| 单词 | pin down |
| 例句 | If I got pinned down in the center of the ship, I was crab chow. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z On December 14, word came that another company was pinned down by enemy fire, and de la O and his platoon were ordered to go help. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The first whiff of its scent had stirred up some memory which he could not pin down, but which was powerful and troubling. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z One of the white guys in my company yelled over to me from where he was pinned down by enemy fire on the north slope of Motoyama, a ridge in clear view of Suribachi. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z International health authorities were urgently concerned to find the exact source of the monkeys, in order to pin down where in nature the Marburg virus lived. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Luna didn’t have very many memories that were as tenacious as this one—her memory, typically, was a slippery thing, and difficult to pin down—and so she hung on to it. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z They spread me out and held me pinned down to the hard ground. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The eight-man expedition was pinned down in a ferocious blizzard high on K2, waiting to make an assault on the summit, when a team member named Art Gilkey developed thrombophlebitis, a life-threatening altitude-induced blood clot. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Czernobog moved one of his kings around the board, eliminating Shadow’s remaining pieces, while using the other two kings to keep Shadow’s pieces pinned down. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There was one time before that too, when I was pinned down, but I couldn’t think about that now. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z While this information wouldn’t normally have been very useful, the reporters were able to pin down the exact times at which the workouts had been held. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “No words in any language can pin down exactly how life and death function. The closest we can come is by explaining samsara. Are you familiar with the concept?” asked Wish. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Across the aisle, a man in a gray fur hat was pinning down his son to put a gray fur hat on him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It’s the type of song that settles in your bones and makes you sad for a reason you can’t quite pin down. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Percy didn’t think that was it, but he couldn’t pin down the memory. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Continuing to shoot the film in Reykjavik over the next months, Gudmundsson kept trying to pin down Bobby for further interviews and increase his involvement in the project. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I’d learned what it was like to be pinned down in a foxhole for hours on end with nothing to chew on but your last C-rations. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z For reasons that no one can quite pin down today, Robert decided to name this boy Loser. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He says something I can’t hear, then puts his hand on the shoulder of the guard who has the boy pinned down. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The opener of soda bottles pinned down her thrashing limbs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z A smart one, Leon, hard to pin down. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I fought fiercely to get off that table but my shoulders were pinned down by the full weight of a large man. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Cultural influence is difficult to pin down in documents and concrete actions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The universe is hard to pin down; it changes when you look at it, as if it resists being known. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Her face is frozen in terror at the sight of him, and she makes no move to defend herself as he pins down her arms, laughing like he did when he kissed her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She does not inhabit the house, the way the other mothers do; she’s airy and hard to pin down. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And, to keep the British pinned down in New York City, Washington wanted Clinton to think that Gates’s troops were on their way there. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A sprinkler was going on Jim Hirsshom’s lawn; Bernabe accorded the office a lackluster birdie as he glided slowly by, pinned down now in the tourist traffic, all but immersed in adobe dust. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Muhammad was taken aside in order not to see while men pinned down Basel and removed his clothes. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z “He’s harder to pin down. He’ll let something eat away at him without mentioning it, but if you really disappoint him ...” Josh let the words linger. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z So often in a case like this, it’s hard to pin down the details. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Stop resisting,” the officer warned as he cuffed my left wrist and roughly pinned down my flailing right arm. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Toni Morrison’s isn’t functioning as a modifier, which shades the meaning of genius, but as a determiner, which pins down its referent, in the same way that an article like the or this would do. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He holds me around my hips, with my arms pinned down to my sides, so that my breasts are level with his forehead. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Any second now, a hail of bullets would be whistling through the archway, and the last place he wanted to be was pinned down on a lower level. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z It's like a train wreck, and I'm pinned down, trapped. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But Love cannot be pinned down so easily. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Blunt’s eyes, magnified by the thick lenses of his spectacles, lasered into his own, and for a moment, Alex felt himself pinned down, like an insect under a microscope. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z It was bad enough for the trap to be biting his foot, but to have his neck pinned down that way was too much. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Though I am too cagey to say it: he might object to the vocabulary, or think he’s being pinned down. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Christina and I have been sitting against one of the walls, playing a game in which each of us tries to pin down the other s thumb. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Her head is covered with tiny braids coiled into rounds and pinned down with bobby pins. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Her arms are bird wings pinned down with rocks by mean boys. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Before you order, pin down a delivery time. What to do about a scratched stainless-steel cooktop 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z But her verdict on his philosophy — “this idea that meaning cannot be pinned down,” and that “clear-cut moral judgments are impossible,” as she put it — is unstinting. Revisiting a Scholar Unmasked by Scandal 2014-03-09T21:47:03Z At the start of this film a spider is pinned down after being sedated with carbon dioxide gas. Harvesting silk from a spider – video 2013-01-12T19:00:00Z His latest role, in “Hyde Park on Hudson,” feels true to his resistance to being pinned down in any way. Bill Murray, Star of ‘Hyde Park on Hudson’ 2012-11-28T13:00:00Z Yes, we’re in a land described in the Lewis Carroll classic where meaning is exceedingly hard to pin down. Perspective | The term ‘fake news’ has lost all meaning. That’s just how Trump wants it. 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Ms. O’Grady’s work, with roots in the black art and feminist movements of the 1960s and ’70s, was overlooked until fairly recently, probably because it’s hard to pin down as far as meaning and attitude. Art Review | Whitney Biennial: At a Biennial on a Budget, Tweaking and Provoking 2010-02-25T22:21:00Z It's hard to pin down what East India Youth is, or where his intentions lie, suffice it to say that being narrowcast probably isn't high on his list of ambitions. New band of the day – East India Youth (No 1,455) 2013-02-19T17:01:00Z Nor is the ultimate cultural significance of Nevermind easily pinned down. "Nevermind" 30 years on — how Nirvana’s second album tilted the world on its axis 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Dumont ensures that the film’s tone and its stance on the character are as tough to pin down as she is. Winter Movies 2021: Here’s What’s Coming Soon to Streaming and Theaters 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z But Shakespeare and Lin also refused to be completely pinned down, leaving their narratives open to interpretation and constantly renewed debate. The birth of 'Hamilton,' told by the man who was in the room where it happened 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Scientists have yet to determine the primary cause of the Little Ice Age, and historians are still pinning down its exact chronological parameters. How fashion adapted to climate change — in the Little Ice Age 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z The alcohol issue here, meanwhile, is hard to pin down. Carolyn Hax: A disagreement over drinking signals a deeper issue 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z The philosopher Jacques Derrida might have said it is this very elusiveness — the sense that meaning can never be pinned down by language — that is Gorey's overarching point. Edward Gorey's sensibility is growing like nightshade 2011-03-05T03:09:56Z The origins of the written account of the Exodus story in the Bible are equally hard to pin down. How Christian Bale's 'Exodus' Strays from the Bible 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z To the father of the junior high student who was pinned down and undressed at a gathering 30 years ago: She didn’t tell you because she didn’t want to see you cry. Perspective | Dear dads: Your daughters told me about their assaults. This is why they never told you. 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Tolkien’s “Rings” books is that while most of his fantasy races have an innate character and purpose, the humans tend to be harder to pin down. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,’ Season 1, Episode 5: Misty Mountain Hop 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z It took three months for Ohm Suansilphong, the chef, to pin down the recipe. At Chicks Isan in Downtown Brooklyn, the Grilled Chicken Stands Above 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z It’s all “a big salad of different references,” as Kaplan describes it; a flowing mélange of costumes that can’t quite be pinned down to a specific era. ‘Roméo et Juliette’: New look for an old story 2013-01-26T04:11:24Z He chafes at the pinning down of language. In ‘The Liar’s Dictionary,’ People Work on the Definition of Love and Many Other Words 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z It's difficult to pin down the literary influences of many writers, but I think I wear my influences on my sleeve. Rereading Stephen King, chapter 20: Skeleton Crew 2013-05-08T12:23:38Z Just when you think you've got Dalziel pinned down, he shifts; the light catches him differently and we see another facet to his complicated personality. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z They feature the band wandering across icy plateaus, rocky coasts, and deserts, often in locations that are difficult to pin down. Bits Blog: Meet Lord Huron, a Musical Project That Is Also an Alternate Reality Game 2014-02-20T12:26:07Z I hiked up into the misty mountain of meaningless chunks of castle wall pinned down by Pixy Stix trees and mossy with sword ferns. A tale of two delightful castles, in Germany and Austria 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that she will not allow herself to be pinned down. Happy birthday Flannery O'Connor, avatar of the Southern grotesque 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Which makes their latest novel, “Moonflower,” fresh, exciting and hard to pin down. A Fantasy Novel About a Harsh Reality: Childhood Depression 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Brace's play leaves you unsure at what point Henry turns from a naive dreamer into a sharp operator; what it pins down very well, however, is the intensity of the swimmer-coach relationship. Taking Part/After the Party – review 2012-07-31T17:32:58Z He is hard to predict and even harder to pin down. Another prize for Bob Dylan — but this one is sweetest for fans and fellow songwriters 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z He was a squad leader, like me, and was pinned down by machine gun fire. The story of my new arms: An organ donor's gift helped me recover from war injuries 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Swing is a notoriously hard term to pin down. She’s the Queen of Tap. Is Her Moment Now? 