"Transit" is a novel that all but dispenses with plot.
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He dispenses with any suggestion of a colonial New England setting.
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"Cambodian Lullaby" dispenses with these accouterments in favor of practice clothes.
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DAILY CROSSWORD COLUMN Ruth Bloomfield Margolin's puzzle dispenses with the hype.
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He also dispenses with much of the filler common to documentaries.
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The roguelike in general, and Convoy is within that, dispenses with necessity.
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It's a welcome shift, though, when she dispenses with magic for realism.
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"The End of Eddy" largely dispenses with the conventions of the realist novel.
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By doing so, it dispenses with judgmental sales staff and forbidding price tags.
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This time the president dispenses with lip-service to democracy or human rights.
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That dispenses with the need for banks to market and sell the company's shares.
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Carol is a slow-moving, character-driven film, that (mostly) dispenses with standard plot devices.
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Banco Original dispenses with bricks and mortar altogether, plumping instead for a digital-only service.
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And so a new strain of dinner party dispenses with formality in favor of sincerity.
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Experienced solvers might notice that the grid (again) dispenses with the regular crossword rotational symmetry.
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And more importantly, who dispenses with their cash for these compact discs of Christmas past?
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The latter portrait replicates the queen's pose but dispenses with the straw hat and chemise dress.
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A massive cluster of contenders on a debate stage dispenses with any pretense of civic respectability.
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Pozen easily dispenses with the idea that Administrations don't prosecute leakers because they can't find them.
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"Today's report dispenses with the idea of meaningful public participation in this profoundly consequential decision," Darnovsky said.
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At Salvation Burger, she zeros in on what the people want and dispenses with almost everything else.
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But the Green New Deal largely dispenses with analysis of the costs and benefits of climate policy.
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Having relied on a spray nozzle for years, Herbivore's Jasmine Glowing Hydration Oil now dispenses with a pump.
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He elides facts, fudges the specifics and dispenses with professional norms in the service of success and status.
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If the Supreme Court dispenses with copyright's purposeful limitations, it could make these types of scenarios a reality.
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Twitter long ago outgrew terms like "microblogging" and "status update," but this change finally dispenses with them for real.
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Yes, right away the movie dispenses with the sweetness and light and lyricism of the books by Beatrix Potter.
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So I came up with a version that dispenses with the tomato sauce in favor of a lighter pesto.
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Konnikova dispenses with MacGregor's crazy tale in just a few pages; I would have happily read a few hundred more.
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But perhaps fame and success have corroded him, because on the tart "Mood Swings," he dispenses with the sweetness altogether.
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Another engine-maker, Accion, also dispenses with the expensive parts: Its engines use a liquid salt that shoots from the craft.
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DeepNude also dispenses with the idea that this technology can be used for anything other than claiming ownership over women's bodies.
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Syndicated also dispenses with the usual previews and cellphone warning, and prides itself on a showtime that begins at the designated hour.
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We see how Gilead dispenses with political prisoners in Episode 1, calling one a rapist and letting the Handmaids tear him apart.
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It was refreshing, then, to see a play that dispenses with elegant critique of the president in favor of a gloves-off battery.
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Although the characters roughly line up, "Last Flag Flying" dispenses with that connection, even if familiarity with the 1973 movie enriches the experience.
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The Bomber Barrel Duffel Bag dispenses with gimmicky virality to give you a no-nonsense carryable that's elevated by its attention to details.
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Trump's action dispenses with the pretense that the United States officially opposes these actions, giving Israel's ghettoization of Palestinians in Jerusalem its imprimatur.
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But Stewart dispenses with that notion, turning her character's extreme clumsiness into an inside joke, a failing that makes her human rather than helpless.
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The movie also dispenses with many of the book's digressions into scientific theory and the mysteries of the universe, which, apparently, really were unfilmable.
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Mr. Wilkerson, whose previous films include "An Injury to One" and "Far From Afghanistan," dispenses with many of the usual techniques of historical documentary.
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In a not-entirely-deft bit of cinematic historical revisionism at its outset, "The Jesus Rolls" dispenses with the character's problematic sex-offender status.
