"There's a sense of shallowness to social media," he said.
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And yet the shallowness has a kind of handcrafted sweetness.
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She would also further expose the shallowness of Mr. Trump's agenda.
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What is scrutinized, most dispiritingly, is the shallowness of our aspirations.
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But does the book's shallowness paradoxically explain the excitement surrounding it?
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But to equate the protest and the counter-protest reveals his shallowness.
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The women living at Rose Home reveal the shallowness of that metaphor.
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It's just that you'll risk the atrocity exposing your shallowness, every time.
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"The Bling Ring" is uncompromising in its portrayal of banality and shallowness.
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Beneath the radical language and underground aesthetic is an ideological and political shallowness.
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Alas, shallowness and impulsiveness have become the hallmarks of Mr Trump's foreign policy.
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The intellectual shallowness of the left is now exposed for all to see.
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Too many of us have become servile to the shallowness of social media.
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That shallowness creates an inescapable sense of poverty porn that Dayveon never quite shakes.
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He loves movies, but Hollywood, with its shallowness and gossip, has always repelled him.
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In a novel of expertly rendered horrors, the relative shallowness also disturbs, and thereby detracts.
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It's this shallowness in Nigerian society writ large that Korede seems to hate most of all.
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The extreme shallowness of Cage's imagination is on display in every Quantic Dream game I've played.
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Ukiyo no longer meant struggling with the spiritual shallowness of ephemeral pursuits, but instead luxuriating in them.
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I don't think the movie is very Hollywood-like, but I see some of that shallowness there.
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Its commentary on the shallowness of the "Los Angeles modeling scene" I had less high hopes for.
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"American Animals" sometimes revels in their rebellious spirit and sometimes mocks their shallowness and lack of discipline.
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Your shallowness and vapidity are an insult to kids who work hard and play by the rules.
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The rapid military collapse of France exposed the shallowness of Dewey's and Taft's grasp of national security issues.
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Characters constantly crack wise, but this doesn't quite disguise their shallowness, or the leaden dialogue and repetitive narration.
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The shallowness of information was also a source of dissatisfaction, despite the bright graphics being a powerful draw.
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Geographical constraints—such as the shallowness of Chinese inner seas—make it hard for China to build similar arrays.
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Yet such is the profound shallowness and corruption of US politics today that we are on such a path.
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The song is about the rage and frustration of a young man as he details his own shallowness and hypocrisy.
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Only Letterman, once TV's leading advocate for cynically merry-minded shallowness, corresponds to 21st-century notions of the existentially profound.
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It helps fake news propagate, discourages meaningful conversations, encourages shallowness, and exacerbates the most psychologically damaging effects of social media.
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They need a bit of shallowness to cool the heat of their engines, and why else were cute boys put here?
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Malcolm Barr, an economist JP Morgan, said the "shallowness of the analysis and absence of detail are matters of great concern".
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It's a canny reflection of the surroundings: The outdoor Théâtre de l'Archevêché has a super-wide shallowness that suggests a screen.
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Here's the most uncomfortable thing about that statement: What an ugly thing to admit, what a shallowness there is to that.
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"People anticipate a shallowness [from me]," she told the LA Times when speaking on the way she's treated because of her looks.
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Hilary is our hero, to be sure, and the object of our admiration, but her depth sticks out among so much shallowness.
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But the production, directed by Kristin Marting, too often feels swamped amid the surfeit and shallowness of its source material (2224:2866).
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But the production, directed by Kristin Marting, too often feels swamped amid the surfeit and shallowness of its source material (218:2866).
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The shallowness of her profession means that when she networks, she's not trusting enough to make a real connection with her peers.
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I also acknowledge the potential shallowness of my interpretations as a cis-gendered, white person, discussing queer and Black disabled artists' work.
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As vitriolic anatomists of Hollywood shallowness and venality go, Mr. Sloman and Mr. Adams make Bruce Wagner look like, well, Bruce Wagner.
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Though she is inflected with ripples of silly celebrity shallowness, Mr. Salem's Val nonetheless registers as the sanest person in the room.
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Plants need to thrive under the area's weather conditions and the shallowness of the soil, especially on green roofs or walls, Montgomery said.
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There was a recent article in The Atlantic by the famous professor of cognition, Douglas Hofstadter, pointing out the "shallowness" of Google Translate.
