| 单词 | thorny |
| 例句 | In his mind he drifted overhead, looking down on a struggling boy who pushed relentlessly through the dark, thorny undergrowth, leading a crippled girl. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Nearby stood a squat, gnarled tree with thorny leaves and black bark. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It was tucked into a thorny hedge near Mrs. Sharpe’s house, and torn along the bottom. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The Slammer stood in an obscure place between the Homestead and the north Glade wall, hidden behind thorny, ragged bushes that looked like they hadn’t been trimmed in ages. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z A turquoise necklace dangled around its thorny neck and tapped against its smooth, round tummy. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z As he lost his aloof, thorny manner, he was welcomed by the fashionable crowd. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Her house led the youths of Salinas into the thorny path of sex in the pinkest, smoothest way. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They first tried to settle the thorny question of where to hold the game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I use their thorny stems like a set of chains. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The cladding of frost on thorny branches was thawing and fat drops drip-drip-dripping. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z As they climbed higher, the patches of weeds grew thicker, and they had to be careful not to get their feet tangled in thorny vines. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Crawling through the thorny passageway was easier this time because their bodies had broken a wider path. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z But no sooner did I than I became ensnared in brambles that caught me in their thorny grasp. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z You found a plastic bucket to sit on under the shade of a thorny acacia tree, about as far from the rubbish range as you could go while staying within sight. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z My current sanctuary was a room with thorny branches covering the walls and the ceiling. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Things get dense and thorny if they're left on their own. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Rose vines push from their pots, curling and lengthening to create a thick and thorny arbor over our heads. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z In place of walls, some palaces were surrounded by thorny hedges. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The bluffs on which it crouched were steep and rocky, spotted with lichen and gnarled thorny trees. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He slid into a patch of weeds and grabbed onto a thorny vine. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z A bananaquit flew to the thorny branch of a lemon tree and looked from side to side. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Even the Richardson children found themselves divided on this thorny subject. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Almost like one of those flowering plants that's overpowered by a thorny weed. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z After the thorny branches had shredded her dress, they had reached for her legs as night fell, and now he could see that she was terribly lacerated. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Mrs. Frisby had never realized until that moment, standing next to it, how very big the bush was, how dense, how incredibly thorny. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Kira made her way through the thorny underbrush and went closer to the window. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Those thorny old barbs of guilt bore into me once more, as if speaking his name had broken a spell, set them free to torment me anew. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Midfolk ran screaming left and right as patches of the thorny ceiling fell to the ground in explosions of heat and sparks. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z My awkward conversation with Grandfather comes sharply to mind, and a thorny silence descends. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z His back bent more than I thought possible, and then his feet went up and over the log, and he disappeared from sight, sliding into the thorny mess of darkness down the slope. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He talked nonstop, out of control, in a mix of Igbo and English, like soft meat and thorny bones. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Thistles and goldenrod have grown up around it, like a thorny hedge, out of the mud. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Before Perotin the subject of rhythm in sacred music is a thorny one. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Uncombed hair framed her pale face in thorny white brambles. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z It was not as though he was really surprised, thought Harry, as he wrestled with a thorny vine intent upon throttling him; he had had an inkling that this might happen sooner or later. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He just lay in a grove of thorny trees in too much pain to move. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The rug is covered with thorny dead roses. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Now he saw that it was not random thorny branches and his own clumsiness in walking into them, but rather an assault from Forest itself. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Buttercup’s mother was a gnarled shrimp of a woman, thorny and worrying, who had always dreamed of somehow just once being popular, like the Countess was said to be. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Only a thorny stubble now stood where the bush had been. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Changing school boundaries was thorny under any conditions, but any effort to achieve a more balanced composition would inevitably be heightened by the politics of football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys landed in dense, thorny scrub and when they finally managed to free themselves they hesitated, not sure in which direction to go. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The hedgerow was thorny, and I was too small to push past it, so I ran along the gully on the side of the road and watched my uncle march into the wood. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z They saw the lion—its body the size of a cow—drag his grandmother into the thorny trees, then toss her body into the bush like a mouse. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z He inched his way beneath the thorny brush until he came upon Nivea’s head, which looked like a lonely melon. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The people ahead of us had made a path in the grass with their running, so we followed that, but sometimes we had to scramble through thorny bushes that scratched as we passed. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The women circled the basket, which was full of blackberries still on their short, thorny branches. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a short, thorny reunion, but at least I had reconnected. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I ate blackberries from thorny whips that reminded me of barbed wire. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Together they moved through the tangled brush, pushing through the thorny bushes that grabbed at their clothes. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z But when it comes down to it, there’s some more rosy and some more thorny. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z When he reached a gnarled little tree with black bark and thorny leaves, he halted. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Scrub grass and thorny bushes covered its lower slopes; higher up a jagged tangle of bare rock thrust steep and sudden into the sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z All that was left were the thorny roots digging into the bottom of the door to the next compartment. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z When I was a little girl, my love for Matilde was as thorny and tangled as a blackberry bush. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They go along their own pathways, moving easily through thick tangles of thorny undergrowth. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z At least his back offered some protection from the thorny branches that kept catching at her clothes and scratching her face, like vicious animals with needle-sharp claws lying in wait in the dark. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z They bloom into thorny chains that I use to press Prince Alfred's arms and legs against the wall. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Finally, there’s the thorny question of the role of war in forager societies. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They chatted like this, voices scarcely raised above a whisper, as they struggled through the thorny growth on the hillside. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Even now, looking listlessly down, he saw a pale green tendril emerge from the lower portion of a thorny bush and slide silently toward them. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The Augarten proves a thorny place to search, full of narrow streets and tall apartment houses. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Roses, thorny as orcs, sank their teeth into my chest and face. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z She found him rubbing salve into the leg of a sheep that had caught itself in a thorny bush. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z But he did not step into the road; he crept into the cover of a thorny tree and peered out along the way he had come. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z She just placed her hand on his lower back as Moss rang the doorbell, and the moment of comfort washed over his thorny nerves. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Elinor hadn’t been able to reconcile herself to the idea of another walk all the way down through the thorny hills where the snakes lived. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Pushing through the last thorny bush that obstructed his way, Neel shone the light into the hollow. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z “Before he hopped in with a thorny bottom?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Above the humongous oval-shaped room, thorny branches arched like the roof of a dome, with creeper vines and yellow seed pods hanging down like streamers from rafters. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The jeep trails do not cross it, nor even go close to it, for the mountains around it are forbidding, too steep and rocky even for jeeps, and are covered with thorny thickets. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Holding the wooden sword by her side, Ivy strode through the forest until she came to its dark heart, to the grove of thorny trees. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Our wounds were then dressed with a healing plant, the leaves of which were thorny on the outside but smooth on the inside, which absorbed the blood and other secretions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I squeezed nervously through the thorny door, ducking and holding in my stomach, and entered a long, twisty hallway made of woven branches still carrying leaves and flowers. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I ran into the ditch and through the thorny hedge to where they stood. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Here, huge growths of thorny furze rose up. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z I spied a door, its bottom half covered in thick roots and thorny vines, and my spirits sank. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Just when it seemed it would pop free, thorny vines shot out of the ground and entangled it further. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z She had wiggled her way far back under the thorny limbs of a blackberry bush in the comer of the garden. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Tall hedges grew on both sides of the gate, their thorny branches hiding any view of what lay beyond. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z It also made a kind of clearing—with die tops of the trees gone the sun could get down to the ground—and it was filled with small thorny bushes that were covered with berries. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, the background still looks off to me, so I take a medium-thick brush and paint black stick figures pulsing in the air around Liberty, thorny scars that look like barbed wire. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She pointed to the dense thorny branches of a Blood Rose, cut and pinioned into cruel horizontals against the wall, yet still wild and heavy with dark red blooms. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who haven’t seen him onstage will soon be able to read his thoughts on these perennially thorny issues in “My First Black Boyfriend,” a collection of his essays set for publication in fall 2020. Chris Rock Is Writing a Book on Race and Relationships 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z There’s thankfully little hemming and hawing about real feelings or propriety, and much more thoughtful grappling with thornier issues. All’s Well That Ends Well: Fall Romance Novels 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Leaving aside the question of whether bigger necessarily means better, that still leaves the thorny issue of deciding what to go and see. Sydney film festival: 10 things to see and do 2013-06-05T01:58:00Z Food safety policy is a thorny subject at the moment. How America’s most famous farmer can appeal to left, right and center 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Measuring 28 feet by 12 feet, the “Queen’s Window” — which was inaugurated on Tuesday — represents a hawthorn, a thorny floral shrub, blooming in a joyous profusion of reds, blues, greens and yellows. David Hockney Wouldn’t Paint the Queen. But He Made Her a Stained-Glass Window. 