Nevertheless, there's all these systems dangling off that feel vestigial.
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Even if it's latent and vestigial, we all have this.
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But what if our worst feelings are just vestigial garbage?
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Compared to the multiplayer, the single player campaign feels vestigial.
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Humans do have weak vestigial muscles attached to the shell of the ear, called the auricle or pinna, as well as evidence of a vestigial nervous system, which could have functioned to orient the ears.
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This doesn't happen overnight, and it often leads to vestigial traits.
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It's vestigial disparities from the Strategic Reserve's Cold War backbench role.
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To create the Vestigial Data tapestries, Stearns used computerized Jacquard looms.
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As a result, our brains have held onto this vestigial trait.
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It is a vestigial excrescence on the face of our Constitution.
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Everything in Dorothy's life is vestigial, most oppressively the title Mrs.
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Even with some vestigial shortcomings, TouchWiz 2017 is a major leap forward.
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Like resurgences of vestigial appendages in a new generation of biological species.
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She loved music too much to be vestigial or nostalgic or relegated.
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All three theropods had beaks but with vestigial, or functionless, tooth sockets.
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We're talking about vestigial outgrowths, wadded up golf course scorecards, and foreign objects.
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He made eye contact—a vestigial reflex, perhaps—and had a beatific vibe.
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After its fighters finally remove their uniforms, vestigial insurgencies will continue in South America.
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The war powers assigned to the Legislative Branch under the Constitution have become vestigial.
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Is it the vestigial expression of a rugged individualism born on the American frontier?
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There were sculptural garments of no known category sprouting sleeves as if for vestigial limbs.
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"A lot of the jobs that we lost to China were somewhat vestigial," Autor says.
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UNRWA has become a vestigial organ, no longer serving its purpose of helping actual refugees.
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Perhaps in a few decades the vestigial cape will melt away like a snake pelvis.
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These appear in vestigial form in canvases like "Red Planet" (2016) and "Candy Cap" (2016).
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But if they aren't for making babies, they must serve another purpose—vestigial or otherwise.
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Biden had vestigial good will, which we regarded as a less flashy and flimsier commodity.
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It is a vestigial limb of empire, and it is time to let it go.
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In a cryptocash economy, the blockchain renders treasuries, banks, credit cards, and other financial organs vestigial.
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While many see presidential electors as unimportant vestigial organs, electors do not see themselves that way.
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Most of its core features, such as email and text messaging, seem secondary, or even vestigial.
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Such monikers come across as vestigial metafictional winks (or tics) — hey, this is just a story!
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The code contains vestigial features that are slated to be deleted but have not yet been.
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It's tempting, of course, to see the straw as a dwindling, vestigial symptom of the twentieth century.
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Even before newspaper editorials shrunk into vestigial artifacts of a bygone era, their impact was self-limiting.
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I grew up revering the format, and then over time, you think, what's feeling like it's vestigial?
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Not only isn't this hip-hop, it isn't pop, and not just because the tunes are vestigial.
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Vestigial structures are evolution's leftovers — body parts that, through inheritance, have outlived the context in which they arose.
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And for Trump, anything not about Trump is essentially useless—a vestigial tail of the pre-Trump era.
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And then, after Naseem had sold the motel and also moved back to Pakistan, her pain became vestigial.
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As a result, Paint could be removed altogether in future updates: The once vital component is now vestigial.
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" This is the motto of the vestigial aspect of the personality that a psychotherapist would call his "inner child.
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The Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors' ordinance, passed earlier this year, remains a vestigial reminder of the initial panic.
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As a result, Americans alarmed by Putin's apparent power over Trump have been backsliding into vestigial Cold War paranoia.
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You've seen me in a hundred million things, and you have a vestigial memory of what I look like.
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"I'm really interested in what happens when writing splits off from drawing, which is a vestigial language," she said.
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You can still see it, as used in the video title below, as a sort of racist vestigial organ.
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His face, once boyish and chubby, is now gaunt, and vestigial skin billows around his neck like an Elizabethan collar.