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z The fish are hard to pin down, sure, and there’s some pleasure to be had in watching them. A Quicksilver Mystery That Flickers, Flashes, Twists and Turns 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z She’s as fascinated by the ambiguities of her subject as she is by the certainties she can pin down. Scents and Science Mingle in ‘The Joy of Sweat’ 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Ben Affleck’s not quite ready to pin down a timeline for his solo Batman movie. What We Learned From Reports of a 'Justice League' Set Visit 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Robert Westbrook, a history professor at the University of Rochester, described Mr. Wreszin as a scholar of “American radicals who were hard to pin down.” Michael Wreszin, Biographer of American Radicals, Dies at 85 2012-09-16T00:41:10Z The highlight is hard to pin down, but this viewer’s vote goes to the extended subway confrontation between our hero, a man with a baseball bat and a woman with two furiously-flying hammers. ‘Zeros and Ones,’ ‘Juliet, Naked’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Try to pin down influence and, inevitably, you miss the pith of the matter. Perspective | Compassion. Claustrophobia. Originality. Why El Greco inspired so many great modern artists. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Not that we could definitively pin down identities — that would take years of experience and repeated tastings to discern consistent patterns. For Northern Rhône Reds, It’s Not the Age but the Emotions 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z This is why so many variations of classic tiki drinks exist — and why it’s hard to pin down the original recipes. The Drink That’s a Party All on Its Own 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Butterflies are hard to pin down: they're always flittering and fluttering. Butterfly keeper Mark Tansley on Damien Hirst: The Souls 2010-10-10T21:15:00Z They’re attempting to capture an impossible shot, with a subject that, like Muybridge’s horses, is too fast to pin down. ‘Nope,’ Eadweard Muybridge and the Story of ‘The Horse in Motion’ 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z BBC One controller Charlotte Moore said it was "no mean feat pinning down some of this country's most brilliant and in demand actors and writers" for shooting. Sherlock: Fourth series confirmed 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Responsibility for the shutdown is like an electron in a probability cloud, with no fixed location, impossible to pin down. Analysis | ‘The buck stops with everybody’: How Trump twists cliches to do his bidding 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z And when it’s over, it’s a chore to go back and pin down exactly what was said. You Know Your History? These Podcasts Aren’t So Sure 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The art of writing — or, really, of practically any job — is an elusive thing to pin down. Critic’s Notebook: TV Shows at Moments of Creation 2013-07-28T19:05:05Z But so many stories surround James’s life and work that part of his mission was trying to “pin down all the myths” and understand the mystique of his genius. Technology Brings the Designs of Charles James to Life 2014-04-30T22:11:48Z “But I wasn’t always 100% aware of it, because I try to hold back from too much self-analysis. My fear is always …” He re-starts his sentence several times, trying to pin down his thoughts. The Florida Project’s Sean Baker: ‘I wanted the kids to be the kings and queens of their domain’ 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z That faces off the flesh-exposing black dress, held together with gilded safety pins down the side, that shot Elizabeth Hurley into paparazzi heaven in 1994 at the London premiere of “Three Weddings and a Funeral.” At the Met, Punk Without the Down and Dirty 2013-05-06T11:58:12Z Prior to the airing of “Baseball” I was able to pin down Waters to chat about coincidence in addition to talking about how the show chooses which subjects to explore. "Drunk History" may be the most necessary show on TV now 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z The documentary posits him as a pioneer but struggles to pin down how he was unique. ‘Playing in the FM Band’ Review: A Free-Form Radio Legend 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z In fairness to Itzkoff, it’s this very will-o’-the-wisp quality that makes Williams a tricky man to pin down. A Comic Force of Nature: The Life — and Death — of Robin Williams 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z It’s even difficult to pin down when the book takes place: Bride sounds contemporary, but Sweetness’s voice seems to belong to another era entirely. Toni Morrison’s ‘God Help the Child’ 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z “We found that for all the media coverage it’s hard to pin down exactly what happened and what she was like,” said Mr. Thomas, the librettist. Far From Valhalla: A Tabloid Star Is Joining The Sisterhood Of the Fallen 2011-02-13T01:06:18Z “The tale Fletcher told wasn’t easy to pin down,” writes McNulty, “but what emerged was a portrait of isolation.” Essential Arts & Culture: Mighty year-enders, naked hotel theater, a 'Messiah' for rich and poor 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z And in that spirit, it’s hard to pin down exactly what will come next. Five Mississippi Records you should hear — just bring cash 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Far from backing off, journalists should hone their questioning skills and find new ways to pin down this particularly slippery administration. Perspective | NBC’s questioning of Ivanka Trump was more than appropriate. It should be just the start. 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Or will the experience be pinned down in a mathematical formula? The conundrum of mind and matter: what is consciousness? 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Or in Lydon's own words: "It's those juxtapositions of events pinned down with some gloriously sweltering bass that we can hover around." No hint of mellowing for ex-Sex Pistol John Lydon 2012-10-15T23:06:50Z The offender was quickly pinned down by aviation officials, removed from the plane and detained. 'Crazed' Thai Smile passenger rips plane's emergency exit door open before takeoff 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z While remaining hard to pin down on the dollar amounts, they are eager to demonstrate that every conceivable alternative strategy has been explored, weighed, re-examined and rejected. Critic’s Notebook: Norman Foster’s Public Library Will Need Structural Magic 2013-01-29T23:35:04Z He's also a perfectionist – and frets that TV would pin down a character better kept mysterious. Will Adamsdale: the guru of nonsense 2011-01-05T22:01:01Z The size of the impact is hard to pin down. This Is Why Germans May Not Be Able to See The Avengers 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Maybe acting wasn’t something you trapped, pinned down and obsessively studied, Olsen realized then. How Elizabeth Olsen Came Into Her Powers 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z I’m not pinned down to one voice or one model or one way of thinking about something. Short Stories Need a Defender. She’s Ready. 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z One of the many reasons Early is so hard to pin down is that while he leans on swagger and gusto, his most distinguishing moments mix in another register, his bookish alertness to language. John Early Brings a Deliriously Over-the-Top Sensibility to Stand-Up 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z “A slam-bang, no-holds-barred extravaganza, guaranteed to pin down your attention from the first paragraph,” William Du Bois wrote in The New York Times. Al Morgan, Novelist, Playwright and Television Producer, Is Dead at 91 2011-03-14T20:07:39Z “Hot Thoughts” is otherwise difficult to pin down; it’s a diffuse, experimental mix of synth-y rock, pop and funk. For Spoon’s Britt Daniel, Prince is the one influence that reigns above all 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z But his music and the festival at large was much harder to pin down and gratefully struck a considerable blow against the genre labels that Iyer and so many artists before him have vigorously resisted. Transcending genre labels, Vijay Iyer leads the Ojai Music Festival toward bold new territory 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z "With his smooth baby skin, faint eyebrows and decidedly uncraggy contours it was as difficult to pin down the evidence of his inner character as it is with a young girl," she said. Fellowes portrait to feature in exhibition 2011-04-11T07:26:51Z In this shot, Omnès pinned down the turkey’s skin so it wouldn’t tear in the oven. WD-40 and microwaved tampons: secrets of food photography revealed 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Whether Mr. Rowe is the first autistic actor to play Christopher is hard to pin down, given the number of “Curious Incident” productions around the world. The World Really Is a Stage, Scripts and All, to an Actor With Autism 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z "This gives people, especially young viewers who are hard to pin down, a reason to go there every day." HBO expands its offerings of Vice content 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The tricky part is pinning down the names of its members. Scalia’s elite hunting pals: Meet St. Hubertus, patron saint of rich guys with guns 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z As you might expect, his style is hard to pin down. Much of a Dutchness: the Hotel Inntel Zaandam 2010-03-31T20:30:00Z As Bruckner acknowledges, happiness is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down. Pascal Bruckner: 'Happiness is a moment of grace' 2011-01-23T00:05:40Z Over the years, the fraud grew beyond his circle as he found other conspirators, usually by chance — which made them more difficult to pin down during the F.B.I.’s investigation years later. The ‘McMillions’ Monopoly Scheme, Explained 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Even so, Mr. Frost said, there is an element of melancholy in the music that is hard to pin down, given its predominantly placid harmonies. Martin Frost Explores the Soul of the Clarinet 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z But she also pins down the differences between the generations. Review 2010-04-20T00:48:00Z The film’s stilted acting, elliptical plot and surfeit of symbolism make its messages difficult to pin down. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘The Family Farm’ 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z He returned with an acoustic guitar for “Butterfly,” the album’s closing plaint: “Every time I pin down what I think I want it slips away.” Music Review: All Aboard an Alt-Rock Time Machine 2010-12-19T22:56:09Z The more amorphous hoped-for result, sowing seeds of confusion, was harder to pin down. Television Review: ‘The Ghost Army,’ on PBS, About the 23rd Headquarters 2013-05-20T20:46:56Z But “A Man Called Otto” is not only more bloated than the Swedish film, it’s more outré, in a way that’s hard to pin down. ‘A Man Called Otto’ Review: Tom Hanks Learns Life Lessons 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z It’s hard enough just to pin down the facts. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Art of Writing Biographies 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z The taste of ocean brine is hard to pin down, until you do, and then its flavor is irrefutable. Japanese Snacks Inspired by Mom’s at Rice & Miso 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z But at the same time, Latinx art is hard to pin down. Honoring Latinx Art, Personal and Political 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Fiction, good fiction at least, goes for the singular, the conflicting, the impossible to pin down or reduce. Girl, Interrupted 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Gyllenhaal invests every note he sings with the rapt determination of someone trying to capture and pin down the elusive. Review: ‘Sunday in the Park With George,’ a Living Painting to Make You See 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z She pins down the rage the club's members feel that their country has been stolen from them. Posh 2010-04-16T00:58:00Z Then she pins down what it is she really wants to say – the absolute heart of the matter. Kathryn Bigelow on Detroit: ‘There’s a radical desire not to face the reality of race’ 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Ambiguous by nature, photographs flutter indeterminately until pinned down with a caption. Jona Frank: Between Reality and Fantasy 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z This is the late 1960s, and he finds himself pinned down in Khe Sanh, then tied up underground as a prisoner of war. Review | Salvatore Scibona’s second novel trots the globe yet misses nothing 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Although his stars are as handsome as their exotic surroundings, and they initially generate a good deal of charm, the characters they're playing are difficult to pin down. 