It is politically stable and geopolitically independent; its citizens enjoy a high standard of living and all the trappings—but not much more than the trappings—of democracy.
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There exists, by extension, an undeniable urge to draw a parallel between the anti-PC trappings of Veep and the anti-PC trappings of our current government—but why bother?
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Successful people are generally enamored by the trappings of their success, Galloway says, and they can conflate the trappings of wealth and power with a passion for what made them successful.
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The celebration had all the trappings ... even fire dancers.
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Communication in the digital age has plenty of strange trappings.
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Too often, however, the capital's glitzy trappings prove too seductive.
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And these cultural trappings do follow art, when art travels.
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You started walking and eventually the trappings of mankind vanished.
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After all, whiteness and its trappings remain all too appealing.
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There are no trappings of career progression or wealth accumulation.
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I am particularly susceptible to the trappings of pop culture.
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There, any trappings of her native culture were strictly forbidden.
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Mr. Andrus avoided many of the trappings of being governor.
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The trappings of a comfortable exile were already in place.
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It wasn't the trappings of power that appealed to him.
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Gone are the stiff-shouldered trappings of the traditional power suit.
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A good meal could be had anywhere, no matter the trappings.
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It has all the trappings of an independent nation—but isn't.
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She runs her own business festooning neighborhood homes with Christmas trappings.
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Former Medium employees recall the trappings of a cushy startup life.
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Yet these capitalist trappings mask the continued influence of the state.
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Their vision of art is reduced to luxury trappings for oligarchs.
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An event this special deserves extraordinary trappings, and we've got 'em.
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But it's more those trappings than anything else, creating the comparison.
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Gradually, Mr. Radikon began to pare away the trappings of modernity.
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Carles Puigdemont has pressed pause and claimed the trappings of democracy.
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It is also a full assault on authority and its trappings.
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For all its counterculture trappings, then, "Mass" is fundamentally, boringly conservative.
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The operatic trappings actually enhance the work's majestic and sublime qualities.
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They haven't necessarily grown up with the traditional trappings of wealth.
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It had all the trappings of another disheartening, late Giants loss.
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He preferred the inside, with its glossier trappings and cushier thrones.
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The trappings of status remained, but the All-Star had vanished.
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When the Chicago Aviary opened, elaborate trappings like these were novel.
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"Don't mistake the trappings of success for success itself," he advises.
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Issues: the capitalist trappings of the genre are not sufficiently reimagined.
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It's all buried still in the trappings of the assumed humanity.
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Beneath the noir trappings, though, Blade Runner is about slavery and injustice.
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He is known to revel in the military trappings of his job.
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Perhaps, amid the trappings of power, he will tire of guerrilla warfare.
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What are trappings to the rest of us are tools for Maddie.
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Now it's updated with multiplayer support and FFXV trappings… for some reason.
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ETBU surrounds its players with the trappings of an ambitious program, too.
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But in fact, Stuber's trappings belie the twisted heart that beats beneath.
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And really, despite all the trappings of love, Titanic is her story.
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We don't have to worry about all the rest of the trappings.
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Neoliberal ideology doesn't rely on evolutionary trappings, but keeps the core point.
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Despite such trappings, "The Sympathizer" does not read like an academic work.
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The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.
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What I didn't find were crowds, lines, vendors — the trappings of tourism.
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Television has a few trappings we don't usually think too much about.
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It is a dunk with all of the trappings of the present.
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They're the trappings of cinematic war sadness without anything to justify them.
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Stripping away clothing and other societal trappings reveals rawness, regardless of gender.
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She was a loner, claiming to have eschewed the trappings of urbanity.
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The clip was aired with all the trappings of serious TV journalism.
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But, barring that, a quality chunk of meat doesn't need fancy trappings.
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And certainly, those trappings show up on "Triple Double," his new album.
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But Fiume also became a test run for the trappings of Fascism.
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Thanks to those trappings, and the overall vibe, "Hunters" does sustain interest.
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And he didn't want the social trappings associated with a mainstream career.
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Enjoyed "The Crown" and all the royal trappings surrounding Queen Elizabeth II?
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At first blush, Aspiration has all the trappings of a successful disruptor.
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The trappings of royalty are a big part of the shop's business.
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But its president still has the trappings of an old-school authoritarian.
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Mr. Prayuth is openly distrustful of some of the trappings of democracy.
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You're just using the trappings of an investigation to beat your opponent.
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And Trump will not get all the trappings that his predecessors sometimes enjoyed.
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Having that mindset has also helped her to avoid the trappings of negativity.
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The Congressional game includes many trappings of a regular Major League Baseball game.
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Are you glad to be free of the trappings of the superstar DJ?
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But the trappings of TV and movies can tempt you to feel entitled.
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The Harry Potter trappings in Three Houses are almost too blatant, in fact.
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But you don't need those trappings to appreciate the strength and artistry involved.
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The experiential value of encountering old master paintings amid the trappings of luxury.
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On the surface, Octopath has all of the trappings of a SNES adventure.
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And he did this without the trappings of many social and political leaders.
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The usual trappings of family life followed — a daughter, a home, furniture, toys.
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It has all the trappings of what that feels like, and then BAM!
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Starting school also means letting go of the trappings of little-kid life.
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Context aside, the story had all the trappings of a juicy celebrity scandal.
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He is a rap star without rap-star trappings, a parallel-universe champion.
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The Pumpkin Spice Latte has become synonymous with the cozy trappings of fall.
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Conscience is our guide, whatever trappings we might choose to clothe it in.
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Consider its trappings: It has a charismatic leader and legions of rapturous followers.
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And yet, in many ways, the novel seems to reject its epic trappings.
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Those hilarious trappings seem set up to avoid making us anxious for him.
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Wynwood is Miami's hippest emerging hood, so expect all the trappings that suggests.
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Tiffany Trump didn't grow up surrounded by all the trappings of her father's wealth.
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The series also does a nifty job of replicating the early-20th-century trappings.
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But don't let the flashy trappings fool you: this is a very significant development.
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And so I'm going to say that this has the trappings of fake news.
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An impeachment trial has several trappings of a court trial: lawyers, evidence, jurors, verdict.
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These high-tech trappings helped make the shark experiment a hit for the zoo.
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Amelia goes through speaking French and English, all the trappings of regaining her brain.
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Well, until now—Sony's new A9 has all the trappings of a a dethroner.
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I think there's a few moments where you need the gravity of the trappings.
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Aside from the vague trappings of plot, these would have been perfect IMAX movies.
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"All the trappings of your life are connected to your employment arrangement," Shuler says.
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Season 2, however, often falls into those trappings that Season 1 so delicately avoided.
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PUBG is ostensibly a hardcore survival game, with outwardly militaristic, serious, and 'realistic' trappings.
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It's a life filled with children, grandparents and all the trappings of professional success.
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One of the most exclusive trappings of wealth was being a regular Concorde passenger.
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Gone are the roving camcorder and the drab trappings of the nine to five.
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Wynwood is Miami's hippest emerging hood, so expect all the trappings that it suggests.
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It's basically a mini-golf game with Kirby trappings and that inimitable Kirby charm.
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Plus all the evidence he's grown enamored of the trappings and prestige of government.
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The segment was a a vintage network TV investigative report with all the trappings.
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In truth he never let go of the trappings of the pre-Holt life.
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On the surface, this event has all the trappings of a normal party convention.
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He's also looking at his grandson [raises one eyebrow], who's got some odd trappings.
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But the trappings of that extreme wealth are very different on these two series.
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What struck him most was interrogators' surreal insistence on some trappings of judicial procedure.
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A few months into office, she's still adjusting to the trappings of the role.
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FOR ALL ITS idealistic trappings, Green School was founded, initially, on a pragmatic concern.
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Whistler's crowds and high-end trappings can get a little exhausting after a while.
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The accessibility and willingness to eschew the trappings of power were a welcome sight.
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We desire expertise so much that we can be satisfied even with its trappings.
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"It was great, I did not miss the trappings of the office," Obama added.
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Their apparent inevitability is because they possess trappings of power but lack popular support.
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Now add the fancy garnishes, suitably festive but more affordable than the typical trappings.
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So Mr. Trump moved to use the trappings of the presidency to woo them.
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They outfit unfamiliar surroundings with the trappings of home, seeking a semblance of normalcy.
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These trappings of wealth are all funded by grateful clients from Italy, he said.
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He has shunned a record label and many other trappings of the music industry.
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She has long eschewed the ubiquitous trappings of modern society: the cellphone and computer.
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But despite its fantasy trappings, Game of Thrones does reflect aspects of our world.
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This novel, in any case, bears none of the obvious trappings of commercial success.
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The chunky dad-looking shoe possesses all the trappings of its trendy brunch staple inspiration.
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What are the trappings for you, where you said, "I shouldn't do this or that"?
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THE OFFICES OF Miniwiz in central Taipei display all the trappings of a vibrant startup.
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Despite the period-film trappings, the story has a dark undercurrent of dread and violence.
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I fell into all the trappings of Wall Street — sex, drugs, alcohol and lavish spending.
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Like its forebears, The Dragon Prince has all the trappings of an enduring fantasy show.
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The video shows the simulation without plant trappings, and it looks like intelligent sausage links.
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Like Berlanti's CW superhero shows, Titans doesn't shy away from the trappings of the genre.
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I was able to sidestep the trappings of a system designed to make me fail.
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As a splinter group of La Familia, the Knights Templar employ similar strategies and trappings.
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Today, Chikli has himself amassed many trappings of a banker's life: White baby grand piano.
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Those involved with "13 Hours" have said the movie steers clear of any partisan trappings.
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But these trappings did serve another political purpose which helped to advance President Reagan's standing.
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I have it too… you just get connected to the trappings of a liberal life.
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Politically, hearings, letters and the other trappings of Washington could be useful for the GOP.
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"She's not somebody who enjoys the trappings of being Prime Minister," a former aide said.
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But more importantly, advocates say the corporate trappings protecting male predatory behavior must be dismantled.
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Jia Yueting has all the trappings of a successful Chinese tech entrepreneur with global ambitions.
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For those who do stay, the trappings of modern life are infuriatingly hard to grasp.
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She's captivated by this man who has renounced the trappings of society, property, and status.
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But I kept getting distracted by its vague trappings of symbolism with no follow-through.
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But it sees in Jesse someone who's confused the trappings of faith with faith itself.
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Fishing, long an escape from the world's stresses, has taken on more of its trappings.
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Most were short comic sketches , and several used the tools or trappings of the classroom.
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What Rae's metabolism drops do have are all the trappings of an indie skincare brand.
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It's a complicated, lyrical story underpinned by the trappings of war and feelings of loss.
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DUBLIN, Ohio — The Memorial has all the trappings of a home event for Jason Day.
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But for the moment, Baby Yoda is still untouched by the tacky trappings of commercialism.
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White House Memo President Trump likes gold fixtures, marble tiles and the trappings of grandeur.
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It all adds up to, on paper at least, the trappings of a contending team.
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But Trump didn't even choose a personal physician unintimidated by the trappings of his wealth.
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In the White House, the trappings of the presidency have given Trump's images even more power.
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He talks real over an Ear 2 Tha Beat production about the trappings of urban life.
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But they also haven't ditched the trappings of the life they built together from the beginning.
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He's got all the trappings of high office now (the title, the black car, the helicopter).
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"She loves femininity and the trappings of femininity and the performance of femininity," Grace Dunham said.
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The handset feels premium, while managing to avoid the lookalike trappings of many other flagship devices.
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Underneath all the trappings of civilization, we maintain those bare animal drives: rage, anger, lust, territorialism.
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The creed has plenty of the trappings of Hinduism, but an unusual fixation on social justice.
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Despite the genre trappings, it's the relationship between Ivy and Tabitha that drives the story forward.
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It feels like a modern action game, but with all of the familiar Final Fantasy trappings.
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Other firms explicitly state that family members must live modestly and eschew trappings like flashy cars.
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For all of its trappings as a serious-minded action RPG, Minecraft Dungeons is unassailably cute.
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Even with a limited governmental resume, Obama capitalized on the trappings of the pop culture world.
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After their first terms, presidents seeking re-election are frequently helped by the trappings of office.
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Similarly, Bowien dwells on his missing Korean heritage, but has also broken free of its trappings.
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The disreputability of the genre has to do with its slightly seedy showmanship, its carnival trappings.
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The rooms are small and have the trappings of a traditional hotel room, to a point.
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So what if he has left behind the trappings, and production values, of prime-time TV?
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But the movie exemplifies how small judgments in pace, performance and soundtrack can transcend modest trappings.
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That's why many undemocratic governments insisted on maintaining democratic trappings, in particular elections and term limits.
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There were braces and glasses, sneakers and hoodies, teasing and giggles — all the trappings of tweens.
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But yes, the platforms mimic the law without any of the trappings that make law work.
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In fact, the contemporary trappings allowed Ms. Feola to tease out contemporary resonances from Gilda's character.
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Classic rapper trappings flashed at a Chinese hip-hop festival near the southwestern city of Chengdu.
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The story has all the trappings of a juicy affair, including graft and hidden Nazi sympathies.
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Despite the trappings of a nice life and a baby on the way, Hunter seems empty.
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The Trump of McNaughton's imagination is a defender of the trappings of the great American experiment.
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Some areas of Lehigh don't even have sewer service, electricity, or other basic trappings of civilization.
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The trappings of domesticity (marriage, motherhood, pet ownership, chores) are recurring motifs in Ms. Williams's oeuvre.
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Those who survive eventually come to enjoy the trappings of radical advances in science and technology.
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Unlike Facebook or Twitter, Snap has largely avoided many of the standard trappings of Silicon Valley.
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But despite its noir trappings, "My Darling Detective" isn't as dark as some of his others.
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And never had Britons been treated to so many modern trappings at a core establishment institution.
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The rest of the movie includes many typical spy movie trappings — exotic cars, fistfights and chases.
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As they rapidly accumulated wealth, the Bezos family took pains to preserve the trappings of normalcy.
