| 单词 | striving |
| 例句 | His ambition was to protect the South American Indians and preserve their culture, striving for a peaceful coexistence. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z A Working Boy can use every penny that he can get his ambitious and striving hands on. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Whatever decisions the Collective made long ago were made in our best interest. What we are now was what they were striving for. Unity demands sacrifice. Sacrifice comes with a price.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They weren’t striving for perfect, but managed somehow to be always excellent, the two of them bound in a deep and mutually helpful friendship, which also made a real impression on me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z His two comrades grappled each other, striving desperately to flee the ground that fell away under their feet. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z She and I could live most pleasantly in some moldy shack in the slums in a state of ambitionless peace, realizing contentedly that we were unwanted, that striving was meaningless. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For my final round of commencements as First Lady, I spoke at Jackson State University in Mississippi, another historically black school, using the opportunity to talk about striving for excellence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Too much knowledge had hindered him; too many holy verses, too many sacrificial rites, too much mortification of the flesh, too much doing and striving. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The chairs were immense, fantastically carved, bright with goldwork and studded with amber, onyx, lapis, and jade, each one different from all the others, and each striving to be the most fabulous. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Dr. King, I whispered, who will help us keep striving for your dream—our dream—of Birmingham’s black and white children walking hand in hand? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And if he, good Christian, scion of a striving class, patron saint of the twice as good, could be forever bound, who then could not? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Even striving to obey the law fits the profile! The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I saw two extraordinary novelties, grandeur competing with splendor and the populace striving to exceed their city. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Powell clambered upward in an instinctive striving for better view, till he was standing in unsteady fashion upon his robot’s shoulders. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The significance of these competitions is that they prompted the emergence of a new class of elite musicians - individuals and groups striving for musical excellence who could earn money and prizes for their endeavours. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z His own father was a pastor, a much more successful one, but Dorus was not striving to be like his father; he was not ambitious for himself. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She would finally be the registered nurse she had been striving toward for years. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In that day the railroads—growing, fighting among themselves, striving to increase and to dominate—used every means to increase their traffic. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t a bit sensitive about being helped, not a bit like an invalid striving to seem independent. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z And, compared with our own struggle, they are striving under conditions far more difficult. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She clung to ms hand, striving to detain him. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m new at this,” I mumbled, realizing that I had said the wrong thing, though I had been striving to say the right. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat upon the ground for a long while, silent, his head bowed, striving to recall all that Gandalf had said to him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He had represented the limitless possibilities in us all by living his life, striving for those dreams that seemed to elude the neighborhood year after year. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Dread and distrust had already become a daily part of my being and my memory grew sharp, my senses more impressionable; I began to be aware of myself as a distinct personality striving against others. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His stocky strength seemed striving for release and his fingers, as they twisted each other with nervous yanks, might have forced an iron bar out of true. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “I’ve never tried it before,” she said, striving to keep her voice neutral. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I had spent the week exploring this city, walking through its vacant lots, watching the aimless boys, sitting in the pews of the striving churches, reeling before the street murals to the dead. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The Dolphins were after it in a second, two dark striving shapes rippling through the water. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Suzanne’s choices sometimes seemed like an affront to my way of doing things, a vote in favor of easing up and striving less. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The old kind of class novel—about striving and trying to move up by learning the upper-class code—is still being written. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Some of the more intelligent ones were striving to keep deadpan faces. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I answered, striving to keep my tension out of my voice. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Her lips were parted, and she was breathing—not softly as usual with her, but in long, heavy gasps, as though striving to get her lungs full at every breath. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “I know that,” said Harry, striving to keep his face free of guilt or fear. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z And being devoid of ambition, and striving not toward accomplishment she drew satisfaction from the work in itself. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z For centuries after, people imagined that they could discern ghostly samurai armies vainly striving to bail the sea, to cleanse it of blood and defeat and humiliation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Boethius will show you that striving is ultimately meaningless, that we must learn to accept. Ask Miss O’Hara about him.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt myself struggling to awake to some call of my instincts; nay, my very soul was struggling, and my half-remembered sensibilities were striving to answer the call. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I dug my nails into my palms, striving for calm, trying to think. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z It is ironic, but when we say someone is a “crusader,” we generally mean he is striving to do something noble: he is trying to improve the world. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Everything buzzed, in a blink things changed, the mind boggled at the striving that went on in a single block. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Multiply these daily frustrations by a few billion, and you begin to see that the curse of knowledge is a pervasive drag on the strivings of humanity, on a par with corruption, disease, and entropy. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Are you badly hurt?” asked Gwydion, striving to raise his head. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z I can tell by the constant shift of his eyes that he is watching the people around us—striving to see only them and to forget himself. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “No one is perfect except God. When I say driven, I mean striving. You can always strive to make life better. For you, for others. For the planet. Whatever.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z According to the skeptics, Maya society was divided into a small number of blocs, each controlled by a dominant city, each striving to achieve some semblance of empire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Edusco liked him, he could tell; he imagined Edusco talking about him in a gathering of other self-made Igbo men, men who were brash and striving, who juggled huge businesses and supported vast extended families. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I was striving for a level of expression that matched those of the novels I read. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus one of the greatest jokes in the world is the spectacle of the whites busy escaping blackness and becoming blacker every day, and the blacks striving toward whiteness, becoming quite dull and gray. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thoughts for the prince. Pansies for you, my lord. Think of me,” I said, my small voice striving to rise above the noise. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It goes on for some time about dreams and family and striving for uniqueness in a world of sameness. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Siddhartha felt how wonderful it was to have such a listener who could be absorbed in another person’s life, his strivings, his sorrows. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Why, some of the bean vines had wound themselves all the way into the very treetops, striving for light. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She let her hand he listlessly, as though her thoughts were elsewhere— somewhere in advance of her body, and she was striving to overtake them. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have been striving for over sixty years for a little bit of justice no bigger than that, and yet I must die without obtaining it....It seems so cruel.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Six other soldiers from different countries wrestled with different parts of him, striving to help him and hold him still. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I open to the epigraph, a quote by Wendell Berry: "In the circle of the human we are weary with striving, and are without rest." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She wondered if he worried about Gabe now, about the frailty of the little boat he was striving to build and the dangers he would face if somehow he launched it into the river. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I kept silent, striving to offer no excuse for worsening of relations. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the power of nine hundred girls striving. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Because the disease was crippling, it may have provided Roosevelt with a greater compassion for the underdog; or perhaps it improved his striving for success. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When the pale but striving sun has lifted the gray morning mist, Count Durufle and the bishop arrive. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I spent much of my childhood listening to the sound of striving. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Well of course no one’s accusing me—” “Don’t argue so much,” his voice tried for a hard compromise, full of warning and yet striving to pass unnoticed by the others. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He was someone in the know who was always striving pathetically to find out what was going on. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He detected the strength of the gossamer threads of affection that sometimes grew between a pair of young men or among a boatload of them striving honestly to do their best. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The three boys stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z They ran, and they ran, striving to keep up the pace set by the Orcs, licked every now and again with a cruel thong cunningly handled. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Those learning to speak French and Spanish can supplement their lessons with these podcasts, which offer short, true stories, mostly in the language you’re striving to master. Traveling by Ear: 13 Podcasts for Wandering Souls 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Clarke’s choreographic interpretation of a community of striving people, by turns supportive and vicious, is a stirring one. Dance Review: ?Angel Reapers? at Joyce Theater - Review 2011-12-01T22:38:17Z "It's a musical I think about striving and about identifying dreams and going after them in a tangible and unapologetic way," Wright says. How Phish's Trey Anastasio wooed Doug Wright 2013-03-14T16:19:10Z Though there are some wacky happenings here and there, it is mostly about young people and their friendships, insecurities, dead-end jobs, and striving to make sense of it all while still making the rent. The Outs: the best TV show not on TV explores the lives of gay Brooklynites 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Many use ice coffee to symbolize that they lead very busy lives, ambitiously striving to make every hour of the day count. Does Anyone Drink Hot Coffee Anymore? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z She would serve a ragout for dinner, after a long day at the textile factory, her lips still carefully rouged, her waist tightly cinched, always striving, always trying to escape the familiar. ‘The Arrangements’: A Work of Fiction 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z There used to be a distinction made between the Gielgud kind of British actor and the Olivier type: the former always himself, the latter striving to disappear in the role. Are British actors the world's best? 2010-06-19T23:14:00Z Both 'Billy' and 'Pitmen Painters' are about striving for something bigger in your life than what you're offered — not just money, but something spiritual, really. 'Billy Elliot' author talks about blending politics and artistic aspiration as tour comes to Seattle 2011-03-17T01:40:20Z Herzog's love is kept for whatever it is in human beings that strives for connection, for meaning – even when the form those strivings take seem weird, misplaced and mad. Werner Herzog: 50 years of potent, inspiring, disturbing films 2013-06-01T08:01:00Z You’re not going to get sued for striving to be more than a runner-up. ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ Review: Yells Like Teen Spirit 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Ask him about dough and he’ll mention that’s he’s “never happy” with it or that it’s “getting there,” as if he’s striving for perfection at the end of his pizza paddle. Frankly . . . Pizza! tosses pies that reach for perfection (and come close) 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z In the prestige movies that court critical and academy approval, black people are often symbols and symptoms, their stories parables of pathology, striving and redemption. Hollywood, Separate and Unequal 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z But it has been eclipsed by its successors — from longtime rivals like “Star Wars” to more recent competitors like the Marvel movies — and is striving to stay relevant. Can ‘Star Trek’ Chart a Way Forward? 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z All political acts take place under the judgment of history, which reveals “the limits of all human striving” and the futility, even the folly, of most human undertakings, especially of politics. A Few Theories about Why James Comey Might Call Himself “Reinhold Niebuhr” on Twitter 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z “We are striving to make the right choice,” she said. A Conductor Considers Her Future 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z And I’m always striving to create harmony and order as well as a sense of retreat, a private world for the person I’m designing for. Blooming Genius 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Two of the three aren’t rich; one is striving to rebuild his life after a stretch in prison. The daring of “Queen Sugar”: A new season explores the social and economic weight of legacy 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Still fresh in Ms. Eisenman’s mind are her striving beginnings, working in jobs like painting patinas on headboards at a bed factory in Newark and murals in hotel lobbies. MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Winners for 2015 Are Announced 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z His theory, essentially, was that the closing of the frontier meant we’d lost an important outlet for our striving and our discontent. “Westworld” is woke: Just like on the HBO show, technology is widening the gulf between haves and have-nots 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z What, in fact, must be: Talk of unity between human populations, after all, is pointless without a parallel reckoning, a striving toward the renewal on which all earthly life depends. Trying to Imagine Post-Pandemic Life? Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison Can Help. 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z “You’re comparing yourself with a fantasy, and that will lead to either excessive striving or disappointment.” Seven ways to boost your self-esteem 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z If nothing more, this book is a gentle reminder that we all must keep striving to be better humans. Best children’s books of 2018 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Those days of striving and subsisting are long gone for them. ‘Broad City’ Is Ending. Be at Peace With That. The Creators Are. 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z So for a decade now word spinners, including playwrights, have been striving to capture the feelings inspired by the terrorist attacks of Sept. Critic?s Notebook: Richard Nelson and Jonas Hassen Khemiri?s Takes on 9/11 2011-09-21T22:01:28Z But unlike some other, very technical bread books, the tone in these volumes is warm, encouraging, funny — sometimes even striving for poetic — as much as it is educational. The Year’s Best Baking Cookbooks, for Novices and Pros 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z On this account women’s belief in their own competence takes on a quasi-magical power, and their individual striving in the current order is the key to ending oppression. Language policing and Twitter wars: why modern feminism is failing us (again) 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Trump quickly became known for his role as the ringleader of chaos, staying calm and rational while the contestants striving to be hired sputtered around him. How 'The Apprentice' Shaped Donald Trump's Presidential Campaign 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Crane was not a New York but a Cleveland poet: a mess of a thing, a striving wreck of promise and all too human failings. America’s forgotten poet 2012-10-04T20:02:00Z In my experience, incorporating a bitter note is a big part of the "craveability" factor that many of us chefs are striving for when we cook. Looking to take your cooking to the next level? Don't shy away from bitterness 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Why tamper with a beloved symbol of New York’s exuberance and striving? Renewing an Affair With the Empire State Building 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Though his methods may undo him, he is striving to bring people into conversation on terms of his own comfort. The Battle for Kanye West Is Happening in Real Time 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z "I am not striving for any kind of mix because the selection process is more a question of just following our instincts," said Jones, who also chairs the selection committee. Far from Hollywood din, New York Film Festival puts focus on quality 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z That spiritual dimension, contending with the assertive striving of progressive musical thought and the early-flowering energies of youth itself, is proudly and sublimely on display in the new set from Resonance. Larry Young’s Self-Questioning Jazz 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Amer rounds out details drawn from interviews with Boulahcen’s family and friends with her own psychological coloring, striving to give shape to the inner life of a maladjusted immigrant. Review: In ‘You Resemble Me,’ a Maladjusted Girl Is Interrupted 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Yet despite being fictional contrivances, they exude poetic effects, as if a spiritual persona in the artist were striving to overcome his secularist prejudices. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z “She is constantly striving to improve our students’ experiences at school while encouraging their own development as progressive and compassionate global citizens.” The Post’s 2016 Teacher of the Year: A ‘one-woman powerhouse’ in Md. 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Then find a place in the shade and consider the benefits of not striving for mastery in badminton, say, of not going for the gold in bird-watching, or barbecuing. The case for “good enough”: Forget striving–our happiness depends on being satisfied with less 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z A loyal gun dog always striving for the club's best interests. 'Sons of Anarchy' recap: 'What A Piece Of Work Is Man' - good soldier 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Everybody is marching forward, striving, but to what? Dictator-lit: Kim Jong-il's political philosophy 2010-12-07T10:57:00Z He disagrees that conscientious striving can turn into perfectionism. ‘My brain feels like it’s been punched’: the intolerable rise of perfectionism 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z In the new show, “How I Met Your Father,” Duff plays the lovelorn heroine — a striving photographer named Sophie with a perky New York apartment that few real starving artists would be able to afford. Stop Asking Hilary Duff Who the Father Is 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Tommy Graham, director and founder of Historical Insights in Dublin, says his guides “are constantly striving to offer some ‘insights’ into Irish society through the medium of history.” The World's Best City Walks 2010-08-18T22:45:00Z That sense of DJs – not musicians, but technicians – striving too hard to get the sound and atmosphere they want but not quite achieving it comes across in some of their music. New band of the day: Cherub (No 1,545) 2013-07-03T14:27:49Z He begins with an axiomatic assumption: that the self isn’t just “a parcel of vain strivings,” as Thoreau once wrote, but essentially a fiction. Review | At the Guggenheim, a memoir about America, colonialism and desire 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Its farmers and chefs are always striving for excellence by continuously expanding their food horizons. How to eat like a Vermont farmer — starting with this luscious burrata salad 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Trophies or no trophies, we are all just striving to do some really good art and help people’s lives with it. Jay-Z’s Producer No I.D. on the Grammys: ‘Urban Culture Is Now Pop Culture’ 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z There is plenty of folly on offer here, but Becky is striving to marry for money because that is her only means to escape the fate of her low birth. Amazon’s New “Vanity Fair” Turns Becky Sharp Into an Endearing, Plucky Go-Getter 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z The stories had a tremendous impact on me, you know the way things worked, the ideas they had back then, what they were striving for, we got very close to them. ArtsBeat Blog: Pixar's John Lasseter Answers Your Questions 2011-11-01T12:00:21Z Still, he argued, striving to be Thornton Wilder, futile as it may be, is a noble pursuit. | 'My Last Play': Oh, Come in. Glad to See You. Would You Like a Book? 2010-12-17T21:58:35Z And then, in the best chapter in the book, Power gives us the ammo to see how even just striving for better can lead to unforeseen complications. What Samantha Power Learned on the Job 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The tale of his rise fuses individual striving and collective struggle. ‘Hamilton’ Review: You Say You Want a Revolution 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Both books lovingly depict the striving, close-knit Greenwood enclave as it appeared on the eve of its destruction. Behind the Jim Crow Curtain 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z This striving is made clear in Mr. Ek’s program note, which ends with the sentence “Dance is not life, but it keeps alive all the little things that the big thing is made of.” Dance Review: With Twists and Turns, Cuban Troupe Makes U.S. Debut 2011-05-11T17:03:27Z She was admired, and not only by housewives who, like Nancy, were striving to maintain a home while raising children. Helen Wagner, Longtime Actress on ?As the World Turns,? Dies at 91 2010-05-04T03:38:00Z It showed that she was striving to make the best of herself. Is it wrong for a person to change their accent? 