It is a poker game featuring two inscrutable players with a long history — and a new, inscrutable third participant.
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He is a man of inscrutable verbiage, and even more inscrutable decision-making, so who knows how much of the handshake stuff actually affected his choice.
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Even then, his technique was dismissed as pretentious and inscrutable.
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Since becoming a future princess, Markle has become somewhat inscrutable.
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Jolie definitely knows that she's viewed as icy or inscrutable.
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Even the Wikipedia page for this stuff is totally inscrutable.
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L'Inconnue de la Seine became a symbol of inscrutable beauty.
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He merely said, with the same inscrutable smile, 'I know.
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The glyphic rendering provided by the company is pretty inscrutable.
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His uneven, discolored teeth are bared in an inscrutable smile.
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And there it was in the mirror: that inscrutable factor.
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By many accounts, Prince was an inscrutable and paranoid boss.
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Humans are inscrutable in a way that algorithms are not.
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It's a wonky, sometimes inscrutable debate, but an important one.
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This once adorably inscrutable app is suddenly poised for global domination.
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It's one of those inscrutable expressions that only children can achieve.
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That stuff was obscure and inscrutable, beyond the reach of science.
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Even on a small screen, the sequence is absorbing, elegant, inscrutable.
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According to experts, the Voynich manuscript remains as inscrutable as ever.
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And by America, I mean Arie Luyendyk, Jr., our inscrutable Bachelor.
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Der Spiegel has called her as inscrutable "sphinxes, divas and queens".
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As far as Bachelorettes go, Rachel Lindsay has been somewhat inscrutable.
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Mulligan's inscrutable performance saves the show from feeling too theater-flavored.
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The series' main character becomes more inscrutable as time goes on.
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No one knows exactly what the inscrutable special counsel will conclude.
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Cher is — she of the impeccably made up, inscrutable public face.
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It would be an appropriately inscrutable end to an enigmatic career.
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Rivals saw Forever 21 "as both monolithic and inscrutable," she added.
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Were they something more inscrutable — ambiguous threads in Muir's tangled web?
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I understand well the ways it can be inscrutable and transcendent.
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Speak using your indoor voice, and spare us the inscrutable GIFs.
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The Pope's inscrutable style is central to the show's off-kilter tone.
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The old ways are, well, old and the new ways are inscrutable.
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Inside were the Letters with their strange, uncolored bodies and inscrutable faces.
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Again, there is a gruesome murder and a very unlikely, inscrutable murderer.
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An inscrutable filing system that I've never had any desire to change.
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The inscrutable Williams trudged back to her seat before breaking straight back.
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They're just floating out there in the nothing-y blackness, watching, inscrutable.
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Better to say it in the music and stay inscrutable in public.
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Just think of how mysterious and inscrutable you'll appear to Bumble dates.
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After reading his report, his reasons for refusing are even more inscrutable.
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Therefore this almost inscrutable exhibition is worth as many visits as possible.
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In its novelty, it can sometimes veer toward the bizarre and inscrutable.
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Inscrutable Europa, it turned out, had its own way of doing things.
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Hers is a bit neater and more muscular, but just as inscrutable.
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My father was inscrutable; my mother, fidgety and itching to beach comb.
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Plus: inscrutable gym PowerPoints, friending Mark Zuckerberg, and a bettered-flavored mayo.
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It's strange and inscrutable at first, a black box that defies explanation.
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This one is similarly inscrutable to me, where do "naps" come in?
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Meanwhile, their neighbors to the North have remained inscrutable on the subject.
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An inscrutable, unfathomable collection could be approached systematically, logically, topically and timely.
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Central bankers once prided themselves for being taciturn and, if not that, inscrutable.
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In that sense, those two minute of inscrutable footage remain a perfect crime.
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This in turn allows ... girls to remain seemingly inscrutable to the outside world.
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YouTube's rationale when deciding what content to show its viewers is frustratingly inscrutable.
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Now, 2018 will be remembered by its own kind of inscrutable hell: TanaCon.
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We don't know the inner workings of deep learning, it's kind of inscrutable.
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Like a lot of popular musicians, Harry Styles has always been somewhat inscrutable.
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Norman loved easy, bittersweet melodies, even when his lyrics grew aggrieved or inscrutable.
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Dreams often seem inscrutable, and most people shrug them off in the morning.
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Again the bridge troll poses his riddle; as always, it is completely inscrutable.
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The duo are inscrutable when pressed for details about how exactly Drifter works.
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With "Joanne," the inscrutable pop performer reveals her most arresting character yet: herself.
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Other works are more ambiguous, and, in some cases, seemed inscrutable to me.
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Despite her constant presence at the trial, Ms. Coronel has largely remained inscrutable.
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But governments are unwieldy beasts, loaded with inscrutable processes and immovable red tape.
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Scripts examined the geopolitics of Gilead and psychoanalyzed the heretofore inscrutable Serena Joy.
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But the rest of the message included a bit of inscrutable additional code.
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There are crying pod-babies, terrifying ghosts, and all kinds of inscrutable details.
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Prince was odd and inscrutable to the end; he remains our unbelievable thing.
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She wore the emotionally inscrutable Happy/Sad By The Yard chain under the MWA!
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It seems that Mr. Trump has turned tables on those famously inscrutable Oriental sages.
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The Golden Globes are notorious for being strange, inscrutable, and a blast to watch.
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Everything the Arizona-based realtor and race car driver does makes him more inscrutable.
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To a degree the crypto loyalists love the fact that their world is inscrutable.
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The ICO boom is an outgrowth of the emerging, occasionally inscrutable world of cryptocurrencies.
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Inscrutable Merkel, who grew up in Communist East Germany, is something of a loner.
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Specifically, it's about Eliza's mysterious, inscrutable past, and how it affects her present choices.
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For more than four decades, America's version of this inscrutable figure was Andrew Marshall.
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If you lean towards rapacious noise, inscrutable drones, and band shirts with illegible names.
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Spock is there, but not quite the inscrutable Spock we would come to know.
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Sometimes, I kept playing because I was trying to figure out the inscrutable mechanics.
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That certain je ne sais quoi of this pup's knowing, yet somewhat inscrutable expression.
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"Who else was on the list?" he asked quietly, maintaining his usual inscrutable calm.
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And most people don't understand the inscrutable chemicals that go into convenience store treats.
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Indeed, the immigration statute is a sometimes inscrutable labyrinth of cross-referenced statutory provisions.
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Refinery29 talked with Keough, 26, about how she approached this unapologetic, often inscrutable character.
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The next night, I followed the inscrutable instructions extra closely and programmed it again.
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One member of the fictional Belamy family, Edmond, is an inscrutable, slightly pixellated ghost.
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The ways of the European Parliament in Strasbourg are inscrutable to the American visitor.
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WASHINGTON — It is a perfectly Washington construction — inscrutable, important-sounding, soaked in self-regard.
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Trumpworld, previously inscrutable and unreachable to Groser's team, was now populated by friendly faces.
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Others put on an inscrutable public front while navigating individual peace accords with Israelis.
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To some extent, the inscrutable brains of the elders could be turned inside out.
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The point, however, is not that Kavanaugh has some peculiar and inscrutable ideas about deference.
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It becomes inscrutable, and if you don't understand how that works it's hard to negotiate.
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Check out their full investigation of these truly inscrutable words below — spoiler: things get extra.
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Eventually, developers will demand more control over their businesses, rather relying on some inscrutable algorithm.
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Bradford's paintings remain stubbornly inscrutable, however much we may try to tame them through interpretation.
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Trump-voting friends and loved ones become strangers with obscure motives, acting in inscrutable ways.
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Facing hackers and poisonings, Western analysts have focused on the motivations of Russia's inscrutable president.
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Sorry. Like roughly 90 percent of the citizens of The Night Of, Box is inscrutable.
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And he observed the sense of mystery in the writing, as inscrutable as birds themselves.
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Here the government was no different: a distant power inscrutable to those on the ground.
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In this abyss lies the crux of cat love, robotic or otherwise: Inscrutable yet miraculous.
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Their facial expressions were serene and inscrutable, suggesting absorption in the spectacle of Gray's Papaya.
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Mr. Smith, then 28, was an inscrutable genius plucked from the college-town club circuit.
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It is crowded, with shirts crammed onto racks and into piles, in sometimes inscrutable order.
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The other previously unreleased song is "Hawaii," an inscrutable encounter set to a folky tune.
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He's a "ditto" sheet that's been run through too many times; dull, smudged, often inscrutable.
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Lynch might have a reputation for being inscrutable, but in this case, he's playing fair.
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Which brings us to The OA, Netflix's somewhat inscrutable series that dropped in December of 2016.
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Where Mr Macron telegraphs his plans early, loudly and clearly, Mrs Merkel is reactive and inscrutable.
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In the nine months since he took the post, Dr Carson has stayed inconspicuous and inscrutable.
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Screenshot: HireVueThe added hoops and inscrutable, bot-addled process will probably make matters worse for applicants.
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All families are inscrutable in their own ways, and have their own forms of internal culture.
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For many progressives, President Trump is wholly inscrutable and his appeal is difficult to even acknowledge.
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The politics of this decision will be brutal, but the decision itself is also completely inscrutable.
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It's sort of an "Oh, she's down to play" look, but it's also a little inscrutable.
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She looked up at her mother with wide, inscrutable eyes, and slowly opened her mouth. ♦
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Deakin takes one of his first swims there, in the River Granta: "deep, cool and inscrutable".
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In person, Roger was razor sharp and inscrutable and we seemed to have a real connection.
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And what of the inscrutable Chairman Kim's conversion to prince of peace from despot of darkness?
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Sam's handwriting was evocative in a bittersweet way, and it was inscrutable in an annoying way.
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But Ruby's doctors had no clues about whatever hidden flaw was causing her inscrutable developmental delays.
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In between, she sang with sultry nonchalance and traced slow-motion gestures both elaborate and inscrutable.
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Ferrante's women are inscrutable, their minds deep and disordered and disinclined to sentimentality, to easy morals.
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In the beginning Littlefinger was more inscrutable but he's since become a more transparently villainous character.
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All these people have troubles of their own, and those compete with Frankie's slightly inscrutable moods.
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But the Taliban have shown profound and worrying lack of clarity, and their intentions remain inscrutable.
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To many, Facebook's algorithm can feel like an inscrutable black box that decides their content destiny.
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A ballad to yearning and mortality, as biting as ice, as inscrutable as the snowy woods.
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Those four bad letters made that whole corner inscrutable because the other clues were so tricky.
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So the characters are living in the world of predatory lending and bizarre, inscrutable financial machinery.
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It was as if a coordinated disinformation campaign had been orchestrated, creating an inscrutable buffer around him.
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It's the perfect way to get insight into a field that may have seemed inscrutable before listening.
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The great thing about the new trailer for F1 2017 is that it's completely inscrutable and boring.
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Though it may seem inscrutable, the best way to improve your News Feed is to teach it.
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But she remains a conundrum—as inscrutable, says Der Spiegel, a magazine, as "sphinxes, divas and queens".
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Adventure games are notorious for convoluted and often inscrutable puzzles, but Chuchel somehow manages to avoid this.
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Until then, watch the trailer above and try to decipher some inscrutable Instagram posts to kill time.
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In each case, Vaughn seems to have excised material according to an inscrutable set of secret choices.
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At the beginning of the movie he is walled-off and inscrutable, before the perspective gradually flips.
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" Wong's response to her career woes is, predictably, to crack a joke: "Chinese in movies aren't inscrutable.
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Good intentions cannot rescue these illegitimate processes, which are unpredictable to companies and inscrutable to the public.
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Financial aid for upperclassmen is especially inscrutable, despite highly publicized government campaigns to make pricing more transparent.
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And, importantly, the story centered on a kind of medical terminology that was inscrutable to most people.
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Well, he's always online and ranting, but this time his rants were even more inscrutable than usual.
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Esther's inscrutable facial expression may express slight dismay and/or mild amusement, but it is certainly stoic.
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Past Saudi leaders tended to be austere and distant, presenting as the vanguards of inscrutable royal bureaucracies.
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But the larger, tragic landscape Harun sketches is acutely destabilizing, wonderfully inscrutable and, at moments, ravenously absurd.
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His rare compliments are preceded by suspenseful, inscrutable glares, and his highest praise is a silent handshake.
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AMSTERDAM — Rembrandt's 1661 painting, "Two African Men," is one of the Dutch old master's more inscrutable works.
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On her program, silent or inscrutable figures — Manafort, Mueller, Trump — were imbued with a kind of interiority.
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Amid the chaos, arts and cultural institutions in Catalonia find themselves in a difficult and inscrutable position.
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The ever-inscrutable Lindsay Lohan has a new goal in sight: She'd like to have her own island.
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And seeing the PC version through their eyes, I do admit that it can be a little inscrutable.
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But if you haven't logged quite a few hours with the cardboard version, the digital edition is inscrutable.
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We never know what The Spider is thinking, so this inscrutable image is pretty on brand for him.
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He raps with a slurry intricacy that's inscrutable to old-fashioned hip-hop purists, but holds consistent thrills.
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Whoever she might otherwise have been died then, too; the woman she became was volatile, unhappy, and inscrutable.
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That ownership has persistently frustrated them and, what's more, seems to be largely inscrutable and unaccountable to fans.
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But it would be more accurate to say that the somewhat inscrutable artist makes machines that make art.
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What's more, the process even for seeking a waiver has remained opaque to the point of being inscrutable.
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This week scientists are expected to release images of the silhouette of this elusive and inscrutable astronomical object.
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Each paragraph — on the inscrutable mechanics of "packaging fees" and production stakes — intensified that familiar cliff's-edge feeling.
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Take Mimblewimble, which gets its privacy in part by gathering lots of transactions into a single, inscrutable package.
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Melania Trump is one of the most inscrutable first ladies, which makes her one of the most scrutinized.
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For Emma Wilde, a 31-year-old single mother, the misadventure began with an inscrutable piece of correspondence.
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"By this point, our codebase is so old and idiosyncratic; some of it is totally inscrutable," Kemenczy explains.
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Gwada is mostly inscrutable, though there's a lovely moment when he sees his mother and begins to cry.
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And Vogel is highly suspicious of Rogers, who both seems inscrutable and even evasive, making Vogel extremely uncomfortable.
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It is unlikely the inscrutable Roberts has shed his conservative instincts after nearly 24 years as chief justice.
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"At some point, science becomes magic," a character remarks in this inscrutable sci-fi puzzler, set in Toronto.
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People talk about it like it's an inscrutable quality, but recently it has become a little more clear.
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The result is at once acutely distressing and quite lovely, transforming the island into something primitive and inscrutable.
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"The way it was framed was totally inscrutable." said Eleanor Acer of the advocacy group Human Rights First.
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But foreign states do not have the luxury of shrugging off the American president's thinking as an inscrutable mystery.
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But they're also some of its most aimless characters, too indecisive and inscrutable to feel truly motivated by anything.
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So yes, I'll always take a well-calibrated '90s homage as a way of burrowing into someone's inscrutable headspace.
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He got very drunk at company parties, which was jarring because he was always quiet and inscrutable at work.
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Dressage is often described as "horse ballet" and like ballet, it can be inscrutable and boring to general audiences.
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Someone, apparently, was dedicating computer power to mining "blocks" of data on the old chain, for some inscrutable reason.
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Khurrana is pitch perfect as Akash, playing him with the deadpan expression required for the film's most inscrutable character.
