If anything, Szalay is even less embarrassed than Knausgaard by exclamatory artlessness.
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If any story could be said to benefit from meat-and-potatoes artlessness, it's Escobar's.
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But the thing to admire about "The 15:17 to Paris" is precisely its artlessness.
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The artlessness factor: This blunt cut speaks eloquently, as no other hairstyle can, to today's drive for authenticity.
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Bradford's artlessness seems to come from a refusal to worry about getting it right, though the results are very different.
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The performers' artlessness showed how we fail to see these basic problems and self-destructive tendencies, no matter how obvious or plainly stated.
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In Knausgaard, artlessness is inseparable from relentlessness, and the relentlessness takes the form of a single-minded inquiry into one person and his world.
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But is it damaging to whatever art-crit cred I might have to admit that it's the sheer artlessness of Instagram that appeals to me?
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I also marvel at the apparent artlessness of Krisha Fairchild (in "Krisha") and Sasha Lane (in "American Honey"), who don't seem to be pretending at all.
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Unrelenting artlessness has been Trump's signature for as long as he has been a public figure, and that is something that cannot and will not change.
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If so, it is a neat tie from the first couplet to the second, a metaphor of seed-sowing that gainsays the apparent artlessness of the poet.
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The repurposing of such a loaded symbolic object could have easily appeared obvious to the point of artlessness, but in Beasley's hands the machine becomes something more instructive.
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It's not that Szalay writes about himself but that, like Knausgaard in "My Struggle," he wants to burst through conventional notation and saturate his work in a comprehensive artlessness.
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Adapted from Natalia Smirnoff's 2009 Argentine film of the same title, Oren Moverman and Polly Mann's screenplay is gently sincere, seeing no humor in Agnes's midlife disquiet and country-mouse artlessness.
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Their brusque artlessness and soul-deep hokeyness honestly makes them difficult to watch for more than a few minutes, and again I say this as a pretty big Alicia Witt fan.
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At the core of his art is an artlessness akin to conversational speech: time and again, he colors a line by breaking the honeyed tone and letting a folkish directness steal in.
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Especially impressive was the way she scaled down her voice for the Satie, singing — at times almost speaking — with a natural tone, warm, pure, beautiful and highly sophisticated for all its seeming artlessness.
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For all of his bumbling verbosity and avuncular artlessness, Democratic front-runner Joe Biden serves as a remarkably elegant illustration of all that ails the Democratic Party's bid to retake the White House in 2020.
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Aside from one Thoreau quote at the beginning (his 1840 list of paradoxes, such as "The highest condition of art is artlessness" and "He who resists not at all will never surrender"), the American author is verbally absent.
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Her performances over the past year, most memorably as the winged sprite in "La Sylphide" and as the female protagonist in Lauren Lovette's "For Clara," demonstrate things you just can't teach: spirit, generosity, the meeting of artistry and artlessness.
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Al Taylor's painting practice — an undertaking whose success was tied to its degree of artlessness — seemed to court, if not the "death of painting," then a refutation of the traditional hierarchy that places painting at the top of the heap.
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It's not so much that elements of the underinternet—the no-chill persistence and exclamatory inauthenticity and general honking artlessness—are with us up here as it is that we are surrounded by and daily move through smoother and more sophisticated versions of it.
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The man who admired my peeling Formica was crediting me with, or accusing me of, doing something deliberate, and I don't doubt that the apparent artlessness of my daughter's adopted household is, however half-consciously, a result of a carefully considered set of convictions.
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Some Vietnam reporters who were contemporaries of Lansdale's, like Stanley Karnow, who covered the war for a number of news organizations, and the Times correspondent A. J. Langguth, assumed that the artlessness and the harmonica playing were an act, that Lansdale was a deeply canny operative who hid his real nature from everyone.
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But in the looking-glass world of Trump, Houseago's colossus — a fierce, robot-like compaction of bronze-cast clay slabs and blocks of wood that ranges uncomfortably across the bombast of Antoine Bourdelle, the majesty of samurai armor, and the artlessness of a Lego toy — cannot be read as anything other than a personification of imminent authoritarianism.
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Taylor went out and bought whatever paint he could afford to engage in a process of determining the limits of its physical properties, an undertaking whose success was tied to its degree of artlessness — a practice that seems to court, if not the "death of painting," then a refutation of the traditional hierarchy that places painting at the top of the heap, an inherent critique of the medium's formal qualities and historical concerns.