2013-04-20T16:59:01Z Their new faith brings about a loosening of their striving, an acknowledgment of limits, a dedication to humble achievements, an acceptance of second place. The Sanitized Christianity of “War Room” 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The museum also honors the road of a people struggling and striving and, in so many cases, soaring to places where they were never meant to be. The artifacts and stories that brought the African American museum to life 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The intrepid club presents regional jazz artists every month, striving to keep jazz alive at the other end of Highway 520, and puts its all into this annual Bellevue celebration. Jovino Santos Neto tops Eastside Jazz Extravaganza | Concert preview 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z "I hope it inspires future generations to continue striving to overcome poverty worldwide." Oxfam donates archive to Bodleian Library 2013-02-25T13:25:56Z He suggests that young players work more on finding tools to solve problems — working on musical challenges — than just striving for perfection. He conducted at 3 and now he’s playing with Seattle Symphony: Cellist Nathan Chan 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z A lot of your other films are satirical, and here you’re really striving for authenticity in everything from the camera work to your depiction of the characters. The Carpetbagger: Behind Camera, Checking the Ego 2010-12-08T23:38:00Z But it's rare to see any shows that really delve so deeply with striving for authenticity the way we did. "Blue Eye Samurai" cuts through multiracial shame, what it is "to be ostracized from both sides" 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z Lincoln Center Theater described the show as “about the quest for democracy, striving for justice, and the tragic struggle between passion and aspiration, between lovers and kingdoms.” ‘Camelot’ Is Returning to Broadway, Reimagined by Aaron Sorkin 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z When they met, in a London boardinghouse in 1978, he was 26 and she was almost three decades older, striving to supplement a waning film career with stage roles. Review: ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool’ Shares a Last-Gasp Romance 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Since the Apple store has for many people replaced the stereo showroom, audio companies are also striving to find creative ways of reaching younger music fans. The New Audio Geeks 2013-07-24T22:18:15Z And yet, while the earliest of Kahlo’s mature work in this exhibition show her working in Rivera’s shadow, she was clearly striving for different effects. Detroit museum roars back with powerful exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z In Los Angeles, our star antagonist takes a new name, Will Bettelheim, and claims to be striving to become a better man. New year, new "You": Netflix's stalker drama seeks romantic nirvana in a twisted Season 2 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z It’s striving to be more like real life, and it succeeds. Love: Judd Apatow deconstructs relationships in clever but odd romcom 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Outside the precinct, reality proved more difficult to circumscribe, and striving for control became something of a political act in itself. Photographing Newark 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z “I want to surround myself with people who are at my level or higher, or at least striving toward something,” she says. How a Fast-Rising Opera Singer Prepared for Her Met Debut 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z It is tempting to link Brian's own striving with the Faustian figure at the centre of the Gothic. The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z These include striving “to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures” and promoting beliefs that conform to a “scientific understanding of the world.” ‘Hail Satan?’ Review: Pitchforks, Black Clothes and Good Deeds 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z He suggests easy swaps, gradual improvement and striving for balance. Headspace Guide to Meditation: can Netflix deliver enlightenment in 20 minutes? 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z “I was drawn to people really striving for individual style in a country where it's hard to have individual style,” said Rose Cromwell, a photographer who has been going to Cuba since 2005. Traveling Across Japan 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z I appreciate and share Levine’s claim that in our rush to “keep striving, keep moving,” we’ve “lost the capacity for introspection.” Tiger, Snowplow, Helicopter and Free-Range Parents, Listen Up! 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Thick skin and perseverance to keep striving definitely helped me. Misty Copeland: A trailblazing ballerina makes the judge's table 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z I'm constantly striving to improve my business, introduce efficiencies and produce what the market requires. Should we all eat less meat? 2013-06-08T17:00:02Z Even when the concept heads west, however, the sense of artists striving for a certain grandiosity is unmistakable. Nero: Welcome Reality - review 2011-08-04T14:30:01Z It sprinkles some glittery celebrity cameos among the scenes of earnest striving and ornaments Mark Isham’s emotive score with even more emotive songs, culminating with a second a cappella rendition of “Blackbird.” ‘Beyond the Lights,’ a Diva’s Romance 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Like all Tevis’s work, “Mockingbird” is certainly if obliquely autobiographical, a parable about freeing oneself from addiction and striving for self-realization. Review | ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is a bestseller, but its author, Walter Tevis, was hardly a one-hit wonder 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z “We were already striving for very good, very thoughtful design,” she said. National Museum of Women in the Arts to close in August for two years 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z He wasn’t calling himself Lucifer, smearing himself in stage blood, striving to shock or shouting out gang affiliations. Little Richard: An Ecstasy You Couldn’t Refuse 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z So a movie – striving for event status, shouldering itself into the cultural conversation by claiming to be a once-in-a-lifetime event – simply doesn't jibe with the lieutenant's process. A reboot of Columbo is a fantastic idea – apart from one enormous flaw 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z By this, he means that they infused the national cuisine with a mixture of cultured decadence and striving. Weekend Reading: Gay Men and American Food; Debunking the Phineas Gage Myth & More 2014-05-10T04:00:00Z That’s an impossible standard to meet, and it sometimes feels as if Mr. Nelson were striving too hard in emulation. Theater Review: ‘Nikolai and the Others,’ by Richard Nelson, at the Newhouse 2013-05-07T02:00:01Z “With Annabel you never got any of the negative fallout you get from people who are striving in an unkind, competitive fashion, the kind who, the minute they feel threatened, go psycho.” Annabel Tollman: the Calm Amid Fashion’s Storm 2013-06-12T18:59:24Z “I want to be the president for the struggling, the striving and the successful.” Bernie Sanders says he wants a revolution: Demanding reparations for racial injustice should be his next move 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Her perpetual striving to seem smarter and different is self-defeating and self-renewing—the perfect sitcom premise. Review: "Odd Mom Out" is a Tough, Refreshing Summer Satire 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Looked at from afar, Hill’s story seems like a triumphant tale of striving and accomplishment. In a Memoir, the Impeachment Witness Fiona Hill Recounts Her Journey From ‘Blighted World’ to White House 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z But it is a kind of spiritual successor, a meticulously created and observed mural that finds the germ of contemporary America in the striving of righteously mad women. ‘Mrs. America’ Review: The Voice of an E.R.A. 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z This Michigan-based company is striving to reinvent popular candy with real, organic ingredients and less sugar. 9 gifts to de-stress, center and rejuvenate: They (and you) deserve it 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Accuracy of language and perception — the writer is not striving for effect and gets out of the way to let us see the world through the lens of language. By the Book: Julia Alvarez 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Rain clouds flow like lava across the Indonesian countryside at the outset of “Position Among the Stars,” the final installment in Leonard Retel Helmrich’s documentary trilogy about three generations of an upwardly striving family. | 'Position Among the Stars': ?Position Among the Stars,? From Indonesia - Review 2011-09-14T22:08:25Z The locations have been remote, the days long, and in striving for authenticity Sheridan and his team have pushed themselves to the limit. ‘Yellowstone’ Gets a Prequel in ‘1883,’ but It Wasn’t Easy 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Pink sang “Try,” an exhortation to keep striving, while performing an aerialist routine, before returning to the stage to belt “Just Give Me a Reason,” a reconciliation duet, with Nate Ruess of the band Fun. Critic’s Notebook: Grammy Awards Feature Wild Swings and Partnerships 2014-01-27T05:17:25Z The challenge for airlines lies in striking a balance between these two competing interests, and striving to ensure a peaceful environment for all their passengers. Babies in First Class: Which Side of the Aisle Are You On? 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z I feel like a human plant striving for sustenance. Orphic Paris, Part XVI 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Chipperfield doesn't overstate the Biennale's power, but he believes it is important for architects to gather somewhere and he is striving to get them to engage with the world "outside the walls of this church". Venice's Architecture Biennale seeks common ground 2012-08-28T19:38:42Z The original Spider-Man, an upwardly striving, working-class New York kid, was also a child of the ’60s, a beacon to outsiders and rebels of every color and background, an instinctive democrat and a natural pluralist. ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Review: A Fresh Take on a Venerable Hero 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z They’re striving to be entirely nonjudgmental while passing along helpful advice; disagreements are inevitable: Family tensions simmer in Tessa Hadley’s exquisite novel ‘The Past’ 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z His dancers were trained towards uniformity; Candoco's are not – and in that difference is revealed, over and over again, the effort and brutality involved in striving to embody an unforgiving ideal. Candoco Dance Company - review 2010-10-12T21:15:00Z A comic novel about terrorism featuring a misanthropic hero striving to take credit for deadly bombings around the world? Books of The Times: Lionel Shriver?s ?New Republic? Has Echoes of Sept. 11 2012-03-26T22:37:24Z “Persons who naïvely mistake me for a merry-andrew with an inflated pig’s bladder can never understand that I adore whichever tradition I am striving to follow,” he said in a 1980 interview. Thomas Berger’s Egoless Fictions 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z If intellectual striving is pretentious, then what do we call an insistent resignation to fleeting mediocrity? It’s good to be pretentious! 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z In Midtown, which is still striving for perfection, a life like that would cost buckets of money. Restaurant Reviews: Limani and Estiatorio Milos in Midtown 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z So what is left when the striving and the building and the fighting are done? Review: Richard Maxwell Considers Life After Life in ‘Paradiso’ 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Most ambitious of all, she’s become a producer, striving to adapt “The Bell Jar,” the autobiographical novel by the poet Sylvia Plath, into a feature film. ?Dexter? and ?Persephone? in Julia Stiles?s Second Phase 2010-07-18T03:12:00Z Our American experiment has always been about striving to be a more perfect union. Hillary Clinton and America Ferrera on Pain and Progress (and Hiking) 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z While other singers trained themselves as actors, striving to sashay or swagger like the characters they played onstage, Mr. Bergonzi proudly focused on his music. Carlo Bergonzi, celebrated Italian tenor and interpreter of Verdi, dies at 90 Equipped with a state-of-the-art sound system, gorgeous hardwood accents and phenomenal acoustics, the multipurpose space is striving to become a smaller version of the venerable Park West. Concert venues heed call for small 2011-03-31T15:38:00Z Having just moved to this new locale at the southern edge of town, the upscale bistro is striving to be the area’s go-to place for fine cuisine. No slopes required: Washington state’s cross-country ski oasis 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z For a moment the stage is filled with people who, however flawed, are striving after truth. Crowds Define Opera. They’re Also Keeping It From Returning. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z And through the perspective of these children, Leopo's film addresses themes of food insecurity, housing and worker exploitation, childcare, the immigrant/American Dream, and striving for a better life. In "Los Lobos," two boys who flee Mexico discover that the American Dream isn't Disneyland 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Still, Mr. Nelsons may have been striving for too much profundity. Andris Nelsons Begins Tenure Leading Boston Symphony 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Behind the curtain of biography, betrayal and striving, “Fosse/Verdon” undresses into a story about haunted people, a pair of artists inexorably pushed by past abuses and the fear of failure they produced. FX's "Fosse/Verdon" dances, after a little warm up 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z But just as dictators create themselves, very literally, as icons – striving for ubiquity in their image, always expressed in heroic or godlike terms – so is their fall a very literal one, says Pine. Gaddafi compound reveals dictator's taste for bling - and Condoleezza Rice 2011-08-25T18:54:20Z His "inner tribunal" striving, but often failing, to assert his better self, Rudy is a cruelly accurate comic creation, tortured by conscience as well as piles. Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye – review 2012-07-06T21:55:12Z Have I learned nothing from her talk of striving and failing, of dancing and drama and the benefits of dabbling? Greta Gerwig: ‘I don't need a man. I would have done all this anyway' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z His behavior is symptomatic of a kind of toxic masculinity combined with a striving for the American Dream, which itself is a lie. Review | Playwright David Adjmi’s stirring memoir, ‘Lot Six,’ explores the very meaning of identity 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z “The music community is still striving, but it needs solutions just like the city needs solutions. And Upstream is one of them.” What to expect when Upstream Music Festival takes over Pioneer Square for year two 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z There's the Innocent, "a naive but charming clown, striving to find his own place in the world"; the Trickster, "the creator and supreme master of the world of Kooza", and the zany King of Fools. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Kooza/Cirque du Soleil – review 2013-01-13T00:05:32Z But in this comedy about a dance team of 13-year-olds striving to compete in nationals — and learning about themselves in the process — not all goes smoothly onstage or in the studio. Clare Barron on ‘Dance Moms,’ Teen Girls and Black Sheep Ballerinas 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z According to Mr. Glimcher, Rothko was striving to communicate something universal about the human condition rather than about himself, and he didn’t paint when he was depressed. Mark Rothko’s Dark Palette Illuminated 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z “At first, she is striving so hard to make something of art and beauty,” Mr. Shyamalan said, “and finally she says, ‘You know what? With ‘The Visit,’ M. Night Shyamalan Returns to His Filmmaking Roots 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z In a way, Peck too seems to be striving for a new future in “Copland Dance Episodes.” It’s a Season of Vintage Gems, and Female Bonding, at City Ballet 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z But while you are striving to get rid of the aches, just remember the pain is not necessarily a bad thing, Ibrahim says. How to cure a workout hangover 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z What should he be striving for at this point in life? 'Mad Men' Recap: 'The Forecast' 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z She works slowly and collaboratively, discussing with the women how best to convey their feelings about their roots, while striving to avoid the visual clichés that are often associated with the region. At a Latin American Photo Festival, Poetic and Political Imagery 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z In the title track, Morris reiterates that she’s a work in progress — stumbling, but striving to be better and not letting her ego “cast a shadow.” Maren Morris is grounded, but not silenced on ‘Humble Quest’ 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Education was about survival and striving, a way to provide armor for black boys and girls. Anna Deavere Smith returns to Baltimore, with a mission 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Unlike traditional dating sites where members spend hours on computers writing autobiographies and scrutinizing photographs, a raft of newfangled dating tools are striving to better bridge the gap between online and real-world romance. The New Dating Tools: A Card and a Wink 2010-07-21T23:51:00Z So producers are striving to create a distinct, marketable identity for Lebanese wine based on quality, not quantity. Lebanon wines bring villages back to life and emigrants home 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z That striving ends in Yom Kippur, which this year is observed October 11-12. Jews celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the new year 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z At one point, we even get an egregious scene with simultaneous dialog resolving the two separate plots -- it is always preferable to go with truthful ambiguity rather than striving for neat racial equivalencies. Review: Too much noise, not enough truth in Whoopi Goldberg's musical 2011-04-10T18:02:10Z “It’s amazing how Crystal and Derek show up at the club ready to play, day after day, week after week, never moping around or complaining and always striving to get better,” coach Larry Hodges says. Two Maryland middle-schoolers are rising stars in table tennis 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Parents were part of the narrative, but those shows were primarily about children and their peers striving to adapt to the havoc of changing times. Television Review: ‘Surviving Jack,’ With Christopher Meloni as a Crusty Dad 2014-03-26T21:50:31Z What emerges from all the high jinks is a portrait of the striving underclass of Amman, a city whose roil of people and aspirations outpaces even the most determined hustlers. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z A restaurant still striving for its third Michelin star can never compromise. From Georgetown to Copenhagen, a chef takes charge The curious thing is that the movie’s theme — boys from the wrong side of the Hudson striving to make it in the Big City — underlies many Four Seasons songs. Jersey Boys Movie Review: Music is Sharp, Drama is Flat 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z And it was a standard these kids could meet not through the amoral lottery of genes and talent but from a kind of moral striving, “voluntarism” in both the philosophical and the soup-kitchen sense. The Poisonous Reach of the College-Admissions Process 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z But in striving for symphonic breadth, Copland faltered at something for which he usually had flawless instincts: musical structure. New York Youth Symphony Plays Copland’s Symphony No. 3 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z The character spends much of the first act clothed only in a slip, striving to win back the love of her husband, Brick, and secure their inheritance from Big Daddy, who is dying. Scarlett Johansson in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ 2012-12-19T19:23:30Z It’s a striving that has its own historical roots and theoretical precedents. A Filmmaker Trying to Break Free from Instagram Modernity 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z But she did say that the company recognizes Magic’s widening fan base, “and that’s also the reason why we are striving to make the Magic tournaments as welcoming as possible.” Growing fantasy-game universe collides with entrenched boys’ club mentality But aspirational purchases also tell a story of striving and achieving. Perspective | Our clothes tell our story. What happens when the narrative is just pajamas and sweats? 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z The young singer playing Miles has a crucial task: believably portray a boy striving to appear normal on the surface but roiling underneath. Seattle Opera’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ is tense, spooky — and not for everyone 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Morosely, one of the most valuable parts of my marriage striving was reading about marriage and death. Modern Love: Embracing Marriage, Flaws and All 2012-01-26T21:45:54Z It’s a kind of curated jam, striving for a balance of spontaneity and finesse. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Charles Bronson, a Lithuanian coal miner’s son who, as a teen-ager, toiled in the mines himself, embodied the vitality, the striving, and the no-nonsense strength of America’s working class. Movies 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Each character is striving for, and/or reeling from, a heterosexual relationship. Cold Cases: Three Scandinavian Novels Explore Chilling Emotional Territory 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z We never have stopped debating the Furtwängler dilemma, whether the high-minded conductor served the Nazi cause or undercut it by striving to continue an enduring good in German culture and Germany. 'The Menuhin Century' is now: Why the violin master is still the sound of hope and peace 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Sonny, is drafted into the Army, all that petty social-set striving gets shunted aside. Review | By the end of 2020, we were supposed to have more J.D. Salinger. Instead we have ‘Sergeant Salinger.’ 