" Or it's a tossed off Latin phrase like "a fortiori.
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They believe homosexuals should be hung or tossed off rooftops.
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The two-minute trailer shows a body tossed off a roof.
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At times, Double Tap does recapture the original film's tossed-off delights.
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"21 Ridgewood Road" (2016) seems almost 'tossed off' in its deceptive casualness.
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She was promptly tossed off a seaside cliff onto the rocks below.
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O'Donnell's own observations frequently recall the tossed-off hyperboles of cable news.
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Why register, when you fear you may be tossed off the rolls?
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This story was not about a casual comment tossed off without thinking.
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They're just things that he tossed off, and they're funny for that reason.
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It had been tossed off the side of a German ship in 1886.
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In college, butting heads with Bear Bryant and getting tossed off the team?
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One they tossed off a bridge and shot as he bobbed in the river.
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If they stop, they are tossed off the list, further weeding out the poor.
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Competing theories about the motives behind the attacks get a tossed-off line apiece.
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Her voice was even throughout its range, and she tossed off dazzling passagework clearly.
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This tossed-off sympathy is inadequate, but it will have to suffice for now.
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Each work, no matter how tossed off or improvisational, was given a formal title.
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Certain gaits and gestures arise again and again, tossed off with a similar slick attitude.
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The choreography is meant to appear tossed off the body and improvised, yet it's not.
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It feels very deadpan, almost tossed off, which is a key feature of his style.
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A single question, tossed off at a dinner, shatters the romantic mystery into tragic bits.
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They have wonderful palettes and exude an effortless, tossed-off charm that is easy to underestimate.
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It's a nightmare that is tossed off casually, in the middle of a much larger story.
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The tossed-off vibe of his early material has given way to more assured songwriting and production.
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" The "r" in "scared" is barely audible, and the subsequent profanity is a fluid, tossed-off "muhfuckas.
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White Sox Quick Comment: When you're picking up Baltimore's tossed off starters you can't expect to win.
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There's a tossed-off joke at the film's end that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is herself an Angel.
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Does the occasionally tossed-off imperfection of the poems give them a kind of time-capsuled charm?
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Rejecting their concerns, the president-elect tossed off a dismissive remark about the sacrosanct "one China" policy.
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Maybe you tossed off a remark during a moment of heightened emotion that doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
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The horse, Gunny, was spooked by a sudden sound from a nearby truck, and tossed off the officer.
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In bulk they are dizzying, a high-speed chase, and seemingly tossed off like so many phone pictures.
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An email can be as formal as a legal letter or as tossed off as drive-by insult.
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Effortlessly elegant, Ms. Eagly tossed off a gangly movement phrase while people mingled, introducing dance as another material.
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In his dreamy, impressionistic world, his artistic choices can seem banal and tossed off, or pointed and profound.
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But that's also not to discount Ehrenreich's strength with a tossed-off one-liner or a physical gag.
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After years of tossed off warning shots, a battle between Drake and Pusha-T is now in full bloom.
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The ship was rocking back and forth so violently that I'd been tossed off my bed a few minutes before.
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As a result, it would cause millions of people to be tossed off Medicaid without offering them an affordable alternative.
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No. Trump's darkest turns — the defense of white nationalists, the family separations, the tossed-off nuclear brinkmanship — are profoundly disturbing.
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But the trial is tossed off too quickly, it as if the show seems afraid to further examine Castle's philosophy.
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Blue Flame (2010) With its casual, tossed-off eclecticism, Blue Flame provides the blueprint for many of B's future projects.
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He tossed off his comments about groping women as locker-room banter (a sadly familiar excuse for men's bad behavior).
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Mr. Trump's Thursday evening tweet urging that House Republicans oppose the bill was not a presidential thought tossed off lightly.
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Regrettably, I was too heartbroken to properly deliver the Simpsons reference I tossed off as I passed by: 'Welcome to Dumpsville.
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The nature of viral content means that your tossed-off post could stoke national or international outrage — just ask Justine Sacco.
