But in truth, that gracelessness had been a long time coming.
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That Trump gave that interview even as McCain's body was being flown from Arizona to Washington, DC, to be honored goes beyond gracelessness into something darker.
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Because he conveys some of that gracelessness in the cadence of his voice, clumsily taking the angles of words like "technique-less," his gawky phrasing is more pronounced.
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The epitome of Silicon Valley hubris, Zuckerberg so richly deserves to be forever clowned on for the utter gracelessness with which he tripped and continues to trip over his own dick.
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I'll shift from foot to foot with the lumpen gracelessness of a deck chair unexpectedly granted the power of motion, worrying about what to do with my elbows and screaming in silence at the inside of my own face.
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Like Lindsay's ill-fitting army jacket in Freaks and Geeks, or Lane impulsively dying her hair purple (and then back again) in Gilmore Girls, TV has often understood that there's an anxiety and gracelessness to the teenage search for a "cooler" identity that's different to the ugly duckling transformations of Hollywood movies.
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But the winking repetition of coded celebrity identifiers ("Socialite Sex Tape Star Turned Reality Star") soon loses its fizz, and the zingers ("Her teeth are probably sharp enough to be an extra in a werewolf movie") are too earthbound to lift Ella's fall from gracelessness out of rom-com purgatory and into the stratosphere of satire.
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A few years after the "Jerry Maguire" debacle, my gift for gracelessness was tested again when my younger daughter and I were watching "Despicable Me," and we arrived at the sequence in which Gru, not yet a good guy, returns the adorable orphans Agnes, Edith and Margo to Miss Hattie's Home for Girls because he can't be bothered with them anymore.
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It always involves what modern philosopher-psychologists call absurdism, involving the sense of isolation that comes with the feeling of living in an irrational world in which one must create one's own reason for being. It is a shaky, groundless world in which catastrophe, personal and social, seems imminent – a godless world in which there is no net to catch one after one falls from grace. The sense of gracelessness become peculiarly graceful pervades Reichert's eccentric lines and forms, adding to the feeling of absurdity that informs Reichert's works. But however one might categorize them stylistically and expressively, what strikes me as particularly meaningful is their uncanny abstractness, self-evident in the Mechanics of the Universe, 2012, subtly evident in the figural works, be the figure a naked body, as in the wraith- like Yellow Nude, 2002, or a vessel, which has a body of its own, and is a symbol of the human body at its most intact. The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead said that abstraction is a “process of emphasis, and emphasis vivifies life,” which is certainly what Reichert's art does. More pointedly, he said that it is “a stripping bare…in order to intensify,” and Reichert's paintings are certainly intense.
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