The point of the sequence isn't Watts' rote, affectless exposition, though.
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You grow to understand the man through these intentionally affectless submissions.
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They're also rhythmic units, building time and suspense into the otherwise affectless prose.
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His influence is also apparent in the performances, which can be borderline affectless.
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He speaks in an affectless monotone, mournfully crosses his arms and rarely smiles.
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"I'm having a little problem hitting 90," Mr. Lewis said, his tone almost affectless.
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In her scenes with Nolte, Boyle's affectless delivery pales in power next to his natural patter.
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"Because I was horny and I felt like it," Kim replies, her voice flat and affectless.
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The locations seem just right, from the blankly affectless strip malls to the temporary-feeling apartments.
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Hersey's writing voice is calmly recitative, bordering on affectless—"deliberately quiet," as he later put it.
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Callahan has a still, heavy baritone that is somehow both entirely affectless and drenched with feeling.
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It's an affectless approach that evokes an Outsider-ish ingenuousness through unfussy brushwork and flat, earthy color.
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The film is sometimes almost affectless in the low-key, drama-light way it tells the story.
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Detailed, largely affectless and sometimes rushed, this recitation accompanies images that initially seem completely unrelated, even random.
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It is saddled with an affectless voiceover and a generic, drum-based score that turns the documentary homogenous.
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Scenes would often feature bland, affectless work from performers who seemed as if they'd rather be anywhere else.
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Just beneath the surface of his seemingly effortless, affectless pictures is a mixture of gratitude, sorrow, anger and, finally, grace.
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Then Gosling showed up, carrying a range of performances, from Drive's affectless protagonist to his bumbling scheming in The Nice Guys.
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" At the end of the special, he thanks the crowd then says in a blankly affectless deadpan, "I hope you're happy.
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Thus the voice doesn't sound affectless, but rather like it is trying to generate feeling and communicate that, but is failing.
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Emil, the tour guide, has an affectless storytelling style, like a podcast of Wikipedia entries, much less appealing than Hansson's profane patter.
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Even compared to the current reggaeton norm, his deadpan singing and spacey hooks share an affectless quality, as if mechanized into blankness.
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Taylor's descriptive sentences can be so affectless as to read as terse, even though grammatically he tends toward the long and complex.
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It does still maintain a welcoming, affectless air, thanks to founder Emma Gray's open enthusiasm for the artists in her tight program.
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Affectless armies of weaponized nihilists prepared to set the world on fire rather than share it with women and people of color.
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The footage, starring the affectless pop artist in a blue blazer and red tie, featured in Leth's 1982 film, 66 Scenes from America.
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What is stunning about the tall penis in the center of the frame is how utterly unmonumental it appears, how affectless its owner.
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The mockumentary starred Samberg and Game of Thrones's Kit Harington as a mullet-ed pervert and an affectless wimp with a bowl cut, respectively.
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He has also demonstrated a new willingness to stretch beyond the affectless line readings and self-consciously makeshift settings that were his early signature.
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Miku is software—a computer program, like GarageBand or Ableton Live, through which musicians can fabricate the squawky, affectless singing voice of a teenage girl.
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The opening narration is a perfect balance of violence and irony: "Sharon attracted violent men," Condit begins, in the affectless voice of an infomercial announcer.
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In the end, her whimsical creatures, affectless humans, and moments of surreal irrationality offer no answers, but they do swirl together into, well, pretty much everything.
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It takes a while to notice that some affectless internal office communication refers to force feeding chairs, photographs of which are blown up in clinical detail.
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In the plain, affectless staging by Jonathan Silverstein, Mr. Burton and Mr. McGrath expertly underplay the characters, with their roiling fears and, in Carl's case, outrage.
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For four decades, the affectless portrait on the cover of the Ramones' self-titled debut album has proclaimed, "We don't need you," inspiring generations of young outsiders.
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Their styles (and their mindfulness of the mid-19th-century period) are all over the place, and they're prone to flat, affectless moments that needed another take.
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Here we come face to face with an affectless tableau of a father, mother, and their three grown daughters rigidly posed in front of two plates of muffins.
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And then there is HAL , the rogue computer whose affectless red eye reflects back what it sees while, behind it, his mind whirrs with dark and secret designs.
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As embodied by the appealing newcomer Jules Latimer, in a bravely affectless performance, Emmie (birth name: Emaani) has the self-effacing mien of someone who aspires to invisibility.
