

Many of the other pictures are, unusually for Mann, square or nearly so. Review | In the galleries: Probing our relationships with living systems 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

The foundation used those buildings to provide work, by museum standards, with untold space and viewing durations that were unusually long or even permanent. Dia 2.0: Facing the Future 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

The show’s importance to AMC may have been reflected in an unusually long development process. Television: AMC?s ?Rubicon? Offers Spies and Paranoia 2010-07-23T20:51:00Z

The influence of Schoenberg is clear, as is the exotic world of Ravel and, most unusually for a British composer of Bridge's generation, Scriabin. Backstage no longer: Frank Bridge at the Proms 2011-08-04T21:30:01Z

The unusually warm, dry and windy conditions prompted six North Dakota counties to declare fire emergencies and institute burn bans. We should break a record today -- but watch out for the 'pneumonia front' 2012-03-14T12:27:00Z

Thompson, who died in August at 78, has left behind an unusually good sports memoir with an unusual title: “I Came as a Shadow.” In His Autobiography, the College Basketball Giant John Thompson Is Plainspoken and Profound 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

The episode sparked uproar on Chinese social media and an unusually strong response from Beijing. Swedish TV satire on Chinese tourists sparks Beijing protest 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

What became clear was that these women are unusually thick-skinned. Women, Power and Politics: script for a revolution 2010-06-08T21:00:00Z

There were thin stems of broccoli rabe, too, tasting unusually sweet against the olives. At Lilia in Brooklyn, Missy Robbins Is Cooking Pasta Again 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

The sound in this unusually quiet concert was passable at best. Review: Joan Baez and Friends in a 75th-Birthday Celebration of Duets 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

The surge in demand for everyday products is prompting shortages of critical items and leaving store shelves unusually empty. Coronavirus concerns: Woman's tearful TikTok about Walmart diaper shortage goes viral 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

The opera has had an unusually long incubation; the first workshop took place in November 2010. Nico Muhly, Composer of ?Dark Sisters? and ?Two Boys? 2011-11-04T15:23:56Z

And so there are many objects the artist made that offer an unusually personal look at Picasso the family man. Inside Art: London Picasso Show Is a Family Affair 2010-07-01T22:30:00Z

Colonial collectors in New Zealand, unusually, recognized the quality of this work at the time and preserved the names of the carvers of these masterpieces. 'Gauguin and Polynesia': dazzling mix-and-match 2012-02-08T18:44:38Z

Rather unusually, the headliners for this Saturday night are two live artists rather than the regular DJs, but the chosen two are special enough. Clubs picks of the week 2011-08-19T23:09:00Z

If the show remains under the radar, it’s partly because of its unusually short seasons, just six episodes each. ‘Getting On,’ Played With Crudity and Grace 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

To their great credit, some of those who reviewed the book blind spotted that "Robert Galbraith" was unusually attuned to female fashion. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith – review 2013-07-18T11:42:26Z

Aside from the implication that Fleets were something other than an attempt to incorporate a competitor's feature in the hopes of increasing engagement, the announcement was unusually frank. Twitter Is Stuck With Itself, Too 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

Their journey through the making of the film, its subsequent success and their collaboration on “The Audience” has been an unusually prolonged and complex one. Helen Mirren Goes Back to the Palace in ‘The Audience’ 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

At first sight, Mr. Stingel’s pictorial wonderland is mesmerizing; you seem to float like a fish in an aquarium or fall, like Alice, into some unusually lavish rabbit hole. Critic’s Notebook: Rudolf Stingel’s Carpeting Makeover in Venice 2013-08-20T22:13:15Z

The Irish Repertory Theater’s dinner theater adaptation of James Joyce’s novella, which The New York Times called “an unusually sparkling affair,” returns for another holiday season. 8 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Every year brings a fresh crop of Japanese restaurants, but this fall, three popular Japanese chains will open New York satellites, each with an unusually narrow specialty. A Wave of Japanese Restaurants With a Twist 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

As a plot driver of popular drama, this was unusually complicated, but it did bring colourful distractions. Downton Abbey; Whites; DCI Banks: Aftermath; Inspector George Gently; Horizon 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z

But even hard-core OSF regulars approached last Thursday's performance of the recent drama "August: Osage County" with an unusually high level of curiosity and excitement, and a tinge of trepidation. Show goes on at Ashland festival, relocated to a big tent 2011-07-08T22:01:04Z

At 101 members, the board is also unusually large, which means decisions tend to be made in committees, the most important of which are the executive and finance committees. A Hushed Departure at the Met Museum Reveals Entrenched Management Culture 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

Yet “Dangerous” would hold at No. 1 for a further seven weeks, and since then it has become an unusually enduring hit. Morgan Wallen’s Career Seemed Over. Now He’s Broken a Billboard Record. 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z

People with Marfan's tend to be unusually tall and skinny, often with weakened lungs and spine. From Elephant 6 to Deerhunter: The US's new psychedelia 2011-03-10T23:00:01Z

Eight of the nominees are for first novels — an unusually high number for the prize. Hilary Mantel, Anne Tyler among Booker Prize contenders 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

That's the starting point for A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky, a new play that, unusually, is the product of not one but three writers, all at the top of their game. A Thousand Stars' end of the world show 2010-05-10T21:00:00Z

The array of pies and cakes like coconut and chocolate displayed on a rolling cart provide plenty of choices to end a dinner from the chef Laurent Tourondel’s unusually focused menu. Fall Restaurant Preview: A Reboot for New York 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

But the mood inside the hall was unusually festive. Music Review: Unfinished Works at Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-08-28T19:03:32Z

In an unusually promising development, the Obama administration opened an exploratory Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities whose mission is to encourage urban transport that is connected to the development of nearby affordable housing. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z

Charles Isherwood The classical French theater is making an unusually strong showing on New York stages this spring. The Week Ahead: May 29 ? June 4 2011-05-27T18:10:22Z

House then diagnoses an unusually straightforward illness for him: periodontitis, an oral infection exacerbated by Will’s diabetes. House Recap: The Parent Trap Edition 2012-03-20T13:30:50Z

He eats it as if he were an unusually methodical ape. Review: ‘Krapp’s Last Tape,’ a Melancholy Tone Poem 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

On an unusually cool July day, two young women strolled along the Tidal Basin as one important-looking man walked by them to sit with another besuited man on a bench overlooking the Jefferson Memorial. The ‘Roe v. Wade’ movie has an all-star conservative cast and a bone to pick with the media 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

