| 单词 | bracing |
| 例句 | Since the doorway was of a normal size, he had to crouch and twist in order to squeeze through.“Everything will be fine,” Grandma said, placing a bracing hand on Kendra’s shoulder. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Chubs shouted, bracing his hands against the steering wheel. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Fight, then flight, she silently instructed, bracing herself. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She looked, bracing to meet some new attack head-on. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I was bracing myself for him to say something angry or bitter, steeling myself to absorb his understandable rage. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In fact, the reports were bracing in their clarity. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The views atop the hill were bracing, yet it was the ringwall that drew Jon's eye, the weathered grey stones with their white patches of lichen, their beards of green moss. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was here they’d brought Beatrice’s stepbrother after carrying him upright for almost a mile, each of them bracing one of his shoulders. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In his mind, Inatimi became perfect, brave and bracing, made intrepid and sensitive by loss. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Ron raised the sword in his shaking hands: The point dangled over the frantically swiveling eyes, and Harry gripped the locket tightly, bracing himself, already imagining blood pouring from the empty windows. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Barry turned and put his hands over his face, bracing for the feeling of teeth ripping at his neck. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z He leaned against it, bracing himself sideways and using his legs, fighting to keep a grip. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Only Joe wouldn’t sit, but stood bracing himself, so she did, too. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z As expressionless as the time she was a store mannequin, she sat in the wagon on a sawed-off chair, bracing herself with one hand on the driver’s plank and the other on the coffin box. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I told him I loved him and I felt every muscle in his body tense, as if he knew what was coming and was bracing himself for it. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z On a bracing afternoon, he escorted Weaver into the Radiation Laboratory and showed him the twenty-seven-inch cyclotron, not skimping on the vaudeville of the lavender deuteron beam shooting into the air. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I like the cold. It’s bracing. What are we using for bait?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I leaned over, bracing my hands against my knees for support. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Climbing up the hill after her, bracing his knee with his palm, he’d wiped his hands on his trousers and answered our clamorous whispers—dead? is he—?—with the brief impersonal nod of a doctor.... The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Clancy leaned forward, bracing his hands on either side of his laptop. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Halting for a moment outside the door of the Director’s room, Bernard drew a deep breath and squared his shoulders, bracing himself to meet the dislike and disapproval which he was certain of finding within. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the inn, Ivy climbed the creaky steps to her family’s room, bracing herself for a flourish of activity and noise. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He hugged the trunk again, bracing himself against the wind. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z A bracing example of how the landscape was changing can be seen in the unfolding career of the classically trained son of an orthodox Jewish cantor, Kurt Weill. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The air outside was cold and bracing, though the sky was a dull grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I fell, dropping to my knees, bracing my hands against the tile, trying to keep from being sick all over myself and the floor. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Good work, everyone, I think we’ll flatten Slytherin,” he said bracingly, and the Chasers and Beaters left the changing room looking reasonably happy with themselves. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z My body tightens, bracing itself—it hurts more than I imagined, but I pretend it doesn’t. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He scrunched up his face, bracing for the pain. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z At school, I walk through the gates, conscious of my hair swinging behind me and, despite reason, bracing myself for a crowd to begin taunting, Longa, dirty Indian. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I take its place on the lounge chair and adjust the metal bracing until I’m lying flat on my back. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She remembered bracing her back against the roof. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Detroit, in the stifling summer of 1967, is bracing for race riots. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The world was a fresh and wonderful place to me, green and bracing and entirely new, and I looked at it now with fresh new eyes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Holding the line with his left shoulder again, and bracing on his left hand and arm, he took the tuna off the gaff hook and put the gaff back in place. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z That false softness had left his voice and he sounded normal again, bracing and sonorous. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I stand up, bracing my muscles to run. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The horse stood straddle-legged, as if perpetually bracing himself against a strong wind. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood up, bracing my body as best I could against the wind. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He blew out a shaky sigh, bracing a hand against the nearest tree. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She seemed to be bracing herself for a scolding. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “No,” I say, bracing myself for the next blow. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The air was bracing, yet with a cold edge which made the travelers grateful for the cloaks Medwyn had given them. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z They retired there by the thousand because the air was so bracing and healthy it kept them, so they believed, alive for a few extra years. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z A second passed in which the girl squared her shoulders, as if bracing herself. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He got up on his knees and leaned over, bracing his legs against the side of the boat as he grabbed Marco under the arms. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z She pulled her arm away from the line, bracing her palm against the frozen ground. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Nope,” Joaquin said, and they hadn’t answered, which made him even more nervous, out of control, teetering on the edge, bracing for a fall. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “It’s not as heavy as all that. In fact, I find the exercise bracing, quite invigorating. A Fflam never flags!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Blake had come to value the man’s sometimes bracing candor since his arrival. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The new proposal staggered Weaver, who had been bracing for a grant application for a machine less than half that size. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She took a deep breath, as though bracing herself, and said, “It’s that mark, the mark in Beedle the Bard. Look at this!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I let my breath out and stared at the faucets, then rested my wrists on the edge of the sink, bracing myself for Mom’s angry reaction. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I stood up, bracing myself for the encounter, and stepped from the familiar darkness of the hut into the greying night outside. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was only a dream,” said Ron bracingly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Carefully climb the first ladder, bracing his feet on the window ledge, and then onto the iron stairway that led to the roof. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt that he was living upon a high pinnacle where bracing winds whipped about him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z All around him, men leaped to their duties, spreading sails, bracing the yards. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z After bracing my heels against the transom of the dinghy, I locked both hands around the grip of the starter cord. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I saw the giant bend and clutch the posts at the top of the stairs with both hands, bracing himself, his body gleaming bare in his white shorts. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I cover my head, caving against the doorframe, bracing myself. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He clung to that word with a viselike grip, bracing himself. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z ‘There’s nothing like a good pipe after a bracing swim. ’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I pour myself a cup of bracing and bitter fennel tea. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was bracing, like opening a door in a warm room in the dead of winter and getting a blast of arctic air. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The oak tree crackled overhead, its branches rasping together in the bracing breeze. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z On his first day on the picturesque campus, he walked briskly through the bracing Pennsylvania wind and fallen autumn leaves in open-toed sandals and shorts. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The word is defeated, but I just say—loud enough to be heard by Holly and Denise in the front too—“I’m bracing for a confrontation with Ted.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Park put his hands at ten and two and laid his head on the steering well, bracing himself. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I stood on the place, bracing myself against the waves, so that I would not have to look for it again. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, very slowly, bracing my hand against the side of the house for support, I raised my head to the level of the window—straight into a great staring glass eye. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He did as he was told, closing his eyes and bracing himself as best he could. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I’m controlling my breathing and bracing myself for anything as we walk up the porch, to the front door. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Maybe his dad had been bracing for the entire neighborhood to swarm the house with torches and pitchforks as soon as they saw Park with eyeliner. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z He kicks the mutt away, bracing for more. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I was bracing myself to see a dumb tree branch or cement block somebody had tossed in to anchor a buoy come up. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Sonia fights, bracing her feet against the wall, but the pull is too strong. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z On a clear day you could see half the world from the top of the Wall, and the air was always cold and bracing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z With a turn of her arm she brought the sword into blocking position, her legs bracing for the impact as steel struck steel. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Sciola, behind him, climbed laboriously up the last two or three steps, bracing his knee with his palm. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Gliding, I love how bracing wind flows over my body and face. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I pause outside our front door, bracing myself. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I am faster than he is—I slam into his back and he hits the floor face-first, without bracing himself. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z On the contrary, he probably finds suddenly that it has become an excellent day, the weather remarkably bracing, the time appropriate for a bit of exercise of the old wings, a brisk turn upwind. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then it began to make a slow hissing sound in the water and he still held it, bracing himself against the thwart and leaning back against the pull. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Ever since my mother walked inside my great-grandmother’s house I had been bracing myself for her kind of crazy. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z She closed her eyes, bracing for the spirit to dive into her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Then she and I exchanged a knowing glance, bracing ourselves for whatever came next. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z He gained control of himself by falling against a man and a woman, bracing his fall against their shoulders. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Princesses live there,” Laney stated, bracing her arms on Isa’s shoulders so she could get a better view. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z My heartbeat quickens as I dial into my voice mail, bracing myself for the worst. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I go downstairs to tell Mom and Dad, bracing for the worst—but they don’t get angry. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He took Oomen by the lapels and hoisted him off his feet, bracing his body against the railing. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As I put the final touches on the East-West blockade, Cade thumped his way through the door bracing a heavy, sloshing cooler against his knees, and said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z They could touch the roof of the tunnel with a half-upstretched hand, and the bracings had been newly placed. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I could feel her bracing herself, forcing the words out. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z A second thought, however—that he must find his boy and see him safe—stirred him to rise again, first bracing himself on his forelegs before straightening his haunches. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A blue haze of human breath and dust blurred the intricate bracing of the ceiling 246 feet above. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Jupe had shifted off me by that point and I was able to move, but I was too busy bracing for the worst to actually look at who was calling. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z I felt myself leaning forward, my hands gripping my knees, bracing myself for what she would decide. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I clenched my jaw and shut my eyes and held my breath, but instead of the deafening blast I was bracing for, everything went completely, profoundly quiet. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Even the idea of attempting this was bracingly novel. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Roshan narrows his eyes and brings his forearms up in a bracing cross. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I’ve heard her make this sound before; it’s what she does when she’s summoning her courage, getting ready to jump off the rocks and into the bracing river water. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm bracing myself, thinking, Why'd I have to try and get tough? How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The flood of fresh air that rushed in made it worth the fight; I leaned forward, bracing my arms against the sill. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z For almost a decade, I’d been privileged to move through it, experiencing its bracing contradictions and bitter conflicts, its pain and persistent idealism, and above all else its resilience. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He slipped off his horse and tethered him to the well bracing. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “But you haven’t really got to know Mrs. Norris,” Ron told her bracingly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Brick walls, wooden bracing and support posts, shelves filled with dusty contents. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Grady and Bill are both grunting, bracing their legs to keep me from getting loose. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z His brown, hardening body lived naturally through the half fierce, half lazy work of the bracing days. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z It resisted; he tugged harder, bracing his shoulder against the door. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z But where I was bracing myself for things like having the N-word shouted at me when I was up to bat, or having an ump make bad calls because he didn’t want us to win? Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z He put a hand on Alfred's shoulder, bracing himself as they walked slowly down the steps. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z To me, a doctor’s preparations for work of any kind are stimulating and bracing, but the effect of these things on both Arthur and Quincey was to cause them a sort of consternation. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z She would jolly me along, make bracing and positive suggestions I know I can’t live up to. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She wrapped both hands around the neck of the fire extinguisher, bracing her body to swing. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z At the other end, the Capitol was under construction, with scaffolding bracing the inside of its famous dome. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Mount Fuji is bracing for a big jump. Update: Mount Fuji, So Popular It Hurts 2013-08-13T14:57:06Z For my part, I found Sandberg’s advice daring and a little bit bracing. Marissa Mayer’s new job 2012-07-17T23:13:00Z As a memoir for readers of any age, it is inspirational and bracing. She’s a successful TV star. But she’s still grappling with her parents’ deportation. 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z The acidity is fine, however, giving it a bracing quality that balances the rich, sappy fruit flavors. Rosés and reds to see you through September The last few years have heralded a rush of bracing works helmed by a new generation of so-called Asian-American auteurs. A Vision of Asian-American Cinema That Questions the Very Premise 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z The series is bracingly honest in that sense, never glazing over the fact that Diane and her cohorts are in a place of extreme economic privilege; as much of the workforce suffers they still thrive. Forget civility: On “The Good Fight,” “Luke Cage” and “Dietland,” resistance means go... 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Still, the book’s message is clear and bracing: King understood that it’s children who will lead the way, and the man’s faith in the future is reassuring even now. Children’s Books About Black History, Heavy on Biographies 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Now, part of me is actually bracing for unseen forces to send me into the rafters of this hangar. Space tourism will surely be a blast, but can it also improve life on Earth? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z It is a bracing thing, seeing them again. Avedon at Large 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Yet Linke’s repeated warnings about the transitory nature of life are bracingly astringent, a splash in the face reawakening us to our shared mortality. One-man-show revisits ghosts of the past — including his own 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z After all, his tenure in Berlin, which began in 2002 and will end in 2018, has been a bracing antidote to the notion that conductors prove themselves solely in the totemic standards. Berlin Philharmonic’s Beethoven Marathon at Carnegie Prompts Some Head-Scratching 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z So we could start our local inquiry with movies that, while clearly fictional, have that elusive, bracing feeling of realness. Critic’s Notebook: Four Days of Films at Telluride 2012-09-03T22:16:36Z Or “by” Shostakovich, whose “Festive Overture” offered a bracing fanfare near the program’s start, followed by neurotic keyboard scramblings? Carpenter energizes Kennedy Center with irreverent organ performance 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z A fun game, yes, and the honesty is unusually bracing. !!! keep the party going with Thr!!!er 2013-04-26T13:00:00Z Both were vivid, bracing, memorable performances; yet neither would have happened had the performers not been making an explicit attempt to put women in the spotlight. Review | Music by female composers uplifts the art form, in two strong concerts 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z In the chat, Galvin takes no prisoners, commenting with bracing candor on Hollywood’s glass closet and what it’s like to be a gay actor in Tinseltown. Don’t apologize, Noah Galvin: Let’s applaud celebrities who dare to speak their mind, not tear them down 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z As that series goes into production in December on its last eight episodes for a fifth and final season, Paul says he, and the rest of the cast, are bracing for a tearful farewell. Aaron Paul trades drugs for alcohol addiction in "Smashed" 2012-10-10T19:01:51Z But in the last month, Clarity – a song by Russian dance producer Zedd, for which she provides bracing vocals – has become an international hit. Foxes at South by South West: 'I've been thrown into the belly of the beast' 2013-03-18T18:15:00Z Their movies thrive on a distinctive mix of profanity and pathos, on the happy, bracing coexistence of a low brow and a big heart. The Farrelly Brothers on Their ?Three Stooges? 2012-04-06T13:00:00Z Just before Mr. Ziporyn’s piece, the Jack Quartet played Xenakis’s jagged, bracing “Tetras” from a position atop a staircase behind the audience. Music Review: Bang on a Can Marathon at Winter Garden 2010-06-28T22:19:00Z As choreographed with a bracing electricity by Sergio Trujillo — the production’s most effective contributor — the number entertainingly incorporates allusions to the boxing ring and highlights the show’s muscularity, its most rewarding attribute. A Cuban ‘Carmen’ with a shortage of sizzle 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z In doing so, “Stony the Road” presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. In ‘Stony the Road,’ Henry Louis Gates Jr. Captures the History and Images of the Fraught Years After the Civil War 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z He has spent most of his life bracing for catastrophe, a stance he attributes partly to his Soviet and Jewish heritage. Apocalypse Now-ish (Cocktails, Anyone?) 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Sweeping a pita triangle through that combination was more energizing, more bracing, than the big hit of caffeine I sipped alongside. The not-so-secret truth about yogurt the rest of the world already knows 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z In one of the most oddly bracing moments, Mr. Mercy shatters a glass while trying to balance on it. Dance Review: Swimming Through Bausch?s World 2010-09-30T21:15:00Z He played with pensive delicacy in the slow movement and a touch of bracing wildness in the stormy finale. Music Review: A Pianist?s Pensive and Fanciful Sides 2011-07-29T21:08:11Z It’s bracing, a nervy and grounded protest from a band that ordinarily prefers to soar. The Playlist: Pearl Jam Kicks Up a Fury, and 9 More New Songs 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The moral rot and callous corruption depicted in “Angels Wear White” has a particularly bracing effect in part because, cultural specifics aside, the inhumanity on display is hardly alien. Review: ‘Angels Wear White’ Is a Searing Tale of Moral Rot in China 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Between eruptions of bracingly intricate footwork and body percussion, Galván throws in a reference to ballet here, sports there. A Flamenco Star’s Percussive Mastery and Insouciant Subversions 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z This is a particularly bracing experience if there is still a foot of snow on the ground, as there was when I visited in April. Going Backcountry, Three Ways 2013-05-17T18:47:13Z I Am Love is an arresting film in many ways, displaying, in parallel with the Recchi family's theatrical deployment of the trappings of wealth, its own bracing and astringent sense of technique. Film review: I Am Love 2010-04-08T21:10:00Z Every episode starts in a bunker where 15 people are bracing for the comet strike and each week we learn the identity of one more of the survivors. You, Me and the Apocalypse: the end of the world is funnier than you'd think 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z It’s also a cautionary tale about the obsessional nature of such a search and the bracing truths that may lie buried beneath the family lore. Review | Julie Klam was fascinated by the saga of her immigrant relatives. Was it even true? 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z At South, as at Fac251, the sound is bracing, the crowds are slightly bug-eyed and the coat check lines are infuriating. Next Stop: A New Act for Manchester 2011-04-29T19:37:03Z In theory, gifted directors who are mostly new to should bring fresh, bracing perspectives to bear. Music Review: ?Don Giovanni? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-10-14T18:50:40Z Last week over the Thanksgiving holiday, usually a hearty time at the box office for many Broadway musicals, "Scandalous" grossed a bracingly low $194,511 - or only about 15.5 percent of the maximum possible amount. ArtsBeat: 'Scandalous' Producers Keep Faith in a Struggling Show 2012-11-29T16:29:16Z This bracing white wine is one of my perennial favorites from the Finger Lakes. Add zip to your meal with this lively, light $15 red blend from Côtes du Rhône 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Those that I liked best all spoke assertively of the place they were grown, displaying a bracing freshness that is a welcome tonic in the summer heat. From Savoie, White Wines That Refresh Like Mountain Air 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Yes, it is a probing and unsettling inquiry into the recent political and military history of the United States, but it is also a bracing and invigorating philosophical skirmish. Movie Review: Deciphering Donald H. Rumsfeld in ‘The Unknown Known’ 2014-04-01T22:00:03Z Modeled on Shakespeare’s history plays — and spoken, yes, in Elizabethan-era meter — “King Charles III” is the sort of bracingly intellectual entertainment best enjoyed by those with some experience of, say, “Richard II” or “Henry V.” From Bechdel to Chekhov, literary stars inspire this spring’s D.C. theater choices 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z As a husband and father now approaching 40 years old, I find myself bracing for the publication of a book I began writing as a 27-year-old bachelor. Inside the pope’s bedroom, Vatican secrecy and the lives of married priests: My 11-year quest to write “The Fifth Gospel” 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z And you are left in a bracing state of confusion, wondering how much has changed and how the change took place. | 'The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975': ?The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975? - Review 2011-09-08T22:17:49Z Written with bracing honesty and intimacy, it's a chronicle of her own real world experiences of working, parenting and getting food on the table even on the most overwhelming, anxiety-producing days. Leanne Brown's "self-love potion" will get you through a rough day 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z Nearly 30 years’ worth of essays are compiled in Mantel’s bracing collection, with subjects ranging from Madonna to Marie Antoinette. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z What we said: “Everything rattles and zings like a pinball machine, and it’s a bracing, entertaining, richly satisfying experience.” The best films of 2020 so far 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z The book’s cover echoes this theme: a snapshot of Solnit pressed up against a wall, bracing herself with elegantly gloved hands. Review | Rebecca Solnit, who inspired the term ‘mansplaining,’ explains herself (sort of) 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Sanaya and Tyler, who now live in Las Vegas, are optimistic that the world will once again be safe enough for their wedding this October, but they’re also bracing themselves for a second postponement. What it felt like to lose time — and all the other things coronavirus took away Another, with bracing can-do spirit, is embroidering on to loo roll. ‘The waste and excess is more visible’: how coronavirus is shaking up fashion 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z With its cinematic explosions, abuses and killings, this deconstructive portrayal of the Academy Award-winning classic provides a bracing dramatization of the way American hegemony and romanticism are encoded in our most popular export. ‘The Sympathizer’: A cerebral thriller about Vietnam and its aftermath 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The latter would doubtless agree with critics like James Woodall, who dared to suggest the whole repertory would benefit from some bracing editing. Pina Bausch's World Cities – what's the verdict? 2012-07-08T17:30:01Z The stripping away of practiced inflections and mannerisms can offer a bracing corrective to the familiar artifices of the actor’s craft. Film: Midwinter Ritual: When Good Actor Meets Bad Movie 2011-02-19T03:43:01Z It was surreal to be riding a chairlift in the bracing air a little more than 12 hours after leaving Paris. A Father-Son Bonding Mission in the French Alps 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z This idea is thrown into bracing relief with a brief, startling shot of an enormous granite sculpture of the young Mao Zedong looking into the distance. ‘Stonewalling’ Review: A Young Woman’s Exchange Value 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Which is to say that she is bracingly, winningly and sometimes gratingly real. Film: Greta Gerwig?s Breakthrough Performance in ?Greenberg? 2010-03-26T19:34:00Z It’s a bracing tonic for the bored palate of the mainstream moviegoer, and one of the most intriguing big-budget breakthrough films since Steven Spielberg made “Jaws.” “Godzilla” is the best action movie since “Jaws” 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z And for many, that kind of sustained bracing is beyond contemplation. How I learned to cope with chronic pain 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z But the bracing paradox of the evening is a play that knows its questing characters down to their “Noo Yawk” core, and a production that understands them every step of the amusing yet tremulous way. Theater Review: Clifford Odets's Dentist, Anything but Painless 2011-04-05T13:30:07Z Broken English careers by, its 35 minutes as bracingly full of venom and spite as anything her punk admirers could muster. Marianne Faithfull: Broken English (Deluxe Edition) – review 2013-01-31T15:30:01Z That’s a shame, because for its first hour or so “Annihilation” presents a bracing if enigmatic example of filmmaking at its smartest and most highly attuned. Review | Natalie Portman stars in the enigmatic, ultimately unsatisfying ‘Annihilation’ 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z But the most bracing thing about it and “B-Sides” might be how germane many of their songs seem. How to Handle the Hate in America’s Musical Heritage 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Falkenstein’s sculptures bumped up against the bracing uncertainty of sweeping new beginnings, which soon overtook her work. Claire Falkenstein's strangely contradictory sculptures 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z It was a bracingly honest scene from a show that continually pushes its viewers into difficult, yet crucial, conversations. Perspective | ‘S.W.A.T.’ and other cop dramas are trying to tackle race. They could take a page from ‘This Is Us.’ 