These are all forms of monoculture that don't rely on an enforced, top-down sameness, but create sameness from the bottom up.
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It does not feel reductive to read fiction through this prism, nor will you find the numbing sameness Nunez's narrator deplores — in fact, these books deliver us from numbing sameness.
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Restaurants have tried to find a way around that sameness.
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The sameness of this year's franchise movies is striking, though.
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"There's a lot of sameness in conventions," Mr. Trump said.
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Still, it's possible to feel a creeping sense of sameness.
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By contrast, demonstrations of oneness, sameness and unity reassure them.
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Couldn't you just die from the sameness of it all?
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They impose a sameness over whatever landscape they're able to.
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They were defined by their sameness, and in their sameness was a kind of evidence that you'd arrived in America—that you were finally done swirling around in the pot, that you'd finally melted.
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I think it's this culture of sameness that I talk about.
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The sameness of it all made me feel like a passenger.
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As the geography of AirSpace spreads, so does a certain sameness.
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But the sameness of today's franchise pictures is something else again.
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Many people today seem to think that sameness will bring safety.
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There is a sameness to a certain strata of podcasts, right?
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And it got me to thinking about how underrated sameness is.
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In fact, that sameness made the assignment a challenge, visually speaking.
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The pursuit of edgy fashion had ended up looking like foolish sameness.
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But it creates a situation of sameness at all levels of fashion.
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I don't trust the sameness of the story you get from celebrity.
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Back then, during a stage in life when most young people were vying for sameness and were desperate to blend in, I opted out of the clique and never sought any sort of permanent refuge in sameness again.
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And then it eventually creates sameness and no one's gonna do anything original.
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It's a cycle of sameness that leaves everyone else struggling to break through.
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Instead, a conspicuous sameness has befallen the batter's boxes of the big leagues.
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But what happens when that combo starts to feel oppressive in its sameness?
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And once again, despite that fine execution, a stylistic sameness pervades the program.
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The height columns on major league rosters generally have a sameness to them.
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And programmed in sequence, "Blake Works I" and "Playlist (EP)" exhibit a sameness.
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They've been saying it's all about equality, but to me it's just sameness.
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Greyscale and drab, this image appears to lampoon the sameness of Soviet architecture.
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There are five games remaining to sort out the sameness of it all.
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SEEK "HARMONY but not sameness", advised the Chinese philosopher Confucius 2,500 years ago.
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Not only did she recognize the sameness of the Jewish children around her.
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But in the sea of sameness, sometimes you want to buy something special.
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The current big-studio model, though, is more focused on sameness than difference.
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The worst thing about the "mommy wars" used to be their suffocating sameness.
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These products are all saying 'No' to the crushing sameness that makes gadgets dull.
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IS EUROPE READY to embrace a new model built around not sameness but difference?
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It is the therapeutic sameness of seasons, tides, weddings, graveyards, crops, clouds and babies.
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And worse, what does this musical uniformity reflect about the sameness of contemporary dining?
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Over time, scene by scene, these spaces blur together, locking Bernadine in claustrophobic sameness.
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My hands became encrusted with glue as the sweaters blurred into a clumpy sameness.
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Then there's a kind of sameness that sets in, and the audience feels it.
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But sameness of gender doesn't equal sameness of opinion, and assuming that women are part of some monolithic woman consciousness that operates smoothly and without conflict, steadfast in its determination to fell the patriarchy once and for all, is a gross oversight.
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I love the idea of getting away from the routine, the sameness of everyday life.
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Every child is different, but in the United States, the sameness of playgrounds is striking.
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In her book, Rapoport wrote that she was amazed at the sameness of OCD behaviors.
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In this case, it is left to the young to cut through the deadening sameness.
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Ms. Ebersole and Ms. LuPone go a great distance in disguising the show's essential sameness.
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The idea is that in a sea of condo sameness, "you become memorable," he said.
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Photo: Valentin Kozin (Flickr)For years, tech bloggers have lamented the boring sameness of cell phones.
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Yet, even with all that sameness, Samsung's balanced no-notch design seems more considered than before.
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KNIGHT: WELL, I THINK IT'S MORE KIND OF A CULTURAL SAMENESS THAN THERE IS ANYTHING ELSE.
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As successful as Star Wars has been under Disney, there are still troubling signs of sameness.
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Because if there's less variability, you can prove sameness or similarity by doing a small study.
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A portrait of both sameness and difference, Skulls Exposed is an open invitation to study identity.
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This makes for some page-turners, but it also imposes a wearying sameness on the book.
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They find the sameness of their daily lives and the homogeneity of people around them comforting.
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And yet the collective familial state of equilibrium — our state of ''all encompassing uniform sameness'' — endured.
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Maybe then, Oppo becomes a threat to the dull state of sameness that is phones in 2018.
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Among start-ups, origin stories, while meant to lend distinction, tend instead to achieve a blurring sameness.
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The agency is also seeking to clarify guidelines on what constitutes "sameness" between generic and branded medicines.
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Global art has increasingly tended not toward national variety but toward a sameness of art-schooled conventions.
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Working like that makes me feel like I'm repeatedly funneling my expressiveness through a filter of sameness.
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Suicide Squad's numbing sameness extends well beyond its master-close-up, close-up, close-up shot sequences.
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When you don't have a home base, the sameness of a shopping center can be a comfort.
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Despite the sameness of their subjects, his paintings never grow repetitive or redundant; each possesses a distinct vibrancy.
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The local news feels almost comforting in its sameness: a litany of power outages, corruption scandals, society parties.
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Everything lapses into a terrible sameness, a story that isn't worth telling because it is so infuriatingly familiar.
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Word about Jamie's death spread quickly, and the reactions were comforting in their sameness: This is so incomprehensible.
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C. Sottek The original Moto X was a breath of fresh air in a mobile world of sameness.
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This sameness though is proof of a style, though it's also a reminder that having style isn't everything.