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The series placed objects from a capitalist-fueled fantasy on a pedestal, pushing viewers to reflect on the inherent shallowness that they represent.
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By raising the L.A. lifestyle up into the fine arts, Hockney doubles the magazine principle into a conceptual play on shallowness and depth.
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When I think "David Hockney" I think round glasses; beautiful mop of bleached hair; swimming pools and palm trees; spiteful humor; rich shallowness.
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But it also makes some eloquent critiques of modern culture, denouncing the shallowness with which relationships are struck up and terminated via the internet.
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The premise felt like one more cynical take on showbiz shallowness and debauchery — "Entourage" and "Episodes" crammed into two ends of a horse costume.
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But the choreography also emphasizes the shallowness of the film, which gestures toward relevance without finding a coherent historical or political point of view.
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So the artist has cast a bronze in the image of our collective shallowness, and held up a phallic mirror to our boorish souls.
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On one level, the film is mocking the shallowness and cruelty of the art world, which cares more about money than quality, intention, or inspiration.
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"Shallow earthquakes cause more destruction than deep earthquakes because the shallowness of the source makes the ground-shaking at the surface worse," Professor Rothery said.
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Poking fun at their shallowness and phoniness saves us from dwelling on a more depressing thought: such deliberations will determine the future of the nation.
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She seemed to look through your weakness and recognize all the best things inside you, compassionately overlooking or accepting your fear, your shallowness, your failings.
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" As she points out, it is racist, noting "the shallowness of the black characters — how they are vehicles for Scout's story instead of their own.
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A man of such evident moral shallowness, to whom personal sacrifice is a stranger, cannot speak of valor, bravery and heroism without becoming cringe-worthy.
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I was afraid that my affection (dare I say love?) for the painting revealed an intellectual shallowness; why wasn't I drawn to more challenging art?
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Trade tensions between the United States and China have revealed the shallowness of political support for the current open trading system let alone further liberalization.
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"The Conservative Mind" is the work of an American shocked by a first encounter with Europe, and thus with the relative shallowness of his own culture.
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Thus this becomes not only the usual allegory for millennials trying to cope with a changing world, but also an excoriation of Y.A.'s traditional shallowness.
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Like Folsom Lake, which I profiled in depth (um, shallowness) last summer, Lake Oroville is one of those reservoirs you probably know quite well from photos.
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For all the shallowness of the spectacle, imagining the depth of human effort it takes to create it all can set you back on your heels.
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But beyond the hard-to-follow twists and turns of this answer, the interview also shows an astonishing shallowness to his understanding of enormous policy debates.
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Critics are protesting that his move reveals political shallowness, subverts the justice system and sends a message to aides under duress from special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Much of that is because of Andrew — poor, well-meaning Andrew — who recognizes his own intellectual shallowness, but finds himself unable to admit it to Penny.
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Either way, the motive for making the joke is rather self-serving, but, in aggregate, the shallowness of the act doesn't negate the potential positive effects.
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Derogatory terms like ars ("thug" in Hebrew slang) and freha ("bimbo") have come to connote a kind of garish shallowness and are applied almost exclusively to Mizrahim.
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"The obsession with Big Ben chiming really highlights the shallowness of the Vote Leave campaign," Neil Gray, a lawmaker with the Scottish National Party, wrote on Twitter.
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The song projects not scorn but rather an amusing defense of clubgoers, dance music, and a species of shallowness that may also be a species of fun.
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It was the extent of firsthand memory for human events—the way it felt to be there then—and it reminds us of the shallowness of American history.
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Magar, who recently directed "Underground Railroad Game," another disorienting treatment of slavery in the black and white imagination, manages to find the sweet spot between shallowness and overthink.
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That shallowness also unfortunately extends to Crackdown 3's two competitive modes, which pit teams of five against one another in slimmed down maps filled with fully destructible buildings.
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After a record-shattering debut and then a long slump as players perceived the game's shallowness and abandoned it en masse, Pokémon GO is having something of a renaissance.
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"I think the most dangerous thing in making that shift is the kind of shallowness of the unreasonably big impact that stock price has on people's mood," he said.
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The hovering turkeys by Rantanen cling to a similar idea of fake appearances, although less so in terms of art world shallowness than regarding consumer deceit in capitalist cultures.
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Mr. Navalny is pushing for an election boycott, though some analysts consider that unwise because it might reveal an embarrassing shallowness in his support if it has little impact.
