Her early works, Arular and Kala, foresaw a world where Bollywood numbers rub up against Brazilian funk which rubs up against Caribbean soca which rubs up against… well, you get the picture.
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It's not only the far-right which rubs up against clerical leftism.
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"Smooth" is what happens when the internet rubs up against peak nostalgia.
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This is doubly likely when the peripheries are also where the empire rubs up against suspicious neighbours.
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Their varied contributions cohere into a paradoxical whole, in which the trivial rubs up against the unspeakably serious.
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Yet that unbroken train of thought from regression to coercion, even in its milder form, rubs up against liberalism.
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I got my standard size (9), and my heel rubs up against the back of the shoes while I walk.
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You know how disgusting it is when a stranger rubs up against you skin to skin when you're at an outdoor concert during the summer?
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For working and middle-class women, though, the space where that ideal rubs up against reality is more likely to produce friction than anything else.
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Some users report more pleasure from increased warmth as well, as the inner ring stimulates the penis and the outer ring rubs up against the clitoris.
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And like the Whitney exhibition, it occasionally rubs up against the limits of "soft power" at a moment when museums, among other institutions, are being transformed by hard activism.
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Speaking between rehearsals in early February, he sounded unfazed by the challenge of bringing his avant-garde sensibilities to London's main opera house, even if doing so rubs up against local traditions.
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But that person would not be familiar with the laws governing the universe of Orange is the New Black, where the dire often rubs up against the uplifting; the grim waltzes with the hilarious.
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It is anybody's guess why the Kremlin has decided to take a more emollient view of a millenarian sect which rubs up against many governments because its members refuse to undergo compulsory military service.
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As the two friends get into one awful predicament after another, Marcus's "a man's gotta do what he's gotta do" attitude rubs up against Vaughn's reticence, and over the course of the movie their friendship frays.
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Written by Deborah Stein, performed by Suli Holum and directed by both of them, "The Wholehearted" is a fast-jabbing fantasy where sweaty physicality rubs up against shape-shifting surreality, with a little country music thrown in.
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To culinary partisans, the butter-or-margarine question, which The New York Times called a "long-running debate" in a 1974 article, rubs up against Coke-or-Pepsi as among the most contentious dividers of our time.
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One out of 10 fellow Americans finds something about airports to be a turn-on — is it the heady possibility of picking up all sorts of bacteria while your butt rubs up against the cold bathroom-stall door?
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In terms of capabilities, Landbot also rubs up against survey/form offerings like SurveyMonkey and Google Form — or indeed Barcelona-based Typeform, which has raised around $50M since 2012 and bills itself as a platform for "conversational data collection".
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By content I do mean to encompass all ends of the artistic spectrum, that ill-defined mass of high and low entertainment and art and news that rubs up against each other on the web in a way that makes it more difficult to separate out, and perhaps less meaningful to do so.
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As to "what constitutes success or failure to a writer", it has been described as "a complicated business, where the material rubs up against the spiritual, and psychology plays a big part".
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They arrange a date for the evening, with the friend insisting upon chaperoning. Once the two meet, the man is horrified to observe that his date is masculine, grunting, and lurching. She immediately rubs up against him, asking "Do you want to see the Angry Beaver?", a now popular quote.
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One day, in the midst of a large crowd watching the performance of a musician playing the theremin, Dr. Jano (Carlos Belloso), a participant in the conference and hotel guest, rubs up sexually against Amalia. She is upset but takes his inappropriate action as a sign that her Catholic faith has given her a mission: to save Dr. Jano from such inappropriate behavior. Afterward, the object of Amalia's desire becomes the married middle-aged doctor and she begins to spy on him. Amalia's story is partly about an adolescent girl's discovery of her sexual vulnerability and the sexual power she possesses.
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The defamiliarizing effect of Staff's intervention rubs up against the history of the building, which was originally used as a gunpowder store. Pipes suspended from the ceiling leak acid into steel barrels, at once evoking chemical corrosion, the sharing of bodily fluids, and the uncontrollable, networked spread of viruses and data.” Elizabeth Karp-Evans writes: “Staff’s work also seeks to address the ecological and industrial relationships that societies have become dependent on; the question of how technology and capitalist-driven consumption have changed our biological constitution is one they are interested in answering. “We’re in a moment of reckoning with the irreversible effects of contemporary biopolitics,” Staff says.
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There are, as West observes, very few breaches of Porson's Law in extant Greek tragedy. When the manuscript tradition, therefore, transmits a line that breaches Porson's Law, this is taken as a reason for suspecting that it may be corrupt. For example, the first line of Euripides' Ion, as transmitted in the mediaeval manuscript Laurentianus 32.2 (known as "L"), the main source for the play, reads: :u – u – / u – u– / – –u– : : :Atlas, who with his back of bronze [rubs up] against heaven... (trans. Lee) As Porson himself had already observed in his note on line 347 in his first (1797) edition of Euripides' Hecuba,Clarke, M.L., (1937) Richard Porson: A Biographical Essay, page 70.
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