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Perhaps that bold extra is a vestigial part of the Unicorn Frapp that found its way into the dragon version.
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Two full walls are double-glazed glass and another incorporates a cement-and-granite fireplace with vestigial bits of moss.
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I grew up on "Godzilla" movies and retain some vestigial fondness for them — and, incidentally, I can't stand "Transformers" movies.
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"Sex and the City," which ran from 1998 to 2004, repurposed the vestigial glamour of the classical-Hollywood romantic comedy.
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I speak, sometimes, with a hint of a foreign accent, a vestigial trace of the country where I was born.
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Many people in Europe love their particular country with a vestigial affection that is like family — England, Holland or France.
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Sure, every few weeks, I pluck a few wandering strands from my vestigial unibrow, but I've certainly never stressed about them.
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In many places, the Hui have so thoroughly assimilated that their only connection to Islam is a vestigial aversion to pork.
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"The vermiform appendix of man is not solely a vestigial structure," Dr. Edred M. Corner wrote in The British Medical Journal.
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Japan will always be Japan: a unique hybrid of vestigial samurai justice and imported – one might even say imposed – western values.
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For primates, this built-in compass may help with bodily orientation, or it could be a vestigial evolutionary trait that's largely unused.
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Both Asuka and Strowman seem to be creatures from our dreams, vestigial memories of violence, more forces of nature than human beings.
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The completely vestigial sleeves attached to her corset Of course, Rihanna would use her performance to pioneer next level fashion shoulder draping.
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Landing pages and recirculation are the two principal tools of curation for media companies and on mobile they are now vestigial appendages.
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The two were walking around one afternoon, past the vestigial buildings of the old shipyards, when they came across the rocket-building workshops.
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Long considered a vestigial organ with no known function, many people, young and old, have theirs removed in the course of another operation.
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The federal government has long treated Puerto Rico like a vestigial organ, despite the fact that its 3.4 million residents are U.S. citizens.
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The site has created an entirely new category of relationship, one that simply couldn't have existed for most of human history—the vestigial friendship.
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I still feel enough of that vestigial excitement to be invested in how Gran Turismo Sport turns out, but it's a new era now.
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While colleges are trying to make higher education work for students who lack four years of time and money, vestigial policies are creating barriers.
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The evisceration of class actions, the rise of arbitration, boilerplate contracts—all these make the judicial system an increasingly vestigial organ in consumer disputes.
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They met after the war, in northern Canada, where many Ukrainians had been interned during the First World War, and a vestigial community remained.
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With its old, pollution-emitting tailpipe removed like a vestigial limb, the Spider will do its small part to avoid despoiling the island air.
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We must preserve vital public trust in our courts and rescue them from a future as a vestigial organ of the disgraced Trump administration.
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By almost any measure, that special relationship is now defunct -- politically, militarily and economically, even if it still lives on at a vestigial, cultural level.
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The first-night-effect is very likely a vestigial trait that once protected our ancestors, and it's something that has stuck with us ever since.
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This is the office of the Committee for the Five Northern Provinces, South Korea's vestigial bureaucracy for North Korea, over which the South claims jurisdiction.
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Still, the Senate remains a popular punching bag, especially for political scientists, many of whom see it as a vestigial organ that should be removed.
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These books have flat-footed gravitas, a vestigial sort of swat that calls to mind Johnny Cash's stark final records with the producer Rick Rubin.
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In its weakest form, the plan could be mostly vestigial, a symbolic effort to boost worker power that barely changes material conditions on the ground.
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But instead of wasting away like worthless vestigial organs, these scales retailed their utility at the genetic level, providing a springboard for adaptive skin-borne characteristics.
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Does the far-flung nature of U.S. operations that have only a vestigial link to the original goals of the military authorization mean that, as Sens.
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It's a vestigial organ that has been transformed from a rarely used protection of regional economies to a weaponized system for the right wing by Mitch McConnell.
