CSIS has not responded to Motherboard's request asking for clarification on what types of datasets would be considered referential and non-referential.
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The Takeaway: Can we at least appreciate this self-referential response tweet to Gaga's self-referential tweet that prompted the whole thing?
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Being American is so self referential in lots of ways.
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The piece is very long and very, very self referential.
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But it's really there, in all of its referential glory.
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His painting is poly-referential, suggestive through form rather than content.
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Even the theme song to his sitcom was hilariously self-referential.
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But there's also a sense in which it's too self-referential.
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Maybe not about ... TUPITSYN: But either way, it is self-referential.
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His works are packed with symbols, referential allusions and invented hieroglyphs.
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Even after solving, looking at WHOME is jarring and self-referential.
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"There's some amount of referential stuff that goes around," Fulcher said.
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Pair with a rake if you live for referential accent pieces!
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It was such a brilliant self-referential capstone I'd ever heard.
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It was insular, self-referential, and too smart for its own good.
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O'CONNOR I wanted to be more in control of its referential realm.
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It's a messed-up world, she reminds us in her referential shorthand.
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I don't know if there was a more self-referential magazine around.
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I think the problem is that the media is somewhat self-referential.
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But one undeniably self-referential character of his work is its gender.
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Layered as they may be, they are not abstract, but rather referential.
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Stone's was just another flicker in our self-referential chaos of information.
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I never cease to be without both referential systems: Bosnian and American.
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Right now I'm talking to somebody about a self-referential Big Bang again.
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This has to be one of the most self-referential selfies ever taken.
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Specifically, Suda51's signature self-referential humor went from delightful to pointedly infuriating.
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"Tonite" is a funny, self-referential dance-floor anthem about dance-floor anthems.
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So went another case in what I call the court's self-referential docket.
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So there are endless, self-referential meta-layers within The Disaster Artist's story.
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There is a tower of books for all my referential and inspirational needs.
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Yet its self-referential, looped-back quality is both thematically appropriate and skillfully achieved.
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Players are adopting the quirky emote animations and turning them into referential victory dances.
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These and other similarly referential works highlight the wildly changeable status of an object.
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The challenge coin, it doesn't have a functional purpose, but it's referential to something.
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Not to be too self-referential, but I loved your guys' episode about Instagram.
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RAW, the crowd howls and whines and distracts itself with its own self-referential
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He speaks well -- not the stumbling self-referential banter that Trump spews almost nonstop.
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Like most memes, usage plateaued as its function shifted to a referential callback joke.
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Meme culture, built atop referential humor, is old and broad enough to reference itself.
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The visuals used are referential and dictate the duality of the Meishi Smile project.
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As a commercial strategy, this self-referential approach worked—"Lemonade" has already gone platinum.
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His work is often referential, and some critics have accused him of "stealing" designs.
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We didn't put a whole lot of referential stuff of the time in there.
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What do you think of designers today being so referential to your earlier work?
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And brands including Vetements and Balenciaga have absorbed merch aesthetics into meta-referential clothing.
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Gervais's opening monologue was self-referential, claiming he didn't care about people being offended.
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It's also a delightfully slippery, self-referential meditation on writing and memory and time.
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This smartly referential visual conversation creates a literal dialogue between the artworks, artists, and styles.
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We know that Beyoncé is not only fierce, but also referential with her fashion choices.
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Visual repetitions, made using self-referential objects, lend a sense of unity to the performance.
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"LWYMMD" is a semi-bop, an electroclash revenge monologue peppered with seemingly self-referential content.
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Just a week into the current term, there has already been a self-referential case.
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They'd been turned into this self-referential tabloid pantomime, where every song was about themselves.
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Over the last three decades, conservatives have built a self-contained, self-referential media ecosystem.
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It's such an odd combination of action, body horror, fashion, and meta-referential musician references.
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In a movie universe rife with self-referential jokes, Steve is immune to the sarcasm.
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In fact, Pope Francis decries the self-referential impulse to focus on internal church politics.
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He explains that one comment, telling Gersh a "goylash" was coming, is merely self-referential.
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"It's just not a leadership style that is productive and it's far too self-referential."
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It is self-referential, often citing the horror movie "rules" that allow its characters to survive.
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Both deliver self-referential portraits of the countries themselves and the hearts that beat beneath them.
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Christie was confident, funny, and his description of his accomplishments seemed less self-referential than usual.
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This inherent, self-referential "nonlinearity" of each NEM gives rise to complex mathematical relationships between them.
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A self-referential twist is fine but works best when leavened with something — humor, magic, warmth.
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Gibson, under pressure for more rewrites, wrote a scene that became the film's self-referential centerpiece.
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The effect of all this referential layering is to add another type of meaning to Mother!.
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I was always referential to Cartier-Bresson, even when I shot in color during this era.
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The filmmakers try to complicate Tommy, including with some self-referential layering that never meaningfully develops.
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It became self-referential in a way that you knew wasn't right, but was almost inevitable.
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Instead we have thousands of Americas, isolated islands of self-referential media and lonely, disconnected lifestyles.
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Spider-Verse by comparison throws the self-referential jokes and material at a mile-a-minute.
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That's not a crazy thing to consider, given how densely self-referential this show can be.
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Wordplay TUESDAY PUZZLE — Here at the Gray Lady, we're used to not being too self-referential.
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"We see the 10 percent reference of business being retained as a good referential," Bernardino said.
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Self-referential conversations about 'Do I feel good about what I'm doing?' are not very helpful.
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During Donald Trump's rambling, self-referential and confrontational press conference on Wednesday, Trump made a humble admission.
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Particularly in recent years, the 007 films have become self-referential and increasingly mannerist imitations of themselves.
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AG: My older paintings were a lot more referential, with piles of things, skeletons and little figures.
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"You Can't Catch Me" (21964) Here, "Maybellene" gets another shout-out from the eagerly self-referential Berry.
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Alan Wake is a weird game even by the singular and self-referential standards of Remedy Entertainment.
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It is in her use of color that she creates, at first sight, her strong referential impact.
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The two women are cardboard cutouts, but specifically cutouts in the Tarantino style—another self-referential motif.
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Try something like this obviously referential flip of "House of God" that feels familiar while also different.
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Trump did send a few tweets referencing the 24/21 anniversary -- although they were decidedly self-referential.
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I hope that as it settles into its new home, it gets a little less self-referential.
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It reflects the tendency, especially in online discourse, to reappropriate insults in highly ironic, self-referential ways.
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Sometimes it's fun to watch musicians puzzle their way out of a tight box, as with the New Pornographers, the infamous, long-running, ever-shifting aggregate of Canadian singer-songwriters who here defeat indie-rock's self-referential impotence with, er, a beguiling concept album about self-referential impotence.
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Dance music has always had the meta-referential tendency to look inward as much as it looks out.
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He's nearly incomprehensible to the uninitiated, veering into long, self-referential diatribes about angels, black holes, and magic.
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In a neatly self-referential loop, the first quantum machine-learning systems may help to design their successors.
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But technical performance and function aside, the exterior shape of the wheel in this case is more referential.
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His certainly knocks into a cocked hat Boris Johnson's boisterously self-referential effort of a few years ago.
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This particular meme is referential humor at its most boring; if you've seen Infinity War, you get it.
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Refenestration is a group show that examines the window as self-referential subject and cliche in contemporary photography.
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Bieber's star persona is typically more lovesick or romantic than self-referential, although Purpose was more self-conscious.
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We can place every film in the franchise in or between two categories: the referential, and the reflective.
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The referential films revel in nostalgia: for genre tropes and archetypes, design and characterization, pop culture and myth.
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In Brainerd, he sits in a building that barely contains him while he spins tall, self-referential tales.
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Icons like Angela Davis, Frida Khalo, and Joan Didion are commemorated in creative portraits and other referential artworks.
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The queens' heightened self-awareness made for some fascinating TV during 2016's self-referential All Stars 2.
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We said in our review: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a raucous, smart, self-referential adventure.
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But there are elements of a minitheme, self-referential cleverness and a numerical record (see Mr. Chaikin's notes).
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This is an interview with a comedian who made a self-referential comedy loosely based on his life.
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Instead of promoting fruitful discussion, the Vatican preferred to return to a "clerical self-referential" mode, she wrote.
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O.J. that's been justifiably criticized, it's the idea that the Kardashian children are too self-referential and arch.
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I at one point took it out, thinking that his self-referential moment, thinking that that was unnecessary.
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The song is funny, self-referential, and worth a watch if only to see who pops up and how.
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They're irreverent, self-referential, and have a distinct #aesthetic, fitting right in with those oh-so-carefully curated lives.
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But worst of all he's never made a self-referential joke about "The Cory Hotline" episode of The Simpsons.
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But it'll be interesting to see how his weird, hyper-referential comedy will translate to the plump electric rodent.
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The clip packs in almost everything fans love about the show: giant robots, funny hats, and self-referential humor.
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Much, if not most, of the big-money high-profile ICOs this year have been self-referential Crypto Inception.
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At The Drive-In became less referential by the time they began writing what would become In/Casino/Out.
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But he did help me step out of my relentless self-referential narrative and open myself to another perspective.
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Our culture is suffused with celebrity coverage, but much of it is similar, or intra-referential or pro forma.