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z But my wife and I like the All Good because it’s authentic, not striving. | Surfacing: Dallas?s Deep Ellum Gets Its Music Back 2010-05-14T21:12:00Z That variety, connection and striving for better is preferable to some forced, homogenous idea of happiness, even in a place where every day is Topless Tuesday. Peacock's Syfy-quality "Brave New World" dystopia crosses Burning Man and an orgy in an Apple store 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Screenwriter Colin Welland was a vigorous socialist, but the movie was nonetheless adored by Ronald Reagan for the individual striving and patriotic glory. Chariots of Fire – review 2012-07-12T20:50:01Z Nearly every celebrity who appears to have exploded into fame from nowhere has a backstory involving years of anonymously slaving away and striving for their big break. Awkwafina's "Nora From Queens" channels "Broad City" but must hone its own rowdy identity 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Favor was bestowed upon some already in the fashion pantheon, or striving to get there. John B. Fairchild, Women’s Wear Daily publisher, dies at 87 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z But the anecdotes from her life that Salie recalls here, of striving for achievement and affirmation, reflect gendered expectations and social pressures that many women will recognize. Review: Getting a Moral Fix From ‘Approval Junkie’ 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z The ambition and striving energy of modern India provides an all-American tale of poor boys making good. India and the US: a new wave of collaborative cinema 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z He also took a different approach to his guitar playing on “Heigh Ho,” striving to integrate his roles as singer/songwriter and as instrumentalist in a new way. Blake Mills Releases His Second Album, ‘Heigh Ho’ 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z This book’s tale of immigrant striving is haunted by a parallel story of American decline. A Powerful Story of Coming to America, Finding Promise and Paradox 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z In 1990, hip-hop was a subculture striving to breach the mainstream without losing its soul. ‘The Breaks,’ a TV Movie on VH1, Examines the Year Hip-Hop Found Its Flow 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Well, you want to play somebody complicated, or somebody who's striving in some way, who has some work to do, or someone in some kind of crisis. "You want a big mountain to climb": "The Bear" star on why Cousin Richie is so satisfying to play 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Heroic striving on the painter’s part yielded exactly the superficiality he was aiming for, a bibulous moment of fun among a gathering of good looking, high-spirited young people. Review | Another Renoir show? But this one is worth it. 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z The music doesn't sound deliberately tongue-in-cheek, but it does sound like an indie artist striving to achieve the effortless sensuality of a D'Angelo. New band of the day (The Child of Lov No 1,483) 2013-04-02T15:54:59Z That is, it’s key, because amplifying those who are, is what we should all be striving to learn to do. Brandi Carlile opens up about overcoming insecurities, her latest Grammy win and her new memoir 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Pervaded by the medium’s inherent lucidity and intimacy, the show enables you to see afresh both drawing and the ambition and striving of several generations of artists. Art Review: ‘Fine Lines,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2013-04-18T21:31:41Z What he says: "Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn." Tom Cruise, the bankable kook 2012-07-05T15:19:32Z But it’s called a crowd for a reason, said Daniel Newman, 30, a Cameesa winner from Portland, who describes himself as a “striving professional T-shirt designer” who also works by day an usher. Special Report: The YouDesign Movement 2010-02-26T19:20:00Z Maybe it's something paradoxical that I'm starting to treasure from the 80s – the very moments when they were striving to be what we are now, but failed. Acceptable in the 80s 2010-07-29T21:00:00Z The point isn’t to discourage striving, promotions, new friends or acquired skills, of course — both achieving these and working toward them enrich our lives. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and perhaps wiser 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z But, if anything testifies to the not-normality of Trump, it’s the opposition that he faced from conservative pundits as he ran for President against Bill Clinton’s striving feminist wife. Why Haven’t Conservative Thinkers Denounced Trump? 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Kim has the wardrobe of someone striving to look good on a budget. The Working-Woman Hero of ‘Better Call Saul’ 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Ian Shaw has worked steadily in theater, TV and film projects while striving not to trade on the renown of his illustrious father. Wrestling With His Past. And an Animatronic Shark. 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Like Richelieu, Kissinger believes that a constellation of states, each striving for its own selfish interests, and offsetting rivals, can bring order in a way no church or empire can. How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z But, what I’m doing is just striving to get to the next level of playing every time.” Hair metal forever! 2012-07-22T01:00:00Z Kushner was striving for nothing less than an assessment of the American experience and the human condition, but “Angels” is not only a drama of ideas. Review | A full-bodied portrait of ‘Angels in America,’ a play redefined what theater could be 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Set in New York in the second half of the twentieth century, it’s a story of middle-class striving and medical tragedy in the Irish-American Leary family. Books to Watch Out For: August 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z In the work of some photographers this uniformity might provoke tedium; in Strand’s there is the powerful sense of an artist striving to bring reality into harmony with the purity of his vision. Paul Strand’s Sense of Things 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z He wanted to work with the innovative director Doug Fitch, whose handmade aesthetic was the visual embodiment of the spirit he was striving for. Alan Gilbert Wanted to Save the New York Philharmonic. What Happened? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z “This is not a young man’s book, not a book of striving,” she wrote. Hilary Mantel, Kiley Reid, Anne Tyler in Running for Booker Prize 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z An old prostate-exam gag in the premiere tells you the level of sophistication the show is striving for. ‘Mulaney,’ a Comedy That Riffs on ‘Seinfeld’ 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Not much, Mr. Krakoff said the other day, though the designer, 50, was, in fact, striving quite visibly to affect an aura of masterly serenity. Reed Krakoff Will Show His First Collection Since Leaving Coach 2014-02-05T23:49:10Z The gym’s founders like to say they are striving for “global domination.” Urban Athlete: Climbing the Walls in Brooklyn 2010-05-27T21:58:00Z Her parents, both teachers, were striving and selfless members of that city’s black bourgeoisie. Books of The Times: A Controversial Figure; Hold the Controversy 2010-10-12T17:03:00Z “For us, it is more about what feels best or looks the most cohesive rather than always striving to stay ‘on trend’. Is Instagram changing the way we design the world? 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Although Plaza’s character makes it clear this is a story about complicity and manipulation, Baena keeps the tone silly, barely striving for scares even when creepy masks slink into view. ‘Spin Me Round’ Review: Eat Pray Lust 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z The film ends with the timely return of Eve and God and this heavenly directive: Keep struggling, keep striving, no matter how lousy life gets. ‘The Tragedy of Man’ by Marcell Jankovics, Animator 2012-11-10T01:04:20Z There’s nothing subtle about the message of Black striving and ambition in “Be Alive,” Beyoncé’s song for “King Richard,” the movie about the father and tennis coach of Venus and Serena Williams. Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers’s ‘Red’ Duet, and 14 More New Songs 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z A loving portrait of a young, striving Michael is offered in a new book by his closest friend and former bandmate, Andrew Ridgeley. Andrew Ridgeley looks back with fondness at George Michael 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Eating a variety of fruits and vegetables each day has more benefits than just eating one type on repeat, so striving for the rainbow can help encourage variety. Want your child to eat more veggies? Talk to them about "eating the rainbow" 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Maybe Romney’s message of striving and individual enterprise resonates with one of them who wants to own that mansion and sit at that table someday. You Got Served: A Waiter’s-Eye View of Mitt Romney 2012-09-19T12:00:55Z He swerved between hummable melody and chromatic barrage, not striving for the toe-tapping immediacy of Brecht’s best remembered musical collaborator, Kurt Weill. A New Album Reflects a Composer’s Stubborn Versatility 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Appearing to welcome the chance to set the record straight, he is soon dispensing quotable advice about striving for perfection and playing with heart. | ?Lombardi?: On Further Review, the Coach Stands 2010-10-22T03:39:00Z I can feel the baggage, the emotion and the striving for honesty. Reading group: Sons and Lovers is getting me down 2013-06-13T08:58:55Z The determined dad kept striving, sending companies “edible” versions of his resume — i.e. packages of brownies featuring a QR code that linked to his website. Unemployed man finds new job by posting huge resume on truck 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z At this early stage, though, the show is still struggling to capture the jaunty tone it’s striving for. 2010-01-15T04:24:00Z He was not just an itinerant entertainer, but a self-conscious artist striving to write timeless songs. Greg Kot: Music behind myths of Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson 2011-05-03T18:47:25Z What I discovered is that, though this selflessness might look like a striving for independence, other people end up paying for it. Salvatore Scibona on the Difference Between Fiction and History 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z The Spanish flu, meanwhile, is ravaging the city, countervailing the vibrant, creative forces of music and public works, the striving, the dreams of longevity. A Novel of 1918 New Orleans, With Murder and All That Jazz 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z It contains striving, colorful argot and too much confusion. Movie Review: ‘Desperate Endeavors,’ Directed by Salim Khassa 2012-09-07T00:24:06Z “Men are more career-orientated, striving and pushy in middle age,” he says. Is it just me... or does everyone lose friends in their 30s? 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z A notable trend is the growing number of chefs striving for their own signature style, according to Michelin. NYC restaurants rack up Michelin stars in record numbers 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Toss out the Supreme Being and we’re left with one set of humans striving to dominate another, and justifying themselves with ideology based on nothing but myth. They really want a theocracy: The GOP candidates who want to make you bow to their lord 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z There are other ways of making movies, naturally, and there’s always a small audience available for these noble strivings — and good for them, I guess.” Arts & Leisure: In Defense of the Slow and the Boring 2011-06-03T13:29:50Z Lukas Graham, from Denmark, writes neatly turned songs that merge the lilt of pop-soul with the quick cadences of hip-hop, and he sings about earnest striving that gets its deserved reward. SXSW: From Exclusive Performances to Cellphone Souvenirs 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z In researching a new name, Freeform accomplishes a few different goals the network was striving to hit. ABC Family Will Change Its Name to Draw More Young Viewers 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Should it now be striving to fund projects that mimic the largely white, male, privately educated, Oxbridge cabinet of which Hunt is such a fortunate part? Tackling UK poetry's ethnic imbalance, with no help from Jeremy Hunt 2010-09-22T07:00:00Z Was it a lost dream or something to keep striving for? My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z In this tender recollection, with each chapter striving for a revelation, the father-daughter dialogues are often the most engaging. Family Memoirs: The Ties That Bind and Those That Fray 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z If all the world’s a stage and life is a dream, then order is something continually improvised by human striving and imagination. Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z There is little sense of soprano and alto voices, and I never felt that Spacek was striving to convey any emotional message through the sound. Violinist Josef Spacek displays striking dexterity but a strangely impersonal sound 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Nor has Jackson himself existed beyond critique, and he freely admits to being “a flawed human striving, striving.” A Memoir of Black Life in the ‘Other America’ 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z People are willing to pay up to $10,000 for cheetah cubs, the report found, and many appear to be striving to provide them the best possible care. Cheetahs have become the hot new “luxury pet”, and it’s driving them toward extinction 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z One element of recent "Star Trek" chapters that I've appreciated is their willingness to question the ways the Federation and Starfleet fail to live up to their vaunted utopian strivings. How "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" uses Rebecca Romijn's Number One to place prejudice on trial 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Stokes Mitchell, the Broadway star, said that is exactly what he felt at Waterbury's Palace Theater while singing "The Impossible Dream," a song that speaks about striving to right the unrightable wrong. Music world helps Newtown heal following massacre 2013-02-07T16:31:10Z True crime thrives on striving to derive explanations for unspeakable acts people do from the crime they commit and the ones committed against them. Ryan Murphy's "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" is an example of the brand undermining the mission 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Now he’s also an executive producer and writer of “How to Make It in America,” HBO’s newest show about striving 20-somethings. 2010-02-06T03:13:00Z “I am still seeking to be a part of publishing and striving to have more diverse and inclusive stories and environments,” she said. Missteps lead publishing industry to review diversity effort 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z In the first movement he seemed to be channeling Bruno Walter and striving for grandeur. Critic’s Notebook: Mostly Mozart Opens With Louis Langrée and Lawrence Brownlee 2012-08-01T21:47:28Z But in almost every story, Orange notes a striving for self-knowledge, a secret desire to see oneself. Review | What does it mean to be Native American? A new novel offers a bracing answer. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Her expressions of joy come with the acknowledgment that it is both hard to come by and worth striving for. Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner is fighting for joy through grief 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Behind the mask of sexual Victorianism, racial striving, up-by-the-bootstrap faith, hard work and service, Tuskegee was, in his eyes, a den of corruption. Ralph Ellison’s Letters Reveal a Complex Philosopher of Black Expression 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Every one of these 15 stories is narrated by a man in his 40s, like as not striving for patience with a clinically depressed wife or girlfriend. Three New Story Collections Make Place a Protagonist 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z “Everything’s Good” brings the mix-tape full circle, and it presents Chance not as a kid burning to vanquish his rivals by cracking jokes, but as a would-be adult striving to overcome his flaws. Album review: Chance the Rapper, 'Acid Rap' 2013-05-10T18:44:00Z Paymer, who has now performed “Mr. Saturday Night” onscreen and stage, said that Crystal is constantly striving to find ways to reinvent the musical and keep it distinct from the film. Let Him Entertain You: Billy Crystal Returns to Broadway 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z But for a fiction writer who’s striving to create believably complex characters, there’s no better place to start. Review: ‘Fives and Twenty-fives,’ by Michael Pitre, a tale of dangerous duty in Iraq Add to all this Taylor’s deeply rooted understandings of the rarefied worlds of both provincial grad school life and biochemistry in particular, which should inspire envy in every writer striving for specificity. Jeremy O. Harris: Brandon Taylor ‘Subjugates Us With the Deft Hand of a Dom’ 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z It’s instead been about believing that we’re part of something bigger, and striving for connection to it. No matter what, I’m still Catholic 2013-02-12T20:40:00Z But in early June, we arrived in the striving tourist town of Medora, a jumping-off point for the trail. This North Dakota Bike Trail Is Stunning. Just Hope You Survive It. 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z “The French government is striving for a middle way that would be a mix of restitution and circulation. From a historical standpoint, that’s a retreat.” France Vowed to Return Looted Treasures. But Few Are Heading Back. 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z They spin gold into flax, striving to placate the unworthy sufficiently so as, one day, to be admitted to their number. David Mamet on Ricky Jay, a Great Astonisher and ‘Truest Friend’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z There’s the striving to pursue your own goals and invest in yourself. “It’s not a women’s problem, it’s a workplace problem”: Anne-Marie Slaughter on the crisis at the heart of the “having it all” problem 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z “We have a culture of striving to make our products perfect,” said Warren Yang, the owner of Din Tai Fung and son of the founder. Special Report: Travel Asia: Savoring Taipei’s Food Scene 2012-09-02T14:39:12Z Whether that’s enough to build a Broadway musical on is another question, one “The Cher Show,” striving to be agreeable, never gets close to answering. Review: In ‘The Cher Show,’ I Got You, Babe. And You. And You. 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z He lionised the writer as a free individual striving for objective truth, beholden to no special interests, yet everywhere he saw that freedom being circumscribed. George Orwell back in fashion as Prism stokes paranoia about Big Brother 2013-06-11T17:08:01Z At the time I was very young and Michelin in France was an obsession in every kitchen of every restaurant that was striving for perfection. Chef Eric Ripert on his revealing new memoir '32 Yolks' 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z “In this constant striving to realize a financial future,” he says in the book, “no thought was given to the critical personal and political issues that affect one’s emotional present.” Movie Review: ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist,’ Directed by Mira Nair 2013-04-25T23:17:37Z Although striving is the last thing the album’s sound telegraphs—even when Malik sings about emotional and romantic desperation, he remains at a calm remove, seldom rising above a simmer across the whole record. Zayn Malik Would Like You to Know That He Is a Cool Adult Now 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z Cataloging her aspirations and her setbacks, Ms. Brown, a long-limbed British retropop eccentric, painted the picture of a striving outsider vindicated by recent success. Music Review: V. V. Brown?s Parasol Pop at Bowery Ballroom 2010-04-29T21:11:00Z In Hathaway, Eichner recognizes a great actress, but also a striving theater geek. On Twitter, a peanut gallery mocks the Oscars 2013-02-20T18:45:09Z One thing that we are all, in different ways, striving for. Critic’s Notebook: From Ferguson to the Sony hack, ‘Selma’ seizes its moment 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z An ad for “Zero Dark Thirty” is seen momentarily in the background of “The Report” while Jones is striving to get his findings released — one more obfuscation standing in his way. In ‘The Report,’ setting the record on torture straight 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z As a result, I think it’s more important than ever that we journalists continue striving to win over those who are skeptical, conflicted or simply apathetic. Polls show Americans distrust the media. But talk to them, and it’s a very different story. 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Charles Fuller seems to be striving for topicality and resonance in his earnest but tedious drama “One Night,” which premiered in New York in 2013. Dancing some pleasing duets at the Contemporary American Theater Festival “The idea for me is to set the table, striving for innovation and spirited curiosity,” he said in an email. Vail Dance Festival to Feature Roman Mejia and Caili Quan 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z There is Brahms’s signature striving toward classicism beneath its warm Romantic veneer. Eschenbach and the NSO play Brahms and Tchaikovsky Ms. Faust played compellingly, with judicious application of vibrato, not striving for a particularly big tone. Music Review: David Fray and Lionel Bringuier at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-08T22:08:00Z In striving to be more, “The Crown,” which delivers 10 robust new episodes Friday on Netflix, intermittently becomes too much. Review | In ‘The Crown’s’ new season, a delicious friction between Elizabeth and Jackie 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The gorgeous melody, which Waller co-wrote with Harry Brooks, also throbs with pain, a poignant evocation of life in an America still striving to live up to its potential. Fats Waller says he 'Ain't Misbehavin',' but the party's going strong at La Mirada Theatre 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z To have a show or film that could do for cheerleaders what “Friday Night Lights” did for high school football, striving for authenticity and transcendence? Megan Abbott on Cheerleaders in Pop Culture 2012-07-27T15:27:38Z Not really, he says, it's all of a piece – knowing there are options, striving for perfection. Dustin Hoffman: facing down my demons 2012-12-14T23:00:18Z The ethical standards guiding many disciplines, most university research offices, and many mission statements of academic institutions explicitly or implicitly articulate the centrality of striving after truth. What makes the ideal university? Six values that power higher education at its best 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z The version in “Garfunkel and Oates,” in which the women play fictional versions of themselves, striving Los Angeles performers and best friends, is on the kooky-fey-demure end of the spectrum. ‘Garfunkel and Oates,’ a Comic Female Duo on IFC 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z No matter how much of an effort is made by people striving to be good, the show says, the consumerism model fueling it makes being ethically sound impossible. None of us are getting in The Good Place: NBC's comedy exposes the impossibility of virtue today 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Whether it was with a band or with a person, Kim was always striving to cultivate raw talent in the bands and people that he believed in ... Friends, colleagues, fans recall Kim Fowley as brash but loving 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z The show’s last three works find him looking more to the past than to the present or the future, and striving, ponderously, for a grand manner. On the Met?s Roof Garden, Sculpture at Play 2011-04-29T13:42:59Z Tom's family is striving and parochial, Shiv says, adding, "You betrayed me." Wins, losses and regrets: It's all part of the game at this "Succession" tailgate party 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z As for the meetings with Trump, scoring a major interview requires “a comfort level” on the part of the elected official, and that’s what he and Brzezinski were striving for. Joe Scarborough defends schmoozing with Trump as ‘the Washington way’ 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Perhaps the rest of the world can't understand the particular striving of the boys in "Hoosiers" surrounded by farmland, processing stalks of sorghum in one scene, which my dad's family also grew. "Hoosiers" and Indiana basketball made me believe 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z It was for middle-class people aspiring to be culturally upper-middle class; my parents were refugees from Hitler’s Europe just striving to be middle class. First Encounters with the Art and Presence of Saul Steinberg 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Since television was invented, scripted dramas and comedies have pitted striving humans against an arbitrary universe for entire seasons without saying as much as is conveyed in 10 minutes of this show. Television Review: ‘Killer Karaoke’ and ‘Wives With Knives’ on Cable 2012-11-21T15:00:00Z He took a scientific approach early on and decided to understand spirits, flavor, color and texture the same way chefs were striving in new ways to understand their ingredients.” The Bartender With a Lab Coat 2013-07-19T21:06:54Z The tenets of the temple are remarkably grounded and rational, striving for “compassion and empathy” as well as “the freedoms of others”. Hail Satan?: the film that will change your mind about satanism 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z That kind of bare-bones intimacy has its charms, but also its limitations; there’s synergy in musicians striving together and using every tool and toy at their disposal. With Stars at Home, a Coronavirus Pop Benefit Scales Down 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z The pressure of being a congressman and of being an expectant father, on top of the anxiety, moodiness, survivor’s guilt and the constant striving for success was too much for Gallego to handle, he said. Ruben Gallego made mental health part of his campaign. Specifically, his own. 