A matter-of-factness about even the pretty ones; look or don't look.
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"We talked about the bill," McConnell said with his typical matter of factness.
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"Had a big book to write," he said with a flat matter-of-factness.
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Adults, animals and children die in these stories with an austere matter-of-factness.
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"What you have heard is true," this Cyrano announces with a weary matter-of-factness.
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His matter-of-factness is striking — it sounds like the product of concision, not uncertainty.
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What sets Mr. Robot apart from other shows is its matter-of-factness about female leads.
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But Kate Kane's sexuality is treated with as much matter-of-factness as her other attributes.
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She said, with her usual matter-of-factness, that it was simply a matter of pragmatism.
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In contrast, Deadpool 2's matter-of-factness surrounding Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Yukio's relationship is refreshing.
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And its causes, as explained with a cool matter-of-factness, have an alarming ring of inevitability.
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But del Toro presents this scene with a matter-of-factness that goes a long way toward normalizing it.
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The rape itself, which takes place after a boozy class reunion, is treated with a deceptive matter-of-factness.
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There is an electrifying matter-of-factness to it, one that normalizes death, which is part of Taylor's goal.
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In "The Shot," Yu Hong overcomes the peril of grand narratives with a brute matter-of-factness of symbolic representation.
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" Admire the matter-of-factness with which Kwon, in both of these passages, invokes the phrase "the girl I loved.
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The imagery gives the book an uncanny quality, while the matter-of-factness of Wray's vision conveys dark, almost subversive, humor.
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Ms. Romano moved around the office with a defiant matter-of-factness to match her personality, often dispensing with her cane.
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Perhaps as a result, he addresses drug use with the matter-of-factness most people would use to talk about underage drinking.
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Gabriel's painting entitled "Haitian Revolution" (2017), inspired by Rainsford's engravings, presents the overthrow of white leadership with gaiety and matter-of-factness.
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Watching that scene, what snaps your head back is not the horror of its subject but the matter-of-factness of its execution.
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What makes her masterpiece, "The Haunting of Hill House," so scarily effective is its matter-of-factness, the cleanness of its narrative line.
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But Sakamoto responds to the various crises in his life with a swift matter-of-factness — this is just how things must be done.
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That's because Gfrörer punctuates her gothic mumblecore with moments of intense intimacy, and she treats both sex and death with explicit matter-of-factness.
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The matter-of-factness is familiar Tyler territory — it's what inspired the younger generation to speak loudly for themselves, and perhaps he's nudging himself, too.
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She assesses the authorities with a matter-of-factness that excludes neither the emotional pain of discrimination nor the persistent pull of those in power.
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It is the perverse, insistent, matter-of-factness of male sexual predation and assault — of men's power over women — that haunts the revelations about Mr. Weinstein.
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The buying and selling of children is contemplated with chilling matter-of-factness, and the world Zain inhabits is one where human bonds have become brutally transactional.
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She has the quintessentially Footean name of Etta Doris Meneffree, and she is portrayed by Pat Bowie with a matter-of-factness that feels like pure poetry.
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But he provides a necessary centering presence in a production that, under the direction of Simon Evans, leans toward hysteria when a deadpan matter-of-factness is required.
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This is the kind of atmosphere at which Oyeyemi excels, in which marvelous things happen with deadpan matter-of-factness and the reader is pulled along in their wake.
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Despite her insistence to the contrary, there is a strong whiff of "just-get-on-with-it" matter-of-factness that may be a little beyond some of us.
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And you can imagine the poetic prosiness she must have brought to the part, emphasizing how, in Foote's universe, even madness has a matter-of-factness that blends into the everyday.
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Andrzej Klak is perfectly cast as Joseph K. — awkward, lanky, looking in over his head — and the other actors inhabit this world with the right amount of ominous matter-of-factness.
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In Waititi's world, this kind of matter-of-factness fills in where another film would put a draggy monologue about Ricky's history, and what people used to tell him when he was depressed.
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No, they weren't keeping the baby, though she and Zhangwei would likely get pregnant again in a few years, "after we're married," Lulu said, with a calm matter-of-factness that astounded me.
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The same matter-of-factness extends to the production as a whole, starting with Dane Laffrey's naturalistic set (which has the virtue of actually looking, for once, like a genuine New York starter apartment).
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Mr. Hellman's low-key approach dovetails perfectly with Mr. Stanton's quiet matter-of-factness for a scene that feels as ordinary as life and, remarkable for the time, contains not a trace of gay panic.
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The "erotic" element is especially not for the faint of heart; few shows on television are so sexually explicit, but the matter-of-factness of the sex fits perfectly within the world of brazen political corruption.
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She offers one scene, for instance, now a staple of the genre, in which Marie's friends describe her with an innocent matter-of-factness that actually paints her in a few small anecdotes as a sociopath.