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Walter is his more passive, inscrutable, and technologically advanced twin — think David without the daddy issues, ego, or peroxide.
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Since Sia is so inscrutable, though, you might not know that much about the woman underneath the blonde bob.
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Or if you're particularly persistent, something like this:But it's not just inscrutable bickering the plagues the Pope's Twitter timeline.
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Charlotte is an intriguingly inscrutable character, who comes across most clearly in her interactions with the two small boys.
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Her Odette and her Odile were like that throughout: inviolable, mysterious, inscrutable, ultimately the strongest characters in the ballet.
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This was the endgame of "Thrones" in miniature: Stunning on the outside, affecting in small moments, inscrutable at heart.
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He described Mr. Mueller's decision not to make a definitive judgment on the obstruction of justice issue as inscrutable.
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One, seen from the front, looks proud but inscrutable, just a carefully poised head atop a long, regal body.
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In spite of how inscrutable some of Lynch's work can be, most of it has clear heroes and villains.
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The letter's exact details on proper bureaucratic box-ticking were inscrutable to Wafa because it was written in English.
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The Obama years saw some of these, including largely inscrutable legislation that mauled our health care and financial systems.
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He can be so inscrutable that conspiracy theorists on the Internet have posited he's some sort of undercover agent.
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In it, I hear nothing less than the human spirit, somewhere in a vast, inscrutable universe, daring to exist.
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Several large contributions came from companies with seemingly inscrutable names, some of which are easier to untangle than others.
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This time, I'd finally understand the notoriously convoluted lore, the bits of inscrutable storytelling many Destiny fans swear by.
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There was something inscrutable about him, that was my feeling—a tumultuous heart, in which nothing was clear-cut.
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But we are foreigners here and the stories are inscrutable, full of happenings from cricket ovals and rugby pitches.
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Financial markets seem like a constantly churning, high-risk world of inscrutable ticker symbols and unthinkable sums of money.
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Ultimately, the entire community, including the citizens gathered outside, gets caught again in the same kind of inscrutable trap.
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The presence of evil in The Return has been high-concept, manifesting through avant-garde formal assaults and inscrutable symbolism.
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The entire movie Eighth Grade hinged on the premise that Elsie Fisher's Kayla was all but inscrutable to her dad.
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With his unintelligible script, zany acting techniques and inscrutable accent, everyone involved in the production was certain it would fail.
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In late 2017, though, Jenner went "underground" — she ceased communication with her fans, save from a few inscrutable Instagram photos.
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In the exhibition and the book, the painting's relationship to another inscrutable portrait — Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa — is explored.
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I followed the path of an inscrutable, god-like creature named Atlas, who promised those answers but ultimately didn't deliver.
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The jargon is inscrutable, and the skills needed to pull off the attacks are possessed only by highly skilled professionals.
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In the photos displayed at the Ryerson Image Center, McMaster makes herself into an inscrutable but fantastic set of avatars.
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While the surface level plot is about figuring out what happened, the answers always remain inscrutable — inviting only more questions.
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At first, they might seem impossible to interpret — Huckabee can be inscrutable, like a Jaden Smith of the American right.
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Weber, who wears a fedora and has the calm, inscrutable demeanor of an undercover agent, came on staff in 2001.
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Focus on the opposite There's an underlying element of hate that will likely remain inscrutable to children -- and everyone else.
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That position remains with Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, whose inscrutable nature is a studied contrast to Mr. Schumer's volubility.
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Of course, there's a chance that Tribune is engaging in an inscrutable courtship dance that will land a higher price.
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I'm sure there are plenty of good solvers who shun the cryptic after seeing a few clues that seemed inscrutable.
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Working against Jackson is the notion that the speed of social media and its sometimes-inscrutable vernacular suit the young.
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Like the web of personal data it mined for profit, Silicon Valley's political network was simultaneously immense, powerful and inscrutable.
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As with many of his foreign policy stances, Trump has often been inscrutable and inconsistent on his position on NATO.
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Love is inscrutable, and perhaps it survives, at least in part, because of this complex interplay between transparency and opacity.
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Antonija Livingstone, in "les études (heresies 1-7)," showed how it was possible to be fully hospitable and remain inscrutable.
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It's the wall of text that everyone scrolls past as fast as possible, because it's purposely written to be inscrutable.
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For 30 minutes in near-darkness, the trio cycled through these and other elemental poses, immersed in an inscrutable meditation.
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It is seemingly always with us, one of those fashion gestures that read like tag lines to some inscrutable joke.
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Then there is his duel with Mueller himself, who may be the most inscrutable, immovable foe Trump has ever faced.
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He's inscrutable, he's always looking to extend his kingdom, and he may soon rule over vast hordes of the dead.
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An unassailable young virtuoso on trumpet, Evans uses extended technique to create some of the most darkly inscrutable music around.
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The tangled, inscrutable bureaucracy of the American healthcare system has given rise to a brand new profession: the patient advocate.
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But it's a strange piece: cloistered, insinuating, indebted to Beckett, with an inscrutable ending that can leave audiences at a loss.
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It was a time when a certain purer kind of internet humor could survive: impossibly wholesome, addictively repetitive, and completely inscrutable.
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Inscrutable Merkel smiled and declined to comment when asked if she would run in 2017, saying only she was still motivated.
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In a movie where the leads are largely non-human, it's the humans who end up feeling like the inscrutable foreigners.
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" She was described by George Putnam Upton in his Musical Memories as, having an "inscrutable face" and "dark lustrous melancholy eyes.
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Then there's Lucy, which somehow combines fighting and car chases with a third act so inscrutable it makes 224 look straightforward.
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Drama is rehashed as comedy, truth gradually morphs into blather — what constitutes any reality becomes inscrutable but increasingly subject to question.
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Sentinels — those inscrutable, flying protectors of the galaxy — seem especially abundant here, scanning everything in sight despite that everything is dead.
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In March journalists of Le Monde battled to prevent the inscrutable Czech oligarch from taking control of the prestigious French daily.
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With a ban on photography inside and a notoriously inscrutable door policy, what happens in Berghain really does stay in Berghain.
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You think afresh of the film's title and wonder, Who is more unknown here, the nameless victim or the inscrutable doctor?
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But San Antonio represented a rarefied new environment, one with its own inscrutable language, distinguished culture and sophisticated style of play.
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"In the Darkroom" is a fascinating chronicle of a decade spent trying to understand a parent who had always been inscrutable.
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The South Central rappers, who share a slippery delivery and near-inscrutable vocabulary, are integral figures in the city's rap scene.
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McConnell, one of the most inscrutable political operators in Washington, did what he always does -- he put on a straight face.
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This totem, like a sphinx posing a riddle, forces viewers to confront what they see reflected in its inscrutable Black depths.
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Thus, whatever one's views on affirmative action, this new score introduces an inscrutable redundancy — one that cannot be disputed or appealed.
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" The voice concludes by calling Rivera's unusual body shape, with its "childish, narrow, rounded shoulders," as being like "an inscrutable monster.
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Taken together, these pieces suggest that the feminine lies within the swirl of that which is luscious, ghastly, combative, and inscrutable.
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In her life, my mother created inscrutable taxonomies of every kind, and the cards in her recipe box were no exception.
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His country is presented to us as all heat and dust and moonlight; his family communicates in inscrutable Eastern-sounding parables.
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But if the book is a kind of bible, it's an inscrutable one, composed in a visual language I can't translate.
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I turn to them for silly nicknames and disgusting locker-room pranks and inscrutable jargon-laden accounts of on-field action.
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There was something comical in the contrast between their cool, inscrutable expressions and the boisterous young Americans who sat before them.
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But we never learned Ellie's real answer, other than that inscrutable "OK," given right before the cut to black and credits.
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Inscrutable trail signs, reporting apparently arbitrary distances to unknowable, ambiguous destinations, gave the impression of order while denying access to it.
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The performances in "The Dreamed Path" can seem stiff and opaque, and the narrative logic at times verges on the inscrutable.
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But I'm not sure I've ever seen it vested with less meaning, because the entire encounter was so nonsensical and inscrutable.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads There's something rightly inscrutable about Entang Wiharso's "Double Protection" (2015), on display at Marc Straus.
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Alyx also, as he tells me, couldn't understand or experience emotions clearly, found body language inscrutable, didn't understand subtext such as sarcasm.
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But researchers are increasingly proving that even when the inner workings of those machine learning engines are inscrutable, they aren't exactly secret.
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How could anyone endure watching a sport with such a lack of obvious athleticism, such inscrutable gameplay, and such a lethargic pace?
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The sociologist argued that the popular response to the total spiritual dependence on God's inscrutable will was a turn to worldly activity.
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When I inserted the batteries that came with my badge and the badge lit up, the LED patterns were inscrutable to me.
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Everyone seemed to be operating according to their own various ideological, professional, and technological contexts, or simply by their own inscrutable standards.
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When it comes to Camille's inscrutable younger half-sister Amma (Eliza Scanlen), viewers are gifted no such glimpse into the teen's psyche.
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A sprinkle of decades-old TV nostalgia, a dash of inscrutable meme culture, and BlocBoy JB's Shoot dance to top it off.
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But to Netflix subscribers who rarely peruse the site's anime section, this level of hype — and the show itself — may seem inscrutable.
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The passing years have witnessed growing breakthroughs and mastery in the testing of projectiles and nuclear warheads by the inscrutable Kim regime.
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In some of the former, the Mythic Being appears inscrutable alongside thought bubbles filled with teenage lines about liking boys at school.
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"We can try to infer some intuition but the two networks are inscrutable in that we can't extract understandable 'policies,' " he wrote.
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But faced with the daunting and sometimes inscrutable bureaucracy of immigration policy and enforcement, many people wondered how best they could help.
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All in all, though, as long as I had the patience the cluing was skillful enough to be challenging but not inscrutable.
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His works, while similarly inscrutable, are not yogic or glacial or designed to direct your attention to ambient stirrings outside the music.
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And yet, for maybe the first time since that day, the question of who commissioned her killing no longer appears so inscrutable.
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Over the band's nearly five-decade career, Mr. Smith unspooled caustic rants that could seem inscrutable until certain repeated phrases became mantras.
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Instead, the aesthetic of American freedom would be delivered in bold colors and broad gestures, through powerful, inscrutable individuals and formal innovation.
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No matter how closely we observe the bees or how much we breach the hive, the dance of the bees remain inscrutable.
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The inscrutable Swede Borg was up for a historic fifth victory; McEnroe was the hot-tempered American upstart who could wreck his chances.
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Click here to view original GIFGIF: THXBefore the Inception "Bwomp," the THX "Deep Note" was the most recognizable and inscrutable sound in cinema.
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I tried to relight it by following the instructions pasted on the side of the heater, but they were as inscrutable as hieroglyphs.
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For those still concerned that starting in toddlerhood is premature, consider how we regularly read books to children that are confusing or inscrutable.
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His platitudes of self-worth mutated, now he was a self-professed thought leader, though his thoughts felt even more erratic and inscrutable.
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Those would be routine questions for a normal administration to answer, but Trump has a way of turning the straightforward into the inscrutable.
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Like a poet recently accepted to an MFA program, Zayn employs his style with an inscrutable randomness that makes him seem disturbingly intentional.
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Like many things in the digital currency world, cryptocurrency market forces are often even stranger and more inscrutable than their traditional financial counterparts.
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While the Mavic Pro offers a ton of granular controls which more advanced users will appreciate, it will likely seem inscrutable to novices.
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Hologram unfortunately mixes up this soul-searching with a fish-out-of-water comedy that falls back on ungainly tropes about inscrutable foreigners.
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They often feel as intimate and inscrutable as diary entries, even when they deal with monstrous public figures like Hitler, Stalin and Hirohito.
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" He bought as much as he could carry, including, he remembered later, "two black boxes full of inscrutable, but wisely glowing, valve electronics.
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His pedigree, his demagoguery and his inscrutable platform — including the proposed mass deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants — make him a giant story.
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I learned the hard way that emotional insight allowed me to see some things, but another person's true intent and commitment remained inscrutable.
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If we read books or watch television to glimpse a pared-down facsimile of our inscrutable world, we also watch to recognize ourselves.
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It is the black one, nearly seven feet high and over a foot deep, and inscrutable to an extent the others are not.
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Mr. Batmanglij has a tendency to speak slowly and cautiously, and is unafraid to give a succinct answer followed by a inscrutable laugh.
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Invariably produced in obsessive, multiyear series, with inscrutable and number-heavy labels, Mr. Ruff's images are as quizzical as they are conceptually serious.
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Instead, read it as the inscrutable future cult classic it probably is, and let yourself be carried along by its twisting, unsettling currents.
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To the type of person for whom the curious and often inscrutable hits horse race is entertainment, this was tremendously fun to witness.
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Still, he moves through the show effortlessly with a smarmy charm (schmarm?), even though his motivations are more inscrutable than they are Machiavellian.
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The image was girlish and delicate, yet inscrutable, as if Nicks were suggesting that the world might not know everything she's capable of.
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"From motives inscrutable to his friends, the author of Living chooses to publish his work under a pseudonym of peculiar drabness," he wrote.
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Now that the trolling ethos has infiltrated the actual core of government, whole systems are being forced to improvise around Trump's inscrutable center.
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And the 2200 percent gain in the Standard & Poor's 22-stock index this year might seem to be one of those inscrutable moves.
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Oceanfront houses, or those tucked among plants and trees, don't look homey and inviting; instead they are more like impersonal and inscrutable forces.
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Simon Morley's new book presents a seven-tiered analytical framework that aims to make even the most inscrutable works of modern art accessible.
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He quickly discovers, while trying to collect social benefits, that the layers of inscrutable procedures and forms are all but impossible to navigate.
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His organizational logic is sometimes inscrutable, with details plunked in as if by bingo blower (why, again, are we reading about Nike-Hercules missiles?).
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We are to imagine ourselves encountering this thing in the distant future, when the attached items might be as inscrutable as the glyphs alongside.
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Well, it's been five years, and the promise of Digg Reader being forever by your side is now a memory, sun-bleached and inscrutable.
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I gently panicked as she led me to a chair where I was surrounded by people making inscrutable sounds right next to my ears.
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A commonly used argument is that God has often used fallible individuals as instruments of his inscrutable purpose, such as King David the adulterer.
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It is as glamorous as it is inscrutable, and it all continues to raise the same question: Who the hell is James Goldstein, really?
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"The inscrutable indie hip-hop group returns with an uncontainable record that defies genre and expectations at nearly every turn," says the Pitchfork review.
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We feel the horror, and the vicarious thrill of deep and inscrutable transgression, and we are fascinated, but the pity we muster is abstract.
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But as news organizations who've tried to parse Facebook's inscrutable sharing algorithms can tell you, there's no easy way to appeal to a machine.
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Kanzaki soon gains local hero status for revitalizing the town, but he still remains an inscrutable character, his past and personal life a mystery.
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On Bachelor in Paradise, she was fun but inscrutable, flitting between Kimball and a few other suitors, including David Ravitz and Benoît Beauséjour-Savard.
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May, while often inscrutable, has the voting record of a center-right politician that supports private enterprise and seeks toughness on immigration and crime.
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Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore were released back to back in 1995 and 1996, respectively, and they embody the fullness of Sandler's inscrutable irritability.
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As for the evil and somewhat inscrutable BB-9E, its animations are very similar to BB-23, but the look and audio are darker.