I spent much of it on a fellowship that started last fall and ended this summer, so my dance watching has been unusually limited. Perspective | Best of dance 2021: Paul Taylor live at the Kennedy Center, Ashwini Ramaswamy and Jacob Jonas’s short films 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

He halts, unusually at a loss for words. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre 2011-01-31T00:05:02Z

The poem goes on examining the colours, and simultaneously, in its relatively technical vocabulary, presents the reader with unusually coloured words. Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z

He became increasingly, and for him unusually, animated. Pianist Murray Perahia scales the Everest of Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' in a momentous performance 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Levine said he’d looked unusually comfortable and that the pleasure he took in the music was “infectious” and reason alone for viewers to vote him through. 'The Voice' recap: The Top 6 sing for the moms 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

Emotions among the unusually tight-knit cast spilled over in the final week of shooting. ‘The Office’ Finale 2013-05-01T12:00:01Z

People crowded around, staring at the piles of this unusually large, scaly fruit that emerges, in awesome abundance, from the jungle at a certain time each year. Dragons, Apes, Mantas and Birds 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

It made for moving culmination of an unusually satisfying opening-night concert. Review: The New York Cabaret Convention Branches Out 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

In July, he offered the “Purple Moonlight Pages” vinyl for $77, an unusually high price, even for a double LP. How Much Is an Album Worth in 2020: $3.49? $77? $1,000? Maybe $0 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

Rather than CDs containing all the scherzos or mazurkas, he chose instead to mix genres, with the result being an unusually refreshing listening experience. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

That’s just as well; Mitnick’s unusually tight book has the confidence not to be overly faithful to the play or even the movie. Review: Double, Double, Burger and Trouble in ‘Scotland, PA’ 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

By reading the unusually detailed credit lines, we learn that a 1906 Edward S. Curtis photograph was purchased by Ms. Ault from a gallery in 1987, and that it is still in her possession. Art Review: Julie Ault’s Collection Displayed at Artists Space 2013-12-19T23:04:45Z

It's an appealing synthesis, particularly on Tobacco Fields, in which every instrument, and Burgess's unusually delicate voice, shiver between melancholy and joy. Tim Burgess: Oh No I Love You – review 2012-09-27T20:57:01Z

With its slow, low-slung momentum, his set was deeply sonically strange and unusually emotionally complex. Nicolas Jaar is the renaissance man of electronic music 2011-03-12T00:07:22Z

It’s not just a tiny film, but an unusually talky one, compared to your other work. Producer of ‘Bourne’ series turns his hand to a low-budget, psychological thriller. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Or maybe the unusually restrained approach to the costuming and presentation were not the way to go. Theater Talkback: A Season of 'Glee' 2010-06-11T14:26:00Z

Without a guitar in his hands, reaching that cathartic moment proves rather more challenging, but Who I Am is an unusually frank and moving attempt. Who I Am: A Memoir by Pete Townshend - review 2012-10-09T11:35:01Z

The parade requires more of the announcers, and the “Today” crew, unusually subdued during the ceremony, nimbly recited demographic and historical facts. Even on NBC, Rio’s Colors Can’t Be Airbrushed Out 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

The meals at Smith’s Grove Sanitarium, where he’s been cooling his heels all these years, must be unusually nutritious. ‘Halloween’ Review: Babysitters (and Jamie Lee Curtis) Beware! 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

It was designed, unusually for the time, by a woman, EM Maximova. City of wood 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z

The decision is unusually explicit, but it doesn’t dilute the poetry of her images — it only makes them feel more urgent. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

A vast two-hour work, “The Apostles” tells the story of Christ’s Crucifixion from the perspective of his followers, dwelling unusually on Judas Iscariot and Mary Magdalene. A Rare Performance of Elgar’s ‘Gigantic Work’ 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

And in general the dancing is unusually upscale for an Off Off Broadway production. Theater Review: ?Make Mine Manhattan? Revival at Connelly Theater 2012-03-06T23:11:35Z

He becomes embroiled in an adventure that involves a kidnapper with unusually modest ransom demands. Sentiments and Spaghetti 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

It’s unusually immersive, from the moment you walk in and the dancers themselves greet you. This ‘Nutcracker’ celebrates openness, diversity and glitter G-strings 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

The film’s structure may be conventional, and yet its story is unusually rich, and uninterested in easy answers as to why people hurt the ones they love. ‘After Love’ Review: The Other Woman 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

The handling of color — pinks that verge on golden and brown-green in the tree trunks' sunlit bark — is unusually bold for Ziegler. The Greathouse touch: Several exhibits at the Frye reveal the canny curatorial eye of former director Ida Kay Greathouse 2010-07-29T20:34:00Z

Petty is an unusually articulate commentator upon his own career, and of the milieu in which he has operated. Unreported World 2010-05-14T07:00:00Z

But it's also a novel about family life and, unusually for Madden, a largely happy family life. Deirdre Madden: 'The Troubles are almost always in my work at some level' 2013-06-14T15:00:05Z

A native of Quebec, Edéenne, now 53, came to jewelry design by an unusually roundabout route. Special Report: Jewelry: Jewelry That Sparkles With Stories and Gems 2011-05-12T13:49:21Z

The film is an unusually layered look at how the combination of privation, misplaced familial loyalty and just plain rotten luck can make the immigrant experience in America a nightmare. ‘Sansón and Me’ Review: Retracing a Path to Prison 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Executives around town offer an unusually wide range of projections for the opening weekend, at $40 million-$60 million. "Inception" is no dream for marketers 2010-07-09T04:12:00Z

And Mr. Stone managed to keep the weekly running costs unusually modest for Broadway, in the low- to mid-$200,000 range, while sticking with a marketing plan that emphasized the musical’s emotional punch. Broadway Musical ?Next to Normal? Turns a Profit 2010-03-29T04:47:00Z

The hearings were made — and, unusually for a congressional broadcast, promoted — with a keen instinct for how audiences today become interested in TV and how they talk about it. The Jan. 6 Hearings Did a Great Service, by Making Great TV 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

But Joaquin Phoenix’s lengthy acceptance speech after winning the best actor Oscar for Joker was unusually specific and pointed in its attack on both farming practices and the general public for tolerating them. Joaquin Phoenix saves cow and calf from slaughterhouse 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

It's a play that is unusually open to this kind of reinvention. 'Mojada' at the Getty Villa convincingly updates Greek tragedy to modern-day L.A. 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