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The Skittles version, which sold out in just a few days, is excruciatingly self-referential, metatheatrical to the max.
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But if you ever wanted to see the Muscles from Brussels cry, this self-referential spoof is for you.
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There is something strangely self-referential about President Donald Trump standing up to defend Confederate monuments across the country.
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Its snarky, self-referential jokes have gotten sharper and smarter, and its swings into tragedy are on occasion downright heartbreaking.
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It's still funny, referential, and subversive, but we're talking about a game that might take you eight hours to beat.
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In the age of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, every studio wants a behemoth self-referential franchise to call its own.
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There are very few designers who can be self-referential and get away with it — Miuccia Prada chief among them.
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Bringing The Backline is self-referential but the humor is often a veil for sincerity, not the absence of it.
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Both Royal Headache records still stand up; their music was referential but the essence of the band was completely singular.
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The channel posts high-production Indian music videos that are totally different to PewDiePie's self-referential and occasionally offensive humor.
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If you like the hyper-referential pastiche of Tarantino and Wes Anderson, then you like the work of Raoul Coutard.
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Did you follow him down that path of self-referential fiction — and did you think that was a productive path?
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She also received lavish notices for her performance in another self-referential Off Broadway production, "Tales of Tinseltown," in 1985.
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James Roday and Dulé Hill cracked wise and solved crimes for eight years in "Psych," a silly, hyper-referential procedural.
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This distinction allows him to create new relationships while letting those referential artifacts express themselves in different and new ways.
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"When we get caught up in self-referential thinking — the type that happens with rumination, worry, guilt or self-judgment — it activates self-referential brain networks," said the psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Judson Brewer, director of research at the Center for Mindfulness and associate professor in medicine and psychiatry at University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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The additional "S" is dropped onto the end of the title in the opening credits in a telling, self-referential irony.
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Lyrically, it's so dense, there's so many words, it is quite referential and things cut back and forth from each other.
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Some are directly referential, like Ernie Cline's 1980s love letter Ready Player One or John Scalzi's Star Trek meta-homage Redshirts.
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Some of the reads were so self-referential to the show that I'm not really sure what they were talking about.
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Richie's presence seems almost self-referential, considering for years she traded in a similar humor on her show The Simple Life.
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Jenner hit up Revolve's celebrity-magnet of a festival oasis in festival-appropriate denim cutoffs and runway-referential extra-long sleeves.
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Cheeky, self-referential, and bearer of the decade's catchiest song, there really wasn't any avoiding the movie when it came out.
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That's far from the only self-referential moment in the film, which chronicles Witold's increasingly bizarre experiences at a Lisbon boardinghouse.
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The writing staff cleverly snuck in feminist musings and sprinkled heartfelt messages, cultural critiques, and self-referential quips in every episode.
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Ripped, taped, and reconfigured by hand, the works presented are "self-referential studies," taken mostly in the artist's Los Angeles studio.
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It's also the perfect introduction to a record that walks through a personal history without ever falling into self-referential nostalgia.
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It is also self-referential: Sergio attends a round table discussion on revolutionary art in which one participant is Mr. Desnoes.
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Folding in on itself, this self-referential tactic allows Villa Design Group to produce work that is simultaneously personal and corporate.
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Remedy's games have almost always been a strange mix of genuine craft and self-referential weirdness that verges on self-sabotage.
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Much of what happens from there is indescribable — opaque, divorced from any expectations of narrative causality, heavily referential, and darkly hysterical.
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It also does its fair share of referential sampling, warping in and out of snippets from The Stylistics and Alicia Keys.
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This pro-American aesthetic is what makes the Melzac Collection blend in with the rest of the agency headquarters' self-referential decor.
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What it lacks are the two things our machine will have, which are the self-referential loop and the serial output stream.
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The incorporation of dark-void eyes was a means for the artist to equalize and temper any referential traits in his work.
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As a song of freedom, "Mope" reroutes the referential bonds of language, shooting the self into a radiant splay of unassimilated signification.
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Second, what you usually do get from Trump is totally self-referential and without any clear tie to a broader Republican agenda.
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The style of fast-moving visuals, self-referential images of images, and overlaid voice narration brings to mind Camille Henrot's Grosse Fatigue.
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PSA Press releases a lot of funny self-referential pingame pins, but this one is just a good old fashioned well-drawn design.
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When we turn our own car loose and make the module self-referential, it'll have to determine if it is prejudiced as well.
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From self-referential cutaways to subtle, easy-to-miss moments, here are some things you may not have spotted on a first viewing.
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" Throughout the clip, vocalist Katie Monks gets self-referential over with a variety of existential statements: "A shower would make this video better.
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What I mean by referential is that there's an underlying fluency in the meme/viral world today that helps material go viral/memetic.
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He rejected accusations that he was seeking a return to "self-referential clericalism" and said "Women Church World" would continue to be published.
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In the first place, it means that a message sent into the cosmos needs to be incredibly robust and ideally entirely self-referential.
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Given that history, this video isn't nearly as embarrassing as Logic using a self-referential Rick and Morty skit as his album intro.
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He says it's made with non-fiction readers in mind, who often jump around books to check glossaries, endnotes, and other referential material.
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A -- Aesop Rock: The Impossible Kid (Rhymesayers) Indubitably brilliant, indubitably self-referential, Aes has exorcised his depressive demons with admirable tenacity since 2001.
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A book is definitive, but a film is referential; a book must come to conclusions, while a film can open up other possibilities.
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I suppose this was an inevitable development in the history of hedonism — that hip-hop representation would eventually turn from referential to simulatory.
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They both lean heavily on giddily funny stories, self-referential bits about previous shows going badly wrong and some explosively silly sex jokes.
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She knows exactly what she's doing, from the tape's referential cover art to its release date on the 15th anniversary of Aaliyah's death.
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Halo 5 is definitely a better game because of that, and I think it's a more modern game, too, because they weren't self-referential.
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While more progressive horror films play with the idea of the final girl trope, it's always done in a very knowing, self-referential way.
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It's a campy, self-referential series, that (as I described on Monday's podcast) feels like the logical-yet-absurd extension of Tekken's character endings.
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Boring racist, sexist, and homophobic jokes have been replaced by infinitely mutable and referential memes that pass through our collective consciousness in an instant.
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Beyond these plot tweaks, however, the show made a bolder move, cross-hatching the narrative with self-referential inventions, frame inside frame inside frame.
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While Drake gets the flashy lead verse, BlocBoy's subsequent one leaves more of an impression with its brash gun talk and referential sports metaphors.
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"We usually try to avoid pictures that are self-referential to the press, but we just thought this one was so interesting," she said.
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"Gas Mark 4" from their stunning debut, From Caplan to Belsize, is a referential of The Bell Jar, Plath's first and most famous novel.
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It is referential (and reverential) enough to Marvel traditions to please the geek armies, and perfectly accessible to new recruits or part-time warriors.
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Demetri Martin is a self-referential, think-y kind of comic, and "The Overthinker," as the title suggests, is the epitome of his shtick.
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Many of the 65 exhibits are art-referential pieces, art about art, and you start consulting the exhibition menu for clues to understanding them.
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And it's very helpful to be in LA and not be caught up in the madness of Silicon Valley, which is very self referential.
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At this point, the self-referential wit of The Tick isn't nearly as rare as it was when Edlund's comic debuted in a local newspaper.
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Well the IF Report tells a different tale and it will also apparently undercut Comey&aposs self-referential preaching about leadership in his latest book.
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The animation studio is famously self-referential — inspiring, for example, an elaborate fan theory suggesting that all of the films exist in the same universe.
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Given that previous American Horror Story seasons have been pretty directly referential to other horror media, we're getting a distinct Texas Chainsaw Massacre vibe here.
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These ten minutes are more referential than any in the film prior, and Maz Kanata is the only thing in them that feels completely fresh.
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After many seasons of torturing viewers with Red Weddings and devastating plot twists, it seems the writers are cutting us an often self-referential break.
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Of course he'd use that language one last time to bring us a vision of death, one that is, fittingly, enormously ambitious and self-referential.
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There's the self-referential fourth wall breaking, crude animation, disturbingly toxic relationship between grandfather and grandson, and some vague sci-fi mission that gets bungled.
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Too much of the cooking at Nishi is self-referential, inward looking and so concerned with technique that you can't help being conscious of it.
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An in-joke is only good when you have someone to share it with, and Stan Lee's appearances are referential humor at its most accessible.
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I love the zesty dialogue, the self-referential humor—it almost has that Pixar thing going on, of being for parents and their children, simultaneously.
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Rather than strain themselves to justify architecture's relevance to the readymade, other artists on display better excel at evoking the strange referential powers of form.
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Next, come up with a few self-referential jokes about the less weighty stuff and eventually work your way up to the more painful things.
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Yet the arrangements featured hand-played, natural sounds and could be mistaken for more conventional singer-songwriter fare, though with deeply cryptic, self-referential lyrics.
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"There is a widespread idea here that literary fiction should be virtuoso and self-referential," said Elisa Gambaro, a scholar at the University of Milan.
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It's a sly referential jest that succinctly encapsulates the connective tissue between her employment of Black meme culture and continued exploration of Black women's bodily autonomy.
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From the footage Disney showed at D23, it seems there's a self-referential scene in the movie when Ralph and Vanellope come across the site OhMy.Disney.