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Now that you’re middle-aged, the album is sort of bracing and a bit raw. Lloyd Cole’s Dylan epiphany: “I thought that gentlemen of a certain age shouldn’t make certain records” 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z One reason GoT is so bracingly different from other pop-culture fantasy stories is how it combines the fantastical with the realistic—in this case, realistic attention to the way power is gained, maintained, and exercised. Dead Tree Alert: The Westeros Wing; or, Why Game of Thrones is the Best Show About Politics 2013-05-24T13:14:22Z Back then, “Tidal” lived somewhere between Morissette’s bracing bluntness and the ethereal poetry of Tori Amos. Perspective | ‘Tidal’ made Fiona Apple a star 25 years ago. Its success nearly overwhelmed her. 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z But Copland reveled in bracing, bold dissonant harmonies. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z But it was a gorgeous snapshot of humanity and a bracing preview of television’s future, a story that exemplified how, to move forward, sometimes you have to go into the past. ‘Horace and Pete,’ Keeping You on the Edge of Your Seat, Right Up to Last Call 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Madeline herself, a New York teenager played with bracing conviction by Helena Howard, is not much interested in separating those things. Review: In ‘Madeline’s Madeline,’ Hazy Boundaries Between Life and Art 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z In the 1960s he was one of the founding figures of minimalism, and his stark, bracing canvases were lodestars of an austere new abstraction. A Survey Shows How Frank Stella Knocked Abstraction Flat, Then Sent It Flying 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z But their I-don’t-give-a-fig comportment, their willingness to flout traditional feminine norms, their steadfast refusal to beg to be liked, was viscerally bracing nonetheless. In summer films, contradictions of progress for women in full force Trouble, too, in Turkey, where state-funded theatres are bracing themselves for an overhaul. Seven days on stage: Edinburgh festival fringe gets the Hoff 2012-06-01T14:39:26Z Mr. Masur, he wrote, “propelled the music forward with bracing authority.” Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Authorities are bracing for nudity, drugs and general free-spiritedness during a counterculture gathering that began near Salt Lake City this week, compelling a pair of nearby Mormon church-owned girls' summer camps to move elsewhere. 10,000 free spirits, nudists to gather in Utah 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z I like it pungent and raw, a bracing contrast to all the beefy tenderness on the plate. Beef and Onions, Made Better With Beer 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Here those bracing works are reconceived on an epic, orchestral canvas. Top 10 jazz albums of 2010 2011-01-04T01:00:07Z From the moment Madeleine appears, unsmiling and exuding sullenness and hostility, you sense Ms. Haenel as a bracingly fresh screen presence. Review: ‘Love at First Fight,’ a Romance in the Wild 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The city is bracing itself for more austerity after April, when a host of welfare reforms kick in, taking an estimated £82m from an already battered local economy. Newcastle council leader: arts cuts are inevitable result of coalition policy 2013-01-08T12:30:01Z The most bracing moments here reframe ’90s New York crime rap as an act of desperation and need, not of boasting and threat. Playlist : New Releases From Ka, Popcaan, Vena and Bleeding Knees Club 2012-04-13T20:22:31Z Photograph: PR What we smelled instead: Santal Blush from Tom Ford’s Private Blend Collection, which combines creamy sandalwood and bracing notes of ylang-ylang, benzoin and rose. My perfume safari – searching for scents outside fancy international cities 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z At first, it seems like the experience might be bracing, even healthy for him; he seems to get a real charge out of working with Megan, developing pitches, finishing each other’s sentences. Mad Men Watch: Open Your Mouth and Say Ennui 2012-06-11T12:28:20Z “American Weekend,” the bracing first album the songwriter Katie Crutchfield released as Waxahatchee, was “a result of a snowstorm, a visceral stupor, and a personal breakthrough,” she wrote in the liner notes. Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield Is Out of the Storm, Cleareyed 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Florida's Gulf Coast is bracing as Hurricane Michael, a powerful Category 2 storm, continues on its path toward shore. Hurricane Michael affecting travel, airlines cancelling flights 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z “A bracing tonic is offered by the breathtaking trilogy of bravura documentaries by Michael Glawogger that locates these issues emphatically center screen.” Michael Glawogger, Austrian Filmmaker, Is Dead at 54 2014-04-25T04:23:03Z But each writer’s new collection is a bracing meditation on mortality. Books of The Times: Poems on Mortality by C. K. Williams and Cynthia Cruz 2012-12-31T19:22:03Z And like many great westerns it critiques some of the genre’s foundational myths with bracing, beautiful rigor, including the myth of heroic individualism. ‘First Cow’ Review: The Milk of Human Kindness 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z After earning a music degree at Yale, he melded those two disciplines in the bracing first San Fermin record in 2013, full of surprising flourishes of voices, baritone trombones, strings and his own classical piano. In San Fermin, Ellis Ludwig-Leone merges his two genres 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The most bracing form of spam I get comes a couple times a month. Is Spam Trying to Tell Us Something? 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z The painting style can look loose to a fault, flabby, but it can also point, bracingly, toward de Kooning. Review: The Darkness and Light of Edvard Munch’s Work 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z A slight chill is bracing to the wine. Five Common Wine Myths, Debunked 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z “Even now . . . listening to Coleman can be a bracing experience for the uninitiated.” Ornette Coleman, innovative force in jazz and modern music, dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z There is plenty of low comedy as well, a bracing silliness that places Austen in the line of British humor that extends through P. G. Wodehouse to Monty Python. Review: In ‘Love & Friendship,’ Austen Meets Whit Stillman 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z This transgender singer, born Tom Gabel, hit the road on a small East Coast tour in August, when she offered stripped-down takes on bracing, autobiographical accounts of gender reassessment. Pop & Rock Listings for May 2-8 2014-05-01T21:55:59Z It’s mainly shots of pro-surfers and swimsuit models bracing themselves against surfboards and, well, surfing. Delta Airlines launches internet meme safety video 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z And then she delivers a bracing, almost throwaway punchline: "Odds on, I bet my life that I will get there, though." Poem of the week: Going, Going... by Leah Fritz 2011-08-22T09:18:53Z For as delightful as Austen’s static world may be, it is the humbling, bracing confrontation with the self that lifts her characters beyond caricature and her plots beyond Harlequin romance. In Trying Times, the Balm of Jane Austen 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z But her dancing is dazzling, with its constant contrasts between slow and fast, meltingly soft and bracingly hard, the small details and the big effects. Dance Review: The World of Robbins: Sinuous Dreams and Complex Geometry 2010-09-17T22:28:00Z The crew’s banter, whether in the galley, on deck or on shore leave, is a bracing update of salty, seafaring wags of yore. Perspective | Here’s to the class-conflicted, workplace-inappropriate ‘Below Deck’ — TV’s ideal mental vacation 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Kids are instructive, somehow able to navigate this time with a bracing honesty that adults nervously evade. ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z We’re protesting in the streets, bracing for the next violent attack and debating how civil to be in confronting a government some say is wildly overreaching. Why the pioneering Japanese anime ‘Akira’ is still relevant 30 years later 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z At the same time, the 11th episode was a bracing reminder of how much Lynch’s characters — and, by extension, us — accept the premises we are given. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 11: There’s No Backup for This 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z The other half was bracing for the next tornado. Books still big business in 2010 2011-05-27T23:02:51Z In taking on this commission, Mr. Stucky, a Pulitzer Prize winner for his bracing Second Concerto for Orchestra, understood that he was writing a public piece. Music Review: Strife of ?64, in Somber Tones 2011-05-12T22:00:06Z “The Slap,” she added, “connects, but it’s not a harsh blow. It’s more of a bracing surprise.” What’s on TV Thursday 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Touching on Bach, spirituals and contemporary art music, the concert was a compelling reconceptualization of the recital format from an artist who molded his warm, strong voice like clay in a bracingly vulnerable, honest performance. Review: Davóne Tines Hones the Recital Form to a Fine Point 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z And negotiation: As the fall awards season heats up, Hitchcock is already bracing for some difficult decisions ahead. At AFI Silver Theatre, programming director Todd Hitchcock keeps a sprawling menu fresh 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z This steamed clam dish calls for a bone-dry, taut white that is as bracing and refreshing as a dunk in the ocean. With a Little Wine (and a Lot of Herbs), Clams Turn On the Charm 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z The show’s creators are also bracing for reaction from the citizens of its namesake city. Television: Comic Counterculture in the Northwest 2011-01-02T05:44:00Z Samantha Bee’s “Full Frontal” debuted last night with an acerbic, bracing premiere that felt like, in the best way possible, a much-needed slap in the face. Samantha Bee’s “Full Frontal” nails it: Your new must-see late-night show takes down the GOP, Hillary and Bernie, and her “woman-ness” in hilarious debut 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z The first self-produced Bowie record since 1974’s “Diamond Dogs,” the bracing LP incorporates the serrated drum ‘n’ bass and electronic textures dominating music in the 1990s. David Bowie’s “Earthling” is 20 years old today 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z He drew a bracing, fresh and urgent performance from his gifted, eager players on Thursday. Music Review: Chalky Chorus of Specters Who Dance and Crush 2011-08-05T22:45:16Z Candy herself is no feminist paragon; no one escapes satirizing in this bracing commedia dell’arte. A Parody of Smut — and of Voltaire — Turns 60 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z By reaching across time, the book presents a bracingly pessimistic, even bleak, vision. What Do Mothers Want? And Will They Know It When They Find It? 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Losers had to dip into the bracing Atlantic, which was fine by Ms. Close on such a hot day. Glenn Close Returns to Broadway in ‘A Delicate Balance’ 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z The grant was approved in June, and Eilat is now bracing for a flurry of new hotel construction. In Israel, Affordable Desert Adventures 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z It’s a bracing, sometimes upsetting read, beginning with its name, a term which still causes deep offense in some quarters. The deep roots of “white trash” in America: “Not only are we not a post-racial society, we are certainly not a post-class society” 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z Seeing “Sound House” and “This Is the Color Described by the Time” is a bracing reminder of what most other shows do not do. In 2 New Plays, Sound Design Is Front and Center (for a Change) 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z But stitched together, the effect is bracingly alchemic in connecting us to a corrosive world, and characters for whom the mobility of sight is everything. 'The Tribe' an unusual, powerful look at criminality 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Consider adding bracing, acidic ingredients to deeply caramelized ones. How to Turn Any Vegetable Into Pasta Sauce 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z So, 2017 is finally ending, and we’re bracing for the routine rituals: donning metallic party dresses, nursing hangovers and prepping tired resolutions, usually about slimming down and making everything in our lives perfect. Perspective | An art resolution for 2018 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z “Herman Schmerman” is a bracing dance, especially when it follows something as playfully mellow and romantic as “La Source,” which opened the program. Dance Review: City Ballet?s Albert Evans Gives Farewell Performance 2010-06-21T22:33:00Z She’s a bracing songwriter, full of quick jabs and mundane details that end up being full of import. Review: Bully Shows Righteous Fury and Quick Jabs on ‘Feels Like’ 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z So much of it was as I remembered: naughty, funny, bracing. Perspective | The bracing truth and sadness in E. Jean Carroll’s advice columns 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z After a serious drought, California is bracing itself for weekend storms that will deliver the most significant downpours . Oscars: Reporter's diary 2014-02-27T09:51:07Z “I was taken by the bracing mix of music that she was serving,” Mr. Musto said. Reflecting on Anita Sarko, Influential D.J. of the New York Club Scene 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z The concluding Gigue, taken at a bracing tempo, was especially exciting. Review: Roman Rabinovich Plays Bach and More at SubCulture 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z It was a bracing and savory mix of bourbon, vermouth, cherry liqueur and pastis for 106 kroner. Frugal Traveler Blog: A $100 Weekend in Oslo 2012-06-26T18:55:24Z That guy might have made for a bracing case study, but once all the bluster has been removed from him, he’s kind of dull. Review: In ‘Death of the Liberal Class,’ a Writer Tones Down His Anger 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z He brought a light touch, bright sound and bracing energy to the monumental first movement. Alexander Schimpf and Alon Goldstein at Mannes Festival 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z In perhaps the most bracing stunt, a “priest” and a “nun” in roller skates strip to their underwear and spin in tight circles to Hozier’s “Take Me to Church.” 'Absinthe' in L.A.: Like Cirque du Soleil on Red Bull and vodka 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z In the classically influenced piano piece “Nina,” she salutes one of the artists she most admires, her friend, Nina Simone, who cut a bracingly rueful version of Ian’s song “Stars” in 1976. Janis Ian Lets Her Music Speak Her Mind (One Last Time) 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z There's no doubt that all that makes bracing reading. Looking back at the Lost Booker: Muriel Spark 2010-05-13T14:52:00Z They were made around 1890 and are notable for their inventive use of areas of bracing white. The Outsider Fair Once More Confirms That Art Is Everywhere 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z “Me” has expanded, inverted, politicized; at this moment in history, it is suddenly, bracingly synonymous with “we.” Yes Me Can 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z With Tokyo bracing for an influx of tourists for the 2020 Summer Olympics, here are some lesser-known tips for first-timers on avoiding faux pas and other cultural missteps while in Japan. A Few Etiquette Tips for Getting Around Japan 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z But all that sugary symbolism was made bracingly real by the accompanying naturalization of 15 new American citizens, each representing a different country from Australia to Sierra Leone. Ralph Lauren, designer of the American Dream, honored by the Smithsonian Arts leaders are bracing for a significant financial hit from the virus outbreak, and not just because of the cancellations. Children’s Museum closes temporarily while Spy Museum stays open 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Across the board, late night comedy has provided us with clarity, catharsis and bracing honesty wrapped in laughter in a time of extreme separation on many fronts – physical, emotional, certainly political. "Last Week Tonight" is a 2020 mood – bizarre, fatalistic, and inexplicably thirsty 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z The first dumpling of hers that I tried had a sea-bass stuffing cut with minced ginger, which gave bracing clarity to the few drops of broth sealed inside. Restaurant Review: Dumpling Galaxy in Queens 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z By this juncture, the only thing we know for sure is that Ferrara, bless his guttersnipe soul, is still bracingly, adamantly himself. ‘Zeros and Ones’ Review: Plague and Paranoia 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z But the poet fires off some bracingly furious salvos, and his wordsmith talents are abundantly in evidence. Luke Wright ? review 2011-08-26T15:49:14Z Perhaps the most bracing moments of “UNDER8ED” are those that harness the brooding, contemplative energy of songs like Cardi’s “Be Careful” or West’s “Violent Crimes.” Pardison Fontaine and the Plight of the Ghostwriter 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Salsa verde, with its mix of citrus, minced herbs and plenty of raw garlic, was a perfect partner, balancing the sweetness of the leeks with a bracing tanginess. Leeks and Fish Get a Lift From a Tangy Salsa Verde 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z It’s a bracing last touch, and a spicy contrast to all the sweet, supple flavors already in your bowl. A Simple Pasta That Puts Ricotta Front and Center 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z The bright, clean guitars on “In My Blood” are piercing, and when the song swells midway and Mr. Mendes finds the scratched-up outer limits of his voice, it’s bracing. Shawn Mendes Loses His Edge (Yes, He Had Edge) 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z A bracing workplace comedy, its "Jabberwocky" episode can hold its own beside "The Office's" classic Sabre Pyramid presentation for elevating nonsensical business speak to pure poetry. Comfort food for your eyes: Here are 7 easily bingeable sitcoms you haven't seen 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z By contrast, Coco is bracingly brash as Terry, the rapacious opportunist who has no patience for ethical niceties. 'Dirty' takes on the slippery slope of compromise 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Reading “The Stranger” is a bracing but somewhat bloodless experience. Review: ‘Looking for “The Stranger,”’ the Making of an Existential Masterpiece 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z My friend had recommended him, and I liked his bracing crispness, his efficiency when he did the exams. “I should have had the drugs”: The pregnancy that made me fear cars, carrots, forest fires and David Bowie 2014-04-15T22:59:00Z There’s nothing distant or pedantic, however, about Vogler’s bracing, deeply personal narrative of his travels through the homelands of Calvados, Cognac, Armagnac, rum, scotch and mezcal, in search of the soul of those spirits. If Tea Isn’t Your Cuppa, How About Beer, Wine or Coffee? 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, the intemperateness of her takedowns of misogynist rap videos, and of the fairytale of The Ugly Duckling, is funny and bracing. Sarah Kendall – review 2013-02-08T17:57:46Z Similarly bracing was the gravelly lead vocal of Urge Overkill’s Ed Roeser on “The Letter,” Chilton’s first major hit with the Box Tops. Concert review: Big Star 'Third' at Park West 2013-06-29T06:37:00Z Yet these observational scenes also create room for the kind of bracingly personal testimonies that have long characterized Simon’s work. A New Subject for a Veteran Documentary Maker: Herself 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z But unlike her forebear, Kawakami writes with a bracing lack of sentimentality, particularly when describing the lives of women. A Japanese Literary Star Joins Her Peers on Western Bookshelves 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Violin, saxophone and an unruly electric guitar all emerge at points to wrestle with Bock’s bracing vocal, but each one ultimately cedes the spotlight to her flinty presence. Feist’s Electrifying Return, and 9 More New Songs 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z None of the characters in these 14 compact, bracing stories are fully satisfied with where they find themselves, whether it’s an abandoned fairground or a Copenhagen swimming pool or a ferry crossing the North Sea. In Three New Collections, Characters on the Edge 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z U.S. health experts are bracing for record coronavirus numbers this winter due to the rapid spread of the omicron variant, and travelers are debating whether to rethink their trips over the holidays. How to cancel flights, hotels, other travel bookings as omicron surges 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z United Airlines is bracing for turbulent times ahead. United Airlines asks workers to voluntarily separate from company ahead of job cuts 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Still, it’s bracing to find a narrative in which a heroine rights her own situation without a Hollywood knight galloping to her rescue. | 'Entre Nos': An Immigrant Story 2010-05-14T00:31:00Z But with the government of the province, Quang Binh, inviting investors to back tourism and other projects across the region, locals are bracing for a dramatic twist in their eco-friendly story. Exploring Spectacular Caves in a Quiet Corner of Vietnam 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Yet this first book is more often bracing than enticing. New works by poets Jennifer Moxley, Judy Halebsky, Saeed Jones 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Crispin’s argument is bracing, and a rare counterbalance; where feminism is concerned, broad acceptability is almost always framed as an unquestioned good. The Case Against Contemporary Feminism 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Today’s cultural landscape, bracingly, often calls upon each of us to practice a kind of moral calculus in affairs of public reputation. Review | ‘Howard Stern Comes Again’ gives a glimpse of a kinder, gentler shock jock 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z I wrote a piece about Kelly's entertainingly bracing arguments in today's paper, and his book is Radio 4's book of the week. Is it worth reading Sir Walter Scott? 2010-08-17T14:02:00Z As we pass the year mark of the pandemic, I take refuge in the blunt, bracing humor of a crude joke about NFTs. 5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z ‘Pilgrimage’ The participants in “Pilgrimage” showed up on Wednesday night outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art all set for a bracing walk and clearly eager to sing. Make Music Winter Brings Music Outdoors 2011-12-22T23:27:08Z There are draconian cuts round the corner which everyone is bracing themselves for. Billy Elliot boys return to the stage for an emotional reunion 2010-03-30T21:37:00Z That’s a bracing change for someone who had a proper Mississippi upbringing in the 1950s and 1960s. After “The Jacksonian,” Beth Henley recharges with slapstick “Laugh” 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Most important, she accentuates her character’s bracing lack of self-pity. Review: In ‘Dot,’ a Fading Matriarch Brings a Family Together 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z That mission, commemorating a failed fight against martial law, has a bracing resonance amid the Myanmar military’s recent shooting of protesters and Thailand’s crackdown on pro-democracy activists. How Do You Stage a Global Art Show Now? In South Korea, Curators Press On. 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z More bracing, though still without a certain grandeur in this performance, was Sibelius’s great song “Luonnotar,” heard here in its arrangement for piano rather than the more common orchestral version. Music Review: The Soprano Lucy Crowe Gives Her New York Recital Debut 2014-04-10T23:14:25Z It’s a bracing but not very “Peanuts”-centric bit of work, jarring among the others. In a Collection of ‘Peanuts’ Tributes, the Gang Is All Here 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z As detailed in Michael Kodas’s bracing “Megafire” and Edward Struzik’s drier “Firestorm,” today’s forests are often clogged with desiccated vegetation because — unlike in countless millenniums past — they are seldom cleansed by naturally occurring blazes. Are the American West’s Wildfires Inevitable? 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z But when all worked right, with the drummers in loose, synchronized swing, the low-end horns bracing the giant chords, and a little improvisational chaos on top, there was something deep and noble happening. Review: The Vision Festival Gives Experimental Jazz a Big Hug 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z James Koval, director of communications for Pennsylvania courts, said officials are bracing for a high level of interest in a criminal case hearing, with journalists scheduled to arrive from as far away as Australia. Bill Cosby and an Accuser Could Face Each Other at Pretrial Hearing 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z At a time of global uncertainty, these stories are a bracing reminder of the power of investigative reporting. Sunday Reading: The Power of The New Yorker’s Investigative Reporting 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z The most bracing element of the exhibition is its sense of just how determined to keep it unrestricted was the circle around Jess and Duncan. Creative era of Jess Collins, Robert Duncan brought full circle 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z A bracing distillation of Block's powers, A Drop of the Hard Stuff would be a fitting close to the Scudder series — if only it didn't leave the reader wanting more. 'A Drop of the Hard Stuff': A Great American Crime Novel 2011-05-10T19:55:00Z If you’re already bracing for a long airport security line during the spring break travel season, then you must remember last year. Will the long airport lines of spring break 2016 be back again this year? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z For now, it’s a bracingly grim one; whether it becomes one in the traditional sense, with a happy ending, remains to be seen. ‘Russian Troll Farm’ Review: Clock In, Undermine Democracy, Clock Out 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z It begins with a moment of bracing disorientation: a monologue delivered almost entirely in Korean. In a Summer Theater Weekend, Odd Couples and Immigrants on the Make 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z “The sea must be dirty, too, if it’s next to Gdansk” — it’s not, but it is bracing until August — “and who goes there?” | Poland by the Sea 2011-08-01T21:00:30Z We are always eager to dive back into its bracing stories. Review: Speaking (and Signing) of Job, in ‘I Was Most Alive With You’ 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z The result is a vibrant, sometimes bracingly satirical, often deeply moving production of grace and imagination. Review: 'Arcana,' at Open Circle Theater, explores what lies in the cards 2010-09-16T22:23:00Z Dresses in sickly neutrals and dresses in bracing jewel tones. Critical Shopper: Yesterday’s Child 2013-06-17T20:31:54Z Scents of orange and acacia blossom lead to flavors of peach and green apple, with a bracing acidity and slight bitterness to keep it refreshing. At just $15, this lighter red wine from Greece makes for fine sipping 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Far from impenetrable, Lee is bracingly candid, and dryly funny, in conversation. For Mire Lee, Rising Art Star, It All Comes Down to Guts 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Does this suggest I might have been bracing for a fight? A liberal in the South: I didn’t mean to scream at that woman about abortion rights, but I was not in control 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z Dew is now bracing himself for the show’s final episode, which airs in Australia on Thursday and in Britain on Friday. After 37 Years, the Sunny World of ‘Neighbours’ Comes to an End 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z A grim trio of examples concludes this modest but bracing show. From brash Pop to a more complicated mix: Peter Saul at CB1-G 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Given the popularity of Gabaldon’s novels and the “Outlander” TV series, the organizers are bracing for a huge crowd in the George Mason Concert Hall. Diana Gabaldon, Tim O’Brien and others at the Fall for the Book festival 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z If you thought waste management was a polite euphemism for gangland employment, then The Secret Life of Rubbish was a bracing corrective. Rewind TV: The Fear; The Town; A Young Doctor's Notebook; The Secret Life of Rubbish; Imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me; Inside Claridge's – review 2012-12-09T00:06:09Z When the mother speaks, her style is bracingly didactic. Poem of the week: Relational Epistemology by Heather Phillipson 2013-05-07T10:35:31Z But no amount of bracing could have prepared her for the moment, late in the 2016 campaign, when her two worlds collided to disastrous effect. Huma Abedin, loyal aide and betrayed wife, picks up the mic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Yet the melodrama — like that of the framing terrorism plot — acts as a bracing counterpoint to the clumsy, funny interactions of Ez and Barry. Alan Ayckbourn’s Latest, ‘Arrivals & Departures’ 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z That morsel of historical arcana is the basis of “The Favourite,” a wildly entertaining, bracingly cynical comedy of royal manners directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. ‘The Favourite’ Review: Scheming for Power in a Kinky Palace Triangle 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z "It can be bracing to see Picasso shuttle between triumph and kitsch in the space of a week." Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Yet from the start Pollini pushed the music ahead with a bracing urgency; the poetic, quietly rhapsodic aspect of the music is so pronounced that Pollini hardly needed to pronounce it. The Pianist Maurizio Pollini and the Shock of the Old 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z It’s bracing stuff, but in true Meadows fashion there’s humour interspersed with the grit. Partridge, politics and period pomp: the must-see TV shows of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z On Tuesday night, Mr. Langrée and the festival orchestra came through with an impressive Mozart program, culminating with a bracing, urgent account of the mighty “Jupiter” Symphony. Louis Langrée and Richard Goode Featured at Mostly Mozart 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z A fan of Cusk’s bracing work, I spent a happy afternoon poring over pictures of her current home on an estate agent’s website that I frequent, being also a fan of existential pain. Fallen out with the neighbours? Time to build a ‘spite house’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Against Me! released its bracing album "Transgender Dysphoria Blues" to much acclaim earlier this year. Laura Jane Grace criticizes Arcade Fire's transgender-themed video 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z And what sounds on paper like an uncomfortably invasive exercise becomes a powerful and moving portrait of a resilient, tight-knit clan collectively bracing for what’s coming. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z The bracing coastal winds mean that, for the most part, nothing lingers too long, so don’t let it shape your day. Scene stealer: how Game of Thrones put a spotlight on Antrim and Derry 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z The Philharmonic, the institutional curator of this bracing festival, may have hoped that every event would attract capacity crowds; some, in smaller halls, did. Matthias Pintscher Conducts in the NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z “The Mother of Us All” may be less bracing than “Mahagonny,” but its portrayal of both the inspiring achievements and melancholy costs of political action makes it speak no less strongly to our moment. Opera Review: ‘The Mother of Us All,’ at Manhattan School of Music 2013-12-12T23:24:21Z Similarly, Metro wrote that the men in the image are “nicely wrapped up bracing themselves against the chill of a bracing London winter, while Jennifer Lawrence is wearing a plunging thigh-split gown”. Jennifer Lawrence responds to 'sexist' dress criticism: 'It was my choice' 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z This week, the Met Office is holding a gathering of weather experts to discuss last year's wet summer, 2013's bracing spring and the generally rum turn in the climate. Music festival season: there will be mud 2013-06-18T17:58:53Z It offers the classic profile of New Zealand sauvignon blanc, with grassy, citrusy flavors and bracing acidity. Take these 4 wines outside — and chill 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z But there are a great many of them, and this novel’s bracing intellectual energy never flags. 2010-01-21T05:11:00Z It's bracing, it sets your teeth on edge a little bit like lemon or aluminum, and it's baldly, plainly beautiful. What they're saying about Fleet Foxes 2011-05-01T00:17:16Z Every violinist has things to say about this overfamiliar piece, and Ms. Batiashvili played it bracingly, without any sense of routine. Rouse’s World Premiere and Batiashvili Plays Brahms 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Here is as bracing a thought as I know. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Many people are not used to its bracing, saline flavors, so it’s wise to have an alternative available. When ‘Drinks’ Is the Only Box Left Unchecked 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z He was so colorful and biting in his criticism that it felt like a bracing slap in the face of the performers, viewers and social convention. Simon Cowell celebrated on `American Idol' finale 2010-05-27T08:56:00Z In focusing in large part on architects from Africa and the African diaspora, Lokko has introduced a bracingly new lexicon and attention to buried and exiled histories. Radical Rethinking at Biennale: Africa and the Future Share Pride of Place 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z She’s delivered a bracing if uneven novel, one that, like jazz, feels improvised. In ‘Spring,’ Ali Smith’s Series Takes Its Most Political Turn 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z As a predicament, yes, but Queenie and the novel itself are bolstered throughout by true friends whose group messaging is a bracing festival of amity. Review | For your playlist, three great new audiobooks 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z The players took the zesty finale at a bracing clip while keeping textures clear. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann and New York Philharmonic - Review 2012-01-23T22:29:50Z On the title track she opens with a series of quarter-note bleats, sounding like a digital alarm clock, and then shifts into a bracing staccato. New Music: Albums From Gotye, Candy Dulfer and Jeff Lorber Fusion 2012-01-30T23:25:12Z Hermann Scherchen’s bracing cycle from the 1950s made our annual list of best albums, and there’s a valuable set here as well. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z There's a bracing game with the viewer involved in loading a film with a mystery at its very heart, a sense of disorientation or fractured dream logic. Inception: confusion can be good 2010-06-04T09:25:00Z Throughout, Mr. Posner rings disorienting, funny variations on familiar moments, so that just when we’re settling into our comfort zone, we get a bracing little surprise. ‘Stupid _______ Bird’ Returns to Woolly Mammoth Theater 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z The film is well-intentioned and moving in parts, but unfortunately lacks the urgency that made similarly themed historical dramas like Selma feel bracingly current. Academy awards 2016 race comes into focus at Telluride 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z On Saturday, the sea temperature off Magheramore beach, where the Irish swim was held, was a bracing 12 degrees, despite a recent spell of warm weather. Irish women bare all in record-breaking skinny dip 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Less well-known artists add a bracing layer of discovery. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z It’s bracing, awful stuff, so unaware of its absurdity that it is completely appealing. Garth Brooks Is Back With a New Album, ‘Man Against Machine’ 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z The narrative voice of Harrison is always comforting and inviting; akin to sitting down with an old friend who is full of bracing insight and brash humor. Want to reject America’s Puritanism, workaholism and toxic obsession with stuff? Read Jim Harrison’s brilliant books 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Here, I’ve applied it to a mix of radishes, fennel and celery tossed with a heap of deep green parsley leaves and a bracing lemon dressing. A Radish and Herb Salad That’s on the Cutting Edge 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z In King, Bravo saw a young woman bracingly liberated from male expectations and approval. Perspective | ‘Female agency’ is Hollywood’s latest catchphrase. ‘Zola’ takes it further. 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Ethan Eng’s “Therapy Dogs,” a bracing, exhilarating film that tracks one high school class’s senior year, has a simple answer: Youth is, as it always has been, about being young. ‘Therapy Dogs’ Review: It’s Time to Be Real 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z The newness of the style was bracing yet challenging: the spoken stage directions, the mix of high lyricism and street slang, the West African iconography, the communal propulsion into song. The choir sings, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney takes up the tune 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z They are as uncompromising as their author, the same mix of thoughtful and flamboyant; high-strung tub-thumpers, always bracing, rarely boring. Sally Potter: 'I dreamed about the nuclear threat most nights' 2012-10-04T19:30:02Z Drake growled after a bracing run through “The Language,” a warning no one, least of all Lil Wayne, would’ve taken seriously just a few years ago. Drake and Lil Wayne square off, sort of, at the Hollywood Bowl 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z That last aspect is as bracing as it can be frustrating. Review: Hopscotching Between Worlds in ‘My Dear Brooklyn’ 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Paris of 1881, when “Little Dancer” takes place, was bracing itself against the onrush of modernity. ‘Little Dancer’: Big roles for women in the Susan Stroman, Tiler Peck ballet musical Phair’s “horror stories” — in many cases about failures and cruelties for which she holds herself accountable — are as bracing and refreshing as her greatest songs. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z I knew some of Fine’s works, but not this bracing 17-minute piece in two movements. Hear 7 of the Best Works From a Neglected Era of American Music 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Still, Mr. Trifonov took us on a bracing walk through the work, and it was a joy to pause with him as he pondered something beautiful. Review: Daniil Trifonov Brings Subtlety to Rachmaninoff 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z By that time, night had fallen and we were bracing ourselves for the unappetizing task of flagging down a bus on the nearby highway for the hour trip back to San Gil. Old Friends, White Water and Roasted Ants in Colombia 2010-07-28T04:28:00Z As that is debated throughout the film, with all points of view taken into account, “The Fitzgerald Family Christmas” addresses the meaning of family ties with a bracing emotional honesty. Movie Review: ‘The Fitzgerald Family Christmas,’ From Edward Burns 2012-12-07T00:48:28Z Maeve’s sense of resolve may be bracing and perhaps tyrannical, but she’s one step ahead on the evolutionary scale of the show. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z If it took New York a while to lose its blind spot for some of these artists, the gallery’s shows were never less than bracing. Review: ‘Peter Saul: From Pop to Punk,’ a Firebrand Willing to Offend 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z For much of the movie, we’re being treated to two wildly profane, bracingly inventive performances in one. ‘Dolemite Is My Name’ Review: Eddie Murphy, Raw and Cooking 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The speech, which Rosi shot, is moving, its message bracing even as the Pope avoids a strident tone. ‘In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis’ Review: Serene Demeanor, Bracing Message 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The Phantom Tollbooth's message is bracing but benign: it calls on us to rise to the challenge of the world by paying proper attention to its wonder and difficulty. Summer Voyages: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster 2013-07-17T09:16:27Z It’s a bracing hour of music that, with references to many traditions, sounds like nothing by any other composer. A Musician’s Turn to Improvisation Bears Fruit 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z All I needed was a bracing cup of coffee or two. Geek out over New York’s impressive array of specialty bookstores 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Like Dark Souls, it punishes the greedy for launching one too many attacks when they should be evading, but in spite of a bracing difficulty level, it stops well short of that game's smiling cruelty. This week's new games 2012-08-17T23:05:30Z At first, the sight is bracing for the Hong maven: his pictures often feature writers as protagonists, but they’re almost never shown actually writing. ‘Grass’ Review: Eavesdropping in the Coffee Shop With Hong Sang-soo 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement Three-Cent Stamps: • Molly’s “dream” tips too much toward the precious, but ending it with the roar of Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” and a bracing return to the action makes it more digestible. ‘Fargo’ Season 2 Finale: No More Schnitzel 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Despite an unnecessary prologue that had me bracing for an irritating read, this proved to be a delightful book, with richly developed characters rooted in family dynamics and period flavor. Memory, That Unreliable Narrator: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z MEXICO, bracing for the spread of the coronavirus to accelerate, is widely expected to extend the shutdown of schools and non-essential businesses beyond April 30. Factbox: Countries pondering an easing of coronavirus curbs 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z But Jackson’s ferocity — an ethical outrage inflamed with disgust for the charade of authority and laden with anguish for human frailty — made for a bracing reencounter with this unflinching tragedy. Notes on a truly Shakespearean year: An enlightened boldness brings out the best in the Bard 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z If you somehow tick all those boxes in 2021, go for it with an included recipe for vodka cocktails topped with bracingly sour sea buckthorn juice. Take a culinary journey with these new travel-inspired cookbooks 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Advertisement Women’s vulnerability to stereotypical images of beauty is illuminated in bracingly harsh light in Sheila Callaghan’s raw and raucous “Women Laughing Alone With Salad,” directed by Kip Fagan, at the Woolly Mammoth Theater Company. Women’s Voices Theater Festival in Washington Is an Energizing Showcase 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z It’s a brutalist concoction, one of the most bracing and unforgiving hip-hop releases in recent memory. Critic?s Notebook: Bam! Pow! A Loud Young Rapper Rekindles Rap?s Old Fighting Spirit 2010-10-08T22:30:00Z The organization is bracing for complaints from chefs who think their states, too, should be stand-alone regions. The James Beard Awards Redraws Its Map 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Years passed until I felt psychologically ready to continue the investigation, bracing myself for the horrifying possibility that my grandfather was indeed involved in killing Jews. My grandfather wasn’t a Nazi fighting war hero — he was a brutal collaborator 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z It was yet another indication that he's bracing for the bitter end of his brief tenure at "Tonight," less than eight months after taking over as host from Jay Leno. 2010-01-21T14:22:00Z Fresh, bracing marine flavors have spawned a craze for coastal cocktails garnished with crab claws and oysters. How Will We Eat in 2023? Here Are 10 Predictions. 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z A deep trove of never-before-revealed evidence makes that disparity bracingly clear. Montgomery Clift: the untold story of Hollywood's misunderstood star 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Yet those stills still lack the bracing tang of unashamed evil that Cersei produces. An Art-Historical Analysis of Cersei Lannister Sipping Wine 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z It was a bracing finale, but somehow it increased the building, breathless exhilaration of the performance rather than curbing it. Review: Riccardo Muti, the King of Verdi, Still Rules With a Firm Baton 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z The result is a lively wine that — dare I say it snarls? — grabs your attention with bracing acidity and carries through with smoky pepper and dark berry flavors. Wines from classic to creative for any Thanksgiving celebration 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z For white wine alternatives, a bright and bracing Sauvignon Blanc analogue, with tart green apple and sharp green bell pepper, like Acid League's Sauvage Wine Proxy is an excellent choice. The best non-alcoholic wines to serve at Thanksgiving 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z In “Ocean State,” O’Nan is subverting the thriller, borrowing its momentum to propel this bracing, chilling novel. A Thriller Wrapped in a Story of Sisters and First Love 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Inspired by both the complexities of prog-rock and the angularity of post-punk, Geese makes dense and frantic music, centered on the bracing interaction between the two guitars. New York Has a New Band of Buzzy Post-Punk Teens: Geese 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z This fine tonic will remove the taste of aesthetic badness and also provide a little of the bracing, acerbic hilarity needed to fully recover. I am named in a terrible book 2013-01-16T01:00:00Z She hasn't come out with any outright racism just yet, but you can all but feel the collective audience bracing for it. "The Real World Homecoming: New Orleans" Episode 1 recap 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z But its story, like its treatment of the architecture of the Liberty City section of Miami, is also bracingly frank about the blind spots of contemporary American culture when it needs to be. How the best picture fiasco saved the Oscars from nostalgia overload 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z "If I'm honest, I'm bracing myself," says Norris. Feast: the Young Vic goes Yoruba 2013-01-30T19:30:01Z As new generations encounter her work for the first time, they will find it as bracingly smart as when their parents discovered it. Review | Artist Barbara Kruger is still right about everything. Let’s listen up. 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z To the extent “The Woman’s Party” asks us, too, to re-examine our activist strategies in light of our societal goals — and vice versa — this is bracing political theater. ‘Woman’s Party’ Review: At War With Inequality, and Each Other 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z As could be expected, it was a bracing antidote to the weepy extravaganza that ushered his rival Jay Leno into retirement last year. Review: David Letterman Says Goodbye, With Self-Mockery and a Little Mush 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Hawaii is bracing for a major drop in tourists from Japan – one of the state’s most important visitor markets – following the devastating earthquake, tsunami and resulting nuclear crisis in Japan. In Transit: Hawaii Braces for Dip in Japanese Tourists 2011-03-17T19:41:22Z In standard Trebek fashion he was equally warm, gracious, bracingly honest ,and occasionally verging on oh, let’s call it brusque. Alex Trebek reveals how he'll decide when it's finally time to leave "Jeopardy!" 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z On the other hand, there are the usual CW compensations — pretty faces, plaintive pop songs — along with a bracing harshness that’s unusual for the network. Television Review: CW’s ‘The 100’ Puts Teenagers in a Post-Apocalyptic World 2014-03-18T19:43:14Z His book — argumentative, gallant, parked athwart oncoming historical traffic, as if on a dare — is as Parisian and as bracing as a freshly mixed Pernod and water. Books of the Times: ?Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris,? by Graham Robb 2010-04-27T21:30:00Z Compared to humanity as it must appear to her – as a ceaselessly fawning, simpering mob of timorous serfs – the equine species doubtless poses a bracing challenge. TV highlights 27/05/2013 2013-05-27T05:59:01Z And we shared a common currency: a bracing combination of independence and terror. Modern Love: Just the Two of Us, When One Toddles 2011-08-25T22:25:10Z That timeliness extended to the awards themselves, which at least in the television category reflected a bracing eagerness to leave old models behind and look forward. At a notably relevant Golden Globes, the film world is seen struggling to keep pace 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The tone is surreal, the viciousness bracing, and Álvaro’s undiluted anguish the kind that never goes away. Review: In ‘Recent Alien Abductions,’ Anguish Is a Driving Force 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z You’re not all that easy on yourself—you highlight your weaknesses, your indulgences, your moments of self-deception—and you turn that bracing clarity on those around you, too. Not Getting with the Program: An Interview with Meghan Daum 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z In a bracing sequence, Jack rehearses saying no as he pours back beer after beer from his fridge. ‘The Way Back’ Review: Seeking Redemption on the Basketball Court 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z The concerts were usually excellent, full of bracing modern scores and premieres. Emboldened Orchestras Embracing the New Music 2011-12-09T17:01:08Z Considering that TV has tended to favor the stories of single white women over and over again, Rae’s honest and bracingly hilarious stories are refreshing and somewhat revolutionary. Best TV of the Decade, from 2010 to 2019 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z And Kelsey, a fixture at the house for over a decade, was bracing for his biggest role yet — “my first proper lead,” he said. The Met Opera Spirits ‘Rigoletto’ to ‘Babylon Berlin’ 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Ensemble 415 has a bracingly astringent sound, and it plays with virtually no vibrato. Music Review: Baroque Style?s Evolution Is Traced Across Europe 2010-10-12T21:45:00Z These and other zany characters give a bracingly weird luster to “The Wonderful World of Dissocia,” the intensely funny and unsettling play that Theater Alliance has staged at the Anacostia Playhouse. Intriguing, challenging ‘The Wonderful World of Dissocia’ by Theater Alliance With Ax at the keyboard, the evening wasn't just about Perlman but a bracing collaboration between two longstanding colleagues and friends. Itzhak Perlman revisits moments of early greatness with pianist Emanuel Ax 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z To take the tone first: Richler's novel is, above all, bracingly and relentlessly unsentimental. Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z “I swear to God,” he said, “I remember standing in the doorway” — he mimed bracing himself against the tremors — “thinking, ‘Thank God, people will have something else to talk about.’ ” The Guy Under the Seats Rises Again 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z Alternately dreamy, poetic and bracing, the score was a kind of musical depiction of one of Horner's passions. Bowl concert plays as an elegy to James Horner, and an ode to composers of movie music 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z It was a bracing show, full of extraordinary work, juxtaposed with both whim and passion, and delightfully free of the artsy verbiage that too many contemporary curators use to give the illusion of gravitas. Review | Five art exhibitions you really didn’t want to miss in 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z “The almost primitive directness of her voice is bracing,” the Times critic Dwight Garner wrote in his review of the book. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Suddenly you see each ensemble in its original interior, based on vintage photographs but rendered in bracing living color. The Virtual Splendor of Paris’s Glass House 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z German carmakers and Brazilian soy growers, among others, are bracing for a slump in exports but Hollywood is confident movies will buck a slowdown, even a recession, in China. Why Hollywood isn't panicking about China's economic crisis 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Tazewell Thompson’s bracing new a cappella musical “Jubilee” is about a choir, and it’s told in a nearly unbroken cascade of song. Review | ‘Jubilee’ makes a star of the chorus at Arena Stage 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z White, who earlier this season directed Aleshea Harris’s bracing “What to Send Up When It Goes Down” for Woolly Mammoth Theatre, reveals the breadth of her talent here. Review | See ‘The Amen Corner’ and feel the power of James Baldwin 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Contested Will ends with a challenge, issued as much to theory-addled academics as to deluded cultists: scepticism about Shakespeare signals an agnostic disrespect for what Shapiro bravely, bracingly calls "the mystery of literary creation". Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro | Book review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z Mr. Sax argues that analog isn’t going anywhere, but is experiencing a bracing revival that is not just a case of nostalgia or hipster street cred, but something more complex. ‘The Revenge of Analog’: See It. Feel It. Touch It. (Don’t Click) 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z He’s been working with a slightly broader palette — there are touches of techno and garage here — but in the main, his commitment to dark dance floor shards is persistent and bracing. How Pop and Jazz Revisited the Past in 13 Boxed Sets 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z They pointed the way in a bracing chorus of Long Island vowels. In Iceland, a geothermal soak is the ultimate cure-all 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Enriched by well-chosen period illustrations, the book offers a bracing look at the scientific practices and yellow journalism of a century ago, while offering valuable lessons for potential medical scares in the future. A Jane Austen-esque novel for teens and other best books for young readers 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z The sugar will extract citrus oil from the peels, resulting in a bracingly bright syrup ideal for a Collins or gimlet. How to Embrace Your Inner Trash Animal 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Someone, in short, who wouldn't cut the bracingly amusing number "Black Men Ski" but would integrate it more effectively into the musical's overarching story. 'Family Album' confirms Stew and Rodewald's musical instincts 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z “It’s total hysteria on the Dem side bracing for another election to be full of disappointment.” “I can’t look away.” The countdown to the midterms is on as Americans wonder what the heck is going on. 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Chiu’s suave playing and subtle touch — those delicate high notes! — acted like a tonic to the violinists’ intense, bracing duos. Music Review: Instrumentalists at an Exhibition 2011-06-02T22:03:15Z “North of Dawn” is bracingly honest about the difficulties of assimilation, the way hospitality curdles into condescension and gratitude sours into resentment. Review | Nuruddin Farah lost a sister to terrorism. His new novel shows the pain left behind. 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z In the United States, wider acceptance to bracing, complex flavors has been well-documented — dark chocolate, cruciferous vegetables, craft cocktails, hoppy I.P.A.s and Italian amaros, to name a few. Pleasantly Bitter and Thoroughly Grown-Up, No Alcohol Needed 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z The Gold Rush is like a whiskey sour, but its sweetness is more sophisticated; it's like a Bee's Knee, with cozy bourbon instead of bracing gin. How to make a Gold Rush, a bourbon cocktail that's reminiscent of the classics 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z As such, it actually enhances both some of the more bracing and floral notes in a shot of espresso. The 2-ingredient espresso tonic is the drink of spring. Here’s how to make the best one 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Even those who aren't in the throes of outright tragedy indicate that they find themselves increasingly anxious about rising food costs, general inflation and a market that is seemingly bracing itself for a crash. Why Facebook’s “struggle meal” groups are most wholesome place on the internet 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Bahamas is bracing for a huge hit to its national economy, just at a point when it needs an influx of cash. The Bahamas’ Big Need Is Tourists, It Says 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z "When we see people bracing to bar a controversial party like this, we interfere to prevent any tension or violence," said Adnan Damari, a police spokesman. Palestinians block show by Israeli-Arab singer 2012-01-03T17:59:07Z In practice, this may mean music that is now bracingly astringent, and now achingly lovely — even at the risk of people hearing a single Romantic passage and branding the whole work, incorrectly, as Romantic. A composer offers the field just what it needs 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z It puts one in the company of a beautiful mind engaged in a sustained and bracing discipline. Jhumpa Lahiri falls in love with language again, exquisitely, by writing in Italian 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Nasr plays Jude’s agony and frustration to operatic heights, with the bracing screams and the running in circles of a man who wants nothing more than to escape his own body. ‘A Little Life’ Review: A Collage of Unrelenting Torment 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Despite the bracing beauty of the wilderness, and the respite provided by cubs at play, the movie is primarily a sobering treatise on survival. Movie Review: Disney’s ‘Bears,’ Set in Alaska 2014-04-17T23:20:07Z Warner, who directed Fiona Shaw as Richard II in a bracing take on Shakespeare’s history play, brings a fluid intelligence to the handling of gender here. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z This is bracing — at times even brash — music in the authentic American manner, but in its quieter moments its expressivity is genuinely personal. Symphony's tribute to Leonard Bernstein is a festival high note 2010-06-25T18:35:00Z For a people defined by resilience and deference, it’s a bracing change of pace. Why I love the shameless, gory, Nazi-killing catharsis of Amazon's Hunters 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z How does one improve on a film as brisk, pungent and bracing as this? The Ladykillers: No 5 2010-10-18T10:49:00Z Still, a bracing sense of velocity seizes you as the Studio Theatre 2ndStage production of “Terminus” barrels toward its idiosyncratic conclusion. ‘Terminus’ barrels onto Studio’s 2ndStage 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Described in the program as “an Australian-American writer and activist,” Ms. Roper lends a bracingly astringent perspective to life as we know it today. Review: In the Hotel in ‘Zürich,’ Room Service Comes With a Bang 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z It actually performed worse; analysts had been bracing for as little as $65 million in ticket sales from the film’s first five days in North American theaters. Masked Lawman Stumbles at the Gate 2013-07-07T19:43:07Z Her fifth, most recently released album, “Abyss,” is more broadly realized, folding spectral noises into bracingly heavy squalls. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for May 6-12 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Shield of Straw — The insanely prolific and bracingly weird Takashi Miike directed about 80 features before finally being invited into Cannes’ official selection a few years ago. Cannes 2013: 20 Films for Our 40th Festival 2013-05-15T17:10:56Z Watching it after its elephantine doppelganger is akin to sipping a glass of ice cold water after a bracing draught from those La Brea tar pits. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z The third movement, “A Sense of Direction,” opened like the evening news, informative marimba and all, before a passage of tense introspection rushed up into a bracing crescendo. Review | Lang Lang and the NSO delight a comeback crowd at the Kennedy Center 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z In the Hammer show, "Watchmaker," a bracing 1946 tempera painting by Jacob Lawrence, is something of a talisman for the school's invigorating philosophy. Surprises abound in the illuminating 'Leap Before You Look' at UCLA's Hammer Museum 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z He entered mainstream politics and 25 years later, having charmed the country with his modest way of living and his bracingly spontaneous campaign style, he was elected Uruguay’s 40th president. A Political Prisoner Restores His Mind by Talking to a Frog 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z Spotlight Following a strong showing at Venice, Tom McCarthy’s bracing account of the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer prizewinning investigation into a massive child molestation cover-up within the local Catholic archdiocese earned similarly rave notices at Telluride. Academy awards 2016 race comes into focus at Telluride 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z It’s titled, “Are people bracing themselves for the fact that Robin Williams will die soon?” Robin Williams’ secret life as a video gamer: The online gaming community mourns one of its own 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Some viewers will find this open-endedness bracing; others may see it as fancy obfuscation. Review: A Startling ‘Swan Lake’ That’s Hard to Recognize 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z The recent boomlet in drive-in theaters represents a bracing expression of esprit de corps, nostalgia and creative ways to be alone-together. Perspective | Movies used to be an escape. Now they’re a risk-reward calculation. 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z The film came in at the lower end of expectations, though the studio was bracing for a slower start given the expected competition from the Super Bowl. Box Office: 'Miss Bala' fumbles as 'Glass' leads slowest Super Bowl... 