The Force Awakens was attacked for being too slavish to the old Star Wars movies; The Last Jedi is being attacked for not being slavish enough.
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He insults his opponents with schoolyard nicknames while retweeting slavish sycophants.
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But this kind of slavish courtship is embarrassing, silly and offensive.
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Military regimes bolster their legitimacy by slavish devotion to the crown.
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If even slavish loyalty isn't protection from Trump's ire, what is?
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Its marketing materials boast of slavish attention to historical and cultural accuracy.
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"The slavish devotion to shareholders has gotten out of control," he said.
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What keeps these men in line, and in their terrifying, dehumanizing little steel bubble, is not slavish adherence to Nazi ideology, but a slavish adherence to a certain idea of masculinity, and the show is keenly attuned to it.
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"great" again, a resentment of foreigners and a slavish respect for leaders—especially
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It felt like the culmination of the West's slavish obsession with sugar production.
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Israel, nor slavish loyalty to it, does service to who we are as morally,
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But more literary adaptations are wrecked by slavish source fidelity than by imaginative tweaks.
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Exact reproduction, which he had never done, was surely the most slavish tutelage of all.
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But from a certain angle, Incredibles 2 looks a little too slavish to creaky conventions.
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As a result, you no longer have quite the same slavish worship of the text.
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Wrong. Jazz, like all serious art, is slavish in its adherence to boundaries and rules.
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The people that worked at the studio had this kind of cultish, slavish devotion to him.
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Right, if you were doing the slavish march through the career, you wouldn't focus on Sam Cutler.
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Devil May Cry 5 justifies its own existence with a slavish devotion to being an absolute blast.
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Slavish adherence to unfounded and outdated rules of thumb that cause mis-programming of air conditioning systems.
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I always think that the unsuccessful film adaptations are the ones that are too timid and slavish.
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"Waves" and "Uncut Gems" are among the movies that carry his DNA, although not in slavish imitation.
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He's an object lesson in the danger of slavish artistic inflexibility, yet also something of an aspirational figure.
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The ultraconservative Freedom Caucus singlehandedly sank needed health-care reform because of their slavish obsession with political ideology.
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The new episodes capture the spirit of the original series, while offering up a spin that isn't needlessly slavish.
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Many of those around Putin may owe their power and wealth to him, but few are simply slavish acolytes.
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No, the CIA is the enemy because of its intellectual sophistication and lack of slavish loyalty to the president.
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His chances for a ranking federal post are considered tarnished by Bridgegate, despite his slavish devotion to Mr. Trump.
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Technically, perhaps not, though slavish adherence to the framers' understanding has by no means always limited modern constitutional interpretation.
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Suspiria is what a remake should be—a reinvention of themes, not a slavish recreation of what's already been done.
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"One night, in slavish fear, I got my homework so wrong that it was perfect," he writes about the experience.
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The dynamic linocuts combine Ms. Ganesh's talents in fine art and comics by riffing on the story without being slavish.
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Erin Griffith, a reporter in our San Francisco bureau, argue that their real shortcoming is a slavish devotion to work.
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The scene exposes both Ines's control-freak ways and the assistant's slavish devotion to the woman on whose power she depends.
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And our slavish devotion to its convenience is meant to embody the way that we are, well, slaves to its convenience.
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Steamforge has clearly felt a slavish need to replicate the challenging nature of the source material, as evidenced by its dicey combat.
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For Wollstonecraft, dependency is awful not just because it makes you a slave but because it turns you into a slavish person.
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But it and other would-be minimal phones, in my opinion, are too slavish in their imitations of devices from years past.
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If we do take a look, it will be because we care, not because we're slavish pawns in the space-industrial complex.
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The financial crisis showed how a slavish adherence to modelling can spectacularly blow up in real-life markets, either immediately or eventually.
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Having written a series of slavish articles attacking the media's coverage of Trump, Wolff was given unfettered access to the White House.
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" Describing her husband, Zadie remarks that "his finance career required slavish devotion — the sacrifice of one's firstborn, the swearing of blood oaths.
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Apparently, the producers' slavish commitment to ratings exceeded their moral obligation to condemn the man they are convinced is a serial killer.
