It's what gives their rhetoric its enervating rather than exhilarating character.
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But Waller-Bridge's delivery is dry and detached, more elegant than enervating.
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They grow their own vegetables, refusing to eat the enervating state-supplied food.
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To a great extent, that reflects the endless, enervating nature of the Brexit debate.
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But the effort to be everything to everyone is enervating, and no doubt exhausting.
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The Pfeffermans are as unpredictable and enervating and hard to love as real-life family.
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It may convey the repetitive, enervating aggravation of the divorce process a little too well.
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But we can tell you that it is the opposite — instead of enervating, it is energizing.
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The 2017 Emmy nominations were everything exciting and enervating about the Television Academy all at once.
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"Sea Cucumber" is pleasantly woozy techno that strikes an enervating balance of gnarled and crisp production values.
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And the brain might adapt to those enervating and hypoxic workouts, producing faster race results at sea level.
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But his dissolving into babble was probably the lowest point for me of a generally highly enervating episode.
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That means speak in one voice, present a unified front and avoid enervating ethnic politics in congressional advocacy.
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There are so many things the new movie musical La La Land does that should be absolutely enervating.
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In this sense, at least, to be a Republican in the Age of Trump is exhilarating, if also enervating.
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But far from being enervating, this helps to carry Johnson's narrative along, allowing it to flow like a river.
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After an experience that enervating, who wants to eat a plate of hot food, more or less clean up afterwards?
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But the warmth that the writing brings to viewers in search of light entertainment after an enervating day has endured.
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"Sweet Charity" (a New Group production, at the Pershing Square Signature Center) is both enervating and full of hope—yours.
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These and other incidents in a long and enervating season have prompted Bradshaw to step up efforts to deal with tanking.
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The enervating, would-be laugh-in "The Comedian" opens this week, presumably on the strength of its headliner, Robert De Niro.
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Afloat in the enervating sea of neoliberalism, all creatures of good conscience agree that steps must be taken to turn the tide.
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We often quiz its built-in digital assistant, Alexa, at the dinner table, marveling at its enervating mix of smarts of obtuseness.
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Yet her tailoring of narrative voices to personalities sometimes gums up the works: Louisa's prairie flatness rings true to an enervating fault.
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So let's look at how Trust underlines some of what's exciting about TV drama in 2018 and some of what's enervating about it.
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It suggests not only something mercurial about the human spirit, or the enervating slowness of progress, but also a haze of deep vulnerability.
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That's what got you in the door, after an enervating hour of roaming the Borders aisles and soaking in the cologne at Abercrombie & Fitch.
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For the past ten years, through all the guilt and enervating shame, I felt like he had something on me—something worth keeping quiet for.
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He favors optimistic rhetoric about the American promise, paired with warnings about the perils of identity politics and the enervating effects of the welfare state.
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The last season of the acclaimed serial killer series — at least for now — is at once the show's most ambitious and its most occasionally enervating.
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These bits and the plentiful excerpts from "Julius Caesar" feel, even if you know both plays, like an enervating amount of Shakespeare out of context.
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I find it both energizing and enervating, and best engaged with in chunks so I can experience it and not become numbed by its force.
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And for any theatergoer who participates in this movable junk-food buffet, "KPOP" is likely to come across as entertaining and enervating, in fairly equal measures.
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WHAT THE CRITICS SAID "Wants so desperately to give audiences a gaudy good time that the results are oddly enervating," Mr. Isherwood wrote in The Times.
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Still, going all-out, as is her métier, can be enervating; it requires making constant, ambitious decisions, traveling frequently and meeting repeatedly with high-energy clients.
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Above all, the political atrophy of our present moment will accelerate toward a graceless, enervating denouement as polarization and social fragmentation continue to undercut our vital center.
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After two straight "Castle Rock" episodes that accelerated the story's pace and amplified the horror, "Filter" retreats back to the enervating mystery zone where the series began.
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This has been an enervating week for the Yankees, who are facing the Red Sox and the Mets (and then the Red Sox again) in successive series.
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About all this, the most pressing question I had was, Why are two big Chelsea galleries required to host duplicates of the same enervating exercises in wishful thinking?
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Thanks to the fatuity of the American public, there has not been any effective comprehension of the totality of the assault nor its enervating effect upon national vigilance.