The delightfulness of the biennale has something to do with the fact that it is, unusually, directed by a practising architect, and a good one. Brilliant biennale 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

Hers is an unusually positive – if very matronly – depiction of the adoptive mother in fiction. Eleanor Birne's top 10 books on motherhood 2011-03-30T15:44:16Z

On Thursday, after years of fits and starts, “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” will open on Broadway, updated and streamlined, part of a spate of unusually aggressive undertakings by musical-theater estates. With ?Porgy? on Broadway, Gershwin Heirs Flex Their Rights 2012-01-09T13:27:40Z

“More attention,” was her unusually succinct reply, though she immediately fleshed it out with a metaphor. Esperanza Spalding on a Year in the Spotlight 2012-03-16T15:58:59Z

Her brain scan studies suggest that unusually successful aging may be related to how tenacious a person is. Don’t want to retire? Here’s how to maintain a fulfilling career into your 80s and beyond. 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z

It was a remarkably staged scene, unusually theater-like for a series that operates in the language of cinematic realism. How Failure Made ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Great 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z

Clothes in black and optical white led off the catwalk show for Armani's Emporio line on Friday before a shift in contrast to encompass pattern and unusually bright colors for the brand. Emporio Armani's urban and bright looks at Milan shows 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

We offer fantastic advice, and this week’s advice was unusually universal. Motherlode Blog: Parental Quandary Considered: Should You Bring a Child to an Adult Party? 2012-01-05T22:05:41Z

To use a word borrowed from theatre, it's truth that counts; and, unusually for a professional escapologist, he doesn't want to be put in a box. Meet the incredible Mr Goodwin, daredevil extraordinaire 2013-03-01T14:00:00Z

But even at 34 and still on the rise, she seems, unusually for a major artist, at peace with eventually letting go of singing. A Young Singer Takes the Opera World by Storm 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

I was, as Dr. Spock suggested, unusually tall. Don’t slouch, young lady 2014-04-13T00:00:00Z

Just look for the unusually squat bottle and the d’O on the front label. This $15 Spanish red wine is worth the quest it might take to find it 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

“At the time power was wielded by unusually young people…That felt new and unique to explore.” For Timothée Chalamet, becoming ‘The King’ was terrifying 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

In our conversation, she seemed unusually halting and hesitant. Didion on 9/11: How many times can America lose its innocence? 2013-09-16T00:00:00Z

The lawsuit is unusually detailed in its description of the small label's close relationship with Scott. 2010-02-04T00:33:00Z

Under the increased atmospheric pressure, darkness, and even temperature of their marine environment, they turn unusually soft, says the firm’s founder Borja Saracho. When the winemaker wore a wet suit: Spain's $100 subsea tipple 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Pollak, who appeared with Cruise in "A Few Good Men," remembered being in awe of the "unusually large and perfect pen" Cruise used for marking his script. Tom Cruise receives Friars Icon award in NY 2012-06-13T14:20:10Z

“There would be a surge of people opening restaurants. There would be an unusually high number of restaurants per capita.” Another restaurant closes. That doesn’t mean the industry is headed for a crash. 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Especially in the last two decades of her long career, she was an unusually and deeply companionable filmmaker. ‘Varda by Agnès’ Review: A Final Visit With an Irreplaceable Filmmaker 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

In 2000's Blue Herrings, Nettles's favourite script, a series of mysterious deaths in a care home leads to an unusually poignant exploration of the issues around euthanasia. Your next box set: Midsomer Murders: John Nettles My Top Ten 2011-02-25T08:00:09Z

With its broad band of blue, evoking a sunlit seascape, this unusually uplifting Rothko sold for $46.45 million against a low estimate of $40 million. A Rothko Tops Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Auction 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

A single rushed rehearsal Thursday morning was made unusually miserable in high heat and humidity. Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado turns on the charm at Hollywood Bowl 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

Even as we're tiring of cooking every night and still unable to invite more people to the table, the realities of making this recipe at restaurant scale translate unusually well to pandemic home cooking. This creamy tikka masala mac and cheese is the ultimate 30-minute meal 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z

I got to explore often and the old timers would fill me in on how things were done both by hand and/or with unusually complex and odd machinery of a bygone era. The Season of the Skulls 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

People giddily commented on the unusually high quality of the gallery scene as if art dealers had recommitted themselves to their calling and were bent on making up for the deprivations of lockdown. Best Art Exhibitions of 2021 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

Eurovision fans crowded into downtown Malmo's squares and parks on an unusually hot sunny day, with music blaring and boats cruising the canals. ABBA in the air as 26 countries fight for Eurovision glory 2013-05-18T19:30:23Z

He is unusually direct about his calculations, even when they don't reflect well on him, and his motivations, albeit in a pop-psychological way that frequently makes you wince. Tony Blair's A Journey: Andrew Rawnsley's review 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

Illyria is unusually saturated in song, as Orsino’s instructions to his court musicians to “play on” are taken to heart by just about everyone onstage. Critic?s Notebook: Brian Dennehy at Stratford Shakespeare Festival 2011-09-03T00:09:21Z

Like “Constitution,” it was an unusually provoking show for Broadway. How Theater Stepped Up to Meet the Trump Era 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

The full house on Tuesday did not strike me as unusually young. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Season Begins 2014-04-30T17:50:19Z

But one day she tells Walker about her unusually clear dreams. ‘Hall of Small Mammals,’ Short Stories by Thomas Pierce 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Even when back on the field, he felt unusually anxious and aggressive. He quit the NFL for a career in math. It wasn’t just about the concussions. 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

And Greenwell’s literary criticism in the New Yorker and the Atlantic demonstrates an unusually keen and insightful mind. ‘What Belongs to You’ review: An eloquent tale of desire and remorse 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

And, unusually for a director, he has partnered with symphony orchestras: His three-year term as an “artist-collaborator” of the Los Angeles Philharmonic began this past season. Opera’s Disrupter in Residence, Heading to Bayreuth 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

ON an unusually windy April evening, Mr. Elbaz was sitting in a sedan parked outside the London Terrace apartment building in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. Lanvin Designer Alber Elbaz in the Spotlight?s Glare 2012-05-17T18:57:17Z

The disc includes a Making Of that's as captivating as the film, plus an unusually informative director's commentary. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-01-29T00:06:05Z

