Unsurprisingly, when Teespring's rote and artless tackiness comes together with the NFL's rote and artless tackiness, the result is astonishing.
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" AV Club called it "joyless, artless, and maybe soulless.
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This is writing that is neither artless nor naïvely transparent.
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The pictures — casual, artless and repetitious — are images within images.
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How can a movie be so artful and seem so artless?
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At all times, Mr. Lynch's paintings look breathless, effortless and artless.
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Like the headset itself, the controller is artless and sort of ugly.
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An embarrassment of metaphoric riches for our artless embarrassment of a president!
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Art, in its multi-purposed uselessness, makes life more interesting than artless life.
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His portraits, for instance, seem almost infuriatingly artless: unposed, whatever lighting, meh composition.
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So Artless Fiction was the record label we created to release Robbie's record.
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For the U.S., it is nonsensical foreign policy and artless diplomacy for Gen.
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Some will find this approach artless, but it has a certain hypnotic quality.
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Like I said, some porn is unquestionably sexist, racist, transphobic, and just plain artless.
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" Tracey Emin had a piece [ My Bed ] that a lot of people called "artless.
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His position-paper entr'actes can be awkward and artless, much like the author himself.
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It was, frankly, the kind of schmaltz that Bowie probably would've dismissed as artless rubbish.
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Nah. It was expected, familiar, another artless evasion atop an ever-growing Matterhorn of lies.
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Though the themes of "Burden" feel uncomfortably current, their execution is leaden and dismayingly artless.
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The clunky, artless ship, despite its small patch of lush, thriving greenery, is a sterile cage.
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The imagery becomes so striking that being an unemployed, artless failure starts to seem almost exalted.
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One topic, in particular, elicited a rather artless dodge: that of the so-called shadow profile.
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When confronted by an artless, ugly administration, it's also worth remembering that art and beauty are important.
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They admired in each other a brusque self-assurance and artless candor that others often perceived as arrogant.
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Yet amid the bleak despair, Chytilová finds solace in her characters' artless blunders, foibles, and small secret pleasures.
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As both the male and female Orlandos, Ms. König proves beautifully artless, keeping the sex change low-key.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Crimes of the Art is a weekly survey of artless criminals' cultural misdeeds.
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Kelly said that Dunford used a variation of the words that Trump used, which the president's critics had called artless.
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As for competence, what we have seen of his approach to deal-making so far is more artless than artful.
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President Obama's handling of the Affordable Care Act was among the most artless, bungled bits of leadership in recent history.
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But a great deal of work goes in to making an apparently artless image—Wylie works through dozens of preparatory drawings.
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Gadon's Grace is sphinxlike on the subject of her memories, but clear-eyed and artless when she is talking about guilt.
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Everyone knew that he was C.I.A., and that he combined an affable and artless personality with a talent for dirty tricks.
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Mashing limp romance and artless satire into a ludicrously contrived plot, "The Clapper" lurches from one mirthlessly eccentric scene to another.
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As well as being artless and daft, he was also hyperactive and unable to cope with the incessant pressures of the beautiful game.
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He has a fizzy, artless laugh and a maximal smile that makes him look like a kid who has somehow grown a beard.
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One of the most memorable films of recent years is "Disorder", an artful weaving together of artless footage of Chinese cities on the boil.
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They are suddenly displayed as thumbnails, organized not by an aesthetically focused curatorial eye but by a cold, artless system: alphabetical order by caption.
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"If it looks artless, that's down to artfulness," he says, accurately, in defense of his choreography, but it's much less true of this book.
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Early attempts to understand "My Struggle" tended to see it as an unmediated stream, either an artless outpouring or an attempt at radical transparency.
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Sloppy, rushed, and artless in all respects, this failed Kickstarter project that didn't know when to quit is a treasure trove of unintentional satire.
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It was also a way "to creatively strong-arm [myself] into making a film," Bulckaert, also a founding member of Yellowknife's Artless Collective, told VICE.
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It's easy to forget that he was once a fresh-faced youngster, an artless lad from Gateshead, a bewildering midfield talent, and England's brightest hope.
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A material becomes a lens on the evolution of art — from the functional and artless, to the artful pretending toward authenticity, to the decadently useless.
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Yet it seems no matter how popular essays become, no matter the accolades they receive, the bias against them as an amateur, artless feminine form persists.
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While the plan seemed a little artless at first, it was quickly revealed to be a distraction meant to allow Rick and Daryl to get inside undetected.
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With this one percent, a few artful human beings are brought to the table with many an artless human being to take part in the urbanism conversation.
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Key to the film's success is the audience's investment in the relationship between Okja and Mija—assured from the start by Ms An's artless depiction, and convincing CGI.
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With the microphone in one hand as he croons (in a small, artless voice) and the other hand on my waist, Hiroshi leads me through a slow dance.
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"Every portrait effortlessly reveals the unique qualities of each of these settlements with an artless efficiency that has become unthinkable," writes architect Rem Koolhaas in the book's foreword.
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But Shore invokes another tradition: that of Walt Whitman, who recommended "a perfectly transparent, plate-glassy style, artless" (quoted in the catalogue by the show's fine curator, Quentin Bajac).
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In those naive, artless years at the dawning of the new millennium, we were mere children, and Hulk Hogan seemed to be as good a role model as any.
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With her nanosecond timing, she has nailed tricky ensemble scenes as both a sophisticated sidekick (in "Next Fall") and an artless matron (in "The Babylon Line"), among many others.
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Much of Kaur's appeal comes from this artless vulnerability, like a cross between Charles Bukowski and Cat Power, and from an ingénue's willingness to blurt out whatever is on her mind.
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Like Szalay, Knausgaard is often artless, prosy, clichéd, embarrassingly banal; like Szalay, he wants to explode the novel form; and like the British author he is interested in many ordinary things.
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On Tuesday, the small-screen vista was limited to artless shots of House impeachment managers and Mr. Trump's lawyers at their lecterns, with an occasional overhead glimpse of the chamber thrown in.
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The artless repetitions, the indented lines, the earnest question marks, the lack of subterfuge or extraneous commentary, the ingenuous vitality—all this makes use, I suspect, of the atmosphere of contemporary songwriting.
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But once, an artist residency meant something very different: being embedded squarely within regular life, an experience meant both to inspire artists and to infuse what were seen as artless environments with creativity.
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A blustering, artless kid as the play begins, Cleopatra is amused by her new mystery acquaintance, who stays mum about his identity as she mulls how to get the upper hand with the Romans.
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Mostly it was the newcomers' pathogens that did them in, although some were victims of an attitude that viewed them as "artless and lazy" for not exploiting their material abundance for purposes of commerce.
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What I found was simultaneous evidence of Franken's current caricature, a remorseless, perverted product of Hollywood's hypermasculine underbelly, and the virtues that once endeared him to progressives: down-to-earth humor and artless candor.
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The Guggenheim Museum in an artless landI especially appreciate this caption for a Guggenheim Museum that's dropped into a Martian-looking landscape, where it almost looks more at home than it does on Fifth Avenue.
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Even so, Yiannopoulos's false equivalency of Andres Serrano's infamous "Piss Christ" with the windless, artless, shock-jock efforts of #DaddyWillSaveUs both oversells the quality of the latter and underestimates the countercultural teeth of the former.
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President Richard M. Nixon presented Prime Minister Harold Wilson with the moon memento in Washington in January 1970: four tiny pebbles, the size of rice grains, mounted on an artless, 9-by-19703-inch commemorative wooden plaque.
