"The present tense gets close, but doesn't enter me," Xie writes—although, ever invested in paradox, she proclaims this in the present tense.
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Like Commentary, which was considered somewhat more highbrow and later branded as neoconservative, Present Tense was published by the American Jewish Committee, which blamed financial constraints when Present Tense was closed in 19973.
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They're designed for the present tense, like illustrated keyboard shortcuts.
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PARIS IN THE PRESENT TENSE By Mark Helprin 394 pp.
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It's as if history is happening in the present tense.
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Instead, he used the present tense to dismiss the prospect.
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She writes and speaks about him in the present tense.
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Elizabeth Warren says -- present tense -- she's not a 224 candidate.
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For immigrants, the uncertainty is taking place in the present tense.
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He still spoke of President Bashir's rule in the present tense.
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So are these domestic scenes the present tense of the show?
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"Retro games are a present tense term for me," Duddleson says.
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"I'm still optimistic enough to use the present tense," she says.
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" It had intricately picked ruminations, like "15 Step" and "Present Tense.
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It's a reminder that politics is history in the present tense.
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Lyndsey's account is told nonchronologically, and entirely in the present tense.
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I think of her in the present tense, in the future tense.
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Gerhaher has the power to give the repertory a present-tense immediacy.
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Within that sense of waiting, Offred illuminates the past and present tense.
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Indeed, they were and are produced by cultures in the present tense.
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Occasionally, and for no apparent reason, she slips into the present tense.
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When writing about past events, the present tense doesn't allow for reflection.
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Some beginning writers think the present tense makes for more exciting reading.
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I was even O.K. with present tense, past tense and future tense.
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Refrain from using the present tense to talk about a past job.
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But his present-tense story undercuts the constructive changes he pursues in flashback.
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And when that happens, retired or not, he speaks in the present tense.
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She did not mistakenly use the present tense and avoid the future tense.
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Only your current job should be written in the present tense, Gelbard says.
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Why is Rosenstein's denial of the 25th Amendment stuff in the present tense?
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Mr. Stanley's debut, on the other hand, was historic in the present tense.
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In a week or two after an earthquake in LA. Yes, present tense.
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These addresses are still ours, still here, and still in the present tense.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads "I've always lived in the present tense, and I like my paintings to be in the present tense," Ellsworth Kelly begins his interview with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in 2013.
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Critical darlings Wild Beasts return with their first album since 2014's Present Tense.
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G C-H: Present tense, active voice, le mot juste or just a word.
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Past and present tense verbs were common, marking completed activities and allowing for comparisons.
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But the loss of senior formal, while not deadly, is a present-tense harm.
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But the loss of senior formal, while not deadly, is a present-tense harm.
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"Matthew has struggled," his stepfather said, speaking of his son in the present tense.
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Mr. Benson sometimes speaks of the past in the present tense, but on Dec.
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Present tense, all the criminal shenanigans that go on in that couple of weeks.
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If you make something realistic, you think you're in the present tense, and you are.
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Usually it was the other way around: present tense, the remembering the reality, past tense.
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Her work, which begins in medias res, manages to magically stay in the present tense.
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What's missing, of course, is the sense of liveness, the thrill of the present tense.
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" Noting that Fotis uses the present tense, Murphy asks, "Do you believe Jennifer is alive?
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Tomorrow brings the past wrappedin plastic eggs, the seal of history broken in present tense.
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Especially as we moved more towards the synth elements of Present Tense and Boy King.
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He avoids semi-colons and shifts indiscriminately to the present tense—"which drives copy editors crazy".
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"The biggest regret of my life is this divorce," he continued, noticeably using the present tense.
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Ms. Ramos is still waiting for her son and speaks of him in the present tense.
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"My research question is a present-tense question — how do blood cells function," he told me.
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Yet Mr. Rosenfeld has infused this vintage sensibility with almost no sense of present-tense urgency.
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"Wolf Hall," the first book in the series, begins mid-scene, in a galloping present tense.
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What do you think BuzzFeed's brand is if we zoom all the way to the present tense?
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THIS SHOULD BE WRITTEN IN THE PRESENT TENSE By Helle Helle Translated by Martin Aitken 186 pp.
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That's the beauty and power of rock 'n' roll: It celebrates transient youth in the present tense.
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I can only speak in the present tense, because you never know in another couple of weeks.
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And the article misstates present tense Burnham's role in the renovation of the restaurant the French Laundry.
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Rousing herself from near slumber, Ms. Irwin had returned at the right moment to the present tense.
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I left the headline in the present tense because I'm so certain that it's still going on.
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But in "The Cursed Child," everyone onstage has direct, present-tense responsibility for the story being told.
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In other words, "Paris in the Present Tense" is a novel about love, and therefore about loss.
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Her books take place in the present tense, and as you read them, history stops seeming inevitable.
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I stopped trying to "overcome" my body and started living a present-tense life in chronic illness.
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Note that it is never "cracked" seed, but always present tense, like another island specialty: shave ice.
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Suffused with zombie-movie dread, it's told in the present tense, adding to the feeling of immediacy.
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The writing has the muscular urgency of the present tense, throwing us off-kilter in real time.
