Mr Snowden was one of the facilitators of that omniscience.
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Did you think about omniscience when writing and structuring the film?
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She would find that first and figure out the suspect's omniscience later.
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The era of modern day monetary omniscience is coming to an end.
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This is the omniscience not only of a writer but of a wife.
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The writer's omniscience, but also the state's, and God's—all of them oppressive.
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What happens is largely beyond your control, because the game isn't actually about omniscience.
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These companies mythologized their own omniscience when it was a boon to their business.
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Yet as that opening eye reminds us, we're never very far away from Orwellian omniscience.
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With modernism's emphasis on the self and the rendering of individual consciousness, omniscience became unfashionable.
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A populist leader cannot because the omniscience of the charismatic headman can never be doubted.
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The fantasy of objectivity creates a pressure to maintain the veneer of impartiality and omniscience.
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But China's sensors and cameras also create a data dragnet, offering China's surveillance state unprecedented omniscience.
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Sift's omniscience might feel invasive, as if consumers were pledging loyalty at the expense of privacy.
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But exactly how has that omniscience made it easier to get obsessed with buying stuff online?
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They don't start out with the presumption of omniscience; they struggle like the rest of us.
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Dee uses a roving, limited omniscience to give voice to a wide array of Howland's residents.
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By repeating the same day over and over, Murray's character defies death and even approaches omniscience.
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This may doom the palace intrigue genre, where colorful details are presented with a voice of omniscience.
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Perhaps, yet it creeps equally close to blasphemy; omniscience, after all, is the purview of the divine.
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The fact that Ng's narrator seems "spooky" suggests that omniscience is a novelty to some contemporary readers.
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That is, unless you have the blessed, empathic omniscience of a godly, forgiving artist like Ms. Barron.
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The movie didn't just make the hackers look sexy—it glamorized circumvention, the outcast's superiority, and omniscience.
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Doctor Manhattan is bit different, in that he's all-powerful, but his omniscience and omnipresence are limited.
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Despite my boast at the start of this column, I don't claim omniscience about what comes next.
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They show us our world from space and offer at least an illusion of control and omniscience.
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It exists apart from the people we see, explaining things to us from a position of apparent omniscience.
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The broad public grasp of football strategy may never progress far beyond Madden's limits, never mind approach omniscience.
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Everyone, from street cleaners and journalists to armed guards and diplomats, had to give in to his omniscience.
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They may aspire to divine levels of omniscience, but they risk driving away their followers in the process.
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In a world where technology can offer omniscience to mortals, what constitutes a miracle or a higher power?
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He prompts Bran to use his omniscience to see Lyanna and Rhaegar tying the knot in a secret ceremony.
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Her novels stand out for their brazen disregard for omniscience, manifested in her avoidance of the close third-person.
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Browsing the internet is its own kind of omniscience: so much information, and all just a few clicks away.
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A corresponding omniscience shapes the works themselves, as in "The City," a prismatic look at urban centers across time.
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To count on such omniscience would only pave the way for greater ambiguity and subjectivity in our sexual relations.
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The comic book might tell us more: While Jon is essentially omnipotent, he also possesses a type of omniscience.
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In Thor: The Dark World, Heimdall says he can see all the souls in the nine realms, explaining his omniscience.
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The only outward hint of inner conflict is the wayward direction of the eyes, which implies both omniscience and blindness.
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But hovering above the cacophony is the seemingly more objective and reliable narrator, Peter Coyote, whose disembodied voice signaled omniscience.
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His three novels are remarkable for the distinctiveness of their styles, but also for their special uncanniness, their relentless omniscience.
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Writing with the assurance and wry omniscience of an easygoing deity, Makumbi watches her protagonists live out invariably provisional answers.
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None of those approaches provide the freight omniscience Flexport gets from combining its logistics software data with its forwarding business execution.
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That dichotomy is essential to sustaining the mystical omniscience of a play that draws heavily from biblical scripture and Jewish ritual.
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By personalizing the relationship between individuals and the institutions that "protect" and control them, Magid undermines the omniscience projected by systematized authority.