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"It has all the trappings of a winnable seat if the climate cooperates," Mr. Sittenfeld said.
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Lopez Obrador has shunned the often luxurious trappings of Mexico's wealthy elites, choosing to fly coach.
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We spoke with Zimmer about his festival debut, "The Lion King," and the trappings of Hollywood.
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And there are many times when Gilmore Girls itself becomes enamored of the trappings of wealth.
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But in Willoughby, Linklater is offering something else: a warning about the false trappings of nostalgia.
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He also rids the story of the usual Cinderella trappings: the fireplace, a pumpkin and glass slippers.
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He had a big life, without the trappings of a desk job or a 401k to fill.
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Somaliland boasts all the trappings of statehood, including a flag, a currency, diplomatic missions and a border.
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And robbed of the unique charm of the Pokémon trappings, the underlying game just isn't very fun.
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If the prestige and macho genre trappings get more people to watch Yellowstone, though, all the better.
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Netrunner is a physical card game, like Magic: The Gathering, but without any of the fantasy trappings.
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I adore the Mass Effect series, generally, for its heart, grand space opera trappings, and lovable characters.
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Despite being worth $77.4 billion according to Forbes magazine, Buffett avoids some trappings associated with the rich.
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The Angry Birds are ready for their Hollywood moment — and all the trappings that come with it.
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But trying to ban genetic manipulations would increasingly require the trappings of the most oppressive police states.
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The NES Classic, for all its console trappings, is really just a very cool and inexpensive toy.
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Authoritarian rulers now rely on the trappings of democracy — most importantly, multi-candidate, civilian elections — for legitimacy.
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But Goodbye manages to find the humanity within the sterile trappings Fribourg sets up as his premise.
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Several of the show's sequences would only work in the more theatrical trappings of the multi-cam.
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My main memory of the center was a space free of the trappings of the commercial scene.
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Cadaver Dog, on the other hand, stands in direct opposition to the commercial trappings of modern hardcore.
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People who can disassociate sex from its moral trappings are more likely to hook up on Tinder.
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She allows a credible love story to peek out through the elaborate trappings of allegory and satire.
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And he seems perfectly OK using its trappings as a vessel for advancing personal or political interests.
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The president took full advantage of all the trappings of presidential power to call for national unity.
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"There's all this new space to reach out to Islam, or the trappings of Islam," he said.
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In 1990, he toured the United States and was struck by its trappings of middle-class comfort.
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He became more obsessed with the physical trappings of Islam: the long beard, the ankle-high pants.
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Although the repeated questions are narratively obtrusive, the men's voices broaden this experience beyond its escapist trappings.
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Despite this statement having all the trappings of something known as a "lie," Gianforte hasn't retracted it.
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Anti-plutocrat fevers come and go, but the trappings of American aristocracy are always in style somewhere.
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Such modern trappings aside, moraingy remains rooted in its past as a corporeal expression of Malagasy society.
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And so I sometimes dream of throwing off the trappings of our troubled world and joining them.
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Though "Ferocity" adopts the trappings of a stylish thriller, it has the ambitions of a social novel.
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But the decades-long magazine boom that made such trappings possible is a thing of the past.
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Every day I learn the financial trappings of life and how expensive it is to be poor.
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She was rebelliously devoted to dance; the trappings of fame or popularity were antithetical to her approach.
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The increasingly monarchical trappings of the presidency are some distance from the founders' ideal of republican simplicity.
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Mr. Trump loves the trappings of the presidency, whether in the United States or in another country.
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But the Republicans' defense of him is starting to have all the trappings of a political campaign.
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"Darmok" is a powerful example of TNG's ability to use sci-fi trappings to tell humanistic stories.
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Looking at the first installment now, you can see why much of the franchise's trappings worked then.
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"These things have all the trappings of systems but instead are really just window dressing," he says.
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It's the trappings, and all these elements and symbols are seen by her as part of the job.
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And when you follow the alt-right back home, the movement's goofy, social media-friendly trappings fall away.
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Without the trappings of ye olde Waterfords, June is able to grow and change and become more powerful.
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Liberalism is the dirtiest word, and its trappings -- feminism, political correctness, multiculturalism, "social justice" -- are to be resisted.
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Appearing wowed by the trappings of royal hospitality, Trump has hailed transatlantic alliances during his gracious public appearances.
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He enjoys the trappings of fame and power: the big planes, the crowds, the ceremonies, the gold furniture.
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In other instances, the game sheds its VR trappings and dares to throw you into disorienting combat scenarios.
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The familiar trappings of fascism—tanks and soldiers treadmilling past crowds in city squares—tore across the screen.
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Gaga is good as Ally, and so is Cooper as Jackson, all vulnerability under the rock star trappings.
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And the point of it is to say that despite the genre trappings, we're not all the different.
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In the 1960s, some of the trappings of femininity — including bras — became subject to scrutiny by feminist activists.
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Unlike Cameron Post, that movie was set in its own time, without the trappings of a period piece.
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Album opener "Nikes" is a lyrical treatise on the trappings of materialism, a frequent subject in Ocean's music.
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There are a lot of fun sci-fi trappings, and weirdly enough, I think I love the Farm.
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But though there are all the trappings of social critique here there doesn't seem to be the intent.
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Stripped of its cult festival trappings, Midsommar is a breakup movie, as seen through the prism of horror.
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However, the Orange fell into their old trappings in an 83-163 loss at Virginia Tech on Tuesday.
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But the tarmac appearance was the first event with the normal trappings of a press conference in months.
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Although the billionaire is wearing the trappings of Chinese culture, he can't cover up his conspicuous blonde curls.
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The singer Sia is now known for her iconic face-covering wig to evade the trappings of fame.
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It's these little structural details that make a song stick with the listener, no matter their genre trappings.
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It's what the original series episodes were constituted by, but with the trappings of a gigantic, summer blockbuster.
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When the UN voted in 1947 to partition Palestine, the Jews already had the trappings of their state.
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"She has all the trappings to be a wonderful mother, but it's not a choice that she's making."
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Aside from the technological innovations, the yacht would have all the lavish trappings of the typical luxury superyacht.
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LaKela Brown's plaster-cast sculptures represent the common trappings and symbols of her 1990s hip hop-flavored upbringing.
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I fully enjoy the trappings of my suburban life — the schools, the space, the fawns in our backyard.
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I had allowed my older daughter to embrace the traditional trappings of masculinity, like baseball gloves and sweatpants.
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To make the plays work in a modern context, the trilogy is mostly stripped of its religious trappings.
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Australia Diary Lamenting the trappings of the modern world — from our false sense of connectedness to avo toast.
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Despite its sumptuous trappings, the Stratford production, directed by Lezlie Wade, does not get all the surfaces right.
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For me, the fascination of this often passive, largely talentless woman lies in the trappings of her life.
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Too Short point-blank says he was enjoying his celebrityhood and all the trappings that came with it.
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Room 125A at Public School 75 in Manhattan has all the usual trappings of an elementary school classroom.
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Take those trappings you resent so much — cooking, gardening, bearing children — embrace them, then wield them like weapons.
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What if a man had come to us preaching the gospel of Trump without the trappings of Trump?
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Work that's legal, taxable, and comes with the unexpectedly mundane trappings of eight-hour shifts and dress codes.
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Composers of the nineteen-twenties pioneered the trend, rejecting mythic trappings in favor of ocean liners and foxtrots.
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His topics grew more varied, less tied to news events and more to the trappings of ordinary life.
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Colyer may have the trappings of office, but he lacks the traditional advantage that an incumbent might enjoy.
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The trappings of being prime minister of the world's fifth largest economy do not sit well with her.
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Despite all his trappings, he looked like a nice guy with a genuine intelligent twinkle in his eyes.
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It's just sold in genre trappings, so we accept it more readily than we would on, say, Parenthood.
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Selfies are rare, as are colors, food, beaches, or any of the stereotypical trappings of the gramm-able lifestyle.
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The ribbon-cutting at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, had all the trappings of a campaign event.
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But in the video's case, it's the sampling of historical images spliced with the trappings of modern-day life.
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Sadly, its more overtly action-oriented trappings don't really work, and the film lacks any deeper themes or ideas.
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His missing holiday bonus and mounting economic anxiety suggest that the cushy trappings of his world are fading away.
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Despite its science-fiction trappings, Mr. Houellebecq's interior vision is no less relevant than Ms. Despentes's broad social canvas.
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Changez, the Pakistani protagonist of Mohsin Hamid's novel "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (2007), enjoys the trappings of New York life.
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In fact, this is one of the reasons some Christians approach the modern trappings of the holiday with caution.
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Like the novel, the animated music video is peppered with references to a wide range of pop culture trappings.
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ISIS leaders are in hiding and on the run -- the trappings of independence and statehood too costly to maintain.
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It's got all the design trappings of a gaming laptop, but in a body that weighs just 213 pounds.
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In the mould of contemporary strongmen worldwide, he has kept the outward trappings of democracy while gutting its content.
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PUBG has none of the trappings of online shooters that I've found so off-putting for the past decade.
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Turns out, it takes quite a few folks to free a squirrel from the trappings of a plastic cup.
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Toward the end of the record, disappointment in his mother's eyes recasts all the trappings of his, well, trapping.
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The castle was built in the 10th century, and it has all the trappings of an authentic medieval castle.
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Unencumbered by growth metrics, Techmeme has so far succeeded while shirking pretty much all the trappings of modern publishing.
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But the gray market doesn't have some of the trappings of commercialization which some people would like to avoid.
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The result is an abstract expressionist masterpiece, perfectly capturing our dysfunctional relationship with technology and its suffocating capitalist trappings.
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What we mean is that we would like to remain ourselves whilst adopting, occasionally, the trappings of another person.
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Now Martinez continues to use the trappings of power in a brazen attempt to keep Luis from finding justice.
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It goes without saying that she left the trappings of Mort behind some time ago to live as Maura.
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Jacksonian conservatives vigilantly work against Republicans who, enamored with Washington's trappings, eschew the people's will and grow government further.
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Mainly, the big mistake we all make is to focus on the trappings, on the fallout of your work.
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He began espousing a "warrior" code in relation to his veganism and critiquing the trappings of modern "degenerate" culture.
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My four-year-old is big into the trappings of Christmas—the books and songs, decorations and obviously presents.
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The thing is, we're both high earners who have avoided most of the trappings of having a big income.
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And, as in our uneasy times, the material trappings of Sander's world attest to the precariousness of daily life.
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Bottom line, Capehart said, is that "the first Thanksgiving" and all its trappings, is a late 19th-century invention.
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There's a clear sense that part of their dismissal lies in their feminine trappings and lack of mechanical systems.
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She did not cite or trade on the trappings of her office; she did not proclaim from the bench.
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A truck driver with long bouts of unemployment, he seized on the trappings of religion and grew increasingly angry.
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Previous rounds of constitutional amendments in China took much longer and involved at least the trappings of public discussion.
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How, then, did a holiday on the official Catholic calendar become associated with all the material trappings of modernity?
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His purchase and renovation of the country club in neighboring Boothbay caused grumbling about higher fees and fancy trappings.
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Despite having all the trappings of adulthood, I've never really grown out of being the class clown at school.
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"I don't think Donald Trump likes the job of president, but he likes the trappings of power," Stewart said.
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Mr. Modi has shed many of the pro-Western trappings that the Indian establishment was once so proud of.
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This draws his ire, loath as he is to go in for any of the "fake" trappings of celebrity.
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The Affair The show's soapy trappings can mask how well it maps to the messiness that is adult life.
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But China's rich continue amassing ever greater fortunes and want what they see as the trappings of respectable refinement.
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Others have tempted him with royal trappings, like the British did by invoking the actual queen of England. Twice.
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The taboo -- to immerse themselves in what they believe to be the trappings of the working class -- becomes sexualized.
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After a fierce debate inside the administration, the White House on Thursday took on the trappings of a celebration.
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He's surrounded by all the trappings of a World War II drama — the weapons, the training montage, the bloodshed.
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The psychological benefits -- and trappings -- of nostalgia Of course, you wouldn't say "pyt" in response to being seriously wronged.
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" Lorde wrote that anyone that exists outside of that identity lives on the margins of "the trappings of power.
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But despite the self-aware trappings of this sex-witch routine, he is, in fact, still in sexual peril.
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The site is a strange setting because of the corporate trappings that displays have to negotiate, hide, or highlight.
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ReCore has the trappings and ambitions of a big-budget game without the flair and polish you'd usually expect.
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To critics, operations like this are just borrowing the trappings of traditional funds to make gambling look more like investing.
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He developed insomnia and began spending sleepless nights planning his escape from the trappings that caught up to his peers.
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Jon Kyl, who&aposs set to serve as his "sherpa" by guiding him through the trappings of the confirmation process.
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Control, gaugeable progress, streamlined processes and known goals—all the trappings of job satisfaction—are also the elementals of gaming.
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But those gilded trappings don't make the exercise any less hollow -- or what the network saw in it less puzzling.
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And that's a good thing because, when stripped of its maniacal trappings, The Perfection is dealing in very real emotions.
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Even without the trappings of the American Dream, home ownership is totally still attainable… if you're a woman, that is.
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It uses the same basic trappings, and the producers swear it's in the same chronology as the other TV series.
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Some running women—such as Greek mythology's Atalanta, who killed the male suitors she outran—rejected the trappings of femininity.
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From step counting and calorie checks to daily movement reminders, it's got all the trappings of an awesome fitness tracker.
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Juston Street, playing wild-eyed and agro pitcher Jay Niles, truly shines as all the party trappings are pushed aside.
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How did something so potentially dangerous give birth to the Enlightenment and all its trappings of democracy and human rights?
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As one might expect, the major theme propelling the band's new album is war, and all of its hellish trappings.
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No USB transfer, Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi — none of the standard array of early 21st century vinyl trappings are present.
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Although they may be locked into the trappings of their class and gender, their political machinations become their best weapons.
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Despite his railing against liberal Hollywood—they're responsible for the Twin Towers falling, you know—D'Souza obviously loves its trappings.
