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She is pithy and chatty and beguilingly quiet by turns.
Egypt's dictators by turns persecuted, embraced and tolerated the Brotherhood.
They are by turns charming and repulsive, brave and vulnerable.
Michael is by turns charming and intelligent, manipulative and vulnerable.
"Namouna" is by turns comic, tender and full of whimsy.
Trumbo's letters are, by turns, tender and manic and hilarious.
Oh, and it's a musical — by turns fun and sad.
BIG's projects are by turns unorthodox, clever and even hopeful.
Girard's novel is compulsively readable, by turns wrenching and euphoric.
Inside, shoppers mingled amid memorabilia by turns eclectic and practical.
Petraeus commanded, by turns, all coalition forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.
When the fight finally arrives it's by turns absurd and horrifying.
Ryan's performance is transfixing, as he's hilarious and horrifying by turns.
Over the subsequent operas, these characters fight and collaborate, by turns.
They share a sense of humor, by turns deadpan and goofy.
Her new mobile selfies are by turns outlandish, hilarious and poignant.
Meanwhile, Ying herself looks by turns magisterial, dutiful, awed, slowed, quickened.
The book is by turns rollicking and reflective, sober and score-settling.
In Elsa's presence Jojo is by turns resentful, afraid, infatuated and possessive.
What happens next is by turns tense and turgid, unsurprising and appalling.
When she faces Hadid, she seems by turns shy and curious and happy.
THE modern human is by turns intrigued, bewildered, horrified and enraptured by religion.
He came off, by turns, as affable, prickly, charming, abrasive, and borderline abusive.
It was a conversation that was, by turns, interesting, public-spirited, and obtuse.
Her language is by turns worshipful and profane, her tone colloquial and confessional.
Other times, he was by turns sullen or combative, self-pitying or defiant.
His comments are, by turns, incoherent, incorrect, conspiratorial, delusional, self-aggrandizing, and underinformed.
When I was wide awake, my followers were by turns menacing and buffoonish.
By turns epic and compact, Walcott's poetry has a dazzling musicality and lyricism.
What they got was a nominee who was by turns confrontational and evasive.
The music still streaming over the loudspeakers is by turns reassuring and creepy.
The interview, which went online on Wednesday, is by turns surprising and utterly moribund.
Both sides are by turns embarrassed and enraged by the actions of the other.
In recent decades the religion has faced by turns heavy persecution and tacit acceptance.
When he thinks of the other boy, he is by turns grateful and guilty.
By turns sexy, fierce, bewildering and riveting, "Flyness" sends two indelible messages to audiences.
It's by turns crystalline and then muck-brown, as rivers are beneath the surface.
And Trump's campaign events have become increasingly unsettling affairs, by turns ludicrous and scary.
Chester is a frustrating main character, by turns arrogant and clueless, overconfident and indecisive.
It's by turns dark, geometric, molten, and in a perpetual mode of shape-shifting.
During the campaign, anti-Trump forces from both parties by turns bankrolled Fusion's research.
Those to friends are by turns crude, sublime, mocking, sincere, self-pitying and proud.
He was by turns peevish and defensive, complete with eye-rolling and derisive smirks.
Alisha Boe and Sheila Vand, in supporting roles, are by turns sexy and strange.
In writing, Mr. de Blasio is by turns sensitive and sanctimonious, aggressive and insecure.
In time, native peoples emerge from those trees, by turns watchful, threatening and welcoming.
And as Malti, Padukone is by turns inquisitive, watchful and serene but never maudlin.
Zohre begged Humar to return, by turns threatening her and cajoling her with tears.
By turns, they represent the end of an America that values diversity and multiculturalism.
"By turns amusing and adroit, this first novel is utterly satisfying," Kirkus Reviews wrote.
To this day, his legacy as a curator remains by turns controversial and groundbreaking.
Then, top Republicans were, by turns, annoyed, bemused, and reflective when talking about Trump.
The resulting images are by turns comical, serious, contradictory, playful, and searching — all very human.
They are, by turns, tragic and humorously picaresque, and often both at the same time.
Their characters—by turns chilly and warm, mild and savage—are also much the same.
And so it goes in a documentary that is by turns engaging, exasperating and confusing.
It has made both of them by turns bewildered and grumpy and scared, she says.
Exit West is by turns fantastical and all too real, and always thoughtful and gripping.
They make a funny pair, by turns amusing and puzzling, though also melancholic and touching.
Like their author, the tweets were, by turns, sophomoric and self-important, flippant and destructive.
Mr. Mars is by turns a showman and an analyst, a preservationist and a peacock.
" By turns fiery and maudlin, he told Israelis that they were "witnessing an attempted coup.
Her younger sister, Nyasha (Ito Aghayere, by turns comedic, furious, and touching), isn't so confident.
Those consumers should prepare themselves for an experience that is by turns disorienting and exhilarating.
Mr. Ruzicka's musical language is heterogeneous and fluid — by turns lyrical, dissonant, shrill and sparse.
His stories were by turns sardonic, compassionate and joyful, especially when skewering the academic life.
But the things the candidates actually said were, by turns, wrong, misleading, misinformed, confused, or ridiculous.
By turns Anggelo plays the Virgin Mary, Carmen from Bizet's canonical 187 opera and a toreador.
The relationships between the sounds and images are by turns ironic, contrapuntal, associative, and sometimes incongruous.
It's one that plumbs the dark recesses of all our imaginations: thrilling and terrifying by turns.
He's a blur of a character, by turns lecherous, sensitive, funny (or "funny"), impulsive, or terrified.
The two designers, Doug Wilson and Hildi Santo-Tomas, are by turns exasperated, resentful and snide.
He saw and used black as vibrant matter: by turns opaque or transparent, matte or shiny.
Ms. York sang with a supple, polished voice that was by turns mournful, yearning and powerful.
Unshielded by visible makeup, Ms. Bercot's face is by turns vulnerable and exultant, adoring and enraged.
But "Life" is far from an elegy; it's by turns mournful, searching and celebratory, even transcendent.
"A (for 100 Cars)" was, by turns, a placid deliberation, a thunderous roar, an ambitious lark.
In a voice by turns exuberant, humorous, unsentimental and keen, he tells a deeply American story.
And early state and federal cases are by turns equivocal and downright harmful to Gamble's position.
Opinion Columnist Artificial intelligence is by turns terrifying, overhyped, hard to understand and just plain awesome.
Her ex-husband (Dan Stevens) and her mother (Virginia Madsen) are indulgent and resentful by turns.
In the face of Jamie's reserve, Balfe plays Claire as restless, nervous and jealous by turns.
Trump seems, by turns, annoyed by being left out of the loop and indifferent to it.
The Saturday Profile PALERMO, Italy — They are by turns gruesome, haunting, tragic and, often, achingly poetic.
Their messages were by turns romantic, topical, admonitory and devout, while the music was hypnotically danceable.
Ashworth, leading from his violin, elicited a performance that was elegant, boisterous, and melancholy by turns.
Over all, the music is crucial, by turns pensive and fidgety, solemnly harmonic and skittishly diffuse.
They are, by turns, charming and mocking, detached and enraged, bullying and needy, often threatening suicide.
By turns intimate and expansive, "Transit" is a thrilling, at times harrowing labyrinth of a movie.
She is observed slightly from above, at an angle that feels by turns forensic or familiar.
The three of us attended, and we found it, by turns, intriguing, depressing, boring, and exhilarating.
Consider North Korea's Kim Jong Un, who has, by turns, satisfied and starved the president's boundless ego.
" Jacob, looking by turns at the map and at the valley, says, "Man, we suck at this.
The actors glide in and out of moments that are by turns intimate, absurd, frightening and poignant.
Arthur is by turns retiring and pointed, with a soft, cublike appearance and a tight, parsimonious grin.
By turns liberating and maddening, Medium has potential as a next-generation instrument for writers and readers.
The result is by turns caustic, coy, baffling, impish, embarrassing, insightful and, as the pseudonym suggests, frank.
Collette is virtuosic in the role, which requires her to be motherly, depressed, and unhinged by turns.
For Seitz and the farmers, watching families like the Paups suffer was by turns exasperating and motivating.
This has been an endeavor by turns deeply serious, deliberately subversive, and flamboyantly exciting, depending on context.
The James Comey who emerged during the hearing was by turns humble, folksy and matter-of-fact.
"The government will see it made a huge mistake," he said, by turns indignant and impishly grinning.
Throughout the novel, beauty and violence coexist in a universe that seems by turns cruel and wondrous.
This sets off a chain of mostly comic events that are, by turns, ominous, bloody and cosmic.
Her departure was followed by decades of fluctuations in the band's music, by turns obnoxious and illuminating.
British Library; £30 A collection of maps, by turns beautiful and eccentric, which charts the making of America.
He was also by turns "really serious," and disciplined enough to make them concentrate and do their homework.
Like a kid, he is by turns zany and frustrating, and his son is the put-upon ­guardian.
But Mommy, as he calls her, hovered graciously throughout the interview, by turns soothing, cajoling and spiritedly taunting.
Katharina listens to Hirsch's stories, and is by turns curious, sympathetic, defensive, perhaps even bored by his repetitiousness.
The photographs, taken throughout the Vermont countryside during intermittent bouts of depression, are by turns gruesome and calming.
By turns tender and jealously controlling, he beats Yetemegnu with a stick when she ventures outside their home.
By turns puckish and grim, "Paradise Hills" is just the latest female-driven dystopian story to hit screens.
Without compromise, without deliberately creating benefits to share, politics becomes by turns exploitive, incompetent, ineffective and sometimes lethal.
Who by turns has called himself a "progressive" and "moderate" Republican, as well as a "severely conservative" one?
By turns awkward and elegant, the film is further evidence of a directing career that could have been.
Yes, she was never not winning—but so often she seemed sad, angry, bored and lonely by turns.
In each period, there are those who see themselves by turns as inheritors of history and its victims.
The writing, always the strong suit of a Failbetter game, is by turns funny, eerie, and sweetly sad.
Much of his work is by turns suspenseful, sensual and comedic, with obsession and passion serving as recurring themes.
But up to that point, you can enjoy its compelling story and excellent cinematography, by turns sweeping and intimate.
Much of his language, like much of Trump's, is characterized by a nastiness that's by turns adolescent and hyperbolic.
As the dance of life proceeded around him, by turns gay and melancholy, Powell watched, he listened, he noted.
This Oscar-nominated adaptation of Michael Lewis's book about the 2008 financial crisis is, by turns, hilarious and horrifying.
For the Moleskys, the time spent in quarantine -- nearly a month -- was by turns scary and bizarre, Cheryl said.
It was by turns beguiling and unsettling — which, Mr. Hafez explained with a knowing smile, was precisely the point.
