Maybe the modern era has deadened our capacity for awe.
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This is the production's sense of our world: deadened masculinity.
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I found Sony's prior edition deadened the vocals and rendered music unexciting.
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It's difficult to reassess Eminem because our capacity for shock has been deadened.
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The more vituperative parts of the internet went after Russell Crowe's deadened performance.
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The planned redevelopment has deadened the area in some ways, while enlivening it in others.
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In characteristically British fashion, Berry recommends tea as a way to treat a deadened vagina.
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Chapel Square was a boxy fortress that faced inward and deadened the adjoining city streets.
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He is uncertain of it, but he seems to sense something from his deadened arm.
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The intensity of the midday light had burned the color out of things and deadened them.
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In such a deadened room, a body bursts with life, spilling it out through every sense.
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The deadened familiarity of this exchange stands out all the more because it's a first on The Americans.
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Bureaucratic structures had deadened the moral sense of ordinary German soldiers, he contended, which made the Holocaust possible.
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I read a bit more slowly than I did and frequently get a pinched, deadened sensation behind my eyes.
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Let go of past regrets and the half of a pointer finger that was blackened and deadened by frostbite.
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One reason is that, for all the deadened souls who throng the tale, the telling could not be more alive.
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While the Welsh had been hugely dynamic against Belgium in the previous round, their pressing, harrying midfield seemed deadened and deflated.
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And the deadened, disbelieving look on Alfred's face is like a wall the cop doesn't notice that he keeps crashing into.
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But Republicans have been characterizing all welfare state expansion as socialism forever, which may have somewhat deadened the argument as a message.
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Fernando Gonzales, 26, another early Clinton voter in Miami, said this consistently implausible election season had long ago deadened his nerves to shock.
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For many, the show that could once leave even the mightiest of us in hysterics is now an illogical and emotionally deadened husk.
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For the pace is hot and the points are near, and Sleep hath deadened the driver's ear, and signals flash through the night in vain.
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Hoffman learned the grip in 1994 from his teammate and catch partner, Donnie Elliott, then deadened the ball even more by shoving it deeper in his hand.
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Professor Nochlin's ability to toggle between the past and the present was aided by her clear, accessible writing, which was built on theory but never deadened by it.
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Finally, there's the metaphor of her title, which sets the living colors mixed by Jakob's father against the "monochrome" of a world deadened by the delusion of ethnic purity.
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TD Ameritrade opened the same year that so-called Bbcor bats (for Ball-Bat Coefficient of Restitution), deadened to reduce exit velocity and better protect pitchers, came into use.
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We have been sheltered by our parents, swindled by our universities, deadened by our therapists, and for all this our reward has been glib condescension from the boomer press.
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But forgive me — it's also a lot more fun than yet another dark, "biting" critique of smartphone culture, wherein the takeaway is consistently something preachy about narcissism and deadened nerves.
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Like anyone nowadays, my iPhone is the foremost computing device in my life, but the addition of the Watch has somewhat deadened the reflex to check my phone so often.
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Ever since Columbine, almost 20 years ago, I've absorbed the news of more mass shootings than I can count with an ulcerating rage that gradually scabbed over into deadened cynicism.
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With producers facing off in a game of last-man-standing, surplus metal is still accumulating, meaning that even if supply starts contracting, the impact will be deadened by stocks overhang.
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And even if you don't see an actual paranormal apparition, you'll feel the weight of history all around you (unless your nerve endings are totally deadened and you have no empathy).
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The palette used by Armani, known in the fashion system as "King Giorgio", is made up of hypnotic and intense blues and purples, at times deadened by beige, grey and red.
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And he does have a style, as well as skill, though the virtues of his choreography are masked by the put-on attitude and deadened by his dogged sense of structure.
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For every person that scrolls through their Instagram when they're with you, is the knowledge that you're being wasted, that all the interesting aspects of yourself are being deadened in their company.
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On the one end of the spectrum, you have the 30 somethings, alleged teens who speak and act as if they've been deadened by years of layoffs, family troubles, and mounting debt.
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In the Netflix series, Snicket — voiced with deadened aplomb by Patrick Warburton — is front and center from the beginning; we know right away that he's a character as well as the narrator.
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They remind us that the injection of embodied politics into what had become the deadened spaces of mechanized traffic remains a crucial legacy of the 'Sixties, one that needs revival more than ever.