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z This is the striving son/bad daddy season of "Breaking Bad," isn't it? Tony Soprano, Al Swearengen, Vic Mackey, Gus Fring 2011-09-19T14:20:00Z It is all about the body image now and striving for something that is not possible. From social media to the catwalk, is fantasy beauty failing young women? 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z This is nowhere more apparent than on Airbnb, where it often seems as though each residence is striving to out-Bulthaup the next. T Magazine: Su Casa Es Mi Casa 2013-05-05T21:00:17Z But this tension between striving to write as one wants and being able to write at all appears as a constant undercurrent in his work. Beach bard 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z So as Francisco and other locals conspire to shut down the tower, it becomes easier to accept Hough’s more melodramatic tics: They’re the product of a writer striving for the clarity of a fable. ‘Dr. Brinkley’s Tower’: million-watt tower versus small Mexican town 2013-01-23T23:39:07Z Less fantastical than Mr. Fellowes’s Escape to New York, the Music to Know festival is striving for a high-fashion flavor befitting the Hamptons. New York Festivals, British Formula 2011-08-04T22:15:27Z They are all together striving for the same idea.” ‘A very not normal life’: Gianandrea Noseda, the NSO’s next music director 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z And the emotional core is still the camaraderie that springs up between the striving, working-class characters. ‘Oliver!’ Returns, With Darker Twists Intact 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z The Neapolitan quartet succeeds in capturing life as lived, the striving female mind, the power of unknowing, the idea that agency within one's fate, not the fate itself, is what truly matters. 'The Story of the Lost Child' is a masterful conclusion to Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Domestic training was retrograde and sexist and took time away from academic striving. “Dinner: A Love Story” 2012-07-26T16:25:00Z The conductor Mark Elder — striving, it seemed, for depth and gravity — drew dark, restrained playing from the orchestra. Review: The Met’s New ‘Samson’ Succeeds Only as Kitsch 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z And in striving for pathos, her singing sometimes turned breathy and tremulous. Music Review: Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-09T23:02:45Z At the close of “Tornado Weather,” a death facilitates a magical escape, which allows Kennedy to display a panoramic view of the town and its messy social — that is to say, human — striving. A Mystery Wrapped in Race, Class and Silence 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z I'm always striving for those moments of honesty, always striving for something better and being a better actor. From "Fargo" to "Dark Winds," Zahn McClarnon keeps perfecting his art – but don't call him an artist 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z “It’s what we are all striving for in every genus,” said Jonathan Pedersen, vice president of sales and business development at Monrovia Nursery, a major wholesale grower. Sunflowers in October? Breeders are racing to develop plants that flower again and again. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Those in the top rung, the Charters, live in super-gated communities where they are “always striving to be exquisite microcosms, testing and honing and curating every texture and thread of their lives.” ‘On Such a Full Sea’: Chang-rae Lee’s vision of a grim future 2014-01-08T23:28:01Z Billy Elliot" mainly a story of individualistic striving, Hall counters, "Billy starts off as an individual but then he takes everybody with him. 'Billy Elliot' author talks about blending politics and artistic aspiration as tour comes to Seattle 2011-03-17T01:40:20Z It's "The West Wing" itself that's striving to feel vital again, in an age when its fantasy version of D.C. politics is dead and gone. "A West Wing Special" review: HBO Max reunion plays handsomely to a hidden audience 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z The striving toward wealth — at least in his younger years — wasn’t about the money per se, but its ability to keep him in the most desirable fashions. Hip-hop was poised to conquer fashion. Why did it stop short? 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z For the autumn 2011 season, designers are striving for that dynamic simplicity. Special Report: Fashion: Streamlining -- With a Whiff of Nostalgia 2011-02-14T17:30:48Z The event, presented by Young Concert Artists, included three works by young men striving for effect beyond their years, as well as two pieces by composers in their twilight, recalling youthful pleasures. Music Review: Benjamin Beilman and Yekwon Sunwoo at Merkin Concert Hall 2012-03-13T21:27:35Z Although, arguably, striving for success is a vulnerable thing too, it’s exposing — but we don’t really have a way of describing ambition or desire as something that is vulnerable. Finally! A nuanced look at hookup culture 2013-03-03T01:00:00Z That sort of reader is, as Lynch puts it, “striving to bridge the distance between self and other and now and then.” The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Even as the Puritans were striving to build an austere theocracy in New England, they were defied by a character named Thomas Morton, whose Merry Mount colonists disported themselves in free-spirited revelry. ‘American Fun’: diligent worker bees vs. party animals 2014-04-02T23:33:12Z I’ve spent every Thanksgiving of my baking lifetime striving to perfect recipes for these three quintessential pies. The Absolute Best Pumpkin, Apple and Pecan Pies for Thanksgiving 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z “One ever feels his two-ness,” he wrote, “an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.” Super Bowl LIII and the soul of Atlanta 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z “They are clearly striving to improve,” says Greene. The Mooncup revolution: ‘People were revolted by what we were doing’ 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z In Bostridge’s performance, it was as if he were constantly striving, through the music, to find a way to speech — to articulate, through a challenging medium, exactly what it was that he meant. Bostridge’s cerebral ‘Winterreise’ reaches through song to speech 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z That striving was at the center of the series, which wraps up this season. "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel": Midge made Susie who she is 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z “I had been striving to be authentic in a world where the choreographic deity, Balanchine, was dead,” she said. Wendy Whelan Says Farewell to City Ballet 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z This is not a younger man’s book, not a book of striving. Hilary Mantel’s Triumphant New Novel Brings Thomas Cromwell Across the Finish Line 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The heart of the series is its charismatic gang of “bad guys” striving to be heroes — Mr. Wolf, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Snake, Mr. Shark and Ms. Tarantula — but failing hilariously time and again. ‘The Bad Guys’ and the Crossroads Its Author Faced 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z The trust is also striving to rebuild the oyster population, which students will be able to examine. At the End of the New Pier 26, a Surprise 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Rather than whipping the score into moments of frenzy, Mr. Gergiev seemed to be striving for breadth and sweep — sometimes with success. Review: A New ‘Flying Dutchman’ Makes Landfall at the Met Opera 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z He also talks about not striving purely for ambition’s sake. How to live well: A handy reading list 2012-12-10T12:45:00Z So little was revealed beyond the need we all have to belong, laid bare in these young women striving for acceptance in a world that grants it on a whim. "Bama Rush" reminded me of my own desperate need to belong 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z At once trippy and pointedly mundane, “Atlanta” played in the space where the indignities of being black and poor meet the indignities of striving to get rich. The Cast of ‘Atlanta’ on Trump, Race and Fame 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z There were few formal touches, and Costelloe seemed to be striving for a celebratory mood despite the early hour of the 9 a.m. show. Tom Ford adds to glitz for London Fashion Week 2011-09-16T11:41:11Z At its core, though, the book is striving for something stronger, and Larsen's ceaselessly lovely prose is matched by his many ambitions. Reif Larsen's 'I Am Radar' transmits narrative magic 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Pretension lies in striving to be who you are not; Deeda, rather, tries to be even more of who she is. T Magazine: Deeda Blair’s Elegance of Conviction 2013-05-31T17:00:11Z Was Warhol the outsider striving to get inside at last? Meet Warhol, Again, in This Brilliant Whitney Show 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Not with naivety, but believing courageously in the face of all the reasons for pessimism, believing in striving for heaven on earth, or peace, or love, or ecstasy or celebration, or any of these things. Edward Sharpe: go wild in the country 2012-07-19T20:00:03Z “Sometimes the ‘good’ people are not so good and sometimes the ‘bad’ people are striving to be good. The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We tore the cover off a city and showed the American dream was dead’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z As the former he encouraged me to compose concert music when everyone else was striving to keep me writing pop songs and for TV. Sir Richard Rodney Bennett 2012-12-26T18:24:33Z “Really, I’ve only been striving to get to the middle class all these years.” Deborah Kass’s ‘Before and Happily Ever After’ Retrospective 2012-10-28T16:28:43Z Among white people striving to announce their wokeness, having read it became a virtuous signifier. "Between the World and Me" transforms a father's letter to his son into a chorus for a people 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z In striving to demonstrate this truth, Emigre deserves our attention. 2010-01-10T04:47:00Z Phillips-Horst said they are striving for an eclectic mix, instead of always choosing books by well-known actors. ‘Celebrity Book Club’ Goes Live 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Soon the opaque, somewhat hapless Arthur is striving with his collaborators to arrive at their docudrama’s narrative. Review: Fiction and Nonfiction Blur in ‘Actor Martinez’ 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z “Talking about it might also help you gain some new understanding or insight or achieve some higher kind of aim that the filmmaker was probably ultimately” striving for. You don’t like violence but want to watch ‘Squid Game.’ These tips can help. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z These paintings convey another aspect of the restless intelligence, always looking, always striving, that permeates and is also given a new sense of order and forthrightness by this marvelous show. Art Review: ?Van Gogh Up Close? at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-02-02T23:27:06Z But the case, and his role in striving to exonerate Leonard, dissipates any privilege he’s initially able to exercise as a white man standing up to injustices visited on Leonard and his neighbors. Got their mojo working: The stars of “Hap and Leonard” discuss the second season’s complex mystery and its brew of social and political commentary 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z So Seneca continued to serve, and to keep silent about the turmoil inside the palace, even while striving to appease his own conscience through his ethical writings. Seneca Could Have Written the Anonymous Times Op-Ed About Trump 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Sunny War, a songwriter from Nashville born Sydney Lyndella Ward, sings about a flawed but striving character — maybe herself — in “No Reason,” from her new album, “Anarchist Gospel.” Karol G and Romeo Santos’s Sensual Goodbye, and 10 More New Songs 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z And though it's a fittingly broad umbrella for an album that brushes against so many genres, it's also something of a mission statement for an artist striving for person-to-person connections. Jon Batiste gives jazz a loose interpretation 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Rothbart says it’s about the beauty of striving for something you can never achieve. Loss and Hope: A Documentary Presents the Flip Side of Hoosiers 2013-04-19T09:45:43Z That striving aspect, the desire to get better, to improve, and to learn new things was a hallmark of the guitar hero. Hair metal forever! 2012-07-22T01:00:00Z The patriarch rarely at home in his striving days, romancing Gloria Swanson among so many others, is only the wise and devoted father here. Jean Kennedy Smith Remembers Growing Up Kennedy 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z In states where government health officials are permitting sleepaway camps to operate, the camps are striving to create quarantine-like conditions, under which children and most staff members remain on the grounds throughout the summer. Summer Camp Kids Are America’s Coronavirus Test Subjects 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Beane — and her family — agreed, and Ferry got to work, striving to accurately reproduce the lavenders, pinks and blues, the dazzling cream lace, the shades of purple and maroon in her hats. Portraits of the hat lady: An artist captures a ‘living legend’ of D.C. on canvas 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z I'm mourning for my city self, its booming energy, its ceaseless striving, its deafening cacophony of sounds, mutterings, that I've grown fond of, that I've integrated into my personal identity. Sex in trees 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z It’s a natural part of these men and women asserting themselves with agency, shattering expectations and bumping up against obstacles in their striving. Smart Watch: “Insecure,” “Disenchantment,” and more top TV picks for this week 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Her pals--whom she depends on for rides because she doesn't drive--are mostly striving Portland area writers who live with the sense they are always "one case of the flu away from eviction." Katherine Dunn has died; the 'Geek Love' author once took the world by storm 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z And unlike other adolescent romps that find their protagonists striving for popularity, the right party or a parent’s car, Morales said, “The quest in this movie is health care — accessible health care.” Natalie Morales Makes Her Directing Debut. Twice. 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z It means “striving” — as in striving to lead a moral life. The Catholic Writer Garry Wills Explores the Quran 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z A-list is not something Reality Weekly is striving for. Reality TV?s Instant Stars Populate a Magazine 2011-11-14T00:10:31Z The musical, which melded an old-fashioned story of immigrant striving with Latin rhythms and rap, began its unlikely path to Broadway in writing that Mr. Miranda did while a student at Wesleyan University. ArtsBeat: Stritch and Miranda Get Last Laughs at Finales of 'Night Music' and 'In the Heights' 2011-01-10T20:57:56Z A new crop of aspiring authors graduates each year from more than 500 creative writing programs across the country, a huge pack of writers all striving to find publishers and readers. Meet the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Can you talk about the tone you were striving for and the way you chose to use humor? The Carpetbagger: For an Israeli Director, the Oscar Ceremony Gets Interesting After It's Over 2012-01-23T15:14:26Z Everyone else striving to sound like now will have to shift gears once the now sound changes. Taylor Swift's '1989': New Album Review 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z It was also the first big concert of this year’s Northside Festival, which is striving to become Brooklyn’s version of the South by Southwest festival in Austin and continues through the weekend. Review: A Reunited Luna Plays Brooklyn’s Northside Festival 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Originally a musical presented by the nonprofit Possibility Project, the film weaves together tales of five teenagers striving for stability in turbulent settings. Review: In ‘Know How,’ Teenagers Portray Their Plight in Foster Care 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z But discomfort and the sense of individuals striving collectively to wring beauty from intractable material is what this work is really about. Prom 18: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Barenboim – review 2012-07-29T10:47:16Z It wasn’t perfect, but was persuasive for generations of people striving for a healthier diet. Adam Liaw: five scientific developments that will change the way we eat 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z The age was cynical, but White’s book is not: He also pays attention to the striving middle- and working-class Americans of neighborhoods, churches and trade unions, who in mostly unsung ways expanded the public good. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Anastasio called the band "rebellious, restless and constantly striving for something more". Abba receive Hall of Fame honour 2010-03-16T08:40:00Z As much as it’s a study of the science of focus, “Attention” is also a snapshot of elite striving. Can Drugs Help Us Focus? Casey Schwartz, You Better Watch Your Speed 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Aspirational reading has its place, but don’t worry about striving to get somewhere else; you are already there. Dear Match Book: Seeking Literary Page-Turners 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z I had the brilliant idea, so I thought, to make a comparison between Consciences's striving for recognition and the aspirations to cultural emancipation of the new minorities in Belgium. Rachida Lamrabet: 'Literature helps when you are trying to form an identity' 2013-03-22T17:57:44Z Huppert is a defiant colonial matriarch striving to keep her family and plantation together. This week's new film releases 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z There was no self-conscious striving for effect because the composer's own voice was kept paramount. Lewis' Schubert recital a thing of rare beauty 2011-05-23T17:16:10Z Yet, this projected information often undermines the reflective, oratorical mood the music and words are striving for. John Adams’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Instead of a polite Cambridge-style euphony and mellifluousness, I was striving for vibrant colours, drama, vigour and passion: the elements I thought were the hallmarks of Monteverdi's musical style. John Eliot Gardiner: Monteverdi and me 2010-09-02T22:01:00Z "But we are striving for something better. We want corporate America to be straightforward and truthful in advertising their products." Florida woman sues Kraft Heinz over microwave time for single-serving mac and cheese 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z They talk about their blessings and talk about atonement, in which old wrongs are righted by asking for forgiveness and striving to become a better person. Jews celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the new year 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Besides, this is a show striving to meet our need to sit, listen and relate as opposed to numbing out. With Uzo Aduba as a therapist, "In Treatment" returns in a sunnier location for a darker time 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z He cited his parents; he said that "Because equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity." I love Joss Whedon, and I’m done with Joss Whedon 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z TV at the time - who was struggling to raise her daughters in an Indianapolis apartment with little help from their father, while striving for a fulfilling personal life of her own. Actress Bonnie Franklin of TV's "One Day at a Time" dead at 69 2013-03-02T02:00:01Z That’s far better than striving for gags, but even historic interpretations allow for comic timing and human interactions, to leaven the consistency. Review | The Washington Ballet awakens with a lavish, triumphant ‘Sleeping Beauty’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z I just did a year-end column on race and got more response, more hopeful striving, than for any column I’ve written. With Tamir Rice decision, Americans must get off the sidelines 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z In “Hard Times,” Mr. Kirwan has not only delivered a knockout entertainment, he’s done a public service, reacquainting us with the Foster songbook and the striving, teeming America for which it was written. Theater Review: ‘Hard Times: An American Musical’ at the Cell Theater 2012-09-21T00:54:23Z Neither a professional photographer nor striving to be, Mr. Newbold is Mr. Jacobs’s personal assistant. The Marc Jacobs Whisperer 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z By massing colours into abstract blocks rather than striving after mere mimesis, the artist offers a self-conscious commentary on the possibilities and limits of watercolour. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z But what resulted from this striving for intimacy is a score that lacks variety. Music Review: Kaija Saariaho’s ‘Émilie’ at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater 2012-07-20T23:33:07Z He recorded in a hurry, embracing mistakes and tossed-off lines while striving for productivity over perfection. Kevin Morby Chases Ghosts, and a New Album, in Memphis 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z They spoke of inspiration and passion, of young minds at work striving to change the world one tapa at a time. In Seville, Spain, young chefs are creating the next generation of tapas 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Padura’s most brilliantly portrayed misfit is a young Jewish painter in Amsterdam, striving for greatness under the tutelage of Rembrandt — only to be driven into exile by doctrinaire rabbis who consider his work transgressive. From a Cuban novelist, the story of mankind’s quest for safe haven 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z "I get on a set with her - and I have been acting since I was 9 - whoa, I am not there yet. I am striving; I am trying." Stars align for Kristen Stewart in quiet corner of film universe 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z Downs said they felt no trepidation about adding yet another title to the long list of entertainments about people striving for stardom. 