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Naomi and Sam take it upon themselves to help Faoud, although they do so in ways that betray both their youth and the shallowness of their impulse to charity.
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They include characteristics like glibness and superficial charm, emotional shallowness, unwillingness to accept responsibility for actions, a tendency to boredom, promiscuous sexual behavior, cunning/manipulative tendencies, impulsivity, and irresponsibility.
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Ultimately, Hardcore Henry is a tricky balancing act: Is there enough dazzle in its gimmick to outweigh the lack of innovation in its plot and the shallowness of its characters?
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Machine translation of foreign languages is undoubtedly a very useful thing, but if you're going for anything more than directions or recommendations for lunch, its shallowness is a real barrier.
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Women see the shallowness of this approach as they return to the reality of their daily work lives and experience a system stacked against them in which little has changed.
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On the other, she laments its "shallowness"—how the very elements that make it a good thriller prevent it from saying anything worthwhile about the situation at the southern border.
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When Morf tries to listen to an installation audio piece, Dease somehow blocks the programmed whale song, and instead blasts out voices, which excoriate Morf for his shallowness and past sins.
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For years, Hinge has positioned itself as the alternative to Tinder, a way to get away from the shallowness and disappointment of flipping through trading-card profiles in an endless carousel.
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Deep down, they love the shallowness of the musical forms they lampoon—if they didn't, they wouldn't have been able to make so many great pop songs over the last decade.
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Nothomb courses through love, jealousy, betrayal and ambition as Diane seeks to create a mother-daughter relationship with Olivia, a young professor she admires, only to be disappointed by Olivia's shallowness.
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But I'd have thought there was no better venue for countering the shallowness of the screen — no better place to teach young audiences to look closely and think seriously — than a museum.
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BeautifulPeople.com, you may remember, is a dating site that allows members to vote on hopeful enlistees based on their looks, ensuring that people who belong meet certain standards of both attractiveness and shallowness.
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By inspiring so many new candidates to come forward—as "an outraged sorority", in Mrs Houlahan's phrase—he has helped the party remedy one of its biggest weaknesses, the shallowness of its bench.
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In both cases markets had mostly normalised by the end of the day, but the shallowness of liquidity provided by high-frequency traders was blamed by the regulators as possibly exacerbating the moves.
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At its peak, broadcast TV was derided for its shallowness, for its crass commercialism, for the way it celebrated conformity and rejected heterodoxy, and mostly for often not being very creative or entertaining.
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Rewatching Fight Club in 2019, that reversal feels less revelatory, not least because Brad Pitt has become a stronger, quieter actor since then, throwing the intentional shallowness of his Tyler Durden into sharper relief.
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But the show — directed by Kristin Marting and created by Matthew Cohn, Mr. Darvish, Ms. MacCary, Enormvs Muñoz and Jen Taher — too often feels swamped by the surfeit and shallowness of its source material.
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The natural lighting effects create the illusion of subtle shifts in depth and shallowness, presence and absence that allow the viewer to see how much we shape our world through sensitivity to visual nuances.
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Still, for all the shallowness of social media's mission to "connect" people, we can't deny that at the core, apps like Facebook and Instagram have intensified the way we find each other and discover ourselves.
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Johnson is incredible but can't pull in audiences and the shallowness of the division prevents any of its other standouts building any momentum or fan following before Johnson needs another title challenger to knock off.
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I opt for ones like the Tantus Silk Large with a longer stem so that I can play with depth and shallowness while still being able to hold onto the base for any kind of play.
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Up to two thirds of these totals are raised offshore, mainly in the deep US dollar and euro markets, reflecting the shallowness of the local bond scene, as well as Australians' relatively low bank deposit holdings.
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Even the social life she'd envied had started to pall on her, the shallowness of it, the same competitive faces in the same rooms, the repetitiveness and lack of growth, the lack of tenderness or intimacy.
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They are, in short, a relatively docile species—restricted, perhaps, by the quality of the water, by their natural predators and pathogens, by the shallowness of the river basin, or by factors we haven't yet identified.
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Ms. Groux, who works at a flower shop in West Chester, faulted Mr. Trump for refusing to release his taxes, and for what she called a shallowness on policy that suggested an unwillingness to consult experts.
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For reasons I dare not speculate on, American consumers of mass media love watching affluent men and women of questionable intelligence and certain vulgarity fret over their own shallowness while struggling to speak in pop-psychological cliches.