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It's a shame the joyous child approaching the world with endless excitement will eventually become the deadened clone, but the ending suggests the future might be malleable, and at the very least is unpredictable.
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Otherwise, they and the pedigreed trio of Anuj Mishra, Neha Singh and Kantika Mishra, from Lucknow, did many of the same things but in choreography that largely deadened the art with canned, commercial packaging.
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"I welcomed old habits like a long lost friend, to spite you," she said in a hoarse, deadened voice, on "Destinations," whose menacing low throb built to a paranoid hum, like an approaching killer-bee attack.
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The gun, sitting at the center of all of this as a blood-soaked reminder of the stakes at hand, is just the most visible symbol of a medium's increasingly deadened understanding of life and death.
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Home runs are making a comeback in college baseball, reversing a trend that began in 295 with so-called BBCOR bat standards, which deadened metal bats to reduce exit velocity with a goal of protecting pitchers from injury.
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The best thing about that lottery mania is that it at least proves Americans still aspire to achieve massive success, as opposed to our European counterparts who seem half-deadened by generations of socialism and a cottage industry of self-loathing.
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To those who feel that grandmaster chess has been deadened by the influence of clever computers—those who miss the slashing brilliancies and sacrificial attacks of the earlier champions, like Paul Morphy, José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine—the match was a respite.
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It started with the grimmest and grittiest comic-book movie of the decade (Batman v Superman) facing off against the silliest one (Deadpool), and then Captain America: Civil War took the normally emotionally rich Marvel Cinematic Universe to a particularly dark and deadened place.
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This preposterous age of manic news cycles — Mr. Cohen's admission came on the same day that Paul Manafort, the president's former campaign chairman, was convicted of eight counts of tax and bank fraud — weekly bombshells and improbable politics has left us deadened to amazing developments.
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As he attached himself and his political career to Mr. Trump, it was again the scandal that deadened his aspirations, this time as a potential running mate; the governor himself allowed that Bridgegate was "a factor" in Mr. Trump overlooking him for the ticket.
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Only then "will people finally escape the raging waters that drown so many, either victims of the drug trade or those who stand before God with their hands drenched in blood, though with pockets filled with sordid money and their consciences deadened," he said.
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Without a clear transition, we are condemned to infinite adolescence in three different forms: the piercings, tattoos, and drugs of the deadened "perverted" body; the extreme discipline and self-renunciation of the "sacrificed" body; and the normie career-and-music-festivals pursuit of the meritocrat "deserving" body.
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A Tribute to a Man Who 'Was Everything' After the autopsy, a Youngstown funeral home arranged to return Hamzah Aljahmi to Michigan, retracing his interstate journey past the deadened brown of a Rust Belt December, to a funeral home in Detroit, close to the Dearborn line.
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" Dragayeva is a passionate about the capability of VR to awaken us out of our senses which have been deadened by imagery which is shocking or unusual: "As Sontag observed back in the 70s, 'At the time of the first photographs of the Nazi camps, there was nothing banal about these images.
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Nigerians in bleak houses in America, their lives deadened by work, nursing their careful savings throughout the year so that they could visit home in December for a week, when they would arrive bearing suitcases of shoes and clothes and cheap watches, and see, in the eyes of their relatives, brightly burnished images of themselves.
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But now fatigue a little deadened him to that incessancy of life, it seemed now just an eternal circling.
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They lament the fall of Barnavelt and remark on the shame of allowing such an admirable career fall into disgrace. Barnavelt enters with his son. Vandort notes that Barnavelt seems somehow deadened.
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Die!"Secrest, Meryl. Stephen Sondheim: A Life. Delta; new edition (1999), 386 Stephen Sondheim believes that the musical is about how "the force of somebody's feelings for you can crack you open, and how it is the life force in a deadened world.
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After the EDSA Revolution, a new and energetic priest set a new direction of the minor seminary. But Rev. Fr. Rogelio Lumbre's vision for the seminary suddenly deadened when he was assigned a few months later to a parish. Msgr. Amado Olayvar, fresh from Rome, rescued the sad state of the minor seminary.
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The American Film Institute, c. 1971. While Barthelmess's character sings and plays the piano throughout the film, Barthelmess did not sing or play the piano. Frank Churchill played the piano, and Johnny Murray sang into a microphone far away from Barthelmess while he lip-synced and played a piano that had strings deadened with felt.