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" For Brighton's part, he still refers to Bowie in the present tense: "I don't ever say he 'was.
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Recession is probably a word you haven't heard in a while, at least not in the present tense.
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He recounts it in rapid-fire present tense, as if the long ago moment is unfolding before him.
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But little else in "Fuller House" actually needs to be earned, at least not in the present tense.
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Hack attack continues We should be thinking about this in the present tense, not in the past tense.
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" Later, Mr. Hume returned to clarify his remarks: "When I said I love the guy, that's present tense.
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And as we go our separate ways now, we feel fortunate for the love we share — present tense.
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Instead, "Monos" exists in the present tense only and immerses the viewer in its bloody and surreal world.
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The season's structure — with the present-tense action constituting a season-long flashback — has its plusses and minuses.
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Though Woman's children are never seen, she tends to them with a present-tense and vividly precise physicality.
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Orvil, like most of the characters here, is what Orange calls in an interlude "a present-tense" person.
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Rather, he is interested in borrowing her compulsively reiterative, continuous-present-tense prose style for its intrinsic delight.
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That scream erupts in the present tense, when the women are together again and prison is behind them.
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AUTOTUNED makes its Times Crossword debut, although the present tense AUTOTUNE has been in the puzzle three times.
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Occasionally, there is the slightest trace of an accent (vaguely French) and a lapse into the present tense.
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As evidenced by social media, B99 was — and now, to use the present tense, is — a dedicated fan favorite.
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Gramps has been dead for more than ten years, but she still speaks of him in the present tense.
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In short, for a time, I was truly intolerable (cue some readers nodding their heads in present-tense agreement).
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In a statement, a Letgo spokesman said, "The company is not engaged in merger talks" — note the present tense.
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Both times, Murphy went with a familiar dodge: the present-tense denial, focused on what he's doing right now.
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The world the characters inhabit is a present-tense space of hunger, purposeless waiting, cigarette smoke and ticking clocks.
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No, maybe it was more of a doze, a nod toward sleep, a floating out of the present tense.
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"He's my biggest fan," Ginny proclaims in a glowing present tense that belies her awareness of the singer's death.
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When she spoke about Rabinowitz on Sunday, she started to speak in the present tense, but quickly stopped herself.
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It's just the word "will," as in "will go," which makes the present tense "go" into a future tense.
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Any nostalgia in the music is more for listeners than the band itself, which stays decisively in the present tense.
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Although solidly situated on the ground, "Present Tense" nonetheless seems precarious, and, in this sense, mirrors the peace process itself.
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Erpenbeck's novel is usefully prosaic, written in a slightly uninviting, almost managerial present tense, which keeps overt emotion at bay.
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I liked watching him because he was mucking about in the present tense while my boyfriend talked about the past.
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As long as there's a 1 percent chance he's alive, we're going to talk about him in the present tense.
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And Hadelich is a singularly gifted, characterful musician who has a flair for bringing older music into the present tense.
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Where one would expect a present-tense narration to be more comedic and quicker, Normal People is slower, and sadder.
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I'd argue that now is the time when we most deserve both present-tense pleasure and insulating calories the most.
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Eventually bumping up the funeral slogan to the present tense with "YOU ARE DEAD," just in case there's any confusion.
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The present tense sort of dissolves, and you really feel this sort of transcendental experience of being this other person.
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When talking about their work together, Ms. Linna sometimes catches herself still referring to her husband in the present tense.
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" By employing brief chapters and a vibrant present tense — "Rain scrabbles on the roof and the fire hisses and shifts.
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She used the present tense, though her husband, who was in jail for six years, is now out on probation.
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"I built a world that is only a small distance from our present tense," Ms. Yuknavitch said in an email.
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Widely exhibited in Europe, she now has a very fine solo of recent work, "Zineb Sedira: Present Tense," at Taymour Grahne.
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What's more, one of Parker's classmates refers to Stark in the present tense, further signaling that he might still be alive.
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The article does refer to Ya'alon as former defense minister at one point but keeps it present tense in other instances.
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Any administration is funny ... everything that's present tense is up for grabs in this country, and that's what makes great comedy.
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All those strange paintings, the tender photographs, the audio diaries, even the silly band—everything exists passionately in the present tense.
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I flipped it into the present tense and introduced some fragmentary sections that might function on the page as prose poems.
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There is no bigger tear-jerker than NBC's "This Is Us," a multigenerational family drama told in present tense and flashbacks.
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Like that earlier book, this one is told in a present-tense style that privileges roller-coaster participation over dispassionate context.
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I think of these images as relics in the present tense: they remind us that the past is not necessarily past.
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Precisely because Douglass is new to him, Trump naturally adopts the present tense, even though the great abolitionist leader is long dead.
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"It's all very symbolic of his illness, but he won't tell me what it means," she said, slipping into the present tense.
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In place of that present-tense energy, the sequel probes how memories are formed and revived, incomplete and uncertain in the present.
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His Paris does exist in the present tense, irresistibly, undeniably real and alive, as though summoned by its creator rather than imagined.
