If life can be a Hobbesian trial — "nasty, brutish and short" — then for adults with rare genetic diseases, life can sometimes be nasty, brutish and long.
|
|
And what's actually onscreen is nasty, brutish, and (mercifully) short.
|
|
Life, for the park's synthetic hosts, is brutish and long.
|
|
Suspiria's plot is nasty, brutish, and mercifully short to outline.
|
|
"War is brutish, inglorious and a terrible waste," Sledge writes.
|
|
Their battles can be nasty, brutish and very very long.
|
|
We tend to think of them as dumb and brutish.
|
|
I wanted a hot French baguette and a brutish Kaiser roll.
|
|
His snooty maître d' is as persuasive as his brutish boss.
|
|
Dhaka's drivers may be the most brutish and pitiless on earth.
|
|
Hobbesian to the max, "Blood Father" is unwaveringly nasty and brutish.
|
|
The lives of gadgets have always been nasty, brutish and short.
|
|
It was in response to a brutish police raid, and riots ensued.
|
|
Our Civil War happened during a less enlightened, more brutish era, right?
|
|
Like these characters' lives, their erotic encounters are nasty, brutish and short.
|
|
Cute and cuddly or brutish and unrepentant, human life is human life.
|
|
I don't think it gives the kids the brutish stamina they need.
|
|
It is the nature of precarious labor to be brutish and short.
|
|
But there's something even more charmingly flat and brutish in Kholin's writing.
|
|
We laughed at the unrealistic brutish nature of the Australians in 'Bart vs.
|
|
At one time, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena stood out for its brutish behavior.
|
|
"Women all over the country have been in situations with domineering, brutish men and had to remain silent about it to keep food on the table," she said about women always having to deal with brutish men in the workplace.
|
|
The mogul says that women have always dealt with brutish men in the workplace.
|
|
Black people, in their eyes, were conversely brutish and savage or shiftless and lazy.
|
|
Revisiting some of his favorite epithets, Trump maintained his brutish tone, referring to Sen.
|
|
But in personal matters, applying that same skill can read as cold or brutish.
|
|
FOR MOST of Western history, childhood was nasty, brutish and short, or even non-existent.
|
|
Buhari said the attack showed Boko Haram was "godless, brutish, and utterly to be despised".
|
|
The top-ranked country is New Zealand, where life is hardly nasty, brutish or short.
|
|
What Google has built is a vastly more intelligent sibling to the brutish long exposure.
|
|
Trump's GOP rivals seized on the incident as proof that his campaign encourages brutish behavior.
|
|
Rather, it is when this oh-so-civilized game truly reveals its nasty, brutish heart.
|
|
A bet on untested technology to create a brutish yet empathetic Beast had paid off.
|
|
It was a brutish way to treat what was supposed to be a green gem.
|
|
The world must hope that the bold prince triumphs over the brutish one (see Special report).
|
|
In the fable, Goliath was brutish and slow, and everyone knew he was the bad guy.
|
|
Basically, it's the sound of two brutish lovers going at it on a bed of nails.
|
|
Played at this speed, there's grace and beauty to the limbs' extensions, nothing brutish or violent.
|
|
Has America become a nasty, brutish land divided into irreparable partisan camps, battle lines indelibly drawn?
|
|
Daredevil, had an acrobatic precision to his style, which contrasted with Wilson Fisk's brutish, raw power.
|
|
It's a handsome thing, sure, but it doesn't scream "I've arrived" with the same brutish force.
|
|
In other countries, brutish husbands put wives in hospitals; in America, they put them in graves.
|
|
But if accession was "nasty", "occasionally brutish" and "indisputably long", leaving the club may prove harder still.
|
|
Instead, a nasty, brutish reality has taken hold—and it threatens a more dangerous and unstable world.
|
|
Needing to fit a larger display and battery, the U11 Plus is simply more brutish and unrefined.
|
|
As brutish as it may seem, this is actually in line with some common non-surgical treatments.
|
|
But Defender – the closest thing the British brand has to its brutish, off-road roots – is back.
|
|
And, according to these current and former Examiner employees, Gurdon was aware of Harnden's brutish managing style.
|
|
Still, they are brutish and sexually violent, with a limited vocabulary and even more limited emotional range.
|
|
She has a gothic affair with a brutish and unhinged transgender man who hacks Ms. Levy's computer.
|
|
Luckily for Uber and its employees, Khosrowshahi doesn't appear to have the brutish streak Kalanick was famous for.
|
|
Editorial The battle to be the Republican choice for president has been nasty, brutish and anything but short.
|
|
In today's brutish political climate, the civility of the so-called Hollywood elite doesn't seem quite so laughable.
|
|
They want to help garment-makers and pin factories escape an informal economy that can be truly brutish.
|
|
His character is described as a "brutish amoral killer" who just happens to look like, well, Colin Farrell.
|
|
Garrone's forte, as ever, is to layer the brutish with the beautiful, and to find grace in dereliction.
|
|
"Steve Trevor is roguish and a cynical realist who's seen an awful, brutish nature of modern civilization," Pine said.
|
|
Back then, life was more brutish but also wilder - there were fewer shiny items to keep a child docile.
|
|
Prince stands out from most of his male contemporaries for embracing women's sexuality in a genuine, not brutish, manner.
|
|
Mr Trump's campaign, it seems, is going to have the end it deserves, nasty, brutish and harmful to America.
|
|
The debate broke little new ground substantively, but the tone set a new standard for nasty, personal and brutish.
|
|
Libra is the logical, charming diplomat of the zodiac—an unusual placement for brutish Mars, the planet of war!
|
|
Justin Timberlake luxuriates in a silver Jaguar E-Type and is terrorized by brutish Dodge Challengers in In Time.
|
|
Mr. Polyakov said he was dismayed by Russia's image in the West as a lawless land of brutish oppression.
|
|
On Comedy LOS ANGELES — To its competitors, the Netflix takeover of comedy must have seemed nasty, brutish and quick.
|
|
" And Hobbes famously told us what life in such a society is like: "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
|
|
The brutish leads — Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere — treated females like walking vaginas who existed solely to service mankind.
|
|
As the war dragged on, people around Afewerki began describing him as severe and brutish, given to autocratic tendencies.
|
|
Forty people have been killed in recent protests, with 696 arrested by Maduro's brutish police in a single day.