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The app generated countless memes, and grew increasingly self-referential over time, so that a single 6-second clip might reference a dozen previous hit Vines.
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At that point the tweets being served by the API to third-party clients and integrated services aren't even really tweets anymore—they're self-referential abbreviations.
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The poetic utterance adopts many of the strategies of contemporary postmodern poetry, disorienting the reader with jarring word combinations that distance language from its referential function.
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To the Movies'Starts streaming: June 12 The animated "Spider-Man" movie "Into the Spider-Verse" wasn't the only snappy, self-referential superhero cartoon released last year.
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At the last survey of new photography at MoMA two years ago, the atmosphere was so self-referential and hermetic that a visitor panted for oxygen.
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I noticed it the way you notice how someone smokes—the glamour in the gesture, and how it is referential; it aligns one with a tradition.
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Directed by Scott Aukerman, the movie's self-referential plot follows Galifianakis (playing a version of himself) on a quest to complete a series of celebrity interviews.
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Some of its jokes are of the wink, nudge, self-referential Scream variety, but the most delightful beats come from ordinary exchanges between ordinary Haddonfield citizens.
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" In the campaign's signature self-referential style, Riggle repeatedly denies that the team is "just a marketing gimmick to get delicious chicken in front of football fans.
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While he sounded shockingly like a teenage Ian MacKaye on Love Is Dead, as the years went on, he found a vocal approach that was less referential.
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Lee shaped Marvel Comics into the brand that we know so well today, lending it the self-referential earnestness that has helped make the MCU a juggernaut.
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By leaning into and toying with that fundamental relationship, indie game Minit achieves something that feels referential and nostalgic and yet unique and exhilarating all at once.
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While there are doubtlessly a fair few supporters who have limited patience when it comes to transfers, the 'announce' phenomenon has become self-referential in its silliness.
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Cleverly self-referential, "Dedicated" uses a loop of Inspectah Deck's rap "Carry like Mariah" to place this new work in the context of classic hip-hop songs.
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You're not a fame-monger Chase, but your Vine account is incredible and you could do a really good self-referential bro comedy routine if you wanted.
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PewDiePie, by contrast, is a 29-year-old gaming vlogger and representative of a specific Western YouTube demographic — the self-referential, meme-loving, and occasionally offensive gamer.
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You mentioned that the title of the show is referential to Jayne Mansfield's home, and the photo in your press release was a picture of her bedroom.
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All told, it's strange, self-referential and kind of exactly what you'd expect from the team that crafted an operational rare soylent marketplace on the dark web.
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The cultural production of what youth feels like now is dominated by hyper-referential artists who try on and discard genres and sounds like second-hand clothes.
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He is less concerned with the name in and of itself, its referential function, than in the medium through which names pass on their path to perpetuity.
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My first take on "Will might change them" for TENSES (which I got from the crossings) was that the editor Will Shortz was suddenly being self-referential.
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We've moved beyond Lolcats, beyond Doge, now we are in another more image-based language of images that relies on the memory and referential shapes for the meaning.
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Funny, drenched in neon, so 80s-referential that it might as well be an episode of That '80s Show ('memba them?), and beautifully precise in its fight choreography.
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Compared with Báez's paper and canvas pieces, as well as her large-scale sculpture at the High Line, Lewis's numerous dance works are less referential to the Caribbean.
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But the other test for the show is whether it can escape from the convoluted self-referential plotting that marked the reign of the previous showrunner, Steven Moffat.
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Burying self-referential allusions in the background and merrily poking viewers till they bruise, The Square at times feels more like longform performance art than a narrative film.
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Like La La Land, The Shape of Water is a backwards-looking movie that makes plenty of those self-referential gestures toward cinephilia that Hollywood seems to adore.
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Steadfastly pushing her feminist message, which she has promoted since her Dior debut, Maria Grazia Chiuri's referential collection provided a modern wardrobe for today's fashion-conscious female protestor.
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Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture: Nolan, Joy, and their collaborators seem to have multiplied the number of self-referential lines that speculate on the nature of Westworld and Westworld.
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Each attack and defense pulls up a different mini-game, similar to Paper Mario, and the game's geeky, referential aesthetic is hard not to compare to Scott Pilgrim.
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My humor is directly related to that in terms of storytelling: self-deprecating, self-referential, very autobiographical stuff about the family, about daily life, that sort of thing.
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The film is a referential collage, moving through a series of genres and incorporating a jukebox of dance-party pop songs and impressions of Desplechin's eclectic cinematic taste.
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It's sort of referential to my story, but I just also wanted to get people thinking about what's inside the mind the way Freud did, but very differently.
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The time inside of a painting would not be linear, would not proceed from beginning to end, but would rather be elastic, circular, self-referential, and self-reflective.
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In his public remarks, Mr. Trump has delivered an insular and self-referential closing message, dwelling on personal frustrations at the expense of any wider appeal to voters.
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The environments in which we find ourselves can alter our perceptions of our social reality and crystalize routes through a self-referential maze that entices, confuses and controls.
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Like tumbled tombstones marking the graveyard of self-referential Modernism, the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon presents a remarkable set of remembrances to ponder.
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A young Kurt Loder asks whether sampling in music is closer to art or plagiarism, and the scene is more than a self-referential wink at the audience.
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"'Adaptation' is, most obviously, a movie about itself, as gleefully self-referential an exercise in auto-deconstruction as you could wish," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
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All that's left to do is fall back on self-referential byways and go after likes and retweets as an impoverished means of filling the void it's created.
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But beginning in "Late Night's" later years, he developed — unless the right word is "curdled" — into the crotchety main attraction of an eccentric, ever more self-referential psychodrama.
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It's an assault on the senses and sensibilities — relying not only on shocking your adrenaline levels, but subverting the genre's own referential rolodex to keep you off balance.
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Did I mention that the new Grey's showrunner, Krista Vernoff, wrote this episode and her self-referential sense of humor has been one of the highlights of the season?
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The jokes made in Becks about lesbians and general gayness are either self-referential or comical moments in which the straight people around Becks attempt to relate to her.
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But as the end of the 2010s approaches, reality TV has become an ouroboros, so self-referential and saturated that opportunities for advancement — or growth, or shock — have winnowed.
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The clip is cute and self-referential and it's great to hear Key and Peele back together again, but like Monday's teaser, it also begs a few strange questions.
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As it is often the case with new media works, it is tempting to consider the pixel as a mere self-referential motif to the medium of his work.
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With Green Room, I wanted to make a new 1980s genre movie, a movie that gave me that feeling, instead of a movie that was referential to the era.
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This light-hearted feeling is typified by Lil Pump, a human ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ whose self-referential phrase "I'm just ignorant" conveys an eye-rolling don't care attitude of knowing superficiality.
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According to Nabokov, a man like Trump suffers from a kind of self-referential mania that causes him to believe that everything in the world relates to him -- personally.
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Before bizarre flavors of Oreos became their own food juggernaut over the past decade, Hershey's—which launched the Cookies 'n' Creme bar in 1994—aspired to something similarly referential.
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Then it layers twenty of those levels on top of each other and indexes them against each other, creating self-referential dungeons unlike anything I've seen in the genre.
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Ware deemed the character, named "Brick Brady," too self-referential, and emphasizes his early struggles to find a fresh way to write about his own life without becoming trite.
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Toogood believes that the world of contemporary design can at times resemble a hall of mirrors, where the constant barrage of images leads to designs that are overly referential.
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It's the quintessential self-referential moment of the NBC sitcom, which ran from 1989 to 1998, and, in that poignant scene, poked fun at itself for its absurdist premise.
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"Minecraft" provides endless building blocks and a blank canvas; it's up to you to create something incredible, or silly, or referential, or whatever else using the tools it provides.
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End-credits scenes have become a Marvel tradition, and those credits scenes have traditionally included big teases for the next movie or self-referential — and sometimes esoteric — Marvel jokes.
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In a lot of cases, this means using the visual language of film in referential ways, such as when landscape shots mirror famous pieces of concept art from the games.
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Though this season of American Horror Story will be extra self-referential (it's the long-awaited crossover, after all) the show won't just refer to previous seasons of the series.
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And, I mean, even if there isn't much book evidence for Cleganebowl, the show has already gone off the rails in terms of self-referential gags geared toward the fandom.
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Some podcasts you want to put on while you make dinner or endure a morning commute; this is the kind of self-referential, dense mystery that demands your entire attention.
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It's not all of the internet, of course, but a self-referential, wide-ranging and increasingly influential slice of it, from Breitbart to Blue Lives Matter and all over Twitter.
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Fall Out Boy would continue to be referential and tongue-in-cheek throughout their career, referencing everything from films to plays to themselves, and this blueprint was created with Grave.
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The new season is loaded with self-referential gags, including a few aimed at Ron Howard (who again narrates the show) and his producing partner in Imagine Entertainment, Brian Grazer.
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Even the most disparate elements seem at home in his referential cosmos, from "Suspiria" to Roy Orbison to a folk-music group called the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir.
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But to the 30-plus years of art it has inspired, they're adding work that is politically complicated, referential without being nostalgic and absolutely unambiguous about the desirability of difference.
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"I think part of the reason it took me so long to feel comfortable with who I was, was I didn't have the same referential point," Franzese told People magazine.
