fine-spun

The prime minister and ruling People's Action Party have a long record of using fine-spun, Kafkaesque legalism to block freedom of expression.

The well-worn idea that twentieth-century avant-garde exhausted the possibilities of musical language is belied by the likes of Kate Soper’s bravura philosophical monodrama “Ipsa Dixit,” Chaya Czernowin’s engulfing war requiem “Infinite Now,” Liza Lim’s fine-spun multicultural song cycle “Tongue of the Invisible,” and Ashley Fure’s molten soundscape “The Force of Things.”

A lovely abstract tapestry by Rachel DuVall puts a loose, fine-spun weave of natural and indigo-dyed linen at the service of a strict, geometric pattern of beige rectangles and mottled color bars.

It was a radiant, fine-spun performance.

The beguiling aria “Come per me sereno” conveys Amina’s contentment in fine-spun phrases.