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"Thankfully … I'm so sick of the sameness of models that's been going on for so long," he said backstage.
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This new planet is beautiful and varied, but I can't help but notice a sense of sameness creeping in.
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It's pretty old hat at this point to critique the bland, general sameness that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Among other things, tools like CrowdTangle explain the eerie sameness you find on much of the web these days.
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The magazine doesn't idealize homogeneity of race or gender norms, but rather a global sameness of taste and aspiration.
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Some say that Hitchcock's pictures had a sameness to them, and perhaps that's true — Hitchcock himself wondered about it.
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Christians must proclaim "never again" to the kind of faith that seeks sameness—like white supremacy and anti-Semitism.
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Sameness can be refreshing, particularly in a borough where change is often costliest to those who desire it least.
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After saying that she would never create a festival clothing collection, Chung said Coachella is "cliquey" and encourages sameness.
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It's this endless grey Limbo of sameness, where even the third FA Cup win, over hated Chelsea, felt rote.
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Do AI-powered apps encourage stifling sameness, or do they free us to spend more time on creative pursuits?
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There was a sameness between us, they didn't find me interesting enough to talk to, wanted nothing from me.
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And as the French word for same, même, might suggest, memes are best described in relation to their sameness.
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"I think a lot of people are maybe bored with the sameness of everything," Marks, of Collectors' Weekly, said.
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The brothers' delight seemed to come from feeling all these superficial differences quiver against a profound, self-evident sameness.
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Troy Maxson embodies the truth that the universality of the art isn't in its sameness but in its differences.
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The Brooklyn native's conceptual photography and video series, Unpacking Sameness, takes its inspiration from James Baldwin and Frantz Fanon.
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I'm complaining about the sameness of all these lists, yet can I name something important that isn't on them?
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Drexler is slyly skeptical here, presenting the figures at the table as authoritative yet emasculated by sameness and inactivity.
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And, perhaps, in seeing the everyday sameness, as players we can try to access some of that quiet reflection ourselves.
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With all this sameness, you probably already know what I'm going to say next: AirPods 2 fit exactly the same.
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But at the same time, there's been a bland sameness to so many of these shows for a decade now.
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They represent the growing global sameness of the upper classes; you'll find wearers among people of means in every country.
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Yet other startups are creating this globalized sameness-as-a-service in a self-enclosed package, a holistic AirSpace lifestyle.
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They long for validation and a way to retain their individuality in a grey landscape of sameness, day after day.
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The "sameness" of the two bodies and genders usually coincides with characters who have similar social, metaphorical, or physical power.
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"In this wide perspective, I was against immigration, against multiculturalism, against notions of sameness of nearly every kind," he writes.
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Yet you have to wonder, in the context of all this mass-produced sameness, how personal that "here" can feel.
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Our Glass Ceiling Index finds skewed gender representation and ethnic sameness in many institutions of American politics, culture and education.
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Perhaps it's better to say that the only acknowledgement of sameness is strictly thematic: hopelessness, isolation, defeat — hope, connection, triumph.
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Granted, the Android one was awesome, but in general there's an appalling level of sameness across all these speakers and sessions.
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CONWAY: But there is this growing sameness between what is covered in what is excluded from the coverage that is harming.
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The stylistic sameness, at once drably comic and spacey, enhances the allure of the opera, which in this case is one.
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The problem is that there is uniformity to them, where sameness outweighs difference, and it should be the other way around.
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Seeing them together reveals their sameness: Most artists didn't move beyond AnnLee's minimally depicted, passive-waif persona and endless self-reference.
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And the achievement of that sameness gets labeled as "dignity," and that's the word that keeps coming up in Kennedy's decision.
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Every episode is unique — every hero is a complex individual with a singular back story — within an overall structure of sameness.
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Paradoxically, then, it would seem that we can best limit intolerance of difference by parading, talking about, and applauding our sameness.
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And in order to do this, we must allow each other our differences at the same time as we recognize our sameness.
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I did see some interesting, funny and pretty personal photos from my connections, but I also noticed a certain sameness to them.
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For most people over most of history it has been the sameness that has mattered: identity tended to be a group designation.
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Perhaps her parents liked the sameness of suburban houses because, from the outside, you couldn't tell that a Chinese family lived inside.
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The sheer polish of his singing can lead to a certain sameness; at times, I wanted sharper diction and better-defined contrasts.
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As I searched for differences between the prints, my eyes were drawn to the sameness of the dark voids at the center.
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It's difficult to get lost here, but also hard to appreciate the particularity of any one area, given its impressively refined sameness.
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" Along with brands like Prada and Céline, where he sees "extraordinary sweaters," Krascella hopes Jed will shake up "the sameness out there.
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The talking points among the Hindu protesters ring with a certain sameness: They accuse the state government of being manipulated by Muslims.
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It's more like a restless night, in which stretches of lulling sameness are fitfully interrupted, sometimes in a good way, sometimes not.
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But she also saw the sameness of the hate that robs us all of our peace even in our places of worship.
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They told of sameness, of how the "authentic" becomes a packaged marketing ploy rather than the genuine fruit of a distinct culture.
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Their skin-to-skin contact communicates that familiarity, sameness, and intimacy exist across all black cultures, no matter where Lawson's photographs are taken.
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All the fey had a certain sameness—luminous skin, oversize eyes, pointed ears, and vibrant coloring—but Falun was among the most beautiful.
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In that sea of sameness, putting on a suit makes a statement—and it might actually make you better at your job, too.
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We all have to have respect, mutual respect for each other, and we have to have a certain sameness, I think, of tastes.
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And any easy answer to its fitting the décor has long been lost to the overwhelming sameness with which it marks a restaurant.
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So I try to make them my personal Groundhog's Day; the more militant the sameness, the more I'll notice if anything is off.
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Likewise, it's conceivable that the "sameness" Noori found in male and female brain activity indicates that characteristics we've defined as opposites actually overlap.
