These are all strange films, but Adams was able to make something oddly coherent out of their shared strangenesses and overlapping aesthetics.
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One of the signature strangenesses of Donald Trump's young presidency is that it is very easy to imagine how he spends his days.
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Often Le Guin's protagonists are strangers exposed to new societies, and their visions of otherness become vehicles for the reader's self-reflection, highlighting the strangenesses in our own world that we've become too accustomed to to notice.
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This celebration of nature's strangenesses and wild wonders is narrated by a hungry praying mantis, those creatures of such bright green intensity and surprising camouflage, spotting one can cause a temporary opening in the fabric of a day, a moment of pause in an otherwise hectic, distracted life.
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As the two journey through Limboland to steal the bagpipes from Bumbo, they encounter visual strangenesses left unexplained — a mole holding a ruler, a goat's rear sticking up from a pond — indulging the way children's minds so naturally whisper This could be us at even the most bizarre and improbable vignettes.
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Eisenberg is a gorgeous writer of lines and dialogue and paragraphs, all the artistry in the marks upon the page, but even more deeply — and much more interestingly — she is an artist of the unsaid: the unacknowledged silences in a family, the imaginative volta between seemingly disparate images, the barely intimated strangenesses of the world.
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I have been trained by my education, reading and practice of literary fiction to believe that good novels have some titration of key elements: obvious joy in language, some form of humor, characters who feel real because they have the strangenesses and stories and motivations of actual people, shifting layers of moral complexity and, ultimately, the subversion of a reader's expectations or worldview.
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The culture of Xi'an descends from one of the world's earliest civilizations. The Guanzhong Ren () culture is considered the cultural antecedent of Xi'anese; their features are satirized as the "Ten Strangenesses of Guanzhong Ren" (). Xi'an is also known for the "Eight Great Sights of Chang'an" (), a collection of scenic areas in the region. Xi'an guyue is named for Xi'an.
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He sold the lease to the boutique in 1969 to Tommy Roberts and it became Mr Freedom. Rainey was particularly known for flowery shirts and kipper ties in bold colours. Rainey's customers included musicians Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Kinks and the actor Terence Stamp. According to Nik Cohn in his book "Today there are no gentlemen", Hung On You "was simultaneously the last fling of dandyism and the first intimation of Hippie, of strangenesses to come".
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He was again arrested, but his aunt, Maria Bakunin, who at the time was a professor of chemistry at the University of Naples, succeeded in having him released by convincing the authorities that her nephew was non compos mentis. Thus Caccioppoli was interned, but he continued his studies in mathematics, and playing the piano. In his last years, the disappointments of politics and his wife's desertion, together perhaps with the weakening of his mathematical vein, pushed him into alcoholism. His growing instability had sharpened his "strangenesses", to the point that the news of his suicide on May 8, 1959 by a gunshot to the head did not surprise those who knew him.
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" Jen continues by describing the symbolism in another painting, Ask About Me (2017), "A nervous, coded pictograph of one's personal interiors, little crosses mark graves in the dark among pyramids, faceted gems, and empty cars." Rivero's work aims to capture the supernatural elements of everyday, real experience, intertwining the ways in which reality seem surreal, especially when related to violence, pain, and grief. As described by Paul D'Agostino for L Magazine, Rivero's work, "is full of surprises that are not exactly stunning, terrors that aren’t really scary, notes of humor that aren’t necessarily funny, fantastical figments that are actually just real, and barely nightmarish murmurs that hum, also, in tones of just-awoken awareness, such that the dream is at once active and over. [...] A wonderful walk through the fanciful normalities and quotidian strangenesses of dreams—or of the blurred focus and liminal discomforts of what it looks and feels like to be dreaming.
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