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z It is bracing, delicious and unblemished by oak flavors. 20 Wines Under $20: A Little More Money for a Lot More Wine 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z We went to our voting booths bracing for guess what? Let the post-Sandy election gloating continue! 2012-11-09T20:35:00Z Television stations are bracing for an afternoon ratings slump without her. Talk Show Ends, and Oprah Moves On 2011-05-22T19:52:46Z Not that there is any shame in wearing hats, coats and/or scarves indoors – this can be bracing and dapper. The language of verbal restraint 2010-07-20T14:11:00Z She has played the angry and the impassioned, the brittle and the wonky, and she has done so with a bracing exactitude that is a marvel to witness. Julianne Moore on Maps to the Stars: 'The longer you live the Hollywood lifestyle, the more empty you become' 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Her uncompromising vision and piercing prose are reasons to celebrate the long overdue appearance of this bracing voice in English. Lina Meruane's 'Seeing Red' is a piercing novel of blindness 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z It is also a bracingly original foray into territory that remains, in every sense, unsettled. | 'Meek?s Cutoff': Out on the Frontier, Bringing All That Baggage With Them 2011-04-07T22:33:01Z “Okay, fine, woman,” I say, bracing myself while folding the oversize piece of dupioni silk in question. In my mother’s illness, her bedroom became a source of healing, for both of us 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Thanks to new agricultural supply chain disruptions compounded with climate change related drought and low crop yields, consumers are left bracing for what could be unprecedented levels of global food insecurity. Surging prices and wheat shortages: How the invasion of Ukraine is impacting global food supplies 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z There aren’t likely to be many more bracing displays of vocal verve in an arena setting this year, or any other. Review: Lady Gaga, the Flashy Provocateur, Battles Lady Gaga, the Raw Voice 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z And as long as unusual programs by visiting ensembles and bracing contemporary works are part of the offerings, who can deny Mozart his annual summer of glory in New York? Critic’s Notebook: Mostly Mozart Opens With Louis Langrée and Lawrence Brownlee 2012-08-01T21:47:28Z It is bracing and refreshing, with bright flavors of strawberry and rhubarb. This $15 red from Cotes du Rhone is the best value for this week’s patio (or stoop) sipping 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z He remained bracingly prolific and kept a straightforward approach. Charles Durning obituary 2012-12-25T15:24:51Z Pad cha, a stir-fry of mixed seafood with wild ginger, little eggplants and grapelike clusters of green peppercorns, was bracingly intense one night. Thai Food Strikes Out in a Fresh Direction at Fish Cheeks 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Her raffish Midwestern look contrasted bracingly with the restrictively tailored, often corseted look of her time. Jean Seberg’s Legacy: A Look With a Life of Its Own 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Judging by the raw material on Tuesday, the first of two nights, it should be a powerhouse, more bracingly immediate than “Mystic Journey,” with stronger group cohesion. Music Review: Azar Lawrence Quintet at Jazz Standard - Review 2011-12-15T23:04:44Z The bracingly nasty dental exception is Kristin Scott Thomas’s portrayal of Patricia Maxwell, the press secretary for the British prime minister. Movie Review: ?Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,? With Ewan McGregor 2012-03-08T23:10:43Z In any case, nonprofit theaters should take the dare and, when possible, give this bracingly provocative piece the additional exposure it merits. Musicals from movies, TV, history try to find footing on slippery Broadway 2010-12-18T01:22:59Z From N.W.A staples like "Gangsta Gangsta" to solo hits "Check Yo Self," Cube's rangy set was a bracing tonic that ramped up anticipation for the forthcoming "Straight Outta Compton" biopic. BET Experience: N.W.A, Kendrick Lamar capture L.A. hip-hop history 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Zimmern is bracingly frank about where his marriage went wrong. Andrew Zimmern’s Nonstop Road (and Food) Show 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z It was a 1932 lino print called Grinders, a bold and bracing monochrome image of two men sharpening knives – a symbolic scene from a city famous for its steel industry. Leonard Beaumont exhibition pays tribute to Sheffield's prints charming 2012-12-31T16:00:01Z By 1939, these columns, which covered her travels, her home life, her views on human rights and her bracing, comforting words on courage in frightening times, reached more than four million readers. Blanche Wiesen Cook Concludes Her Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z “Chaos Monkeys” aims to do the same for Silicon Valley, and bracingly succeeds. What It Is Actually Like to Be in the Engine Room of the Start-Up Economy 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z The scene grows only more bracing and hilarious as the interrogation continues. ‘Bootycandy’ Looks at Black Attitudes Toward Gays 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z But hovering over the recrimination fest is a bracing air of impatience, a sense that it’s time to get past all this stale family stuff and move on. | 'The Lyons': ?The Lyons,? by Nicky Silver, at Vineyard Theater - Review 2011-10-12T02:05:01Z The feminism of the movie is bracingly straightforward, less an ideological argument than a statement of fact. At the Telluride Film Festival, ‘Women Talking’ and Other Topics of Conversation 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Still, “Heisenberg” showcases two bracingly distinctive characters, and it is rewarding to watch them, in defiance of all likelihood, find common ground. Review | ‘Heisenberg’ turns an odd-couple love into faith in humanity 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z He is such a probing and sensitive artist that it’s easy to take for granted how technically brilliant his playing is — as in his bracing account of the first movement of this early sonata. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z On the other hand, the intimate, graphic, and bracing work this access allowed him to produce was consistently suppressed. “Relentless Absurdity”: An Army Photographer’s Censored Images 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Altogether it’s a brilliant way to capture not the look, but the feel of a bracing walk in the country. What to See in New York Art Galleries Right Now 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Although some areas, such as national health care, are being largely protected, virtually all sectors from education to defense are bracing for steep cuts. Britain plans dramatic cuts in the arts 2010-08-06T23:35:00Z There were stretches of Mr. Rzewski’s bracing, nourishing piece in which the crowd was virtually silenced, no easy feat at a street fair. Music Review: Brooklyn Philharmonic Festival With Mos Def - Review 2011-10-09T21:48:21Z So Sony, bracing for a soft opening weekend, decided to try swerving around the pileup of criticism with an unusual marketing tactic -- putting the first eight minutes on YouTube. Can 'Aloha's' first eight minutes on YouTube help the Sony film? 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z But Canadians will tell you that these diminutive treats hold an expanse of flavor and textures: flaky pastry, caramelized crust and a bracingly sweet filling. Where Has This Treat Been All Your Life? Canada 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z If there are leftovers, don’t toss them: The flavor and the color of this bracing relish will only improve after a day in the refrigerator. Friendsgiving: The Best Excuse to Have Two Thanksgiving Dinners 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z In her own very different style, Friedman offers updates and bracing correctives. ThighMasters, Jazzercise, Yoga and Other Chapters in the History of Women and Exercise 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z That bracing moment allows us to re-enter the world beyond the theater, where the stakes are high for political buffoonery, which suddenly seems less amusing than disgusting. Review: In ‘The Government Inspector,’ Dumb and Dumber, Deliciously 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z It’s possible that this bracing book will prod young readers to get involved in amendment-making, in order to form a more perfect Constitution. Talking to kids about the Constitution and other best books for young readers 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z “American Buffalo,” his foul-mouthed drama about three hapless Chicago crooks, had opened two years earlier, in 1975, eliciting cries from critics that a bracingly original new voice had arrived. | 'A Life in the Theatre': From Mamet, a Backstage Bouquet 2010-10-13T04:30:00Z As the show's signature geometric, pastel-hued intro rolled on to the screen, overlaid by John Lewis' "Baby Bay," I let my legs unfurl and sank deeper into the couch, bracing myself for disappointment. How I made my peace with "I Think You Should Leave" – a cringe comedy I was one reluctant to watch 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z It’s bracing to think of how those final words went down with Hitchens’ lately acquired friends in the conservative movement. Hitchens faces his mortality 2012-09-04T17:19:00Z It's a bracing critique, not just of war but of the rah-rah jingoism of contemporary military shooters. 'Dishonored' tops a diverse year in video games 2012-12-12T14:50:09Z Mr. Lake, with his wild, searing tone, soloed in bracing gulps over fluctuating rhythm, but here and there he paused to play a tightly coiled melodic line with his trumpeter, Freddie Hendrix. Music Review: A Wide-Ranging Festival Savors Some Late-Night Jazz 2011-06-29T21:55:14Z Much of the poetry has a bracing, accessible immediacy that can feel almost cinematic. The Dark Room Collective: Where Black Poetry Took Wing 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Now we’re bracing ourselves from for onset of the streaming wars. Streaming overview: What HBO Max, Disney+, Apple TV+, and Peacock have to offer 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Her still indignant and hurt recollections concerning the couple’s infamous sex tape, which she has always insisted was stolen property, are bracing. ‘Pamela, a Love Story’ Review: A Frank Look Back 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z While Durkin’s writing “doesn’t always match his formal flair,” Kenigsberg added, the film “has a bracing economy, cramming a lot into tight quarters.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘In Treatment’ and ‘Inside the Met’ 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z “Tehran Taboo” aims to expose systemic hypocrisy; in that respect, it is brisk and bracing. Review: ‘Tehran Taboo’ Exposes Double Standards About Sex in Iran 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z As satire, though, the movie is facile: not quite mean, outlandish or energetic enough in the challenges it imagines for Julio, notwithstanding a bracingly cynical use of an unexpected death. ‘The Good Boss’ Review: Company Man 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z The Morning News Is Exciting" as "a wildly surprising work describing the collapse of empire — bracing and invigorating. Don Mee Choi finds freedom in poetry 2011-12-18T03:31:05Z Arts organisations are bracing themselves for a torrid time because Hunt wants to keep publicly-subsidised free entry to national museums, on the basis that it improves tourism and the wider creative economy. Culture department braces itself for redundancies of up to 50% 2010-07-20T21:25:00Z So let’s leave aside “good” – it is vanishingly rare, and pretty bracing, to see a woman on screen who isn’t the villain, and yet is not likable. Yes, yes, yes! Welcome to the golden age of slutty cinema 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Result: a bracingly odd commentary on and/or questioning of faith. Martyrdoms, border violence, a tree-eating android are all a part of 'What I See' 2010-07-15T20:59:00Z In the bracing strangeness of the moment, I was convinced that this was the most powerful singing I’d heard in years, or maybe even in life. Review | On ‘Jacqueline,’ Haley Fohr sends her alter ego on a road trip 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z "Bridesmaids" activists want to send a bracing message to a business that has become increasingly oppressive for the women who work within it as well as for those who consume its product. Seeing "Bridesmaids" is a social responsibility 2011-05-12T16:17:00Z They plan to propose these to city officials, though perhaps at a time when the city is not bracing for another potential shutdown. Stitched Into Neighborhoods, Dance Studios Battle to Stay Open 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z There’s a sweet new wave air to “La Loose,” and “Half Moon” is melancholy in a new way, with bracing, stately piano leading the way. On Waxahatchee’s ‘Ivy Tripp,’ Katie Crutchfield Sings of Emotional Debris 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z The ache at the heart of Mikki Kendall’s bracing new essay collection, “Hood Feminism,” is whether all women actually have a common set of interests. Review | ‘Hood Feminism’ makes a convincing — and urgent — case about how race and class divide women 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Some bracing mix of radicchio, endive, escarole, watercress or arugula is ideal, maybe with a sliced ripe pear thrown in for a touch of sweetness. Where Velvety Potatoes, Crisp-Edged Cheese and Smoky Bacon Meet 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Whenever Mr. Wuorinen, with his keen ear for bracing harmony, allows sonorities to linger without all the busyness, the music becomes more mystical and dreamy. Music Review: Lyrical Cowboys In Love, On Stage 2014-01-29T09:33:49Z Still, it’s distinguished by Jones’s sense of humor, his way with self-deprecating anecdotes and a candor that’s as bracing as the opening riff of the Pistols’s “God Save the Queen.” ‘Lonely Boy’ review: Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones riffs on an era of theft, drugs and punk 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z An idiosyncratic and bracing singer and songwriter, he is sometimes a vessel for classic country, and sometimes a strategic dismantler of it. Sturgill Simpson, a Genuine Alternative to Alt Country 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z As the series progresses, no doubt it will delve more into the ins and outs of showbusiness, and I am already bracing myself for when this happens. The Marvelous Mrs Maisel and the difficulty of being a female comic 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z All of this bracing activity creates some intriguing seaside scenes between Sidney and Charlotte. PBS' "Sanditon" brings Jane Austen's racy and racist subtext into the open 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z In the second movement of “Symphony in Three Movements,” a bracing finale on Friday, Ms. Hyltin and Mr. Stanley shared a similarly close yet enigmatic partnership. Review: Peck Adapts Andersen, and Good Fights Evil Amid Fine Plumage 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Tuck in the children and, for a nightcap, queue up Season 3 of “The Crown” and reset with a bracing episode or two. ‘A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby’ Review: The Title Says It All 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z An audio recording sets the work in a bracingly feminist, prophetically anti-patriarchal narrative context. Museum & Gallery Listings for Dec. 18-24 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z The documentary “Introducing, Selma Blair” presents a bracingly relatable version of an often all-too-artificial event: a performer navigating the process of reinvention. ‘Introducing, Selma Blair’ Review: An Actress in Her Second Act 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z All of Berger’s work—which includes poems, novels, drawings, paintings, and screenwriting—is to me a beautiful and bracing argument that political commitment requires maintaining a position of wonder. Postscript: John Berger, 1926-2017 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Hahn is an eternal scene stealer, always claiming our attention with consistently mordant, bracing performances that are impossible to ignore. These MVPs of television delivered greatness in a year that almost broke us 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Next to the mildness of the other greens, the leaves were bracing, mineral and a little edgy, an ingredient to be used with care, not taken for granted. These Ingredients Deserve Your Attention 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z He has moved with a smooth, urbane grace across storytelling genres and filmmaking styles, including bracing contemporary dramas, whimsical fables, camp parables and the odd musical. 'Young & Beautiful's' Francois Ozon savors challenges of film 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z And Justin Chang of Variety touted its “bracingly cinematic wide-screen look that takes on an almost radioactive glow.” Sean Baker Talks ‘Tangerine,’ and Making a Movie With an iPhone 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z The decision to play down the hardware is among the more bracing choices of Mr. Connor and his producer, Cameron Mackintosh, who is among as hands-on an impresario as the world of musicals now knows. Musical Revivals Offer Mixed Rewards 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z More affecting are Nelson and Ulman, whose frustrations come through with bracing clarity. Review: 'Sunlight' examines murky post-9/11 issues 2010-03-18T22:05:00Z It’s bracingly unwilling to settle for a simple answer. Wonder women: how this summer's TV passes the Bechdel test 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z But taking in Coates’s essays from start to finish is still a bracing thing, like drinking a triple scotch, neat. Through the Lens of the Obama Years, Ta-Nehisi Coates Reckons With Race, Identity and Trump 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z This makes the film’s perspective on race bracing, to put it mildly. My favourite film aged 12: You Only Live Twice 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z The other Williams plays on the menu were less rewarding, if certainly in some cases bracingly, even entrancingly bizarre. Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill Side by Side, Under the Sun 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The 2018 is dry, aromatic and richly textured, with bracing saline and floral flavors. 10 Great Bottles of Italian White Wine Under $25 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z It was the fresh, bracing, chaotic sound of freedom. Review: A Birthday of the Darmstadt Avant-Garde 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Social media users are posting images of once-buzzing retail arteries newly silent and potentially bracing for civil unrest. In the U.S., Luxury Brands Board Up the Store 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Wilcox, meanwhile, is a moving character study of an isolated survivalist, stripped of dialogue and affectation, that marks a bracing change of pace for the usually more mannered Quebecois auteur Denis Côté. Streaming: is the Brazilian film Araby the movie of the decade? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z This is a bracingly realistic vision of the economic hopelessness that so many young people are trapped in: serving extraordinary wealth but entirely separate from it. Review | Lily King’s ‘Writers & Lovers’ delivers pure joy 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z This was a bracing time for Courtney, who said she relished working with van Hove and the avant-garde choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker on their boldly staged revival, even when they tested her comfort zone. For Lorna Courtney of ‘& Juliet,’ New York Has Always Been Her Stage 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Mark Lilla’s new book begins with a statement that is brutal and bracing, all the more so because it happens to be true: “Donald J. Trump is president of the United States.” 'The Once And Future Liberal' is a blistering critique of identity politics and a fractured left 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z It was bracingly tense, conveying not only the terror of her feelings of intrusion but also the violence of everyday life, something the credit-sequence of the show does so skillfully each week. ArtsBeat: 'Dexter' Watch: Bonded by Rage 2010-10-25T15:23:00Z Many outdoor performing venues say that, even as they are bracing for the effects of climate change, they are also trying to limit the ways that they contribute to it. Too Darn Hot: How Summer Stages Are Threatened by Climate Change 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z But in the third suite, the high point of the recital, everything came together: the sunny Prelude, the airy Allemande, the rhythmically alert Bourrees and the sharp, bracing Gigue to close. Alisa Weilerstein woos in romantic reading of Bach Cello Suites 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Not catharsis or uplift but a bracing dose of profane, sloppy, reasonably well-directed hostility. Review: Ice Cube and Charlie Day Face Off in ‘Fist Fight’ 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The first fluffy spoonful exudes the bracing essence of a lemon as it melts on my tongue. How the Mount Etna's icy caves — and New Jersey — gave America it's sweetest summer treat 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z It's bracing about female resilience, predictable about male bonding. Let the Right One In; The Amen Corner; Sweet Bird of Youth – review 2013-06-15T23:05:22Z Less than a month after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Buckingham Palace is bracing itself for potential fallout due to a popular television program. The princess and the tea: Why Buckingham Palace is worried about "The Crown" 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Dante's reverence for the imperial papacy made Ezra Pound and TS Eliot think of him as a proto-fascist; for Wilson he bracingly refutes the milky commiseration that sustains our expensive welfare state. Dante in Love by AN Wilson ? review 2011-07-15T08:00:01Z Endowed with an attention-grabbing dark mezzo, its depths bracing like strong coffee, she seems to thrive in the role of a storyteller, greatly enhanced by her symbiotic interaction with her husband and accompanist, Christopher Cano. Review: Jennifer Johnson Cano and Dimitri Pittas at the Morgan 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z “Genius Child” ended with a devil’s ride into the bracing line “Kill him — and let his soul run wild!” Review: A Big Baritone Sound at Play in an Intimate Setting 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z “Whitney,” on the other hand, is thoroughly modern: Ms. Cummings’s character is bracingly whiny and unpleasant. Television Review: Three New Sitcoms Put the Focus on Young Single Women 2011-09-18T22:09:46Z Mr. Bujalski, 36, previously known as a wry, deadpan observer of his own generation, shoots their interactions in state-of-the-art late-’70s analog, which is to say in bracingly hideous and therefore strangely beautiful black-and-white video. Movie Review: ‘Computer Chess’ Depicts Programmers in 1980 2013-07-16T22:06:36Z New York City’s perpetually bustling ABC Kitchen offers a drink that, at first sip, is bracingly crisp, slightly fruity, and yet not too sweet. Two Cocktails to Try Before Summer Ends 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The cool climes brought the colonizers relief, and the bracing mountain air was just the ticket for the injured, infirm and those suffering from tropical maladies. Keep your cool in India by visiting one of the country’s hill stations 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Russia, its economy growing modestly after a downturn, is also bracing for a new wave of U.S. sanctions over its alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a charge it denies. We are the champions: basketball film wows Russians before election 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z All year I’d been bracing for the police video that would come out of Chicago. The ugliness I learned about Chicago police while reporting on gun violence 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z We've seen all of the above at one time or another, but Seattle Shakespeare Company brings something bracingly novel to the Bard's sylvan comedy of crisscrossed lovers and meddling fairies. 'Midsummer Night's Dream': a bold, bracing wonderland 2011-10-24T19:42:54Z If some of the anecdotes are affecting, others have a bracingly defamiliarizing effect, prompting you to think about abilities you yourself take for granted. Review | Spooky Action Theater’s ‘The Man Who’ marvels at the complexities of the brain 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z It’s bracing to experience this reverse and sometimes subversive angle on the great good cause of our time. Review: In ‘Too Heavy for Your Pocket,’ Who Can Afford Civil Rights? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z A big, bracingly ugly bronze sculpture resembles part of a subterranean archaeological dig. Art in Review: STERLING RUBY AND LUCIO FONTANA 2011-09-22T22:00:09Z “It was bracingly familiar,” Dean Leslie, 58, said after the show. Performing Arts Make a Cautious Return in New York 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z Which brings us to this year’s bracing Armory Show, with booths outfitted by more than 270 galleries and private dealers spread between two piers jutting into the Hudson. Art Review: Free-for-All Spirit Breezes Into a Vast Art Fair 2011-03-03T23:15:11Z It was a hit: bracing, earthy and a change from the usual hollandaise. Rhubarb flaunts savory side in a skillet chicken dinner 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z Even with its fusillade of the n-word, the bracingly timely show is as user-friendly as its sarcastic title promises. Sharp lessons in ‘Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies’ 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Dance purists might dismiss Streb's work as circus gymnastics, but a bracing aesthetic is inseparable from the corporal shocks, as is an insistence on challenging accepted constraints. 'Born to Fly' captures Elizabeth Streb in action 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z It’s true that there was a bracing chill in the air, but Tchaikovsky in April is just cruel. Dance Review: Brooklyn Ballet’s Spring Show, With a Little Christmas Added 2014-04-11T22:41:21Z "It can be bracing to see Picasso shuttle between triumph and kitsch in the space of a week."Patent nonsense. Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z The monologues, each about 45 minutes, are well-composed, solemnly heartfelt testaments to bracingly emotional experiences. Review | Jake Gyllenhaal is a stage animal for sure. But he needs more feral turf in ‘Sea Wall/A Life.’ 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Start the new year with one of these bracing outdoor activities: Spokespeople ride: Eight-mile, easy-pace ride with coffee stop, new riders, all ages and skill levels welcome; steady rain cancels, 2 p.m. 8 ways to greet the new year in the great outdoors 2010-12-31T16:37:03Z And personally, I never found it morally bracing to contemplate a future without my parents in it. 'I've been good and bad, caring but useless': Tim Dowling on two decades of fatherhood 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z But governments, corporations and individuals are now bracing themselves for battles royal over who controls the gifts of information and narrative. T Magazine: The Gift of Information 2010-12-04T15:00:00Z But it seems time we begin bracing ourselves for a shocking possibility: Could Mad Men Actually Have a Happy--or At Least Hopeful--Ending? 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z “Porter’s pessimism is a bracing wake-up call for liberal readers and may confirm the darkest fears of many a black and Hispanic reader,” Michael Ignatieff writes in his review. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z In The Job and especially Rescue Me, the mashup of comedy and pathos was erratic, but when it worked it was raw and bracing in a way more self-serious antihero series couldn’t achieve. Review: Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll Delivers Rock of the Aged 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z He also writes about his own self-destruction in bracingly blunt terms, coming off as a doomed tragic hero. John Belushi in Focus: What a New Film Gets Right and What It Misses 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z By the time the line cooks were bracing for the lunch rush, I was on the highway whooshing home, blasting the A/C to stay alert. While you were sleeping, someone was baking 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z This was a bracing account of a familiar piece. Jurowski Leads London Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z He pauses for effect, bracing my neck against his forearm. ?Treme? Sharpens Its Focus on Food 2011-06-04T23:30:15Z Bratton spoke with Salon about his bracing new film and what he learned revisiting this chapter in his life. "The Inspection" and Don't Ask Don't Tell for a queer Black man: "Boot camp is brainwashing" 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z As artists poured into LAX to protest, organizations around Los Angeles are bracing themselves for a chill on cultural exchange. Essential Arts & Culture: 'Zoot Suit' anew, art and the travel ban, Jimmie Durham's timely sculptures 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z One bracing response is on view through Oct. Theater Review: Onstage in London, Works That Look Back in Time as They Move Forward 2011-09-20T12:00:07Z The singer has recently hit the highway in spates of small acoustic performances, when she offered stripped-down takes on that record’s bracing, autobiographical accounts of gender reassessment. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z This is a bracing logic, but we are still feeling a little bit queasy. Perspective | Does this rare coffee taste like poop to you? 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z If you were to peek into your attic, you’d probably see pieces of wood fastened with triangular bracing. If your upstairs ceiling and wall are separating, truss lift might be the culprit 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z As a result, scenes that were once soppy-saggy with tears turn strangely bracing. 2009-12-25T01:45:00Z This is another aspect to the show that is perfectly handled, even if some viewers might find it bracingly frank. Review | ‘Normal People’ is the soaring, achy, authentic cure for anyone who’s sick of rom-coms 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z It was a bracing experience, listening to all those suggestions for improvement. For Kristin Chenoweth and Kelli O’Hara, a Fearsome Fairy Godmother 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z First came a pair of bracing R&B singers: The-Dream, restrained, and Kelly Price, soaring; both deeply grounded. Review: Kanye West’s ‘The Life of Pablo,’ Songs of Praise and Self 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Yet another newish work, the bracingly creepy family drama “Downstairs,” starts rehearsals in October at Primary Stages. ‘She Should Be Revered, and She Is Not’ 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z In his review for The Times, A. O. Scott called the film “a bracingly original foray into territory that remains, in every sense, unsettled.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ and ‘Monsters and Men’ 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Photograph: Jeff Busby If Cunningham's Nearly Ninety is the headline attraction at this year's Dance Umbrella, there's still a bracing range of work in the festival's closing week. This week's new dance 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z They are fragrant and floral, and rich yet refreshing because of the variety’s bracing acidity. 