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Various artists prefer different levels of staccato on beats 1 and 3, and beats 2 and 4, but in general both beats are short, but still voiced to some degree. The pattern then repeats, but before every first and third beat, an upstroke is performed very quickly (typically with the strings still deadened), giving the music its heavy swing feel.
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Sean Axmaker calls Cause for Alarm! "An unusual entry into the film noir school of paranoia" which "trades the dark alleys and long shadows of urban menace for the sunny, tree-lined streets of middle-class domesticity" whilst noting, "Young's deadened narration adds an eerie mood of doom to the suburban setting."Axmaker, Sean. Editorial review to Film Noir Vol.
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After a first round bye, the Argos won against Winnipeg in front of a packed out SkyDome, and advanced to the Grey Cup. However, in that playoff game, Dunigan broke his collarbone. He was able to throw the length of a hotel ballroom after doctors deadened his shoulder. In minus 19 degree weather, he threw two touchdowns and won his second Grey Cup.
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Every man in their starting line up hit .300 for the season. They bunted, hit-and-ran, Baltimore chopped, backed up throws, cut off throws, and had pitchers cover first. They also deadened balls by icing them, tilted baselines so bunts would roll fair, and put soap around the mound so opposing pitchers would get slippery fingers if he tried to dry his hands in the dirt.
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Topographical map, July 1, 1966, United States Geological Survey When the prison farm was first established, forests were cleared and land was put into cultivation. Prisoners "deadened" or circled the trees. A sawmill opened, and the wood was converted into planks used to build the housing in the prison. In 1911 what was then "Parchman Place" had ten camps, with each camp holding over 100 prisoners and working on .
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By means of these ochres and browns the picture was deadened and appeared less brilliant than the works the impressionists painted with a palette limited to prismatic colours. But the understanding of the laws of contrast, the methodical separation of elements—light, shade, local colour, and the interaction of colours—as well as their proper balance and proportion gave this canvas its perfect harmony.’Paul Signac. D‘Eugène Delacroix au Néo- impressionnisme.
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It closely missed Lightoller and created a wave that washed the boat 50 yards clear of the sinking ship. Those still on Titanic felt her structure shuddering as it underwent immense stresses. As first-class passenger Jack Thayer described it: > Occasionally there had been a muffled thud or deadened explosion within the > ship. Now, without warning she seemed to start forward, moving forward and > into the water at an angle of about fifteen degrees.
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The division began its approach march at 19.00 the evening before, and was expected to be resting at its jumping-off line by midnight. But the mud was so bad that the troops arrived 20 minutes after the attack was launched, and simply fixed bayonets and kept walking. As well as the mud, which seriously hindered movement, clogged weapons and deadened artillery fire, they were faced by unanticipated barbed wire. The artillery had made no impression on German pillboxes.
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How to Change the World. New York: Oxford University Press. pg.17 After teaching for twenty years, she could no longer put up with the Indian schools’ traditional ways of teaching. Author David Bornstein notes, “Nothing pained her more than to walk through a school hallway and hear students repeating in unison, ‘Here we go ‘round the mulberry bush.’ To her, this rote learning—a holdover from the colonial era—was the very sound of minds being deadened”.
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According to Leon Hunt the film represents the suburban wives as both "banal and voracious, passive and rapacious, timid and uncontainable." The Daily Mirror described the characters as a "monstrous regiment of frustrated wives".Hunt, Leon, British Low Culture: From Safari Suits to Sexploitation, Routledge, 2013, p.104-6. It portrays suburbia as a deadened, lifeless space, one that mirrors the "sexual desert" experienced by the characters, but which, as Hunt says, "just intensifies desire rather than diminishing it".
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Phoebe-Jane Boyd, writing for the entertainment website Den of Geek, compared the television crew to individuals pulled out of the "Summerland" of cancelled television. Terry is "parasitic and dead of heart", an example of a particular brand of "washed-up middle-aged television presenters". Amanda is "so deadened to the bitchery of the entertainment industry" that she is unfazed at the thought of retrieving props from a corpse. Anne behaves in a "bitter and narcissistic" way.
