Still, he thinks it will be used as more as a secondary descriptor of sexuality rather than a person's primary descriptor of the type of person to which they're attracted.
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Neither descriptor affects whether something is an assault rifle, necessarily.
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It's also could be a descriptor for the rockstar's career.
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The romantic thriller nailed the "thrilling" part of its descriptor.
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And your supporters adopt "socialism" as a positive descriptor too.
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It's a neutral descriptor of the size of my body.
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But around these parts, there's only one descriptor: Carolina blue.
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CNN host Fareed Zakaria wasn't satisfied with "treason" as a descriptor.
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That descriptor and the allegiance it implies comes not from tradition.
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It turns out that "high" is an apt descriptor, neurologically speaking.
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The stunning Ojai backdrop and "romantic comedy" descriptor are massive misdirects.
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For me, her hair is, for lack of a better descriptor, #goals.
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But honestly, it's a hassle to compartmentalize it into a single descriptor.
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Namely, "stable" might be more of a suggestion than an accurate descriptor.
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True to its self-ascribed descriptor, Oreos were definitely milk's favorite cookie.
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""Insane" might not be the best descriptor; we'd go with "insanely cool.
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They discuss the content and form the ratings descriptor on the spot.
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Now, liar must be the most-used descriptor linked to this president.
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It's the same type of descriptor that HBO uses for its prestigious offerings.
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"Christian" simply sufficed and continues to be the preferred descriptor for most evangelicals.
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I use that descriptor because it's how Costi described the Hinn family empire.
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But once you drop in, you start to think it's an odd descriptor.
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The two main meanings of the descriptor—superficial aesthetic passed between generations vs.
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"Post-truth" is an annoying buzzword, but I don't have a better descriptor.
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Nor do they make this memoir literary, a descriptor Wiener is clearly chasing.
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It's telling, I think, that "satisfying" is the chosen descriptor for the genre.
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Both Twitter and Facebook have offered accessibility options, including image descriptor text, for years.
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This isn't fair, and it isn't easy — even "hard" seems like a light descriptor.
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Even that sphere is too narrow a descriptor of all of Tricot's achievements here.
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The document also removed the term "matted and unkempt" as a descriptor for dreadlocks.
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The descriptor took off, and now has been used in over 1.5 million posts.
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And they very rarely use the descriptor "my" to describe military men and women.
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But some Twitter users pointed out that "Ofdonald" would probably be a better descriptor.
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Another Italian descriptor, "condimento" (aged less, and less expensive), is similarly not currently regulated.
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A growing number of progressives embrace democratic socialism as an ideological descriptor, including Sen.
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The Post changed its descriptor of al-Baghdadi in its headline multiple times Sunday.
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Besides, the American Psychiatric Association has ruled that Asperger isn't even a useful descriptor.
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But that descriptor downplays his habit of saying outrageous things both onstage and off.
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"'Support America' might be the payment processor descriptor, or a check by mail donation."
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What this illuminates instead is the uselessness of the term "terrorism" as a descriptor.
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This descriptor sent shivers down the spines of millions of Americans, especially LGBTQ people.
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Cooking concepts like aquafaba and fond made it in, as did the wine descriptor unoaked.
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Storms with winds 157 mph or higher fall under this descriptor (Katrina reached 175 mph).
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While "post-rock" is a decent descriptor for what's unfolding here, it feels too... light.
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Trump has become known for distilling the weakness of his opponents into a single descriptor.
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And though a majority of Democrats agree with this descriptor, it's hardly an overwhelming one.
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And these incidents explain why Trump's managed to avoid that certain descriptor throughout his campaign.
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If you replace that with Jewish or any other descriptor, you couldn't possibly say it.
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When I talked to Kehler recently, he was very insistent about including the "war" descriptor.
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Their apparent simplicity begs a simple descriptor: pretty, and, from afar, that's all they are.
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Cultural appropriation is the wrong descriptor; perhaps it should be cultural representation, or cultural depiction.
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"Cinematic" is a descriptor you have to treat with care, especially when you're talking about Radiohead.
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"Breakthrough", as it happens, is a key descriptor when it comes to drugs and medical devices.
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Tired was a vague descriptor, and anything vague was treacherous, but Eileen didn't want to push.
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Trump's tactics in 2016 were so grating to Democratic voters that they got their own descriptor.
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It also tends to lump an absurdly broad spectrum of behaviors under an increasingly unwieldy descriptor.
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Prism is an apt descriptor, too, given how often the imagery depicts light reflected and refracted.
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Today, it's used popularly as a descriptor for styles that encapsulate the free-spirited essence aesthetically.
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" John-Hall said, "When you think about our new President, give me a one-word descriptor.
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But material alone may be an inadequate descriptor of the breadth of the contemporary Chinese canon.
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But, I never used the word "lesbian" to describe myself, even though it's the most accurate descriptor.
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"A data scientist is the job descriptor everyone wants, in all sectors of the economy," Fawcett said.
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"The whole age of computer" is a marvelous phrase, and a perfect descriptor for the current age.
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Few 8-bit video games can be rightfully called cinematic, but Ninja Gaiden certainly fits the descriptor.
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"These are the people who want you to buy their version of history," the section descriptor reads.
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Photo by Nick Duque "Blistering" would be an appropriate descriptor of Gouge Away's 2016 debut album, , Dies.
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He burst my bubble promptly — "bland" was a descriptor — but regardless, I felt this one had promise.
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"Strong" was the word used most frequently among Republicans; "chaotic" was the 11th most frequently mentioned descriptor.
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Cringeworthy: that is the only descriptor for the events that transpire throughout this episode of The Affair.
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I'm wrapping up a puzzle now with MASC in the grid, a common descriptor among queer people.
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The problem isn't just that shirking the "white nationalist" descriptor would leave readers less than fully informed.
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The Handmaid's Tale could be retitled Elisabeth Moss Makes Faces, and it would be an equally accurate descriptor.
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Google blamed vandalism on Wikipedia for the descriptor, which appeared in an information box, and quickly removed it.
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As much as we say that things are "random," seldom do phenomena actually live up to that descriptor.
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" It was an empty descriptor that served only to pin blame on a racial group marked as "other.
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What I want to draw your attention to is the need for his people to use a descriptor?
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The descriptor doesn't fit Gravity Rush, most of whose players will be experiencing it for the first time.
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"Saying my driver is fat was obviously being used as a descriptor & not to insult him," she wrote.
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Once you're diagnosed with cancer, that descriptor overshadows everything else, perhaps because it can carry a death sentence.
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" He's equally dismissive of the Russia-related allegations, echoing Trump's descriptor of the investigation as a "witch hunt.
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"It's a descriptor of your family who is participating in this experiment," says the expert, apparently no grammarian.
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Using the L.G.B.T. descriptor, often preferred by many gay, lesbian and transgender people, is a sign of respect.
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That seemed to be the descriptor most tossed around last week to capture the circus around Donald Trump.
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It's easy to throw around the descriptor "spa-like" when describing luxe bathrooms, but this one really was.
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While none of them are willing to blast the plan as "wealth fare" -- the descriptor used by Sen.