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Since his irl marriage and subsequent divorce from Katie Holmes, Cruise has avoided the trappings of domesticity in his movies.
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The roleplaying game swaps the fantasy trappings of its predecessor, 2014's The Stick of Truth, for handmade superhero costumes.
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Cutler has all the trappings of a superstar quarterback—the big arm, the celebrity wife, the limitless store of cockiness.
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Yet for all their trappings of wealth, the Rockefellers worked hard to downplay their vast fortune, even within the family.
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The courtyard spectacle had all the trappings of a practiced performance, with the fighters politely agreeing with the intelligence officer.
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The scene, for all its fashionable trappings, was a deliberate throwback: an atelier of the old school, devoted to handwork.
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It's too bad, since as noted there's a lot to like here, from Brosnahan to the period trappings and music.
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The décor mixes Uzbek textiles and ceramics with the familiar trappings of commercialized Brooklyn: exposed brick, distressed tables, tin ceilings.
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It does so with all the trappings of a hit: a competitive price, popular franchises stacked to the ceiling, Forky.
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TORONTO — From the doorway of the Newsgirls Boxing Club, all the trappings of a standard boxing gym are in view.
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Though those trappings are presented a little more strangely, the video for"21" findsDaBaby slowly feeding his girl breakfast cereal.
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The band's Technicolor trappings paired with Martin's enthusiasm made for one of the most earnest halftime performances in recent memory.
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It had all the trappings of a proper club—air conditioning, a fully stocked bar, security and a door person.
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Yet this also means Alias Grace remains a touch restrained, a little too hemmed in by its costume drama trappings.
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Otzi and his under-trappings can now be found on display at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Italy.
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Despite its mainstream Christian trappings, the Coachella Valley Church describes itself as a Rastafarian church, something that's tough to define.
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We need to sacrifice some of the trappings of normal life to reduce the scope and severity of what's ahead.
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The American economy had swapped the frivolity of a stock market party for the grim trappings of a bedside vigil.
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It's very sad that he has chosen to spoil the celebration of that birth with irrelevant trappings of modern warfare.
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But take away the trappings of wealth and you would find the same cancerous organ that powers all summer camps.
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Some fishermen and women on Lake Kivu cast their nets at sunset and return before dawn to collect their trappings.
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As he moved further and further away from the trappings of the art world and its society, Nauman's work shifted.
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While it has all the trappings of a coming-of-age tale set inside the Beltway, Litt's aims are grander.
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It's this component, even more than the poorly realized sci-fi trappings, that finally make the movie a little insufferable.
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U.S. forces aren't engaged in the Middle East because Americans are addicted to war or the trappings of superpower status.
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We already knew that Dwight wasn't thrilled by the trappings of the Sanctuary because he said as much last year.
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Despite the Halloween trappings, tour organizers say their aim is to share local history and cultivate pride in the community.
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More often than not, these representations are nuanced, avoiding the trappings of tacked-on diversity that plagues mainstream video games.
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"Sanditon" features all the customary lavish period trappings the "Masterpiece"/Austen pairing demands, but also plays with conventions and expectations.
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A good number of blaxploitation movies took narrative outlines and antihero trappings from classic crime films and changed the ethnicity.
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THE GLEAMING campus of BeiGene, a biotechnology company in Beijing, has all the trappings of a well-heeled research laboratory.
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Despite being posted to a cramped space station, they still manage to celebrate Christmas with most of the traditional trappings.
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With its sandy beaches and abundance of all-inclusive resorts, Cancún, Mexico, has the trappings of an idyllic beach vacation.
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The timeless and austere wonders of Mada'in Saleh contrast with the luxury trappings of the music festival, Winter at Tantora.
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For all its populist trappings, though, the center — like any other political identity — is about exclusion as much as inclusion.
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TV: What were you most surprised by when you looked back at the early 2000s, in terms of period trappings?
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I am working as much as ever and find it hard to not get sucked into the trappings of busyness.
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The romance was timeless and bohemian and wild —but also showed the complexity of fame and the trappings of success.
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But they're still getting older, and that often seems to mean compromise as they seek out the trappings of adulthood.
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If instead you get caught up in the trappings of wealth and fame, Sinek says you'll never truly be successful.
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But all of these oddities are just trappings surrounding the real meat of the show: Lenny doesn't actually believe in God.
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The Midtown Manhattan pad boasts all the trappings of a luxurious lifestyle, including views of Central Park and the city skyline.
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The first package with the same trappings was found Monday at the New York home of billionaire Democratic donor George Soros.
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Indeed, Isle of Dogs seems to go out of its way to remove its Japanese trappings from their real-world context.
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That's important, because for all its video game trappings, Jumanji is a movie first and foremost, and it never forgets that.
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In a similar manner, the paintings and collages of Yayoi Asoma at Site: Brooklyn Gallery, subvert the trappings of traditional décor.
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It allows all other elements to become more pronounced, resulting in something rooted in tradition that nonetheless defies any historical trappings.
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Beside acts like Spirit Adrift and Pallbearer, Khemmis drape themselves in the trappings of classic NWOBHM, doom, thrash, and hard rock.
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Despite the trappings of his home, Goldstein tries to be as economical as possible when it comes to the NBA playoffs.
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Transforming your apartment into a haute haunted house doesn't call for faux cobwebs or garish trappings, instead, it's all about candles.
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The visit will take place from June 3 to June 5, and will involve the full trappings of a state occasion.
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By contrast, Orbison's knack for emotional balladry was more grounded, undeniably sincere, and set him apart from such populist, maudlin trappings.
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Despite the fantastical trappings of Skyrim or World of Warcraft, neither of those games offer the wide space of D&D.
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The decline in young home-owners seems to be part of a larger trend of deferring the conventional trappings of adulthood.
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Over the past decade the Palestinians have built many of the trappings of a state: a police force, a central bank.
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Nevertheless, it had the trappings of an intense partisan brawl, with liberal and conservative groups pouring money behind their respective candidates.
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They come smothered in such Danish-style trappings as onions, raw and fried; rémoulade; slaw; pickles; horseradish; crispy shallots; and ketchup.
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Her new fans might have accidentally gotten dosed with her evolving sound, but the trappings of classic Musgraves are all there.
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In a short epilogue, we glimpse him as an adult, girt with the trappings of fascism and worshipped by the mob.
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Even in his day-to-day, it seems Tarantino prefers to use more analogue devices than the trappings of modern technology.
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Mr. Kushner, whose dimpled cheeks and baby face are a fixture of society pages, has embraced the trappings of a mogul.
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Peale paints him with unerring realism, conveying an unembellished sense of strength and wisdom that eschews all trappings of the heroic.
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They know all of that stuff is nothing more than cultural trappings, and they choose to talk about things that matter.
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Except, Miracle World didn't play like a Mario rip-off, save for its traditional genre trappings—all of that jumping, mainly.
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The trappings of small-town life are evident in working-class Ridgefield Park, one of four official villages in New Jersey.
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Electricity use by households is rising as more Chinese consumers buy air-conditioners and adopt the trappings of middle-class life.
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Although the template possesses the trappings of what might be called a feel-good film, there's happily nothing saccharine about it.
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On that very day, a new Constitution came into effect, sweeping away the homelands and all other legal trappings of apartheid.
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However, alongside the more feminine trappings of Greta Gerwig's reimagining of Louisa May Alcott's classic, there are other details that linger.
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The retreat vibe is still intact in Scottsdale's shop- and gallery-filled Old Town, replete with the occasional kitschy Western trappings.
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A musical score takes on the trappings — and with them, the aura of obfuscation and unknowability — of a classified government document.
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On Money The police raid on a junkyard on the outskirts of Bangkok had all the trappings of a drug bust.
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The film evolves into more of a commentary on xenophobia and the refugee crisis with the trappings of a crime serial.
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It also comes without the typical trappings of a private equity buyout that provides a firm with full ownership and control.
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The King is so laden with the trappings of profundity and prestige that in the end, it smothers itself to death.
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True, such portrayals tend to be rife with clichés, the trappings of sex work having long been absorbed into fashion's mainstream.
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The court itself, as seen by the public through triple-pane glass, has many of the trappings of a typical courtroom.
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Growing up, Ben Berkon, 33, had all the trappings of a wistful Manhattan childhood: Zabar's, H & H Bagels and Eeyore's Books.
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Now he's shown himself to be adept at tough diplomacy even without the title and trappings of being secretary of State.
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Friends is one of those TV shows that has become strangely timeless, despite its very obvious '90s and early 2000s trappings.
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His office trappings — a shower stall, a refrigerator (to ice martinis) and a humidor (lighting a fresh cigar at 22005 a.m.
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Do you think it's necessary to take away those technological trappings you've mentioned, in order to make these movies more visceral?
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It has the trappings of serious pay-TV drama: darkness, willingness to kill major characters "Game of Thrones"-style, even profanity.
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Doom Eternal has a lot of the trappings of modern "live" games, like weekly goals and metagame progression systems and cosmetics.
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The two friends endured the usual trappings of dorm living: little closet space, crowded laundry facilities and a required meal plan.
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The scene has all the trappings of an upscale clambake somewhere at a Martha's Vineyard beach house, and that's the point.
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The classic-movie trappings of the park remind us that the more entrenched a story is, the harder it is to escape.
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And in the end for people like Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade, those struggles can be untouched by the trappings of success.
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The difficulty of attaining couturier-like margins also stems from the fact that these businesses retain some trappings of the everyday carmaker.
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"The once-parodied trappings of hipster sub-culture... appear to have become increasingly mainstream in the last few years," the ONS said.
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Despite the high-profile trappings, Karen Pence's role as his most senior adviser, his most trusted aide and equal, is rarely seen.
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The end result is a game that feels richer, deeper, and more purposeful than its battle royale trappings would have you believe.
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Generally speaking, for any top athlete, it's just dealing with the trappings, the pitfalls, and everything that can happen—especially in 2017.
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The country even forcibly relocated thousands of villagers who lived nearby, so their modern trappings wouldn't interfere with the new prized instrument.
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Along the way, he began to shed the side locks and other trappings of Hasidism, replacing them with jeans and T-shirts.
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What I didn't expect was all of that, plus a surprisingly on-point critique of oppressive class systems wrapped in anime trappings.
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Wonder Woman is a testament to female rebelliousness and independence — but in the trappings of a Barbie doll with a CrossFit addiction.
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Russian authoritarianism is all about the muscular trappings of power and popular adulation cultivated through fawning media for a Czar-like figure.
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This is a boy's adventure story with many of the familiar genre trappings, including guns, knives, dangerous animals and equally threatening people.
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Over the course of the 22007th century, the academy sloughed off the cultural trappings of Christianity, not to mention the theological commitments.
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They are the common trappings and symbols of a 1990s hip hop-flavored upbringing: door-knocker earrings, prosthetic teeth, and rope chain.
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What I didn't expect was all of that, plus a surprisingly on-point critique of oppressive class systems wrapped in anime trappings.
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Ben Affleck stars in this film that has the outward trappings of an inspirational sports drama, but is primarily a recovery movie.
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Some roguelikes are about the story of that run, with new areas, enemies, and visual trappings acting as a new storytelling devices.
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If the usual trappings of adulthood don't seem attainable, and a permanent sense of precariousness seems unavoidable, why not embrace impermanence instead?
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The meeting is likely to include all of the trappings of a state visit, with a dash of North Korean political theater.
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As TT raps about shunning a relationship's usual trappings in favor of pure pleasure, that staccato wail is like an exclamation point.
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In the end, I'm not sure if I succeeded in avoiding any of the patriarchal trappings that Laura Heyman so expertly critiques.
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These two novels have nothing in common beyond those superficial trappings of life in that once-rural valley south of San Francisco.
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The vote is widely seen as the latest effort by a strongman to consolidate power as the trappings of democracy fall away.
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But instead of a cropped haircut and leather armor, she wields the very girly trappings used to control her as lethal weapons.
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The giant-teddy-bear trappings of Valentine's Day may be universal symbols of commodified emotion, but February 14th is no Hallmark holiday.
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Some exhibited Pepe the Frog insignia and other trappings of the so-called alt-right, a fringe movement that embraces white nationalism.
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But because that's awfully hard to appreciate from the outside, it ofttimes comes couched in the trappings of a Baz Luhrmann movie.
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Critics complained that Mr. Johnson was exploiting the monarch by having her lend the trappings of royalty to a brashly partisan exercise.
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Our favorite look was, incidentally, an outfit free of maximalist trappings: a simple white blouse, oversized jeans, and a brown shoulder bag.
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He thought of these books as silly tales for kids, with not much to offer in the way of sophisticated literary trappings.
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There was little showmanship, or flaunting of wealth, or of the trappings of pseudo-royalty that her husband often seems to favor.
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Of course, it's actually CROAKED, a respectful and poetic term for "died," which is how ghosts get free of their physical trappings.
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Its genre or its trappings might be familiar, but the sights and sounds you get are going to be unlike anything else.
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A negotiated political settlement brought the fighting to a close, and the region received the trappings of statehood but without formal recognition.
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The ceremony aboard an Italian Navy ship in the port of Valletta, Malta, had all the trappings of a European Union affair.
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More than two decades before he died on Sunday at age 53, George Michael was publicly struggling with the trappings of fame.
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The San Francisco spot may have just opened, but it's already decked out in the finest trappings of a Silicon Valley office.
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While Crips and Bloods have provided great gangland fodder for Hollywood and other storytellers, Nipsey bucked the conventional trappings of gang life.
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Do you think this perverse culture surrounding wealth and the trappings of it is worse in the US than in other places?
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When there aren't reenactments happening, the land where the battle took place is just a field with the trappings of modern life.
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The opportunities are vast, as long as he can avoid the trappings of gang life that his move to Pittsburgh helped mitigate.
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Taylor Mason (Asia Kate Dillon) dressed up in the trappings of seductive womanhood in order to lock down a multi-billion-dollar investor.
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They tended to gently poke fun at me for all my feminine trappings: the 20 minutes I'd spend each day on my serums.