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As you'll see in the trailer, The Circle's drive towards omniscience veers down a slippery slope — with star employee Mae front and center.
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In her quest for denim omniscience, she's come across one gripe that's made her job particularly difficult: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
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Indeed, central banks in general might reflect on their failure to foresee the crisis of 2008, rather than cultivating their air of omniscience.
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Apart from the story's firm historical grounding, the narrative has a supple omniscience that glides, Möbius-like, among the centuries without a snag.
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By dawn, I had watched seven episodes, the subjects were 49 years old, and I was buzzing with a newfound sense of omniscience.
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I was grateful that Facebook had given me the chance to talk to an unknown relation, but awed and disconcerted by its apparent omniscience.
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Hovering above his head is a triangle containing the "all-seeing eye of God" — a symbol of divine omniscience also associated with Masonic iconography.
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Borrowing from old realism and newer modernism, McGregor activates the privilege of roving omniscience, as he peers into kitchen windows, back gardens, upstairs bedrooms.
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Sometimes our parents' flickery omniscience detected a breach in the system, and they'd notice, for example, that we'd returned home penniless with soaking hair.
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At the same time, I try to surrender to the absence of certainty, and not be so addicted to some false sense of omniscience.
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The idea of omniscience itself is kind of held in doubt, and it may not have ever really existed, it was more of a conceit.
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Sebold grants Susie a disembodied omniscience — the dead teenager hovers close to her loved ones as they grieve and look for answers surrounding her death.
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By boldly situating his narrative omniscience in a ghost (or corpse, or spirit — I'm unsure what to call the narrator), Ackerman immediately achieves uncanny authority.
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As Luckey and his team see it, Lattice will become not just a system for securing the border but a general platform for geographic near-omniscience.
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It is a thrillingly democratic use of omniscience, and, for a novel about class, race, family and the dangers of the status quo, brilliantly apt. Mrs.
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Lacking the reader's omniscience, Inspector Konrad Sejer must painstakingly piece together the lives of the victims by questioning anyone who might have information about this ghastly crime.
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"Read Me" is constructed not as a linear tale but rather in layers, sometimes recounting what the narrator actually sees and at others deploying an assumed omniscience.
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And Dr. Manhattan, who despite his near-omniscience was unable to stop Ozymandias's plot, has fled the planet for Mars, where he has lived alone for decades.
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She's either just learning the rules, is totally fucking with us, or just has the omniscience to step back from the game and call it like it is.
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They have the overconfidence that coincides with youth, plus the digital and internet savvy which convinces newer generations of their own omniscience and the irrelevance of accumulated wisdom.
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Yet as I spoke to Donna that morning, I realized how much that omniscience has begun to wane — unleashing a more experimental or even artisanal approach in oncology.
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My spouse claims I don't use directions much because I know where everything is; don't tell him, but my apparent geographic omniscience owes to Google's maps, not Apple's.
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The old metaphor for omniscience was "author as God," but in our largely secular digital age, authorial divinity could be replaced by a new analogy: author as smartphone.
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We shift and slide among perspectives, from omniscience to Tash and Bianca and Rachel and even some ancient, half-fossilized teachers, and hardly notice the sequence of events.
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The heart trees — the trees with carved faces — are spiritual CCTV surveillance cameras all around Westeros, and the greenseers using the godswoods became gods, gaining a sort of omniscience.
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For dramatic purposes, she also has the gift of authorial omniscience and is able to fill us in on the thoughts, pasts and futures of the other people onstage.
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Although the polygraph cannot reliably detect truth or falsehood itself, its cultural reputation for omniscience can be used by an artful examiner to elicit confessions from nervous or suggestible subjects.
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The device Adrian Veidt gives him takes his omniscience out of the equation, allows the White Night ambush to occur, and sets into motion the nefarious plan to capture him.
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You do it because you're impatient for Anna to catch up to your omniscience and put together the pieces so she can see who's been lying to her the whole time.
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And part of that, though, is being able to add almost omniscience of what's going on in the Earth in the same way that we understand what's going on in our bodies.