The other thing you want is Elton John's music, a desire that "Rocketman" by turns satisfies, sharpens and frustrates.
She spoke by turns as a victim and a professional, interspersing her testimony with medical terms: norepinephrine, epinephrine, sequelae.
Political surrogates have always played a role in presidential elections, by turns lending campaigns credibility, enthusiasm and star power.
She had become by turns a fashion model, a baby sitter, an actress and a lonely hearts advice columnist.
With a voice by turns brightly crystalline and arrestingly powerful, she persuasively inhabits the role of this chameleon coquette.
The songs of Billie Eilish, 17, are death-haunted and depressive, by turns arrogant and anxious, mocking and desperate.
The songs of Billie Eilish, 103, are death-haunted and depressive, by turns arrogant and anxious, mocking and desperate.
The story focuses less on Cyra than on Akos, who is by turns vulnerable, tough and talented at combat.
In private, she was unpredictable, by turns angry and cold, and I never knew how to make her happy.
FOR more than 2,000 years, the city on the Bosporus has by turns dazzled, enticed, horrified and scared the world.
Lyrical and satirical by turns, she shows that fearful isolation, emotional or political, hurts wall-builders and wall-jumpers alike.
It's a show-off tour de force, and McAvoy is dazzling throughout — funny, creepy, threatening, pathetic and monstrous by turns.
Michèle is by turns jealous and possessive, dismissive and cold, obsessed with punishing her rapist and coolly intrigued by him.
As Sarah Nicole Prickett wrote in Artforum, teens have been "idolized and sacrificed by turns" since the category was invented.
Bits By turns toxic and tantalizing, the digital cultures spurred by the internet have become an endless source of fascination.
" It is, she added, "by turns brutal and sentimental, lovely and lurid, as serious as the grave and blissfully preposterous.
Rather than dry exposition or long-winded discussions, these men use wordplay that is by turns sarcastic, droll and witty.
In his autobiography, which he published and then repeatedly revised over the years, Barnum is, by turns, confiding and aggrandizing.
Sitting in a conference room outside his office in Prague, Mr. Babis was by turns angry, rueful and deeply emotional.
"By turns elegiac and erotic, the collection is also lush with language whose music evokes the landscape," wrote our reviewer.
"Take Off Your Pants and Jacket," from 2182, is by turns peppy, sulky, and stupid—Blink-182 at its finest.
My difference is by turns easy for me to overlook and a quality I fiercely guard like a unicorn horn.
Their explanations are by turns mundane and metaphysical; some are skeptics, believing that the mind is playing tricks on itself.
Yet his initial venture into presidential politics is by turns a confirmation of and a complication for the professed Cruz image.
By turns allegorical, metaphysical, fictional and factual, Devotion shows rather than tells what it means to give a life to writing.
"The Biggest Little Farm" depicts a relationship with the natural world that is by turns both life-affirming and horribly grim.
By turns glorious, despairing, humane, and perplexing, Twin Peaks was an uncommonly generous weekly gift, delivered throughout a long, hot summer.
It's an old idea that today, in an age of self-driving cars, seems by turns impractically retro and remarkably prescient.
When Minamoto and Taira forces come head-to-head, the narrative ignites, and Turner's prose is by turns pithy and evocative.
He has by turns thrilled his state's progressive base and frustrated even some of his Democratic allies in the state capital.
Now 28, Ms. Maclean has acquired a reputation for skewering sociopolitical tendencies with works that are by turns creepy and cute.
In the third movement, Mr. Vanska — specific in his gestures but never rigid — led a dance by turns rustic and ghostly.
By turns playing the victim and the ingenu, he castigated another MP for rudeness, responding "I don't remember" to many questions.
By turns, she was a nightclub diva, an avant-gardist, a historical preservationist and a seamless synthesizer of then and now.
A better way of describing Iran's dictatorship is as a kleptotheocracy, driven by impulses that are by turns doctrinal and venal.
Occasionally we stopped to walk around and by turns get lashed with rain, pummeled by wind and caressed by crystalline sunshine.
His music, by turns minimal and lush, incorporates an array of influences from Bach to rock to West African kora music.
In Alexei Ratmansky's "Namouna: A Grand Divertissement" (New York City Ballet, 2010), it's by turns quaint, seductive, lyrical, poetic and jolly.
By turns edifying and entertaining, this investigation into the lives of the Twelve Apostles mixes irreverent travelogue and earnest textual analysis.
Chris is by turns a spirited heroine, a trollish underground woman, a feminist social critic, and a phenomenologist of romantic longing.
By turns intimate and sweeping, the film opens with six soldiers walking away from the camera down a spookily deserted street.
The reaction on social media to the news that Beyoncé is pregnant with twins was by turns swift, sweet and strange.
"Play" here designates by turns novelty, delight, sport, games, prettiness, music of any kind, gambling, magic shows, spectacles, illusions and fashion.
His first English-language film, "The Lobster," was by turns ghastly and hilarious, a cruel dystopian allegory of discipline and desire.
There are 166 of them narrating the book by turns, and few of them are willing to admit they are dead.
Henry, the violist, is a prodigy whose easy success by turns astonishes the rest of the ensemble and fills them with envy.
By turns, both sides faced some sharp questioning from the judges for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
By turns funny, wise, and poignant, this is a story about falling in love — with the painful, messy, joyful business of living.
Sivan Alyra Rose as Sasha is mesmerizing; by turns, she is determined and vulnerable, terrified of herself and comfortable in her skin.
By turns natural, likeable, insinuating and eerie, Alma clearly has no intention of following Joanna ignominiously out of Reynold's home and life.
Over and over again, she reinvents her identity and her elaborate, lovingly described wardrobe, becoming by turns diva, courtesan, servant, and spy.
Its prime ministers, by turns weak or clownish, have been unable to place their mark on a country many see as ungovernable.
In a series of swing-state appearances this week, Mr. Clinton unleashed an impassioned self-defense, by turns sarcastic and almost pleading.
Lorne Ahrens of the Dallas Police Department were given their final send-offs during funerals that were by turns emotional and quippy.
Cassius is by turns cautious and audacious, unflappable and panicky, easily freaked out and able to deal with the craziest of situations.
He was a gadfly, bouncing between the West and the Middle East, by turns a courtier, commentator, public intellectual and mild dissident.
At Black Hat this year, it was, by turns, the subject of very practical discussions and purely theoretical (and occasionally misleading) exercises.
A German movie goes into the woods with the dead, morphing into a fairy tale that is by turns uneasy and beguiling.
The facade of City Hall was bathed in light, by turns showing the Star of David and the colors of the rainbow.
Amy Klobuchar put in her best performance yet on the debate stage Friday night — by turns mature, nuanced, empathetic and unquestionably presidential.
He can be by turns calm or curt as he stresses that his son committed no wrongdoing in his overseas business dealings.
Breezing into court, she took the stand and, by turns haughty, coquettish, weepy and coarse, spoke of Gestapo tactics in Beverly Hills.
The audience needs to be, by turns, reassured and surprised, guided through startling and suspenseful events toward a never-in-doubt conclusion.
Shota and the father, Osamu (a great Lily Franky, by turns affable and unsavory), first see the girl shivering outside her home.
As Lara, Vikander is terrific: By turns vulnerable and strong, brave and frightened, impish and determined, she ably fits the evolved character.
The effect creates something like a Marx Brothers version of opera buffa, with characters by turns escaping from and eavesdropping on each other.
By turns industrious and restless, dutiful and disobedient, he is also graced with sensitivities that his carefully constructed wall of muscles can't obscure.
The settings included struggle sessions at mass assemblies, in the streets and at local neighborhood committees that methodically conducted their sessions by turns.
The void is by turns enslaving and emancipating in "The Handmaiden," which plays with familiar form as a way to deliver unexpected meaning.
The image underscores the broader, interior complications of women gazing upon other women — an intimacy by turns familial and territorial, carnal and tender.
Myles's irreverence and relentless curiosity are on full display, and the writing is by turns playful, heartfelt, wise, compassionate, fantastical and audaciously confessional.
Filled with drawings that are by turns moderately challenging to quite advanced, this coloring book offers plenty of opportunity for relaxing coloring sessions.
On Friday, Mr. Trump signed the new deal with the leaders of Canada and Mexico — neighbors by turns ambivalent and icy toward him.
By turns generous and challenging, Mr. Trump saluted Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as among his best friends in the club of world leaders.
Simon, who had been in Morocco for over 40 years, had by turns been a decorator, an actor, a hotelier and a conservationist.
But MacDonald places her in sexual situations that leave her unsatisfied and diminished; Zelda is, by turns, infantilized, duped and very nearly raped.
The early works on display find a young Mr. Byrd, by turns coy and confrontational, slipping nimbly among aesthetics: punk, drag, downtown-postmodern.
"ShETHER" is by turns hilarious and worrisome, as much an indictment of Ms. Minaj's weaknesses as Remy Ma's single-minded obsession with them.
But the punch line is short-lived in this thrilling film filled with plenty of twists that are by turns frightful and touching.
Saturday's practice flight with a cast of only 700 birds — by turns vertiginous, majestic and faintly terrifying — evoked a series of alternate universes.
From symphony orchestras to chamber concerts, instrumentalists are asserting their physical, individual presences in ways that are by turns whimsical, heartbreaking or strange.
The snapshots, which are scattered across the wall as though stuck in the pages of a scrapbook, are by turns joyous and vulnerable.
It's by turns bitingly sarcastic and wistfully regretful, and always ferociously angry at the narrative in which this collection of women has been trapped.
Alex Garland's adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's novel is, by turns, stomach-churning in its horror, heartbreaking in its sadness, and breathtaking in its beauty.
Relations between the two countries are often complicated by their shared history which has by turns been a source of mutual suspicion and amity.
By turns demented, off-putting and ugly-funny — a Verhoeven trademark — "Elle" will be one of the more talked about movies of the year.
In prose that is ornate and spare by turns, Hagy explores the meagre possibilities of individual redemption in a society traumatized by unspeakable violence.
One night, Gloria locks eyes with Arnold (John Turturro), a look that inaugurates an uneasy intimacy that is by turns erotic, comic and poignant.
For his part, Mr. Kocner often organized news conferences to which he invited investigative journalists — by turns courting them and trying to intimidate them.
And what I have found myself by turns apologizing for and defending has been the ironic worldview that "Seinfeld" managed to preserve in amber.
But when a musician engages in conversation with splintered figments of her sonic self, the result can be by turns beautiful, unsettling and exhilarating.
Postscript To conjure Jean Stein you must first imagine the voice — a soft and breathy near-whisper, by turns merry or full of steel.
Troy is by turns funny, provocative, inspiring and hurtful, but one thing he will never be as long as he draws breath is silent.
The stories vary greatly in tone and voice — by turns, raw, wry, rueful, comic, elliptical and confiding — but there is little sarcasm or snark.