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The Spanish word ALTO means "stop," but it can also serve as a descriptor for "high" or loud.
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While none of them are willing to blast the plan as "wealth fare" — the descriptor used by Sen.
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This is not to say that you shouldn't write out a descriptor of your body on a dating app.
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That latter descriptor is what gets Midge arrested for the second time in a matter of about 213 hours.
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"Midwestern nice" is a descriptor heard around America, but there are varying levels of geniality within the Midwest itself.
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Nichole Bloom (Shameless) plays pregnant teen Cheyenne with far more depth than the descriptor of "pregnant teen" usually allows.
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No. 210: "unqualified" No. 28, another descriptor: "president" No. 243, finally a 29% positive one: "strong"... 228:210 p.m.
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Rather, it's a descriptor of what the members aim to do to ballet: spruce it up for modern times.
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Celebration Rock came to define the band's sound, and its title became the perfect descriptor of its creators' ethos.
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" While conservative bishops such as Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia led the charge to make sure the descriptor "L.
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After Dr. Jacobs's remarks, many of the forecasters mingling in the hallways outside settled on a common descriptor: diplomatic.
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He's got an apparently bottomless bank account, too; "enigmatic" is perhaps the best descriptor for him in real life.
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It's my favorite descriptor of him: Shinsuke Nakamura as the real life equivalent of Miike's violent, sexual, stylish characters.
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The phrase "bullshit detector" is such a favorite generational descriptor among marketing pundits that it's ironically becoming a meaningless buzzword.
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The staff wanted to dispel the notion that their work all fits into one singular descriptor from the get-go.
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Or maybe they could just scratch the "Jamaican" off that stew description, and bin the "Tunisian" rice descriptor too. There.
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Luckily, on an individual level, its effects are a little more nuanced than that alarming descriptor would have us believe.
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But their work lives up to that descriptor, grounded in everyday life but tinging it with moments of the fantastical.
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A Mortician's Tale is one of those video games where the term "game" doesn't always feel like an appropriate descriptor.
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For lack of a better descriptor, many physicists refer to room temperature superconductivity as "the holy grail" of their field.
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"Remakes of remakes" is a pretty handy descriptor for this summer's theatrical slate (though there's no Bond film in sight).
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By definition, they weren't ambushed, but you can pick your own descriptor for that performance: dominated, trolled, punked, clowned, disrespected.
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Unfortunately, it is a descriptor that has been used so often in recent years that it has lost its meaning.
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Eventually, Japan Airlines and ANA did so too, but only introduced the "Taiwan, China" descriptor on their Chinese-language sites.
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The next closest descriptor Americans chose was "bully," which 2628 percent of respondents said at least somewhat describes the president.
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Apple is reportedly looking for "aspirational programming," according to The Hollywood Reporter, and the showrunners' direction didn't fit that descriptor.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Life-affirming: a descriptor redolent of Panglossian naiveté that I'd ordinarily avoid at all costs.
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"BF: "Another really good signifier of 'Whos' is that when they're covered in the press, they always need an extra descriptor.
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Bethany, the prettiest girl in school, mistook what curvy cartographer meant as a descriptor for the person she became inside Jumanji.
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Host LL Cool J called the set controversial, and but even that descriptor couldn't have prepared audiences for what they saw.
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Clinton had apologized for her remark — though, as Mr. Pence pointed out, her apology focused on the "half," not the descriptor.
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It also leaves open a distant possibility, given her choice of "gorgeous" as a descriptor, that it's not about a guy.
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And, while "unicorn" has become an overplayed descriptor in the beauty world (guilty), in this case, the product definitely earns the moniker.
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The NYT review of "Zucked" headlined it as an "anti-Facebook manifesto" — a descriptor that could apply equally to Hughes' op-ed.
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I just can't decide if "educate" or "eviscerate" is the more apt descriptor of what Gaga has in store for the man.
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Because, among the LGBTQ+ community, femme is a descriptor that can feel as inherent to someone's identity as lesbian, bisexual, or genderqueer.
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Virtual reality is already crazy expensive and adding non-standard upgrades into the experience is definitely a luxury, hence the "Deluxe" descriptor.
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In our polarized age, pundits tend to categorize politicians as being either good or useless, and seldom is either a worthy descriptor.
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Facebook executives argued on Twitter that "breach" was an inaccurate descriptor, but its top security executive ultimately had to delete his tweets.
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"Freak" is the wrong descriptor, of course—these catalogs of environmental destruction are normal now, the permanent mood music of everyday life.
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"Just because I'm trying to evict you doesn't mean I have to be" unlikable, Mr. Silverbush said, using a far saltier descriptor.
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For now, this physical descriptor will have to satisfy fans' curiosity as the couple has yet to share any photos of their newborn.
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For now this physical descriptor will have to satisfy fan's curiosity as the couple have yet to share any photos of their newborn.
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Agents pinpoint a suspect's defining feature, be it their clothing, age, geographic region or general M.O., and slap the descriptor on "Wanted" posters.
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The plan is for candidates to share a descriptor, which would appear next to the name of their party on the ballot paper.
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After all, it sits at the epicenter of "flygskam," or "flight shame," the buzzword that's become the descriptor of the flight-shaming movement.
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Footwear News reports that the term is an outdated descriptor for a lace-up sandal silhouette, now more commonly referred to as gladiator.
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But at some point, someone saw the phrase "white pride" as a descriptor for a particular jersey and had no problem with it.
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Purportedly a comedy, this sophomore feature from the playwright Theresa Rebeck is so dismally unfunny that the descriptor should come with quotation marks.
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It was, to her, "not yet anything real" — a descriptor that, were I to use it, could gravely hurt another of my clients.
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It's asking a court to cancel the Choose Your Own Adventure trademark, arguing that it's a generic descriptor rather than a meaningful brand.
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Republicans have gone on the offensive in response, using Pelosi's descriptor to cast the Democrats as aloof and detached from working-class Americans.
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They were less sure about this descriptor, but 28503 percent said it "extremely" or "very" well described how Trump runs the White House.
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"We consider it irresponsible to override the historical context of this descriptor, which risks sustaining divisions in race, gender, and class," they wrote.
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And Batman and Superman and all superheroes with the operative descriptor of "man" – there's a new sheriff in town and long may she reign.
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After each sniff test, participants were asked to select a descriptor, from a list of 19, that best matched the odor hitting their noses.
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McDaniel's character in Gone with the Wind, Mammy, is now a descriptor for one of the more harmful representations of Black women in Hollywood.
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Thai Lao Yeh at Cabochon HotelReally good, really spicy Thai food should be enough of a descriptor to sell most people on this restaurant.
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She used a similar descriptor while addressing delegates at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night, the lone reference to Kaine in her speech.
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But then, Laura, I found the most unfortunate chyron and I will leave you with this, which is the lower third descriptor on E!
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The word "quantum" gained currency in the late 210th century as a descriptor signifying something so significant it defied the use of common adjectives.
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Amazon, for example, was said to be a "bruising" workplace, according to a 2015 feature in The New York Times (a descriptor Amazon disputes).