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Such festive trappings are ubiquitous in China in the build-up to the lunar new year, which this year starts on January 28th.
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The movie's creators were able to pull this off without falling into any of the clichéd trappings of portraying Black women in film.
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There are the practical trappings of a city: a post office, a hospital, bright green roads; he even marks attractive areas for "parking".
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That ambivalence curdled into hatred in some sections of the Tory party as the EU acquired more of the trappings of a state.
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Each one boasts all the trappings of an ideal hot-weather shoe, like breathable mesh, springy cushioning, not to mention the pastel coloring.
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It doesn't lead to anything, except an unlockable t-shirt for your in-game avatar (some trappings of triple-A are, indeed, inescapable).
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Rome was so swaddled in the trappings of power that the church's catholic essence, the communion of saints, was barely visible at all.
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But where Anderson's style sometimes feels like frosted window dressing, Babbit uses the trappings of wholesome suburbia to underscore the nightmare they conceal.
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It's got all the trappings of a status-y luxury accessory: tiny, sans-serif, gold-stamped logo; minimalist shape; rich-lady-looking leather.
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The duo showcased their slickly produced YouTube channel series, which has over 140,13 subscribers and all the trappings of a reality TV show.
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I choose to stay mindful of the fact that the traditional trappings of Valentine's Day, while perhaps intended to be heteronormative, needn't be.
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Beyond these trappings, Kolchak figured out a format through which horror on television could be effective, long before The X-Files came along.
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" Solomon warned that modern Chinese leaders "use the trappings of imperial China" to "impress foreign officials with their grandeur and seriousness of purpose.
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Instead, with the red carpet cascading down the stairs at the center, the event took on some trappings of a faraway society event.
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The kingdom's news media have built his image as a hardworking, businesslike leader less concerned than his predecessors with the trappings of royalty.
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Eminem's semi-autobiographical 2002 film, 8 Mile, is a story about many things—blind ambition, dogged persistence, the inescapable trappings of systematic poverty.
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It's such a strangely contrived environment — all the trappings of a dance party, minus the party — and yet way more fun than running.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On the surface, the new musical Southern Comfort has all the trappings of a conventional family drama.
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There's none of the beauty and rapture that a quality and widely inclusive education can bring; only the drab trappings of reluctant duty.
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The heroic through line remains, but the trappings are painted in darker hues, the stuff of botched marriages, incompetent politicians, and broken families.
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Though he grew up in poverty, Andrade's incredible footballing ability transformed him into an international celebrity, complete with all the trappings of fame.
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One transforms themselves to be a part of an experience that is a release from the everyday trappings of work and home life.
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They use Nahuatl and other indigenous languages, identify multiple Mesoamerican civilizations by name, and include minutiae on the physical trappings of those cultures.
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Without the trappings of office, Biden has faded from the national stage as the coronavirus contagion chews through news cycle after news cycle.
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The burglary had all the trappings of a Hollywood heist, and the theft unfolded in London's jewelry district during Easter weekend in 2015.
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Jordan Casteel paints the street life of Harlem and its black residents, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer the quirky, and often decrepit, trappings of whiteness.
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Americans Jews immigrate to Israel and bring their cultural trappings, like basketball; Israeli goods are mainstays at kosher American supermarkets and Judaica stores.
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I was referring less to the lipstick than to her affinity for the traditional trappings of femininity, like frilly dresses and long hair.
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For Egypt's leader, Mr. Trump offered only the trappings of an Oval Office welcome, though one with flashing cameras and looming boom mics.
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Last year she opened Vanderpump Dogs in Los Angeles, a rescue and shelter tricked out with luxurious trappings like velvet sofas and chandeliers.
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The luxury homes on a Spanish island and the gleaming yachts moored in Mediterranean ports were all trappings of a life well-lived.
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Despite its colorful trappings, at its core "Superman: Red Son" taps into geopolitical conflict past and present, while probing a fundamental nature-vs.
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By summer, in the midst of the burgeoning suffragist movement, Luella feels increasingly suffocated by the trappings of her family and societal expectations.
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As for the car itself, gone are the traditional trappings of an internal combustion engine vehicle, such as a front grille and tailpipes.
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Take away the trappings of intellect and wealth, and Axe and Chuck are no more sophisticated in their motives than Neanderthals with clubs.
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And for all of the vice-presidential trappings he still enjoys — rope lines, a phalanx of staff — his schedule is not always smooth.
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In light of this, AITF functions most like an experimental mutual aid project, alongside the freedom (and trappings) of an artist's home gallery.
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What makes How To Build A Girl so gutting, however, is that underneath its bombastic and fun trappings, there's a searing emotional core.
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In addition to cutting his salary by half, he shed various trappings of power, including a large force of secret-service style bodyguards.
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Most of them bore the distinct trappings of upper-middlebrow art—they were the sorts of movie that attract critical plaudits and awards.
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But on this October day, his flashy trappings were mostly for show because he had gone several months without selling drugs, he said.
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He has been one of the primary architects of the contemporary art world, and has also opted out of its social trappings entirely.
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Henrietta Red, a restaurant in the Germantown neighborhood of Nashville that opened last February, has many of the telltale trappings of Instagram clickbait.
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For all its trappings, the modern technocratic world has encouraged us to treat nature as an object, something to be mastered and instrumentalized.
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Thousands of dollars have been wasted on trimmings and trappings for next-great-fighters the world over who just never panned out, though.
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Over the years, Trump created the myth about himself through furious borrowing, which paid for all the trappings of a capitalist on the rise.
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Both apps eschew the typical trappings of a big social network, saying their service is meant more for "close friends," not the whole world.
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Thus, while Legally Blonde has some of the tone and trappings of a romantic comedy, it doesn't qualify as one in the traditional sense.
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The senator, elected in 2012, is still new to politics, without the trappings of Secret Service or the guard of a lifelong public official.
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I don't drink coffee like I used to, as a substitute for nearly everything: food, sleep, the trappings of adulthood, a sense of cool.
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Without the usual trappings of teenage girlhood—the closeness of a best friendship, endless phone calls about nothing—school life was a desolate blur.
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When something does come along with the trappings of authenticity, I fret if I don't fit the mold, get the jokes, recognize the references.
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That came to include trappings of statehood—a separate constitution and flag—and more substantial differences, such as a ban on outsiders buying property.
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Now he wanted Spicer, in his official role as press secretary and surrounded by the official trappings of his office, to do the same.
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Inside, there's also a bed, an armchair, a desk and a wood-burning stove: all the cozy trappings of a book lover's ideal retreat.
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Even so, the show's present-day trappings anchor it to a world where bodies are judged mercilessly and fashionable body modification is grimly conformist.
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But it hit the mark, framing Kerry as the favorite -- even though Bush arrived at the debate with all the trappings of the presidency.
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She turns the very trappings of traditional, white-centric beauty into a literal weapon, using her wig to defeat a small army of men.
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"He doesn't permit it, " the younger Castro said, insisting his father doesn't care for the trappings of power and continued worldwide interest in him.
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In its inoffensive infectiousness, rootsy trappings, and ominous portents of biblical doom, "Turn Around Don't Drown" is the one true song of summer 2018.
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She'd returned to New York from Berlin, aiming to shuck off the trappings a 'proper' band and starting anew with an entirely blank canvas.
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We're talking about the Roberts, the Katherines, the occasional Linda: The dogs who have somehow transcended the trappings of caninehood and acquired human names.
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"The establishment scions pouring into tech take on the trappings of subversion, while remaining fundamentally conformist" — and much less interested in funding talented nonconformists.
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It's only her second solo record, her first since severing ties with Disney (her employer since age 7) and all of its marionette trappings.
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To Democrats and moderate Republicans alike in recent years, Texas Speaker of the House Joe Straus took on the trappings of an action hero.
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This trailer is our first clear look at the project, and safe to say, it has all the trappings of a Red Dead game.
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But it's the blood-soaked Looper, with its futuristic trappings, high-concept plotting, and trippy special effects, that makes for Johnson's true stoner opus.
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He grew up in the city's scene playing in various bands, even as the more destructive trappings of that scene took hold of him.
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Beneath the film's elaborate trappings, Mr. Naishuller reveals a worldview so rawly misanthropic as to seem genuinely traumatized — very Russian, it could be said.
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In truth, these States of the Union never quite live up to their trappings, and what presidents say at these things is rarely remembered.
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And just like that, 3D-printed guns became a free-speech issue wrapped up in all the societal trappings of a Second Amendment debate.
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He said it was a role where he felt he could be himself without media scrutiny or any other trappings of his gilded upbringing.
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He will do that by giving it the outward trappings of a real, democratic peace process: of a Northern Ireland, or a South Africa.
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The servants seem to sense that the mansion has become a psychological prison, where these entitled people are literally bound by their bourgeois trappings.
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Instead, Trump's stopover will be categorized as a "working visit," without elaborate trappings like a horse parade or a state dinner at Buckingham Palace.
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They don't seem inclined in that direction, but the coming fight is very likely to take on all the trappings of a political campaign.
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Given how long her fans have been waiting for her return to the stage, expect full diva trappings and, hopefully, an extended set list.
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The latest iterations have modern comforts and deluxe trappings even as they aim to retain some of the minimalism and spirit of their predecessors.
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The absence of context is not ameliorated by Mr. Gold's staging, which seems to scrape away all novelistic trappings as if they were ostentatious.
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It's a cautionary tale — when naïvete and a desire to escape the trappings of a common life collide with greed, power, and unchecked influence.
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The artists in Thank God It's Monday radically reimagine the trappings of the conventional workspace to propose new ways of defining and framing labor.
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When Mr. Trump eventually traveled to Britain last year on a working visit, it had fewer of the ceremonial trappings than a state visit.
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Eight months later, though, everything that seemed expectant about that moment has been redrawn by federal prosecutors as the trappings of a corrupted marketplace.
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While "Lady Macbeth," released on Friday, July 14, is set in 19th-century England, it has few visual trappings common to such period films.
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He presides at ceremonial occasions — memorials, commemorative rituals, official receptions — with a measure of solemnity and switches gears for the lighthearted trappings of office.
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For all of Aurora's grand conquests and Bostonian standards, for all the trappings of wealth, she can't foil the curse of her daughter's cancer.
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The anecdote gives a poignant glimpse of Bach's personality: he yearned to join the international élite, but the trappings of success were denied him.
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Aron has trappings of a prototypical corporate executive, including the Harvard undergrad and Harvard Business School pedigree, and an extensive tour in private equity.
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He comes from a very different place than the kind of chief executive with a big ego who wants the trappings of presidential power.
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The two share similar aesthetic trappings, collectible elements, and a love of talking animals who love to chill, but that's basically where it ends.
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Even in the game I watched, the trappings of vague patriotism — from support of the troops to a love of hyper-capitalism — were everywhere.
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"I just think all these traditional trappings of primary campaigns were upended in 2016 and are already being upended in 2020," Ms. Greenberg said.
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Should some be allowed to compete as individuals without any of the nationalistic trappings after proving they are subject to strict drug-testing regimens?
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All the trappings of the modern shooter were there: narration from off-screen characters, cutscenes, a backstory revealed in found-documents and archival material.
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The latest iterations have modern comforts and deluxe trappings even as they aim to retain some of the minimalism and spirit of their predecessors.
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It took even just a bit of success for us to even afford a flat in London, let alone any of the other trappings.
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And while the trappings were the same as usual on Thursday night at Porter House, the mood was more like that of a wake.
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But he was less sure whether he would sign up himself for a job with all the trappings of a high-school hall monitor.
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But this goes against previous norms in which politicians striving to be authentic would attempt to shed the artificial trappings of party and partisanship.
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The resorts, hotels, businesses, investments and other trappings of wealth (like homes, planes and helicopters) are held in trusts within trusts, like Russian nesting dolls.
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Much like the stay-at-home mom debate, the thing about the first lady role is that it has all the trappings of a job.
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I don't believe that the trappings of an upper-class, heteronormative life — partner, house, kids — are the only things that make a life worth living.
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Stripped of her regal trappings, separated from her biggest dragon and captured by a Dothraki clan, Daenerys is as vulnerable as we've ever seen her.
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It's still basically just mobile apps running on a bigger window, and because of that, you're stuck dealing with all the trappings of mobile apps.
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With Bacurau, Filho and Dornelles co-opt the trappings of genres often considered quintessentially American, especially the western, and turn them against their imperialist origins.
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But the 1940s-set The Little Stranger is slight by design: Despite its gothic trappings, this is a ghost story with the subtlest of thrills.
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And despite its capitalist trappings, the Communist Party is piloting China's economy in a direction similar to that of the Soviet Union in its twilight.
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The story begins as a murder mystery, and borrows some of its trappings from several early '90s favorites like Twin Peaks and The X-Files.
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According to a statement, On the Record: Flicker will squeeze all the trappings of a traditional documentary into a short, sweet package for Horan's fans.
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Now that they work in call centres and supermarkets rather than mines and steelworks, steroids offer a way to retain the traditional trappings of masculinity.
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Or was it a deep dive into the convoluted, complex, and sometimes toxic nature of teen female friendships wrapped in the trappings of grindhouse horror?
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There's a reason Heather doesn't want to sing and doesn't want to leave the safe trappings of community college: she doesn't like to be vulnerable.
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These armed herders moving through the CAR bear the superficial trappings of pastoralism but have shed their traditional restraints and are freed from social anchors.
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Acme With Brian Loiacono replacing Mads Refslund in the kitchen, this NoHo restaurant has shed its Nordic trappings and turned south, to Italy and France.
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A few brands recognize some trappings of the genre — Steak-umm recently attempted something surreal-adjacent, for example — but they can't really participate fully. pic.twitter.
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His studies eventually led him to the Tehran Conservatory of Music where he picked up the bass and learned the formal trappings of classical composition.
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GLOW brandishes the trappings of empowerment, but is at its core combative: One woman vanquishes another in a choreographed battle designed for a male viewer.