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The song fits neither the mood nor the message of the scene and its placement demonstrates for me how "The Handmaid's Tale" can swing wildly from blisteringly powerful to absolutely leaden thanks to decisions that feel artless.
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This is a man resigned to his rage, a put-upon, artless, gray-flannelized man whose single-minded fixation on domestic income inequality and financial reform is every bit as enervating and drudgey as it is practical and admirable.
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But Reeves's extracurriculars feel more in sync with his persona: They're rooted in artless sincerity, whether he's playing bass and supplying backing vocals for the mid-90s alt-rock band Dogstar or cofounding a California motorcycle manufacturer called Arch.
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" In his D review, IndieWire's David Ehrlich writes, "If only its irony were the most painful thing about Flatliners, an artless and agonizingly boring remake of a semi-forgotten movie about the dangers of bringing things back from the dead.
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On DVD Long ago, in a distant galaxy, Hollywood's superhero movies were as modest as the comic books or radio shows that spawned them, using special effects that now feel homespun to conjure fantasies with the artless quality of folk tales.
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Here, she's uncharacteristically un-nuanced, and when she slips in hilariously artless digs like 'I don't like your tilted stage,' it sounds like the part of a break-up when you start hurling all the banal insults you've got left.
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They were mostly artless—the mind reels at how many photos there are of squinting men named Greg still out there in the world, stuck in paperbacks or moldering in attics or awaiting a long-overdue pulping—and they were impossibly legion.
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When Victor Frankenstein meets her at a ball, he cannot help but be taken with her artless intellectualism and single-minded drive; Mary, in turn, cannot help but thrill at receiving attention from someone outside of her family, and positive attention at that.
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It's a simple, seemingly artless and largely stationary shot — Ms. Akerman adjusts the framing, always keeping the tree on the left — and because she holds on it for more than four minutes, you either look at it, really look at it, or leave.
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But the artless — the developers focused on the bottom line rather than the top of the line — have also benefited from this one percent, receiving a boost by the big-hearted Dostoyevskian idiots of the world who transform uninspiring city plots into destinations for investment.
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An excerpt from "The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever:" Unlike public nakedness, which in Westerners is deeply circumstantial, relaxed as exam time, artless and equal as the corsetry of a hussar regiment, — shorts and their plain like are an angelic nudity, spirituality with pockets!
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She is the former Bolshoi ballerina of the steel-sprung jump and artless impetuosity who has been a principal guest artist with American Ballet Theater, and who surprised the dance world by decamping, first to the Mikhailovsky Ballet in 2011, then to the Royal Ballet here.
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With Lichtballet, a work meant to be reconfigured endlessly according to the shape of the space and the number and variety of projectors, Piene is able to slip the deep historical context embedded in his material works and transform darkness into a realm of artless wonderment.
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David Bowie dies and Hill pays him a (characteristically stringent) homage, with a nod to John Donne: Bowie had the best line with cliché after mine, disarticulating its artless continuity, taking it back into some single rudiment before the advent of too-coherent mass sentiment, its sweated industry.
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All of which makes Anderson Silva's return this week after a one-year suspension a bittersweet occasion for MMA fans, especially those of us who grew up in this sport with Silva as our North Star: the beacon showing the brutal and too-often artless world of professional fighting the way toward beauty.
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Perhaps these hoarded commodities merit the name "investment objects," but such cultural artifacts, particularly when used to dodge taxation or to store and launder money, are the opposite of art: they are frozen limbo corpses caught up in the machine of the artless global economy, disconnected from the subjectivity of people at large.
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When the NFL commissioner is talking about how seriously he takes player safety, or the quality of the football that the NFL is selling, or crafting a coherent/non-disgraceful policy on domestic violence, he is mostly blowing bubbles; issuing those perfectly circular, perfectly artless leadership platitudes is his job, more than anything else.
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Despite whatever accidental prescience the image might since seem to have acquired, the photo itself was and remains just what it is: artless proof that some wealthy and powerful men—in this case Rudolph Giuliani, Donald Trump, Michael Bloomberg, and Bill Clinton—had at some point posed together on a golf course with their respective Big Bertha drivers out.
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In addition, the beat cop at 17A didn't want to be COLLARLESS, the museum curator at 35A did not want to be ARTLESS, the G.I. at 50A did not want to be BASELESS, the trial attorney at 54A did not want to be MOTIONLESS, the mansion owner did not want to be HELPLESS and the coal company at 36D did not want to be SEAMLESS.
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Neumeyer's most famous book is titled "The Artless Word. Mies van der Rohe on the Building Art", originally published in German in 1986.Fritz Neymeyer. The Artless Word.
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At age 16, Nitzberg became a founding member and guitarist of the notorious Lower East Side hardcore punk band Artless. They frequently played with Minor Threat, Swans, Flipper and other prominent punk bands. Mykel Board was their lead singer. Darryl Jenifer of the Bad Brains was Artless’ second guitarist.
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The word inept, according to Roget's Thesaurus, means clumsy, artless, awkward, bungling, inadept, inefficient, unskillful, ham-handed and incapable.
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The days of rampantly commercial, craftless, contentless, corporate-driven pop, especially as practiced by artless teenage girls, are here.
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The New York Times. Accessed October 7, 2007. The Village Voice criticized the rapper's lyrical skills, saying, "the Game's rhymes are about six degrees from totally artless".Tate, Greg (February 25, 2005).
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He was a close friend of André Weil. He served with him in Aligarh Muslim University. He later moved to the University of Dhaka in protest at Weil's firing from AMU.M.S. Raghunathan, Artless innocents and ivory-tower sophisticates: Some personalities on the Indian mathematical scene.
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O'Mahony's Remarkable Rogues (1921) was reviewed in The Saturday Review who described it as an "artless and somewhat dateless book written in the style of the novelette". A series of lively sketches, the Review found them more entertaining than edifying."Some Criminals", Saturday Review, Vol. 131, No. 3423 (4 June 1921), p. 461.
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Gallico was a self-described "storyteller".Gallico, "Mainly Autobiographical" p. 28 (see list of references) Many of his stories are told in the apparently artless style of a folk tale or legend. Like other "storyteller" writers, the charm and power of his writing lie in the cumulative effect of plainly told detail.
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Costello Music received generally favourable reviews. Pitchfork Media’s Stuart Bertman called The Fratellis "artless but amiable", "predictable", and "intermittently rewarding". Elizabeth Goodman of Rolling Stone called the single Flathead "preternaturally catchy" and stated that "it makes you elated in the moment". Helen Phares of Allmusic called it "high energy" and "fun in the moment".
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The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature (2005) called it "rather artless", but still a cut above the usual sensationalist and exploitative treatment of homosexuality in other works of the same period. Donovan R. Walling listed the novel in 2003 as a homosexual coming-of-age novel that might be of interest for classroom reading.
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Published: Saturday, 30 June 1759 Johnson says that art and language flourish only after basic human needs have been met. Both, however, progress "through improvement to degeneracy". The English language started out "artless and simple, unconnected and concise". Since the time of Chaucer, the language has steadily become far more refined, but there is now a danger of affectation.
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Richard F. Shepard of The New York Times described The Monkey's Uncle as "an amusing film made with artless artfulness ... It all falls into bright, colorful and innocuous non sequitur and, in an hour and a half, you are through, mildly diverted and unburdened by message."Shepard, Richard F. (August 19, 1965). "Monkey's Uncle". The New York Times. 35.