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Put aside for a second the numerous class issues raised by the image of an extraordinarily wealthy person getting a thunderous ovation from a room filled with extraordinarily wealthy people by laughing off the "brutish" pleasures of middle-class sports like football and MMA; ignore the irony of a woman who helped bring She-Devil, Death Becomes Her, and AI: Artificial Intelligence into the world implying that anything deserves to be condemned for artlessness; and forget that at almost the exact moment Streep was giving her speech, quarterback Aaron Rodgers was leading his Green Bay Packers into the second round of the National Football League playoffs with a exhibition of physical grace and subtlety that would have shamed Gene Kelly.
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Generally, a chick flick is a film designed to have an innate appeal to women, typically young women. Defining a chick flick is, as The New York Times has stated, more of a parlor game than a science. These films are generally held in popular culture as having formulaic, paint- by-numbers plot lines and characters. This makes usage of the term "problematic" for implying "frivolity, artlessness, and utter commercialism", according to ReelzChannel.
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The mere suspicion, for I cannot believe anything can be proved." On December 1, Harvard librarian John Langdon Sibley wrote in his journal: "The standing of Dr. Webster, his uniform tenor of conduct since the disappearance of Dr. Parkman, his artlessness & unfamiliarity with the crime of any kind have been such that the excitement, the melancholy, the aghastness of every body are indescribable. The professors poh! at the mere suspicion that he is guilty.
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As letters became more and more popular as a means of communication, guides sprang up accordingly about just how one was to write a letter, what was proper, and what was out of the question. Many Victorian conventions shine through the guides, and are a valuable way of understanding certain tensions in nineteenth century England, such as a certain "artful artlessness" that came about as the result of the urge to speak from the heart, but never more than was proper.
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Technically, the songs are marked by several features: artistic simplicity, artlessness of musical language, variety and originality of melody and richness of accompaniment. The songs helped cross-pollinate the composer's work in other genres, with many of his operatic arias closely related to them.Alshvang, 198-9. While "None but the Lonely Heart" may be the one of his finest songs, as well as perhaps the best-known in the West,Brown, Man and Music, 55 the Six Romances, Op. 65 and the Six Romances, Op. 73 are especially recommendable.
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De Optimo Genere Oratorum, "On the Best Kind of Orators", is a work from Marcus Tullius Cicero written in 46 BCE between two of his other works, Brutus and the Orator ad M. Brutum. Cicero attempts to explain why his view of oratorical style reflects true Atticism and is better than that of the Roman Atticists "who would confine the orator to the simplicity and artlessness of the early Attic orators."Hendrickson, G. L. "Cicero De Optimo Genere Oratorum." The American Journal of Philology 47.2 (1926): 109–23. JSTOR. Web.
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There are many memoirs about Vampilov by his friends and colleagues, and several by relatives and teachers. The picture they paint of Vampilov is one of a shy, taciturn and thoughtful individual, yet with a sense of irony as well as of fun. The memoirs comment repeatedly on Vampilov's modesty, while at the same time remarking over and over again that he was very sociable and was always surrounded by many friends. The explanation for Vampilov's attractiveness may lie in his sympathy for and sensitivity to people, in his artlessness and naturalness, and in the fact that he was rarely sullen or depressed among friends, but rather usually smiling.
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At the foot of the Tepeyac Hill. According to major sources, Juan Diego was an Indian born in 1474 in Cuauhtitlan, and at the time of the apparitions he lived there or in Tolpetlac. Although not destitute, he was neither rich nor influential. His religious fervor, his artlessness, his respectful but gracious demeanour towards the Virgin Mary and the initially skeptical Bishop Juan de Zumárraga, as well as his devotion to his sick uncle and, subsequently, to the Virgin at her shrine – all of which are central to the tradition – are among his defining characteristics and testify to the sanctity of life which is the indispensable criterion for canonization.
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Dirda, Michael "An Epic > of the Everglades", The New York Review of Books, May 15, 2008. Tom LeClair, reviewing the work for the New York Times, considered that the work failed to live up to the sum total of its originally published parts, stating: > By reducing his Watson materials to one volume, Matthiessen has sacrificed > qualities that gave those novels their powerful reinforcing illusions of > authenticity and artlessness. Book I still has that Ten Thousand Islands > quality, but "Shadow Country" as a whole is like the Tamiami Trail that > crosses the Everglades. It offers a quicker and easier passage through the > swamp, but fewer shades and shadows.
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Hermann Prey's "winsome" Eisenstein and Barbara Daniels's "brash" Rosalinde introduced "a party that became a triumphant homage to the powers of the voice", as the tradition of interpolating guest appearances into Orlofsky's festivity was honoured in "one of the most exquisitely refined and extravagant assemblages of vocal artistry" in the Met's entire 108-year history. Hermann Prey evoked memories of his 1966 Met Papageno with an aria that brought the bird-catcher to life with expressive artlessness. Thomas Hampson won an overwhelming ovation with the energy, accuracy and supernatural acting of his "Largo al factotum". Kathleen Battle combined delicately engraved phrasing and a tone of sensuous velvet in "O luce di quest'anima".