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I'd often get tossed off the side of a ledge, the camera becoming unusable as I tried to hug a corner.
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Others have been torched, tossed off bridges, and even shat on by some of our fellow members of the human race.
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The ally's two young children were also victims of the fighting: They had been tossed off a bridge by an assassin.
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And the price for its randomness—slow jams about shiitake mushrooms; tossed-off references to Trump—will be exactly right: free.
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Parents might enjoy McCarrell's mostly laid back, tossed-off performance; underplaying is definitely the way to stand out in this production.
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Insults are tossed off to shame and ridicule women for their appearance; the audio recording reveals Trump bragging about sexual assault.
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On Wednesday, Grande came to Bieber's aid as he defended himself from a tossed-off criticism of his Coachella performance by E!
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There was drama behind the scenes as well, with Phillips battling drug abuse and at one point being tossed off the show.
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Sepultura then transitions into a riff that lands like a slab of marble that's been tossed off the top of a skyscraper.
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Each montage lasts only 24 hours before it disappears, which adds a kind of tossed-off, casual sensibility to your social profile.
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Yet at the same time, candidates who had hoped to join were tossed off the ballot on technicalities such as improper paperwork.
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The engineers and salespeople tossed off replies to customer inquiries and rolled their eyes at developers who did not understand our product.
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As one tossed off pirouettes, another edged into the circle, etching zigzags into the pavement with the soles of her yellow sneakers.
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Amid the intense pressures of the week, President Trump displayed his ability to dominate news cycles with tossed-off comments and tweets.
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Eventually things get so out of hand, Ana ends up suspended from the platform while Nomi is completely tossed off Twitter for good.
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The experience no doubt stood Andy McCluskey in good stead years later when he tossed off songs for Atomic Kitten and Gary Barlow.
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It was a casual remark tossed off by Donald J. Trump that jolted Johanna Kandel from her seat during the recent presidential debate.
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He had a facility with lyrics others could only envy, words and phrases tossed off with a jazzman's cool and a surgeon's precision.
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Over and over again, Johnson tossed off seemingly impossible metaphors and observations—and don't get me started on his searing, frequently WTF endings.
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Earth-shattering developments happened offscreen, and others were tossed off casually, as though the show needs to move at a full gallop now.
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Snow thinks his old job is safely behind him — until a girl in a Marie Antoinette costume is tossed off the Ambassador Bridge.
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Baker is absolutely ferocious as Loreen slams down Hannah's every tossed-off pity party about being in "emotional pain" once and for all.
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She also wore a pair of Castañer espadrilles — however, both she and her husband tossed off their shoes to walk in the sand barefoot.
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She also wore a pair of Castañer espadrilles — however, both she and her husband tossed off their shoes to walk in the sand barefoot.
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Candidate Trump tossed off reckless allegations of likely illegal voting, and refused to preemptively accept the election results ("I will keep you in suspense").
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Mr. Adams has a deceptive style; initially his films seem loosely shot, but the aggregation of seemingly tossed-off scenes tightens like a noose.
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Back in season one, I wasn't entirely on board with Gael García Bernal's occasionally tossed-off performance as Rodrigo, the maestro conducting the orchestra.
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Often he will leave the whole fourth bar of a four-bar passage empty, or salt it with only a tossed-off ad-lib.
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Two of them were hospitalized with serious injuries from debris tossed off by the collapse, which left tangled wreckage stretched over roughly two full blocks.
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But that also means it's a show capable of moments of almost tossed-off profundity, like finding something of immense value in a pawn shop.
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National Security Council Steve Bannon has been tossed off the National Security Council, but what does that tell us about Bannon's place in Trump's universe?
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All of the old craftsmen were tossed off the ship, left to drown in the tide of perpetual blathering nonsense they fought so valiantly against.
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But even as I read him with pleasure, I didn't care for his tossed-off, derisive provocations and devil-may-care insouciance concerning visual art.