Beyond “Comey-a-Lago,” the past felt unusually present in other ways this week. Weekly Culture Review: How to Name a Scandal, “Anne of Green Gables,” and More 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

The fact that the orchestra had an unusually thick, bass-rich, dark sound was, I suspect, mainly the work of Tilson Thomas. Benjamin Britten triumphs in San Francisco 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

But Charles was an unusually outspoken Prince of Wales. In the Footsteps of Charles III 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

Even so, as “Macbeth” productions go, this is not unusually violent or especially bloody. Review | The king feels more like a pawn in updated, political ‘Macbeth’ 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

“Research shows it also coincided with a period of unusually low sunspot activity. Less solar energy can have a major effect on weather patterns.” Encyclopaedia Westerosa: the biggest Game of Thrones mysteries, solved 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

Shriver’s front door was open, a gesture that struck me as unusually trusting. Lionel Shriver Imagines America’s Collapse 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

One key to this success is the unusually high quality of the performances. Review: In ‘Master,’ the Flip Side of a Masterpiece 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Last winter, because of unusually warm temperatures in the Northeast, the concerns in Camden reached panic levels. Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

D. J.s broke the mold by offering an unusually catholic mix of music, from vintage soul to surf rock. The Gritty Club at the Heart of ‘This Ain’t No Disco’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

Meet this reality TV competition’s new host: Arnold Schwarzenegger, another longtime celebrity who entered politics on an unusually large scale. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ and ‘The Bachelor’ 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

Terry is unusually quiet for a conversation involving food and he walks a little way from Jimmy and Yvonne. Extract: The Whales by Evie Wyld 2010-09-06T13:47:00Z

Still, they form an unusually explicit, site-specific expression of the reciprocal bond between an art museum and its urban setting, and Rivera considered them one of the pinnacles of his career. Review: ‘Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit’ 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

The lab is not far from the Upper West Side apartment she moved to with her husband, a retired biophysicist, and two unusually affectionate cats, after retiring from teaching, in 2017. An Anthropologist Investigates How We Think About How We Think 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z

Reich's Quartet, which featured percussionist Daniel Druckman, contains fast outer movements of ever-changing rhythms and a slow movement with unusually ripe harmonies for Reich. New York Philharmonic sticks with American classics at Santa Barbara Bowl 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

Two adjacent Zip codes also have unusually high numbers of Dixie names. How one pocket of Utah is confronting the word ‘Dixie’ and all of its associations 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

I had seen him win the Belmont Stakes, but looked forward to seeing up close what so many had described as his unusually gentle and intelligent eyes. It’s a new tourist-friendly era at Kentucky’s famed horse farms 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Atkins told me that this was probably the case; it seems Lipska’s body mounted an unusually aggressive immune response, contributing to a great degree of swelling. She made a career out of studying the brain. Then hers veered off course. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

It was unusually long for a rosé, with bright, sappy watermelon and raspberry flavors. When he couldn’t get his favorite Provence rosés, he changed careers 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

The fish is sliced into steaks, not fillets, and the broth is unusually light and delicate. Tasting France Through 5 Signature Dishes 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

This simple unassuming restaurant serves tasty Venetian food at unusually reasonable prices for the location. 10 great restaurants near stations in Europe: readers’ tips 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

For the encore, Pecknold re-emerged from the wings alone to play an unusually direct and angry song about a betrayal. Concert review: Fleet Foxes at Chicago Theatre 2011-10-01T05:31:00Z

This is an unusually high percentage of rehashes for a festival that prides itself on its ambitious slate of new productions. Amid Virus Surge, Salzburg Festival Announces Next Summer 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

They were unusually small, and the tight squeeze was made worse because part of the space was taken up by a metal rod holding five or six spare rolls of toilet paper. Who’s Setting Up Shop in Hotels? Big-Name Chefs 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

Most probably it’s the rising tide of an unusually strong of lineup — which has scattered high-profile titles among debuts, documentaries and world-cinema darlings — that has lifted all ships. This Year, the Berlin Film Festival Sparkles 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

I first spotted Simon Russell Beale, who won best actor for Timon of Athens, at the Edinburgh Traverse, and as an unusually vivacious Young Shepherd in The Winter's Tale at Stratford. The Evening Standard awards prove regional theatre is vital 2012-11-26T18:22:17Z

The series is unusually successful in its mix of tones: farcical, serious, melodramatic and metafictional. CW's 'Jane the Virgin' mixes wacky and serious, with a natural ease 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Assistance with the wine list, about half Italian and priced to sell, is quick to arrive, too, and unusually perceptive. Restaurant Review: Barchetta in Chelsea 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

The New York Philharmonic’s Web-savvy promotional campaign for its terrific production of Ligeti’s modernist opera “Le Grand Macabre” last spring created a buzz for the orchestra, and an unusually youthful audience attended the sold-out concerts. Survival Strategies for Orchestras 2011-05-25T18:35:56Z

What is does feel like is intensely and unusually brilliant. Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner – review 2012-07-05T10:00:02Z

The vocal parts for the Storch work are challenging because they are unusually high; there are no arias or solo-only movements, but several vocal solos. A 190-year-old score, written in Prague and locked in a wooden box, gets its world premiere 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Back in February Mr. Tosh showed a broken bone in a man’s wrist, which elicited an unusually loud groan from the studio audience. Television: Daniel Tosh Is a Hit on ?Tosh.0? 2010-08-20T17:25:00Z

The rumbling starts up from the machine — a modified lithography press instead of a smaller etching press, to accommodate the artist’s unusually large scale. An L.A. art star turns 50: Gemini G.E.L. celebrates with a LACMA exhibition 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

The New York Times runs an unusually optimistic article proclaiming that — brace yourself — the economy is chugging along beautifully. Gen X and the big self-help lie: In furious middle age, a “Life Reimagined” feels impossibly out of reach 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

But in the context of Wayne’s career the movie offers an unusually harsh version of the commanding-officer character Wayne began playing during World War II. Video: The Many Shades of Wayne 2011-05-27T17:49:21Z

Come for the classic political thriller, stay to watch the future Jessica Fletcher in an unusually sinister role. The Best TV Shows and Movies New to Netflix, Hulu and More in November 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Indeed, she brings an unusually clear comic philosophy to the stage, which in this – her first HBO special – she buttresses with mission statements. Comedy gold: Lisa Lampanelli's Take It Like a Man 2013-03-21T15:04:07Z

Anyway, we thought we'd recommend some other unusually structured romance stories. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "One Day" 2011-08-18T13:02:08Z

