The same as the calculatedly demented rantings of Mr. Jones?
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The museum's approach to these wrenching episodes is calculatedly theatrical, and effective.
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Edward Chang keeps a cybernetic implant at his desk, which seems almost calculatedly cool.
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Then the researchers had each volunteer complete three distinct, four-day sessions of living calculatedly exaggerated lifestyles.
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But even that relative high point is derailed by a calculatedly "odd" vocal bridge at the track's halfway point.
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For all the controversy and criticism swirling around him, he always manages to deliver a calculatedly calm, low-wattage performance.
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Ms. McNamara gives us a Martha stripped of her usual primal earthiness, a woman who is willfully, calculatedly self-conscious.
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It's not infuriatingly catchy like her best tracks or calculatedly motivational like the thoughtful ones, and really, it's barely even ironic fun.
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If some feel they did nothing wrong, let them stop hiding behind silence, jokes, or calculatedly limited apologies, and engage in a live discussion.
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While most humans struggle with taking photos of ourselves, even in selfie mode (even with filters!), Whittington has mastered the art of looking calculatedly candid.
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No Photoshop retooling here; instead, Price works over his photographs with chemicals, polymer fluids, and powdered earth — calculatedly decimating digital data through analog, elemental means.
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Rickard Billing, 46, who has coached Leo for the past five years, said the Borgs were calmer than the average tennis parents, and calculatedly detached.
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And the National Rifle Association stays calculatedly quiet for a day or two, then truculently reasserts its absolutist opposition to any form of gun regulation.
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What becomes immediately apparent is that Paul, like other YouTubers, is a poor interviewer, asking broad questions that are either deeply uninformed or calculatedly non-combative.
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"Too often the limits of freedom of speech are being tested very calculatedly, and taboos are being broken and carelessly employed as political instruments," she said.
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The heroes of Suicide Squad are the mallrats, Harley Quinn cosplayers, tween goths, and gamers that the latest DC comic-book tentpole is calculatedly aimed at.
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Kistulentz calculatedly positions his pivotal plane disaster midway into this pensive novel, drawing a dividing line between the life choices made by Richard's stagnating siblings and their subsequent fallout.
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They stand accused of calculatedly kidnapping her from a meadow, stuffing drugs down her throat and locking her up for three days in a temple, where they beat her, raped her and eventually strangled her.
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"There isn't a reality or a virtual reality anymore, bro," the owner of a pornography shop says in "Videofilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)," a fractured and calculatedly off-putting feature from Juan Daniel F. Molero.
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As it is, you can decide if the show makes — yet again — a useful point about paintings being calculatedly churned out for the market or if Mr. Büttner has simply decided to take the easy way out.
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You can also do what I did, and stay in Maboneng, a secure and calculatedly hip arts district near downtown Johannesburg — and the brainchild of a property management group called Propertuity (a word with vaguely Orwellian overtones).
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Under Jerry Ruiz's precise direction, their early interactions are calculatedly awkward, with Lucia condescending and Abel contemptuous, but they achieve a kind of camaraderie, bonding over late-night beers and a shared and entirely sensible hatred of Twizzlers.
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We meet him first in "Henry IV, Part 1," already old, lusting at life, drinking pal of the young Prince Hal, who is calculatedly slumming it in London's East End, like any rich kid running away from the family firm.
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Best known for her television appearances as the coolly intelligent detectives on "The Fall" and "The X-Files," Ms. Anderson endows Blanche with a self-preserving skepticism that is starting to lose its edge and a calculatedly feminine, shrilly Southern persona that feels thoroughly of the moment.
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"Vestido de Párpados" — "Dress of Eyelids" — takes a little while to get into motion, then runs calculatedly amok: placing toy-piano tones against jittery drum-and-bass beats, swooping and sliding, racing and crunching, summoning blips and pizzicato and free-jazz saxophone and white-noise crashes.