He listened to the music, Don Pullen's "Suite (Sweet) Malcolm (Part 0003 Memories and Gunshots)," a jazz piano composition, by turns dreamy and frantic.
"Quark" proceeds in brightly colored fragments that establish a given sonic texture before introducing a newcomer sound that, by turns, destabilizes or enriches it.
Hermes, our narrator, sings the story while walking around the stage, by turns interacting with the actors, moving set elements, and joining the band.
Our annual Greats issue is by far our most consuming and complicated endeavor of the year, a project by turns exhilarating and panic-inducing.
The tone can, by turns, be interrogatory, tender, coldly scientific, analytical, allegorical, plain and painful, all without ever asking for sympathy or singling herself out.
By turns childlike and sophisticated," he went on to explain, "Roberts is the kind of woman one longs to tuck in — late, late at night.
More maverick are variations of sour cream spiked with, by turns, raw garlic, Sriracha, chipotle, horseradish and pickled jalapeño, each with its own clarifying flare.
"XENOS" is by turns classical, operatic and even Chaplinesque, as when Mr Khan's character tries to converse, through sound and body language, with a gramophone.
In more than 20083 volumes of poetry, Mr. Berkson developed a freewheeling, idiosyncratic style that could be, by turns, conversational, epigrammatic, elliptical, whimsical and surreal.
"American Honey," long and messy as it is, is by turns observant and exuberant, and sweet in a way that is both unexpected and organic.
By turns professorial and diabolically cunning, with narrowed eyes, his mouth a slit in a weathered face with clenched jaw, Robert's mind is continually churning.
"The Death of Stalin" is by turns entertaining and unsettling, with laughs that morph into gasps and uneasy gasps that erupt into queasy, choking laughs.
So his films are by turns convincing and infuriating, and more recent offerings have inspired tepid reviews even from critics who share his political views.
For almost 231 minutes, David Geffen Hall was turned into a haunting aural environment through Ms. Fure's mystical, atmospheric music, by turns dreamy and dangerous.
Slender, silver-haired and impeccably dressed, Mr. Kushner, 63, was by turns charming, blunt and philosophical, an engaging contrast to Jared Kushner's more stilted persona.
These two became the innocents at the heart of the surrounding maelstrom — mutually absorbed, supporting each other by turns, a sweet image of modern trust.
Walking streets that are thriving and dismal by turns, and overhearing conversations in rural diners and urban coffeehouses, he encounters not one country but two.
Then, as now, he could swerve quickly from mawkish to mischievous — by turns a goofy extrovert and a lone wolf, withdrawing in moments of introspection.
"In online and offline life, debate has been by turns fraught, highly personal and, occasionally, outright venomous," journalist Roisin Kiberd wrote for Refinery29 earlier this month.
The woman in his film is quicksilver: spiky, controlling and intimidating in one scene, and by turns calculated, intensely vulnerable and almost childlike in the next.
By turns elegiac and colloquial, "Paradise Now" chronicles the ascent and demise of these "fellow travelers" — the Shakers among them — as they chased their perfectionist ideals.
Mr. Wrona takes an alternately cool and hot view of this tumult, by turns pulling back for critical distance, at other times diving into the muck.
As the dance of life proceeded around him, by turns gay and melancholy, he watched, he listened, he noted, with the most careful interest and attention.
Far from retreating, the band instead planned a short summer tour, by turns jubilant and wrenching, that has transfixed much of Canada for the last month.
Clinton, by turns lamenting her embrace of President Obama, her desire to increase gun restrictions and what they see as her consistent aversion to the truth.
Over a slow march of a beat, Queen Naija is by turns tender and exultant, the joy here easily outpacing the hurt of her breakthrough hit.
And the constant image of Affleck as the ghost is by turns disturbing, beautiful, and sweet—certainly a great centerpiece to an imperfect but daring film.
A number of Comédie-Française actors from "The Damned" return in "Electre/Oreste," starting with the idiosyncratic Christophe Montenez, by turns rabid and vulnerable as Orestes.
Seeking to bridge two familiar forms — the police procedural and the gang-redemption memoir — Green tracks cops and killers by turns as events draw them together.
The most tangible character in the book, according to our reviewer, is Nao, whose voice is "by turns breezy, petulant, funny, sad and teenage-girl wise."
By turns irreverent and impassioned, he drew laughter and applause, as he cheerfully mumbled his way through discussions of "gigabit broadband" and other high-tech investments.
Directed with restraint by Kip Fagan and imbued with uncommon humanity by an impressive cast, "The Profane" is by turns warm and wary, combative and conciliatory.
They create a more varied squall here than on earlier albums, by turns sloppy ("Tellin' Lies"), pulverizing ("Your Wild Years"), spry ("Lookers") and sludgy ("The Bars").
Each is a true pleasure to watch, funny and tragic by turns, with the kinds of unforgettable moments that make a film stick in your memory.
LaBeouf, meanwhile, plays his father, who is by turns tender and abusive, in an extraordinary, courageous performance directed by Alma Har'el in her first fiction feature.
In her main band, Eye of Nix, her voice is by turns fragile and elemental—a soaring Siouxie Sioux-inflected flight and a sepulchral howl of retribution.
On stage, the diversity of The 1975's catalog means that Healy can freely embrace all of the corners of himself, by turns raucous, mischievous, and earnest.
The refugees are presented here in all their complexity; the characters, such as the Afghan restaurant owner himself, are by turns hopeful and frustrated, fearful and joyous.
Before a rapt chamber, he was by turns folksy and self-deprecating, intense and scornful, challenging the House prosecutors who had brought the case to the Senate.
By turns funny, tragic, and unsettling, Adjei-Brenyah's stories work their way under your skin and stay there, leaping out at you when you least expect it.
Hugh Hewitt, radio broadcaster Hewitt has seen his profile rise over the last year, even as he has been by turns skeptical and cautiously supportive of Trump.
Yet this by turns transporting, brow-furrowing, nostalgic and obtuse visual essay — inspired in part by the writings of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze — never feels overwhelming.
By turns of phrase, Seattle's brief summer becomes a character here too, as Lioness's presence causes any number of peculiar disruptions to the natural and social order.
To the outsider, America may appear by turns vulgar or violent, crass or childish, ugly or superficial, and of course it can be all of these things.
And the lure of the strongman is particularly powerful for those believers whose theology was somewhat Trumpian already — nationalistic, prosperity-worshiping, by turns apocalyptic and success-obsessed.
Its figures are by turns confrontational and shapeshifting, tapping into the fluidity of the water that links them, as well as their fluid gender and sexual identities.
Baritone Mark Stone was by turns menacing and vulnerable as the Protector, but his performance occasionally seemed a bit more effortful than those of his co-stars.
In phone calls, email chains and text messages on Saturday, Clinton aides and allies were by turns confident that the F.B.I. would find nothing to hurt Mrs.
For all its imperial and papal pomp and circumstance, Rome at heart is a beautiful child — raucous, dreamy, secretive, a touch spoiled, by turns exasperating and enchanting.
By turns frustrating, enigmatic, unpredictable and combative, Mr. Puigdemont had become the embodiment of Catalonia's aspirations for independence after leading a thwarted effort to secede from Spain.
This is, unapologetically, a children's movie, by turns gentle, thrilling and didactic, but missing the extra dimension of terror and wonder that would have transcended the genre.
On Wednesday, the president never uttered the talking points, but appeared by turns sympathetic, attentive, determined to take action and angry on behalf of his distraught guests.
Or perhaps it was simply that the physical act of keeping two little boys safe and entertained in a liquid world was by turns exhausting and terrifying.
AMSTERDAM — The Czech master of Surrealist cinema, Jan Svankmajer, is revered by animators for his stop-motion movies that are by turns absurd, grotesque, erotic and horrific.
In a remarkable and rambling 83-minute news conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, Mr. Trump was by turns combative, humorous and boastful.
" Critic's take: "'The Death of Stalin' is by turns entertaining and unsettling, with laughs that morph into gasps and uneasy gasps that erupt into queasy, choking laughs.
By turns terrifying and exhilarating, "Midnight Family" unfolds with such velocity that it may take a while for your ethical doubts to catch up to what's happening.
The Afiara Quartet and Kid Koala himself create a soundtrack that's at once silly and somber, indicating, by turns, the little T4's loneliness, fear, and excitement.
It encourages scholars to perform in real time for an audience of the like-minded, enabling a form of solidarity that is by turns sycophantic, hyperbolic, or cruel.
It takes on, by turns, the family, the neighborhood, the professional environment, the bedroom, the mall, and the world of social media (including the requisite pitchfork-toting mobs).
By turns talking to the camera and on the move, these five speak about their lives as Mr. Echeverria tracks each from home to street, work and church.
Rather, he reflected each of them, by turns, as his real but insecure talent veered back and forth, and this way and that, in their stronger gravitational fields.
Like some of these other accounts, this documentary traces the arcs of Lamarr's personal and professional lives, which by turns harmoniously converged and wildly veered in opposite directions.
"This moment, this year, this time is not easy," Mr. O'Rourke thundered once he reached the stage, by turns swearing playfully in two languages to make his case.
Design is ultimately the most striking thing about this production, its set (by Alexander Borovsky) bathed in light (by Damir Ismagilov) that's by turns golden and stark white.
The meal was beautifully orchestrated, by turns serene (scallops with fresh baby peas and shaved fresh horseradish and a cozy crumb-crusted "pudding" of brown crab) and intense.
But while the kidnapping is the movie's main event, it is only part of a story that is, by turns, a sordid, desperate and anguished tragedy about money.
By turns funereal and triumphant, $uccessor is a shot across the bow at those who seek to downplay the role of African and Afro-diasporic artists in electronic music.
" The left-leaning Guardian, on its editorial pages, called the speech "by turns bitter, blowhard and banal" and noted that "in 1933, Roosevelt challenged the world to overcome fear.
Brown's portrait of Margaret is by turns funny and moving, and every page contains at least one telling detail about what makes Margaret such a compelling avatar of royalty.
He looked the part, with a grim face, a tight jaw and short black hair flecked with gray, and he was a dynamic speaker, by turns tigerish and seductive.
By turns lighthearted and cringeworthy, the film probes the darker side of trying to make a living as a writer while also depicting a kind of delightfully misanthropic friendship.
It is by turns funny, touching and self-revelatory, and not in a typical actress humble-braggy way: She can tell stories about herself that are truly toe-curling.
But Mei's portrayal of an ambitious young woman throwing herself into the Tokyo night over the fearful objections of her mother (Misuzu Kanno) is by turns hilarious and tender.
Trump was by turns solicitous, argumentative, evasive, joking and defiant with the nation's most important newspaper, which has been among Trump's top targets in his attacks on the media.