The drama ran for more than two years – an unusually long stretch for a nonmusical play. 'Children of a Lesser God' to Return to Broadway 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

The winning contestant, Jason Mann, displayed an unusually effective sense of raw entitlement. HBO’s ‘The Leisure Class’: As expected, Jason Mann’s precious movie stinks 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

“Devil’s Gate” is unusually energetic even by the current hyper standards of the horror genre. Review: In ‘Devil’s Gate,’ Satanic Shenanigans 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

But her emotional investment made it all sound unusually personal. Music Review: A Penchant for Bruch (Since She Was Only 5) 2010-10-21T20:18:00Z

Attenborough’s scripts are written by production teams, but he is an unusually rigorous editor and rewriter. The real David Attenborough 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

"An unusually high number of former Nobel laureates have exercised their nomination right," Englund wrote on his blog. Haruki Murakami leads race for Nobel prize for literature 2012-08-23T15:20:49Z

So, at the beginning of this unusually long blog post, I mentioned that the A.A.P. just released its 2013 recommended vaccination schedule. Motherlode Blog: There's a New Vaccine Schedule. Will You Follow It? 2013-01-29T18:53:06Z

This time he’s unusually tired and fed up while trying to finish an article about a Russian disinformation campaign and possible links between a Swedish cabinet official’s financial funny business and a stock market crash. Review | Lisbeth Salander is back — and angrier than ever 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

In between were a bundle of unusually delicious coleslaw and some grains of buckwheat groats. Restaurant Review: Semilla in Williamsburg, Brooklyn 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Dave was also unusually sized, in a good way, which I didn’t realise at the time, him being the first. Why I went back to my ex-boyfriends, one by one 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

The show’s making was unusually fraught, plagued by the leaks, squabbles and contradictory briefings that also characterize British politics. Brexit Is Dividing Britain. So Is a Brexit Movie. 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

It calls for an unusually large ensemble of nearly 30 players, about a third of whom have been with the show since 1988. Andrew Lloyd Webber Brings the Music of the Night Back to ‘Phantom’ 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

Channel 4 hired her in 1988, the start of an unusually long association in a business where most people don’t stay in one place for long. What Wendy Rieger learned from Washington 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

Drinks and Wine Mixed drinks are thought-out and put together unusually well; the wine list is smart and often affordable. ‘Vegetable Forward’ Chef Gets His Own Patch at Loring Place 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

That’s a huge number on Broadway, where only a handful of unusually strong shows gross more than $1 million in a week, and most pull in far less. ‘Hamilton’ Hits a New High: The Most Money Grossed in a Week on Broadway 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

The Irish Repertory Theater’s dinner theater adaptation of James Joyce’s novella, which The Times called “an unusually sparkling affair,” returns for another holiday season. 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

But the New Amsterdam Singers event on Thursday at St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church on the Upper West Side was united by only what was described in the program as “unusually appealing texts.” Review: New Amsterdam Singers Perform a Text-Inspired Concert 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

He, too, said repairing your rocker is unusually challenging. Worn caning on rocker presents a complex problem 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

She writes that Fiona Hill, the White House’s top Russia adviser, told her that Putin brought to their meeting an unusually attractive female interpreter, whose presence seemed intended to distract the U.S. president. Trump played tough with Putin when cameras were around, but a new book details his insecurities 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

A more accurate sense of what inspires Vivadixie is given by the penultimate track, whose chorus – unusually straightforward for Linkous – repeats "It's a sad and beautiful world". My favourite album: Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot by Sparklehorse 2011-08-22T10:54:28Z

The London auctions also followed an unusually jampacked spring calendar that piled art fairs in Hong Kong and Basel, as well as the Venice Biennale, on top of the New York sales. Critic’s Notebook: Art Fatigue in London 2013-06-28T22:17:49Z

Even within that aesthetic, “217 Boxes” is unusually indirect and conceptual. Review: A Secret History of Gay Life Uncovered in ‘217 Boxes’ 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z

For an actor, McKenna was an unusually modest and self-effacing man, and this trait lent a profound transparency and poignancy to those performances that touched on failure and disappointment, notably in Chekhov. TP McKenna obituary 2011-02-16T19:05:33Z

And that, in turn, meant more opportunities for Black actors and designers to compete during awards season: the Tony nominations featured an unusually broad array of Black nominees. The Twisting Trail to the Tonys: ‘Can You Believe That We’re Here?’ 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

It seems to confirm the suspicion that there’s an unusually high number of former artists and artists on hiatus among art dealers, including, as here, once and would-be photographers. Art Review: The Art and Heart of the Dealer 2011-08-04T22:07:12Z

Two years ago, peach growers in South Carolina saw catastrophic losses from an unusually warm winter capped in March with freezes in the low 20s. Climate change is already hurting fruit breeders, and consumers could soon feel the pain 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

Securing the Tour is unusually difficult, as crowds of fans gather informally on narrow mountain roads and city streets along thousands of kilometers around France. 23,000 police mobilized to protect Tour de France 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

But it takes time for aches to mend, and Madeira wisely chooses an unusually slow tempo for an album opener on “Requiem For a Dream.” Review: On the rebound, Madeira finds the power in healing 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

His unusually frank language raised eyebrows, particularly in social media, where some commentators said it was offensive to people who were raised in large families. Pope seeks to clarify breeding 'like rabbits' remark 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

“Pedro Navaja,” arguably salsa’s most popular song, is best remembered as an unusually long piece that was initially frowned upon by the radio industry. Rubén Blades, a Salsa Legend, Swings in a Different Direction: Jazz 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

That said, this unusually taut sophomore feature from Jim Mickle is more abnormal than most in that its creatures are capable not only of evolving but also of embracing religious fanaticism. | 'Stake Land': Bringing On the Vampires in ?Stake Land? 2011-04-22T04:43:02Z

After an unusually long shooting schedule of 108 days, from Oct. Oz Revisited – Part 2: How They Made It Wonderful 2013-09-17T15:44:25Z

The photos captured what appears to be a cake topped with an unusually largely and terrifying puppet. Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux wed after three-year engagement 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

The opening of the unusually lively spout adds to this last effect, being more than a little serpentlike. Some Favorite Things Not Hanging on a Wall 2011-12-30T00:11:48Z

Lighted from within, they look like some kind of unusually dimensional and vivid, fisheye photographs of real scenes. Art in Review: PATRICK JACOBS: ?Familiar Terrain? 2011-02-10T23:27:25Z

