| At its best, the sound embodies a keen-edged and tragic lucidity, a high seriousness as much ethical as musical. |
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| And as Raoul's retainer Marcel, the keen-edged bass Jérôme Varnier deals well with the crusty Huguenot's quasi-comic moments and his stirring celestial vision in the face of death. |
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| But at the same time, as she made resoundingly clear in interviews, in public lectures and in her work, Ms. Rich saw poetry as a keen-edged beacon by which women's lives — and women's consciousness — could be illuminated. |
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| The obverse of his reverence for the natural world was a keen-edged contempt for the greedy men and crass, destructive culture that would gladly bulldoze it for a buck. |
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| There is certainly a trill of suspense to be had from these ideological heists, but Weingartner's movie is never quite as keen-edged as it hopes or needs to be. |
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