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Truly wireless buds, like Apple's AirPods don't have vestigial cords to worry about, and over-ear models are basically impossible to lose track of or fall off.
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It's a new trend in vestigial, faux grilles that has auto designers rethinking the front ends of their vehicles to ease the transition away from traditional designs.
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Though Benardo says many of his customers elect to just "leave the car in third gear and drive it like an automatic," making the gearshift somewhat vestigial.
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Meanwhile, as the vestigial Violent Crime Act gets all this attention, no one is debating two worrisome Clinton-era criminal-justice laws that remain on the books.
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The appendix comes into this picture because, despite its reputation as a useless, vestigial organ, it probably still does something useful (if not essential) in our body.
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Scientists once assumed that it had served a function in mammals but had become a vestigial organ, bound to "disappear in a few million years," Wurtman says.
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For the strategy to work, though, they'd need more vestigial structure than they provide; the instrumental passages, in particular, can sound like nothing more than pattering fuzz.
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If Bixby ends up being not that great, I expect many people will be looking for ways to remap that extra hardware button (or decrying that it's vestigial).
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Accordingly, it can be considered a vestigial trait, in that the eagle alarm call was acquired and used by a shared ancestor common to green and vervet monkeys.
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"I don't know why it's so important to me, but I'd REALLY like to see the president working chopsticks with those tiny, vestigial nubbins," he tweeted last week.
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ISSUE's building, once the headquarters for the Benevolent & Protective Order of the Elks—a vestigial faction of the freemasons, has been repurposed as a platform for art's vanguard.
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As fans of HBO's "Veep" well know, the modern American vice presidency often functions as something of a vestigial organ — the appendix of the White House, if you will.
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A small portion of these dams are critical pieces of infrastructure, but many more are vestigial structures that have long outlived their utility, or had little to begin with.
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But, he had incidentally refuted one of Darwin's theories of a vestigial, or leftover, organ, and a common example provided by textbooks and educators as evidence of natural selection.
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The tour made a quick descent into a kind of racial taunting that felt aptly vestigial for a sport in decline, and grew only more deplorable as it went.
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It's not clear if our apparent ability to sense the magnetic field is in any way useful, as it's likely a vestigial trait left over from our more primitive past.
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It's worth noting that, until recently, the appendix was considered a useless "vestigial" organ—meaning it was something humans needed hundreds of thousands of years ago but don't any longer.
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Hidden toward the rear of each one's mantle (which looks like a flap or fold of extra skin) lies a vestigial shell, about the size and shape of a fingernail.
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McBurney's point, located one-third of the way between the pelvic brim and the navel, lies over that vestigial outpouching of bowel projecting from the cecum known as the appendix.
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Side view mirrors are something of a vehicular vestigial organ here: Russian drivers often change lanes or otherwise plow forward without bothering to check what is coming up behind them.
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Even though we haven't been in school of any sort for years, we still feel the vestigial dread of summer vacation coming to an end, and it's thoroughly bumming us out.
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For Vestigial Data, he presents three tapestries woven on a Jacquard loom using algorithmic processes, with each acting as both storage units and transmitters of data lost in a computer crash.
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A strong Democratic showing in a partisan primary in Texas would indicate that Republicans can't count on vestigial partisan strength to insulate them from Mr. Trump's distinct weakness among college-educated voters.
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But while Trump has introduced a kind of volatility that makes for exciting television, it is that very volatility that makes the Clinton-Trump debates vestigial, and Monday night's event was no exception.
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But Megachirella had some vestigial bits of anatomy that are absent in modern lizards and snakes: gastralia, belly-ribs still found in tuataras and crocodiles, and a small cheek bone called the quadratojugal.
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Like a vestigial piece of junk DNA in the genome, this phrase has survived every change to the EU treaties, exerting no influence on its host today but providing a window to its past.
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A lot of them are pretty great if you have a nonsense-tolerant bone in your body, and we should all have evolved one of those by now (or maybe it's our vestigial tails).