Justice Kavanaugh's remarks, by turns lighthearted and emotional, were reflections on his confirmation hearings in the form of expressions of gratitude to people who had helped him weather them.
"That wee self is by turns a joy and a heartbreaker, and often an affectingly honest hormone bomb waiting to explode," Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times.
In England, we watch Bela give a speech, and he is almost shy — this little man, by turns ingratiating and pugnacious, who insists on the primacy of political art.
Crystal Reed and Dichen Lachman, as dancers who figure into the plot (about which, the less said by me, the better for you), are by turns adorable and enigmatic.
Never released — and with a title that can't be published here — it is one of the strangest and toughest artifacts of its era, by turns haunting, horrifying and beautiful.
Unfortunately, manifestations of the states of California, Oregon and Washington, called Hypotheticals, come to visit by turns, demanding the ocean back and leaving powerful, dangerous gifts when Imani refuses.
By turns whimsical, hilarious, heartbreaking, and difficult, Boy is an extraordinarily poignant film about boyhood, adulthood, and the complicated relationship between sons and the fathers they look up to.
Working within the pleasing, boxy confines of an old-school aspect ratio, Pawlikowski by turns isolates his characters or clutters his shots with bodies, creating a snapshot of collectivism.
The songs are intricately plotted to give the illusion of being impulsive and obsessive, buffeted by shifting emotions: by turns sensual and wary, vulnerable and guarded, leisurely and urgent.
A guitarist by turns meditative and acerbic, Harrison recently released "Angel Band," the third in a series of albums devoted to works from the American folk and country songbooks.
Characters we've known for years connected either for the first time on the show or in new ways, sharing moments that were by turns touching, revolting, conniving and deadly.
Brand, who has set out to write of foxes as an "honest biographer," is by turns lyrical, salty, funny and scholarly as she describes the nuances of fox existence.
Their conversations are by turns personal, practical and philosophical, and they revolve around the fundamental issues of civic order, which are shown to be at once mundane and grand.
Dafoe's thin, coiled physicality suggests both fragility and determination, while his tensile face flutters with an astonishment of emotions that, by turns, suggest a yielding or off-putting sensibility.
Muller and Rummenigge might have been by turns dismissive and barbed in the way they went about criticising the fixture, but Muller's comment on "uneven games" rings undeniably true.
Scott and Everett are terrific in handling material that demands seriousness and silliness by turns, and the movie does enough well that its flaws are tolerable, if not necessarily overlookable.
I love, of course, the grand, fast spectacle of it all, the glory and tragedy of the minutes and seconds during which lifelong hopes are by turns crushed and realized.
By turns flinty and tender, devotional and irreverent, haunted and enraptured, Cash's poems — which date back to the 1940s — proved as multifaceted and emotionally far-reaching as the man himself.
Its members were known for invading and disrupting massively multiplayer games like Second Life and Habbo Hotel — among other pranks that were by turns dadaist, blithely cruel, and explicitly hateful.
O. Scott) 'Bleak Street' (No rating, 1:00773, in Spanish) Arturo Ripstein's film, based on a real-life Mexican murder case, is by turns funny and grotesque, surreal and sad.
Mr. McEwan's little homunculus is, by turns, earnest, mocking, sarcastic, searching and irreverent, especially when his mother has had several glasses of wine and he's reeling from a contact high.
He is, by turns, a defender of conformity and a critic of it, and he thinks that if readers pay close attention, they, too, can learn when to be which.
Soon two mascot bears appeared, stopping by turns to help the models wriggle out of their bag-coats, revealing beneath them suits with short pants that formed the collection's core.
Instead, as he cuts between the patients and the judges, the larger documentary seems to fade away, leaving face-to-face interactions that are by turns eerie, touching and tragic.
This rattled a season that's been by turns plodding, maddening and enjoyable, if never quite thrilling, and knocked last night's subsequent episode into the mud — where it spun its wheels.
We are by turns aggressive and devotional, and must appear, to those unfamiliar with our tradition, as if we're trying to viciously kill something, while stricken by remorse between attacks.
Sounding by turns wounded and defiant, Mr. Sessions, a former senator from Alabama, often infused his testimony with more emotion than specifics as he showcased his loyalty to Mr. Trump.
But he quickly jumped to the Miami City Commission, where he proved to be a savvy operator who could cater by turns to the city's white, black and Hispanic populations.
While all these dances richly abound in specific dramas and suggestions, the bigger emotions they prompt derive from the felicities with which moves meet music: poignant, puckish, exuberant, by turns.
Finney is by turns, fragile, monstrous, vulnerable and impossible in the complicated role of a novelist who chooses to leave his wife (Diane Keaton) and four daughters for his mistress.
In this show, photography offers a rich understanding of a diverse, divided, by turns confident and anxious United States bent on territorial and economic expansion from the 1840s to the 1860s.
Then she makes a fire of dry grass and dead wood, skewers the rabbit, and roasts it over the fire, looking by turns at the fire and out at the valley.
In an exclusive interview with The Dr. Phil Show, David Lovell talked about his emotions in the weeks since Nicole was killed and was by turns angry and full of sadness.
But for something meant to promote a brand-new platform, Feral Rites is a strangely retro affair in many ways, a throwback project that is by turns fun and self-defeating.
Passage by the full Senate is not assured, with several Republicans taking issue, by turns, with the deficit impact, repeal of the Obamacare individual mandate and treatment of pass-through businesses.
Touched with the sort of magic that only Perfume Genius can produce, his "Body's In Trouble" is by turns troubled, soulful, and sad, and honestly, you'll feel it in your bones.
Laoghaire is also difficult about the alimony, but it's not surprising that a woman by turns widowed, abused and abandoned would want a household without the risk of a fourth husband.
After the Housing Authority told the Health Department that the lead could not have come from its apartments, Mikaila's family said she was still not herself, by turns lethargic and hyperactive.
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter But this is Phoenix's film, and he inhabits it with an insanity by turns pitiful and fearsome in an out-there performance that's no laughing matter.
That was my conclusion after spending the last two weeks of July taking in the offerings of both theaters: nine evenings of Wagner in 12 days, by turns exhilarating and enervating.
The exhibition's 11 artists, working in media ranging from painting to performance, explore the theme in a host of different ways that are by turns gut-wrenching, contemplative, quaint, and funny.
After intermission, he played Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2, just that powerful work, with its well-known "Funeral March" movement — a superb performance, by turns demonic and wistful, terrifying and tender.
Over more than 300 years, the power of central banks has ebbed and flowed as governments have by turns enhanced and restricted their responsibilities in response to economic necessity and intellectual fashion.
But the real fun of The Refrigerator Monologues comes from Valente's hyper-stylized voice, inflected by turns with pop, jazz, and opera as she moves from heroine to heroine, genre to genre.
The mothers in the book are smitten by their children, then they embrace their children, and then they cage them; the children by turns wallow in their mother's love and reject it.
Hussein Ibish WASHINGTON — The closing of Al Jazeera America, expected in April, is a sad conclusion to a project that was by turns uplifting and inspiring as well as troubling and depressing.
It's by turns entertaining and exhausting, though eventually the whole thing grows heavier, more solemn, as the party transforms into another reminder about how rapidly the so-called civilized slip into barbarism.
His God is by turns comically admonishing, affectionate and just occasionally petulant, as who would not be when his carefully laid plans have resulted in, well, the world in its endless imperfection.
Johannes Schenk's twelve viol sonatas, by turns sprightly and solemn, and collectively called "Le Nymphe di Rheno," were a swan song, in 1702, for the now archaic ancestors of the modern violin.
For four seasons now — the fifth begins on Sunday, April 24 — Amy has been Selina's always-on-her-phone, right-hand woman, who is by turns a crisis manager and a creator.
What I heard was dynamic and inquisitive, by turns capable of grandiosity and suspenseful quiet; but when I opened my eyes again, his right hand was a full foot above the keyboard.
By turns delicate and brutal, this Japanese drama about a struggling ragtag family is perfectly observed from its first scene to its last, and is a career high point for its director.
On Olympics GANGNEUNG, South Korea — In a performance by turns athletic, sensual and expressive, the Canadian ice dancing team of Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir reclaimed the Olympic gold medal on Tuesday.
The third work, "Con Brazos Abiertos" ("With Open Arms"), by Michelle Manzanales, is a kind of ode, by turns tenderhearted and playful, to themes from her Mexican-American childhood in Houston. (Ms.
Much as he did in "Krisha," the writer-director Trey Edward Shults gets super-close to his characters, creating a sense of intense subjectivity that is by turns intimate and purposefully claustrophobic.
Covering topics by turns mundane and abstract, from the baking of a pie to the mercilessness of time, they volley many questions back and forth, the most pressing of hers being why?
But there's still a kind of closure in seeing its original events laid out and wrapped up this way, in a book that's by turns a memoir, sociological study, and self-help text.
The characters are, by turns, forced and then allowed to honestly examine their relationships with both each other and the world at large, which is what they've been looking for to begin with.
Every day seems to bring news of mass shootings, more hate displaced onto minorities and extreme voices from the Republican party -- by turns bigoted and silent when it is strategic for their campaigns.
By turns urbane and jovial, Botha, foreign minister from 1977 until the end of white rule in 1994, was seen as a reformer in the hard-line National Party administrations he served under.
At the end of the workday, when one of them felt paralyzed—they fell into that state by turns—the other would insist that they drive to a park in a nearby town.
I sit or pace in my rooms, agitated, picking up and putting down a saxophone, changing my shirt, hefting by turns a china lamp, a leather pouch, trying to joke with the snails.
By turns introspective and anthemic, the album was co-produced by the trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, and features the keyboardist Jesse Elder, the bassist Burniss Earl Travis and the drummer John Davis.
She stumbles and she falls, plays at being Lucy and slips back into a radically changed Setsuko in a movie in which the human comedy is by turns tender, plaintive, heartfelt and joyful.
Peace and a Palestinian state will come when Palestinians aspire to create a Middle Eastern Costa Rica — pacifist, progressive, neighborly and democratic — rather than another Yemen: by turns autocratic, anarchic, fanatical and tragic.
It was by turns decorous and processional, while at times interrupted by interjections of stereo-traveling static or a bass tone that had escaped a dance club: juxtapositions that didn't quite make sense.
Gregg Allman's vocals, by turns squalling and brooding, took their cue from the anguished emoting of down-home blues singers like Elmore James, as well as from more sophisticated ones like Bobby Bland.
As I knew from having read her most autobiographical works, Colette's sensibility, by turns tender and sharp, sensual and austere, had been born and nurtured here, in this house and in this village.
But too much of its overall design feels borrowed, by turns evoking the monochromatic clutter of "District 9," the vertical favelas of "Ready Player One" and the randomly milling, anonymous hordes of whatever.