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Mr. Greenman's tossed-off, playlist-y dispatches are built upon such bare wisps of substance that it can feel like a stretch to call them essays.
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They both know that the most hurtful weaponry to wield against black women include images of apes, threats of lynching and a tossed-off N-word.
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And before a crowd of several hundred here, he tossed off anecdotes about Justice Scalia, noting in passing that he had known the man for 20 years.
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Since Robert Mugabe was tossed off Zimbabwe's throne last year, the 85-year-old Mr Biya, Cameroon's president since 1982, has been Africa's oldest head of state.
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The outlet also reported that although the minor was tossed off his bike in the collision, he had been wearing a helmet and was alert and conscious.
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Then, lest we think this might be a casually tossed-off line, the second episode opens with Sharon seeing a psychologist and trying to get some pills.
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This demon, we learn, had also possessed the accused witch who was tossed off the bridge centuries ago, and has been stalking the mortal coil ever since.
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It would be hard to top "The New One" when it comes to a willful blandness that feels not so much tossed off as cannily thought through.
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And the critique comes briefly, and mainly in dialogue, not images — lines tossed off in the course of a scene once we're caught up in the action.
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Adam Saleh, a self-styled YouTube jokester, is known for his stunts, but he said there was nothing funny about getting tossed off a Delta flight in London.
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His consulting for Apple can be mostly for show, or tossed off in a few napkin-based meetings, while he spends most of his time saving the world.
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In a brilliant, shamelessly showy performance, these two exceptional tenors tossed off runs, roulades and fearless high Cs and Ds, all to the delight of the cheering audience.
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The ease of publication has meant the sharing of more stories, but also more tossed-off reactions from sexists, racists, anti-Semites, and whoever else is out there.
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But were either of them an actual security threat such that they deserved to be tossed off the plane or isolated and handcuffed while still in the air?
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The Chris Gethard Show might have been my favorite talk show of the decade, a weird, tossed-off calamity that emerged every week like an odd magic trick.
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Plane pain A man got tossed off a JetBlue flight after harassing Ivanka Trump and her family, but the only question everyone had was why were they flying coach?
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Bowe Bergdahl's case to general court-martial did not destroy evidence by burning 85033 letters and should not be tossed off the case, a military judge has ruled. Gen.
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Yet every aspect of this computer-animated movie directed by Kelly Asbury seems equally overdetermined and tossed-off, as if it were a caffeinated weekend project for everyone involved.
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On "Castro," from Yo Gotti's upcoming album, he has a lot of competition: Kanye West's tossed off lines are amusing, and Big Sean and Quavo mask cleverness with slickness.
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"The Dark Tower" is full of images, tossed-off phrases and concepts that make sense only to book readers and are never explained to viewers new to the series.
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While nothing on No Code felt as tossed off as "Bugs," it showed what the band was capable of when they committed themselves to making something intimate and awkward.
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But what's so rewarding about this deeply weird little show is how it all but forces you to pay closer attention to what could seem tossed-off or silly.
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But that doesn't mean you can't get tossed off a flight for a strange reason: A man says he was kicked off a Delta flight for going to the bathroom.
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His most recent experiments see him bopping around in new cadences, rapping with conversational casualness and rapid-fire explosiveness as required, dipping through melodies with practiced, almost tossed-off ease.
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He's tossed off a few more instrumental—or at least guest-free—singles that feel a little weirder, like "Love U," a helium-addled take on Daft Punk's stadium-sized digitalism.
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Wendi Williams, the woman whose seat was repeatedly punched on an American Airlines flight, says SHE nearly got tossed off the flight because she refused to delete the video of the encounter.
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He said asked Donald Trump how he was paying for his courses, and the now-president "sort of tossed off that he had access to $100 million," Dodson said in the interview.
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Mr. Spicer tossed off his share of falsehoods (a dubious claim about crowd size comes to mind), but he could never quite conceal the strain of life as President Trump's press secretary.
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That Mr. Owens does so in a way that rarely seems forced was a crucial factor in Angelo Flaccavento's selection of a tossed-off Owens design as a favorite of the year.