|
|
There is a pervasive trope that the rock star male musician is dangerous, brutish, and lionized for his sexuality.
|
|
How could a movie about a man exacting revenge over a brutish thug who killed his puppy be so good?
|
|
The bottom line: The Year of the Pig looks like it may be an especially nasty, brutish year in China.
|
|
But current Nazis and their sympathizers — from ordinary citizens to Adolf Hitler himself — are invariably ignorant, brutish, smarmy, or sadistic.
|
|
They are portrayed as brutish barbarians, sexual predators, and vengeful delinquents who victimize former slave owners and rape white virgins.
|
|
God Save the Q. Twisting, turning, westly, eastly,Other routes are brutish, beastly,But this one's regal, pure and priestly.
|
|
If voters elect Trump, they'll legitimize his brutish and infantile behavior both domestically and internationally, reaffirming the "Ugly American" reputation.
|
|
Even in the bruising, often chaotic world of New York's nighttime trash collection, Sanitation Salvage cuts a distinctively brutish profile.
|
|
Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short; the movie mostly is too, though at 135 minutes it's not short.
|
|
It's no secret Australians and New Zealanders love playing and watching brutish contact sports, such as rugby and Australian rules football.
|
|
In some ways, Ramsay Bolton is Game of Thrones in a nutshell: nasty, brutish, and willing to kill just about anyone.
|
|
Buck Sexton: We're trapped in crass reality show The final presidential debate was as expected: nasty, brutish and not short enough.
|
|
It has seen the long-overdue punishment of some brutish men who had groped and leered their way round their workplaces.
|
|
Most of all, there's a fondness for the portrayal of Australia's politicians and their comically brutish way of handling international incidents.
|
|
Spoiler: He's one of a trio of angry, brutish villagers who get dolled up in dresses and makeup by Madame Garderobe.
|
|
For those who want more power, however, the new Gran Coupe comes with a brutish, 523-horsepower twin-turbo V-8.
|
|
In its latest matches, the team has been forced to field teenagers against the often brutish journeymen who dominate this tier.
|
|
But Trump won — and some conservative intellectuals embraced a man who exploited the same brutish energies that Buckley had supposedly banished.
|
|
At other times, they powered up an excavator, which, with its own brutish precision, moved the workers closer to their goal.
|
|
Twenty-eight years after his brutish treatment of Anita Hill, Joe Biden still hasn't taken full responsibility for his shameful behavior.
|
|
Kaine's Trump sounds a lot more brutish than the actual Trump, who often sounds like the fastidious hand washer he is.
|
|
But little consideration was given to what impact the brutish behavior he claimed to have had on the women he victimized.
|
|
Florida Man is forever on the loose, committing brutish, viral crimes, and we're perpetually one storm away from falling into the ocean.
|
|
A canny and decent man in a country filled with brutish warlords and corrupt power-brokers, he needs foreign help to survive.
|
|
As one would hope, it's short, ugly, and brutish—in other words, classic Phobia, and an excellent taste of what's to come.
|
|
The details were extracted from hundreds of leaked screen shots of multiple chat threads on topics ranging from the banal to the brutish.
|
|
Mr. Irwin has a delicate, wry touch that is a nice match for the brutish anger of Mr. Shiner, a more Dionysian figure.
|
|
GUILFOYLE: By the way, you seen one of these definitions in the dictionary of animal is an inhuman person, brutish or beastlike person.
|
|
Like a brutish house guest that's always breaking or messing up your stuff, Siri might be too stupid to let inside just yet.
|
|
Those endearing qualities become sinister when they're reflected through his double, Abraham, who turn those stereotypically masculine qualities into brutish strength and violence.
|
|
Contrary to the claims of some "leave" advocates, negotiating trade arrangements and regulations and immigration, among others, will be nasty, brutish and long.
|
|
Clinton to focus on policy and stay above the fray as her opponent and her own operation dig in for a brutish campaign.
|
|
Louis spares his reader nothing of the brutish physical violence of young Eddy's father and tormentors along with the relentless violence of poverty.
|
|
Otherwise, without honest self-assessment, without public accountability, people will forget, and the rhinoceros, brutish and unthinking, will soon find its way back.
|
|
He works in a Nabokovian tradition of eloquence, in which the most artistically sensitive people are also the most socially stunted and brutish.
|
|
The brutish A-173 Thunderbolt—aka the Warthog—is little more than a steel tub with wings, and that's what makes it so wonderful.
|
|
Hence, it is not that people are denied agency; it is rather that an unreasonable or brutish type of agency is imposed on them.
|
|
We tell ourselves we are preparing our sons to fight (literally and figuratively), to compete in a world and economy that's brutish and callous.
|
|
That hypothesis helped change the prevailing popular view at the time of Neanderthals as dimwitted and brutish, a notion increasingly discredited by new discoveries.
|
|
"Bolton has a Hobbesian view of the universe—life is nasty, brutish, and short," the former American official who worked with Bolton told me.
|
|
It could get worse but what Comey described in his testimony was boorish and even brutish but not necessarily an indictable or impeachable offense.
|
|
Winner: Caravaggio, although his brutish lifestyle eventually caught up with him, when he was killed by a revenge-seeker at the age of 38.
|
|
An exhibition of ecstatic, mystical work at the Halle Saint Pierre in Paris questions what is visionary, anti-pop, art brut, or art brutish.
|
|
A Redditor reminded us of how this trio provided some of the show's best character dynamics: Tyrion's wit, Bronn's brutish realism, and Pod's endearing charm.
|
|
The second woman we see in the theatre is "a painted lady" who's having quickie sex against a wall with brutish actor Kemp (William Houston).
|
|
Descartes worried about "the divine insurance plan"; "Hobbes got rather carried away" when he told us how solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short life was.
|
|
As always, B.D. Wong is amazing as Dr. George Huang who often gets to act as the voice of reason amid the cop's brutish tendencies.
|
|
" Alpha males are dominant, tough, brutish, and have regular sex with attractive women; betas are weak, emasculated, and sympathize with so-called "social justice warriors.
|
|
" But, he said, it has only affirmed for him the view of the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who called the human condition "nasty, brutish and short.
|
|
This feeling of tender familiarity and brutish alienation provides tension and makes the trip down home delicate in its bitterness and tough in its joy.