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While many people, like Gay, have been reclaiming the word "fat" as a descriptor rather than an insult, "obese" and "overweight" are still offensive.
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In a report from the Baltimore Brew, members of the encampment family—their preferred descriptor—described a demoralizing experience in the broken-down school.
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Phrases like "sober curious" and "low ABV," a descriptor referring to a lower alcohol-by-volume than other beverages of its kind, were everywhere.
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"Chilling" is not a sufficient descriptor for The Act of Killing, which pound for pound is probably the most influential documentary of the decade.
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"ThinkProgress will no longer treat 'alt-right' as an accurate descriptor of either a movement or its members," its editors wrote on November 22.
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Different, in this context, becomes less about its relativity to the hegemony of haircuts and becomes a standalone descriptor—something in and of itself.
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Today, new artists are bestowed the label "like Amy Winehouse": a descriptor reserved for someone with that special neo-soul twinge or superstar voice.
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Since 1980 and the rise of the Moral Majority, "evangelical" has become a descriptor more associated with politics than with theology or Christian practices.
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So Blade Runner: A Movie became one of Burroughs' most obscure written works, with the "movie" descriptor serving mostly to distinguish it from Nourse's book.
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But with that power comes responsibility, and perpetuating the easiest and most overused descriptor of the commander-in-chief isn't living up to that responsibility.
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The title was lifted from a 1977 Robert Altman film, yet, dropped on this context of three intergenerational artists, it became a descriptor, a confession.
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If he lets the narrative spread that Gorsuch is speaking ill of him behind closed doors, he could look weak — the descriptor he hates most.
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Some boards look for specific issues while others consider issues more generally (PEGI has a 'discrimination' ratings descriptor, USK is particularly sensitive to Nazism, etc.).
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A social pyschologist told Insider the term is here to stay, but it will likely be used as a secondary descriptor of a person's sexuality.
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His columns for The Hill, written under the odd descriptor of "investigative columnist," pushed unproven allegations of Deep State-corruption among American diplomats in Ukraine.
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In a descriptor of the show, the artist speaks about challenging entrenched ideologies and pop culture, as well as the look of modern-day Americana.
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Van Gogh once wrote that "paintings fade like flowers"; today, art conservators have an evocative descriptor for the chameleon nature of such paint colors: fugitive.
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Natural is not the first descriptor that comes to mind when one thinks of queso—the thick sauce of cheese that's a perfect pairing with nachos.
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Several critics have used the word "lyrical" in their assessment of the film, because that's the most apt descriptor for something this moody and free-flowing.
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Yes, Blunt is giving up his self-proclaimed spot as "Sheeran's bitch" — again, his descriptor, not ours — to tour Australia and New Zealand in March 2018.
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"Outside the realm of reason and common sense" sounds like a pretty accurate descriptor of Trump's first weeks in office, or really just his Twitter feed.
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Users would see the new descriptor alongside details in business listings that say whether shops have offerings such as kosher food, outdoor seating and Wi-Fi.
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While "cheerful" is a positive word, in this context, especially against the male "assertive" descriptor, it feels like the hashtag equivalent of being told to smile.
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The title works two ways: "crazy rich" is an accurate descriptor of the Young fortune, but "crazy" also describes how the rich Asians resist Rachel's presence.
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The technology uses machine vision techniques to detect a palm in a video stream and pass its descriptor for enrollment or verification, according to a statement.
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Deerhoof are one of the greatest American rock bands of the last two decades, and they're the most unorthodox — and underrated — band that warrants that descriptor.
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Enter the Wu range Here's Business of Fashion on the launch of Grey, Jason Wu's new "day-oriented" (his descriptor) line, which runs $250 to $1,395.
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"Active share is a good descriptor of a fund, like R-squared and tracking error, but it's not a good predictor of future performance," Kinnel said.
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Through discussions with traditional healers and local health workers, her team found that kufungisisa, or 'thinking too much', was the most common descriptor for emotional distress.
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At the same time you don't have to be worried that who you are as a person will ever be completely absorbed by the type descriptor.
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Because, if you think about it, it's a really good descriptor of the images you see adding noise to nearly every large site on the internet.
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Hall earns my earlier descriptor of "effortlessly charming," bearing even more of the load than he did on ABC's one-season-and-done comedy The Mayor.
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This President's belief in white supremacy knows no bounds and perhaps a better descriptor would be to start referring to him as our white-supremacist-in-chief.
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Libya and the 22013 NATO intervention there have become synonymous with failure, disaster, and the Middle East being a "shit show" (to use President Obama's colorful descriptor).
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The Variety of Trolling ExperiencesThe first and most basic point to contest is the idea that "trolling" is an appropriate descriptor for the white nationalist alt-right.
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Hoda Kotb's daughter Haley Joy's middle name is the perfect descriptor for how the baby girl has changed her mother's life in just a few, short months.
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Reducing anything to just one descriptor will always have challenges: Nothing can fully encompass a world's worth of cultures, and the generations of cultural exchange between them.
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Someone sticks a number on my shirt, and I'm handed a pre-show drink—the closest descriptor I can give it is of a butter beer latte.
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It's no wonder that politicians — even many of the most conservative Republicans — shun the ideological word "capitalism" in favor of the non-ideological, ambiguous "free market" descriptor.
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But as the 2016 election cycle has shown us, a messy comments section come to terrifying life isn't a bad descriptor of the current US body politic.
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To exchange the descriptor "illegal" with "undocumented" is, of course, to pacify the underlying act and to treat the individuals in question as having done nothing wrong.
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Working with, as the show descriptor states, "unfolding volume" and "gradations of light," the artist showcases enormous plastic balloons, to glue-made stalactites frozen inside acrylic boxes.
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The word "twee" got thrown around a lot as a descriptor in the beginning, but it didn't fit them for very long, if it did at all.
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Long before eBay, before 'collectible' was a descriptor of any kind, he saw the value in these things as keen ambassadors of a kind of social history.
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" It also helps to know that, when translated from Norwegian, it means "far out," an apt descriptor for a magazine whose masthead includes the phrase "Cure Ignorance.
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" Not long after it was published, an editor's note appeared on the story confirming the origins of the article with a potent, oxymoronic descriptor: "Sponsored editorial content.
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Alongside acts including Animal Collective, Joanna Newsom, and Vetiver, Banhart was heralded as a "freak folk" savant, despite the fact that many of these bands hated that descriptor.
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And, that person is seemingly a member of the Order Of X, the Winchester University secret society so powerful, they find the descriptor "the Black Illuminati" beneath them.
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"Hijack" is too strong a descriptor for what Carmelo Anthony has done to his new team's rhythm, but when he's in the game their pace drops to 100.7.
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It's a useful descriptor of a specific kind of pettiness, but maybe one that shouldn't be used so flagrantly by those well outside of its community of origin.
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The term "neo soul" gets thrown around a lot, a broad descriptor applied to anything ranging from D'Angelo to a certain kind of fedora-invoking, preciously retro pop.
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American Airlines and Delta Air Lines have made the change — dropping any country descriptor for the airport in Taipei — and United Airlines is expected to shortly follow suit.
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Once you add it to your profile, you can write a quick little descriptor and also share some tips and tricks you've learned about the product in question.
