Superman Returns emphasized Superman's alienness and his remove from human feeling.
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"It's that sheer alienness of pterosaurs that is really fascinating about them," Dr. Unwin said.
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His alienness only briefly drops into recognizably human joy when the road trip reaches his mother, Sarah (Kirsten Dunst).
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Concerns are fed by a legitimate fear of terrorism and the alienness of Muslim and Arabic social norms, clothing and language.
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Especially in their fungal forms, they can be both plant and animal, their alienness at once unabashedly fictive yet almost empirically cataloged.
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There are the vision quests, your flying robot partner named Jib, and a deep sense of mystery and alienness that calls to mind a Moebius painting.
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Digitization and its projection through AR became a method of casting aside the human-centric notions of alienness and re-contextualizing alien contact with their perspective in mind.
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Like Matmos, there's a playfulness to their recording, but the fluidity of their decision-making and the alienness of the instrumentals place these recordings in another realm entirely.
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The film's manic motion-capture action sequences seem to exist solely to pad out the story, and the alienness of the computer effects undercuts Carrey's sweetly soulful work.
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Used on characters that are meant to look disturbingly unreal, like the shape-changing T-1000 in Terminator 2, it's an effective way of conveying an uncanny-valley alienness.
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What's most notable is the alienness of it all: here you have a tiny child that lives its entire life in a liquid-filled jar, strapped to a man's chest.
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"Often I feel when I'm reading sex scenes by men, there's a sense of disdain for the female body, a sense of its alienness, its otherness," she said in an interview.
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It's true that getting lost is good for you: it immerses you in the alienness of your new surroundings, and teaches you how to rely on yourself rather than your smartphone exocortex.
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When The Dark Tower just relies on McConaughey's dead-eyed creepiness, the alienness of Roland's homeland of Mid-World, and Jake's struggle to reconcile reality and fantasy, it at least finds an emotional balance that carries the story forward.
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A directing team that includes Nolan, Neil Marshall (who's helmed many of Game of Thrones' most epic hours), and Vincenzo Natali (one of Hannibal's chief directors) joins with top-notch cinematography that always highlights the alienness of Westworld to create something special.
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There's something strangely moving about not just being exposed to the dwarf planet's alienness — a roiling nitrogen sea, towering peaks topped with methane ice — but seeing the whole thing recede into the distance at the end, as New Horizons soars out to its next destination.
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Humans are all but extinct. The few survivors are plucked from the dying Earth by an alien race, the Oankali. Lilith has awakened 250 years after the war on a living Oankali ship. At first, she is repulsed by the alienness of her saviors/captors.
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Brome's play touches upon so many themes and subjects -- theatre itself;Stern, pp. 63, 95, 97–8, 103, 111–12. psychology and psychotherapy; sexuality and gender roles; lesbianism;Traub, pp. 60–1. colonialism and the alienness and "otherness" of foreign cultures;Barfoot and D'haen, pp. 15–16.
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According to Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, the primary concern in India should be to develop an indigenous development model that has human beings as its core focus. It is opposed to both western capitalist individualism and Marxist socialism, though welcoming to western science. It seeks a middle ground between capitalism and socialism, evaluating both systems on their respective merits, while being critical of their excesses and alienness.
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The Martian is a favorite character of classical science fiction; he was frequently found away from his home planet, often invading Earth, but sometimes simply a lonely character representing alienness from his surroundings. Martians, other than human beings transplanted to Mars, became rare in fiction after Mariner, except in exercises of deliberate nostalgia – more frequently in some genres, such as comics and animation, than in written literature.
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The program allowed Lopatin to write lyrics and play them chromatically. Sasha Geffen of Consequence of Sound noted nonetheless that "you only catch them in snippets inside the grotesque mesh of processing Lopatin’s used to filter them." The Fader wrote that "the record, a meticulous collage of mutilated samples and computer-generated voices, careens between uncanny familiarity and total alienness." The release was accompanied by a lyric sheet.
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Just a Gigolo at BowieGoldenYears It was Bowie's first movie role after Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). As Roeg's film had played upon Bowie's earlier identification with science fiction and alienness,Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray (1981). Bowie: An Illustrated Record: p.78 so Just a Gigolo fitted his then-current interest in pre-war Berlin, pricked by meeting Christopher Isherwood, whose Goodbye to Berlin had inspired the musical Cabaret.
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Adrian Czajkowski (spelled as Adrian Tchaikovsky in his books) is a British fantasy and science fiction author. He is best known for his series Shadows of the Apt, and for his novel Children of Time. Tchaikovsky's novel Children of Time won the 30th Arthur C. Clarke Award on 24 August 2016 at a ceremony in London and was described by author James Lovegrove as "superior stuff, tackling big themes – gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness – with brio".