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First, as long as your basic needs are met, the quality of your lived experience is only vaguely related to the trappings of material success.
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Another, a black student who has not enjoyed the same trappings of middle-class life, tells Luce angrily that "there can only be one Obama".
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Today, the power of the office is diminished, but the trappings remain: high ceilings, broad staircases, a grandfather clock that rings on the quarter-hour.
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For a film about money and its trappings, Gauravv K. Chawla's "Baazaar" doesn't seem too keen on learning the lessons it imparts to the audience.
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People like Game of Thrones because after you strip away the fantasy trappings, it's a story about a cast of believable, (sometimes) relatable human beings.
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However -- and here's the catch -- that's true only if they are physically strong and career-oriented and eschew most of the traditional trappings of femininity.
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Since R is Korean, the patriotic trappings are additionally significant: He is a former colonial subject and for Japanese extremists, a member of another race.
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Like many people in Japan, Koichi, now in his late 40s, has forgone the traditional trappings of adulthood—marriage, children—to focus on his passions.
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As a manager at any level, it's important to stay down to earth — not to get caught up in the trappings of money or power.
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Fearful of losing revenue by offending listeners, networks banned the use of news broadcast language in drama, reserving the trappings of journalism for actual reportage.
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ZANU-PF consolidated power over decades, giving Zimbabwe the trappings of a Soviet-style one-party state that might long outlast Mr. Mugabe, now 94.
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Sanchez was often considered immature, someone who embraced the playboy lifestyle and trappings of a big-market football star; Darnold is a self-described introvert.
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Both share the same mission, but differ in atmosphere: While Nightcap had a cabaret feel, Sound On had the trappings of a jazz club performance.
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And while Mr. Akhtar may have rejected many of the outer trappings of the Wall Street potboiler, he still hews to many of its clichés.
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Show Us Your Wall Growing up in southern Indiana, Benjamin W. Bradley was somewhat isolated and, as a teenager, besotted with Christmas and its trappings.
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Case in point: "Blow the Man Down," a clever slice of regional noir that carries a gale-force punch beneath its modest, soft-spoken trappings.
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As a terrorist insurgency, it will not require the trappings of statehood but merely requires state failure in Iraq and Syria from which to operate.
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On his Facebook page, he posted photos of decadent meals, gym workouts, scantily clad women and sports games — the stereotypical trappings of middle-age masculinity.
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He set out to argue on behalf of films like "The Host," whose genre trappings he felt had automatically consigned them to second-class status.
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He eschews many of the stereotypical trappings of the executive life and mannerisms in favor of taking silent retreats and traveling to countries like Burma.
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According to a number of Twitter users, Wiig's dress strikingly resembled the trappings of a well-baked Italian dish walking down the Oscars red carpet.
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Ruling over all are the Skeksis, wingless bird-like beings that dress themselves in heavy robes and indulge deeply in the trappings of their power.
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"Velvet Buzzsaw" thus becomes more about atmosphere than anything else, as well as the dichotomy between its macabre elements and its lavish white-wall trappings.
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Apple will announce new iPhones tomorrow, September 10th, and this year's event will have all of the usual trappings of an iPhone introduction, I'm sure.
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This witty civics lesson by the longtime host of "The Daily Show" tackles all the trappings of American democracy covered in your grade-school curriculum.
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Some do it because it gives them power, or it gives them the trappings of status, wealth, and control that can result from the hustle.
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Randy Grimes sought help when all the trappings of his N.F.L. life were gone, and now works at a rehabilitation center in Delray Beach, Fla.
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In his review for The Times, Ben Kenigsberg wrote that the film "exemplifies how small judgments in pace, performance and soundtrack can transcend modest trappings."
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Civil War engages with some heady ideas regarding government oversight and wartime collateral damage, all wrapped up in the trappings of a sticky revenge thriller.
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It's far likelier, though, that Charles cleaves to the trappings of the Eastern Orthodox tradition—particularly its Greek iteration—simply because it is a tradition.
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A good president needs to surround himself with people willing to stand up to him, people who aren't cowed by the trappings of the office.
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The JAP was a woman who had overshot the mark, piling on the trappings of the stable middle class like so many diamond tennis bracelets.
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Likely, plenty of them will have all sorts of justifications as to why they should continue to adopt the trappings of black music and experience.
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She's drawn to the trappings of the upper-class, and her longest-lasting relationship is with Logan, the mega-rich heir to a newspaper fortune.
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The word trappings has appeared in 187 New York Times articles in the past year, including on March 14 in "Ben Affleck's 'Broken' Batman" by Dave Itzkoff: Jeremy Irons, who plays Bruce Wayne's loyal aide, Alfred, said that beneath all the special effects and high-tech trappings of the film, Mr. Affleck seemed drawn to the mythical, larger-than-life qualities of the title champions.
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Junction City has all the trappings of an Iraqi town: a brightly painted mosque; shops adorned with Arabic script; the occasional humvee or tank rumbling by.
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" Marc Thiessen offered a different perspective in the Washington Post, rejecting the "hyperventilation" of critics of Trump's speech and its trappings who called them "virtually unprecedented.
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For Buffington, who witnessed Prioleau's shooting, the Murder Kroger fascination has a simpler explanation: The moniker and its trappings exemplify people's "very morbid minds," she said.
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The real trick of Howards End is forcing viewers to really grapple with how trappings like class, money, and time period can actually suffocate a person.
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It is tempting to consider the Salon and the Royal Academy as impenetrable bastions of high culture that were immune to the trappings of contemporary life.
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It aired during Monday night's episode of Love & Hip-Hop, and like her album title, alludes to Cardi's newfound fame and the bothersome trappings of it.
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I think that maybe helped it become more like a viral, funny internet video rather than a classic video game announcement with all the normal trappings.
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Even with all the new RPG trappings that allow you to level up and become more of a badass, the axe immediately feels like a powerhouse.
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It was unusual for the intimate concert hall to sport such arena trappings as a giant video backdrop, multiple mirrorball lights and even a bubble machine.
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That is, moviegoers weren't buying what Hollywood was selling unless it was a smaller movie, with heavy genre trappings in either horror or romance or comedy.
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It will be the first joint campaign appearance for the pair and it will come with all the trappings of the highest office in the land.
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Homer has all the trappings of a stereotypical working-class American: He lives in a modest home in the suburbs with his wife and three children.
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But the session is expected to be shorter, and doesn't include the usual trappings that Trump has offered to visiting foreign leaders at the White House.
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A decade later, he was indeed still playing baseball with all the trappings of success, albeit different ones than those he apparently envisioned in high school.
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For the life of me I'll never understand why it has the trappings of a territory-control game when territory and geography are abstracted into meaninglessness.
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Investment bankers who know him describe Baumann as introverted and indifferent to executive trappings, but said this should not be confused with a lack of determination.
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Lopez Obrador has shunned the often luxurious trappings of Mexico's wealthy elites, choosing to fly coach and drive through the capital in a white Volkswagen Jetta.
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Thematically, it's a continuation of the topics Drake explored on If You're Reading This It's Too Late, with the rapper reflecting on the trappings of success.
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The two-part finale begins with the usual Bachelor trappings: lunch dates in Peru, a despondent limo ride, and a proposal against a flower-laden landscape.
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But the work done to transcend those trappings here is immense, and Queer Eye delivers an answer to that referendum that none of us were expecting.
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When I first started watching Billions, I worried that it might be another high-gloss, high-budget excuse to show the trappings of wealth on screen.
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Any honest observer has to ask whether the truth about Clinton's corporate fiefdom, cynically masked with the trappings of a charity, should sink her presidential ambitions.
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Don Gaetz, Matt Gaetz's father, who was a Republican state senator between 20173 and 2016, said that Hammer rejects the upscale trappings of other lobbyists' offices.
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Trump, who regularly expresses his joy at the trappings of his job, told confidants he did not want anything less grand than the frescoed US Capitol.
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The organization sought to give its Libya province the trappings of a state, modeled after the one it was trying to run in Iraq and Syria.
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And Russian officials feel more comfortable dealing with Syrian Army commanders – many of them educated in Russia — than with the Shiite religious trappings of the militias.
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The occasion marks the final year of the carefree trappings of adolescence, placing one squarely on the precipice of adulthood and a world of exhilarating changes.
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In particular, we both find the American cultural trappings of the ritual totally strange and off-putting: proposals, diamonds, bachelor/bachelorette parties, white dresses, name changing.
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Between the lines: Scott Pruitt attracted massive press attention, but that was largely thanks to his big ethical problems and the bizarre trappings of the scandals.
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"I like feet on the ground," Mr. Kaine said with a smile this past week, suggesting he was not dwelling on the trappings of temporary fame.
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This is a motif throughout "Dime-Store Alchemy" — that we might do well to give more thought and care to the everyday trappings of our lives.
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Mixing a lathered-up love triangle with a ghostly murder-mystery, Derek Nguyen's "The Housemaid" wraps a painful chapter in Vietnamese history in Gothic-melodrama trappings.
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That tug-of-war was reminiscent of Rosalía, another artist who casually pushes and pulls between the trappings of tradition and the demands of pathbreaking pop.
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She is elegant, sometimes aloof, and doesn't always seem to relish her role (or at least its trappings) in office as much as previous first ladies.
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The purpose of those trappings is not simply to protect the rights of the accused but also to establish the process' legitimacy in the public eye.
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Hawk: He used to —— Unidentified Speakers: [Arabic] Callimachi: So we walk in, and first of all, it had all of the trappings of this aristocratic house.
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In the end, the sci-fi trappings of our love story are irrelevant: Jess and I work as a couple because we like spending time together.
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While these trappings are sometimes fun, the viewer might be left thinking more about the mechanics of it all than about the people doing the traveling.
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All of these countries have retained what a Filipino journalist, Marites Vitug, called "the trappings of power" in a conversation I had with her in Manila.
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LONDON — The offices of Unmade have the typical trappings of a digital start-up: exposed ceilings, small potted plants, whiteboards flecked with colored Post-it notes.
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We live in a country that loves the trappings of black culture on white bodies but not on the bodies of those who created these looks.
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Cloud has all the trappings of a sinister tech company, and MotherCloud's facilities, payment systems and promotional videos are outlined in excruciating, on-the-nose detail.
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The military insisted that the ouster did not amount to a coup, although it had all the trappings of one, with armored vehicles patrolling the streets.
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"There was a gradual evisceration of democracy," she said, leaving those countries with the "trappings" of democracy, like elections and political parties, but not the substance.
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Actor Misha Collins grew up without a lot of the typical family trappings, but wrote a lovely essay about the grounding influence of his mother's cooking.
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This album, like Oxnard, is a musing on the sounds he was raised on and the West Coast singer is begging for the trappings of home.
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Among many other trappings of an absurd lifestyle, Gignac drove a Ferrari with fake diplomatic plates and had the nameplate "Sultan" on his island home's door.
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The video dangled the trappings of prosperity in front of KJU: the question is whether KJU wants North Korea to be a clone of South Korea.
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John turns to booze and pills to help fill the void in his life, with those flamboyant costumes and lavish trappings masking the tears of a clown.
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The fact that he continued to pursue Native Americans as subjects outside of the exoticized trappings of their traditional culture demonstrates a real transition in Curtis's work.
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They are free of modern trappings in ways that speak to certain aspirational ideals about simpler, better living — annual festivities, farm-to-table food, children roaming free.
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The episode skillfully blends real-world fears — the specter of white nationalism is invoked more than once — with the comic book trappings of the show's source material.
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But like a self-help manual, Gappah's book cloaks its aphoristic abstractions in the trappings of shallow lyricism, hoping that we might mercifully mistake melodrama for substance.
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Making little choices like that throughout my week felt like mini vacations to a world in which I did have all the trappings of the Martha lifestyle.
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Origins changes things up for the series in a big way, with more of a focus on RPG trappings and layered combat than past games have had.
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In mid-2007, Taiwanese company AsusTek revealed an eye-catching new computer called the Eee PC, delivering a cheap, tiny laptop without OLPC or Intel's educational trappings.
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So even though the plot of Alpha is ultimately predictable, with an ending that barely avoids careening into the outright manipulative, its trappings are anything but expected.
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E-sports is gradually assembling all the trappings of mainstream sports: corporate sponsorships, professional managers, salaried players and even announcers who wear suits and make bad jokes.
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The kit combines a motion tracking wand with Kano's software and the trappings of the Harry Potter world to make learning to code a little more magical.
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On the wall above her, a collage of newspaper and magazine clippings advertise the trappings of success in modern life: physical health, nuclear families, and material wealth.
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There's her estranged childhood friend Johanna, who is both a brilliant naturalist and someone who unapologetically loves giant pink bows and all the trappings of high femininity.
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The intent was to transcend our time, to transcend the trappings and the fashions of this moment and make something that essentially is a form of rebellion.
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Some of these communities had trappings of modernity, such as running water and electricity, while others were subsistence farmers, and had never made contact with modern societies.
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Because all the trappings, all the images all the things, the cars, the homes, that make it look – make you look good clothes and all this stuff.
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But he has also spoken of a "state minus" option, suggesting he could offer the Palestinians deep-seated autonomy and the trappings of statehood without full sovereignty.
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He now has many of the trappings of a top business owner, including a private jet, a yacht and two Rolls-Royce vehicles, according to the reports.
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The Unix time system is agnostic about things like the day of the week, the month, the hour, or really any of the trappings of human timekeeping.
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Fitted out in the trappings of a scheme to manage the production of coal and steel, the treaty was at its heart a Franco-German peace accord.
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For all the trappings of a familiar WASP story, CeCe's unexpected generosity and wit give this debut novel "its remarkable maturity and heft," Britt Peterson wrote here.
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As his spinning skills grew, he entered rehab and acquired the usual pop trappings: famous girlfriends (Nicole Richie, for one), TV appearances, $1 million contracts, countless drugs.
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Though I remain resistant to the trappings of monogamy on a philosophical level, I'm happy to be down to one girlfriend, no boner pills, and zero decongestant.