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Pantalaimon reiterates that he believes Lyra's admiration of rational scholars has deadened her curiosity and enthusiasm for life, and Lyra angrily rejects his arguments by scorning all appeal to emotion. The following morning, Pantalaimon has left, leaving her a note reading: Gone to look for your imagination. Distraught at Pan's absence, Lyra seeks help from the gyptians and joins her old friend Farder Coram in The Fens. He, like Malcolm, is an agent of Oakley Street, a department of the Secret Service.
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He later described how "We became deadened to scandalous scenes of torture, which had no reason to envy those of the Middle Ages, and saw the apparatus of dictatorship not retreating, but even advancing in the face of an assassination!"Rassinier, "Colonization, with the help of the Colonial Proletariat", The Sower, No. 376, 21 June 1930, reproduced in part in Plantin, Part I, Chapter 1. Upon his demobilization, he returned to his teaching post and his political activism. It is also around this time that he became a member of War Resisters' International.
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Both their use in Roman times and usefulness have been debated. Thomas Noble Howe wrote in his commentary on Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture, "These vessels, bronze or clay, may be another example of Vitruvius singling out a highly technical feature of Greek architecture that was uncommon, but between eight and sixteen potential sites with evidence of echea have been identified. It is debatable whether such vessels amplified or deadened sound." Echea were used with a, "due regard to the laws and harmony of physics," according to Roman writer Vitruvius.
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Doyle walked several miles every evening to strengthen the broken bone, however, when the plaster was removed the ankle was still badly discoloured and swollen. On the Wednesday prior to the All-Ireland final, he failed a fitness test and was a doubt for the game. On 3 September 1961 Dublin provided the opposition in the All-Ireland decider and Doyle was named in the starting fifteen. Prior to the match he received two injections on either side of his ankle that deadened the leg from his toes to his knee.
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Summarizing the gameplay in general as "weak", GameSpot's Ricardo Torres argued that the game's promising ideas were fundamentally deadened by "the gimmick of having to 'virtually' watch television programs" and the long stretches of time this entails. Leeper claimed that Pikachu "will be content much longer than you will" and decried the channels' non-interactive nature while praising the unlockable status of a few. Darryl Vassar of GameSpy went even further and claimed that there was "no gameplay". He gave the game only one star out of five as a result, despite calling the animation quality and Pokémon voices "decent".
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Donald Pynchon, Excelsior's executive prophet (a city government official concerned with making and interpreting city-wide prophesies), is murdered in a North Beach back alley on September 23, 2011. Detectives Longstreet and Bosson (Bamber & Callis) are tasked with the case and determine that his murder was intentionally brutal, and it was unobserved due to a magical charm which deadened sound in the alley. It turns out that fifteen years previously, Pynchon was in Mendocino, California when, relying on a prophetic vision, testified against Lionel Dixon on charges of rape and murder. Dixon received a life sentence of magically reliving his victim's final experiences.
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29 Because of the ship's high profile, there were concerns about her stability in bad weather as she had a significant amount of weight mounted high in the ship; notably her catapults, cranes and anti-aircraft guns. To increase her stability, two lateral tanks were fitted with a pressurized butterfly valve connecting them so that water could flow between the tanks to counter her rolling motion. On trials in 1933, the system was judged successful as it deadened the ship's roll by 37–65%. However, maintenance of the system proved to be problematic as the tanks were difficult to access.
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Our goal is to spiritualise our being and refine our material selves, which includes our desires and need for the fulfillment of material satisfaction. Without a spiritual context in mind, men and women simply become deadened materialistic entities always governed by their desires, passions, greed and ego-driven need for control and power over others. This is the realm of matter, or in Delville's cosmology, the realm of Sathan, who controls and governs our lower state of being. Without a spiritual goal in life, we are merely slaves to Sathan and are completely submissive to his power; we become his 'treasure' as is implied in the title of this painting.
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The division began its approach march at 19.00 the evening before, and was expected to be resting at its jumping-off line by midnight. But the mud was so bad that the troops arrived 20 minutes after the attack was launched, and simply fixed bayonets and kept walking. As well as the mud, which seriously hindered movement, clogged weapons and deadened artillery fire, they were faced by unanticipated barbed wire and the artillery had made no impression on German pillboxes. Although patrols from 66th Division did reach Passchendaele, by the end of the day all temporary gains had been wiped out, and the division did note even hold a consolidated line.