10 Grapes Worth Knowing Better 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z So there was something bracing, if not altogether surprising, about the latest iteration of New York Fashion Week: Men’s opening with a posse of unaffiliated designers who took punk as their inspiration. Dash of Punk Opens Men’s Fashion Week in New York 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z But the ovation went on, and he obliged with a formidable work, Chopin’s Scherzo in B flat minor, played with bracing energy and brilliance. Music Review: At Carnegie Hall, Maurizio Pollini Celebrates Chopin 2010-04-30T20:20:00Z At times, for all the bracing vigor and transparency, I wanted more traditional Wagnerian weightiness and depth. Review: A Conductor and Soprano Test Wagnerian Waters 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Bold, bossy and bracing, “Fail Fast, Fail Often” is like a 200-page shot of B12, meant to energize the listless job seeker. Books Of Style: Books Offer Career Advice, and Tips on How to Quit and Find a New Job 2013-12-27T21:44:04Z Speaking like someone bracing for the challenge of a lifetime, Mr. Six said, “I have one more film to show some more crazy ideas.” Arts & Leisure: ?The Human Centipede 2? From the Director Tom Six 2011-09-30T13:13:02Z Gary Troy, who offers the clipped accent and urban snap of North Dublin, and Ms. Donnelly supply a bracing astringency. | 'The Irish . . . and How They Got That Way': A Frank McCourt Revue Is Revived 2010-08-04T21:33:00Z The fourth and final movement was especially fresh and bracing. Critic’s Notebook: New York Philharmonic Performs in the Parks 2013-07-11T21:34:28Z It’s this wince of I’m bracing myself for it, I really hope it’s not gonna go there. The poster girl for period sex: “I think it’s unfortunate that women often think their vagina’s kind of disgusting” 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Body horror gets an extreme makeover with this bracing tale of a wronged surgical student drawn to the underground world of body modification, through which she extracts grisly revenge. This week's new films 2013-01-12T06:00:00Z “There’s a lot of things going on tonally with the show,” Mr. Hudgins said of a series where characters can be coldhearted, bracingly violent, then comically pride-filled. ‘Shut Eye’ Lays Its Tarot Cards on the Table 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z For those who hew to tradition, there’s the bracing simplicity of vinegar or the velvety soft landing of sour cream, perhaps even better mixed together. Modern Russian Dumplings That Nod to the Past 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z This is the land of Txakolina, the bracing, refreshing, often fizzy white wine that is enjoyed throughout Basque country. The Pour: Txakolina Wines From Basque Country 2010-08-11T12:00:00Z The whole of this “Four Temperaments” was danced with a bracing clarity that deepens the choreography. Dance Review: Ballet Across America at Kennedy Center 2013-06-09T21:01:30Z But it is also bracingly Shavian as a candid dialectic about the challenges of modern womanhood, and manhood. ‘Rapture’ revisits struggle to have it all 2013-07-23T00:15:20Z Wisin barks out an increasingly redundant list of pickup lines, and the reggaeton tracks of the production team Luny Tunes, which were bracingly snappy and succinct a decade ago, are now overly familiar. Critic’s Notebook: New Music by Shakira, Juanes, Enrique Iglesias and Wisin 2014-03-27T20:50:23Z This is the most bracing song on Gallant’s beautiful debut album “Ology,” a collection of spacious R&B rooted in 1980s-inflected experimentation. The Playlist: 21 Songs From 2016 That Nearly Got Away 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z But what’s bracing about this film, which Lana Wilson directed, is the way it weds Swift’s loneliness and her arrival at empowerment. ‘Miss Americana’ Review: Taylor Swift, Scathingly Alone 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z But these clashes were always expressions of Mr. Mortier’s bracing and intellectually charged vision of opera, and his disdain for the decorous irrelevance often associated with it. Gerard Mortier, Opera Visionary, Dies at 70 2014-03-09T12:08:40Z Abubakar Adam Ibrahim was bracing for a backlash when he published his provocative debut novel, “Season of Crimson Blossoms,” in Nigeria two years ago. A Wave of New Fiction From Nigeria, as Young Writers Experiment With New Genres 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z However, on a purely technical level, the orchestra performed with bracing virtuosity. Jean-Yves Thibaudet's lyrical piano brightens L.A. Phil concert 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z He dashed a bracing bucket of cold water over Tom's flickering hopes of reconciliation, as if he had caught him smoking in a sausage preparation area. Radio review: A month in Ambridge 2013-04-30T14:15:25Z It is bracing to see relatively old art amid the new and the now. Art in Review: ‘The Thrill of the Ideal: Richard Tuttle: The Reinhart Project’ 2013-06-06T18:15:19Z But his ordinary life is treated with bracing sincerity, and an enraptured state of attention. Stoner by John Williams – review 2013-06-22T16:00:01Z Early in “Boyhood,” Richard Linklater’s bracingly original, utterly enthralling new film about the passage of time through the lens of one boy’s life, we find our characters at a real Houston Astros game. Review: ‘Boyhood’ _ simple story, stunningly told 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z “Further down, no bracing is needed; the salt has fused into solid rock” known to geologists as halite, or rock salt, Bohorquez tells us. In Colombia, the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira is a pillar of spiritual strength 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z In regards to the future, Harfst says he’s bracing for a slow return to normal. Eastern Airlines has helped thousands of stranded Americans return home 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Most of the brace experts do not think bracing will help. Animal Doctor: Rescue dog surmounts many di∞cult challenges 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z In his review for The New York Times, Ben Kenigsberg wrote, “Both as a detective story and as a deep dive into a world event whose consequences linger, it is bracing, absorbing filmmaking.” What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Trinkets’ and ‘The Haves and the Have Nots’ 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Though it’s called a novel, it’s really a bracing collection of linked stories about Lea, Avishag and Yael, high school buddies from the same small town. New Books by Shani Boianjiu, Michael Sears and More 2012-09-26T22:04:23Z It would be a bracing, haunting work even if it weren’t so timely. ‘Reflection’ Review: Through a Looking Glass of Horrors 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Showing her versatility, Ayite also is nominated for designing the costumes for “Slave Play,” Jeremy O. Harris’ bracing work about an antebellum fantasy therapy workshop. Tonywatch: Dede Ayite’s costumes always ‘build up layers’ 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z “Quartets,” from 1995, recorded live at the Village Vanguard, used two different groups; one was a short-lived, loose and bracing quartet with the trumpeter Tom Harrell, the bassist Anthony Cox and the drummer Billy Hart. Joe Lovano, Running the Show With Sweeping Sax 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z But at 77 he still writes bracingly gritty and complex music. Music Review: ?Kommilitonen!,? a Juilliard Opera Premiere - Review 2011-11-17T23:15:52Z “Cold Water,” Olivier Assayas’s paean to adolescent desperation, is as bracing as its title suggests. A Fiery Tale of Teenage Despair, as Fresh as When It Debuted in 1994 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Her newly released album “Hill, Flower, Fog” provides a welcome bit of aural springtime for those bracing for a rough winter. Billie Eilish’s Kiss-Off, and 14 More New Songs 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Dead Bunny don't invent the wheel anew, but from time to time that's bracing news, with hipster bands popping up all over the place. July's best new music from across the MAP 2011-07-18T08:26:00Z His packed early morning lectures at Oxford on Marx were bracing. Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute – review 2013-06-20T07:00:34Z But I am willing to trade a little aural roughness for bracing performances when a conductor and players challenge themselves in the best sense and bring striking insights to standard repertory or champion living composers. Music Review: Cleveland Orchestra Performs Berg?s ?Lulu? Suite 2010-05-23T21:25:00Z This is where the book comes alive, because Graeber's uncompromising approach, so wearying when applied to his personal history, is bracing when applied to the world at large. The Democracy Project: a History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber – review 2013-03-28T16:10:18Z It’s opulent with orchard fruit — peaches, nectarines and apricots — while still bracing, with firm acidity. For summer nights with wine, sip 3 stars 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Indeed, so accustomed had Abedin become to bracing for bad news, she initially called her book “Bracing.” Huma Abedin, loyal aide and betrayed wife, picks up the mic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Lewis takes a bracing tempo in the fugue, played with punchy attacks and admirable clarity. Classical Recordings: Beethoven and Haydn, Anew 2011-06-24T14:20:46Z On Sunday at the Phillips Collection, the Escher String Quartet offered a bracing antidote to the season of ubiquitous “Messiahs” and treacly “Nutcrackers.” Escher String Quartet takes an aggressive approach to chamber music 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z For now, he’s bracing himself for how the music world will respond to his latest release. The Many Sides to Dan Brown 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Oswalt, whose comedy special won an Emmy this year, told bracing stories that Ping-Ponged between silly jokes and deeply felt moments grappling with his tumultuous state of mind. A Year When Death Loomed in the Laughter 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z The real world intrudes on the stylized suspense with a thud rather than a bracing jolt. ‘The Boy Behind the Door’ Review: Best Friends in Peril 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z And there’s bracing wit in the contrast provided by the sailors’ crude, boisterous chanteys and the wonderfully clunky dance they engage in with the rum-selling island women. Theater Review: ?Early Plays? by O?Neill From Wooster Group at St. Ann?s 2012-02-23T05:07:20Z It’s too bad, because from all accounts knowing “Hitch” was a bracing experience, involving arguments and legendary drinking bouts that Hitchens, inevitably, would win. Christopher Hitchens, RIP 2011-12-16T14:27:21Z Rounding out this week’s selection are a racy pinot grigio from the mountains of northeastern Italy, a bracing rosé from France’s Mediterranean shores and a great-value liter bottle of Riesling from Germany. Here’s the price range in wine where you can find the best quality 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Her performance was so probing and lucid, and so matched by the refined playing of the orchestra, that this popular piece sounded fresh and bracing. Review: Concertgebouw Orchestra Shows Off Its Legacy at Carnegie 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Still, signs congratulating her hang in shop windows, residents are talking to TV crews and officials are bracing for crowds. Chelsea warning: NY town abuzz pre-Clinton wedding 2010-07-28T18:39:00Z The audience’s portion of the rink was covered, but there was still a bracing breeze — despite the mild April night — right around the ankles. Review: The Brooklyn Academy Dips a Toe Back in With Live Skating 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z There was something bracing, as well as brave, about that film’s honesty. Review: In ‘Landline,’ the Family That Strays Together 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Which is not to say it ends with a snappy resolution, only that it is a smart, bracing production brimming with clever wisecracks, some thought-provoking observations on sexual identity and one very promising newcomer. Review: ‘Straight’ Glides Between Sexual Assumptions 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Gielen’s other method remains bracingly apparent on record: an interpretive technique that prized restraint. His Conducting Wasn’t Always Pleasant. But It Was the Truth. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Was it a bracing new blend of fantasy, sci-fi and cop movie and a return to form for Will Smith? Will Smith’s Bright: racial allegory or straight up racism? 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z It’s bracing stuff, made all the more dramatic by the burbling bass undertow and skeletal piano chords. Album review: Bobby Womack, 'The Bravest Man in the Universe' 2012-06-11T20:41:00Z This show offers a bracing Continental alternative to all the Scandinavian-ish existential gloom. Times Critics Share Last-Chance TV Picks 2013-12-26T21:26:10Z Also give him props for finding precisely the right way to meld memoir with satire, to do this with bracing originality and to keep heads spinning from this novel’s first page to its last. From Joshua Ferris: A Father’s Scattershot Legacy, Narrated Unreliably 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z “Equity” itself, however, is bracing, witty and suspenseful, a feminist thriller sharply attuned to the nuances of its chosen milieu. Review: In ‘Equity,’ No Room for Sisterhood Amid Gloves-Off Wall Street Warfare 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z There are surges and digressions, including a caterwauling duet between drums and tenor, before the bracing last few minutes — a climactic resolution in which Mr. Malaby rightly seems to be screaming through his horn. Review: Tony Malaby, Weaving Spells With Paloma Recio 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Germany, Austria and Alsace Rieslings excel among European offerings, while Australia and New Zealand offer bracing dry examples. Here’s to Riesling with cheeses, sherry with ramen, and bubbly for no reason 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z The resultant shock to the system courses through the surprisingly bracing and funny solo show “My Family: Not the Sitcom,” which the comedian David Baddiel has been performing off and on for the past year. Ripping Up the Rule Book in ‘An Octoroon,’ and Making a Patchwork of ‘Woyzeck’ 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Scott called the film “a dandy piece of entertainment, soothingly old-fashioned and bracingly up-to-date.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Great Beauty’ and Iowa Caucus Coverage 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z He spoke with the easy grace of a country parson, but no fire and brimstone emanated from his pulpit as he calmly but bracingly recounted what he said was his mother’s family history. Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z “The Martini Shot,” the bracing and witty novella that closes Pelecanos’s first collection of stories, is a sly consideration of this mud-wrestling match between art and commerce. Book review: ‘The Martini Shot,’ by George Pelecanos 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Bradford proved a lesser Stowe, her tale as treacly as Tubman’s life was bracing. An Unlikely Alliance in Upstate N.Y. and the Fight for Black and Women’s Rights 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Sigmund Freud testifies, too, played by Timothy Doyle with bracing clarity and quiet imperiousness. Review: For ‘Judas Iscariot,’ a Courtroom Drama of Epic Proportions 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The songs seem to become less prominent as comedy turns to tragedy, though the music still informs every emotionally bracing moment. Broadway's fall revivals: Why big stars can't make up for a lack of artistic vision 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Like Ms. Sharp’s look at the Dust Bowl, “Last Man Club,” produced by the company in 2012, it is a play that bracingly refuses to be a straightforward historical treatment. Theater Review: ‘Nothing on Earth Can Hold Houdini’ at the Axis Theater 2014-03-07T03:00:01Z The limitless prospects she depicts may be bleak — but they're also bracing. Review: Seattle artists' landscapes make the sky their limit 2011-03-24T22:34:07Z This electricity unifies nearly all his paintings, edge to edge, with a bracing combination of the familiar and the abstract that still has few equals in modern art. Art Review: Following the Dots Around the City 2010-09-23T21:45:00Z He is also a bracing Beethoven interpreter who should bring freshness to these familiar scores. Bracing Beethoven Interpreter 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Splashed with bracing ponzu, it has the refreshing vitality of a Vietnamese salad roll. Sushi and sashimi are standouts at Wabi-Sabi Sushi Bar & Restaurant in Columbia City 2010-05-20T20:09:00Z And now, activist and legend: Her Twitter feed, with almost 3.5 million followers, is often politically bracing. Cher Has Never Been a Huge Cher Fan. But She Loves Being Cher. 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Like the other women in this book, Rose provides us not only with lyrical passages that pierce the heart but also with moments of bracing practical toughness. Fighting to Save Their Tribe From Termination 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z These “compositions for dance,” as they were subtitled, were the most physically bracing part of the night. Satellite Collective Puts on Varied Program at BAM Fisher 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z I am bracing myself for the backlash in the comments, but here you go: I have never had one in the 24 years since I moved out of my parents' home. Lessons I learned from renovating my small kitchen 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z His most recent recording of populist Copland scores with Detroit captures the American spirit bracingly. Leonard Slatkin is traditional and bracing at Hollywood Bowl 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z It was a bracing performance, and in several places Ms. Lambert appeared to be on the verge of tears, a reminder of one commodity all the more valuable for being in short supply here: honesty. At C.M.A. Awards, Country Music Honors Some Less-Heralded Talents 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z “Blue Valentine” mystifies the emotional logic that Ms. Ade presents with bracing clarity and leaves its audience, along with poor Cindy and Dean, in a muddle of hurt feelings and vague disappointments. | 'Blue Valentine': Chronicling Love?s Fade to Black 2010-12-28T23:12:13Z Brave, bracing and instructive, “Race Against Time” is, on occasion, insufficiently probing. The Journalist and the Murderers 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Another American museum has gotten it right, bracing against the tide of disastrous new buildings and additions that ruin and sometimes cripple so many of these institutions. Review: Wadsworth Atheneum, a Masterpiece of Renovation 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z The story isn’t coiled around a clever, rug-pulling twist — a sometimes tiresome, sometimes bracing Shyamalan signature — so much as balanced on a series of simple binaries. ‘Knock at the Cabin’ Review: Who’s There? The Apocalypse. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Last week’s concerts provided that bracing sense of fresh creation. Music Review: American Mavericks, with San Francisco Symphony, at Zankel 2012-04-01T18:48:27Z Not that anything is theoretical: If most plays of liberation involve trite slogans and metaphorical pickets, it’s bracing to see one that’s a drama instead of a diorama. Review: Getting Intimate at ‘Dr. Ride’s American Beach House’ 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z "Price Tag" opens the record with bracing images of the challenges of making ends meet. Sleater-Kinney: Older, wiser? Maybe. But just as angry. 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z And the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is bracing for another rough one. How travelers can protect themselves during hurricane season 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Instead of happy nostalgia, I found a hard, bracing truth — born, perhaps, in a new apprehension of beauty. Grand Teton National Park: Truth in Beauty 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Moore also takes us back in time into the jury room for a bracing reminder of how hard it is to sit in judgment over matters of life and death. Need a Distraction? These Thrillers Will Have You on the Edge of Your Seat 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z When the keyboardist Kris Bowers performed his song “#TheProtestor” in Harlem two years ago, it featured a bracing topical digression by the vocalist Chris Turner. A Cri de Coeur From Jazz Musicians in a Black Lives Matter Age 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z But my heart sinks when I read Charlotte Higgins's well-informed prediction that the arts world is bracing itself for cuts of up to 20%. Memo to Jeremy Hunt: Hands off the arts budget 2010-05-13T15:06:00Z It adds up to a literature as bracing and complex as a tumbling mountain creek. Read Your Way Through Appalachia 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z And he cultivated a following with bracing lyrics about struggling with depression. Mac Miller, Rapper Who Wrestled With Fame and Addiction, Dies at 26 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Throughout, Chee endeavors to catch himself at a distance and reckon, ever humble and bracingly honest, with the slippery terrain of memory, identity and love. Writing as Drag: Alexander Chee’s Essays Consider the Novelist’s Craft 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z His bracing new album, “4 Your Eyez Only,” is his first that feels as if it were made without the slightest concession to what’s happening elsewhere in the genre. Review: The Only Big Name Here Is Still J. Cole’s 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z It's a bracingly vicious take on spending Christmas with dull people – best if you imagine it delivered in a sardonic drawl. Season's readings: Three stories by Saki 2010-12-23T13:04:07Z A small dock leads to the brackish, bracing waters of the Baltic. Swedish Islands Offer an Escape From Stockholm 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z I also upped the amount of alcohol — you're welcome! — because in my mind tiramisu should be all about the tension between that pillowy soft sweetness and the bracing kicks of coffee and rum. An absolutely effortless tiramisu, courtesy of a nostalgic childhood snack 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z When the group walked onstage on Wednesday for the program’s first half, which consists of music only, the bounce in their steps was bracing. Review: Creating Contrasts With yMusic, Marcos Balter and Dance 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z In his “Fidelio” the orchestral playing is lithe and bracing but not because the tempos are exceptionally fast. Classical Recordings: Two CDs of Beethoven?s ?Fidelio,? From 1960 and Today 2011-10-02T02:55:23Z Turning horror into comedy is nothing new, but Mr. Iannucci’s unwavering embrace of these seemingly discordant genres as twin principles is bracing. Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z This giant leap is an exhilarating prelude to the day’s main event — a swim in the bracing waters of the North Sea. Open-Water Swimming With the Fast-Rising Pop Duo Let’s Eat Grandma 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z It's subtle, unlike the bracing hit you get from a rum cake, but the flavor is there. 3-ingredient chocolate cupcakes inspired by a classic cocktail 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z “What Are You Gonna Tell Her?” is a bracing ballad about the limitations society places on young women. Nashville Didn’t Make Room for Mickey Guyton. So She Made Her Own. 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The result is both bracing and exasperating; Ozon, working against the grain of most dramas that deal in difficult social issues, is not concerned with a psychological case study, and still less with political arguments. Movies 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z The evolution of the name is a bracing reminder of how different D.C.’s history — and its present — has been for various groups of Washingtonians. Is it Meridian Hill Park or Malcolm X Park? Your answer is meaningful. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z But it was also fearless and bracingly new, an effort by the Wachowskis to use every inch of the new format’s sprawling canvas. Streaming TV Isn’t Just a New Way to Watch. It's a New Genre. 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z I am particularly looking forward to a further bracing encounter with Ms. Nottage’s “Sweat,” which I first saw at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and which begins performances at the Public Theater in October. Black Female Playwrights Want You to Face Facts. The Harsh Ones. 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z “There’s something bracingly attractive,” he declares, “about a sentence that brims with parallelism.” The Hedonic Appeal of “Dreyer’s English” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z He said that Coogler “looks at the Rocky story and the tradition of Hollywood pugilism through a fresh prism” and that the film itself is at once “soothingly old-fashioned and bracingly up-to-date.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Creed’ and ‘First Reformed’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Both of these memories are connected to arduous turns which, even at their worst, crack open a window to allow a bracing gust of humor to cut the tension. HBO Max's must-watch "Station Eleven" brings comfort and joy after the eerily familiar apocalypse 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z “Dying” is bracing and beautiful, possessed of an extraordinary intellectual and moral rigor. ‘Dying: A Memoir’ Is a Bracing Illumination of Terminal Illness 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Quite literally in the dark, the stowaways are introduced as "Blind passengers" who, "bracing themselves," must "test/ the strength of their old visions". Poem of the week: Stowaways by Lawrence Sail 2011-01-31T10:20:36Z Other people will do whatever is necessary to avoid the bracing onslaught of what my wife once called bilge water. Manzanilla Sherry: Singular, Saline and So Polarizing 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z During a break Ms. Anderson was seen upstairs taking in “Bye Bye Kitty!!!,” a bracingly dark exhibition of contemporary Japanese art. Music Review: Strum, Pluck, Rescue, Rebuild 2011-04-11T21:45:04Z The conductor Ludovic Morlot, departing next year as the music director of the thriving Seattle Symphony, began with a bracing account of Smetana’s “Dance of the Comedians.” Review: Man-Made and Natural Music Merge on a Steamy Sunday 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z With a clear head and stomach, though, the saltiness can be a little too bracing. Why Does This Fancy Shopping Mall Smell Like Street Meat? 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z For an audience, the possibility of being scratched, although remote, lends his humor a bracing edge. Charles Busch Claws at His Divas, but He Understands Them 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Boedeker called the entire episode a “bracing valentine” to the park. ABC’s ‘The Middle’ has fun Disney visit 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Just when America needed a tale of blue-collar dreams, hard-up families coming together and a Hero with Heart, along comes this bracing boxing drama. This week's new films 2011-02-05T00:05:33Z It’s bracing, reading the end of Packer’s text, to watch him wrestle with his own impotence. What We Mourned When We Mourned Cecil 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z By the end of the first chapter, I couldn’t help bracing for a long march toward one of two conclusions: the corporation’s inevitable victory, or its wildly unlikely but inspiring defeat. Imbolo Mbue’s ‘How Beautiful We Were’ Exposes the Human Cost of Capital 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z What follows is often bracingly uncomfortable but just as often deeply honest and unsparing. Scarecrow suggests | Films in the spirit of 'Another Year' 2011-01-27T20:59:04Z The anger in those movies and some of his others was bracing, though a little more so than necessary. Review: Adam Sandler Is a Revelation in ‘The Meyerowitz Stories’ 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Judt does not talk down to these imagined young people; he talks up to them, and the effect is bracing. Books of The Times: A Call for the Commonweal: Tony Judt?s ?Ill Fares the Land? 2010-03-16T21:53:00Z Known for his relentless, DIY work ethic, and his bracing, kinetic acoustic style, Frank Turner is widely known in England for his folk-punk style. South By Southwest Music Highlights: Next to the Big Bands, Some Serious Singers 2012-03-14T10:45:39Z As soon as I began to develop feelings for someone, I would fight it off, bracing against the looming disappointment. Trying to Feel Love-Worthy (While Working for a Dating App) 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z You wouldn’t know from this program that there are tap dancers today — lots of them, both young and middle-aged — who can stand comparison with the storied past and make tap feel alive and bracingly relevant. Review: An Anemic Tribute to Tap Dance History 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z But what mattered most was the bracing concert Mr. Gergiev conducted. Music Review: New York Philharmonic, at 15,000, With Stravinsky 2010-05-06T21:19:00Z The almost primitive directness of her voice is bracing. A Red-Hot Affair With a Younger Man, and the Writing It Kindled 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z “We must end this long winter and break the current cycle of history,” writes Nicole Hockley, whose son was killed at Sandy Hook, in response to Collins’s bracing poem “Boy Shooting at Statue.” Review | Poets respond to gun violence and other best collections of the month 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z But he was once the hot new comic, the one considered next in line to take over for Mr. Letterman, so it was bracing to hear him concede he had lost that ambition. On Comedy: Jon Stewart’s Role in Developing Stars 2014-04-16T21:19:38Z The discourse, achingly knowing and bracingly comical, will ring familiar to fans of Amazon’s “Catastrophe” and its gloriously sniping Sharon Horgan, this series’s creator. Sarah Jessica Parker Returns to HBO With ‘Divorce’ 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z “Chicago’s are bitter, bold and bracing. Seattle likes variations on existing themes. San Francisco does highly experimental, very nontraditional stuff.” BroVo Spirits brings bartenders into the cocktail-making mix 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Last time I saw “Our Town” was at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, in a bracing revival directed by David Cromer and starring a commanding Helen Hunt in the role of the Stage Manager. Deaf West and Pasadena Playhouse populate 'Our Town' with fresh faces 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z In its better moments, Gawker has presented a bracing antidote to the corrupted professionalism of Judy Miller and her ilk. Et tu, Gawker: Can Nick Denton’s rebel tabloid empire be saved from slime and self-righteousness? 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z “Creed” is a dandy piece of entertainment, soothingly old-fashioned and bracingly up-to-date. Review: In ‘Creed,’ Rocky’s Back, as a Mentor, Not a Fighter 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z And indeed only last week in this paper Jacobson wrote a typically bracing and learned defence of the comic novel. Is Howard Jacobson the only person writing British Jewish novels? 2010-10-15T11:03:00Z And yet: there’s virtue in stepping into the bracing cold, in shocking the blood awake and feeding the brain something new. O Cold Night! 