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But, a couple of centuries after the facts, Miranda is able to find the present-tense electricity in a candle-lighted world.
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"I continue to speak about him in present tense because it still hasn't sunk in that he's no longer here," she said.
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It took him a year to realize that he was a terrible at it, simply unable to live in the present tense.
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He referenced Frederick Douglass, who died in 1895, in the present tense, leading many to believe that Trump thought Douglass was still alive.
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Energy was high, and the experimental fun within the phrases and patterns had a present-tense freshness as if the ballets were new.
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This summer has also seen revivals of classics that would appear destined to be charged with present-tense electricity yet fail to crackle.
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After a while, I stopped being surprised by everyone's sense of humor and warm, present, tense clarity of purpose: I related to it.
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And Gork's voice — a crucial element, since he's a first-person, present-tense narrator — often lands like a dead weight on the page.
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"Ellsworth likes to play games with vision more than anything," said Mr. Shear, who still speaks of his partner in the present tense.
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Tom Fleming: I've got a few permutations here on my desk, but I think I should start with Present Tense, our fourth record.
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Present Tense, which started as a quarterly in 1973 and was later published bimonthly, was a liberal Jewish journalistic take on world affairs.
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To understand the complex relationship between indigenous Americans and border town police means understanding that in these communities, history is in the present tense.
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One reason for this reticence is that the book is locked into a present-tense style that reproduces landscapes vividly but admits little exposition.
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Chris Kraus's I Love Dick, an older novel much feted in recent years, commits to an emotional present tense that totally forecloses the future.
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It personalizes someone who might otherwise come across as an abstract oracle, and it matches the present-tense, practical intimacy of Ms. Strayed's voice.
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But Mr. Palmieri has also kept his fires burning in a present tense, much like the great Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés, who is 75.
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"You go around, and things appear you didn't notice before," he said, speaking in the present tense as if the damage had not occurred.
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Because of his memory limitations, we see his whole life stream forward as if in the present tense, outside of the storm's temporal confines.
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So that was, I think, that was really the motivation behind ... So now, present tense, you've split from the company that you helped build.
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"But that hasn't slowed him down," she said Tuesday, referring to Drew in the present-tense less than a day after learning he was dead.
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For all its abundant historical interest, "Black Girl" unfolds in the present tense, and directs its characters and its audience toward a still-unwritten future.
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In his memoirs for adults Cooper has developed a panel-based approach that isolates stretches of time and renders them in an eternal present tense.
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It's another reminder that -- just as politics is history in the present tense -- we cannot fully understand current events without the perspective provided by history.
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On a cold December morning, sitting inside a Midtown office, seven months after his death, Ms. Kastsiuk still spoke of him in the present tense.
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Set aside five minutes each day to write your goals down in the present tense with a specific result, as if you have already accomplished them.
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How should a computer pronounce a word like "lead", which can be a present-tense verb or a noun for a heavy metal, pronounced quite differently?
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"Sexiness" used to be equated with bad taste — admittedly, in the present tense too — but it is now maybe considered, more than that, outside the zeitgeist.
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Presidential campaign slogans are created to help inspire allegiance and change minds amid the immediate, present-tense, in-your-face hurly-burly of an election campaign.
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It goes without saying that "The President Is Missing" is written in the present tense, or, to be accurate, in a specialist subset of that tense.
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"I was in an acute case of the present tense," she explains, just before a gust of wind throws her from the back of her machine.
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As such, "The Waldheim Waltz" sometimes dances between a brisk, present-tense recounting of political history and a more wandering, personal reflection on the filmmaker's history.
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"She's the best editor I know," said Ms. Arons, who has a tendency to use the present tense when talking about Ms. Spade, before catching herself.
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She gave the impression that her life — her true life — had ended with theirs, especially her daughter, of whom she often spoke in the present tense.
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The author plays with time through flashbacks told in the present tense, an innovative approach well suited to capturing the upside-down nature of refugee narratives.
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The present-tense scenes in "Mosquitoes" are punctuated by the frantic musings of a white-lab-coated character identified as the Boson (played by Paul Hilton).
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I spent a good chunk of this decade in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and in other locations where the climate crisis is obviously present tense.
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But Douglass' family said in a statement Wednesday night that they not only approved of the president's usage of the "present tense" — they also use it themselves.
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I write in the present tense because Audeze is still selling the LCD-2s to this day, nearly a decade of widespread popularity after their initial launch.
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He still refers to his wife and great-grandchildren in the present tense, saying he copes by sometimes imagining they&aposre just on vacation and will return.
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And then there is a red spot: the present tense of my mother's nail polish, her fingers holding her phone to take a photo of the photo.
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On Soccer BARCELONA, Spain — Just occasionally, as he begins another story about what his father did, or said, or thought, Jordi Cruyff lapses into the present tense.
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If you're normally someone who inhales ice cream in the race against the sun, now is your chance to prolong the present-tense bliss of every bite.
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There is a huge difference in the problems presented by streaming in the present tense and the 40 years from now – I'm most concerned with the latter.
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"The Quickening," the final, revealing essay about her own pregnancy, feels less harrowing and more there for the sake of bringing our host into the present tense.
