Only in rap's essential edginess category does it fall short, and one thing that makes the record so powerful is its insistence that edginess just doesn't matter right now.
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My baseline restlessness and edginess, however, have now nearly vanished.
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Despite the edginess, Bowie's work still resonated with the mainstream.
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Maybe it's a cultural critique, maybe it's just generic edginess.
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"New Jersey is all about attitude, edginess, pride, diversity," Gov.
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He had attitude that imbued the world with a whimsical edginess.
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Can she keep up the edginess needed for a compelling show?
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Q. Mr. Cleans — with edginess or daffiness, or both, lurking beneath.
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She knows what to do with roughness and edginess and daring.
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Its goal is the sort of edginess that doesn't alienate anyone.
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Transparency, edginess and real-life drama at the Oscars. Can. You. Imagine.
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And I think with that comes a little bit of edginess, too.
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Edgerton imbues the character with such rough-hewn edginess that he instantly
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Manny Stark brought a cocky edginess to Riff, leader of the Jets.
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Kristen McMenamy and Lily McMenamy have piercing gazes and an intriguing edginess.
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And like Leopold's sculptures, it delivers an unstable combination of nostalgia and edginess.
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Just enough edginess for it to be effective, and not annoying and polarizing.
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But #BlackGirlMagic is a bit more grounded than #CarefreeBlackGirl — which is all about edginess.
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The old XFL celebrated its edginess, even promising glimpses into the cheerleaders' locker rooms.
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But recently, he's thrown a little edginess into his everyman persona — thanks to Martin Scorsese.
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I don't remember if the clue for SHUT is mine, but I like its edginess!
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I don't remember if the clue for SHUT is mine, but I like its edginess!
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Its arty edginess has made it magnet for coffee-sipping, craft-beer quaffing, Vespa-riding millennials.
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For a movie that clearly prides itself on its edginess, it is weirdly inert and stolid.
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The initial knee-jerk reaction to Abigail (even my own) was tainted with creepypasta levels of edginess.
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And if that's true, then it's hard to imagine the game really earning its moments of edginess.
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I felt the effects by midday: It was like having a really strong coffee without the edginess.
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As the Met's lone contemporary opera this year, it's a curiously safe bet, despite its ostensible edginess.
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I walked outside, and it hit me: I felt a surge of energy, but no jitters or edginess.
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The oven knows you forgot about your cookies and cools them off for you at peak crisped-edginess.
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These videos perfectly encapsulate the edginess of Eminem's musical genius, while conveying important information to the hearing-impaired.
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The problem is that, no matter how pretty War Dogs looks, Phillips can't sustain his film's thematic edginess.
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Given Disney's acquisition of Fox, Variety suggested that the controversial movie could "test Disney's patience" with its edginess.
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Beckham was wearing a white shirt and a cropped denim jacket, rocking a shorn eyebrow look for extra edginess.
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There was still a festive buzz and a sense of excitement, but it was cut with a palpable edginess.
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It felt predictable, all its supposed edginess rooted in style and shock and wrapped around Joaquin Phoenix's blazing talent.
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"We try to be a brand associated with edginess and coolness, and craft cocktails are very cool," he said.
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But even the septum's edginess as it came onto the scene was diminished by its frillier-seeming southern cousin.
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"I want to ask if his edginess and brassiness will make it hard to make moral decisions," she told me.
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Just a regular old tattoo is pretty ho-hum at this point, its edginess sanded and shellacked by mainstream assimilation.
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So he wanted this hybrid; he wanted to include natural strings and then bring this electronic edginess to the score.
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"Larry's 'brand' is not tarnished, and Jules' mural maintains some of the edginess she desires in her work," he said.
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Just don't mistake the edginess of Atlanta wielding the n-word in its first episode as a bid for unearned respectability.
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And the youthful edginess of many of Sanders' celebrity fans likely won't connect with the senior voters with whom he struggles.
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If any bit of that reputation for edginess still existed, though, the 2019 Globes pretty much burned it to the ground.
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That means sacrificing a portion of the audience -- not incidentally, the quadrant that clamors for action figures -- on the altar of edginess.
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One of the reasons I lost interest in reading Cosmo into adulthood was the lack of diversity and edginess in their content.
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His skittish, prickly, armed imagery, most evident in "Umbral" (28), prefigures the formal edginess of the weaponized letters in Rammellzee's Gothic Futurism.
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At Hood by Air, the defined spirals were a bit disheveled, adding a hint of romance to the edginess of the clothes.
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There is a techno-inflected edginess to some of the early tracks, a nod to man's infatuation with things that go boom.
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Not having to constantly prove Deadpool's edginess allows Deadpool 2 to develop a stronger story, which proves to be its greatest asset.
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While it might be easy to forget right now, it wasn't even deliberate edginess that first made PewDiePie's name as a game streamer.
