Why isn't the artificiality and superficiality of your pictures sad?
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Insecurity tends to breed artificiality; confidence breeds sincerity and honesty.
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The maintenance of this image is its own kind of artificiality.
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Hardcastle synthesizes the serendipity of human craft with high-gloss artificiality.
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At the same time, its artificiality sneered at '60s rock sincerity.
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The artificiality of our conversation contrasts the tone of the film.
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It's excess and artificiality to the point of joyful, absurd parody.
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The artificiality of pop culture and the nature of internet conspiracy theories.
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Here, he seems slightly removed from the neon artificiality of the city.
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Endless West's moscato had a plastic aroma and taste, and reeked with artificiality.
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The oddness and artificiality of clothing and makeup are brought to the forefront.
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There was a Strom Thurmond-esque artificiality to this cry for racial purity.
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Looking back, I am most jarred by the sheer artificiality of the endeavor.
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But Mama's artificiality makes it hard to buy the movie's themes of acceptance.
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In a time of unprecedented artificiality, that's about the highest compliment I can give.
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I find the artificiality of their sound distracting, and I find myself avoiding them.
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This trace of artificiality makes the production feel all the more sensational and extravagant.
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She shot in stark black and white to accentuate the artificiality of the experience.
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Camp celebrates artifice and artificiality, flamboyance and theatricality, but can quickly deflate if forced.
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Specifically, does one strive for it, or instead try to achieve a deliberate artificiality?
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Like Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, the artificiality of the sets stood out deliberately.
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Is it so unreasonable that we design artificial intelligence to be transparent about its artificiality?
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Drag should always reference its own artificiality so that it can have a relationship with feminism.
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The gallery's ambiance makes the viewing experience feel temporal — a contrast against the work's own artificiality.
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Fassbender and Vikander both evoke that emotion exquisitely, but a glossy artificiality hangs over the entire process.
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Most other games have no choice but to wear their artificiality, even in the most humanlike environments.
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This offers Destiny, a game always plagued by accusations of repetition and artificiality, a remarkable opportunity for reinvention.
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Sinclair and Poppy are openly influenced by Andy Warhol and cover well-explored ideas about artificiality and stardom.
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Forget trying to make sex robots look more human, and instead lean into their artificiality; embrace it even.
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The film's scrutiny of genre also reveals the artificiality of such categorizations, as different storytelling conventions bleed between segments.
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No actors come off well in the director Christopher McElroen's staging, which has the artificiality of a museum piece.
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With their seemingly old-fashioned artificiality, his works grew dogged by a reputation for unbearable length and vacuous spectacle.
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When the action sequences aren't emphasizing their artificiality, though, they're a frequently gorgeous combination of martial arts and free-running.
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It's been many decades now since historians began to dismantle "Great Man" theories of history, emphasizing their narrowness and artificiality.
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For all its faults, for all its by-the-numbers plotting and soul-deep artificiality, it is a crowd pleaser.
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While Bird seems interested in preserving the transitory order of nature, Conn draws attention to the artificiality of preservation itself.
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It may now seem faded and artificial, but its inhabitants were aesthetes and dandies, and artificiality was the whole point.
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Their artificiality is fitting, as they recall advertisements, which proclaim truth through undemanding imagery yet invite a dose of our skepticism.
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But early test shots raised an unexpected problem: The replicas were so realistic that their artificiality didn't translate into the photographs.
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The real union on display was the marriage of reality TV's extreme artificiality and social media's presentation of "authentic" media figures.
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This year, baseball's dash of geographic artificiality has seen fit to prop up the mightiest sad sacks of the early 2010s.
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Shireen's confrontation with her husband's mistress, Rehana's issues with her college mates and Leela's see-sawing emotions all reek of artificiality.
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"The Yellow Lodge" (2018) is a refined synthesis of some of his perennial formal interests: artificiality, mirror architecture, and recreational facilities.
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The choral novel contains a perilous artificiality: the reader waits for each new voice to take its turn on the stage.
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The genius of ''The Songlines'' is not in its veracity, but in its artificiality — of plot, of character and of storytelling.
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Close-up photographs of natural life printed on perforated vinyl have their colors and texture offset to the point of artificiality.
