I crave their plainness and uniformity—bright white light and cheerful soullessness.
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Everything dubbed a "magical" invention crackles with the unsettlingly soullessness of a machine.
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The sculpture's dry humor, and surreal play on scale, saves it from total soullessness.
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Critics like to complain — with ample justification — about the soullessness of sequel-driven commercial cinema.
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The project, which he started in 2015, began after he observed the soullessness of Arizona's abandoned strip malls.
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But one of the many fascinating, disturbing things about Refn's film is just how suited Jesse is for soullessness.
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And even some readers who remain described a creeping soullessness that has accompanied the flow of money into their neighborhoods.
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It's an unchallenging movie, but as far as unchallenging kids movies go, the actors ensure this one doesn't fall into soullessness.
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Though technocratic in nature, her reforms carefully sought to avoid the soullessness associated with that framework in a post-austerity world.
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Of course the modern-day (or 1988-vintage) Scrooge is a jaded TV executive, because who better to embody the shallow soullessness of our times?
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Synthesizers, in the eyes of scene, symbolized falseness, hollowness, soullessness, coldness—in other words, exactly the ideas that Milemarker tackled head-on in Frigid Forms Sell.
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The nagging problem has been, for lack of a better term, the soullessness of these digital renderings, even when a living actor is around to help create them.
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But in a radio interview, he posited a rhetorical question about Hillary Clinton voters: "How much soullessness must exist to vote for that kind of person?" he asked.
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Super Deluxe documented a sex doll shop in the video below and seeing the stillness inside (and the soullessness of all those body parts) gets totally creepy after a while.
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Today, a zoning board would simply try to demand that various developments include the necessary amenities as part of the permitting process, leading to food deserts and the curious soullessness of some urban neighborhoods.
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And while it's so easy to talk about colors, powders, primers, and highlighters with a Zoella level of soullessness and irrelevance, makeup to me — to many of us — is not an extravagant stockpile of excessive frippery, but something which gives us power.
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As film subjects go, the soullessness of the upper crust counts as low-hanging fruit, even before "Boris Without Beatrice" begins drawing a faintly meaningful parallel between Boris's life and that of Tantalus, for whom sustenance was always just out of reach.
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Alas, he proved this afternoon that his festive shamrock pocket square cannot compensate for his soullessness: Mulvaney just said that Meals on Wheels is one of those programs "not showing any results" The sole objective of Meals on Wheels is to feed elderly people and keep them alive.
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Purely for analogous purposes, let's say that M83 is Nirvana (wait, don't go!), and the Chainsmokers are, for shits and giggles, Vertical Horizon—so far removed from the source material that the resemblance is barely there, but once you become aware of it, the soullessness it represents is impossible to shake.
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Half an hour south from Washington, DC, attendees gathered at the resplendent Gaylord Convention Center at National Harbor, a too-polished development of family-friendly restaurants and retail, with the kind of barren soullessness that marks places designed solely to get people to spend money (there's a new MGM casino right there, too).
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Justin Chang of Variety wrote, "An eerily precise match of filmmaker and material, Cosmopolis probes the soullessness of the 1% with the cinematic equivalent of latex gloves. ... Pattinson's excellent performance reps an indispensable asset."Chang, Justin (25 May 2012). . Variety. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
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The Third Key (Treći ključ) is a 1983 Croatian film directed by Zoran Tadić, starring Božidar Alić and Vedrana Međimorec. A Kafkian horror film, indirectly touching on the topic of corruption, in showing the alienation and soullessness of modern agglomerations it resembles somewhat the film Someone's Watching Me! by John Carpenter.
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93 Pauline Kael admiring its "calculated soullessness" and wondering if it signalled a "new genre of virtuoso viciousness". US publication Box Office gave a cautiously approving review, describing the film as "nasty, violent and sexy all at once". It predicted that "It should please in the action market, but won't win any laurels for Caine although his portrayal of the vicious anti-hero impresses". The reviewer also opined that "Tighter editing would help considerably".
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Yet they became, unfairly, regarded as a pastiche almost as quickly." He contrasted this with Fredriksson's "current physical vulnerability" while performing on stage, which he called "a genuinely moving counterpoint to the charge of soullessness which often dogged Roxette's critical reception in the past. It might not be too late for a proper reappraisal." Andy Rudd of the Daily Mirror reviewed the same concert, and remarked that Fredriksson "still hit all the power high notes, despite remaining seated for all the gig.
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In his sermon "Why I am Leaving the Professional Ministry", Feinberg stated "organized religion is a deserted lighthouse" that had left him spiritually numb. His resignation from a prestigious synagogue attended by some of the richest Jews in New York attracted much publicity at the time. In Moscow, Pravda put his resignation on the front page, portraying Feinberg's resignation as due to the soullessness of American capitalism in New York, though Feinberg insisted he was only rejecting organized religion, not Judaism as a faith. Joseph L. Lewis, president of the Freethinkers of America, invited Feinberg to join him on a "crusade for truth" against all religion, an offer he declined.
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The Ansonia features round corner-towers or turrets and an open stairwell that sweeps up to a domed skylight. Ansonia Hotel The building's copper cornices were removed during World War II and melted down for the war effort."The City, From Wartime Grit to Modern Soullessness," New York Times, Jan 29, 2010, The Ansonia has had many celebrated residents, including baseball player Babe Ruth; writer Theodore Dreiser, in 1912; the leader of the Bahá'í Faith `Abdu'l-Bahá; Nobel prize winner in literature Isaac Bashevitz Singer; conductor Arturo Toscanini; composer Igor Stravinsky; fashion designer Koos van den Akker; and Italian tenor Enrico Caruso. By the mid-twentieth-century, the grand apartments had mostly been divided into studios and one-bedroom units, almost all of which retained their original architectural detail.
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In the next song, "Way down Hadestown", Hadestown and the road to it is described from different perspectives by Hermes (Ben Knox Miller), Persephone (Ani DiFranco), Eurydice, Orpheus and The Fates (The Haden Triplets). The different characters depict the place either in a positive light, or in a negative one, or both: it is said to be the only available source of money and employment and ruled by a rich and mighty "king" (Hermes, Eurydice and The Fates), but also a place of drudgery, exploitation, slavery and soullessness (Orpheus and Hermes). Persephone, for her part, sings that as winter is coming, her husband is coming to take her home to Hadestown. Eurydice begins to question her quality of life and entertains the tempting thought of life in Hadestown.
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As Rupert Sheldrake has pointed out, this is the > ultimate anthropomorphic projection: a man-made machine, something not in > fact ever found in nature. From this perspective, it is the modern mind's > own impersonal soullessness that has been projected from within onto the > world--or, to be more precise, that has been projectively elicited from the > world. Tarnas' proposed way out of this "Cartesian-Kantian epistemological box"Ferrer, 143 involves a participatory epistemology: a theory of knowledge in which "human beings are regarded as an essential vehicle for the creative self-unfolding of reality."Ferrer, 155 According to Tarnas, the participatory framework takes into account the critical insights of modernism and postmodernism, while repairing the ontological separateness of the psyche and the cosmos, which are, in the participatory framework, synthesized in a dialectical hieros gamos, or sacred marriage.
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