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The play's present tense, such as it is, is affectingly embodied by Mr. Watts and Roslyn Ruff, who portrays his solicitous partner, Black Woman With Fried Drumstick.
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Her terse statement, lodged firmly in the present tense, did not deny that Barr had considered quitting or that he suggested to others he might step down.
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"Schiller writes" would also have worked, as you can use the present tense when referring to writing or speaking, because that's the way we do things when quoting.
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We get very short chapters and a preponderance of single-sentence paragraphs, in cinematic present-tense prose that seems to teeter breathlessly on stiletto heels: The phone rings.
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Given the contemporary penchant for an ongoing immediacy, a permanent present tense, work like Rabinowitch's appears particularly apt for those of us looking for something more than diversion.
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Radar Eyes, 2014 / Photo by Dan Jarvis, courtesy of John Dugan Is it really the always-present-tense spatial manifestation of The Ukrainian Village Hipster's Golden Age Myth?
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The poet-author's intuited riffs come to M's rescue as this post-traumatic beast swings between memories of Attic blood rites and the present tense of commercial claptrap.
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Even the most overtly present-tense movie I saw — Olivier Assayas's "Non Fiction," which doesn't claim to be based on a true story — had a subtly retrospective ambiance.
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Each measuring almost 11 by 727 feet, the pictures are narratives inspired by a Euro-American tradition of history painting but entirely present-tense and polemical in theme.
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As we leap through time and space, that structure combines with the use of the present tense to suggest that everything is taking place in an eternal now.
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He concluded that the use of the present tense "serves" in Section 209 meant that it covers only current federal employees, not those about to take a position.
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I think you can look back at my life in politics and you can see that I don't think in the present tense, I think in the future tense.
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What I really want from meditation is just to spend less time anxiously dissecting the past or anticipating the future, and more time rooted firmly to the present-tense.
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They did not witness the Paris attacks, but wanted the same immediacy, so they asked those they interviewed to speak in the first person and in the present tense.
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January's Women's March was a kind of communion of the previous generations of feminism, a present-tense call to action, but it was also an acknowledgment of the past.
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Mr. Trump spoke of him in the present tense: I am very proud now that we have a museum on the National Mall where people can learn about Rev.
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The entire book is narrated in an urgent, poking present tense, and the pithed characters, of different ages, are presented without complex histories—indeed, without much history at all.
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Finally, in "Present Tense" (1994), she again creates a fabric of sorts but instead of cloth she uses 2,200 blocks of olive oil soap made in Nablis, north of Jerusalem.
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"I'm sorry that had to be a part of your past," Ben says, making no mention of the present tense in which he is dating many other women besides Jojo.
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Each is a reminder that there's more than one way to control the narrative (to use the most overused phrase du jour) and to translate history into the present tense.
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As directed by Margot Bordelon for LCT3, it seems for most of its length to keep present-tense emotion at bay, as if in some kind of exercise or ritual.
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"In Every Moment We Are Still Alive" is narrated in a vivid present tense that collapses the distance between the time of narration and the harrowing events of the story.
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Each measuring almost 11 feet by 5353 feet, they are multi-figured narratives, inspired by a Euro-American tradition of history painting but entirely present-tense in theme and tone.
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Written in dreamy present tense and alternating points of view from the three sisters, The Water Cure takes an original, complicated look at how abuse, toxic masculinity, and gaslighting collide.
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I'd love to see Dishonored 3 build on the world it creates inside Aramis Stilton's mansion, where the Void has begun "leaking" into the present tense and scrambled time and magic.
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Her narratives are rigorous, partial to the present tense, and untempted by the small change of contemporary realism (abundant and superfluous dialogue in quotation marks, sharply individuated characters, tellingly selected detail).
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The narrative, which culminates in the September 11th attacks, oscillates violently between first person and third, past and present tense, New York's daily rhythms and the destruction of Jerusalem's Holy Temple.
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The other sequences in "Dances at a Gathering" have a more present-tense (often playful) quality — although it's easy to feel that they may be part of a vividly remembered past.
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"He has a musical clairvoyance, this ability to project himself into you, as if he were another aspect of your artistic self," she said, speaking of him in the present tense.
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Cosmopolitan reported on a very light "theory" from Reddit that posits Peter is with Victoria Fuller because on The Women Tell All he spoke about their relationship in the present tense.
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In short, 8-year-old, third-person present tense is a difficult point of view to pull off in a sentimental novel about a family's dissolution, though Summerfield mostly nails it.
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For example, he initially denied using diocesan funds to compensate victims — but later said he had used the present tense to say that payments were not being made at that moment.
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The characters are so vivid, so real, so familiar that it's impossible to think of their struggles — and in some cases their deaths — as unfolding in anything but the present tense.
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Their stories are told in short passages, presented out of order and in present tense, as if these still-vibrant personalities are inhabiting all moments, simultaneously old, young and middle-aged.
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But Trump's use of the present tense -- "that's coming back" and "they're sending them back" -- is incorrect, as is his suggestion that North Korea is currently working to identify sites and graves.
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Not only that, but even the present tense GOOGLE has only been in the crossword a total of eight times, only three entries of which have been clued as an action word.