'Certified Copy': We're not on 'Cairo Time' in this romance 2011-04-07T19:24:07Z For several years, Mann saw and spoke to Weinstein regularly, although she testified that she was unable to pin down the last time they had consensual sex. Analysis | Harvey Weinstein accuser Jessica Mann’s dramatic testimony is a new kind of test in sex-crime trials 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z A veteran editor of The New Yorker and Knopf attempts to pin down the life of an actress known for her elusiveness. 8 New Books Coming in December 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z “The biggest consideration is pinning down decisions and selecting materials and finishings before the job begins,” he says. Perspective | How to set your budget for a big home improvement project 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, that feeling cannot be contained in an object any more than it can be pinned down to one human being. Life Without Longing 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z If Ormandy was hard to pin down, his fundamental tastes were late Romantic and later. 120 CDs Later, a Conductor’s Legacy Is Still Uncertain 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z A kinky nothing said to me by a lover in bed, the same words that one of my assailants said as he pinned down my wrists, urging his friend to violate me. I was assaulted at 18. Eleven years on, could I find out what happened to my attackers? 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z It was an exemplar of this festival’s aesthetic: high-tech, allusive and not to be pinned down. 2010-02-06T05:36:00Z I tried to pin down what it was about them I found so compelling. Frieze 2012: my big art inspiration 2012-10-10T17:20:01Z For the next eight years, as televisions became standard furniture in home after home, no one was more responsible for pinning down those squirmy children than Edward Kean, who died on Aug. 13 at 85. Edward Kean, Chief Writer of ?Howdy Doody,? Dies at 85 2010-08-26T06:00:00Z The aim, apparently, is to show how much more interesting an argument can be if it resists being pinned down. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review 2012-11-21T10:15:01Z The tale Fletcher told wasn’t easy to pin down, but what emerged was a portrait of isolation. Hotel Room Theater: Richard Maxwell's 'Showcase' at the Millennium Biltmore 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Their immediate aim has been to name the names of Indian artists and identify their creations, pinning down as never before who did what, where and when. Art Review: Putting Names to the Greats of Indian Art 2011-09-29T22:39:43Z Why try to pin down, and narrow, a concept that has, after all, always contained multitudes? Expanding the Scope of ‘Latin American Art’ 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z They refused to be pinned down to any single idea or aesthetic philosophy, and they didn’t restrict themselves to any one medium. Art in the midst of catastrophe — and renewal 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z But, man, he was hard to pin down. He liked to mow his own lawn. Until the ‘helpful’ neighbor came along Formally daring, energetic and unpredictable, their work is hard to pin down precisely because it encompasses so many genres and styles. Avant-Garde Theater, or a Musical: Who Says You Need to Choose? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The talented British writer and director Andrew Haigh doesn’t like to be pinned down. Review: In ‘The North Water,’ There’s Blood on the Ice 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z True stories are composed of a combination of facts and feelings; interrogate and pin down the facts and the corresponding feelings, long buried, emerge. Chasing Down a Decades-Old Family Tragedy 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Ms. Munro is famously self-effacing and publicity-shy — traits that probably stem in part from old-fashioned Canadian modesty and in part from wariness, a wish not to be pinned down. Alice Munro Puts Down Her Pen to Let the World In 2013-07-01T21:24:22Z At moments in her scholarly pursuit, she said, she’s “gone way too far” and found herself practically unable to tear herself away from pinning down particular facts. Dressed to Kill: The Power of Leopard Prints 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The family set-up, Molly says, was built on deceit: her dad was secretive, mysterious, slippery, impossible to pin down. My dad, the bank robber: ‘He never told the truth’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Not that her new visibility is making her any easier to pin down. A Career Woven From Life 2011-04-03T02:14:47Z No British youth subculture worth its drugs has gone unnoticed by film-makers, but the 90s rave culture has proved notoriously difficult to pin down with any degree of artistic or box-office success. Youth culture movies: how soon is too soon? 2011-08-18T21:00:01Z Angels, after all, are notoriously hard to pin down. From Gabriel to Lucifer: A Cultural History of Angels by Valery Rees 2012-12-21T07:00:01Z I always saw this refusal to be pinned down as a strength. France Defines Natural Wine, but Is That Enough? 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z The book reveals another side of Murakami, one not so easy to pin down. Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z As long as he is in movement, in transit, he can’t be pinned down, which means that he remains alive. Werner Herzog's walking blues 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Certainly I can't think of any play that pins down so accurately the paradox at the heart of Thatcherism: the simultaneous celebration of traditional family values and the sanctification of individual greed. Absurd Person Singular, 40 years on 2012-05-25T21:55:04Z Moore effectively pins down a mood of modern angst; I just wish he enlightened us more as to its source. Town 2010-06-22T20:29:00Z But in the end, this is a novel as hard to pin down and categorise as another of those Greek gods – Proteus. There Is No Dog by Meg Rosoff ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:05Z At least, I think that's it: but this strange film is difficult to pin down. A Town Called Panic - review 2010-10-07T21:25:00Z That unwillingness to be pinned down hasn’t always played to Kelis’s advantage. Music Review: Kelis as Dance-Club Diva at Santos Party House 2010-04-22T21:18:00Z But for now, it’s a little like Miles Davis pinning down modal jazz: Good for him, and good for my ears, but you can’t explain it to me. Physics and culture collide 2012-07-13T18:32:00Z A set that can change locations instantaneously, or costumes that pin down time and class with almost taxonomic exactitude, can anchor while also heightening the illusion of life. On Broadway Stages, the Beautiful Rooms Are Empty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z The Woman Upstairs is both quieter and braver; it roars in its own muted way, and dares to pin down things that are both excruciating and universal. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud – review 2013-05-17T09:00:02Z But its enduring appeal is not easy to pin down. The 1947 ‘Nightmare Alley’: A Dark View of Class as Destiny 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z The tinted aviator glasses, hairstyles and Huk-A-Poo shirts pin down the fashion moment just as forcefully as their chatter pins down the sociological one. Review: Puppets and Power Make for a Marvelous ‘Menagerie’ 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Twee, snarky, meta, manic, maddening and yet eventually poignant, the play is a moving target, its tone as hard to pin down as its facts. ‘Scene Partners’ Review: Is She Brilliant? Demented? Both? 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z “Most people just read to kill time. Who is going to investigate? No one will. It only passes your eyes—there’s no need to pin down if it’s real or fake.” The “Post-Truth” Publication Where Chinese Students in America Get Their News 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z The cooking there is hard to pin down, geographically. Elk? Hare? Camel? All That and More in Sandwiches, at Foxface 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z But compared to “Criss-Cross” — a recent two-guitar piece that appears on a valuable release on the Black Truffle label — this newer work was harder to pin down. Celebrating a Union That Rewired Classical Music 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Cunningly declining to be pinned down by the word, Mr. Dorfles said it was not his ambition to “define absolutely, once and for all, the meaning of the term.” Fashion Review: Milan Men’s Wear for Spring 2013 2012-06-27T21:26:14Z But the makings of a successful brief, the initial pitch and outline of a project, are infuriatingly hard to pin down. Creatives Talents Explain the Role of the Brief in Their Processes 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Johnson remembers her first year as a snowflake, wearing an icicle crown that she hadn’t pinned down tightly enough. What’s it like to dance ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s a marathon of pain. 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Giorgio de Chirico was hard to pin down. Art Review: When the Artists Voted for the Politics of Order 2010-10-10T21:37:00Z Plenty of people savor “Succession” on its own narrative terms — even if those terms remain tricky to pin down. Review | Satire? Wallow? There’s no right way to watch ‘Succession’ — hating it works, too. 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z He is tough to pin down whenever the talk turns to what he hopes any of his works will accomplish. Two Points of View, Miles Apart 2011-04-14T22:15:13Z "Of course there is no real George Orwell – it was the pen name of Eric Blair – but he was a writer and political commentator who is very hard to pin down," said the BBC. George Orwell Day 2013-01-21T10:40:54Z And while the use of interspecies melding seen in “Butcher Boys” continues, the overall tone is less brutish, more tender and harder to pin down. Art Review: Jane Alexander’s Work at St. John the Divine 2013-04-25T20:34:53Z But the overall tone is a light-dark mix, hard to pin down. Review: In ‘Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971,’ Text Messages From the Edge 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Comprised of 32 bite-sized tracks, "Miniatures" is delightfully difficult to pin down. Tiny and mighty: Indie artist Ken Sharp recorded bite-sized baroque pop "Miniatures" on his iPhone 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z But maybe today’s fluid teens aren’t so easy to pin down. Does Booksmart spell the end of high school stereotypes? 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z The stewed okra with cod is especially hard to pin down. A Brooklyn Favorite for Jamaican Food Beats the Odds 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Raine explores any number of a doctor's dilemmas, pins down the hierarchy of hospital life, and is very persuasive on the struggles women face at senior level. Tiger Country - review 2011-01-20T09:43:53Z The philosopher Jacques Derrida might have said it is this very elusiveness — the sense that meaning can never be pinned down by language — that is Gorey’s overarching point. Nightshade Is Growing Like Weeds 2011-03-06T00:26:18Z Even so, Mr. Bengston, a flinty contrarian with the soul of a prankster, never allowed himself to be pinned down by any particular style or movement. Billy Al Bengston, Painter Who Channeled California Cool, Dies at 88 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The Rebels are freedom fighters, or terrorists, depending on your point of view: they are potentially everywhere, and hard to pin down. The real "Star Wars" story is garbage — literally 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z A lot about the show is hard to pin down, which is its strength. At MoMA, Women at Play in the Fields of Abstraction 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The numbers regarding authorship are difficult to pin down, because publishing includes such a mix of genres and styles, commercial and literary. Has Virago changed the publishing world's attitudes towards women? 2013-03-14T08:00:02Z The Art Newspaper: "The lifesize tableau depicts a barbaric racist attack in which five white men pin down and castrate a black man." Culture coach: the week's essential arts stories 2012-06-14T13:59:40Z It’s a chilling documentary—not just because of the nature of the crimes, but because of how difficult it becomes to pin down any one truth about the guilt or innocence of these men. “The Jinx”: HBO investigates the unsolved crimes of New York millionaire Robert Durst 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z When Anna thinks about the behaviour of some of the men she knew at university, she finds it hard to pin down exactly what she thinks of them. The age of banter 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z When I put the wig on, it's got the reading glasses pinned down. "The View" alum Sherri Shepherd doesn't want any more drama 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z The Paddington film's producers - who also made the Harry Potter movies - did not find the bear's voice easy to pin down. Paddington author to make film cameo 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z A small clip pins down a few of her glossy black curls, but most of them tumble around her face. She’s a ballerina, a Wilhelmina model and a college student. But for Nardia Boodoo, it’s not enough. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Not that Sergeant can wholly pin down Santa: we are, after all, dealing with an elemental figure who's "magic". TV highlights Christmas Eve 2010-12-20T02:05:00Z It’s hard to pin down the reasons that such a strange, 21st century endeavor is a crowd-pleasing success, but Abba’s music has its own strange alchemy. Abba Voyage Review: No Ordinary Abba Night at the Club 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z The plot twists were pinned down and fed human growth hormone, lurching from ‘Oh my God’ to ‘No, seriously, I’m actually having a panic attack here’. The Sopranos to Blackadder – what are the definitive series of the best TV shows? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z It can be confusing, though, pinning down exactly what those characteristics are. We Are Scientists present the rules ? of writing a popular blog 2010-05-20T08:27:00Z As a movement that is shaped by the displacement and migration of Black diasporic sounds and their people, reggaeton is difficult to pin down with a firm definition. Reggaeton’s History Is Complex. A New Podcast Helps Us Listen That Way. 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z And then there are the sketches, which are all impossible to pin down. I Think You Should Leave: is this the funniest Netflix show yet? 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Maybe the public is too busy trying to pin down one meaning, he mused. Damien Hirst’s Post-Venice, Post-Truth World 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z A dialect coach helped Boon pin down Rotten’s accent and his lisp. Becoming Johnny Rotten, When John Lydon Would Rather You Didn’t 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z The reasons for Bob and Ray’s lasting appeal were hard to pin down. Bob Elliott, of Bob and Ray Comedy Fame, Dies at 92 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Red’s active roster of original series, hard to pin down, is in the low double digits. On Paid YouTube, Sci-Fi Comedy and the Grown-Up Karate Kid 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z The number of taxidermy mounts at U.S. museums is also tough to pin down. Behind taxidermy display halls are lots of donors of (unsolicited) dead animals 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z She knows she is tough to pin down, but always makes sure to give her all when she’s there. With ‘Second Act,’ Jennifer Lopez makes her own opportunity 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z They’re well known among classical music aficionados for their 2009 collaboration with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, “The Melody of Rhythm,” but that release made it no easier to pin down their style. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Few artists want their work to be pinned down by “meaning.” Menil’s New Drawing Institute: A Full-Service Home for Fragile Art 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The exact source of this phrase is hard to pin down, but its meaning is clear enough: If you’re happy, then your page stays blank. The Poet of Light 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z When Smith is asked to “audition for the role of the mother,” the proverbial tables turn: now she is the one pinned down, by the glare of a spotlight and the director’s judgmental eye. At La MaMa, a Dance Festival That Embraces States of Change 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z “Whatever Ms. Grisham is doing becomes part of this larger riddle. It’s just so hard to pin down.” Meet Melania Trump’s enforcer. It’s not her husband. 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z There were still many logistics to pin down. A Fashion Week Debut, Seven Weeks in the Making 2010-09-09T04:20:00Z Will string theory be pinned down within 20 years? 20 predictions for the next 25 years 2011-01-02T00:05:22Z Geoff Dyer writes books that are easy to enjoy but hard to pin down. Geoff Dyer Takes to the Streets With Garry Winogrand 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z “I’m a worker. I do my work. I can’t really be pinned down to any specific ideology,” she says. Patti Smith, an accidental rock legend, has finally become the artist she always wanted to be 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z It’s a mish-mash of styles that isn’t easily pinned down, but makes for a good party. Lollapalooza Day 1 in review 2011-08-06T06:57:00Z In a world in which two plus two is said to no longer equal four, reality is nearly impossible to pin down. Orwell's '1984' has never seemed so current and terrifying as on the Broad Stage 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z This Scottish trio takes pride in being tough to pin down, but you could say their sound is a global, unorthodox, experimental vision of pop that places hip-hop at the forefront. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z “It will be whatever I make it for the time I’m there,” she has said of reinventing a brand with no particular identity, a brave choice while others scramble to pin down a heritage. C?line?s Phoebe Philo Has Her Disciples 2012-03-01T19:22:18Z The songwriter waves off the idea that his music can be pinned down that way. Out and Riding High in Nashville 2013-05-24T12:00:31Z Jameel and I discovered a mutual affinity for machine learning and Detroit techno but unfortunately couldn't pin down a specific project on which to collaborate. SXSW 2011: How we made our interactive band tracker 2011-03-11T16:34:26Z An enormous literature has sprung about theorizing why that could be, what it all means and how we deal with a fleeting historic event we can't pin down. How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z But his comic sensibility is not hard to pin down. Michael Che and Colin Jost are back for more Trump jokes, whether they like it or not 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z The best of them is hard to pin down, but the extended subway confrontation between our hero, a man with a baseball bat and a woman with two furiously flying hammers is certainly a highlight. The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z It’s a place where foods seem caught in a constantly evolving in-between: not from here, not from there, strongly rooted but hard to pin down. The Original Nachos Were Crunchy, Cheesy and Truly Mexican 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Others found it easier to pin down the problem with the whole event. Frankie Boyle puts his money where his mouth is – and Justin Bieber's life is a comedy 2012-12-18T16:01:23Z In its second season the show that felt impossible to pin down started to conform to narrative convention. Mr Robot or Mr Woebot? Why the hacker drama might need a restart 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z And I think then it’s particularly hard to pin down and make the argument about position and facts versus performance and rhetoric. Hillary Clinton meets Mary Beard: ‘I would love to have told Trump: “Back off, you creep”’ 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z But for all his esoteric attraction, Dee remains a hard figure to pin down, and I'm not sure Albarn and Norris have really got to grips with his significance except in a superficial way. Dr Dee – review 2012-06-27T11:01:40Z His tweet also included video of a police officer pinning down Floyd by his neck. Jimmy Fallon Is Sorry. But What Does That Mean? 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Strength Gordon's sheer vagueness makes him very hard to pin down. Four Rooms: how to beat the experts 2011-07-08T23:06:59Z Like a screen-saver with a purpose, the system lets idle computers crunch models of the climate system to help pin down the links between global warming and extreme weather. Will.i.am arrives by helicopter for flying visit to climate debate 2012-05-24T10:49:59Z Lawrence, the contemporary American-Swedish composer Kali Malone — could emulsify into something personal, and devilishly tough to pin down. The Trumpeter Adam O’Farrill’s Art of Avoiding the Obvious 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Several of Ishiguro’s novels feature artists as their protagonists, but his work will not be pinned down in terms of genre and setting. Kazuo Ishiguro, a Nobel Winner Whose Characters Are Caught Between Worlds 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Who can pin down Mitt Romney, the man of whom one-time rival Ted Kennedy quipped, "I am pro-choice, he's multiple choice"? TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 15-19 October 2012-10-15T07:00:00Z Power speculates that it sounds "meaner" than the band's previous work, but he's keen not to pin down tracks like Brainfreeze and The Red Wing any further. Fuck Buttons, the kings of noise 2013-07-19T13:00:00Z The exact details of their collaboration are hard to pin down. Secrets of the Dick Francis mysteries: One family kept the "greatest fiction factory" under wraps 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z In that introduction, Relin wrote that Mortenson’s “fluid sense of time made pinning down the exact sequence of many events in this book almost impossible.” Three Cups of Tea Co-author Relin Commits Suicide 2012-12-03T20:54:17Z Modern methods of recording audience numbers were introduced in 1981, and figures for older programmes are hard to pin down. Bolt's win watched by 20 million 2012-08-06T16:53:38Z Its age is tricky to pin down, but it’s probably safe to say the first génépi was made several hundred years ago. The age-old liqueur that will bring a wintry taste of the Alps to your glass 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z Hard to pin down, good to look at. Fall TV: A day-by-day list of new shows 2011-09-13T22:09:08Z As for his favorite spring bird, Mr. Dziezic refused to be pinned down: “All,” he said, “contribute to spring’s splendor.” Birds by the Billions: A Guide to Spring’s Avian Parade 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z And while it may be hard to pin down, there is such a thing as truth. Perspective | When Facebook and Google are ‘weaponized,’ the victim is reality 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z One goal, she said, was to “put together a somewhat comprehensive portrait of this musician who is really hard to pin down.” A Pianist Strolls Her Harlem History, and Scott Joplin’s 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Kina can be hard to pin down, he said. T Magazine: Island Records 2012-11-16T18:00:23Z Biss may not be able to pin down capitalism, but she knows what she wants: as much of what she wants as is ethically possible. In Capitalism’s Clutch, and Exploring Its Contradictions 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z More than in most New Amsterdam projects, the style Mr. Brittelle fashioned for “Mohair Time Warp,” the first song cycle he composed after his injury, was hard to pin down. William Brittelle?s Return to His Voice and Vision 2010-08-01T02:00:00Z The documentary might have pinned down more clearly, for instance, why “Midnight Cowboy” received its X rating, later changed to R. ‘Desperate Souls’ Review: When ‘Midnight Cowboy’ Moved the Culture 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z What strikes me even more is how she pins down a subject Conor McPherson was to develop in The Weir: the emotional inhibition of the small-town Irish male. Wife to James Whelan ? review 2011-04-07T19:04:01Z Because none of her roles can be pinned down, she can’t be truly held responsible for her work. Perspective | Here’s why Ivanka Trump’s role at the G-20 summit was so unsettling. And it wasn’t just about nepotism. 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Sturtevant’s work is slippery; her statements about it seem to ensure that she would not, could not be pinned down. ‘Sturtevant: Double Trouble,’ a Career Retrospective at MoMA 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z But there’s another shoot happening in a children’s psychiatric hospital in Rockland County, New York, where the show’s exterior scenes are filmed, and it’s hard to pin down where, exactly, anything is happening. A riot in real time: how Orange is the New Black is changing the rules 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The honest observer was bound to realize “how hard it was to pin down anything at all about someone else’s culture.” How a Group of Heretical Thinkers Chipped Away at the Idea of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Hours on the phone with the airlines trying to pin down the cheapest fare. Frugal Traveler Blog: Five Travel Problems and the Sites That Try to Solve Them 2013-05-07T19:17:49Z “So much of what he conveyed there successfully, I think we also sought to convey — that point of fugivity, of making things that can’t be pinned down to any sort of essence,” Escobar said. Standing on the Corner Is a Music Collective That Won’t Be Pinned Down 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z And Rajiv’s own appeal is that he is hard to pin down. theater: A Little Good, a Little Evil, a Lot of Ritual 2010-12-30T23:56:50Z “It becomes, in a way, more difficult to pin down where one thing stops and the next thing picks up, but it all comes together,” Mr. Gilbert said of the new season’s overlapping themes. Dvorak, Honegger and Joan of Arc in Philharmonic’s 2014-15 Season 2014-01-22T17:00:00Z Any friends with a lot of other commitments — not just parents — can be tough to pin down, but manners still apply. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A leopard can’t change its spots, and neither can some cheaters 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z And because clouds shift so much more quickly than skylines do, our towers — our reflective, Late Modern towers in particular — are capricious, hard to pin down. In Wayne Thom's revelatory show, a generation of L.A. buildings gets needed attention 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z The precise appeal the picture held for him is hard to pin down. Art Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Regrets,’ a New Series at MoMA 2014-03-21T16:46:57Z In this way, the show also pins down the underlying sadness of looking at art right now, precisely because it looks so good online. 3 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z The culmination of two and a half years of development, it’s as hard to pin down as she is. A ‘Barbie From Outer Space’ Touches Down on a New Stage 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Bond also pins down the lack of correspondence between poetic greatness and domestic bliss: Bond's Shakespeare bars his bedroom door to his imploratory wife and daughter. Bingo 2010-04-25T20:45:00Z Yet he's hard to pin down, which makes developing a following difficult. John Wray is hard to pin down 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Mr Krasznahorkai’s writing worries at these eternal questions, picking and unpicking tiny details, actions and reactions, in a relentless attempt both to pin down and to describe the complexities of contemporary life. Transcendental meditation 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Maybe it’s that ambivalence, that refusal to be pinned down, that landed Mezzanine so squarely inside the circle of “alt” kids that loved it a decade ago. Reissue of Massive Attack’s Mezzanine Highlights Band’s Influence 2013-11-15T16:52:52Z The problem is that while the album is impressively multifaceted, Dahlia’s sound becomes hard to pin down. Kat Dahlia hasn’t landed on an exact sound, but she has an actual voice 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Terrified passengers were reportedly forced to pin down a woman who attacked the cabin crew and tried to open the plane’s door mid-flight. Passenger reportedly attacks crew members and tries to force open plane door: 'Everyone’s screaming and crying' 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z “I’ve never been one to enjoy being pinned down in any way. I guess it’s good that people are seeing both sides of me pretty immediately.” Natalie Morales Makes Her Directing Debut. Twice. 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Henderson offers a deeply researched look at the science of tsunamis, which becomes its own sort of geologic detective story, as scientists try to pin down the date of the last great Pacific Northwest earthquake. David L. Ulin's best books of 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Not that any label, ethnic or otherwise, comes close to pinning down identities that are always, dangerously, in flux. Review: ‘He Brought Her Heart Back,’ Adrienne Kennedy’s Beautiful Nightmare 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z They had a more difficult time pinning down the festival’s niche, its identity, in an increasingly crowded summer calendar. Concert review: Riot Fest at Humboldt Park 2012-09-17T05:46:00Z But Mr. Sono, 54, also known for being prolific — six feature-length works he directed made their debuts last year — is not that easy to pin down. At Japan Cuts Festival, Films by Sion Sono That Don’t Fit His Bad-Boy Label 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Given how decentralized the world of theater is, it is difficult to pin down exactly how common problems of workplace misconduct are. Sex and Violence, Beyond the Script 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z A love like that is hard to pin down, hard to put into words. Do our pets ever really love us – or do they just stick around for the food? 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Watts is doing what he does best, which is ... well, it's a little hard to pin down, really. Reggie Watts: 'I like using my voice to do really dumb things' 2012-06-01T17:15:54Z Elements of chance and indeterminacy are such vital parts of both the creative process and the performance experience that the music can lose much of its sparkle when pinned down on CD. So Percussion’s Limited-Edition John Cage Project 2012-11-25T00:50:16Z Colman’s performance isn’t easy to pin down: in some ways the Queen is as wily and as manipulative as the two celestial seductresses in her orbit. The Top 10 Movie Performances of 2018 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z And yet Shaw is not easy to pin down. Fiona Shaw: 'I'm not frightened of hard words' 2012-07-17T18:01:00Z Even the source of her beauty is hard to pin down, her features rendered slightly off-kilter by a distractingly wide mouth and swollen upper lip. Ruth Wilson Is a Riddle, and You Like Her That Way 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Ultimately, this particular shape makes sense to me: love as a blob that can’t be pinned down, as something alive, an animal that ventures from person to person but finds places to call home. Talking to My Fiancé About My New Girlfriend 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Shakespeare's skill in dramatising opposing sides, we learn, made him hard to pin down, helping him avoid trouble with the authorities. TV highlights 29/06/2012 2012-06-28T19:00:01Z That’s a logical and natural conclusion, but also one sociologists and statisticians have a devil of a time pinning down. Weinstein, Tarantino and the standoff over movie violence 2014-02-01T19:30:00Z Mr. Mathew followed by pinning down the context for the Shostakovich performance firmly and explicitly. Music Review: ‘Shostakovich for the Children of Syria,’ a Benefit Concert 2014-01-14T22:39:52Z And it is personally expressive, though in ways hard to pin down. At MoMA, Women at Play in the Fields of Abstraction 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z His politics were difficult to pin down — at least from the movies. Want to Try a Robert Bresson Film? Look to Clint Eastwood 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Today’s Mormons shy away from theological debate, so much so that, Mr. Bowman observes, it’s “difficult to pin down what precisely orthodox Mormon belief is.” Books of The Times: ?The Mormon People,? Matthew Bowman?s Timely Church History ? Review 2012-01-24T18:40:40Z Though Trump’s view on women’s health is hard to pin down, there is no wavering for Mike Pence, the vice-president elect who is ardently anti-abortion. Women’s rights groups brace for Trump: ‘We are used to fighting impossible odds’ 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z This is perhaps the hardest — but most influential — element to pin down of all. 5 Easy Ways to Make Your Dining Room More Enjoyable 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Granted, the scenes in which she was pinned down behind a car got silly, harking back to the hitting-everything-but-your-target style of shooting we’ve seen over the past few weeks. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode four recap – Some Guy 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Its humor is softer and more ambiguous than that of Ms. Shelton’s earlier films, and its characters are harder to pin down. Movie Review: ‘Touchy Feely’ Explores Family Emotions 2013-09-05T22:05:20Z It pinned down the work/life balance before the phrase was even invented. Mum lit: a chore thing 2011-04-06T19:00:00Z Mr. Hinterhäuser declined to be pinned down about these contemporary resonances, especially before rehearsals for the new staging were complete. Is ‘The Bassarids’ an Operatic Masterpiece, or ‘Strauss Turned Sour’? 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z “He’s not pinned down,” Reiner argued. “We have to hold these people accountable.” Rob Reiner voices the frustration of millions, calls out media coverage of Donald Trump on “Morning Joe” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z But it was hard to pin down one reason why. “American Animals” could change how we tell true crime stories 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Arias is no easier to pin down at home than he is on stage. Up Close: Joey Arias of ?Arias With a Twist? 2011-10-05T21:27:42Z Already, Mr. Smith’s art was proving hard to pin down. Richard Smith, British Painter Who Turned Toward Pure Color, Dies at 84 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z In the case of Kabuki it is remarkably hard even to pin down its salient characteristics, though white makeup, masklike facial composure and formal costumes are customary. Dance Review: Kabuki With Bando Kotoji at Japan Society 2012-04-01T21:13:38Z You can pin down one or the other but not both. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z And although he declined to be pinned down on any point of musical reference, he did admit, “Since the beginning, I’ve had love for the theater.” Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Gallo declined to be pinned down, the curator said, and his wait-and-see approach seemed to fit the exploratory spirit of this Biennial. Vincent Gallo Keeps ‘Promises Written in Water’ Off Screens 2012-06-10T04:10:05Z His dimensions are undefined—he can’t be pinned down to any one aesthetic, to any one artistic movement, or to any real purpose at all. Revisiting an Oscar Winning Animated Film by Chuck Jones 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z In fact, as if proving there is no way to definitively pin down the exhibition, there are 31, not 30 artists, in the show. ‘What does it mean to be an American’? Black artists explore question in new exhibit at TAM 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Maybe, but she was too insistent on the intellectual content of art to be pinned down to any purely psychological motivation. Sturtevant retrospective at MoMA is double trouble indeed And when the scene changes are as expressive as the actors’ attention to every nuance of each other’s actions, staging becomes a kind of emotional choreography: thrilling, precise, impossible to pin down. Review: In ‘Between Riverside and Crazy,’ Real Estate Gets Real 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Where the wave and/or particle is located depends on whether or not its location is pinned down by observation. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z An odd smell pervades — one that is hard to pin down. ‘Facing the Wave’: devastation and heartbreak in the tsunami’s aftermath 2013-02-20T19:56:37Z London talent is so varied and unpredictable that it can’t really be pinned down. | Critic?s Notebook: Critic?s Notebook: The Endless Runway - NY Fashion Week 2011-09-07T20:07:07Z As everyone scrambled to pin down her appeal, Ryder herself appeared increasingly reluctant to play the fame game. Winona Ryder: from teen rebel to screen mum 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z Co-op prices are hard to pin down, but it appears that the rents were about $200 per month for a half floor with three bedrooms. Streetscapes: Ring Around the Collar at 535 Park Avenue 2013-08-01T21:28:06Z “I love him to distraction… I detest you,” Elizabeth retaliates, before she is thrown onto the bed and pinned down by Poldark, at which point she succumbs and begins to kiss him back. Poldark Sex Scene Perpetuates 'Rape Fantasies,' Critics Say 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z “It’s cartoonish, impossible to pin down and always insulting to Mexicans.” Trevor Noah’s epic anti-media/anti-Trump rant: “It’s cartoonish” 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The ensemble grooved hard with each tune — often aggressively percussive, though sometimes, as on “Is It Love That Inspires You?,” impossible to pin down. Review | Joel Ross, a vibraphone wunderkind, weds sweet melodies to advanced-math rhythms 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z And once again, this Doctor is still difficult to pin down and that’s probably the point and that’s probably a good thing. Doctor Who recap: series 34, episode three – Robot of Sherwood 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z “Richard Move is one of those people who floats between worlds and between genders and is very difficult to pin down into one type of artist or one genre.” Gender Outlaws, Floating Freely Outside Binary Boxes 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z On TikTok, instructors are set loose as memes; on Twitter, they are pinned down and politically scrutinized. This Is Your Brain on Peloton 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Walter Presents has just hit the 6m stream mark in Britain, and is now in “international roll-out mode”, pinning down deals across Europe, in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. 