Tales of struggling Americans are engagingly woven into the outrage.
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Now, what's engagingly peculiar to this piece is easier to see.
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Mr. Pollan's messages are important to hear and are engagingly presented in this series.
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Mr Autor is an ever-so-slightly manic figure, who speaks quickly and engagingly.
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Porter writes engagingly, as an artisan, about the business of putting on a show.
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WITH THEIR engagingly rainbow-coloured beaks, puffins are the star attraction on the Faroe Islands.
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I also found some engagingly-clued fill, like BED, EAR, NERF, SUN, DORM and DOT.
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You talk not of its steps but of its timing, formations and engagingly cheeky humor.
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Crisp but engagingly abrasive, their industrial remix is twice as long and twice as biting.
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He can bumble around engagingly while flunkies work out how to turn his instincts into policies.
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But Mr. Goold's production, featuring a deceptively simple design by Miriam Buether, has been most engagingly staged.
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He sends you racing to the internet to look up the work of painters he speaks so engagingly about.
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Another night, seared walleye with roasted cauliflower and a bottle of Nebbiolo from an extensive (and engagingly written) list.
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Front Burner For shaved ice at home, nothing is more engagingly adorable — or effective — than this bright Japanese bear.
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Bloch's book reads engagingly, despite some flouting of syntax, a tad cavalier from a professor of French at Yale.
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These people seem engagingly locked in their own narratives, re-enacting for us the events that have made them immortal.
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Five feet tall and a total oddball, she carries the plot by being engagingly self-deprecating, quick-witted and funny.
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Left mostly to her own devices after her mother dies, she is surprised to discover an engagingly eccentric, adventurous side.
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He writes engagingly and enlivens his smart, balanced analysis with colorful anecdotes, though his book's title does him a disservice.
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A bearded and slightly cherubic man, Munshi-South speaks engagingly about his epiphany despite the notable softness of his voice.
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As in other recent performances, she has suddenly bloomed into a marvelously free personality: adult, decisive, engagingly robust, merrily witty.
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A dance idea used engagingly here by Mr. Wheeldon is the rapid alternation of right and left sides of the body.
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The narrative is engagingly well paced, but — and this is true of every encyclopedic museum I'm familiar with — sugarcoated and incomplete.
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We hope they'll take close notes on their experiences, and tell us about it engagingly, making their case with voice and style.
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The course provides practical advice on tackling daunting subjects and on beating procrastination, and the lessons engagingly blend neuroscience and common sense.
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That engagingly confessional humor, showcased here in clips from Ephron's many television appearances, injected her romantic comedies with blasts of uniquely authentic insight.
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Despite identifying herself as "a cautious carnivore," Kramer writes engagingly about the "highly idiosyncratic spectrum" of vegetarianism and her own forays into its intricacies.
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Its dialogue between electronic and acoustic sounds is engagingly orchestrated, as players respond to clicks, bleats and gurgles with squirrely bow strokes and whistling harmonics.
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You might use the 2014 video, "Super Bowl XLVIII, by the Numbers," as one model for how to put statistics, facts and images together engagingly.
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In this way, Legacy blends two traditions of board game genres—its mechanics are simple and clean, like European games, and engagingly dramatic, like American ones.
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While the male leads were well-developed, their attraction to each other engagingly realized, I found the women were limited to their roles in the story.
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Moorehead writes engagingly about domestic matters, the tension inherent in the underground resistance and even the dreary monotony of life in confino on the remote penal islands.
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But more to the point, the writing skills we want this contest to teach — how to write clearly and engagingly about complex topics — obviously span subject areas.
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Over the Alps provides that kind of spy experience, set against a backdrop of World War II intrigue and told engagingly though postcards sent to your confidant.
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The Bronx-born rapper Cardi B has been a celebrity for years thanks in part to her engagingly blunt persona, which she flaunts on reality TV and Instagram.
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Margaret Willes's new book shows more clearly and more engagingly than most previous works how this friendship developed, and offers a vivid and subtle depiction of her subjects' sensibilities.
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Her best moments come in interactions with two Chinese brothers — engagingly played by Anthony Chan and Carl Hsu — who handle laundry for the hotel and participate in the kidnapping scheme.
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The two young leads pair engagingly, though, and the screenwriter and director, Laurie Weltz, surrounds them with name actors in small roles, a sweet reversal of the usual casting structure.
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Scrupulously faithful to the biographical record, "The Young Karl Marx," directed by Raoul Peck (from a script he wrote with Pascal Bonitzer), is both intellectually serious and engagingly free-spirited.
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Now she has followed up that paper with a doorstop of a book, an intensively researched, engagingly written chronicle of surveillance capitalism's origins and its deleterious prospects for our society.
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But with Apocalypse it remains surprisingly fresh: McAvoy and Fassbender have managed to extend the admiring rivalry that played out so engagingly when Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen portrayed these foes.
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The two share a definite resemblance, but the younger Mr. Bennett has an engagingly loose approach to rhyme and a gravelly vocal register that set him apart from his celebrated sibling.
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Now 24 and, as the afternoon in the dance studio confirmed, as agile on his feet as ever, he is one of the more engagingly and acutely introspective people you could meet.
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"Emerald City" has its Dorothy, engagingly played by Adria Arjona, but it draws on the full canon of L. Frank Baum's "Oz" books (a series that continued after his death in 1919).
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The Monegasque may take time to settle in but he is fast, engagingly fluent in Italian and — unlike 39-year-old Finnish world champion predecessor Kimi Raikkonen — the face of the future.
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But if Perry, Gail and Dima are engagingly human, the same can't be said for Hector (Damian Lewis), an MI6 agent who joins the dots between the Prince's dealings and a new London bank.
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An engagingly bizarre artifact in itself (it took 23 years to complete), Hill's "Disruption Portrait" contains a number of figures who were not present on the day (including Robert Adamson depicted with his camera).
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In this engagingly unacademic meditation, a professor of philosophy interweaves Friedrich Nietzsche's biography with accounts of his own visits to Sils-Maria, in the Swiss Alps, where Nietzsche spent much of his writing life.
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While I could have done without the show's arch reflections on a time when smoking was still fashionable (in one scene, the characters identify themselves by their cigarette brands), Elliott's staging is engagingly resourceful.
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How the Rich Are Preparing for Coronavirus An illustrator in Beijing, Krish Raghav, is coping with the anxieties of life under quarantine by cooking — and by drawing about it very engagingly for The New Yorker.
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But in its fourth and fifth seasons, Homeland re-earned audiences' trust the hard way — by playing up the handful of character relationships that still worked, telling engagingly knotty espionage tales, and escaping Brody's shadow.
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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.
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The New York Times journalist Charles Duhigg has already contributed to this genre with his first book, "The Power of Habit," which was an engagingly deep dive into the psychology of how routines are formed and modified.
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All nine studies are engagingly written and genuinely interesting, each a dive into a corner of the world you don't hear much about that conveys, briefly and clearly, a sense of how this far-off place works.
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Entitled A Deadly Proposal and written by Amos Anderson's head of exhibitions, Susanna Luojus, the book (available in Finnish, Swedish, and English) unravels the story engagingly with a nod to the hard-boiled style of Raymond Chandler.