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This urban sameness is allowing researchers to determine whether isolated populations of the same species develop similar adaptations when placed in parallel environments.
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Social psychologists like Mr. Haidt say the best way to ease polarization and reduce anxiety among the nationalists is to emphasize our sameness.
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Although this gives Lohman's essays a certain sameness in rhythm, her enthusiastic charm and what you sense is genuine Midwestern niceness shine through.
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There was a ritual sameness to these stories, one that said to us: This was a result of consideration and planning, of practice.
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That's why many couples choose to leave the sameness of their homes and travel somewhere that actually can ignite some passion for Valentine's Day.
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And illusion cuts against the Neo-Conceptual grain — one of the unanticipated departures in a show pretending to illuminate the sameness of it all.
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The first is its isolation, cultural as well as geographical, which endures despite the patina of sameness conferred by fast-food chains and motels.
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I think his point was, in that respect Gawker—and the media at large—was sort of this enforcer of sameness, of political correctness.
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So he is gingerly nudging fashion-forward men awake, challenging them to take back their sartorial independence in a culture that lamely celebrates sameness.
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The structure of each segment is formulaic in the best way, a comforting sameness that ensures you will receive a standard dose of information.
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Refusing to sound like a politician running for president or to buy into the media narrative makes him unique in a pack of sameness.
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Speaking to Fox News' Fox & Friends on Monday morning, Conway criticized the "sameness" of the ceremony, which featured numerous attacks on President Donald Trump.
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As it turns out, this natural tendency toward sameness has become a liability in today's marketplace, costing companies talent, consumer goodwill and real money.
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The sameness of this new song, which isn't to say it's bad, suggests that this is where The Shins is at their most comfortable.
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They are instead shocking in their sameness, completely unwalkable, and totally anathema to the concept of what many people would consider to be utopia.
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To make matters worse, the algorithms that drive our digital economy tell us what is normal, and in doing so, push us toward sameness.
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Understanding all of these biological curiosities, and the way our brains rationalize a sense of "sameness" will be crucial to recognizing AI when it arrives.
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And to show the magic and the beauty and the sameness of a story, and stories, that are outside of where the industry usually looks.
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As I've written before, franchises work best when they're consistent and cohesive, and that means a certain level of sameness is built into the model.
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That sameness meant that my familiarity with American Christian Protestantism was an anchor in the midst of a disorienting transatlantic move when I was 21978.
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The thrill of discovering the unique look and feel of a roadside motel was replaced by assurances of sameness by hosts from coast to coast.
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Yet pieces like this one can have a surface sameness, which was the one downside of a program that mostly emphasized Ms. Saariaho's contemplative side.
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But so many others are possessed of a dreadful, unremarked upon sameness, and an unremitting nobility that can leave this reader feeling a bit mutinous.
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We thought the long tail of the internet would bring diversity; instead we got sameness and the perpetuation of the oldest biases, like gender discrimination.
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It was almost as if Americans had settled for a kind of Yelp-reviewed urban sameness: third-wave coffee shops and facsimiles of Brooklyn bars.
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But while the score starts out fairly strong, a perfect match to the musical's tonal aesthetic, the songs eventually give way to a kind of sameness.
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Eventually they all start to blend together, like some unintentional expanded movie universe connected by the bland sameness of Hollywood's annual slate of expensive summer tentpoles.
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The innocent brilliance of Fu is that she has used her athletic ability and humor to remind us how all women are connected through our sameness.
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Being an Assassin's Creed fan—which I am—means living in a cycle of sameness that is either frustrating or incredibly comforting (depending on the player).
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"We are a category that could often be described as a sea of sameness," said Kelli Parsons, chief communications and marketing officer at New York Life.
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Though there are a few worthy contenders here (Nutella, marshmallow fluff—call me), there's a monotony to their textures, a kind of sluggishness in their sameness.
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Unless you're completely immune to cultural standards of beauty (and if you are, call us), you're going to be attracted to sameness and disconcerted by difference. 6.
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"Find a tired category that really is a sea of sameness, and then figure out what is the cultural shift that the category is missing," he advised.
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It epitomises the variety behind the strip-mall, fast-food sameness of small-town America, but also the loss that can be a bittersweet corollary of progress.
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I actually think that's probably a good thing for people, because that sameness makes it easier to move from site to site to get what you need.
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Cure the sameness of your stuff with hidden gems from Australia's most adorable, quirky and practical designers peddling their wares in the online heaven that is Etsy.
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That sameness is a feature, not a bug – it's what makes it possible to imagine Captain America standing alongside the Guardians in the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War.
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There's a numbing sameness to the casual bloodshed here that makes the viewer almost long for the relative calm of the first film's lengthy pop culture digressions.
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There are no quick solutions to the ideological homogeneity on campuses, but shouldn't we at least acknowledge that this is a shortcoming, rather than celebrate our sameness?
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Trying to shake off the sameness that has settled over a lot of wildlife programming is a commendable instinct, but the treatment here is a bit much.
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There's definitely a feeling of sameness to the Pro model, and I doubt current Shield owners will be compelled to upgrade until Nvidia makes more meaningful hardware advancements.
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After a while, the sameness starts to get genuinely irritating, to the point that you wish they'd ditch the whole musical thing and just perform the movie verbatim.
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And while some fans will no doubt decry a sense of sameness, unlike, say, certain HTC phones, the handset won't be mistaken for an iPhone any time soon.
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But despite that exterior sameness, Apple makes a gutsy gamble on improving, and completely removing, core features that have been part of the iPhone for nearly a decade.
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With Charlotte's unstoppable rise coinciding with both Cena's career and Roman Reigns' invincibility, it was hard not to worry that Charlotte would fall into the same stultifying sameness.
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Yet universities suffer a sickly sameness: Four studies have found that at most only about one professor in 10 in the humanities or social sciences is a Republican.
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And if your business goal is sustainability then all of a sudden a saturating smartphone market, and consumer complaints of boring sameness, starts to smell like an opportunity.