'It's better than The Sopranos': the foreign TV you'll be bingeing on this summer 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z These kinds of beliefs hover around in us but are hard to pin down. From grad school to social work 2013-02-11T01:00:00Z It’s hard to pin down a clear line of argument. Attempting the Impossible: A Thoughtful Meditation on Technology 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Still, other aspects were harder to pin down — for one thing, Jonah was from the mean streets of ’70s Brooklyn and Lerman, 28, grew up in Los Angeles. In ‘Hunters,’ Al Pacino Stalks Nazis Into New Territory 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z This week’s exposure of the college-admissions scam is significant exactly because, in its trite ordinariness, it makes granular and concrete what is usually abstract and difficult to pin down. The College-Admissions Scandal and the Banality of Scamming 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z In his defense, the attendees were hard to pin down, divided into factions loosely structured around age and priorities. What Do Sneakerheads Wear at Thanksgiving? 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Additionally, Jackson’s team traveled to some of the battle sites to pin down color references. How Peter Jackson Made WWI Footage Seem Astonishingly New 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z The plot is still somewhat hard to pin down, but it’s been reported this origin story is more of a coming-of-age tale, as a sequel is already slated for 2017. The New 'Fantastic Four' Trailer Takes Us Back to the Beginning 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z It’s a deep sorrow, the font of which is tricky to accurately pin down. “Logan” proves Wolverine is the comics’ most Canadian superhero — and not in the way you think 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z So the veneer stays pinned down once the area cools. How to repair veneer that has bubbled up 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z The trouble is also that Khodorkovsky is tough to pin down. ‘Citizen K’ Review: Trying to Pin Down a Russian Oligarch 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Yet having shown no previous commitment to Conservative politics – she is believed to have flirted with the Labour party as a student – she is far from easy to pin down ideologically. Claire Perry: a new breed of iron lady 2012-05-27T20:53:51Z It all made for a varied collection with some great looks, but one that was frustratingly hard to pin down. Westwood, Gaultier, Viktor & Rolf play on style 2013-03-03T03:01:05Z In his personal life, Mr. Hungtai, 37, has shown a similar aversion to being pinned down. Dispatches From the Nomad Musician Alex Zhang Hungtai 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Miranda spent one-on-one time with Simo in the recording studio, helping her pin down high notes in her head voice and low notes in her chest voice. Ynairaly Simo Reps the Bronx (and Tweenage Zest) in ‘Vivo’ 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Though she maintains the flat procedural affect of a just-the-facts public servant, her every utterance is dignified by the struggle to pin down morality in an amoral world. Review: In ‘Bobbie Clearly,’ It’s Crime, Punishment and Then What? 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z This unease – so hard to pin down – is one of the most fascinating aspects of Thomson's prose, both here and in his fiction. This Party's Got to Stop by Rupert Thomson | Book review 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z It's difficult to pin down exactly when the practice of lending jewelry for the red carpet started. For jewelers, entertainment award season is priceless advertising 2012-01-20T20:15:04Z Her style is hard to pin down, a fact Wells acknowledges on her Facebook page: “Genre: listen in headphones.” Your week in Seattle music: Devo, Merle Haggard, Maxwell and more 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z It’s tough to pin down this spare yet exceptional film because it never stops wrestling: with loss, memory, death, fatherhood. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Part of the problem is that Mr. Nelsons is still trying to pin down his own musical identity. At the Boston Symphony, Andris Nelsons Still Seeks an Identity 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z The scope of taxidermy work at museums is difficult to pin down. Behind taxidermy display halls are lots of donors of (unsolicited) dead animals 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Never mind; addiction isn’t an easy phenomenon to pin down. We are all addicts now 2013-05-11T23:00:00Z Ryder, who recently reappeared in "Black Swan," is excellent and keeps Geneva hard to pin down. 'The Dilemma': Happy days upended for couples in Ron Howard infidelity comedy 2011-01-13T02:33:04Z It's the most analyzed motorcycle crash in pop-culture history, but details have been as hard to pin down as the meaning of a Dylan lyric. 50 years later, Dylan's motorcycle crash remains mysterious 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z His expansive, metastasizing narratives and baroquely detailed descriptions represented efforts to pin down this increasingly incomprehensible reality with exactitude and nuance. Book Review: ‘Both Flesh and Not’ by David Foster Wallace 2012-11-15T16:55:36Z Keilson's feelings about his part in their fate are difficult to pin down. Hans Keilson: "Genius? I'm not even a proper writer!" 2010-11-21T00:05:00Z In their lumbering, roundabout fashion, they serve to reaffirm my love for the books they have tried and failed to pin down. American Pastoral and the curse of adapting a literary classic 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z As impossible to pin down as ever, Beck recruited many of the same musicians who played on 2002’s “Sea Change”—by far his most straightforward, introspective record—for this year’s “Morning Phase.” Your week in Seattle Music: Beck, Pink Martini and more 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z The decision paid off, allowing Dent to pin down Andrew Glomb for the first time. The ‘McMillions’ Monopoly Scheme, Explained 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Though that hints toward Batiste's understanding of a specific style of music, his latest album with his band Stay Human is more difficult to pin down. Jon Batiste gives jazz a loose interpretation 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z An Actor’s Not-So-Big Break “Best Worst Movie,” a funny-sad documentary about the 1990 horror movie disaster “Troll 2,” tries to pin down the alchemy that transports a film from reject bin to cult favorite. | 'Best Worst Movie': An Actor?s Not-So-Big Break 2010-05-14T00:01:00Z All food writing is a way to pin down “a few of the fleeting things of this world.” The Allure of Imagined Meals 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z But the film’s style is hard to pin down. What's on TV Wednesday: ‘The Irishman’ and ‘Julie & Julia’ 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Other contributions are even harder to pin down. Jack Daniel’s Embraces a Hidden Ingredient: Help From a Slave 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z I would shy away a little bit from “dominant gender script,” just because I find gender scripts these days to be so varied and it’s hard to pin down a dominant one. Online dating isn’t killing marriage! 2013-01-12T23:00:00Z But as Wulf’s nimble storytelling vividly shows, part of what made the Romantics so fascinating and maddening was their refusal to be pinned down. These Romantics Celebrated the Self, to a Fault 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z An Italian machine-gun crew had U.S. forces pinned down on a beach in Sicily. Heroic dog is honored 75 years after saving the lives of U.S. soldiers 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z What is most important is defying categorisation; being impossible to pin down. Eccentric women: why they are more important than ever in our oppressive era 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z While it is difficult to pin down solid numbers on anything that happened in the last months of the conflict, other relatively verifiable sources of information are clearly at odds with these figures. US embassy cables: Doctors 'pressured' to release civilian casualty figures during Sri Lankan conflict 2010-12-16T21:30:40Z While he apologized profusely and sincerely, the movie never pins down what he was thinking when he did that. Review: In ‘Love, Cecil,’ an Aesthete Ahead of His Time 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Featuring teenage siblings “OK boomer”-ing their parents as well as some characters from the previous novels in the series, the plot is hard to pin down. New in Paperback: ‘Summer’ and ‘The Dragons, the Giant, the Women’ 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z No, nothing about this book is simple or direct: It's like a wriggling fish, maddeningly hard to pin down but fascinating to observe. In 'The Lost Time Accidents,' John Wray balances the logical and the ludicrous 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Photograph: Eric Thayer/Reuters Put down your books, all of you out there who have been trying, day after day, week after week, to pin down who the greatest living American novelist is. Philip Roth is greatest US writer: 7.7 out of 10 readers agree 2013-02-27T17:00:05Z “Here and Elsewhere”, which opened on July 16th, does not propose to define Arabic art as a unified whole or even try to pin down a regional aesthetic. Shifting chronicle 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Or, his shrink tells him: “You are hard to pin down. It’s very attractive, by the way.” Justin Cartwright’s ‘Lion Heart’: a tangle of true quests 2014-02-19T20:13:56Z Her gifts, as affirmed by a MacArthur Foundation “genius” award in 1985, were intuitive and hard to pin down. Ellen Stewart, Off Off Broadway Pioneer, Dies at 91 2011-01-13T18:11:40Z Scott appears to try to bring the historical setting of the time to life, but the reality is that the “historical” Exodus story is hard to pin down. Exodus: 4 Differences Between Film and Bible 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z His appeal is manifest, yet hard to pin down. T Magazine: The Case of the Accidental Superstar 2014-03-07T14:00:51Z He admitted biting Mr Mantle's ear but claimed he was acting in self defence after being pinned down. Two cleared of Casualty star attack 2014-02-26T10:58:31Z Often, this is a Virgin Mary as hard to pin down as the time frame, although we are told the setting is "now" in the Playbill. Review: There's something (weird) about Mary 2013-04-23T02:16:03Z He certainly doesn’t like being pinned down, an attitude that probably dates back to his earliest years. Isaac Mizrahi Unbound at the Jewish Museum 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Part of the problem may stem from the fact that it’s difficult to pin down an exact definition of toxic masculinity. Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z As a character, he’s difficult to pin down. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Hollywood “Crack-Up” 2013-06-09T15:00:00Z I’m always interested in stories where you encounter someone you think you understand but that you find harder to pin down at the end. Is ‘The Little Stranger’ a ghost story or an allegory about Donald Trump? 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z The song is bewitchingly hard to pin down: short, foreign, and gently blue. Five Songs 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Unlike those of his religiously observant predecessors, Mr. Oursler’s beliefs are hard to pin down. Review: Tony Oursler’s Grand Illusions, Science Left at the Door 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z For a lot of these filmmakers, they were not able to pin down this story because it was still a work in progress. Showtime's "The One and Only Dick Gregory" pays tribute to the legend who left comedy for activism 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z The numbers are hard to pin down, but roughly 1.1 million Americans keep kosher in their homes. Diet fads are destroying us: Paleo, gluten-free and the lies we tell ourselves 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z It was music that couldn't easily be defined or pinned down, elusive and allusive, much like Plant himself. Robert Plant in ghost dance with roots 2011-04-11T00:28:26Z Trying to pin down his personality, she gave up: “He’s just a really unique, weird man.” Alex G and the Art of Interesting Choices 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z The inspiration behind pieces of music can often be hard to pin down, but that won’t be the case here. What’s on TV This Week: The Stanley Cup Finals and ‘Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes’ 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z HBO's experience is a vivid illustration of how new ways of watching television are imposing difficulties on people whose job it is to pin down how many people actually experience something. HBO's 'Game of Thrones' may -- or may not -- have recorded its most-watched episode ever this week 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z The band’s style is hard to pin down. Chicano Batman wins over crowds with unique, psychedelic sound 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z All I know is that the death of Presley has produced a kind of dull hurt that's hard to pin down. The king is dead: a classic Elvis Presley tribute from the vaults 2012-08-15T09:57:29Z Is this slipping and sliding some form of evolution, or just a sign of someone who is terrified of being pinned down? Feminist icon? 2010-09-17T07:00:00Z That’s a tough matrix to pin down: how much it costs to get there versus the costs once on the ground. Q&A: Travel Tips for Students, From a Student 2012-11-22T21:43:04Z “If there’s one thing I got from David Bowie, it’s that you can be a shapeshifter and never be pinned down; if people get the same thing from you every time, that’s actually disappointing.” 