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" The Beacon's decision, he said, was "to write our news stories in the affectless style of the AP, because we don't want to give our critics any ammunition.
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A part of me identifies with the pretty, affectless performers on view, while another, warring element of my consciousness wants to push against this desire, to be something different.
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"Creature Comfort" is perhaps definitive: the song's cheerfully affectless guitar riff plus synth squelch, combined with Butler's declamatory talk-singing, aim to evoke classic dancepop, New Order's "Temptation" maybe.
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Recall "Umbrella," her breakout hit from 2007, and just try to find an inconsistency, just one, in the grain of her voice — affectless, flawless, these are of a piece.
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" It's an entry point marked by "the flattening affectless provisionality of boarding-lounge culture" and "that omnipresent media-and-candy matrix" built inside "this critical cohabitation of security and entertainment….
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For several decades, Andy Warhol was the patron saint of artists obsessed with mass media and celebrity culture, a fixation he expressed to the mainstream in a deadpan, affectless demeanor.
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The show's attitudes and comic strategies are still in place, too, with the not-too-subtle punch lines delivered in an affectless deadpan and the reflexive undercutting of sincerity or sentiment.
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A mouthy fuckup from a bad family, Alyssa is drawn to James right away: he's such an affectless blank slate that he seems perfect for an angry girl to scribble on.
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During our time together, she switched to a British accent a couple of times and then effortlessly returned to her normal voice, a slightly affectless cadence that recalls her Queens upbringing.
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That version of me is a New Jersey Nets fan, and he remembers watching the Spurs' affectless disassembly of the Nets in the 2003 NBA Finals, and remembers it with some saltiness.
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The cast offers its own pleasures, especially Swinton (in her Madame Blanc role) and Johnson, a performer whose lightly breathy voice and low-key, almost affectless charisma can quickly turn unsettling, menacing.
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But it's not always easy to tell how much her affectless mien is an acting choice and how much it comes from being infected by the somnolent rhythms of a leaden script.
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But for as stilted and affectless as the films can be, they're tapped into something raw and real about how often seemingly stable societies collapse into fascism, into revolution, into political upheaval.
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Nicholas Jenkins, the affectless narrator of Powell's most famous work, the multivolume novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975, shares many of his creator's own traits.
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It could be argued that the blank, affectless Martin has been numbed by the shock of his partner's death, but the other characters seem to be just as dazed and deadpan as he is.
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Affectless covers of "Margaritaville" worked just fine when paired weather map of Florida, but on their own they present a uniquely uncomfortable listening experience—as itchily sickening as putting on a swimsuit that's already wet.
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In Prisoners, a different Jake Gyllenhaal is nearly wordless and affectless, except when scribbling nonsensical notes in an old-school reporter's pad — notes that reveal themselves to him and us as dizzyingly prescient down the line.
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Primed by the boy's affectless narration (here, when characters aren't practicing brutality, they're talking about it), we intuit that what will follow for Rio and his older sister, Sara (Leila George), is unlikely to be pretty.
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In affectless, purposeful prose we get a stream of increasingly strange and piquant factoids about these people, who seem to emerge straight out of a Coen brothers movie: One fossil dealer likes cockroaches, Milton Friedman and Greek triremes.
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The original Jafar was the epitome of the noxious trope of the shrieking, fey, vaguely homophobic Disney villain; Kenzari's Jafar is quiet, straightforward, and almost affectless, except for occasional moments when he lets his thirst for power seep through.
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I won't comment on the franchise itself, whose films I haven't seen, except to hazard uninformed suspicions of lousy gender politics and, as with the Twilight films in whose shadow they bask, the cold, drained, affectless failure to qualify as sexy.
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Told in the affectless, minimal style of Jean Rhys's "Good Morning, Midnight," the novel avoids direct descriptions of the virtual world at its center, instead focusing on the anonymous hotel rooms and black-lit nightclubs that serve as its staging ground.
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Dee paints a persuasive portrait of an affectless technocrat, neither friendly nor unfriendly, neither left wing nor right wing, who does an adequate job of imitating the locals yet continues to wear bespoke white dress shirts beneath his Patagonia fleeces.
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At some point, you'd think this show would figure out a way to indicate that Bran is going to explain a major piece of backstory to us that didn't involve Isaac Hempstead Wright reading it in a flat, affectless voice.