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z That suffering is thorny and multifaceted and extends to the families and friends of cult members. 6 Podcasts About Cults and Their Enduring Sinister Attraction 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Prying open Mr. Fischl for the memoir was thorny, Mr. Stone said. Eric Fischl Goes Back to His Future 2013-05-15T23:11:56Z It has, however, occasionally also yielded thornier and more ambiguous conflicts. Forget the theocracy, North Carolina 2013-04-03T19:57:00Z Quirky, complex, and occasionally thorny, the Partita ranges from delicate pointillist passages and drooping glissandi to explosive utterances and phrases that sound like birdsong. Anne-Sophie Mutter with Lambert Orkis: A night of perfection | Classical review 2013-03-04T17:52:30Z Though his music is chromatic and often harmonically hazy — the “Cowley Meditation,” with its shifting tonality, was evocative and mysterious — it rarely strays into the thornier realms of contemporary language. Music Review: An Extravagant Farewell to Summer 2010-09-03T22:47:00Z The issue is thornier, however, because of the morality and optics involved. Is This the End of the Red Carpet? 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z And then we watched as Obama, in the early days of his Administration, treaded delicately in the thorny bramble of race, taking steps that pierced his flesh and drew blood. Obama’s Parting Gift: The Power Not to Fear White Racism 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Gargoyle faces gape like creatures trapped in stone; boys and girls are lost in landscapes thorny with brushmarks. Artist of the week 197: Ellen Gronemeyer 2012-07-05T14:10:34Z But the possibility of making a smoking ban a city issue is a thorny issue, one that permeates the public and private sectors like a freshly lit Newport on wool fibers. Listen up, doctors: Here’s how to talk to your patients 2012-05-23T11:45:00Z Ahead of an important screening for his bosses at Pixar Animation about two years ago, the director was wrestling with a thorny story problem on his next film, "Inside Out." Pete Docter turns expectations upside-down with 'Inside Out' for Pixar 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Who today could write both “West Side Story” and three thorny, searching symphonies? Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Often, theaters must navigate thorny health and labor issues as part of the process. You’re New Here, Aren’t You? Digital Theater’s Unexpected Upside 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z He's the rare black host with national TV and radio platforms, one who sees his job as challenging Americans to examine their assumptions on such thorny issues as poverty, education, and racial and gender equality. Tavis Smiley marks 10th year on PBS 2013-05-24T13:31:11Z Sometimes, if I’m on deadline or writing an especially thorny piece, I’ve been known to send my editor a message. Lonnae O’Neal: ‘Deep River’ for these deeply troubled times 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Another contestant managed “stylopharyngeus” but stumbled over the short but thorny “boyg,” a Norwegian borrowing that means “a formless or pervasive obstacle, problem, or enemy.” Pete’s Candy Store Hosts a Spelling Bee for Adults 2013-08-01T20:06:51Z It was followed by Billy Joel’s “Summer, Highland Falls,” a hardheaded song about a contentious couple taking stock of a thorny relationship in which neither partner will give way. Review: John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, Feeling Deeply, at Café Carlyle 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z In shows like his “La Bohème,” which presented the opera’s four acts in reverse, Sharon has proved himself adept at executing thorny, even silly-sounding concepts in ways that end up being surprisingly clever and moving. Review: In Chicago, an Opera Triptych Reaches for Connection 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z It’s encouraging that Ms. Parks continues to take on weighty, thorny topics too seldom addressed in the theater these days. Theater Review | 'The Book of Grace': At the Public, Suzan-Lori Parks?s Family Reunion 2010-03-18T03:57:00Z Mark Stone makes for a suitably worn, confused Gallimard, and he sings his thorny vocal lines with impressive shape. Review: ‘M. Butterfly’ Metamorphoses Again, as an Opera 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Especially since there’s this whole hopeful notion that we’re going to survive this thorny patch in race relations and come out the other side with a more equitable system. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Here, writers recommend other works that illuminate and confront racism, tracing a path, thorny as it may be, forward. Art That Confronts and Challenges Racism: Start Here 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z The performances burst with agility and invention, melody and lyricism; they swing hard while negotiating a knotty and thorny substructure. The Year’s Most Essential Jazz Reissue 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z And yet planting this truism in America’s consciousness has proved such a thorny challenge that a whole new labor movement has been spawned to drive it home. Arts workers are building a labor movement to save a creative economy in peril 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z But it seemed subtler than that: The area — unique in the nation — offers backcountry skiing that simplifies some of the thorniest parts, like avalanche mitigation and terrain selection. A Colorado Ski Area With No Lift Lines? This One Has No Lifts at All. 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z In any event, he is a healthy young man, with rippling muscles free of cuts and bruises and short wavy brown hair free of thorny crown. Art Review: Antics Aside, a Dal? of Constant Ambition 2010-09-02T21:32:00Z This of course raises many interesting and thorny questions. 21 and bi: Should I marry? 2013-04-12T00:00:00Z But in the fall of 2017, the Museum of Modern Art will take on the thorny task of a Judd retrospective. BAM Has a New Display of Michael Graves Murals 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z How does this thorny episode fit into an ebullient musical about an American-Indian arranged marriage? ‘Monsoon Wedding’ Lifted Moods Onscreen. How About Onstage? 