|
|
This feeling of tender familiarity and brutish alienation provides tension and makes the trip down home delicate in its bitterness and tough in its joy.
|
|
"Kelly and White House insiders know that Ivanka Trump is as ill-prepared to face the brutish realities of Washington as her father," Scarborough continued.
|
|
Its most recent movie was the brutish, video game–inspired action film Hardcore Henry, which was more about its first-person gimmick than its cast.
|
|
Those brutish metaphorical patriarchs — the demands of history and the machinations of power-hungry megalomaniacs — hang heavy over the world, leaving many bruised and angry.
|
|
Often depicted as clumsy and brutish, Neanderthals mysteriously vanished from Europe and Asia about 40,000 years ago, their retreat coinciding with the arrival of Homo sapiens.
|
|
The natural order of things is for life to be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" (in the words of Thomas Hobbes, a contemporary of Locke).
|
|
His brutish handling of even mild critics is overshadowing more admirable policies, which include curbing the religious police, letting women drive and encouraging them to work.
|
|
Violence may be brutish but it isn't always physical, and it reverberates as much in the mind of the recipient as the body, if not more.
|
|
They have been in the care of their brutish but loving father, living off the land, building their own home, and being schooled by a neighbor.
|
|
White nationalism had long been typified by its violent, aggressive adherents: neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen, skinheads, and other groups too brutish for mainstream American discourse.
|
|
Called the Arsenale Automatic it pays tribute to Venice's proud sailing history and looks just brutish enough to remind us of her violent, pestilence-filled past.
|
|
Once Simpson's golf ball landed dryly and safely on the island green at the brutish, 210-yard 266th hole, the champion's long walk home could begin.
|
|
" He insisted that rebellions were caused not by the slaves' mistreatment but simply by their nature: "brutish, ignorant, idle, crafty, treacherous, bloody, thievish, mistrustful, and superstitious.
|
|
There have already been signs of Mr. Putin's influence starting to ebb, however, and a few brutish spats among the elite have spilled into the open.
|
|
Is life in a world where death is accepted, welcomed, even ritualized better than in our own, where it is nasty and brutish and unnaturally extended?
|
|
Our conceptions of Neanderthals, as this new study shows, has now moved well beyond the outdated notion that they were brutish proto-humans who cowered in caves.
|
|
In 033, a cache of leaked emails between Spiegel and his fraternity brothers when he was in college at Stanford revealed a brutish, offensive attitude towards women.
|
|
This viewpoint sees our soldiers as uneducated, brutish and flawed, as if there really is something very wrong with our armed forces and all that they do.
|
|
What was most beautiful about Bourdain, who could be a brutish, globe-trotting cowboy at times, was watching his constant, hard-fought evolution as a human being.
|
|
He is a brutish despot who is about to kill at least one of our favorite characters and rules much of the countryside through violence and extortion.
|
|
Some of these tales are harrowing; in the early 20th century, virginity loss stories tended to be "gory" with "brutish men screaming and blood everywhere," McAllister says.
|
|
It's also a relationship full of grievances—grudges held against gentrifiers, scenesters, the indie kids who wrote the band off as brutish imposters in their own town.
|
|
As Rohme said, wait until his slender legs fill out and allow Porzingis, at 7 feet 3 inches, to better fend off the more brutish post defenders.
|
|
GREENVILLE, N.C. — Hurricane Florence made landfall Friday in its brutish slow-motion collision with the Carolina coasts, with beach towns cowering under lashing rain and storm surge.
|
|
And who came up with the absurd hierarchy of animals in art, where noble chickens and brilliant pigs play second fiddle to dumb horses and brutish bulls?
|
|
Turkey was brought to the point of economic distress and diplomatic isolation by Mr. Erdogan's mismanagement, brutish authoritarian ways, corruption and disregard for the rule of law.
|
|
Some of the brutish ones don't, and if they happen to do something particularly heinous during their idiot period, their chance to reform may be cut short.
|
|
Behind his brutish caricature, according to interviews with dozens of Mr. Duterte's friends, family members, allies and critics, is a man who can be charming and engaging.
|
|
The first Neanderthal skeleton, reconstructed in 1911, was nicknamed the "Old Man of La Chapelle" and described as a wretched creature: hunched over, brutish, dimwitted, and primitive.
|
|
The first Neanderthal skeleton, reconstructed in 1911, was nicknamed the "Old Man of La Chapelle" and described as a wretched creature: hunched over, brutish, dim-witted, and primitive.
|
|
Her mix of a well-educated background and a lucky streak got me through some treacherous passages where other, more brutish avatars might not have been so able.
|
|
In that sense, Dylan is right that, absent this kind of breakthrough the show hasn't signaled at all, life in Westeros will likely remain nasty, brutish, and short.
|
|
He supports regressive tax policy and intolerant immigration policy, to say nothing of his political affect, which is more brutish and politically incorrect than many conservative talk-radio hosts'.
|
|
With Donald J. Trump leading the way, the campaign has repeatedly descended into a kind of primal struggle among men, each seeking to outdo his rivals through brutish intimidation.
|
|
While the top-trim American trucks can often be chromed-out beyond reason or taste, the AT4's brutish snout and lifted stance amplifies everything we love about trucks.
|
|
What's more is that throughout this process, Trump's conflicting demands and brutish tactics have put Chinese President Xi Jinping in a position where he and his administration cannot concede.
|
|
But after the inexplicable appearance of a rhinoceros raging through its streets, the unassuming villagers begin to metamorphose, one by one, into the very same brutish and unthinking beast.
|
|
At one point, Republicans were willing to tolerate Mr. Trump's brutish tactics and reprehensible character as the price of party loyalty; today many of them seem to relish it.
|
|
Eva has nearly resigned herself to a spinsterhood of caring for Sydney; as a different kind of duty, Ethel has married a brutish farmer who served in the war.
|
|
This ignorance combined with his brutish inclinations make him qualified to lead a worldwide effort to fully realize the Hobbesian nightmare, and ruin the best that the Enlightenment produced.
|
|
He is the author of Nasty, Brutish, and Long: Adventures in Eldercare, a memoir of his professional life, and the story of caregiving to his own frail, elderly parents.