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Dr. Heatherton leads a center for social brain sciences and, according to the college's website, conducts research in social behavior focusing on self-regulation, self-esteem and self-referential processing.
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"A Very Expensive Poison" weaves a moving portrait of a marriage—"You're in a bad mood because you're hungry," Marina tells Alexander—with self-referential jokes and escalating high-jinks.
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It's possible these effects can be chalked up, in part, to the drug's effect on the brain's so-called default mode network, especially the part associated with self-referential thought.
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It is a risky strategy; part of the appeal of GIFs is that they are organically referential to collective nostalgia for previous pop-culture touchstones — not choreographed and overtly promotional.
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In addition to the innovative, world-shaping energy that art-school pop from the UK, US, and Europe brought about, Roberts also explores the unintended consequences of pop's self-referential tendencies.
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"I think part of the reason it took me so long to feel comfortable with who I was, was I didn't have the same referential point," Franzese, now 40, tells PEOPLE.
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The first people to show up were, like the co-founders, the kind of strong-headed young men who got excited about computer programming, video games, and edgy, self-referential humor.
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Anti-ads are exactly what they sound like: Ads that tell consumers not to buy a product, make some self-referential joke, or poke fun at the concept of advertising itself.
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In a referential bit of casting, the record executive who tells Queen their song is too long in "Bohemian Rhapsody" is played by Myers, who also played Wayne in "Wayne's World."
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But here are seven that show the wide range and self-referential good humor that made West a recognizable figure even to those who never saw him as the Caped Crusader.
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One study aims to examine psychedelics in relation to what's known as the default mode network—regions of the brain responsible for referential thought—which destabilize under the influence of psilocybin.
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"You don't want [algorithms] to become self-referential... If you take the human out of the loop completely the algorithm reproduces its own actions, and bites its own tail," he said.
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Whenever you use, or are close to using, a self-referential term like "me" or "my," advise the authors, pause and consider whether using a more inclusive term would be beneficial.
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Do you think it's particularly more toxic or do you think it's just that they're more famous and we're a more self-referential world and so that's who we report on?
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Beyoncé has introduced her newborn twins to the world, and she did it the same way she announced her pregnancy back in February: with a gorgeous, heavily referential portrait on Instagram.
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And though this sounds pathologically self-referential and narcissistic, there are many meanings to be found in the complexity with which Mr. Gordon fragments and reorders his career and private life.
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Those messages were part of a long tradition of self-referential rumors that spread around newsgroups, through email and on practically any service that allows people to congregate or communicate online.
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Those messages were part of a long tradition of self-referential rumors that spread around newsgroups, through email and on practically any service that allows people to congregate or communicate online.
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As such, we're not going to provide you with a wearisome preamble about the arduous monotony of international football, even though we actually have, in a self-referential sort of way.
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Travel back to a time when soaps full of self-referential jokes and geeky humor were all the rage, a time when Mischa Barton briefly seemed like she might be a star.
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These recent mural pieces also proved to loosen up a practice that was tightly closed, in terms of its self-referential methodology, to allusions of the figure and of the written word.
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One week ago, Beyoncé announced that she was pregnant with twins in the most Beyoncé fashion: with an Instagram post teasing a forthcoming avant-garde, highly referential photo essay on her website.
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Abstract tapestries by Dutch-Brazilian NYC resident Rafaël Rozendaal, who popularized the website as an art medium, hang near the Berlin-based Cécile B. Evans' self-referential video artwork, and many more.
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Yet it does ready the reader for most of the writing in Social Medium, which, in its self-referential subjects and homogenous political views, reflects the academic cradle from which it comes.
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In true Reddit style, overtly racist posts and comments are often played off as self-parodies, draping a thin layer of self-referential humor over what is usually just outright white supremacy.
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Every video was packed with self-referential humor and moving parts—visual gags made from pixelated stock images with comic sans captions would flash on the screen for two seconds then disappear.
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The question is whether this kind of self-referential examination — a rhetorical "selfie" held up to the student experience — is the correct antidote to vestiges of racism, sexism and general narrow-mindedness.
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The opening gallery, The Utopia of Concrete Art, elegantly recuperates the work of the concretos (Los Diez Pintores Concretos), who advanced concrete art — non-referential and geometric — as a new (ideal) reality.
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With its whimsical design, slick look and self-referential jokes, this "Green Eggs and Ham" is a treat for animation fans and for anyone who devoured Dr. Seuss books as a child.
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Pinterest's offices in San Francisco display the sort of cutesy, self-referential bric-a-brac that's common at start-ups — a giant statue of a pushpin made of Legos, a Pinterest surfboard.
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With its whimsical design, slick look and self-referential jokes, this "Green Eggs and Ham" is a treat for animation fans and for anyone who devoured Dr. Seuss books as a child.
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Finn and Lapine use Jews, AIDS , and so on to rope in a particular audience, which is then held captive to their seemingly endless array of self-referential songs and weak humor.
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More quiet time and less self-referential chat from commentators in the television booth, particularly at crunchtime in important matches when the players are quite capable of carrying the moment by themselves.
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Will there be a cultural record of how fantasy adventures reflect the experience of being a kid in 2019, or will it look like kids mostly went on suspiciously retro, movie-referential journeys?
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Creatures and characters string together in a constantly self-referential loop that's mostly lacking in plot or narrative — but there's significance to which characters reappear, and which themes Krohn addresses again and again.
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This is just where art is at right now—and the enduring popularity of self-referential narcissists like Kanye West, James Franco, Joaquin Phoenix, and Bret Easton Ellis is a testament to that.
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The referential film serves as a kind of mid-career retrospective for Eastwood, one that takes stock of both the Western as a genre and his own specific role as an action icon.
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In Blazblue, everything is self referential and provides not even an interesting narrative function, no real point at the end—or no point in and of itself, it's all about the character drama.
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Preysman calls it "timeless in its design," with a look that's sports-referential but isn't made for running, and can be worn equally well with a T-shirt and jeans or a sundress.
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The Fall create a "tissue of allusions", singing about "men with butterflies on their faces" and making a thick montage of literary references and self-referential sounds, like the hiss of recording cassettes.
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He would seem to have adopted a secular understanding of art, that is, a capacity to assign value to paintings independent of their referential claims […] or their contribution to ritualized communications with divinity.
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But no matter the theme, viewers can expect to see more self-referential nods, like the time Paulson played both her Season 5 and Season 1 characters in the same episode of Hotel.
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"Batter Up" reflects on the self-referential world that Brand New have built for themselves over the last 17 years and resigns itself to the fact that existing is just really bloody hard.
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This is all before you even get into the self-aware and referential nature of anime and visual novels themselves, which has always been more complex and multifaceted than many Western audiences realize.
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WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — A famous comedian once told a story of going away to a remote cabin with a small group of fellow comedians, one of whom was known for being incredibly self-referential.
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Director: Carlos Lopez Estrada Co-written by and starring Daveed Diggs, of "Hamilton" and "black-ish" fame, and Rafael Casal, this is a somewhat self-referential buddy comedy about growing up in Oakland.
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" Summing up the general state of comedy in games right now, Ubisoft San Francisco director and producer Jason Schroeder described how, "There's a lot of game humor that's only referential to game humor.
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The 87-page manifesto, for instance, is filled with layers of ironic, self-referential commentary, apparently written to enrage the communities that appear to have helped radicalize the gunman in the first place.
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What if the law of physics that describes the origin of the universe is something that has to make a claim about itself, which is a classic self-referential Gödelian setup for a tangle.
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An unexpected and large third act drops everything for a Mr. Freeze-esque dilemma involving love and time, some referential body horror, and a smattering of quandaries about the cost of privacy for security.
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There's no reason that talented people like Cornish or his pal Edgar Wright would need to be so referential in making a kids adventure movie; imagine something as stylistically adventurous as Scott Pilgrim vs.
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Charlie Sheen, who revealed in November that he is HIV positive, showed up fashionably late – and in self-referential fashion – to Elton John's annual Oscars viewing party Sunday, benefiting the pop star's AIDS foundation.
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Like Frank Ocean's Blonde, Denial is an album that, musically and lyrically, inhabits gray areas, from its referential use of sampling and paraphrase to its sexual ambiguity to the existential freefall that defines it.
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Insights into Russian literature and writing are usually difficult to access without fluency, because the language is nuanced and referential, yet the way Jackson translates Kabakov's writing does it justice by allowing readers in.
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As Ulysse has noted, the violence of refusing to allow blackness to be self-referential reiterates the white supremacy of Western art because it leaves only the aspiration to be included in white institutions.
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Equal parts chunky and silky, The Perfection is an assault on the senses and sensibilities — relying not only on shocking your adrenaline levels, but subverting horror's own referential rolodex to keep you off balance.
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Another screenwriting collaboration was with Mr. Dylan, for his widely panned, self-referential 1978 film "Renaldo and Clara," described by one critic as a "four-hour fever dream" about the rock 'n' roll life.
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C'MON does not equal [What I say to my brother every time he wears socks with sandals] because it is too self-referential, and ROTTER is not [One who straddles two parking spaces, say].
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And keeping the media focused on a self-referential feud between Trump and the media is a way to maintain his preferred approach of trying to suck up all the oxygen in the room.