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" She notes that the American promise of sameness — elusive for a child of Slavic immigrants like Warhol or a Brit like her — can appear "a profoundly desirable state.
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A lot of them are in that six feet range, so there's a lot of sameness, but at the same time they're working really diligently to be unique.
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Scott Tay, founder of Beyond Expeditions, wishes to break this sea of sameness with his travel agency, which focuses on uncommon destinations such as Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Ladakh.
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And in an industry that thrives on achieving the largest possible return on its investments, the kind of results they provide drives sameness rather than experimentation and discovery.
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"As math gets more subtle, it's inevitable that we have this progression towards these more subtle notions of sameness," said Emily Riehl, a mathematician at Johns Hopkins University.
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"There is this frustrating sameness to the street fairs," said Jonathan Bowles of the Center for an Urban Future, a nonprofit group that studied the fairs in 2006.
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IT seeks to reduce everyone to sameness so IT can control them; what fights evil, then, is acknowledging one's own faults and loving others in spite of theirs.
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" Wood said that Apple and Samsung were unlikely to be worried by the release, but that the "Mate 9 just boosts Huawei's profile" in a "sea of smartphone sameness.
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They are beloved for their bizarre white buff sameness, but their strength lies in the way that they're able to embrace this persona and lean into their meme status.
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Jen attributes this sameness to the dominance of algorithms that shape our tastes by surfacing only what's already popular in visual culture, entertainment, and news, simultaneously suppressing new ideas.
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It feels to me that before, where we had a bunch of very different voices, in a kind of diverse cacophony, it's now one big algorithmic wave of sameness.
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Variety had returned, erasing the shattering sameness of the plain against which every little tomb and tree was amplified into a focusing point for the eye and the spirit.
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Khan pulled the Constitution from his suit pocket, highlighting the oneness and sameness of the American people, united in war and by our commitment to a shared founding document.
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The retail marketplace today, according to Langenstein, has become a "sea of sameness," with companies like Amazon and off-price players flooding shelves with much of the same brands.
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You can't make sharp observations about the sameness and sexism of broadcast television if you're making them solely through the eyes of white women who sustain the status quo.
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Jen Chaney, Vulture: There's something about the sameness of Stars Hollow that feels less quaint in A Year in the Life than it did during the run of the series.
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On the one hand, we often come to genre fiction specifically for a certain kind of sameness—the pleasure of experiencing a familiar formula reconfigured in a fresh, challenging way.
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Singh nevertheless feels like a breath of fresh air in a late-night landscape largely characterized by its sameness, and brings an established following from YouTube videos along with her.
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Letter of Recommendation Earlier this year, while driving through one of those lulling stretches of desert sameness, on the way to visit family in Arizona, I came to a river.
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The Mummy is the kind of movie critics are thinking of when we complain about the soulless sameness of big-budget blockbusters — but without even the saving grace of basic competence.
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Sloppily scripted by Andrew Cosby, the dialogue is a maelstrom of interchangeable sameness — a conversation from the first act could very well be swapped for one of the movie's final lines.
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They are orgies of sameness in which crowd dynamics produce and escalate a tornado of affirmation and acceptance until it is perfectly admissible to surrender any remaining morality to the mob.
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His mother could blame herself all she wanted — for her pregnancy at 17, her marriage to a brawling lout on permanent disability, her low-paying job and life of dispiriting sameness.
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They are turning to human "curators" as a way to break from algorithmic sameness and demonstrate that there's still a personal (that is to say monocultural) connection when consuming digital content.
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These are big, splashy events, though the industry's steady creative churn has often been compared to a game of musical chairs, one over which a creeping sense of sameness has settled.
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I'm far from the first to fall for the most accessible entertainment, and I'm far from the first to point out that the internet has gotten boring — coated over in sameness.
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But for the most part, the film understands IT as fear that turns to violence and destruction, without a focus on the all-consuming sameness coming from a disgusting central brain.
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But between the franchise arguments around toxic masculinity and general sameness, I ask: how can a great movie in the Rocky franchise be anything but a remake of the original Rocky movie?
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And here I was in China, pointing binoculars towards the carefully manufactured sameness of North Korea, yet again hoping for some clue to a better understanding, which most likely did not exist.
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There was a sameness to them — the concrete homes worn by age; the handcarts offering fried chicken and tortillas; the laborers trudging to work at sunrise, waiting for buses on busy corners.
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"When we go back to our enclaves, enclaves of sameness, how are we going to get to the point where we can mediate these conflicts and have a peaceful society that advances?"
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Meloy tells this story from multiple perspectives — the most tantalizing character is the American-educated son of a drug-world figure — but there is a sameness of tone to the narrative strands.
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I crave sameness because the alternative isn't always so great: Two years ago, another regular guest lost her husband between Christmas and New Year's Day; another had a stroke earlier this year.
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Unlike their predecessors in the 1977 All-Star Game, every American League player was clad in white, and every National League player wore gray — they formed a vast, monochromatic sea of sameness.
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The repetition of subject firstly begs you to ask why the photographers thought it necessary to protect their images, but the sameness also gives the 654 pictures an overall sense of anonymity.
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As much as a referendum on President Trump, Democratic victories in New Jersey and Virginia and Alabama are also a noteworthy demonstration that suburbs no longer reflect the sameness of their midcentury founding.
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In short, Silicon Valley's problem is sameness, stupid — and in Ms. Powell's telling, we are not going to get a better, more responsible tech industry until we get a more intellectually diverse one.
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It would also lose all of its beautiful economy, in favor of repetitive plot circles that would spiral tighter and tighter around the characters, until they started to succumb to the droning sameness.
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Often, they have additional challenges related to communication, comprehension, an insistence on sameness and routine, and sensory sensitivities — all of which may be heightened during any stressful period, especially one that is sustained.
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In the context of this pervasive sameness, personal style can be a way of pushing back, of asserting an identity beyond your productive output or the data points Facebook has collected about you.