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"Madness Rules the Hour," Paul Starobin's fast-paced, engagingly written account of the hysteria that descended on lovely Charleston — where the unthinkable became the inevitable — is as much a study in group psychology as it is in history.
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Vance — whose impressive acting career includes multiple military roles, most famously in "The Hunt for Red October" — signals the transitions to lengthy direct quotes with helpful changes of tone, and most of the book is strongly and engagingly acted.
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As the survivors, all young adults, dodge the Gestapo and sidle past Jewish informers like the infamous Stella Goldschlag, these scripted sections, though engagingly acted and atmospherically filmed, play like mere teasers for epic tales of courage and ingenuity.
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"Tom got stung by a jellyfish and he shouted across the beach, 'I say old sport could you come and pee on me?' and I engagingly obliged," the actor, 36, admitted during an upcoming appearance on The Graham Norton Show.
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THE ARENA: Inside the Tailgating, Ticket-Scalping, Mascot-Racing, Dubiously Funded, and Possibly Haunted Monuments of American Sport (Liveright, $27.95), by the freelance writer Rafi Kohan, is smart, readable, deeply reported and researched, engagingly personal, funny and often surprisingly poignant.
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Professor Jackson manages not only to present a lot of complex research engagingly but to show how the key concepts of network theory relate to a wide range of contemporary issues, from financial contagions to the spread of fake news.
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While it is not the final word on the topic — no academic would suggest their work was — it is an eye-opening account, engagingly written and not at all the tour of horrors you may reasonably expect it to be.
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They should target institutions designed to reach the voter base not with hyperbole and half-truths, and not to whip up the base into faux-outrage with reactionary viral hot takes, but to clearly, compassionately, and engagingly communicate conservative values and ideals.
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More engagingly drawn is Cage's long-term relationship with his forward-thinking business and bedroom partner, Ellie Bicknell, and one wishes an even greater portion of the story had been devoted to her and the women — including that escaped slave — in her employ.
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Jacinda "Jake" Greenwood, the engagingly skeptical heroine of Christie's opening and closing chapters, is a forest guide (the only work she can get, despite holding advanced degrees in botany) who thinks she sees signs that the Great Withering has reached Greenwood Island.
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With the impressive pianist Mr. Pontinen, Mr. Frost was in his element in the penthouse later that evening, talking engagingly about the pieces he had chosen from Brahms's majestic Sonata in E flat to Bartok's Romanian Folk Dances, playing everything with freshness and color.
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Just in the past week, I read books by two friends, Edna O'Brien's wise little biography of James Joyce and an engagingly eccentric autobiography, "Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter," by one of my dearest dead friends, the great American artist R. B. Kitaj.
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In the end, the race to transplant a human heart — a story engagingly told in Donald McRae's 103 book, "Every Second Counts" — involved four surgeons, the most compelling of whom were Christiaan Barnard at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town and Norman Shumway at Stanford.
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Matthew Yglesias reviews the book, favorably: "All nine studies are engagingly written and genuinely interesting, each a dive into a corner of the world you don't hear much about that conveys, briefly and clearly, a sense of how this far-off place works," Yglesias writes.
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It's an entertaining, eccentric, engagingly written account of American drinking preferences and customs since the colonial era, but much is embellished; although it is a work of nonfiction, Field was not the sort of writer who let the facts stand in the way of a good story.
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Now comes the journalist and author Fergus M. Bordewich to engagingly revive the forgotten story of the nearly 18 months that New York was the nation's first capital in "The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government" (Simon & Schuster, $30).
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The music writer Simon Reynolds called Roxy's last album "immaculate background music," and while he meant it critically, as a way of noting the difference between this and the band's earlier, more engagingly experimental work, in the case of the afterparty, "immaculate background music" can become something of a compliment.
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Meanwhile, Will Ferrell's engagingly goofy portrait of George W. Bush as a know-nothing good ol' boy was later widely cited as a possible reason he eked out the election win, because he came across as much more of a guy that people would want to share a beer with.
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Each one usefully and engagingly displays a crucial facet of the backstory to the current misrule in the U.S. The New York City police officer Frank Serpico's lonely fight against police corruption, in the nineteen-sixties and early seventies, has been enshrined in legend by Sidney Lumet's 1973 drama starring Al Pacino.
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Even when you realize that this is mainly a vehicle for two couples — the taller, elegant Christina Clark and (replacing Kennard Henson) Gilbert Bolden III, and the engagingly bright Emma Von Enck and Roman Mejia — you're repeatedly surprised by how they connect with the corps (four men, four women) and one another.
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" Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter: "Despite the intermittent lags, the production proves to be more than a salvage operation thanks mainly to those engagingly choreographed performances, led by an irresistibly charismatic title turn from Alden Ehrenreich who ultimately claims Solo as his own even if he doesn't entirely manage to convince us he's Harrison Ford.
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The chapters in the middle, while always engagingly philosophical, sometimes get bogged down in the past, and while I enjoyed some of the stories Saunders tells about her unusual upbringing — she was raised on a farm in South Africa during apartheid — I kept scanning the shoreline for barges bringing news of her present condition.
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" In his review of her one-woman show, "I Got Sick Then I Got Better," a toothsome comic monologue, out in 2009, about the ovarian cancer that nearly killed her, Ben Brantley of The New York Times wrote that Ms. Allen "asks us, politely and engagingly, to look on life when it is directly threatened.
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The three artists invited this year are the Brooklyn native DaSilva, a former member of the Trey McIntyre Project; Smith, a fearless alum of the Batsheva Dance Company now making her own engagingly visceral work; and the Los Angeles-based Taylor, who fuses hip-hop and contemporary dance to often startling and surprising effect.
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Ask him for a recommendation and he'll flip gently through the leather-bound menu, guiding you to the Oriental Beauty ("super grassy, a little citrusy"), perhaps, or to the No. 2028 ("sweeter and rounder, shares a grandfather with milk oolong"), explaining patiently and engagingly the difference between black, oolong, green, and white tea (same leaves, different levels of oxidation).
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So in the opening sequence, in which Jay is paired against an engagingly green up-and-comer called Fish (played by McKinley Belcher III), the two men are often on different sides of the stage, which has been converted into a simple wooden space (by the set designer Nick Vaughan) that speaks of a still rough-hewed America.
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As Dean R. Snow, a professional archaeologist and professor emeritus of anthropology at Penn State University (who also taught at the State University of New York in Albany), engagingly recounts in "1777," those armies never converged, denying the British the firewall they predicted would quickly put the pesky Americans in their place and squelch the rebellion.
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To help inspire its developers even more, Amazon last year created the Alexa Prize, a contest to advance conversational artificial intelligence with a financial reward to the research team that creates the best "socialbot" that can "can converse coherently and engagingly with humans on a range of current events and popular topics such as entertainment, sports, politics, technology and fashion."
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If he wished, Kroff could (probably) write as clearly and engagingly as others in the class, on other, less upsetting subjects; but he seems to have no interest in replicating reality, and it has been a cause for wonderment in the workshop (expressed not to Kroff himself but to you, by other students) that he has so little interest in writing about the army, his fellow soldiers, Afghanistan.
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He treats the most famous embodiments of it — Kierkegaard, Strindberg, Bergman — with deft sympathy, but even more engagingly comes up with unexpected examples, like the poor Icelandic leader, called the "Lawspeaker," left to ruminate on whether or not to convert his people from paganism to Christianity (spoiler alert: He says yes, though with some important caveats involving the rights to abandon newborns to their deaths and to eat horse meat).