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But ordering online for an anonymous deliveryman to leave the item at one's doorstep — or, with the help of Amazon Key, just inside — is impersonal and not enervating.
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Hopefully this guide will serve as a glass-half-full reminder that whatever else Miami Art Week may be — tacky, enervating, filled with stultifying traffic — it's never boring.
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At a reception, I retreat into myself because of an unspeakable physical problem: a rash, a swelling, a hidden bag, enervating but boring fatigue, invisible neuropathies or joint pain.
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Most of the Africans dotted across the asphalt in tents or sprawled on mattresses in the enervating heat of a Roman summer have no permission to be there either.
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Studin: The enervating thing about a Trump presidency is that Trump's actual and perceived capriciousness could bring on a major international conflict, including with Russia (but also with China), very quickly.
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That was my conclusion after spending the last two weeks of July taking in the offerings of both theaters: nine evenings of Wagner in 12 days, by turns exhilarating and enervating.
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If you were into piecing together the series' puzzle, the show could be delightful; if you just wanted a good story, well-told (and traditionally told), it was far more enervating.
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" For one thing, the book bristles with long patches of stichomythia-like dialogues and texts that, despite their general wit and wisdom, become conspicuously enervating: " 'Why did I get a boo-boo, Mama?
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Ultimately, too much video art has the same enervating effect, for me, as too much television of any kind: I find myself more compelled to take a nap than take to the streets.
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A Brahms Second (Brilliant Classics) is square and enervating, and though the rest of that Brahms cycle with the Netherlands players has more oomph, the other three symphonies threaten to go the same way.
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If you're curious about exactly how frustrating and enervating the search for good USB-C earphones is, please refer to my colleague Helen Havlak's account of hunting down USB-C buds for her Pixel 2.
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In a time of exhausting demands on our attention — not least the enervating drama of the postelection news cycle — "Primitive Technology" acts as a quiet corrective, an escape from a surfeit of vanity and strife.
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There is nothing in professional sports quite so enervating and claustrophobic to watch as a shitty football game, and this NFL season—most NFL seasons—had more of those than it did of any other kind.
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He seems to leave home only to buy chocolate at a local newsstand or, once, after noticing a pain in his foot, to have an ingrown toenail removed, an apt literalization of his enervating self-involvement.
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It awaits the resolution of tough negotiations over the budget, the debt ceiling, a tax overhaul, a new push to toughen immigration laws — and the enervating slog to enact a replacement for the Affordable Care Act.
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What little light makes it through appears weak and suffocated, and though the claustrophobia abates when she walks through the California brambles, even nature isn't immune to the enervating pallor of Ms. Zyzak and Mr. Cotler's compositions.
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"Jay remembered, most vividly, the moment he'd noticed all of the white soldiers cheering him on, which might have felt like an accomplishment but ended up being curiously enervating," Binelli writes of a boxing match Jay eventually wins.
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When the January desert heat proved enervating, we returned to our inn, De Bergkant Lodge, built in 1858 for a newlywed couple, one of 14 local buildings declared historic monuments, and swam laps to the sound of birdsong.
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All three are examples of artists who produce urgently relevant work that responds with immediacy and effectiveness to its political and historical context; and all three offer enervating, timely takes on the present state of art and politics.
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The challenge is that when comic material comes that fast and furious -- and needs to stay relatively clean, barring the occasional foray into bathroom humor -- the misfires tend to mount, making the frenetic pacing feel more enervating than inspired.
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This is a man resigned to his rage, a put-upon, artless, gray-flannelized man whose single-minded fixation on domestic income inequality and financial reform is every bit as enervating and drudgey as it is practical and admirable.
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The six-day war was the last unalloyed military victory for Israel, and the start of a transition from existential wars against Arab states, which it always won, to enervating campaigns against non-state militias which it could never wipe out.
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The saving grace of this often enervating thriller is that Doscher grants time for his actors to build character and intimacy, and both Pinto and Odom offer warm, affectingly natural performances as two people facing the end of their world.
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That vagueness can be endlessly enervating when the show is, say, playing cutesy with the true identity of the Man in Black, or the number of timelines the story is operating on, when answers to both seem pretty obvious by now.