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Nitzberg was known for antagonizing and getting into fights with skinhead members of the audience. Artless' self-titled first album was produced by Dr. Know of the Bad Brains. The band broke up when Nitzberg left New York City to attend college. He took one year off from college during which he drove a New York City yellow cab.
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On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a 63% approval rating based on 40 reviews, with the website's consensus stating: "Cujo is artless work punctuated with moments of high canine gore and one wild Dee Wallace performance." On Metacritic, the film holds a 57/100 based on reviews from 8 critics, indicating “mixed or average reviews”.
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Frank S. Nugent called the film "a moderately entertaining costume piece" with "an overfondness for pageantry and stiff heroics." He criticized the casting of Marion Martin as "outright absurd" and called her performance "artless" and "rather hopeless". Variety called the film "a highly entertaining adventure" with "excellent" direction. Harrison's Reports declared it "good mass entertainment" with a "charming" romance.
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Crane's poetry has been given significantly less scholarly attention than his fiction. In fact, none of Crane's poems were anthologized until 1926. When the poems were published, Crane was criticized for the unusual form of the poems and was said to have some nerve in presenting these "disjointed effusions" as poetry. The first reviewers found The Black Riders to be "artless and barbaric".
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In a contemporary review of Fire Maidens from Outer Space (1956), The Monthly Film Bulletin stated: "Even the most dedicated connoisseurs of the artless are likely to find this British attempt at science-fiction something of a strain on their patience.""Fire Maidens from Outer Space."] Monthly Film Bulletin (London), Volume 23, Issue 264, 1956, p. 104. ISSN 0027-0407.
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John Sullivan Dwight (1812–1893). John Paul Morgan (1841–1879). Richter's method of instruction—and the academy approach to harmonic education overall—was criticized by Arnold Schoenberg in his 1911 text, Harmonielehre, or Theory of Harmony. Schoenberg denounced the respective isolation of harmonic theory, counterpoint, and form in compositional education as productive only of an "artless and primitive" approach to composition.
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960 n. 2 On the other hand, Émile Legouis has noted, "The marked and yet artless bad taste of the style has thrown doubt on the authorship, yet the play shows signs of having been written by a humanist, for Herodotus is followed step by step, and there are many mythological reminiscences."Émile Legouis, A History of English Literature, vol. 1 (London: Dent, 1926), p. 156.
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Reviewing Blondie in 1977 for Rolling Stone, Ken Tucker called the album "a playful exploration of Sixties pop interlarded with trendy nihilism" and found that all the songs "work on at least two levels: as peppy but rough pop, and as distanced, artless avant-rock". In 2020, Rolling Stone included Blondie at number 401 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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She was the first American gallerist to show contemporary and outsider work together. In 1972, Phyllis Kind presented her first group show of outsider art, "The Artless Artist: Contemporary 'Naive Works." Over the years, Kind showed Chicago custodian Henry Darger, Mexican artist Martín Ramírez (discovered by Nutt), and Europeans Adolf Wölfli, Augustin Lesage, Carlo Zinelli. She promoted and marketed the work of Georgian Howard Finster.
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The seemingly artless, > simplistic Christie prose is mined with deceits. Inside the old, absurd > conventions of the Country House mystery she reworks the least likely person > trick with a freshness rivalling the originality she displayed nearly 50 > years ago in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. For the egotistic Poirot, hero of > some 40 books… it is a dazzlingly theatrical finish. 'Goodbye, cher ami', > runs his final message to the hapless Hastings.
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Eudocimus ruber in a nest with baby birds at Busch Gardens Tampa. Video clip Mating pairs build nests in a simple style, typically "loose platforms of sticks" of a quality sometimes described as "artless". They roost in leaf canopies, mostly preferring the convenient shelter of young waterside mangrove trees. Scarlet ibises like wet, muddy areas such as swamps, but for safety they build their nests in trees well above the water.
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He died in Lichtental. While other poets such as Ferdinand Freiligrath gave up their radical politics later on, Herwegh never changed his radical outlook and his commitment to radical democracy. He was disappointed by and criticised Prussian nationalism and Bismarck's war against France and annexation of Alsace-Lorraine in 1870/71. In Herwegh's mind, poetry is a first step towards political action, it should however not be artless.
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Back in England, Coughlan was unsuccessful in rejoining the orthodox Methodist movement, and instead spend his time among Methodist dissenters with a Calvinist orientation. His 1776 Account recounts his ministry in Newfoundland, and, while decrying the severity of the climate, displays a great affection for the "simple", "artless" people of his congregation, praising their practical "genius" despite their lack of formal education. It also contains descriptions of deathbed conversions, and letters from supporters.
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The plants, layout, and materials are chosen to give the impression of casualness and a country feel. Modern cottage gardens frequently use local flowers and materials, rather than those of the traditional cottage garden. What they share with the tradition is the unstudied look, the use of every square inch, and a rich variety of flowers, herbs, and vegetables. The cottage garden is designed to appear artless, rather than contrived or pretentious.
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Sukanya Verma of Rediff gave the movie 2.5 stars and mentioned, "Considering its fantastical theme, Drona is officially escapist and hence isn't obligated to broadcast logic beyond conveying 'good wins over evil' and 'conquer your fear by facing it' message." The film became the biggest disaster of Abhishek's career. Hindustan times write Like it or not, Drona is artless, arrogant, brazenly derivative and terribly acted by one and all (except for that puckish dwarf maybe).
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Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a full four stars (out of four), calling it "an exhilarating visual experience". Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A, applauding the film as "a marvelous and touching yuletide toy of a movie". Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News gave the film 3/5 stars and stated the film "is well-crafted but artless, detailed but lacking soul." Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon.
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On other songs, the political viewpointing became more strident and was criticized as somewhat artless. "I Am a Patriot", which held roughly that dissent was not disloyalty, became a favorite song of Jackson Browne, who covered it on his 1989 album World in Motion and who frequently performed it in his concerts. In 2004, the two would duet on the song during the last of the Vote for Change shows. Pearl Jam has covered the song as well.
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According to reviewer Carolyn Shute, Estes had the "ability to distill the very essence of childhood." Anita Silvey said she possessed a "rare gift for depicting everyday experiences from the fresh perspective of childhood."Silvey, Anita (editor), The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators, Houghton Mifflin, 2002, pg. 144; Estes is primarily recognized as a writer of family stories, and as one who "shaped and broadened that subgenre's tradition", primarily through her "seemingly artless style".
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Such jars from Shigaraki were originally created for grain storage. However, their rough simplicity captured the attention of Zen practitioners, and they began to use them as water jars during the Japanese tea ceremony beginning in the sixteenth century. Their very imperfections, such as asymmetry and uneven coloration, made them all the more suitable as representations of the artless perfection sought for the meditative ritual. The jar was purchased in 1981 with the help of the Martha Delzell Memorial Fund.
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In the upper echelons of traditional Middle Eastern society, wealthy Christian Palestinians Reema and Omar prepare for the marriage of their visiting daughter Tala to Hani in Jordan. But back at work in London, Tala encounters Leyla, a young British Indian Muslim woman who is dating Tala's best friend Ali. Tala sees something unique in the artless, clumsy, sensitive Leyla who secretly works to become a writer. And Tala's forthright challenges to Leyla's beliefs begins a journey of self-awareness for Leyla.