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In "As It Was: A Memoir" (Prospecta Press, $27.50), Mr. Pennoyer, still a practicing lawyer at 90 and a veteran of public service and private philanthropies, engagingly reveals a storybook city that most New Yorkers never saw and those who did have largely forgotten, from the hungry scavenging through mountains of garbage in the Queens Meadowlands before Robert Moses leveled them for the 1939 World's Fair to a sheltered upbringing right after the Lindbergh baby kidnapping when a fellow student, Gloria Vanderbilt, was delivered to grade school in a Rolls-Royce with a guard riding shotgun.
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The stoutly affable, engagingly mellow men of Bear's Den shudder at such bumptiousness.
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The critic from The Sydney Morning Herald thought that the "75 minutes were engagingly spent" with strong acting and direction.
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Ms. Spiro is most engagingly met by a cast that doesn't try to distort the musical in any way beyond playing it for real, Akiya Henry's chirrupy Minnie Fay a rare performing misstep.
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It merged with the American Secular Union and became the American Secular Union and Freethought Federation in 1895. Historian Leigh Eric Schmidt discusses Putnam's life in Village Atheists: How America's Unbelievers Made Their Way In a Godly Nation (2016)."Village Atheists Engagingly Explores a Persecuted American Minority". PopMatters.
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Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times considered it "dated" and more of a "curiosity," calling it Spielberg's "weakest film since his comedy 1941". Variety gave it a more generous review: "Always is a relatively small scale, engagingly casual, somewhat silly, but always entertaining fantasy."" 'Always' (1989) Review." Variety.
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John Arlott said the book "reflects a considerable capacity for the enjoyment of most pleasures ... [and] presents a picture of a young man engagingly carefree in a way that seems to belong to a different age from ours".John Arlott, "Cricket Books, 1962", Wisden 1963, pp. 1110–11.
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Stephen Lan saw the short at the Images Festival in April 2002, calling it "thoughtful and philosophical... clever and witty." Response to The Other Shoe surprised Cockburn, who wrote in October 2001 that he derived a "humbling joy" from knowing that a work made with his "simple-minded" intentions could, in "failing to fully make its point," nevertheless be "engagingly conflicted and complex".
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The Allmusic review by Steven McDonald stated, "the performances are very fine indeed. Ulmer's vocal style is engagingly rough and heartfelt, pure blues all the way; this provides an effective contrast to his convoluted guitar work (and the band's support). Ulmer's guitar work is outstanding, transcending the blues label and heading for the outer territories of jazz at quite a rate of knots".
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It features his most memorable character, the engagingly roguish Becky Sharp. The Brontë sisters were other significant novelists in the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published but were subsequently accepted as classics. They had written compulsively from early childhood and were first published, at their own expense in 1846 as poets under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.
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She stated that she could relate to her character's experiences because of her knowledge about her relatives' experiences during the partition of India in the 1940s. The film received largely negative reviews, and Pinto's performance divided critics: Geoffrey Macnab of The Independent wrote that "Miral ... is played very engagingly by Freida Pinto", while Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian stated that "[Pinto] looks uneasy and miscast".
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The song uses the band's alternative instrumental lineup, in which Helm plays strings instead of drums, Richard Manuel plays drums instead of piano and Garth Hudson plays piano instead of organ. Unlike many Band songs with this lineup, however, Helm plays guitar rather than mandolin. Hudson also plays baritone saxophone and producer John Simon plays tuba. Several commentators have focused on Manuel's drumming, calling it "gloriously off-kilter" and "engagingly clumsy".
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His translation of the Bible was indubitably one of Luther’s most important and influential achievements. The difficulties and challenges of translating are examined on the mezzanine floor of the Lutherhaus. The linguistic diversity of "German" is communicated engagingly and Luther's own statements about "interpreting" are also presented. At the same time, the role played by the numerous experts that collaborated with Luther on his translation of the Bible is revealed.
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Jane Jakeman of The Independent said the book has "an obvious solution" and criticized the sexual aspects of the storyline saying that "Elton relentlessly exploits every crude possibility". Stephanie Merritt of The Observer called the book "engaging and smartly plotted" but felt the book has "potential to date quickly". Adam Lively of The Times praised the "warm- hearted characterisation" calling the lead character, Ed Newson, "engagingly characterised" but did feel it has a "predictable outcome".
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Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave it 7.7 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus. In The New Yorker, The Ecstatic was hailed as Mos Def's "most conceptually knotty and ambitious work", while Aaron wrote in Spin that the "internationalist return to form" is also "perhaps his liveliest work".; For The Irish Times, Jim Carroll said the rapper has not performed this engagingly or skillfully since his career beginnings, highlighting especially "Supermagic" and "Life in Marvelous Times".
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In 2013, Waldmann was re-united with Nixon and Åberg in As You Like It, with Waldmann and Nixon being hailed as "the two most exciting actors in the company today". Reviews noted that "even without his impressive physique, [Waldmann] has a winning way about him with a wonderful engagement with the text and captures the impetuosity and passion of this slighted young noble perfectly" with a performance that is "engagingly nerdy" with an "electrifying" sexual frisson.
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The slow, reflective introduction gives way to a > faster section, based on an energetic, pulsating rhythm. It is to the > tranquil mood of the opening that the work eventually returns, closing on an > unresolved chord, to capture the eternity of the Canyon. After the concert in Wigmore Hall, the reviewer described an arch between a "deep, grumbling opening and ending (rather like Richard Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony)" and the "various moods of the route in an engagingly atmospheric piece".
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Bridget Jones is 32, single, engagingly imperfect, and worried about her weight. She works at a publishing company in London where her main focus is fantasizing about her handsome boss, Daniel Cleaver. At her parents' New Year party, Bridget is introduced to Mark Darcy, a childhood acquaintance and barrister, son of her parents' friends. Mark finds Bridget foolish and vulgar and Bridget thinks Mark is arrogant and rude, and is disgusted by his novelty Christmas jumper.
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Memorial tablet to Hilde Radusch at Eisenacher Straße 15, Berlin-Schöneberg Hilde Radusch (6 November 1903 – 2 August 1994) was a German political activist (KPD, SPD) who became involved in anti-fascist resistance. As the twentieth century progressed she also became increasingly prominent as a Feminist and Lesbian activist. Throughout her life Radusch kept a diary. Accessed by researchers after she died, her own writings have provided an insightful, and at times engagingly laconic, commentary on her eventful life.
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Van Eenennaam won two awards from American Society of Animal Science. One was for the 2013 video Gene Shop, a five-minute parody of Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop” in which Dr. Van Eenennaam and UC Davis students engagingly emphasize the importance of funding for agricultural research. The second award was for the 2012 video Were Those the Days My friend?, a take on a ballad from the 1960s that highlights the importance of genetic advances for improved production efficiency and food security.