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Haynes continued to perfect his auto design, and in late 1895 he began his work to create a new hard alloy for use as a crankcase and other auto parts. His intent was to make a metal that would be resistant to rusting. He experimented with the use of aluminum and found that when used, it significantly deadened the noise produced by the engine parts. As his designs progressed, he decided to form a partnership for the manufacture of his vehicles. At the end of 1894, Haynes joined with Elmer and Edgar Apperson to create an automobile company and began producing cars that year.
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He writes, "Tsai's meticulously composed fables of longing and disconnection are lurid and comical as well as poignant", and calls Tsai a "reigning genius of camera placement" in his ability to introduce a dreamlike quality to everyday routine. The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw gave the film 3/5 stars, tracing the film's inception as nurtured specifically for the purpose of the film festival circuit, but failed to be as compelling, and "tend dangerously towards self-parody". Writing for The New Yorker, Richard Brody praises Tsai's capacity to show empathy for his characters: "this record of grinding frustration and fleeting tenderness, composed mainly of static long takes, plays out in a deadened, polyglot, pan-urban landscape of globalization's unfulfilled promise—instead of a world brought together".
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Although he is one of the major Korean writers of the 80s, Yun's fiction maintains some distance from the dominant trend in Korean fiction of 1980s—the concern with realism as an effective literary tool in rendering contemporary social situations. Instead, what supports Yun's fictional world are individual desire and the power of fantasy. The archetypal situation in Yun's works is that of a man suffering from a sense of ontological lack; deadened by routines of daily life, he immerses himself in fantasy or travel in order to secure what life in the real world has denied him—meaning of existence and genuine engagement with another human being. Often this search hinges on the protagonist's ardent yearning for a woman.
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A contemporary flurry of scientific interest in this effect culminated in Sir John Tyndall (1867) deducing that specific SH sounds, directed perpendicular to the flow had waves that blended with similar SH waves created by friction along the boundaries of tubes, amplifying them and triggering the phenomenon of high-resistance turbulent flow. His interpretation re-surfaced over 100 years later (Hamilton 2015). Tollmien (1931) and Schlichting (1929) proposed that friction (viscosity) along a smooth flat boundary, created SH boundary layer (BL) oscillations that gradually increased in amplitude until turbulence erupted. Although contemporary wind tunnels failed to confirm the theory, Schubauer and Skramstad (1943) created a refined wind tunnel that deadened the vibrations and sounds that might impinge on the wind tunnel flat plate flow studies.
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Of burnings by sulphur and > incisions by the iron he remembered nothing. The Comprachicos deadened the > little patient by means of a stupefying powder which was thought to be > magical and which suppressed all pain. According to research by John Boynton Kaiser in the Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, "Victor Hugo has given us a pretty faithful picture of many characteristic details of social England of the 17th century; but the word Comprachicos is used to describe a people whose characteristics are an unhistorical conglomeration of much that was once actual but then obsolete in the history of human society." Much that seems unimaginable today may have authentic roots in common practices of the seventeenth century.
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There are two sound holes in the bottom board, as the playing techniques of the qin employ the entire surface of the top board which is curved / humped. The inside of the top board is hollowed out to a degree (if the board is too thick, then the sound will be dull and deadened; if the board is too thin, the sound will be too bright and loud). Inside the qin, there are 'nayin' 『納音』 sound absorbers to reinforce the sound, and a 'tian chu' 『天柱』 and 'di chu' 『地柱』 soundposts that connect the bottom board to the top (which act as sound reinforcers but also anti-warping devices). The boards are joined using a "hinge joint" method to produce the typically mellow sounds of the qin.
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Graham Bader, describing it as the engine of the painting's narrative, notes the intrigue created by the juxtaposition of Donald's heightened sense of visual perception as it relates to his anticipated catch, and his deadened sense of tactile perception as it relates to having a fishing hook in the back of his own shirt. In this sense, Lichtenstein has chosen to depict a source that has as its subject a divide between raised visual awareness and an absent sense of touch: Lichtenstein frequently explored vision-related themes after he began to work in the pop art genre; early examples include I Can See the Whole Room...and There's Nobody in It! and Look Mickey. In this painting, Donald's large eyes indicate his belief that he has caught something big while Mickey's small eyes indicate his disbelief that Donald has caught anything significant.