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All in all, his generated designs paint a vision of the future that makes a nod to artificiality but appears effortlessly graceful.
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"Stripped-down" Gaga is still a costume, and the old Gaga would have made art out of the artificiality of that pose.
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He was proficient in an abundance of poetic techniques, and often enjoyed highlighting the artificiality of the traditions in which he worked.
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This week, Sophie takes on glamour and artificiality, ASAP Rocky resurrects Moby's "Porcelain" and Sudan Archives plucks out a self-empowerment anthem.
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I've developed a certain fondness for this artificiality — it's a reflection of what the subjects choose to put forward for the camera.
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Artificiality is what makes reality television enjoyable, even though these same shows, if advertised as fiction, would appear banal, repetitive and undramatic.
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This artificiality was intentional: Roth searched online for images of "enchanted forest" and created a wallpaper of one of these fantastical visions.
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Each clip is repeated four times, with Zhang reducing the sound each round to increasingly highlight the artificiality of these romanticized deaths.
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One reading is debunking, skeptical, emphasizing the artificiality of all traditions, the extent to which all cultural narratives flatten or caricature the past.
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But its artificiality works because it looks like a disguise, like a rubber mask she put on long ago and eventually grew into.
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But one of the young people I took with me felt that the awkward artificiality of the evening actually served its underlying message.
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That was a really interesting way to me, as a designer, to express the degrees of glamour and artificiality through the use of color.
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I'd like to think the stiltedness of the entire episode was somehow meant to echo the artificiality of multiple layers of players being played.
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It's like that self-help dreck about setting artificial deadlines to get stuff done — yet their very artificiality is precisely why they are ineffective.
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The writers of the show strain, even as they acknowledge the artificiality of their creation, to make this high-tech being as ancient as possible.
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She demonstrated art's ability to take you closer to nature, that art's artificiality was itself the bridge to that unaccountably strange place we call reality.
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These interpretations, set in a women's prison, cannily used the perceptible distance between actresses and their roles to point out the artificiality of masculine posturing.
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Elsewhere, Paparoni illustrates how the devil's association with sex, deceit, charm, and hedonism has also made him a perfect reference for Hollywood's glamour and artificiality.
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You can debate the artificiality of Prime Day all you want, but there's no question it's a good day to get deals — especially on tech.
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Cy Tone also takes viewers up into the sky, and drops fleeting bits of colorful glitch to play with the artificiality of VR and 360°.
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What it is: The lead single off Joanne is a fluid metaphor for any sort of relationship/interaction that prioritizes artificiality and performance over human connection.
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People today can fail to make real, lasting connections through apps because — like much of what takes place online — there's a layer of artificiality between people.
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A big face mask playing footage of an alien invasion — with what, I might point out, are not hugely realistic graphics — is actually adding unnecessary artificiality.
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There is, on the one hand, the city's artificiality—botox, face lifts, lipo, the works—which tends to give certain age-averse Angelinos an animalistic look.
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No, the sad consequence of the green is that it concentrates the mind in a very unpleasant way upon the fundamental artificiality of the Lazy River.
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With fable-makers like Gary, the artificiality of the material is almost always self-evident, and so is the dramatic point being sought by the story.
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It's a place that looks right, but it doesn't feel right, and the more time we spend there, the more its artificiality seems to take over.
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But I couldn't help but feel that both these terrific actors appeared uncomfortable less with the play's sexually covert landscape and more with its gathering artificiality.
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But at any moment, the tracks are likely to flaunt their artificiality: adding samples or sound effects, distorting her voice, suddenly deploying a big bass drop.
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During more syrupy bits, I began to think of the show as "This Is UK." And yet this mild artificiality winds up serving the show's purposes.
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Pictorial tricks such as this recur throughout his career; even some of his most straightforward paintings integrate a Polaroid-like frame as a reminder of their artificiality.
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Like Da Corte's own installations, the three-minute video exists in a whole other world of hyper-artificiality, with colors all electric and everyday objects made uncanny.
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Sure, Joanne-era Gaga is comparatively more restrained than Gaga circa 2009, but she's still a pop star who revels in the glamour and artificiality of pop.
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Though he complained about the artificiality of the recording studio, he thrived in it; by the time he was 30 he had made more than 50 recordings.