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The best thing about Platt's new memoir, "The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony," is the way he dispenses with pretense in general.
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One is an excellent explanation of the difference between tonal music, based on scales and keys, and the atonal sort, which dispenses with such conventions.
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In her bacchanal, Freitas dispenses with narrative, using dark, wacky humor — and a cheeky take on Ravel's "Bolero" — to present a society of the absurd.
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He is the first chief of department in several decades to be promoted directly to commissioner, a civilian post that necessarily dispenses with the uniform.
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A new version, running in Arizona, dispenses with the Moroccans and instead shows a lonely Border Patrol jeep patrolling a plank-and-chain-link fence.
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This process of regionalizing investment and production, which largely dispenses with Europe and America, has now been accelerated by China's rise as a manufacturing power.
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The report dispenses with deflections, however, and reiterates the widely held consensus that Russia launched a coordinated attack on the integrity of the 2016 election.
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Its modern version dispenses with a lot of the traditionally associated violence, but is still a sport famous for player's bruises, something Cairo's team of skaters love.
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The advantage of being in a customs union but not the single market is that it dispenses with the EU's four freedoms, budget contributions and the ECJ.
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Cramming fantasy and mysticism, faith and history into a single riverboat journey, this dirgelike meditation on China's painful economic rebirth dispenses with narrative in favor of semiotics.
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It dispenses with the façade of American-led bilateral negotiations that saw the number of Israeli settlers living illegally on occupied Palestinian land mushroom to approximately 650,85033.
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Set in a Christian halfway house, Abby Rosebrock's "Blue Ridge" (at the Atlantic Theatre Company) is a recovery story that dispenses with the dramatic trope of relapse.
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The walk-through on 277st, "NJ-224" (21), dispenses with the familiar torqued walls that made up "Inside Out" (2522), his previous work in the same space.
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As is de rigueur with filmmakers looking to break away from trad doc formats, Supersonic dispenses with talking heads and instead splices together illustrative animations and extensive archival.
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Great daring is needed to keep that going; Brook's direction never loses its nerve in a story that dispenses with so much of theater's traditional way-finding apparatus.
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Just as his business career was characterized by Mob-connected cronies, racial bias, aggrieved contractors, dubious partners, byzantine lawsuits, and tabloid sensation, his Presidency dispenses with ethical pretense.
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As the song hits its stride, Elton dispenses with his piano stool and—keeping his hands on the keys, like little Reggie—lofts his legs into the air.
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He dispenses with depth perspective to equate people or manmade objects with the landscape, a unifying vision he had only hinted at in the early drawings and sketches.
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None of these are especially funny on their own, but he picks them up and dispenses with them so quickly that they do take on a diverting momentum.
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" Motherboard's Samantha Cole, who first reported on the DeepNude app, noted that it "dispenses with the idea that deepfakes were about anything besides claiming ownership over women's bodies.
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She's devoted to her brother and devoted to the business that they run, and has a sort of unusual relationship with him: she dispenses with his muses and his lovers.
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Optimizing for search creates a better internet than optimizing for social networks, argues Brian Feldman: SEO content, on the other hand, dispenses with the emotional in favor of the mechanical.
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My personal motivation was a vision for the next great user interface, one that dispenses with "windows" and "mice," to let humans act and interact naturally in our 3D world.
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Mr. Kelly's take will have a lighter touch, a flirty wink and a queer sensibility that dispenses with spiritual heaviness and treats pop culture as a kind of religion itself.
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In her new project, she dispenses with the protection, exploring a more vulnerable side in her first foray into the theater, the drama "Stuffed," which begins performances on Friday, Sept.
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Other Republicans argued that since the GOP health care plan dispenses with the individual mandate requiring everyone to buy insurance, it was not surprising that the raw numbers would look bad.
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Among other measures, the order also requests the reversal of a moratorium on coal-leasing on federal lands and dispenses with rules to curb methane emissions from oil and gas sites.
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They are known collectively as the Dirtbag Left, a shorthand they embrace that winkingly dispenses with any notion of liberal purity or inclusion, a defense mechanism that doubles as a nickname.