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The film was generally well received by critics. Based on 76 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, it has an overall approval rating of 70 percent from critics and an average score of 6.49 out of 10. According to the website's consensus, "The Edukators engagingly plays out the clash between youthful idealism and older pragmaticism." Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating from 100 top reviews by mainstream critics, calculated a score of 68 based on 28 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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Bosley Crowther of The New York Times panned the film, writing that Seaton had "borrowed and invented a series of episodes that are quaintly sentimental and romantic but they have the strong flavor of myth. Furthermore, they are strung together in such a loose and senseless way and are played with such calculated cuteness that the monotony of them palls." Variety called it "a heart-warming comedy, engagingly acted, slickly produced and directed." "A pleasant, heart- warming comedy-drama," agreed Harrison's Reports.
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" He also opined that "[y]ou just get the feeling that if those concerned put as much effort into the songwriting as they did into the glossy album sleeve photo shoot things might have been a whole lot better." Andrew Lynch of entertainment.ie viewed the album as "inconsequential stuff and as with all Kylie's albums the quality is disappointingly uneven. But the best tracks have an engagingly bouncy quality and taken as a whole this is a much better record than most critics would like to admit.
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For Switch and Alone Time, each model's gender presentation was depicted based on costuming, makeup, and posing, without any digital manipulation except for compositing the images. Levine only works with personal acquaintances, normally in their own homes. According to Levine, his images are intended to, "celebrate marginality from a place of familiarity and self-exploration as opposed to voyeurism". Of Alone Time, Levine said, "by demonstrating an individual body's capacity to engagingly and believably embody two genders, my project questions the mainstream depiction of binary gender roles".
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Ken Eisner of Variety wrote that although the film has clever writing, a veteran director, and "starts out engagingly enough", it can't decide whether it is a horror film, neo-noir caper, or psychological thriller. Marjorie Baumgarten of The Austin Chronicle rated it 3/5 stars and called it "an intriguing indie effort" that is "refreshingly unpredictable". Ain't It Cool News praised the film, calling it director Gordon's best film. The reviewer praised the film's acting, intelligent approach, and difference in comparison to the director's previous works.
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Profiles of other costars--like David Spade, who "was only on the show so he could sleep with models"—are just dishy enough to leave the reader wanting more. Despite stiff prose, an engagingly honest look at the crossroads of comedy and dysfunction." Kliatt gave the Audiobook, read by Mohr, an A: "Mohr's experiences make one wonder how the show ever gets on the air. He dishes unflattering portraits of some of the cast and some guest hosts while speaking most fondly of Phil Hartman and Chris Farley.
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Upon its April 2010 US premiere on Masterpiece Classic, Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe wrote: > This evocative two-part miniseries has a lot going for it: rich period > design, an engagingly twisty plot, performances with depth, intriguing > racial and class issues. But the superfluous narrator? Like a few other > melodramatic flourishes, including a heightened soundtrack and some > inordinately sudsy dialogue about dreams and desires, he detracts. By > insisting we recognize the vast import and intensity of the “Small Island’’ > story that we’re watching, he only adds a kitschy veneer.
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Note: The book peaked #5 for two weeks (May 12 & 19) and was last listed on 1 September 2007. At the British Columbia Booksellers Association's BC Book Prizes, in April 2008, the book was short-listed for the Hubert Evans Non- Fiction Prize, while the authors won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, awarded to the authors of the book that best contributes to the enjoyment and understanding of British Columbia. The book has been called engagingly written, wisely researched, and honestly told. Critics admired the wit and humour.
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" It also praised Chopra's performance as "engagingly brilliant". The Times of India gave the film a score of 3 out of 5, praising the lead pair and their chemistry as "vibrant, spontaneous, and a finely nuanced performance". However, it criticised the script and narrative for being trite, saying that "all it promises is some fun moments, a peppy music score by Vishal-Shekhar, [and] alluring performances by Ranbir and Priyanka". Subhash K. Jha wrote another positive review, saying that the film "sets off a tender saucy engaging trip.
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After the war, depressed and alone, she chanced to meet W. F. Jackson Knight in the station café of Exeter Central railway station. (This meeting is engagingly described in Jackson Knights Biography). He had a profound influence on her life thereafter, turning her to studies of Folklore and Comparative Religion, subjects in which she eventually became Lecturer at Exeter University. She was a significant member of the school of folklorists who were influenced by Jungian psychology, and believed that it was possible to identify in folklore the abiding archetypes of the collective unconscious.
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" Mark Butler from iNews praised the film's surreal atmosphere, unsettling imagery, soundtrack, and Harris' performance; calling it "a distinctly non-humorous, deeply unsettling psychological horror that leaves a thoroughly haunting impression." Joey Keogh from WickedHorror awarded the film 5 out of 5 stars, writing "Possum will crawl under your skin and lay eggs. It will set up camp in a dark corner of your mind and linger there, its many legs hanging ominously in wait to pounce. It's shiver-inducing, claustrophobic, hauntingly brilliant nightmare fuel, powered by an engagingly disturbing central performance from Sean Harris.
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In 2016, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence created a series of professional advocacy webinars. National Coalition Against Domestic Violence's monthly webinars explore emerging issues, insights, best practices, and research from leaders in the domestic violence field. Each webinar offers an opportunity to improve an advocate's skillset and knowledge base with detailed, hands-on video training, engagingly delivered to their desk. Topics for webinars in 2018 range from effective outreach to LGBTQ survivors of abuse to the dangers and impact of strangulation to examining the global effort to end violence against women."Webinars".
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He created the website Perrier Bets in 2004 to take bets on who would win the Perrier Award at Edinburgh. He began compering in 2003, including at Downstairs at the King's Head in Crouch End, which he called his "favourite venue". He compered for Fulham F.C. in 2004, briefly replacing David Hamilton before Hamilton was reinstated. In 2016, he returned to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his show "Let's Talk About Tax"; FringeReview called the show a "well-researched, engagingly delivered and thoroughly enlightening hour of education and entertainment".
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Shimmer is beautiful in the way that a collapsing building is; more beautiful, because throughout it you can cling to the hope that the building will somehow put itself back together." "Robbie is one of those engagingly conflicted heroes who comes along from time to time, an essentially good man who knowingly perpetrated a swindle of epic proportions and who will now do whatever it takes to minimize the damage."—Booklist "[T]his page turner isn't for techno geeks only. Bottom Line: Even the computer challenged reader will be wired into the intrigue.
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This book consisted of some of his early work, going back to 1960, work engagingly open to the merest reader. Then come selections from The Gathering, followed by poems from Threads. Next came Birds of the West, from Victor Coleman of Coachhouse Press in Toronto. This book consists of three sections: a journal of gardening and visitors; a section of more finished poems, filled with a landscape of Western Sonoma County; and a single, long poem written in sparse triplets to reflect a white-tail kite's hovering flight. Soon afterwards, Tight Corners and What’s Around Them was issued by Black Sparrow.
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Paying more attention to the considerable presence of involuntary servitude in African-American literature and intellectual history, reaching back to Charles Chesnutt and Paul Laurence Dunbar, would have helped". However, he concludes that "the book vividly and engagingly recalls the horror and sheer magnitude of such neo-slavery and reminds us how long after emancipation such practices persisted." Slavery by Another Name was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The award committee called it "a precise and eloquent work that examines a deliberate system of racial suppression and rescues a multitude of atrocities from virtual obscurity.