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"Review: Science fiction: The alienness of atmosphere: Michael Moorcock welcomes back one of the great originals: A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay", The Guardian, p. 29. He has designed the covers for many contemporary Steampunk novels. He designed (and contributed an entry to) the anthology work The Thackery T Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases and also its sequel The Thackery T Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities. He has also produced numerous cover illustrations for Arthur Magazine.
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Mary-Lou introduces Newton to many customs of Earth, including church-going, alcohol, and sex. She and Newton live together in a house Newton has built close to where he first landed in New Mexico. Meanwhile, Dr. Nathan Bryce, a former womaniser and college professor, has landed a job as a fuel technician with World Enterprises and slowly becomes Newton's confidant. Bryce senses Newton's alienness and arranges a meeting with Newton at his home where he has hidden a special X-ray camera.
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Thus, the concept of "alienness" (from familiar incommunicability the individuation stems), or that of "functional family" (that one that fulfils the functions that society expects from her, that is: generational equity, socialization, social control and cultural transmission). Perez Adan opposes the relativism that seems to dominate the sociological contemporary speech. The criterion of familiar functionality supposes the recognition that there can exist, and in fact there are, better and worse families. This distinction between better and worse can spread to any human group.
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As adolescents, they may experience similar emotions when first approaching the opposite sex. This fascination with alienness may become associated with arousal over time through classical conditioning. Eventually, arousal will be triggered by the emotion; #"The missing phallus": When exposed to the nude female body, some men are fascinated by the fact that "the penis is missing", and there is an alternative and sexual organ (in fact, one reminiscent of a wound) in its place. This feeling of surprise may become a part of sexual attraction.
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In Uganda, Hastings served in pastoral and teaching functions and was charged with interpreting the documents of the Second Vatican Council to priests in Africa. His notes on these documents were later published. He also agitated for a relaxation of the discipline of clerical celibacy in the African context, attributing the low numbers of African clergy to the cultural alienness of this requirement. In 1966, after bouts of malaria, Hastings returned to England and became active in ecumenical dialogue through the preparatory commission of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission.
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Fetishism is defined by Merriam-Webster as worshiping an object believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner. In West African culture, they used dolls placed inside or around homes, and for every wish or harm inflicted on another, a nail was driven into the doll's body. Additionally, chicken blood and other various liquids were often poured on the doll's body, and are described to have a malevolent ambience. Due to the alienness of African culture, Europeans in the 16th and 17th centuries grew to be wary of these objects and believed they were evidence of sorcery.
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On the way, he hallucinates other animals and events, supposed to be a racial memory of prehistoric times, and finds himself unable to handle artificial objects, repulsed by their alienness. Alice again finds him, and explains that now that the Neanderthal part of his mind has taken hold there is nothing that can stop it. Although at first frightened and resistant, Anderson finds himself seeing his environment, once harsh and untamed, as beautiful and idyllic. Despite his early statements to the contrary, he eventually abandons his clothes and weapons and runs to join the blissful Neanderthals in the forest.
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Profanity in SF also encompasses the idea of things that alien cultures might find profane, and the notion that what non-humans and humans find to be profane may differ markedly. Card observes that human profanity encompasses words dealing with sexual intercourse and states that that tells one something about human beings. He proceeds to suggest that what aliens might find to be profane can be a useful tool for suggesting the alienness of a culture. The first example of this that he gives are alien cultures that have no trouble with words about sexual intercourse, but that find words to do with eating to be profane.
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Regardless, she and the other Supers band together for defense, recognizing that the Sleepless of Sanctuary have become so nervous of outsiders that even the Supers, created by the community and to serve it, constitute a threat due to their sheer alienness. Miri names the group "the Beggars." Miri's thought-strings--indeed, the thought-strings of every Super--have had structural flaws from the beginning, gaps where information ought to go that they don't have. Miri rectifies this gap when she is introduced to one of Drew Arlen's Lucid Dreaming concerts; the ability to tap into their unconscious allows the Supers to make a number of technological, medical and conceptual breakthroughs, including allowing Miri to cure the twitching and stuttering.
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David Pringle described Eye Among the Blind, Holdstock's first science fiction novel, as a "dogged, detailed, somewhat slow-moving planetary mystery".The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, David Pringle (London: Grafton, 1990), page 111. Ursula K. Le Guin called the same novel "As strong a treatment of a central theme of science fiction - alienness, and the relation of the human and the alien - as any I have read."The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, David Pringle (London: Grafton, 1990), page 111. According to Michael D. C. Drout, Holdstock's Ryhope Wood series is a significant part of the fantasy genre, displaying the power and aesthetic standards of Tolkien’s fantasy without being either a "close imitation of" or a "reaction against" Tolkien.
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