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Among other measures, the "Energy Independence" order requests the reversal of a moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands and dispenses with rules to curb methane emissions from oil and gas sites.
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His second novel, "Journeyman," retains the keen eye and sensitivity to language but dispenses with the linguistic pyrotechnics in favor of a more measured tone, one that thoroughly suits its reticent protagonist.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Sean Karemaker dispenses with the rigid panel grids and other conventions that most people commonly associate with comics for The Ghosts We Know from Conundrum Press.
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A more recent pointillist series, An Epic of Distance and Time, which encompasses more than 60 pieces, dispenses with most figuration, in favor of endless seascapes, waves piling upon fine-particle waves.
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To the contrary, they will have traced the path by which a future Democratic majority dispenses with all the pleasantries and enacts a simple, and truly universal plan, like Medicare for all: 1.
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Nevertheless, Jay Wright, in his most recent collection, The Prime Anniversary, dispenses with common sense and conceits, imagining a post-late poetics, enthralled with the notion of carrying on beyond all reasonable bounds.
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Tyrion dispenses with the Westerosi bedding ceremony, where both bride and groom are stripped naked and wedding guests witness their consummation, and threatens a very gung-ho King Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) in the process.
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But these assumptions are only warranted if both parties hold truth and accuracy in relatively high esteem, and as journalists have rudely discovered, when one party dispenses with such commitments, it complicates matters mightily.
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Part of the movie's pleasure and its ethos — which wends through its visuals — is how it dispenses with familiar either/or divides, including the binary opposition that tends to shape our discourse on race.
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With one outrageous exception — a hairpiece the size of a Buick appears briefly — the Berlin staging dispenses with foppish frivolities in favor of something far darker and closer to the spirit of Voltaire's original.
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The medal is one of the few presidential designations that dispenses with the traditional layers of staff review that precede pardons, commutations or Medals of Honor, and instead reflects the commander in chief's whims.
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Drunk contains several stunning demonstrations of instrumental prowess, but despite the number of talented musicians playing on the record, Thundercat is uninterested in building groove and often dispenses with continuity between songs and styles.
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Michael — who initially poses as an architect of the Good Place — welcomes her and quickly dispenses with the idea that the show will contend with the existence of God, or Jesus, or any other deity.
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The Walking Dead is best when it dispenses with its penchant for gore and shock value and instead interrogates the moral quandaries that arise when different personality types are thrown together and forced to coexist.
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A MINUS Now That's What I Call Tailgate Anthems (Sony Music Entertainment) This decades-spanning blunt instrument dispenses with the vaguely heart-warming ecumenical mix-and-match the Now cartel usually makes a pass at.
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Unlike director William Wyler's adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, this "Ben-Hur" dispenses with any subtlety in its depiction of Jesus (Rodrigo Santoro), who makes several key appearances as his story parallels and crosses Judah's path.
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The three-year-old company, which graduated Y Combinator and has raised close to $2 million from investors, dispenses with garbage links and makes websites more dynamic and personal to readers using its machine learning model.
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He dispenses with the knife and fork he has been using to negotiate his roast chicken and, in a move that would have made Emily Post squirm but makes me smile, he hoists it with his hands.
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But while most concept cars we see these days are platforms for the automakers to show off their latest visions for a self-driving future, the FT-4X dispenses with all that claptrap, and lasers in on functionality.
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Earlier this decade, he opened an eponymous shop on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and this year he converted the storefront next door to Niche, focusing on mazemen, a version of ramen that largely dispenses with broth.
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The implied violence of a sharp cutting-tool making its neat incisions into a material closely synonymous with skin is inescapable, especially when read within the context of the war machine that dispenses with female flesh as easy collateral.
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Exactly 18 years later, "Giving All I Got" brings this parody to life and dispenses with the obfuscation, as a disembodied autotuned voice softly repeats "Join A-R-M-Y" in the background while the sergeants sing and dance.
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In his latest 4K macro video, Land of Mine, De Giuli dispenses with several of these tried and true methods, which he used to great effect to create a tiny big bang and organic patterns in a petri dish.