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" The enervating nature of the endless bickering, he said, played to the advantage of Mr. Johnson, with his call for a swift exit, because many people simply yearn for an end to the saga, "even if that price is a chaotic Brexit.
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Ms. Flora did note the advantages of digital media for introverts and people susceptible to loneliness, namely that it is less risky and enervating to make contact through a text or post than through a phone call or an invitation to meet.
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This has mostly been an enervating and unsatisfying season, a year of glaring problems and multiple backwardness and righteous denial; this could be said of most recent NFL seasons, although there has been something flat and fun-free about this one even by those standards.
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While "Mercy" is probably a better episode of The Walking Dead than most of the show's (truly enervating) seventh season, it also underlines how futile it is to care about the series any more now that it's succumbed to the gravitational pull of Negan.
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Anyone who associates the band with uplift will find the new Everything Now, out since July, an enervating thing: a sniveling black hole of negativity, littered with ostensible protest songs aiming to critique societal problems from a soapbox ten million miles above their fanbase.
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That sort of critique is exhausting and enervating, and mostly it is that way because it feels symptomatic and so complicit; it is exactly the sort of thing you might hear if you were living in a post-politics country, or at least in a place and time that has chosen campaign-y aesthetics over anything else that resembles politics.
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Once the plot kicks in, it's easier to ignore how indebted the series is to its main trio of influences (Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter, and Stephen King), but in the long setup period, the game of "spot the pop culture touchstone" feels enervating far more often than it does inspiring, simply because these pop culture touchstones aren't particularly hard to spot.
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French kids are often sensitive and unspoiled in ways that American kids aren't; they are also often driven so crazy by the enervating 8:30 A.M. -to-4:30 P.M. school system and by a tradition of remote parenting that they rebel as bitterly as American adolescents do, only putting off the rebellion until they're forty, when the sex and drugs really start to kick in.
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Far above the struggle and insecurity of everyday life, these brittle titans squabble and gossip and go through acrimonious and highly public divorces; for all the ways in which the toxic runoff of inequality can currently be felt in the culture, the fact that the cheesy churn of rich and petty men drifting into and pissily out of each other's good graces now so distorts our politics is among the most enervating.
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Case in point: The No. 19733 record at the time of the break-in was Sammy Davis Jr.'s "The Candy Man," which, while inspiring an excellent Simpsons number years later, is mostly an enervating bit of treacle without much going for it: Nonetheless, "The Candy Man" is still preferable to the chart topper when Nixon resigned, John Denver's "Annie's Song": It sold basically no copies upon initial release, but June 1972, the month of the break-in, saw the release of Big Star's #1 Record, my favorite record of all time and a power-pop classic.
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Abrahams, pp. 64–66 He found composition highly enervating and often completed works with headaches and experiencing sleepless nights afterwards.
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The University of Chicago Press, 1992, pp. 35–36. Foreign, especially British, rule had an enervating effect on the Sangha.Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Buddhism Betrayed? The University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 28.
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The supplementary portion receives inputs from the thalamus. The thalamic nuclei supplying the supplementary motor cortex are distinct from those enervating the primary motor cortex. (Trends in Neurosciences) It is located above the cingulate sulcus inside the anterior paracentral lobule.
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March 2, 2009. and Time Out New York wrote, "Few things are more enervating than watching good material deflate."Feldman, Adam.Review:Guys and DollsTime Out New York, Mar 5–11, 2009 However, the show received a highly favorable review from The New Yorker,Lahr, John.
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Worcester Telegram and Gazette (Worcester, Massachusetts). September 22, 2002. Chuck Campbell of the Knoxville News Sentinel said the album "often sounds like it's lacking a focal point" and "that Hanley struggles for a sense of purpose as she works her way through the enervating muddiness".Campbell, Chuck.
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It is chiefly alluvial plain. The lands are greatly suffered after construction of barrage at Sukkur and being rapidly converted into salt lands (Kalar). Waterlogging and salinity is a major problem of Garhi Yasin. The climate is very hot as it reached 49°C last year 2016, dry and enervating.