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Plan Your Trip AS the holidays approach, many people are finalizing their travel plans and bracing themselves for the usual crowds, long security lines and inevitable delays. Practical Traveler: An Update on Holiday Air Travel 2011-10-26T15:24:22Z Both as a detective story and as a deep dive into a world event whose consequences linger, it is bracing, absorbing filmmaking. ‘Coup 53’ Review: International Underhandedness, Still Mysterious 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z What that means for us as an audience is that "Douglas" simply can't provide the bracing shock of discovery that "Nanette" did; it is instead by Gadsby's own admission her "difficult second album." With "Douglas," Hannah Gadsby is a comedy pioneer with her whimsical, meticulous show about autism 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z But mostly, it’s bracing watching her poke holes in the delusions of her charges. Television Review: ‘Iyanla: Fix My Life,’ on OWN 2012-09-14T23:50:22Z Her songs were sly and sometimes bracing, but they were most effective as a soundtrack for her real-time performance art. Review: Lana Del Rey, a Character No More 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z The story is a bracingly vicious tale of betrayal and poetic justice in what at first seemed an atmosphere of placid kitsch. Best European Fiction 2013, edited by Aleksandar Hemon – review 2013-02-01T09:01:01Z The consolation, though, is that all of these books are excellent, as bracing and astringent as a slap. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Just looking at the lineup of seven scoops of colorful sorbets — among them white peach infused with black tea and a bracing Sicilian lemon — refreshes its recipient; a new favorite is just a spoonful away. Review | If you think fine dining is on pause, Imperfecto would beg to differ 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z But it distinguishes itself by rinsing away the cosmetics of royal etiquette and self-serious machination with bracing wit. In a TV landscape full of serious monarchs "The Serpent Queen" has bite, along with a good time 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z The MoMA exhibition is both disappointing and bracing at the same time. Sturtevant retrospective at MoMA is double trouble indeed As bracing as these portraits of female potency and swagger are, they seem strangely straitened, relegated to the realms of animated fables, retooled fairy tales or action-driven fantasy. In summer films, contradictions of progress for women in full force The media gravitated to her bracingly categorical argument. If Comedy Is Making You Feel Bad, You’re Not Paying Attention 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z These pieces are bracing, argumentative and engineered to show the range of the group members: fulminous, intense collective improvisation; rapid, chromatic steeplechases; research into long tones and textures. New Music From the Rotem Sivan Trio and Anna Webber 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z The transgender singer, born Tom Gabel, hit the road on a small East Coast tour in August, when she offered stripped-down takes on bracing, autobiographical recounts of gender reassessment. Pop & Rock Listings for Jan. 3-9 2014-01-02T23:10:30Z Suddenly, there are two stories where there was one, and a movie that, as it pits one group against another, becomes bracingly dialectical. in ‘Policeman,’ From Israel, a Clash of Ideologies 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z All this is set to music that is bracingly dissonant, with spiky vocal lines and fragmented utterances from the ensemble. Review: ‘Afterword, the AACM (as) Opera’ Lends a Voice to Stories of Black History 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z McCawley took further care with Beethoven’s Sonata No. 5, where strict counting created a bracing effect. British pianist Leon McCawley shines in program at the Phillips Adapting a podcast by the show’s creators, Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg, the director Sam Esmail slices the story into a bracing consideration of trauma and stress—both formally inventive and casually haunting. My Favorite TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z At 20th Century Fox publicists have been bracing for months in anticipation of controversy around “Won’t Back Down,” which was produced by Walden Media. Fall Films Tackle Tough, Politically Tinged Subjects 2012-07-31T18:07:17Z In that moment, at once bracing and luminous, the Olympics turned from being a competition into a performance. French Olympic Ice Dancers Make Skating as Ethereal as Ballet 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z But bracing for the ride can be part of the fun. Brace for fun in Source Festival’s new plays 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z But it’s bracing, too, because it pushes back against the temptation, so often lurking behind efforts to diversify museums, to make any artist of color into a one-dimensional hero. Joseph E. Yoakum Isn’t Who You Think 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Porter’s pessimism is a bracing wake-up call for liberal readers and may confirm the darkest fears of many a black and Hispanic reader. How Racism Is Destroying America 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z A brief but beguiling “Adagietto” preceded the suite’s highlight, a bracing “Farandole” that had the tails of Tortelier’s jacket leaping along with him. Review | Yan Pascal Tortelier and the NSO find their own voices in ‘Daphnis et Chloé’ 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Shaw's initial foray in that direction was "My Mirage," a large series of panel paintings and reliefs, each the size of a book page, first unveiled in his bracing 1989 gallery debut. 'Jim Shaw: The End Is Here' taps public's id in a weird, humorous way 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Rodney Mason, reprising his original part, plays Rome with a wizened vulnerability that is both bracing and wistful. Dance Review: Rennie Harris Puremovement Performs at the Joyce 2014-01-31T22:57:41Z “For the treacle that usually infuses treatises on aging, he has substituted a seductive frankness and bracing precision,” the New York Times wrote. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z The reality into which Darwin plunges us is bracing – "the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life" – but refreshing too. Caspar Henderson's top 10 natural histories 2012-10-10T10:33:31Z Bazille brought a bracing objectivity to scenes of bathers, parties and his fellow artists, and it is wrenching to think of what he did not paint. The Best Art of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z On every beat Mr. Guerrero shook out glitter, switching to a second canister, bracing his arm when he got tired. Dance Review: Ann Liv Young as Sleeping Beauty at Abrons Arts Center - Review 2012-01-13T23:31:08Z Here in Washington, book lovers bracing for the worst enjoyed their own happy reversals. 2014: A good year for book lovers “At the Existentialist Café” is a bracingly fresh look at once-antiquated ideas and the milieu in which they flourished. Review: In Sarah Bakewell’s ‘At the Existentialist Café,’ Nothingness Has a Certain Something 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z The gothic nature of “The Blair Witch Project” seemed a bracing counterpoint to the modernity that marked much of American culture at the turn of the millennium. ‘Blair Witch’: Shaky Cams That Left Audiences Shaking 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Instead, she has worked with playwrights to shape not only her show’s scripts but bracingly original songs as well, in idioms and character voices as wide-ranging as the musical genres she references. Jeanine Tesori’s Gift: Conjuring the Storytelling Potency of Music 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z When he was frustrated by something, he was bracing. The Peerless Imagination of Greg Tate 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Ailey created this bracing 16-minute solo in 1971 as a birthday present to his mother, dedicating it to “all black women everywhere — especially our mothers.” Ailey, Balanchine and a Lesson in Mourning 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Our reviewer, the Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown, calls it an “authoritative and ultimately moving” book that brings the pair’s masterpieces to light “with bracing clarity.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z And as embodied by a bearded, seemingly sleep-deprived Daniel Radcliffe in the engagingly trenchant and bracingly acted new Broadway play, “The Lifespan of a Fact,” he’s also impossibly, abrasively, hilariously unbearable. Review | Daniel Radcliffe a stickler for the truth in buoyant ‘Lifespan of a Fact’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Director Michael Michetti moves the action from one disconcerting tete-a-tete to the next seamlessly, at a bracing pace. Mom and Dad sever all ties to you. But why? The compelling mystery of 'The House in Scarsdale' 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Our critic called it “a dandy piece of entertainment, soothingly old-fashioned and bracingly up-to-date.” The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z This sonorous lower register gives voice to her bracing impatience with sentimentality and disingenuousness. Are Her Characters Seeing Things? Maybe. Maybe Not. 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Penhaligon’s Bluebell, a fragrance once favored by Princess Diana, is a best-seller, as is the Blenheim Bouquet, a bracing citrus concoction inspired by Winston Churchill. British Cosmetic Brands Expand to American Shelves - Skin Deep 2012-03-19T19:06:43Z Officials are bracing for major crowds during the opening weekend, which includes the three-day Freedom Sounds festival on the grounds of the Washington Monument. African American museum is far from finished 10 days before opening 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z This sauvignon blanc features lovely, fleshy grapefruit and passion-fruit flavors and a bracing acidity that will give it life and make it food-friendly. 5 wines to try this week 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Maco gave a performance that felt as bracing and fleeting as a temper tantrum. SXSW 2015: When a music festival feels like an after-party 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z “A bracing reminder that every issue we devote attention to other than climate change is really a secondary issue,” wrote Philip Gourevitch, author and New Yorker staff writer, on Twitter about the report. Perspective | The planet is on a fast path to destruction. The media must cover this like it’s the only story that matters. 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z It’s one reason that the true-crime drama “Lost Girls” feels so bracing: It humanizes women often represented as disposable, more props than people. ‘Lost Girls’ Review: Honoring the Gone Girls, With Sorrow and Rage 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z In this swift fall and recovery, she hints at some of Lavant’s bracing swagger in “Beau Travail.” The Wednesday Dance Is an Invitation. Be Weird. 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The Neue Galerie show points, even more bracingly, in the other direction and situates Munch and his contemporaries in the mid-spring of their lives, in the high-yield hours of noon to dusk. Review: The Darkness and Light of Edvard Munch’s Work 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z “What’s bracing about this film, which Lana Wilson directed, is the way it weds Swift’s loneliness and her arrival at empowerment,” Wesley Morris wrote in his review for The Times. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Briarpatch’ and ‘Tommy’ 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Occasionally they're bracingly anarchic – as with her one-woman dance show on a commuter train. Artist of the week 111: Klara Lid?n 2010-10-27T14:00:00Z The blended painted/chemical-porcelain composition of "Rock" is both bracing and disorienting. Review: At SAM, Cris Brodahl's work is striking in its methods, content 2010-12-23T21:29:08Z Johnson is more successful at locating the playwright's bracingly mercurial tone. A kinder, gentler 'Dance of Death' at A Noise Within 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z The young American pianist George Li began the evening with a bracing, fearless account of the First Concerto. Review: In ‘Folk, Form, and Fire,’ Hosting a Party of Five for Prokofiev 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z And the contrast of unpretentious preppy clothes to the direly elegant and matronly things so many designers presented during recent fashion weeks in New York, Milan and Paris is downright bracing. Paris Fashion Week: The Americanization of the Rue St.-Honor? 2011-03-09T23:16:55Z No pupusa is complete without a tuft of curtido, a bracing slaw of cabbage and carrots blanched and tumbled in vinegar and salt. A Not-Quite-Restaurant Faces the New Reality 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z With investors bracing for the worst after a costly strategic mistake by the company, the magnitude of Navistar’s loss didn’t seem too bad. At Navistar, 'No Disasters' Means It's A Good Day 2012-09-06T22:01:08Z No one, however, comes to a Tom Robbins book for a bracing dose of normality. ‘Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life,’ by Tom Robbins The Cleveland Orchestra handled the bracing momentum and jagged rhythmic crosscurrents of Mr. Adams’s symphony with confidence. Music Review: A Chance to Hear Bruckner Anew, by Himself and With an Unexpected Partner 2011-07-18T22:00:36Z Millions of Americans are bracing to slice into a freshly-roasted turkey on Thanksgiving Day, but the real magic happens at the end of the meal. "Pies transform a meal": Take this master class in pie making with Peete's Pie owner Petra Paredez 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z Hiram narrates this story from a distance of many years, but he describes everything with bracing immediacy. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The honey-colored 40-proof spirit is made with a wine base, gets its bracing profile from blood orange and citrus peels, and has a spicy aroma with a hint of baked apple on the palate. A Sip of Paradise 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z In the 1970s, a traveling Minnesotan, bracing for a zinger, might name-drop the Vikings, losers of four Super Bowls. Why Minneapolis Loved Prince, and He Loved His Hometown 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Northwest Vast evergreen forests end abruptly at the rugged Northwest coastline and the bracing waters of the North Pacific. The U.S. Issue: Endangered Species: A Coast-to-Coast Guide to Endangered Species 2011-05-13T20:22:51Z In its first half-hour, the documentary “The Jump” brings a bracing immediacy to a 50-year-old Cold War incident. ‘The Jump’ Review: A Seaman’s Story of a Daring Escape 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Lane was particularly bracing in the fourth movement, “All’Italiana,” which begins as a tarantella and spins into a shimmering fantasy. Music Review: Piers Lane Is Soloist With American Symphony - Review 2011-12-12T23:26:47Z Mr. Seidenberg’s simmering anger at how teachers themselves are taught erupts over those last hundred pages, and it’s bracing to behold. ‘Language at the Speed of Sight’ Fights to Reopen Our Closed Book on Literacy 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Swan offers somewhat bracing recommendations for women who choose to delay pregnancy: Freeze your eggs in your 20s as an insurance policy. The Everyday Chemicals That Might Be Leading Us to Our Extinction 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z But for me, at the outset at least, it was bracing, an invitation more compelling than any raft of resolutions to seize the moment and run with it. Outing Death 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z With a newfound friend’s arms bracing me, and my wife and daughter madly clearing stems and gathering fruit below, my stomping feet released a purple rivulet of grape juice. Watching wine happen during Oregon’s annual grape harvest 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z There are bracing protest anthems on "Trouble and Strife." In Joan Osborne's revolution, you can dance 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z Both shows are now back with strong new seasons, but lately they’ve been joined by other innovative, compelling and bracingly funny television with a distinctly female gaze. 2017, the year television finally passed the Bechdel test 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z She shows with bracing clarity just how cable news and social media magnify misery and exposure as never before. Review | In ‘Dear Edward,’ the world’s most famous orphan finds something to live for 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z The play is finally getting its local debut in a bracing production from the highly capable Azeotrope Theatre. Gritty tale of faith, redemption and prison in 'Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train' 2012-06-21T20:29:06Z And Mr. Sullivan’s interpretation bracingly discovers an all-inclusive context for every element in “Merchant.” | 'The Merchant of Venice': Al Pacino Brings His Shylock to Shakespeare in the Park 2010-07-01T02:01:00Z His physicality, timing and dramatic projection are all different — brilliant, extraordinarily clear, but bracingly different. City Ballet Review: History, Rarity and an Odd, Fascinating Solo 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z And the unusual textures, vivid dancing and personal candor in the piece are a bracing intro to Lemon's searching artistry. Review: Ralph Lemon makes his NW debut with fascinating, moving work 2010-11-19T21:27:00Z The government is bracing for more, opening a $400 million state-of-the-art airport in Arbil and slashing fuel costs to attract airlines. A Facelift for an Ancient Kurdish Citadel 2010-07-29T07:50:00Z In each case Mr. Carter plays alto, bracingly, his in-the-pocket phrasing sharpened by the lurking threat of combustion. New Music: Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Claudia Quintet - New Albums 2011-10-11T00:13:28Z Rich in detail, at times fascinating and harrowing, the story offers a many-sided look at love and eros - and bracing doses of reality. Review: Eros, gender roles turn at novel’s heart 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z In one switched-out lyric from the anthemic “Tuesday Song,” a bracingly self-possessed Louise used to sing, with the other clinic patients, that activists’ screaming about abortion has “nothing to do with me.” ‘The Appointment’ Review: A Chorus Line at the Abortion Clinic 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z But in imagining a character built so completely from male desires, and at the same time so unconcerned with them, “Killing Eve” constructs a bracing new model for feminist revenge. Dead Girls, Female Murderers, and Megan Abbott’s Novel “Give Me Your Hand” 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z It is a prospect that has some people bracing for possibly discomforting disclosures. Dutch to Make Public the Files on Accused Nazi Collaborators 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z In a bracing salad of watercress strewn with meaty cashews and toasted coconut, grapefruit supplants pomelo for a clean, bitter rinse of the tongue. Thai Cuisine With an Added Touch of Whimsy 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The CEO of Amazon.com is bracing for a future in which you'll also want ones for your kid heading to college, your spouse in a book club and perhaps even Grandpa. Amazon CEO hopes new Kindles stoke sales 2010-07-29T14:35:00Z Then I pitched forward out of my seat, hands over my head, bracing. Train wreck: Healing for two and parenting with PTSD 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z She has a couple of bracingly spontaneous moments — a sudden whoop of surprised laughter in a rainstorm, an escaped sigh of desire in a graveyard — that remind you how talented she is. Theater Review: Nina Arianda Stars in ‘Tales From Red Vienna’ 2014-03-19T02:00:02Z While “Let the People Rule” might reawaken traumatic memories of the last 11 months, it is a bracing reminder that we’re not above such tactics today. Theodore Roosevelt whipped up a frenzy of populism in 1912. We're still living with the consequences. 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z You might think so after tasting this mineral, bracing sauvignon blanc. Six Linden Vineyards wines to try The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey remains an example of the kind of good-hearted, warm and bracing film-making that only Jackson is capable of. Hobbits, superheroes and brain-bending trickery: Week in Geek's top five films of 2012 2012-12-24T11:37:00Z Titled, in translation, “Putin Lights Up the Fires,” it’s defiance set to bracing guitars and drum kicks. Pussy Riot Was Carefully Calibrated for Protest 2012-08-22T12:00:25Z What could, in lesser hands, have proved an antiquarian exercise instead became an object lesson in how to make old music sound bracing and meaningful for contemporary ears. With tenor Bostridge, rare Baroque arias sound newly minted 2011-05-08T12:35:00Z But at the same time it seems like everybody's bracing themselves for that possibility. Samantha Bee teases big election coverage, from presidential harassment to a strategic joy offensive 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Her colleagues were bracing for the next congressional attempt to defund the organization. Birth-Control Fears in the Age of Trump 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z ‘RIDE THE CYCLONE’ Strap yourself in for a bracingly funny, supremely inventive musical journey into the afterlife. The Best Theater of 2016 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Playing Jennifer Fox, who wrote and directed this bracing autobiographical tale of her own experience of childhood abuse and its ripple effects, Dern is sensational, angry and nuanced, a total force. Emmys 2018: our predictions - who will win and who should win 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Indeed, Frank's canny ability to evoke pictorial and literary imagery in ways distinctively her own made for vivid and bracing aural adventures in Tuesday's performances, which were introduced by the composer-pianist. Frank's energetic chamber works reveal multi-cultural roots 2011-01-19T16:19:49Z On the contrary, what makes “Le Amiche” so bracing — so sad and, sometimes, so funny — is that its heroines are fallible, flawed, vain and powerful, each in her own way. | 'Le Amiche': A 1955 Antonioni Movie Gets a Film Forum Run 2010-06-17T21:57:00Z Still, this is a bracing piece of theater. Family resentments roar to the surface in 'The Lyons' 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z It’s still bracing to hear the bitter wordplay in his lament: “It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.” The Strange Afterlife of George Carlin 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z It means bracing for the inevitable positive test result. Broadway theaters attack virus: ‘This is absolutely doable’ 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z The result is a collage of charming, bracing and scarring moments in the tumultuous history of a once happy family. Review | ‘Bridge of Clay,’ by ‘Book Thief’ author Markus Zusak, was 20 years in the making 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Back in those days, Masha Gessen was one of the most bracing and insightful voices sounding the alarm about the seriousness of the test that awaited the country. Is Donald Trump a Danger to Democracy? 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z But when the memoir arrives at the death of her little boy, Pagels’s tone feels bracingly appropriate. Review | After her son and husband died, Elaine Pagels wondered why religion survives 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z He also strives to achieve a cool mood, though this dance is rarely bracing enough. Dance Review: Stephen Petronio, Joined by Wendy Whelan, at the Joyce 2012-03-08T00:28:50Z “American” music is new and bracing, yet also lithe and melodic. The democracy of American music 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z It was tangy and saline like a manzanilla, refreshing, bracing and delicious, with an aroma of chamomile. The When and Why of Amontillado 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z “Halt” lets you see them as the cusp of bracing change. Review: ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Time-Travels to Silicon Valley’s Dawn 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z One of his go-to tactics is rapping about how women love him — he uses a far more bracing, far less printable term for their affection — because he looks like an infinite variety of people. Music Review: Rap?s Pied Piper, Lil B, at Santos Party House 2010-07-26T22:36:00Z He still hasn’t composed anything more bracingly soulful than “Sunflowers,” which ended the evening in a jubilant state. Music Review: Away From His Desk, Up on the Bandstand 2011-04-01T22:58:20Z Last year, there were Time’s Up pins affixed to black dresses on the red carpet and Oprah Winfrey’s bracing oration, promising that a new day had dawned. The 2019 Golden Globes Recap: A Thankful Sandra Oh and a Mighty Glenn Close 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z She’s one of many white refugees hoping to find safety in a First Nation-run sanctuary, a bracing reversal of the area’s usual power balance. 'I'm indigenizing zombies': behind gory First Nation horror Blood Quantum 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z It was lilac season and the pine trees were still tall, the air as bracing. In Poland, Searching for Jewish Heritage 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z This is an ABC drama that is not just good, it’s startlingly good, as bracing in its own way as “True Detective” was on HBO last year. Review: ‘American Crime,’ a Series Where Justice Is Far From Black or White 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Beer-lover Brown is charmingly modest about the tenuous nature of some of his evidence, but he spins a stoutly colourful yarn, and ends with some bracing scepticism about the modern "heritage industry". Christmas gifts 2012: the best stocking-filler books 2012-11-28T13:00:03Z But sometimes context can make the hoary feel bracingly fresh. Review: Glenn Close Raises a Saint in ‘Mother of the Maid’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Our reviewer, Sarah Lyall, commented that this story is “a bracing reminder that postpartum life is a kind of horror story of its own.” New in Paperback: ‘How Beautiful We Were’ and ‘The Cult of We’ 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Even when playing it safe and sweet, it conveys a bracing sense of adventure. Movie Review: Searching for the Real Thing in ‘Love & Air Sex’ 2014-02-06T23:44:04Z It is radical, rare and bracing to see female friendship portrayed so intimately. Sequins, eyeliner and loos: how female friendships on screen got real 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Op de Beeck’s “Staging Silence” creates bracingly arid landscapes of modernist design, street scapes and interiors, empty and hushed, but at the scale of a puppet theater. Exhibits at Hirshhorn, Kreeger museums offer a break from the bustle I jumped at the chance to review it, figuring at last here would be a bracing change from my diet of darkness. It?s Been a Gloomy Summer on New York Stages 2010-07-28T17:57:00Z The bracing scallops from the North Coast benefit from diced green apple, chopped oysters and buttermilk sharpened with horseradish. Review | In Dublin, Chapter One begins and ends with pampering 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z There is something bracingly generous about Even the Dogs. Jon McGregor wins International Impac Dublin Literary Award 2012-06-13T18:30:01Z In his bracing third novel, “The Last Kid Left,” Rosecrans Baldwin, who is based in Los Angeles, complicates those media stereotypes. Bad news sells in the 'The Last Kid Left' 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Even in the most dizzying and abstract images, the impossible-not-to-imagine pine scent is bracing, the sap tacky on our fingers. Paper Gallery: ‘Joe’s Junk Yard,’ by Lisa Kereszi, and More 2012-10-18T21:31:56Z It’s bracing and warm and full of tiny observational gems. Music Review: Frankie Cosmos, at Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn 2014-04-29T20:04:42Z The color scheme is mostly black, white and gray, but the way the shades play over the canvas-and-wood surface adds to the piece's bracing unpredictability. Review: At SAAM, a Chinese artist whose paintings have a 'purer purpose' than politics 2011-01-13T21:11:06Z That’s the starting point of Lydia Millet’s novel “A Children’s Bible,” which offers a bracing reflection on the generational conflict playing out in the atmosphere. Review | Lydia Millet’s ‘A Children’s Bible’ is a blistering classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Some of the stories are bracing; others are sad; many are hopeful. Just when we need it, ‘Humans’ reminds us what it means to be human 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z More dramatically, the bracing sourness of Bluejacket’s A Little Golden Gem, a gose spiked with kumquats and sea salt, helped to reanimate a lifeless, mostly overcooked double-cut pork chop. At these breweries, the food is so much more than an afterthought 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z What Mr. Marsalis did with the solo spotlight was predictably bracing, and the furthest thing from complacent. Music Review: Wynton Marsalis Septet Members, Together Again 2013-12-27T21:14:06Z That real-life moment — reported more sensationally at the time, when Black was known as “the jukebox killer” — is both a final scene in Fiona Kidman’s bracing new novel, “This Mortal Boy,” and the story’s spark. The Execution That Changed New Zealand 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z But they can also seem bracingly indifferent to your opinion of them. Review | The acclaimed, exasperating sculptures of Rachel Harrison get a star turn at the Whitney Museum 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Now they are bracing for the changes wrought by the fame that will accompany the documentary. The Asperger's comedy troupe: 'We want people to like us because we’re funny' 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z His virtuosity is bracing, but rarely feels emphatic; he’s executing a script, like an intelligent machine. Music Review: Meshuggah and Baroness at Terminal 5 2012-05-24T22:31:32Z Try a bracing round of armchair discomfort, instead. These epic travel disasters will take the edge off your wanderlust 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z “And now we’re falling into song/The game is on,” sings Mr. Lundgren with quiet expectation, bracing himself for another big chorus. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-18T23:45:23Z With the weight of this history palpable, Dudamel achieved in this sprawling, complex and bracing score a kind of casualness. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Leads His New York Philharmonic 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z It’s a master class in comic storytelling that sent himself up, skewered the police, hit bracingly topical notes with throwaway charm while adding on a coda that provided the visceral pleasures of payback. Best Comedy of 2020 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Like a bracing violin duet, "Freud's Last Session" needs to be well-modulated and balanced in its execution. It's atheist vs. believer in Taproot's 'Freud's Last Case' 2012-03-29T20:02:04Z Remy Keller, a 5-year-old from Chicago who needed a test so she could see “The Lion King,” was among a crowd there on a recent Saturday, bracing herself for the swab. Broadway Is Back. Here’s What It’s Like for Theatergoers. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Some of Pappas’s dramatic exchanges are bracingly smart, especially a negotiation between British and American officials in which the moral high ground shifts several times. Oh, Say Can You See: National anthem’s back story in sharp Fringe play The museum took chances from the beginning and is taking bigger ones now, including hosting a bracing but beautiful exhibition devoted to art of the Black Power era. Perspective | Is Crystal Bridges, in rural Arkansas, the most woke museum in America? 