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It also would not have been surprising that she might ask for more detail on masked U.S. persons, at least a clearer descriptor if not an actual name.
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" Without the descriptor "mutated" in front of the word gene or "variant" after it, it's a bit like saying "I have an engine for a faulty timing belt.
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Seeing the descriptor of &aposfixer-upper,&apos paired with a million-dollar price tag, in not exactly uncommon in the San Francisco Bay Area&aposs real estate market.
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That descriptor seems more useful now than it might have been for the company in the past, though its usage highlights the muddy waters of modern food labeling.
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Trump on Wednesday decried the furor over the call as the "single greatest witch hunt in American history," a descriptor he regularly used to disparage the Mueller probe.
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Social media has normalized casual cruelty, and those who remove the "casual" from that descriptor are simply taking it several repellent steps further than the rest of us.
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It's not a descriptor that often comes up when we're talking about this hand-worked, incredibly detail-oriented craft, but it's fitting for the latest wave of haute couture.
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What distinguishes them from the more common noodles seen stateside is that they are not served in a soupy sauce, nor are they usually fried, hence the "dry" descriptor.
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" When the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee protested the lyrics, Disney removed the reference to cutting off ears in the home video version but left in the descriptor "barbaric.
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In the meantime, Smith's Morehouse announcement officially changed his mass media descriptor from "private equity investor" to "philanthropist," and it put a further spotlight on America's student debt crisis.
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It's just a descriptor of a body type that's larger than your average person, and people with that body type are no less attractive, healthy, or deserving of respect.
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Rowland was responding to the idea of "grimdark" — a literary descriptor for genre texts and media which evoke a pervasively gritty, bleak, pessimistic, or nihilistic view of the world.
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Trump's allies have said he used the descriptor only to refer to members of the street gang MS-13, many of whom are unauthorized immigrants from Central American countries.
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CBS This Morning co-host Tony Dokoupil interjected to say that "most" may not be an accurate descriptor, and Burns said that they need more information in all cases.
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That descriptor, now common for boutiques that stock not only fashion, but also art, furniture, books and whatever else tickles their proprietors, could well have been coined for hers.
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It holds a special place among the fashion set as a descriptor for an outfit that puts one in mind of a look from myth, legend or classic movie.
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"Genius" might be an apt descriptor for Honnold, whose progression as the world's most famous solo climber started in 2008 with an ascent of Moonlight Buttress in Zion National Park.
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Before it started to take its "political drama" descriptor so seriously, Scandal could very well have gone by the name of another Shonda Rhimes drama, How to Get Away Murder.
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Users can still describe their gender as male or female, but if they choose "more," they get a blank field in which they can type in any descriptor they wish.
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Delete: Miranda advises deleting all words that are empty descriptives, such as "maven" or "ninja" or any other tongue-in-cheek phrase that isn't a real title or professional descriptor.
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Searches for subjects like "climate change" result in not only a basic descriptor, but go on to provide context and what the company calls a "deep dive" into the subject.
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The dramedy — another spot-on descriptor — has spent eight seasons making it hard for viewers not to laugh at things that aren't actually funny like addiction, poverty, and even death.
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By the time viewers see Dexter half-naked, the show has already tried to convince us he is a "neat monster," a descriptor the serial killer himself uses in voiceover.
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During his lifetime, Selye published hundreds of articles about stress and founded the International Institute for Stress in Canada, turning this previously inexact descriptor into an object of scientific inquiry.
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Its shape reminds the family of the word "fullness," a hope for the upcoming year and perhaps most appropriately, the perfect descriptor for what I was feeling after the feast.
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I liked the descriptor immediately, in part because it's hilarious and I'm a sucker for puns, but also because its irreverence describes my lifestyle with a precision other labels haven't.
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The "women-led" descriptor, including the female gender symbol, will appear alongside the details in the businesses's listings that highlights any special offerings such as Wi-Fi or outdoor seating.
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This Fire-Toolz release wasn't part of it, that's still a pretty fitting descriptor for producer Angel Marcloid's unholy blend of blistered black metal, wistful trance, and blunt gabber punishment.
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Ryan Adams, as the softboi's darkest incarnation, and his ex musician Phoebe Bridgers, whose song "Motion Sickness" could be viewed as a descriptor of his tireless work toward the cause.
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The first time I remember being infuriated by anti-rural bigotry was when a sports reporter attached the descriptor "barefoot" to those of us who live in rural Southwest Virginia.
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By blurring the peripheral image, the foveal descriptor provides enough context to be helpful in understanding the patch shown in high focus, but not so much that the computer becomes overwhelmed.
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This post was updated to clarify that 'terf' is a descriptor, not a term of abuse; and with additional context around Cherry's line of questioning and the transgender rights debate online
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What's interesting is back then, we named the group The Alliance Against Sexual Coercion, which I actually think is a more apt descriptor, because harassment, we think about like street harassment.
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The watchword of the Democratic primary has been "electability," a nebulous descriptor that has captured the liberal obsession with finding the perfect candidate to oust Donald Trump from the Oval Office.
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Hopefully, it also spells the end of the term itself — which predictably turned out to be as useless a descriptor on the way down as it was on the way up.
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P. T. Barnum, the man who set the standard for marketers everywhere, gave her that descriptor and then brought her to the United States for a legendary mid-nineteenth-century tour.
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Hell, "Surgical Summer" works double time as a shallow descriptor of his process while hinting at allegations made by Budden's little heard "Afraid" diss that Drake got his abs surgically implanted.
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Our team at Lively decided "older adult" was the best descriptor for our target audience, but you need to pick which one will resonate with your audience, then commit to it.
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The descriptor "tool tracks" gets thrown around a lot for a lot of loopier music that's really good and begging to be mixed, but not necessarily listened to on it's own.
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Wes Gobar, president of the university's Black Student Alliance, says it's "easy to condemn ... the alt-right" for its racism, referring to the self-styled descriptor for many white-rights activists.
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The show's second season picks up exactly 30 seconds after the first season ended, in Villanelle's "chic as shit" Paris flat (Eve's descriptor), Eve shaking in horror after she stabbed Villanelle.
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Harvey routinely preyed on our policy of treating each film like an attorney would a client: We give the rating and the descriptor and do not publicly discuss our internal deliberations.
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Just as "Italian food" or "Italian culture" is too monolithic a descriptor for something so complex and diverse, it is impossible to essentialize a place even as small as Golfo Paradiso.
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While overt corruption has subsided of late as a distinguishing Albany characteristic, the motto is still an able descriptor of how the 213 senators and Assembly members go about their business.
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Supreme leader is an accurate descriptor for Zuckerberg as Facebook CEO, given the share structure and voting rights he has afforded himself mean no one other than Zuckerberg can sack Zuckerberg.
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Don't let the term "alt-right" fool you; despite the fact that it's the self-chosen descriptor adopted by many white supremacists, the ideology under the hood is still the same.
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Just as "Italian food" or "Italian culture" is too monolithic a descriptor for something so complex and diverse, it is impossible to essentialize a place even as small as Golfo Paradiso.