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Apple's slavish adherence to the multi-colored activity circles means I never know, at least at a glance, exactly what goal I've achieved.
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His slavish devotion to one deity, Cigu Guanyin, who he believes will solve all of the family's problems if he proves faithful enough.
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Miss: Movie/musical confusion Was "Grease: Live" a fresh reimagining of the 1972 Broadway musical or a slavish homage to the beloved movie?
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Instead it appears that House Republicans, out of slavish fealty to the president, are going to use high-profile hearings to amplify them.
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"I think what people are looking for is more independent thought and less slavish devotion to the N.R.A." On the Republican side, Gov.
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" He went on to say, "I think what people are looking for is more independent thought and less slavish deviations to the NRA.
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Many strategists want Australia to be less slavish in its relations with America, while praying that Mr Trump will prove a more reliable partner.
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But I enjoyed it precisely because it was an episode of Star Trek: Discovery and not a slavish attempt to revisit old Trek favorites.
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Did the President understand that just about everyone would see the pardon as a transparent reward for the slavish loyalty of a political supporter?
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Slavish devotion to market theories serves as a convenient rational justification for some to take selfish actions they know to be wrong or questionable.
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Republicans, who poured in millions of dollars in ads against Mr. Lamb, tried to paint him as a slavish follower of the California Democrat.
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They're realizing that many kids admitted into top schools are emotional wrecks or slavish adherents to soulless scripts that forbid the exploration of genuine passions.
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The unforced, but still slavish devotion we see from so many everyday people for Hillary Clinton, President Obama, and Donald Trump is frightening and depressing.
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Which, thanks to humanity's slavish devotion to base-10, means it's high time for a retrospective, a hard look back at the most seminal features.
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"A slavish policy that ignores Chinese transgressions holds back the Philippine military and surrenders to Beijing's wishes," said Jose Antonio Custodio, a Philippine military historian.
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The loss of control of a narrative has political ramifications — even for a mighty authoritarian government or a politician with a slavish base of support.
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In written testimony to Congress in 2010 he called for the US to end what he called its "unthinking, simplistic and slavish dedication" to WTO rules.
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Unlike Warren Buffett, Bezos doesn't have the near-slavish devotion of the news media and much of liberal America believing he's a billionaire on their side.
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Second, his insistence on slavish support from Republicans in Congress will weaken -- perhaps permanently -- the separation of powers required to maintain a legislature capable of functioning.
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Lawmakers not seeking re-election are often the most candid about the slavish devotion Mr. Trump engenders with voters — and the pressure it puts on them.
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If our taste is dictated by data-fed algorithms controlled by massive tech corporations, then we must be content to classify ourselves as slavish followers of robots.
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As he began to tour the state in 1973, he sharply criticized Governor Rockefeller's "slavish allegiance" to President Nixon, a sharp break with his recent Republican loyalties.
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Trump may end up doing more than any of her predecessors to upend our expectations of the slavish devotion a first lady must display toward her husband.
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The closest thing to a message that "Rules Don't Apply" imparts — that the slavish sycophants bowing and scraping before their master enable his insanity — is hardly new.
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Sanders' movie sometimes comes across as slavish to his source material, but it's gorgeous in ways that make it stand apart from the craftsmanship in today's superhero movies.
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But still, it is striking to read such a powerful shredding of one of Mr Trump's attack lines from the spouse of one of his most slavish defenders.
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Instead, the ending seems to suggest we will never escape the danger of cults, or slavish group thought, no matter who is in charge, or what we do.
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Basically, this is how Kylie stays perpetually atop the beauty game: With a devotion so slavish that it could build the pyramids were we living in ancient Egypt.
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Irony. Because as it happens, one of the greatest causes of public relations headaches for Airbnb has been its slavish adherence to the ad's very motto: #WeAccept. Confused?
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Mr. Ratmansky's closeness to the score is far from slavish, yet we hear Mussorgsky in brilliant detail because of watching, as if the choreography were conversing with it.
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It was Pete Hegseth, a Fox & Friends Weekend host who has become not only one of Trump's most slavish cheerleaders but also an influential adviser to the president.
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And Hong Kong's newspapers are filled each day with ever more slavish declarations of "love" for China by business people trying to protect their investments on the mainland.