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These are the years when phoniness chafes, when inherited morality reveals itself to be deserving of interrogation, when choosing safety and sameness over adventure and difference seems not just distasteful, but often impossible.
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But the word also evokes a homogenized space, a Monocultural Cinematic Universe in which everything is bright, vapid, and family-friendly, and any whimpering of dissent is smoothed over into sameness: monotonous culture.
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And he's confident that at least a few others like him are tired of what he calls "the sea of sameness," the iPhones and Galaxies that all have the same features and blur together.
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AirSpace is a prime example of the sameness of our time, applied to "coffee shops, bars, startup offices, and co-live/work spaces," and it, too, represents a seamless way of navigating the world.
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A universe of 18 quintillion planets exudes a sense of sameness Within the first few hours, players learn to walk, shoot, mine, craft, and ultimately hop from one planet to the next via spacecraft.
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After a quarter-century of near-constant public exposure and scrutiny, she inevitably connotes sameness — which is a chief reason that she and her supporters are stressing the milestone of a first woman president.
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Although Weitz isn't afraid to wear something jarringly trendy himself (a belted suit, for instance), the look he sells to his clients has a certain sameness—streamlined designer sneakers, narrow pants, bright pocket squares.
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I was telling them stories from childhood to spur them along and even though we were from all over the country, there was a sameness or a kindred spirit about how we grew up.
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Still, I couldn't escape a feeling of wearying sameness — a sense of how Picasso, who abused his lovers, made them into formal experiments by using their bodies, but rarely captured what made them unique.
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Brow lifts are indicative of not only another standard of beauty that the vast majority of women cannot achieve, but also a sinister sameness that seems to occupy the rest of our lives too.
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The show's designs are perfectly adequate, but its desire to make everything that's not a human being appear either vaguely phallic or vulva-like means there's a sameness to the designs here and there.
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"The eternal sameness of the third place overshadows the variations in its outward appearance and seems unaffected by the wide differences in cultural attitudes toward the typical gathering place of informal public life," Oldenburg wrote.
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In Hall's painting, the subtly activated field is both spellbinding and changing throughout, a paradox in which the taut bond between difference and sameness is stretched about as far as it can go without snapping.
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There's a sameness to a lot of these offerings: the lurching from one crisis to the next; the brusque, pithy exchanges that rarely last more than a few sentences; the cursory attention to secondary characters.
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In this instance, the overall sameness of the costuming actually had a benefit: No extra tinkering was involved to make Ms. Brugger look boyish; she just sang beautifully and really seemed to become the character.
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"The Mars Room," on the other hand, chafes against the slowness and sameness of time and the oppressiveness of a system that in the name of "justice" dooms our poorest citizens to lives of incarceration.
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Despite recurring elements like striped drapes, red, rug-like wall-hangings and interior design, the domestic scenes do not center on one or even a few apartments, but reflect the sameness of Soviet urban life.
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"Spider-Verse's" three directors — Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman — wanted to move away from that sameness, in part because Miles is so unlike the Spider-Man fans know from the live-action movies.
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They have chosen to resist passage to a genuine afterlife, and with their defiance has come boredom: "Each night passed with a devastating sameness," Hans Vollman, one of those who have adamantly "soldiered on," says.
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Wrapped in a visually appealing, Instagram-friendly package, the shops are an antidote to the feeling of sameness that can sneak up on us as we browse down the endless scroll at e-commerce giants.
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For all the variations that race and geography produced, there was a sameness to the tone of life for everyone I met who was working class, which usually meant they worked but were still poor.
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In music and film, we might call this the tendency of the sophomore slump, or the idea that the second effort always overcorrects either toward sameness (making a boring thing) or toward difference (making something unrecognizable).
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If you're tired of the universal sameness of the typical IKEA, West Elm or CB2-bedecked apartment, well look no further than Aalo, the new YC company that wants you to be your own furniture designer.
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But CBS's stability and sameness of programming also means that every time the network deviates even slightly from its mission statement — TV for Middle America, presented without too much fuss — it gets an itchy trigger finger.
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The end result of this sameness is that a country can pitch itself to the monied Monocle class simply by adopting its chosen signifiers, or hiring Winkreative to do it for them in a rebranding campaign.
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Tired of the muddy sameness of it all, but unwilling to cover wood grain with paint, designers and companies like Ot/tra, Indo- and O&G Studio are experimenting with dying the material eye-catching hues.
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Despite his belief in the essential sameness of people, he made sure to immerse himself in Spanish culture before he began shooting "Everybody Knows," moving to the country for two years and taking daily language lessons.
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From start to finish, Apple's affair was a brushed-aluminum homage to sameness — a parade of services that start-ups and big rivals had done earlier, polished with an Apple-y sheen of design and marketing.
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Though Cerdà's manzanas were (and are) criticized for their uniformity — the sameness is said to leave no room for great monuments or idiosyncratic artistry — it is just that underlying uniformity that has proven so endlessly adaptable.
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Fashion has always been a form of escapism, a way to break away from the daily monotony, the sea of khakis and T-shirts, and the sameness that traps those who don't see the potential of clothing.
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About a tenth of agriculturally bred varieties of plants and animals have gone extinct as agribusiness has become a global juggernaut, inducing a simplifying sameness into everything as it throttles more and more out of the land.
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Great sporting events right after elections should be rabidly non-partisan affairs, a chance to luxuriate in our sameness, to remember our blood ties, rather than replay the spiteful animosities of the previous year-and-a-half.
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So when private equity and other members of the oligarchic class survey the world of media, they see the devastation that the internet has wrought: a pile of enervated news organizations and an endless stream of sameness.
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Yet while Mr. Odedra came across as a protean creature on Friday, the evening as a whole suffered from a sameness of tone — dark, stormy, lonesome, yearning — that amounted to a flat portrait of a multidimensional artist.