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But I won't lie: This is still a bunch of cosmic gobbledygook knitted together with some astonishingly fun action sequences, followed by moments of casual profundity tossed off under softly falling snow.
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I think he tossed off "Make America Great Again" at one point and was surprised to learn how powerful that message was when it reached people who felt left out and left behind.
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When she was the star animator for a hit TV show, she tossed off a few pages about the sisters Eleanor and Ivy and their famous mother, an actress who died of cancer.
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Throughout the event on Thursday, Mr. Trump tossed off a list of numbers and facts about the manufacturing losses in New Hampshire, another departure from his approach when Mr. Lewandowski managed the campaign.
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With one tossed-off remark, he tested the loyalty of his base, and the GOP's tolerance for a candidate who claimed the right to act with impunity in potentially many areas of governance.
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Over the years, Mr. Wexner spun off most of the brands he had acquired, seeding Columbus with a new crop of independent companies that in turn tossed off their own spinoffs and imitators.
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After the Houston Astros first baseman Yulieski Gurriel belted a three-run homer against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday, tying up Game 5 of the World Series, he tossed off his helmet.
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By 2016, however, he had reemerged as a pro-Trump, right-wing talk-radio guy, who regularly tossed off inflammatory racist comments for attention, still referring to President Barack Obama as a Muslim.
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It's an utter throwaway, tossed off because he felt like it, and the howls of disappointment it has been greeted with suggest only that critics were more invested in the album than West.
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Remember, back in April, Brown struck a settlement with Ophir Sternberg -- who accused the Raiders star WR of nearly crushing his 22-month-old son with furniture that Brown allegedly tossed off his balcony.
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They were still owned by a sucking black hole of a man, of course, and subject to his tossed-off cruelties and imbecilic whims; it was not in Brand's power to fire the boss.
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Future's a nimble performer, working the stage with aplomb and keeping the energy high through a never-ending stream of dance moves, many of which looked tossed-off yet impossible to describe or replicate.
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Some families in rural India — both Hindus and Muslims — are willing to let their babies be tossed off the roof of a shrine, to be caught in a stretched bedsheet about 30 feet below.
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Crack specializes in 90-second snippets of tossed-off brilliance: a 16 here, maybe a hook there, sometimes all hooks and no raps, sometimes half-raps and half a recording of someone talking shit.
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They spoke about each other in interviews rarely, and with the exception of a few collaborations and a tossed-off line here and there, they generally didn't feature as characters in each other's songs.
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The thin, hot gas of the star rotates quickly and when small objects try to essentially keep up with this quick orbit, they get tossed off like a child from a ride that's too fast.
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After he gets shot in the side and tossed off a sniper perch by Jadis, Rick finds himself and Carl at gunpoint as the rest of the remaining survivors are rounded up by the Saviors.
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Every one of us has a story to share, from tossed-off comments about our body parts that were framed as "jokes" to women being cornered in dark rooms by male colleagues to criminal assault.
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The report notes that damage must be considered "within reason," so if your phone has been run over by a truck or tossed off a building or something, you'll probably still be out of luck.
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Still, on Saturday, shepherds continued the practice, and at least four sheep were tossed off a hill in a village, Mailapur, during an annual celebration of the Mailaralingeshwar temple there, the newspaper The Hindu reported.
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If Democrats in Congress want to play defense and block any reforms, they will be to blame when people are tossed off health care plans or stop getting coverage because they can't afford the ObamaCare plans.
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Before we brace ourselves for a lot of self-important Hollywood types thanking each other at the Oscars, we're taking this moment to thank the folks who have tossed off the veil of reverence and gravitas.
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As a spiky, multivalent contraption disguised as a tossed-off miniature, an epic breakup saga disguised as a genre exercise, the Atlanta rapper's Baylor Swift, out since May, qualifies as several genre exercises folded into one.
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Ms. Russo, who now is the director of the podcast program at Stony Brook University, stood up with a sheaf of papers that she tossed off one by one, like petals on a flower, as she spoke.