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Because he knows that having even the greatest, most inscrutable, most mysterious powers in the world doesn't matter if people don't know about it.
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With its character limit and an interface that's inscrutable to nonusers, Twitter tends to penalize nuance and moderation, while rewarding hot takes and bombast.
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Cable providers exert too much power over consumers by deciding what content they can and can't access according to inscrutable and unpredictable pricing schemes.
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On the street, people approach him constantly to ask for selfies, and he greets them all with equanimity, presenting a warm, slightly inscrutable façade.
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Heroine and Sonic mega fan Amy Rose gets the faux-funk of "My Sweet Passion," which features the soundtrack's most inscrutable set of lyrics.
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Later during Wednesday's interview, Trump went on an inscrutable rant about how MSNBC in particular and the media in general purportedly conspire against him.
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It was an exhibition of inmate art, and one of the works—a portrait of Sherlock Holmes, blank-faced and inscrutable—was unmistakably his.
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For McConnell, the answer is both simpler and more inscrutable — he is obsessed with electoral self-preservation and improvement, with no clear larger purpose.
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Consent requirements for processing personal data are also considerably strengthened under GDPR — meaning lengthy, inscrutable, pre-ticked T&Cs are likely to be unworkable.
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Does Estelle's status as the auspicious star mean she has to be so thinly drawn as a character, her motivations and actions so inscrutable?
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Speaking with Ms. Acevedo helped fill out my understanding of one of the most inscrutable parts of the Trump administration's experiment with family separations.
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You might have once thought that a company using inscrutable information about you to target ads to you was something to be scared of.
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The author preferred to let her work speak for her, often appearing publicly as an inscrutable grand dame, reluctant to talk about personal affairs.
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You always find scattered crumbs — inscrutable analogies, esoteric equations, unverified allegations from anonymous sources — gathered around those questions about which we know the least.
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The result was our first long, hard look at what's really going on between Sofia and Scott, one of pop culture's most inscrutable couples.
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So Hendon started messing with more inscrutable variables in the lab, like the mineral content of the water or the age of the beans.
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Because of Amazon's vast scale, inscrutable algorithms, and capricious enforcement of its own rules, unscrupulous sellers and paid shills largely get away with it.
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Maybe Dreamworks has its reasons, reasons just as opaque and inscrutable as the decision to make another animated yeti movie in the first place.
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The 1980s saw the inscrutable foreigner with his secret allegiance to the emperor evolve into the company man with an obsessive allegiance to work.
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Okay now forget those guys because Jack Ma set the new high watermark for inscrutable technocrat behavior at this year's Alibaba Annual Party in Hangzhou.
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Inside 80WSE Gallery, New York University's 2018 MFA graduates assembled a thesis show of work that runs the gamut from academically inscrutable to emotionally resonant.
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And that also applies to its state-sponsored hackers whose global cyberattacks have been almost as erratic and inscrutable as the government they work for.
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That means more loans were issued by unregulated financial institutions, or the shadow banking system — a growing and largely inscrutable area of China's financial system.
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The big picture: This new generation of computers, built on measuring the inscrutable activity of tiny, tiny particles, is at a drawn-out inflection point.
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It may have an inscrutable working title, but Project Octopath Traveller offers something very familiar: a classic-style Japanese RPG, complete with pixelated 2D graphics.
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But given that most of us don't read the entire inscrutable list of ingredients in our hair products, these labels raise more questions than answers.
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Titled Making Weather, the lamp combines a magical aesthetic with deft design and an inscrutable technology that makes the feather-light fixture seem to levitate.
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The witchcraft sub-plot has some inscrutable moments, but the finale is like a wild ride you can't disembark from, and its power is thrilling.
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Stoic and square-jawed, the inscrutable portrait is a common sight behind shop counters and stalls in this city, a short drive north from Mosul.
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Dril, the inscrutable hermit king of Weird Twitter, makes posts that are like jazz—if you have to ask what they mean, you'll never know.
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The color of uniforms, the sound of a canon firing, the faces of soldiers are all often inscrutable, at risk of being lost to time.
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Perhaps only the avant-garde film artists Stan Brakhage (with his inscrutable inventiveness) and Andy Warhol (in his radical simplicity) so totally upended narrative conventions.
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There are so many aspects of a famous person's life that remain inscrutable to the average People magazine reader, but everyone understands a love story.
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I am a libertarian, and Kennedy's votes aligned with my philosophy more often than any other justice's -- albeit often accompanied by somewhat inscrutable judicial opinions.
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And then, when things invariably go wrong, to deconstruct its unpleasant, inscrutable missives and make like an engineer and try to fix the stuff yourself.
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While many of the objects remain inscrutable, each represents some ritual of fraternity, where sharing a secret meant sharing a bond in a changing world.
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Blessed with better historical luck, Johnny must nevertheless contend with the indelible mark of his surname and the inscrutable family history that comes with it.
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It felt so like an old Charlie Chan movies, like "inscrutable," like all the old idiotic tropes about Asians were in there, in that trial.
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It ignores how the game's interface, however purposely limited, is often inscrutable to the point of making the accomplishment of basic tasks hard to understand.
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Kosinski's results suggested something stranger: that artificial intelligences often excel by developing whole new ways of seeing, or even thinking, that are inscrutable to us.
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Using the long corridors to stretch her viewers' attention, Ms. Melnick and her liquid motion filled the moat with a pleasing picnic of inscrutable, activity.
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The big social media firms enjoy enormous power; their algorithms are inscrutable; they seem to lack a proper understanding of what undergirds the public sphere.
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In the face of criticism, he's consistently demurred, maddeningly projecting the image of an inscrutable philosopher, too far removed to see what was going on.
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I've watched and studied danced for nearly my whole life; I understand well the ways in which it can be inscrutable as much as transcendent.
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She looked at her questioner with one of her inscrutable looks and answered like this: "I don't know; I don't think about it," she said.
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In truth, the person who shot Giffords — and killed six others, including a 9-year-old girl — was mentally ill and had inscrutable, extreme politics.
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At first the inside appears similarly uninspired: deep and unfinished, littered with cardboard boxes, plumbing fittings, spools of wire, inscrutable items made of copper, a forklift.
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In Hungary, under János Kádár's soft dictatorship from 1956 to the late 1980s, all forms of cultural production were governed by inscrutable and fluctuating censorship laws.
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When reMarkable's cloud-based AI finds your scribbles inscrutable, the translation can be a bit sloppy, but you can always share your notes as a PDF.
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The inscrutable former prosecutor accused the candidate who wants to be the ultimate guardian of the nation's secrets of being "extremely careless" in handling classified data.
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Merriam-Webster defines enigma as "an inscrutable or mysterious person," which makes a lot of sense given all the questions we still have about Gaga's creation.
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Using Wi-Fi from an adjacent diner, Spanos showed me several chunks of inscrutable blockchain code before pulling up photographs of his work involving foreign politicians.
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The Atlantic called the performance"as inscrutable as the real deal," noting that Pierce had "little to work with except rage and recrimination" in the role.
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That is the calculus for Lisa Murkowski, who has proven to be one of the most inscrutable Republican senators in this time of fragile Republican governance.
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"I'm determined to change the structure of the organization, make it more lean and decisive," Byford said, pointing at an ornate flowchart with numerous inscrutable acronyms.
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Energetically formal like its Schubert music, "Mercuric" is an inscrutable ceremony whose simultaneous geometries pass as satisfyingly and inexplicably as those of constellations in the sky.
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As inscrutable narratives collide, a central thread emerges—the lurid entanglement of government surveillance and reality TV, warping the world on either side of the screen.
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Maybe this is inevitable if you combine an inscrutable, cutting-edge technology, its enigmatic origins, and a flow of $1 billion in venture funding thus far.
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Amazon is by far the largest marketplace for both new and used books the world has ever seen, and is also one of the most inscrutable.
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Filmmaker Gotham Chopra was granted sweeping access to Brady in an array of intimate settings that the inscrutable signal-caller would normally be loath to allow.
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Bring us your inscrutable plywood boxes and hunks of old metal, and we'll tell you if they're long-lost works by Donald Judd or Carl Andre.
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Michèle's prurient, inscrutable cat is his alter ego, and we are the mice, batted from indignation to dread to uneasy amusement, according to his predatory whims.
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His ever-present yet sometimes inscrutable presence was the subject of a documentary, "Lynch: A History," which premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival this year.
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In Ball's interlocking puzzle box of a novel, artful and often inscrutable, a narrator slips in and out of the minds of pats and quads alike.
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Until the jury returns its verdict, the depth of Cohen's legal woes becomes clear and the inscrutable Mueller makes a significant move, Trump can only wait.
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Too often in the classic War Story, Iraq and Iraqis are often merely the exotic backdrop or inscrutable bit players in the journey of American bildungsroman.
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And of course, that's because they're not actually written for you, or any of the other billions of people who click to agree to their inscrutable legalese.
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The biggest problems with Bitcoin have emerged because the mechanics of buying and holding bitcoins are so inscrutable that nearly everyone pays third parties to handle them.
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The LikeWars of tomorrow will be fought by highly intelligent, inscrutable algorithms that will speak convincingly of things that never happened, producing "proof" that doesn't really exist.
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As with that willful, shape-shifting jazz giant, Prince was an inscrutable chameleon, rigid only in his unwillingness to keep to a single course, artistically and otherwise.
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For utterly inscrutable reasons, the format stuck with children's content creators, and hundreds (if not thousands) of "Johny Johny, Yes Papa" knock-offs have been uploaded since.
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Drive, a gruesome LA crime thriller from filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, gifted Gosling another plum role: a hardboiled, inscrutable antihero in the vein of peak Steve McQueen.
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YouTube, which opened a revenue-sharing program more than a decade ago, has long been accused by angry creators of demonetizing videos for arbitrary and inscrutable reasons.
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He is the archetype of a social media influencer, mostly unknown to those over 30 yet compelling in inscrutable ways to his rabid following of young people.
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His world can feel like a shadow world—with its own physics, its own inscrutable symbols, its own ghostly population of paper people—eclipsing the real one.
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But it's hard to remain a mysterious loner once your debut album sells half a million copies, and Vernon seemed eager to shed that inscrutable persona anyway.
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It's a behemoth of a piece, with electric guitars, saxophones, violins, cellos, flutes, synthesizers, and percussion instruments all seemingly jockeying for position, interlocked in inscrutable rhythmic structures.
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Between rolls, it feels less like a dice game than a chaotic souk — an inscrutable flurry of wagers, slang and chip movements with no initially discernible logic.
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It also means that Breivik — his plan, inscrutable face and horrifying actions — immediately takes over the movie, making him its focus and most obvious reason for being.
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Only Ms. Benanti, with her ludicrous self-pleasure and inscrutable intentions, achieves the perfect, heightened style to land the airy jokes while maintaining a bright, solid presence.
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Today, astronomers are just as dependent on telescopes to observe the cosmos, although the complexity and sheer size of modern telescopes would make them inscrutable to Galileo.
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An inscrutable van driver — likely limited by the language barrier — distributed well-worn wet suits and mismatched neoprene bootees to us and a backpacking couple from Switzerland.
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Within that inscrutable text, however, is a bunch of power for the game's publisher, including the ability to technically prevent you from enjoying what GeForce Now offers.
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After so many years of vague fear, imagining that there was an inscrutable sickness growing in me, I now had a concrete way to describe my suffering.
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Though it was a shameless attempt on behalf of the 77-year-old billionaire to buy off teenage influencers, the campaign perfectly exploited attention by being inscrutable.
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The single-panel comic, which ran until Larson, now 69, retired in 1995, featured men, women, children, animals and insects in often offbeat and sometimes inscrutable situations.
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Ghostie's silence at that moment speaks volumes, and his inscrutable presence is a reminder that fright may be an unjust, irrational response to him and his kind.
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Upon his death, in 1898, he left behind a body of work so inscrutable that it still causes literature students to fall to their knees in despair.
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Topping off the inscrutable imagery is a short convoy of what appear to be giant black ants creeping along the mountain ridge behind the artist at his canvas.
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There was a particularly inscrutable part about a digital collective unconscious readable by self-directed learning algorithms, especially those created to identify and anticipate individuals in megadata streams.
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Apple's combination of enormous size, acute reliance on the next new product, inscrutable long-term plans, lofty profitability and stupendous cash holdings is unique in the equity universe.
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In addition, I was never quite sure when RainMachine did and didn't water and had to dig down into the somewhat inscrutable app to find my watering reports.
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So it's not surprising that we're seeing the Taliban being motivated by some somewhat inscrutable things right now, just because they've got a lot strategically to contend with.
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"Some fish grunt, others whistle or sing" That such a mass of animals should go undiscovered for so long shows quite how inscrutable the sea has always been.
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That might look like a lot of inscrutable text, but the result is a package that's more energy efficient overall and 20 percent slimmer than the current design.
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Drone pilots sit in air conditioned offices while Reapers and Predators crisscross North Africa and the Middle East, assassinating targets based on inscrutable criteria and smartphone geolocation data.
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Redmond would do his best to explain or attempt to understand AlphaGo's sometimes inscrutable strategies, often anthropomorphizing the computer program as if it were actually, not artificially, intelligent.
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His success was all the more noteworthy in that he had had to come to terms on his own with the inscrutable behemoth that was his chosen instrument.
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But it does need to act as a translator: Desiigner, a 19-year-old Brooklyn unknown, is largely a cipher still, and his lyrics verge on the inscrutable.
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"The Secret Life of Textiles: Animal Fibers" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art delves deep into the history and beauty but also the often inscrutable facts of textiles.
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The course is lengthy, its bunkers are intimidating, the greens are terrifyingly quick, and it has odd, inscrutable drainage ditches just off the fairways that resemble mass graves.
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All too often the fact that human lives are increasingly enmeshed with and dependent on ever more complex, and ever more inscrutable, technologies is considered a good thing.
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In Moria, a refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, squalid conditions and an inscrutable asylum process have caused what aid workers describe as a mental health crisis.
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The U.S. president's spontaneous approach to negotiations, and the inscrutable style of the Kremlin leader, make predicting the outcome of the summit with any accuracy close to impossible.
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Justin and I watched the entire season in under two weeks, making bets with each other about the inscrutable challenges and legitimately looking forward to each next episode.
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But for all the true crime, procedurals, and ripped-from-the-headlines series out there, the work of a coroner is still fairly inscrutable to most of us.
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As well as the sardonic humor and imagery: an inscrutable floor manager who'd 'take the nickels off a dead man's eyes / To buy Coca-Colas and Eskimo Pies.
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We send our teenagers a powerful, reassuring message when we accept and are not alarmed by their inscrutable unease: I can bear your distress, and you can, too.
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The fallout was often etched on her face: so different from the more inscrutable countenance of her contemporary Steffi Graf, the all-but-irresistible force of the era.
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It will always be difficult to predict future radiative forcings, because they are dominated by anthropogenic emissions, anthropogenic emissions depend on human behavior, and human behavior is inscrutable.
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The crisp attenuation of the melodic elements undercuts the atmospheric qualities, repeatedly jolting Carti awake while achieving a cognitive dissonance that renders the album both addictive and inscrutable.
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As more people enter the field and the techniques are increasingly democratized, we have every reason to expect mountains of inscrutable writings to be rendered legible at last.
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The automation of those processes renders them that much more inscrutable, and harder to dispute by the affected parties; the gig worker on the wrong end of the algorithm.