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To add a little edginess to the overall look, she kept her platinum bob sleek and straight and her makeup dewy and minimal.
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What the show has going for it — aside from Ms. Kabashi's savagely brittle performance and Ms. Cagianese's deadpan bops — is its absurdist edginess.
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American bluster—the reflex of the current U.S. President in the absence of any coherent policy—is a poor response to Chinese edginess.
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Not in the sense of edginess, but just in the sense of pushing a joke to its limits — and that's what steamed hams is.
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Twenty years later, these films—and the technology they employed—are amusing for all sorts of reasons: Their clunkiness, their design, their forced edginess.
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Where many comedies lean on vulgarity and edginess, Pera finds his beat in everyday gratitude and basking in the mundane, to surprisingly amusing effect.
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But public humor now dominated by edginess and at times crudity is unlikely to involve detours into the Spanish Inquisition, let alone tribal hooters.
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The edginess of the club game dissolves, and—cheesy as it sounds—it's actually about people coming together from across the globe, representing their countries.
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"I think what people have come to expect from Flying Dog is an edginess, but we never go out there to shock people," said Caruso.
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You can't just give A.G. Cook a ring if you're looking for a bit of glossy art-world edginess and expect things to stay fresh.
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Brands have sponsored this content for exploratory or "edginess" value more than purposes of mass brand exposure, due to the limited VR audience at present.
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To pray, speak or read scriptural verses at his big day on January 20th he has chosen six individuals, all of whom carry a certain edginess.
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The Stefani brand's edginess might have been blunted, but its meaning was still strong — and, as evidenced by Stefani's continued popularity as a brand ambassador, lucrative.
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This flowing pleated skirt adds just the right amount of edginess, while the touch of sparkle gives more of the New Year's Eve kind of feel.
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But a senior Boeing executive struck a positive note, saying "once lessors see the money come into their pockets, that's when the edginess will go away".
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The two panicked when executives liked their experimental script, so they added heroin benders and "anti-catchphrases," sabotaging their own creation for the sake of edginess.
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Almost 21984 years after his death, the unabated edginess of Bacon's paintings, and the dark literary sources informing them, put the lie to our self-mythologizing.
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His reassuring grin put people at ease — a friendly face, suggesting perhaps a playful edginess… like his horn, his smile became a sign of Louis's persona.
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"What has concerned me very much about Donald Trump is the edginess of calls to violence around his campaign, which I found absolutely shocking," Sanders told Burnett.
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As bloggers riff, they add new names—and as they up the ante in edginess, all of them are decidedly unwelcome at your next school bake sale.
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Tariq mistakes Anika's edginess for her being a "damsel in distress" and/or her playing hard to get, never suspecting that she may be wearing a wire.
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Rogers There's a freshness, an edginess and a sense of disruption on the left in its candidates and leaders like the Obamas, from memoirs to those portraits.
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The emphasis here is usually on the word itself (theoretical edginess conferred by the edgy word), rather than context, timing, or creativity (the general art of cursing).
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But almost 30 years after his death, the unabated edginess of Bacon's paintings, and the dark literary sources informing them, put the lie to our self-mythologizing.
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Bullock and Cate Blanchett are impenetrable as the team's core, Debbie and Lou, a sometimes flirtatious duo that also single-handedly revive the edginess of old lady names.
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Critical demands for edginess, based in simplistic views of what it means for art to enact progress or hold political value, often recall "disruption," the Silicon Valley buzzword.
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Squatting often conferred a sense of edginess to neighbourhoods, which then gets branded and sold onto a generation of people who have the money to move into them.
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Signs began to surface of not just edginess but anger, not just finger-pointing or protecting one's own interests but active selfishness in the face of general calamity.
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K."—he's starting to sound like Lenny, for God's sake —"I guess I understand why, for purposes of edginess, we want Emmett Diggs to be killing white women.
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That you can't just copy the premise from the Suicide Squad comic books and have faith that its edginess and sizzle — its violence, its darkness, its spirit — will follow.
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Dripping with sincerity in an apparent effort to be oh-so-woke about gay marriage, the music blithely ignores the ironic edginess and bitter social critique of Hemphill's text.
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So I look for people who, in their life, are sort of in the same boat — they're kind of impatient, there's an urgency about them, even a little edginess.
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But, while the camera technology is limited, Wathne's eye and technique allows her to strike a balance between DIY punk edginess and fine art, often in the same image.
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While there are plenty of trademark Malcolm lines in the film, the reprisal of the role saw a more family-friendly, toned-down version that shaved away his characteristic edginess.
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Jonathan Zittrain: And that conveys a message that would be impossible to convey without the edginess, while not still– Mark Zuckerberg: That is– Jonathan Zittrain: But, I– Mark Zuckerberg: That's true.