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It seems that giving massive tax breaks to the wealthy is part of that display of rock-hard power; under the guise of repealing the Affordable Care Act, 22019 million people could be tossed off health insurance.
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A message in a bottle was tossed off the side of a German ship on June 12, 1886, as it sailed through the Indian Ocean, the date and location penned carefully in script on the scroll inside.
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It was tossed off almost casually one evening in Niemöller's living room, as he led an informal discussion group of divinity students on the theme of what it means to be a practical Christian in modern times.
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But joining them are a new wave of "day stylists" whose forte is the casual, tossed-off, this-old-thing look of street style: what the stars would throw together on their own (but often don't have to).
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At least 14 riders were injured on the slide in a string of accidents that culminated in August 2016, when a 10-year-old boy was tossed off a raft and decapitated when he hit a metal pole.
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Meanwhile, because they match the culture's Aaron Sorkinian picture of what a smart progressive looks like, Beto and Buttigieg — whose policy depth can be measured in tossed-off paragraphs — are awarded fawning coverage just for showing up male.
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Trump's tossed-off thoughts, spilled out with the filtering capabilities of a sieve and fueled by snowballed short-order emotions like rage, ecstasy, and narcissism, are fire-fed by the instant ego-high of likes, faves, retweets, and responses.
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President Trump late Friday tossed off two tweets again rejecting Puerto Rico's official Hurricane Maria death toll, following assertions he made Thursday that the official count of 2,975 deaths was a plot by Democrats to make him look bad.
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Musk has in the past been lauded for his transparency—see: his detailing very specific, elaborate plans to bring Tesla to the mainstream, or open-sourcing tossed-off Hyperloop specs—and has also been chastised for being too transparent.
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He mostly said a bunch of things he's said before, while adding in a few tossed off lines about how, regrettably, he's lashed out in anger over and over again this year due to the stresses of political life.
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As the winningly awful Matilda, Markey, a rising star of the avant-garde, has the tossed-off braininess and comic polish of a Julia Louis-Dreyfus, bending phrases into philosophical riddles, and not just for the fun of it.
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Penn's images were casual yet exquisite in every way: With their drizzled liquids, spilled spices and other raw ingredients, or their strewn petals, they felt innovative and intimate, as if tossed off by someone who had just exited, smiling.
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Although you tossed off your already pretty awesome name for the name of an Apple product that changes every year, luckily, international friends will still think your name is cool long after we see the release of the iPhone 8.
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Though Buffy's friend Xander (Nicholas Brendon) was the obvious Whedon surrogate — and accordingly had the sense of humor closest to that of Buffy's series creator — Buffy herself tossed off plenty of jokes and casual witticisms in between destroying her many enemies.
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It's difficult to know exactly what the show thinks of Dick in this moment, but if you're aware of the real-world accusations that've been against him, this tossed-off allusion to his "gropey" tendencies is even harder to understand.
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For however many tossed-off, relatively harmless "ugh"-type comments a Ghostbusters-related tweet or video might inspire, there's also plenty of bile about "PC culture" dictating a pointless gender swap and innumerable vicious insults about the actresses' physical appearances.
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Unless Ms. Spears has remarkable abilities for mimicking exact studio lighting conditions and cares enough to deploy those abilities for a tossed-off Instagram, the image appears to be taken from this recipe originally prepared by the Food Network's Tyler Florence.
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The hints of "Hansel and Gretel"—a handful of pebbles tossed off a cart "so we can find our way home"; the camp's nickname, House of Candy—are fairly subtle, but the novel channels a larger network of mythical allusions.
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That said, Minaj's verse is tepid and tossed-off — perhaps as a reaction to the mayhem that precedes it, or perhaps because she knows well enough when a song will fade into the ether, and no one will remember anyway.
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Brenda had unwisely tossed off at one point in the conversation that maybe she might be able to get him some more crack sometime, and apparently he took that throwaway comment as a solemn vow to procure him more that very night.
