Visions of brawniness, it would seem.

The name is said to come from the word mys (μυς) which means 'muscle', due to the brawniness of the men in the town.

Battered by the 2001 terrorist attack, high inflation and Wall Street employment losses that have never recovered, it nevertheless remains strong, with flashes of downright brawniness.

Absent is the quasimilitary attitude, the rugged, ready-for-anything brawniness that declares, "This is not Mom's minivan."

In Haydn's Symphony No. 96, Mr. Menuhin used a large string body, and that decision inevitably yielded to an undue brawniness at times.

That said, Ms. Argerich's reading of the Tchaikovsky was an intriguing balance of brawniness and refinement, with sheer power offset by poetic rumination.

He is in his element when the music is at its most robust, and if textures were sometimes thicker than ideal, the vibrancy of the playing made that brawniness seem invigorating.

Just a few miles north of here, a similar pattern has taken hold in the town of Granite Falls, another hamlet built by loggers and miners in the era when brawniness was king.

He wore sturdy sandals and a tiny string around his neck, which appeared all the more thin and fragile by contrast with the brawniness and rippling sinews of his shoulders and chest.

The sound was better in the Dvorak, and Mr. Minczuk found an almost ideally balanced approach to the conflicting currents of brawniness, stateliness and folksy charm that Dvorak demands.

It remained that way through much of the Piano Concerto, but the pianist, Richard Goode, succeeded in cutting through the orchestra's brawniness with a reading in which poetry and tempestuousness were finely balanced.

As if intended to offend Duckworthians, the dress was sleeveless, with spaghetti straps; the brawniness of Rahul's bare shoulders and upper arms, not to mention the breadth of her chest, hulked ostentatiously.

One thing that was immediately clear is that delicacy and lightness of texture are not central to his interpretive vocabulary, but it would do him a disservice to say that he favors brawniness, true as that generally is.

At middle linebacker, the Eagles now have Jeremiah Trotter, who returned to the team this season after leaving for Washington in a contract dispute, bided his time on special teams, then returned to the starting lineup, making the Pro Bowl and giving the defense a certain swagger and brawniness.

The name is said to come from the word mys (μυς) which means 'muscle', due to the brawniness of the men in the town.

Visions of brawniness, it would seem.

Absent is the quasimilitary attitude, the rugged, ready-for-anything brawniness that declares, "This is not Mom's minivan."

Battered by the 2001 terrorist attack, high inflation and Wall Street employment losses that have never recovered, it nevertheless remains strong, with flashes of downright brawniness.

That said, Ms. Argerich's reading of the Tchaikovsky was an intriguing balance of brawniness and refinement, with sheer power offset by poetic rumination.

In Haydn's Symphony No. 96, Mr. Menuhin used a large string body, and that decision inevitably yielded to an undue brawniness at times.

He is in his element when the music is at its most robust, and if textures were sometimes thicker than ideal, the vibrancy of the playing made that brawniness seem invigorating.

Just a few miles north of here, a similar pattern has taken hold in the town of Granite Falls, another hamlet built by loggers and miners in the era when brawniness was king.

The sound was better in the Dvorak, and Mr. Minczuk found an almost ideally balanced approach to the conflicting currents of brawniness, stateliness and folksy charm that Dvorak demands.

He wore sturdy sandals and a tiny string around his neck, which appeared all the more thin and fragile by contrast with the brawniness and rippling sinews of his shoulders and chest.

As if intended to offend Duckworthians, the dress was sleeveless, with spaghetti straps; the brawniness of Rahul's bare shoulders and upper arms, not to mention the breadth of her chest, hulked ostentatiously.

It remained that way through much of the Piano Concerto, but the pianist, Richard Goode, succeeded in cutting through the orchestra's brawniness with a reading in which poetry and tempestuousness were finely balanced.

One thing that was immediately clear is that delicacy and lightness of texture are not central to his interpretive vocabulary, but it would do him a disservice to say that he favors brawniness, true as that generally is.

At middle linebacker, the Eagles now have Jeremiah Trotter, who returned to the team this season after leaving for Washington in a contract dispute, bided his time on special teams, then returned to the starting lineup, making the Pro Bowl and giving the defense a certain swagger and brawniness.