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Ever a master of the oblique and inscrutable connection, David Hammons has curated a wonderfully strange exhibition, Charles White — Leonardo da Vinci, on view at MoMA through January 3.
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In fact, she went so far as to open the briefing with a lengthy, somewhat inscrutable fable about the complexities of the tax system and the need for reform.
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Mr. Pek, a greying, podgy, bespectacled Thai man in his mid fifties, was the promoter and co-manager of Rompo Gym (with an inscrutable Japanese man called Mr. Kanda).
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"I'd say if they find it easy, I'd say they can do better," she added, raising the much complained about consumer rights issue of consent vs inscrutable T&Cs.
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And no one quite pinned him down to any kind of commitment around Android location sharing concerns or Google's inscrutable privacy policies, though that doesn't come as a surprise.
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To many, though, Clinton remains an inscrutable figure -- a trailblazing feminist icon in some corners, she has long been a target of scorn and suspicion from her political opponents.
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Until then, Poitras has delivered a sporadically fascinating but finally opaque, incomplete portrait, one made no more illuminating by the fact its inscrutable subject doesn't find the likeness flattering.
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Instead, cup the coupe in your hand, stare pensively into your glass, and think deep thoughts about the inscrutable Waldeinsamkeit of our fleeting existence on this bizarre space rock.
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Wong has been revised slightly, so he's not just Doctor Strange's loyal manservant, but he's still something of the inscrutable Asian master we've seen in so many other stories.
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This is especially true in the case of Obama, who, despite being the preeminent figure in American life these past ten years, remains as inscrutable as any other celebrity.
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Rather than representing transient customers to a club that is otherwise essentially unanswerable and inscrutable, Town fans are at the heart of the decision-making process at the QEII.
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Destiny presents a solar system of game worlds filled with repeatable missions, events, patrols, strikes, dailies, heroics, raids, and other inscrutable options, like endless stars in the night sky.
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"We take a hydrocarbon and turn it into a polymer," he explained as he showed me around the plant, with its inscrutable towers and mazes of pipes and gangplanks.
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In messages like this one, breathless and near inscrutable, we see him parrot a Fox News report, or some part of it, in an effort to discredit investigators. 17.
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Anuja Sathe as Dev's inscrutable colleague, Divya Dutta as Ranjit's wife and Arunoday Singh as the hulking simpleton who cannot seem to catch a break are all perfectly cast.
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Your Money In this season of paper piles, bursting files and inscrutable tax forms arriving in the mail, tip your cap to one aspect of the new tax bill.
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Denied her own career, she dedicates her life to building his, her placid demeanor inscrutable as she weathers his towering ego, copious philandering and careless dismissal of her talent.
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After months of political mud-slinging, inscrutable polls, Joe Biden's Corn Pop, and somebody named Michael Bennet, voting is finally set to begin in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.
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It's tempting to write off this scandal as an inscrutable product of a teen subculture, wrapped up in layers of irony and the peculiar language and aesthetics of YouTube.
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"Pli Selon Pli" (1957-62), an orchestral cycle on texts of Mallarmé, was his most formidable creation: voice and instruments give flesh and blood to an allegedly inscrutable poet.
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In the annals of intrigue surrounding Donald Trump's supposed ties to the Russians, there may be no one whose role is both more central — and more inscrutable — than Page.
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Other works in this vein turn objects that evoke traditionally feminine domesticity — blankets ("Coperta (Blanket)," 1968) and tiny stools ("Untitled," 1979) — from common commodities into inscrutable works of art.
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Harnessing the empathic potential of virtual reality as a medium, The Art of Dying assembles the work of over two dozen artists to probe the most inscrutable of human conditions.
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The 2018 crop mostly marches along the same path manufacturers have been following for decades: Everything's a little bigger and sharper, and there are new inscrutable acronyms everywhere you look.
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In his piece "Bandera magonista (Magón's flag)," Rubén Ortiz-Torres offers viewers the nearly inscrutable words "Tierra Y Libertad," obscured in a painting that appears as a red monochromatic luster.
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At the beginning of the film when we don't yet know what has arrived, his inscrutable sonic portrayal of the mystery matches Villenueve's slow divulgence of facts beat for beat.
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But for the most part, they're things we'd find nominally acceptable — like the starting interviews, where inscrutable interviewers judge the quality of desperate applicants' characters in a few tense minutes.
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Perhaps the priests are right: human beings were put on Earth by some creator God for His own inscrutable purposes, and the rest of the universe is merely background scenery.
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It is a testament to Mr Wright's inscrutable acting, fully on display in HBO's "Westworld", but also to the wealth of experience with which Ms Sackler endows her main character.
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"Internet researchers are always working from a position of weakness because Facebook is inscrutable," says Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of the Centre for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia.
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Wendy, however, is more inscrutable, because she devotes so much of her energy and intellect to helping Chuck and Bobby function, but seems to get so little back in return.
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She is so inscrutable, so much like a wax model, that a leading conspiracy suggested that Melania had a body double stand in for her at an event in October.
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The star, which goes by the typically inscrutable name S13-HVS1, is currently about 29,000 light-years from Earth, streaking through the Grus, or Crane, constellation in the southern sky.
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And third, just because most reasonable people in the West seem to think we should get rid of this particularly inscrutable, mist-shrouded institution, I'd like to see it continue.
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It cuts against not only her meticulously tended good-girl persona but also the deeply rooted mythology of Chelsea as the sweet, loyal, vulnerable humanizer of her ambitious, inscrutable parents.
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After a yearslong wait, compounded by additional delays and release-date feints, the much-heralded, often inscrutable R&B singer Frank Ocean managed to deliver more than one new album.
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Eric Heisserer's script bounces the alternately American and generally human qualities of combativeness, distrust, hostility, and violence off the inscrutable aliens that post up across the surface of the globe.
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Chess, Merenzon acknowledged, is often difficult to understand, particularly at the championship level, with games that include inscrutable moves and strategies that can leave even excellent players scratching their heads.
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At the beginning of the film when we don't yet know what has arrived, his inscrutable sonic portrayal of the mystery matches Villenueve's slow divulgence of facts beat for beat.
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As shown in director Sam Pollard's Sammy Davis Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me, which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival this month, Davis fought long and hard to be inscrutable.
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The game also features even weirder creatures, like the massive and inscrutable Elcor and the networked artificial intelligence of the Geth, a creation of the high-tech, ultra-sensitive Quarians.
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And perhaps the most memorably complex performance in the film belongs to Noémie Lvovsky as Delphine's mother, Monique, whose inscrutable, stoical face is full of untold stories and unexpressed longing.
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Doing so turns the bedroom into a court of public opinion — one in which, as our inscrutable desires inevitably lure us into untested territory, both parties will leave feeling shamed.
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That included an ovoid sound-absorbing room divider by Vera & Kyte and an inscrutable black tubular piece by Petter Skogstad that's somewhere between a throne, a table, and a valet.
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It was one of a series of inscrutable statements from the president since parts of the government closed, furloughing 380,000 federal workers and forcing over 1.3,000 to work without pay.
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Astronomers who have created a global network of radio telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope are expected to release images of this elusive and inscrutable astronomical object on Wednesday morning.
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For one, there's her ineffable, magnetic coolness (in person, I found her friendly but inscrutable) and her D.I.Y. tendency to cobble so many things together that nothing really defines her.
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Likely inscrutable to anyone but him, this was his rendering of the schedule for New York, with each of the scores of activities assigned to its segment of a day.
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Yet behind Mr. Vernon's electronic palette and sometimes inscrutable lyrics, he's still a melodist, drawing emotional contours in the rise and fall of each phrase and singing with insistent conviction.
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For three decades and counting, Mr. Wellman, a professor of playwriting at Brooklyn College and a guru to a generation of writers, has manufactured dozens of wordy, cheerfully inscrutable plays.
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The problem with assessing what happens next is that the administration's approach on North Korea is almost as inscrutable as the maneuverings coming out of the world's most closed state.
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What this means is that cats, far from being the inscrutable and fundamentally uninterested creatures they're sometimes portrayed to be, may actually form unique and meaningful relationships with their owners.
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For Earl, whose live sets ere on the darker side of the genre, tracks like "Wear Her Pussy Out", his inscrutable contribution to Rashad's posthumous Afterlife, offer moments of levity.
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For one, it makes Jesse a little less inscrutable, making it easier to care as he careens around Annville trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with him.
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I'm reminded of a friend who was hopelessly addicted to British crossword puzzles (the ones with clues that seem inscrutable to Americans, such as, "The portly gentleman ate his cat, backwards").
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" In one of his more inscrutable riffs, Trump told the crowd at Drake University, "I don't feel good about running down money because my whole life I've been greedy greedy, greedy.
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For the majority of the time, he is an enigma, an inscrutable silver fox who spends his time scribbling hieroglyphs on his little notepad and smoothing back his expertly manicured hair.
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The mag also promises to give us a glimpse into the famously inscrutable pop star's private life with photos and drawings, and she shared some of the pages in a video.
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Properties KUWTK and the cancelled Busy Tonight (even in its name, which fits with the sometimes inscrutable copycat naming techniques the channel has gone for, such as Very Cavallari): emulating Instagram.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Chin raised, eyes front and inscrutable, face exhausted: it was the most telling image of British Prime Minister Theresa May's loneliest moment, departing parliament after her offer to quit.
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For the versatile, sometimes inscrutable German sculptor Cosima von Bonin, too, the sea is a metaphor for our own lives, and she brings to our dry environment visitors from the deep.
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They practice an inscrutable independent religion anchored by oracular prophecy, and live in a system of barns that look like they were decorated by an unusually cheerful brotherhood of medieval monks.
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Predicting which one of thousands, if not millions, of potentially unhinged individuals is having a cosmically bad day and will be the one to open fire is likely to remain inscrutable.
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While leaders aren't demonized in that way anymore, Kim is still a figure many South Koreans find inscrutable, terrifying -- and yet because of his appearance, that seems to soften his image.
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"Wiener-Dog" dramatizes these assumptions in the inscrutable presence of a nonhuman observer, a dachshund who goes by a few different names and endures the company of a variety of masters.
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A Björk album promo cycle is better than your fave's because Björk is an inscrutable yet comforting interview, sometimes not making a lot of sense but also more sense than most.
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Part of his genius was his inscrutable slipperiness—the rock star as shadow emperor projecting orgiastic fantasies, writing odes to Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan, and indulging in opulent drug binges.
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When it comes to neural networks—a kind of AI architecture made up of potentially thousands of computational nodes—their decisions can be inscrutable, even to the engineers that design them.
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Getting a read on Calvi is like trying to find purchase on loose, scrabbly rock; she has the inscrutable quality I typically associate with people who are much smarter than me.
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Chaos, not just wartime chaos, not just the proverbial "war is hell" chaos, but its Asiatic variant — with the inscrutable and unknowable always lurking and pouncing upon the naïve American protagonist.
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The perpetrators such as Mylan - and there are many other pharmaceutical companies engaged in similar strategies, protected by lobbying, patent laws, consolidation, and inscrutable pricing strategies - have become Wall Street heroes.
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And no musician conjured more than Miles Davis: He surrounded himself with young visionaries, summoned an entire ecosystem of sound into being and then sat in its center, an inscrutable Buddha.
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Take this as a field guide for aspiring food entrepreneurs, from rustling together start-up funding to navigating the sometimes inscrutable worlds of crowdfunding, small business loans, accelerators, and venture capital.
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Probably. But that's true of so many sources of income that journalists rely on already: ad revenue from Google AMP clicks; inscrutable deals with OTT providers; kindly billionaires; and so on.
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But, in the courtroom, he sat impassively—as he did throughout the trial—his response to the atrocities as inscrutable as his capacity to have committed them in the first place.
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Its custodian, Jeff Roth, comes across in "Obit" as a droll, mildly frantic version of a Jorge Luis Borges character holding inscrutable dominion over a vast, seemingly impenetrable labyrinth of arcana.
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As to that binary exhibition title, Will and Weather describes the inscrutable mix of intentionality and chance that gives rise to artists' works, and, it could be added, to their careers.
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Mr. McConnell is famously disciplined and inscrutable and will no doubt stick unwaveringly to his pledge to block the nominee — unless he finds it is not in his interest to do so.
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Even as modern science has laid to rest some of our oldest fears, death remains as inscrutable as it ever was—and Ebenstein is here to act as your own personal Charon.
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All these inscrutable hardware decisions sort of hit on one overarching theme: That Google doesn't really give a shit about hardware, at least not in the same way other gadget makers do.
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His interviews are some inscrutable blend of what he really means and what he wants us to think he thinks; he's had as many image reboots as he has deep playoff runs.
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"It's a national embarrassment that we are building a grandiose, inscrutable and ugly memorial that virtually no one likes," Justin Shubow, president of the National Civic Art Society, said in an email.
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Many participants seem to think BioWare is simply lying about how powerful any given player or gun is, and is instead adjusting everything in Anthem using some inscrutable, behind-the-scenes algorithm.
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Frequently seen sporting a shaggy blonde mane and cargo shorts, the foul-mouthed, barrel-chested executive chairman of Breitbart News is tied to an inscrutable maze of power brokers and dirty tricksters.
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One thing we do know for sure, though, is that Jon's inscrutable expression is a perfect reaction shot with which to express surprise, anger or horror, if not all three at once.
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Even though the lights were as inscrutable as ever, I had gained a newfound appreciation for the art and science of circuit board design in the process of trying to understand it.
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The interaction of pieces separated by centuries and sharing little to nothing in terms of philosophical background or intent strained a few of the macro-compositions to the point of being inscrutable.
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Tools, like Apple's iMovie (the free version that runs on iOS) that offer richer tools and more permeance are inscrutable and lack the sense of fun promised by Instagram and Facebook Stories.
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These are, broadly speaking, things that an AI has been trained to recognize but are rendered inscrutable to computers after a few tweaks that humans either can't observe, or can easily ignore.
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" Less than 24 hours later, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell sent out a mostly inscrutable 424-word memo to team executives, obtained by CNN Money, stating his desire to "move past this controversy.
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Her long (six years) spell as home secretary, a job known as a graveyard of careers, has given her a reputation for being inscrutable, competent and—in some respects—authoritarian (see article).
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There's a sense of broken affection coming from the environment; that it wants you to escape its inscrutable purgatory, but doesn't have enough left of itself to do more than it does.
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Though many individual investors find blockchain an inscrutable technical conundrum, as vexing to understand as bitcoin, potential applications in many fields are attracting a brisk flow of venture capital and corporate development.
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It would be understandable if you missed it because it came close to the end of seven hours of repetitive, somewhat inscrutable testimony, but Special Counsel Robert Mueller did make news Wednesday.
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As for the inscrutable Klara, I have the feeling—although I have very little to go on—that she was preternaturally kind and good, and a little deficient in the humor department.
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In customary fashion for the often-inscrutable Mueller, the revelation appeared in the form of Mueller's sentencing recommendation for Flynn -- an official court document, rather than a press release or news conference.
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A marijuana buzz is inscrutable—a reflection of an individual's proclivities rather than an objective benchmark—so instead he asks you to digest his work as a friend sinking into the couch.
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Although it isn't a detective novel, its main fragrance is definitely noir — high-stakes gambling, inscrutable puppetmasters, murky conspiracies, a not-quite-hard-boiled hero and the shady women he finds irresistible.
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But it has also saddled the highly secretive academy, which is nearly as inscrutable as Mr. Dylan, with the difficult task of explaining to the world why it does not feel insulted.