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It is stunning, well makes the point of the artificiality of national borders, and made me want to see her poetic animation work "Migration Is Natural" (2017).
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"What I can prove is that in the course of three months I identified 200,000 accounts that have two or more features of artificiality," he told BuzzFeed News.
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Besides being visually interesting and often amusing (Prager often casts "types": the businessman, the floozy, the sleazy guy) these mass groupings reinforce the purposeful artificiality of Prager's work.
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Ordinarily, that artificiality is all part of the trashy fun of the docusoap, but it means that docusoaps can have trouble getting serious without an undercurrent of camp.
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Absolutely. Many mainstream wines are produced without having to resort to the manipulative production techniques that gave those crowd-pleasers we recently tasted such an aura of artificiality.
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In a way, the artificiality of the live studio audience trappings allows the show to do this, because it's constantly reminding you that you're watching a TV show.
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Others are built into the movie, like the suspiciously theatrical lighting that makes Jessie's prison / room look like a stage setting, or the conscious artificiality of the whole story.
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Like the Mannerists, the Haussmanns celebrated artificiality and illusion, though instead of battling the clarity and simplicity of Michelangelo, they were jabbing at the pared-down heart of Modernism.
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Her grounded presence and lack of artificiality allowed the movement to happen in such a direct, matter-of-fact way that it took on a sense of the ethereal.
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The images are, somewhat paradoxically, so hyper-real that their artificiality becomes more pronounced; you feel as if you're sitting uncomfortably close to the costumed holograms of famous actors.
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Winogrand was as fully and dramatically cognizant of photography's artificiality as, say, Cindy Sherman , but he assumed a right to be judged strictly on the quality of his work.
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The whole movie luxuriates in a kind of erotically charged but hyper-classical artificiality, with fake sets, arch dialogue, frequent rear-projections and copious shots of (clearly prosthetic) genitalia.
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Mixed with the whoosh of traffic from a nearby street and the occasional rumble from the Kelly monument, the artificiality of the human-voiced birdsong makes for a wily intervention.
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Still, Chris is unnerved by the alternating aggression and beaming artificiality of the Armitages' black housekeeper and groundskeeper, Walter and Georgina (Marcus Henderson and Betty Gabriel, who deliver memorably eerie performances).
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I think too I was equally put off by its artificiality — not that my own feelings would be inauthentic but that they would be delivered within a temporary architecture of intimacy.
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In these works, you can lose yourself in the cleanliness of products, the infinity of humans at a rave, the eerie artificiality of lit spaces or the cars on an autobahn.
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But I think about "Plotto" a lot, because I find plot the most fascinating and vexing element of fiction for the simple reason that its artificiality can feel difficult to mask.
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Wilde did this by poking fun at the notion of the Romantic genius, extolling instead pseudo-inspiration, artificiality, indifference, impassiveness, and an ironic causality that prevents any recognition of true identity.
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The artificiality of it shouldn't be detectable to the ear, the "natural" sound sensation should be the one with active noise canceling turned on, and that's exactly what B&O Play achieves.
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These images in turn comprise the artist's own rivers in the form of two flowing sequences of screens, the artificiality of which plays upon the dangerous balance of nature and human interference.
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Birds and flowers are interspersed with manmade candy, paint drips, and power lines to create a kind of alternative Audubon world that questions the realness or artificiality of everything under the sun.
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As with any reinvention of tradition there was an artificiality to Gaullism, a deliberate submerging of many important controversies, a mythmaking about national "grandeur" that dodged as many questions as it answered.
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The result is a staggering display of artificiality and nature, with lights that can turn a waterfall crimson, or make it seem as if you're dining al fresco under a starry sky.
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There's two halves to the album: the first half is carefully poised and has an artificiality to it, while the second half gets into the wilderness and lets go of form and genre.
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That's saying something, because runway fashion, with its heightened aesthetics and commitment to the spectacle of artificiality over naturalism, is in some ways inherently camp — but Gucci takes it to a new level.
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The Duffers, however, add in film grain and visual noise, making the title sequence seem conspicuously aged in a way dissimilar to the rest of the show—a winking acknowledgement of its period artificiality.
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There's a notable gloss of digital polish and artificiality over this new Jungle Book, and adults may not be able to shake the sense that they're watching a cash-grab rerun from their childhoods.