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Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times wrote that the film "has absolutely nothing to recommend it", and Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times called it "dystopian sci-fi for dummies". In giving it a C rating, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of The A.V. Club described it as "crummy and artless in a way that's intrinsically watchable". Vishnevetsky wrote that although Jane's acting is not believable, it is fun to watch the bizarre mannerisms, comparing it to Gary Busey's off-kilter performances.
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More than this. Nobody's Daughter is heartbreakingly banal [and] Love's lyrics... are plastic and artless. Despite its few fleeting moments of honesty, Nobody's Daughter ultimately feels like a badly missed opportunity." Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone, had a middling reception to the album, calling it "a noble effort" but not a "true success", while Q Magazine said, "The main impression left by Nobody's Daughter represents no great surprise: that for all her raging intelligence, Courtney Love is only as good as her collaborators.
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Upon its release, Speak & Spell was extremely well received. In a five-star review, Record Mirror praised the band's smart simplicity and noted the album offers "much to admire and little to disappoint". Reviewer Sunie commented that the band's chief skill "lies in making their art sound artless; simple synthesiser melodies, Gahan’s tuneful but undramatic singing and a matter-of-fact, gimmick-free production all help achieve this unforced effect". As a whole she describes it as "a charming, cheeky collection of compulsive dance tunes".
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Arthur D. Murphy of Variety wrote, "What 25 years of Cold War 'comedy' cliche and the latterday Nixon detente haven't done to make irrelevant 'The Girl From Petrovoka,' artless writing and direction have. This sixth Richard D. Zanuck-David Brown production for Universal stars Goldie Hawn, ineffective as a ponderous Russian version of a free spirit, and Hal Holbrook, who cannot alone make work such sterile and conrball comedy- dramaturgy."Murphy, Arthur D. (August 14, 1974). "Film Reviews: The Girl From Petrovka". Variety. 16.
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"Of all Shakespear's women she is perhaps the most tender and most artless."Hazlitt 1818, p. 4. Hazlitt broadens the scope of these reflections into a consideration of "Shakespear's heroines" in general, writing, "No one ever hit the true perfection of the female character, the sense of weakness leaning on the strength of its affections for support, so well as Shakespear". (Here Hazlitt incorporates material from his essay "Shakespear's Female Characters", published in the Examiner on 28 July 1816.)Hazlitt 1930, pp. 83–89.
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You can no more feel the jaw bone of one of those girls than > you can the bone of a blacksmith's arm by touching the biceps muscle. The > breadth that is noticeable in the lower part of their faces is owing neither > to the osseous formation nor to fleshy tissue; it is simply big tough > muscles. Adelaide has a powerful neck and jaws herself, but she is a > weakling in that respect as compared to the other two. In manner the sisters > are modest and artless.
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Volyn (newspaper), 1911, November 17 Much has been made of Vyaltseva's fine diction, as well as her dramatic talent, stage charisma, "the magic power of gesture", the trademark 'Vyaltseva smile' and the 'hypnotic' effect the singer seemed to exert upon her audience. The popular press supported Vyaltseva, calling the singer "the Seagull of the Russian popular music" and the "Russian Cinderella", often using the epithet Nesravnennaya (The Incomparable One). Reporters marveled at the seemingly artless manner in which she single-handedly turned hitherto unprepossessing section of the popular culture into a respected musical genre.
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As Julian Hawthorne wrote, > Hall was a genuine comedy figure. Such oily and voluble sanctimoniousness > needed no modification to be fitted to appear before the footlights in > satirical drama. He might be called an ingenuous hypocrite, an artless > humbug, a veracious liar, so obviously were the traits indicated innate and > organic in him rather than acquired. Dickens, after all, missed some of the > finer shades of the character; there can be little doubt that Hall was in > his own private contemplation as shining an object of moral perfection as he > portrayed himself before others.
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John Wesley preached in the village twice, in 1771 and 1777, on his way through the county, and it may have been at one of three preaching crosses in the parish. He reported in his journal (for 1771) - "I preached at Houghton to a lovely congregation of plain artless people." There does not appear to have been a permanent place of worship in Houghton, but the schoolroom was licensed for divine service in 1865. It is reported that there was a holy well, Bishop’s Well, near Houghton, located just outside the school gates.
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The story concerns an American boy named Cedie Erol, who at an early age finds that he is the sole heir to a British earldom and leaves New York City to take up residence in his ancestral castle, where, after some initial resistance, he is joined by his middle-class mother, the widow of the late heir. His grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, intends to teach the boy to become an aristocrat, but Cedie inadvertently teaches his grandfather compassion and social justice and the artless simplicity and motherly love of Dearest warms his heart.
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There she encounters the first man, the prior creation of Prometheus, and warmly responds to his embrace. At the end the couple quit their marriage couch and survey their surroundings “As sovereigns of the world, kings of the universe”.Google Books One other musical work with much the same theme was Aumale de Corsenville's one-act verse melodrama Pandore, which had an overture and incidental music by Franz Ignaz Beck. There Prometheus, having already stolen fire from heaven, creates a perfect female, “artless in nature, of limpid innocence”, for which he anticipates divine vengeance.
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Maggidim toured Jewish communities offering admonishment of further punishment as a means of encouraging Jewish observance among the disenfranchised masses. In this arena, the Baal Shem Tov's mysticism taught that the sincere common folk could be closer to God than a scholar who has self-pride in his accomplishments. He conveyed his revolutionary ideas in parables, stories and terse teachings among the market places of the populace. The legendary tales about him, later copied in Shivchei HaBesht and other hagiographic compilations describe how much he cherished the sincere prayers of the simple, artless folk.
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A significant work of Marisa Olson is known for which is often associated with her practice was navigated by “her investigation into pop culture” that eventually led her to popular American television show American Idol. The work titled “The One That Got Away,” began by Olson auditioning for American Idol in 2004. The artist then blogged about her experience online, documenting her process leading up to the audition. Post-audition, Marisa Olson created a “consciously artless” video combining footage that fictitiously acts out the audition. Marisa Olson’s American Idol audition segment was never shown on national television.
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Dual City Sessions was conceived in 2007 as a traveling exhibition featuring designers from two cities, and has been showcased at DesignTide Tokyo, Singapore Design Festival, DMY Berlin Festival, Shanghai Design Biennial and Alt Space Tokyo. The exhibition presents itself as a platform for international collaboration and cross-pollination of diverse creative disciplines - to showcase efforts between two cities, bringing together emerging and innovative practitioners in the fields of art, fashion, music and design. Conceived by art director Felix Ng of design studio SILNT, the exhibition has collaborated with Japanese design studio artless and architect Shuzo Okabe.
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Some critics have found its high-tempo trance sound artless or aggravating. PC Music received accolades in several 2014 year-end summaries. Dazed included A. G. Cook at number 12 in their "Dazed 100"; Fact named PC Music the best label of 2014; The Huffington Post included PC Music at number 3 in their "Underrated Albums - 2014"; Resident Advisor included PC Music at number 4 in their "Top Labels of The Year" in 2014; and Tiny Mix Tapes included it in their "Favorite 15 Labels of 2014". Spin magazine named PC Music its "Trend of the Year" for 2014.
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The Era reported: "A decidedly favourable impression was made by Miss Julia Stewart, who ... bewitched all present by her pretty face, her artless, winning style, her dainty treatment of the Scotch dialect, and the thorough freshness and naturalness of her acting throughout. This was one of the pleasantest performances we have seen for many a day".The Era, 7 October 1877, p. 12, reprinted at Footlight Notes, John Culme (ed.), 4 April 2009 She then returned to the Haymarket as Mary Meredith in a revival Our American Cousin with E. A. Sothern, taking the same part on tour after the London run.
