The facelessness of him means he can be whatever we need him to be.
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The facelessness of the fetish gear has also made Miss Meatface a political art icon.
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Your facelessness encourages characters to fill in the blanks, assuming you're someone they know using an unfamiliar number.
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Like Edwin, these young men are constantly faced with the physical dangers, strenuous hours and facelessness of the job.
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Their facelessness has traditionally served as a reminder that they're still on the fringes of society, and for good reason.
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While he was Jewish, he had no direct Holocaust connection but visited the camp in 1993 and was struck by its facelessness.
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And despite facing her facelessness, Arya has managed to hold on to Needle, and with it, her truest identity: A Stark of Winterfell.
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Within a single frame, we witness forced labor, the plantation economy, cotton's allure, black subjection, government control and the facelessness of the impoverished.
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The dancers immediately begin to move into and out of dynamic, jumping, fast-moving groups, and their facelessness makes them seem more like sculptural forms than individuals.
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The Trilogy, and later, Kiss Land, began the groundwork for much of what exists in alternative R&B today: narcissistic self-deprecation, extreme emotional highs and lows, facelessness, the weaponization of insecurity.
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The many guests featured exacerbate the album's potential for facelessness: "Best Friend," featuring Chance the Rapper, sounds like a Chance song; "Drip," featuring Migos, sounds like a Migos song, and so on.
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Their facelessness also conveyed a faint sense of menace, as if these were the distant, Plato-quoting cousins of the balaclava-wearing hooligans who are a regular presence at nationalist marches throughout Europe.
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This muted ensemble was presided over with brisk facelessness by the conductor Nicola Luisotti, who gave little sense of the majestic atmosphere that should fill the work's civic scenes, nor of the urgency of the personal drama.
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Through discussions, and more photoshopped images and stories, other forum visitors solidified the features of the character known as Slender Man: his facelessness was nearly constant, he typically wore a black suit and he sometimes had tentacles growing out of his back.
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Like Fett, the Mandalorian is a bounty hunter who never removes his armor; here, where he's in the hero's role, his ever-present helmet upends the usual "Star Wars" dichotomy in which the facelessness of the Empire's troops is a simple signifier of evil.
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In " No Face (Pannier)," in the front room, the half-naked female figure, with gray-black, graphite tinted skin, stands with her fists clenched on either side of her waist; her hollow face — and the hollowness by no means communicates emptiness, anonymity, or facelessness — is encircled by a rosette featuring dozens of tiny, pastel-colored ceramic flowers.
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Aside from ceremony, masks have also long had practical implications: Think of the medico della peste, or "plague doctor" mask, with its long, birdlike beak, which was worn in the 7203th century by physicians hoping to protect themselves from the Black Plague, and which became one of the enduring visual images from that time, a metaphor for the facelessness of death itself.
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But it also unshrinkingly shows the viciousness of terrorism and the three-dimensional reality of victims who might otherwise recede into facelessness.
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A general criticism of techno music at that time was its facelessness and lack of personality, which the band were coming to feel also plagued them.
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A common tale told by the people of Takayama is that the facelessness is the result of the dolls being made during the period of World War II. The mothers knew that these were hard and unhappy times but, did not want to give the dolls sad faces. So they left them faceless.
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Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian said Cruz was "proficient but generic" in the song, but his "autotuned vocals could have been anyone's, and this facelessness is a problem Cruz rarely surmounts." Chris Ryan of MTV Buzzworthy said that the song "perfectly embodies Cruz's infectious, dancefloor-friendly sound and sleek, immaculate production", and compares it to Jason Derulo and Akon.
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Vic and Bob's performance art group, who perform "The Facelessness of Bureaucracy". They put on Sean Connery or Jimmy Hill masks, one wields either talcum powder or a beehive and the other a pair of swimming trunks or a bra, and enact a little dance to some traditional jazz punctuated by the sound of a breeze, to illustrate "a pensioner being attacked by some police officers", etc.
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As John Wagner explained: "It sums up the facelessness of justice − justice has no soul. So it isn't necessary for readers to see Dredd's face, and I don't want you to".Jarman & Acton p. 75 On rare occasions, Dredd's face has been seen in flashbacks to his childhood; but these pictures lack detail.2000 AD #30 and 1187 In an early story, Dredd is forced to remove his helmet and the other characters react as if he is disfigured, but his face was covered by a faux censorship sticker.
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In a more mixed review, Jim Farber from the New York Daily News writes that Grande's "sexed-up" vocals and range are shown off but the "constant jerking back and forth between styles interrupts any sense of flow." Caroline Sullivan from The Guardian praises Grande's vocals but feels that the songs are indistinct and have a "facelessness" to them. Annie Zaleski writes for The A.V. Club how it "is so well-constructed and designed to succeed, it rarely loosens up enough to let any depth of character (or real surprises) surface", yet it "further establishes Grande as a consummate performer and vocal interpreter." Kitty Empire from The Observer notes that Grande's vocal ability is showcased but that the songs lack personality.
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Lisa Schwarzbaum, from Entertainment Weekly, gave the film a B and noted its fair treatment of both sides. > The writer-director bestows honor – generously, apolitically – not only on > the dead and still living American veterans who fought in Ia Drang, but also > on their families, on their Vietnamese adversaries, and on the families of > their adversaries too. Rarely has a foe been portrayed with such measured > respect for a separate reality, which should come as a relief to critics > (I'm one) of the enemy's facelessness in Black Hawk Down; vignettes of > gallantry among Vietnamese soldiers and such humanizing visual details as a > Vietnamese sweetheart's photograph left behind, in no way interfere with the > primary, rousing saga of a fine American leader who kept his promise to his > men to "leave no one behind dead or alive." David Sterritt, from the Christian Science Monitor, criticized the film for giving a more positive image of the Vietnam War that, in his opinion, did not concur with reality.
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