4 Ways David Bowie Influenced Musicians Today 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Foster, a former jingle composer, evades being pinned down to a style. Music Review: Foster the People at Rumsey Playfield 2012-05-30T22:30:07Z The best thing about it is that it is impossible to pin down. Hear hear: Artangel sound art comes to Radio 4 2013-03-28T07:00:06Z The inception of the “crazy” moniker is harder to pin down, but its connotations with hysteria is an old gender stereotype. Claws out! Why pop culture clings to the crazy cat lady 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z It can be confusing to navigate tipping across different industries, so we've gathered insights from a variety of experts to pin down tipping best practices in today's day and age. How to tip in 2023, according to experts and industry pros 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Being pinned down on bridges, you wonder where the fire is coming from. Vets preserve memories of war with their own art 2012-11-10T17:08:10Z It was hard to exactly pin down Villanelle and Eve's relationship for a long time, as it was hard to classify the show, which eluded explanation. "Killing Eve" boss on that shocking finale: "It just felt like the most truthful end" 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z The films themselves were often as difficult to pin down as Demme’s variegated career. Perspective | Jonathan Demme, the last of the great journeyman directors 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The hardest artist to pin down was country singer Alan Jackson, who ended up on the 1971 track "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" John Fogerty enlists friends to rework past hits on new album 2013-05-29T00:04:16Z Good luck trying to pin down devoted hop heads on the exact difference between a double, or imperial, IPA and a triple IPA, other than “it’s stronger and has more hops.” Beer of the Week: Stone RuinTen Triple IPA 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z Like many artists who are hard to pin down, critics found Beam exciting and they've been talking him up since 2002 when he released "The Creek Drank the Cradle." There's no pinning down Iron & Wine's Sam Beam 2013-04-16T16:46:03Z Like most partnerships, it’s hard to pin down the division of labor. Walter Becker was the cynical one hiding behind the guitar 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z It’s tough to pin down precisely what made his songs so distinctive. Postscript: Guy Clark, 1941-2016 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z The story is harder to pin down, as the tone wavers between terror and comedy. Theater Review: ‘Port Out, Starboard Home,’ by Sheila Callaghan, at La MaMa 2012-11-18T22:11:15Z Carroll isn’t interested in pinning down the exact historical details of Jesus’ life, though. James Carroll on disarming the memory of Jesus: “America threatens the world with violence in ways that no other country does” 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z Trouble is, Mackenzie is only just out of the starting blocks, and two years is no time at all when it comes to pinning down artists and commissioning work. Ruth Mackenzie: 'There's no time to mess around' 2010-03-29T20:30:00Z And though Ashling’s strangeness is undeniable, it’s also slippery to pin down. ‘Lucy’ Review: There’s Something About the Babysitter 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z But it's so hard to pin down why we all turned out all right. Daniel Radcliffe: 'I'm not a one-trick pony' 2013-06-02T18:00:01Z The arresting, fluid characters Ms. Landis captured and pinned down in those stories land here in a more solid setting, giving them additional depth and cohesion. ‘Rainey Royal,’ by Dylan Landis 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Testino demanded that the assistant roll him a joint, then threw him down on a bed, climbed on top of him and pinned down his arms, Mr. Tillman said. Male Models Say Mario Testino and Bruce Weber Sexually Exploited Them 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Of course, whether Mary and Martha really were criminal masterminds was impossible to pin down. Perspective | People said her great-great-aunts posed as white and robbed banks. So she wrote a musical about them. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Understandably, after these past six months, he would not allow himself to be pinned down beyond that. ?Levitated Mass,? a 340-Ton Artwork, On Detour to Los Angeles 2011-12-27T15:25:19Z “I’m a muscular guy, over 6′ around 200 lbs. and most of these girls may have been 125-130, really tiny and easy to pin down,” he writes. Inside the mind of a serial rapist 2012-07-27T20:00:00Z “There were some terms I spent hours trying to pin down, only to find that he’d made them up.” The Live-Action Birth of ‘Ghost in the Shell’ 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z In mythology: Like Hiddleston’s version of the character, the mythological Loki is a complicated guy, whose allegiances are hard to pin down — but the similarities are pretty limited after that. The “Truth” About Thor and Loki 2013-11-08T16:38:36Z There is no way to explain the joke, to pin down why it is so funny—it just is. The Indefinable Cartoonist Bob Weber 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z It was something more mercurial and harder to pin down but — on all the evidence presented by this show and its excellent catalogue — very, very enviable. Perspective | What makes a great art school? Haystack has the elusive answer. 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z But what it pins down with, acuity, is that peculiarly English quality of embarrassment in the face of emotion. Quartermaine's Terms – review 2013-01-30T01:07:38Z But the truth is hard to pin down, partly because these compounds are so unstable. Seeing red — in your garden 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Either could be inventing her stories, and Linda in particular is hard to pin down. Review: Death Is a Two-Way Door in ‘The Thin Place’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Motivations are hard to pin down as characters seemingly abandon their own best interests. "Country Strong" a Nashville nightmare 2010-12-22T23:47:51Z The whole construct of celebrity makes it even more difficult to pin down. Mark-Anthony Turnage: A life in music 2011-01-22T07:59:00Z In that respect, it’s a hard film to pin down. My streaming gem: why you should watch The President's Barber 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z The streamer’s comedy taste has always been difficult to pin down. In Comedy, Timing Is Everything, Especially at Netflix’s Festival 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z The locus of my personal clothing habits is a bit more difficult to pin down. Pandemic Dressing Takes a Dark Turn 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z That sense of struggle persists in full-throttle movement that fills the room, as the dancers enmesh and collide, often pinned down or stopped in their tracks. Review: ‘Bound’ and ‘Ecsteriority4 (Part 2)’ Explore Confinement and Collision 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Writers were dodgy, hard to pin down, but sometimes brilliant. The transformation of publishing 2012-11-09T22:54:01Z Truth may indeed be hard to pin down. Fake news is sickening. But don’t make the cure worse than the disease. 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z They know you cannot pin him down any more than quantum physicists can pin down the location of an electron. 'Steel Hammer' bangs out a spectacularly inventive social message at UCLA's Royce Hall 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z There is a lot of circumambient madness that the captions help pin down. He Was the Visual Voice of the Village Voice 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Sportswear is a difficult look to pin down in this era of inventive, ultralight fabrics. Let There Be Light 2012-09-24T18:53:32Z His music is not as groundbreaking as the visuals, but sounds more classic than dated, and he never lingers anywhere long enough to be pinned down. Deadmau5 2010-05-06T21:00:00Z Confused, pinned down, all but helpless, he surrenders to the teenager’s demands, only later to feel guilt. Book review: In ‘The Big Seven’ by Jim Harrison, a detective behaving badly 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z As for me, I’ve been in my new home base of DC for eight months and I’m still trying to pin down more solid friendships. Why It's So Hard to Make New Friends 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z At its best, Medal of Honor delivers an extremely intense, visceral combat experience, as when you and your buddies are pinned down in a ruined hut with Taliban fighters closing in from the high ground. Video Game Review: A Clear Winner in the Battle of 2 Combat Games 2010-10-19T16:31:00Z Your images are evocative, but the specific spaces, streets, or neighborhoods are hard to pin down. Pascal Campion’s “Love Interest” 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Ms. Moorman wrote constantly, maybe compulsively, as if that were a way to pin down reality, order it, at least a little. Charlotte Moorman, Tradition Disrupter, Is the Focus of Two Shows 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z For seven years she tried to pin down her subject, who could be alternately “cryptic, sarcastic, friendly and open, evasive and unfriendly.” Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Whether Bear tried to get him to is hard to pin down. When Barack met Bear: Grylls goes wild for his backwoods bromance with President Obama 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Citing what he said was first-hand information from Russia's "Dnepr" military grouping, he said Ukrainian forces were pinned down in basements in the day and predicted the Ukrainian assault would be thwarted. Ukrainian troops operate in occupied Kherson region after crossing river 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z On the widebody jet front, Airbus had to content itself with signaling a big order that’s not quite pinned down yet. Dubai Air Show opens with a huge boost for Boeing 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Israeli forces and Hamas gunmen have waged heavy battles outside Shifa, and some hospital officials have said Shifa was under siege, with those inside being pinned down by Israeli fire. Live updates | Fighting outside Gaza’s largest hospital prompts thousands to flee 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Dubai will bring more as airlines try to pin down delivery slots. Airbus and Boeing execs maneuver for sales edge in long-haul jet market 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z Mapping the distribution of far-off galaxies will help reveal the presence and patterning of these ripples—two presently murky types of measurements that can help cosmologists pin down the universe’s exact expansion rate. Euclid Space Telescope Releases Stunning First Science Images 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z A second Colorado police officer has been acquitted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, who was pinned down and injected with ketamine. Second Colorado officer acquitted in Elijah McClain death 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z The uncertainties around these factors have made it challenging for scientists to pin down an exact estimate for climate sensitivity. Earth Reacts to Greenhouse Gases More Strongly Than We Thought 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z It's hard to pin down when the dystopian drama is set, although it definitely predates modern technology. Fingernails: Film asks, what if a machine could find your life partner? 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z And home economists would say there is, that there actually is an art and a science that can be identified and studied and pinned down. How the Daughter of Sharecroppers Revolutionized Preschoolers' Health 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z But pinning down their actual roles in mineralization has proved to be a nightmare. ‘Why can’t you make a coral out of an anemone?’ 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Neurologists have struggled to pin down the exact causes of migraines, but some research has suggested a lack of sleep could be involved in a big way. Can a Bad Night’s Sleep Trigger a Migraine? 