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Media pundits like to label Yiannopoulos a "troll," though this seems an inadequate descriptor for a man able to command hundreds of thousands of followers to go after his chosen targets.
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"This word 'anti-aging' — we know we're getting older," the new L'Oréal face says in Allure's September issue, in which the magazine shares its initiative to ban the descriptor from its coverage.
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While there's obviously a colloquial sense in which "traitor" is used as a general descriptor of disloyal people, the term also has a formal legal definition in the Constitution, and as Sen.
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First, that members of the alt-right (and even members of the Trump administration) are trolls, and more broadly, that the word "trolling" is the best descriptor for the current political climate.
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After passing by the "shithole" neighborhoods on the way Chuck's office (this descriptor is reminiscent of Trump's "shithole countries" comment), Jock wants Chuck to pursue the crimes of the poor more vehemently.
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Although Timothée Chalamet's new film Beautiful Boy is about much more than the 22-year-old's good looks and overall non-toxic softness, it is still an accurate descriptor for the star.
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Populism has become a go-to descriptor for many different political movements in the wake of Donald Trump's election in the United States and the rise of the far right in Europe.
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This isn't the first time the health benefits of coconut oil have been questioned, but Michels essentially looked at past coco-phobes and said, "Hold my lager," before dropping her hyperbolic descriptor.
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In earlier essays, Amis took note of Nabokov's disdain for sympathetic identification with fictional characters, and also of his belief that artistic effect was everything, the descriptor more important than the described.
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But the descriptor is a gross exaggeration, especially in the country where a far-right gunman assassinated Jo Cox, a Labour member of Parliament, shortly before the Brexit referendum three years ago.
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Where the promise begins to falter is that a lot of the early powers aren't as effective as their funny descriptor promised, and which drove me to a conservative style of play.
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A game of Dota220 in a East Asia market—this is as specific a geographic descriptor as can be divulged—was scheduled between two teams of middling success and middling spectator interest.
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Despite the alluring sales pitch of "a buy button for real estate" — Mr. Kelman's go-to descriptor — Redfin Direct is considerably more complicated than e-commerce sites hawking socks or dish soap.
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Brad changed his bio "every homosexual's wet dream," which is a descriptor Lex used on their date — Brad wasn't picked for a second date, but that quote is a pretty good consolation prize.
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As for Saturday's moon's "full flower" descriptor, the Almanac indicates that this is the name for the full moon during the month of May, simply because it's typically the month when flowers bloom.
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Levandowski contends that this "race" to deploy autonomous vehicles has yet to start in earnest largely due to shortcomings from "crutch technologies," a descriptor he uses for hardware like LiDAR and HD maps.
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Psych rock, the blanket genre often assigned to Desert Daze, is inherently nebulous—less a precise descriptor than an umbrella term for a kind of music that can't really be confined or defined.
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Manning may not have played a huge role in last night's Denver Broncos Super Bowl victory—"competent" seems a hair too far as a descriptor—but the postgame celebration was all about Peyton.
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"Active share is a good descriptor of a fund, but not a good predictor of performance," said Kinnel, who keeps tabs on active share to see if fund managers are changing their strategies.
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"Scary" isn't the right descriptor for Hereditary, director Ari Aster's feature debut and the creeptastic movie destined to be this summer's arthouse horror movie, in the manner of It Follows or The Babadook.
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She used to have the descriptor "anti-imperialist" in her Twitter bio, which meant that hearts were broken when she announced during this year's Met Gala that she's dating Elon "Union Buster" Musk.
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The debate over which states make up the Midwest likely stems from the fact that "Midwest" is a vague descriptor, one that the census eschewed in favor of "North Central" for many years.
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She also has on offer an assortment of homewares and, in keeping with the Hesperios world where no person has just one descriptor, Knapp (the brand and shop director) is selling her ceramics.
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JON PARELES The title of Laura Marling's ravishing new song isn't meant as a descriptor, but rather a note of anguish — like the word "water" as rasped by someone crawling across a desert.
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In fact, "cool" might be Atlanta's most accurate descriptor; the series effortlessly oozes coolness throughout, whether it's the calm shooting that opened the pilot or last night's casual introduction of a black Justin Bieber.
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But "quirky and charming" has become an overused descriptor for a certain type of indie game, and Wide Ocean Big Jacket is more than just its aesthetic, it's heartfelt, funny, and most importantly, grounded.
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It's one of the few times the "TV as novel" comparisons (a descriptor that's been rolled out to describe almost every serialized prestige drama since The Sopranos launched) have truly made sense to me.
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"Grace" is a descriptor Piccioli likes to use to explain what he's after — a less fusty version of elegance, but a word also suggestive of movement and a more interior, spiritual sort of beauty.
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So, let me put the question to you, Patrick: Back when we first considered doing reviews for the site, we had this idea that we would have a single word descriptor for every game.
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The descriptor is equally fitting for his music, which favors dizzying triple-time delivery — as heard on songs like last year's "Off Deez," in which he trades verses with his label boss, J. Cole.
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It's an apt descriptor for the havoc the six rogues inflict on the city of Florence in 6 Underground's opening scene, but it's just as fitting a summary of Michael Bay's Netflix debut overall.
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The solution is a process called "minimization," wherein the name of US citizens on the call or mentioned on the call is replaced with some kind of descriptor in the intelligence community's write-ups.
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Denning House has also acquired two dye sublimation prints by Trevor Paglen: "Matterhorn (How to See Like a Machine) Brute-Force Descriptor Matcher; Scale Invariant Feature Transform" (2016) and "Lake Tenaya Maximally Stable Extremal" (2016).
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It certainly should not be used as a catch-all descriptor for someone who runs a therapeutic bath house in Brooklyn — we'll just have to come up with another word for that line of work.
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Milk producers say all they want is for the FDA to enforce the rules on the books so products made with soy, oats, or almonds can't use the term as a descriptor on their packaging.
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The author, James Damore, wrote it on a long plane flight and posted it to an internal company message board (which is part of why I question whether "memo" is really the right descriptor here).
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I'd also hate to omit Patriot (Amazon), whose vision of a weary, worn-down America struggling to maintain global hegemony is one of TV's most entertainingly dreary — there's a descriptor you don't hear every day!
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Some didn't, though: United Airlines listed Taiwan as a location that uses the Taiwanese currency, rather than a Chinese company; and Japan Airlines and ANA only introduced the "Taiwan, China" descriptor on Chinese-language sites.
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The term "Judeo-Christian" arguably only makes sense in any substantive way as a descriptor for the members of the original Christian church, founded in the first century after the death of Jesus of Nazareth.
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"In 2018, toxic added many strings to its poisoned bow becoming an intoxicating descriptor for the year's most talked about topics," the Oxford University Press, publisher of Oxford Dictionaries, said on its website this week.
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But then, with his titles, Spelios cuts through the layers of intended and/or unintended ambiguity and zeroes in on a concrete descriptor or detail, such as "Pool" or "Pink Hat" or "Preening" (all 2016).
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As Erik Killmonger, the chief threat to the techno-utopian African nation of Wakanda, Michael B. Jordan plays a villain whose motives are so complex that the word "villain" seems like too narrow a descriptor.