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Among the things the scattered Russians quarrelled over was what relations, if any, they should have with the church back in the Soviet Union, which was persecuted but kept a vestigial existence under government tutelage.
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But the consistency in the accusers' stories, and the vestigial fury in the voices of those women I spoke with, is too noticeable to ignore or sweep under the rug as he said/she said.
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With its funny name (actually derived from the Dutch for "freebooter," or pirate), and its apparently anti-democratic super-majority, the filibuster is often seen as a strange and unneeded vestigial artifact of earlier times.
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The electoral college is, essentially, a vestigial structure — a leftover from a bygone era in which the founding fathers specifically did not want a nationwide vote of the American people to choose their next president.
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In recent months, most of the sugar factory's buildings were demolished and the debris carted away, leaving a vast and mostly empty wasteland strewn with rubble and twisted metal, and punctuated by three vestigial smokestacks.
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Today, however, there is growing backlash in Taiwan against the term Chinese Taipei, especially among young people for whom a distinct Taiwanese identity has displaced any vestigial loyalty to the idea of a future unified China.
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Joe Biden has high-profile surrogates galore, is as conventionally prepared for the presidency as a human being could be, and basks in the vestigial good will that many Democratic voters feel toward President Barack Obama's administration.
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A 643 study by Stanford University economists purportedly found that while San Francisco's vestigial rent control law increased the likelihood that a long-term tenant would be able to stay in their home, it reduced housing supply.
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"Our findings have prompted us to wonder whether hiccups in adults, which appear to be mainly a nuisance, may in fact by a vestigial reflex, left over from infancy when it had an important function," Whitehead said.
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I'm sure most people have no understanding of the racist roots of cartoon character's gloves, but that doesn't erase the way that these vestigial remnants are directly connected with the racism still deeply embedded in our culture.
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"I've seen over and over how parts of the Constitution that were considered vestigial or irrelevant for decades or more can suddenly resurface and take on enormous importance with a quick change of events," Professor Wexler said.
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We may imagine these rules coming down from on high, he says, but in fact there's often no higher logic to them, and the evolution of language makes many fine points, like toes on whales, increasingly vestigial.
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Vanessa Gould's Obit, a documentary providing a behind-the-scenes look at the vestigial art of editorial obituaries at the New York Times, will open at New York's Film Forum and Lincoln Plaza Cinema on April 26th.
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It's what we call a vestigial feature, meaning that while many thousands of years ago it may have had a purpose, our bodies really don't have a use for it now — like your wisdom teeth or your appendix.
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Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist In the American republic's slow transformation into a judicial-executive dyarchy, with a vestigial legislature that lets the major controversies get settled by imperial presidents and jurists, Anthony Kennedy occupied a particularly important role.
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For most of its medical history — anatomists have known about it for well over five centuries — it was maligned as a mysterious, vestigial and seemingly useless organ that could only cause trouble if left to its own devices.
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When the regulation goes into effect, Dr. Clark added, "it will at least feel like you're out there in the job market with everyone else, on some sort of playing field, as opposed to this weird vestigial training position."
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For a recital at Alice Tully Hall in 2014, he began with Schoenberg's vestigial "Six Little Pieces", then moved on via progressively longer works by Richard Strauss, Wagner, Bruckner and Brahms, to climax with Liszt's gigantic B minor sonata.
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"If the House of Commons undermines our basic constitutional conventions, then the executive is entitled to use other vestigial constitutional means to stop it – by which I basically mean prorogation," he said, referring to the formal closure of parliament.
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This is not altogether dissimilar from one of the advantages that Fox News has, that may be vestigial, may not be, but the fact is Fox has always branded very strongly, Fox Business Network, Fox Broadcast Company, Fox Sports.
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That's what Anand is hoping for… Not just for himself, but for anyone who wants to continue to support the diamond ring as the vestigial symbol of patriarchy and the late-fifteenth-century pillar of courtship and commitment that it is.