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Like the work for which he is most known, 2000's House of Leaves, and the two other calculatedly form-bending novels in the 16 years since, The Familiar appears again heavily bent on using an extreme array of unusual typeface, alignment, layout, and illustration to bring some disruptive vibrancy to its build.
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If a key strategy of historical Abstract Expressionism was to trim the lag time between impulse and response — the belief being that doing so would allow form to emerge from the subconscious, unmediated by culture, the "literary," or the artist's internal editors — then Copperwhite's calculatedly eye-grabbing tricks with the brush are in quite the opposite spirit.
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Described by AllMusic as "the most calculatedly commercial album of Iggy's career",[ Album review] at Allmusic. Retrieved 31 December 2007. Blah-Blah- Blah was certified gold in Canada (more than 50,000 copies sold). In the U.S. it peaked at No. 75 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart.
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The challenge that remains is that the highest frequency component is usually not known during acquisition to be able to calculatedly determine the sampling rate. Therefore, estimates need to be made of the highest possible frequencies contained within the signal; usually, sampling rates higher than these estimates are preferred to ensure that temporal aliasing does not occur.
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160 His oldest son and successor, Edward of Portugal, set the project aside, but Henry continued lobbying for it. Henry soon obtained a critical ally, his youngest brother Prince Ferdinand, who was dissatisfied with his meager estates in Portugal and eager to seek his fortune overseas.Ruy de Pina, Chronica d'El Rey D. Duarte, Ch. 10; Russell, 2000: p. 151; Quintella, p. 85, all of whom suggest that Ferdinand's dissatisfaction may have been calculatedly stoked by Henry.
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The film begins with a monologue to camera about friendship by chartered accountant David Stephens. David, physician Juliet Miller, and journalist Alex Law share a flat in Edinburgh. Needing a new flatmate, they interview several applicants in a calculatedly cruel manner, amusing themselves at the applicants' expense before finally offering the room to a mysterious man named Hugo. Shortly after Hugo moves in, the trio finds him dead from an apparent overdose in his room, with a large suitcase full of money.
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Furthermore, it profoundly affects how historical facts are perceived and recorded and may circumvent or appropriate facts. A repertoire of discursive strategies functions to emotionalize national narrative and nationalize personal pasts. National memory has been used calculatedly by governments for dynastic, political, religious and cultural purposes since as early as the sixteenth century. Marketing of memory by the culture industry and its instrumentalisation for political purposes can both be seen as serious threats to the objective understanding of a nation's past.
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Some essays blend Hazlitt's social and psychological observations in a calculatedly thought-provoking way, presenting to the reader the "paradoxes" of human nature.Hazlitt's extreme way of making a point seemed to develop naturally. Yet it was to an extent a consciously applied device. See Gerald Lahey, "Introduction", Hazlitt, Letters, p. 11, and Hazlitt's own letter to Macvey Napier on 2 April 1816: "I confess I am apt to be paradoxical in stating an extreme opinion when I think the prevailing one not quite correct", p. 158.
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Media scandals and controversies ensured that in Germany itself Fassbinder was permanently in the news, making calculatedly provocative remarks in interviews. His work often received mixed reviews from the national critics, many of whom only began to take him seriously after the foreign press had hailed him as a major director. There were frequent exposés of his lifestyle in the press, and attacks on all sides from the groups his films offended. His television series Eight Hours Don't Make a Day was cut from eight to five episodes after pressure from conservatives.
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Bob Servant Independent received an overall positive response. In The Times David Chater called it "a total joy from start to finish — original, sharp, superbly acted and gloriously funny" and Andrew Billen said Cox gives a "stupendous performance, so calculatedly over the top, yet so irresistible". The Radio Times praised the "very funny, bewilderingly silly script" while The Scotsman called the show "likeable and amusing" with Cox's performance "infectious". However, some reviewers felt the character of Bob Servant had been better served in the radio series and books.