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The first memoir was written in the present tense, with interjections from the adult writer looking back, a sardonic, affectionate, sometimes cringing voice letting us into what she knows and feels now.
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"He helps all the poor and displaced and refugees," said Mr. Salmo, the chief of the rescue group known as the White Helmets, using the present tense long after his friend's death.
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The National Gallery show traps us in the present tense of efforts to get something right—an absoluteness not just of seeing, but of being—which happens not to be possible. ♦
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"They see what Breitbart did and they want it in their own language," said Mr. Bannon, who slipped into the present tense when talking about the website from which he recently separated.
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Spieth, the 2015 U.S. Open champion, recently explained away his victory drought as "a matter of perfecting swing adjustments" and bristled at the use of the present tense to describe his slump.
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The real-time urgency of "Love" is undergirded by the present tense and made incandescent by Orstavik's seemingly effortless omniscient perspective, sometimes switching between Jon's mind and Vibeke's from sentence to sentence.
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This sudden plummeting of emotional temperature jolted me into a painful, present-tense awareness of how truly ghettoized — and terrifying — life was for most American gay men when "Boys" opened Off Broadway.
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Through most of the show, he describes his mother's personality and routine in the present tense, as if providing a voice-over narration; Fliakos's miking gives his voice a slightly disembodied quality.
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"The feeling you get with Connie is that the intuitive thing that you're doing is the thing that you should follow," she said, still speaking of Ms. Crothers in the present tense.
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Like the plot of any mini-series worth its salt, this complicated tale — and believe me, there's plenty I've left out — relies heavily on the present tense and shifting points of view.
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"I am working only three to four hours and three days only, so I can't survive," Ms. Agaton said, speaking in the present tense as she remembered events that happened years ago.
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The register it sits in is a little too dispassionate and oracular, like a prophecy delivered in the present tense; it shines in settings like poems, oddball rock songs, tweets and plaques.
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Perhaps the same could be done with Hawkins's narrators—three of them, no less, maundering on in the first person, often in the present tense, and each as annoying as the next.
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Bong Joon Ho's "Parasite" and Noah Baumbach's "Marriage Story" unfold in a restless present tense, but so does Greta Gerwig's "Little Women," even though it takes place more than 100 years ago.
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It is within the flatlands of the present tense, then, that Drabble sets Francesca Stubbs on her routine drives to distant parts of England to check out sheltered housing for the elderly.
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The only change I would make, apart from adding more artists, would be to tweak its title: I'd edit it down to its opening phrase and put that in the present tense.
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It trades gently and profitably in the present-tense intimacy between performers and audience in a small space and finds in the art of playacting a map of how we live our lives.
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If the scene has the patina of an after-school special (earnestness, a touch of melodrama), Iweala deploys the present tense and an unfussy syntax to hook the reader, and it works well.
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Some members of the Present Tense staff said at the time, however, that the decision was politically motivated because the magazine had been critical of Israeli policies and, earlier, of the Reagan administration.
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Apparently Boy King is the opposite of their last record, the plush Present Tense, and the seeds of the record came about when Wild Beasts went in for a writing session for Disclosure.
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"Limonov" vibrates with borrowed energy: Carrère uses, essentially, a present-tense version of the novelist's best friend, free indirect style, to inhabit and animate the violently short-circuiting mind of his perpetually unappeased protagonist.
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The book also vividly captures a present-tense sense of India's social anxiety as hoopla over the country's much touted economic opportunities has toppled over into a general desperation, a fear of missing out.
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The two-minute video features Jean's family narrating and referring to Jean in the present tense, which the family's attorney Lee Merritt told The Dallas Morning News was done to reflect his lasting legacy.
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Her choice in perspective — combined with the use of the present tense — produces an immediate and urgent portrait of the mounting public health crisis and how the characters' lives are shaped by the epidemic.
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President Donald Trump was ridiculed on social media on Wednesday after he referred to iconic slave-turned-abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the present tense during an event celebrating Black History Month at the White House.
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In her book "Permanent Present Tense: The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H.M." (2013), Dr. Corkin wrote about her transition from seeing Mr. Molaison as a "subject" to seeing him as a human being.
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When the show takes June out of her traumatic situation long enough to really explore her PTSD, it also creates a slight remove from the cramped, claustrophobic present tense of the rest of the show.
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" So she finds decadence by compulsively seducing strangers, co-workers and acquaintances, loathing the sex but finding comfort in the immediate aftermath, when she is "suspended between two worlds, the mistress of the present tense.
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And one wishes too that this tale, the sexier and sweeter of these two love stories, were told less in moments of flashback and more in the urgent present tense that McLemore writes so well.
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"LA 92," one of several documentaries being released to commemorate the riots' 25th anniversary, takes advantage of the wealth of broadcast and helicopter footage available to assemble a chronological account with a present-tense feel.
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This present-tense perspective is useful, but while the leads are credible, the filmmaking (including a hacky score) adds a sheen of macho familiarity to a narrative that was eerily matter-of-fact in doc form.