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Other than that, it still has all the trappings of a great e-reader, including adjustable text and the ability to look up words you don't know.
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He likes to cite Lambos—as in Lamborghini, the cryptobro trophy ride of choice—as shorthand for the excessive trappings of wealth, which do not interest him.
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But the Rodríguez brothers don't have Escobar's man-of-the-people populism, choosing instead to hide behind legitimate businesses and enjoy the trappings of an elite lifestyle.
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Ivanka, also an informal adviser to her father, received a warm welcome in India's high-tech hub of Hyderabad with all the trappings of a state guest.
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The word trappings has appeared in 187 New York Times articles in the past year, including on March 14 in "Ben Affleck's 'Broken' Batman" by Dave Itzkoff:
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The funny thing is I don't think it needs the slightly pretentious trappings because the fact is that Tetris Effect is an effortlessly powerful and affecting game.
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The former functions as described above, with players actively lying to one another, while the latter removes those trappings and transforms the game into a murder mystery.
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"Greed Killing" had all the trappings of a song that could have found mainstream success—well, save for Greenway's vocals—and creatively, they're swinging for the fences.
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Some of his books assume the trappings of conventional narrative genres like the detective story or the morality play, but many are really exercises in dream logic.
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And he's never been enticed by the flashy trappings of Silicon Valley: Epic Games is based out of Cary, North Carolina, just down the road from Raleigh.
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But just as notable was what Trump didn't say — and what that says about an inexperienced but emboldened politician still learning the trappings of his new office.
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Distrusted by whites and blacks alike, he exhibits all the tics and trappings of the alienated loner, including a ratty trailer and a mistrust of personal hygiene.
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Hesperios contains all the trappings of perfect taste: The store is a banquet set to let you know about a life well read, well traveled, well indulged.
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By avoiding the specific trappings of overt racism, these churches can adopt a tone of moral superiority that neglects all of the ways they support systemic racism.
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Kim's appearance in Beijing involved almost all the trappings of a state visit, complete with an honour guard and banquet at Beijing's Great Hall of the People.
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Because she lacks the conventional trappings of adult life — a partner and kids — she worries that the world will begin measuring her by what she doesn't have.
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When this happens, Americans tend to shift the burden onto the immigrants themselves — to prove their loyalty to America by rejecting the trappings of their ancestral cultures.
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The boys of Hinton's world have all the trappings of aggressive males: They run in packs, take to the streets at night, start fistfights and carry knives.
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It's effectively a next-gen integrated GPU that's been separated from its CPU into its own discrete part, with the trappings of a desktop card on top.
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Turkish support for Tripoli's effort to repel Haftar has seen the fighting, which has displaced more than 150,000 civilians, take on the trappings of a proxy war.
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With healthy doses of irony and camp, Al Solh's works poked fun at autocratic politicians in moments of excess, surrounded by the trappings of plunder and pillage.
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While the speech has all the trappings of grand ceremony, it more often than not slides as easily out of the country's collective political consciousness as in.
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Super Mario Run injects the side-scrolling jumping-and-coin collecting of Nintendo's beloved series with the gameplay trappings of the more mobile-friendly "endless runner" genre.
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But they have weakened as big-time college sports has taken on the trappings of a profit-driven business far removed from the cloistered groves of academe.
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The traditional trappings of femininity are a pose, not a prison; a costume that you can slip in and out of, refashioning it until it suits you.
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Grimes finally sought help 17 years after his career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ended in 1992, when all the trappings of his N.F.L. life were gone.
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The failure to assimilate the modern West — not just its trappings, but also its values — is never more apparent than in the epidemic of rape sweeping India.
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All of them look for consolation in places that feel even a little familiar — religious services that share some of the trappings of what they've left behind.
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Homestands have all the trappings of a traditional sports event, including fan contests, autograph signings, and satellite events for fans to enjoy when they're not watching the competition.
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Yes, all the trappings of an Oscar nominee are here: jarring visual effects, a child actor with three names and a rare disease called "balloon foot," for example.
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Zimbabwe's military has placed Robert Mugabe, the country's only leader since gaining independence in 1980, under house arrest in a move that has the trappings of a coup.
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For months, previews have teased a scene in which our reigning Bachelor, fed up with the trappings of the show, leaps over a (very tall) fence to escape.
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It is possible that a shopper will move on from wearing a consciously green T-shirt to viewing other kinds of clothing as the trappings of planetary destruction.
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I love that all the trappings of '70s interiors – macramé, seagrass, and cheese plants – which were supremely uncool and old-fashioned back then, are everyone's go-to now.
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But the Bachelor franchise tries to keep its secrets much more closely held, as its trappings of romance would be less interesting without the pretense of true love.
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It has some of the outward trappings of a mystery show like Lost or Twin Peaks, so it must play by the same rules as those shows, right?
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The ancient setting has the trappings of a mythical tale of two kingdoms, as the pregnant queen of the monster realm flees a civil war into human lands.
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I grew up in a secular home and at times felt like a Christmas outsider, never connected to the holiday's religious importance, or its more extreme cultural trappings.
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The trappings of the genre—gunfights, horse riding and damsels in distress—end up indulging the fantasies of young men even when a more nuanced comment is intended.
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While the festive holiday trappings can make these conversations seem somewhat frivolous, taking this time can be an opportunity to strengthen your connection with your partner, Boykin says.
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Bouguereau's work is a strangely vapid American cultural artifact that represents a new world hunger for the trappings of refinement, once it is sanitized of meaning or content.
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Rather than referencing, recreating, or replicating theatrical or operatic performance in a literal manner, the artworks included turn our gaze to the architectural space and its physical trappings.
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Makepeace also has all the trappings of a luxurious escape, including a 500,000 liter pool, a 15-seater spa, tennis court, gym, walking trails, paddle boards and kayaks.
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The list of those ahead of him—Paul Goldschmidt, Miguel Cabrera, Jose Abreu, Anthony Rizzo, and Freddie Freeman—all enjoy various trappings of stardom in reputation and contract.
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He's still hectoring layabouts, chronicling toilers, and mocking nouvies, although these days he's also skewering the bogus trappings of Irish patriotism and the porousness of the Ulster border.
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The problem is that's exactly how his followers love to see him -- hardly an evil overlord, rather someone so successful that he's comfortable among the trappings of power.
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Roger Eatwell, a professor at the University of Bath, in England, calls it "illiberal democracy," a form of government that keeps the trappings of democracy without the reality.
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The exorcism subgenre and its trappings — priests screaming at levitating victims, crazy-devil voices, the vomiting of evil colored substances — haven't much changed since "The Exorcist" in 1973.
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Called Into the Bedroom, it offers all the ambient trappings of a cozy place to lay your head: quilts, candles, hampers and mugs in soothing colors and motifs.
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Critics have likened the resulting tone to mildly literary beach reading, though some think the prestige TV trappings just make "Bloodline" seem better than it actually is. Thoughts?
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The event nearly bankrupted the two countries, unsurprising given that Henry commissioned a temporary palace built for him, ostentatiously filled with the trappings of a royal Christian court.
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To be sure, plenty of pre-capitalist societies have relied on some of what we see as the trappings of capitalism: money, trade, markets, and even wage labor.
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Though Trump lacks some of the traditional trappings of political leadership, he is, in tone, style, and substance, uniquely suited to the prevailing mood of the American electorate.
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When Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, attends sessions of the United Nations General Assembly, he enjoys many of the trappings of a head of state.
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Fast forward nearly two millennia to Christmas's modern-day trappings, and one might be hard-pressed to reconcile many of our beloved traditions with any deep spiritual roots.
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The night had all the trappings of a regular shift for the two New York police officers sitting in a van parked amid the crowd in Times Square.
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"Vice" thus feels like less than the sum of its parts -- despite the outward trappings of a classy, impeccably cast exploration of Cheney's guarded life and political career.
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It also raises questions about whether it is an industry suited to embracing the hoodies, start-up incubators and other trappings that have given Silicon Valley global cachet.
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It was as if one part of R.E.M. wanted to embrace super-stardom and all of its glamorous trappings, while the other part wanted to sabotage those intentions.
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The trappings and history of the festival and the city of Venice seem to hold an enduring appeal for such bigger films looking to make a grand entrance.
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But it seems only a matter of time before campaigns start using all the trappings of prestige, power and who-knows-what-else they are able to muster.
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"Vitriol," one of that's record's standouts, stripped away the band's usual trappings of roiling guitar, bass, and drums in favor of curdled electronic arrangements and staccato quasi-rapping.
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Though they had the trappings of a pop-punk band, they eschewed the squeaky clean production that was all the rage and excised all the saccharine subject matter.
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Most recently, I was reminded of that adolescent isolation while watching Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird, which also works as a helpful example of the trappings of the genre.
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What caught my attention were the material trappings reflected in the hand-painted scenery, which reflected aspirational wealth, a reverence for nature, regality … yet is all absurdly artificial.
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The Momo challenge has similar trappings as the "Blue Whale challenge," which was another supposed online suicide game with a series of tasks spread out over 50 days.
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Despite the unusual trappings and the welcoming atmosphere, I suspected that RaRoCo had in fact succeeded at presenting some ideas that were a little bit disruptive, after all.
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The British comedy Catastrophe is a raunchy, delightfully unvarnished look at the challenges of marriage and parenthood, minus most of the clichéd trappings that usually accompany those topics.
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The result is fractious in spots, but the best work, presented without the trappings of traditional hierarchies, holds its own regardless of its origin on the generational continuum.
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Though he was asked to leave Bear Stearns in the early 1980s, his rise to achieve the vast trappings of wealth was as rapid as it was unconventional.
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He soon learned that skinhead trappings — Doc Martens, the skinny suspenders known as braces, Nazi insignias — made people automatically fear him, and he got hooked on that, too.
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He carried this off with aplomb in a series of recent meetings with international leaders, displaying the trappings of French regality and the pragmatism of a contemporary technocrat.
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The release will have the trappings of a bona fide Broadway production: eight shows a week, dark on Mondays — and the film's title in lights outside the theater.
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Since Bedard works with the state's Nuisance Alligator Program, he has completed his fair share of gator trappings, and knows the correct protocol to safely corral the animals.
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There is an archetype of the hyperdriven parent behind great athletes and scholars, adults seemingly more obsessed with the glory and trappings of success than their children are.
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His grandmother Dolly (Susan Sarandon) is in a lesbian relationship and living a life with all the trappings of liberal New York bohemianism, but she, too, is balking.
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Brilliantly cast, the show could flesh out its characters and story in a way that movies with similar mythological trappings don't have the time or latitude to develop.
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If a 19th-century French woman defined herself by her physical possessions, these characters define themselves by the trappings of their lives: their glamorous jobs, their romantic successes.
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I am there to see each person and feel each body for who they really are—to see past their flower arrangements, their powerful names, their cultural trappings.
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"The Great Comet" may break new ground, but it isn't immune to all of Broadway's trappings, like celebrity casting: Pierre will now be played by Josh Groban. ♦
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For Schoolwerth, breaking up human forms along with the trappings of domestic stability is an attempt to understand the fragmented nature of a Brexit deal that threatens normalcy.
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In a way, the artificiality of the live studio audience trappings allows the show to do this, because it's constantly reminding you that you're watching a TV show.
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She has certainly mastered the art of not appearing to enjoy the trappings of royalty and the fabulous artifacts that surround her and the sheer luxury of her position.
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Like so many Coen brothers films, it's mannered and absurd, with telling period trappings and memorably quirky details, as well as a handful of genuinely breathtaking set-piece sequences.
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If you took away the extravagantly gaudy trappings of the overproduced, chaotic, not very funny comic circus that is "Zoolander 2," you would still have a surefire basic concept.
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Home and Work In the commune-esque home of the Italian designer and his wife, the artist Francis Upritchard, the colorful trappings of life and work are uniquely integrated.
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As much as it might have had the superficial trappings of the next big thing, it never laid the groundwork it needed to to become a bona fide phenomenon.
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When I asked my guide why her sister gave up almost all the trappings of modern life, she mentioned freedom, fresh air, animal spirits—the usual answers ranchers give.
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Laura Coates: Save your battleships, Democrats Unsurprisingly, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has all the trappings of a Washington insider nestled in the mold of the traditionally pedigreed justice.
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John Kyl would be the so-called "sherpa" for Trump&aposs nominee, meaning that he will help guide the nominee through Senate meetings and other trappings of the process.
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When you strip away all the trappings of player progression, loot, scoring, and other dangling carrots that keep players invested, video games all boil down to one thing: mechanics.
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While apps, files, emails, Pokémons and other digital trappings seem to exist only in the cloud, the facilities needed to store and process that data are extremely energy-intensive.
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There are still the trappings of patriarchy, but an awareness that it's a societal problem we all have to fix while still aspiring to romance that's free of it.
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The Western edifice of science and knowledge bolstered and fed off the upward spiral of prosperity, enabling our civilisation to fund healthcare, education, infrastructure and other trappings of modernity.
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The young man's semi-slouched figure is situated squarely within the trappings of WASP privilege — heavy dining room table, ornate wall embellishments, a sideboard stacked with crisp white cloths.
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Leaving Neverland echoes On Michael Jackson in its assertion that Jackson probably hated women, hated responsibility, hated the trappings and freedoms that come with being a grown-up human.
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" Parker, however, had said Trump's account bears "all the trappings of an official, state-run account" and is "one of the White House's main vehicles for conducting official business.
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And the holiday trappings give the story a haunted feel, as though the characters listening to carols on the radio are actually hearing echoes from their town's dark past.
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One result is that people fantasize about the trappings of another world: either the West, with its display of immodesty and lust, or the Muslim paradise and its virgins.
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Above all, Naz's seeming inability to keep it together is an attempt to signal that The Night Of is less interested in genre trappings than it is in realism.
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Perhaps it's because they know that almost all these trappings on which their special status depends are held in trust for the people over whom they have been set.
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The 3-minute, 20-second-long clip includes all the trappings of a male fantasy sequence: women in various states of (un)dress, seductive dancing, and free-flowing cash.