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Other outlets reported "clashes" between supporters and protesters, implying there had been widespread physical violence (instead of several very tense shouting matches that sometimes involved shoving, which is a more accurate descriptor of what happened).
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It also means app developers can jam in more detail and the Watch's faces can feature additional complications (a descriptor I suspect makes Apple designers die inside a bit every time they have to utter it).
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If Disney is successful, what visitors walk away with won't be a buzzword or a descriptor; it'll simply be that they entered the world of Star Wars and added their own story to the saga's legacy.
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I get the sense that everything is slightly softened — I think the ephemeral audiophile descriptor for this would be polite — which has suited my tastes very nicely when looking to enjoy uncritical or absent-minded listening.
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During an interview on "Fox and Friends" Sunday morning, Trump was asked about Obama's Facebook post condemning the Republican health care plan, and the President responded by saying Obama used the descriptor after he originally did.
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" Though some people have chosen to reclaim the word "fat" and not allow it to become an insult, Kimmey takes a slightly different approach, choosing to use it as a descriptor rather than something someone "is.
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Internet sleuths zeroed in on the use of the word "lodestar" in the op-ed, highlighting multiple instances over the past few years in which the vice president has used the uncommon descriptor in his speeches.
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Wood added that the decision by Musk's aide to hire Howard suggests that when Musk called Unsworth a "pedo guy" on Twitter, he meant the descriptor as a statement of fact, rather than a personal opinion.
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Tribeca dubbed its virtual exhibit "Storyscapes," which is actually a pretty good descriptor: The best VR at the event were the pieces where the filmmaker created a world, and you experience the story from within it.
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He said that using "Ponzi scheme" as a descriptor for Social Security was accurate because of "how the money flows" from workers to retirees, and because the program depends on there being more workers than retirees.
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But "timeless" may be a more apt descriptor: The film is a loose adaptation of 1942's Casablanca, one of cinema's crowning achievements, and it swaps the very real Second World War for a fictional one.
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Clinton's allies, the word of the day was "puzzled" — the descriptor top Clinton surrogates wielded repeatedly as they implied, without quite saying, that Mr. Comey had staged an unforgivable political intervention late in the presidential race.
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There was a genre of electronic music that people tried to call weightless a few years ago, but Ones really earns that descriptor more than anyone else—its club music as it might play in Cloud City.
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But Twin Peaks is tackling the "X-hour movie" descriptor in a very different way, which is to say that it's basically taking the plot of a Twin Peaks movie and streeeeeeetching it ouuuuuuut over 18 hours.
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In the running for the latter, she beat out Dave and J Hus, both of whom would almost certainly have been more befitting of the "Breakthrough" descriptor, as Dua's a fully fledged popstar by all accounts now.
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Trap music was basically unknown in Chinese hip-hop circles up until 2015; before that, everyone in Chengdu was firmly "old school," which in China tends to be a descriptor for all hip-hop that isn't trap.
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The English adjective "creative" dates to the 17th century; it was likely during the Enlightenment that it gained wide use as a descriptor for human endeavors, often artistic or literary, that have qualities of originality and excellence.
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Let's take a look at the nominees:Elysia timida the "solar-powered" sea slugPhoto: WikipediaRight off the bat, you can see that the teams who added a cool descriptor before the name of the chosen species have an advantage.
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When that news was announced, showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman told The Hollywood Reporter that the title card will still read Jane the Virgin, but "virgin" will be crossed out and every week, it'll have a different descriptor added.
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The itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow bikini option (you'll notice polka dot was excluded from the descriptor, but did include of few of those too) is not mandatory when it comes to wearing this color at the beach.
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Mid-chest would have been just as suitable a descriptor, but dropping anatomical references in design discussions is standard practice for the Bard Hall Players, as every member in the troupe is studying to join the medical profession.
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The logistics of this Tuesday's primaries have been especially fraught, given recent CDC recommendations about social distancing and avoiding crowded places, a descriptor that can often refer to polling stations where voters end up queuing in long lines.
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Don't even get me started on why we need a moratorium on the twee and overly familiar descriptor "baby bump," which effectively disassociates a woman from a part of her anatomy while also making her sound like a Teletubby.
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One, that asks why the world would need an all-female group right now, when we've seen that women artists can often be constricted by the "all-female" descriptor that focuses less on their talent than their gender identity.
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In my field, we measure joint movement using the term "range of motion," and applied more globally it seems an apt descriptor: My body's path through the world is slightly restricted and narrowed — no marathons or yoga for me.
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"The 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena' terminology is used because it provides the basic descriptor for the sightings/observations of unauthorized/unidentified aircraft/objects that have been observed entering/operating in the airspace of various military-controlled training ranges," Gradisher added.
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Before entering, those of us in the audience chose small white cards from a display of 690, each one printed with a unique descriptor: I AM AN ACTIVIST, I AM AN AFICIONADO, down the alphabet past PARALEGAL to ZOOKEEPER.
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"Cheap and unearned" is a good descriptor for most things in Blair Witch, from the jump scares to the superficial gestures of friendship to the many repetitive sequences where characters walk around the woods screaming each other's names in the dark.
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While watching those two women feud over former race car driver Arie Luyendyk Jr., it was hard not to feel like there was a headshot of Bibiana in some production office with the descriptor "fiery Latina" scrawled over her face.
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Over the last half decade, the Japanese netizens have issued a veritable torrent of tracks across their web, most of it falling under the general umbrella of "electronic music," but beyond that vague descriptor, they seem interested in just about anything.
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Having a 'pizza body' is one of those things that sounds amazing in an abstract sense—because you acquire it from eating a ton of pizza—but is infinitely less pleasant when the descriptor is applied to your bloaty, doughy body.
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Yes, that's a word we'd swore we'd never use, but if we were to use that word as a descriptor for someone who encapsulates the perfect mix of trendy-meets-edgy-meets-wearable, this Pretty Little Liars star is it.
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It's particularly obvious in the album's stunning high notes, sure — there's one at the end of "Show U Off" that earns the descriptor "Carey-esque," and I can't imagine higher praise — but it's there on a moment-to-moment basis, too.
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And even though Jane (Gina Rodriguez) lost the virginity that had been her primary descriptor for so long last season — in a beautiful and respectful episode, no less — that moment was far from the last we heard of Jane's sex life.
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For a start, it takes place at a convention center named for Jacob Javits, a New York politician who served in Congress for 30 years as a liberal-leaning Republican in an era when that descriptor was not an oxymoron.
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This descriptor is often used to describe opulent camps where high-income individuals can pay a few thousand dollars to spend the week in a luxury tent or trailer, get catered meals, as well as access to exclusive music performances.
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Even The New York Times parroted an understanding of Trip Metal as only a self-ascribed musical descriptor, though critic Ben Ratliff remained skeptical about referring to the freewheeling noisemakers as a "metal" band in his review of the fest.
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From the dangling corpses of Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, and Reince Priebus to Veep Mike Pence rubbing the "Vice" off of his nameplate to ... whatever's going on here with Jeff Sessions, "scathing" is the most appropriate descriptor for The Simpsons latest take.
