Distills

And if the name distills complex identities, personal and poetic, so does the title of ❋ Unknown (2009)

'' Invisible Light kind of distills the essence of the album as a whole, '' Matronic says. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Writer Alexis Grant distills some of Stephen King's advice on writing. [via Sterling Editing] ❋ Unknown (2010)

This Charles Garabedian retrospective spans 50 years of creative production starting in the 1960s and distills key themes in the work of the former UCLA teacher and internationally noted, tenaciously figurative artist. ❋ ArtScene (2011)

When starting a creative project, Ms. Dellal first distills its essence. ❋ Cecilie Rohwedder (2011)

Online sci-fi store Quantum Mechanix has started the Web series, QMx Masters Series, that "distills performance down to its purest form: a single camera, a microphone, the actor and you." ❋ Melissa Bell (2010)

It distills gaming to a simpler form and challenge YOU to make games for it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Like the idea-action map invoked by "big screamy queen," it distills a picture of reality used and re-used, having maybe little, maybe something, maybe nothing to do with lived, inter-subjective experience -- offensive for its short hand, dangerous for its presumptions in all three cases. ❋ Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue (2011)

In contrast, Zagat, which Google scooped up Thursday, distills user feedback into a single trusted review, which could help make Google's local search results a better place to start. ❋ Rolfe Winkler (2011)

But the voice of the monster — ecstatic at his rebirth, then aghast at what he has become, distills both the 19th century's wonderment at the potential of science, and the 21st century's horror at its more diabolical outcomes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In Scotch Symphony, Balanchine distills the essence of romantic ballet using Mendelssohn's titular score. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In my country there is a tradition that each family distills its own brandy. ❋ Darwi (2009)

German filmmaker Cyril Tuschi distills the complex history of Russian economics in the two decades since Perestroika in tandem with the profound transformations of Mr. Khodorkovsky from party loyalist to oligarch to reformer to martyr. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

What you should know about Twitter is that it distills tweeters immediate reactions to impactful things - big + small. solocorps: @sparkcbc Twitter is a tool. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His cartoons regularly cover local and international politics and current affairs, and distills pointed dissent into scathing images and commentary. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Closing out Thursday night's Sullivan Hall offerings at this year's Undead Jazzfest, the group will celebrate its new album, "Ascension" Sunnyside, which distills an earlier expression of aesthetic liberation—saxophonist John Coltrane's 1965 recording of that name—and which languished unreleased for a decade. ❋ Larry Blumenfeld (2011)

Perhaps Will I.Am distills the point best in an introduction to the book, which will be published next month. ❋ Marshall Heyman (2011)

Allen's trio to an 11-piece ensemble and distills his music through Lawrence D. ❋ Larry Blumenfeld (2011)