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"What critics said: "As viewers it's hard to be as sanguine about a one-note chucklefest that combines the worst of Lorre's conveyor-belt slapstick with an uncomfortable stab at edginess.
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And we took on — in some mainstream liberal circles, anyway — an often crude, if occasionally flattering, symbolism: Our presence in a project lent it an air of edginess, sometimes even glamour.
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" Thomas Valentino, an entertainment attorney and contributor to SiriusXM, agreed with Kuge's choice, saying that "from every perspective – creative, artistic, impact, and edginess – this is easily the Album of the Year.
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Along with aerial performances and house music from local DJs like The Deep, the night promises to meld the intimacy of a suburban American prom with the edginess of an underground sex club.
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This dynamic explains the edginess of the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa, the bravado of Reggie Jackson and Hulk Hogan, and the tough-guy charm of Tom Selleck and Burt Reynolds.
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What stands out about the right, which is where I focus most of my attention, is conservatives' commitment to treat that edginess as an assault on a specific idea of the American Dream.
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And I&aposll tell you, I hesitate to place blame, but I have noticed it takes a very precipitous turn towards edginess and lack of civility with the growth of the Tea Party movement.
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The idea of "cinnamon roll" characters has percolated on Tumblr for the past few years as a testament to our love of characters who are defined mainly by their sweetness rather than their edginess.
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In the near term, Fornaro may help boost Spirit's employee morale and brand, which has gained notoriety for its edginess and for customers' occasional misunderstanding of their fares' restrictions, industry consultant Robert Mann said.
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Cabin fever, the edginess that comes from being confined indoors for an extended period of time, can strike anyone, at any time: new parents, snowbound students, listless urbanites who are trapped inside their apartments.
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At the Walker, where audiences were on three sides of the space, live musicians — singer and double bass — delivered wonderfully weird displays, ranging from jazz coloratura to rasping edginess, ideally heightening the suspenseful atmosphere.
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A "safe" Oscars ceremony that purposely abstained from edginess, from offering any social or political commentary whatsoever, would keep Hollywood from showing the world the progressive, inclusive image it wishes to project — especially in 2019.
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"Contrapposto Studies" may represent a change of attitude for Nauman; he wouldn't be the first avant-garde artist to abandon the edginess that made his reputation in order to slip quietly into old master mode.
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"They remind me of the energy that was around at the turn of the century — that grungy, dirty, downtown edginess," said Nicole Phelps, the director of Vogue Runway and a judge of the Fashion Fund.
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FRANCE HONORS HERO OFFICER WHO &aposSAVED THE NATION&apos DURING TERRORIST ATTACK A sense of edginess has been with France since a murderous series of killings in 2015 in the name of the Islamic State group.
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This weaponized posture brings a welcome edginess to a 75-year-old comic book idol who maintained a squeaky clean rectitude while trapped in a succession of conceptual cages that writers and editors fashioned for her.
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"The lack of care this series has for its characters is topped only by the lack of respect it has for its viewers; its veneer of edginess almost as thoughtless as its later attempts at playing 'woke.'"
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The protagonist is hilariously absurd and profane, but after the fifth racial slur or transphobic remark or fat joke, it all starts to feel like performative edginess meant to shock the novel's presumed white Middle American audience.
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Apparently, she feels no compulsion to hedge her vision with edginess or intentionally disagreeable ballast, like the male-objectified ingenues in Lisa Yuskavage's work that seem to ridicule a viewer's attraction to the allure of her imaginative atmosphere.
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The writing isn't nearly as over-the-top as it is in Grand Theft Auto — the edginess and satire are shifted to the background in favor of a more grounded, human tale — and RDR2 is better for it.
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In Ennis's final soliloquy, after Jack has died (almost surely, as Ennis suspects, from a savage attack by men who know the truth about him), Mr. Wuorinen gets the balance between plaintive expressivity and modernist edginess exactly right.
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According to Dr. Duffy, once the family started communicating more openly and their son's views lost their status as a mark of edginess or rebellion, the teenager softened his stances and even disabled his alt-right meme accounts.
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But the edginess has a different source than usual this week in Madrid, where Davis Cup's final rounds have been radically transformed by an unlikely partnership between the International Tennis Federation and the Spanish soccer star Gerard Piqué.
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However, contrary to the popular narrative that edginess was what made acid house raves special, those who were around at the time saw the dodgy goings on at clubs like Konspiracy as a necessary evil rather than something positive.
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There's a tremendous amount of trust in a set-up like this — usually when I'm on a motorized vehicle, I want to make sure I can see exactly where I'm going — but even that lent a nervy edginess to the experience.
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The new characters are all straight white men; for all his heralded edginess, Baron Cohen clearly knows that cross-identity disguises won't fly—and, as a result, his show is, by default, but without much self-awareness, about white masculinity.