By turns goofy and sassy — with the two women in the production, Sally Hare and Brianna Taylor, delivering most of the sass — it recycles the same dependably eye-catching devices in routine after routine.
It is a truism that all art must be seen in the flesh, but Tammy Nguyễn's painting is utterly analog, by turns meaty and evanescent, which defies digitization both in visual and conceptual terms.
Several of Classic Stage's Brecht productions have included new music by Duncan Sheik ("Spring Awakening"), and Ms. Lewis performs his seductive, African-inspired songs in a powerful voice, by turns scathing, lyrical and mournful.
But in a country that is often said to have dodged a reckoning with its past—in which history is by turns manipulated, airbrushed, mythologised and idealised—his honest treatment of it is courageous.
By turns earthy, philosophical, and quietly antic, Strøksnes glides through a range of topics, including sperm whales, literature, sperm whales in literature (à la Melville), natural history, biology, and the mysteries of human nature.
A similarly improbable secondary plot involving Marina, Pericles's brilliant daughter, is by turns perilous, droll and finally affecting with its happy conclusion of reunions that is, if not completely miraculous, at least divinely inspired.
The subtle tensions here — young/old, live/recorded, still/moving, separate/together, male/female — made "A-R-S," mournful and ecstatic by turns, indelibly an opera, even without characters, plot or readily comprehensible text.
The intimate friendship that forms between Philip and Farinelli forms the core of the play, with Philip by turns caressing and covetous, and Farinelli half admiring and half fearful of his patron's mercurial temper.
Under Lasse Hallström's careful direction, The Cider House Rules is by turns a straightforward pastoral fantasy and a grim reminder of the reality of that life for anyone pushed to the margins of society.
But he brought remarkable physical endurance and emotional intensity to the tormented action hero Rick Grimes, the by turns bloodthirsty and idealistic, perpetually sweaty zombie fighter enduring loss after loss in a postapocalyptic hellscape.
Update The travel industry responded by turns critically and cautiously to President Trump's executive order issued last week that bans travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States for 90 days.
Returning to New York in 1987, she lived, by turns, on the Lower East Side, in Chinatown, at the Chelsea Hotel, and, for a few months, in the gallery of her dealer, Jack Tilton.
"'American Honey,' long and messy as it is, is by turns observant and exuberant, and sweet in a way that is both unexpected and organic," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
In his new book, The Decadent Society: How We Became Victims of Our Own Success, Douthat takes an approach by turns sententious and statistical to argue that Western society has run out of gas.
The history that Mokyr details can be seen as a story of gradually decreased metaphysical illusion, with ineffable spirit being driven, by turns, out of the cosmos, the biological tree, and the human mind.
And with two terrific performances by Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce — who are serious, angry, whimsical, and hilarious by turns — it's a charming, often thoughtful film, modest but with big matters on its mind.
Cocteau's surrealism, by turns sprightly and lightly self-pitying, generates high spirits in the opera, as when jaunty music enlivens the scene of cafe-life bohemia that opens this adaptation of the Orpheus myth.
" Despite it all, everyone I spoke to, whether or not they still work at Thinx, insists they want to see the company they helped build succeed, calling the problems by turns "heartbreaking" and "frustrating.
Glick, 30, made his debut in Spring Awakening (2006), followed by turns in Julie Taymor's elaborate musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (2011), and his first starring role in the play Significant Other (2015).
It's visually compelling, especially the carefully rendered interior of the skull — which emphasizes that something I often mentally reduce to a cartoon sketch is actually a jagged patchwork of bone, by turns lovely and sinister.
It's by turns sweeping and intricate, from the lush fantasy sequences of Angelica's movies to the roughly sketched outline of Jessica lying in bed, pages of her letters fluttering to the floor beside her bed.
Of course at each song's center is Elson's effortless tones—by turns vulnerable and soft like a split peach, slinky like a Russian Blue cat, sexy like a silk slip left on the bedroom floor.
Choral muwashshah are interwoven with instrumental and solo vocal improvisations to create the complex suites of music that are traditional in the Middle East, with a mood that is by turns exuberant and ecstatically devotional.
" The story's narrative voice is arbitrary and godlike, always very distant but by turns lyrical and essayistic, superbly telling instead of showing: "Susannah's character owed more to the early 19th than the early 20th century.
Arendt herself fled Germany in 1933, and much of her subsequent writing wrestles with the lethal contradictions of a homeland that seemed by turns to represent the pinnacle of civilization and the depth of barbarism.
The photographs on the federal Fish and Wildlife Service's Flickr page resemble, by turns, a trashed office, a seriously disorganized farm, possibly an abandoned construction site or an especially messy recreation room in someone's home.
Intentionally and sometimes inadvertently revealing, books by Richard Nixon, Hubert H. Humphrey, George McGovern, Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter are by turns self-serving and honest, defensive and brave — rather like the authors themselves.
And yet Gehry's house for Cai, designed in collaboration with his former student Trattie Davies, is a kind of brick and mortar reflection of Cai's character: by turns boisterous and understated, flamboyant but ultimately serene.
In tones that were by turns quavering, conciliatory and subtly defiant, he spoke of the election as if it were a challenge to overcome, even as he vowed to work with a future Trump administration.
Anne sees the world with as much intelligence and insight as Lizzie Bennet does, but where Lizzie is by turns delighted and outraged by her neighbors' foibles, Anne is either gently amused or gently saddened.
He has a knack for mixing these sensitive topics with an appealing silliness, as he did in his most recent "Conan" set, which is entirely about animal sexuality and is, by turns, dirty, sweet and clever.
By turns comic, cruel and full-on brutal, veering into sexual violence, it bears a family resemblance to Martin McDonagh and Kevin Barry, but with a piercing female gaze observing the damage that vicious men do.
The six hours of documentary consist in large part of on-the-record testimonies of women — by turns scorching and heartbreaking — who say Kelly approached them when they were underage and then assaulted or abused them.
As Stripe's commanding officer sits downstairs with the man, by turns mocking his beliefs and trying to convince him that the only humane thing to do is wipe out the roaches, the soldiers canvass the house.
The answers participants gave may not be surprising to most people who follow the industry, but the questions show us how Congress might regulate — or not regulate — a technology that's by turns exciting, baffling, and creepy.
Working from Adam Mansbach's script, Mr. Gandhi avoids hagiography and instead offers up a portrait of a recognizably real man who's by turns prickly, arrogant and overeager, and who consistently stumbles during his search for self.
Celeste is by turns opaque and transparent; with her hair pulled off her face, her eyes darkly made-up (in an echo of the school shooter), she looks as if she has become her own mask.
The swearing-in ceremony marked the end of an opera that was by turns comic and tragic, and that for 88 days after inconclusive March elections enthralled, bored, frustrated and ultimately either delighted or horrified Italians.
Last month, Robyn released "Honey," which tells a different story than her gleaming "Body Talk" albums in 2010 — by turns patient and contemplative, with a chronological arc that ends with what feels like an earned exuberance.
After allowing McGregor — 235 and boxing professionally for the first time — to come at him early in the fight with awkward punches that were by turns slapping and sharp, Mayweather took control in the middle rounds.
Jack Black's proggy opener, "Oh Hanukkah," is by turns creepy, sexy, boozy, schmaltzy, clever, slimy, catchy, and sinful—at once an introduction to the rituals of Chanukah and a bombastic reframing of a classic Jewish tune.
"By turns whimsical and meditative, playful and provocative, 'Einstein's Dreams' pulls the reader into a dream world like a powerful magnet," Michiko Kakutani wrote in The Times, with references to Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges.
Shredded Brussels sprouts and honeycrisp apples are by turns refreshing and racy; shiitake mushrooms and shredded collards left to ferment for 140 days yield a kimchi that takes on the texture of meat — crossed with fire.
Shideh is by turns testy, moody, graceful, dog-tired, determined, and brave, even when the ceiling cracks begin to bulge, or when she glimpses behind her, mirrored in the TV screen, something that shouldn't be there.
The tweets are written by two actual poets named Dorothea Lasky and Alex Dimitrov, and the feed — by turns rude, sexy, sly, and sincere — often reads like a distillation of the modern moment into 140-character takes.
He can speak at times like a sort of Midwestern oracle with a sweet tooth, by turns invoking Aristotle and Aquinas, raising the radio volume for "Stairway to Heaven" and holding forth on the majesty of dessert.
By turns urging herself on and telling herself off, Williams eventually secured match point when her opponent just missed a lob and sealed victory after challenging a wrong call when her shot landed on the far baseline.
Anna, when not addressing us in her breathless mode, is engagingly self-doubting and self-loathing, by turns warmly funny and panic-stricken; she's also an aficionada of the best of Hitchcock and the "Thin Man" movies.
My favorite is "George Psalmanazar" (his real name is unknown), a vagabond of mysterious provenance and endearing chutzpah who wandered through Europe in the late seventeenth century, claiming, by turns, to be Irish, Japanese, and, ultimately, Formosan.
As if under a gag order, she skates over the details of her divorce and parenting arrangement and takes the reader headlong into a phase where she is, by turns, suicidal, addicted to exercise and sexually promiscuous.
The by turns toxic and loving bond between Greer and Faith is the heart of the novel, but Greer and Faith's other relationships — with their betrayed friends, with their lovers — sing with the specificity of their intimacy.
On Thursday, standing beneath a buffalo head mounted on the wall of his office, Mr. Brownback was by turns contemplative, jovial and emotional as he announced that his time as governor would be coming to an end.
Only Jeffrey Wright, who plays the antique restorer (and Theo's guardian angel in the flesh) Hobie, seems to have space to do what he needs in the role — by turns vulnerable and stern and wise and wounded.
It sounds like a tired premise, but it's sold by the specificity and warmth of the script, and Showalter's now signature empathetic comedic direction, which lets characters be both ridiculous and fully human, by turns and often simultaneously.
I do know that somewhere along the way, a great artist with good intentions somehow became compromised and then corrupted by his own power and abused that power in ways that were, by turns, arrogant, damaging and indefensible.
His John, by turns petty, aggressive, and self-pitying, looms a head above Radcliffe's Jim, pouring whiskey and slinging insults, plus the occasional fist, as the younger man stands his ground, piously pelting him with inaccuracy after inaccuracy.
"The Libertine" is by turns prurient and moralistic, as one might expect of an account of the man whose poem "Signor Dildo" (no, I'm not joking) gives, ahem, rise to some boisterous stage business in the second act.
Perpetually visible and called out as observers, the audience functioned by turns as witnesses, as confidants, as a chorus, and by the end, as collaborators in this performance piece concerned with self-consciousness (both the performers' and ours).
On Wednesday, Mr. Cruz by turns depicted Mr. de Blasio as a shill for the teachers' union and an enemy of police officers, describing a 2014 police protest against the mayor after the shooting deaths of two officers.