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Everything about Sondhi corroborated this: the evenness with which she spoke about her education, especially her grad school education in literature, and then the charming matter-of-factness with which she discussed her constant and steady success.
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Shots like the one of Paul nursing an erection in the theater are unheard-of on television, and they're treated here with a matter-of-factness that's in keeping with the reality of the series over all.
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What's more, Black Sails also excels at a different type of, er, action: The show features nearly half a dozen bisexual characters in its main cast, and treats sexuality in general with a refreshing matter-of-factness.
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Peter's candid matter-of-factness, pessimism, and wide range of interests recall S-Town's primary subject, John; in addition to being a farmer, Peter is a thinker, a reader, a craftsman, and an artist with a rich personal history.
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His Henri has a grave dignity that grows more moving as his health falters, and he is gently rebuffed in his attempt to forge a sustaining relationship with Suzanne, played with a nice matter-of-factness by Ms. Davi.
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There is a matter-of-factness to Ripley's heroism: she is not a screaming damsel in distress (a role unfortunately fulfilled by Lambert), and her sexuality is largely irrelevant, even though the film is shot through with body horror.
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Despite the painting's surreal undertones and apparently allegorical content, the portrait itself reminds me of the anti-expressionist Neue Sachlichkeit movement in Weimar Germany, whose objectivity or "matter-of-factness" grounded the work in the observation of society's prevailing conditions.
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But aside from my own fear — and I'm now installing surveillance cameras, because it turns out that public death threats slash through some of the psychic insulation privilege provides — what really bothered me was the matter-of-factness of it all.
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Rather than traumatizing Weiss, Wilensky's matter-of-factness about the chocolate penises makes Weiss feel that she has passed a maturity test — that she's been given a privileged glimpse into the adult world from which she is usually, conspiratorially, barred.
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The straight-laced, well-mannered disposition has become a key part of his campaign aesthetic and appeal to his supporters, the slow, lilting cadence and measured matter-of-factness of his speech reminiscent of someone doing their best Obama impression.
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You can feel the human and hedonistic pleasure McKellen takes in language — it's one of the qualities that makes him such a great classical actor — and the way he seems to taste his words as he speaks contrasts bizarrely with Iorek's blunt matter-of-factness.
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They say this not with reverence but with matter-of-factness, as if they're merely sharing an open secret: deep in East Texas, the head coach of a D-III program nobody has heard of is a prodigy who could change the course of college football.
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But midway through the film (I hestitate to say how far through, because the nature of the editing completely skews any sense of time passing) a leak springs in the ship's hull, a cataclysmic disaster that plays out with the unhurried but inescapable matter-of-factness of global warming.
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In an infamous scene, Erika slices her own vulva with a razor while perched on the edge of a bathtub — an act Haneke frames with clinical distance, and that Huppert plays with the matter-of-factness of a woman enacting a private ritual as familiar to her as brushing her teeth.
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"As everyone could tell in Season 1, I was a terrible actress," she said, with a matter-of-factness that's a little heartbreaking if you think of a teenager who, much like Sansa, was strapped into a corset in an unfamiliar country, feeling like she was doing a lousy job.
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In this #MeToo moment, when there is renewed interest in (read: confusion about) how to separate the life from the work, there is a welcome matter-of-factness in Holt's approach, a refreshing acknowledgment of how the two seep into each other, an awareness for our propensity for self-deception.
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Moving to New York from San Francisco in 1978, Wong painted his Lower East Side neighborhood and neighbors — poets and prisoners, addicts and immigrants, street kids and firemen — with a mix of compassion and matter-of-factness that provides uncanny insight into the time and place in which they were made.
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With a resolute matter-of-factness, Darden said his involvement in the case ended his ascent in the legal world, where he was tracking for the judiciary: "I would probably be sitting on the court of appeals somewhere, or maybe be the district attorney for the county of Los Angeles," he said.
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"To fall off is the fate of the majority of the motherfuckers that do this," Butler says with a calm matter-of-factness, seated in an office chair at the head of a conference room table at Sub Pop Records' North-Downtown Seattle office, where he now works as an A&R.
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In a scene whose pedagogical matter-of-factness is both chilling and funny, Mr. Jimenez stuffs cocaine (we'll assume legal constraints and an Off Off Broadway budget mean it's actually flour) into a condom, which he then lubricates so it can be inserted into — let's just leave the rest to your imagination.
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There's an argument to be made for the matter-of-factness of that choice, that these detention facilities are just part of all of our lives now, but they aren't; they're a harsh reality for people who are caught up in a system that's fraught with political and humanitarian implications, and so the decision to set part of the movie at the border feels glib.