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What the threads have in common is a kind of dreamlike, affectless prose that effectively nulls characterization — Anna's husband, we're asked to believe, is a mover and shaker in the music business, but nothing about his behavior adds credibility to this bare résumé.
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But somehow Baumbach manages to find a nugget of humor at even the most painful points, whether it's a lunch break during a tense legal negotiation, or a disastrous appointment between Charlie and an affectless social worker that literally leaves blood on the floor.
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On the level of adaptation, Ms. Neuwirth's mostly wordless "Lost Highway Suite" adheres more closely to the source material than her original stage piece, as the vocal writing in the opera stands defiantly apart from the frequently hushed and affectless performances Mr. Lynch drew from his actors.
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I'll refer you to Michael Cooper's Twitter thread for the 15-odd stories and reviews we produced about this massive undertaking: I wrapped up the final cycle with wonder at the Met's superb cast and disappointment at Philippe Jordan's affectless conducting and the mediocre orchestral playing.
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"She is throwing this kite in the air, and we are running and laughing so much that I tumble into the grass," says Rachel Dostal, who narrates the early section of the story with a clear, almost affectless delivery that will be matched by all the accomplished performers.
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Indeed, Autumn is such a recessive, cipher-like character — and newcomer Flanigan plays her with such affectless understatement — that it comes as a shock when, in a crucial scene at a women's health clinic, she finally gives in to the welter of emotions that she's kept in check for so long.
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Yet, she could no sooner make a country album than she could go EDM; a polymorphous pop heroine assimilates external influences into her own maelstrom, not vice versa, and these expertly crafted concoctions showcase, as always, her affectless yearning, her fascination with mechanical efficiency and formal intricacy, her commitment to finding cheer within ache.
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Jesse Eisenberg's affectless rendering of Mr. Zuckerberg in the movie "The Social Network" may have brought the image to a wider audience, but the impression had been formed years earlier, by awkward public appearances like a Q. and A. at the 2008 South by Southwest Interactive Festival that went from stiff to testy in no time.
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Where Happy Hour gets stretched is in a handful of set pieces that play out in virtual real-time: a New Age-y therapy session orchestrated by an enigmatic artist; a reading of a short story conducted by a diminutive woman in a flat, affectless voice; a conversation over drinks, a conversation over coffee, then another conversation over drinks.
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If the too much woman is a cliché of femininity, so is the affectless, Botoxed one, and that is what its narrator increasingly comes to resemble: a woman who seals herself into a posture of bleak, chic passivity to avoid the risk of pain, of humiliation, of disappointment until she, too, begins to seem more pose than person.
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As the star of Lone Survivor (based on a true story of tragedy in Afghanistan), Deepwater Horizon (based on a true story of tragedy at sea), and now Patriots Day (based on a true story of tragedy in Boston), he's the poster boy for films about needless violence against American bodies — an affectless prism through which viewers can project their own preconceived (and carefully catered-to) notions of American heroism.
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The Observer felt that the album was a retreat of the "chilly synths and affectless monotone in torpid, ever-decreasing circles without even the sparks of energy that livened up this year’s Warlord album".
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Lo, Malinda (June 2005), "Sleeping in the Nothing". Lesbian News. 30 (11):36 Brian Hiatt with Rolling Stone remarked, "Turns out her affectless vocals are better suited to...Eurythmics-biting synth-pop."Hiatt, Brian (2005-04-21), "Kelly Osbourne: 'One Word'".
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Cosmo Reif, an affectless mob bookie who lives in the basement of a retirement home, is promoted to hitman against his will. He learns his new trade from Steve, a seasoned killer, and proves to be a natural marksman despite having no experience with firearms. He falls in love with a yoga teacher, Jasmine, and must figure out a way to leave the mob so they can be together.
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Over the next year, musicians associated with the term engaged with it ironically, such as Dick Diver's lead singer, who called dolewave "a good gag" before vowing to destroy it. The term is said to have stuck because it "epitomised the downtrodden, affectless vocals and slack riffs and rhythms which dominated whatever was happening in the spotlit Australian underground."Cleland, Jake (10 July 2016). "Flag-Burnin’, Rule-Breakin’, Kochie-Fuckin’ Dick Diver", Medium. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
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Metaphysics has nothing to do with River's Edge, though, like Dracula, it's a tale of the undead." David Ansen of Newsweek called the film "the scariest vision of youth since the alarming Brazilian movie Pixote... River's Edge pitches the audience inside this nightmare world of affectless middle-class kids and lets us watch them wallow their way through moral dilemmas they can only half articulate." John Simon of the National Review called River's Edge "splendid". In a 2015 retrospective, Salon deemed River's Edge "the darkest teen film of all time.