'Breaking Through' shows seamy side of stoking the star-making machinery 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z He does not mimic the meter or rhyme of the originals, instead striving to capture the spirit of this poetry. Meet MacArthur's new 'genius grant' winners 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Much of my running in exotic places has been in races and, no matter how much I tell myself otherwise, I always end up striving. Jogging in Jordan: the 650km trail that's a journey through time 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z “Through the uncorrupted eyes of a child, she showed us the beautiful complexity of our common humanity, and the importance of striving for justice in our own lives, our communities, and our country. “ Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z To be marginalized, to never quite fit in, even with all her striving, is Sook-Yin’s fate. The Quest for Identity and Independence 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z I believe in striving to raise the human race to the highest plane of social organization, of cooperative work and of effective endeavor. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z It’s a reminder that the upward striving of first- and second-generation Jewish immigrants in the middle decades of the 20th century was accompanied by fervent political idealism. Review: In ‘RBG,’ the Life and Times of a Beloved and Controversial Supreme Court Justice 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z “I thought about trying to be that strict. It’s too hard, but it’s what we’re all striving for: to convey clear meaning in a few gestures.” Martha Graham Dance Tackles New Versions of ‘Lamentation’ 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z That's been due to savvy management, a core band with original members and a constant striving to reinvent themselves with every album. U2 plays Seattle after more than a year delay 2011-06-02T21:35:56Z Michael Carnahan’s set, expanding in grunginess on his earlier version, turns grime into a kind of pulp poetry, from the peeling linoleum to the succulents striving to survive in a barely translucent window. Review: In ‘Skeleton Crew,’ Making Quick Work of Hard Labor 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Right now scores of journalists are doing their jobs in dangerous and under-examined corners of the world and doing them well, striving to shine a light on injustice and hold the powerful to account. Dryuary for TV news: Sober up and start doing your job 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Eunice Johnson, who studied sociology and art at Talledega College in Alabama, wrapped social and economic striving in the soothing embrace of fashion. Review | When black models walking the runway was about more than just the clothes 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z She is still striving, given everything she has experienced, to make the world work the way she hopes it could work. "It's America's genre": Thandiwe Newton defends her land in "God's Country," a modern-day western 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z In hindsight, what made R.E.M. so unique and different from other young bands who were also striving to grow and become a success at the time? R.E.M.'s "Chronic Town" EP at 40: An underground rock release full of mystery and magic 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z Her pandemic project has been “The Storm Before the Calm,” an album of wordless meditation tracks striving for serenity. Drake Looks for Love, Repeatedly, and 9 More New Songs 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z But both curators said the change in the artist's work went beyond reaction to the war, and showed he was striving toward what Matisse called "methods of modern construction." Exhibit looks at enigmatic phase in Matisse's art 2010-03-19T10:29:00Z “The other side of the play is about striving in New York,” he added. A Playwright Makes the Scene in New York’s Living Rooms 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z They squirm and wriggle out of our confining expectations, striving all the while to create new situations. Review | The acclaimed, exasperating sculptures of Rachel Harrison get a star turn at the Whitney Museum 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z That means suspending your feelings about your ex and, if not being effusive with him — probably too much to ask — then striving for something more than merely civil. Perspective | Miss Manners: If he couldn’t pay for dinner, he shouldn’t have offered 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z As for her vision of the Music Center, "I'm not interested in anything that isn't striving for greatness," Moore again emphasizes. A ballerina of the boardroom and activist for the arts -- say hello to the new Music Center CEO 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z “At the end of the day, I’m a professional, a mother, a grandmother, a black woman who is striving for improvement in my community and with my youth, especially with my young men.” A Champion, a Critic, a Therapist: Dyana Williams Is Hip-Hop’s Artist Whisperer 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Such films, Schrader argued, are closer to meditation, “striving towards the ineffable and the invisible”. Need zing in your Zoom? Let Warhol and the avant-garde vamp up your video conferences 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z I was never striving for anything like consistency and I've never put myself in any category in film. Richard Linklater on the enduring appeal of Jesse and Celine 2013-06-15T05:00:00Z The big deceit is that there is a crisp social divide between the striving classes and a minority of subsidised sloths. George Osborne: paying the price of failure 2013-04-02T20:46:29Z It's an integral part of trying to be a grown-up – striving for "adult" things. James Dawson: why teens in books can't swear 2012-07-11T08:03:27Z Even when Holt ran for commissioner and lost out to a stop-and-frisk-happy lug, he and the people who work for him rallied and continued striving to do the right thing. A fond farewell to the "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" hero cops, who are ending this ride along just on time 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The German artists consulted with Civil War veterans, striving for accuracy in the details of uniforms and locations, many of which they visited. A Giant and Long-Contested Civil War Painting Returns to Its Former Glory 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z These are the women Mr. Mouret said he is striving to please, not an insider crowd in search of constant novelty. Is Roland Mouret More Than a One-Hit Wonder? 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z “It’s an opportunity to engage the whole institution and our audience with something that is both fun and informational, which is what we are striving to be.” The Smithsonian Engages in Some Friendly Competition 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z “Mrs. Maisel” depicts all of these outcomes and turns through its characters — through a subplot involving Abe and Rose in Paris, through Joel’s bitter striving and through Midge most of all. Smart Watch: Emmy winner “Mrs. Maisel” is still marvelous in a dazzling season 2 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z There is a good deal of such self-conscious striving for cool. The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness – review 2013-04-20T10:30:01Z What makes it distinctive is its otherworldly, incandescent sound and sinuous oriental-sounding melodies, which give it a sense of ecstatic striving for a world beyond this one. Jonathan Harvey obituary 2012-12-05T21:16:32Z "The Happenings were very casual, striving in a way toward the undramatic," he said. Getty Research Institute gets photos of performance art 'Happenings' 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z She has spent most of her career striving to please the public. Taylor Swift Is a 2017 Pop Machine on ‘Reputation,’ but at What Cost? 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z All of this striving — absurd, tragic, grotesque and beautiful — can feel like too much. Review: ‘The Master,’ From Paul Thomas Anderson 2012-09-13T15:23:48Z The plot features time travel, a character based on the actor Samuel L. Jackson, and, of course, Barry and Joe “striving to right injustice wherever they find it.” Is there such thing as a Joe Biden superfan? 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z One August afternoon, my mother, ever the striving farmwife, had the wives of the local gentry, married to doctors, lawyers and auto execs, over for a luncheon. Looking for Uncle Allan: A queer odyssey 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z In striving to collapse the distance between the distant Greek era — with its formalized conventions — and our more naturalistic theater, Mr. McGuinness drains tragedy of its ritualistic beauty. ‘Electra’ Stars Kristin Scott Thomas at the Old Vic Theater 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z He is also an upright man consciously striving to win Cassie’s heart. “Survivor’s Remorse”: Real comedy that finds honest laughter in pain 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z That he does so without any change of clothes or voice provides this production’s most powerful image of a fixed identity under siege, striving to remain itself. Review: In ‘Boy,’ a Man Deals With Gender Cards He’s Given (Not Born With) 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z If Malick's striving toward a oneness with nature, his great theme, always, strikes you as less than persuasive "The Tree of Life" will not change your mind about America's trippiest major filmmaker. Cannes: Malick's cosmic film debuts — at last — to boos, cheers 2011-05-16T14:17:20Z It is full of people striving to make good decisions to atone for all their bad ones. Homeland gets a reboot for season four – and that's a good thing 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z And Charles Eames is cast as a champion of design humanism for striving to give the seat of his 1956 Lounge Chair “the warm receptive look of a well-used first baseman’s mitt.” Heroes and Villains in the Pantheon of Design 2010-04-25T13:50:00Z I was striving to be selfless, to feed the hungry, to French kiss and grope for ardency without baring my breasts. Holy bodies, holy hungers: Pumping breast milk during the Pope’s pizza party for Mother Teresa 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z Mom called to tell me that, according to my horoscope in the Raleigh News and Observer, in two weeks I’ll get exactly what I’ve been striving for. David Sedaris: The IHOP Years 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z "It's never going to be that utopian, but we'll keep striving for it." TV seems to know what you want to see; algorithms at work 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Instead of striving for effect in life and on the page, let’s aim for the kind of candor she called “friendship.” The Age of Creepiness 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z That he’s striving for a greater cause, and he’s vilified by the press. Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal on the Future of ‘Spider-Man’ and the M.C.U. 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Though the orchestra has never had a female music director, Borda added that she is “not striving to demonstrate a social agenda in this appointment.” A Conductor Considers Her Future 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z In the 1980s, Top 40 radio became more modern, and Manilow stopped striving for hits. Barry Manilow Just Wanted to Write the Songs. He’s Still Singing Them. 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Ultimately, these images remind us of the cruelty embedded in the striving for perfection, aesthetic or otherwise. ‘White on White’ Review: Problematic Images 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z All the cast members here may be striving for a similar, unaffected transparency, but they emerge as wildly disparate individuals of varied talent. Theater Review: ?Early Plays? by O?Neill From Wooster Group at St. Ann?s 2012-02-23T05:07:20Z This bricolage surprisingly coheres by the novel’s end into an authentic expression of a mind striving to comprehend the inexplicable cruelties of the universe and humanity’s most proper response. Review | Eugene Lim’s ‘Search History’ is a pulpish adventure interwoven with meditative moments 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z We live in impatient days when parents attack school boards and rally to get teachers fired for striving to give their students the best education possible. Amazingly, "Abbott Elementary" finds laughter in the challenge of teaching in underfunded schools 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Certainly, at some point many years ago, Coachella-goers must have been striving to capture something they found seductive—maybe the idealism of Woodstock, or the promise of liberty in a remote desert. The Appeal of the Coachella Way of Life 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z He was an unsympathetic Pinocchio, striving even to be a real boy in a real man’s world. “Mad Men” eulogies: Pete Campbell, loathsome creep 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Unlike most, however, he responded by moving to the heartland and making a film about a family farmer striving to build a modest agribusiness empire. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: Ramin Bahrani Goes Big 2013-04-22T17:01:09Z The affinity was natural, Bartlett writes, because of the almost socialist striving for simplicity in her designs. T Magazine: Comrade, That Suit Is So Chanel 2010-12-09T20:47:00Z The characters are middle-class suburban grotesques, their strivings and self-delusions treated with a mixture of compassion and contempt. ‘Bad Tales’ Review: Suburban Dysfunction, Italian Style 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z It was the story of those immigrants, their striving — and how it mirrored Lauren’s own story — that brought tears to his eyes. Ralph Lauren, designer of the American Dream, honored by the Smithsonian Despair, striving, stubbornness, longing and brief glimmers of hope fill his new songs, as they have in the past. New Music: Nathaniel Rateliff and Regina Carter Release Albums 2014-03-31T22:07:29Z But airlines said they were striving to maintain most, if not all, of their international flights to and from the French capital. Strikes Force Travelers to Weave a Tangled Web Through Paris 2010-10-19T14:23:00Z In “Say Nice Things About Detroit,” Mr. Lasser may have been striving to compose an anthem, but has nevertheless wound up with an epitaph. Books of The Times: ‘Say Nice Things About Detroit,’ Scott Lasser’s New Novel 2012-08-28T21:15:58Z Miranda’s Hamilton is always a man of the people, even when he’s striving to establish the nation’s first bank. Why Donald Trump and Jeb Bush should see “Hamilton” 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z He talked about the striving of noncommercial artists. Music Review: Tri-Centric Modeling Event Honors Anthony Braxton 2010-06-21T22:59:00Z “We were striving to achieve ideas about responsibility, about unconditional love, about the unimportance of appearance and communicating on a deeper level.” Melissa Mathison, ‘E.T.’ Screenwriter, Dies at 65 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z In his review in The New York Times, Jon Pareles wrote that the concert was dominated by “hardheaded women and eagerly importunate men in the eternal strivings of young love.” What’s on TV Thursday: Jingle Ball and ‘Con Air’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z More importantly, where does all that striving, fretting, pleasing, pushing get them? Review | Societal expectations? Please. For the female protagonists in these 3 debut novels, it’s time to break the mold. 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z The drivers are class prejudices combined with competitive striving for social status. White women of publishing: New survey shows a lack of diversity behind the scenes in book world 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z She turned to physical therapy, then visited the noted voice coach Ron Browning, who suggested she “stop striving and just be.” Alison Krauss: Vintage Country. Modern Self-Awareness. 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z By that I mean the wine does not seem to be striving to conform to some image of what sauvignon blanc should be. Sip this lively $15 Portuguese white wine with your grilled seafood 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Now their official statement reads: “Every effort should be made to provide caesarean sections to women in need, rather than striving to achieve a specific rate.” The emperor's cut: A C-section saved my life and my baby’s life 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z The sensuousness of the Ravel in which you are always striving to attain a concrete goal, but it always slips through your hands. Jonathan Nott: conducting the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra 2011-08-12T21:55:18Z Jekyll approached gardens as a painter might, striving for an overall effect. Public Gardens Turn on the Charm 2011-06-17T01:45:45Z Iyer is known primarily for his travel writing, his erudite essays on literature, and his wise, restrained accounts of his Buddhist-inflected striving for stillness and contentment. Pico Iyer’s Japanese Love Story, from Spring to “Autumn Light” 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z “He is like a Terminator machine in terms of ceaseless going, going, going, striving, striving, striving,” said Bonnie Reiss, global director of an institute that bears his name at the University of Southern California. He'll be back: why old age can't keep Arnold Schwarzenegger down 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z As a young woman the writer kept a diary, striving to record her life with absolute honesty. Elena Ferrante’s New Novel Is a Suspenseful Story About the Sins of Parents 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Such moments are the price of striving for a new sort of Broadway production, which was the high bar that the creators set for themselves at their first meeting in the winter of 2002. ?Spider-Man? Starts to Emerge From Web of Secrecy 2010-11-23T23:22:00Z On the bright side, Gwyneth thinks that striving for absolute perfection is “misguided.” The pleasures of hate-reading GOOP 2013-04-27T17:00:00Z In seven decades of striving, Clinton failed to win a game that was often rigged against her, often based on the fickle definitions of likability, personality and something akin to possessing the Holy Spirit. Review | Hulu’s ‘Hillary’ turns a tale of defeat into a personal history of modern feminism 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z It’s not simply about the decline of one very good athlete; it’s about us ordinary, striving, supposedly competent Joes failing, conclusively, right before our own eyes. Philip Roth’s retirement lesson 2013-02-12T12:39:00Z But today the pursuit of thinness is wrapped in a mantra about striving for strength, calm and confidence. Perspective | The SoulCycle and Equinox controversy hits close to home — because they’re selling an idealized version of you 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Palin’s Thackeray advises the viewer to buckle up for a trip to “a world where everyone is striving for what is not worth having.” Amazon’s New “Vanity Fair” Turns Becky Sharp Into an Endearing, Plucky Go-Getter 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Witty, sensuous and desiring, but shunning what Ulrich calls “appetitive” striving, the siblings represent a particularly vibrant experiment in living at a time when few such options remain. ‘The Man Without Qualities’ Acquires a New Volume 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z And through her we live these characters struggling and striving, and watch ambitions realized and painfully thwarted in ways that boldly expand on the stories established in the first season. Smart Watch: "Killing Eve," still slaying in season 2 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Jonathan Moore's production functions more successfully as a straightforward gangland caper than when striving to frame the action as a spiritual parable with a window into the fourth dimension. Faith and Cold Reading ? review 2011-02-16T18:20:31Z Instead, hope that studios become brave enough to ask her and others striving to become known names to pitch stories we haven't seen before, and nurture their originality. "The Nevers" is proof that cancel culture isn't really canceling the right people 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z He was facing facts, in a sense, being more honest, striving for his truth. George Saunders's Humor 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z You can be striving for this thing that seems unattainable, but you are constantly striving. "Jockey" star Clifton Collins Jr. on "catching the magic" working with horses despite phantom pains 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Though I understand I might be coming off as formulaic, I can easily say, as someone still striving to understand what it means to create a good character, none of this is seamless. Dungeons and Dragons: My dorky literary muse 2012-12-08T16:00:00Z And instead of striving for invisibility, he shared his life story in front of church congregations. Scott Thorson, The Boy Toy’s Story 2013-05-10T21:40:24Z Guest conductor Cristian Macelaru says, “Having all these incredibly talented, accomplished artists joining forces, striving for the same goal and going in the same direction, is a beautiful thing.” Weekend preview: 5 ways to escape Christmas craziness 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z On the outside, I’m striving for thinness, perfection and control. Perspective | It’s dangerous to ignore eating disorders in men. I know why firsthand. 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Nowadays, after so much striving, Lyles Station clings to an existence somewhere between history and oblivion, protagonist and museum piece. For the people of Lyles Station, Ind., a trip to the African American Museum lets them witness their legacy 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z The satisfaction in physical striving isn’t exclusive to biking, and there’s nothing wrong with gyms or fitness competitions. You’re thinking about fitness all wrong 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The parents, who seem to be striving members of China’s new middle class, weep openly at their failure to control their sons. ‘Web Junkie’ Examines Internet Addiction in China 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z In other words, for all our striving, we’re not being particularly effective at electing female leaders compared to other countries. U.S. Women Leadership Ranking is Pathetic Compared to Other Countries 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z In an interview at a friend’s studio in Los Angeles, Skrillex, whose real name is Sonny Moore, said he was striving to keep his sudden fame in perspective. Skrillex to Play at Webster Hall and Roseland 2012-01-26T23:36:04Z He’ll keep striving for the right format, but he couldn’t help but feel that the show not connecting was ultimately his fault. What Was the Problem With ‘Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas’? 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z If so, how I must be striving to not be annihilated by Paris, which I find overwhelming. Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XII 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z But rather than choose stridency and suppression as her show’s thematic thrust, Sherman-Palladino opts for a sincere form of big-city sass and striving. Review | Yes, she’s a little too on-the-nose, but ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ earns her title 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z "The Pugilist at Rest," published in 1993, was a finalist for the National Book Award and its stories of violence and spiritual striving led to comparisons to Norman Mailer and Raymond Carver among others. Thom Jones, author of 'The Pugilist at Rest,' dead at 71 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Ultimately, getting plantains right is about more than striving for perfection, even though I admittedly spent years trying to get those starchy rounds to taste like my grandmother's. Why a simple plantain press Is my most treasured kitchen tool 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z But in striving to reveal its monumental and harrowing qualities, Mr. Toradze sometimes sounded halting and labored. Review: In ‘Folk, Form, and Fire,’ Hosting a Party of Five for Prokofiev 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Even as these stories make history more accessible to mainstream audiences, they’re refusing to whitewash the grim realities, striving instead to demolish the traditional narrative. A powerful symbol of resistance, the Underground Railroad inspires a wave of books, plays, TV and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The musketeers are not striving to cut corners: Josue says the orchestra for the D.C. performances will number about 30 and the cast will be about as large. ‘Noli Me Tangere’ Filipino opera will tell moving tale at Kennedy Center Ms. Walley-Beckett and the show’s producers are striving for authenticity; the series will be shot in New York City. ArtsBeat: Dresden Ballet Dancer Wins Lead Role in New Starz Series 2014-01-27T05:09:38Z Nevertheless, “Glass” brought him back to a familiar place — striving to reconcile his commercial success with a mixed reputation. M. Night Shyamalan says bad reviews of "Glass" made him cry 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z The coveted managerial positions—the ne plus ultra of workplace striving—come with the expectation of hours that are fundamentally inimical to the sustenance of health, romantic love, or the raising of children. The Office Politics of Workplace Fiction by Women 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z These women who talk with a broad “ah” and curse a lot are working-class heroines, striving to better themselves — despite smothering families, loser boyfriends and dead-end jobs. The TV Watch: The Wahlberg Family Business Grows With ‘Breaking Boston’ 2014-03-12T21:09:49Z But the fact is, despite the air of philosophical pretension, there is a winning sense of a young man striving to upturn the idea that dance music is about Nothing But the Beat. New band of the day – Robert DeLong (No 1,449) 2013-02-11T16:52:59Z If Shakespeare were still around churning out histories, he could do worse than to write a play about Hillary, a heroic character who wears the tragic flaw of her strident striving on her sleeve. “Political Animals”: Hillary Clinton gets her starring role 2012-07-12T17:50:00Z All this striving is getting in the way of living, Barbara Ehrenreich argues in “Natural Causes” — and it’s making dying more painful and humiliating than it needs to be. Barbara Ehrenreich Urges Us to Accept, Accept the Dying of the Light 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z The sky's the limit for a scene that doesn't fear failure because it is not striving for mainstream notions of success. Zebra Katz, Mykki Blanco and the rise of queer rap 2012-06-08T23:06:00Z And she was always striving to be perfect. ‘It was like being buried alive’: battle to recover from chronic fatigue syndrome 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z If it does not seem “great,” perhaps this is because he was not striving to compose masterpieces in the manner of a Beethoven. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z Just when he was most conflicted about money digging, most intent on becoming worthy to marry the woman he needed, most striving to be worthy to receive the plates, Joseph stood accused of pretending. The Book of Mormon’s foggy origins 2012-08-12T16:01:00Z The town is also striving to preserve historic landmarks, like the glass-domed courthouse, which celebrates its centennial this summer with outdoor concerts and a Fourth of July dedication ceremony. Surfacing: Redwood City, Calif., Gets New Restaurants and Shops 2010-05-28T14:33:00Z Yet the rambling, uncertain tone engendered by Ms. Sichel’s striving to align her Buddhist beliefs with the harsh realities of terminal illness also weakens her story’s gravitational pull. Review: ‘A Woman Like Me,’ About Grappling With Terminal Illness 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The target is herself — her innocence, her naïveté, the way in which striving to be flawless is perhaps the ultimate flaw. Taylor Swift Is a 2017 Pop Machine on ‘Reputation,’ but at What Cost? 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Cromwell’s ambition, though, isn’t the usual bourgeois striving but a kind of displaced revenge against his own powerlessness. 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Cromwell, the Nobody Who Gets Things Done 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z And then consider the fact that these countries are striving hard to match the American lifestyle. Carmeggedon is coming! 2012-08-23T15:35:00Z A week later, I slinked into a pew at the back of a Spiritualist church service, striving for anonymity and expecting fraudulence. Love, sex and death: What my fiancé’s death taught me about the afterlife 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z At the heart of “The Farm” are four women through whom Ramos creates a group portrait of female striving, for survival, for status, for purpose. A Novel About Surrogacy, Set at a ‘Farm’ Where the Crop Is Human Babies 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Eventually it dawned on me: I wasn’t just visiting oddball attractions; I was witnessing a region striving to reinvent itself. Germany’s Ruhr valley beckons with converted coal mines and a unique industrial heritage 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Williams’s character gives him a copy of The Call of the Wild, and it’s fitting—Naz, who feels things more deeply than he’s equipped to articulate them, is striving to be less human. Review: 'The Night Of' Tells a Powerful Story of Injustice 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z In response, destinations, tour operators and even film and TV production companies are striving to offer ever more experiential ways for people to engage with their favorite fictional worlds. For $18,500 (and Up), You, Too, Can Travel Like James Bond 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z That striving, she said, “bears repeating in all of my work.” The Carpetbagger: Carey Mulligan and the Play That Is 'Shame' 2012-01-11T20:00:10Z Beyond that fact that they were “natural born killers,” she said, and that they were striving for immortality, she couldn’t come up with anything to write besides that they were courageous. What About the Heroine’s Journey? 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z "Refund," Bender's first books of stories, is organized around the theme of money and the stresses, strivings and moral lapses it engenders. 'Refund' burrows into what's right, wrong about 21st century America 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z It comes from wanting to live in a society that is striving to be a just one. Arundhati Roy faces arrest over Kashmir remark 2010-10-26T12:33:00Z The Andante meandered with a weird pallor, while the finale's eventual collapse was all the more horrid for the desperation of its earlier strivings. RLPO/Petrenko ? review 2011-03-08T18:29:52Z Instead of reaching for golden apples, Du Bois encouraged Atlanta to establish and support universities that promote democratic ideals of “truth,” “freedom” and “broad humanity,” while striving to “Teach thinkers to think.” Super Bowl LIII and the soul of Atlanta 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z But there's something to be said for the host striving to be forgettable on a night that was predicted to be memorable for many reasons. How the Academy Awards managed to be both uplifting and disappointing -- everything, all at once 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z “There’s a tradition here of older actresses being actresses and not striving to pretend they’re young,” she said. Fancying Prewar Hats Instead of the Fast Lane 2011-01-04T00:57:36Z All of a sudden, there’s an almost unnatural silence, as if a soundproof curtain has fallen, shutting off the grinding, shouting and striving of the 21st century. The other London underground: See the ancient city that lies beneath the modern metropolis 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Alejandro has travelled all over Mexico, gathering recipes and cooking techniques using unusual ingredients such as iguana, wild mussels and goat, striving for new interpretations of old recipes and methods. Eat up some Mexican culture 2010-12-11T00:07:08Z The son of Yemeni-born parents, Amir is shown as a striving law student with a chip on his shoulder. ‘Incitement’ Review: A Tense, Angry Reckoning With an Assassination 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Much of the story takes place while Ollie is striving to set her life right. ‘Little Woods’ Review: Life Is Thicker Than Blood 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z This is Greenmount West, a community striving to put distance between itself and its portrayal in one of television’s most indelible dramas: The Wire. ‘Progress is painfully uneven’: Baltimore, 15 years after The Wire 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Among those striving to find solutions is landscape architect Kate Orff, founder of the New York studio Scape. AD Innovator: Kate Orff 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z By bringing in cameras, she says, she also ceded any chance of capturing police corruption or crimes in progress, so she instead sought subjects who were striving to improve the city. A film about the police and the ‘policed’ in Baltimore makes a run for the Oscars 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z In the 1990s, books dedicated to addressing puberty straightforwardly were published in greater numbers, striving to present the subject in a scientifically accurate manner and also to address its tricky psychological dimensions. Boys Puberty Book is Pulped After Aging Badly 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Wolff blames the “striving, orderly, result-oriented, liberal world and its media,” including this newspaper, for missing the point about Trump. Two Accounts of Donald Trump’s Final Year in Office, One More Vivid and Apt Than the Other 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z She says striving toward increased “purity” is a mechanism of exercising control. Could social media’s ‘healthy food’ focus be contributing to a little-known eating disorder? 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Players try to recreate that heartening high school or college feeling of winning through teamwork, while also striving to stay extra-noticeable as individuals. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Lucas Mann Talks About 'Class A' 2013-05-16T19:00:06Z At the same, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, in striving to diversify its historically white and male membership, has in recent years welcomed waves of new international members. Signaling a shift, ‘Drive My Car’ rides into the Oscars 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z There was a time when Ben Affleck was a bad joke, and the epitome of plastic careers striving to sustain the doomed American film business. David Thomson on Ben Affleck 2010-04-15T21:20:00Z Javier and Gloria run a legitimate, healthy business, striving to remain in the system’s good graces by providing employment opportunities and paying taxes. "Party of Five" reboots the '90s classic with a family orphaned by deportation 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z A centuries-old tree in Martinique witnesses generations of resistance, striving and social collapse in this novel by the island’s foremost postcolonial writer, who died in 2011. New & Noteworthy, From Sex to Murder 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z But the mere fact that I think about this as often as I do, and that I'm striving to maintain a health and happiness says to me that it it's a tricky business. Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto give voice to the prickly friendship of authors "Truman & Tennessee" 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z To avoid the attrition that afflicts many New York kitchens, she’s striving for a steadier method of compensation. Amanda Cohen Replants Her Vegetable Restaurant Dirt Candy 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z And, from that sense of striving, a whole set of values flows. The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z “When you’ve seen an existence like Jen has, up close, it makes you think hard about what you thought you were striving for in exposure.” Natalie Dormer: ‘Female empowerment shouldn’t be only about sexuality' 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Because even though I've been doing this for 30 years, I'm always learning and I'm always striving to learn. "I bake for every emotion" — Zoë François on finding connection through cake 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Girls who work don't stop working, never stop striving and that burning hope never seemed to leave Williams. Cindy Williams, a role model for working class girls 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Her parents, both teachers, were striving and selfless members of that city's black bourgeoisie. 'Extraordinary, Ordinary People': Condoleezza Rice's incomplete tale 2010-10-13T00:01:00Z Everything I’ve done hasn’t been great, but I was always striving for greatness. Chris Rock Tried to Warn Us 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z The performers made fierce efforts to prepare in the months before shooting began, striving to approximate mid-19th-century speech and specific dialects. How ‘Mr. Turner’ director Mike Leigh, actor Timothy Spall brought a great artist to life 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z The important thing was the constant striving toward something new and invigorating. Perspective | Karl Lagerfeld didn’t have a signature design — but he invented a new kind of designer 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Not so fast, warns Thomas Wriothesley, one of the upwardly striving young men Cromwell nurtures as a protege. Review | ‘The Mirror and the Light’ is a masterful finale to Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Steinem was impressed by her all-female Vice crew, too, whom she saw as emblematic of a generation striving not against what is, but toward what can be. Gloria Steinem Brings Feminism to Vice TV 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z They cajole, threaten and otherwise torment the striving beauties with whatever is handy — last season a contestant with bipolar disorder killed herself after her handler tampered with her mood-stabilizing medication. On ‘UnREAL,’ Constance Zimmer Leans In to Darkness 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z But he said he’s just striving to be a good person and treat all people with respect. Vince Gill weighs hard truths with emotional depth on ‘Okie’ 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z And part comes from the way he conveys what happened to him — passionately working and striving, deferring gratification, waiting to live, learning to die — so well. Review: In ‘When Breath Becomes Air,’ Dr. Paul Kalanithi Confronts an Early Death 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Community life, neighbourliness, modest striving, a sense of life as a mishmash of experiences rather than an ornate tapestry, are upheld by him. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z And the opera world was striving for more authenticity in its stagings of "Porgy and Bess." Gershwin classic 'Porgy and Bess' to take stage at Seattle Opera 2011-07-24T02:05:27Z It was also a contest of tongues: two mellifluous men, each striving to outdo the other in enunciating the high-flown melodies of Tolkien talk. Postscript: Christopher Lee 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z But instead of striving to faithfully record someone’s recipe, as she does in other books, she has taken the creative license to tweak them to suit herself. Traveling the World for Recipes, but Always Looking for Home 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z In recent years, cosmetic adornments have become quite popular among a certain set of men, often millennial or younger, who are striving to project less conventional ideas of gender. How to Create Two Minimal Makeup Looks for Men — or Anyone 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z In this performance, rather than striving to capture the exotic qualities of the music or summoning veiled sounds and hazy textures, Mr. Temirkanov and his players told stories in music. Music Review: Finding the Soul of Russia Everywhere 2011-04-15T23:00:14Z "We want to be ahead of the game and striving to break new ground in finding ways of stabilising advertising revenue in the future." S4C to stop ads during children's TV 2013-12-20T15:16:02Z At the same time, this is what you've been striving to achieve for years. Joel Kim Booster on his radically transparent comedy, critiques and "the Bechdel test of it all" 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z From the muscular serenity of its opening bars, the Seventh is a triumph: its proportions are shapely, its themes striving and memorable, its moods convincingly trenchant or painfully vulnerable. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z So I decided to start striving at matrimony, too. Modern Love: Embracing Marriage, Flaws and All 2012-01-26T21:45:54Z At 41, he is striving to become a man of influence. The Would-Be Prince of Port-au-Prince 2011-07-17T04:45:24Z “His dad was my favorite actor and I think he’s striving enormously to be the kind of artist his dad was,” Bernthal said. Michael Gandolfini and the Riddle of Tony Soprano 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Maybe the quirky A24 film about a multiverse-jumping mother striving to finally connect with her daughter — and busting some martial arts moves along the way — would make some money. When Best Picture Winners Overcome a Release Early in the Year 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Both, for him, are incidental to tales of striving, self-improvement and overcoming a rough past, delivered with a cutting rasp and fast, complicated meter shifts. ArtsBeat: Bonnaroo: Kendrick Lamar and Rappers With Vocal Bite 2012-06-08T17:28:53Z Just what any other shallow, striving 21st-century American man would be likely to do: make more money, have more sex and write a book, though not quite in that order. | 'Limitless': A Simple Prescription for Superior Powers 2011-03-17T21:59:56Z Though “Problem Areas” opened each episode with shorter, in-studio segments where Cenac could be loose and lighthearted, his field pieces presented him as a more open-minded interviewer who was not necessarily striving for punch lines. What Was the Problem With ‘Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas’? 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z “When I started, we were striving to be marginal,” she said in a phone interview about the institution she has led since 1998. Jill Medvedow, Who Remade ICA Boston, to Depart 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z The vengeful rejected lover of “21” has moved on; at 27, she is already mourning lost youth and striving for deeper connection. The Best Albums of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z After school, he worked in retail for several years while striving to launch his creative practice. The Artist Who Dreamed Up a Kaleidoscopic Basketball Court for London’s Canary Wharf 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z My grandfather delivered bread by horse and wagon to the working-class Jewish community on the Westside, then Savannah’s shtetl of striving Eastern European immigrants. My Search for Lost Time in a Slice of Jewish Rye 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z The attractions of Kierkegaard — his severity and wit, the force of his rhetoric, his defense of the individual and the example of his solitary spiritual striving — survive even a middling biography. The Life of a Philosopher for Whom Life Was the Main Question 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Yet, in striving for grandeur, the ponderous sometimes prevailed. Music Review: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-02-04T23:37:45Z He writes of striving to establish friendly relationships with the other inmates on his floor and shows them generosity by offering them provisions from his outsized commissary. The Screwball Poetry of Lil Wayne’s Prison Diary 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Nothing’s tied up in a fine bow at the end; that’s not what I’m striving for. Kandis Williams Envisions Dancing Bodies Without Borders 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Is the stress of urban striving shredding your nerves? | 'Maple and Vine': ?Maple and Vine? at Playwrights Horizons - Review 2011-12-08T03:01:15Z Always, the endpoint is California, “this endlessly striving state at the end of America, where everyone was always going somewhere, and fast.” From Digging for Gold to Drinking It, in a Novel of American Striving 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z In partnering with the tennis association, Armory Off-Site is striving to reach people who may be unfamiliar with the annual Armory Show, said Nicole Berry, the Armory Show’s executive director. U.S.T.A. and the Armory Show to Bring 5 Artists to the U.S. Open 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z I am extremely grateful to projects like this which are striving to gather information before it slips from our collective memory. Women of the woods, come forward! Your place in history awaits 2012-06-07T09:00:00Z Yet, in striving for beautiful sound, the chorus was often lax about projecting words clearly. Bryce Dessner Debuts 'Black Mountain Songs' at BAM 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z I admire your striving for perfection, but do you think that given your early success that you have to keep proving yourself. "We never wanted to be teen heartthrobs": A-Ha lead singer on the band's longevity and "Take On Me" 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z The rehab information was divulged through a publicist who requested “privacy and sensitivity” for the actor, the same goal he’s been striving for, to little avail, throughout his career. Why Jon Hamm Can't Escape Don Draper 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z While he regularly recognized the various ways the country had failed to live up to its ideals, he remained convinced that the goal was to keep striving to attain them. Jon Stewart, defender of American values: How comedians are redefining patriotism now 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Women artists of the time were striving for more representation in museums, galleries and academia, and their efforts were met with resistance from the art world establishment, Ms. Grossman recalled. Fifty Years Post Roe v. Wade, the Art of ‘1973’ Frames a Turbulent Era 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Gad said the film was not a documentary, and that particularities of wardrobe mattered less than its striving for truth. Steve Jobs depicted with 'love and respect', say new film's co-stars 2013-01-31T21:07:16Z Deas brought an introspective power to his singing, never striving for effect or the stentorian bellowing that baritones are sometimes prey to. PostClassical brings warmth and sensuality to an all-Bach concert at Dumbarton Church This results in a story of shallow people, striving for not all that much, in an implausible world. From ‘Frankenstein’ to Nora Roberts in 200 Years 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z “The First” depicts people striving to be noble, and, in the depiction, aims to ennoble the viewer, osmotically. “The First,” Reviewed: Sean Penn’s Mission to Mars Is Futurism with a Nostalgic Bent 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Coates, however, writes about his lack of income in order to narrate a feeling that many working class and ethnic Americans striving for careers in the arts likely recognize: Ta-Nehisi Coates blazes a singular intellectual path in 'We Were Eight Years in Power' 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the humor, pathos, and communitarian striving so well captured in All Together and Best Exotic Marigold Hotel will continue to play out in real life, here and abroad, where it really counts after all. Can old age still have a happy ending? 2013-02-07T23:17:00Z In “Notes on the Cinematograph,” Bresson’s scattered, collected musings on filmmaking, the director writes of striving to remove any signs of mental activity from his performers; he wanted to capture the “automatism of real life.” Want to Try a Robert Bresson Film? Look to Clint Eastwood 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z This time around, Hondo is an LA-born African American striving to uphold the law and connect his multiethnic team with the community it serves. ‘S.W.A.T.’ dives into Black, police conflict in season debut 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Yet a handful of new contenders is striving to disrupt the vacation rental market by targeting specific kinds of travelers, be it families with children or jet-setters seeking luxury villas and airport transfers by helicopter. Giving Airbnb a Run for Its Money 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z That little black box and misting makeup shooter are addictive, especially for overachievers who can’t resist striving for perfect skin. Skin Deep: A Magic Wand to Make Skin?s Flaws Disappear 2010-06-09T19:06:00Z This theme runs throughout all of Bush’s work, with the acknowledgment that although pain cannot be escaped, a striving for a more nourishing kind of existence can be attained. Kate Bush's Explores Nature on 50 Words For Snow 2011-11-22T16:55:18Z Mr. Williams is striving for a kind of total consciousness of what goes into making his photographs and this exhibition, intimating but never truly encompassing the extent of their lavishly entwined realities. ‘Production Line of Happiness’ Is a ‘Making Of’ Special 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z In point of fact, I communed with it even more meaningfully this time, and not merely because of the stagecraft or the sentimental pull of a theater world striving to be whole again. Review | ‘Six’ is the pulse-quickening pleasure trove that Broadway has been waiting for 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Cloaked in the garb of realism, these striving children are as much figures of fantasy as Luke Skywalker or Harry Potter. True Grit Review: Trading the Dude for the Duke