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Any first-time (or hundredth-time, for that matter) traveler to Rome can't help but marvel at how lightly, and with what matter-of-factness, the Italians live among antiquities: A walk down the street is a stroll across thousands of years; the 2,000-plus-year-old Largo di Torre Argentina, excavated in the late 1920s, was where Caesar died, but it is also where the city's cats congregate for a sun-drunk loll.
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Aurora laughed and reinforced her expression of jolly matter-of-factness, looking into his eyes with eyes of sanative fun.
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She also noted that Benson was the first character to have an explicit coming out as gay in an all-ages animation series, and that the understated manner of the scene, in episode 6, made it all the more noteworthy. Charles Pulliam-Moore at io9 likewise wrote that the series's "casual queerness is fantastic" because Benson's orientation is not treated as a plot point to complicate Kipo's feelings for him, but, "with a distinct matter-of-factness", as just one aspect of his character.
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Roger Ebert gave it a full four stars and praised how the film's setting "is seen with an understated matter-of-factness. There are no cheap shots against suburban lifestyles or affluence or mannerisms: The problems of the people in this movie aren't caused by their milieu, but grow out of themselves. [...] That's what sets the film apart from the sophisticated suburban soap opera it could easily have become." He later named it the fifth best film of the year 1980; while colleague Gene Siskel ranked it the second best film of 1980.
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In the TLS, David Murray wrote that the book provoked "continuous laughter. … Old Stroganoff with his troubles, artistic, amorous and financial, his shiftiness, and his perpetual anxiety about the visit of the great veteran of ballet-designers – 'if 'e come', is a vital creation. ... The book stands out for shockingness and merriment.""A Bullet in the Ballet", Times Literary Supplement, 26 June 1937, p. 480 The sexual entanglements, both straight and gay, of the members of the Ballet Stroganoff are depicted with a cheerful matter-of-factness unusual in the 1930s.
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Max Ernst led a Dada group in Cologne, where he also practiced collage, but with a greater interest in Gothic fantasy than in overt political content --this hastened his transition into surrealism, of which he became the leading German practitioner.Hamilton, 473–478 The Swiss-born Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger and others experimented with cubism. The New Objectivity, or Neue Sachlichkeit (new matter-of-factness), was an art movement which arose in Germany during the 1920s as an outgrowth of, and in opposition to, expressionism. It is thus post-expressionist and applied to works of visual art as well as literature, music, and architecture.
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The inability to overcome obstacles is presented in the verbal narrative with objective matter-of-factness and the statement, "Peter began to cry" is offered without irony or attitude, thus drawing the reader closer to Peter's emotions and plight. The illustration depicts an unclothed Peter standing upright against the door, one foot upon the other with a tear running from his eye. Without his clothes, Peter is only a small, wild animal but his tears, his emotions, and his human posture intensifies the reader's identification with him. Here, verbal narrative and illustration work in harmony rather than in disharmony.
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The sexual entanglements, both straight and gay, of the members of the Ballet Stroganoff are depicted with a cheerful matter-of-factness unusual in the 1930s. Murray commented, "True, a certain number of the laughs are invited for a moral subject that people used not to mention with such spade-like explicitness, if at all." In The Observer, "Torquemada" (Edward Powys Mathers) commented on the "sexual reminiscences of infinite variety" and called the novel "a delicious little satire" but "not a book for the old girl".Torquemada. "Handmaids to Murder", The Observer, 11 July 1937, p. 7.
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The 18 June 1960 edition of The Guardian praised the story as "most ingenious" and Rilla as applying "the right laconic touch." Positive reviews also appeared in The Observer (by C.A. Lejeune): "The further you have moved away from fantasy, the more you will understand its chill"; and The People (by Ernest Betts), "As a horror film with a difference, it'll give you the creeps for 77 minutes." Dilys Powell in The Sunday Times stated on 20 June 1960: "Well made British film: the effective timing, the frightening matter-of-factness of the village setting, most of the acting, and especially the acting of the handsome flaxen- haired children (headed by Martin Stevens) who are the cold villains of the piece." American critics were also in favour of the film.
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" They noted that the film tended to be more graphic when compared to the other films included on the "Educational Archives" series, Sex & Drugs, and though it tried "very hard to take its subject seriously. Nevertheless, it comes across as very surreal." Digitally Obsessed wrote that the ABC of Sex Education for Trainables was "produced by Planned Parenthood to train teachers of developmentally-challenged young adults (called "trainables" here) about their bodies, reproduction, and the place of sexual relations in society." They noted that the film had a few scenes considered (in 2001) as humorous, but that the film "actually does the best job of dealing with the issues of sex in context with society," in how it dealt with such issues as anatomy, aspects of normal development and sexual maturity, the appropriateness of public masturbation, and being aware of exploitation, with the subjects "handled with tact and matter of factness.
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