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Preston (2006). pp. 73-74. Using the title jefe, the JAP created an intense and often disturbing cult around the figure of Gil Robles. Robles himself had returned from Nuremberg Rally in 1933 and spoken of its " youthful enthusiasm, steeped in optimism, so different to the desolate and enervating scepticism of our defeatists and intellectuals." Stanley Payne argues that CEDA was neither fascist nor democratic.
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Similar instances abound. Taken individually, these operations were, for the most part, of little significance. Yet, Anacostia's labors, combined with the countless like efforts of her sister ships in the Union Navy to exact a growing and enervating toll on the South's steadily shrinking ability to fight. On 21 May, Anacostia, , and took the schooner Emily on the Rappahannock about 10 miles above Urbana, Virginia.
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Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars with its review by Jim Todd stating, "Magnificent brilliantly illustrates Barry Harris' unique rapport with the bop piano tradition. Absolutely unlike the enervating, curatorial approach of the neo-con movement, Harris deals with the tradition as a continuum, perpetually rejuvenating and extending it".Todd, J. Allmusic Review, accessed September 7, 2012 The Penguin Guide to Jazz identified it as part of their recommended "core collection".
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" Santa Barbara Independent journalist Brian Tanguay wrote in his book review that Taibbi was "the spiritual heir of legendary presidential campaign scribes" including Hunter S. Thompson and Timothy Crouse. Tanguay said of Taibbi's writing style, "Taibbi is incisive and often incredibly funny as he recounts the foibles of candidates and the long, enervating presidential primary process." He observed, "A veteran of four presidential campaigns, Taibbi knows how the game works. Or at least he knew until Trump came.
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Using the title jefe (boss), the JAP created an intense and often disturbing cult around the figure of CEDA leader Gil Robles. Robles himself had returned from the Nuremberg rally in 1933 and spoken of its "youthful enthusiasm, steeped in optimism, so different to the desolate and enervating scepticism of our defeatists and intellectuals." JAP members wore green shirts and employed a salute that mimicked the fascist salute by raising the arm partway up. A history of the JAP has been published by Sussex Academic press.
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The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, reported an approval rating of 31% based on 26 reviews, with a weighted average of 5.05/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "IO has some big ideas but little idea of how to effectively convey them, leaving viewers with a sci-fi drama whose attractive packaging can't cover its enervating core." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 40 out of 100 based on 6 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews." Nick Allen of RogerEbert.
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Aden Airways – Profile of Ion Falconer On 18 November he wrote to his mother: :I doubt whether anyone could leave here long without a weakening of all his faculties. I read Arabic for several hours a day, and a native fikih, or schoolmaster, comes daily to instruct me. Aden is not without its disadvantages as a mission station. The climate is very enervating and at the same time there is no hill-station anywhere near for the missionaries to go and recruit; but possibly after time such a hill-station will be opened.
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Because of the enervating climate, however, William Bacon did not tarry long at the mouth of the Mississippi River. She sailed for Hampton Roads, Virginia, soon thereafter and refitted there into the summer. Briefly assigned to the Potomac Flotilla, William Bacon subsequently received orders on 11 December 1862 to report for duty with the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron off Wilmington, North Carolina. Three days later, she began taking on stores at Hampton Roads for delivery to the ships already off Wilmington and apparently arrived later in the month to take up her duties.
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He concluded that the tour claimed "the multi-talented artist's intent to join the rarefied ranks of ultimate entertainer". Nick Hasted of The Independent wrote that the tour followed the stadium trends containing "big- budget movie clips and Broadway musical dance moves, with platoons of backing singers and dancers acting as extras" further hailing it as a "Cecil B. DeMille spectacle". He finished his reviews by concluding, "what makes this show's largely enervating juggernaut breathe is Beyoncé's tireless physical effort. She has created a literal body of work".
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As Lavery (2015) has demonstrated, Visher used statistics from American Men of Science and Who's Who in America to claim that "the Northern and Eastern states contained disproportionately more 'notables' than any other areas of the country". On this national scale, Visher's explanation of this observation was that the climate of the Northern states is more conducive to intellectual development, while the Southern states suffered from what he called 'an enervating climate' (S. Visher, 1922, 446). On the smaller, regional scale climate played less of an intrusive role.