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The film is based on the popular 19th-century melodramas about the case and is highly theatrical, with an opening in which all the characters are introduced by a Master of Ceremonies in front of a painted backdrop, but is also slightly more lavishly produced and cinematically inventive than the later films directed by Tod Slaughter's producer George King. Slaughter gives a full-throated over-the-top performance in a calculatedly melodramatic style, encouraging the audience to vicariously share in his villainy; this approach became his trademark and gives his films a cult status of their own peculiar kind.
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Many people, regardless of citizenship, greeted de Gaulle's return to power as the breakthrough needed to end the hostilities. On his trip to Algeria on 4 June, de Gaulle calculatedly made an ambiguous and broad emotional appeal to all the inhabitants, declaring, "Je vous ai compris" ("I have understood you"). De Gaulle raised the hopes of the pied-noir and the professional military, disaffected by the indecisiveness of previous governments, with his exclamation of "Vive l'Algérie française" ("Long live French Algeria") to cheering crowds in Mostaganem. At the same time, he proposed economic, social, and political reforms to improve the situation of the Muslims.
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Reviews were mixed to negative. The Monthly Film Bulletin of the U.K. wrote that the film "may be forgiven for tampering with a classic, but not for doing so with such a depressing lack of either wit or competence ... Silliness, in fact, has got the better of the film to such an extent that even its most calculatedly vicious episodes appear only mildly grotesque. The production, which uses up colour film lavishly on such episodes as a cancan sequence, is otherwise hard-up for ideas." Variety gave the film a good review, praising Paul Massie for an "interesting performance" and Jack Asher for "colorful and sure" camerawork.
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"It's All I Can Do" has generally received positive reception from critics. Prato said that It's All I Can Do' ... deserved to be a hit," while Champ said the track (as well as its predecessor, "Let's Go,") "give ample evidence of the band's range." William Ruhlmann, author of The All-Music Guide to Rock, said "'It's All I Can Do' hit as well [as 'Let's Go']", and in the Billboard review of Candy-O, the song was chosen as one of the "best cuts". In a negative review, Tom Carson of Rolling Stone said, "'It's All I Can Do' calculatedly recycles the 'Just What I Needed' hook but to less-telling effect.
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As a reference point, you could think of Relentless as the follow-up to Breakaway that Kelly Clarkson failed to deliver after the smash success of that album, except in a Christian pop context. Yes, it's that catchy—perhaps calculatedly so—but it's never banal or contrived, like a lot the radio-geared material being produced in the CCM market." CCM Magazines Caroline Lusk claimed "Natalie Grant's latest album, Relentless, is a reminder why she wears the crown of top female vocalist two years running. From the opening strains of the first track to the achingly simple refrain of the last, this 12-song power-packed emotional roller-coaster succeeds at making familiar ideas fresh, compelling and emotive.
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" According to Modern Art: Impressionism to Post- Modernism, > the appliance itself, placed symmetrically against a uniform field of red, > is treated in terms of bold simplified masses of black and white. > Particularly striking is the rendering of the drainage holes in the frying- > pan as black discs which take on a life of their own in the same way as they > would in a completely abstract painting…The symmetry of the composition is > calculatedly broken by the black lines (paradoxically indicating highlights) > on the right side of the appliance and by the protruding handle of the pan > on the same side. Roto Broil presents its subject in its entirety with no distracting objects, but with no supporting planar surface. Thus, "It occupies the picture-plane emblematically, centralized and head-on.
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Buchanan also proposes that organisations should employ managers who are motivated only by money. He describes those who are motivated by other factors--such as job satisfaction or a sense of public duty--as "zealots". At the start of the 1970s, the theories of Laing and the models of Nash began to converge, leading to a popular belief that the state (a surrogate family) was purely and simply a mechanism of social control which calculatedly kept power out of the hands of the public. Curtis shows that it was this belief which allowed the theories of Hayek to look credible, and underpinned the free- market beliefs of Margaret Thatcher, who sincerely believed that by dismantling as much of the British state as possible--and placing former nationalised institutions into the hands of public shareholders—a form of social equilibrium could be reached.