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Prakrit (Sanskrit prākṛta प्राकृत, the past participle of प्राकृ, meaning "original, natural, artless, normal, ordinary, usual", i.e. "vernacular", in contrast to samskrta "excellently made", both adjectives elliptically referring to vak "speech") is the broad family of Indic languages and dialects spoken in ancient India. Some modern scholars include all Middle Indo-Aryan languages under the rubric of "Prakrits", while others emphasise the independent development of these languages, often separated from the history of Sanskrit by wide divisions of caste, religion, and geography. The Prakrits became literary languages, generally patronized by kings identified with the kshatriya caste.
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Unterberger, p. 8 The track is an instrumental jam similar in style to that of the Shadows. Stuart Sutcliffe plays bass with what critic Richie Unterberger described as an "artless thump".Unterberger, p. 7 "Cayenne" is a 12-bar blues composition in the key of D minor.Notes on the Quarrymen Sessions, Alan W. Pollack "Cayenne" and two other homemade Quarrymen recordings, "Hallelujah, I Love Her So" and "You'll Be Mine", were included in Anthology 1, a collection of Beatles rarities and alternative tracks from 1958 to 1964. They are the only officially released Beatles recordings to feature Stuart Sutcliffe on bass.
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Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "B" on scale of A to F. Roger Ebert gave the film 1.5 out of 4 stars, calling it "brainless high-tech action without interesting dialogue, characters, motivation or texture." Robert Koehler of Variety wrote: "The combo of cheesy effects and martial arts choreographer Cory Yuen's unimaginative staging results in something that's martial artless." Loren King of the Chicago Tribune gave a favorable review, writing that the movie delivered "the high-octane sequences starring martial-arts expert Jet Li with precision and well-crafted pace." King gave a score of 3 out of 4.
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"It has had many imitators ... but not one of them has rivalled the original, and they have all faded away". The reviewer recommended the book's "quaint drollery, its whimsical satire and delightfully quiet irony". In Canada, Queen's Quarterly magazine's sympathetic reception of the book contrasted with that of the New York Times nearly 30 years previously. It praises the understated but lovable self-portrait of Pooter, and adds that "It is not till the second or third reading—and you are bound to reread it—that the really consummate art of this artless book becomes apparent".
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The program has been criticized for its format and production values, including in an August 2009 episode of the UK topical show You Have Been Watching, with panelist David Mitchell saying "The thing that struck me most about it is quite how badly it is made, to the extent that you must think it's been made by anti- Christian people to make Christianity look as naff and discouraging and artless as possible." The series has been described as dogmatically evangelical. In 1998, sales made up less than one percent of the Christian children's video market. Three years later, sales climbed to eleven percent of that market.
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To her further contribution on child psychoanalysis, Hug-Hellmuth anonymously published A Young Girl’s Diary in 1921 which contained a Letter by Sigmund Freud written in 1915 that served as a preface to the book: “This diary is a gem. Never, I believe, has anything been written enabling us to see so clearly into the soul of a young girl, belong- ing to our social and cultural stratum, during the years of puber- tal development. ...We have a description at once so charming, so serious, and so artless that it cannot fail to be of supreme interest to educators and psychologists.” “It is certainly incumbent on you to publish the diary.
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Allin discussed using recordings from the collection he and Peter Yarmouth had assembled when they created Black & Blue Records. The original plan was to use new studio and live recordings that would be done in New York. Entrusted with supervising the project, Board contacted Allin and then arranged a recording session with Shimmy Disc owner and producer Kramer at the latter's Noise New York studio, and a live date at The Cat Club in New York City. A band was then assembled that included Kramer on bass, Steve Dasinger from Board's own band Artless on drums, and J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr on lead guitar.
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In the Greensboro Regional, neither of the top two seeds made it to the regional final. The top seed, Duke, lost a one-point game to Rutgers, while the second seed, Vanderbilt, was ousted in the second round by Bowling Green. Third- seeded Rutgers beat the fourth seed, Arizona State, by 19 points in the regional final. The semifinal game between Tennessee and North Carolina was expected to be a high-scoring game, but it turned out to be more disorder than scoring, In a game the New York Times would describe as an "artless grind", the Tarheels held a 48–36 lead with just over eight minutes to play.
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The Boston Globe once reported that the Occult Hand Club was a replacement for the Defective Busbar Club, which was open to any journalist who used the word, such as in "the cause of the fire was attributed to a defective busbar, officials said." The occult-hand phrase did not stop in the Charlotte News and Observer, but has crept onto other media. The use of the phrase has spread to newspaper media around the world like "a cough in a classroom" and "a pox". The Order was occasionally endangered by reckless and artless users of the phrase, but it retained overall secrecy until 2004, when James Janega of the Chicago Tribune published a thorough investigation about the Order.
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The fragmentary manner of writing, breaking the narration into laconic phrases and short paragraphs bring Zinoviev closer to Vasily Rozanov, however Zinoviev's language is much more artless, he is deprived of Swift or Saltykov-Shchedrin's sophistication. Zinoviev exposed and deconstructed the official language of Soviet slogans, a literate and normatively unified language, but filled with ideologemes and abstractions, creating illusory equality that deprived the individual of his freedom of choice. Its deconstruction is a prerequisite for recreating a genuine human language (Claude Schwab). The protest "anti-language" of Zinoviev resembles the folk Russian folklore, reflects the language of various social groups, primarily the intelligentsia, as well as the military, students, members of the party, members of informal communities.
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The book received mixed reviews. Reviewers praised Reed's courage in tackling difficult subjects, with the Chicago Tribune saying "Reed isn't foolhardy, but he is about as brave as can be". The New York Times concluded that "this clever, outrageous novel is just the sort of weapon we need in the war against academic pedantry". However, reviewers also criticized the book's ending, with The Washington Post noting that Japanese by Spring "lapses into the kind of artless agitprop that still too much afflicts even newer generations of the old Negro Problem Novel", and The Times Literary Supplement concluding that "if this writing is jazz-like, it's an improvised set that keeps forgetting what tunes it started out being based on".
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It is scarcely possible to imagine a more artless or a more absolutely truthful narrative of the events of "The Killing Time", as it is still called in Scotland. All the leading Covenanters cross and recross the stage; for in and out of prison Helen Alexander was brought into the closest relations with them all, especially John Welsh, Donald Cargill, David Williamson, Andrew Gullon and James Renwick. Of the last she writes: > In the year 1683 the reverend and worthy Mr. James Renwick came home from > Holland, an ordained minister. At first I scrupled to hear him, because it > was said he was ordained by such as used the organ in their worship.
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FBI Special Agents Don Eppes (Rob Morrow), David Sinclair (Alimi Ballard), and Colby Granger (Dylan Bruno), along with Dr. Charlie Eppes (David Krumholtz), Don's younger brother and a FBI math consultant, arrive at the scene of an abandoned stolen van at an all-night café and notice that fellow FBI Special Agent Megan Reeves (Diane Farr) is late. Don receives a call from Crystal Hoyle (Kim Dickens) that she wants her husband, Buck Winters (David Gallagher), released in exchange for Megan, who has been kidnapped. The team runs back to the office. Dr. Larry Fleinhardt (Peter MacNicol), Charlie's friend and colleague and Megan's boyfriend, is visibly upset and calls David "artless" when David tries to comfort Larry.