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Under the bill, banks would have the option to forgo heavy regulatory oversight in return for maintaining at least 85033 percent shareowners' equity, thus placing greater importance on capital than regulatory omniscience.
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The effect is a kind of uncertain omniscience, which allows the novelist not only to move easily among his characters but to blend their thoughts, when need be, into a collective anxiety.
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It is Smith himself (portrayed with beaming complacency by Daniel Davis) who narrates Jim's tale, with a shrug-of-the-shoulders omniscience that befits a man forever associated with laissez-faire economics.
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Simply by using the internet, we inadvertently give enormous amounts of data to corporations that collude with state actors who desire to attain a kind of omniscience about our individual lives and intentions.
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This air of crisp editorial omniscience insures that the magazine is as likely to be found on an aspirant think tanker's iPad in New Delhi as it is on Bill Gates's private jet.
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Whether embodying a spiritual masseur at an Esalen-style retreat, a bartender, or even a hunky tennis pro, she remains poised between embracing warmth and distancing coolness, a discreetly entertaining font of omniscience.
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While the director's camera does not peer though that device again, the perspectives in this movie shift subtly but distinctly from adult's eye view, to child's eye view, to a hushed omniscience and back.
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In the new republican order, all political claims to omniscience were banned outright, all citizens were equal under the law, none are above it, and all elected officials, no matter how indispensable, were disposable.
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And finally, a knowledge of history, because the past teaches humility and prudence and tempers a president's temptation to give in to the transgressions of omnipotence (I can do everything) and omniscience (I know everything).
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It felt like omniscience, or time travel — but I was traveling forward, and mercilessly fast, flashing ahead to watch the characters and story lines of that Easter weekend bend toward their ultimate endings: Liver cancer.
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Chinonso, the protagonist of this complex novel, is spoken for by a guardian spirit, whose voice, tinged with regret at being unable to forestall a mortal's worst decisions, is a clever blend of subjectivity and omniscience.
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The choice to do so would be their triumph—it would be their maturity, or their coming of age or into political consciousness, which I hoped would be read as a type of victory over omniscience.
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Dov Seidman, the founder of LRN, a firm that advises companies on their cultures and how they can translate them into better performance, said that earning gobs of money could often give billionaires a false sense of omniscience.
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In the past 20 years or so, some literary writers have used it (Edward P. Jones's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Known World" springs to mind), but a slew of recent novels suggest that omniscience is making a comeback.
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The fantasy of "The Sky Is Pink" is that Aisha's death allows her to see her mother with adoring omniscience, and the film is never more pleasing than when it revels in the glamorous melodrama of a superstar performing motherhood.
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"Historically, one of the problems with Wolff's omniscience is that while he may know all, he gets some of it wrong," David Carr, the late New York Times media columnist, wrote in 2008, reviewing a Wolff book that, he pointed out, contained errors.
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Even so, in a world much more attuned to the downsides of digitisation than it was in 2013, it offers a useful reminder of the god-like omniscience that digital data can bestow on those with the power to collect it all.
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As it follows the diminishing fortunes of two families, poised on the cusp of personal and professional breakthroughs that never arrive, "The Light Years" feels Olympian in its distance and its omniscience, shaking its head in tender perplexity at vaunting mortal ambitions.
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You have to take pleasure in watching people who have it all fuck it all up, as well as be comfortable with a nefarious omniscience: You know much more than they do about what's really going on, through the flash-forwards and the entry granted to different characters' consciousnesses.
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What makes this book so moving is, in part, Ford's glorious engagement with the unknowable that we, paradoxically, come to memoir for — it's only in fiction, after all, that a writer has the luxury of omniscience, of being the god of the who, how, when, where, what and why.
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Dramatized in the man's fall through the centuries — and more broadly through her characters' shared interest in comets, flight and stars — the conceit of viewing from above is used to represent the authorial omniscience that lets her look down through time and find the uniting essence of a place.
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A track Kino spins one evening — the Coleman Hawkins version of "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" — prompts the omniscient narrator to note, with what might strike the reader as too much omniscience about jazz history, that what Kino enjoyed most was the bass solo of Major Holley.