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And keeping the media focused on a self-referential feud between Trump and the media is a way of maintaining his preferred approach of trying to suck up all the oxygen in the room.
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Astro Bot is extremely self-referential, and tells us almost nothing about the future of VR. Instead, it is quite literally a game about PlayStation hardware itself, and how to make the most of it.
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In a private Facebook group, they debated the merits of various micro-ideologies—paleoconservatism, neo-reaction, radical traditionalism—and made jokes that were too self-referential or too offensive to share with the wider public.
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When the interviewer asked Peterson what gave him the right to offend transgendered people about their self-referential pronoun choices, Peterson asked what right she (and, we can infer, transgendered people) had to offend him.
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"If it's not too self-referential, I'm proud of 'Disrupt Aging,' a book I wrote a couple of years ago, which examines what it means to take control of your health," Jenkins told Business Insider.
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The four subtypes differed with respect to how a particular brain region called the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex — believed to play a role in self-referential thinking — is connected to other areas of the brain.
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Their achievements have set off a wider debate in Italy about what constitutes literature in a country where self-referential virtuosity is often valued over storytelling, emotional resonance and issues like sexism or gender roles.
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He's not a slippery, self-referential slang maven like Drakeo the Ruler, or an alien lifeform communicating through genre-bending experimentation like 03 Greedo, but a traditionalist conversant in two decades of Southland gangster rap.
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On that last point, I'll pause for a self-referential note: I am aware I am writing this piece via Google Docs, with words, and not producing it with images or video in Final Cut.
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The addition of fairy tale-inspired editorials and old illustrations from the likes of Arthur Rackham made the show more referential and provided some context for the unusual relationship between fantasy and the fashion industry.
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But it is also consequential as a marker in the life work of an artist who was once the poster child for pictorial flatness and self-referential aesthetics, but refused to be limited or defined.
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" Tim Powers on breaking the fourth wall: "I hate 'tongue-in-cheek,' 'irony,' 'self-referential,' anything where the writer says—in effect—to the reader, 'Well, we both know this is just made-up stuff, huh?
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Facebook has already demonstrated the problems this approach can lead to when earlier this year it widely took down posts with the word "dyke" even when it was used in self-referential and not hateful ways.
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That style of self-referential humor is well suited to audiences in 2017, but though the Star Wars series also exhibits a goofy sense of humor at times, its ethos is still a bit more sincere.
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Funny content in VR generally seems to be self-referential in nature, never letting you forget the headset you're wearing, Mindshow lets go of that and makes you feel every moment as the character you inhabit.
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The character designs are cloying, for sure, but cute in the same way the old games were (minus a really fat-phobic character in the first world, which is stupidly self-referential and not actually funny).
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After several years of feuds, their meltdowns have even become self-referential, screaming at each other over who interrupts who more, whether Claude spoke over Ty at Bournemouth, or whether it was the other way around.
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A few of the scenes are funny in themselves — one in particular, a self-referential bit featuring Mr. Allen's character pitching a TV series to a pair of stone-faced young executives, is close to vintage.
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But this isn't the only Carrie-themed work: Kiersten Essenpreiss' They're All Gonna Laugh At You, Bucket of Blood, a necklace featuring a bucket from which red beads are spilling out, is simultaneously new and referential.
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The new trailer is highly referential — see how many pop culture Easter eggs you can spot in just two minutes — and guarantees as many high-speed chase scenes as can fit into a single action movie.
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Because Spaced was heavily referential, it created a mission for the viewer to connect the dots, and you feel a sense of satisfaction when you get a reference when you haven't been told what that is.
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In "Dumbo," Burton takes this self-referential impulse to a startling level through the representation of its Walt Disney-style impresario — who speaks of magic and mystique — and then by lighting the whole shebang on fire.
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"Indeterminate Line" shows that Venet's initial aim of making self-referential art intentionally devoid of expression is continually negated by his later works that entail the expressive energy of indeterminate lines, accidents, random combinations, and dispersions.
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The phrase "acoustic shadows," like the word "zones," recurs throughout the book, culminating in the title poem, a fine addition to the mid-length, highly referential (one might say "old school modernist") poems of Matthias's earlier books.
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The album's harsh production and sharp, crude, hyper-referential lyrics have painted the rapper as a soothsayer for the Trump era, able to navigate the minefield of being Online while being literate in its most hateful language.
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I experienced the thrill of using the toilet to save, laughed aloud at some of the story's fourth wall breaking dialogue, was intrigued by the levels' shifting referential design, and generally delighted in taking on new attackers.
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"Mr. Tillman," the first single from Father John Misty's upcoming fourth studio album God's Favorite Customer, was as self-effacing as you'd hope and and self-referential as you'd expect a Father John Misty song to be.
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In Season 2, instead of paying homage to the past while telling a new story, the show started paying homage to itself, becoming a self-referential ouroboros of nostalgia that couldn't stop eating its own derivative tail.
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The cancellation may come as a shock to fans considering the self-referential reboot was the highest-rated summer debut ever (with a total three-day streaming average audience from Hulu and Fox Now of 879,000 viewers).
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He is a broken man ... the rise of the "This Is Just To Say" meme has a couple of logical, easy-to-understand precursors that even those most wearied and burdened by referential internet jokes can appreciate.
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The zany, self-referential sitcom tracking a narcissistic family as they dodge the claws (or hook!) of justice was critically adored when it debuted in 2003, but failed to build an audience over three seasons on Fox.
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The Nickelodeon cartoon's newest big-screen outing starts with typically self-referential humor, as the Krusty Krab's owner, Mr. Krabs, comments on how expensive Super Bowl commercials are, and Squidward points out that it's only the pregame.
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She applies sand, mica shards, tinsel, and glitter, among other materials, to her canvases; the use of these materials, rather than being overly referential to modernist moves, grounds the works in the present and accentuates their dynamism.
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"What Are the Rules?" lets the It's Always Sunny cast do what it does best: bounce self-referential jokes off each other with bonus depraved asides, calling out the episode's concept and each other in equal measure.
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Spider-Man: Homecoming is the most referential movie in the Marvel Cinematic universe, jam-packed with nods to the comic books and laced with treats for fans of both the Marvel universe and Peter Parker's comic book origins.
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His style — suffused with puns, linguistic play and self-referential asides that mulled the meanings of the very words springing from his pen — was praised by some observers for its transparency and damned by others for its opacity.
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Drag Race has become incredibly self-referential, from the queens dressing up as past contestants for Snatch Game to all of the Porkchop jokes that people who haven't watched from the very first episode might not even get.
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Also, it's a goofy movie for zombie fans, with lots of self-referential pop culture jokes and a heartwarming performance by Billy Connolly as Fido, which is a thing you can't say about a lot of actors playing zombies.
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Comics fans may have already been familiar with the smart-assed "merc with a mouth," but in the context of modern superhero movies, both the character and the self-referential style of the 2016 film were a subversive delight.
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In contrast to the historical commentary of the "Kline Rape" and "Strip Nurse" paintings, the "Stretcher Bar Paintings" are more locally self-referential, alluding to the way stretcher bars can enter the picture by pressing through from the back.
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Those familiar with Minhaj's sharp, self-referential perspective from his 2017 Netflix special, "Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King," or from "The Daily Show," probably already expect him to differentiate himself from other late-night shows through sheer force of personality.
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On a track called "Poetry," Q-Tip's lyric, sinewy and self-referential, leads to a smartly realized trumpet dialogue (Hargrove, overdubbed), which in turn leads to the gently beat-tripping final section, featuring a lovely metaphysical hook by Badu.
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"To put it bluntly, women writers tend to be less self-referential, because they're less used to thinking of themselves as the center of the world," said Brogi, the contemporary literature scholar at the University for Foreigners of Siena.
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As Mr. Micolis states below, there is additional theme material (I'm not sure I'd call them revealers, because they don't identify themselves as part of the theme) at 69A ("Self-referential" for META) and 120A ("Opening letters?" for ACRONYM).
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The manic energy of the original 1996 film has sporadic outbreaks in "T2 Trainspotting," but director Danny Boyle is in a more melancholy mood and the story is freighted with self-referential nostalgia and flashbacks to the early days.
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Books News The photographer Richard Avedon used to joke that if he ever wrote an autobiography, he would title it "Here Lies Richard Avedon" — a self-referential dig at his tendency to exaggerate and fabricate stories about his past.
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"And you could say because of those trappings, it's allowed to be [autobiographical]," he has said in an interview with NME, seemingly confirming the concept of Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino being his most self-referential since the Arctic Monkeys' debut.
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Further, the full name of Madsen's new company was the self-referential "Rocket Madsen Space Lab," and its hangar shared a shipyard with Copenhagen Suborbitals — two missing details that cast his actions after the "breakup" in a more vengeful light.
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Though most of Burnham's work as a comedian has been self-referential, with Eighth Grade he had the chance to present a character demographically different from himself — a teen girl to his twentysomething man — but with whom he still related deeply.
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Fashion, and against this background, beauty, decides what it wants to be and then points to itself; it is a self-referential echo chamber of mutual appreciation between a small number of people who own the handbag and speak the lingo.
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Sometimes we'll tell [the factories] to do something, and they'll do it completely wrong, and that's the best part of the process because you see these thing going wrong, and it turns into this completely different thing that actually isn't referential.