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Kevin Systrom, one of Instagram's founders and its chief executive, told me that his company, which Facebook purchased in 2012, had long aspired to capture every moment of people's lives — both the showy ones and the casual, tossed-off moments in between.
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Four years ago, Braxton and fellow old-school R&B icon Babyface, who wrote and produced several of Braxton's hits in the '90s, released Love, Marriage & Divorce, a deceptively tossed-off collaboration album that stands as a defining jewel in both artists' discographies.
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After this psychotic week of cryptic trips with nearly a dozen people all alleging involvement with The Armed, Kurt Ballou from Converge—one of the most influential artists in modern heavy music—just casually tossed off in an email that the band was his project.
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The cleverly executed cameos (Dave Coulier, Macaulay Culkin) and tossed-off lines ("the heir to the Capri-Sun fortune") point toward a welcome prickliness, but the show can't quite stick to those guns — if it did, Jules would realize how vacuous her existence is.
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Donald Trump's unique habit of making statements that are tossed-off jokes, half-cooked pieces of nonsense, or outright lies puts journalists interviewing him in a tricky spot: How much do you fact-check him and call him out when he says something verifiably untrue?
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But what's so rewarding about this deeply weird little show — which HBO airs at 11 pm on Fridays, somehow the ideal time slot for it — is how it all but forces you to pay closer attention to what could seem tossed-off or silly.
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Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: Overnight, early Marchhas morphed into late May:Hats and scarves discarded,leather coats tossed off for tank tops,boots supplanted by sandals,gloves shed from hands like skins,the better for holding ice cream cones,faces adorned with summer smilesfreshly minted just this morning.
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Yet I especially liked the way he tore into vehement episodes: He tossed off bursts of double octaves with steely fortissimo sound, and brought earthy rawness to the driving left-hand chords and crunchy theme that opens the finale, which sounded like a dark Norwegian dance.
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In the first few episodes, he was clearly meant to be entertaining: He wore flamboyant outfits and was forever swinging a checked scarf around his neck and remarking that it was his "signature," and he tossed off more bon mots per episode than anyone besides Blair.
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Compared to Sweetener, Thank U, Next at first seems slight, blithely tossed off in Grande's particular insouciant way, but pretty soon the hooks start to click — the arpeggiated rhythm guitar on "Bad Idea" or the theatrically symphonic build that closes "Imagine," — and invade her every sigh and melodic elongation.
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At first, you're like, "Oh wow, this turtle's so cute, because he's holding ice cream," and then after Fred and Wilma go to the mall and they start buying the power goat lawnmower, you start realizing these animals have emotions too, and they just kind of get tossed off.
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The musician known as Torn Hawk—but also as Infiniti, Lossmaker, and a few other tossed-off monikers—pretty much says as much, sitting in the Greenpoint location of a Swedish coffee shop chain that the New Jersey native describes as more "coffee shop-y" than the he expected.
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Though Davenport (it's no spoiler to say) eventually gets his man, wrapping the investigation up neatly and gaining the respect of at least one white officer (Jerry O'Connell) in the process, he also delivers, in a single tossed-off line — a line cut from the movie — Fuller's frightful kicker.
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The momentum from "Gender Reveal" continues through the season's final two episodes, including season finale "Town Hall," which aired Thursday, May 3, and reveals just how many of the season's seemingly tossed-off plot points were specifically set up for what happens in the finale (my favorite kind of serialization).
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That's where the twitchy fingers of the president of the United States have been working overtime to try to get him tossed off the digital communications service by posting all kinds of rule-breaking things and often in all caps with lots of exclamation marks — just so we don't miss them.
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These tossed-off blockbusters may not be the prettiest indication of change, but they are an indication, and also a reminder of the power dynamic at the root of orientalism — that it is about a viewer being able to look at a group of people and see only what they want to see.