"The Edge of Democracy" is narrated in the first person, by the filmmaker herself (in English in the version under review, which is streaming on Netflix) in a voice that is by turns incredulous, indignant and self-questioning.
In Paul Verhoeven's controversial Elle, Huppert plays a video game executive who is raped in her own home, and responds in none of the ways anyone expects; by turns vengeful, lustful, commanding, and wry, she is nobody's fool.
Mr. Trump fired the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, who oversaw both investigations, last May, and has by turns cited Mr. Comey's handling of the Clinton investigation and the Russia inquiry itself as the reason for his decision.
Marie, a narrowly conceived character nevertheless played well by Bérénice Bejo, is uptight and withholding; Boris, by turns warmly bearish and broadly truculent as played by Cédric Kahn, is controlling and manipulative, not to mention aggressively self-pitying.
All the while, Molly smiles on the side, suffers a setback, moves to New York and racks up big money from card games that, at their best, turn into condensed pocket-size dramas, by turns triumphant and catastrophic.
Cast as one of the president's most dependable assets, Kushner could in fact be a significant liability, someone whose escapades — by turns grabby and cavalier — give investigators and detractors a whole extra sandbox of improprieties to rummage through.
Nocturnal Animals stars Adams as a depressed LA gallerist who begins reading a manuscript of a novel that her ex-husband wrote after she cheated on him and left him, and it's by turns suspenseful, upsetting, funny, and glamorous.
A draped sheet has long been the easiest and silliest ghost costume, both for children at Halloween and for villains on "Scooby Doo", but Mr Lowery and his team make their phantom appear stately, mysterious and pathetic by turns.
The assembly of all this wet stuff comes out as caustic and comical by turns, and this is a show that owes as much to "Finding Nemo" as to Manet, Whistler and other artists who turned to the sea.
Kellyanne Conway, Trump's campaign manager, is playing some parlor game to see how far she can travel from reality, how creatively she can gin up distractions and how subtle an expression — by turns bemused and beatific — she can wear.
ELIZABETH HARRIS By turns hedonistic and severely formal, "Thornton Willis: Step Up" offers boldly frontal paintings of squares and rectangles, rendered with a sensuous touch, that recall geometric abstractions of the mid-21999th century, like those of Hans Hofmann.
Kamau Bilal's "Baby Brother," a fragmentary, by turns droll and poignant documentary portrait of what happens when the filmmaker's youngest sibling, at 23, moves back in with their parents, is already available as a New York Times op-doc.
Led by a charming pairing of Imelda Staunton and Celia Imrie as the long-estranged sisters Sandra and Bif, this creaky romantic comedy (with a side order of death and dementia) is by turns warm, silly and thoroughly mortifying.
News Analysis JERUSALEM — By turns angry and choked up, sneering and defiant, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a lengthy, emotional response Thursday night to the decision by Israel's attorney general to indict him on bribery and other corruption charges.
By turns ridiculing Mr. Gantz and appealing to his statesmanlike instincts, questioning his mental health and badgering him to prove his patriotism, Mr. Netanyahu appeared to have co-opted Mr. Gantz into delivering him a record fourth straight term.
Her eyes are, by turns, staring, downcast, sideways-glancing, or closed; they are fearful, commanding, and heavy-lidded; they range from stark white with solid black pupils to shades of gray and even entirely black, sometimes with white pupils.
By turns animated and defensive, at one point throwing his arms up to punctuate a point, the typically unflappable Mr. Comey argued that he had been left with no choice when he sent a letter to Congress on Oct.
It is not the boastful and versatile Uncle Vili, by turns soldier, swindler and spy, whom we mainly remember from this book, but Aunt Flora, who played Schumann those summer nights and who ended alone and embittered in Venice.
In letters that were both deeply learned and alarmingly frank, his charisma shines through, but we also see his complexity: He was a man who could, by turns, be abusive and utterly unforgiving, but also gentle, affectionate and funny.
Every so often, he folds in an elegant or haunting quote, giving you something to think about as the camera shows a world in which, step by step, crisis by crisis, borders have become by turns absurd and immaterial.
For weeks, Mr. Trump has weaved on the issue, by turns ordering a carrier group last month to head to the Persian Gulf and then distancing himself from the hawkish views of his national security adviser, John R. Bolton.
The film, which the first original feature doc to premiere on Shudder, will "[take a] critical look at a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and embraced both Black filmmakers and Black audiences," per Entertainment Weekly.
The artworks by turns reflect and absorb it; Hackett makes materials-based paintings in which thickly worked surfaces blossom into three-dimensional disks and lozenges, while Mendelson makes vessels out of recycled plastic that hover between the primeval and the surreal.
Spiraling through the air along multiple axes, Guthrie's head, hands, feet, and torso can appear, by turns, to move contrary not just to gravity but his own momentum, sweeping through space along paths you don't usually see in, say, gymnastics.
"Sleep No More" felt tired to me — it has been running for more than four years — and suffered from a surfeit of thronging, pushy visitors, by turns aimless and overly focused, who crowded one another out and overwhelmed the performance.
But it's also a farm town, and the "big city" to thousands of rural Montanans who make a living farming what's known as the Montana "Golden Triangle," a stretch of land by turns beautiful and desolate, depending on the season.
That building has by turns been eastern Christianity's most famous temple; then a mosque for five centuries starting in 1453; and then, under a compromise struck in the 1930s, a secular musuem where both Islamic and Christian symbols are visible.
By turns tragic, sinister, funny, poignant, introspective, absurdly bombastic and, in places, laughable, Donnie Darko is the Jake Gyllenhaal career-launching adjective magnet that refuses – even 15 years on from its release – to slip comfortably into any prescribed critical straightjacket.
"Watergate - Or: How We Learned to Stop an Out of Control President" shows scenes of tense conversations in the Oval Office between a Nixon who is by turns charming, bullying, paranoid or furious, and associates including Henry Kissinger and Bob Haldeman.
By turns brutal and vain, comedic and exacting, Mr. Perez survived police raids, stickups, territorial incursions and a transformation of the city's drug trade as it came to rely less than it once had on hand-to-hand street sales.
His movements are meticulous, his stares into the camera by turns chilling and blush-inducing; all the while, he and the band unfurl into insidious disco pop camp, navigating the space between self-loathing and sex, as only Pulp can.
Staff were by turns professional and brusque: bellhops were quick to greet at the entrance, but sluggish to unload cars; reception doubled as a concierge offering rushed directions and restaurant recommendations while guests eager to check in or out queued behind.
You can tell from Smith's look that Dylan is her superhero, one with flowers on his hat, his eyes bright and blazing in a face that is by turns open, guarded, painted white or obscured by a creepy translucent mask.
But it's the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone who steals the show with a walk-in installation, hilarious and grim by turns, consisting of 45 full-size mannequins of clowns, seated on the gallery floor with expressions of boredom and fatigue.
The drama that follows — in which Katherine's sins grow less and less forgivable — intimately explores how privilege from wealth, class standing, gender, and race can by turns insulate or expose people to the consequences of their actions, and of others' actions.
For most of this story, the Stark family has been scattered to the winds, by turns slaughtered and persecuted, its members often unsure if any of the others were even alive, much less if they would ever see them again.
To borrow the title of a Tom Wolfe novel, Mr. Dunning is "a man in full," by turns majestic and cantankerous, and unafraid to look into the void and to ask the deepest, most personal questions about the purpose of life.
Those fears, at least, Mr. Spicer seemed to put to rest on Monday during a 90-minute briefing in which he was by turns calm, feisty and bantering, yet far from the hothead who appeared behind the lectern this weekend.
For many of his friends and acquaintances, Basquiat remains suspended in time, still the teenage or early-twenty-something enfant terrible, the couch-surfing habitué of downtown Manhattan, Club 57, the Bowery, by turns magnetically charming and detached, but irrepressibly talented.
It was one of a series of whipsawing declarations Mr. Trump made throughout the day on Monday as he defended himself, vilified the Bidens and appeared by turns eager and reluctant to reveal the facts at the root of the allegations.
"I've been doing this for over 30 years," the prosecutor, Joseph T. Deters, said, by turns sighing and shaking his head, before distributing a video in which Officer Raymond M. Tensing killed Samuel DuBose with a shot to the head.
Like the fat 19th-century Russian books that feed his imagination, it's a serious commitment — almost four hours of screen time — and an experience that is by turns grueling and exhilarating once the story takes shape and the themes become clear.
By turns gawking at and working to preserve documents that illustrate both the systematic segregation of the time and the resistance that helped to erode it, they have been focused on cataloging and flattening the records before scanning them for publication.
But the draw here is Berlioz's magnificent score, by turns heavenly and hellish, as well as performances by Bryan Hymel in the title role (though recent cancellations make his appearance a question mark) and the gifted comic Ildar Abdrazakov as Méphistophélès.
When Mart Crowley's play opened Off Broadway in 1968, it was an instant and surprise hit, a by turns vicious, lacerating, bitingly funny and squirm-inducing portrait of eight (maybe nine) gay men at a disastrous birthday party in New York.
This Was the XFL is by turns a journey back in time to a more innocent America, deeply informative about what went into ushering McMahon's nascent vision into actual football games that were shown on TV, and utterly hilarious in its hindsight.
In an emotional speech by turns tearful, defiant and humorous, Meryl Streep doubled down on her harsh criticism of President Donald Trump, and spoke of having become a target since she first took him on in her Golden Globes speech in January.
Bought by Baron Gustave de Rothschild in 1877 and kept in France ever since, the pair of paintings, for which the museums paid 160 million euros ($174 million), will spend five and then eight years by turns in each museum, always staying together.
An ABC News/Washington Post poll last month found that 89 percent of Hispanics held negative views of Mr. Trump, who has by turns accused Mexico of sending rapists across the border and questioned the impartiality of a judge with Mexican heritage.
The play is a showcase for Mark Rylance's star turn as Philip, and while Rylance, nominated this year for Best Lead Actor in a Play, is as brilliant as ever — by turns childlike and terrifying — he's supported by a uniformly strong cast.
As you might expect from Grails this record is by turns calming and ambient ("Rebecca"), cerebral and spectral, ("The Moth & the Flame"), meditative and noir cinematic ("After the Funeral"), gnarly, mathy, and kraut rock-tastic ("Pelham"), plus a whole bunch in between.
Dr. McAlister has captured her affection for the Diptera in "The Secret Life of Flies," a short, rich book by turns informative and humorous, both a hymn of praise to her favorite creatures and a gleeful attempt to give readers the willies.
The work "(discarded objects) for Disposed to Add" (2017) — by turns evocative of umbilical cords, industrial hoses, intestinal canals, and a den of snakes — is by Jes Fan, one of eight artists featured in a group exhibition curated by artist Doreen Garner.