|
|
And they sharply differed in their approaches to interrogating terrorist suspects, with FBI officials blasting their counterparts in Langley as brutish amateurs in the art of extracting valuable information.
|
|
As "The Foundation of Learning" concludes, the oft-brutish Neal Gamby (series co-creator Danny McBride) finds himself driving with Amanda Snodgrass, the teacher he has a crush on.
|
|
Every tweet and tweak kicked up waves of withering social media snark, armchair psychology, and goatee grazing editorials, which, in turn, engendered swift, frequently brutish response from West, himself.
|
|
Over ten 15-minute episodes, we watch Retsuko navigate the rat race: She works for a brutish pig whose personal mission is to make her life a living hell.
|
|
United announced Wednesday it's now going to refund everyone who was onboard Flight 3411 on Sunday the full cost of their ticket for putting them through that awkward, brutish hell.
|
|
That being said, the hand-tracking controls were a bit more brutish than I would hope, especially dim in comparison to my recent experiences with Leap Motion's latest Orion update.
|
|
Bosch captures—perhaps more than any other artist—the mutable world, life driven relentlessly by sex and death, and consciousness caught between imagination and the brutish facts of the flesh.
|
|
Editorial The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is asking riders of the L subway how they would like their nightmare: nasty, brutish and shortish, or somewhat less painful but twice as long.
|
|
However copiously applied, cosmetics cannot obscure his brutish agenda, nor the narcissism, capriciousness and most of all, the inexperience paired with intellectual laziness that would make him a disastrous president.
|
|
There's next to no dialogue for almost half the film; life is so brutish and nasty in the wasteland that most of the people who exist there are beyond language.
|
|
Strom Thurmond, who was then the governor, pushed for those responsible to be brought to trial, perhaps worried that the incident would undercut efforts to recast the state's brutish image.
|
|
Three additional women who said they, too, were attacked by Weinstein also testified as part of an effort by prosecutors to show a pattern of brutish behavior on his part.
|
|
Inaction or capitulation to Beijing's brutish trade behavior will only consign America to the status of an economic colony to Asian industrial powers, providing raw materials to fuel their growth.
|
|
You're told that having sex with Women's College girls is significantly stronger currency than Grace College girls, and that St. Leo's boys (UQ's other all-male college) are brutish scum.
|
|
The producers of "Game of Thrones," which was filming some of its scenes in Bjornsson's native Iceland, needed someone to portray the character of The Mountain, a brutish and enormous knight.
|
|
Aladdin's straight-to-video 1996 threequel (none of which are promising descriptors!) introduced the brutish Sa'luk (Jerry Orbach), one of the bitter 40 thieves who turned to Aladdin's father for leadership.
|
|
Dismissive of both the common folk he was supposed to rule and any advisers he was supposed to listen to (including his own grandfather, Tywin), Joffrey had a short, brutish reign.
|
|
Seated in his unfussy 2100th-floor office in lower Manhattan, Mr Schneiderman told them to assume Mr Trump's brutish campaign pledges were in earnest, and to clear their desks for action.
|
|
Over the years I had learned that the traditions and institutions that protect us from living Hobbesian "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" lives are inherently fragile and demand careful tending.
|
|
The show leans even harder into the personalities of its hosts, which is a bold move considering Clarkson's brutish behavior kept the hosts' Top Gear tenure in the crosshairs for years.
|
|
Because the natural state of man is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short," liberty for an individual is tied to the power of a sovereign, administering through laws, within a commonwealth.
|
|
Jamie Lee Curtis is the latest star to speak out amid the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandal, calling the mogul a "brutish thug" while recounting her own experiences with workplace harassment.
|
|
For a few hours a week, they congregate in gyms, nightclubs and social clubs to perform under the guises of brutish and flamboyant personae, before returning to their otherwise routine lives.
|
|
He will also be in charge of some of the more brutish policies the president has advocated, including gutting Brazil's gun-control law, making it easier for ordinary citizens to bear arms.
|
|
Monty, as he remains best known, has since played hundreds of rounds at Royal Troon, with its charming par-3 eighth hole, the 123-yard Postage Stamp, and its brutish back nine.
|
|
That requires engaging in an asymmetric game — relying on dark arts to make inroads in a brutish world, exploiting the vulnerabilities of open societies while highlighting the benefits of his closed one.
|
|
Houston's physicality has caused Golden State countless problems, and Cousins's brutish game would have been a handy counter for Warriors Coach Steve Kerr to punish the Rockets' switching defenses and small lineups.
|
|
Sydney's overtaxed mother, Maggie (Kathleen Rose Perkins), gets the occasional character-deepening scene; Stanley's brutish trucker dad (Mark Colson) is not so well-served, and Brad is essentially a human varsity jacket.
|
|
Ned Stark's sudden beheading not only started the War of the Five Kings, but it also signaled a key fact of life in the brutish Westeros — anyone can die, at any time.
|
|
I, the beneficiary of all this freedom, could thus identify both with Ellen, in flight from her brutish husband, and with Newland, the independent protagonist whose subjectivity stood for that of the author.
|
|
The "ghost" is actually any number of women who take it upon themselves to get rid of the brutish men in their lives, utilizing the cover of a secret society to do so.
|
|
Affectations come and go among this class; the brutish Power Football approach to extreme wealth modeled by the NFL's owners is antique, but it's an approach that is never totally out of style.
|
|
Just as his Hamlet was a familiar (if hyper-intelligent) depressive, his Iago an improvising punk, his Macbeth is a simple soldier in a brutish world, carried away by the logic of ambition.
|
|
In the French presidential elections of 2002, the main parties of left and right united behind an unprincipled machine politician, Jacques Chirac, to defeat his opponent, Jean-Marie Le Pen, a brutish demagogue.
|
|
But it would be reassuring to know that Facebook is at least thinking about the world as it is, that it is planning for humans to be humans in all their brutish ways.
|
|
"During my subsequent conscription into the defense force I came face to face with the sharp, brutish reality of apartheid - and that was the impetus for my first piece of journalism," said Sole.
|
|
Eagerly filed news reports of a party-wide implosion in the wake of Trump's bantering and brutish 22019 hot mic moment (along with revelations of other garish "The Apprentice" show archives) were premature.
|
|
The villains were cast from strength: Alfred Walker, as the brutish Crown, glowered over every scene in which he appeared, and Frederick Ballentine, as the devious Sportin' Life, was a footloose, preening delight.