2010-12-22T19:25:00Z But the striving toward stuff, and more stuff, foreshadows a shift in hip-hop fashion that Jenkins depicts with a note of melancholy. Hip-hop was poised to conquer fashion. Why did it stop short? 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z "Let us pray," he said, "that we will turn away from violence — and keep striving to find peaceful strategies to deal with conflict and disagreement." Russia's war on Ukraine: 'Babies and children pay the highest price' 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z I believed what Chris was striving to do was brave, laudable and unique, however I completely understand his frustration at not being able to achieve the full extent of his vision. Wheeldon departs ballet company 2010-02-26T11:16:00Z Besides, striving for beauty is ultimately a rational choice in a world that values it so highly, and converting that pressure into fun or communal experiences is its own form of resistance. ‘I Feel Pretty’ and the Rise of Beauty-Standard Denialism 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z More relevant than ever … George Orwell, who saw the writer as a free individual striving for objective truth. George Orwell back in fashion as Prism stokes paranoia about Big Brother 2013-06-11T17:08:01Z Walter White, no more than any of us, does not have a good guy and a bad guy in his head striving for victory. Is Heisenberg Dead? Walter White and the Light-Switch Theory of Morality 2013-09-24T16:44:50Z His was not an open-armed celebration of American independence and the country’s raucous striving to fulfill its promise. Perspective | Trump got his crowd and his fireworks, and peddled his fiction 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z “At the Brooklyn Museum, we are striving to be more intentional and inclusive of artistic excellence in all of New York City’s major populations. The playing field is becoming fairer.” Museums Change Their Approach to Showing White Male Artists 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The academy was striving for “empathy,” she added, and “asking people to put themselves in someone else’s shoes.” Representation Among BAFTA Nominees Improves After Changes 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Perhaps Mr. Mehta was striving to draw dark, weighty Brahms playing from the orchestra. Music Review: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Visits Carnegie Hall 2014-03-21T21:42:06Z A hardy few dozen remained in place for the entire performance, striving to emulate the intense concentration the players were mustering. Music Review: Ne(x)tworks Quartet Plays Feldman?s Six-Hour Work 2010-04-12T22:43:00Z For O’Keefe, striving to be his best self meant finally seeing that there was more to him than what he saw in the mirror. A hidden epidemic: Eating disorders in the gay community 2014-03-02T00:00:00Z The resulting piece takes in the pressure on young adolescent swimmers, the striving for perfection, and the price of giving up their lives for sporting success. This week's new theatre 2011-01-01T00:05:46Z The performers’ valiant striving for nuance notwithstanding, “Closet Land” is a rather single-minded piece; it is also one that explores familiar territory. ‘Closet Land’ is courageous and uncomfortable, but also predictable 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Not in Arbour’s view; if you’re not constantly striving to meet those punishing standards, then the world has somehow gone to hell in a politically correct handbasket. “Dear Fat People” shlock-vlogger freaks out over Ashley Graham’s Sports Illustrated cover: “Barbie had to look like she eats cheeseburgers to make feminists happy” 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z It would be easy to laugh too about the more established middle classes in Tunbridge Wells, striving for individuality and trying so hard not to be seen to be trying too hard. TV review: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry 2012-06-12T22:15:01Z “A landscape that is vibrant with wildlife and striving for an aesthetic approach as well.” A model of modern sustainable agriculture – with a nudge from Thomas Jefferson 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The score by Andrew Lippa, best known as the composer of the off-Broadway "Wild Party," is eclectic, striving to giving each character his or her unique sound. 'The Addams Family' mines macabre musical comedy 2010-04-08T23:05:00Z By striving to accommodate these disparate points of view, the National gets what all bands want and few achieve, a sound of its own. The National Agenda 2010-04-23T13:00:00Z Mussolini’s ersatz populism and propagandistic imagery set the stage for the decades after the war, when the romanticization of everyday Italians who were striving to build up their lives and nation became increasingly expansive. 10 Under-the-Radar Art Shows to See Now 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z In her introduction, Romm, who is in her early forties, writes about her sense, as a young woman, that “striving and achieving had to be approached delicately or you risked the negative judgment of others.” The Infantilizing Ways We Talk About Women’s Ambition 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The marketers at H & M are striving for similar currency. Add Festival Season to the Fashion Calendar 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z In a world of striving, the idea of contentment is suspect. Review | A popular blogger ponders a simpler life in ‘Enough’ 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The idea, Mr. Wachner said in opening remarks, came from Trinity’s “striving for excellence.” Music Review: Twelve in 12, Trinity Wall Street’s Concerts at One 2012-09-10T04:15:05Z He was 19 and striving to create some sort of home in the one-bed council flat he'd moved into in order to gain a bit of independence away from his mum. Family life: Grandparents raising a glass, seeing my brothers again and Auntie Sue's gherkin soup 2013-07-13T06:15:00Z Nick Offerman from Parks and Recreation, the satirical US series about an Indiana town’s parks department in which he played Ron Swanson, the libertarian, anti-government boss striving to make his department as ineffective as possible. Nick Offerman: 'Trump is about to be presented with a gory butcher's bill' 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z In commentaries he explained that he was striving for cool, uninflected, more objective music, and likened the piece to “tonal masses” that are “sculptured in marble.” Music Review: Philharmonic Opens Russian Stravinskyat Avery Fisher Hall 2010-04-22T22:10:00Z Early dramatic auditions found her striving for wrenching emotion but inspiring something else. Television: J D Souther, Lucy Punch and Others in New Series 2012-11-14T21:41:30Z In his own kitchen, he is partial to roasting chickens, striving to master the classic French omelet. Ebon Moss-Bachrach Gives ‘The Bear’ Its Abrasive Edge 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z But in striving for such breadth in the phrasing and pacing, especially during the first movement, Mr. Jurowski sacrificed some precision and clarity. Music Review: Vladimir Jurowski and London Philharmonic Orchestra - Review 2011-12-10T00:28:17Z You just keep going, keep striving and struggling and saying yes, even though you might be a little afraid. Christian Slater: Harrison Ford smooched me at the Golden Globes 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Songzhuang rode that high tide to become a global center of artistic achievement and striving. | A Weekly Arts Column: A City Where Chinese Artists Hope to Strike Gold 2010-10-08T15:27:00Z He is very much a servant of the music, so when he’s demanding on the stage, he inspires the musicians to want the exact same level of perfection that he’s striving for. ‘A very not normal life’: Gianandrea Noseda, the NSO’s next music director 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z The ideal academic setting for many is one in which striving after truth is the first and most important responsibility of scholars. What makes the ideal university? Six values that power higher education at its best 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z As Rosita waits for the mail, striving to ignore temporality, the flowers tended by her green-thumbed uncle symbolize time and aging. Review | Drama and momentum are in short supply in ‘Doña Rosita’ at GALA Hispanic Theatre 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z For many Americans, work has become an obsession, and long hours and endless striving something to aspire to. Young People Are Going to Save Us All From Office Life 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Can you blame a TV executive such as Zucker for doing his job — striving for the highest possible ratings and profits? Jeff Zucker’s singular role in promoting Donald Trump’s rise 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z The couple spent the rest of the afternoon racking up points for each riddle and dare they polished off, striving to achieve a perfect score of 240. The Getaway: Let’s Play: Making Travel a Game 2013-05-31T18:13:13Z The vocal performances on tracks like “What Is This Voice” and “Don’t Put Me in Red” are deliciously fragile and imperfect, which Rubinos found refreshing after years of striving for perfection. How Xenia Rubinos Freed Herself on a New Album, ‘Una Rosa’ 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, he will keep eking out his Banville books in the hope of writing what he is striving for -- the perfect novel. Writer Banville enjoys new lease on life as Black 2011-07-12T21:04:27Z And I feel his influences in the sense that he was always really striving for beauty and for beautiful handwork. Simone Rocha on the Importance of Comfortable Shoes 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Because Generation Z and a slice of millennials are more likely to drop and add streaming services in pursuit of tempting new shows, media companies are striving to give customers what they want this fall. Fall TV season serves up what viewers want: sci-fi, fantasy 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Yet his vision, confronting the grandest and deepest matters of memory and intimacy, pain and striving, family and work and art, bursts national boundaries—he has made Wiener-Dog of the world. Todd Solondz’s Exquisite, Imperfect “Wiener-Dog” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Eno seems to be striving for a contemporary co-mingling of despair and wonder, and a revelation of the underlying interconnections between people and place that coalesced in the poetic sphere of “Our Town.” ‘Middletown’ at ACT: A little Thornton Wilder, a little Beckett 2013-09-09T21:26:13Z How lovely to believe that striving is rewarded. Perspective | Fashion Week celebrated what it means to dream — culminating in this one moving Marc Jacobs moment 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z That followed a performance of the opening number from the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton,” whose story of striving and self-reliance mirrored the themes of Mr. Lamar’s songs. Kendrick Lamar Sweeps Rap Field at Grammys; Taylor Swift Wins Best Album 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z In the wake of Mr. Epstein’s death, attention now turns to the woman often accused of being his enabler, the striving socialite daughter of a disgraced billionaire. Whatever Happened to Ghislaine Maxwell’s Plan to Save the Oceans? 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z As for God, I blame my misguided parents and their commie past, something, now that I am surrounded by God-knowing people, I am striving to overcome. Notes from a trailing spouse: Drunk in Ireland and fearing for fabulists everywhere 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z That sequence, he said, might be an encouraging indicator of a story that is striving for contemporary relevance. ‘Dark Knight III: The Master Race’ Comic Book Prompts Reflection and a Look Ahead 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z The spokesman, Morgan Durrant, said that Delta is reviewing the episode and remains committed to striving to “accommodate all customer needs.” Testing Autism and Air Travel 2012-10-28T04:47:23Z I cannot imagine eating in a place with service like that, no matter how good the food is......which is apparently what SP is striving for. The Best Comes in a Bun at Salvation Burger and Spotted Pig 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Rather than striving for pristine clarity and incisive articulation, he played with grace, ease and wonderful spontaneity. Review: Bruckner, Then a Cultural Call to Arms, at Carnegie Hall 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z The decade it belonged to was flush with wealth worship, class striving and conspicuous consumption. How ‘MTV Cribs’ Rewired My Brain, and Maybe Yours Too 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Tom Hunter – Photographer and artist For me, Caravaggio set the stage for what every contemporary artist seems to be striving for – to live an authentic life and then to talk about, to depict, that experience. Caravaggio and me 2010-07-24T23:04:00Z It’s often said, when text is set to music, that speech is striving to find song. Bostridge’s cerebral ‘Winterreise’ reaches through song to speech 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z In earlier landscape art there is always a striving for the ideal, a desire to reveal the place in its perfection, and in the eye of eternity. Why is it raining in 19th-century art? 2010-06-22T11:31:00Z The new collection finds one of the daughters striving for her independence, desperate to overcome the grief that has enveloped her home for years. Short Stories for Summer Reading 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Because this is a signature, significant distinct moment of people striving to be antiracist and I’d want to capture that in words for the reader. These Authors Are Glad You’re Buying Their Books. Now Do the Work. 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Lonergan, too, was striving to create a counterpoint between the purity of beauty and the complexity of life, and the way that one can lift you above the other. Perspective | When classical music becomes another character in a movie 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z “Taking a break in 2019 allows us to evaluate whether the current format provides the impact we are striving for,” the spokesperson said in response to questions. Upstream Music Fest will not return in 2019 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Everyone wants in, including a revered institution like the Met, which is striving to play catch-up even as it is struggling to pay the bills. 2 Art Worlds: Flush MoMA, Struggling Met 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z From a young age I fixated on my physical appearance, striving to modify myself into what I thought another person might want. Life Without Longing 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z “You could find talent that wasn’t a part of the Hollywood system,” he said, “many of them up from the gutter, people striving to be something.” 'Show the struggle, but also the great accomplishment,' says photographer behind minority photo series 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z So this is the kind of novel that strives, despite its MacGuffin, to be called "haunting"; and it achieves this by not striving too hard, and by balancing itself with quite astonishing ease. Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke by Peter Benson ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:04Z It's all part of a balance Couric is striving for on her new syndicated daytime show, "Katie," between sharing her experiences and turning her show into a personal confessional. Katie Couric opens up about battling bulimia 2012-09-24T19:49:08Z Its rags-to-riches plot about an adorable, eternally optimistic orphan who melts the frozen heart of a billionaire while outwitting her orphanage's scheming, resentful matron marries the Cinderella tale with the ethos of American striving. Bet your bottom dollar that NBC's "Annie Live!" will usher in a new inclusive era for an old classic 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z But that was a story born in 1966, in the midst of great striving and hope. "Star Trek: Picard" marks the engaging return of the Enterprise's greatest captain 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z The work draws much of its vitality from the seamless interchange of energies: striving, relaxing, then suddenly surging ahead again. Music Review: Juho Pohjonen Joins Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 2014-03-09T19:55:12Z For those striving to avoid the record-breaking temperatures as well as the spring-break fracas, Mr. Johnson and his colleagues suggest the west coast of Costa Rica or the Hawaiian island of Lanai. Spring Break: Last-Minute Options for the Crowd-Averse 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z When the character is posing as Roscoe, her strutting, macho movements really suggest a woman striving to look like a man. ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ at 1st Stage Your twenties and thirties are really the years of striving. Forget the fights over housework: How couples who both work make it work 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z What mammals and primates and humans, what they were always striving for was warmth, light, and food, sustenance. Penn Jillette does the math: America's next big magic star will be a woman 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z Dads who are striving for Aquamanicity Might want to settle for Jason’s dad bod! Style Invitational Week 1464: Picture this — our cartoon caption contest 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z That was Pat Conroy: always striving for greatness but also recognizing his own limitations. Book World editor Nora Krug: The Pat Conroy I met was determined to live well 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z But somehow, the film does not quite deliver the emotional impact Zhao is likely striving to achieve. In Chloe Zhao's wandering "Nomadland," Frances McDormand journeys to an Oscar-worthy performance 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Giving her formidability a greyer hue, she played a prison governor striving to be, as well as a disciplinarian, as sensitive as possible to the problems of the prisoners. Googie Withers obituary 2011-07-16T09:19:52Z Mantel closes with a beautiful, chilling stream-of-consciousness monologue that shows Cromwell liberated at last from his lifelong striving. Review | ‘The Mirror and the Light’ is a masterful finale to Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z As a result, Robert and I were stuck in the quagmire that is sibling rivalry, always striving to earn parental love and attention. The agony of rewatching "Everybody Loves Raymond" reminds me of my family's damaging dysfunction 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z For years, activists have been striving to make Black voices more heeded, from corporate boardrooms to the halls of government. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z The opera has lost its 20-minute opening scene, which sped through the early life of its desperately striving antihero, Clyde Griffiths. ‘An American Tragedy’ and More at Glimmerglass 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z First, all physical action involves trying or striving. Brian O'Shaughnessy obituary 2010-07-14T17:13:00Z But quite often, striving for the sound of actual talk, Mr. Clegg leans on clichés. Review: Bill Clegg’s ‘Did You Ever Have a Family’ Heaps One Tragedy Upon Another 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z The spirit is perhaps closest to Neo-Classicism, though, even deploying a smallish orchestra, Gál seems to be striving for some of the lushness of his beloved Romantics. Classical Recordings: Orchestra of the Swan Record Gál and Schumann 2012-06-01T14:10:41Z And as important as it is for people to speak up, Mr. Washington said, it’s just as important for black artists to keep striving for that breakthrough. Denzel Washington, the Oscars and August Wilson 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z You typically end up killing the very thing you’re striving to preserve. The Travel Selfie: I Was Here, Give Me a Discount 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z I studied hard in school; I spent my early twenties striving to build a career for myself. “Clearly, I didn’t think this through” 2012-11-07T17:37:00Z Driving past Gary, Indiana, on his commute, Matt thinks that it is “a perfect specimen of what the Rust Belt looks like and what Janesville is striving not to become.” “Janesville” and the Dangers of American Optimism 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z But if this episode was striving toward theological profundity, why were its ironies so pat? 