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Wishing to instill in Albert the artlessness of animals, Jules instructs his young charge to throw away his books. He advises Albert that it is easier to "fabricate a Jesus or Mohammed" than it is to dismantle the adulterated social being that each individual has become so that can return to the original purity of his status as a "Nothing." Jules is a self-contradictory and self-loathing character. He is a bibliomaniac who despises the artificiality of the knowledge found in books; when he comes to finagle from Père Pamphile – an old Trinitarian monk, who is both a double and the opposite of Jules – money he needs for his library, Pamphile indignantly refuses.
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One observer thought the selection process cruel: the almost-beautiful girls were turned away without a second thought. Grisi and Petipa were great successes as the tragic lovers. Gautier praised their performance in Act II, writing that the two dancers made the act "a real poem, a choreographic elegy full of charm and tenderness ... More than one eye that thought it was seeing only [dance] was surprised to find its vision obscured by a tearsomething that does not often happen in a ballet ... Grisi danced with a perfection ... that places her in the ranks between Elssler and Taglioni ... Her miming surpassed every expectation ... She is nature and artlessness personified." Adam thought Petipa "charming" as both dancer and actor, and that he had "rehabilitated" male dancing with his performance.
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Since his death the reputation of Squire has declined; scholarship has absorbed the strictures of his contemporaries, such as F. S. Flint, openly critical of Squire in 1920.Presentation: Notes on the Art of Writing; on the Artfulness of Some Writers and the Artlessness of Others, The Chapbook 2 (9), March 1920, in Tim Middleton, Modernism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies (2003) from p. 116. Squire is now considered to be on the "blimpish" wing of the reaction to modernist work.poetrymagazines.org.uk – Positive Refusal A reappraisal of the periodical network literary London, and problems with the term modernism, have encouraged scholars to cast their nets beyond the traditional venue of modernism – the little magazine – to seek to better understand the role mass-market periodicals such as the London Mercury played in promoting new and progressive writers.
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At its occasional best it works like a constellation, with autobiography, essays, stories, reportage mingling together in a single controlled blaze. More often it has the casual freedom of the scrapbook, into which any old thing can be pasted at will; a lifelike form, certainly, with all of life's contingencies, dead ends, and artlessness.' 'Florida' is a remarkable article based on Raban's visit to Florida, attracted by the thrillers of John D. MacDonald, 'With their bodice- ripper covers and titles like Nightmare in Pink, A Deadly Shade of Gold and A Purple Place for Dying. For Raban, MacDonald (whom he meets three years before his death) created an extremely vivid portrait of a 'jungly Eden, spoilt and besmirched by human vanity and greed ... a lovely paradise that was being cut down to make room for shopping malls, condominium blocks, six-lane highways, giant billboards and pagoda-style Kingburger palaces.
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Grisi gave birth to her second daughter, Léontine Grisi, and at the age of 34 settled in Saint-Jean, Geneva to spend at Villa Grisi, also called Villa Saint-Jean which is no longer extant,Photograph of Villa Grisi (also called Villa Saint-Jean) here under the Théophile Gautier Society the next 46 years of her life in peaceful retirement. She died in this district of the town on 20 May 1899,Burial took place on 23 May 1899, her tomb is located in Cimetière de Châtelaine, Ward 10, Grave 1 (certified by the Cemeteries and Crematorium Services of the City of Geneva, 2011) a month before her 80th birthday. Grisi's sepulcral vault in a cemetery near Saint-Jean One of the creators of Giselle creators, Théophile Gautier, who was married to Carlotta's sister Ernestina, described her dancing as having a childlike artlessness, a happy and infectious gaiety. Carlotta Grisi was the cousin of the famous soprano singers, the sisters Giuditta and Giulia Grisi.
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In addition, Adams' illiteracy is at odds with the fact that sailors were substantially literate during this period. Also, lending to doubt of Adams' story, is the "artlessness," considered necessary for poor storytellers, which often give them the feel of truth. Michel de Certeau wrote of such narratives when he linked the history of writing history to the legitimization of political power, a practice found in "Western" cultures which used the act of writing as a tool of colonialism; writing their own histories while minimizing or eradicating the traditions of native peoples. For example, Dick said of Adams: Adams, is painted by critics as a "found narrator," who is not only unable to narrate a “continuous and straight-forward story,” but who also could only answer questions put to him, first by Dupuis in 1810 in Africa, and then in 1815-16 in London, meaning the editors constructed his “story” from fragments. This, argues critics, was done to the point in which Cock brought in a group of “scientific and respectable gentleman” to interview Adams, in order to verify details and geographical descriptions of Africa.
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