"Lee Garner Jr. never took you seriously because you never took yourself seriously," an unusually harsh Burt Cooper tells Roger, summing up his fatal flaw. "Mad Men" recap: "I'm drowning, here" 2010-10-04T12:10:00Z

The battle was also unusually well-documented, visually speaking, by both sides. Shot by Shot: Building a Scene in Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s Vietnam Epic 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Five dollars is an unusually high charge for a single episode of television—even one that, like the Horace and Pete premiere, runs 67 minutes—and the show falls short of being worth the fee. Review: Louis C.K.'s Surprise TV Show 'Horace and Pete' Hits a Bum Note 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

The Belgian colonizers were unusually barbaric, but the rule of the other European countries that carved up Africa differed only in scale, not in kind, across a wide swath of the continent. Should Board Gamers Play the Roles of Racists, Slavers and Nazis? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

More unusually, he traveled to Japan to paint and study, and remarkably, with the approval of his boss, he went there for several months each year for 51 consecutive years. Seattle's Kirsten Gallery, home to marine art, Zen garden, turns 40 2012-07-27T17:38:07Z

Add to that a memorable twist regarding the unusually sympathetic villain's origins, and one is left with a Spider-Man movie that justified its own existence despite massive odds. MCU: The Franchise of the 2010s 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

With its exceptionally appealing characters, unusually nuanced conflicts, colorful relationships and the striking backdrop of ancient China, "Kung Fu Panda" was a winner on originality alone. 'Kung Fu Panda 2': Hyperflexed 3-D takes kick out of sequel 2011-05-24T20:04:05Z

We sampled some local favorites, like fesols de Santa Pau, beans that were unusually soft thanks to the soil, which, Mr. Coloma told me, regulates the temperature and creates a natural greenhouse. Explorer: In Spain, Hiking Along the Volcanoes of Catalonia 2011-09-09T19:00:10Z

This motion picture, in which an unusually coiffed performer, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, sings some Jacques Brel songs, purports to be a story about David Bowie. ‘Stardust’ Review: A Week With David Bowie, Unaccompanied by His Music 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

For American viewers, the 10-episode series has an unusually Continental flair, with much of the dialogue spoken in Swedish and rendered in subtitles. ‘Welcome to Sweden’ and ‘Working the Engels’ on NBC 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

But when “Doubletoss” was new, the two planes of its drama were unusually unambiguous. Dance Review: Cage and Cunningham at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-23T22:31:25Z

Half of that will cover land and construction expenses, and the other half — unusually — will pay for operational and maintenance costs in the first 10 to 15 years. Basel’s Beyeler Builds Out for the Future 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

The musical chemistry of Ms. Kent’s music is unusually delicate; it requires light, unobtrusive percussion; anything heavier produces strain. Music Review: Jazz Singer Stacey Kent Plays at Birdland 2010-06-04T22:05:00Z

It nonetheless achieves sonorities, harmonies and melodies that are sometimes individual and unusually atmospheric. Review: ‘Othello’ Is Performed by the American Ballet Theater 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

It was also — and, like so much about this opera, I can’t tell you why — unusually moving. The craziest opera yet: Gerald Barry's 'Alice's Adventures' 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

She said her neighbor, Dr. Ryan Weight, appeared “unusually chatty considering the weather.” ‘The Hot Doctor’ Finds a Life Partner Close to Home 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

This seemed  an unusually conventional program for one of the most innovative  of our celebrated conductors and known for brilliant program-making. Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia play larger than life on Southern California tour 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

But the report also noted that “determining whether a drone in flight is trespassing upon one’s property may be unusually challenging.” When Your Neighbor’s Drone Pays an Unwelcome Visit 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Ringing out 2016, though — an unforgiving, brutal year, full of violence and discord, that spirited away so many cultural greats — seemed unusually important. O Mad Night! 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

The article acknowledged that the patients had unusually high Epstein-Barr antibodies in their blood but noted that these proteins could sometimes be found at similar levels in the general population. A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

And now Yale, where the renaming ordeal has been unusually drawn out, may finally be getting its own relief. Yale Sets Policy That Could Allow Renaming of Calhoun College 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

The à la carte menu downstairs offers a fantastic cured pork shoulder in mushroom vinaigrette, or red-leaf lettuce leaves dotted with a mash of smoked hake that tastes like unusually good gefilte fish. At Aska, a Nordic Chef’s Vision Bears Fruit (and Lichens) 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

His first glimpse came sometime that afternoon, when he started noticing that his checkout line was unusually long. Alex From Target: The Other Side of Fame 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

It was reminiscent of the year "The Titanic" brought an unusually large audience to the Oscars. Carry a tune? You can make it in ratings 2012-02-14T21:11:11Z

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills has reached unusually far afield to find its new artistic director. Wallis Annenberg Center names Paul Crewes as artistic director 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

“Revelations” was performed, unusually, with Sweet Honey in the Rock’s musicians and singers onstage. Dance Review: Night of Tributes and Performance, Too 2010-12-02T21:44:00Z

But his Sixth Symphony offers an unusually high proportion of true inspiration to desultory noodling. Review: Seattle Symphony program roams from fun to profundity 2011-02-04T19:14:04Z

An unusually heavy autumn snowstorm in the Northeast may have kept some potential ticket buyers at home: Hollywood had been expecting a total closer to $40 million. ArtsBeat Blog: 'Puss in Boots' Leads at Weekend Box Office 2011-10-30T16:43:48Z

Even the minor role of a musician who recites madrigals written by Manon’s rich patron, sung by the captivating Avery Amereau, stood out for the unusually rich, saturated auburn timbre of her voice. ‘Manon Lescaut’ at the Met Opera: A Courtesan in Need of Context 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

And if you’ve got family with you, Alewife is an unusually kid-friendly bar with beers and cider on tap — and a kitchen that happily serves chicken tenders. Things to do This Weekend: Free Arts in Parks! 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

At nearly two hours, “Helen & Edgar,” directed by Catherine Burns, is unusually long for a Moth story, but there is never any question of its not holding your attention. Theater Review: ‘Helen & Edgar,’ Edgar Oliver’s Solo Show, at Theater 80 2012-10-12T22:43:25Z

After an unusually dull Ford music video, Ryan calls each of the girls down. 'American Idol' results night recap: Big reprieve for Big Mike 2010-04-08T14:42:00Z