'The Leftovers' Recap: Into the Dark, With a Cliche or Two 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z The mainstream fantasy — sex, drugs, hard-core partying — usually trumps the more tedious reality of musicians striving for success but often becoming trapped by it. Film: ?The Runaways?: The Girls Who Kicked In Rock?s Door 2010-03-12T04:40:00Z There's this comparison thing that happens and this striving to be this thing. Mae Whitman on being your Y2K dream girl in musical rom-com "Up Here": "I'm such a '90s fanatic" 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z They went back to the books, seeking to highlight plotlines that would resonate more with modern audiences, like the striving of Irene and another Forsyte, June, to redefine themselves as women in a changing England. ‘The Forsyte Saga’ and ‘Downton Abbey’ 2012-09-21T19:08:42Z Shaw said Wagner was not striving for musical effect "any more than Shakespeare in his plays is driving at such ingenuities of verse-making as sonnets, triolets and the like." A to Z of Wagner: G is for Gesamtkunstwerk 2013-04-18T14:30:21Z I am still occasionally overcome by loneliness, a sense of separation from others, and wonder how much of that stems from striving to belong to a world I could never quite fit into. "Bama Rush" reminded me of my own desperate need to belong 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z “This is a cool place for young millennials striving for something in life,” he said. Snoop Dogg’s Son Gave Up Football for Fashion 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z The black men in “Through the Night” are striving, and that is taking its toll, even on 10-year-old Eric, who is determined to develop a magic formula for his herbal iced tea. | 'Through the Night': Black Men in America Trying to Move on Up 2010-09-27T04:01:00Z There’s a suggestion of Eilis’s world in “Carol”—working people striving to get through the day and to find fun at night, which they do with an uninhibited vigor. The Sanitized Past of “Brooklyn” 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z And, instead of striving for invisibility, he shared his life story in front of church congregations. Scott Thorson: the lover Liberace remade in his own image 2013-05-25T23:04:01Z Like Faust, he’s incessantly creative and ambitious; like Mephistopheles, he has in a sardonic eye for human vanity and striving. A hotline to Satan: why is the ex-CEO of Vodafone making a film version of Faust? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Such restless striving is at the heart of every ambulatory picture about the American dream. Roof down, music up: American Honey and the neverending search for the American dream 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z With each new movie, they dive into a specific conception of genre and go all-out, striving to make it their own without violating its terms and conventions. "True Grit": A ferocious heroine in a classic western 2010-12-22T02:01:00Z He said he felt both sad and happy and that Lennon's legacy of music and striving for peace lived on. John Lennon fans mark anniversary of singer's murder in New York City 2010-12-08T19:49:00Z There’s always a tension between the exaltation of the music and the labor of the dancing, but there’s no doubt that the humans onstage are striving to attain that exaltation. Dance Review: Some Death, Some Struggle, Some Strain, Yet So Much Still Is Joyful 2011-07-29T21:45:30Z It is part of a national reckoning by museums striving for diversity and inclusiveness — and looking for original ways to bring in a range of voices to interpret the art. Baltimore Museum Guards Take Seats at the Curators’ Table 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Not so with the theocratic strivings of members of our own judiciary, which may, depending on who wins the White House later this year, eventually impinge on our lives through Supreme Court rulings. Marco Rubio’s real disqualification: New video outlines bizarre religious faith — and he wants to govern by it 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Yet in Ewald's richly textured portrayal she's also a tenacious soul striving to give her existence meaning, and to stare down glaring mortality with a smile. In 'Happy Days,' character is buried in sand, wrestling with life 2012-03-14T20:22:04Z I’m glad that McDermott can remind me, in a single sentence, what I’m striving for. The Ideal Reading Experience, The American Dollar and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z All the familiar themes are here: the clash of generations, the longing for the old country, the striving and accommodation and loneliness. Theater Review: ‘Rangoon’ by Mayank Keshaviah at Clurman Theater 2012-06-03T21:20:20Z Shaikh, an orphan who subsists on a few pieces of fruit at lunch and an inexhaustible supply of positive thinking, represents the striving of poorer Indians scrambling toward the middle class. Movie Review: ‘The Lunchbox,’ With Irrfan Khan: Mumbai Mix-Up 2014-02-27T16:27:45Z But striving for flexibility and balance and striving at work are not mutually exclusive. Motherlode Blog: What Do Parents Mean When They Say They Want to Work Part Time? 2013-07-11T22:04:15Z The pairing leaves me musing about what, in the 21st century, opera is striving to be. Urban Arias’ ‘Bastianello’ and ‘Lucrezia’ are at once timeless and anachronistic My formative years were spent in a Stepford world of striving to assimilate, to avoid judgment, to escape the snobbish scrutiny of the “better” classes. My life is a Bravo reality show: How “Jersey Belle” smooths over my hometown’s poisonous history 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z “We’re striving to make people feel at home, part of our family. Very often our kids will come over and have lunch with everyone. We are trying to create this very family-based experience.” Personal Journeys: In Lecce, Making Magic With Humble Ingredients 2014-04-17T17:19:59Z Their show was about an entrepreneur striving to build a company; having separated the entrepreneur from the company, they weren’t sure how to proceed. How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Arcangel seems guided by a somewhat callow faith in the avant-garde, striving to perpetuate its tradition, dating from Duchamp, of laying claim to new areas of nonart for art’s sake. Art Review: A Muse in the Machine: Click. Create. 2011-05-26T14:55:57Z “Art is a great way to find the comfort and peace that everybody is striving for,” he said. Could Hawks lose? Question elicits winning answers 2014-02-04T07:36:53Z Philip, however, seems to still be striving for the gold stars in the realness department. ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: Philip, the Platinum Spy 2014-03-27T03:00:55Z Otherwise her thorniness sits uncomfortably inside a stylized comedy that’s equal parts oddball and striving for the outrageous. Review: In Netflix’s ‘Girlboss,’ a Heroine Who’s a Tough Sell 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z For a while Mr. Blade worked at cross purposes: as a bridge-builder, eagerly striving to reconcile these differences, and as a one-man polyrhythmic demolitions team. Review: In the Sanctuary of ‘The Spiritual Side of Coltrane’ 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z That's the striving to be an American, that you believe in the American Dream. In the grueling doc "Try Harder!" Asian American students strive to meet "unreasonable" expectations 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z Perhaps Goldsmith giggles at himself too much – and sometimes, striving to establish how boring he is, he becomes boring. Stuart Goldsmith 2010-08-22T15:49:00Z Yet, at bottom, it is a fear-driven striving to avoid the experience of failure at all costs. Happiness is a glass half empty 2012-06-15T22:00:43Z On Broadway and on screen, "A Raisin in the Sun," followed the Younger family, living in a dilapidated Chicago apartment, striving to escape poverty and move to a new house in a white neighborhood. Playwright takes on 'Clybourne Park' with new work 2013-05-17T14:44:07Z The atmosphere was not unlike a sports team, where each player is striving hard to win but also understands the importance of teamwork. New World Symphony crackles with energy 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z More and more hotels across the country are striving to bring the gallery into the guest experience, in an effort to share and start conversations, to make art accessible, to educate and to inspire. Why more hotels are making galleries part of the guest experience 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z I didn't know how to tell her that at a certain point, I'd stopped striving for store-bought, mass-produced perfection. Faith of a mustard seed: My almost spiritual journey towards making the perfect homemade mustard 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z The resulting dense coexistence and biodiversity of the flora was something the smartest eco-gardeners around are only now striving to replicate. The wild beauty of Scotland’s Western Isles 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z His expression has both the unfinished quality of a subject surprised and the urgent attention of a photographer striving to capture such a moment. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z It was music striving for something more than a hit. Grammy Awards: Pharrell Williams, Madonna and Sia Offered Hymns Somber and Strange 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z I imagine the good people at Pasta Flyer are striving to bring a good-quality fair-value meal to the general paying public, and not looking to be part of the social safety net. Can Fancy Chefs Excel at Fast, Cheap Food? Two Case Studies 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z “We’re imperfect people striving to find strength, solidarity and love, under extraordinary circumstances. While it may seem heroic, I believe the desire to live with purpose, despite the circumstances in one’s life, is universal.” In ‘Gleason,’ filmmaker Clay Tweel follows an unintentional hero’s journey 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The owners are striving to make it a neighborhood joint, but so far, it’s the fashion industry that has made it a destination. Mr. Fong’s Is Chinatown’s Unlikely New ‘It’ Bar 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z The filmmakers present the ordinary strivings and daily inconveniences, the incremental joys and the petty humiliations of solid middle-class citizens, with a nihilistic revulsion and an emetic contempt. Movies 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z They form the territory that Smith has always been striving to map, though NW is tighter, and experiments much more radically with form. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z The show leverages the contestants’ personal stories of hardship and striving such that it often plays like “8 Mile” done as a Sweet Sixteen bracket. Four Shows at the Center of a Golden Age of Hip-Hop Television 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z So how about we stop striving to be one, and instead settle for something much more realistic? There's No Such Thing as a Perfect Mother 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z From that moment I felt so privileged to be studying this wonderful subject, and I suppose I've being striving to reach Herrmann's standards ever since. The artists' artist: set designers 2011-07-20T21:31:01Z What is only partially fulfilled in this rendering is Chekhov’s double portrait of the story’s younger, striving and more fragile artists. Clarity, humor make this ‘Seagull’ fly 2013-01-31T17:44:16Z “Sang” is also a rebellion against the striving of contemporary urban China, no matter the cost or hopes of achieving a goal. For Chinese millennials, despondency has a brand name 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z “After all, so many people’s fates rest in the hands of others. Through his destiny I want to interpret the emotions a man goes through in such situations, to assess the meaning of his striving.” Jan Nemec, Czech Filmmaker Known for Works of ‘Dream Realism,’ Dies at 79 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z “His life was spent striving for the most perfect form of painting,” he added. How the Louvre’s Leonardo Blockbuster Shows a Master’s Progress 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Lock isn’t striving for credibility in the events that erupt from there, or for an emotional response to the fraught subject of an infant’s abduction and threatened murder. Review | Norman Lock’s ‘American Follies’ mines America’s flawed past for dazzling fiction 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z It’s easy for me to remember seeking her calm, considerate, unselfish advice, and wishing I could see our polyglot continent, with its lakes, its villages and its striving hipsters, as generously as she always did. Poet C.D. Wright was 'one of the great ones' 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z We also hear from younger artists who were inspired by him and from older men and women who belonged to the same community of artists, striving, as he did, to fuse utility with beauty. Review: ‘Sam Maloof: 36 Views of a Master Woodworker’ 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Shakers “were striving to do something differently than the rest of the world,” Ms. Schutz said. A New Set of Tastemakers Finds Inspiration in Shakers 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z The stream-of-consciousness passages sometimes seem a little striving, not as certain as in his later work. Happy Valley by Patrick White – review 2012-12-19T08:00:06Z Sunnier sitcoms like “Parks and Recreation,” from “The Good Place” creator Mike Schur, dealt with characters who were already decent, not striving to become that way. How ‘The Good Place’ Became an Antihero Antidote 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Through much of college I avoided romance because I wanted more: more knowledge, more goals, always striving. Tiny Love Stories: I Wanted More From College. Then I Fell for Him. 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Social democracy, if it is about anything, surely, is about constantly striving to get that tricky balance right. Can Scandinavian crime fiction teach us something about socialism? 2011-02-24T09:00:03Z August Wilson was the bard of striving Black Pittsburgh. Review: In ‘Sanctuary City,’ Slamming the Door on the Dream 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z But behind them are real-life tragicomic sagas of decent folks struggling and striving, some prospering while others scrape by. Playwright’s working-class roots inspired Seattle Rep’s ‘Good People’ 2013-03-07T20:19:42Z "What we're all striving for here is a strong, healthy and sustainable community," Camping said. Tiny city of Caribou, Maine, faces secessionist movement 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z His performances, while unfailingly musical and dramatic, were emblematic of the 20th century’s dismissal of Romanticism in their authenticist strivings and deconstructive idiosyncrasies. An Austrian Maestro’s Career, Seen Through His Recordings 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z “Also the infighting at the law firm — how we can love to hate each other, how we can each win to become the insider we all are striving to be.” With Meghan Markle and Patrick J. Adams Gone, ‘Suits’ Retailors Itself 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z As if striving to keep calm enough to meditate, “Lodge 49” achieves a freakishly leisurely pace. “Lodge 49,” Reviewed: Channelling Pynchon to Capture California’s High Hopes and Deep Loss 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Hill's superbly crafted tale doesn't belong to a confessional age, but it does belong to an age where we are all striving for our own identity. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z “Sang” is also a rebellion against the striving of contemporary urban China, no matter the cost or hopes of achieving a goal. For Chinese millennials, despondency has a brand name 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z The gold ring for which all of the telemarketers are striving is the status of Power Caller. “Sorry to Bother You,” Reviewed: A Wild Workplace Comedy Energized by Righteous Anger 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z But in a more important sense, the “love death” music became the revelation of a striving for something higher than survival. Salonen's 'Pollux' supplies some grunge for L.A. Phil tour 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z A story of emotional distress and creative striving among the black intelligentsia, with the wobbly marriage of a painter and a philosophy professor at its center, the film casts a highly individual spell. ‘Tell It Like It Is,’ a Chapter of New York From 1968 to ’86 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z “We say ‘jazz without patriarchy,’ but life without patriarchy is really what we’re striving for,” she said. Terri Lyne Carrington on the Power of Betting on Yourself 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Trimbur’s work is full of empathy for people who, like her, are striving, July said. Dance Class Is in Session: Flail, Get Weird, Unlock Yourself 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z The orchestral half traces the demonic striving and eventual fall of Faust, the choral his redemption, although it does end on a questioning note: "Shall I not be confounded in eternity?" The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z And the new transit hubs are striving to reflect this. Commuting to Disneyland 2012-07-14T16:00:00Z But don’t show up at the movie expecting a brawny rock opera of New Jersey striving. Inside ‘Not Fade Away,’ From David Chase 2012-12-05T13:48:48Z There is a togetherness in the low-grade annoyances, the permission to share that fleeting intolerance, the striving for something better, the simultaneous ungratefulness and optimism of, “Eh, could be better.” I Will Die in This Beautiful Place 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z What I love about the Wakanda story is that it offers us a version of a world that we are striving to get to. The Women of ‘Wakanda Forever’ 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z “I was striving to put on my best impression of what was deemed normal,” he says. ‘My brain feels like it’s been punched’: the intolerable rise of perfectionism 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z But the band won’t be competing with other striving artists alone. Few Dollars, but Maybe Career Sense, for Struggling Bands at SXSW 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Yet what we see is a decent man striving to do his best in terrible circumstances. Biutiful 2011-01-30T00:05:53Z The Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono’s “Himizu” is the story of a young man striving to be normal, but who is mentally pushed over the edge by an incident that leads to dangerous obsessions. Movies: Venice Film Festival Goes Back to the Future 2011-08-30T11:00:08Z St. Lucia turned even more digital in its numbing set of faux new wave, its performance the quietest noise that can be made by five people striving to make a racket. Critic’s Notebook: Bastille and St. Lucia Take Different Musical Routes 2014-01-24T22:51:14Z They were concerned with national unity and division, and above all, with striving to maintain freedom without inviting wickedness. The Bible goes Greek 2012-09-30T12:00:00Z Luhaid is striving to get women – and the fight for women’s rights – moving. How cycling is keeping the fight for women’s rights moving in Saudi Arabia 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z The show has balanced an embrace of tradition with striving to appeal to the taste of younger listeners. 5,000 Shows Later, the Grand Ole Opry Is Still the Sound of Nashville 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z The reversion of the rat Developer into his natural state—no longer a dapper, striving entrepreneur but a dirty rodent — is gross, like seeing Donald Duck without his shirt. What the fuzzy animals of Netflix's "The House" can teach "Don't Look Up" about climate anxiety 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z He was a driven character, described by many as "demonic", constantly striving to express the inexpressible in his music. Gustav Mahler by Jens Malte Fischer, trans Stewart Spencer – review 2013-05-03T17:10:01Z Or perhaps Mr. Bale found pathos in Irving and dignity in this small, striving, vulgar man’s life. Movie Review: ‘American Hustle,’ With Christian Bale and Amy Adams 2013-12-12T20:37:43Z The posts are pretty minimalist — just like the lifestyle the members are supposedly striving for. The Buy Nothing movement: Give up your stuff and pick up some friends 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z I'd been striving for the safe, socially prescribed path my whole life. "Of course, he’s coming": Single-lone mom with kid travel taught me the joys of not playing it safe 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z As Roxie grows, the column will grow with her, striving to be an honest representation of the ever-changing challenges — and evolving joys — of family travel on a $2,400 budget. A Globe-Trotting Couple Expands Their Tent for Three 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Those works made me appreciate the difficult striving of all those in my family who constructed the scaffolding upon which my very comfortable life is built. The genius of “Underground”: A gripping slavery drama that dares to be entertaining 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z However, despite striving to provide a variety of experiences, Pheasants Forever exhibits little in the way of flair. Pheasants Forever - review 2011-08-13T23:05:28Z The nature of the work you are striving to complete is never specified, which enhances the sensation that you are an anonymized corporate drone. A Smartphone Game That Captures the Futility of “Work-Life Balance” 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z But this “Othello” isn’t striving for contemporary relevance or high-concept surprise. Review: Jealousy and Lies in a No-Exit Theater of War in ‘Othello’ 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z “There’s a term for that constant striving for greatness and growth,” she said as we sat together, waiting for flight orientation to begin. Space tourism will surely be a blast, but can it also improve life on Earth? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z He may be self-consciously striving to be at one with the motion of the planet, but he doesn’t appear to be at one with nature. ‘Days of Endless Time’ at the Hirshhorn examines our need for nature to soothe us The Guggenheim is striving to achieve it in “stillspotting nyc,” a two-year exhibition by architects, composers and other artists that explores sound in the urban environment. Weekend Miser: Exploration of Stillness and a Lightsaber Battle 2011-09-22T21:59:29Z Anthony Ward's clever design shows a pub dining room hung with antlers and landscapes, striving for draughty country-house grandeur. Posh 2010-04-17T23:10:00Z Street-corner vocal groups were growing in popularity, with competitions between rivals at local dances and each outfit striving to establish its originality. Earl Carroll 2012-11-30T15:57:39Z Those who were not silenced by fear, censorship or their own striving for comfort. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Gidon Kremer on Freedom and Human Rights in Russia 2013-08-20T16:00:52Z Catherine at one point recalls her father striving to write down “beautiful mathematics . . . proofs like music.” Review | Seamless cast in a gripping ‘Proof’ at Olney 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z As Ms. Wilson explained in a press release, she is striving to “embrace the chaos of our current moment without resorting to nihilism.” 8 Dance Performances to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z A name borrowed from Leonard Cohen’s second novel, “Beautiful Losers” storylines follow characters striving towards some goal and failing, albeit nobly. “Logan” proves Wolverine is the comics’ most Canadian superhero — and not in the way you think 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Ms. Mansour seems to be striving not just for laughs but for pathos, too, in depicting this family’s desperate slide into financial chaos. Review: ‘The Way West’ Features a Cheerfully Defiant Plunge Into Financial Ruin 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z It is television as theater, striving for perfection and polish that in real time can never be achieved. At 40, 'Saturday Night Live' is still in its prime 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z That’s especially true if parents are “modeling calmness and providing solid consistency and structure throughout their kids’ days” by communicating well with their child and striving to provide sufficient activities. The only child: how is quarantine affecting kids without siblings? 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z “Even sensual pleasure itself consists in a continual striving and ceases as soon as its goal is reached,” he wrote, in an essay called “On the Vanity of Existence.” Should We Be More Pessimistic? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Ball’s natural speaking voice was deeper and huskier from years of smoking, though Kidman was not necessarily striving for perfect mimicry. How Nicole Kidman Learned to Love Playing Lucille Ball 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z He meticulously charts his subject’s path from striving club comic to mercurial star. What silenced the laughs for Mort Sahl, the once towering American comic? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z |
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