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Ramage sees humanitas as belonging to a class of virtues encompassing "kindness and generosity," associated in Caesar with qualities such as clementia ("clemency, leniency"), beneficium ("service, favor, benefit"), benevolentia ("goodwill, benevolence"), indulgentia or indulgeo ("leniency, mildness, kindness, favor," or the verbal action of granting these), mansuetudo ("mildness"), misericordia ("compassion, pity"), and liberalitas or liberaliter ("generosity" or to do something "freely, generously, liberally"). virtus balances the potentially enervating effects of civilization in the natural aristocrat.Rhiannon Evans, Utopia Antiqua: Readings of the Golden Age and Decline at Rome (Routledge, 2008), pp.
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For her, the poor are fortunate because they will never be trapped by the snares of wealth: "Happy is it when people have the cares of life to struggle with; for these struggles prevent their becoming a prey to enervating vices, merely from idleness!"Wollstonecraft, Vindications, 169. Moreover, she contends that charity has only negative consequences because, as Jones puts it, she "sees it as sustaining an unequal society while giving the appearance of virtue to the rich".Jones, 45; see also Taylor, 218–19; Sapiro, 91–92.
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He theorized that one's color choices reflect corresponding changes in the endocrine system, which produces hormones. Schauss then postulated that the reverse might also be true; color might cause emotional and hormonal changes, and various wavelengths of light could trigger profound and measurable responses in the endocrine system. In early tests in 1978, Schauss observed that color did affect muscle strength, either invigorating or enervating the subject, and even influenced the cardiovascular system. Schauss began to experiment on himself, with the help of his research assistant John Ott.
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Atlas Chambers are Classical-style offices. ;Atlas Chambers, 33 West Street, Brighton (1930s) Built as offices for an insurance firm, this is one of a series of "enervating" simplified Classical-style office blocks on the west side of West Street, comprehensively redeveloped in the 1930s due to road widening. ;Hove Manor flats, Hove Street, Hove (1940s) This block of flats was built on the site of the old Hove Manor house, which was demolished in 1936. As originally designed, the brick building had 40 luxury flats, 26 garages at the rear and 10 shops and cafés at ground-floor level.
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Troy Southgate (born 22 July 1965) is a British far-right political activist and a self-described national-anarchist. He has been affiliated with far-right and fascist groups, such as National Front and International Third Position, and is the founder and editor-in-chief of Black Front Press. Southgate's movement has been described as working to "exploit a burgeoning counter culture of industrial heavy metal music, paganism, esotericism, occultism and Satanism that, it believes, holds the key to the spiritual reinvigoration of western society ready for an essentially Evolian revolt against the culturally and racially enervating forces of American global capitalism."Graham D. Macklin.
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Many Indians supported Japan, and throughout the conference Indian university students studying in Japan mobbed Bose like an idol. The Filipino ambassador, representing the puppet Laurel government stated "the time has come for the Filipinos to disregard Anglo-Saxon civilization and its enervating influence...and to recapture their charm and original virtues as an Oriental people." As Japan had about two million soldiers fighting in China, making it by far the largest theatre of operations for Japan, by 1943 the Tōjō cabinet had decided to make peace with China to focus on fighting the Americans.Bix, Herbert Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, New York: HarperCollins, 2001 page 473.
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Okada resigned after his party suffered dramatic losses against the increasingly popular Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in the September 2005 general election, and his successor Seiji Maehara resigned in April 2006. Ozawa was elected president again on 7 April. The Economist called Ozawa an "increasingly ineffectual bully" in July 2007 and partially blamed him both for enervating reformists in his own party and for DPJ failure to profit from LDP predicaments. With Yukio Hatoyama (left) at the Laforet Museum, Roppongi on 30 August 2009 Nonetheless, Ozawa led the party to its largest victory in history in the upper house election on 29 July 2007.
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After its use in the comedic 1999 film Office Space, "TPS report" has come to connote pointless, mindless paperwork, and an example of "literacy practices" in the work environment that are "meaningless exercises imposed upon employees by an inept and uncaring management" and "relentlessly mundane and enervating". According to the film's writer and director Mike Judge, the abbreviation stood for "Test Program Set" in the movie. In the movie, multiple managers and coworkers inquire about an error that Peter Gibbons makes in omitting a cover sheet to send with his TPS reports. It is used by Gibbons as an example that he has eight different persons he directly reports to.