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The present-tense moments are the most gripping, naturally — we know that Jesse got away from his neo-Nazi kidnappers, but there's no promise he'll evade jail now that he's on the run from the cops.
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Whereas he used to rap mostly in the present tense, much of his new album switches to the past, offering a more rueful perspective on the hedonistic pursuits of his teen-age years and early twenties.
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The one point of fixity in his life was his home island of St Lucia, where the indigo horns of the Pitons rose to the sky; where all was bright and present-tense, all the time.
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Stephen, naturally, has no access to or investment in this circle, so chapters of his first-person narration alternate with third-person present-tense chapters that are set, confusingly, a year or so before the investigation.
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Almost teasingly, the film cuts from the present tense, dropping small clues via flashbacks — relationships between certain members, how they came to be together, a general anger toward the state that binds them as a group.
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Bienvenu says a useful technique he practices with his patients is to go through what happened in the present tense, as if it's just unfolding now (this, for his patients, has been shown to help in therapy).
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All the essays are marked by such jump-cut-like paragraph breaks and present tense narration, which, at times, is weirdly reminiscent of the poet Frank O'Hara's "I do this, I do that," but without O'Hara's lyricism.
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"Present Tense" opens as a light folk reflection pushed by shakers and floor toms underfoot, but midway through, drummer Phil Selway kicks up a shuffle indebted to the work of Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen, and suddenly it swings.
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They didn't buy into the gospel of technological progress that instructed them to patiently await a better future; rather, they saw what certain technologies were doing to them in the present tense, and took action to stop them.
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In the present tense, the battles aren't all won, either: "Is This How You See Me?" also takes pains to show that the streets of Huerta can still be a dangerous space, especially for queer women in public.
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Titled "Proscenium Works," it includes "Set and Reset," a complex weaving of bodies made in 1983; "Present Tense," from 2003, which evokes the innocence of children at play; and "Newark (Niweweorce)," from 1987, an exploration of balance and propulsion.
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I know from the outside in I'm going to get a lot of these questions, but the best way I can answer it is just like what I'm talking about — owning it now, staying focused in the present tense.
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The effect can be like living in a "continuous present tense," say architects Niall McLaughlin and Yeoryia Manolopoulou, who designed the installation; you can never quite remember what room you came from, or plan what room you'll go to next.
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Physical (and arguably gendered) abuse has also been a present-tense problem for the Trump campaign, from the protesters who have beenattacked at his rallies to the Breitbart reporter, Michelle Fields, who was allegedly grabbed roughly by Trump's campaign manager.
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I've seen Mr. Washington a number of times, most recently raising the rafters at Brooklyn Steel, and I'd venture to say that few in the crowded room had any historical marker in mind; we were caught in an onrushing present tense.
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"She's wise enough to compose the question but doesn't answer them," Steven Harper, a wilderness guide who had been our group leader all those years ago, told me on the phone the day she died, still using the present tense.
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It's fine for many of the more well-known historical events here to serve as understated commentary on today's world, but the present-tense immersion in the proceedings means that complex social and political issues mostly pass by as background blur.
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"Not only can it relieve the present tense situation, it can also resolve all parties most pressing security concerns, and provide an opportunity and create conditions to resume talks, and find a breakthrough point to get out of trouble," he added.
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" Using syntax as a measure of style, the researchers found only that "MFA novels tend to use pairs of adjectives or adverbs less often, or avoid the more straightforward structure of a noun followed by a verb in the present tense.
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"China and Russia's views and positions on the Iran nuclear issue are highly aligned, and both hope that all relevant parties remain rational and exercise restraint, step up dialogue and consultations and lower the temperature on the present tense situation," he said.
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The three works by Trisha Brown being performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music — "Set and Reset" (1983), "Present Tense" (2003), "Newark (Niweweorce)" (1987) — blend these virtues so provocatively that they make the best case to date for her greatness as a choreographer.
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"Like the president, we use the present tense when referencing Douglass' accomplishments because his spirit and legacy are still very much alive, not just during Black History Month, but every month," the family said in a statement posted on The Huffington Post.
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Titled "Proscenium Works," it includes "Set and Reset," a complex weaving of bodies made in 25; "Present Tense," from 23575, which pairs a playful John Cage score with primary-color costumes; and "Newark (Niweweorce)," from 1987, an exploration of balance and propulsion.
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" In "Present Tense," a bittersweet bossa nova akin to past Radiohead songs like "Knives Out" and "House of Cards," Mr. Yorke sings, "As my world comes crashing down/I'll be dancing, freaking out" and wonders, "Will all this love have been in vain?
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All these possible sources are subsumed into the painting; there is no citation, irony, or nostalgia, only the present tense of the painting, with the whitish rectangle framed on the top edge and part of both sides by two tawny bands of color.
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Looking to the Book of Job to help make sense of all that has happened, and as a possible template for their new project, they flash back to the previous Thanksgiving, and events since then, while continuing to write in the present tense.
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But Ellis writes with insight and acuity in the present tense, just as he always has in the past tense, and in "American Dialogue" he draws connections between our history and our present reality with an authority that few other authors can muster.