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z The musical thought is alternately thorny and otherworldly, with percussive taps and fast-as-light arpeggio strums making it sound, at times, as though Johannesson is handling more than one instrument. Guitarist offers guide to Icelandic strings 2010-04-08T20:17:00Z There are plenty of books to help readers untangle the thorny topic. A guide to the literature of Japan’s “comfort women”: Comfort station survivors tell their stories 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Certain sections were like revisiting favorite scenes from a movie, with dancers flashing body parts without provocation or repositioning their bodies in thorny sequences of movement accumulation. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center - Review 2011-11-03T01:15:46Z “Girls They Write Songs About” is a love story about two friends, but it’s also something thornier — a narrative about the cycles of enchantment, disenchantment and re-enchantment that make up a life. In This Novel of Female Friendship, Birds of a Feather Drift Apart 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Walter’s ease with the thorny language stems from decades of practice, but some see something more visceral. The Gender’s the Thing: Harriet Walter Plays Shakespeare’s Heroes as Heroines 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The issues relating to The Times’s own involvement with Weinstein were thornier than many realized. The Truth Is Hard. But for a New York Times Lawyer, Defending It Is Fun. 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z There’s thornier trouble to come, both on campus and at home for single mom Ji-Yoon. New this week: ‘Nine Perfect Strangers,’ Lorde and ‘Annette’ 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z The jury also praised Mr. Reich’s engagement, in his music with thorny global issues, including the Sept. ArtsBeat: Composer Is Awarded $550,000 Prize by Spanish Foundation 2014-02-11T19:25:40Z The Mueller report is a thorny, patriotic addition to this curious American shelf. The Mueller Report: A Thorny, Patriotic Addition to a Curious American Bookshelf 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z That said, it seems clear that his compass is naturally pointed towards the thorny and the taboo. 'Bin Laden doesn't do jokes' 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z In a thorny role, Theron is splendid; she instinctively reveals everything Mavis doesn’t know about herself, and offers an intimate peek into a wayward soul. Young Adult: Charlize Theron Finds Life After High School 2011-12-08T18:18:01Z The news of his death at the age of 90 brings many of these thorny questions to mind. Fidel meats Sartre: What happened when the Cuban leader met Jean-Paul Sartre 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z When “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” the artistic conundrum of a documentary wrapped around the street artist Banksy, opened last year, it spawned more than a few critical essays’ worth of thorny, postmodern questions. The Carpetbagger: New Doubts for a Film That Has Truth Issues 2011-01-05T23:37:36Z “Orange Is the New Black” represents everything fresh and promising and also thorny about what we must now accept as TV’s lasting, sustainable golden age. “Orange Is the New Black” Season 2 shows us what the “golden age” of TV really means 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z But played with relish and precision by members of the Philharmonic and some guests, the works felt vital and thorny, full of character. Review: A New York Philharmonic Contact! Menu, With Esa-Pekka Salonen as Chef 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Yet the thorniest issue of all was yet to come. How the 9/11 Memorial Changed Its Architect, Michael Arad 2011-09-04T04:19:38Z The performing arts center was placed on the back burner, though, as officials wrangled over the many other thorny issues involved in redevelopment. Ronald Perelman Donates $75 Million for Arts Complex at World Trade Center Site 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z And also, I hope that this starts some really thorny, uncomfortable conversations about who we would have been in these times. "I want people to be angry": William Jackson Harper on viewers' takeaway from "Underground Railroad" 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Margaret Brown’s spellbinding documentary asks that question, which opens up many more thornier conversations about history, complicity and legacy. The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z America: Ground zero for a real “Contagion” We haven’t even turned the page on the controversy over contraceptives, health care and religious freedom when another thorny one arises involving personal conscience and public health. Listen up, doctors: Here’s how to talk to your patients 2012-05-23T11:45:00Z What she does remember is a thorny relationship with her own mother, which she draws on in playing Mr. Greenberg’s creation. Three Theater Stalwarts, Together at Last, Talk Mom 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z It’s not fair to lump him in with the idea of the thorny European avant-garde. A modernist master’s Mozartean face: Rihm writes for Barto’s pianos 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The flagship exhibit of this thorny flotilla will happen at Seattle Art Museum — the cultural struggle, using various art-weapons, is still raging. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for June 2018 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z And yet, this doubling feels like displacement — diminishment, perhaps — especially as it sidesteps the thorny questions of the play’s own attitudes toward Jews. Review: A ‘Merchant of Venice’ That Doubles Down on Pain 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Their dispute raised thorny questions for musicians and the companies behind them: Can artists be held liable for copyright infringement for works in progress? Nicki Minaj Pays Tracy Chapman $450,000 in Copyright Dispute 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z His music also initially received a hostile welcome, deemed too expressive for the postwar avant-garde but too thorny for general consumption. Music Review: ?El Cimarr?n? Is Revived at the Theater at St. Catherine of Siena 2010-06-11T22:16:00Z But the issues are particularly thorny for those trying to reconfigure a central tenet of identity decades after building an adult life with family and career. For Some in Transgender Community, It’s Never Too Late to Make a Change 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z He was difficult and thorny, but only in support of his character and how the scene was being shot. Going Back to ‘Groundhog Day.’ Again. 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Greenblatt, a professor of humanities at Harvard, is a very serious and often thorny scholar, a founder of a discipline called the new historicism. Books of The Times: ?The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,? by Stephen Greenblatt 2011-09-27T21:00:22Z The show always tackled thorny issues — English said it’s her way of “trying to have an effect and do some good” — and she felt Me Too was too large to sidestep. Comedians have long used rape as a punchline. The Me Too era is changing that. 