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The deity Huitzilopochtli in particular had a devoted blood cult, as it was believed that without his continued sustenance the cosmos would be plunged into darkness. Less violent rituals were calculatedly suppressed as well, with the Spanish authorities deeming them anathema in light of their own spiritual preconceptions. When the Spaniards and their Tlaxcalteca allies besieged Tenochtitlan after having been forced out for preemptively massacring unarmed celebrants, the Aztecs struck back and sacrificed their Iberian captives to Huitzilopochtli, but ultimately the Aztecs could not defend the city after a devastating smallpox epidemic killed many warriors and leaders including the tlatoani himself. Even though the Aztecs continued to worship some of their own gods after the conquest, worshipping in secret and even disguising deities as nominal Catholic saints, the cult of the war god was totally suppressed.
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Following the National Socialists arrival in power, he became a staff music writer at the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger until 1944. In 1934, he expressed agreement with nationalist socialist cultural policy with regards to the "Neue Musik" (new music), which he described as a "Rotting bacillus, deliberately and calculatedly inoculated into the cultural body [...]" In 1939 he wrote an antisemitic article for the magazine Deutsches Volkstum in which he described the Jewish people's intellectuality as "mere means to the end of exerting power" and "effective method of decomposition, an explosive for splitting the dominated people into powerless classes". After the war, Abendroth's work was examined by the Allied Control Council during the so-called Denazification processes. He was deemed to be a german-nationalist antisemite rather than a nationalist-socialist one and as such given 'employable' status.
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After three performances of "Tiki Wonder Hour," the orchestra shortened its name to Combustible Edison and slimmed down to five core members: Cox (renamed "Miss Lily Banquette", on vocals and various percussion instruments), The Millionaire (guitar), Nick Cudahy (bass), Mr. Peter Dixon (keyboards) and Aaron Oppenheimer (drums and percussion). Combustible Edison signed to Sub Pop Records and released their debut album, I, Swinger, in 1994. A live review by Los Angeles Times critic Chuck Crisafulli noted that the album "perfectly duplicates the '50s cool and hi-fi exotica of such lounge icons as Martin Denny", while Trouser Press said, "I, Swinger is a faithful replication of bargain-bin exotica, right down to a sleeve festooned with cocktail recipes and calculatedly dated hep-cat liner notes". The group performed on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on December 23, 1994.
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Although he said the songs may seem impassive and not designful, Christgau believed those qualities were "part of their charm—the way they confound categories of sensibility and sophistication is so frustrating it's satisfying". Lodger peaked at No. 4 in the UK charts and No. 20 in the US at a time when the artist was being "out-Bowied" commercially by his new wave "children" such as Gary Numan. Soon after its release, Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray predicted that Lodger would "have to 'grow in potency' over a few years, but eventually it will be accepted as one of Bowie's most complex and rewarding projects". While biographer Christopher Sandford calls it a "slick, calculatedly disposable record", author David Buckley contends that "its stature grows with each passing year", and Nicholas Pegg sums up, "undervalued and obscure practically from the moment of its release, its critical re- evaluation is long overdue".
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The heart of Cripps's argument was that the mine's management had focused quite calculatedly on maximum production, and that the deputies had accordingly been encouraged to ignore safety regulations. While the regulations also gave individual miners safety responsibility, many said in evidence that they were unwilling to speak out for fear of victimisation at the hands of the deputies, or that they would lose their jobs. The assessor approved by the miners, Joseph Jones, also theorised that a large quantity of methane gas, which had accumulated at the coal face in the 14's district, might have been ignited through an accident with a safety lamp or from a spark from a mechanised coalcutter. Jones was sharply critical of the management, stating that 14's was a "veritable gasometer", that there had been "flagrant and persistent breaches of the Coal Mines Act and General Regulations" and that the deputy responsible for ordering the rescue men into 20's airway was "guilty of manslaughter".
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