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But after WikiLeaks published thousands of documents describing CIA surveillance tools in March, Trump's new CIA director, Mike Pompeo, in an April 13 speech labeled the group a "non-state hostile intelligence service" — the "non-state" descriptor often reserved for designating terrorist organizations.
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While the conversations he describes having with his subjects — exploring ideas of Asian dislocation and the absence of representation in American culture — almost overshadow the portraits themselves, the accumulation of faces offer a fascinating illustration of the multiplicity contained within a single descriptor.
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To be clear, when I call Trump fat I mean him no insult -- because as far as I am concerned fat is a neutral descriptor, a term that deals only in simple facts—akin to noting I have brown eyes and brown hair.
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"We have continued to see bonds as the better descriptor of the current fundamental environment, evident in our overweight allocation to bonds and underweight allocation to stocks," Tim Hayes, chief global investment strategist at Ned Davis Research, said in a note Friday.
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After an in-depth discussion with the artist about the performance described in this article, Motherboard has determined that "performance" is a better descriptor than "DJ set," as Terada's performance involved an Akai digital sampler, a MIDI keyboard, and a small mixer.
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For all intents and purposes, The 1975 exist squarely in the realm of Alternative, the still-not-so-secretly-thriving genre that, in the 2010s, is in constant competition with "indie-pop" as the music industry's most misappropriated non-hip-hop sonic descriptor.
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While we're calling out knee-jerk reactions that are not always wrong, "too cute and pass-heavy" is often a descriptor bestowed on Kyle Shanahan's offenses, dating back to his time in Washington, but just because it's easy doesn't mean it's always wrong.
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It wasn't really useful in comparison to other assistants, it initially came with sexist descriptor tags for different speaking styles, and it was so easy to accidentally trigger that Samsung eventually had to disable the dedicated Bixby button on its recent Galaxy devices.
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Blush is a comparatively recent creation in the history of wine and apparently was used primarily as a descriptor for White Zinfandel, which was a byproduct of an attempt to create a richer version of standard (red) Zinfandel wine back in the 1970s.
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Though "white collar" is not necessarily a literal descriptor of the typical memer, workers in what professional and technical occupations — teachers, hospital staff, government employees, and media folks, for example — currently have higher rates of union membership than at any other point in history.
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Just as the center of the human field of vision is focused on the retina's fovea, where visual acuity is highest, the foveal descriptor provides sharp detail for a small patch of the image, with the surrounding area shown as more of a blur.
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Here's a glossary of phrases infiltrating our political vocabulary: Alt-right "Alt-right," a self-styled descriptor for many white-rights activists, has become intertwined with the terms white nationalism and white supremacy, said Oren Segal, director of the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism.
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Because no one really knew what The Young Pope was about until after they watched it, promo stills from the series (and the idea of a pope whose only descriptor was "young") presented a chance for the internet to really flex its creative muscles.
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Though it's possible that couple you saw were "unicorn hunters" (a controversial descriptor referring to couples looking for a woman to have sex with), there are lots of poly people in varying kinds of relationship arrangements seeking sex, love, both, or even just friendship online.
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The success of the Echo Dot — Amazon's puck-shaped smart speaker that definitely de-emphasizes the second word of that descriptor — tells me that anyone who's been won over by the category mostly just wants to get the power of voice command in more places.
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After a judge ruled late last month to block the building's looming foreclosure, the church responded in typical fashion, with a message that said the church would celebrate by burning a rainbow flag in the building's courtyard, employing an anti-gay slur as a descriptor.
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The campaign recognizes the possible political downsides in any extreme behavior, but aides are perhaps most wary of the "bro" portion of the "Bernie Bro" descriptor, as Mr. Sanders prepares to make his case to a diverse Democratic electorate later in the primary calendar.
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Couple that with his flat, unmelodic approach to rapping, and 21 Savage is at the forefront of the deconstruction and only partial reconstruction of flow, that nebulous descriptor covering how creatively a rapper interacts with the beat, playing with rhythm and texture and melody.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads SUMMIT, NJ — Radiant Energy is both the title and the most succinct descriptor of the exhibition bringing together, for the first time, the paintings of Gabriele Evertz, Robert Swain, and Sanford Wurmfeld, key members of the Hunter Color School.
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Kaya would twiddle around with a guitar and sometimes play with her older brother's metal band, but her first obsession became movement after a dance instructor in high school showed her examples of famous performers who "moved funny," a descriptor she would often get in ballet classes.
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If Philip, a person who married into the British Royal Family, was able to get the title of "Prince" in the front of his name, as opposed to a descriptor like "Prince Of, say, Edinburgh" it would stand to reason Markle may also get such treatment.
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After the 2016 election, Merriam-Webster announced that their word of the year wasn't "emails" or "alt-right" or "emails," but "surreal"—perhaps the best descriptor of the craziest year in recent memory (though 2017 looks like it will give it a run for its money).
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Even the presence of the descriptor "American" in the show's title feels like a subtle gag—a reminder that applying the adjective to almost any noun now imparts instant gravitas, an assurance that whatever is being explored can be slotted into some grand and solemn continuum.
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At Tuesday's press conference, Ian Wilkinson, a Jamaican player and honorary vice president of World Chess, addressed Caruana and Carlsen as "gladiators," a note-perfect descriptor of how the world saw Fischer and Spassky in '72, but which in 2018 was greeted with a round of smirks.
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She starts with someone's name and birth date and uses numerology, astrology and symbol-based systems; then she enters her clients' auric field (a descriptor for the layers of energy that surrounds the body and correspond to chakras as stated), allowing their energy to envelop her.
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And that initial confusion mirrors what I imagine certain portions of the audience are feeling too, especially viewers who might be missing Moffat's Doctor or a male Doctor or a [insert descriptor of choice] Doctor, or who might long for some earlier era of the show.
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And while there are a handful of contemporary TV series that are deserving of that descriptor—House of Cards, for what it has done for streaming entertainment, would be one example—in order to discover the most truly groundbreaking television, it's often essential to head back into the past.
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In the case of Claire Cottrill, who performs under the moniker Clairo, the descriptor couldn't have been more literal: Cottrill went viral in 21960 with "Pretty Girl," a simple, deceptively peppy song of longing accompanied by a video of her, perched on her bed, lip syncing for her webcam.
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Just as interesting as attending to the proliferation of works and events tagged "queer," Goldberg also takes note of "the palpable silences around events that could have used the word 'queer' as a descriptor, but didn't," usually when race or multiple subjectivities enter the mix alongside gender and sexuality.
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Director Nikolaj Arcel's cinematic interpretation ("adaptation" is a tricky descriptor for a bunch of reasons) of King's series is a wildly ambitious attempt to take a sprawling story that spans many characters and multiple universes and turn it into an urban fantasy set mainly in New York City.
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"Alt" has been a super-useful descriptor for 90s teens and MTV programming (again, only in the 90s) so it's sad to see that the word has been co-opted by the "alt-right" white nationalist movement and the neologism "alternative facts," coined by Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway.