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Preaching from a mediaeval pulpit It has been commonly said by non-Catholic writers that there was little or no preaching during that time. So popular was preaching, and so deep the interest taken in it, that preachers commonly found it necessary to travel by night, lest their departure should be prevented. It is only in a treatise on the history of preaching that justice could be done this period. As to style, it was simple and majestic, possessing little, perhaps, of so-called eloquence as at present understood, but much religious power, with an artless simplicity, a sweetness and persuasiveness all its own, and such as would compare favourably with the hollow declamation of a much-lauded later period.
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" In a review for MovieGuide, the film critic wrote, "SLAMMA JAMMA is an uplifting, positive movie with strong Christian faith and values. It calls on people to choose God’s love and turn to faith to overcome the world’s troubles." In a review for The Hollywood Reporter, Frank Scheck wrote that the film combined its "inspirational and sports-movie tropes in hackneyed, unoriginal fashion" and it's "hoary, melodramatic plotting and painfully awkward dialogue leave nary a cliché untouched." A review on Common Sense Media gave it one out of five stars stressing that "[u]nless you're a fan of the physical act of the slam dunk (of which there are plenty in this film), there's nothing to recommend in this artless redemption story.
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His brief from the managing director was to "bring art to an artless industry", and his early work was largely in packaging, where designs such as his Ardath Cigarette Box of 1935 showed strong Art Deco influences and have become highly collectable. After World War II he produced notable promotional material for Cadbury's, but increasingly focussed on tableware, designing the classic Beetleware range in urea formaldehyde in 1946. Woodfull visited the United States in 1948 to investigate the newly developed melamine formaldehyde material, whose greater water resistance was to lead it briefly to threaten ceramics as the dominant material in tableware. In 1951 Woodfull was appointed to head BIP's newly formed Product Design Unit, where he was to remain until his retirement in 1970.
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Filmed in primarily rural environments in many countries (China, Brazil, Portugal, Lesotho, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, the Arctic, Mexico, Hungary, the Adirondacks, Peru), the films look at everyday work, frequently agrarian or marine labor. These films are remarkable for their realistic quality and absence of artifice, their use of long takes in high resolution and their supposedly artless juxtaposition of compelling images in vivid colors. These scenes of the movement of human manual labor are treated abstractly without explicit anthropological or sociological meaning. As in the music, a surface slowness is countered by an active, varied texture of rhythm and form of body motion within the frame; this is what Niblock himself considers the ultimate subject matter of his films.
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Charles Langley, and Alberto Santos-Dumont often tested ideas with paper as well as balsa models to confirm (in scale) their theories before putting them into practice. With time, many other designers have improved and developed the paper model, while using it as a fundamentally useful tool in aircraft design. One of the earliest known applied (as in compound structures and many other aerodynamic refinements) modern paper plane was in 1909. The construction of a paper airplane, by Ludwig Prandtl at the 1924 banquet of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, was dismissed as an artless exercise by Theodore von Kármán:Theodore von Kármán with Lee Edson (1967) The Wind and Beyond, page 38, Little, Brown and Company :Prandtl was also somewhat impulsive.
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AllMusic critic Matthew Greenwald wrote that Clapton "smartly realized his strength in acoustic-based, soulful folk-pop and cut this fabulous side with noted producer Babyface" after the huge success of Unplugged and "Tears in Heaven." Greenwald called the song's homespun quality and overall sense of reality refreshing, writing that the release's "folksy melodic hook and soulful turnaround in the catchy chorus are handled by Clapton admirably here and, more importantly, with honesty and an artless grace." He rated the single 2.5 of five stars. Music journalist Frank Merschmeier wrote for his review on the official Swiss music charts chart that the song is without question a "definitive lovesong" and goes on by liking the religious background note of the song.
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Seances grew out of Maddin’s Hauntings project. Noah Cowan, a former director of the Toronto International Film Festival, told Maddin "he didn’t think it was possible to make art on the Internet", which "reminded [Maddin] of what people said about cinema when it was starting out, when the moviolas and kinetoscopes were considered artless novelties." Maddin began with the idea of “shooting adaptations of lost films” and originally conceived the project as making “title-for-title remakes of specific lost films” but altered this plan in favour of producing original material as the project developed. Maddin completed 11 films to show as installation loops for Noah Cowan and the Toronto International Film Festival’s Bell Lightbox theatre for this 2010 Hauntings project.
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Dogū, or statuette in the late Jōmon period Interest in primitive arts is seeing a wide ascendancy and spontaneity and seek to produce a similar artless artistry in their own works. In every instance examples of ancient primitive art have been found to possess characteristics identical to modern arts; and the ancient Japanese clay figures known as dogū (土偶) and haniwa (埴輪) are no exceptions to this rule. No scholar has been able to determine absolutely just when human life moved over into the Japanese archipelago. It was these early inhabitants who eventually evolved the first crude Japanese native art in rough earthenware and in strange clay figures called dogū, which are probably fetishes of some religious nature.
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Following the financial success of the revival of the Frankenstein series with Son of Frankenstein and The Invisible Man series with The Invisible Man Returns, Universal Pictures dediced to revive their The Mummy series series with The Mummy's Hand. The film's budget was set at $80,000 and began filming towards the end of May 1940. The authors of the book Universal Horrors described the budget as "modest" and noted that cost-cutting for the film involved using stock shots taken from The Mummy, leftover sets from James Whale's film Green Hell, and musical scores almost entirely lifted from Son of Frankenstein. The producer for the film was Ben Pivar, who Reginald LeBorg described as the epitome artless, noncreative studio executive who was often crude and occasioanlly seemed illiterate.
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Marrying above her station, raising her social class, it has given her an unrealistic estimation of her own worth. She repeatedly makes a spectacle of herself, incapable of realizing that her behaviour is more likely to be off-putting to any rich, eligible young man who would take notice of her daughters. Her vulgar public manners, her crude, artless and transparent efforts at social climbing and matchmaking, and her all-around 'silliness' are a source of constant embarrassment to both Jane and Elizabeth. But, if one good thing has come from her lacking of good social graces, it is that they have helped to keep her eldest two daughters humble, (as opposed to her younger three, who (like their mother) lack any self-awareness as to their own character flaws).
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Margaret Fenwicke of Betchworth Castle left £200 to buy lands, to provide for apprenticing children, and for marrying [with a small dowry] maidservants "born in Betchworth and living seven years in the same employment", the surplus, if any, to go to the poor. St Martin's church, Dorking has plaque to Abraham Tucker, author of A Picture of Artless Love and The Light of Nature Pursued, who lived at his estate of Betchworth Castle until his death in 1774. In the 19th century, people saw little practical use for castles, and this one was outshone by a newer, bigger house in the larger grounds so soon abandoned, in the 1830s. The castle was bought by banking dynasty co-heir Henry Thomas Hope to add to his Deepdene estate in 1834, who demolished part of it to reuse the building material elsewhere.
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The reviewer concluded that, despite the film's obvious problems and predictability, it had a "certain amount of low budget charm," and that "even the cheesiness of the plot and fake special effects doesn't totally spoil this film and at times it makes it even more enjoyable." Finnish newspaper Kaleva remarked that the stress and operations of air traffic ground control were a perfect backdrop for a drama film. TV Guide wrote that the film's characterizations were "strait-laced and noble" and that the film "could have been commissioned by the Air Traffic Controllers' Benevolent Association." They made note of the film's story and plotline being derivative, its "threadbare production values" and "artless" special effects, and its use of "stock characters", but admitted that, despite those weaknesses, the film "does manage to whip up a little suspense".