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By telling queer stories within a heteronormative media industry that idolizes sameness and takes guidance from whiteness, it's not difficult to see why an exploration of black queer female relationships is so lacking and largely remains invisible.
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If the failure to achieve an American Dream or the desperate, dirty attempt to ascend to it is what shapes these four characters' experiences and verbal arsenals, aren't whiteness and racial and economic sameness part of that?
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" And in the current Black Lives Matter era, when affirming the realities and the rights of difference feels far more productive than promoting the slippery idea of sameness, the same question could be asked of "Blue Black.
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Entropy proved intriguing to him because, as he understood it, energy was ''more easily lost than obtained'' and thus, ''in the ultimate future the whole universe will burn out and be transformed into an all-encompassing sameness.
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The disorder is characterized by having difficulty with social interactions, restricted interests, a desire for sameness, and distinctive strengths, like "remarkable" focus and persistence, an aptitude for recognizing patterns, and attention to detail, according to Autism Speaks.
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No two people who practice religion do it exactly the same way, despite how much it seems to the secular world that they rally around sameness; and no one who leaves it leaves the same way, either.
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There's a sepia-toned sameness to the displays that is occasionally punctuated by red or blue clothing on Noah and his family, or the green plants inside Noah's living quarters, or the murals and dioramas of the exhibitions.
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If Sanders is reaching even a few Trump supporters, then, it's not so much evidence of the two candidates' sameness as a suggestion that even worrying fears can find constructive expression, an outcome we should all hope for.
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The specific issues vary with the faith, but there is an essential sameness to what separates Reform Judaism from Orthodox Judaism, evangelical churches from mainline Protestantism, the liberal Episcopal Church from the conservative Anglican Church in North America.
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Ripken said he thought the explanation for all the current sameness lay in the fact that hitters were taking more batting practice than they used to and were carefully honing an ideal swing out of an ideal stance.
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The sameness sets in right away: A terrorist known as al-Makdasi (Firas Nassar) who had been in Syria appears in the West Bank, echoing the reappearance of a terrorist thought dead at the beginning of Season 1.
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"With Vizzy, we're cutting through the sea of sameness in the hard seltzer category, where most products have a similar visual identity and proposition," said Dilini Fernando, Molson Coors' director of portfolio and brand strategy, in a release.
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The grief that twins experience as they drift apart in life is unique, but it abuts a general grief: if eternal sameness will not guarantee eternal closeness, then what hope is there for siblings, or parents, or lovers?
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I think people are looking for an alternative, because in addition to there being a myopic, lemming-like, ants-on-a-sugar-cube mentality on this story by many in the media, there's just this culture of sameness.
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Everything I Know About Love By Dolly Alderton It's not often that you read a book that makes you laugh, cry, and nod your head in extreme-sameness, but this book does all three of those things in abundance.
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In spite of appearances, however, the recipes make clear that experimenting in the kitchen, for both of these cooks, is about the boldness of subtlety, the paradoxes of sameness embedded in difference, and the un-ironic pleasures of hospitality.
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" For Low, both home and identity are fluid concepts; Low continues, "I think that part of what my book is struggling with is this sense that identity has become more static; like, it has become a feeling of sameness.
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François-Xavier Gbré, based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast (where he shows with Galerie Cecile Fakhoury), unites urban scenes from Benin, France, Israel and Mali in a 63-picture wall mural that amounts to an brilliant analytical essay in sameness and difference.
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But underneath that veneer of sameness is a tool that is supposed to give its users the ability to decide how their messages, images, and other information is handled, even after that data has made it to someone else's phone.
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While Airbnb doesn't offer any decorating standards besides a few tips posted on their website ("show personality, not personal items," one reads), the existence of the platform itself and the needs of its users enables a certain sameness to spread.
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The funny thing is, the movie didn't star Robert Downey, Jr. The funny thing is, the movie didn't star Robert Downey, Jr. It's pretty old hat at this point to critique the bland, general sameness that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Both shows mine their best comedy from difference, not sameness: Asian immigrants who take pride in the gulf between them and their neighbors; a black man so anxious about a white neighbor knowing he can't swim that he nearly drowns.
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Howard Johnson's, the orange-roofed chain that still evokes nostalgia for the comforting sameness of its fried clams, was designed to be immediately recognizable from a moving vehicle: a wholesome, family-friendly restaurant for the growing, car-owning middle class.
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Karuizawa is a wealthy town, but wealth here expresses itself not in sameness, but in difference, as if in recognition that one of the joys of having money is being able to use it to make something beautiful and unusual.
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But what moved him most, he said, were the simple buttons that were found scattered in excavations at the site, all of them perfectly round with small nicks, stains or bits of thread, "The variety and the sameness," he said.
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On the hardware front, Miner said he sees an opportunity for Nextbit thanks to its cloud-based backup feature, but said he was struck by the amount of sameness he saw while perusing the new phones on display in Barcelona.
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It is a tough-minded act to become uniquely oneself against society's onslaught of conformist pressures and the mass-market culture of sameness, most especially when that becoming involves defying dominant norms and risking the loss of your family and friends.
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And because that's the belief, there's always another wrestling promotion ready to be anointed as the great hope, the one which can provide real competition to WWE and rid us of the vast, empty expanse of sameness which WWE represents.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads COLOGNE — There is a sameness that plagues museums around the world today: A small group of canonized artists are exhibited under standardized rubrics within similarly grandiose architecture, separated into antiquity, renaissance, modern, and contemporary.
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This ideal of friendship and sisterhood prizes sameness instead of valorizing what can be learned from people who are not like us, who do not look like us, who do not want to wear matching outfits because actually they have their own style.
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Along with the sheer terror of finding himself in the wrong house, with his recognition of its difference, was a sense, because of the houses' sameness, that he was in all the houses around the lake at once; the sublime of identical layouts.
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Despite the growing global economy, the consolidation of the beverage industry and the sameness this breeds in consumer habits, America still has a number of such drinks: concoctions you'll find just about everywhere in a particular city or state, but nowhere else.