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The title is more than just an homage to Farren's famous love of all things email (sending, receiving, forwarding, CCing, you name it—but also don't forget BCC), it feels like an appropriate descriptor for their take on what it is to have feels in the internet age.
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"Con man sweet-talked its way to the top of our lookups on February 85033th, 2019, following reports that Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer, planned on using this term as a descriptor of his erstwhile client in testimony to be given before Congress later today," Merriam-Webster wrote.
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While they lean into their new identities as criminal overlords, they also lean into their authentic selves: They reclaim the invocation of "trashy" as a descriptor and turn it around on itself, signposting that they will always be vamps and never give up their big hair and rhinestones.
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Looking back to the '60s, it's evident that this snaking line was always part of her work: as a descriptor of bodies (in "Dream Girl," 1968, for instance) and as ornament ("Sleepy-Head with Handbag," 1968, is rife with it, especially in the maze-like squiggles at bottom).
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The phone featured specs like a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, a fast Sense UI that masked some of the uglies found in Android 2.1 Eclair, 8GB of onboard storage, 748MB of ROM, an 8-megapixel autofocus camera, and a 480 x 800 AMOLED display that still required a "capacitive touchscreen" descriptor.
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Lately, on trips back to the city, I've taken to calling this experience Neo New York—a catch-all descriptor for cultural products that hinge on a near-perfect evocation of a New York that can sometimes seem like it no longer exists, although in truth it hasn't entirely disappeared.
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The alliterative descriptor is precisely how Mauri Pelto, a glaciologist at Nichols College, referred to a rapidly-melted hillock of snow on Canada's Lowell Glacier (it took only four days for the expanse of snow to melt), which drains east from the St. Elias Range on the Yukon-Alaska border.
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Although Ahmad balks a bit at the descriptor "black Muslim"—he believes that "once we accept the Qur'an, our [faith] doesn't carry a color"—he recognizes that African Americans who worship Allah have an important role to play in supporting the broader Muslim community in the face of dangerous stereotypes.
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Instead Bolton is fond of saying that his foreign policy philosophy is "pro-American" (though we'd be hard-pressed to find any foreign policy hand in Washington who wouldn't use the same descriptor to describe themselves.) Bolton also likes to quote a clash of world-views from the early 20th century.
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Over the last two weeks, Twitter has been awash in debate about whether accommodating friends' emotional needs falls under this descriptor, sparked by a viral tweet arguing that people should ask for "consent" before asking a friend to perform "emotional labor" in the form of listening, advice-giving, and comforting.
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But it's an accurate descriptor: Gethard's one-man show (produced as an HBO exclusive film by the network's current comedy whisperer, Judd Apatow) stitches together 90 minutes' worth of anecdotes that all center, in some way or another, on his lifelong history of acute depression, anxiety, and the suicidal impulses they engender.
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WHERE TO START: The piano- and pulse-pounding "Berlin" For some reason, Dawn Richard's latest album shows up on my iTunes as "Unknown Genre"—a semi-fitting descriptor, as the dance-demanding Redemption roams from Vangelis-vamping instrumentals (the title track) to atmospheric electro-pop workouts ("Lazarus") to slow-burn bangers ("Hey Nikki").
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They've been married for years and have raised a child together, but have somehow kept their consumption of the news and other moral material immaculately separate: she recites the names of black police victims like a liturgy, but he barely knows that "ghetto," as a descriptor of his son, is a slur.
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" (An obscure descriptor, "tech left" is frequently used by McNally in op-eds published by Breitbart News.)One net neutrality letter authored by Free Our Internet, submitted to the FCC at least 222,252.23 times, similarly reads: "I strongly encourage the FCC to oppose efforts by the TechLeft and liberal globalists to take over our Internet.
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WHERE TO START: The strobe-lit stunner "Love Under Lights" For some reason, Dawn Richard's latest album shows up on my iTunes as "Unknown Genre"—a semi-fitting descriptor, as the dance-demanding Redemption roams from Vangelis-vamping instrumentals (the title track) to atmospheric electro-pop workouts ("Lazarus") to slow-burn bangers ("Hey Nikki").
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His actions, which some called performances, mostly for lack of a more precise descriptor, were the spiritual stock of Marcel Duchamp and Marcel Broodthaers — wily and barbed ready-made sculptures, created by inverting spent liquor bottles onto branches in empty lots, or slashing open the backs of mink coats, or inviting people to an empty and unlit gallery.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE said Tuesday that he's "proud" to be a nationalist and denied that the descriptor is weighted with any racial undertones.
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Chris Clark—the Berlin-based producer best known by his last name only—has built a career over the last decade and a half crafting brain-bending electronic compositions that are actually meriting of the descriptor "cinematic." like many a Warp-signed producer before him, the Hertfordshire, UK-born Clark takes dizzy synth riffs and unpredictable drum-programming and pushes them from the club into realms unknown.
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Symfonisk bookshelf speaker The descriptor "bookshelf speaker" in this case means more than it usually does — Ikea has designed these to either blend seamlessly in with your actual book collection on existing shelf units, or to actually act as shelves themselves, using a simple add-on accessory kit that includes a flush wall mount and a rubber mat to protect its top surface while holding your gear (up to 21 lbs).
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Defining exactly what an online platform is was a necessary precursor to the call for evidence — with the EC coming up with the following typically dry descriptor: "'Online platform' refers to an undertaking operating in two (or multi)-sided markets, which uses the Internet to enable interactions between two or more distinct but interdependent groups of users so as to generate value for at least one of the groups".
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On Tuesday, a YouTube user who went under the name "mike m." copied and re-uploaded the video with a new caption: "DAVID HOGG THE ACTOR...." With that terse descriptor, "mike m." tapped into conspiracies circulating online that the survivors of the Parkland shooting, many of whom have recently spoken out in favor of gun control, were "crisis actors" hired to do the bidding of left-wing activists.
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Even if the VSCO girl is more useful as a joke than it is an accurate descriptor of millions of teenage girls, she's now a part of the culture's understanding of Gen Z, a new type of teen to both worship and mock, just as we did 10 years ago with girls who wore similarly outdoorsy clothing, clunky shoes, fancy water bottles, and hair accessories (although back then it was North Face fleeces, Uggs, Nalgenes, and headbands).
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He fired off a series of tweets in which he sought to defend himself and accuse Democrats of a "witch hunt," the same descriptor he used for the 85033-month Russia investigation by former special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerFox News legal analyst says Trump call with Ukraine leader could be 'more serious' than what Mueller 'dragged up' Lewandowski says Mueller report was 'very clear' in proving 'there was no obstruction,' despite having 'never' read it Fox's Cavuto roasts Trump over criticism of network MORE.
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"The U.S. Navy Is Working on &aposNew Guidelines&apos on How to Report UFOsThe U.S. Navy is "drafting new guidelines" for personnel to report sightings of unidentified aerial …Read more ReadGreenwald inquired about the Navy's use of the phrase "unidentified aerial phenomena" rather than "unidentified flying object" and Gradisher reportedly explained, "The 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena' terminology is used because it provides the basic descriptor for the sightings/observations of unauthorized/unidentified aircraft/objects that have been observed entering/operating in the airspace of various military-controlled training ranges.
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