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If you're not familiar with the artist, she's a "hologram generated singer from Japan, and is the perfect example of the dialogue between reality and artificiality; blurring the lines between the two," Podgorny explained.
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It conveys an aura or evokes facial powder; it adds a weird light to a scene or emphasizes the artificiality of it; it invites us to wonder what is going on under the bed.
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Accepting an MTV award for best new artist in 1997, she railed against the artificiality of the music industry, referred to Maya Angelou as an inspiration and implored her fans to think for themselves.
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As Merchant toggles between Zak in Norwich and Paige in Florida, he settles into a familiar struggle between authenticity and artificiality, a seemingly odd divide on which to hang a tale of professional wrestlers.
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The success in which Pixar speaks to the hopes and ambitions of our age with its use of neoteny and artificiality to invoke pathos is in itself a metaphor of human and digital synergy.
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And the other caveat of course was that most of what we got a hold of was publicity shots, so there's an element of artificiality to it, because it's staged for the photographers to a degree.
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A George Lucas-ass name must sound like the name of a character in a mid-century adventure novel, and it must also have some broad space-age vibes and a general air of arch artificiality.
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Descended from Kafka by way of Camus and Beckett, these books are existential parables about the absurdity of the writer's life, calling attention to their own artificiality and grafted onto the apparatus of hardboiled detective fiction.
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This time the illusion holds — the cornfed limpidity of their voices, the conflation of pedal steel and keyboard gleam, the twangy squeak of the rhythm guitar, all produce not warmth or homespun comfort but rather shimmering artificiality.
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"Warrior" shares some of the propulsiveness and energy of that show but lacks its conviction and its sense of place, in part because of the artificiality of the antique San Francisco recreated on elaborate South African sets.
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But it's so sparkly gleaming good, so razzle-dazzle rip-roaring, that it blasts through the artificiality complex and comes down to land in a dreamscape of Studio 54 via Nintendo EAD's singularly special game design philosophies.
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This is one of the most technically proficient and beautifully shot shows on television, its diorama-like frames pinning the characters in place, slowly stripping away their artificiality until we see both what's terrible and beautiful about them.
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The acting style, occasionally veering into pantomime, made frank use of the artificiality of the stage: for example, to change the scene, the actors walked in a short circle, and there was a slight shift in the lighting.
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But the feeling, as I left, was more meta-cinematic than expected—the amount of learning and struggle, and the overall vibe of artificiality, amount to a lot of production value for a brief bout of role-playing.
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Her frequent collaborators in PC Music (the label and collective of which AG Cook, for one, is part), for example, surfed a similar pixelated wave of artificiality-saturated output during their main period of notoriety back in 2014.
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There is even an artificiality to the way the four bodyguards' left arms are cocked back so that the viewer can see their badges as well as the court order tucked into the lead marshal's side jacket pocket.
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And the game's continued emphasis on realism in sex gets at the heart of why games, specifically AAA dating sims, will continue to be bad at sex: because they're fighting a losing battle with the artificiality of the medium.
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The Issue: "The world literally teems with bacteria, and there is a sort of artificiality in believing that drinking water is completely sterile," says Amesh Adalja, infectious disease physician and senior associate at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
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A good interviewer, however, is able to transcend the inherent artificiality of the moment, to make the encounter feel less like testimony and more like a real dialogue (albeit one heavily weighted toward only one participant's thoughts and opinions).
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"Rei breaks down the false walls of these dualisms, exposing their artificiality and arbitrariness," Mr. Bolton said, and he intends with the show to demonstrate how Ms. Kawakubo has worked and played in the space between each of them.
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A paradox of the channel is that the artificiality of its content, which offers predictable pleasures—the "almost kiss," interrupted by a ringing phone or a bleating goat; the ubiquitous baking contests—is often delivered alongside surprisingly realistic performances.
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Poptimism's love of artificiality laid the groundwork for the idea that it is okay for a pop star to have tried on multiple personas on their road to success and that this does not necessarily make them bad or inauthentic artists.
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I understand why Ashley likes it, having used these headphones in the noisy environments they're designed for, but to me there's far too much artificiality, distortion, and unevenness to celebrate the H4s as any sort of siblings to the Beoplay H6.