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The Nomas of the world were predictably fantastic — but Noma has also spawned so many imitators (often led by chefs who spent time interning at the Copenhagen restaurant) that there's a lot of sameness in the highest levels of fine dining these days.
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"Everybody likes to see the latest and greatest shiny device, but I think we have reached new heights in the sea of sameness when it comes to smartphones," Ben Wood, chief of research at CCS Insight, told CNBC by phone earlier this week.
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It's given rise to an uncanny sameness in many influencers, a phenomenon known as "Instagram Face": large, smoldering eyes and puffy, pouty lips, radiantly contoured skin and, when extended to the rest of the body, tiny waists that sit atop almost spherically perky butts.
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" Chun explains that she was also surprised by the sameness of the questions being asked on the immigration documents, no matter where one comes from or is headed, "It asks about your location (current and previous), your criminal history, financial standing, family, education, occupation.
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But through repetition of hundreds of interiors—in the work Montparnasse [1993]—which show their sameness, or even differences between each other, that is where the picture is created, and that makes it interesting; that is where it can state something more meaningful about existence.
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Born in 1946 to well-off parents in Yugoslavia under Tito's Communist regime, Abramović claims she became an artist to get away from her mother's cold, abusive attitude, an absent, adulterous father, and the oppressive, gray sameness that engulfed most of her Slavic peers.
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If the perceived danger was initially what Benoist described as "the ideology of sameness"—what many in France called the "Coca-Colonization" of the world—the growing presence of African and Arab immigrants caused some members of grece to rethink the essence of the conflict.
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Ms Yerushalmy's structural ideas, a grab-bag of postmodern gambits, don't equal the scholars' intellectual variety; despite the continually rearranging surface (new combinations of scholar and dancer, new arrangements of where the audience sits, attempts to thread the sections together), a sameness sets in.
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" Jason Roeder, the author of that often-recycled headline, underscored the national sameness of these school shootings on Twitter on Wednesday, saying: "When I wrote this headline, I had no idea it would be applied to the high school a mile from my house.
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In an era when the superhero film has become the dominant force at the box office, there has been concern that the tonal sameness of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — cocky heroes who love to crack jokes and occasionally suffer tragedy — would infect the genre.
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There are real reasons to be suspicious of the new, glossier, advertiser-oriented YouTube, which the people behind the effort to unionize YouTubers communicate eloquently: It creates a culture of corporate-friendly sameness, and income insecurity for anyone who doesn't toe the new line.
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"This whole idea that when you walk in the door, there's a template for: 'We are the same, and out of that sameness we can build an immediate rapport,' to me that seems like a very problematic notion," said Michael Garfinkle, a psychoanalyst in New York.
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Even though the Dallas shooting contains a unique blend of elements—the snipers, the crosshairs targeting of police, the racial dimension, the graphic footage of the event itself—there is a numbing sameness to it all, the familiar sensation of being confronted by more senseless carnage.
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I am the product of Northern California hippie chaos, and he grew up among cops and Catholics in New Jersey, but we share a fundamental sameness that makes it easy to have a good time together, and helps us navigate a bad time pretty well, too.
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The problem with the early episodes — written and directed by Jim Mickle, who also made the film "Cold in July," based on a Lansdale novel — has to do with a slow pace and a sameness that muffle the humor and menace we expect from smart noir.
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Familiar faces, the reassuring sameness of the backstage rider: Deli platter, cheese plate, one bottle of Woodford and two Malbecs, coconut water, muscle milk (God knows how that even got on there), a case of Fiji, and, crucially, one bag of Double Chocolate Pepperidge Farm Milanos.
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We are not at the point yet where study and nose-to-the-grindstone ethic is completely disdained, but the idea that individual differences leading to distinct stratification must be subsumed by a gray sameness, all in service of fairness, is rising rapidly, leastways in progressive precincts.
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There have been ripple effects, too: In the more than five years that Facetune has existed, it has helped give rise to an aesthetic sameness known as "Instagram Face" and produced an entire cottage industry devoted to exposing the differences between our constructed faces and our real ones.
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" She continued: "It is an honor to be on this show, 'black-ish,' to continue expanding the way we are seen and known, and to show the magic and the beauty and the sameness of a story, and stories that are outside of where the industry usually looks.
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A long line of paintings hammers in the self-portrait's limited range: Whether it's Lyonel Feininger as a translucent monolith in 1915, Otto Dix in 1926 and Rudolf Wacker in 1927 in nearly identical tan suits, or Lovis Corinth's sensitive, gray-tone treatment, there's an unrelenting sameness about the underlying project.
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Cover of 'The Best We Could Do,' by Thi Bui (© Abrams ComicArts, 2017) Omnipresent peach washes contribute to a sense of sameness from panel to panel, but they're effective in accentuating the swirls of Bui's blotty grey brushwork and emphasizing the defined inked lines in her strong portraiture, landscapes, and more.
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Stenner makes the point that liberal democracy's allowance of these things inevitably creates conditions of "normative threat," arousing the classic authoritarian fears about threats to oneness and sameness, which activate those predispositions — about a third of most western populations lean toward authoritarianism — and cause the increased manifestation of racial, moral and political intolerance.
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The emergence of difference from sameness is one of the central preoccupations of Bouchra Ouizguen's "Corbeaux" ("Crows"), which combines the qualities of moving sculpture and sound installation as black-robed women utter piercing cries and abruptly jerk their heads backward as they move through a site-specific space with ritualized, repetitive intent.
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People weren't dressed all in drab, grey, and black colors like I thought they might be because they used to be communist (people still very much do dress like that in places like North Korea), but there was still a sameness in pattern and style, particularly among older generations that lived under communist rule.
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A response to the monolithic (and samey-sameness of) beer conglomerates Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors — makers of Budweiser and Miller Lite/Coors Light, respectively, among others — craft brewing emerged as a movement to create better beer, with a focus on smaller-batch production, inventive flavor profiles, and positive effects on the local economy.
