Imagine a repertoire of simple hand gestures: say, touching your thumb to each of your four fingers.
Yet, just as foodies should have some wine pairings down pat, wine enthusiasts should have a repertoire in the kitchen.
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It's an extreme challenge to build a repertoire, but when you have five, six, seven guys making collective decisions, it's a powerhouse.
Ten female dancers dressed in colourful kimonos and floral headdresses, assisted by two to four male dancers, perform a repertoire of six to ten dances.
Puppetry in Fujian Province in south-eastern China has developed a set of characteristic techniques of performance and crafting puppets, as well as a repertoire of plays and music.
Yet on the face of it, there is precious little that is new about The White Stripes' music, with a repertoire that includes Dolly Parton's Jolene and the Bacharach and David standard, I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself.
Mr. MICHAEL MORGAN (Music Director, East Bay Symphony): The trick is to take your orchestra and, through a combination of old and new, build up a repertoire that is of interest to as many people as possible who live right around the orchestra.
She was determined to put together an ensemble that was capable of taking on a demanding repertoire and producing a unified sound.
Competing for the first time since finishing 26th at the Olympics, Swain attempted a new repertoire of more difficult dives in a bid to improve his chances against the world's best.
Among the key things he learned were discipline, a broad repertoire, and the exigencies of technique.
At the heart of it is a new set of skills and awareness that is a common repertoire for some but not for all.
Singing and playing piano in saloons and bistros, Cole mastered a great repertoire, and since the 1990s, he's shared it, releasing one fine CD after another.
The game began ominously for Bristol with James testing their defence with a full repertoire of kicks before Maddock scored the opening try after five minutes.
Though regularly likened to the great Barry Humphries and Kath and Kim, Lilley has a wider repertoire of voices and has looked for his targets beyond the lace-curtain cul-de-sacs of Australian suburbia.
On Maui's North Shore, where the trade winds gust past 30 mph most days, windsurfers are developing a new repertoire of jumps and aerobatic maneuvers using man-size kites instead of conventional sails.
The Razer Nostromo's all-new configurator software is as easy to use as it is deadly, allowing gamers to conveniently customize all the buttons with any game command or key binding to open up a massive repertoire of killer combinations right under their fingertips.
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Such judgements then become the principles which the next set of cases are then judged by and thus is a legal system built which allows huge freedom of action but also a vast repertoire of knowledge about what has been tried before yet found wanting.
This all-new configurator software for the Razer Nostromo comes with an improved user-friendly interface that belies its advanced macro programming capabilities, allowing gamers to conveniently customize all the buttons with any game command to open up a massive repertoire of commands and combinations right under their fingertips.
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For some performers, the welcome influx of new audiences also brought calls for a change in repertoire.
It is a simple but boring truth that men can usually manage with a more limited repertoire of clothing.
The latest version of Google's mobile OS makes a number of evolutionary improvements to its already impressive repertoire -- including a new quick settings menu that can be accessed from the notification pull down and support for multiple user profiles.
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Although the chamber music repertoire for brass instruments in combination with other types of instruments is not extensive, there is a large and very interesting repertoire of music for brass quintet.
But again, despite critical admiration and an initial flurry of public interest, these works proved nine-day wonders, not pieces that would appeal to general audiences and enter a company's repertoire.
Learning the radif stretches over at least a decade of self devotion during which the students memorize the radif s repertoire and engage in a process of musical asceticism intended to open the gates of spirituality.
With a gritty half century on the scoreboard, the Essex left-hander expanded his repertoire of strokes with a series of boundaries down the ground, as well as through cover.
The art of the puppeteer, however, is passed within families strictly from father to eldest son as a secret process, which has preserved an ancient repertoire of techniques and stories supposedly originating with a travelling entertainer around the eighteenth century.
And there are noteworthy compositions on the programs that merit a place in the standard repertoire.
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For many pianists and listeners, Chopin is a central figure in the repertoire.
The flatpicking turned heads, but the tune that followed it might be a fingerstyle blues, a Travis-flavored country bounce or a parlor song from the Carter repertoire.
"Doc was a legendary performer who blended his traditional Appalachian musical roots with bluegrass, country, gospel and blues to create a unique style and an expansive repertoire, " his management company, Folklore Productions, said.
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