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Retrieved 20 January 2007 When the Beatles auditioned for Larry Parnes at the Wyvern Club, Seel Street, Liverpool, Williams later claimed that Parnes would have taken the group as the backing band for Billy Fury for £10 per week (), but as Sutcliffe turned his back to Parnes throughout the audition—because, as Williams believed, Sutcliffe could not play very well—Parnes said that he would employ the group only if they got rid of Sutcliffe. Parnes later denied this, stating his only concern was that the group had no permanent drummer.Bill Harry interview on Beatle Folks – Retrieved 28 November 2007 Klaus Voormann regarded Sutcliffe as a good bass player,"Stuart Sutcliffe, The Lost Beatle" documentary although Beatles' historian Richie Unterberger described Sutcliffe's bass playing as an "artless thump". Sutcliffe's popularity grew after he began wearing Ray-Ban sunglasses and tight trousers.
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The barcarolle was a popular form in opera, where the apparently artless sentimental style of the folklike song could be put to good use. In addition to the Offenbach example: Paisiello, Weber, and Rossini wrote arias that were barcarolles; Donizetti set the Venetian scene at the opening of Marino Faliero (1835) with a barcarolle for a gondolier and chorus; and Verdi included a barcarolle in Un ballo in maschera (i.e., Richard's atmospheric "Di’ tu se fidele il flutto m’aspetta" in Act I). The traditional Neapolitan barcarolle "Santa Lucia" was published in 1849. Arthur Sullivan set the entry of Sir Joseph Porter's barge (also bearing his sisters, cousins and aunts) in H.M.S. Pinafore to a barcarolle, as well as the Trio "My well-loved lord and guardian dear" among Phyllis, Earl Tolloller and the Earl of Mountararat in Act I of Iolanthe.
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He also published The Practical Husbandman and Planter (1733) and An Introduction to a General System of Hydrostaticks and Hydraulicks (1729). Stephen Switzer included the first lengthy historical sketch of the progress of gardening in England in The Nobleman, Gentleman, and Gardener's Recreation"His lengthy 'History of Gardening' in his Nobleman, Gentleman, and Gardener's Recreation (1715) was the first attempt at a comprehensive history of English garden-writing and -making", observed Jacques 1976:119. was vocal in the criticism of topiary and the formality of the "Dutch Garden"David Jacques, "Who Knows What a Dutch Garden Is?", Garden History 30.2, Dutch Influences (Winter 2002:114-130). and introduced the term ferme ornée, the "ornamental farm" integrating the ‘useful’ and ‘profitable’ aspects of kitchen gardening and animal husbandry with apparently artless beautiful and charming views and details.
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After a concert with the Swedish glee club in Tammany Hall, New York City, Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reported that "still yet old Sweden is capable of sending out nightingales into the world, songbirds in whose soft and fresh tones equivalents are yet to be found". Charlotte Lachs' multiple concerts across Europe and America made her a singer of "remarkble talent and diligence" with a voice "very fine sonorous and sympathetic" of "great sweetness, fullness, and carrying power", having the "richness of a contralto". Her "captivating", "dramatic fervor" of a "true artist" had her compared to Emma Albani, and Niels Gade spoke of her "in lavish terms of praise". Singing Giacomo Meyerbeer, one account noted that "she could sing so difficult an aria with such accuracy, such artless, bird-like freedom in trill and cadenza, shows a very high degree of careful and thorough training of the best sort".
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Variety said that the film "... has many elements that are derivative of a Hitchcock chase film, the late Mike Todd's "Around the World in Eighty Days", and the Cinerama travelogue technique ... The travelog is neatly integrated as part of the chase." The New York Times said: > As theatrical exhibitionism, it is gaudy, sprawling and full of sound. But > as an attempt at a considerable motion picture it has to be classified as > bunk... It is an artless, loose-jointed "chase" picture... Whatever novel > stimulation it might afford with the projection of smells appears to be > dubious and dependent upon the noses of the individual viewers and the > smell-projector's whims... Indistinct is the right word for the whole silly > plot of the film and the casual, confused performance of it, which is > virtually amateur. Except for the job of Peter Lorre... the acting is > downright atrocious.
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Italy, 1920s. The suffered glimmers of war seem very far away, especially if and when you have the opportunity to have fun in places like the tabarin: it is here that Gastone, aka Gaston Le Beau, profession danseur mondain, accompanied by the inseparable tailcoat, performs dancing with extreme elegance and entertains the wealthy ladies who go there. Enclosed in the magnificent image of "bell'Adone", a woman-wasting dancer, elegant and sexy, Gastone is actually a frivolous and artless character, a well-known scammer at the police station who not only cares about being desired by the admirers but wants something else: success, that full glory and never achieved due to the outbreak of the Great War. Surrounded by equally fatuous and in some cases dishonest characters, including princes, loan sharks and beautiful women, Gastone cultivates his ambitions when a new student, Nannina, enrolls in his improvised dance school.
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He said that the story avoided any cliche plots, "creates a number of original cameos and bounces along with humour and lively dialogue, clearly influenced by [Madonna]'s Italian New York background." Blatchford complimented Paes' images describing them as "striking" and the design as "eye-catching" thus making Lotsa de Casha "a first-class picture book to grace any library". A review in Publishers Weekly called the story as "artless fable" but believed that Paes' illustrations improved it with the "tongue-in- cheek homage to classic Baroque painting". The reviewer found that in contrast to the grand images, the story appeared simple and the accented edge on Lotsa's words were "uncharacteristic of a rich gentleman". Delgiannakis complimented the "beautifully illustrated" images in the book but found it to be littered with "preachy factoids" like "Just because something is expensive, doesn’t mean it's worth it".
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Time Out London, alternatively, called it "a shamelessly artless horror movie whose senseless story—a girl inherits a spooky, seedy hotel which just happens to have one of the seven doors of Hell in its cellar—is merely an excuse for a poorly connected series of sadistic tableaux of torture and gore." Critic John Kenneth Muir wrote in Horror Films of 1980s: "Fulci's films may be dread-filled excursions into surrealism and dream imagery, but in the real world, they don't hang together, and The Beyond is Exhibit A." A similar sentiment is echoed by Bill Gibron of PopMatters, who wrote of the film in 2007: In the years since its release, The Beyond has acquired a cult following. Time Out London conducted a poll with several authors, directors, actors and critics who have worked within the horror genre to vote for their top horror films. , The Beyond placed at number 64 on their top 100 list.
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Democracy, Joan Didion's fourth novel, was published in 1984. Set in Hawaii and Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War, the book tells the story of Inez Victor, wife of U.S. Senator and one-time presidential hopeful Harry Victor, and her enduring romance with Jack Lovett, a CIA agent/war profiteer whom Inez first met as a teenager living in Hawaii. Democracy is unusual in that its narrator is not a character within the novel's world but a voice whom Didion identifies as herself, a writer self-consciously struggling with the ambiguities of her ostensible material, the ironies attendant to narration, and the inevitable contradictions at the heart of any story-telling. Didion's deft and economical use of this conceit allows her to comment not only upon the novel she chose to write, a romantic tragedy, but also upon the novel she chose not to write, a family epic encompassing generations of Inez's wealthy Hawaiian family, artless emblems of the colonial impulse.