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"Triumph" begins as a journal entry in a slightly stiff present tense, but then tumbles backward into a story within the story about a fellow writer the narrator (who is not quite Johnson himself, but certainly a near relation) knew in Austin, Tex.
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"Elaine Ford writes in the laconic, present-tense declarative style so attractive to young writers just now, but her tone lacks the disaffection of some of her contemporaries," Gail Godwin said in her review of "The Playhouse" in The New York Times.
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When discussing the so-called Trump Rally, an argument can be made for referring to it in past tense, rather than in present tense – since it appears that the gain has essentially been stalled for more than 226 weeks now (having ended around December 248).
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I'm putting a lot of pressure on him to plug the gaps left by Iconic British Males who have sadly expired, but that's only because I think he could if he wanted to *insert Tyra Banks rooting for you gif but in present tense*.
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I'm putting a lot of pressure on him to plug the gaps left by Iconic British Males who have sadly expired, but that's only because I think he could if he wanted to *insert Tyra Banks rooting for you gif but in present tense.
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Like a number of the other plays, it takes off from history but is very much in the present tense, connecting the legacy of slavery with contemporary issues like policing (introduced via an African-American officer who intervenes in Jasmine's interrogation of the statue).
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" (I have always thought that — I just never thought it.) Toulouse-Lautrec "embedded art in an imperishable present tense like no one else until Andy Warhol," while Karen Kilimnik's eerie portraits of celebrities and raw-eyed women intuit "the authenticity that all kitsch dimly remembers.
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Each section is written in the present tense, marked with a year to establish chronology, and the chapters are filled with lyrically fragmented memories spanning three decades — one of the book's topics is the clumsy and unpredictable ways we remember and are remembered by those we love.
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I am interested in the present-tense mythologies that arise from a revisionist view of history, and am invigorated by the questioning of basic assumptions like the nature of the moon and it's relationship to the earth, a Darwinian model of evolution, time, and (outer) space.
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The passage is brutal and vivid, but it lacks the usual markers of tension or urgency: the narration wavers unsteadily between past and present tense, and there's a lyrical slowing of time, an almost luxurious lingering on sensation as the boys' saliva slides down Eddy's face.
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Mr. Quigley's theme is consistent in the sense that the "uh" additions are all in the same place, but I was a bit distracted by the fact that the theme set consisted of two past tense verb phrases, a present tense verb phrase and a proper name.
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She was required to give regular verbal confirmation during the day that she was O.K. (After the investigation, the military ordered that Quantico's whole pretrial confinement area be shut down.) When I asked Manning this spring to describe those conditions, she answered in the present tense.
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Murray Polner, an unswerving voice for pacifism and civil liberties and the founder and only editor of Present Tense magazine, a progressive counterpoint to Commentary that began in a period of one-upmanship among Jewish intellectuals, died on May 30 in Manhasset, N.Y. He was 91.
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The movie's story goes both forward and backward; the present-tense action takes place immediately after the finale to show us where Jesse's life goes after he hits the road, while flashbacks fill in the gaps of Jesse's time in captivity during the back half of the final season.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A brilliantly embedded, gently embellished documentary of sorts, and one whose bedding is itself a matter of documentaristic embellishment, Spettacolo takes you deep inside the harrowing history and heartbreaking present tense of a gem-like hilltop paesino in Tuscany — Monticchiello, population 136.
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Hewing to the classic coming-of-age-novel formula, "Green's" Green experiences a variety of awakenings — sexual, religious, familial, moral and not surprisingly racial — during the course of his sixth-grade school year (1992-93), all of which get relayed in first-person, present-tense, slanged-up narration.
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Infinity War's final sequence lands, but only as pure image, without trying to delve too deeply into the minds of the characters left behind, and only in the present tense, without moving forward to think about how little it will mean in the long run of the MCU.
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" Curtis Yarvin, a Silicon Valley programmer whose writings under the pen name Mencius Moldbug helped launch the neoreactionary branch of the alt-right, told me he welcomes the movement's trend toward single-payer, viewing it as a "sincere effort to think realistically in the present tense rather than in abstract ideology.
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"Trump has presented such an outrageous present-tense political story that, overall, the press has not been very imaginative about looking back at his biography," says Bruce Shapiro, a professor of news ethics at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.
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Okay, sticking to present tense now (unlike the show, which keeps hopping back and forth every few seconds and making my head explode): I love how Eve, Annalise's real love and best/only friend, is the one who convinces her to just tell Wes the truth about his mother already.
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Only, where Erin flashed her teeth to get what she wants, her Heidi rarely smiles — neither in the present-tense narrative, when she's waiting tables in a dingy restaurant called Fat Morgan's, nor in the flashbacks where we see her running the Homecoming program with an almost pitying sense of self-seriousness.
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The AP reported that evacuees in the camp experienced a norovirus outbreak this week, which also affected makeshift medical clinic in Neighborhood Church in Chico, CA. "Climate refugees"—a term which refers to people displaced by extreme weather, wildfires, water scarcity, and other climate change-related catastrophes—exists in the present tense.
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" In a Tuesday interview with DC-based radio station WMAL, Pogrebin said the tweet's "putting in the present tense was bad, it made it seem like it was trying to minimize [Ramirez's] experience and undermining it rather than trying to affirm it... I was kind of frankly surprised, like 'why are people offended'?