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But where "Stranger Things" mostly revels in the cultural artifacts of those years -- from pop-culture references to hanging out at the mall -- "GLOW" dispenses with the rose-colored glasses, casting a much less flattering light on the era.
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Pinkham dispenses with the natural-gas wars that have dominated Russo-Ukrainian relations in the post-Soviet era in a half-paragraph — and, within it, glosses the Holodomor, the murder of untold millions of Ukrainians during the collectivization of the 1930s.
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It carries an electric supercharger for extra power, an optional self-healing wrap that erases small scratches, and robust connectivity features that the automaker says will swat away hackers as effectively as the 4x4 dispenses with snow, mud, and ice.
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Reese swiftly and easily dispenses with the idea that eating meat is "necessary" for health, pointing out that vegans and vegetarians are often healthier than their meat-eating counterparts, and that vegan athletes and bodybuilders have no trouble getting protein or gaining strength.
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It's the style that dispenses with the exposition and skips to the rising action and climax(es); it's also the style that the media, sex educators, and many feminists — even sex-positive ones — have taught us is inherently misogynistic, exploitative, and wrong.
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In their search for a motivating principle for the future of U.S. foreign policy that dispenses with the old and rejects Trump's ad hoc approach, some candidates propose big ideas that sound nice but will likely promote more misguided U.S. activism under a new heading.
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It was also the setting for a deeply personal and private set of encounters in which Mr. Obama, better known for his cool and unruffled temperament, dispenses with the trappings of his office and becomes an emotional father identifying with parents who have lost children.
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While the series has focused on inherited power in the Skywalker clan -- from Anakin to Luke, Leia to Ben/Kylo Ren -- allowing for the fact that the bad guy might by misleading Rey, "The Last Jedi" seemingly dispenses with heredity as a primary concern.
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The exhibition Ecocinema, although thematically aligned with this trend, largely dispenses with moralizing accusations, at least on the part of artists, allowing activists to speak, offering concrete practices and suggestions on how to tackle the approaching climate catastrophe on the micro-political, that is, individual level.
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What these three leaders have in common is that they are autocrats, whom Mr. Trump admires and believes he can win over with a brand of personal diplomacy that dispenses with briefing papers or talking points and relies instead on a combination of flattery, cajolery and improvisation.
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It dispenses with the idea that switching between angles will alienate viewers, or that 360-degree video should put people directly in the middle of the action — important things always happen directly in front of you, although you can look to the side or behind for extra detail.
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Instead of telling the story from the book about a group of strangers who are invited to the house by a doctor to study the supernatural, the series dispenses with this medical conceit and focuses on the dysfunctional relationships in a family who once stayed in Hill House.
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Not that Cesarani's opinions and simmering moral outrage are ever in doubt, as he dispenses with one lingering taboo: Almost every attack and atrocity against Jews was accompanied in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine by rape and sexual violence against Jewish women, sometimes by Germans, sometimes by their local helpers.
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Gottlieb dispenses with his early life ("Reading") with brisk efficiency, running through the salient points: secular Jewish middle-class Manhattan upbringing, English literature education at Columbia and Cambridge, first marriage hastened by pregnancy and doomed to divorce, an early obsession with chronicling bestseller lists, the seeds of his lifelong love for the world of dance.
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Mr. Posner dispenses with a few characters, notably Dr. Dorn, whose persona is melded into that of Eugene Sorn (Dan Daily), formerly Sorin, who in this version is himself a doctor, although he feels no more satisfied with the life he has lived than the Sorin of the original, who laments his lack of purpose.
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After a whiny call to Wendy (Maggie Siff), where he complains that he doesn't know what to do with himself if he can't trade, and Wendy dispenses with wise-sounding phrases like "Limits, constraints, they can be useful," and "There's nothing you can do to regain control at this hour," Axe decides to ignore her advice altogether.
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" Though the article pays a quick nod of homage to the requisite claims that a "level playing field" is the organization's end goal, the author quickly dispenses with the façade in favor of language praising those who have "launched a frontal attack" against Uber in an offensive to stymie the spread of the "cut-rate service.
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