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D." in The Guardian's review of 4 May 1940 said that the play was, "for those who delight in the complications of the crime novel in its most recent phases. It is wildly complicated, but is it engagingly so?" The reviewer seemed to prefer characters like Sherlock Holmes as a detective rather than Poirot and the "bafflement" that his cases brought. The reviewer then committed the cardinal sin of identifying the murderer in his somewhat ironically-written final paragraph when he said, "There can be no harm in divulging that this play's apparent heroine is really its villainess. Mrs.
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" He also criticizes the editors for arranging the stories alphabetically by author; "[a]s a result, the book starts with futility and ends with a cute minor tale. The two best stories are bunched at the beginning and all the ones toward the end have the same tone." A different arrangement "would've helped this book to have a strong opening and close." Turning to the stories themselves he singles out "three first class stories: those by Cherryh (best in book), Llywelyn, and Springer," and takes note of Carter's as "essentially, a study in futility -- though well-written and engagingly told.
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Alone Time is a series of photographs with the same model depicting both the female and male members of a couple. Levine says of this series: > By demonstrating an individual body’s capacity to engagingly and believably > embody two genders, my project questions the mainstream depiction of binary > gender roles. This conceptual decision to double the gender presentation of > a single body challenges normative ideas surrounding gender presentation and > instead implies that gender expression can be fluid and multiple. Switch is a series of diptychs, each depicting the same two models, but with opposite gender presentations in each photograph.
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Varietys Andrew Barker called the film endearing and engagingly enthusiastic, and said it is "more fun than it ought to be". Barker considered RZA's on-screen role to be too withdrawn to carry the central character role, but praised the supporting performances, especially those of Le's crime lord and Crowe, who Barker said "smirkingly goes for broke to an extent that viewers haven't seen from him since, well ... ever." Barker also praised the film's score, but was critical of the script's uneven tone. The New York Timess Manohla Dargis called it an erratically enjoyable product of a deep cinephile passion for the martial arts genre.
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A vacuous set of reviews for a vacuous group of girls." Fraser McAlpine gave the song a mixed review, awarding it three out of five stars. He pointed out that fans of the group would be divided on the song. "Something hidden deep in the song's DNA is engagingly bad, or worryingly good, and it's got everyone's quality alarms jangling like a wind-chime in a hurricane ... [There is a moment of] appreciation for the bit where they sing "begging to get back together" ... It's slow, moody, ponderous, a little bit boring at times, but when it gets to that bit, it's ... the good bit.
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The one-story design, attached garage, plain overhanging eaves, and simple white clapboard siding represent the hallmarks of mid-century house design. The LaFlams detailed the windows and doors with broad, stained wood trim, which is the kind of simple detailing available in a lumber-rich place like Vermont. The house, which is neither a traditional Cape nor a typical ranch, has characteristics of do-it-yourself construction, with an engagingly awkward mix-and-match of new and old, typical and idiosyncratic, details. In the summer of 2000, the house was opened to the public as a temporary exhibition entitled "The Fabulous 50's: Welcome Home to Postwar Vermont".
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Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle found the album as surprising as "Primal Scream's life- changing Screamadelica was a decade ago. It's downright shocking how fun this is". Pitchforks Matt LeMay credited the Avalanches for developing a "unique context" for the songs without compromising their original "distinct flavor" and said that the album "sounds like nothing else" because of how the samples are employed rather than their quality or volume. Q magazine's Gareth Grundy remarked that its clever music is delivered as engagingly as "more conventional dance sounds" and that the album "finally fulfils sampling's original promise" of producing new, extraordinary sounds from artfully appropriated pieces of existing songs.
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Mr. Klitz, an artist with a fine sense of > architectural atmosphere and character, has done a great deal to redress the > balance. His pictures show a fine but restrained sense of colour and he is > engagingly sensitive to the London scene. Mr. Klitz is an artist – and this > is a high tribute indeed – whose work will appeal equally to those who live > in London and to those who have paid a visit to London, and want to have > something by which to remember it. Whether it is Horse Guards Parade or the > River, Mr. Klitz has captured that strange pearly light which is the secret > of so much of London's grace.
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" In 1935 Biala was given her first solo exhibition when "Paintings of Provence by Biala" appeared at the Georgette Passedoit Gallery, New York, from April 25 to May 9. The paintings came from illustrations she prepared for Ford's book, Provence: From Minstrels to the Machine.Provence: From Minstrels to the Machine, by Ford Madox Ford, illustrated by Biala (Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1935). Reviewing the book for The New York Times, Noel Sauvage, wrote that Biala's illustrations were "naïve and light-hearted; by some magic of brush and pen, they achieve an engagingly subtle humor that is in perfect harmony with the witty and genial text.
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"Tooms" premiered on the Fox network on April 22, 1994, and was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on February 16, 1995. This episode earned a Nielsen rating of 8.6, with a 15 share, meaning that roughly 8.6 percent of all television-equipped households, and 15 percent of households watching television, were tuned in to the episode. It was viewed by 8.1 million households. In a retrospective of the first season in Entertainment Weekly, "Tooms" was rated an A, with the Hutchison's appearance being noted as "another sublimely slimy performance", whilst Pileggi's performance was said to have an "engagingly steely presence".
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Nicholas D. Kristof welcomed Sexants in the New York Times as "sensibly organized and engagingly told" but "In the end, I disagreed with much of the thesis of this book, but that is not to say that I disliked it. On the contrary, I probably liked it more for disagreeing with it. Partly because of the boldness of the argument, it is stimulating and refreshing..." Nicholas D. Kristof, Strangers Bearing Gifts New York Times August 29, 1999 Her 2003 article "New Qing History" summarized American revisionist scholarship in history of the Qing dynasty and gave it the name New Qing History which has come into widespread use.
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Pierrot was not Baptiste's only creation. As Robert Storey, one of the most assiduous students of the mime's repertoire, has pointed out, Deburau performed in many pantomimes unconnected with the Commedia dell'Arte: > He was probably the student-sailor Blanchotin in Jack, l'orang-outang > (1836), for example, and the farmhand Cruchon in Le Tonnelier et le > somnambule ([The Cooper and the Sleepwalker] late 1838 or early 1839), and > the goatherd Mazarillo in Fra-Diavolo, ou les Brigands de la Calabre > ([Brother Devil, or The Brigands of Calabria] 1844). He was certainly the > Jocrisse-like comique of Hurluberlu (1842) and the engagingly naïve recruit > Pichonnot of Les Jolis Soldats ([The Handsome Soldiers] 1843).Storey, > Pierrots on the stage, p. 10.
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The novel was reviewed in many newspapers. It received mostly good reviews. In a review for The Daily Telegraph, Orlando Bird called it "lean, clever and propulsive". Meanwhile, Hannah McGill of The Scotsman commended Welsh's perceptive description of the "divisions that rend families, and the minor lies and delusions that sustain relationships" Writing for The London Magazine, Erik Martiny called it a "resourceful, engagingly lively novel", but stressed that its "main interest derives less from its detective novel scenario than from Welsh’s ability to explore his protagonist’s inner struggle to contain the beast within." In the Oxonian Review, Callum Seddon suggested the novel was "a take on the established trope of ‘the double’ in Scottish literature".
