The "Extinction Gong's" automation troubles the direness of the event it commemorates.
|
|
What the speech lacked in unpredictability, it made up for in volume and direness.
|
|
But more than anything, the episode really managed to get across the direness of the situation.
|
|
Rather than exude gratitude, Gyllenhaal goes for something far more original and distressing in its direness: claustrophobia.
|
|
A nuclear arms race, climate change, and the rampant and willful denial of the direness of these circumstances continue to threaten our existence.
|
|
The direness of the situation is intensely magnified by the sound of the ticking clock and war images taken directly from historical archives.
|
|
It's an admirable way of recognizing the direness of climate change and of reaching so high that coming up short would still be meaningful improvement.
|
|
Marshall's formal command lets him get away with any extreme of sweetness or direness, exercising a painterly voice that spans octaves, from soprano trills to guttural roars.
|
|
So the direness of the next month, and the impact it will have on races in Nevada, South Carolina and elsewhere, has been clear in emails Buttigieg has sent to supporters.
|
|
In August, in the latest sign of the direness of the situation, President Trump said he would declare the opioid crisis a national emergency, a move that could allow cities and states to access federal disaster relief funds.
|
|
What's most effective about Koike's writing (the lively translation is by Deborah Boliver Boehm) is that she links the beleaguered family's reluctance to accept the direness of their circumstances to a kind of habit of denial, a longstanding determination to push unpleasantness away.
|
|
How Congress, the FDA, and Sarah Jessica Parker Helped EpiPen Become a $1 Billion BusinessEpiPen, the life-saving allergy product, is now a $1 billion a year business for Mylan, a drug…Read more ReadOn the issue of the ongoing opioid epidemic and substance abuse, Trump's campaign promises are unlikely to address the direness of the situation.
|
|
Critical reaction was generally positive. Nate Chinen of The New York Times described the song as "unmistakably playful" but said that "direness lurks beneath the spangles". Conversely, Richard Cromelin of the Los Angeles Times said that the track was "catchy, dynamic, and fun".Beck keeps it catchy, dynamic and fun.
|
|
Roland Juno-D synthesizers (as pictured) in their music. Harry and the Potters couple their rough-edged music with themed lyrics, which define the band as much as the costumes. The straight-forward but quirky presentation of adolescent concerns and direness in the simplest of worries gives the songs their easy likeability. They poke fun at awkward situations from the books.
|
|
The book is a kindly parody of the genre of Gaeltacht autobiographies, such as Tomás Ó Criomhthain's autobiography (The Islandman), or Peig Sayers' autobiography Peig, which recounts her life, especially the latter half, as a series of misfortunes in which much of her family die by disease, drowning or other mishap. Books of this genre were part of the Irish language syllabus in the Irish school system and so were mandatory reading for generations of children from independence in 1921. O'Nolan was in fact a great admirer of An t-Oileánach, which is widely regarded as being the greatest work of the genre, but critic Declan Kiberd has noted how O'Nolan's admiration for a writer tended to express itself as parody of the writer's work. The Irish expression "to put on the poor mouth" () is mildly pejorative and refers to the practice, often associated with peasant farmers, of exaggerating the direness of one's situation, particularly financially, to evoke sympathy, charity and perhaps the forbearance of creditors and landlords or generosity of customers.
|
|