An unusually public dispute between a playwright and a production team has broken out into the open over a Broadway-bound play starring Sean Hayes. That Oscar Levant Play Had an Earlier Version. Its Writer Is Unhappy. 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

And get ready for more: Crucially for their future business prospects, movie studios managed to introduce an unusually large number of new franchises. The Movies With Pasts Ruled the Year 2013-12-29T22:26:14Z

Through the decades, the magazine has published stories on an unusually diverse array of subjects. A Summer in the New Yorker Archive 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

Olive is, in short, anything but a blithe spirit, which makes the arrival of a supernatural presence in her living room mirror an unusually unlikely occurrence. | 'Olive and the Bitter Herbs': Co-Op?s Old Crank Finds a Fresh Spirit 2011-08-17T02:30:38Z

This means that the personal ties between the rulers of the Kremlin and the officials in the White House are unusually significant, for good or ill. Unraveling the Putin Enigma 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

“My client is the artist — not the Philharmonic, not the Metropolitan Opera, not anyone else,” he said in a rare, unusually blunt interview with The Times in 1971. Ronald A. Wilford, Manager to a Host of Legendary Maestros, Dies at 87 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

Had a lifetime in foetal scanning, searching for defects, made him unusually intolerant of imperfection? The day we learned our son had a cleft lip 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

Alexander Toradze, the impressive soloist, offered a performance of striking contrasts, with an unusually soulful opening and barely audible pianissimos in the second movement. Music Review | Vladimir Jurowski: The Long and Short of Shostakovich, and Jazzy Ravel 2010-03-08T22:17:00Z

It will be an unusually rich month before the summer lull. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for June 6-12 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

But one of its best-known roles is in the not-so-creatively named St-Germain Cocktail, which was invented by the company itself and has been unusually, enduringly popular for a drink of such provenance. Drink this cocktail in memory of the man behind St-Germain, a bartending staple 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Mark H. Dubester, the lead prosecutor on the case, says the trial was “unusually contentious” but that “on a personal level, I’m satisfied. The jury spoke.” Inside an eccentric mogul’s quest to save D.C.’s most distinctive buildings 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

She is unusually tall, which gives her a kind of instant authority, and dresses in matronly camouflage: scarves and twin sets. ‘A Writer Writes’: Penelope Lively’s Fiction Defies the Test of Time 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

This is in large part, of course, because of its unusually long run; no single show at the festival had ever played 27 performances. Summing Up the Lincoln Center Festival 2013-07-31T12:30:54Z

Gould turned the classical-music world upside down in 1955 with his unusually personal rendition of Bach's "Goldberg Variations," still a classic. 'Genius Within': A personal view of eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould 2010-10-14T20:41:00Z

The Rayburns seem like an unusually companionable, affectionate and easygoing group. Review: ‘Bloodline,’ on Netflix, Depicts a Family With Nasty Secrets 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Since then he has taken an unusually eclectic path, recording the concertos and sonatas of Mendelssohn, Grieg, Fauré and Walton on the one hand, while premiering works by cutting-edge contemporary composers on the other. String fellow 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

It was an unusually long dry spell for McCarthy, who has released his 10 earlier novels at a fairly steady clip ever since his 1965 debut, “The Orchard Keeper.” Sixteen Years After ‘The Road,’ Cormac McCarthy Is Publishing Two New Novels 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

A pang of remorse went through me; its tone was unusually conciliatory. Napoleon on the Backstairs 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

She stayed in the show for years, an unusually long amount of time for theater actors who often depart after much shorter engagements. "Funny Girl" gives Lea Michele a stage to poke fun at those literacy rumors 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

However critics pointed out that no objection had yet been made, and that only 10% of the photos in the Kiss the Past Hello exhibition were unusually explicit. Outcry as Paris bans under 18s from Larry Clark exhibition 2010-10-07T16:19:00Z

Margaritas were being served at La Jolla Playhouse, where the show is having its world premiere, and the lines for refueling during intermission seemed unusually raucous for a Sunday matinee. Embracing the chill in Jimmy Buffett's 'Escape to Margaritaville' 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

Slender in a sari of purple and gold, she was unusually aerial for an Indian dancer. Dance Review: Shantala Shivalingappa at Skirball Center at N.Y.U. - Review 2011-10-31T21:26:55Z

This is an appropriate balance, since “Seven Pillars” is an auteur’s vision that was also shaped through an unusually close collaboration with its performers. One Composer, Four Players, ‘Seven Pillars’ 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

His core audience is Italian families but has expanded in recent years, and his crowd is unusually multigenerational, including teenagers and grandmothers. How Is the Hottest Comic in America Still Under the Radar? 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

Gulf of Mexico blue crab was unusually rare; it remains expensive. On the Cajun Coast, a Chef Grapples With Threats to a Seafood Tradition 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

As a neutral country, Switzerland maintains unusually good relations with North Korea. Korean Art Goes on Show, With Protests From North and South 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

This is a piece of architecture that never lets up, that presents its ideas in unusually dense, compacted form. The restored Met Breuer (formerly the Whitney) has a new energy as well as a lived-in look 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

For legal experts, the trial put an unusually public prism on the ambiguities in such cases: the challenge to women’s credibility, the legal presumption of innocence, inconsistent police procedures and the science of memory itself. A Post-Cosby-Trial Question: Is the System Stacked Against Women? 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

Accordingly, and somewhat unusually for a Bard presentation, you sensed an agenda at work during the first weekend, titled “Berg and Vienna.” Music Review: Tribute to Composer Alban Berg at Bard Music Festival 2010-08-16T21:54:00Z

An unusually large number of actors appear in two—or even three—movies nominated for the best-picture Oscar this year. The (Right) Envelope, Please: PwC Plans for an Uneventful Oscars 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

It’s a smart, imaginatively made and unusually sweeping look at what happened to the world from Sarajevo in 1914 to Hiroshima in 1945, or as Churchill put it, “one story of a 30 years’ war.” ‘The World Wars,’ on History, Links Evens Across 30 Years 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

“Pulse,” which had its premiere at Carnegie Hall in October, is, on the other hand, unusually quiet and understated Reich. Steve Reich at 80, his finger on the pulse of a bewildered country 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

This year’s casting, however, prompted many in the audience to undertake unusually large Giselleathons, thanks to important debuts, farewells and returns. Review: An Abundance of Giselles, With Debuts and Farewells 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