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It seems to me that given that the writing self is the remember self — even if I'm writing in the present tense about the court room, my writing body is actually sitting at a desk months later somewhere else — so the collapse in question is really none other than the scene of writing.
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But the one that matters most, and the thing that sometimes jars me back into the present tense when I'm down, and into awareness of all the good things around me that I'd let fade down to gray, are the periodic bright moments of grace that flit through even a shitty, shitty football game.
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It's impossible for me to know if, by the time I have children — if I do have children — I'll regret the years I spent selfishly indulging without them, but right now, as I live through these years in the present tense, I certainly don't regret a thing; I might be the happiest I've ever been.
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" (The reader can't help but wonder what the other two hard things were.) In interviews soon after the attack, Nohemi's mother sometimes used the present tense to describe her daughter: "She loves school," she said, adding that "Nohemi wanted a different life from most of our people who just go to work and come home.
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He also made the present-tense claim in a May 27 press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ("We, as you know, are getting the remains -- continuing to get the remains"), a June 11 exchange with reporters ("The remains keep coming back"), and a June 12 press conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda ("We're getting the remains back").
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And over the course of this Black History Month, our President has gone from referring to 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the present tense to drawing criticism for asking a black reporter to arrange a meeting for him with the Congressional Black Caucus to visiting the National Museum of African American History and Culture for the first time.
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The one point of fixity in his life was his home island of St Lucia, where the indigo horns of the Pitons rose to the sky, where the coppery sea-almonds shook in the wind and clay paths wound, through green bananas, to the villages of rusted galvanise; where all was bright and present-tense, all the time.
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With her songs on "El Mal Querer" (which could translate as "Bad Desire" or "Bad Love"), produced by the electronic musician El Guincho and others, she explores passion, jealousy and betrayal while handclaps interweave with minimal trap beats and the arabesques of flamenco singing segue into Auto-Tuned quavers: age-old sentiments expressed in the present tense.
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Ms. Pootoogook's daughter Annie Pootoogook took that present-tense orientation even further, completing raw but often humorous drawings of contemporary life in Cape Dorset; one interior scene is "Watching the Simpsons on TV." Also here is a sweet drawing of Ms. Ashoona, her grandmother, standing slightly askew in a polka-dot kerchief and Nana Mouskouri-style eyeglasses.
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It's evident in the three theater pieces shown this week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (Howard Gilman Opera House): "Set and Reset" (22015, with music by Laurie Anderson and designs by Robert Rauschenberg); "Present Tense" (20153, to a John Cage score and a backdrop by Elizabeth Murray); and "Newark (Niweweorce)" (22015, to Peter Zummo's music and visual design by Donald Judd).
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Although a majority of the book consists of nondramatic events described nondramatically, and although (as the title suggests) the past tense Dorte employs may as well be the present — although, in other words, even the narrator doesn't place much significance on the particular events of the text — "This Should Be Written in the Present Tense" possesses an immediacy that tenderly and consistently compels.
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Corrects second paragraph to past tense from present tense, corrects paragraph 5 to clarify ambassador spoke before event.) By Julia Harte WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Kuwaiti government could pay up to $60,000 to President Donald Trump's hotel in Washington for a party it held on Wednesday in an early test of Trump's promise to turn over profits from such events to the U.S. Treasury.
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Alexandra's perspective on the grueling history of her efforts to care for Tilly is presented in the second-person present tense, yielding a shatteringly immediate portrait of two devoted parents as she and her lovely and equally strained husband exhaust the therapies and schools that have in turn exhausted them in their search for a safe space for Tilly to learn and mature.
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Then go to see a musical — a revival but it feels brand-new — that's stirring up its audiences in the way that, among current shows, only "Hamilton" does as well: "The Color Purple," $603 (full-price orchestra, totally worth it) Before July 19, you must — and I mean it, you must — catch a play that, like "Hamilton," transforms a fraught slice of American history into a pulsing present-tense event.
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Dorothy gave me a lot of vocabulary, but the words that stuck were those she used conversationally, in direct address, like the time I arrived panting and she asked, "Διψάς;" ( Dipsás ?) I knew that a dipsomaniac was someone with an insatiable thirst, but to hear Dorothy use the verb διψάω in the second-person singular present tense and match it with my parched throat felt like a revelation.
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This sphere of visual gravitas, then, or this visio-emotive, physically palpable if not palpitating setting, becomes a fitting aesthetic vessel for William's variably embedded narratives and implicit messages pertaining to gendered and raced identities, and to the perhaps ever-unrelenting past-present-tense of still-colonial-post-colonial histories that seem to never fully wane, or to give way to a sufficiently momentous chapter of a thoroughly decolonized, autonomous after.
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Rather, he narrowed in on what Carter, now 20, did right before Roy killed himself in a store parking lot in July 2014, when he called her from outside his pickup truck as he wavered about what to do: She told him to get back into his vehicle — "which she has reason to know is or is becoming a toxic environment inconsistent with human life," Moniz said, narrating her actions in the present tense.
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