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He added that the track would have benefited from being edited in length, as the climactic ending was "a couple of minutes too long". Cash Boxs reviewer said that the extended fadeout, having been a device pioneered by the Beatles on "All You Need Is Love", "becomes something of an art form" in "Hey Jude", comprising a "trance-like ceremonial that becomes almost timeless in its continuity". Time magazine described it as "a fadeout that engagingly spoofs the fadeout as a gimmick for ending pop records". The reviewer contrasted "Hey Jude" with "Revolution", saying that McCartney's song "urges activism of a different sort" by "liltingly exhort[ing] a friend to overcome his fears and commit himself in love".
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Publishers Weekly (June 28, 2010) wrote about Miłoszewski's novel Entanglement and gave it a starred review: > Miloszewski takes an engaging look at modern Polish society in this stellar > first in a new series starring Warsaw prosecutor Teodor Szacki. (...) > Szacki, who's undergoing a midlife crisis and has ambivalent feelings about > his wife, considers an affair with journalist hoping to get exclusive > details on his inquiry. Readers will want to see more of the complex, > sympathetic Szacki. For "A Grain of Truth" Zygmunt Miloszewski got his next starred review in Publishers Weekly (11/19/2012): > A smart plot, an engagingly acerbic lead, and a nuanced portrayal of 2009 > Poland lift Miloszewski’s second mystery featuring Warsaw prosecutor Teodor > Szacki (after "Entanglement").
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In 2010, Allison Hoover Bartlett writing for the Wall Street Journal named it one of the most influential works about book collecting published in the twentieth century. By 2003, with the publication of A Splendor of Letters, Basbanes was already acknowledged as a leading authority on books and book culture. One reviewer commented, "No other writer has traced the history of the book so thoroughly or so engagingly,"Andre Bernard,"Fear of Book Assasination [sic] Haunts Bibliophile's Musings," The New York Observer, December 15, 2013. and Yale University Press chose him to write its 2008 centennial history, A World of Letters, which chronicled the inside stories of its classic books from conception to production.
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" Citing her tightly choreographed performance, Snyder comments "[h]er theatrical inclinations elevated the concert at San Jose, but some of the music was truncated in the service of the production." Giving his opinion that Jackson proved to be a better performer than singer, he likened her concert to productions by Broadway theatre and Cirque du Soleil. Karla Peterson of The San Diego Union-Tribune remarked: "Expertly designed, energetically choreographed, and engagingly performed by the large group of musicians and dancers, the 100-minute show ... had everything you'd expect from a pop pro of Jackson's stature." Despite criticism that the show appeared overly structured, Peterson expressed: "To criticize Janet Jackson for cranking out a pre-programmed block of hits is like criticizing a cat for sleeping all day.
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Gavin Long selected the authors of the series, and these appointments were approved by a government committee. Long required that the authors have "some or all of three positive qualifications: experience of the events, proved ability to write lucidly and engagingly, [and] training as a historian". It was also decided that authors would not be able to write on topics in which they had played a leading part during the war. Selecting and engaging authors took up much of Long's time, and some potential authors declined offers of appointment. A replacement author for Chester Wilmot's volume on the Siege of Tobruk and Battle of El Alamein also had to be found in 1954 after he was killed in a plane crash.
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Vincent Canby, writing for The New York Times in 1981, noted "Melville's affection for American gangster movies may have never been as engagingly and wittily demonstrated as in Bob le Flambeur, which was only the director's fourth film, made before he had access to the bigger budgets and the bigger stars (Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon) of his later pictures. The film received positive reviews when re-released by Rialto Pictures in U.S. cinemas in 2001. It holds an approval rating of 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 30 reviews, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Majorly stylish, Bob le Flambeur is a cool homage to American gangster films and the presage to French New Wave mode of seeing.
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Although the album was overshadowed by speculation regarding Hopkins's famous friends and employers, The Tin Man Was a Dreamer attracted positive reviews, and is still well regarded among fans and critics alike. Bruce Eder of AllMusic describes it as "engagingly edgy pop-rock – picture Elton John's early '70s work with more variety, a few rough edges, and a bit less ego".Bruce Eder, "Nicky Hopkins The Tin Man Was a Dreamer", AllMusic (retrieved 16 June 2013). For Eder, the highlights are many: "Dolly", a "hauntingly beautiful" ballad; the instrumental "Edward"; a "pounding, pumping" rocker called "Speed On"; the "wittily scatological" second single, "Banana Anna"; "Lawyer's Lament" – specifically, its "exquisite harmonies" and Taylor's "sensitive lead playing"; and the "rollicking" closing track "Pig's Boogie", on which Chris Spedding contributed a guitar part.
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Retrieved 2011-11-20. Other reviewers also played up the zeitgeist angle of the film, including Screen Daily's Mark Adams who said that Dad Made Dirty Movies "does a great job in capturing the feel of the era," adding that "fans of cult exploitation films of the late 1960s and early 1970s will relish this engagingly balanced delve into the work of Stephen C. Apostolof.", Adams, Mark (2011-06-23). "Review: Dad Made Dirty Movies. screendaily.com. Retrieved 2011-11-20. Tim Elliott of The Age wrote that "Stephen C. Apostolof's life is one of the great postwar American stories, a rollicking tale of rebellion, adventure and female breasts" concluding that "this zesty tribute explores Apostolof's life with suitable scepticism and humour.", Elliott, Tim (2011-09-09). "Review: Dad Made Dirty Movies. smh.com.au.
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Maggie Lee of Variety notes Kashyap never lets his diverse influences of old- school Italo-American mafia classics a la Coppola, Scorsese and Leone, as well as David Michod's taut crime thriller "Animal Kingdom," override the distinct Indian color. Calling the film "the love child of Bollywood and Hollywood," she felt the film was "by turns pulverizing and poetic in its depiction of violence." Lee Marshall of Screen International writes "the script alternates engagingly between scenes of sometimes stomach-churning violence and moments of domestic comedy, made more tasty by hard-boiled lines of dialogue like "in Wasseypur even the pigeons fly with one wing, because they need the other to cover their arse" ". He describes song lyrics "as if mouthed by a Greek chorus of street punks" commenting sarcastically on what's happening onscreen.
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Reviewing the 1969 reissue for The Times, HRF Keating described the novel as less good than Crispin's The Moving Toyshop, "being rather too much bogged down with the mechanics of suspicion-casting to achieve total elan". Crispin’s Times obituary of 1978 detected within The Case of the Gilded Fly the influence of his favourite authors John Dickson Carr, Gladys Mitchell and Michael Innes together with – in his own words – "a dash of Evelyn Waugh". The obituarist placed the novel within the "highly improbable but wholly delightful" academic detective genre in which stories were never meant to be realistic but were "simply an entertainment for educated readers, in which a backbone consisting of ingenious, perfectly serious, detective puzzles was most engagingly adorned with academic wit and precise good writing".
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Preferring to concentrate on substance over style, the band members were renowned for dressing down and wearing their glasses on stage, whilst the vocals were delivered with pointedly southern English phrasing. 1996 saw the appearance of the demo/release Product (brilliantly named after randomly picking a word from the ingredients list of a packet of peanuts) which received praise for its engagingly catchy songwriting. The band spent the next couple of years gaining a reputation as one of the hardest working unsigned bands (largely due to the efforts of manager and promoter, "Rubberhead" Pete Cole) and developing an infectiously fun and chaotic on-stage style. Several rave reviews in the national music press followed. During this time, Inter was featured on Fierce Panda's Screecher Comforts EP and headlined NME's 1997 Brats Unsigned.