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Instead, its images and scenes are suffused by an intensity that seems almost to be a quality of the light and air as they play across Ms. Chemla's watchful, sometimes inscrutable features.
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And this particular science, for which the "data" has always consisted of scant and somewhat inscrutable bits of rock and fossil, often has to lean on those meta-narratives even more heavily.
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Tomatoes, like tart cherries, can be inscrutable, but Ms. Beverlin knows what to ask farmers and is happy to tutor anyone — a young chef or the overwhelmed customer standing next to her.
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Tomatoes, like tart cherries, can be inscrutable, but Ms. Beverlin knows what to ask farmers and is happy to tutor anyone — a young chef or the overwhelmed customer standing next to her.
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Inscrutable, stubborn and pessimistic; preoccupied with historical traumas, dead writers and old movies; and yet, in spite of what looks like nostalgia and sounds like fatigue, unmistakably — defiantly — present, alive and engaged.
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While some institutional failings can be easily laid at the feet of inscrutable bureaucracies; in this case it seems that individual human beings plagued by huge deficits of compassion were to blame.
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The snapshots are affectionate and admiring, and the contradictions in them can give you whiplash — until the end Avedon was pavonine and recessive, autocratic and inhibited, everyone's best friend and utterly inscrutable.
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But I'm there as a DM, wearing the silly default avatar for dungeon masters in Neverwinter Nights, and as such the monsters placidly ignore me as they go about their inscrutable business.
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Perhaps the most fascinating of these works are Gehry's preliminary sketches, which do resemble the inscrutable one shown in "Arthur," often consisting of fluid scrawls rendered in bank ink on Bristol board.
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"The thing I have learned, watching Putin first as Defense Secretary and now as Foreign Secretary, is that it doesn't matter how much you watch, you cannot see anything - completely inscrutable," he said.
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It was wildly precious, like a grad school art installation, except not only was the "art" inscrutable, but everyone around me was having a near-psychedelic reaction to it, leaving me completely alienated.
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I fly about the planet — a mostly aquatic world with an ocean filled with jellyfish-like creatures — and activate three ancient devices, each somehow connected to the portal through an inscrutable glyph system.
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And now, thanks to another in a line of inscrutable teaser trailers from Showtime, we know that David Lynch himself will be reprising his role as hard-of-hearing FBI administrator Gordon Cole.
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I've been thinking about Dylan's connection to Lil Wayne a lot lately because Dylan has been in the news and Lil Wayne has always been, to me, our generation's Dylan, ubiquitous but inscrutable.
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It was designed by an esteemed landscape architecture firm, West 8, and has been endowed with an appropriately inscrutable piece of concrete art, "Cabin," by an award-winning artist, Rachel Whiteread. Fine. Great!
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It stars Lance Crouther as a combination street fighter and recording artist who speaks in inscrutable catchphrases; the cinematography is by Willy Kurant, a former collaborator of Orson Welles and Jean-Luc Godard.
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But in trying to understand her inscrutable father — Jewish Holocaust survivor and Leni Riefenstahl fanatic, man and woman, a sly fantasist whose tallest tales turn out to be true — Faludi transcends feminist debate.
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In the first of two performances on Saturday, Mr. de Leeuw played the piece, a half-hour long, with suitably inscrutable expression as Ms. Hannigan mimed a sort of funereal ritual around it.
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It was not even just a public-facing privacy; it was even with people who knew her well, and I think in some of those core instances, she was inscrutable even to herself.
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One told me that my faith was holding me hostage to an inscrutable God, that I should let go of this theological guesswork and realize that we are living in a neutral universe.
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Zwirner is trumpeting its coup with an all-Klee booth here, full of wily small-scale watercolors like "Signs in the Field" (1935), with its joyously inscrutable cloud of glyphs, ovals and eyes.
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In 2016 they sought to sow doubts about Hillary Clinton's physical fitness by homing in on every errant step she took, every bit of exhaustion she flashed, every inscrutable glaze of her eyes.
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For fans of tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, Werkplaats Typografie offers Nonoki, a "Live Experience Role Play" (LERP) game whose mechanics seem as inscrutable as the fictional company that produces it.
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What was truly great about Hubot, the cobbled-together, inscrutable, mostly useless chat automaton, was the suggestion it made, through each absurd routine: that online, it's necessary that we build spaces for ourselves.
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Outlook: A subtler, more inscrutable operator, Claire is more interesting than the indefatigably hammy Frank, whose fourth-wall-breaking monologues had grown especially tiresome (though Claire has begun to use the same device).
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Until he can transcend that "cognitive plateau," Ford is now having to operate through Bernard, who's going to seem especially inscrutable to Elsie and Dolores with his creator rattling around in his conscience.
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As she wrote her notes in the back room, I asked her about Thrun's vision for diagnosis: an iPhone pic e-mailed to a powerful off-site network marshalling undoubted but inscrutable expertise.
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After months of suspense and typically inscrutable standoffishness, Bob Dylan, the elusive Nobel laureate, will finally accept his literature prize at a meeting with members of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm this weekend.
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In Denver, with a snowstorm looming, I allowed Avis to up-sell me a four-wheel drive, plus access to the toll-road shortcut to Boulder, and some inscrutable new fuel-reimbursement option.
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It is beyond rational response, inscrutable on every scale — from the death of a moth to the death of a pet to the death of a year to the death of a sibling.
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From calls to open-the-black box to the limitations of explanations of inscrutable machine-learning models, the regulation of algorithms is one of the most pressing policy concerns in today's digital society.
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After another week of Clinton-related emails roiling this election, the political world has been left to scrub their inboxes, watch their private correspondences be picked over in public, and psychoanalyze WikiLeaks' inscrutable founder.
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Also, at some point along the way, Jackson's mother revealed that she'd been injected with a mutant "ghost gene" by his father that eventually turned her into a bloodthirsty zombie, for inscrutable science purposes.
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It's here that things become much more difficult because, like Apple and its iPhone XR and XS phones, Google has decided to differentiate its phone models with an inscrutable letter appended to the name.
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Her denial comes as foreign powers, including the Congolese government, scramble to hire consultants with an inside track to President Donald Trump, whose inscrutable positions and outsider status have shaken up Washington's influence industry.
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At heart, though, it's about the intimidation factor of being a teenage boy who's interested in sex, but still sees girls as some sort of inscrutable alien species, operating in a completely different world.
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But Democrats who have long complained about the lack of diversity in a pivotal state as well as the inscrutable rules of the caucuses see an opportunity to rethink how Democrats choose future nominees.
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Still, the serialized thread regarding Chris' awakening, Sylvere's unexpected willingness to play along and Dick's inscrutable nature generally pulls the viewer along -- despite how unlikeable they generally are -- thanks largely to the key performances.
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But a somewhat inscrutable phrase on the restaurant's website — "Our goal is to assist you in creating the ambiance you desire" — only emphasizes that this promising new place might benefit from a sharper focus.
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But this year, either by coincidence or by through the inscrutable workings of the spirit of the times, the story is being retold not once, but twice, both times with impressive clarity and seriousness.
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There's a sword fight between a king and an evil warrior, a midair disaster and a submarine exploration that leads father and daughter to some cave paintings that tell a largely inscrutable back story.
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Anything that portrays the sugar community as a niche cultural curiosity with an entire lexicon of inscrutable customs, taboos, and salutations, helps the company's case that sugar dating is fundamentally detached from sex work.
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Even without the threat of assassination, a dinner party can feel like a series of psychological tests: the table set with tiny implements of inscrutable purpose, the small talk like needles through the eyes.
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In hindsight, Myspace's amateurish sensibility made it difficult to understand and easy to dismiss: inscrutable user names, odd forms of interaction, millions of attempts at self-expression blending into a wall of aesthetic noise.
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But mostly the intent is inscrutable, as when the tiny marionettes are replaced with larger, vaguely menacing hand dummies that form a Greek chorus: "Characters in the Pantheon of American Ventriloquism," it turns out.
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Whoever takes Huntsman's place will have to deal with tense and confusing Russia-US relations at a time of election interference fallout, attempted poisonings and an inscrutable friendship between the countries' two leaders. 3.
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In the undulating heat of the desert, these slender tilted obelisks loomed like the inscrutable monuments of an ancient thanatopia, a henge of metal phalluses thrusting skyward in ecstatic communion with the cosmic powers.
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ImageNet Roulette was put together by developer Leif Ryge working under Paglen, as a way to let the public engage with the art exhibition's abstract concepts about the inscrutable nature of machine learning systems.
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Yet, as Ms. Siff demonstrates in her own career (she's currently enjoying her second season as a rivetingly inscrutable performance coach on Showtime's "Billions"), television now has no shortage of challenging roles for women.
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The photos are colorless, grainy, and sometimes inscrutable: tangled and twisted branches are set against a monotone sky, a lone grave marker emerges from the ground in an empty clearing, blank hills roll into oblivion.
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It feels to me like all of these clunky, free, webtoon paper doll sites, pink online worlds, and inscrutable animal-raising shareware games were part of an early computing vocabulary for young women, in particular.
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His inscrutable public demeanor belies his tight control of Angola, where he has overseen an oil-backed economic boom and the reconstruction of infrastructure devastated by a 27-year civil war that ended in 2002.
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Tyrion mentions that she still has something to live for, but then Euron, ever the charmer, talks of putting a prince in her belly (UGH) and she gets that inscrutable Cersei look on her face.
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It's hiding in dermatologists' offices, in estheticians' glowing recommendations, in lengthy, inscrutable ingredients lists, in the sudden realization while shopping at Sephora that, hm, you sure have been seeing a lot of cleansing sticks lately.
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There is a particular difficulty in discerning whether this book is good, not because the text qua text is somehow elusive or inscrutable but because one struggles to read it without sweeping for psychological clues.
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Travis Scott currently sells nothing on his website, but is engaged in some kind of inscrutable war with John Mayer over who makes the best minimalist, ultra-expensive, impossible-to-buy, limited-edition Japanese streetwear.
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This time he paced slowly into view, under simple stage lighting, wearing an expression of inscrutable seriousness—which he maintained for most of the nearly 80 minutes it took him to get through his speech.
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I don't like them because they have inscrutable lizard eyes, because they have weird spindly backwards legs, and because — for an animal that big — they have no right to be as skittish as they are.
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His laconic bio declares the account "Official Tweets" — which is both technically correct, since he's a verified user, and a smirking acknowledgment of at the total lack of anything authoritiative across his fairly inscrutable feed.
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Ms. Faludi is determined both to demystify the father of her youth — 'a simultaneously inscrutable and volatile presence, a black box and a detonator' — and to re-examine the very notion and nature of identity.
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Ms. Faludi is determined both to demystify the father of her youth — "a simultaneously inscrutable and volatile presence, a black box and a detonator" — and to re-examine the very notion and nature of identity.
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And its aliens — intelligent but initially inscrutable, and strikingly inhuman — again invite viewers to consider how similar all human beings are, compared to something with a different biology, a different outlook, and a different history.
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Using pseudonyms like "Asesino" and "Juan Brujo," and donning masks in photographs to protect their felonious identities, Brujeria's very existence seemed criminal, their Spanish-language music frightfully inscrutable to a significant majority of American listeners.
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This inscrutable pictogram turned out to be the structure of a 21990 New Yorker essay called "Travels in Georgia," in which McPhee describes a long road trip with ecologists who, among other things, eat roadkill.
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In our conversation, David Chang said it had been frustrating at times to see that Korean food — beyond bibimbap, barbecue and kimchi — was still so inscrutable for so many people he encountered during the Olympics.
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James Cleveland to the hypnotically inscrutable front-row reactions of Franklin's idol, the gospel god Clara Ward, to the folks in the aisles who don't just cut a rug, they make a whole rug salad.
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In that interview, Mr. Hunter recited the inscrutable lyrics to "Dark Star," ("Glass hand dissolving in ice petal flowers revolving,") and then simply stated, "It says what it means," as if this were self-evident.
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But while watching "She Was Killed By Space Junk," I felt like I was inside of some utterly inscrutable dream, one that had next-to-no relationship to the show I thought I was watching.
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Unlike a decision made by a human being, there's often no way to appeal an incorrect decision made by an algorithm — because of the often inscrutable "black box" of logic that determines the AI's analysis.
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But as Kanye gears up to release Waves, his eighth studio album (formerly known as Swish), he's been causing a stir on Twitter by teasing his upcoming album in ways both inscrutable and deliberately provocative.
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One with giant, furry demons prancing around, dour figures ferrying regal beasts about in ornate carriages, vast and structurally impossible temples whose columns are filled with inscrutable inscriptions, and ghost dragons swooping down from stormy skies.
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In the latest issue of Nature Communications, researchers led by University of Pennsylvania psychologist Michael Kahana show that machine learning algorithms—notoriously inscrutable systems themselves—can be used to decode and then enhance human memory. How?
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Still, most of the movie's dramatic tension draws on the fact that you have basically no idea what is going to happen — not because of great writing, but because Hughes is a really unpredictable, inscrutable guy.
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If I spent half as much time philosophizing about the inscrutable machinations of the human mind as I do fussing over my skin, I suspect I'd be unstoppable, a kind of 21st-century Bergson with boobs.
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Obama's demeanor and emotion were inscrutable as she carried out her duties as outgoing First Lady—hosting the Trumps in the White House Blue Room for tea, sitting on the Capitol steps in a cold rain.
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On the opposite wall, in the image "Kathleen Modeling the Mona Lisa" (2015), White imitates the inscrutable smile of Leonardo da Vinci's mysterious sitter as the sun casts dramatic windowpane shadows across the wall behind her.
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I would read another entire book about the inscrutable, "electric" Ann Warner, whom Stein shows at every turn outwitting her bullying, philandering husband, and the section on Jennifer Jones provides a master class in feminine manipulation.
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Indeed, as Mr Fea notes, the more strongly people believe in a divine hand in history, the more open they are to the idea that God can choose anybody at all to serve his inscrutable purpose.
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Women are inscrutable, as evidenced by their insistence on celebrating alt holidays that no one understands or keeps Adam Levine informed of, hence his need to guess what they are — accurately, because he is a genius.
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Pakistani artist Huma Bhabha's "Untitled" may be the most inscrutable of all the candidates; it combines brown cork and white polystyrene to form a highly textured figure that bears just slight indications of the human form.
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Putin, the global power player and master of the body language of the mano-a-mano photo op, adopted his usual, inscrutable expression, but nevertheless said he was "delighted" to meet Trump, at last in person.
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Whether it's the routes we drive, the songs we listen to or the prices we pay for airline tickets, our lives are increasingly shaped by opaque systems that assess and sort us according to inscrutable criteria.
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Unfortunately, Regex can be pretty inscrutable, resulting in maddening chaos like this: But the ability to describe a really finely tuned search pattern in such a small space is as powerful as it is completely insane.
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The upshot is an oppressive, inscrutable puzzle that made me more curious about the inside of Alcazar's head than that of his tortured subject — the kind of movie that, in some circles, might inspire fetishistic rewatching.
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Charles Manson, one of the most notorious murderers of the 20th century, who was very likely the most culturally persistent and perhaps also the most inscrutable, died on Sunday in a hospital in Kern County, Calif.
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Singling out a building in Logue's Government Center project as "a hideous concrete edifice of mind-bogglingly inscrutable shape," where "terrified immigrants attend their deportation hearings," the authors seem unaware of the plaza's impeccably progressive origins.