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The Panthers improved to in the 2003 regular season, winning the NFC South and making it to Super Bowl XXXVIII before losing to the New England Patriots, 32–29, in what was immediately hailed by sportswriter Peter King as the "Greatest Super Bowl of all time". King felt the game "was a wonderful championship battle, full of everything that makes football dramatic, draining, enervating, maddening, fantastic, exciting" and praised, among other things, the unpredictability, coaching, and conclusion. The game is still viewed as one of the best Super Bowls of all time, and in the opinion of Charlotte-based NPR reporter Scott Jagow, the Panthers' Super Bowl appearance represented the arrival of Charlotte onto the national scene.
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Wickes--in company with sister-ships Charles J. Badger (DD-657) and Isherwood (DD-520)--departed Pearl Harbor on 10 December 1943 and set a course for the Aleutian Islands. Over the next few months, Wickes operated in the Aleutians. To her commanding officer and crew, the duties performed seemed "uneventful", their "greatest battles", he recalled were fought against the elements and the "dreary monotony of Aleutian duty". Such an enervating routine was interrupted by three bombardments conducted by Task Force 94 (TF 94) against the Kuril Islands, Paramushiro and Matsuwa. The first raid hit Paramushiro on 4 February 1944 and marked the first time that Wickes made contact with the enemy.
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In 1975, Duro Ladipo sought to extend his international influence and tour in other parts of the Diaspora and America. The tour of Oba Kò So in Brazil is particularly notable due to the immense respect it received, as the Yoruba traditions and mythology connected the audiences to their own living traditions of Santería that have roots in Nigeria. Later in 1975, Oba Kò So toured the United States as part of the Third World Theatre Festival performing in theaters across the country. The Yoruba traditions brought to life on stage represented a new kind of energy and exhilaration that was incomparable to other theater experiences, as audience members described the music and drumming as “vigorous and rich” and the dance as “enervating”.
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Zack Handlen reviewed the episode for The A.V. Club in 2013, praising the natural manner in which the romance was progressed, saying that this was "refreshing" to see. He felt that the relationship did not appear to be manipulative for the sake of male viewers, but added that the ending was expected and that the episode never communicated to the audience the need to care about the duo. Handlen wrote that the overall story itself was "shallow", as the episode suffered from an "enervating lack of fun" which was only saved from "complete tedium" through "strong acting and an admirable lack of stigma". Jordon Hoffman, reviewing the episode on his website, commented that Farrell's acting "really steps up to the plate" for this episode, and gave "Rejoined" a rating of five out of five.
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During his conquest of Gaul in 54 BCE Julius Caesar wrote in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico about the three Celtic tribes that inhabited the country, namely the Aquitani in the southwest, the Gauls of the biggest central part, who in their own language were called Celtae, and the Belgae in the north. Caesar famously wrote that the Belgae were "the bravest of the three peoples, being farthest removed from the highly developed civilization of the Roman Province, least often visited by merchants with enervating luxuries for sale, and nearest to the Germans across the Rhine, with whom they are continually at war".Julius Caesar, The Conquest of Gaul Gallico, trans. S. A. Handford, revised with a new introduction by Jane F. Gardner (Penguin Books 1982), I.1.
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The first Munich performances of Die Walküre were generally hailed as successes by audiences and critics; leading composers who were present greeted the work with acclaim, recognising in it evidence of Wagner's genius. One dissident voice was presented by the critic of the Süddeutsche Presse, who was scathing about the dearth of moral standards expressed in the story and furthermore found the whole experience tedious: the first act was, for the most part, "wearyingly long-winded"; the second act only occasionally sprang to life, while in the third it was "barely possible to hear isolated shrieks from the singers through the tumult of the orchestra". The overall effect was "not agreeable ... permeated with what one can only call pagan sensuality, and ... produces finally nothing but an enervating dullness". This harsh, if isolated judgement, found some echo six years later, when Die Walküre was first performed at Bayreuth as part of the Ring cycle.