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"High Energy" is the title of a 1984 song co-written and co-produced by Ian Levine (British) and Fiachra Trench (Irish), and performed by American dance singer Evelyn Thomas. The song was very popular in dance clubs around the world, and it topped the American dance chart in September of that year. It also spent four weeks atop the singles chart in Germany, and peaked at #5 in the UK. It became one of the earliest successful songs within the genre of music that has come to be known as Hi-NRG. On the SoBe Music compilation album Gay Classics, Volume 1: Ridin' the Rainbow, the liner notes describe the song as "...engagingly captur[ing] the spirit of the genre through uplifting lyrics tightly fused with dazzling synth work".
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His Majestie's Clerkes, Paul Hillier, director. Harmonia Mundi France HMU 907048. " The album was favourably reviewed by the Chicago Tribune as sung with "impeccable musicianship, full-throated tone, warmth and security of blend and expressive intelligence", and listed in the Penguin Guide to Compact Discs.The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and DVDs Yearbook -2004 - Page 70 "His Majesties's Clerkes, Hillier William Billings was a Boston tanner and singing-master who flourished in New England in the years of the emergence of the new American nation, and his anthems and what he engagingly called 'fuging tunes' ... To quote the Chicago Tribune, the music is sung with 'impeccable musicianship, full-throated tone, warmth and security of blend and expressive intelligence', and, one might add, with great vitality by His Majesties Clerkes under Paul Hillier.
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Of because it'Spring (1984, setting e.e.cummings poems for the 16-voice BBC Northern Singers) it has been said "Music of such imaginative poise and wit, so constantly surprising yet so constantly right, is rare indeed".David Fanning, The Independent, 24 February 1994 The review also refers to Poole's "engagingly zig-zag path", a point developed in his New Grove Dictionary entry (2001): "To call Poole eclectic is an understatement; he is a classic blend of academic, maverick, craftsman, idealist and dissident.""Poole, Geoffrey" entry by Giles Easterbrook, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2001 Dissidence is certainly felt in the defiant mood of Ten (a response to the English summer of discontent in 1981), the Five Brecht Songs (1983) and a dystopian millennial black comedy of Lucifer (2000-1).
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Publishers Weekly's critic wrote that "Strauss's voice is stronger" in the book's "bleak vignettes" than in his "musing, surrealistic descriptive passages or his grumblings about art and society". The critic wrote that some of the passages are so "undilutedly alienated they read almost as parody-German intellectualism at its most grim", while others "are truly haunting, reminding readers that postmodernism can translate as historical and emotional homelessness". Kirkus Reviews described the content as "six interchangeable patchwork stories, each a seemingly arbitrary collection of discrete scenes and statements meant to express our common solipsism and essential selfishness." The critic wrote that > only in "dimmer" is there an engagingly specific fictional invention: a > revisionist creation myth according to which men and women originally did > not cohabit but instead gave birth separately, to his or her replacement, as > it were, at the moment of death.
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The film's young heroine is flung from the quiet town of Montalto di Castro into the Roman labyrinth, because her father – a frustrated small town intellectual engagingly played by Italian film and TV star, Sergio Castellitto – decides to move to the big city. Margherita Buy won the David di Donatello and the Nastro d'Argento awards for Best Supporting Actress in 2004 in the role of Caterina's mother, while Alice Teghil won the Guglelmo Biraghi award. N (Io e Napoleone) (Napoleon and Me) (2006), adapted from the novel by Ernesto Ferrero, is Virzì’s attempt at combining the Italian style comedy genre, with a historic period piece. The film focuses on the relationship between intellectuals and power and the 19th century plot is peppered with allusions to the present day: the parallel between Napoleon and Silvio Berlusconi is at times quite explicit.
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Fluently and engagingly written by an anonymous junior criminal barrister, according to Bates, the book tells of underfunded, dilapidated buildings, ever-lengthening trial delays and miscarriages of justice. Bates noted that "in a staggering 87 per cent of cases" audit trails show the disclosure of evidence to defence lawyers from the police or by the hassled, overworked and understaffed Crown Prosecution Service to be unsatisfactory. In CL&J; Criminal Law and Justice Weekly Jon Robins wrote that the book "shines an unflinching light on the nightmare of our courts", with chronic underfunding, staggering inefficiency and deathly managerialism being endemic within the system. He noted that austerity has hit the criminal justice system hard, and quoted the book's author as making it evident how dangerous a place the courts have become should you have the misfortune to end up there.
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"False Conviction makes its case for reform...and does so strongly and engagingly....These compelling stories of tragedy, science and the search for the truth are available for a much broader audience than if they were the subject of a classic bricks and mortar exhibition. With False Conviction, The New York Hall of Science proves that museums can move beyond their own walls to create compelling investigations of complex issues at the intersection of science and society."McDonald, Hugh, "Book Review: False Conviction: Innocence, Guilt and Science," pp. 80–81, Exhibitionist, Spring 2015 Conceived by Eric Siegel, the chief content officer of the Hall of Science, and Peter Neufeld, the co-founder of the Innocence Project, the book was developed by the Hall of Science, in consultation with the Innocence Project, with a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's program for Public Understanding of Science, Technology & Economics.
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According to John Pearson, the Sitwells' biographer, "David dressed superbly, had an amusing line of gossip about all the best people, which he recounted in an engagingly basso profundo voice, and after leaving Cambridge was soon floating, as unattached, good-looking, upper-class young Englishmen could float in those more gentle, far-off days, through a rarely failing world of dinner-parties, long weekends and holidays abroad. He was the perfect guest, the ideal ornament for any party, charming to women and agreeable to men, better connected and far better read than the usual run of gilded social butterflies, and equally at home in the best society in Paris or in London." Before World War II, Horner published two books based on his life in France: Through French Windows (1938) and Was It Yesterday? (1939). During World War II he served as a Squadron-Leader in the Royal Air Force.
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Viktor Nekipelov, a well-known dissident poet, was arrested in 1973, sent to the Section 4 of the Serbsky Institute of Forensic Psychiatry for psychiatric evaluation, which lasted from 15 January to 12 March 1974, was judged sane (which he was), tried, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. In 1976, he published in samizdat his book Institute of Fools: Notes on the Serbsky Institute based on his personal experience at Psychiatric Hospital of the Serbsky Institute and translated into English in 1980.; In this account, he wrote compassionately, engagingly, and observantly of the doctors and other patients; most of the latters were ordinary criminals feigning insanity in order to be sent to a mental hospital, because hospital was a "cushy number" as against prison camps. According to the President of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia Yuri Savenko, Nekipelov's book is a highly dramatic humane document, a fair story about the nest of Soviet punitive psychiatry, a mirror that psychiatrists always need to look into.
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In his book Institute of Fools, he wrote compassionately, engagingly, and observantly of the doctors and other patients; most of the latters were ordinary criminals feigning insanity in order to be sent to a mental hospital, because hospital was a "cushy number" as against prison camps. According to the President of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia Yuri Savenko, Nekipelov’s book is a highly dramatic humane document, a fair story about the nest of Soviet punitive psychiatry, a mirror that psychiatrists always need to look into. However, according to Malcolm Lader, this book as an indictment of the Serbsky Institute hardly rises above tittle-tattle and gossip, and Nekipelov destroys his own credibility by presenting no real evidence but invariably putting the most sinister connotation on events. After reading the book, Donetsk psychiatrist Pekhterev concluded that allegations against the psychiatrists sounded from the lips of a negligible but vociferous part of inmates who when surfeiting themselves with cakes pretended to be sufferers.