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Artist Vanessa Marsh wanted to explore the artificiality of these images by inventing her own deep space bodies—master paintings birthed in the darkroom—so she created Falling, a series of large format chromogenic contact prints transferred from handpainted negatives.
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Rather, Tacoma is akin to Andrei Tarkovsky by way of The OC, a meditation on loneliness, identity, and artificiality told through personal, albeit slightly melodramatic stories that would fit well on WB or in the pages of a YA novel.
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The Wavelength's artificiality oscillates between the feelings of alcoholic magnanimity, major depressive episode, and crying at a montage set to Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" — all those times where your conscious mind can't stop your body from expressing something it knows is false.
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The artificiality of figure-ground relationship may be the future (or the present) that Noh points to, a backdrop of appropriation, overabundance, and visual and cultural percolation that we carry, like having our own permanent green screen for every projected experience.
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" David Kordansky, a gallerist in Los Angeles who represents Mr. Rodland, wrote in an email that "Torbjorn is one of the most important photographers of my generation," whose works "speak to the ubiquity and artificiality of our internet-based image culture.
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Critics of the College Football Playoff system, now in its sixth year, often lament its made-for-TV artificiality, its subjective selection process and the role it has played in widening the gap between the sport's haves and its have-nots.
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A lot of whooping, dancing, salon station gossip and other forced scenes of female bonding are called for, and as talented and engaging as the performers are — particularly Ms. Nash and Ms. Preston — they can't break out of sitcom artificiality.
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There is a certain artificiality inherent to this genre of portraiture, but little details hint at the emotions hidden beneath the pageantry of the moment — a tight-lipped mouth; a clenched fist; a bride's slight lean against her new husband's limp arm.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PARIS — Climats Artificiels (or "Artificial Climates") at the Espace Fondation EDF is an impertinent and multigenerational group show of contemporary art — heavy on miniature biosphere mockups — that raises the question of the current value of ironic artificiality.
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It's an attempt to get at the artificiality of Mark's slow peeling-back of his own troubled layers, which sort of tries to replicate the documentary's gentle pace and willingness to let the real Hogancamp reveal his traumas at his own speed.
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Perhaps, in my own attempts to wrestle with the artificiality of plot, I went a step further and created a plot so frankly "made" it might have the converse effect — of drawing the reader back inside the world of ideas through other means.
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The entire cookbook is at war with itself, oscillating jarringly between the earnest stories behind family recipes and half-hearted branding; it's hamstrung, in both cases, by the baseline artificiality of the sports personalities that contributed and the limits of the Celebrity Posse Cookbook form.
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Seemingly meeting Clairo's sensibility in the middle, it's still glittery, like a toned-down "Me 4 U," and the vocals are manipulated into artificiality in a familiar way, but it's more of a lie down than a jump up—and that's a good thing.
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I think that for me – whether it was falling in love or just [being] really excited and stimulated by, and I mean that in a creative sense – it was that play between reality and artificiality, and how to express that, and how to execute it.
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Such a diverse canvass of conceptual and symbolic atoms allows Cult of Dang to create a world of both humanity and artificiality, an uncanny reflection of contemporary social biases, and a satire of the futile attempts we undertake to break away from the machine.
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She arrived early to ideas still potent and percolating within the fashion ecosystem: androgyny, artificiality, the pop-up shop, the luxury group (she has encouraged several former assistants, most notably Junya Watanabe, in the creation of their own separate lines under the aegis of Comme des Garçons).
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Less of a sequel than a spin-off video game, "Resurgence" is so brazen in its goofy artificiality—what with its computer-generated backdrops, cardboard actors and 3000-mile-wide plot holes—that when London's bridges start falling down, most viewers will care even less than the characters do.
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It was the first animated feature entirely created with a computer, and even though it looks primitive by modern standards, Pixar's choice to depict characters made out of plastic means that its artificiality has held up in a way that other computer-animated films from the '22s just haven't.
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The deliberately stilted acting and the baroque artificiality of the settings — a potpourri of New Age, Victoriana, midcentury American Square and Renaissance Faire hippie — bespeak a high degree of self-consciousness, but it would be a mistake to view the movie simply as a spoof or a goof.