|
|
Jerusalem brilliantly interrogated Mark Rylance's dissolute main character to argue that he was, perhaps, not a brutish chav but rather one of the last great English renegades, from a long and epic tradition.
|
|
The world you're describing is a world in which conflict has far less to do with ideology or utopian visions of the future and instead is about a brutish fight over basic resources.
|
|
In his 1977 Crossing the Border series, the artist veers away from his rectangular and oval cubist shapes and depicts brutish images of three enervated men dragging a cadaverous cow along the road.
|
|
The Islamic State recognized the power of digital media early on, when its brutish progenitor, Jordanian jihadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, discovered the utility of uploading grainy videos of his atrocities to the Internet.
|
|
The Human Race Is Filth offers up tortured, self-hating, doomy sludge from York, PA with panicky overtones, a heavy swig of powerviolence, d-beat swagger, a brutish low end, and deranged goblin vocals.
|
|
Hit play on the exclusive, full-album stream below, and read all about the writing and passion that went into writing the brutish and frenzied final album from these already dearly departed Midwestern grinders.
|
|
If that life was, as Thomas Hobbes described it, "nasty, brutish, and short," this is a vital piece of information for drawing up the account of how we got to be who we are.
|
|
Trump targeted me last week after watching a "Fox News Sunday" discussion of the damage being done by what I called his "brutish" strategy for forcing China to agree to a new trade deal.
|
|
On July 12, 2017, exactly a hundred years after this brutish and illegal deed, which is described in the film as "a genuine American tragedy," inhabitants of the town became actors for a day.
|
|
Warnings and watches — whether for hurricanes, tropical storms, storm surge or some brutish combination — were issued for as far west as Alabama's border with Mississippi, and for the coasts of Georgia and the Carolinas.
|
|
In the opening pages, she warns that the title might suggest that she had "lofty dreams about how one person could make a difference, only to be 'educated' by the brutish forces" she encountered.
|
|
Sometimes, this initial phase is cut short by bad luck and sudden violence, which tends to erupt in the most unseemly ways; ill-prepared teams bumbling into one another and having nasty, brutish, short firefights.
|
|
The game is interspersed with similarly lavish cutscenes, and the story — about an ongoing battle against a particularly brutish general called Atriox — is just as incomprehensible to anybody who didn't major in advanced Halo studies.
|
|
A riveting and illuminating study of the survival of the fittest that pits a fully adrenalized Gillian Anderson, as a feline Blanche DuBois, against a commanding Ben Foster, as the brutish Stanley Kowalski (2247:244).
|
|
A riveting and illuminating study of the survival of the fittest that pits a fully adrenalized Gillian Anderson, as a feline Blanche DuBois, against a commanding Ben Foster, as the brutish Stanley Kowalski (2003:2745).
|
|
A riveting and illuminating study of the survival of the fittest that pits a fully adrenalized Gillian Anderson, as a feline Blanche DuBois, against a commanding Ben Foster, as the brutish Stanley Kowalski (231:2315).
|
|
A riveting and illuminating study of the survival of the fittest that pits a fully adrenalized Gillian Anderson, as a feline Blanche DuBois, against a commanding Ben Foster, as the brutish Stanley Kowalski (22:230).
|
|
Louis C.K. cast himself as the father, and he never appears totally convincing as the brutish man, a very different character from his past parts, in which he's proved to be a sensitive, skilled actor.
|
|
A riveting and illuminating study of the survival of the fittest that pits a fully adrenalized Gillian Anderson, as a feline Blanche DuBois, against a commanding Ben Foster, as the brutish Stanley Kowalski (3:15).
|
|
This summer, she introduced three perfumes, including Ma Bête, which pairs boozy florals like jasmine and neroli with more brutish notes of benzoin, patchouli and a new chemical base blend that mimics the vintage Animalis.
|
|
The mother and baby products retailer, whose UK operations collapsed last month amid brutish retail conditions, said its worldwide sales dropped 8.4% to 452.3 million pounds ($580.30 million) for the 28 weeks to Oct. 12.
|
|
In the major set piece, John Wick tracks down his major target, Iosef Tarasov (Alfie Allen), the brattish brutish son of an important family in the film's underground-crime network, at the Red Circle nightclub.
|
|
Hitler's rise, he argued, owed less to the Austrian corporal's personality, his thuggish supporters and brutish ideas, than to his opponents' cowardice and the weakness of Germany's "gatekeepers"—the guardians of its cultural and moral standards.
|
|
The life of an electric scooter can be nasty, brutish, and short — so short that building a scooter with a much-improved lifespan has become a necessity for any scooter company that's hoping to stay in business.
|
|
Gabriel details Helen Frankenthaler's almost comically determined pursuit, when she was twenty-one, of the infamously brutish forty-one-year-old kingmaker, and the five-year affair that placed her at the center of the art world.
|
|
Black Americans have struggled to free themselves of these limited expectations, to transcend being seen simply as the brutish thug on the corner, the sassy and strong black woman, the cheerfully selfless mammy, or the mindless entertainer.
|
|
Katz must have sensed the prophetic nature of this strategic but brutish gesture, one that somehow foreshadowed the revolutionary's elusiveness in the historical imagination, his resistance to identification, and the difficulty of distinguishing between man and myth.
|
|
We get to see his panic as he scrambles to find Daryl's empty cell, as well as his resolve as he patiently waits for Negan's more brutish henchmen to bust his door down and beat him into submission.
|
|
In fantasy video games, we know these stereotypes as they grew primarily from Tolkien: the dark and brutish orcs, the sturdy dwarves, the lithe and airy elves of the forest, and the structured and king'd hierarchies of men.
|
|
But even he must acknowledge the problem of pervasive disrespect and excessive force in precincts where citizen complaints are rife, and the perpetual problem of brutish hotheads like Daniel Pantaleo, who led the fatal assault on Mr. Garner.
|
|
The movie's name is a reference to both the biblical monster in the Book of Job and the 17th-century English political tract by Thomas Hobbes about life's being "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" without effective government.
|
|
Solecki's studies of the Neanderthals excavated from the block were controversial and eye-opening, because he believed that they were capable of sophisticated rituals and behavior -- a contrast to the ignorant, brutish way they had previously been depicted.