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In its place we have a slavish devotion to the walls — invisible and physical — that anchor the concepts of statehood and nationality in Trump and his administration's eyes.
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Given how Aipac has let itself become the slavish, unthinking tool of Netanyahu, who opposes a two-state solution, I believe Aipac works against Israel's long-term interests.
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Slavish devotion to a leader is incompatible with the kind of critical engagement that is necessary to prevent organizations from going down the wrong path, financially or morally.
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"While much of Japanese art takes natural settings, places, and events as its starting point, the emphasis has never been on a slavish recreation of reality," he writes.
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However, one common denominator is that many countries have taken a holiday that has its roots in charitable giving and transformed it into a celebration of slavish commercial excess.
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In addition to the slavish devotion Kraus demands from the attentive viewer, Gravity and Grace (1996), her last and only feature length film, tackles a decidedly spiritual subject matter.
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But it does seem to indicate that Trump is interested in making slavish personal loyalty to Donald Trump a core qualification for the Fed job — a potentially dangerous situation.
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Wasted Heroes also responded to angry and incredulous tweets about the shirt, explaining that the shirt is intended as a statement, of sorts, about being slavish to a brand.
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Without making it feel like slavish impersonation, Ms. Burns captures Holliday's vocal mannerisms (they sound put-on because they were, yet still feel oddly natural), wit and comic timing.
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The majority of elected Republicans, in turn, are assuming a posture of slavish submission to Trump, worshiping their dear leader and collaborating in the maintenance of his alternative reality.
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Slavish devotion to the monoculture is fatal to the Space Force because it needs to create an independent culture with a mixed force while firmly in the monoculture's maw.
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She expected slavish displays of devotion from top bureaucrats and party functionaries, watching coolly as they lay full-length at her feet and pressed their faces to the floor.
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The plaintiff objected to what it called ComicMix's "slavish copying," including cover art mimicking the original's colored rings, but in the shape of the U.S.S. Enterprise, the "Star Trek" spaceship.
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For others, this sort of forced patriotism and slavish "respect" smacks of dictatorships rather than democracies and the short shrift given to the real problems being protested smacks of racism.
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" The book goes on to argue that "… a cabal of unelected academics … made decisions without the slightest understanding of the real world; just a slavish devotion to their theoretical models.
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Setting the movie in the middle of nowhere, he is largely able to sidestep the slavish (and sometimes unsuccessful) attention to period detail that's become de rigueur for such pictures.
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Spark's partners insist that the firm is unafraid of pushing into new industries, without slavish regard for whether there is an existing, easily defined market for a start-up's products.
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"After receiving that confidential information, L'Oréal ceased pursuing the acquisition of Olaplex, and instead willfully took and copied Olaplex's technology without authorization to create three slavish 'me too' knockoffs," Olaplex claimed.
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When I switched from the low-level enduring love of Alex back to full-on slavish obsession a few years ago, I was seeing a therapist for agoraphobia and general panic.
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Under the circumstances, demonstrating slavish loyalty to the Trump brand by launching a baseless attack on an American retail chain from the White House podium could be a smart career strategy.
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It's an inspiring thing to say, 'Your time is up, you've been ridiculously slavish to an ideology rather than to a solution, and it's time to come up with a solution.
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It is this sort of slavish devotion from Gucci's customer base that resulted in the brand's reporting a 43.4 percent increase in sales in the first six months of the year.
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The president has, if not fixed intellectual differences with Mr Bannon, different predilections, including his slavish regard for the military and business elites now stocking his cabinet, whom his former adviser derides.
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Twitter's design also promotes a slavish devotion to metrics: Every tweet comes with a counter of Likes and Retweets, and users come to internalize these metrics as proxies for real-world popularity.
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Stranger Things may have found the limits of its conceit, or maybe even the limits of slavish devotion to the idealized cinematic childhoods so many of us remember, but never actually lived.
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It seemed self-evident that redemption was the aim, to make up for having forfeited the heart of the narrative in favor of tasteless shock and a slavish commitment to the source material.
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From its slavish conceit of realism, compulsive bigness, and astounding disinterest in telling a story worth the several dozen hours it demands, Red Dead Redemption 22 fails to justify its own excessive existence.