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Naturally, Ellis Ross jumped at the chance to shout out her show: It is an honor to be on this show ... to continue expanding the way we are seen and known, and to show the magic and the beauty and the sameness of a story and stories that are outside where the industry usually looks.
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This is what I wrote then: The sameness affecting acres of ABMB — booths full of derivative works siphoning off the stale fumes of Pop, Conceptualism, Neo-Conceptualism, Neo-Expressionism and even Abstract Expressionism — may reassure clients that what they are buying possesses a properly vetted lineage, but in the end much of it remains formally tedious.
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Director Ang Lee and screenwriter James Schamus explore much of the same suburban ennui territory American Beauty would mine two years later—right down to the brightly-polished surfaces and overwhelming sameness; one of Lee's best images finds Ben on the platform of the commuter train amid a sea of businessmen, identically attired in their natty trench coats.
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If there's a certain sameness to it all, it illustrates how tech behemoths are all moving into an age of A.I. Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others are all racing to become the go-to company for A.I., betting that whoever wins will have the advantage in a technology that is permeating more and more software programs and hardware products.
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We had a crowd certainly equal our record I run into thousands of shareholders and they are all having a good time and our directors have a good time here so its sort of a Mardi Gras BECKY QUICK: Is there anything different about this meeting or is it the sameness that makes it so special?
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There are stretches of the museum in which a feeling of sameness and emptiness sets in, with a stylistic specificity, centered on the clean and geometric, that makes more allusive terms of expression, such as the sculptural installations of Louise Bourgeois or Joseph Beuys's drawings based on the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, feel like outliers.
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The Glendale Galleria shopping mall is located in Glendale, California, but if you happened to wake up from a coma inside of it, you'd be forgiven for not knowing if you were standing in Los Angeles County, or my hometown, or yours, as it shares that soothing sameness that makes all American malls feel like embassies for people from suburbia.
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In fact, what we witness in one country after another in today's world is an astonishing blending of elements once considered fixed: the crumbling of racial and religious sameness on display at the latest wedding of an English prince; the popularity of new age religious rituals and rhetoric; the celebrated successes of the diverse French soccer team; the composition of any major symphony orchestra.
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WARREN BUFFETT: It is the sameness pretty much working with Charlie Munger we are not going to change the format very much BECKY QUICK: Although Brian pointed out earlier, there were a lot of controversial subjects and things that caught peoples attention and picked up a lot of news this time because you and Charlie say what you think especially Charlie WARREN BUFFETT: Yeah.
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In that it resembles reading, but while the loss of the self in reading is to the alien I, the protagonist — which, by virtue of being so obviously apart from the reader's own singular I, does not seriously threaten its integrity — the loss of the self in writing is complete, as when snow vanishes into snow: no foreground or background, no top or bottom, only sameness everywhere.
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There is a sameness to the ghost stories, and it becomes poignant to the degree that one accepts these traditional Japanese tales, in this hybrid telling and package, as an oblique form of auto-therapy, scaring their teller along with his audience and then resolving that fear in one stroke, at least until the next night, when it will have to be done all over again.
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Over the decades these types have changed their looks and histories, but there's a sameness to how they escape the law and the routine hum of everyday life; how they use guns ruthlessly or reluctantly; skip out on church yet live by their own moral code; and inevitably rise to become masters of their worlds, as well as of the most beautiful women in the room.
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When you spend weeks on end traveling the strip malls and big-box stores of America, you start to appreciate small differences in what can seem like archipelagos of sameness: the way the Targets get cleaner as you approach corporate headquarters in Minneapolis; the novelty of an unusually small Walmart in Indiana; the McDonald's in Pomeroy, Ohio, that served pizza, the remainder of an abandoned experiment in the '22s.
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This playful stance towards the meaning of "fast" and "slow" is, I think, also true of the twin poles of Private Parts as an LP. Heard at the level of the arrangement, there is a deeply self-similar flatline of formal sameness to each of these pieces, which is why, if you stand at a certain distance, one can receive them as more or less workable examples of "ambient" music.
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Between the totalizing sameness of social media, rising rents, and the increasing migration between the two cities as publishing and magazine budgets shrink and everyone tries to get a job in a writers room before the Golden Age of Television ends, the two cities once considered polar opposites are becoming more and more like each other as they both fill up with algorithm-approved chains that have nothing to do with either's local culture.
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Tough-talking populist politician, like Erdoğan and Republican nominee Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE, who do not mince words about their plans to recreate a nation in their image: A nation that would reward sameness and ban/punish/subdue the "outsiders," as they are "threats" to real Turks/Americans.
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They lie at the core of what divides America: These reflect some of the fundamental fault lines of human conflict and are unlikely ever to be resolved or settled because we can't just be socialized or educated out of our stances on these issues, as they are the product of deep-seated, largely heritable predispositions that cause us to vary in our preference for and in our ability to cope with freedom and diversity, novelty and complexity, vs oneness and sameness.
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She understood that through the visual of relentless sameness, she could immediately grant herself a signifier that set her apart, that acted as shorthand for her own presence and that hinted at the Silicon Valley values of the mind: the belief, beloved by figures like Mr. Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, that wearing the same kind of clothes every day frees the intellect from having to make pesky dressing decisions and thus opens up more cerebral space for making the kind of choices that really matter.
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Kagan's concerns were shared by Justice Sonia SotomayorSonia SotomayorSupreme Court sharply divided over state aid for religious schools Justice Roberts neglects his own role in tilting American democracy Turley: Testifying for Republicans should not be a sin for academics MORE, both Obama appointees, as well as Justice Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader GinsburgSupreme Court sharply divided over state aid for religious schools Equal Rights Amendment will replace equality with enforced sameness SCOTUS 'TRAP law' case and the erosion of abortion rights MORE, a Clinton appointee.
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