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The subject still raises thorny ethical and policy questions. Genetic Basis for Crime: A New Look 2011-06-19T22:33:19Z It wants to lean into the city — and thorny questions about gentrification and housing prices, to the extent that they will be a natural byproduct of this process — rather than away from it. Apple and Amazon take two paths to the same conclusion: The tech companies owe nothing to the American city 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z It’s a fearless and insular set piece, characteristic of an album more interested in looking inward at the thorny intricacies of the black experience than in interpreting that experience for whites. With ‘To Pimp a Butterfly,’ Kendrick Lamar brushes all hip-hop rivals aside 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z But that still leaves the “Tristan” — which poses the thorniest questions. Jessye Norman Rejected These Recordings. Should They Be Released? 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z It takes two authors and a scientist to respond to what is apparently the thorniest problem of all: how do you fall in love? Christmas gifts 2012: the best children's books 2012-11-30T22:49:01Z The show is a testament to its young subjects’ insistence on being seen, their style the outward expression of a thorny refusal to be ghettoized or, conversely, assimilate. Style That Demands to Be Seen 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Even though I recognize its flaws, such as lack of diversity, I still love its thorny, self-involved, often unlikable characters, who no matter what transpires seem to float in a constant state of Saturn Returns. Let me be misunderstood: The final episode of HBO’s “Girls” and how we really feel about Hannah Horvath 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z Along the roadsides in the summertime, you’ll see us infiltrating thorny, insane tangles of blackberries, only to make jam that is undeniably too seedy. Seattle vs. New England in the supper bowl: how our food cultures compare 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Increasingly, it seems, there is a tendency to rely on experts to help navigate the thorny issues of what to wear when, and not just for highly fraught events. Hey, Governor, What Are You Wearing? 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Ernest is a fascinating, thorny character, especially in the age of Marvel Manichaeism, and he’s rived by contradictions that he scarcely seems aware of. ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Premieres at Cannes: First Reaction 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z And with the final episodes of “Breaking Bad” beginning Sunday, they tackled the thorniest of storytelling conundrums: ending a beloved show. How to Make a TV Drama in the Twitter Age 2013-08-09T14:51:02Z Nearly 30 years later, my mother lives in the same apartment on the Upper West Side, but her world is a very different place; worries both simple and thorny hobble her every waking thought. The one thing my aging mother will devour: Simple roast chicken 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Dizzee Rascal has mutated from thorny grime upstart into a shameless ham, and it's paid off spectacularly. Rolling Stones steal Glastonbury from other debutantes – review 2013-06-29T23:56:12Z But that doesn’t stop this dramatic series from ambitiously taking on far-reaching stories and thorny journalistic issues, starting with Episode 20: “Boston.” 'The Newsroom' recap: Ambitious agenda for final 6 episodes 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z But I’ve always preferred the early poetry, written before he left England, which can indeed be thorny, with its echoes of Middle English and contemporary popular songs. John Ashbery: By the Book 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z All of which brings us back to the thorny question of what Jaws is really about. Jaws, 40 years on: ‘One of the truly great and lasting classics of American cinema’ 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z At a news conference on Saturday, Mr. Clooney waded into the thorny issue of art repatriation. Europe’s Painful Past Colors a Film Festival 2014-02-09T22:03:12Z Pope.L’s provocative performances in particular mix issues of art, the body, language and race into thorny, mind-bending tangles. The Expansive Provocateur Pope.L, in Smaller, Potent Doses 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z "Black Ice" tackles the thorny issue of racism in Canadian hockey, a sport that features very few Black athletes. Hockey "has always been diverse": Uncovering the unsung history and racism in Canada's beloved sport 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Linger long enough and you’ll find “Give It or Leave It,” Smith’s multiroom installation at the Frye Art Museum, on view through Sept. 1, is doing complex, thorny and deeply subversive work. With disco balls and gorgeously cinematic installations, this artist is creating deeply subversive work at the Frye 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z That means attacking complicated, thorny issues with solutions that are just as divisive in the wine industry as they are in the country as a whole. The Wine Business Sees a Problem: Millennials Aren’t Drinking Enough 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z But the finale was audaciously melodic and openhearted, in defiance of contemporary music’s persistent, thorny seriousness. A Battle of Boos and Cheers at the Symphony 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z She admits that next month, she will face her own thorny dressing challenge. | Fall Fashion: Need a Pick-Me-Up? Try Boots. 2010-08-23T21:59:00Z In sometimes raised voices, the academics at the conference tried to tackle a set of thorny questions: Which books will go on the list? Columbia University Press to Publish New Translations of Russian Literature 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z In the final movement, the astonishingly complex fugue, it was exhilarating to hear Ms. Filjak unravel the thorny counterpoint with such a light yet clear touch. | Martina Filjak: Birthday Gift: New York Debut 2009-12-17T05:42:00Z There is a thorny dissonance between past and present. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘The Refugees’ couldn’t come at a better time 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z And so we arrive at the thorny problem of season five. I've finally lost track of Heroes ? but then, so has the BBC 2010-04-30T11:42:00Z Instead of digging into the thorny particulars of time travel, the Avengers joke their way through the adventure, leaning heavily on the nostalgia of moving through the older films so that everything still lines up. 20 super facts about the MCU’s "Avengers" movies 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z But Mr. Andriessen’s accent emerges quickly as the chord progression takes unexpected turns, the harmonies grow increasingly dense, and a singing, attractively chromatic melody is spun out over this thorny backdrop. Music Review: Louis Andriessen Series Continues at Le Poisson Rouge 2010-04-19T21:58:00Z But there’s also a thorny underside to Spivey’s Usher; he spits out phrases, pops his hip and snaps his head in a scathing display of Black stereotypes. ‘A Strange Loop’ Review: A Dazzling Ride on a Mental Merry-Go-Round 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z It dramatizes Welles’s own struggle to finance it and the thorny web of personal relationships on which its production both depended and foundered. “The Other Side of the Wind,” Reviewed: A Belated Orson Welles Masterpiece 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The provocative new film, “The Ring Thing,” playing Outfest July 15, tackles the thorny issue of same-sex marriage and divorce by presenting various opinions from both gay and straight subjects. “The Ring Thing”: We won the right to marry, now what the hell do we do with it? 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z As emojis come to represent the world more specifically and fully, they collide with the thorny reality that they reduce to a pictograph. Should There Be an Emoji for Everything? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Hanick, a brilliant pianist more often heard in thorny contemporary scores, played with crispness, nuance and grace. Review: For Armory Recitals, a Modest but Memorable Return 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z For Mr. Little, a composer whose doctoral thesis was on music and politics, there’s also a surprising absence of a political stance, Kennedy’s thorny relationships with Khrushchev and Johnson aside. ‘JFK’ Envisions an Operatic Ending for Camelot 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The process of writing “A Doubter’s Almanac” was thornier than usual. ‘A Doubter’s Almanac,’ Ethan Canin’s Latest Novel, Has Real-Life Parallels 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z When Andy Weir was writing his new novel, “Project Hail Mary,” he stumbled into a thorny physics problem. Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z It’s bold; he could easily have chosen a more commercial, less thorny approach. Billie Eilish’s Forlorn ‘Barbie’ Ballad, and 10 More New Songs 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z But there are less politically thorny issues at work here. Russell Crowe's 'The Water Diviner' Falls Short 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z There are also thorny legal issues because Mr. Low and some of the other defendants have denied wrongdoing and are challenging the forfeitures. A Yacht, a Monet, a See-Through Piano: The U.S. Collects on a Fugitive’s Shopping Spree 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z Too smart to think that the medium is the message, Berman and Warhol explored the thorny relationships between what was being communicated and how it was being communicated. Wallace Berman's Verifax art: Like Web surfing before the Internet 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Marling always has one of these on the go; she spends her days summoning those tight, thorny little phrases that make her music so special, and perhaps that feeds into a talent for crossword solutions. Laura Marling: 'Americans – they're just a lot more poetic' 2013-04-27T23:04:02Z But, in Hopkins’s world, despair represents the easy path; it’s a temptation that distances him from God and from the thorny theological issues that God contrives. Rembrandt and Gerard Manley Hopkins: How to Take Comfort in Art 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z A few of the bubbles landed on the thorny limbs of my dying bougainvillea plant and popped. Who Stays Gone, and Who Can Afford to Return 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z This famously thorny, difficult music emerged as a virtuoso tour de force that had the audience on its feet at the last note. Pianist, flutist collaboration yields lyrical evening 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z However, the state’s high court declined to address the thorny issue of how many other accusers can testify in criminal cases before the evidence becomes unfair to the defense. Bill Cosby prosecutors take case to US high court 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z The matter of the opera's cultural authenticity, its "blackness" or lack of it, was a thornier debate for decades. Gershwin classic 'Porgy and Bess' to take stage at Seattle Opera 2011-07-24T02:05:27Z The thorny part is that it’s hard to perceive overfunctioning as a problem at all. Do you overfunction or underfunction in a relationship? 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z How could I have missed, in the past, such brilliances as the tangle of sharp thorny branches behind the angel? The Virgin of the Rocks: Da Vinci decoded 2010-07-13T20:31:00Z Whiskey Tango Foxtrot does smooth the corners of the thorny Afghanistan problem. Review: Tina Fey Falls in Love With a War Zone in 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot' 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Star Wars takes that kind of thorny entanglement but sweetens it and makes less explosive, because the higher cause defuses sexual rivalry. 40 years of Stars Wars – why the blockbuster saga is a galactic soap opera 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z As the fifth anniversary of the hurricane approaches, the issues surrounding the rebuilding and repopulating of New Orleans have grown thornier, and Mr. Lee and his documentary crew tiptoe around some of them in “Creek.” TV Review: Spike Lee?s New Documentary About New Orleans on HBO 2010-08-22T23:54:00Z And Berg’s thorny “Seven Early Songs,” each a miracle of concision and allusion, might have been more precisely characterized. Review: Heidi Melton Debuts With a Daunting Recital Program 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Politics are thorny in the novel, but Coe still makes space for playful humor. ‘Middle England,’ a Traditional Novel Set in Our Very Unconventional Times 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Just watching them navigate the thorny path of this play — which has only gotten thornier as the cultural climate around it has changed — should be harrowing but rewarding in a whole new way. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for June 2018 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z But when the owner of the bar recognizes him from their childhood, the thorny racial antagonisms that Federico has built a career trying to resolve surface aggressively. A Novel Punctures the Fantasy of Post-Racial Society 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z With most of those cases now resolved, here’s a look at what happened, the film’s thorny development history and how Miller’s controversies might shape the future of the franchise. What to Know About Ezra Miller and ‘The Flash’ 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z The thornier issue is whether it’s a red flag, and to that my answer is a definitive yes. Carolyn Hax: There’s something unforgiving about Mary 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z "I prefer the forest to the sea," he offers up in thorny French. Visit the Quebecois Beaver 2010-08-12T16:40:00Z The authors also discussed their thorny paths to publication. Festival of Books: Mystery writers who shift to literary fiction -- and back 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z She was the bedridden matriarch sifting through thorny memories in "Three Tall Women," Edward Albee's 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner and the play I consider to be his masterpiece. The theater world's loss of Myra Carter, Brian Bedford and Alan Rickman resounds 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Open fires are a thornier proposition in the city, but there’s always the grill. Perspective | The therapeutic value of the garden in trying times 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Through thick and thin, it stubbornly maintains a thorny integrity. Movie Review: ‘Beneath the Harvest Sky,’ a Drama of Northern Maine 2014-05-01T22:24:39Z She was about to enter thornier terrain in a work dealing with themes of cultural appropriation, nationalism, displacement and relationships between Israeli and Palestinian cultures. Her Roots Are Tangled in Folk Dance and Israel 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z The majority of the film plays out like a stage drama with the women debating their fate while tackling the thorny emotions of rage, anguish, forgiveness and hope. ‘Women Talking’ and What a Post-#MeToo Future Looks Like 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z If you bring a small child, you might get some thorny questions about the October Revolution. Not Exactly Golden Tickets: “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Anastasia” on Broadway 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Their cries will fragment into separate, argumentative voices, each with its own thorny grievances, and they will run — not with, but away from, one another. Review: ‘The Fall’ Delivers Stirring Protest in South Africa 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z The dispute highlights the thorny territory of how to handle legacies and copyrights after the death of largely unknown artists. Hearing on Henry Darger Estate Dispute Is Postponed 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z But it also speaks to a thorny problem. SFMOMA's expansion offers a deep dive into blue-chip artists' works 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The show skirts the thornier issue of Rembrandt’s relationship to Jews in general. Art Review: ?Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus? in Philadelphia - Review 2011-08-26T04:00:08Z Victor and Roser will become exiles yet again, as the idea of home becomes thornier and more remote. Pablo Neruda Saved Thousands of War Refugees. Isabel Allende Imagines Two of Them. 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z The success of this film and the specific successes of these two stars in these two roles perhaps raises the thorny issue of intersectionality. The Shape of Water's Oscars win is the triumph of a real artist and immersive cinema | Peter Bradshaw 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z As the play pauses to consider these thorny questions, offering variations on the theme of guardianship and neglect, the plot gets a case of the doldrums. Review: In ‘Marvin’s Room,’ Who Will Care for the Caregiver? 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z But “The Fourth Age” successfully forces us to face just how thorny those questions are. Three Books Consider What Happens When the Robots Take Over 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z The film also poses thorny questions about government prosecutions of cases like the one involving Mr. Crowder and Mr. McKay, who were called terrorists but who were convicted of lesser charges. ?Better This World? on ?POV? Examines Use of Informants 2011-09-04T22:33:04Z Obviously no one expects a Hallmark film to tackle such thorny issues, but if the alternative is to saddle Jews with absurd and dated stereotypes, I'd rather have none at all. Hallmark's latest Jewish offering: An order of "Hanukkah on Rye" piled high with racial pandering 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z The “life” conversation is often too a thorny one to even broach. So what if abortion ends life? 2013-01-23T15:43:00Z It's a thorny question, posed, if inadequately answered, by Antony McDonald's new staging for Opera North. Mary Stuart 2010-06-06T20:30:00Z Liebhold hopes visitors appreciate the curators’ attempt to tackle some thorny issues and to present entrepreneurs in honest ways. What can an old wooden cart teach us about American ingenuity? 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z That “s” at the end of the title offers the first clue as to how the producers dealt with the subject’s thorny issues. Review: Anodyne ‘Civilizations’ 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z The stage is one of the few places left in our democracy where citizens turn off their phones to collectively confront the thorniest issues of the day. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Ken Burns takes on a thorny subject in a three-part documentary: America’s response as knowledge of the Holocaust emerged. Summer TV 2022: 27 Shows to Watch 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z It knows the thorny racial transaction that makes this country run. ‘The Melt Goes On Forever’ Review: David Hammons Makes, and They Take 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z His relations with fellow composers Lou Harrison, Pierre Boulez, Morton Feldman, David Tudor and others are traced in sometimes thornier detail. A new John Cage biography: plenty on the music, less revealing of the man 2010-12-02T00:58:00Z There's a dead butcher bird on the ground and following the line of Terry's finger into one of the thorny bushes, they see its larder. Extract: The Whales by Evie Wyld 2010-09-06T13:47:00Z Entwined with these problems, of course, is the thorniest of all: money. Meet the new guard running British theatre 2013-02-17T20:30:01Z The issues raised by the Dolphins tank job are thornier still, since management, not labor, is putting in the fix. The Miami Dolphins and the Art of Losing to “Win” 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z But the politics between people, and love relationships, are just as thorny and important to lift up and write from interesting points of view. Bonnie Raitt Heads to the Grammys, Recognized as a Songwriter at Last 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z But “The