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But it does so in a different register, setting [Solange's] deft soprano to an updated version of psychedelic funk and soul." Emily Mackay from The Guardian wrote, "[Solange has] long been engagingly outspoken on issues of race, and from the title down, A Seat at the Table is an intensely personal testament to black experience and culture; the likes of 'F.U.B.U.,' 'Mad,' 'Don't Touch My Hair' and interludes in which her parents talk about their encounters with racism go deep. Sonically, the album's take on modern psychedelic soul is languid, rich, lifted by airy, Minnie Riperton–esque trills on the gorgeous likes of 'Cranes in the Sky' or the darkly glimmering 'Don't Wish Me Well'; it's a world away from 2008's peppier, poppier Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams or 2012's indie-crossover-hit True EP. Guest spots from artists as diverse as Lil Wayne, Sampha, Tweet and Kelela only serve to amplify Solange's fascinating voice.
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The historian Ben H. Shepherd comments in The English Historical Review that Beorn "has produced a highly impressive, engagingly written work that significantly advances the understanding of the dynamics that shaped the murderous anti-Semitic actions of Wehrmacht units down to the level of companies and battalions". Commenting on Beorn's research into Wehrmacht complicity in Nazi crimes in a 2015 review in The American Historical Review, historian Thomas Kühne calls the book, the "most convincing, the most complex, and in the English language certainly the most important to this crucial area of the Holocaust history, of military history, and of Germany history". He finds that the book will "serve as a model for similar studies". Historian Henning Pieper in German History also praises the book for its thorough analysis and concludes: A review in Omaha World-Herald suggests that the book "ought to be on the reading list of anyone interested in the German army or battles on the Eastern Front in World War II".
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Too bad, since many of these otherwise engagingly gritty R&B; tracks, especially the euphoric 'Happy Song,' out-sass recent material by grown-up divas like Monica, Tamia, and even Mary J. Blige. Though the 13-year- old's vocal calisthenics quickly grow tiresome, with a few more years under her belt JoJo may yet discover her inner soul singer." Slant Magazine gave the album a mixed review, stating, "But while the girl's certainly got pipes, her eponymous debut is as contrived and calculated as the strategic tears in the t-shirt and cap she sports on the album's cover. Even the songs JoJo penned herself can't give the disc the personality it so desperately needs; 'Keep On Keepin' On' is a 'personal,' inspirational tune, but it's high-end sneakers and a duplex that JoJo wants, a sad reminder of how success is measured by today's young people—as dictated by hip-hop trends and MTV's Cribs.
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Nancy Churnin of The Dallas Morning News gave the film a B, writing: "The turtles (engagingly voiced by Alan Ritchson, Noel Fisher, Johnny Knoxville and Jeremy Howard) look terrific" and "the best part is that the film has heart". Justin Lowe of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review, writing "Liebesman relies on his genre-film resume to keep events moving at a brisk clip and the motion-capture process employed to facilitate live-action integration with cutting-edge VFX looks superior onscreen". Justin Chang of Variety said the film is "neither a particularly good movie nor the pop- cultural travesty that some were dreading". A.A. Dowd of The A.V. Club gave the film a C+: "What the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lacks is not fidelity, but a spirit of genuine boyish fun -- the sense that anyone involved saw more than a very specific shade of green in the freshly digital scales of these 30-year-old characters".
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The opera was enthusiastically received at its official opening on 22 November,Letter of 22 November 1836 to Riccordi, in Ashbrook 1989, p. 28 the run of performances were poorly attended due to a cholera epidemic affecting the city, as well as many parts of Northern and Southern Italy. Though Donizetti called it "my most carefully worked out score", he wrote that "the third act is the least successful....Who knows, I might retouch it?" In another letter to "Dolci di Bergamo" on the same day he wrote: "The third act...seems to me to produce less effect because the dances slow down the action, and perhaps I will cut them to make the opera more effective..."Donizetti, letter to "Dolci di Bergamo", 22 November 1836, in Ashbrook 1989, p. 15 Generally regarded as the weakest, act 3 contains four "engagingly noisy" dances during a scene celebrating the Queen's arrival.Osborne 1994, p. 255.
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In 2010, New Perspectives produced Those Magnificent Men, Mitchell and Nixon's comedy about the first ever non-stop Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown. The play, directed by Daniel Buckroyd, originally had C.P.Hallam as Alcock and Richard Earl as Brown. Philip Reeve reviewed the play: 'Without ever being disrespectful to the real Alcock and Brown, they manage to turn their heroes into a classic British comedy duo in the tradition of Morecambe and Wise, with CP Hallam's Alcock the long-suffering straight man and Richard Earl's Brown the buffoon. And as if history and comedy were not enough, there are points where the characters step out of the action and era of the play to discuss the whole notion of biographical dramas, and shoot down in flames the recent trend for plays and films based on the lives of politicians, comedians and celebrities; works which twist the facts to make the story more interesting....This is a superb piece of theatre, beautifully written and engagingly acted, and it deserves to be widely seen.
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The book's launch party was held at Sala One-Nine, a tapas restaurant at 35 West 19th Street in Manhattan, which existed on the site of Slater's Magickal Childe store. The event was reported on by a journalist from The New York Times, Corey Kilgannon, who noted that there was a "strapping man" dressed in a headdress and loincloth working at the door, with around 80 attendees inside, most of whom were Pagans. Among them included Bennie Geraci, Carol Bulzone, Kaye Flagg and Margot Adler, a number of whom gave speeches before a memorial service to Buczynski was held, in a ritual that Kilgannon thought resembled something from Stanley Kubrick's film Eyes Wide Shut. Bull of Heaven was positively reviewed by Pagan studies scholar Ethan Doyle White in The Pomegranate academic journal, who asserted that the book was "eloquently and engagingly written", and was important for documenting the life not only of Buczynski, but also of other important figures in the New York Pagan scene, like Herman Slater and Leo Martello.
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From a contemporary review, Erik Davis (Spin) praised the songwriting and opined the group could not "resist drawing out the pretty parts of its songs" Select noted the album's "great songs that were hinted at on last year's overrated Imperial ffrr" and while disliking a track described as "a token wine-glass drone type track", it was "soon forgotten in the midst of such potent, fully realised music." The Chicago Tribune noted that Unrest "employs guitars that jangle engagingly and fresh voices that recall a more innocent age, intoxicated by possibility" and that "there's an undercurrent of melancholy to "Perfect Teeth" that makes these deceptively modest tunes resonate." Chuck Eddy (Entertainment Weekly) spoke negatively about the album, finding that the guitar playing "so lethargic it’s almost not there" and that the album only contained "some vaguely pretty moments", specifically on the song "Make Out Club". From retrospective reviews, Heather Phares (AllMusic) gave the album four and a half stars out of five, finding that the group's tendencies of both pop and experimental music "come together with terrific success on Perfect Teeth" and declared it the high point of the group's career.
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