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Shallowness abounds, and while it's clear we're meant to read genuine relationships between these people, it's also just as evident that their... let's call them heightened characterizations are laying the groundwork for big, loud, and thrilling confrontations.
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Many saw this as a shortcoming, but with Fox News, Ailes showed how shallowness could be a strength: On television, it becomes hard to distinguish arguments that genuinely lack depth from those compressed to fit the format.
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Dullness of visionHeaviness of heartDeclarations of loveA paroxysm of weepingIncreased shallowness of breathTraces of acidExtremes of temperatureAggressive behaviorCriminal tendenciesKleptomaniaPyromaniaAlcoholismHedonismBarbarismGreasy skinBad headachesDebilitating back painEconomy of wordsResigned acceptanceVoyages of explorationVows of chastityShortness of memory Excerpted from Dictionary Stories by Jez Burrows.
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But besides the obvious laziness -- not to mention cruelty -- of a famous comic's attacking vulnerable targets under the guise of being daring or provocative, one of the most standout elements of Louis C.K.'s new material is its shallowness.
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As a biting satire, the film is sharp on consumerism and shallowness: We live in a culture fueled by testosterone and greed, it posits, and between trendy restaurants and trendier night clubs, haven't we all been a little diminished?
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There are many issues with social media, from its corrosion of civic life to its cultural shallowness, but the argument I want to make here is more pragmatic: You should quit social media because it can hurt your career.
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My biggest complaint about this movie ended up having nothing to do with its purported "shallowness," which every critic seems to be bending over backwards to point out as if to distance themselves from the fact they're even writing about it.
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But the hell of our political process is the brevity of so many Americans' memories and the shallowness of their engagement, which could be a final stroke of outrageously good fortune for a con man who has been too lucky already.
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Albert needed to do whatever she had to do in order to tell her stories, and if those stories are suddenly discounted because people feel duped, that says more about the public's own shallowness than the quality of the writing.
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You could argue that this is the point: As Sandy skirts financial ruin and vacillates over his relationship to an "age-appropriate" woman (played by Nancy Travis, 17 years younger than Douglas), Norman frequently calls him out on his shallowness.
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The safety pin is now at the center of a national conversation about hate crimes, prompting the discussion about the facile shallowness of white men and women and what good comes out of the backlash against such gestures of solidarity.
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The video installation included scores of individuals wearing sheets and a bed screenprinted with quotes so sarcastic, dry, and apathetic, the inanity and shallowness of the interactions in the piece made me think I was becoming more lame-brained by the minute.
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In fact, every time I return to Dickens, I'm amazed at how pertinent he remains in his descriptions of the shallowness of the socially ambitious and, more distressingly, in his vision of England as a bleakly divided land of haves and have-nots.
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These groups, which do warn of the nebulous dangers of automation, are united in the shallowness of their proposed solutions, which largely hinge on emphasizing the importance of better education and calling on small amounts of government support for retraining programs and worker assistance.
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New Orleans Pelicans Nothing illuminates the uncharacteristic shallowness in the West than the Pelicans' ability to maintain playoff hope after a 6-22 start in which they were hit with the double whammy of a lengthy string of injuries and a difficult early schedule.
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His story is a variant of the much-told tale of the American man (or Englishman or European man, seldom a woman) who revolts against the shallowness of Western materialism and goes to India to find his soul, to reinvent himself, to be spiritually reborn.
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All Khalid sees around him is shallowness and duplicity: "No one really means it when they're wishing you well/I got no one to call, no one/and people only love you when they're needing your wealth," he sings in a sweet, sad falsetto.
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Chazelle said the movie builds on all the clichés people may have about Los Angeles, including the "traffic, the terrible parties, the celebrity culture, the shallowness", but then shows that "there is something very poetic about the city that's just built by people with these unrealistic dreams".
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"A novel of ideas" is not the term for this — that's a term for a book that often has big chunks of boring, which "The Red Car" does not — but neither does it inhabit the term "entertainment," which assumes a certain shallowness also nowhere to be found.
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Artists fall in love with machines because they envy their shallowness, because the machine's impassivity underlines their own blushing beating heart, because the paradox's unattainable outcome promises a lifetime of yearning, because they catch their own reflection in the gleaming surface and find the distortion startling.