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But seen from afar, or so McGregor seems to say, seen from a position of pagan omniscience, looked at in the way we might look at nature—as an unending cycle of birth and death and eventual obscurity—life appears more instinctual than moral, and as animal as it is human.
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He achieved the unintrusive effect—and sombre tone—he wanted, but, in seeking to correct what he perhaps considered the bossiness of his previous novel, "Concluding" (1948), which used interior monologue and précis, he overlooked the innovations of his earlier works, which had found their own ways of avoiding authorial omniscience.
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"Lucy Barton" is written in a strikingly spare first-person voice, a contrast to the knowing, sophisticated omniscience of the narrators of Ms. Strout's best-known novels, including "Amy and Isabelle" and "Olive Kitteridge," the indelible portrait of a stubborn, difficult, complicated woman that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2009.
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In a paltry cluster of sentences, his supposed doctor pronounced his health "astonishingly excellent," a diagnostic term heretofore absent from the medical literature, and that same sycophant — I mean doctor — demonstrated impressive retroactive omniscience, saying that he could "state unequivocally" that no American president had been in shape as splendiferous as Trump's.
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Hadley is adept at fluid omniscience, at storytelling that skims through the years as easily as it weaves through various points of view, and as the days of funeral and mourning and aftermath progress we take great gulps of the past, of the 30 years between the formation of this quartet and its dissolution.
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We had to wait patiently for news of new album titles and future tour dates through word of mouth, print magazines, or most treasured of all, the hallowed halls of our local independent record store, were the employees seemed to possess a kind of Delphic omniscience across all genres of underground music, from alt-country to black metal.
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It's totally clear why Allen would issue such a statement — why he wouldn't hesitate to include the astonishing confession that "no one ever came to me or told me horror stories with any real seriousness," implying that people did tell him about Weinstein but he, with that odd omniscience native to the very rich, deemed them insufficiently serious.
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Her body is becoming a strange instrument," Fagan writes evocatively, and then, easing from the distanced poetry of the writer's omniscience into the mind of this witty child, "Any day now a tiny man is going to set up a loudspeaker in her throat and his voice will make declarations in a baritone and everyone will think it is her speaking, but it won't be.
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So expansive is his vision that it includes not just the piers and sails and reeling gulls but everyone else who makes the crossing: all those who stood at the railing watching before his birth, all those watching around him now, and all those who will be there watching after his death—which, in the poem, he doesn't so much foresee as, through a wild, craning omniscience, look back on.
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But then you see the same speech on a screen, outside the reality-impeding Faraday cage of the rally venue, and you are reminded that this is the president: that he commands a nuclear arsenal and a legal system that can put people in jail or throw them out of the country and a surveillance apparatus of godlike omniscience and an unshakably loyal third, at least, of the American population.
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Watch enough episodes, and the segments begin to reveal a similar rhythm; seeing the pitch process repeated so many times in rapid succession, a viewer develops a sort of omniscience, that mixture of intimacy and superiority that is unique to reality TV. By Hour 2, I find myself thinking that Lori is crazy for not investing in a perfect QVC product or that Mark is a moron for passing up a product that could easily pair with his sports empire.
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But if there's anything more obnoxious than cheerleaders for Donald "bomb-the-sh—out-of-ISIS" Trump mocking Johnson for foreign-policy ignorance, it's supporters and enablers of Hillary Clinton rolling their eyes theatrically at a presidential candidate who was against the Iraq and Libyan wars in real time, who wants to pardon rather than imprison Edward Snowden, and who comports himself with occasionally awkward humility rather than with the polished and delusional omniscience that we've unfortunately come to demand in our presidential candidates.
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The biggest evolution, I would say, was the organization recognizing, and I think it had, I think that's why The Daily exists, that your relationship with the New York Times was, for the most part, predicated on this idea that tablets were being handed down to you every morning, and they were very authoritative and omniscient in their voice, and that all of our relationships with journalism are really changing, and that the idea of omniscience itself is held in doubt, and that it may not have ever really existed, that it was more of a conceit.
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