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Lisa Vanderpump comes off as the Aaron Burr of "The Real Housewives," elegant and inscrutable; as Lin-Manuel Miranda might put it, she sexts less, smiles more—you wouldn't want to face her in a duel.
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She filed an asylum application for her son, but it contained "threadbare statements in support of C.J.'s asylum claim and much of what is written is borderline inscrutable and non-responsive," according to the court.
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Financial innovation makes new markets and improves the allocation of resources, but Wall Street tycoons also reap huge rewards from winning wasteful arbitrage arms races, skimming off transactions and nickel-and-diming consumers with inscrutable fees.
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These issues are familiar to bitcoin users, the most popular virtual currency that shares some similarities with Ethereum, is frequently under fire from DoS attacks sent by anonymous parties with inscrutable motivations, whether financial or ideological.
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The endurance of her visage, which Albert Camus compared to the Mona Lisa, combines something of a lingering 19th-century Romanticism about death, the objectification of the female corpse, and a fascination with her inscrutable expression.
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DJ Spooky (aka Paul D. Miller) contributes an installation that has his characteristic setup of popular culture items that are made strange and almost inscrutable by a staging that refers to or relies on complex technology.
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One of President Trump's closest and most inscrutable aides, Hope Hicks, was warned by the FBI that Russian operatives were making repeated attempts at contacting her during the presidential transition, the New York Times reported Friday.
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The Vonyich manuscript (Image: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University)Since its discovery over a hundred years ago, the 240-page Voynich manuscript, filled with seemingly coded language and inscrutable illustrations, has confounded linguists and cryptographers.
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RELATED: Inscrutable Gorsuch raises Democratic ire "I hope it doesn't come to that but if the Democrats force our hand, then we'll be prepared to do what we need to do to confirm the judge," Cornyn said.
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In some cases, you can obtain ingredients through trading, or via the whims of inscrutable aliens, but the objective, always, is to craft more so you can explore more, in an endless, monotonous loop of non-achievement.
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But on some of the tougher stages, it can be frustrating to struggle through a level only to come up against an inscrutable boss battle where you die almost immediately and are sent back to the beginning.
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It is a contrast to the forum's lofty — and, according to some participants, somewhat inscrutable — theme of a "Fourth Industrial Revolution," in which automation, smart devices and more sophisticated analytics software combine to make businesses more efficient.
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In that indifferent, inscrutable human engineering, the kind you find in adventure games from the same era: this character must use this object on that one, in this specific order, for reasons that are simply, impenetrably, encoded.
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He wore a cocked top hat, and with salt-and-pepper hair past his shoulders and a beard that reached his chest, created an inscrutable image that was equal parts shaman, tent revival preacher and cosmic ringmaster.
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His most recent body of work, the images exhibited at Gagosian and featured in the book, show cinema-level productions in the forest, as well as staged interior scenes, and inscrutable events unfolding around the town's streets.
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Astutely geared to the selfie age, it might well have been subtitled "Americans Are Strange to Look At," which, in the 21950 images here, we sure are: funny-strange, beautiful-strange, crazy-strange, dangerous-strange, inscrutable-strange.
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The warning delivered a jolt of reality, underscoring that despite weeks of positive steps by North Korea and Trump's gusher of praise for Kim, the process of negotiating with the inscrutable state remains as treacherous as ever.
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Dos Santos' inscrutable public demeanor belies his tight control over Angola, where he has overseen an oil-backed economic boom and the reconstruction of infrastructure devastated by a 27-year-long civil war that ended in 2002.
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These things are just tools and as tools they can be employed for extremely complex, inscrutable-seeming tasks found in fields like neuroprosthetics or machine perception, or they can be used for everyday things like classifying spam.
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Olivia Booth's series of peculiar, lit agglomerations of glass and metal installed along a passageway is visually provocative, but strange in the way that feels like Booth read about how to make inscrutable art in a book.
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The problem it could help solve: Medical debt is part of a toxic stew of error-prone providers, outsourced billing, inscrutable so-called explanations of benefits and high costs for people who lack insurance (or good insurance).
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When a phone rings in this book, you can be sure the resulting conversation will be cut short, if it happens at all; there's usually a silence on the other end, or an inscrutable voice, or static.
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Yet by antagonizing Mr. McConnell, the president's often inscrutable Senate partner in conservative policy making, Mr. Trump risks upending an already charged relationship with lawmakers who have joined him in this shotgun marriage of unified Republican government.
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Rome Journal ROME — On a steamy evening in late June, Lisa Scen, a retired cook of inscrutable age, donned a simple beige dress and glittery earrings and prepared to go to her first night at the opera.
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"It's a completely inscrutable system — people who are unrepresented face the real possibility that they might never manage to make it into the US even if the government declines to appeal cases," Koop told the news site.
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Why it matters: Manson became one of the most inscrutable murderers in history — though he was never actually present when his family killed — and retained a hold on American popular culture through the years for his wild ideology.
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Like the comics themselves, the Marvel games grew into an unwieldy, inscrutable mountain of retcons and reboots—something that landed, on average, a few miles east of Canon and a block and a half from Weird-Ass Shit.
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The social network has come under fire for its perceived role in the presidential election, after it repeatedly failed to flag patently inaccurate sources from user news feeds, and its inscrutable algorithms seemingly placed people in partisan bubbles.
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Chomping away at carrots almost throughout the play, seated at the edge of the pool, Ray often stares into the middle distance, his face an inscrutable mask, as his brother and coach wrestle over his fate — and theirs.
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You appreciate the importance of minimalism, but can't abide its froideur; you appreciate the importance of performance art, but find it indulgent or inscrutable; you appreciate the importance of fiber art, but wonder if it's really just craft.
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In "The Age of Lead," a televised account of the excavation of another body — this one from a 19th-century Arctic expedition — stirs one woman's aching memories of the life and death of her dear, inscrutable, sardonic friend.
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The Moravian Night is a houseboat — a Haus-und-Fluchtboot, "a house- and escape boat" — belonging to a "former writer" who's familiar, or familiarly inscrutable, from Handke's previous work: He's the Handke-who-isn't, the author's epithetical double.
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Famously private and often inscrutable, the singer, who died of an accidental opioid overdose at the age of 57, had announced the project just weeks before he was found dead at his Paisley Park estate in Chanhassen, Minn.
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His inscrutable public demeanour belies his tight control of Angola, a former Portuguese colony where he has overseen an oil-backed economic boom and the reconstruction of infrastructure devastated by a 27-year civil war that ended in 2002.
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Transported, she finds herself in a world of music and shadow, encountering strange friends, foes, and inscrutable machines alike, "to build the inner strength to confront her own demons," and see the beauty that exists even in ordinary life.
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Mounted on the wall alongside Wolek's confections is Marchand's "international treaty," where lines of cursive ceramic writing extrude, bend, and loop to resemble words but are actually only inscrutable glyphs, as fittingly elusive as any meaningful treaty these days.
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But it was a second harpsichordist, Patrick Jones, who momentarily stole the show in one of Handel's wackiest and most inscrutable inventions: the extended improvisations that punctuate, not to say undercut, Armida's vengeance aria that ends the second act.
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But his death introduces this topic worthy of dinnertime discussion: How do we arrive at a more nuanced understanding of the layered, complex and oftentimes inscrutable manifestations of mental illness for the diagnosed and undiagnosed, and their loved ones?
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It is good to see her open and delicate face again, her brown symmetrically parted hair, her apron slung over a version of the outfit she seems always to be wearing: inscrutable and well-cut navy blue and black.
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Ms. Caballé was, critics concurred, one of the sublime representatives of a type of diva most often associated with a bygone, golden era: smolderingly regal, seemingly inscrutable, a larger-than-life presence accorded godlike status by her reverential public.
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Illustrated like oversized pixels, the drawings "are strange and inscrutable and look like they've been designed by a computer," said Liza Daly, a software engineer, who learned about "Color Problems" through a 2014 post on The Public Domain Review.
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Another puff appears in "Puff" (19408, painted resin), but this is otherwise one of those inscrutable pieces that, for me, defies rational comprehension: an elongated wedge protruding between a pair of rubbery, cartoon-like legs, bent at the knee.
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Given the idiosyncratic nature of his talent, it is perhaps unsurprising that Mr. Ashbery had his share of bad reviews from critics who found his work either willfully inscrutable or devoted to aesthetics at the expense of political engagement.
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And everything else — the ruffled skirt around Mr. Wey's shoulders that concealed his face, his elegant yet broken motions, the unintelligible voice emanating from the speakers and Mr. Wey's own mournful vocalizing — contributed to a private and inscrutable ritual.
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The associated data that indicates what's in these vaults — the genomes, the origin stories — could be hacked, corrupted, lost or just formatted in such a way as to be inscrutable to those who might try to decipher it later.
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A sense of hope stemming from fuller stomachs, improved education, and strengthened infrastructure pitted against a collateral fear of the inscrutable capitalist machine, the dissolution of traditional ways of life and family structure, the attack of the rising feminists.
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"Lessard devotes much of the book to exploring what she terms America's 'atopia,' our vast, seemingly unplanned, inchoate, exurban sprawl, which remains to her largely inscrutable and tragic," Michael Kimmelman, The Times's chief architecture critic, writes in his review.
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If you didn't know anything about the context, you could almost wind up thinking there was something vaguely whimsical going on, some gigantic and inscrutable performance-art piece that maybe had something to do with the fictionality of nationhood.
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I think they were memorable for the audience because of the "oddity" factor — we were very polite, very inscrutable, and even though we looked like a rock band, the music had no connection with anything associated with popular entertainment.
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Or is it just there on my PC, infuriating in its inscrutable fussiness, and teasing in its occasional concessions to persistence where it finally deigns to make something new happen...something that ultimately turns out to be the same as before?
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Supreme Court justices can be inscrutable, and on Monday, nothing in Roberts' nor his colleagues' courtroom demeanor revealed what to expect between June 17 (when the nine are scheduled to return to the bench) and the end of the month.
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After Japan's foray into blockchain-inspired music with a cryptocurrency-themed pop idol group, it was only a matter of time"Bitcoin Ca$h" comes to us by way of Lil Windex, an inscrutable rapper believed to hail from British Columbia.
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So many awkward teen sex scenes captured on film have been from the vantage point of the wayward, quick-to-cum male protagonist who desperately wants to rid himself of his virginity or obsessively pines after unavailable, inscrutable teenage girls.
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The first step toward sensible policy-driven solutions, the First Chicago School believed, was work that would convince the broader public that these immigrant enclaves, which seemed so foreign and inscrutable, actually represented ordered social worlds structured by familiar norms.
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And yes, I have heard from consumers, who are worried given that their broadband provider has already shown that they will charge inscrutable below-the-line fees, raise prices unexpectedly, and put consumers on hold for hours at a time.
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As a co-founder of the social media service, he has been painted as something of a messiah who could help Twitter escape its reputation as a service that was too inscrutable for newcomers, especially when compared with Instagram or Facebook.
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"You don't want to be unpredictable and inscrutable," she said, noting that this was why it was good to use machine learning against problems its most adroit at solving – stuff that's easy for machines but hard for humans – like repetitive tasks.
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The high-minded concept and not too dissimilar to what founder D. Neal and live collaborator R. Chiang get up to in their primary band, Botanist, which has long captivated curious minds with inimitable, often inscrutable hammered dulcimer-led black metal.
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A Donkey Man leans against a dirt mound, his left arm outstretched, angling up his left shoulder, while another masked figure with an inscrutable expression squats on top of the mound, a hand gesturing towards a pair of women below.
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BEDMINSTER, N.J. — President-elect Donald J. Trump has turned the vital, but normally inscrutable, process of forming a government into a Trump-branded, made-for-television spectacle, parading his finalists for top administration positions this weekend before reporters and the world.
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One element of detail that is not inscrutable is the inclusion of dozens of actual children's books strewn about this utopian library, tiny tributes to work that changed Morales's life, and a lot of fun to pick out and recognize.
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We are all patients-in-waiting, bound together on a wait list of inheritance hidden deep in the elegant whirls of that double helix in every one of our cells — silently paused in its inscrutable determination to shape our lives.
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Readers who, from sources other than Goldstein, know these monuments — haunting and inscrutable, vital and deathly, visceral and recondite, funny and weird — will surely cherish the immediacy that "The World Broke in Two" brings to the biographies of their creators.
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But in its familiarly inscrutable first two hours, shown Sunday night on Showtime, it still has the ability to turn your TV into that box — a quietly menacing portal through which something horrifying or wondrous might burst at any moment.
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The "Rome Call for AI Ethics" asserts that the technology should respect privacy, work reliably and without bias, consider "the needs of all human beings" and operate transparently - an area of ongoing research because AI systems' decisions are often inscrutable.
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I asked Codemasters F1 director Lee Mather about what changed in F1 13 to make it feel so much more vicious than previous years' versions, and how Codemasters tries to mimic the complicated and sometimes inscrutable judgments of F1's stewards.
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The raid is a (not at all surprising) no-show in previews, the system governing loot drops is a giant question mark, and the loot itself carries some inscrutable elements — such as mod slots — that will only be answered with the final game.
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Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked Freaky 600-Year-Old ManuscriptImage: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale UniversitySince its discovery over a hundred years ago, the 240-page Voynich manuscript, filled with seemingly coded language and inscrutable illustrations, has confounded linguists and cryptographers.
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One copyright-infringing Nintendo knock-off, called Pokémon New World, was a bizarre hodgepodge of elements ripped from the classic handheld game series, seemingly based mostly on the 2004 GameBoy Advance remake Pokémon FireRed, with layers upon layers of inscrutable screen overlays.
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Patriot has plenty of elements that signify it as prestige television (premium streaming service, aestheticized violence, Europe, politics, inscrutable plot), which is often, in this "golden age of television," enough to earn a show a "you should probably eventually watch this" stamp.
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Before rising on gleaming aluminum legs to give a speech at the 1928 Engineering Model Society exhibition, Eric the robot sat rigidly still before the gathered crowd, his face an inscrutable metal mask with slices for lightbulb eyes and a cavernous mouth.
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Dos Santos' mild, inscrutable public demeanor belies his tight control of Angola, a former Portuguese colony where he has overseen an oil-backed economic boom and the reconstruction of infrastructure devastated by a 27-year-long civil war that ended in 2002.
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I.P best friends), Lifestage uses a system of similarly inscrutable emoji characters to indicate how up to date user profiles are (spoiler: the poop emoji is bad.) The numbers next to user names indicate how many profile sections have been filled out.
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Omarosa "Omarosa" Manigault-Newman rose to prominence in 2004 as a contestant on the first season of The Apprentice, where she showcased her inscrutable and often infuriating personality, which she parlayed into a career as a TV villain and a tabloid fixture.
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Lee's first win came after an engrossing game where AlphaGo played some baffling moves, prompting commentators to wonder whether they were mistakes or — as we've often seen this week — just unusual strategies that would come good in the end despite the inscrutable approach.
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" Such talk elicits a rant from a heavy-drinking lawyer with a generous heart: "It's not for me to say why, in the inscrutable wisdom of God, a genius should ever have been called from this place of hatred and bitter waters.
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It was Moses who turned being Jewish into a way of life, involving everything from ethical behavior (thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal) to inscrutable rituals and taboos (thou shalt not wear a garment made of mixed linen and wool).
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Justin Harris and Luke Solomon's Freaks project has been equally inscrutable at times, although the duo has always served up their left-field house offerings with enough of a smirk to let us know where they stood, compared to Ricardo's proudly stoned stoicism.