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Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) continues to work on her bizarre children's book, Titus abbreviates touché as "toosh," there's an amazing detour about "Cats," Ronan Farrow appears as himself — it's all here, all at once, and all with the show's unique sunny edginess.
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But in this darkest timeline, no object can be so ludicrous that the preternaturally wealthy will decline to throw money at it, in a desperate bid for edginess within lifestyles so buffered from reality that this somehow seems worth it.
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Though Yves wasn't the first designer to put a woman in a full suit, he was the first to give them pockets and provide women with a sort of freedom and edginess that was the exclusive purview of men for far too long.
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The wild economic swings of a boomtown—where one year the town is desolate and broke and the next it's overflowing with rough young men lusting for cash and vice—create something of a collective neurosis, a pervasive edginess that never dissipates.
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If you read the negative reviews, they seem to have one thing in common (besides the fact that all the reviewers had to sit through Suicide Squad): that its edginess, the shock value that worked so well in a comic book setting, felt uninspired.
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And the exhibition, with its 150 objects — many of them sculptures created in plaster, or from women's stockings and tights stuffed with fluff — is populated with penises and with cigarettes penetrating buttocks, rather than the breasts and vulvas modern artists used to demonstrate their edginess.
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"But to me, I think it's just so socially relevant, and it's such a scathing commentary on where society is going, that to me it's the best show on TV." Pop culture critic Natalie Zutter agrees that cynicism and edginess are key to the show's appeal.
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What emerged overall, however, was tedious and dull, as NBC dispensed with any pretense of edginess by tapping its late-night host, Jimmy Fallon, to emcee the telecast, insuring there wouldn't be any of those uncomfortable moments that, say, Ricky Gervais doled out in the past.
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And this exhibition, with its 150 objects — many of them sculptures created in plaster or from women's stockings and tights stuffed with fluff — is populated with penises and with cigarettes penetrating buttocks, rather than the breasts and vulvas modern artists have used to demonstrate their edginess.
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And this exhibition, with its 7183 objects — many of them sculptures created in plaster or from women's stockings and tights stuffed with fluff — is populated with penises and with cigarettes penetrating buttocks, rather than the breasts and vulvas modern artists have used to demonstrate their edginess.
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And this exhibition, with its 53493 objects — many of them sculptures created in plaster or from women's stockings and tights stuffed with fluff — is populated with penises and with cigarettes penetrating buttocks, rather than the breasts and vulvas modern artists have used to demonstrate their edginess.
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When old footage surfaced of Gervais and CK dropping the N-word in a comedians' roundtable with Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld, the ensuing outrage said less about the pair's look-at-us edginess than about how much the culture had shifted; the incident passed without comment back in 2011.
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For my money, one of the triumphs of this type of acting is Chadwick Boseman's James Brown in "Get On Up." Boseman pumps Brown full of edginess and spite while having to reconstruct Brown as a stage specimen, and part of that reconstruction involves learning to lip sync to Brown.
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Lacking the dark storytelling that Christopher Nolan and Zack Snyder brought to Batman and Superman, the wiseass edginess of Deadpool, or the prom-king popularity of the Avengers, this band of mutants can't help but feel old-hat; the first film came out 16 years ago, which in blockbuster terms is ancient history.
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Gliding effortlessly through Nauman's routines, this talented and disciplined individual, an artist in her own right, filled the silence between commands with an improvised finger-tapping performance of her own, scoffing impatiently at her tormentor's badgering posture, the posture that lies at the heart of Nauman's edginess and at the core of his reputation.
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The accompanying photo shoot casts Obama in a more fashion-forward light than we're used to seeing her: A black leather Dior corset layered over a crisp white shirt and pleated skirt (the latter tempering, but not erasing, the edginess of the former), and a black mesh top worn with silky, billowy silver trousers.
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Gifted stylists — including vets like Elizabeth Stewart, who dresses Cate Blanchett and Jessica Chastain, and Erin Walsh, who outfits Sarah Jessica Parker and Maggie Gyllenhaal — know intrinsically how to create ensembles that walk the line between old-school glamour and youthful edginess, which so often seems to be the winning recipe for a memorable red-carpet look.
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The world number two, who will be joined in the last four by Milos Raonic after the Canadian beat Austrian Dominic Thiem 221-222(5) 6-3, began the week at London's O2 Arena quarrelling with a reporter and despite being relatively untroubled on court, there has been an edginess about the 12-times grand slam champion.
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Through the sea of sweating baby seals, I notice that most of the crowd are the kind of kids that would've been of the age to appreciate baby Bieber but, with a growing need to impress their pals with their hand-poked tatts and bomber jackets, probably gravitated more towards a kind of edginess that'll turn their faces into gurning masterpieces and their hands into tiny guns.
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