The music has had an unusually hospitable reception from his administration, up to and beyond a glittery concert at the White House, the marquee event of International Jazz Day this spring. Swinging the Vote: Jazz Inspired by the Presidential Race 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

He’s into field recordings, sine waves and percussion, unusually played. Playlist : Indie Sounds Abound: Some Playful, Some Pop 2011-08-12T19:13:35Z

This has made for some unusually pleasant summer evenings in a place known for regularly serving up the kind of hot humidity blast you associate with a fryer oven. Heat got ya beat? Tune in to these chilly ideas during the last days of summer

Plans for a Broadway transfer were already in place — an unusually aggressive trajectory for a musical that never had an out-of-town tryout. Andrew Lloyd Webber: Lord, Baron, Rocker 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

“Spiral” may be an unusually tense, granular and absorbing cop show, but it’s still a cop show. ‘Spiral’ Review: A Peerless Policier Takes On Its Final Case 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

She noted the unusually detailed and mercurial dynamic markings, pointing specifically to a passage in the first-movement development section with four bars fortissimo, four pianissimo, then another four fortissimo. Recording As a Road To Recovery 2011-01-27T22:59:45Z

At a ceremony on Monday near the United Nations, American officials are scheduled to turn over to Mongolian representatives the unusually complete skeleton of the giant raptor, 8 feet high and 24 feet long. Dinosaur Skeleton to Be Returned to Mongolians 2013-05-06T20:19:56Z

These qualities have made Justice Scalia an unusually divisive Supreme Court justice. ‘Scalia: A Court of One,’ by Bruce Allen Murphy 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

Suro might be right about Tangier being ideal for growing unusually good oysters. Ken Cuccinelli’s post-politics endeavor: oyster farming 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

Most of the Hallé’s players take part in its education program, which has unusually strong links with local school authorities, at a time when funding for music education is limited. A Critic’s First Orchestra Defines Britain’s Musical Soul 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

I had an unusually stubborn case, so I ended up going to the eye doctor. Sad after losing your sense of smell to COVID? Turns out there's a link between sense and happiness 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

The result — 12 half-hour episodes landing on Hulu April 29 — is an unusually thoughtful and moving depiction of young people’s emotional lives. ‘Normal People’ Takes Sex Seriously 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

The timpanist, whose role in the symphony is unusually prominent, sat in the front row. Ivan Fischer Returns to Mostly Mozart With ‘Nozze di Figaro’ 2013-08-09T18:45:43Z

Yet Tut’s tomb seemed to be finished in a rush – and to be unusually small for a pharaoh. 'We have never seen anything better' – the secrets of King Tut's tomb 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Either Olive is the most amenable adolescent on the planet or the ones in my orbit are just unusually crotchety. Learning to Heal, With a Little Fur Machine 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z

This year, he’s competing in a category unusually stacked with other contenders of color with a film that ticks more of the Academy’s more obvious boxes. If Beale Street Could Talk: Barry Jenkins shows that more is less 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

But nothing could top Richards and Wood on acoustic guitars for the unusually tender “You Got the Silver,” with Watts – as usual – adding just the right feel on brushes. Rolling Stones concert review at United Center 2013-05-29T06:21:00Z

Heavy on the downbeats, his reading of that season-opening staple was the only weak link on the orchestra’s unusually lively and engaging opening gala on Saturday night. Review | In NSO opener, Noseda shows you don’t have to dumb down to have fun 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z

The festival is traditionally focused on theater from the German-speaking world, but this year’s lineup of 11 plays was unusually international. In Munich, Young Directors Offer Horrors Both Real and Fantastical 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

It’s an approach demonstrated in 7 World Trade Center, the Lower Manhattan building known for its unusually lucid facades. James Carpenter?s Architectural Adventures in Glass 2010-08-01T02:00:00Z

Cruz asked for an unusually long rehearsal process of a few months, trying to reach the core of a character who’s in constant conflict with her own feelings. The Visions of Penélope Cruz 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

On an unusually eventful day marked by protests and a power outage, a fire breaks out near the oxygen tanks during a treatment session, or “dive.” Review | ‘Miracle Creek’: A twisty legal thriller that shows how far parents will go for their kids 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

Tickets for the occasion, in other words, were unusually within the realm of obtainability. The night Donald Trump failed to break the White House correspondents’ dinner 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

The decision was unusually swift, especially for a comic book with such an acclaimed writer, but Mr. Coates said the culprit was poor sales. Black Panther Spinoff Written by Ta-Nehisi Coates Will Be Canceled 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

And, eventually, they'll hear Gaga’s most personal music yet, songs that cut less close to the heart than does this unusually frank film. Review: 'Gaga: Five Foot Two' Shows a Superstar at Her Most Vulnerable 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Allen’s literal voice, which supplies narration, sounds unusually sluggish and weary. Review: In ‘Café Society,’ Rearranging Old Preoccupations 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

It is difficult to say exactly how much “Tangled” cost to make because of its unusually long gestation, but the financial stakes are huge. Film: Disney Ties Lots of Hopes to Lots of Hair 2010-11-20T19:13:00Z

Starring Alec Guinness as the dour, ironically named intelligence expert George Smiley, the series had an unusually long reach. Carpetbagger Blog: How Hard Is It to Adapt a Hit Book? Ask the Makers of 'Tinker, Tailor' 2011-12-01T15:57:47Z

Certainly the film “Black Swan” helps explain why tickets to the New York City Ballet’s performances of “Swan Lake” are selling unusually fast. Dance Review: A ?Swan? Of Complex Shades 2011-02-14T05:15:08Z

The coming weeks are shaping up to be unusually busy for fans of short fiction. Short Stories for Summer Reading 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

But because they shared a sense of mission that transcended personal celebrity, the ties bonding the early ’60s folkies were unusually strong. Movie Review: ‘Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation’ 2013-01-17T23:38:50Z

Robert Sindelar, the managing partner of Third Place Books in Seattle, said it’s been unusually difficult to restock popular titles this year. Bottleneck at Printers Has Derailed Some Holiday Book Sales 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

The constant agitation of the free-floating mesh sacks in mid-water also results in oyster shells that are unusually polished and smooth. Ken Cuccinelli’s post-politics endeavor: oyster farming 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

Rehearsals start around Christmas, which gives Mr. Goold just enough time to get through an unusually busy fall in the West End and at the Almeida. Rupert Goold Takes ‘American Psycho’ to New York 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z