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TerraServer, a vestigial limb of a Microsoft satellite imagery project from the 1990s, charged users a few hundred dollars a year for full access to its suite of high-definition satellite imagery, a much lower fee than other commercial services.
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There are a trio of big buttons along the top bar; one controls the front-facing light, another snaps the back-wheel parking brake in place and a third takes shots via an optional front-facing camera, and is otherwise vestigial.
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Despite over 150 years of scientific inquiry—from studies of transitional fossils and vestigial traits to the discovery of DNA and empirical observations of evolution in action—a sizeable portion of the American population still prefers divine intervention over natural selection.
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I rushed over to the full score, figured out a way to make the snip work musically — scooch the oboe's entrance over a bar; get rid of some vestigial gongs — and we tried it out: It was so much better.
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Flax crops grown at Chernobyl in the decades since the meltdown have demonstrated increasing resistance to contamination, for instance, leading some researchers to wonder if their genes are a kind of vestigial time capsule to the dawn of life on Earth.
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The Trump boycott of 2016 represented a vestigial effort to bring back the CPAC of yore — the one whose attendees helped Reagan mount a primary challenge to incumbent President Gerald Ford — even though Trump the celebrity had long been welcome there.
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A symmetrically composed, funkily rendered abstract landscape, the composition is bisected by a striped path or stairway, which is flanked on either side by looping lines that appear to be vestigial tracings of a scrubbed-off image, the contours of an absence.
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Think of your holey lobes like little earphone cup holders, finally giving purpose to vestigial parts of the human body that otherwise serve so little purpose that societies across the world ritually stab and force objects through them for no real reason.
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It seems to be the remnant of a foot that once had five full toes, with only three remaining visible — two vestigial digits are still on either side of the large, hardened middle digit, but there is no trace of the others.
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The reboots and revivals are also generally produced, or at least co-produced, by a studio not owned by the network, a kind of vestigial organ from when "vertical integration" wasn't quite the mandate it now is at every corporation in America.
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Before completion of Ms. Hadid's nine-story, $62 million design, when officials introduced foreign delegations to a port updated with the largest berths, deepest channels and latest technologies, they had to do so from a scrum of offices overlooking a vestigial harbor serving pleasure boats.
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Stone is much better, with her pixie energy and her angry fish eyes; she also has a far more affecting backstory—a fact that the creators seem to understand, since it ends up dominating the plot as Hill's shrivels to a vestigial loose end.
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German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen has called for sweeping cultural reforms to the military to completely sever any vestigial ties to the Wehrmacht, including renaming barracks that bear the names of WWII-era officers and launching sweeping searches to uncover Nazi-era memorabilia.
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The Antipodes had led the way at the end of the 19th century; women had the right to vote in federal and parliamentary elections in New Zealand in 1893 and in Australia in 1902 (though vestigial discrimination against indigenous Australians was not removed until the 1960s).
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Complicating the already muddled plan to utilize these tribes as the bedrock of a vestigial Syria policy is the awkward fact that the local SDF forces recruited from among them, the Deir Ezzor Military Council, are the least disciplined and least effective component of the entire SDF.
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In Christopher Wool's untitled enamel-on-aluminum painting from 21980, the black-stenciled words "RUN DOG RUN" split and shift down the length of the white surface — a juicy presence in itself augmented by a vestigial "R" from a painted-over "RUN" in the uppermost rank.
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The Avista is a swoopy 2+2 coupe (meaning it has two vestigial rear seats, but is mainly designed for two adult passengers) that debuted at the North American International Auto Show this evening, incorporating the Chevy Camaro's platform into a very, very different design language.
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Another downside is that the episodes of let's-just-fight-right-now jawing at each other wore thin even before they showed up in LA. Mayweather and McGregor didn't fight each other at the press conferences not because of the bodyguards onstage, or any vestigial nod to professionalism.
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When their latest report cards arrived, just after Christmas, the top grades went to the 1 line, the 7, and the L. The goats were the 73 and the A. The A train at least has an anthem, and the vestigial grandeur of connecting old Harlem to Bed-Stuy.