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But one can imagine that a more self-referential take on Star Wars that pokes fun at the main series — even if it's in keeping with the personality of its subject, Han Solo (played by Alden Ehrenreich) — could be unwelcome.
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In contrast to the clip for lead single "LMK," which was well-populated and party-centric, giving a referential nod to R&B and rap videos of the 1990s, the "Blue Light" visual sees Kelela standing alone against a blue backdrop.
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"I'm Billy B." It's all very cheerful and self-referential — Bush seems to be in good spirits, which leads us to believe that Billy B. might indeed be returning to TV. When Bush took his leave of the 9 a.m.
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An argument could be made that "Trogdor" and "Porkchop Sandwiches" and "Fire Zee Missiles" and the catalogue of Joe Cartoon are too weird, too referential, and too thin to be turned into films and Happy Meal toys and novelty T-shirts.
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The movie culminates in a scene that is both cheekily referential to a major moment of cinematic pop culture and also emotionally powerful in its own right, which is pretty much the combination that makes Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
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He bites into his forearm and then bites into his own to show he wants to keep the score even—a move that for the viewer conditioned to Lanthimos's work looks more like a self-referential cliché than a fresh provocation.
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Alberto Bagnai, a prominent League economist who heads the Senate Finance Commission, said last week the central bank was too "self-referential" and that the government needed to bring its appointment procedures more into line with the rest of Europe.
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There he splashed his boldly colored, exuberantly referential designs across posters, record covers, book jackets and magazines; along the way, he took up with another Cooper Union graduate, Shirley Girton, a photographer and eventually his collaborator on two children's books.
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"What seemed impossible now seems more than plausible: Donald J. Trump, the self-referential deal maker, could pull off a hostile takeover of the Grand Old Party," he wrote in an op-ed published Monday for The New York Times.
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I've stuck in there for 12 seasons (!), dozens of deaths, and that episode where the doctors sing "How to Save a Life" while working on a patient in one of the most bizarrely self-referential moments ever on network TV.
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Alberto Bagnai, a prominent League economist who heads the Senate Finance Commission, said last week the central bank was too "self-referential" and that the government needed to bring its management structure more into line with the rest of Europe.
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When I first started solving, I notice the circled squares and their contents and thought that this was a peculiarly self-referential puzzle, but I couldn't have been more wrong (well I could and I have, but that's besides the point).
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If you're someone who has succumbed to reactionary politics online, you'll see in Bonnell a kindred spirit—a college dropout from Nebraska who scoffs at political civility, revels in seamy, self-referential humor, and will talk openly about literally anything.
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It is one of whiteness's operations to understand everything as self-referential, yet this is not necessarily a play aiming to educate white people, but, rather, one intended to problematize collective living in the shadow of America's original sin, chattel slavery.
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And he sneaks in a few self-referential winks, including an allusion to his last really good movie that feels at once like a promise of better mischief to come and an implicit apology for all the disappointment in between.
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Peppered throughout with references to several different episodes of the show that have aired over the years, it's a twisting and self-referential tale of murder and deception that involves one suspect impersonating a Dateline producer to lure a victim.
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" He protested, genially, about the restaurant's noise and its uncomfortable seats, praised some dishes, and continued, "Too much of the cooking at Nishi is self-referential, inward looking, and so concerned with technique that you can't help being conscious of it.
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Joining three other rocks on a postcard of the combed-gravel garden at the Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto, Japan, the drawing becomes a diffident little stand-in for the artist himself, offering a brief but unmistakable blip of self-referential satori.
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Do you ever find it a challenge to make music that is referential to other sounds, styles, songs and artists of the past, but that at the same time, it doesn't sound too obviously like, "80s club night on the Sunset Strip"?
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The result is a mix of referential nods to classic Pokémon — the three starters, for instance, and the quest for gym badges — and pretty surprising new features and approaches to storytelling, like the increased focus on narrative and new open world areas.
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Oozy's tattoos, almost always solely done in black ink, though occasionally ornamented with tasteful yet minimal amounts of color (like a splash of blood), are simultaneously referential to many storytelling genres, but also seem incredibly unique in their intricacy and sense of imagination.
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Reddit has yet to turn up any cheat codes for the movie, but given the episode's video game theme, its openly meta storyline, and the self-referential ouroboros of an interactive story about a man trying to design an interactive story, who knows?
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It's an ephemeral, self-referential mode of discourse that is unfortunately not ephemeral or tied to reference points at all — in fact, it's designed to be broadcast, archived, searched, and embedded by anyone, in any context, at any point in the future.
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Last night, during halftime of the Baylor at Rice game, Rice's Marching Owl Band took to their home field and formed out some symbols that were a little too referential to Baylor's recent sex scandal—to the point that it upset some.
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Using social media to livestream rituals or to video chat with clients for fortune readings, witch entrepreneurs are better able to grow their business using self-referential devices (clothing, jewelry, idols) to effectively market the storied mysticism of Roma women to searching souls.
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It was musically bright and sardonic, full of playful guitars and rising, affirmative open chords to accompany the self-referential, mocking lyrics: "Only an idiot would swim through all the shit I write," sang Hutchison, taking his own bleak outlook to task.
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Its brilliant deployment and manipulation of cultural nostalgia got us on board, wielded in the form of referential soundtracks that only got better as the seasons wore on and in the period-perfect costuming of characters both in and out of disguise.
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Every season, there are a few key silhouettes that stand out among the new arrivals — not just because they're runway-referential, weather-appropriate, or really cool (or, likely, all of the above) — because it seems like everyone got the same style memo.
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The comedian Louis C.K., who has copped to masturbating in front of freaked-out colleagues, not only exposed himself but also toyed with artistic self-exposure: He pulled a Raskolnikov, giving himself away in his comedy and in a dangerously self-referential movie.
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The parallels with "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" are largely referential, and do not serve as what might have initially been an ambitious skeleton key for a book that sets itself up to be a novel of suspense — is Alice Hare a stalker?
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" Nothing in their more adventurous work since the show ended — Kudrow on the dizzyingly self-referential chronicle of stardom lost and desperately sought, "The Comeback," and Schwimmer in theater and in smaller roles like that of Robert Kardashian in "The People v.
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Now there are conspiracy theories circulating around this season that Weber actually ends up with a producer, a symptom of how the show only keeps getting more insular and self-referential rather than updating itself to reflect or interact with the real world.
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In an age of children's entertainment that's snarky, self-referential and even meta, "The Call of the Wild," adapted by director Chris Sanders and screenwriter Michael Green, stands out for its earnest effort to entertain without commenting on itself or the modern world.
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" In true Bell form, she added a little self-referential joke at the end: "And most importantly, regardless of our differences, I think we can all come together and delight in one thing: Frozen 2 is coming out in theaters 2019, you guys.
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From the earliest painting in the show, the pre-stain "Abstract Landscape" (22009), in which green, yellow, red, blue, and tawny shapes resemble floral Matisse cutouts, Frankenthaler's allegiance to High Modernism and her penchant for a referential perspective toward nature are undeniable.
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I realized, as I was making this list, how rife it was with features that are referential and effervescently clever, that play off genre and form and expectations, and that are in different ways about the movies — a reflection of a media-saturated world.
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Ralph Breaks the Internet is a two-hour journey down a series of rabbit holes filled with laughs, tears, a ton of self-referential meta gags, and a Tumblr-worthy reinvention of familiar characters that eventually delivers something you didn't know you always needed.
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But since then, we've had 12 different films – a whole 25 hours and 55 minutes of self-referential story with each character jumping in and out of each other's films so often that it's almost hard to keep track which hero each movie is about.
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But mixed in are plenty of moves well outside of the Beltway, from folk music to science fiction, and this week, the account provided updates for some self-referential vandalism on Wikipedia from the House of Representatives, or at least internet connections associated with it.
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CreditCreditCourtesy the artist and Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco and Ryan Lee Gallery, New York At the last survey of new photography at the Museum of Modern Art two years ago, the atmosphere was so self-referential and hermetic that a visitor panted for oxygen.
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A rhetoric developed by Stalin and his acolytes returns, reheated, recycled, reused, repurposed in a string of self-referential clusters of jargon and grandiose generalities that could be disassembled and reassembled and placed in a different sequence and still hold the same amount of meaning.
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Of course, referential cameos aren't enough to sustain an entire picture; there still needs to be something else underneath, and whereas Ready Player One had Steven Spielberg and Wreck-It Ralph had Disney, Pixels was burdened by Sandler's loathsome mediocrity as the driving creative force.
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The show seemed to try to course-correct by front-loading POC presenters at the top (Monae was followed by Rock, who was followed by Mindy Kaling, then an inexplicably backstage Kelly Marie Tran, and Questlove) and making self-referential digs at its overwhelming whiteness.
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This shows the self-referential style of higher education driven by faculty with Ph.D.s is waning, said Mark Schneider, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute who wrote the study "Saving the Liberal Arts" with Matthew Sigelman, chief executive of Burning Glass Technologies.
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Her assessments — "Something changed in him after we went our separate ways" or "I think the seeds of his future failings were always present in Chicago" — are often referential of their relationship and a spirit of grievance whose headwaters are well known to us.