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All sides and facets of the diamond are examined, yet the stone as a whole remains inscrutable, its surface reflecting questions that gleam back at each of us: How do you want to spend your days; what truly matters in this life?
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An object of shared fascination, she sits at the center of a story, silent and inscrutable, ready to play whatever role she is cast in: the homecoming queen, the femme fatale, the nymphomaniac fetish model with a death wish and a coke habit.
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The LeWitt plays off Alfred Jensen's gorgeous but inscrutable number sequences organized in a bright, thickly painted grid, as well as examples of Hanne Darboven's oceanic writing and counting pieces and, less predictably, Jennifer Barlett's early enamel paintings, full of antic dots.
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He's been sued numerous times, according to the Miami Herald, and he found his way into a chief executive role after years spent racking up legal disputes in Florida, related in some cases to real estate investments and other inscrutable financial dealings.
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Oleg's conversation with his new supervisor, about weeding out corruption in the food-trade department, has some curious undertones — like the Colonel's insistence that Oleg affirm his commitment to the KGB — and Stan's reaction to news of Oleg's departure was pretty inscrutable.
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Quips on Twitter are indirectly programming cable news, and whatever lengths you might go to to shield your kid from the dark powers of phones, her social life will still rise and fall according to the inscrutable dynamics of Instagram and Fortnite.
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But ethnographer Christina Xu, who studies the social implications of technology, suggested to the Atlantic that the fixation on increasingly realistic emoji, rather than more abstract or inscrutable images that leave room for interpretation, is, in its own way, also an American thing.
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Titled "Semaphore" (Hydrocal, Flashe, acrylic and latex paint on plywood armature; 72 x 12 x 13 inches), it's essentially a narrow plywood plank with a bulbous midsection, mitered at the top and bottom for stability and festooned with inscrutable, flattish, chalk-white objects.
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The show's creators have said almost the entire episode will be devoted to an epic clash between a patchwork band of its human heroes, holed up in the northern castle of Winterfell, and an army of undead warriors led by the inscrutable Night King.
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As companies increasingly move toward inscrutable and inaccessible systems and away from the very idea that you own the things you buy, flying halfway around the world to open a device that the manufacturer would prefer stay closed doesn't really feel crazy at all.
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Unlike all of Bone's other subjects, who look down, away, or into the middle distance, Granny stares directly into the eyes of the viewer, her expression an inscrutable mix — not exactly friendly, but perhaps searching for friendship, solidarity, or simply confirmation of her continued existence.
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When early 90s label troubles coerced Prince to change his name to an inscrutable symbol, and the media took up the shorthand of calling him "The Artist" (short for "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince"), the title proved just as fitting as his born name.
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The clearest link, apart from the franchises' shared neo-noir trappings, is that Parabellum continues John Wick's reunion between Keanu Reeves and his Matrix co-star Laurence Fishburne — here playing the inscrutable king of the Bowery in the shadowy world of New York's underground titans.
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There are elevated administrative costs of paying for care with an inscrutable mix of public plans and private insurance plans—the Cleveland Clinic has said it has 210 million prices for its services because it has 3,000 different lists of prices for different insurance plans.
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Whether you believe in gods or aliens or neither, the profound feelings that these Odyssean tales evoke seems to spring from a common human premonition that we are not alone in the universe, and that our destinies have been shaped by inscrutable supernatural forces.
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It is hard not to perceive, peeking out from behind the math and inscrutable space-time diagrams on which this debate takes place, the need and desire of all humans for some kind of reassurance that death be not final, that something is left behind.
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The standard critique of Joan Didion — insofar as there is a standard critique of the legend, one of America's greatest prose stylists and a pioneer of new journalism, she of the inscrutable cigarette-dangling photograph — is that she is a cold and self-centered writer.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Dylann S. Roof, the unrepentant and inscrutable white supremacist who killed nine African-American churchgoers in a brazen racial rampage almost 19 months ago, an outburst of extremist violence that shocked the nation, was condemned to death by a federal jury on Tuesday.
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Even since before his inauguration, Mr. Trump's rise has been characterized by an erosion of surety, bizarre and inscrutable subplots worthy of an airport-bookstore spy thriller, by epistemological questions about what is truth and what is fiction like no time in recent American history.
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The new wall was high and adorned with etchings that didn't seem to belong to any artistic or cultural tradition, a strange smattering of doodles and curving lines that in some places formed into the shape of crescents or stars but elsewhere was inscrutable.
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It's a somewhat conventional biopic of comedian Lenny Bruce (played by Dustin Hoffman), but one that nevertheless keeps darting through time, following its subject backward and forward, and focusing almost as much on his darkly inscrutable marriage to Honey Bruce (Valerie Perrine) as his comedy.
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But unlike YouTube's system, which creators say can be overly punitive and sometimes relies on inscrutable algorithms to lodge complaints, Twitter's appears to be much too lax, letting a company file a counter-notice to lob the ball in someone else's court and complicate the process.
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Half the country reportedly tuned in to watch the semi-final against Japan as Kim Eun-jung, worshipped for her inscrutable body language, threaded a superb extra-end last stone to clinch victory for the "Garlic Girls", so named for the growing region they all hail from.
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JOE MARTINDirector of Canadian business and financial historyRotman School of ManagementToronto Dr Carson is doing wellI don't agree with your assessment that Ben Carson has "stayed inconspicuous and inscrutable" since taking up the job of secretary of the federal housing department ("Dr Carson's operation", December 2nd).
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The film's lackluster grosses were primarily the result of weird placement (at the end of the summer) and misguided faith in an audience's desire to see a television show from the '22010s, with an inscrutable name and two hot but bland dudes, adapted for the big screen.
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Michael Cera exudes an inscrutable sleaziness as a star known as "Player X." (By all accounts, his real-life name rhymes with Schmoby Schmaguire.) Later, when Molly moves her operation to New York, Chris O'Dowd stands out as a drunk constantly professing his love for her.
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And then, of course, the invites went out, bearing a giant number "9" that was either some off-handed homage to The White Album's most inscrutable track or a less than subtle indicator that the Galaxy S9 (and, for that, matter, S9+) was on its way.
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The more we think of our brains as inscrutable and all-powerful, and the more we identity ourselves with what goes on in our brains alone, the less sensitive we are to many of the factors outside the brain that help make us who we are.
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As the music world eagerly awaits the inscrutable R&B singer Frank Ocean's sophomore album, "Boys Don't Cry" — which could arrive digitally at any moment via Apple Music — it's worth considering how we got to this point of nail-chewing uncertainty about big records' release dates.
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When the topic of Russia's interference in the US political system inevitably came up, Macintyre immediately alighted upon Veselnitskaya as the most intriguing figure in the story, an obscure woman of inscrutable significance and influence by which so much political skullduggery is done in contemporary Russia.
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At first, if it seems as if the rules are inscrutable, don't bail out; this is a very popular type of puzzle in other spheres, so there's great, detailed solving information available online (Deb Amlen recommends this guide — try using it as a road map today).
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The play between paint and object reveals Mr. Rockenschaub as the rare perfectionist who doesn't take perfection too seriously, and he's even better when he lets his hair down, as he does in five small, inscrutable paintings — hieroglyphs, really — of dashed black lines on lacquered MDF.
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One of the most abiding revelations at last month's edition of Art Basel Miami Beach wasn't from any hot-to-trot youngster, but from the 90-year-old French painter Colette Brunschwig, whose small, inscrutable abstract grisailles were at the booth of the Parisian dealer Jocelyn Wolff.
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He is the perfect avatar of adolescence: the excruciating ridiculousness of being a person caught between worlds, in transition, half-young and half-old, in possession of powers you don't fully understand, blasting off into inscrutable realms in which mysterious things will be expected of you.
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He directed a series of claustrophobic dramas not unlike Ferrante's novellas, featuring characters whose lonely and inscrutable acts of destruction — a teenager's self-mutilation in "The Solitude of Prime Numbers" (0003), a mother's slow starvation of her child in "Hungry Hearts" (2014) — poison the people around them.
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Combine that with the faulty stereotype that Asians are "inscrutable" and "that they lack emotion," Chong suggested, and Awkwafina's snubbed performance in The Farewell, for example, "might come across as a lack of feeling, being tired" to viewers less versed in the work of Asian actors.
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There are numerous examples of unsolved classical problems, like Enigma messages from World War II. Whether or not Kryptos will ever be decoded, Sanborn hopes that the mystery of the sculpture will persist across time, echoing the inscrutable paradoxes of science that mystified him as a student.
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Over the last two decades, four main factions have been particularly prominent in Turkish politics: the Islamic conservative A.K. Party; the military and its secularist supporters; the Kurdish militant group P.K.K. and various Kurdish political movements; and, finally, the Gulenists, the most inscrutable group of all.
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The pattern, made of gold-glazed ceramic tiles, is just one of the beautiful and inscrutable details of the 1961 building, newly visible as the permanent showplace of the contemporary art collection owned by the brothers Maurice and Paul Marciano, co-founders of the Guess empire.
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At one point in the middle of their concert in Madison Square Garden's Hulu Theater on August 3, the lanky, inscrutable Hyungwon manages to flip a water bottle perfectly and the the members explode with cheers and pats on the back as he dances in celebration.
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Dylan will forever be impossible to fully pin down, and inscrutable Netflix movies that blend fact and fiction don't help, but Don't Look Back is the best look we'll ever have at the real Dylan, or at least the Dylan he wanted to show for Pennebaker.
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By the time he matured as a scientist, many researchers had given up trying to cultivate new species, writing off the majority as "dark matter"—a term used in astronomy for an inscrutable substance that may make up most of the universe but cannot be seen.
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He was forced to withdraw it and renegotiate the guidelines with industry, and what they decided they could agree on was to tell people to "choose foods that will reduce their saturated fat intake," a recommendation that had the virtue of being inscrutable to most Americans.
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The trailer, which you can watch above, hints of an inscrutable romp through Green's subconscious, but the film is actually fairly linear and straightforward, thanks to the influence of Green's wife, Yasmín, and the collective efforts of Green's sprawling network of friends and acolytes in the New York scene.
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Projected Wins: 70.8 There's only one way JaVale McGee will start on this roster: The extraterrestrial life form that has tapped into McGee's brain at the base of his skull, causing uncontrollable spasms of over-the-backboard layups as part of some inscrutable alien design, detaches from his head.
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Although composers do not deserve blame for this state of affairs—conservative institutions are fundamentally at fault, having created a hostile atmosphere for new music as far back as the mid-nineteenth century—inscrutable program notes and imperious attitudes did not ease the standoff between artist and audience.
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Recalling his idle phone-scrolling when I came to and the inscrutable creepy expressions, I concluded the guy probably filmed me passed out in his office chair as some weird sex thing, then put that video on the USB somehow and left in my bag to taunt me.
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This is the 23rd straight year without a playoff title for this inscrutable, original M.L.S. franchise, which has won the Supporters' Shield for best record three times in the last six years, under three coaches, yet has failed to reach the Cup final in any of those seasons.
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In "Charles Manson Dies at 83; Wild-Eyed Leader of a Murderous Crew," Margalit Fox writes: Charles Manson, one of the most notorious murderers of the 20th century, who was very likely the most culturally persistent and perhaps also the most inscrutable, died on Sunday in Kern County, Calif.
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His inscrutable style and record of watching Trump's back also have many observers suggesting ulterior political motives, a desire to slake some of the pressure bearing down on his department or an effort to at least restore the impression of the Justice Department's independence without severing ties with Trump.
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We could soon find ourselves in a new arms race as deadly as the Cold War — and at a time when the world's arms control efforts look like relics of an inscrutable past and the effort to renew the most important of them, a new START agreement, is foundering.
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One of the most intriguing things about the famously inscrutable and odd Twin Peaks barreling right into our current media landscape is that many of the publications discussing arts and culture right now are obsessed with "figuring out" TV shows and movies that might otherwise prefer to stay ambiguous.
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Alien: Covenant isn't about the end of creativity in Hollywood, but it is about how creation becomes frustrating when the only building blocks you have to work with are those left behind by ancients whose motives might have become inscrutable, even if you're one of those ancients yourself.
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"Sometimes an AI does amazing things, or locks onto some very intelligent solution to a problem, but that solution is inscrutable to us, so we don't understand why it's behaving in counterintuitive ways," says Jeff Clune, a University of Wyoming computer scientist who studies the opaque inner workings of neural networks.
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Yet, as 2018 rapidly comes to a close, the former CEO of furniture-maker Steelcase has offered relatively few, and often inscrutable, indications of what he has in mind, leaving not only outsiders, but insiders at all levels, trying to understand precisely what directions he wants them to move in.
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This problem of it remaining an abstract dilemma has only been exasperated by the billion dollar denial industry cooked up by petrol interests, which has forced climate change voices to focus on the science and on inscrutable facts that are firm and true as opposed to a more human tale.
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In the final days of this campaign, we have returned to where we began, with an odd fixation on whether this man who aspires to the presidency can avoid saying anything ignorant, bigoted, inscrutable, or otherwise disqualifying for an hour or so at a time, once or twice a day.
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Stevens is an inscrutable figure in American letters, his life a constant contrast between the exotic pleasures of imagination and the mores of the insurance lawyer—what Paul Mariani, the author of a new biography, "The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens", calls "exterior vacancy while the mind roiled beneath".
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From the outside, it looks like the last place you'd expect to find physicists doing cutting-edge research on nuclear fusion, but step inside and the place is a hive of activity, with dozens of engineers and technicians in red lab coats hurrying from one inscrutable giant machine to the next.
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In their telling, Brussels, the headquarters of the European Union, is a land of pencil-pushing killjoys who awake every morning eager to find new ways to strangle business with inscrutable directives, writing nonsensical rules that standardize everything from the length of the workweek to the acceptable shape of bananas.
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Be Right Back is a brilliant distillation of the inscrutable and unpredictable nature of Cattelan, to the point that the arc of the movie itself is built around the fact that you're never quite sure if the person who presents himself as the artist is, in fact, the real Maurizio Cattelan.
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Adapted, from the French film of the same name, by Emma Rice, the Globe's soon-to-depart artistic director, it's about a tradition-bucking heroine too timid to stand up for her own genius, whose colleagues bow and scrape before an inscrutable man-fool they've been told is a savant.
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Imagine the kind of bill you might receive upon leaving the hospital for an emergency room visit or after giving birth — the line items inscrutable and seemingly out of your control (did you really agree to all those tests?), the number of zeros far more voluminous than you could have anticipated.
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From the beginning, the primary exemplar of that confusion has been Bernard, the inscrutable head of Westworld's programming division, who was revealed to be a host back in the seventh episode of the first season, when Dr. Ford ordered him to murder his lover, Theresa Cullen, inside a secret lab.
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Editorial Four days after James Comey, the F.B.I. director, sent Congress a brief, inscrutable, election-shaking letter about emails that may or may not be new or relevant to the previously concluded investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server, his logic makes even less sense than it did on Friday.
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In the messy landscape of weirdos issuing torrents of inscrutable releases in the post-Bandcamp era, the duo have proven themselves capable curators, shepherding into the world a vast catalog of releases that includes (but certainly isn't limited to) transhumanist folk songs, unleaded ambient excursions, or full-on Id freakouts.
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The process is primarily associated with the history of religion, that is, belief systems, and Selah recognizes that being black in the United States is a syncretic state of being, that the African and the American have become lodged together in ways that are at times brilliant, grandiose, and also violent and inscrutable.