|
|
Ralph Solecki, an archaeologist whose research helped debunk the view of Neanderthals as heartless and brutish half-wits and inspired a popular series of novels about prehistoric life, died on March 20 in Livingston, N.J. He was 101.
|
|
In addition, young Australians face a "much more brutish job scenario" than their parents or grandparents ever faced, the Brotherhood of St Laurence advocacy group said in its report titled "Generation Stalled - Young, Underemployed and Living Precariously in Australia".
|
|
But while the shillelagh was practically a pejorative projected upon the brutish Irish by their English neighbors, inside the country, the shillelagh symbolized their ancient warrior traditions, something that the Irish were proud of retaining in their modern lives.
|
|
It was almost as if AlphaZero was waiting for Stockfish to realize, after billions of brutish calculations, how hopeless its position truly was, so that the beast could relax and expire peacefully, like a vanquished bull before a matador.
|
|
In this dreadful place, the meeting of flesh and photography is almost primal, with the cinematographer David Ungaro bringing a brutish beauty and innocence to Billy's preternaturally pale skin — an unmarked canvas in a gallery of ink and scars.
|
|
But our American logic of waste unfolds in the grinding operations of a brutish society in which no wasted lives, no matter how nominally innocent nor how violently destroyed, seem able to galvanize change in our murderous status quo.
|
|
So we're probably looking at more than five million Trump supporters, many of whom have chronic health problems and recently got health insurance for the first time, who just voted to make their lives nastier, more brutish, and shorter.
|
|
And he powerfully defended the Jewish state – especially in times of crisis – when Israel was falsely and overwhelmingly depicted by the United Nations, the European Union and some American commentators as a brutish goliath unfairly harassing the Palestinians and Arab nations.
|
|
The underdog stings like a bee For his first heavyweight title fight, against the brutish Liston in 1964, he went a step further, renting a bus, and on the day he signed to fight the champ he went by Liston's home.
|
|
Destitute, in a manner of speaking, Jasmine flies first class to San Francisco to begin life anew with her sister, Ginger (Sally Hawkins), whose scrappy existence and brutish men Jasmine can barely stomach without self-medicating with vodka and Xanax.
|
|
Mr. McGuire is not reveling in such Sweeney Todd splatter effects simply to be sensational; rather, he puts them in the service of a Hobbesian view of life as nasty, brutish and short, and plagued by fear and violent death.
|
|
Though it surveys a grim, Hobbesian struggle for survival, "First Cow" has more on its mind and in its viewfinder than the nasty, brutish war of each against all, or the systems of domination intended to keep that war in check.
|
|
" For this level of indecency—and, perhaps, for the novel's depiction of brutish rural Irishmen—the Irish censorship board added the book to its list of thousands banned in the country, alongside " Brave New World " and " The Catcher in the Rye .
|
|
In an era of brutish and ego-driven leadership in the White House, Silicon Valley and in many other countries around the world, Mr. Iger doesn't lead with his ego or try to drive the other alphas out of the herd.
|
|
The only figure in "Jane Got a Gun" who comes within yards of that intensity is John Bishop, the boss of the marauders, who has black hair oddly matched with pale eyes, and a lick of politeness in his brutish soul.
|
|
Amazon's Hard Bargain Extends Far Beyond New York Karen Weise, Manny Fernandez and John Eligon examine Amazon's brutish negotiating tactics with governments around the country: Virtually all of America's largest businesses drive a hard bargain with governments, angling for benefits and financial incentives.
|
|
Because the brutish assassins apparently did not know they'd been given polonium, they left radioactive trails across Europe during three separate missions to London, failing in their first attempt to kill Litvinenko by slipping the poison into his drink, according to the report.
|
|
The smashing of his Polish homeland to rubble, first by Nazi invaders and then by the remorseless, brutish violence of Soviet communism, jolted him from a life of privilege—he was the son of a diplomat and nobleman—to one of uncertain exile.
|
|
" Curtis continued, "Perhaps this grotesque power play to 'get some' by this brutish thug of a man and the attempts by him, his lawyer, his board and famous friends to, once again, keep it under wraps and blame the victim will fail.
|
|
In Old Man Logan, a 2008 story that ran in the pages of an ongoing Wolverine series, Millar told the story of an older, sadder Wolverine in a brutish post-apocalyptic future where most superheroes are dead and the supervillains have won.
|
|
Letter To the Editor: I am a little surprised that Donald J. Trump is being so severely criticized for "his brutish agenda" ("Donald Trump's Pygmalion Project," Opinion, April 27) when a much scarier agenda of a previous presidential candidate comes to mind.
|
|
The speed (in his feet and hands), length, and intuitive feel are locked in place—to beat him off the dribble is to evade one's own shadow—but the 21-year-old isn't muscular enough to stand up the league's more brutish scorers.
|
|
The first is to bring the brutish Piscatella (Brad William Henke) into Litchfield during the riot, so he can stalk around the prison in the middle of the night, abducting and tying up inmates like he's in a Friday the 13th movie.
|
|
The precarious state of politics hung over our conversation: Hobbes's description of life in the state of nature – "nasty, brutish and short" – prompted the president of a charter-school foundation to liken the vision of the "Leviathan" to "a Donald Trump inaugural speech".
|
|
This is a part of the game where Evan has to prove his mettle in a kind of trial in order to progress the narrative, and Thogg, while pretty brutish looking, is merely a lumbering ape compared to the deadly majesty of Longfang.
|
|
Perhaps what's more pronounced than any particular theories about who on House of Cards is or is not modeled after which real-life figures is the simple fact that the outlandishly brutish politics portrayed in the show seem to have been eclipsed by real life.
|
|
But unfortunately, that's where comprehension ran into a bit of a logjam, because my brain — enfeebled by almost four decades of car exhaust and brutish street planning that marginalizes and endangers pedestrians and cyclists — simply could not interpret the images that I was seeing.
|
|
The first volume of Andrews's two-part autobiography, "Home: A Memoir of My Early Years," which came out 11 years ago, was "a decisively unsoppy account of a typically dismal English childhood, complete with cramped lodgings and brutish relatives," according to The Times Book Review.
|
|
At the start of the Winter Olympics two weeks ago, the nasty, brutish and short (and endlessly mockable) state known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea demonstrated it has the wits to boondoggle the gullible with a combination of glitz and sophisticated propaganda.