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Donald Trump traveled to CIA headquarters Saturday to offer reassurance to the workforce after he spent weeks criticizing American intelligence, but his unscripted, self-referential remarks before a wall of stars memorializing fallen officers are drawing criticism, including a pointed denunciation from the agency's recently departed director.
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After the breakup, the remaining members pursued careers separately, further developing the concepts they had formulated together, such as the critique of painting as a symbol of the institution, and painting as a self-referential critical tool — the object as well as the subject of the critique.
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Another recent theatrical release, Todd Strauss-Schulson's rom-com spoof Isn't It Romantic, is almost as referential (to romantic comedies in general, rather than a predecessor's narrative in particular), and not nearly as funny — or for that matter, as emotionally moving, in a sneaky sort of way.
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So much of the film comes down to referential humor about Batman, other DC Comics characters, Marvel, 2016's disastrous Suicide Squad… and it's hard to even give The Lego Batman Movie credit for deconstructing the superhero genre, given that Deadpool came along a year earlier.
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In her seminal essay The Originality of the Avant-Garde (1986), the art historian Rosalind Krauss claimed that: The absolute stasis of the grid, its lack of hierarchy, of center, of inflection, emphasizes not only its anti-referential character, but—more importantly—its hostility to narrative.
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The journal states that the Salford researchers "observed 37 pet dogs in their own homes … owners recorded 242 videos" containing evidence of a number of "referential gestures performed by domestic dogs during everyday communicative bouts with humans," which conform to signals indicative of cross-species communication.
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Also, I wanted to demonstrate that Supreme is a sophisticated statement, and that almost every item of clothing that they make is referential and the references are, in a way, Supreme's way of communicating: This is what matters, this is what we think matters, good or bad.
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In fact, for all the self-referential touches this movie throws in—at one point, we get a short LEGO version of every Batman movie ever made—this Batman doesn't even particularly resemble Batman, neither the traditional one nor the alpha bro of The LEGO Movie.
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This sly self-referential joke is a warning that the film won't just be about the thrills and spills of gangster life, but about its undignified aftermath—assuming it has an aftermath (many characters are introduced with a caption detailing when and how they will die).
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Waititi's four feature films vary in scope and subject matter, but they share some uniting factors that have garnered him a devoted set of fans: an interest in underdogs and outsiders, and a self-referential comedic sense that never gets in the way of real feeling.
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Finally they had beatboxer Rahzel on self-referential "heavy metal," a track that nods to fan reactions to their departure from their musical roots ("'cos a kid on the gram in a Black Dahlia tank says it ain't heavy metal") and knowingly preempts backlash to this album.
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It's no surprise that Beyoncé, who has, after all, named one of her babies after a Persian poet, would take the artistic side of her baby announcements extremely seriously and do the absolute most with them, considering all of the referential work that went into Lemonadein particular.
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It's no secret that the series delights in being referential; the Duffer brothers pitched the show as "really dark Amblin" and assembled footage from 25 movies to sell their vision: 1983, a scrappy group of boys, a creepy mystery, and a small town full of secrets.
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It doesn't quite sound the same, and no doubt has a more self-referential wit to it, but if the objective was to produce a game that recalled the past without actually duplicating it verbatim, improving what didn't work so well before, it seems like a success.
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Part of the show's charm is its self-referential approach to the world of acting: The scenes at the community theater are an affectionate sendup based on observations Mr. Hader and Mr. Berg made while developing the show by sitting in on classes in Los Angeles.
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Except that to read it here in typeface is to miss the point entirely, for as we've come to expect from this master of linear intricacy, the work's distinctive charge comes not from any referential meaning it might suggest but rather from the quality of the line itself.
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So-called "referential" datasets—defined by CSIS as already being publicly available, such as a phone book—are not considered to be "collected" by the agency under the CSIS Act, and thus do not need to meet the legal threshold of being "strictly necessary" for a particular investigation.
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This self-referential visual identity has become as much a trademark of their brand as their championing of regional club sounds from Mexico and greater Latin America, including reggaeton, cumbiaton, perreo, tribal, and whatever experimental combinations of those sounds (and others) their friends happen to be dreaming up.
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It frequently made mention of topics that were in the entertainment press at the time (as when Larry tried to get Ellen DeGeneres to come out), and its series finale was a self-referential loop, featuring a discussion of the real Garry Shandling as a terrible prima donna.
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The discussion, as it often does in Santa Catalina, tended toward the self-referential: a kind of gushing about what makes a place like this, where children spend the afternoon riding the streets on horses and the nearest A.T.M. is an hour-and-a-half drive away, so special.
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Indeed, we rely on referential descriptors when trying to communicate our pain: it feels as if … Part of what Heyman's paintings accomplish is to point to the instability of language and the sign, and how easily communication is confounded, whether intentionally or through the very impossibility of conveyance.
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Breezing by the weakest pieces in the show — the slim and scarcely perceptible "Others" (83), "Mini-Me" (1999), and the vapid "Sans tire" (2007) work of two stuffed Labrador Retriever dogs and a stuffed chick — the astonishing, self-referential "Sans titre" (2001) floor piece dominates a red room of its own.
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This homage of sorts was true to form for Patti, an artist in love with art—the writer-musician will famously make a snap decision to go on a pilgrimage to see a writer's grave and her referential writing is an A to Z of people whose work you should know.
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That is, if you don't put too high a price on coherence and character depth and are not the type to wince at music biopic cliches or self-referential jokes by Mike Myers, whose attempt at a comedic turn as a music label executive really is the weakest link here.
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" And with the publication in 1973 of Ms. Birstein's "Dickie's List," another self-referential novel, this one about the wife of a book editor, the novelist Lois Gould, also in The Times Book Review, wrote of the author: "She is wry; she is witty; she is coruscating on thin ice.
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Toledo deals in big philosophical abstractions and self-referential musings while occasionally cutting to jarringly specific scenes; a passage about old Car Seat Headrest songs on "Beach Life-in-Death," for example, gives way to an anecdote about Toledo pretending he was drunk when he came out to his friends.
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Previous anthologies such as Boosthouse's The Yolo Pages or Tao Lin's 40 Likely to Die Before 40 pulled together dozens of disparate writers from the alt-lit genre, and Omar Kholeif's You Are Here and the New Museum's Mass Effect series attempted to document memes, word art, digital design, and referential collage.
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The scene is also so self-referential that it features a few of the looks she introduced in this very video, like the character in a leopard print coat and high pony who gets a Grammy for her car crash and the Taylor who seems to have become the queen of CGI snakes.
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There's the suggestion of peace and rest in the music (Bejar himself mostly crouched next to his microphone stand and drank during the long instrumental breaks at the show I saw) but the lyrics offer no such respite, just the symbological chaos and hyper-referential poetry echoing the unsettling state of the world.
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Tina Fey and Robert Carlock's 30 Rock followup is so dense, so referential, so deceptively dark, so utterly, gloriously weird that it seems like it was built from the start for streaming — a medium that allows fans to devour 13 episodes all at once, then rewatch obsessively in an attempt to catch every single gag.
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Drawing heavily from real websites while creating a few new ones, Ralph and Vanellope's adventures are endlessly inventive, none more so than a self-referential dive into Disney's Internet site, where they're exposed to wide range of studio properties, including an animated version of the late Stan Lee and a room filled with Disney princesses.
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Dewey Redman's tenor sax roughs up the alto/trumpet/violin-wielding leader, Charlie Haden bows darkly more than he plucks staunchly, and the drummer is 12-year-old Denardo, rumbling irrepressibly all over nine titles that are sometimes also tunes—"New York" and "Broken Shadows" cross-referential, "Song for Ché" a dirge to remember.
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The show became increasingly self-referential, perhaps following the lead of "Seinfeld," resulting in a less-consistent batting average for what was still one of the best shows on TV. This identity crisis could result in attention-grabbing moments like the death of Maude Flanders or the bizarre attempt to revise Principal Skinner's history.
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It's self-referential, almost like an abstract painting, so to speak … Back in the day, for me it was all about the coincidence and the necessary colliding together — meaning for coincidence, me framing up some kind of task or condition or gesture, and the necessary was putting it next to something else to have it in conversation with something.
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It's a phenomenally referential film, and you can expect months to come of "Endgame Easter eggs you missed" posts and videos and listicles, mostly created by people who really underestimate your intelligence and your attention to detail, and hope you'll click on yet another roundup of obvious references, out of a fear that maybe you did miss something.
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Beyond the role of categorizer, already a self-referential metagenre, there's hardly a larger context one can spring on the album, even as an external agent performing the act of genre assignment oneself; as far as assigning genre goes, the album includes all the internal genre marks necessary and leaves no category for the critic to impose.
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While the series prides itself for its referential moments—and the mall scene is undoubtedly that, and definitely cute—it's telling of the Duffer Brothers' idea of feminism that the only way they chose to give their main character, a literal superpowered girl, her autonomy and empowerment was by having her go shopping and then dump her boyfriend.
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Mr. Earnest, like the gunmen in New Zealand and at a synagogue in Pittsburgh last October, drew inspiration and support from the virulent bigotry that flourishes in online communities like 21.3Chan, where layers of self-referential memes and jargon can appear almost indecipherable to outsiders, making it that much more difficult to track and identify people drifting toward extremism.