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And they expect that all of the trappings of modern life were created in order to make them happy, and when they don't make them happy, they blame themselves.
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Buoyed by more positive, optimization-driven messaging, performance coaches—read: therapists—with athletic backgrounds, and all the trappings of any nutrition or conditioning room, Ziff began to make progress.
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The movie deals only glancingly, for example, with Ledger's discomfort with the trappings of fame, which he sought but, like so many performers, found onerous once he achieved it.
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It's not clear whether any of the parcels contained working bombs or just had substances — or trappings to make it appear — as if the mailings were packed with explosives.
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But the familiar trappings cannot disguise the reality that Cosby's second trial on charges that he assaulted a former friend in 2004 will have significant differences from his first.
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After a couple of days, I've resigned myself to the idea of using a latrine, but no one had prepared me for the other trappings of Romanian country life.
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Ahead we have your one-stop shopping guide for festive Thanksgiving dinner trappings — from gilded bowls, plates, and platters, to sparkling champagne flutes, acorn-shaped salt shakers, and more.
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Its prestige trappings and length aside, Titanic was more considered, at that time, a summer movie than a fall/winter one (and it was originally scheduled to debut there).
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Marshall is largely uninterested in the trappings of modern adulthood, and seems to place little value in the notion of being held down, or in holding someone else down.
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Trump, who ran as an outsider on a pledge to "drain the swamp," seems to have become surprisingly comfortable in Washington and in the trappings of the White House.
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Support for reparations recently voiced by three of the Democratic 2020 presidential candidates is yet another insult to black America that is clothed in the trappings of social justice.
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Many within the agency see the cuts as directed by a hostile White House that prefers the trappings and might of the military to the quieter business of diplomacy.
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As you begin to acquire status, money or any of the other trappings of leadership, you become vulnerable to making lousy decisions because you believe the hype about yourself.
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Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World Even though it's a documentary, Werner Herzog's tiptoe through the trappings and tulip bulbs of technology sure seems like science fiction.
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With centuries of critics picking apart text and subtext, the possibilities offered by the story space are far more vast than its traditional trappings first lead you to believe.
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Even though it plans to get rid of some of its most controversial trappings and despite its rebranding as a "competition," Miss America will still ultimately be a pageant.
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"London Fields" by Martin Amis Does Amis have us right where we wants us, clothing his acid, linguistically ingenious postmodern noir in the lurid trappings of ironic genre narrative?
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And some of WeChat's trappings can already be found in Messenger: You've been able to send your friends money since last May and hail rides (with Uber) since December.
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Since then, changing times have forced the park to scrub many of its politically incorrect trappings, and today, it walks an awkward line between embracing and ignoring the Confederacy.
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Abramovich — like Usmanov — now has all the trappings of the British establishment: a country home, luxury properties in London's most exclusive neighborhoods, and a soccer team as a plaything.
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It used its music-business trappings — a Princeton dropout tries to manage his drug-dealing cousin's budding rap career — to get at distinctly American ideas about ambition and identity.
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But that fear of missing out has led us to foolishly embrace the false trappings of innovation over truly innovative ideas that may be simpler and ultimately more effective.
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The gold ballgown she wears for her dance with the Beast was lifted out of time, with crinolines and neckline a century removed from the movie's vaguely rococo trappings.
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"When they hit the billion and above number, they're no longer in a place where they have to impress anybody by their outward trappings," Levien recently told The Times.
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POKÉ JUNKÉ The poke bowl takes on some new trappings, like a base of quinoa and brussels sprouts and mix-ins and toppings like sweet potatoes and crunchy corn.
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This is the man who depends on the trappings of spiritual or familial authority to exploit the young and weak, shame them into silence, and pre-emptively discredit them.
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BESHUD, Afghanistan — The truck wound its way through mountain passes in the pre-dawn darkness, stacked high with the trappings of a refugee life pieced together over 203 years.
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I imagine that many of us, having hit adulthood and acquired all the trappings and responsibilities that come with it, long for a time when we were more unfettered.
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From his just-concluded time with the Knicks, it is difficult to argue that the trappings of celebrity, and the stubbornness of age, didn't compromise his judgment and performance.
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For these reasons people often cloak their exchanges in the trappings of a communal relationship, in which friends, relatives or comrades share goods unstintingly, with no one keeping track.
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It's a system in which elections and other formal trappings of democracy persist but lose their meaning; in reality, authority is centralized, often in the hands of security agencies.
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Kovacs winds up becoming allied with a cop, Kristin Ortega (Martha Higareda), just to make this feel like a conventional TV show despite being wrapped in space-age trappings.
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And at all times, the camera keeps a steady eye on how this domestic space contains none of the trappings of wealth we're used to seeing on this show.
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I dreamed of becoming an opera singer, and I adored the trappings of what the school calls the "Trojan Family," from Heisman Trophies to TV episodes shot on campus.
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He took out his phone and pointed to custom trappings, an annex with a tent and shower at the back, all designed for surfing holidays along the Australian shoreline.
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But the dinners fit a long tradition of presidential administrations leveraging the grand trappings of the office to reward loyal supporters or to induce influential people to become supportive.
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Survival stories in general and zombie survival stories in particular tend to ask questions about what is essential to our humanity outside the trappings of civilization and its comforts.
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For this kid reared in what he describes as a modern killing field, trappings of success became doubly powerful once the realization of his own unfortunate circumstances took hold.
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Those reality TV trappings are familiar, but the lack of internal conflict means it's more of a collective well wish performed by people piping icing with all their might.
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We sat down with Miss Piggy for the scoop on her collab, her candid take on feminism and body positivity, and all the lavish trappings of her chic, porcine lifestyle.
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The growth in donation-based programs—most notably Patreon—points to a future in which the internet might be able to eschew the trappings of big money and big profits.
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The glitziest of Ameerpet's establishments have some of the trappings of MBA programmes: they dish out business cards to students they call "trainee associates" and help them polish their CVs.
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While still a long way from the highly organised esports scenes of northern Asia and the U.S., the country is starting to benefit from some of the trappings of legitimacy.
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So he may lay on la bise — the kiss on both cheeks — and other superficial trappings of French culture, while feeling disgust and contempt, to try to achieve his ends.
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But the loss of territory in Iraq and Syria stripped him of the trappings of caliph and made him a fugitive in the desert border area between the two countries.
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The platform is designed to serve as a conduit between big names like professional athletes and their fanbases, removing some of the trappings of traditional social media in the process.
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Like Sils Maria, it blends the arthouse and the grindhouse in the peculiar way that only Assayas can: sleek and stylish, but not lacking in genre trappings or heady commentary.
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This litigation concerns what the Account is now ... The public presentation of the Account and the webpage associated with it bear all the trappings of an official, state‐run account.
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The announcement was made with all the trappings of a royal decree by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and the country's prime minister — on Twitter.
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"We'd need to use her story and her rehabilitation as a lesson for other young people, so they can avoid her journey and not fall into the trappings of extremism."
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Past the iPad-like trappings, the Galaxy Tab S3 is, at its core, a supplemental computing device built for an audience I don't think either Samsung or Apple quite knows.
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It's true that she fell into the same relationship trappings that her ancestors did, but she is now in a stronger relationship because of it, not in spite of it.
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Part of the allure of adapting Kwan's book for the screen is to bring all the trappings of ostentatious privilege to life, and Nelson Coats' production design does not disappoint.
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In a place like Portland, can you actually escape the trappings of race with the cloak of respectability with the "right" name, the right upbringing, and the right community atmosphere?
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Cloaking creativity in the language of commerce seems anathema, but this was electroclash baby, it was all about the trappings of wealth and playing around with the concept of affluence.
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The dilemma facing the West is whether to keep giving money to an authoritarian government with such scant regard for human rights and little more than the trappings of democracy.
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A tailor-made constitution that grants sweeping powers to the president and the army, and electoral rules designed to produce a fragmented parliament, furnish it with the trappings of democracy.
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Not surprisingly, given the tawny auspices of an HBO production that screams "awards bait" from every pore, the trappings of "Wizard of Lies" are, like Madoff's possessions, designed to impress.
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From the very beginning, fans will notice familiar FF trappings: the hero of light, character classes like onion knight and black mage, and creatures like the cute-and-cuddly moogles.
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The scene was infused with a strong punk sensibility, particularly in its rejection of the trappings of rock stardom; the word "grunge" itself came caked in mud, sweat, and blood.
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He seems to love the trappings of celebrity, without the composed self-assurance of Derek Jeter, who pulled off the rare trick of being accessible and distant all at once.
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It only becomes more apparent as the short leaves the trappings of reality behind entirely, visualizing the joy Elliot once felt with Shayla as a vibrant, abstract, neon dance party.
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Polarizing as that decision was, This Is Happening endures because it stands alone, its components much easier to disentangle from their event trappings than, say, Jay Z's The Black Album.
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Her role-playing dovetails with the idea prevalent today, that identity is malleable rather than fixed and that femininity especially is in thrall to its trappings and to social expectations.
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That approach led incumbents to wrap themselves in the trappings of the presidency, reminding voters of the power they held without dirtying their hands on the grubby business of campaigning.
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Modern Americans use Thanksgiving sides as a place to experiment with new dishes and techniques, while keeping guests happy with the traditional trappings of the meal like turkey and gravy.
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The diplomat, Thae Yong-ho, 55, seemed to embrace the trappings of a comfortable life in a capitalist capital thousands of miles from dreary North Korea, never hinting at disloyalty.
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While cryptocurrency trading has the trappings of established financial markets, Coinbase's attempt to open trading in a new digital currency on Tuesday shows the industry is still experiencing growing pains.
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GAZA CITY — The death of Mahmoud Ishtiwi had all the trappings of a telenovela: sex, torture and embezzlement in Gaza's most venerated and secretive institution, the armed wing of Hamas.
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Kasztelan exposes the outrageous trappings of commercialized femininity by wrangling all the glittery, cake-topping, cartoon-like, clown-laden accessories of girl craft into watertight (and oh-so-sparkly!) arrangements.
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That is, we can readily trim away all of the GUI trappings of image editing software and get right down to bare computation—editing images via bare code, that is.
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The skit is funny enough for music nerds, as Armisen surprises Brownstein with an extreme makeover of sorts, except he's given her home the trappings of a scummy DIY venue.
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Today Microsoft's Redmond campus has most of the trappings found at the sprawling headquarters of tech giants in Silicon Valley — the soccer fields, manicured lawns and oceans of parking lots.
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It becomes that much easier to notice the series' tricks, to guess where things are going, to get distracted by trappings that keep you from losing yourself in the story.
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Yet Ramos also lingers indulgently over the trappings of the wealthy, to the point where reading this novel felt a bit like watching several hours of reality-TV luxury porn.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - It had all the trappings of a proper polling station - ballot-boxes, pots of indelible ink, registration lists and a dozen election officials dutifully seated behind school desks.
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But based on the creepy "Silent Night" soundtrack and the aggressively Christmas-y trappings that are shown off, it seems like the new season will take place around the holidays.
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It is a tension his advisers recognize, and say they try to mitigate by holding get-togethers at Mr. Obama's hotel and avoiding the trappings of leader-to-leader meetings.
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But it also has fishing, hiking and the trappings of a small town, despite being only a half-hour from downtown San Diego and minutes from major San Diego freeways.
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While documentaries frequently connect their subjects to larger truths, "Aaron Hernandez" and "Killer Inside" ultimately feel at least as preoccupied, to varying degrees, with wading through its smaller tabloid trappings.
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Asked to recount their lengthy love affair, they noted the absurdity of couching it — a romance incubated in the hell of the Holocaust — in the frilly trappings of Valentine's Day.
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If the Italian's tie shows an aristocratic disdain for the trappings of masculine potency, Mr. Trump's symmetrical but overlong tie stands out like a rehearsed macho boast, crass and overcompensating.
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He has many of the trappings of an old-school authoritarian, including a self-mythologizing museum, a spotty record on human rights and a glaring absence of genuine political opposition.
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ALBANY — It had all the trappings of a presidential campaign rollout: the cheering crowd, the flag-draped stage, an appearance and a hearty endorsement from Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
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Just like yoga, meditation, and other spiritual practices that get popular when they jettison their religious trappings, fasting has become a health practice in recent years, often in male circles.
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With one day to go until the biggest vote of his brief presidency, Trump is using all the trappings of his office to try to clinch the needed 215 votes.
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The Duma retained the trappings of legislative power — marble staircases, ornate chandeliers, thick red carpets — but it had become an aquarium, brightly colored fish swimming in circles but getting nowhere.
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McGregor, who goes by the nickname Notorious when fighting, has largely enjoyed the attention, regularly taking to social media to brag and show off the trappings of his newfound wealth.
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Metacritic score: Not yet available Must-listen track: "Death and Ashes" exemplifies the way that the score's metal trappings peel back to reveal something much more tender at its core.
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In Sheridan's renderings, the vast American West has all the brutality and might-makes-right trappings of older Westerns, but without the suggestion of justice that often accompanied those stories.
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The Berlin-based company, which has been making instant film since 23, worked with Swedish studio Teenage Engineering to blend the best design elements of old Polaroid cameras with modern trappings.
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The Berlin-based company, which has been making instant film since 215, worked with Swedish studio Teenage Engineering to blend the best design elements of old Polaroid cameras with modern trappings.
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If you didn't already think Freddie Mercury was robbed of the biopic he deserved, one look at Rocketman is enough to make you curse the stale, conventional trappings of Bohemian Rhapsody.
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It's an attempt to cut through the rhetoric and the ideological trappings and find out why so many young men — and yes, it's primarily young men — are drawn to extremist movements.
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Federation Force is dressed in the trappings of Metroid, but it's really an odd spinoff: A cooperative multiplayer first-person shooter, split up into brief, discrete 10-to-15-minute missions.
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Although well aware her era has passed, she continues to resist gravity and cling to the trappings of stardom, while engaging in embarrassing stunts like shilling for Pepsi at every turn.