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When they do, Rollins will be awarded all the Oscars for his performance as the sleeveless, potentially homicidal bartender in this campy buddy comedy about the shallowness of Los Angeles that plays like something between a second-rate Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion and a fourth-rate Clueless.
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When Naomi turns into a larger-than-life villain, screaming profanity at an underling for daring to bring her a chocolate-chip cookie that's light on the chips, it's a stunningly awful moment, and it reveals her as a victim not of her circumstances, but of her own shallowness.
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For Trump to prioritize the desire to hit back at a British prime minister over the threat of damage to that relationship is to reveal the terrible shallowness of the president's grasp of international relationships, and to rouse yet again fears that his unpredictability and narcissism threatens us all.
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The image of the tortured millennial who hates parties and hookups yet partakes because everyone else does, the old soul, surrounded by shallowness, secretly craving something real — this amounts to a moralistic, hypocritical condemnation of hedonism, a youth-specific version of what Drake and the Weeknd have made careers of.
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Garrett's shallowness is shallowly drawn, and the study group he reluctantly takes on feels like a holding cell of immigrant clichés: an Ethiopian surgeon reduced to driving a New York cab, a Dominican woman working at a comically endless series of jobs, a rich and haughty Chinese brother and sister.
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Garrett's shallowness is shallowly drawn, and the study group he reluctantly takes on feels like a holding cell of immigrant clichés: an Ethiopian surgeon reduced to driving a New York cab, a Dominican woman working at a comically endless series of jobs, a rich and haughty Chinese brother and sister.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE's bullying rhetoric against Mexico last week was not only insulting to Mexico, but also reflected the shallowness of his concept of the wall, its costs, and how they will be financed and borne.
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But for people who aren't surrounded by policy discussions on a daily basis, the shallowness of the recent debates makes it harder to truly understand how these candidates differ in the scope of their proposals and how much they plan to use policy to help communities of color, communities that have some shared concerns but also have distinct and specific needs.
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Trump on Trumponomics:Nationalism plus flexibilityLeader:The impulsiveness and shallowness of America's president threaten the economy as well as the rule of lawBriefing 1:Donald Trump's economic strategyBriefing 2:The contradiction at the heart of TrumponomicsBriefing 3:What Donald Trump means by fair trade Now at the same time I have a very good relationship with Justin [Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister] and a very good relationship with the president of Mexico.
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That is bad for America—and the world May 13th 2017 The impulsiveness and shallowness of America's president threaten the economy as well as the rule of law Jul 1st 2017 Washington is paralysed, and the man in the Oval Office is making a bad situation worse Aug 5th 2017 There are no good options to curb Kim Jong Un. But blundering into war would be the worst Aug 19th 2017 After Charlottesville.
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Paideia is based on the idea that a healthy democracy requires a certain sort of honorable citizen — that if we're not willing to tell one another the truth, devote our lives to common purposes or defer to a shared moral order, then we'll succumb to the shallowness of a purely commercial civilization, we'll be torn asunder by the centrifugal forces of extreme individualism, we'll rip one another to shreds in the naked struggle for power.
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Things that most people learn to put up with strike Harry Haller as the fetters of a living death: Without really wanting to at all, they pay calls and carry on conversations, sit out their hours at desks and on office chairs; and it is all compulsory, mechanical and against the grain, and it could all be done or left undone just as well by machines; and indeed it is this never-ceasing machinery that prevents their being, like me, the critics of their own lives and recognizing the stupidity and shallowness, the hopeless tragedy and waste of the lives they lead.
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Last fall, T gathered some of these artists to discuss the East Village and its influence: Ashley Bickerton, 280, who moved to New York in 21987 and now lives in Bali, whose work includes assemblages made of found objects and corporate logos; Barbara Bloom, 21980, a New York-based conceptual photographer and installation artist who lived in Berlin for much of the '270s but was a fixture in the East Village galleries, unsparingly documenting American greed and shallowness; Peter Halley, 143, a born-and-raised New Yorker, abstract painter and co-founder of the influential Index Magazine; Jeff Koons, 214, who moved to New York in 25 and whose use of banal objects like vacuum cleaners and basketballs later made him, for many, an emblem of the avarice his generation had started out critiquing; and Joan Wallace, 220, who came to New York in 1981 and, in those years, collaborated with her artistic partner Geralyn Donohue on monochrome paintings that also included found commercial objects such as rearview mirrors.
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