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President Zeman has just faced the worst two or three months of his long political career, a career capped by his slavish devotion to Putin's expansionist plans for Russia and the Near Abroad.
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Writes Uproxx's Charles Bramesco: Snyder and co-writer Steve Shibuya have lots of opinions about feminism, but they repeatedly contradict, muddle, or undermine them with their slavish devotion to the aesthetic of adolescent badassery.
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Opinion Columnist No matter how low your expectations for the summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on Monday, it was hard not to be staggered by the American president's slavish and toadying performance.
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But given the slavish way Barr has enacted Trump's agenda, there's no reason to see his words as anything but cheap P.R. meant to quell mounting fury at the way he's corrupting his agency.
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A slavish devotion to maximizing return for risk can put an investor into a portfolio she can't tolerate, leading to either selling at the wrong time or getting greedy and buying at the wrong time.
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Bryan: You know something has become a trend (or more accurately, a slavish trope) when you're watching a movie based on real events and you're just waiting to see if it'll take the obvious swing.
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" Modi's supporters often get their news from Republic TV, which features shouting matches, public shamings, and scathing insults of all but the most slavish Modi partisans; next to it, Fox News resembles the BBC's "Newshour.
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" But he warned there has to be a balance: "I would never let anybody or ask anybody to be slavish to data, but I'd also be super skeptical of people who aren't curious about the data.
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"There is so much content out there and, for me, I don't know that I have the time that I used to have to dedicate myself to slavish viewing of a seven-year show," he said.
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Not for glory, not for any higher purpose, not to break the internet or sell tickets to legions of slavish Star Wars fans who would know doubt mortgage their homes for a chance to sit in the cockpit.
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He is enmeshed in a series of cogs, as Chaplin was in " Modern Times " (1936), and the homage that King pays to Wes Anderson, not least to the jailbreak in " The Grand Budapest Hotel " (2014), is positively slavish.
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Despite a slavish faithfulness to the comic's images (if not exactly its themes) in the rest of the film, it was thought that a giant squid landing in Times Square would be too much for people to process.
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I write all this as someone who is on record hoping Republicans get pummeled in the midterms — a fitting electoral rebuke for their slavish devotion to an unfit president and their casual abandonment of long-held conservative principles.
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Mr. Bruni says many students who apply to top colleges are "slavish adherents to soulless scripts that forbid the exploration of genuine passions," but that could not be farther from the truth for me and many other "exceptional" students.
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Indeed, the look of the show -- from the spaceships to the makeup, the production design to the costumes -- is almost a slavish recreation with modest wrinkles, to the point where one begins to wonder how it all cleared legal.
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These musicals exist on a bandwidth where their fidelity to their animated sources can be, on one end, slavish ("Beauty and the Beast") to nominally compliant but imaginatively reimagined ("The Lion King" and the recent London production of "Pinocchio").
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Yeah, the hole-digging scene is an obvious metaphor, but it's also emblematic of The Americans' slavish attention to detail and commitment to showing exactly how much difficult, unglamorous work and patience goes into what Philip and Elizabeth do.
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Take the ones you like and commit to them: Mess with them a little, make them again and again without slavish attention to this step or that one, and cook them so as to make the recipes your own.
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All of these bands stick to very specific themes, whether that's slavish devotion to a singular lyrical theme (like serial killers or Tolkien worship), dress up like monsters or Victorian gentlemen, or insist that they're literal pirates or Antarctic aliens.
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The exhibition is more successful when it focuses on stylistic influence; Delacroix was considered a pioneer because his painterly approach departed from the Romantic movement's slavish adherence to realism, using pure color — rather than composition — to communicate emotional and spiritual content.
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And all signs are that if Republicans win in 2018, slavish loyalty to Trump will only grow more ingrained, especially because Trump himself makes no secret that loyalty to him is the key to access, and access is the key to policy influence.
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Yet on July 21st Mr Trump hired as his communications director—a role senior to Mr Spicer's—a former financier, Anthony Scaramucci, who is known for his colourful right-wing invectives, friendship with Mr Trump's children, and slavish defence of the president.
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But following Variety's announcement, another actor unexpectedly threw his hat in the ring for the role—someone whose personal style and slavish devotion to the art would give us a wholly new and terrifying and possibly even more compelling version of the Joker: Tommy Wiseau.