Told as a faux memoir, this moving novel recounts the story of the narrator's grandfather: a larger-than-life, Augie March-like hero — a former soldier who's also a dreamer, roughneck, pool shark and jailbird, by turns naïve and proud, impulsive and romantic.
It was, by turns, weird, awkward and difficult to watch -- at the same time, oddly, being hard to turn away from, sort of like when you see someone slip on a banana peel and can't help but watch the inevitable fall that ensues.
Instead, restless senators, accustomed to constantly checking their phones, conferring with staff and spending little time on the floor, fidgeted through the proceeding, appearing by turns exhausted and frustrated, as the trial consumed hour after hour even though the result was preordained.
" Mr. Kahn's book, it said, "is, by turns, a novelistic tale of conflict and change, a tribute, a civic history, a piece of nostalgia and, finally, a tragedy, as the franchise's 1958 move to Los Angeles takes the soul of Brooklyn with it.
The exception is the animation director, Trisha Gum, who worked with Mitchell on the movie's look and feel, which is by turns immersive and wittily distancing, as when the Bricksburg story is interrupted by a shot of a toy dangling from a string.
His Wikipedia entry is a bizarre hodgepodge of inexplicable legal troubles and self-promotional moments; his Twitter feed is by turns confusing and brilliant, sort of like his career, and he is entertaining enough to keep scoring further opportunities to capitalize upon his fame.
One perennial and deserving candidate is "Close to the Edge," by Yes, from 1972, which consists of three long songs that are, by turns, gently pastoral and gloriously futuristic, responding to the genre's contradictory impulses: to explore musical history and to leave it behind.
Rather, it's a collection of reminiscences (some, familiar from published essays) that provide glimpses of the author over the years, hopping and skipping through time, and recounted with the storytelling élan of a master raconteur — by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy.
By turns outraged and scolding, Mr. Cook pushed back on the findings by Europe's competition commission, which said that Apple had made inappropriate low-tax deals with the Irish government that let the technology company pay almost nothing on its European business in some years.
"An incident like this brings the hatred that does exist out there to the forefront," Craig Baldwin said as he joined hundreds of people gathering in Washington, D.C., for the annual Gay Pride festival on Sunday, where people were by turns somber and defiant.
The roughly 40-minute speech was by turns a condemnation of Donald J. Trump and a venting session about news coverage of a presidential race that Mr. Obama argued had focused on the "frivolous" while allowing Mr. Trump, the Republican nominee, to go unchallenged.
Mr. Putin has annexed Crimea, stirred up and armed a pro-Russian rebellion in eastern Ukraine, turned a once vibrant Russian news media into an echo chamber, and restored Moscow as an indispensable player on the world stage, by turns a peacemaker and troublemaker.
What distinguishes Dunham here is not his relationship to figuration or abstraction per se, but rather what has always set him apart: a cartoonish drawing hand which creates forms by turns angular and round in service of a trippy energy that is often violently comedic.
In a sequence that's by turns heartbreaking and as stupidly hilarious as something from a scatological teen comedy film, Brandeis recollects her struggles with constipation — that is to say her struggles with pretending to be constipated so as to keep up the Crohn's disease ruse.
But in an open letter shared with Variety — by turns defiant, droll and erudite — O'Brien said that he and his accuser, Robert Alex Kaseberg, had agreed to "resolve our dispute amicably," aborting a trial that was set to begin May 28 in San Diego.
She is the only character who gets a lengthy aria — which Ms. Phillips, who I've often found doesn't leave much of an impression, performed with a powerful emotional arc that had people in the audience by turns laughing, crying and clutching their pearls in horror.
Stevens writes email correspondence and forum comments in the same way she writes voice mail messages, by turns hesitantly invasive or aggressively authoritative — whether the topic is a man's right to turn his relationships into art, or how often to get a bikini wax.
Chatting for over an hour, Mr. Grimm, 48, by turns praised the president's physique ("this guy could be a good construction worker"), appraised his own opponent ("backbencher") and allowed that his ex-Marine looks gave him an aesthetic advantage with women of a certain age.
Also, Wright was by turns resented by co-workers, publicly ostracized as a home wrecker, rudely and prematurely written off as irrelevant by his professional colleagues, and often in the red, even while continuing to purchase Japanese art and, all told, about 85 automobiles.
Mr. de Blasio, rather than seeming relieved that no criminal charges would be brought, appeared by turns dismissive, defensive and combative when faced with questions throughout the day about the investigations, eager to move on to other topics and permanently put the issue to rest.
Clive Owen is Walter Raleigh, her "favorite smoldering slab of man meat," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times, calling the film "an overripe melodrama that's by turns a bodice-ripper, a cloak-and-dagger thriller and a serious-minded historical drama with dubious contemporary overtones."
"When I first met Tina Fey — beautiful and brunette, smart and funny, by turns smug and diffident and completely uninterested in me or anything I had to say — I had the same reaction that I'm sure many men and women have: I fell in love," writes Baldwin.
"When I first met Tina Fey — beautiful and brunette, smart and funny, by turns smug and diffident and completely uninterested in me or anything I had to say — I had the same reaction that I'm sure many men and women have: I fell in love," he writes.
It leans comic and dramatic by turns, but at its core it wants to be a comedy, centering on two LAPD officers who are stuck with one another: a human named Ward (Will Smith) and an orc named Jakoby (Joel Edgerton, utterly unrecognizable under very heavy prosthetics).
It's a journey that is also by turns a head-snapping plunge into the raging male id, incarnated by such purveyors of mayhem as Charles Manson, the Son of Sam, the Zodiac Killer, and the Symbionese Liberation Army, and a compassionate tale of woman-to-woman healing.
His current work, a musical one-man show called "LatinXoxo," runs through the end of this month at Joe's Pub in New York and addresses his relationship with his homophobic father; by turns Anggelo plays the Virgin Mary, Carmen from Bizet's canonical 1875 opera and a toreador.
In a hearing that was by turns harrowing and revelatory, Mr. Hastert publicly admitted for the first time to abusing his athletes, was confronted in emotional addresses by one of the former wrestlers and the sister of another, and faced a long, scathing rebuke from the judge.
A view of seven men working on a chain gang and the sole woman who is by turns the sweetheart, mother and wife of their memories and dreams, it's at times very literal in the way it illustrates the words of its traditional African-American songs.
The FBI on Wednesday announced they were offering a $260,275 reward for information leading to the capture of one of California's most elusive alleged serial killers, who has by turns been known as the East Area Rapist, the Golden State Killer, and the Original Night Stalker.
"Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable," Mr. Emanuel told an invitation-only audience on the city's Near West Side in a speech that was, by turns, a point-by-point list of policy initiatives and a flood of emotional recollections that strayed from his prepared script.
In a voice that ''might have been the voice of a withered leaf, it was so light and dry,'' she says the villagers must make the rich man promise to let everyone who ever skipped on Mount Caburn skip once more, by turns, at the new moon.
Unlike a Loach or an Iannucci-style satirist, Sorrentino makes the viewer feel thoroughly compromised—you're sickened and entertained by turns; you want to look away but don't; you know that these are people who love nothing more than for the public to keep on watching.
So when Beyoncé shoots at the Louvre — taking on by turns the poses of Venus de Milo and Victory — she's continuing an artistic project of recontextualizing classical Western art, of making herself the aesthetic object on which so much wealth and cultural capital has been spent.
Back then the South London-based band were one the most exciting new acts in the UK. Incisive songs like "Helicopter" and "Banquet" still stand up today as indie anthems that stitch together mathy guitars jagged enough to eviscerate and choruses by turns brooding and smartly pop.
Cam is a sympathetic, saucy thriller, by turns lush and lurid, that pulls us down the web's darker corridors — to question what lurks there, sure, but also to remind us that we've all spent time in those darker corners and there's a reason we like them.
"Thas My Girl" picks up where their debut album Cashmere left off—by turns sharp, politically insightful, steeped in South Asian heritage, and obviously extremely funny ("you know it's real when you stop watchin' PornHub"), as Riz's furious bars play off Heems's chill flow as perfectly as ever.
Skating to a medley of songs from 'Moulin Rouge', the two-time Olympians performed a routine by turns dramatic and lyrical for their second gold medal after Skate Canada two weeks ago in what they said was an important step on their way to the Pyeongchang Olympics in February.
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Jerome Powell had a bumpy first year as Federal Reserve chairman when it came to talking policy, by turns spooking and comforting investors even as economic data offered increasingly mixed signals and President Donald Trump stepped up his attacks on the U.S. central bank.
" After initially embracing his rival last year as a worthy addition to the Republican field, Mr. Cruz slogged through an often brutal primary fight against Mr. Trump, who by turns insulted Mr. Cruz's wife and his father, questioned his eligibility for the presidency and branded him "Lyin' Ted.
Mr. Budbill, who lived in a small cabin in Wolcott, Vt., for more than 22017 years, created the fictional town of Judevine, named after a local mountain, and populated it with a colorful assortment of humble local folk, in poems that were by turns dark, lyrical and funny.
In Iowa, Nevada, North Carolina and South Carolina, he has by turns used flattery ("Your generation is the most progressive younger generation in the history of this country") and subtle warnings ("The future of this country and in fact the world rests with your generation") to bolster his appeals.
In his first television appearance since he was widely criticized for using a racial epithet on the air, the HBO late-night host Bill Maher was by turns contrite and defiant, apologizing for his remarks while arguing that comedians should be allowed the freedom to transgress and offend.
The paintings of Saint Jerome and of the Adoration are pierced by crystalline beams of light, freeing their figures from the surrounding darkness, while the actors in the other three, depicting by turns a murder, a burial, and a resurrection, seem to be losing their battle with the shadows.
A visitor who enjoys reading all the didactics will leave this show with a much richer understanding of a diverse, divided, by turns confident and anxious United States bent on territorial and economic expansion from the 12003s to the 1860s, a crucial period bookended by Manifest Destiny and the Civil War.
And while the first season was critically lauded for its addictively propulsive storytelling and the smart way it thought about the by turns intimate and vicious friendships of adolescence, it was also accused of dangerous storytelling for its decision to show Hannah's rape and her subsequent suicide in graphic detail.
In the first impeachment hearing in more than two decades, Mr. Taylor and another seasoned diplomat, George P. Kent, sketched out, in testimony by turns cinematic and dry, a tale of foreign policymaking distorted by a president's political vendettas with a small country facing Russian aggression caught in the middle.
By turns sad, funny, relatable, and sparklingly triumphant, "Pageant" is both a half hour-long joyride into the future of the rock genre and a defiant mission statement in the here and now, served up by two of guitar music's current best songwriters and performers in Ben Hopkins and Liv Bruce.