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And while it denies the trappings of a genre film more vehemently than The Hateful Eight, The Revenant is a movie set in the west and it, too, is about race.
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Pitchfork reports that king of cool Ezra Koenig, aka the guy from Vampire Weekend, teased Neo Yokio, a brand-new Netflix show that has all the trappings of a viral sensation.
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" The favorite drink wasn't another green tea or ill-advised weight-loss shake, but rather Neuro Drinks, a line of bottled beverages that has all the trappings of a "health drink.
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In it, fans can see all the trappings of the comic-book character, including his mechanical eye, a robotic arm, and what looks like a pretty fresh fade from his barber.
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While not formally billed as a state visit, China gave Kim most of the trappings of one, including a welcome ceremony with honor guard in Beijing's Great Hall of the People.
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I saw these intimacies of empire, in the material trappings of figures, of icons, of myths, and the way that he treats them, does something that, in a way, subverts them.
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Scroll on to find 16 adult versions of classic dorm room trappings... And if you didn't believe beanbags would make a home décor comeback in your grown-ass apartment, think again.
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Iraqi Kurdistan, which has enjoyed relative autonomy since 1991, already has many of the trappings of a sovereign country, including an army, a parliament and its own domain on the internet.
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Add it all up with the visually and tonally darker trappings that the trailers have showcased, and there's plenty of potential for The Empire Strikes Back to strike back yet again.
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This stereotype isn't all wrong, and in fact wearing the trappings of a Macbeth-type witch—putting on the glamor—can help set the tone for working with Dark Goddess energy.
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Creating the illusion required a Hollywood-scale operation on Maasai land in Kenya complete with actors, production crews, special effects artists, caterers, and all the other trappings of a film set.
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She still has the trappings and obligations of a star, too, and says by phone she'll stay in Rio until just before Sunday's closing ceremony to hang out and make appearances.
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While this Netflix show has the desire and outward trappings to be its spiritual heir in addressing that moment, "Girlboss" ultimately feels too loose, and thinly drawn, to close the deal.
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It's a major takeaway from an ESPN The Magazine piece that was posted online Wednesday and looks at how NBA stars balance their jobs with the festive trappings of celebrity life.
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Going into Polynesia to exorcise his petit-bourgeois trappings, Gauguin imagined a nascent sensual utopia that harks back to an idealized Rousseauian constituency already destroyed by missionaries well before he arrived.
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Even an Instagram nude selfie, which lacks the arty trappings of a magazine photo shoot, becomes Kardashian classy by virtue of being performed intentionally, by someone wealthy and white and privileged.
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Despite the fact that her father has so relished in projecting an image of lavish, flamboyant wealth, Ivanka has not fell into the trappings of what Chinese consider "rich kid" behavior.
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And as authoritarian nativists reach once again for the reins of the international system, we will need to remember, perhaps desperately, that the trappings of civilization are not the thing itself.
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" That's certainly true of this trial, which went to jury deliberations Thursday night and which has had, as Bloomberg's Patricia Hurtado writes, all "the trappings of a grisly organized-crime prosecution.
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An ordinary life can be as meaningful as a celebrated or notorious one, especially when its familiar trappings—marriage, children—are themselves still new to the people he is writing about.
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Ms. Devi had cast off the trappings of the middle class she was born into and chose to live simply, often roaming the country with her subjects as she did research.
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Such trappings feature in "Billions," a Showtime drama in which Paul Giamatti as the United States attorney battling Wall Street corruption engages with his wife (Maggie Siff) in BDSM role-play.
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Well, our reporting shows that there is "a growing class of relatively well-off citizens" who have access to smartphones, decent food, and all the trappings of a middle class lifestyle.
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When asked how he felt about what's transpired since Trump was sworn in, Brady pleaded ignorance, insisting he's just an upbeat football guy concerned with winning and the trappings of success.
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They're deluded, yes, and the deeper we get into the series, the more we're seeing how the trappings of power have seduced them as power always seduces those who hold it.
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Sheriff Lucas Simms wants to maintain some sense of law and order, even just the trappings of it, to make sure that life is fair and possible for the people there.
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The show shares the trappings of Araki's earlier work — alleyway hookups, three-ways with Antifa protesters, alien lizards — but his trademark obsessions are especially timely in this politically charged cultural climate.
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Largely free from the trappings of treacly dialogue, these scenes place the emphasis where it belongs — on the rather remarkable performance by its misty-eyed child actor and on nature itself.
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It keeps all the aesthetic trappings that we've nostalgically canonized over the years—the unmistakable chatter of Combine soldiers, the still-conceptually terrifying headcrabs, an emphasis on playing with physics, etc.
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Or, for that matter, other supporters of the pope, who has overtly rejected the sumptuous trappings and, indeed, fetishization of clothing within the church in favor of a simpler, humbler lifestyle?
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SKEPTA AND STORMZY The British genre called grime deploys rat-a-tat electronic rhythms behind rappers who insist on gritty urban realism and reject (in both lyrics and presentation) celebrity trappings.
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She was what at one time was, rather horribly, called a "fameball" — a person who is achieving at least some of the trappings of fame for her work at becoming famous.
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Royal life has long borne many of the trappings of influencerdom, like being surrounded by corgis all the time or having a powerful influence on bridal trends for years to come.
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Whereas Mezher disdained the trappings of rank—he wore his major's patch only for meetings with superiors—Rayyan kept his uniform pressed and his pockets stocked with gold-colored ballpoint pens.
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The generic trappings of such a museum are all there: decrepit typewriters, linotype parts, old broadsheets with toasted edges hollering the death of Stalin or the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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WASHINGTON — In a city obsessed with the trappings of power, they are the ultimate status symbol: the wire-wearing, black S.U.V.-driving protective crews that come with high-level government service.
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A graduate of Yale Law School who serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Kavanaugh has the traditional trappings of a presidential nominee to the high court.
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He also hires a babysitter more than he used to, but otherwise, he hasn't thought much about the trappings of success and invests most of the revenue back into the business.
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This pageant of movement insists on a flattening equality among the different perspectives, and I didn't like to be reminded of hierarchy, which already poisons too many of the theatre's trappings.
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Familiar genre trappings do little to dispel the groove of "Junction 48," which does for the Israeli city of Lod what "8 Mile" aimed to do for the suburbs of Detroit.
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Maybe the invocations of both that film and Blade Runner are intentional, though, casting the sonic trappings of the often-misinterpreted cyberpunk subgenre onto a high-strung but ordinary crime story.
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Ava Gallanter, Cohen's earnest 25-year-old protagonist, is a self-styled anachronism: a 21st-century female would-be writer entombed in the trappings of canonical 19th-century male European novelists.
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Featuring tracks that seem to reach for sci-fi trappings ("Now or Never Now") as well as grungier numbers ("Holding Out"), Art of Doubt is a self-possessed, rebellious aural experience.
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Instead of depending on its photogenic actors making meals out of the scenery, Big Little Lies revealed its luxurious trappings to be nothing more than a veneer concealing much uglier truths.
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The thing that makes The Terror special is how careful it is to avoid the trappings of most TV horror, which too often substitutes big jump scares for something more thoughtful.
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In an interview, Mr. Etchells said the money would go toward Forced Entertainment's project, "Real Magic," a performance piece that incorporates a variety of media to explore the trappings of modern life.
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Instead of rising above domestic politics -- and using the trappings of his office to separate himself from those vying to replace him -- Trump used his time abroad to continue slinging at rivals.
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Because, despite its multimillion dollar trappings, Far From Home is really about a boy dealing with his grief while trying to figure out who he is today and wants to be tomorrow.
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I think every DJ who does it every weekend, who travels, who spends time in hotel rooms alone, who works silly hours and doesn't get a full night's sleep, understands those trappings.
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While that scene is definitely sob-inducing, it has overshadowed the real tragedy of the film — two stories of unrequited love, all the more emotional because, beyond fantastic trappings, they're so relatable.
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"It's got the early trappings [of a cult], I guess we could say," Janja Lalich, a cult expert and a sociology professor at California State University, Chico, told Vox over the phone.
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It has many of the trappings of a state, maintaining diplomatic relations with more than 100 countries and holding observer status at the UN. It is legally separate from the Holy See.
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For creators like Paul and Mongeau, that's meant a return to the trappings of reality TV. It's not just marriage ceremonies and short engagements that are stealing from TLC, MTV, or E!
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The trilogy has all the trappings of a traditional, alternate-world fantasy, but with some modern twists: there are epic battles, but also black-ops special forces soldiers that ride giant birds.
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An explosive New Yorker report detailing Donald Trump's alleged affair with former Playboy Playmate of the Year Karen McDougal also offers insight into the trappings of his private life with wife Melania.
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There is a natural assumption that we have caused problems in our micro biome through the trappings of our 21st century lives: drugs, antibiotics, bad food, hand sanitizers, or what have you.
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If anything it seems stronger because it has proven a sort of longevity by more or less avoiding a lot of the corporate trappings that can chew up and spit out artists.
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But the rhetoric and imagery of Charlottesville, in which the tropes of the Ku Klux Klan — including the burning torches of Friday's protest — and the trappings of Nazism collide, is particularly unsettling.
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On standby were sniffer dogs as well as "spotters", or men trained to detect any suspicious activity or people, the officer said, reflecting the trappings of a visit by a state leader.
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" In a recent column for The Hill, conservative activist Bob Woodson decried the idea of reparations as "yet another insult to black America that is clothed in the trappings of social justice.
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After shunning many of the trappings of influencer culture that dominate Instagram, the company has slowly taken steps to win back high-profile users with new features like analytics for verified accounts.
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The test results had all the trappings of credible forensic science, and was presented by a technician from the Motherisk Drug Testing Laboratory at Toronto's Sick Kids Hospital, Canada's foremost children's hospital.
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From its percussive score by the Grand Brothers, which has references to throat singing and sounds from nature — wind, thunder, wild geese — to its tribal feel, "Rouge" is marred by superficial trappings.
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But strip away the trappings of Google's legendary origins or Atari's madcap office culture, and you have familiar stories of employers versus employees, the maximization of profit, and the pursuit of power.
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Nelson tells this and more stories, accompanied by his majestic portraits of the customs and trappings of indigenous peoples from accross the world, in a new video from the Cooperative of Photography.
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His notably simple clothing choices and rejection of more magnificent vestments also sound a refrain of his papacy: concern with the poor, and a distrust of the trappings of wealth more generally.
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"What critics said: "Between is all concept — characters, production values, thematic depth, and the other things that flesh out a sci-fi idea beyond its genre trappings are flat, dull and unengaging.
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Today, China, the largest self-identified socialist country, outwardly displays all the trappings of a modern capitalist society, from rampant consumption to a massive gap between the urban elite and rural poor.
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It's actually part of a time-honored culture war waged by right-wing extremists through the ages that helps them normalize their hateful ideas by couching them in familiar or appealing trappings.
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My specific mental trappings might be a bit unique, but Hamilton says that he's heard of many people using the elimination foods as an excuse to restrict more, and lose more weight.
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From a Mad Max-inspired apocalypse setting, to the weird and wonderful Spelljammer: Adventures in Space, the traditionally fantasy-centric D&D is always looking to break out of its Tolkienesque trappings.
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He began to get his life back on track after joining the army, serving two tours of duty in Afghanistan and escaping the media scrutiny and other trappings of his gilded upbringing.
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A film I didn't talk about earlier was Azazel Jacobs's The Lovers, which is maybe a little too dark to be a classic rom-com but definitely has the trappings of one.
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The story and its trappings feel a little generic, the dialogue studiously bland and the characters and their problems curiously weightless, in spite of gestures in the direction of real-world issues.
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Hungary in 2018 has the trappings and institutions of a 21st-century European democracy, but uses them to exert the same kind of centralized control as the autocracies of the Cold War.
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"Crazy Rich Asians" is based on a novel by Kevin Kwan that satirizes Singapore's megarich, and the film's trailer oozes with luxury cars, opulent parties and other trappings of the One Percent.
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It seemed to use the trappings of religion to suggest the faith we have to bring to daily life, specifically the leap of faith required to make yourself vulnerable to another person.
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No longer are they so fixated on narrating their own success—in fact, they seem a bit desensitized to the trappings of fame, reorienting themselves to the street and its familiar touchstones.
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" As I watched the members of Congress and chief justice try, by means of pomp and solemn ceremony, to confer the trappings of legitimacy upon the president's removal hearing, that word — "intacta!
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Mr. Boehner seems eminently comfortable in retirement, buying a new car after years of being driven around by a security team and traveling the country without the trappings of his congressional position.
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Yet for all of the trappings of power he had, it was sometimes tempting to think that he was not at ease — and always suspicious of those around him — for good reason.
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Just because Kanye West now spends his time on a massive $14 million ranch in Wyoming doesn't mean he's given up all of the trappings of life as a famous recording artist.
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MITROVICA, Kosovo — Even among the flags and the sponsored jerseys and all the other trappings of the modern game, Bardhec Seferi could close his eyes and still see the waist-high grass.
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Granted, "Bombshell" might have been better served by a premium-TV showcase as well, since the behind-the-curtain peek at media and politics has all the trappings of an HBO movie.
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The story has all the trappings of a beach read — namely summer romance and a journey to self-discovery — with the additional exploration of social class that is both moving and enthralling.
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START WITH THE HOLIDAY TRAPPINGS To keep plastic ornaments and Hanukkah candles organized, use small containers you already have on hand, like popcorn and cookie tins or empty shoeboxes and egg cartons.
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N.C.A.A. Tournament: Day 113 The scares came one after another on Thursday, paroxysms of bracket-busting possibility that stimulated hopes of buzzer-beating upsets and overtime delights, those traditional trappings of March.
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"Imagine all of the trappings of Europeanized wealth and status, all of the markers of respectability, come into form around and for the sake of black figures in a space," she says.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The new biographical film Tom of Finland has a lot of the trappings of the art of Touko Laaksonen, better known by his nom de pencil.
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Russia also has the key external trappings of great power status, including a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, an advanced space program, and, of course, a large nuclear arsenal.
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