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The full/not full pairing is an intuitive leap, one of many throughout the show (the artist's decisions governing the choice and hierarchy of forms can seem all but inscrutable), but it is also a compositional masterstroke, subtly wrecking the symmetry of the two shapes and unbalancing an otherwise too-stable structure.
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They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself, merciful and all-powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth, who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly even to His inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God.
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I navigated the restaurants through massive labor law changes that benefited employees, advocated for and created policies that supported them, sought to clarify the systems that are often inscrutable restaurant workers, guided and coached management at critical moments, and generally worked to be a resource for the people in the entire restaurant group.
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In practically every scene, there are moments that involve misunderstandings: glitchy video conference calls, inscrutable comments scrawled on Nevada ballots, nonsensical jokes made by the veteran political adviser Bob Bradley (Martin Mull) and, to bring this back to romance again, the "banking task force" moment that doesn't quite happen for Dan and Amy.
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After dozens of albums — including four in the last 18 months alone — the prolific, often inscrutable singer and songwriter will turn at least some of his attention to publishing with the release of an autobiography next year, he announced from the second-floor balcony at Avenue in the Meatpacking District on Friday night.
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There are countless religious and cultural rituals that are innate to us—from the inscrutable ornaments of religious ceremonies to sporting events—but these might seem impenetrable to, say, aliens, who would struggle to understand their purpose in our society the same way we struggle to piece together the beliefs of ancient civilizations.
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Those bizarre, colorful, wacky, inscrutable earthlings may look like 3D renditions of a Picasso painting, but in fact they're never-before-seen marine creatures that inhabit the world's deepest abyss that is the Marianas Trench—a valley more than 36,000 feet (6.83 miles) below sea level in the western Pacific south of Japan.
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If this court is going to break out of its predictable political mold on major legal controversies in America, it will be up to the inscrutable 2017-year-old chief justice, whose ideology now lands him at the center of the bench, between the four liberals and the four most dependable conservatives.
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If you're a homeowner, you're probably familiar with the experience: the power in the kitchen suddenly goes out, you struggle briefly to remember where your electrical panel is, you find it and squint with your flashlight at the tiny, inscrutable labels, finding the one that says "KIT" and manually flipping the switch.
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Solomon's work this year for The Hill feels a lot like the right-wing equivalent of the effluvia in which Resistance liberals partook during the Mueller investigation: inscrutable to people who are not already major Nellie Ohr enthusiasts, deeply satisfying to those who are gullible, thinly-sourced, and not moored to reality.
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And if writing all of your office memos by hand for a day feels too daunting, I have a tip: If you're on a Mac, you can still vex your colleagues by changing the font of all your emails to "Brush Script," a cursive typography that, like most of our handwriting, is largely inscrutable.
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On the first day of his campaign in March, some 200 miles away, cameras had chased Mr. O'Rourke to Keokuk, a far-flung corner of southeast Iowa — less a Democratic stronghold than a symbol of the phenomenon-candidacy he hoped to build in his image: viral but intimate, accessible but always a little inscrutable.
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On September 25, when the devastation became too much ignore, Trump unleashed an inscrutable series of tweets that veered from self congratulations to a critical appraisal of Puerto Rico's financial situation -- as if the island's debt in some way mitigated the government's responsibility to it -- and back to another assurance FEMA was doing its job.
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In 19993, answering destiny's call, Gottlieb succeeded the inscrutable William Shawn as the editor and witch doctor of The New Yorker, where he was welcomed with folded arms by many of the old faithful; he retired from the magazine in 1992, turning the franchise over to Tina Brown, who rode in on Jet Skis.
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The series goes beyond the doc's time frame, but among the offerings from that period are the true-crime thriller "Bloody Friday" ("Blutiger Freitag"), on Friday and Monday, and "Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street," an often inscrutable tongue-in-cheek mystery made by the American Samuel Fuller for West German TV, on Saturday and Wednesday.
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OK. See, when Next Generation premiered in 1987, fans had only known one kind of captain—James T. Kirk, a swaggering cowboy, something of a Cold Space Warrior in a two-front fight against the aggressive Klingons and the inscrutable Romulans, and a pansexual adventurer who never didn't have time to chase alien orifice.
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It isn't Pascal's famous bet on God's very existence; rather, it's a bet on God's love for us, a wager that all the varieties of religious experience, wonderful and terrifying and inscrutable, should be interpreted in the light of one specific history-altering experience: a divine incarnation, a baby crying beneath a pulsing star.
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But as continues to become clearer, the inscrutable algorithms that dictate who sees which post, the advantages the already amply socially networked command, and, as recently harped on in a big New York Times feature, the ability of the well-heeled to purchase followers and faves outright, mean the digital spaces we share are anything but equitable.
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But who would have imagined that Watters would use the opportunity to lampoon Chinese Americans through the lens of pop culture's most tired and anachronistic stereotypes -- martial artists, inscrutable elders -- while mock-interviewing elderly immigrants and mugging for the approval of his largely white audience like a toddler pointing proudly to his first successful potty poo?
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But, from my perspective of a thousand miles, L.A. appeared immense, incensed, inscrutable, impenetrable, and every time I thought I had enough resolve to uproot myself and rent a U-Haul I would quickly retreat into the soft, downy repetitiveness of my home town, with its low stakes, high livability, and steady paycheck from my father.
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These works outlined the more granular themes that would recur in the major texts of the late 1970s and beyond: the ubiquitous heat and inscrutable jungle terrain; the ineptitude of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, our South Vietnamese allies; the craven cluelessness of officers and rear-guard "pogues"; the profane black humor of grunts' language.
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It follows King Arthur on his quest to unite England by going off in search of the legendary Holy Grail in 932 AD. Along the way, he gathers a motley team of knights, faces off against rude French soldiers armed with bovine catapults, braves bloodthirsty bunny rabbits and inscrutable bridge guards, and soft-shoes through a number of catchy musical numbers.
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I mean, whether you prefer the straight-talking vibe of "YOU ARE BABE" or the inscrutable mystique of "LICK," you have to admit this is one sweet talkin' AI. All of these phrases are the creation of a neural network prodded into life by Janelle Shane, a master of AI nonsense who's previously worked her magic on Wikipedia titles, paint colors, and birds.
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The rapper — known for inscrutable choices like getting on a plane in the middle of a GQ photo-shoot and parading a coffin holding his fake dead body through the streets of Austin, Texas — made plenty of requests for the storyline and aesthetics of his "Wyclef Jean" visual, showed up 10 hours into the shoot, and refused to get out of the car.
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From Software's Hidetaka Miyazaki cites Ico as the game that made him realize what games could be capable of, so it's no surprise that both the Souls games and the "Ico Trilogy"—that first game, Shadow of the Colossus, and now The Last Guardian—feature landscapes defined by cryptic relics and inscrutable half-clues, faded by the passage of time.
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" With its cold baths and inscrutable "points" system, the juvie where young Orestes and Leander are incarcerated feels suspiciously like a Catholic reform school; and you don't need to be a classicist to feel that something's off when Tóibín's Bronze Age warriors tap on "windows," wear "shirts," and tipple "drinks" from "glasses" as if they were extras in "Mad Men.
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Call it pandering or love, but Queen built at least one song, "We Will Rock You," around the idea of audience participation, and the movie is, most memorably, a celebration of what's shared, whether the band is warbling about Beelzebub and the inscrutable "Galileo figaro magnifico," or thousands of ticket holders are chanting an anthem's chorus of one-syllable words.
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Once their partnership was sundered, Ivana took her blithe esprit and comic malaprops to enjoy the high life elsewhere ("In 2006, my yacht was parked at Cannes for the film festival, and I was having a party with two hundred people on it"), a pity since she might have been a more inspiriting first lady than the inscrutable, animatronic Melania.
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If Kyrie Irving, the flat-Earth scholar, opts not to return to James's fold, if Kawhi Leonard the Inscrutable waves off the blandishments of Los Angeles, if Kevin Durant opts to try to restore life to the corpse that is the Knicks, James should text the Lakers' so-called brain trust and type in five words: Get me out of here.
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I found out that the artist was Louise Bourgeois and the piece was "Sleeping Figure II." This was my introduction at 23 years old to the world of contemporary art, and I was haunted by it, astonished that an object could do so many things simultaneously and yet remain inscrutable, not quite stable in meaning, though it remained solid and unmoving.
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Though not everyone is interested in identifying ticks — most people would prefer to spend as little time in their presence as possible — you can readily distinguish the adults of each species, if you have the stomach for it; their arachnid lives are inscrutable, and for many, just watching one creep along in its single-minded, zombielike drive for blood makes the skin crawl.
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For eight seasons, Westbrook and Durant were one of the great inscrutable duos in all of sports, superstars with wildly opposing personalities and playing styles, overachieving together in Oklahoma City, one of the smallest markets in the N.B.A. Durant was basketball's greatest prodigy since LeBron James, a mild-mannered, long-limbed scoring genius with a baby face and a golden jump shot.
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It's not what you'd call "friendly TV." If the darkness and lack of cohesion proves alluring, may I suggest David Lynch's last go-round behind the camera: His 2006 epic Inland Empire is delightfully inscrutable and totally terrifying, a three-hour odyssey about two actors (Laura Dern and Justin Theroux) starring in an unfinished film in which the actors preceding them were mysteriously murdered during filming. Creepy!
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Experts say the tapes could even help shed light on Kim's son, the inscrutable young leader who rules the country today: Kim Jong Un. North Korea: 'We were forced to eat grass and soil' Critic Kim is heard apologizing to them for the kidnapping technique, promising money and resources for the film industry, and complaining about the quality of the movies his country has been producing.
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That's not because Judge Brett Kavanaugh is going to move left like Justices David Souter and John Paul Stevens did, or be an inscrutable moderate like Kennedy was, but because his vote won't change that much, for two reasons: Social issues aside, Kennedy voted with conservatives a lot; and Chief Justice John Roberts, a minimalist and incrementalist, is the new median justice, a minimalist and incrementalist.
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Future civilizations will someday look back at us kneeling before our motion detectors, crowned with our VR helmets, bowing our heads or waving our devices like sacred fronds in the hopes of summoning food, entertainment or sex, and wonder about what we knew, what we believed, and how we practiced —the same way we look back on ancient civilizations and their inscrutable blood sacrifices today.
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Whiterose is a great face for whatever the massive conspiracy the Dark Army serves as the tip of the iceberg for ends up being — and the show is giving her some of the "I can't believe that character did that" moments that Tyrell had in season one — but by being so big-picture and inscrutable, it's not hard to feel a little confused all the same.
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Asked recently about his thoughts on women's equality — a principle successfully enshrined in military policy when the last combat restrictions were lifted under the Obama administration starting in 2015 — Mattis hedged on whether to even allow women to join rifle platoons, reverting to oddly inscrutable talking points about football and community college that somehow landed on the suggestion that gender equality could cause death.
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Short-lived alliance As the CEO of the hedge fund Hermitage Capital, once the largest foreign investment vehicle in Russia, Browder spent the early 2000s as minority shareholder activist and avowed admirer of an inscrutable KGB case officer who'd unexpectedly risen to the Russian presidency in the wake of a severe economic crisis, promising to put an end to the corruption and the boyar governance of the Yeltsin period.
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The I-5 traffic below was moving well, the progression symbolizing some inscrutable order, car-space-space-car-space-car, as if there were language here, an almost understandable pattern of verse, where five months ago everything had gone red and wrong, the particular arrangement of stresses describing the sudden end of his wife and his older daughter, the abstract turning concrete and, vice versa, the concrete turning abstract.
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" But when he went back to watch the scene in the editing room, Nichols said, "I watched it back, and here you have Sam Shepard's face, which is at the same time inscrutable but full of information, and what seemed like an awkward paused onset, I realized was this man who was really taking in the information and really hearing it, and it's coming across in his eyes and his face.
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Leigh's 16-foot high bronze bust of a black woman with a fascinating, inscrutable face, prominent braids, and a jug- or vessel-shaped torso that also conflates diverse architectural forms, including a special, rather alarming building in Mississippi (more on this later) and different types of West African dwellings (likewise), has been selected to inaugurate the High Line's new High Line Plinth section devoted solely to art, at 30th Street and 10th Avenue.
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But that's exactly what happened this week after a series of inscrutable Instagram posts by the founder of the Canadian company Deciem, which proudly called itself "the Abnormal Beauty Company" and owns the super-trendy beauty line the Ordinary — known for selling high-quality serums, moisturizers, and makeup at rock-bottom prices that are often out of stock — as well as several other lines of beauty, skin care, and hair care at various prices.
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But there's something powerful about those moments when we realize that people in an ancient era in a distant land are not some alien beings that left us inscrutable relics for us all to gawk at, but were people who shared much with us, who faced struggles that might be familiar or relatable to us even if the specifics are foreign, and whose culture and achievements were not just bricks on the road of progress.
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Where the latter product was so penny-pinching the company hadn't even paid to include in the box a user manual that contained actual words — opting, we must assume, to save on translation costs by producing a comic packed with inscrutable graphics and bizarro don't do diagrams which only served to cement the fast-cooling buyer's conviction they'd been sold a total lemon — the Roborock's box contains a well written paper manual that contains words and clearly labeled diagrams.
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Here we find Eugene von Bruenchenhein's copious photographs of his often topless and apparently game wife; the rather creepier ballerina-doll pictures made by Morton Bartlett, after devoting laborious attention to crafting the dolls themselves; the insouciant intensities of Greer Lankton, revolving around gender reassignment and the refashioning of icons, both cultural (Jackie O.) and subcultural (Candy Darling) through dolls and photographs; and selections from the inscrutable archive of Polaroids taken of actresses on television by the anonymous photographer known as Type 42.
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Over the course of the next week, there were some images I found inscrutable (audio CDs, stamped in red as RESTRICTED, of Bruce Dern doing a "Henry V" monologue at the Actors Studio), some readily intelligible as artifactual Americana (Smith & Wessons in the case of a Badlands pawnshop) and others that attempted sidelong glances at tourist landmarks (not Mount Rushmore itself but a shot of a family selfie in front of it; a photo of the Rocket Motel's neon next to its own identical postcard).
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And of course we saw the sea, always the sea, with its many faces, glass-smooth and stone-rough, at certain times blithely open and at others tightly inscrutable, sometimes a weak blue so clear that you could see straight down to the sea urchins at the bottom, spiked and expectant-looking, like mines left over from some war whose causes and combatants no one remembers, and sometimes an impenetrable purple, the color of the wine that we refer to as red but the Greeks call black.
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People returned to Mexico under the program must have a pending court date in the US. Koop wonders what could happen to others who have been granted asylum, but lack an attorney — which most asylum-seekers in the program do not have — to advocate for their ability to enter the US. "It's a completely inscrutable system — people who are unrepresented face the real possibility that they might never manage to make it into the US even if the government declines to appeal cases," she said.
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Gauguin, on the evidence of this show, was a monstrous sexual predator, a near-perfect embodiment of the malignly lubricious male gaze, a man from France who took himself off to the French colonies, and not only sexually exploited many of the women he saw there, but also did his best to exoticize them in his paintings, to lay them out sideways, scantily clothed, in dreamy readiness for everyone-knows-what, and surround them with inscrutable ancestral gewgaws and snatches of mumbo-jumbo writing, all in the service of creating a seductively alluring species of art for mock-serious-minded, top-hatted collectors in Paris.
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