Like the Brothers Grimm and the British novelist Angela Carter, Smith's witchy fairy tale domain has its own taxonomy and colors (blood-red, turquoise, sapphire, silver); like the artist Kara Walker, whose silhouettes suggest a hieroglyphic alphabet of enslavement and revolt, Smith's insular world is by turns claustrophobic and expansive.
The fierce criticism of a meeting between Mr. Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., and a Kremlin-linked lawyer in June 2016 has left the president by turns angry, defensive and protective but ultimately relieved that for now, the worst appears to be over, people who spoke to him said Wednesday.
Over their 266 years of marriage, Dr. Biden has been by turns Mr. Biden's greatest champion and a hesitant political spouse, committed to supporting his career just as he has embraced hers, but protective of her family and her own identity, and keenly aware of the costs of presidential campaigns.
After a decade of unglamorous work for local prosecutors and a studied induction into San Francisco's social elite, a Candidate Harris was by turns a society-page veteran and a prolific loiterer at supermarket parking lots, unfurling an ironing board from her back seat as a canvas for campaign literature.
Inhabiting a class all its own was the English director Dominic Cooke's National Theater revival — by turns devastating and ravishing — of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," the career-defining August Wilson play first seen on Broadway in 1984 that remained as fearless as ever in its depiction of a stealthily toxic racism.
Since losing his seat in the 2017 general election, his post-politics projects have been unhelpfully public, including hosting a programme on a Kremlin-funded channel, RT. At 63, Mr Salmond has many years ahead of him as a political hippopotamus: a large, unignorable beast that can be by turns comical or dangerous.
Appearing at a mostly full college gymnasium here, Mr. Beck delivered a forceful case for Mr. Cruz as the only viable option for conservatives hoping to elect one of their own, by turns praising the Texas senator's hard-right credentials and warning of the perils of an Iowa caucus victory for Mr. Trump.
While the Zapatistas have since been defined, by turns, as anarchists, socialists, social anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists, libertarian Marxists, communists and pretty much every other far-left label under the sun, their motivations for rising against the Mexican government were far more complex than can be rallied under the banner of any conventional ideology.
"As a standalone North Korean performance may breed criticism that the South set the stage for Pyongyang's propaganda, it would be desirable if the two teams perform by turns and then play together a popular song like Arirang for the finale," Cheong said, referring to a folk song shared by the two Koreas.
By turns stupid (his Ph.D. thesis was twice rejected), self-important (he has compared himself to Martin Luther King Jr.), and money-hungry (a suspected Russian agent who tried to recruit him in 2013 was recorded saying he "got hooked on Gazprom"), Page happens also to be highly sympathetic to the Putin regime.
But Mr. Nunes, who can seem by turns earnest and reticent in person, is something different: After over a decade in the House, he has appeared to lurch haphazardly into the spotlight, like Kramer entering a room on "Seinfeld," straining to keep his balance as a human shield in Washington's daily Trump wars.
Without proper supervision of more established adults who can help them manage their mental illness or any other support structure to keep them on path, Mae and her friends by turns alienate, aggravate, and antagonize each other because they are all burdened with problems and feelings that they have no healthy route to resolve.
Divines holds up next to any white male auteur's coming-of-age narrative in the French canon, be it The 400 Blows or The Life Before Us. It offers, to beautiful effect, the customary ingredients of these movies: It's by turns deadpan, crude, funny, and devastatingly sad; poetically stylized passages alternate with harsh realism.
Ron is played by John David Washington, who can sound uncannily like his father, Denzel, the star of Mr. Lee's "Malcolm X." Ron infiltrates the Klan with the help of a colleague, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), who pals around with Klan members in person in scenes that are by turns surreal, absurd and hair-raising.
By turns thoughtful and irreverent and darkly funny, that book possessed an electric immediacy — a you-are-there sense of what it was like to be a grunt in the hot desert sands outside Baghdad, hunting for I.E.D.'s and bomb factories, negotiating with local sheikhs and frightened civilians, and grappling with the absurdities of military bureaucracy.
Last week, he seemed by turns annoyed and steadfast as he insisted that Mr. Scott had been shot because he had a gun, and refused to release publicly any of the dashboard or body camera videos recorded before, during and after the shooting of Mr. Scott by Brentley Vinson, a young officer who is also African-American.
But in conversations with more than two dozen current and former employees, Chicago businessmen, and others who know him — most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity citing fear of retribution or continuing business connections — he emerges as an audacious businessman whose wealth of ideas can by turns impress and alienate his associates and employees.
In introducing "the day," Mr. Lang said he wanted to imagine "who people are, what they think about" — so he fashioned a libretto from writing down what he saw when he Googled "I remember the day that I." The result, in just 30 minutes, is nothing short of life itself: by turns hopeful, funny, surprising and tragic.
Since the start of Mr. Sanders's first presidential campaign in 2016, his colossal online support base has been by turns a source of peerless strength and perpetual aggravation — envied and caricatured by rivals who covet such loyalty, feared by Democrats who have faced harassment from his followers, and alternately cherished and gently scolded by the candidate himself.
The emails found on government computers were by turns pornographic, racist and homophobic, and their piecemeal release, beginning in 2014, by Kathleen G. Kane, then the attorney general of Pennsylvania, sent two State Supreme Court justices and an assortment of other officials packing amid suspicions of overly cozy relationships between judges and prosecutors in the state.
Amid the fire and looting and the audio and video clips of the Michigan governor George W. Romney and President Lyndon B. Johnson, a narrower plot takes shape, a real-life horror movie folded into a baggier film that feels, by turns, like a combat picture, a cavalry western, a police procedural and a courtroom drama.
The Patriots are to football what the Apollo and Manhattan Projects were to military-industrial-complex science, what IBM and General Motors were to big business, what the Hoover Dam and Mount Rushmore were to public works — with Belichick as their Patton-meets-Eisenhower impresario, by turns a jerk and a bore but a winner above all.
After Indiana's primary, it is now clear that Republicans will be led into the presidential election by a candidate who said he would kill the families of terrorists, has encouraged violence by his supporters, has a weakness for wild conspiracy theories and subscribes to a set of protectionist and economically illiterate policies that are by turns fantastical and self-harming.
It's not Crusader Kings 2, where the game design itself generates and endless medieval soap opera (complete with twists that are by turns tragic and laughably overdone), but it gives you a sense of their being a political inner life to each nation, and creates internal tensions and pressures that tie back to what you can achieve on the map.
He was by turns an avid boxer, a circuit judge with lofty ambitions, a state leader who blatantly flouted federal authority, a symbol of defiance to the direction of the national culture, a hero to many rural and small-town whites and a politician who ran national campaigns on a promise to "send them a message" — all descriptions that perfectly fit Mr. Moore.
In the years since, she's been, by turns, a traditionalist, a seemingly happy member of the Nashville establishment — especially in the years she and Mr. Shelton were winning female and male vocalist of the year at the Country Music Association Awards — and, at her most thrilling, a roots-minded boundary pusher being yanked (or, more accurately, yanking) in all sorts of wild directions.
At one point, Hemingway came upon the boy, whom he called Giggy, trying on his mother's stockings and dress in a family bedroom in Cuba, and later said to him, "We come from a strange tribe, you and I." He doubtless saw in this boy, his favorite, ambiguities that he could never confess, and it made him by turns both enraged and, oddly, touchingly, empathetic.
That's why their shared scene in Act II of "Siegfried" — as sung by Mr. Volle and Mr. Konieczny, a glimpse into the desperate and different ways two characters hungry for power try to reclaim it — is a highlight of that opera, rivaled only by Mr. Volle's farewell to the saga, in Act III, in which his Wotan is by turns exasperated, determined and jaded.
But with its intricate projections (by David Bengali), by turns crisp and spectral; its abundant video (also by Mr. Bengali), both live and recorded; and sound design (by Drew Weinstein) that makes us feel the clinical coolness of the research facility where the twins are specimens, "Assembled Identity" tumbles into a trap: It prizes technology over connection and the clear telling of a tale.
Maybe Ms. Prada had the uncertainties of an unregulated gig economy in mind when she designed a collection that was, by turns, handsome and severe (double-breasted cavalry-style greatcoats; boxy jackets; stirrup trousers) and fanciful enough (tailored pajamas and sleeveless sweaters) to suit both "permalancers" marching off to corporate headquarters and those whose work arrangements allow them to slouch around at home in their underpants.
Live-Streaming Your Broke Self for Rent Money Mike Vilensky profiles 25-year-old Jovan Hill, who pays his rent by asking viewers for money on live streams: By turns manic, flamboyant and sarcastic, Mr. Hill describes his output of live-streamed videos as a "gay, broke diary" that is inspired in equal parts by 4chan (the anonymous, often vulgar online message board) and his identity as a queer black man.
It's there in one of the earliest films in the program, Madeline Anderson's "I Am Somebody" (1970), a terrific short documentary about a 1969 strike by hundreds of mostly female workers against a hospital in Charleston, S.C. By turns intimate and sweeping, it tells a familiar story of social injustice and self-determination that relates to the larger civil rights movement even as it remains rooted in specific lives.
In death he joined a pride of literary lions, like the poets John Ashbery, whose voice — "by turns playful and elegiac, absurd and exquisite," his obituary said — remained singular despite his many imitators; Richard Wilbur, the American laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner whose words, by many lights, coalesced into things of beauty; and Derek Walcott, the Nobel winner who filtered his acute observations on colonialism and culturalism through the rustling palms of his native Caribbean.
They have lived through chaotic days: When the parents called the police on their children (both Patrick and his sister, Betsy, have been addicted to drugs); when Dennis, the father, a recovering alcoholic, worried that every thud on the floor was Patrick passing out; and when Sandy was, by turns, paralyzed with a common parental fear — that she had somehow caused her children's problems — or was out driving around looking for them on the streets.
" Her poems were, by turns, dark, witty, warm, sensual and mournful; they excavated a life that had been turned inward by the devastation of A.L.S. In "I Didn't Know," published last year in Rat's Ass Review, she recounted a birthday trip with her family to the running trail around the lake in Pocantico Hills, N.Y. Returning there reminded her of how much she loved nature — the afternoon sun "glancing off the lake like a ring of fire," the leaves "crunching down beneath my feet like tiny drums, or discarded beer cans.
Francoise, the family's tireless maid, by turns looks like Giotto's figure of Charity and Anne of Brittany from Jean Bourdichon's Book of Hours (1500-08); the uninhibited courtesan Odette de Crécy, wife of Charles Swann and, later, of Baron de Forcheville, shares features with Botticelli's Zipporah in his Trials of Moses (1481-82) and, in a rare, remorseful pose, with the Graces in the same artist's Primavera (1482); the socially-savvy Robert Saint-Loup resembles a cavalier in a Watteau portrait; and Charlie Morel, the conniving violinist appears, in an unusually alluring light, like a handsome figure by Bronzino.

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