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While profits achieved extraordinarily important rates of growth, significant decrease was in the standard of living of the masses, mainly the urban and industrial proletariat, which still was that which demonstrated more ability to maintain continuous pressure for wage increases. In the countryside the situation was different: the inflationary impact was greater, but more direct provision of food availability deadened its impact on the peasantry in the case of small landowners and tenants (predominant in the agrarian structure in northern Spain), that may benefit; but not quite the opposite for the landless laborers, the fundamental part of the workforce in the southern half of Spain (especially in Andalusia and Extremadura). The results of the process, already acutely visible in 1917, was a fierce redistribution of national income (both between social classes and among territories), with progressively worsening rural-urban tensions and center-periphery.José Luis García Delgado Proceso inflacionista y política económica.
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The Legends of Dune prequel trilogy (2002–2004) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson establish that the Spacing Guild first start using Guild Navigators because the travel technique of spacefolding is not safe; only about nine out of every ten heighliners make it to their final destination without Navigators. Norma Cenva (the first Navigator and the creator of the Spacing Guild) at first uses super-computers to navigate space, but as the proscriptions of the Butlerian Jihad do not allow for the use of thinking machines, she uses melange to develop the prescient ability to visualize a heighliner's path before it actually travels. Cenva's own mutations are described at the end of The Battle of Corrin (2004): > Her direct physical senses were deadened, and Norma no longer cared about > taste, touch, or smell ... She found it remarkable to see webbing between > her fingers and toes. Her face, once blunt-featured and later flawlessly > beautiful, now had a small mouth and tiny eyes surrounded by smooth folds.
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According to ancient Roman religion and Roman mythology, Robigo or RubigoGreek and Roman deities: Roman goddess Rubigo (page 18) was the goddess that protected corn and other crops from diseasesRoman Gods and Goddesses 2 such as mildew and blightAlexander Adam, rector of the high school of Edinburgh Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs of the Romans ... (page 247), published in 1835 that infected crops, and in who's honor Robigalia festival was organized each April with people praying to her in order to remove rust from crops. Thus originates the name of Rubik. Early Illyrian inhabitants of the area performed rituals which were established by the Roman King Numa Pompilius, yearly on the 25th of April, when farmers would sacrifice a red goat, a red sheep, and offer wine to the goddess. In actuality, the "rust" was not from crops but from the soil of the area due to copper ore and acid waters of which often deadened plants to the very roots.
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The ship disappeared from view at 02:20, 2 hours and 40 minutes after striking the iceberg. Thayer reported that it rotated on the surface, "gradually [turning] her deck away from us, as though to hide from our sight the awful spectacle ... Then, with the deadened noise of the bursting of her last few gallant bulkheads, she slid quietly away from us into the sea." Titanics surviving officers and some prominent survivors testified that the ship had sunk in one piece, a belief that was affirmed by the British and American inquiries into the disaster. Archibald Gracie, who was on the promenade deck with the band (by the second funnel), stated that "Titanics decks were intact at the time she sank, and when I sank with her, there was over seven-sixteenths of the ship already under water, and there was no indication then of any impending break of the deck or ship".
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"De Janzé Asks Bail", Herald-Journal, 22 May 1927"Countess de Janzé is Temporarily Freed", The New York Times, 20 May 1927 She eventually described what happened in the train station: Thanks to the intervention of her aunt Mrs Francis May, Alice vanished from the public eye, hidden in a nursing home close to Paris in preparation for the impending trial. Her lawyers attempted, without success, to have the charges against her dismissed. She was tried by the Paris Tribunal on 23 December 1927,"Will Try Countess Today", The New York Times, 23 December 1927 on the charge of assault, after her celebrated advocate, René Mettetal, convinced the examining magistrate that she was mentally irresponsible at the time she shot de Trafford.Chicago Tribune, 17 December 1927"Alice de Janzé to Go on Trial in Paris Tomorrow", Chicago Tribune, 22 December 1927 When de Trafford was asked if he wanted to press charges against the countess, he expressed surprise and annoyance at the idea, claiming that his wounding was an accident that he himself caused:"Alice de Janzé Kept from Cell by Man She Shot", Chicago Daily Tribune, 24 December 1927 Alice's defence lawyer pleaded that the countess' chronic melancholy and tuberculosis had "deadened her intelligence".
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