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z She talks about being pinned down on hospital stretchers and forced to take medication against her will. Britney Spears' memoir is an angry, cautionary tale 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z The reality on the pitch is hard to pin down. All Blacks tell Test rugby's oldest tale to make final 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z I mean that really hits home with me, the concept of there being a science that can be identified and studied and pinned down. How the Daughter of Sharecroppers Revolutionized Preschoolers' Health 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z People-smuggling networks are becoming very well organised and much harder for the authorities to pin down. People-smuggling ringleader jailed for bringing thousands into UK in boats 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z While the system is fairly well understood, Macedo says it’s difficult to pin down at what point things will stop working as usual. Record-breaking wildfires blanket Brazil with smoke 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z After being pinned down and given the sedative ketamine, he died three days later. Elijah McClain’s final words are synonymous with the tragic case that led to 1 officer’s conviction 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z A Colorado officer has been found guilty in the death of Elijah McClain, who was pinned down before a medic injected him with ketamine and he died. Colorado officer found guilty in Elijah McClain death 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z None of the three companies said who was responsible for the denial of service attacks, which have historically been difficult to pin down. Internet companies report biggest-ever denial of service operation 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z A 2018 Atlantic feature noted that while official numbers are hard to pin down, there are roughly one hundred active Catholic exorcists in the U.S. — up from just 15 a few years earlier. Why are exorcisms on the rise? 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z “It’s not linear. It’s not it’s not a simple process to kind of pin down,” Macedo said. Record-breaking wildfires blanket Brazil with smoke 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z He was intimidating, difficult to pin down, and evasive when questioned. Jimmy Savile: Steve Coogan on playing paedophile TV presenter in The Reckoning 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z The Italian team tried to pin down how well the shot actually works, analyzing data on more than 20,000 Italians who had received two doses as their primary vaccine series in 2022. Should you pick Novavax’s COVID-19 shot over mRNA options? 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Snake walks, it seemed, were promising, but too slippery to pin down. To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Carlson’s recent work is drawing some of that attention, because he claims to have pinned down the influence of climate on malaria. Malaria cases could ebb in an even hotter world. But other diseases will get worse 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump’s abortion politics have been tricky to pin down over the years. Trump tests the strength of his pro-life support with a more nuanced stance on abortion 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z It’s hard to pin down exactly when and where these interactions happened. Science paints a new picture of the ancient past, when we mixed and mated with other kinds of humans 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z But the way Chile tacklers struggled to pin down their diminutive target and the way Smith left them choking on his vapour trails brought back memories. Smith revels in England's child's play rout 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z That day in Brighton, their hits were low, their energy was high and South Africa, try as they might, couldn't pin down Japan's quicksilver handling game. Upbeat England search for statement win over Japan 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z The data it gathered from 430 miles above Earth is offering scientists critical clues that will help unravel the mechanics behind the quake, including pinning down the specific fault that ruptured. Satellite Data Yields Clues to Morocco’s ‘Blind Earthquake’ 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z And there was this woman at its center who was always a bit of a cipher, hard to pin down. How a history of Glossier became an epitaph for girlboss feminism 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z People of color are less likely to be included in research studies, making it difficult to pin down prevalence in specific racial groups. What you need to know about getting eating-disorder treatment 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z Around the mid-1960s, district officials began turning up at their door, both Houston brothers recall, though neither can pin down an exact year. Renton brothers seek reparations decades after sale of family land 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z If you still need to pin down plans, don’t panic. 12 Seattle-area and PNW trip ideas for Labor Day weekend 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z He and his colleagues began to pin down when wild plant species’ genomes duplicated to see whether there was any pattern. Cells with extra genomes may help tissues respond to injuries—and species survive cataclysms 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z Other candidates, including Trump, DeSantis and Haley, have tried to avoid being pinned down to a policy, while giving rhetorical support to the antiabortion cause. For eight years, GOP hasn't solved the Trump puzzle. Debate will show if new rivals have a path to beat him 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z That makes it the perfect place to pin down the dates for many species’ disappearances, O’Keefe says. Raging wildfires may have doomed California’s ancient megamammals, tar pit fossils reveal 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Now researchers may have pinned down one possible pathway to a magnetar by finding an unusually massive and magnetic star that might be on the cusp of forming one of these enigmatic objects. This Bizarre Star Could Become One of the Strongest Magnets in the Universe 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z The researchers will develop ways to identify restless elements that are primed to relocate and pin down where in the genome they insert. Your cells don’t have the genome you were born with. Project aims to chart impact of new mutations 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z ER stress can itself be prompted by mitochondrial dysfunction, making it hard to pin down the order of events leading to fatigue, he says. A protein that disrupts cells’ energy centers may be a culprit in chronic fatigue syndrome 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z But even controlled cases have periodic flare-ups, and the reasons have been hard to pin down. See How Stress Affects Inflammatory Bowel Disease 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z How does the summer “wavelet” speak to the virus’s seasonality, which many experts are trying to pin down? Why Are COVID Rates Increasing in the Summer? 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z On Thursday researchers announced the latest measurement milestone, which pins down the muon’s magnetic moment to an error of just one part in five million. Muon Mystery Deepens with Latest Measurements 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Jordan tried to pin down Mr. Mayorkas at the end of last month’s hearing. Jordan warns Mayorkas over ‘contempt’ for Congress 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Scientists have yet to pin down the biology underlying the condition, which affects up to 2.5 million people in the United States alone, according to some estimates. A protein that disrupts cells’ energy centers may be a culprit in chronic fatigue syndrome 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z It’s tricky to pin down just how dangerous kratom might or might not be. What you should know about the potential risks of kratom 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z It’s hard for 2 Chainz to pin down the first rap song he ever heard. From Killer Mike to Fat Joe, hip-hop stars talk about how first rap song resonated with them 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Self-reports of how frequently people nap and for how long are unreliable, Dautovich says, and pinning down the relationship between naps and any specific health outcomes is not always simple. Are Naps Good for You? 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z Supervisor Janice Hahn said it’s critical to pin down where and at what concentrations the chemicals are found so that the county can start developing a plan to get them out of the water. 'This is taking too long': California community awaits cleanup of PFAS-contaminated wells 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z The total cost of the war in civilian lives is impossible to pin down. A baby was found in the rubble of a US raid in Afghanistan. But who exactly was killed and why? 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z But pinning down the exact origin of these squishy sea creatures, which are some of the earliest complex animals, is difficult. 505-Million-Year-Old Jellyfish Fossils May Be the Oldest Ever Found 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z But exactly how big a role they play has been difficult to pin down. Your Genes May Influence What You Like to Eat 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Their positions were in former Russian positions, hemmed in by minefields, he said, and the Russian forces were able to keep them pinned down and under constant drone surveillance. Amid the Counterattack’s Deadly Slog, a Glimmer of Success for Ukraine 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z Our relatives have acknowledged that they're "better off than most," meaning they weren't being pinned down in a deadly 110° war zone without passports, electricity or running water, or trapped in a squalid refugee camp. The other war from hell: Struggle and suffering in Sudan — while the world looks away 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z The invaders are pinned down, then driven back. Han Kuang: Taiwan practises to repel a Chinese invasion 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z That makes it difficult to pin down kimberlite eruptions’ cause, especially because no one has witnessed one of the furious blasts. When Ancient Eruptions Pumped Diamonds to Earth’s Surface 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Which is why it was also a surprise, Dr. Ditlevsen said, that she and her co-author were able to pin down the timing of a collapse at all. Warming Could Push the Atlantic Past a ‘Tipping Point’ This Century 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump’s position on social safety net programs is a bit harder to pin down. Fact-Checking Mike Pence on the Campaign Trail 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z "We have a lot of work to do to pin down exactly what's happening. These heatwaves are frightening...We know this will be really deadly." Europe heatwaves: Wildfires rage in Greece as temperatures soar 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z "There is a feeling that it's going out of control. We have a lot of work to do to pin down exactly what's happening," Prof Cloke explains. Heatwaves are new normal as 50C hits US and China - UN 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z The Mizrahim who make up around half of Israel's Jewish majority - a figure hard to pin down due to widespread intermarriage with Ashkenazim - have at times complained of discrimination and socio-economic disadvantage. Netanyahu ejects party activist over Holocaust mockery at judicial protest 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z The “I,” in contrast, has been harder to pin down—at least until very recently. How the Brain Creates Your Physical Sense of Self 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Two years after the 2021 heat dome, Washington’s deadliest weather-related disaster, researchers are still trying to pin down its full impacts and what lessons can be learned. UW report offers solutions to help prevent deaths during WA heat waves 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z The connection is both obvious and maddeningly hard to pin down. Column: California and Canada absolutely must call Google's and Facebook’s bluff on news 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z "They pinned down then threw our driver out of his car, climbed in, bent our heads down, tied my hands, forced me to my knees and put a pistol to my head." Chechnya Milashina attack: Armed thugs beat up Russian journalist and lawyer 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z Seeing how this structure has changed over time will give a measure of the expansion of the universe, potentially helping to pin down the nature of dark energy. Europe’s Euclid Space Telescope Is Launching a New Era in Studies of the ‘Dark Universe’ 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Whatever the source, the most important task will be to gather more and better data about more pulsars, which will help pin down the gravitational waves that are invisibly rippling through the universe. Scientists Thrill at First Hints of Cosmic ‘Hum’ from Giant Gravitational Waves 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z |
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