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter: Shaiman's lush underscoring enriches the movie throughout, and his songs with co-lyricist Wittman are their best since Hairspray, full of personality and humor, and reverential without being slavish in their adherence to the musical patterns of the first film.
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" The rise of Trump, and the slavish devotion he inspires among leading evangelicals, has forced Wehner to consider seriously something he had always deemed a secular slander: that "both politics and the Christian witness are now made worse by people of faith actively involving themselves in politics.
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It was so slavish a promoter of Mr. Netanyahu's interests that by 2014, a majority of Israeli lawmakers — including key members of his governing coalition — backed legislation that would have forced Israel Hayom to charge its readers at least half the price of its cheapest competitor.
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" Covering his 11th presidential election, Shapiro warns against a "slavish devotion to polls" and pack journalism—"the simple human reality that no one wants to be wrong"—while recognizing that "horse-race coverage remains inescapable because of the formidable demand for it amongst readers and TV viewers.
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But when a black Democrat was beaten by a group of black Republicans in 1876, newspapers reacted in alarm — an act of 19th-century concern trolling that foreshadowed current debates about "black-on-black crime" and the modern idea that nonwhite Democrats are simply a slavish mob.
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His interest in jazz and improvisation is hardly a distraction from his main work: the sort of slavish attention to the score encouraged by modern classical tradition is inadequate to the demands of Renaissance or Baroque music, in which players must embellish bare-bones notation with idiomatic style.
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Mayer is vulnerable now — including a spate of much tougher press (the same press that was largely slavish to the former Google exec until only recently) — because her turnaround of the storied Internet brand has been more of a downturn, despite energetic efforts and a myriad of acquisitions.
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As the country entered a period of soul-searching, these young chefs took the opportunity to throw off what Bob calls the "legacy exoskeleton" of manners and slavish obedience to groupthink and instead to begin advancing the cause of native ingredients, prepared with great care and what seems at times almost freakish originality.
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We do not do this out of personal preference or shave-laziness, but out of a slavish, obsessive attention to the minute swings of ever-changing popular opinion as represented by a half-dozen people in New York who spend their days brunching and their nights in the bathrooms of various art galleries.
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Instead, something darker is going on, mirrored in the feminizing of robots, from the male robots of the nineteen-sixties and seventies—Hal, R2-D2, C-3PO, and Mr. Robinson's robot on "Lost in Space"—to the fembots and sexbots of "Her" and "Ex Machina," and, not least, the sexy and slavish Alexa.
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If you have ever insisted that 2018 is definitely not too late for an oddly slavish interspecies parody of the first season of "Orange Is the New Black"; if you have ever fantasized about a soft-core "Paw Patrol"; if you have ever hoped for many more jokes about canine vaginas, then sit. Stay.
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But the notion that fiction exists in some lofty netherworld of capital-A Art, utterly separate from morality and autobiography and politics — while the essay is slavish to all of them, guilelessly moral and shamelessly confessional — seems antiquated at best and paranoid at worst, an attempt to lionize certain women writers while painting others as hacks or amateurs.
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And they want you to continue to feel that sense of nostalgia as they dismantle the tropes you've internalized from decades of gluing your eyes to schlocky genre flicks on a CRTV, or subvert those iconic moments from your banged-up VHS copy of E.T. Stranger Things is familiar, but not a slavish imitation, able and willing to criticize its 80s filmic predecessors' shortcomings through its own storytelling.
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As Richard Wright put it in his introduction to ''Black Metropolis,'' St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton's classic study of Chicago's ''black belt,'' the ethnographers of the First Chicago School ''were not afraid to urge their students to trust their feelings for a situation or an event, were not afraid to stress the role of insight, and to warn against a slavish devotion to figures, charts, graphs and sterile scientific techniques.
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To the Editor: There is only one workable way to eliminate the absolutely unnecessary carnage now rampant as electronically distracted drivers indulge in their selfish and slavish behavior at everyone's peril: That is changing car design, by retrofitting when necessary, so that vehicles will not allow internet use of any kind, except for navigation or mobile calls or texting (placed or received) and for those to 911 or other emergency services while the car is in motion.
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