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Margueritte was doubtful that any "society", such as the Cercle aspired to be, could appreciate the kinds of pantomime that he had written or wished to write. His ideal was what he called the "Théâtre-Impossible": > On the elastic boards of a house with scenery painted by the most fervid > colorists and pervaded by strains of the "enervating and caressing" music of > the most suave musicians, it would charm me if, for the amusement of a few > simple—or very complicated—souls, there could be presented the prodigious > and tragicomic farces of life, love, and death, written exclusively by > authors who had no connection whatsoever with the Society of Men of > Letters.Paul Margueritte, "Eloge de Pierrot", La Lecture, February 25, 1891; > tr. Storey (1985), p. 291. Najac, on the other hand, was repulsed by Margueritte's criminal Pierrot and offended when the Cercle turned his pantomime Barbe-Bluette (Pink-Beard, 1889) into an "old melodrama rejuvenated by indecent innuendoes."Najac (1909), p.
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Will Hodgkinson, the chief critic for The Times, claimed he has revived soul music's "testifying spirit" with an album that addresses the African-American experience at a time when there has been no "musical response to the killing of unarmed black men by American policemen this year". Many critics compared Black Messiah to Sly and the Family Stone's 1971 funk album There's a Riot Goin' On. According to Jon Pareles in The New York Times, it recalled that particular album because of the heavily multitracked vocals, the unpredictable flow of the music, and its roots in funk, rock, jazz, and gospel traditions, all the while highlighting D'Angelo's own musicianship "with all its glorious eccentricities". Somewhat less impressed, Andy Gill of The Independent said Black Messiah shared the "enervating confusion" of There's a Riot Goin' On, and that it was better at contextualizing questions of individual and political freedom than actually answering them. In Robert Christgau's opinion, other critics had exaggerated just "how profoundly D'Angelo articulates his racial awareness and romantic struggle".
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In the late 1990s Dulmers worked, still as a freelance writer, for a number of Dutch publications including again Vrij Nederland, which fired him in 1999 after he was charged with plagiarism: one paragraph (five sentences) in a long article on safe sex was copied from the Internet. The magazine's editor-in-chief commented that everything else in the article checked out, and that he couldn't understand why Dulmers had copied the "unnecessary" paragraph. In the same magazine, Dutch writer Natasha Gerson commented on Dulmers, after comparing him with notorious and unconventional writers such as Gerard Reve and Charles Bukowski, "Dulmers is of that type whose passing people lament, and wonder why such people are no longer around, when the answer is clear: our world, today, does not tolerate brilliant and curious – and enervating – individuals such as him". His years in former Yugoslavia had brought Dulmers to "the edge of insanity", and in 1998 he decided to study theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, to become a priest.
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His chief works are A Discourse of Government relating to Militias (1698), in which he argued that the royal army in Scotland should be replaced by local militias, a position of civic republican virtue which was to return a half-century later and foreshadowed the thinking of Adam Ferguson in lauding martial virtues over commercially minded polite society, which Fletcher thought enervating. The famous phrase "well regulated militia," which found its way into the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, appears in this work, as does the phrase "ordinary and ill-regulated militia." Two Discourses concerning the Affairs of Scotland (1698), in which he discussed the problems of Scottish trade and economics; and An Account of a Conversation concerning a right regulation of Governments for the common good of Mankind (1703).See via Google Books In Two Discourses he suggested that the numerous vagrants who infested Scotland should be brought into compulsory and hereditary servitude, it was already the case that criminals or the dissolute were transported to the colonies and sold as virtual slaves at that time.
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As it happens, that same Saturday night Sebastian attends a class reunion (the Abituriententag of the title) occasioned by the 25th anniversary of his Matura (Class of '02), a meeting he knows he will regret going to as it will bring back both a plethora of unpleasant memories and a confrontation with the bourgeois self-satisfaction of his former classmates. That night, Sebastian does not go to sleep. Rather, upset by his chance meeting with Adler and the enervating talk at the class reunion, he sits down at his desk and writes down a confession in shorthand, which on the following morning turns out to be indecipherable to everyone including himself--except to the reader, who can read Sebastian's confession as the middle part of the novel). At the age of 16, Sebastian, on the command of his father, the highest-ranking judge in Austria-Hungary, has to leave the prestigious Schottengymnasium in Vienna due to poor grades and is forced to continue his education in the provincial town of Sankt Nikolaus, where he stays with two aunts of his.
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