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One could argue, and presumably pragmatic colleagues may be urging this course, that Pelosi and Senator Schumer should negotiate the best deal they can get and trust that some vestigial residue of bipartisanship still lingers in a few Republican senators, who might force McConnell to conduct a fair trial.
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When you watch NBC's taped broadcast of this past weekend's National Dog Show this Thanksgiving, what you are watching, in essence, is a modern interpretation of an event over 100 years old, a version surely bordering on unrecognizable for any time traveler in the audience, yet replete with vestigial elements.
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PiS, whose mix of conservative nationalism and generous social spending helped it win a fresh four-year term in last month's parliamentary election, says its judicial overhaul was needed to improve the efficiency of the courts and root out the vestigial traces of communism in Poland, which fell 30 years ago.
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After reaching out to various organizations, he found that the processes involved to volunteer were slow and the needs obfuscated; every organization has its bureaucracies and vestigial necessities, but Kashi found that what he felt should have been the easiest thing to do—helping someone else—turned out to be haltingly difficult.
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Shore has remained a vestigial Romantic in his always implied presence, as someone stopping in space and time to frame views that exert a peculiar tug on him—perhaps as simple a sight as a battered troughlike shelf, outdoors in Mexico, holding citrus fruits arranged with an elegance that is innate to Mexican folk culture.
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But even something like Illumination's new animated version of The Grinch, while not a stunning work of filmmaking, is still a marked improvement on 2000's live-action spin on the story, which felt like an evolutionary step backward from the classic 1966 TV special, Dr. Seuss with all his vestigial organs still attached.
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" In the opening to his 20183 guidebook for composers, "Simple Composition," Mr. Wuorinen wrote: "While the tonal system, in an atrophied or vestigial form, is still used today in popular and commercial music, and even occasionally in the works of backward-looking serious composers, it is no longer employed by serious composers of the mainstream.
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Looking at this rich collection of precedents (including some from nonwhite-majority countries like Nepal, the Philippines and South Africa), one gets the impression that the justices have tried to gaze beyond India, doing the homework for future courts in other countries that will decide similar cases, based on similarly vestigial colonial-era impositions.
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What makes Zittel's art seem so urgent at this moment is that the culture appears to have caught up to her at last: In our era of rapidly shifting domestic arrangements, nearly everyone — young people living alone or aging couples in communal compounds — seems badly served by architecture designed for the increasingly vestigial nuclear family.
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Readers, including Joyce Carol Oates who has a lifetime of difficult reading behind her, were gripped by the vestigial Bible tale and captivated by the spare writing style, even as they were bemused at the lack of conventional narrative landmarks and the fact that this so-called allegory turned out to be nothing of the kind.
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Last year, you could feel the V.M.A.s begin to reckon with the fact that music video is no longer the surest path to superstardom; the generation of stars who used MTV to get there is aging, and the next generation hasn't sorted out what its relationship to this network, and its vestigial relationship to music, should be.
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While I shudder at the thought of sitting down to a prix fixe menu at a white tablecloth restaurant or any of the other set-piece activities we're urged to take part in to commemorate a dissident Roman priest from the third century, I've somehow also managed to feel some vestigial guilt when, in the past, I've ignored the day completely.
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You can see a few screenshots from our app below: While we're waiting on an Amazon spokeperson to confirm whether we should actually be excited for more functionality — or if this just a vestigial component of an earlier test — CNBC's Todd Haselton says he managed to successfully start a few workouts, ones where the Echo Buds appeared to be tracking his steps.
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If Stella's ambition and insatiable visual voracity were exhilarating at first (his titles reference such a wide range of fields that they endow his undertaking with a universal flavor), the paintings' often overbearing size and physicality — somehow the smaller versions are not as convincing as the larger works (size matters!) — with each ranking as a formalist "tour de force" in its own right, also left the viewer, time and again, with the unsettling feeling of being wrestled to the ground (vestigial remains of his wrestling days in high school?).
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