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In an apparent attempt to literalize the play's self-declared deceits, Mr. Bondy draws attention to the artificiality of the location — you're always aware this takes place in a theater — a contrivance that's matched by brittle, outsize performances that turn faces into masks of surprise, sorrow and so on.
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He was acting during his opening night talk, but in a way that wears its mask of genuineness and spontaneity lightly, unlike the readily discernible artificiality of a hired actor performing a 45-minute scripted monologue in the round in a white gallery space while people walk in and out.
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Michel, through the viewpoint of Pauline, relates that Degas hated his first name and loved to sing Italian arias; hated the smell of flowers and perfume but loved the odor of burning bread; hated the sight of makeup on young women but loved the artificiality of the theater and ballet.
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That juxtaposition of organicism and artificiality (or perhaps timeless beauty) constitutes one layer of meaning in the work; another emerges when one learns that Lee's mother made beaded bags for a living, a fact — oft repeated by Lee herself in interviews — that links the baubles to gendered forms of labor.
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If they only had therapy, they might be able to become intimate with each other in the way both seem to want but their friendship is so mediated by these layers of artificiality, both in terms of Lavinia's constructed persona and in terms of Louise constructing the persona that she thinks Lavinia wants.
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Along with a raised horizon that mimics the sky/earth hybrid of Monet's Waterlilies, they appear at first glance to be abstract, an idea exploited further by layering color in frames of collage-like subdivisions that give each of the larger canvases a greater artificiality, a falseness that fails to cohere much like a Warhol silkscreen's resistance to cohesion.
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When Willy summons idealized memories of earlier days with his family — centered on his sons, the adored, firstborn Biff and the younger, attention-starved Happy (Sope Dirisu and Natey Jones, both first-rate) — these visions take on the stylized artificiality of period advertisements or burlesque sketches, in which cherished watchwords of uplift are not merely spoken but sometimes sung.
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Just as The Mousetrap inculcated the key themes of Hamlet as dumb-show while broadcasting its artificiality, the play demonstrates a certain self-knowledge on the part of Lost director Jack Bender (new to Game of Thrones) who shows us a depraved spectacle, milks the high/low resonance for all its worth, then reminds us who the plebes are here.
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My Ogre Book alludes to card games and chess, but these references fit with the hothouse artificiality of the book's figures and conceits; in Midnight Broodthaers collages sound-words ("Tic Tac Tic Tac Tic") and strings of spelled-out numbers into his poems, so that the page not only records the poetic utterance but becomes a visual field to be worked upon, played with.
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But over the course of its first season, the show settled into itself — and then in Seasons 2 and 2003, it blossomed into a vampy drama with more to say about race, politics, sex, loyalty and family than just about anything else on TV. Both shows use their behind-the-scenes settings to tease out ideas of authenticity and artificiality, particularly the ways women are asked to perform certain versions of themselves.
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Like those series, and like its source material, "Watchmen" is a gaudily self-conscious puzzle box, with a chopped-up chronology, playful references to its own artificiality (one episode is called "If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own"), and art-within-art elements like "Trust in the Law," comic books, TV shows, puppet shows, and museum displays, some telling the myths of the Minutemen, who are celebrities in this fictional world.
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Therefore, they often engaged in irony-drenched deconstruction of the tropes of that pop culture — via programs that seem tame now but were shocking then (like The Simpsons, which pulled apart the myths of the perfect sitcom family), or programs that pointed to the very artificiality of television (like David Letterman's early talk show or Garry Shandling's '80s sitcom It's Garry Shandling's Show), or programs that traded in crude, politically incorrect humor intended to provoke a reaction (this is where South Park comes in).
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The lyrics fantasize about turning into the girlfriend's platonic female friend and thus getting closer; Camille's vocal mixture of vulnerability and artificiality, of soul and cartoon, of woman and man and something that you'll never understand, goes further — the very existence of such a voice, the result of Prince speeding up his own voice to resemble some creepy entity whose vaguely womanly bleat could have belonged to your aunt or a child or the anthropomorphized Feminine Principle, articulates the urge to escape one's own body, to escape all physical barriers and gender distinctions, to cross dividing lines between people and completely merge with the other ("I wanna be all the things you are to me").
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