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Reflections received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 79, indicating 'generally favorable reviews'. Katherine St. Asaph of Pitchfork criticized Diamond's vocals and songwriting as "affectless" and the album's sound as being behind the times in comparison to the more forward thinking music of her peers at PC Music. However, St. Asaph did praise the cover of "Concrete Angel" as "exhilarating" and saying "more happens in these four minutes than the rest of the album combined".
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" Nick Catucci of Rolling Stone gave the album three out of five stars, saying "Rapping with his affectless slur and bricklayer's tempo over rolling, mid-speed beats, Keef (who was criticized for mocking a murder victim, his rival, on Twitter) seems unshakably confident but profoundly directionless. The effect is mesmerizing, and a little scary." David Jeffries of AllMusic gave the album two and a half stars out of five, saying "In the end, it's raw, irresponsible, unforgiving, and often infectious, but the controversial Finally Rich isn't a step forward on any counts. Consider this the guiltiest of pleasures, if considered at all.
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Dana Stevens of The New York Times gave the film a negative review, writing: "With its deliberately washed-out color palette, affectless dialogue and nearly event- free story line, "Steve + Sky" is a mere slip of a movie, a wan character study of people who add up to little more than a series of studied quirks" but praised the performances of the two lead actors. Eddie Cockrell of Variety wrote: "Promising frosh helmer Felix van Groeningen exhibits a fresh eye, though his script is full of too many self-consciously Tarantino-ish verbal digressions that serve to distract from the story". The film won Best Film and Best Composer at the 2004 Joseph Plateau Awards.
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Much of the band's music is characterized by Lytle's analog synthesizer and the fuzzy guitar, bass and drums of the rest of the band. The band has variously been described as "bittersweet indie space rock", "neo-psychedelic, blissed- out indie rock", "dreamy, spacey psychedelic pop", and "an uneasy combination of warm, tactile guitars and affectless electronics". Jon Pareles of The New York Times described the band's songs as "stately anthems orchestrated with full late-psychedelic pomp: fuzz-toned guitar strumming, rippling keyboards, brawny drumbeats". While the band's style has sometimes been described as alt country, in Lytle's view it is the sentiment of country music that the band embraced rather than the musical style.
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Cultural critic Geoffrey O'Brien further details Williams's "chief characteristics": > a powerfully evoked natural setting, revelation of character through sexual > attitudes and behavior, and a conversational narrative voice that makes the > flimsiest tale seem worth telling.... His narrator is generally an ordinary, > curiously amoral fellow fueled by greed and lust but curiously detached from > his own crimes. [A number of his books] are variations on the same > serviceable plot: boy meets money, boy gets money, boy loses money. Each of > them hinges on a woman, and it is in the intricacies of the man-woman > relationship that Williams finds his real subject.... [O]ften the woman is > both more intelligent and—- even when she is a criminal—- more aware of > moral complexities than the affectless hero.O'Brien (1997), pp. 143–144.
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Publishers Weekly considered it "delightful" and "a delicate tale of science and miracles", lauding Tolmie's "careful characterization" and "rich historical detail, subtle humor, and energetic prose". The Little Animals, at Publishers Weekly; reviewed March 18, 2019; retrieved April 19, 2020 James Nicoll found it "entrancing" and "gentle", and noted that although the novel "at first appears to be a straight historical", the world it portrays is "not quite ours".A Brief Introduction to Sarah Tolmie’s Speculative Fiction, by James Nicoll, at Tor.com; published August 16, 2019; retrieved April 19, 2020 In Locus, Gary K. Wolfe described it as "at once (...) a charming mannerist fairy tale and a provocative account of the birth of our own modern worldview", praising Tolmie's depiction of Leeuwenhoek's scientific activities; as well, he drew parallels between the goose girl and the eponymous fairy tale, and stated that she was "a marvel of liminality and nuance, at times reticent and affectless, at times a vulnerable and lonely girl with an astonishing sensory connection to the natural world".
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