|
|
Titled BREACHEDBIRTH, it's a filthy, feral dose of lo-fi black metalpunk, prickly and mean; the lyrics to songs like "Gun Wrapped in a Party Dress" and "Shattered Cheekbone" are short, nasty, and brutish, fucked up poetry for dark bar corners and darker alleys.
|
|
The film's other key characters are Sergeant Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey), a mini-celebrity thanks to his consulting gig on the Dragnet-esque TV cop show Badge of Honor, and Officer Bud White (Russell Crowe), a brutish attack dog with a particular taste for wife-beaters.
|
|
As Moritz, whose problems are as much educational as sexual, Mr. Durant exudes a boyish sense of melodramatic frustration; his brutish father will not countenance anything less than accomplishment, and Moritz's struggles at school are met with a lack of sympathy that shrivels his vulnerable soul.
|
|
"To resolve the crisis in Yemen there is no solution but the end of aggression by the brutish Saudi rulers and start of new round of talks that includes all Yemeni sides," Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Bahram Qasemi was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency.
|
|
They broadcast their own celebration from the home of Jamie Vardy, their rags-to-riches goal scorer, as the Premier League title was handed to them by an implosion of Tottenham Hotspur in a brutish match down in London at Chelsea that was drawn 2-2.
|
|
Country by country, western leaders and their allies are taking on a posture suggesting a turn back to the foundational, 370-year-old system that preceded World War II. This brutish order was called the Westphalian system, and more or less left states entirely on their own.
|
|
Helen Foster stars as the title heroine, a poor country lass who's keen on a doctor (Warner Baxter, all smiles and 'stache) but whose brutish father marries her off to an older man sensitively played by Noah Beery (a near look-alike for his brother Wallace Beery).
|
|
The first Jurassic World movie, released in 2015, started from the premise that the park was finally operational and entertaining tourists, but sooner or later, the dinosaurs gotta start eating people, so it just became an even nastier and more brutish spin on the first film.
|
|
In a change of pace for the distinguished character actor Sam Rockwell, his new role in the action comedy "Blue Iguana," is Eddie, a muscled meathead whose brutish charm is only appreciable in contrast to the oafishness of Paul (an amiable Ben Schwartz), Eddie's partner in crime.
|
|
"The law has no mention of the word democracy or the word equality, and is wholly committed to brutish emphasis of ethnic supremacy, leaving no doubt that there are two types of citizenship — first-rate ones for Jews and second-rate ones for Arabs," the alliance said.
|
|
The brutish industrial aesthetic of the original Chromebook Pixel has been somewhat softened by the pale, blue-white glass, which is inlaid into the back of the screen, and an "advanced silicone" (which looks like glass) that flanks the glass trackpad, where it successfully acts as a palm rest.
|
|
The album itself is a feral, muddy orgy of depravity and doom, as nasty and brutish as anything Thomas Hobbes could've imagined back in war-torn, disease-riddled 1651 when he wrote his landmark treatise Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil.
|
|
Most of Episode 2 is focused on Brent, a brutish, arrogant, shiny-lipped man who gets alarmingly drunk, dry-heaves on what appears to be the side of the road, calls all the girls he's living and working with in Mykonos ugly, and eventually falls asleep on the floor.
|
|
Frankly, though, members of the Saudi ruling family have long enjoyed an undeserved reputation as reformers, like late King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who enjoyed a blushing amount of hagiography after his death after a reign of heartless judicial oppression, brutish military intervention, and abuse of migrant workers.
|
|
The winning options include a vault dweller leaving the security of his shelter and a veteran wasteland explorer, but if you want to be a little weirder, you can play a ghoul that's actually healed by radiation or a brutish super mutant that gains power from visiting irradiated areas.
|
|
Trump, in Pinker's view, has focused on the most primitive and regressive emotions among voters: So yes, Trump is wisecracking about overturning millennia of progress in taming our brutish instincts for instant retaliation, and discarding the norms and institutions of justice that our better angels have crafted and perfected.
|
|
Zach Randolph spent most of the past six years as a symbol of the Grizzlies' brutish bully-ball persona, so it's still a little strange to watch him assume a permanent reserve role this season, spending so much time without Marc Gasol or Mike Conley by his side.
|
|
Whether or not you want to categorize such work as visionary, anti-pop, art brut, or art brutish; its vibrating visual noise invites a wider view on life that includes spiritual, ecstatic or mystical attributes we ascribe to both the ancestral past and the subjective realm of the individual.
|
|
As we saw during the Western Conference Finals against Durant's former team, the Oklahoma City Thunder (and again during the NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers), overwhelming the Warriors with the longest and most brutish lineup possible is currently the best known way to frustrate them in the half court.
|
|
We still don't know all that much about how humans before the arrival of agriculture, statehood, and "civilization" regarded the course of history—though it was a favourite pastime of early modern philosophers to imagine the inner lives of precivilized people, from "nasty, brutish, and short" to idyllic, carefree, unencumbered.
|
|
McConnell's brutish tactics cleared the way for two conservative Supreme Court justices – Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Lewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Cook Political Report moves Susan Collins Senate race to 'toss up' MORE and Neil Gorsuch.
|
|
My identification with Mr. Díaz sits alongside my acknowledgment of the testimony of other female writers who have described his brutish behavior, his emotional manipulation, his machista nonsense — especially that of the poet Shreerekha, whose beautiful and painful essay on her long-term relationship with Mr. Díaz also tore me apart.
|
|
Alessandro, the brutish brother in Marco Bellocchio's " Fists in the Pocket " (1965), claims to be "a volcano of ideas" and shoves his mother off a cliff, while the nameless visitor played by Terence Stamp in Pasolini's " Theorem " (1968) seduces pretty much everyone, leaving his conquests in a state of ruin, catatonia, or ecstasy.
|
|
Such are the duties of being in charge of a place that, thanks to a critically acclaimed (at least in the West) and relentlessly bleak Russian movie, has an unwelcome reputation as possibly the most miserable place in Russia — a remote, frozen wasteland of drunks, brutish officials, crumbling buildings and unalloyed despair.