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z After bracing himself for another disappointment, Galgut was astonished to have finally won and unsettled about the onslaught of attention, he said. Damon Galgut Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’ 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Dawkins’s bracing asperities are now routinely met in kind: ‘Puffed up, self-regarding, vain, prickly and militant’ was one columnist’s string of adjectives for him. Richard Dawkins’ moralizing atheism: Science, self-righteousness and militant belief — and disbelief 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z In this cozy mystery with a wicked sting, 11-year-old Flavia de Luce — smart as the dickens and bracingly iconoclastic — investigates an itinerant puppeteer's murder in 1950s England. 14 best crime novels of 2010: Tana French, John le Carr? and more 2010-12-08T23:57:00Z If the characters played to the camera in “The Office,” they seem tortured by it in this cult favorite, a short-lived show that returned for an even more bracing second season a decade later. Watch the Evolution of Cringe Comedy in 9 Clips 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z But this bracing and volatile book is an important one and devastating in its conclusions about the secret history of some Islamists and especially about the reception of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Books of The Times: Paul Berman?s ?Flight of the Intellectuals? 2010-05-02T21:52:00Z Are they embracing their roles as hosts, or just bracing themselves? Seeing Phoenix, for the Super Bowl and Beyond 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Another headline, this one from NPR, blares, "It's almost impossible to find a CEO who isn't bracing for a recession." Beware the rise of vampire shows. It could mean a recession is looming 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z This looks like a bracing change of tack into neo-noir for Mulligan, a great actor in need of a surprising second act. The most exciting movies of 2020 – crime films and thrillers 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z It is a violent vision of the United States, after a coup d’état, bracing for a terrorist attack. Comic Books That Put the Pow in Political Power 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z As a result, the art world is now confronting the idea that the market correction it has been bracing for is finally here. 5 Takeaways From Auction Week 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z He showed an impressive structural grasp both in his warm and perfectly paced Andante and in his supple shaping of the score's wraith-like transition from the Scherzo into the bracing Allegro finale. At the Hollywood Bowl, breathing life into the most famous symphony ever written 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z While other brands are preparing for the onslaught of pumpkin spice, Coca-Cola is apparently bracing customers for their Christmas offerings. Cinnamon Coca-Cola coming to the U.S. 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Williams embraces nature, touches on medicine and writes throughout with bracing vivacity. Poems to Uplift and Inspire Young Adults 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The works of Barbara Kruger spilled out of the Art Institute of Chicago and seemed to become captions — ironic, bracing, surreal — to the city itself. Perspective | Best visual art of 2021: Jasper Johns in two venues, Medici portraits and text-based artist Barbara Kruger 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z It’s incredibly bracing for a song about unemployment. We’re all livin’ on a prayer: How a hair band anthem from the least cool ’80s rockers became a classic 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z This bracing musical dialogue with the self, first recorded by Mr. Metheny in 1987 and since adapted for other instruments, is a slowly evolving organism whose themes seem to chase each other around in circles. Sondheim and Reich at Lincoln Center 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z In one of the most bracing scenes he holds the dynamic Christopher Williams on a leash, snapping a whip like a maniacal circus M.C. while Mr. Williams cuts his way through gorgeous balances and turns. Dance Review: Douglas Dunn’s ‘Cassations’ at the 92nd Street Y 2012-10-09T21:57:26Z It is bitter, bracing and invigorating to wear. This Summer, Smell Like Fruit Salad 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z He whips up a bracing, scalding sketch of a marriage in meltdown; a banner-headline study of the domestic hell that we make for each other. Gone Girl review – a bracing, scalding sketch of a marriage in meltdown 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z There is something bracingly cleareyed and astute about the way Mr. Leigh shows how Turner’s engagement with patrons, colleagues and critics is part of the work of realizing that vision. The Telluride Film Festival Features ‘Mr. Turner’ 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Mortier, buoyed by an attenuated but still robust government subsidy that covers roughly half of his budget, has plotted an ambitious, bracing 2011-12 season made up entirely of new productions. Arts & Leisure: Arena Opera, Mortier Style 2011-07-14T13:38:17Z His well-argued defense of the Forward on Climate rally and the Keystone XL campaign was bracing. The Green Movement isn’t fringe! 2013-03-05T17:20:00Z Robert Kennedy’s account of the Cuban missile crisis is brief, bracing and revealing. Great Leadership in a Time of Crisis 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Now Ms. Rudolph is bracing herself for a new stage in her career while she navigates a new phase of maternity. Maya Rudolph Appears in the Series ?Up All Night? 2011-09-11T03:30:07Z On Studio’s Metheny stage, in director Matt Torney’s handsomely manicured production, Marshall and Conn go at it bracingly as the clear-eyed sister smells a magnetic rat in the vestments of the clergy. Review | ‘Doubt’ covered child abuse in the church a decade and a half ago. It’s still relevant. 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z That CBS drama returns for a sixth season on Sunday, and the premiere is bracing and unexpected. ‘Madam Secretary’ and ‘The Good Wife,’ TV’s Mighty Women 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z “Wherever I looked, everyone seemed to be bracing themselves and dealing with him, unchallenged,” she added. Lupita Nyong’o on Harvey Weinstein: 'I have felt sick in the pit of my stomach' 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Loveliest are those with a blush, hiding innards of sour cherry, more bracing than sweet. Russian Dumplings, Like Grandma’s, at Two Village Spots 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z While “Monday” is not quite as bracing as Papadimitropoulos’s prior feature, “Suntan,” it’s a sharply observed, well-acted picture with a lot of tart detail and a few real stings in its tail. ‘Monday’ Review: A Year of Love and Its Hangovers 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z It is often rather like a stage-play, but interestingly and bracingly so. Cannes 2013: The Past – review 2013-05-17T11:16:07Z “This year, rather than enjoying the final days of summer, people seem to be bracing themselves early for the inevitable nuttiness of the U.S. election and the unpredictable onslaught of climate change,” he said. Why Do We End Summer So Early? 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z BPM is an absorbing and moving film by any measure, but it’s as a specifically queer reclamation of much-tilled factual territory that it feels most bracing and vital. French Aids drama BPM shows Hollywood how to capture gay history 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z One reason is that, while being one of Britain's most bracing art-world troublemakers, he knows a lot about nothing. Gustav Metzger: 'Destroy, and you create' 2012-11-26T20:00:08Z He’s so casually insightful, even as he offers such bracing diagnoses of our era — from faith-based violence to the inanity of identity politics — in phrases that ring with the real metal of genius. Ian McEwan’s ‘Nutshell’: A tale of betrayal and murder as told by a fetus 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z He offers a negative dialectics that is wonderfully bracing if one is prepared to entertain it. The Silence of Animals by John Gray – review 2013-02-15T10:20:01Z As Tsilyk captures their everyday moments and filmmaking adventures, she crafts a bracing portrait of a family fighting to preserve the ordinary joys of life — dreams, ambitions, creative pursuits — in extraordinary times. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z This was followed a few weeks later by the letters we had all been bracing for. Watching Lehman Brothers collapse from the inside: A 2008 recruit on the bank’s final days 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z If nothing else, Jack’s funky feet represent a bracing return to reality. ‘The Night Of’ Series Premiere: Fate at the Wheel 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z Brownlee’s fizzy, bracingly focused voice, which doesn’t hide imperfections the way a warmer sound might, could turn raucous when his vibrato was uneven. Review: Pulling Back the Curtain on ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z We pored over a menu full of lists of ingredients separated by commas, followed by bracingly large dollar figures. San Francisco Restaurant Offers a Twist on Its Chinatown Neighbors 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Yet they seemed visibly uncomfortable: hands tucked between their toned thighs, as if bracing for impact. In New York, a Rivalry Shifts Into High Gear 2010-10-08T20:28:00Z Every day I began bracing for the call that would tell me she had passed, but it didn’t come. The crime we committed for her 2014-03-10T00:00:00Z “It’s sort of an English tradition,” I told her as the household filed into the drizzle for a bracing circuit of the common. I wanted everything to be perfect for my new girlfriend. Then the Christmouse turned up 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Despite the distant historical setting, she invests “The Dumb Girl of Portici” with a strong and bracing physical power. A Great Ballerina’s Explosive Movie Performance 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z This bracing piece calls for the soloists to play all kinds of invented instruments, including wine bottles, twigs and trash cans. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, her paintings are bracingly fresh and pertinent. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z With protests expected on opening night, the Met is bracing for what could be its most divisive production in recent memory. Metropolitan Opera braces for 'Death of Klinghoffer' opening 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z These epic anthems about fearlessness, rebellion and individuality were bracing. My Chemical Romance, Reunited and It Feels So Bruised 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z The two shows are bracing, at turns thrilling and quietly absorbing, and both in different ways help rewrite the recent history of contemporary art. Perspective | As the art world reopens, will the change be genuine? This critic is looking in some unlikely places. 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z The setting this time is Pike Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, where the Puerto Rican residents are bracing for a storm that puts you in mind of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Review | Nilaja Sun channels a village in her solo show ‘Pike St.’ 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Its portrayal of impoverished, careworn people barking at one another and protecting their territory in a daily struggle is bracingly hardheaded. ‘Siddharth’ Follows a Father’s Search for His Son 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z I feel lucky to have had the opportunity to see “Blind Spot” in Sweden, where it was one of a bracing clutch of films presented at this year’s Göteborg Film Festival. The Power of the One-Take Film 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z The evening began with Mr. Manahan conducting the orchestra in a crisp, bracing account of the Prelude to Act I of “Carmen.” Music Review: City Opera Farewell Includes Plácido Domingo 2014-02-23T22:11:51Z When treated as a work of art and not a family heirloom “The Wizard of Oz” is bracingly modern. Film: Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Camera 2010-02-27T03:00:00Z Think tropical fruit flavors with nice but not bracing acidity and medium body. A $4 bottle of nonalcoholic ‘rosé’ welcomes everyone to the party 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Putting the contrary view is the always bracing Simon Jenkins, who even suggests that these musicians' jobs could as easily be done by members of the Musicians' Union or even Equity. Next week's radio: from The Namer Of The Clouds to This American Life 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z But it’s this rough-hewn immediacy that makes some of them so bracing to read, especially now. Feminism Means a Lot of Things, and This Book Contains Them All 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z It did not disappoint: classic v-shaped glass, three speared olives distorted through a bracing cold sea of gin. Two years later, I’m still measuring life in Martini glasses 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z The Shappleys are among thousands of US families who have been bracing themselves for the Trump administration’s impact on transgender rights. Parents of transgender students fear for children's safety under Trump 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Its bracing, mineral acidity takes command, but the ripe tree fruit flavors back it up nicely. German and Austrian Rieslings to try She writes about secrets and incongruities, yet comes across as bracingly forthright. AM Homes interview: 'I write the things we don't want to say out loud' 2013-06-07T19:00:03Z More than 50 years later, the themes Meriwether explored in her bracing coming-of-age novel have never been more relevant or radical. It’s Not Too Late to Discover Louise Meriwether 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Last fall, when the world was being told to expect a long, dark winter after what had already been a brutal year, I decided to search for some new, bracing orchestral music. In a Dark Time, This Music Will Make You Smile 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Davies’s final Broadway credit was a bracing 2007 revival of O’Neill’s “A Moon for the Misbegotten” with Spacey. Howard Davies, acclaimed director on London and New York stages, dies at 71 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The bracing opening lines of the book say as much: For an Ohio Poet, Love Is What Gets Us Through 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Isan is known for its fiery spices and the meal was bracingly hot, but it turned out that Mr. Boonaree had asked the kitchen to keep it mild. Thailand’s ‘Gong Highway’ 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Those IPAs, made with American hops, are laden with notes of pine, grapefruit and citrus and bolstered by a dry body and bracing bitterness. IPA: Why the love-it-or-hate-it beer is here to stay 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z All Sorts of Strange Stuff Happens When You Destroy the World Near the end of Ryan Boudinot’s bracingly weird new novel a man asks his girlfriend, an editor, about the book that she’s working on. Books of The Times: Ryan Boudinot?s Novel ?Blueprints of the Afterlife? 2012-01-25T23:47:20Z But, and this is Egan's more bracing point, neither are girls ever merely innocents who are – or should be – devoid of an erotic life. Sex, lies and teenage girls 2013-03-11T11:00:01Z But these chic, perfectly golden morsels are precisely what you’d want with a bracing demitasse on a chilly afternoon. Baking Cookbooks That (Gently) Push the Limits 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Here was a piece to shake up familiar assumptions about Stravinsky’s music, and — now moved to the beginning of the program — it was a bracing way to open the festival. Music Review: Philharmonic Opens Russian Stravinskyat Avery Fisher Hall 2010-04-22T22:10:00Z But it was thunderous, at least until it was hushed again, with a bracing intrigue coded somewhere in the transition. Music Review: Tyshawn Sorey’s Wu Wei Quintet at Greenwich House 2013-04-18T22:47:19Z It shakes art and itself up, bracingly, at least a little. Review: New Whitney Museum’s First Show, ‘America Is Hard to See’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Even conventional funeral directors are bracing for changes in the American way of death. Baby Boomers Are Drawn to Green and Eco-Friendly Funerals 2014-03-12T22:33:56Z It is a dangerous, harmful idea, but it’s a bracing one too. Boston Marathon bombing, one year later: Were the Tsarnaevs really cowards? 2014-04-14T23:00:00Z Still, Quan Knight's eye for the interplay of reflections within reflections is decidedly Esteslike, making for disorienting images that are bracingly complex. Artist's photos capture cozy worlds within worlds 2010-04-22T21:19:00Z Amid the creative mayhem, organizers are bracing to see whether ticket sales will be hurt by Britain's battered economic state. Lockerbie play draws attention at Edinburgh Fringe 2010-08-06T16:39:00Z “Long as you got your cars and toys to drive/I should’ve known I couldn’t get your time,” she sings on the bracing “Session 33.” Adele and Summer Walker: Our Season of Romantic Discontent 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z If the production as a whole made up for the diminished dramatics with ample attention to its intellectual grandeur — as it does in the trial scene — it might even have seemed bracingly modern. Review: In Shaw’s ‘Saint Joan,’ a Sane and Sensible Martyr 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z He arrived with a bracing yet balanced artistic vision, determined to maintain the orchestra’s legacy while expanding its outreach and repertory. Philharmonic?s Alan Gilbert and the Youth Movement 2010-07-09T22:48:00Z Meals were traditional and skillfully prepared Brazilian cuisine, including, most deliciously, tapioca crepes, tropical fruits and bracing coffee for breakfast and a different homemade dessert every lunch and dinner. Leaping Caimans and Tasty Piranha in the Wild Amazon 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Reporters have been bracing for a cold reception by Trump, but three days in, the reception hasn’t been as chilly as expected. 6 things we learned from Sean Spicer’s first official White House briefing 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z This performance seemed bracing in 2013, but a second look reveals how repetitive and cliched the script is. Review | Shakespeare’s ‘Caesar’ and Gaiman’s ‘Neverwhere’ miss big 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z One of the album’s high points is “Almost Is Never Enough,” a bracing torch song on which Ms. Grande sneaks in some gospel-singing enunciation for extra effect. New Music: Albums From Neko Case, Ariana Grande, Gorguts and Chelsea Wolfe 2013-09-02T21:24:22Z In person, too, she can be bracingly good company. Helena Bonham Carter on 'witty' David Cameron, 'weirdo' Lars von Trier and why Tim Burton won't watch a romcom 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The pointed humor is merely one component of this bracing movie, shot and edited to look like a documentary of a nightmare. ‘Ghostbox Cowboy’ Review: An Absurd Entrepreneur Is Lost in Asia 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Homes, Donald Barthelme — writers who grappled with those same questions in bracing ways. With His Fourth Book, Charles Yu Finally Feels Like a Writer 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z A bassist of bracing power and relentless solidity, Mr. Revis this year released a powerful album, “Sing Me Some Cry.” Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z At its best, the book is a bracing tonic, I suppose. Review: ‘If Venice Dies’ Examines a City Sinking, and Not Only Into Water 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Central to the structure is one spiritual in particular, “Go Down, Moses,” and Dett’s bracing fugue on its melody honors its august history. Review: ‘The Ordering of Moses’ Shines at Riverside Church 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z If the first season doesn’t entirely hang together, it’s bracingly risk-taking. Review: ‘I Love Dick’ Sketches an Artistic Love Triangle 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Instead “Matisse: Radical Invention” offers a view of a driven, even tormented Matisse, who second-guessed himself, rethought and reworked his images and often left them looking bracingly fresh and conditional, even unfinished. Art Review: Matisse at MoMA: Carving With Color 2010-07-15T16:01:00Z “Jasmine” is more vague, a whispery caress that rolls out deliberately, adding in sharp percussion, lazy bass, bracing shards of digital noise and more but never really resolving. Playlist : New Releases From Ka, Popcaan, Vena and Bleeding Knees Club 2012-04-13T20:22:31Z This is a time of bracing, multidirectional change in the jazz world, but there’s still room for some of its niche commodities. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The transition from him to Noah—a young, black South African—is as refreshingly bracing as anything could be. Trevor Noah first “Daily Show” was definitely strange — but it could be exactly what we need 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Adding interior bracing helped straighten the sagging walls. Backyard Beauty on a Budget 2010-05-26T17:49:00Z Early on in her bracing memoir of life and death in the C.I.A., Four Books About the C.I.A.’s Exploits and Secrets 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z When she retells her story without the jokes, it’s bracing. Introducing a Major New Voice in Comedy (Who Also Attacks Comedy) 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z It was decent of him to tell me, but it also seemed like he was bracing for a fight. White pride in my classroom 2013-06-05T00:00:00Z Or it could be an indication that, despite horror’s bracing new guises, the same old ideas lie underneath. From Rosemary’s Baby to Hereditary: why the creepy cult in horror refuses to die 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z The political speeches were somber, but they turned out to be more lively and bracing than any of Mr. Harris’s skits. Oscars 2015: Passionate Speeches, but Few Surprises 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z This annual celebration of modern variety is the first sign that things are hotting up in Blackpool, even if it is still pretty bracing on the promenade. This week's new events 2011-02-12T00:05:47Z But even with the lulls and digressive cul-de-sacs, "The Madwoman in the Volvo" is bracing in its witty sociological commentary and its refusal to accept clichéd notions of biology as destiny. 'The Madwoman in the Volvo' offers a comic romp through a midlife crisis 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z And Ken Lam led members of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra and a small contingent of Chinese musicians playing traditional instruments in a beautifully balanced, bracing performance. Music Review: New Works Enliven Spoleto Festival USA 2012-06-04T22:14:32Z The story has been a staple since Shakespeare’s time — though it must be acknowledged that Poulton’s version is far more bracing than the Bard’s. In London, stages are set for pleasure And the piano improvisation on Thelonious Monk’s “ ‘Round Midnight” is as bracing and unimprovable as a glass of ice water: each phrase pointing toward the next, without premeditation. Willie Nelson, Mali Music and Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Still, after a decade of Marvel movies made with high-level craftsmanship but few formal risks, it’s bracing to get a movie of this scale that takes such big artistic swings. Venice Film Festival: ‘Dune’ Leaves Us With 3 Big Questions 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z This is a home recovering from grief and bracing for more. Review | In Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Klara and the Sun,’ a robot tries to make sense of humanity 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Whatever your literary tastes, a shot of Amos Walker is always bracing. Crime Sprees, Both Creepy and Comic 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Octopus, tender and charred, is paired with a lean chardonnay in the form of a bracing gelée. At Thursday Kitchen, Cocktails Glow and Korean Food Relaxes 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Instead, it is a bracing sort of stage poetry, an almost hallucinatory assemblage of dreams, fears and memories. Theater Review: ‘Struck,’ by Tannis Kowalchuk, at Here Arts Center 2013-12-09T23:20:31Z For violence this raw and bracing, yet full of dramatic consequences, I've got just one thing to say about "Sons of Anarchy" every week: Hit me again! 'Sons of Anarchy': Making a case for TV violence 2012-11-19T12:58:13Z If there’s one rewarding thing about many Hong Kong action directors, it’s that they rarely dawdle in getting to what fight fans have come for: bracing shootouts and high-impact fisticuffs and footwork. Review: ‘Kill Zone 2’ Packs a Wallop With Orchestrated Mayhem 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z All add up to an evening that’s bracing yet, perversely enough, enchanting. Carmina Slovenica Sings the Haunting ‘Toxic Psalms’ 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z In the plus column, O'Donnell's willingness to experiment has been bracing to watch. A not-so-rosy picture behind the scenes 2012-03-08T01:12:00Z When it began, Sex And The City was a bracing, stylish – if admittedly quite annoying – no-holds-barred effort to explore themes of modern femininity in a self-consciously populist manner. Wanted: whoever killed Sex and the City. So we can shake your hand 2010-09-28T10:39:00Z The half-hour “Juarez,” on Monday night, is a bracing, at times mesmerizing introduction to the “Witness” series, a project of the filmmaker Michael Mann and the documentarian David Frankham, who directed three of the films. Television Review: ‘Witness,’ HBO Documentary Series on War Photographers 2012-11-05T19:27:21Z As many Paisleys and Solomons as we meet in these pages, Card’s ghosts bracingly remind us that no family history is comprehensive, that some riddles of ancestry and heritage persist beyond this lifetime. For 30 Years, He Assumed the Identity of His Dead Friend. Now He’s Coming Clean. 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z The show’s close ties to Major League Baseball mean that San Diego’s Petco Park was available for shooting, inside and out, and the locations provide a bracing authenticity. Review: ‘Pitch,’ a Gender Changeup, but With Clichés Intact 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Some conductors, determined to bring a jolt of freshness to Handel’s “Messiah,” opt for bracing tempos and extra incisive execution. Review: Jane Glover Conducts the New York Philharmonic in ‘Messiah’ 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z As performed by her with a physical focus and intensity that even the most probing cameras could never capture, this hourlong work of very live theater felt like the most bracingly intimate show in town. Best Theater of 2019 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z But it is the countess’s unconventional taste and bracing panache—all grounded in a technical knowledge of haute couture—that the Met celebrates. AD Reflects on the Style of Jacqueline de Ribes 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z As the brothers bicker and scheme for the future, their story registers as bracingly personal, while also speaking in epic fashion about authenticity, power, freedom and America. Suzan-Lori Parks’s ‘Topdog/Underdog’ gets a sharp revival 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z A Gin Fizz is a simple and delicious cocktail, sort of a cousin to a Tom Collins, less bracing than a gin and tonic and less alcoholic than a French 75. How to make a Silver Gin Fizz, the simple and delicious cocktail you need in your repertoire 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Now the organics industry is bracing for its next big shakeup. Wal-Mart Promises Organic Food for Everyone 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z His works can be tart, surprising, haunting, complex and bracing. The Week Ahead: July 24 ? 30 2011-07-22T18:07:05Z If Forever Now is optimistic, then Paglen’s project is a bracing memento mori. Forever now: What sound or video would you send into space? 2013-07-12T01:45:36Z Demi-sec Vouvray, in which the light sweetness is bolstered by a bracing acidity, is one good option. Cooking With Kimchi 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z But in a world in which “selfie” can become the word of the year, author Alexis Jones and bracingly positive folks at I Am That Girl want to change the conversation. “I Am That Girl’s” new generation of girl power 2014-03-14T12:30:00Z It's bleak and moody, but the execution is bracing. This week's new films 2011-02-19T00:05:41Z Minot still has a poet’s instinct for the surprising volta, the striking image, the bracing final line. Life, and Other Interruptions: A Storyteller Explains ‘Why I Don’t Write’ 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Barkley, who retired in 1999, suddenly found himself bracing for another fight. Iran Barkley and Pamela Graham: A Boxer Marries His Champ 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z I hate the word "journey"; rather, these tapestries are a bracing walk through that taboo subject: class. Grayson Perry's tapestries: weaving class and taste 2013-06-08T08:00:41Z She worked through the impasse by revisiting the writing of Anthony Bourdain, whose bracing words energized her. A Writer Describes Palestinian Cuisine, and the World Around It 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The slower compositions on this bracing album of Mr. Mincek’s music are just as fine. The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z There is something of a tradition of films set in monasteries and convents or, rather, two traditions: one sentimental and pious; the other bracing and meditative. Of Gods and Men ? review 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z He entered the war already disillusioned, a state of mind reflected in the bracingly acidic tone of the journals, which challenge the official version of the war on every page. Books of The Times: ‘Poilu,’ a French Memoir About Serving on the Western Front 2014-04-20T21:11:41Z That keen emotional intelligence is evident in Trensch’s bracing turn, and occasionally, his intensity gets the better of his musicianship. Review | The new Evan of ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ proves to be a worthy standard-bearer 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The program also offers Mr. Adams’s sequel to his Chamber Symphony, “Son of Chamber Symphony,” inspired by B-movie music, and Stravinsky’s tart, bracing Concerto for Piano and Winds, with the dynamic pianist Jeremy Denk. The Week Ahead: May 9 ? 15 2010-05-06T18:46:00Z That threat imbues the show with a hum of cool, violent energy, in bracing contrast to the paintings’ balmier scenes. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z But no matter — “The Carrion Birds” is a bracing ride, and it’s a pleasure to see new changes rung on classic themes, especially when they’re done this well. ‘The Carrion Birds’: battling for survival in the New Mexican wilderness 2013-04-11T20:42:50Z The first 12, presented in various combinations this week, spotlight the bracingly minimalist black and white aesthetic of the company’s founder, George Balanchine. Dance Listings for April 24-30 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z It can be bracing to see Picasso shuttle between triumph and kitsch in the space of a week. Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z There was Norman Foster’s now mostly forgotten 1979 glass-and-steel fantasy, conceived for an Italian developer, a soaring condominium tower resting on a gallery podium and supported by massive steel cross bracing. Whitneys That Never Were 2010-06-16T21:52:00Z "The Humans" is a bracing film that illustrates how family members inflict pain and suffering on themselves and each other, but also how they endure. A superb ensemble anchors "The Humans," showcasing an anguished, claustrophobic Thanksgiving dinner 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The result is one of the best of recent traditional cycles of these works, lacking the bracing rawness of some period-instrument accounts maybe, but thoroughly satisfying in its own right. Schumann; The Symphonies; etc 2010-05-27T21:15:00Z But the filmmakers are bracing for the reception that the movie and Ms. Moretz may receive. Film: Chlo? Grace Moretz, Hit Girl in ?Kick-Ass? 2010-04-10T04:13:00Z Mr. King, who has been a mentor to Mr. Morrissey, played drums, bracingly, on the previous album. New Music: Marc Anthony Returns to Salsa; Chris Morrissey Crosses Lines 2013-07-22T21:41:19Z An uncertain fate awaits the most bracing and contrarian writers: Will the insights they offer still come across as stingingly original if the disillusion they so often recommend becomes commonplace? Want the Good Life? This Philosopher Suggests Learning From Cats 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z If Durkin’s writing doesn’t always match his formal flair, “The Nest” has a bracing economy, cramming a lot into tight quarters. ‘The Nest’ Review: New Home, Old Wounds 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z This dazzling 27-minute score explores the sonic capacities of the orchestra with bracing imagination and sizzling energy. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z What we said: Coming-of-age is usually a syrupy Hollywood genre, and it’s bracing to find it given such an unsentimental expression – and to see that it applies not only to adolescents, but to adults, too. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Her bracing control and patience — she didn’t rush a thing, not even a glance — was entrancing. It’s a Season of Vintage Gems, and Female Bonding, at City Ballet 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Graham’s architecture, in this bracing work perhaps more than any other, speaks for itself. Review: Martha Graham Dance Revisits a Classic in Gala 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Initially resolved to end her pregnancy, Becky — played with a bracingly naïve righteousness by Madison Burge on “Friday Night Lights” on — begins to doubt her choice. Television: On ?Friday Night Lights,? Abortion in a Small Town 2010-07-09T22:24:00Z In this otherwise complacent context it’s bracing, and not a tribute to the Strokes in any way. Critic?s Notebook: Paying Tribute to Nirvana and the Strokes 2011-08-02T22:42:15Z When “Foundations” came out, its prickly, evocatively personal storytelling established her as a bracing new voice. Kate Nash Keeps Getting Back Up. This Time, Off Broadway. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z A-side Up In My Head sticks to that template, but the elemental Phat Si is a bracing shock to the system. This week's new singles 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z It was never released here but it's both the most frustrating and the most intriguing of the mumblecore movies; at times painfully boring but at others bracingly intense and unbearably intimate. Greenberg star Greta Gerwig steps from the shadows of mumblecore 2010-06-04T23:08:00Z Wherever she appears, Ms. Pat commits to a bracing level of realness; even her family-friendly sitcom is wonderfully laden with F-bombs. Ms. Pat on embracing life's darkness and friend Joe Rogan using the n-word: "We all make mistakes" 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z This journey is continued by Posner, not with the same degree of nuance or playwriting sophistication but with a galloping adventurousness and an often bracing contemporary wit. Top-notch 'Stupid ... Bird' zings with audacity 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z The two Tzadik albums, bracing yet sumptuous, remain the ideal place to start with her work. Reviving the Ghostly Sounds of Maryanne Amacher 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z “Oh no,” I said, bracing for the news. The crime we committed for her 2014-03-10T00:00:00Z But her upright, commanding stoicism exudes the familiar, bracing air of upper-middle-class stoicism that remains one of Britain’s most popular cultural exports. London Theater Journal: In the Shadow of the Nazis 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z But even in modern times, there’s still something primal about the bracing sharpness and mineral bite of those first local shoots of chard, watercress and dandelion greens. Gnocchi, Leeks, Soupy Greens: What Else Do You Need? 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z But the principle is sound, and his idealism is fantastically bracing. Why is Stewart Lee railing against the Edinburgh comedy awards? 2010-07-21T16:04:00Z There’s a bracing smallness to these books — even those of Knausgaard, who’s a miniaturist on a gargantuan scale — and a serene indifference to what has long passed for ambition in the novel. Kate Atkinson’s ‘A God in Ruins’ 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Less than a week after being awarded a $25 million grant as part of the federal government’s $2.2 trillion stimulus package, the Kennedy Center is bracing for more layoffs. Kennedy Center furloughs 250 in wake of $25 million federal grant 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z The action comes to a head in a bracing sequence of arias that closes Act 2. Review: A Spotlight for an Unsung Talent 2010-08-17T15:23:00Z The world outside was bracing against the Cold War. Could a mask maker’s quest to see the Dalai Lama bring about world peace? 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z As a neophyte in an entrenched system, she says, she is bracing herself. How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Triumph, ‘Ugly Crying’ and All, Was Captured 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z The above can serve as a partial plot summary of “Selma,” Ava DuVernay’s bold and bracingly self-assured new movie about the march and the events, in Selma and elsewhere, leading up to it. In ‘Selma,’ King Is Just One of Many Heroes 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z The show provides a bracing picture of both the extent and the unity of Moholy-Nagy’s art as it moves up the ramp, superbly styled for the occasion by Kelly Cullinan, the museum’s senior exhibition designer. ‘Moholy-Nagy: Future Present,’ Vision and Precision in a Fluid Braid 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Even at its most "unpolitical", metal still offers a bracing confrontation with forces of power and control. Why Ai Weiwei and heavy metal are a perfect match 2013-03-11T13:59:02Z This is bracing, yet something nevertheless bothered me about the play, even aside from a few logical holes and untied knots, when I saw it downtown. Review: ‘Hangmen,’ Offering the Last Word in Gallows Humor 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The film is a bracing antidote to the formulaic reality shows about recovery proliferating on cable television. Critic?s Notebook: Tribeca Turns 10: Films on Rebels, Rock and Real Life 2011-04-14T12:00:00Z Mr. Starr has a skinny, burred voice that sounds as if he were quivering, and when the guitarist Paul Jackson chimes in with high harmony vocals, as on “Six Ways to Sunday,” it’s bracing. New Music: New Albums Include ‘A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac’ 2012-08-13T22:29:39Z Earlier this month, dressed in black sweatpants and a red T-shirt that showed his sinewy tattooed arms, he demonstrated a bracing circuit of squats, lunges, crunches and planks. Feel Like You’re in Prison? These Trainers Actually Were 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z His new film, London: The Modern Babylon, bracingly chronicles the capital's past century of social upheaval, immigration, riots, pop trends and politics. This week's new film events 2012-08-03T23:05:24Z Shortly after the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump and his counselor’s invocation of “alternative facts,” anxious readers, bracing themselves for the worst, propelled George Orwell’s “1984” back to the top of the best-seller lists. The Making of ‘1984,’ George Orwell’s Nightmare Vision of a World Without Truth 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z It also possesses a bracingly ambivalent attitude to drug abuse. Denzel Washington: 'I don't want movie-star friends' 2013-01-24T13:05:52Z Her urgent, overly fast tempo made the first movement of the composer’s Fifth Symphony a nervous blur, but the second movement felt bracing in its lack of sentimentality. With new members in BSO, striving for a cohesive sound in season opener at Strathmore 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Soon it was clear that the composer was using these old song forms as materials for a fractured, deconstructed and bracingly contemporary homage. Music Review: American Composers Orchestra at Zankel Hall - Review 2011-10-16T20:08:49Z Through the scale and material capaciousness of painting, she celebrates, decorates and really venerates the black female body by making it and its lavish surroundings bracingly tangible. Art Review: ‘Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe,’ at Brooklyn Museum 2012-09-27T22:04:12Z “Reading My Father,” out in 2011 by Alexandra Styron, William Styron’s youngest child, was another bracing rendition of life with a mighty, troubled man. Literary Fathers, Literary Daughters, and the Books That Bind Them 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z But it’s bracing, maybe more so than a more collected, straightforwardly structured version of itself would be. The Fashion Closet, Seen From Inside and Out 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z The massive, funereal finale and coda were symphonic in scope and bracing sound. Review: All-star piano trio leaves listeners with a royal flush 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z But like Colson Whitehead’s “Underground Railroad,” the story’s bracing realism is periodically overcome by the mist of fantasy. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z This is a marvellously bracing compendium, to be swum through from first page to last rather than occasionally dipped into with a sceptical toe. The Fabled Coast by Sophia Kingshill and Jennifer Westwood - review 2012-08-03T21:55:09Z El Akkad arrived at his story by a circuitous route that gives him a bracing perspective on America. ‘American War’ follows today’s vitriol to a dystopian future 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Armed with this skeletal itinerary, I spent the first two months traversing the Indian subcontinent: through the throat-searing pollution of Delhi, the bracing mountain air of Dharamsala, the dunes of Jaisalmer. Modern Love: Forgoing a Shortcut on the Path to Happiness - Modern Love Not Enough to Give - Modern Love 2012-07-05T20:21:03Z There is likely to be another furore next week: Radio 4 is "bracing itself for the backlash". Tony Harrison's poem V is a timeless portrayal of working-class aspiration 2013-02-18T08:00:31Z We are meeting at the Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre, which is bracing itself for a tourist influx in the wake of the Crowe film. Looking for Robin 2010-04-14T07:00:00Z It was the hearty sound of King Lear’s knights, celebrating a bracing day of deer hunting in elegant Elizabethan phrases. Learning 'Lear': The How-To's of Hub-Bub 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Ward’s drama is a precursor to this bracing trend. Review | Daring idea, but flawed e xecution, in ‘Day of Absence’ 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z More poignantly, however, it takes an old woman out for a bracing bit of fresh air. Review | What inspired sculptor Louise Bourgeois? One novelist takes a guess. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z During the summer months the lido is quieter in the evening and just the right temperature, cool enough to be bracing, warm enough after a few strokes to encourage you to carry on. ‘I launch naked into the unknown’: writers on the joy of wild swimming 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z It is a use of political content far less bracing and unexpected than that in Mr. Adams’s early operas “Nixon in China” and “The Death of Klinghoffer.” Music Review: ‘The Gospel According to the Other Mary,’ by John Adams 2012-06-01T21:51:19Z When it sticks to those themes, “The Model American” is a strong new work, bracingly imagined and keenly playable. In a Summer Theater Weekend, Odd Couples and Immigrants on the Make 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z The occasionally insipid family scenes are leavened with bracing displays of bad behavior. Timeless Preoccupations and Old-School Virtues 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Smith’s answer is magisterial, bracing and chilling, all at once. Suzan-Lori Parks examines notions of freedom in ‘Father Comes Home’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z I kept bracing for him to get angry and say something I didn’t like to someone. Ari Graynor: The First Time I Road-Tripped With My Dad 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Set to Steve Reich’s “The Desert Music,” the visually bracing work occupies both land and air, by way of Mr. Shen’s aerial set design and silken movement, which sweeps the dancers through fractal-like floor patterns. Dance Listings for July 11-17 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The cider is rich and mouth-filling, with bracing acidity on the refreshing finish. 5 artisan ciders for your Thanksgiving table Returning to New York in the mid-1950s, she spent a decade making bracing, rigidly geometric works in black and white and in straight-from-the-tube colors, some of them on shaped and multipanel canvases. A 101-Year-Old Artist Finally Gets Her Due at the Whitney 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Yet her bracing humor, candor and conviction remain undiminished. Review: Revisiting an Unlikely Campaign in ‘Roseanne for President!’ 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z “Ashley” features bracing guest vocals from the elegant young R&B star Miguel, and it’s one of several lush songs on this album. New Music: Big Sean and Albert Heath and Friends Release Albums 2013-08-26T21:58:51Z For “New Ghetto Music” he drew on the penetrating emotional delivery he heard on the tapes, combining it with modern orchestral techniques and a bracing rawness inspired by tenores vocal traditions from Sardinia. Music in Review 2011-01-14T00:08:47Z Mr. D’Rivera worked mainly on alto saxophone, his most bracing voice, and clarinet, his most effervescent. Review: Paquito D’Rivera in Concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z They are bracing artists, both for their dramatic details and prodigious technique. Mikhailovsky Ballet Makes Its U.S. Debut at Lincoln Center 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Nothing in the second half quite measured up to these two pieces, except Lukas Foss’s enthusiastic “Capriccio,” pleasingly bracing after the repetitive dullness of Leonard Bernstein’s “Three Meditations From ‘Mass.’ For cellist Alban Gerhardt, a strong start but a weak second half 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z This bracing white wine is delicious on its own, but even more so with a dash of imagination. At just $10, this Italian red blend is your ideal chocolate dessert pairing 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Tom McCarthy’s bracing account of the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer prize-winning investigation into a massive child molestation cover-up within the local Catholic archdiocese has already netted multiple critics’ awards, and nominations elsewhere. Golden Globe awards 2016: who will win, and who should win 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z But the waters of this film are not only still and deep but also bracingly clear, and the most remarkable thing about it may be how much it implies while saying so little. | 'Somewhere': The Pampered Life, Viewed From the Inside 2010-12-21T23:13:01Z Brubaker’s approach is unusual in that he applies some of the traditional expressive devices of 19th-century piano playing to Glass’s bracingly modern sound. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Or even Stephen Sondheim’s bracing title song of “Company,” with its insistent refrains of “Bobby, Bobby, Bobby baby” over a rhythmic riff that evokes a telephone busy signal. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z It offers questions, answers none of them and leaves the reader with a bracing, hollowed-out feeling. ‘Beast’ cements Paul Kingsnorth’s reputation as a furiously gifted writer 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z And it seems both bracing and appropriate that this year’s criticism finalists include no work by a white man. Review | ‘You Play the Girl,’ by Carina Chocano, up for big book award this week 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Though this was an ‘original practices’ production, it felt completely, and bracingly, modern. Tony Award Predictions: Readers (and Boldface Names) Weigh In 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z This introspection gives the film an emotionalism that its entertaining contributors respond to with bracing, pick-yourself-up pragmatism. ‘The Ghost of Peter Sellers’ Review: Inside a Cursed Comedy 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Her visits were always bracing—she saw the world very distinctly—and they were also inspiring. Remembering Barbara Kafka, whose roast chicken changed everything 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z The earlier film is a bracingly pulpy product of its moment, a time when American movies were breaking free of repressive codes and reveling — sometimes wallowing — in sexual display and rough violence. Review: ‘The Beguiled,’ Sofia Coppola’s Civil War Cocoon 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z He demonstrates an admirable impatience with the arcs and beats that dominate even independent-minded screenwriting, and shows a sometimes frustrating, sometimes bracing indifference to psychological continuity. Review: ‘Wiener-Dog,’ the Tail That Wags Through a Few Bitter Lives 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Save room for two rounds of dessert, including warm apple strudel and a bracing shot of grappa. 36 Hours in the Dolomites 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Persian cucumber pickle is tucked in there, too, bracing with a hint of sweetness. At Kichin in Brooklyn, Korean Fried Chicken and Mighty Rice Balls 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z A year ago the art market was bracing for a 1932 Picasso from a Los Angeles estate to break the $100 million mark. Art for Sale, No Introduction Needed 2011-04-28T17:58:20Z Derry Girls is a tonic: frank, rude, bracingly unsentimental, and very, very funny. Derry Girl Saoirse-Monica Jackson: ‘Yes, we have a harsh sense of humour’ 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Unless we’re bracing for a rise in mental illness, why be worried that we’d be in for an unhealthy mass weight drop? Is being thin more deadly than being obese? 2014-03-31T17:55:00Z While this “Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” is unlikely to be remembered with Friedkin’s “The Exorcist” or “Sorcerer,” it offers a bracing demonstration of the director’s sensibility and craft. ‘The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial’ Review: Righting the Ship 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z On “Southern Comfort,” her bracing new album, she turns her focus to a chapter in her family history that preceded the Great Migration, when her paternal grandfather was a coal miner in Alabama. New Music: Nathaniel Rateliff and Regina Carter Release Albums 2014-03-31T22:07:29Z Finally, the jazz pianist Dan Tepfer brings the version he recorded, which intersperses the familiar variations with his own improvisations, bracing, startling, like sea air in the face. A celebration of ‘theme and variations’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Both shows, at their best, reach beyond mere digital manipulation to multidisciplinary possibility, with bracing results. Review: Seattle exhibits show photographs in their altered states 2010-08-26T20:51:00Z It’s a bracingly dark comedy that skates savagely close to the edge, but there’s also a poignancy here, a study of a socially inept outsider desperate for a life she’ll never have. No sequels allowed: the 12 best alternative movies to watch this summer 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z It’s a great cocktail, but there are so many other ways to incorporate mint into bracing spring drinks. 7 Minty Non-Julep Cocktails for the Kentucky Derby 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z With every Christmas card and video clip from the White House lawn, it seemed, we were being given bracing evidence of our pluralistic collective identity. Has there been an ‘Obama effect’ in Hollywood? 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z That work, recently returned for monthly site-specific performances around New York, is part of 2019’s thrillingly vital bumper crop of political theater — shows that implicate the audience with bracing artistry. Best Theater of 2019 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The question occurred to me as I was watching “Hail, Caesar!,” a new, bracingly brilliant comedy by Joel and Ethan Coen. In Hollywood, must ‘white’ always equal ‘universal’? 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Whatever Jaxie is, he’s a bracing figure of resilience, hardened by a home, a school and town all set against him. Review | The tale of a disaffected teen on the run from a crime he didn’t commit 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Extending ballet with such bracing modernity that it still seems new, the work also remains classical in its clarity; no moment is wasted; everything connects and contributes to a juggernaut force. Justin Peck, Along With Balanchine, From City Ballet 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z A veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, she appears beyond the redemption that she slowly pursues in a movie that, bracingly, doesn’t ask you to like her, just to follow her lead. ‘Destroyer’ Review: A Very Good Nicole Kidman Plays a Very Bad Woman 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Golden, crisp and bracing with a malty aroma and snappy, precise flavors. Beer Review: American Lagers 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z David’s encounters, bracing as they are, made me wonder if there isn’t something oppressive about the insistence on majesty and wonder in modern science writing. Three New Books Explore the Machinery of the Mind 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Kondabolu is bracing for the tidal wave of, “Oh, you’re a killjoy, and you hate comedy and you hate ‘The Simpsons’ because you criticize it.” He loved ‘The Simpsons.’ But Hari Kondabolu has a problem with Apu. 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z The test requires you to lower yourself to the floor, crisscross style, without bracing yourself with your hands, knees, arms, or sides of your legs. This anxiety-inducing fitness test purports to tell you how long you’ll live. We investigated. 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z This one is focused and bold, with bright, bracing, fresh fruit flavors that linger. 20 Wines for Under $20 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z This free computer game is simple, even crude, and yet it serves up bracing thrills. Video Game Review: Slender: The Eight Pages, Video Game Review 2012-09-11T16:17:45Z Her new memoir, “No Walls and the Recurring Dream” is part feminist and social-justice manifesto, part bracing road story. Review | Ani DiFranco: The making of an iconoclast 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z The show itself, based on a graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel and directed on the road as in New York by Sam Gold, is bracingly honest, touchingly wise and bittersweetly funny. Review | ‘Fun Home’ is pure musical satisfaction 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Richard Lawson wrote in Vanity Fair that it is “a bracing and dizzying marvel, propulsively pitched and even, I dare say, moving.” ‘Rogue One’ Reviews: Here’s What the Critics Say 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z “Connection,” a bracing string quartet by Sampo Haapamaki, conjured similar extremes through control and precision, its visceral waves, swells and slashes produced with exactly calibrated rhythmic relationships and microtonal pitch sets. Music Review: MATA Festival Returns, With Spotlight on Helsinki 2014-04-17T23:21:53Z The comedy team of Nichols and May became a seminal duo in American culture, paving the way for a bracing, off-center collection of observational humorists. Mike Nichols, directorial superstar with an eye for the 'real thing' 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z It also dramatizes another, less obvious sort of diversity: the bracing impact of newcomers, the breaking of barriers between professionals and amateurs, insiders and outsiders. “Late Night,” Reviewed: Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling’s Incisive Comedy about the Gender Politics of TV 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Narrative depth may be in short supply, but the energy, invention and humor are bracing. Movie Review: ‘Frankenstein’s Army’ Pits World War II Soldiers and Cyborgs 2013-07-26T00:16:05Z There’s a bracing lack of vanity in how she conveys this long-lost world and not an iota of misplaced nostalgia. Review: ‘Vazante’ Revisits Brazil’s History in Black and White 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Her Comedy Central sketch show doesn't always rise to the level of her stand-up, but when it's great — and it often is — it packs a bracing honesty that's ground-breaking. Emmys may be ready to give up the 'Modern Family' lock on comedy 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Grim, yes, but worthwhile, like the rest of the stories in this bracing debut. ‘Norwegian by Night,’ by Derek B. Miller, and More 2013-05-29T20:35:37Z Mr. Turner’s poems can be too prosy, but we need his bracing “bullet-borne language” as he tries to reconcile the chaos of Iraq with the demands of the poetic line. Books of The Times: Poetry by Luljeta Lleshanaku, Lightsey Darst and Others 2010-07-22T22:18:00Z This endeavor could make what should be a bracing exploration feel like an academic assignment. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z However, it's very good, bracing as hell and guaranteed to make you curse its beautiful deliciousness when you can't fall asleep tonight. A 3-ingredient dessert to cool you off and wake you up 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z That said, it was bracing to see Crazy Morgan again. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 13: Morgan Takes a Turn 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Pale rosés tend to be bone dry, with bracing acidity and subtle flavors of watermelon, strawberry or rhubarb. When he couldn’t get his favorite Provence rosés, he changed careers 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z In this wise, bracingly honest novel, a father chronicles his son’s birth through his teenage years. This Is Parenthood — and Not Just the Charming, Photogenic Parts 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z In the bracing climactic stanza, he builds momentum while taking a wider view, explaining how the impossible beauty standards promoted by magazines prepare girls to be music consumers. On Comedy: Bo Burnham Releases His Comedy Special 2013-12-25T22:24:40Z The poems, printed beside reproductions of the photos, are bracing meditations on the fragility of life, notions of personhood, and what survives time’s weathering. Poet Paisley Rekdal should be better known, and 'Imaginary Vessels' may be the collection to do it 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z City workers are bracing for pay and benefit cuts. Kass: Daley deal should make people sick 2012-05-02T15:06:00Z Since I am one, I also found Jacobson's depiction of "goyim" bracing. Guardian book club: Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson 2010-09-20T10:37:00Z It’s a song of heartbreak paired to the bracing elements of the Far North, with metaphors of freezing cold and ice-covered eyes, but with a glimmer of hope for love that may come tomorrow. Don’t despair: Beverly Glenn-Copeland actually has hope to offer us in 2020 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Well, that was bracing! Call off the hounds: the Not the Booker prize vote stands 2010-09-08T14:24:00Z The movie isn’t a bold or bracing work of stylistic originality; rather, it’s one in which a familiar manner is expanded and elevated by way of insight and sensibility. “The Hate U Give,” Reviewed: An Empathetic, Nuanced Portrait of a Teen’s Political Awakening 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z On a Tuesday in October before the play had opened, Washington was bracing himself for the rehearsal later that afternoon. John David Washington Gets an Education in ‘The Piano Lesson’ 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Then there are the powerful house cocktails, like the sweet and bracing Rainey St. Mule, made with vodka and ginger beer and served in a copper mug. Heads Up : Eclectic East Austin 2014-01-31T18:51:39Z This leaves him to tackle hot-button issues such as racial tension and transgenderism in a bracingly thought-provoking, rather than crudely offensive, way. This week's new live comedy 2013-02-23T06:00:10Z This bracing drama from the Roundabout Underground program, starring a superb Mamie Gummer as that damaged vet, confronts an achingly topical issue with hardheaded honesty and admirable compassion. Review: ‘Ugly Lies the Bone,’ With Mamie Gummer as a Combat Veteran 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z In one moment referring to the snake, the dancers arrive at a bracing stop and extend their arms in a V. “You really need to be over-exaggerated,” Cilento said at a rehearsal. Forget About Jazz Hands, This Fosse Show Is About Dancin’ 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Recalled for several ovations, Mr. Ehnes offered as encore a bracing slalom through Paganini’s Caprice No. 16. Music Review: Charles Dutoit Leads Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-17T22:43:09Z Now, with the reopening of Mauritshuis set for Friday, and “Girl” and “Goldfinch” safely back home, the museum is bracing for an onslaught of fans wanting to see the paintings on their home turf. Mauritshuis Is Set to Reopen on Friday in The Hague 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z The optics were bracing: Mr. West was both a god hovering over his subjects and a slave bound for their entertainment. Kanye West’s Year of Breaking Bad 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Russia, its economy growing modestly after a downturn, is also bracing for a new wave of U.S. sanctions over its alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a charge it denies. We are the champions: basketball film wows Russians before election 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Shakespeare’s genius was to make the lovers’ pairing, a union of two seen-it-all cynics, bracingly yet realistically volatile, with jealousy, betrayal and reconciliation from both sides. Review: In ‘Antony and Cleopatra,’ John Adams Goes Conventional 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Their tone is bracingly unsentimental, as is clear from the first swear words uttered by the chain-smoking nun who patrols the women’s prison where Mata Hari awaits her verdict. Review: ‘Mata Hari,’ a Different Kind of Queen of the Night 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z During his bracing tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1971 to 1978, he led the orchestra through more contemporary works than it had played since the 19th century. Pierre Boulez, conductor of bracing clarity, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The EP is bracing and beautiful, hopeful and desperate, a solemn prayer for lives that never reached their potential, and a determined act to render their stories with beauty and care. Mustafa, a Folk Hero for a Weary Generation 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z On the palate it is bone-dry and invigorating, with a bracingly fresh underlying citrus flavor. 20 Wines Under $20: The Savory Side of Rosé 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z With “Negrogothic, a Manifesto, the Aesthetics of M. Lamar,” the composer M. Lamar offers a bracing alternative to the dispiriting traffic in blandly competent art clogging the New York gallery system these days. M. 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