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It's O.K. to sit back and enjoy the ride, writes Owen Gleiberman at Variety: Maybe there's no escaping that the final entry of this series, coming 42 years after the original "Star Wars," is — at best — going to be less a brilliant piece of stand-alone escapism than a kind of exquisitely executed self-referential package.
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Squeezing in six of such length made it challenging to keep the fill lively, and meant having to lose payoff entries such as the four-theme-word-crossing SELF-REFERENTIAL (and thus settling for the more subtle reveal in 69- and 120-Across), but I was very pleased with the final result and hope you had fun with it.
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She's a colossus of pop for a few reasons, among them the iconic fashion moments (the meat dress happened this decade, as did her arrival to the Grammys in a giant egg), her unabashed support for the causes she loves and, above all, a strain of pop that is at once subversive, referential and entirely her own.
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It's too bad the show doesn't devote more time to unpacking the fact that it, too, features a Palestina-esque terrorist character who ends up getting so aggressively booed by the audience that it more than vaguely traumatizes her — but with any luck, GLOW will follow its own self-referential instincts to that end in season two.
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The best milk-inspired song since Kelis' 2003 masterpiece "Milkshake," the frenzied pop track finds the Black Eyed Peas alum blending dairy puns and double entendre (see: the title's play on grade-schoolers' lactose allowance) with Grade-A self-referential swagger ("welcome to the dairy dutchess love factory," she rap-sings at one point, citing her smash 2006 solo album The Dutchess).
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"Free Spirit," the closest thing to a collaboration between the two—produced by Drake's own 'Matthewman,' long time partner Noah "40" Shebib—highlights their differences as he raps over a sample of Sade's "I Will Be Your Friend" turning the original's sentiments of devotion into a referential, personal chronicling of his fast paced life and plea to tattoo oneself out of love.
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The director isn't known for having as distinctive of a style as Lord and Miller, but he turns out lush, earnest, crowd-pleasing dramas — everything from Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind to the limp but high-grossing Da Vinci Code series — and while that's a switch from Lord and Miller's ironic self-referential style, it may please the older segment of the Star Wars fan base.
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Fresh off 20 nonstop years of Sopranos nostalgia, this decade has seen the mob squarely leave therapy and enter a new phase: reality TV. In addition to actual reality TV shows (including one on Staten Island) about the mob, the internet age—and the Mafia's fading real-life power—seem to have combined to foment some kind of bizarro new era of self-referential mayhem.
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Rather than her usual nasal but impressive belt, we hear a husky half-shout for about 80 percent of the song (the sections of the song where she is actually singing correspond almost exactly with the sections in which there is harmonic variation, so savor those moments.) The opening, a Disney-style strings snippet, seems to be self-referential, a nod to her princessy, "Love Story" days.
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Everyone was expecting Boston to win the division, but by winning the game on Thursday, they did it on the enemy's home ground; they got to have their victory party in the Bronx, in the highly corporate and self-referential precincts of Yankee Stadium, under the big blown-up photos of Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle and the Bambino himself, Babe Ruth.
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This interchange between the emphatically abstract and the willfully referential helps to parse the doubling of Schulte's imagery, in which the pervasive monochrome and commanding geometry remain steeped in reductionist rigor, while the simple, bold, often bright shapes invoke the mass-media sources of Pop: an interlocking of classical Modernism (Suprematism, Purism, Neoplasticism, Minimalism, Conceptualism) with the vernacular of advertisements, comic books, and industrial design.
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Only toddlers during the heyday of MySpace, Generation Z-ers have always lived in a culture filled with reality stars, but Hilton's self-referential (and sometimes self-roasting) memes illustrate how she pioneered both "being famous for being famous" and also the archetype of the cheeky reality star who plays along with the public—something Kim Kardashian emulated when she released a Kimoji modeled on her crying face.
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Here's what we know now: Several sources close to the movie and others close to the directors tell EW that ever since filming began back in February, Lord and Miller, who are known primarily for wry, self-referential comedies like 21 Jump Street and the pilot episodes for Brooklyn 99 and Last Man on Earth, began steering the Han Solo movie more into the genre of laughs than space fantasy.
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Weinstein served as an executive producer on all four of Wes Craven's Scream movies (as well as the TV show of the same name, which is somehow still on the air) and while fans will know how cheeky and self-referential the whole franchise is, there's a scene in the third film that feels uncomfortably real in light of the recent accusations of sexual assault against Hollywood as a whole.
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Kay WalkingStick's "April Contemplating May" (21966) hangs adjacent to the Katz; with its solid-green negative shapes, self-referential painting-within-a-painting (the artist's "Pieces of Sky" from 21969), and orange, abstracted nude, the work revels in an invigorating in-between-ness that roams a flickering plane between Pop and Color Field painting — the same territory occupied by Frank Bowling's "Dan Johnson's Surprise" (234) on the opposite wall.
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" For Butt, the heterogeneity of elements in Bach's Passions engenders a novelistic richness, a virtual world rife with ambiguity: "It is as if he had entered into a 'Faustian pact,' by which he sought for his music an extraordinarily strong power in articulating and enhancing faith within the Lutheran religion, but in doing so gave to music an autonomous logic and referential power that goes well beyond the original purpose.
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Mr. Moretti noted with amusement a flap last spring at the World Bank, where Paul Romer, the chief economist, was relieved of some management duties at its research arm after demanding, among other changes, that its publications reduce their use of the word "and" — one of the stylistic tics mocked in "Bankspeak," a Lit Lab pamphlet analyzing the bank's drift over 60 years toward more abstract and "self-referential" language.
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The new Amazon show Jean Claude Van Johnson is directed and written by David Callaham, the original writer of The Expendables, and it does something very similar to that movie: flattens Van Damme through tired self-referential jokes that could be about any other action star, trafficks in the same kind of self-serving nostalgia, and generally fails in its limited attempts to grapple with the genre's tired tropes and racial caricatures.
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On Sunday, the 27-year-old singer dropped the music video for her new single, "Look What You Made Me Do." And though the self-referential, Joseph Kahn-directed clip shows Swift dominating over and then destroying her followers at "Squad U" — a fictional factory where lines of identical women follow her rules — one clue in the video appears to give a clue that the pop star's crew is still at it.
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That may be the secret to their success — the breathless plotting and over-the-top emotions of the originals translate fairly easily into the more knowing, self-referential style of comedy that dominates American TV. But most telenovelas don't go for laughs, and adapting a more serious Spanish-language soap opera is a different challenge — there isn't as clear an analogue in American TV drama, which has become a pretty self-serious place.
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If Facebook has become a destination for moms who are increasingly technologically literate, and Twitter has grown into a place for journalists who spread information (and snark) in 140-character missives, Vine, the mobile video app that Twitter announced late last week will be discontinued in the coming months, has become a home for young black people, who dominated the service and established its visual language early — quick cuts, referential jokes, deep allusions.
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In a string of tweets that may or may not have been an elaborate conceit for a meet/meat pun, Steak-Umm made some seriously salient (and super self-referential) points about social media and modern society: (We've reached out to Allebach Communications to ask them to elaborate on this decision to seriously lean into the existential and nihilist point of view, and will update if they get back to us.) Well said, Steak-Umm.
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The contestants have become more outrageous (this season briefly featured a woman who identified herself as a chicken enthusiast) and clichéd, the editing is egregious (see: the character they've created for Olivia), the dates have become overly sentimental (one of this season's outings involved an infinity pool in the mountains and talk of a "normal" life), and the show is more self-referential than it used to be (the girls know how the system works).
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Key referential works here include a beautiful rare book of Publius Ovidius Naso's Metamorphoses published by J. W. Valvasor in 1680, Karel Destovnik Kajuh's cyclostyle-printed Poem (1943) from the Slovene National Archive, a copy of Tomaž Šalamun's first edition poem "Namen Pelerine" (Purpose of a Cape) from 1968, and an anonymous sculpture of the head of Achelous, a man-faced bull god, from 20173–68 AD courtesy of the Museum of Ljubljana.
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Some of the humor is slyly referential (like when Zalien reveals his homemade robot A.R.T., who has the voice of Hodgson's old MST3K castmate Trace Beaulieu), some is delightfully nerdy (like when the warp zone briefly turns everyone in the crew into babies, except Natasha, who becomes a Pong game), and some is just whimsically goofy (like the way the fashion trends of the future have men wearing "collar balls" around their necks instead of ties).
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" Or to locate the subject more specifically (and bear with me here), he's "a young overweight-to-obese homosexual and/or gay and/or queer, cisgender male, able-bodied university-and-graduate-school educated, musical theater writing, Disney Ushering, broke-ass middle-class far left-leaning black-identified and classified American descendant of slaves full of self-conscious femme energy and who thinks he's probably a vers bottom but not totally certain of that obsessing over the latest draft of his self-referential musical 'A Strange Loop'!
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In the years since, the dunks themselves have become layered tributes and referential jokes: Gerald Green in a Dee Brown jersey poised to dunk over a cut-out of Nate Robinson; Jeremy Evans dunking over a painting of himself dunking over his own painting, which took him three weeks to paint; Dwight Howard's smiling face looking to where he stuck the sticker of his own smiling face at the top of the backboard; Dwight Howard taking off his jersey to reveal a tighter jersey underneath for no reason; and so on and so forth, forever.
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