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Simpson, a teen girl in a family striving to become a pop cultural dynasty, was tossed off her ascendant pedestal; Janet Jackson, an indomitable performer with 10 No. 1 hits at the time and the backing of an ultra-established pop cultural dynasty, was blackballed from an industry her family helped revolutionize.
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In October 21998, at a rare appearance at a packed Carnegie Hall, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling casually tossed off one of the biggest announcements in the history of her landmark fantasy phenomenon: Dumbledore, Harry's mentor and the greatest wizard in the world until his dramatic death in book six, was gay.
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I've found that, whenever I am puzzled by the NFL—when I wonder why its idea of a Fan Festival is a tossed-off tent city for brands with a carnival ride and a field goal-kicking simulator stuck in it, for instance—this is the answer I keep coming back to.
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As the tweets hit the White House cellphones, Priebus's colleagues Stephen Miller and Dan Scavino jumped out of the Suburban they were sharing with Priebus, leaving the jobless man in a driving rain on the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base, the weakest link tossed off the sled for the press wolves.
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Two decades into its career, the Grammy-winning alt-rock band Wilco has settled into a comfortable groove; it has been releasing albums, such as "Schmilco" in 2016, with a tossed-off breeziness that suggests the frontman Jeff Tweedy and his group will never tire of the rigors of rock 'n' roll.
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This means there are quite a few jokes about suicide in Corporate (of which I've only seen four episodes but have had to restrain myself from watching more), but they're tossed off with such blissful, wistful optimism that it becomes clear the show's characters can only find amusement in the blackest of black humor.
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It's very difficult to understand how Trump thinks—sifting through all of his tossed-off public statements to divine his true opinions would require the patience of a Talmudic scholar and a graduate degree in doublethink—but one thing we can say for sure is that Trump has an utter contempt for the law.
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At rallies, he described a forgotten political history of the $1,000 check, from an idea tossed off by Thomas Paine to a musing from Martin Luther King Jr. He happened to start running as the UBI had a bit of a comeback — the Atlantic's Annie Lowrey published a compelling book about it two years ago — but it was a political nonstarter.
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To his skeptics — a mild word in this context, since almost all of Hong's films are wry enough to pass the time pleasantly — he explores his ideas in ways that have felt increasingly tossed off (opening text in "Hotel by the River" notes that the film was shot in about two weeks), and his micro-obsessions have given way to predictability.
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The morning after getting bounced by the Czechs, at approximately 22000 AM, a delegation of U.S. players—almost certainly liquored up and definitely dissatisfied with their performance—decided it would be a good idea to smash almost a dozen chairs and activate a few fire extinguishers, one of which was reportedly tossed off a balcony into an Olympic village courtyard.
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Lui has connections and sources all over the industry, but what really sets her apart from other gossip reporters is her understanding of the meta-narratives of Hollywood: how stars are always telling stories about themselves, and how they use their public appearances — the tabloid shots that are posed just so, the red-carpet interviews, the apparently tossed-off tweets — to build those stories.
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Every now and then Narcos does its diligence to complicate this picture, almost entirely via narration: a tossed off line that notes the Mexican and Colombian drug trades exist wholly to serve the appetites of the wealthy in the US and Europe, or another about the fundamentally destabilizing influence of the United States' foreign policy that created problems in exchange for the glow up of "solving" them.
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I imagine that this is what it would feel like to be the antagonist in one of Drake's songs, one of the featureless exes whose only purpose is to support him, to hold a mirror up to him, stuck in a relationship where sweet nothings are tossed off for the sake of a clever phrasing, where you are little more than furniture in someone else's movie. ♦
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And we know just how little they are attached to any principles, because today's Republican Party's elders have told us so by (with a few notable exceptions) being so willing to throw their support behind a presidential candidate who they know is utterly ignorant of policy, has done no homework, has engaged in racist attacks on a sitting judge, has mocked a disabled reporter, has impugned an entire religious community, and has tossed off ignorant proposals for walls, for letting allies go it alone and go nuclear and for overturning trade treaties, rules of war and nuclear agreements in ways that would be wildly destabilizing if he took office.
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