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Harris: Luis Cernuda a study p 110 In these notes, he briefly discusses a recently published work on Góngora by Dámaso Alonso, which discusses the two types of poetry that Góngora wrote - complex and elaborate works such as "Polifemo" or the "Soledades" as against artless ballads and sonnets. In Cernuda's view, however, there is only one poet and the critic ought to try to resolve these two opposing tendencies and demonstrate them as aspects of a single truth.:OCP vol 2 Góngora y el gongorismo p 143 It is characteristic of Cernuda to resist the way society tries to appropriate and sanitise the poet, while showing disdain to him while he was alive. He expresses this resistance with great power and bitter irony in the poem > Ventaja grande es que esté ya muerto Y que de muerto cumpla los tres siglos, > que así pueden Los descendientes mismos de quienes le insultaban Inclinarse > a su nombre, dar premio al erudito, Sucesor del gusano, royendo su memoria.
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In 1712, Bickham wrote copy books and business texts, as there was a strong link between writing and mathematics instruction (arithmetic and bookkeeping) in the-mid 17th century to early 18th century. Bickham the Elder collected from twenty-five London writing masters in 1733 to create and engrave the penmanship samples forming the Universal Penman, which was reported to be the most important and popular of copy texts used by writing masters to instruct their pupils. Appearing in Bickham's Universal Penman was this poem by writing master Samuel Vaux, dated 1734, conveying, that poor writing was a disgrace to the beauty of the writer: “An artless Scrawl ye blushing Scribler shames; All shou’d be fair that Beauteous Woman frames.” And then this piece, hinting, that calligraphy may have a role in encouraging romance: “Strive to excel, with Ease the Pen will move; And pretty line add Charms to infant Love.” (Monaghan, 2005, p. 281).
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Rawlings states: ""While the greater part of the church, of course, owes a great deal to both the late Gothic and early Classical manners of building, much of it also derives from the naïve and primitive skills and ways of its early artificers, who built an ornamented their church in much the same natural and God-fearing way ... Yeocomico today is still a relatively a remote spot that is blessedly not too much overcome by latter day sophistication.Rawlings 58 "When it is said that Yeocomico Church is fascinating, quaint, and artless beyond compare, it must also be said that it is equally perplexing, particularly as to its original shape and masonry...Rawlings 57-58". The contribution of local craftsmen, whether they were hodgepodge architects or whimsical bricklayers, is what gives the building its characteristic charm, the feature that remains in the mind of the viewer the peculiar impression of naïf elements coupled with mysteries regarding its many enigmatic features.
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" Among the vocal performances, the roles of Eichner and Rogen as Timon and Pumbaa, respectively, received particular praise by critics, with The A.V. Clubs A. A. Dowd proclaiming: "Ultimately, only Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen, as slacker sidekicks Timon and Pumbaa, make much of an impression; their funny, possibly ad-libbed banter feels both fresh and true to the spirit of the characters—the perfect remake recipe." A. A. Dowd, writing for The A.V. Club, summarized the film as "Joyless, artless, and maybe soulless, it transforms one of the most striking titles from the Mouse House vault into a very expensive, star-studded Disneynature film." Dowd bemoaned the film's insistence on realism, commenting, "We're watching a hollow bastardization of a blockbuster, at once completely reliant on the audience's pre-established affection for its predecessor and strangely determined to jettison much of what made it special." Scott Mendelson at Forbes condemned the film as a "crushing disappointment": "At almost every turn, this redo undercuts its own melodrama by downplaying its own emotions.
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" Jillian Mapes of Billboard wrote that although the album is "devoid of much musical flourishing", it was "absolutely worth the seven-year wait". The Boston Phoenixs Zeth Lundy rated the album three-and-a-half stars out of four, describing its sound as "raw and deceptively artless" and deeming it "arguably her funniest ... but also her leanest and most melodically daring." Paste magazine reviewer Stephen M. Deusner rated it 8.4 out of 10, stating that Apple relies on the same eccentricities of her past work, and her inability to "get out of her own head — can’t even begin to write a song that doesn’t build on layers of self-conscious self-absorption and gritty self-loathing — may in fact be one of her greatest and most distinguishing strengths as an artist"; while her "overwrought" lyrics "can provoke cringes as easily as sympathetic nods", they "exert a considerable power, marking these songs as indelibly her own". Now magazine gave the album four out of five stars, writing: "Apple's return to music is not only undeniably powerful, but Idler is arguably her best work yet.
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The Baal Shem Tov (1698–1760), founder of the revivalist Hasidic movement, brought a mystical soul-dimension to the traditional Talmudic notions of the tinok shenishba, and the Am ha-aretz (uneducated-boorish-rustic Jews). While the former terms derive from the pre-eminent status of Torah study in Rabbinic Jewish culture, their downside was that in the 17–18th century Eastern Europe in which Hasidism emerged, their elitist notions contributed to the physical and spiritual hardship and disenfranchisement of the common Jewish folk from deeper Jewish affiliation. Adjusting the former hierarchy of values, the Baal Shem Tov taught that the simple, sincere common Jewish folk could be closer to God than the scholars, for whom pride may affect their scholarly achievements, and the elite scholars could envy and learn lessons in devotion from the uneducated community. The Baal Shem Tov and later Hasidic masters made deveikut the central principle in Jewish spirituality, teaching that the sincere divine soul essence of the artless Jew reflects the essential divine simplicity.
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In order to convey the appropriate message to his friend regarding love, Theocritus must make it clear that there is something to be learned from Polyphemus' example; he does this by referring to the Cyclops as his "countryman," and removes him from the Homeric monster by making him enter adulthood. Virgil imitates Idyll XI in Eclogue II. The subject of Virgil's poem is a supposedly rough and uncouth shepherd Corydon, who corresponds to the grotesque figure of the Cyclops in Theocritus' poem. Corydon is in love with an unattainable boy named Alexis, just as Galatea is unattainable by Polyphemos. (Corydon seems to be indiscriminate in his sexual preferences, since he compares and contrasts Alexis with previous love interests both male and female.) Corydon sings of his love for Alexis in what is at times nearly a word-for-word translation of Theocritus' Greek into elegant Latin verse, setting up a contrast, similar to that in Idyll XI, between the supposedly unlettered and artless shepherd and the exquisitely wrought stream of verse he sings.
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Birmingham's designers diversified into new industries in the late 20th century. Challenged to "bring art to an artless industry", A. H. Woodfull laid down many of the ground rules of industrial design in plastics during the early post-war era, producing classic tableware including the Beetleware, Gaydon and Melaware ranges, while the designs of the silversmith and metalware designer Robert Welch for tableware, clocks, candlesticks and other domestic items "helped to define contemporary style" in the 1960s. The Bauhaus-trained Naum Slutzky fled to Birmingham from Nazi Germany in 1933, working with local lighting design firms and teaching product design at the Birmingham School of Art from 1957 to 1964. Minis lined up at a rally to celebrate the centenary of their designer Alec Issigonis During the post-war era Birmingham was particularly influential within automotive design, the field associated with the city's dominant post-war industry. Dick Burzi, who had fled to Birmingham from Mussolini's Italy in the 1920s, transformed the conservative design culture of the Longbridge-based Austin Motor Company in the 1940s and 1950s, designing the "astonishingly extravagant" Austin Atlantic in 1948 and the "delightfully minimal" Austin A30 in 1951.
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