|
|
I mean those who plainly prefer his brutish braggart's style to the sort of public decency that Bush or, in a different way, Mitt Romney offered — and who either spin elaborate fantasies about Trump the Christian or laud him as a Conan-esque warlord they think will drive their enemies before them.
|
|
She commissioned a story on Donald and Ivana Trump in 22013: "Wanted to capture their fascinating repositioning now that they are divorcing and Ivana has been upgraded to superstar victim of a brutish, philandering husband, which she is playing to the hilt," she said in "The Vanity Fair Diaries: 22010 to 210," published in 2017.
|
|
When the community grieves for the hard-working Robbins (the tenor Chauncey Packer), who has been killed in a brawl with the brutish stevedore — and Bess's bullying lover — Crown (the bass-baritone Alfred Walker in a menacing, formidable performance), the chorus sang the sad refrains of "Gone, Gone, Gone" with sighing lyricism and swelling fervor.
|
|
The play grabs its title from a verse in the Song of Solomon about foxes despoiling vineyards, and Hellman fills the play with appropriately ravening characters: Ben (played with wicked pleasure by Mr. McKean), shrewd in his striving; Oscar, merely brutish; and Oscar's son, Leo (Michael Benz), inept at just about everything, villainy included.
|
|
Whatever the reason, until accusations of sexual harassment and brutish behavior led to his retirement Monday from City Ballet and its School of American Ballet, Peter Martins reigned with impunity for nearly 30 years despite reports of inappropriate behavior and complaints about his leadership, according to several current and former company executives and dancers.
|
|
Related: Chris Evans apologizes for missing 'Avengers' premiere It obviously requires a sizable threat to justify all that man, woman and more exotic power (android, raccoon, tree), and the movie tapped the right one in Thanos (Josh Brolin), a brutish figure bent on acquiring the infinity stones, magical objects that will enable him to perpetrate galactic genocide.
|
|
Trump's rivals Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-16 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE and John Kasich have seized on the incident as evidence of brutish behavior from his campaign staff.
|
|
" JON PARELES The open-car-window anthem of summer in Brooklyn is "OOOUUU," a hypnotically chill, casually brooding boast by an upstart female rapper, Young M.A. She's an entrancingly calm stylist, full of brutish assonance: "When it's time to pop they a no-show/Yeah, I'm pretty but I'm loco/The loud got me moving slo-mo.
|
|
The most daring adaptation concerns the character of Kaspar, Max's rival, who has made a Faustian pact with a devilish spirit, Samiel (here played by the sinewy dancer Azumi O E). Heartbeat's Kaspar is a returning Iraq war veteran — a brutish and maniacal but surprisingly sympathetic character, sung on Wednesday by the robust bass-baritone Derrell Acon.
|
|
Experts of other martial lines have philosophized similarly, saying that a practitioner must first learn basic principles, which can often be a rough and brutish process, and only then can they learn to refine the finer points of the art, much like the progression a potter develops in learning how to shape a mound of clay into an intricate vase.
|
|
" Only the difficult awareness of human "oneness" and mutual dependence in the "state of nature" can ever relieve an otherwise incessant war of "all against all," a remorseless global anarchy still best explained by 17th century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who warned of "continual fear, and danger of violent death; And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
|
|
Grizzled, irascible, foulmouthed, an outrageous, confrontational growler with a buckram face, a battered cowboy hat and a gun on his hip, he spent decades on the air doing pranks and parodies that were often brutish, tasteless or obscene and sometimes racist, sexist or homophobic — all while surviving alcoholism, cocaine addiction, repeated firings and a nearly fatal fall from a horse.
|
|
Representative democracy was—for its founding ideologues, like John Stuart Mill—supposed to put a barrier between the unenlightened mob and the levers of power; the general desire for brutish and unacceptable things like communal ownership and not being mangled to death in some vast hellish industrial machinery would be safely abstracted away by the ranks of parliamentary representatives drawn from a better class.
|
|
We members of the New York herd, it seems, are also integers in the show's damning moral equation.) The political attitudes of the characters, embodied with unnerving intensity and discipline by the cast, cover a range of viewpoints: Joachim's aristocratic disdain; the eagerness to cooperate of his brutish son Konstantin (Denis Podalydès); the moral horror of the firm's vice-president, Herbert Thallman (Loïc Corbery) and his genteel wife, Elisabeth (Adeline d'Hermy).
|
|
With an eye on the 2009 work's extreme topicality - the House of Commons is witnessing increasingly brutish exchanges over Britain's EU departure - the auction house has set its estimated price tag at 1.5 million - 2 million pounds ($1.84 million - $2.46 million) "There's no doubt that today this image has incredible currency not just here in the UK but across Europe and beyond," said Alex Branczik, Sotheby's head of contemporary art, Europe.
|
|
She explains that because of the milestones in Adelaide's life — meeting her husband, having children, enduring complications with her second pregnancy, having a C-section — Red was forced to go through clumsy mirror images of the same events, taking on the mute, brutish Abraham (Winston Duke, who also plays Adelaide's affable husband Gabe) as a life partner, and tearing her own body open in order to birth her own damaged version of Jason.
|
|
During those two weeks, it turned out, an entire secret drama had played out in his head, one in which she'd left campus committed to him, to Robert, but at home had been drawn back to the high-school guy, who, in Robert's mind, was some kind of brutish, handsome jock, not worthy of her but nonetheless seductive by virtue of his position at the top of the hierarchy back home in Saline.
|
|
No, for some reason, in a speech about art and freedom and diversity, you had to take a swipe at mixed martial arts, which, for all the progress its made over the last 10 years, for all the acceptance its gained and moral condemnation its weathered, remains the easiest whipping boy we have: the most convenient stand-in for all that's coarse and brutish in the American soul: "So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners," you said.
|
|
Put aside for a second the numerous class issues raised by the image of an extraordinarily wealthy person getting a thunderous ovation from a room filled with extraordinarily wealthy people by laughing off the "brutish" pleasures of middle-class sports like football and MMA; ignore the irony of a woman who helped bring She-Devil, Death Becomes Her, and AI: Artificial Intelligence into the world implying that anything deserves to be condemned for artlessness; and forget that at almost the exact moment Streep was giving her speech, quarterback Aaron Rodgers was leading his Green Bay Packers into the second round of the National Football League playoffs with a exhibition of physical grace and subtlety that would have shamed Gene Kelly.
|
|