Good Fight” stands on its own because of the way it traffics in the thorny dynamics that arise among women who are navigating professional minefields, complex desires and identity politics. ‘The Good Fight’ Recap: On the Other Side 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Such features, however, require solving thorny problems, including how to avoid pedestrians. Making cars safer: have the driver do less 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z That night the players — young men in jeans and T-shirts — gave viscerally exciting performances of the complete works for string quartet by the thorny modernist composer Iannis Xenakis. Music Review | JACK Quartet: At Ease in T-Shirts or Suits, and With the Medieval or Modern 2010-03-04T21:59:00Z It presents Queen Victoria's views as unexpectedly progressive, while addressing some of the thornier issues of the time with a fairly light touch — decisions which have drawn some criticism. The True Story Behind Victoria and Abdul 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z But the episode’s potential is squandered as the writers choose to focus on Nick’s back story and thorny relationship with Offred rather than put Moira in the spotlight. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 1, Episode 8: Profit and Pleasure 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z As technology stretches the capabilities of fan storytelling, questions of propriety could become even thornier. The Force (and a Lenient Disney) Is With ‘Star Wars’ Fan Filmmakers 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Like the Rambo franchise, the original Death Wish series began with downbeat, thorny, unsettling films before rapidly becoming exaggerated cartoons. Death Wish: is the Bruce Willis remake an alt-right fantasy? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Our reviewer, Ayana Mathis, called it “a brave foray into vast and difficult terrain” that “raises thorny questions about the cost of blackness.” New in Paperback: ‘The Vanishing Half’ and ‘Tangled Up in Blue’ 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The sorrow of that isn't the thorny point, it's the insult. "Black Widow" is a triumph for Marvel fans, yet that's what makes it so infuriating 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z On the cusp of Arabic-speaking north Africa and black sub-Saharan Africa – once the preserve of slave traders – the vast desert country negotiated a thorny path to independence. From afrobeat to zouk: the Mauritanian home of rare African sounds 2012-06-03T12:49:52Z The debate has also brought into relief questions about how much power artists wield to control distribution of their work, and the perennially thorny issue of free speech online. Joni Mitchell plans to follow Neil Young off Spotify, citing ‘lies’ 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Two illuminating recent books manage to convey a similar sentiment, focused on the uninhibited love of science and math, while still gracefully incorporating the thorny topic of women in science. Ladies Who Launch: Women Who Opened the Door to Space Exploration 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Waltz loves this analogy; he thinks it proves that everyone is a square peg in a round hole, as awkward and as thorny as he is. Christoph Waltz: 'Try as you might, you can never break free from your past' 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z That big, hulking thorny beast, with an aroma so strong it’ll knock your grandma to her feet. Durian: love it or hate it, is this the world's most divisive fruit? 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z The group overcame short notice and thorny logistics to produce a set filled with good humor, mellow vibes and a ton of hits. Jack Johnson pulls off the switch at Bonnaroo 2013-06-16T05:40:10Z Scored for guitar and percussion, "Serenade" is alternately nimble, thorny and, in its slow movement, sumptuous. Lou Harrison's 'Serenade' tops varied bill in a recital by Michael Nicolella and Friends 2010-06-24T22:13:00Z Here, the thorny issues were low ceilings and a structural beam beneath the windows running the entire length of the apartment. Bay Area Embrace 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Even while navigating the score's many technically thorny passages, Itzkoff seemed to be having a good time. American Youth Symphony and National Children's Chorus members rise to 'Heaven Earth Mankind' 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z At the heart of it all is Huppert, in her thorniest, funniest and perhaps finest performance. Elle’s Belle: Huppert Resounds In Verhoeven's Latest 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Underpinning the question of how much non-alcoholic cocktails should cost is an even thornier question: Should a drink's value actually be determined by how much of a buzz it can give you? Top shelf prices for booze-free drinks: Are nonalcoholic cocktails too expensive? 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z At a time of Black Lives Matter and #OscarsSoWhite, the representation of race in the entertainment industry is a particularly thorny subject; one possibility is a judicious split of the top awards. Grammys 2017: What to Watch For 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Child care is the thorny problem that’s hampering women’s economic advancement, both at the individual level and on a global scale. New Report from UN Women Shows Sheryl Sandberg Was Right 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Like “Nanny,” some of the most memorable selections in New Directors use families to explore a constellation of ideas about contemporary life, its pressures and thorny complexities. Father Doesn’t Know Best at New Directors/New Films 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Whether this promise can ever be fulfilled continues to be a thorny question. Revisiting The Byrds' "So You Want to Be a Rock N Roll Star" 55 years later, from the Monkees to REM 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z It’s a new year, and there’s a new administration in Washington, but the American wine industry remains tangled in the same set of thorny problems: Covid-19, government tariffs and climate change. For the Wine World, 2021 Brings Familiar Problems 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Often, these works dabble within a world that resembles the distant past, which further removes it from those thorny questions of divinity. Black magic surgeon: Doctor Strange brings the occult back to the big screen 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z The challenge of thorny problems like yours is finding a way to be helpful without acting as if we’re more powerful than we are. The Hosts Are Unvaccinated. Should the Guests Know? 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z It has been suggested, in the age of Killing Eve and Sharp Objects, that television is more hospitable than film to the thornily complex female anti-heroine, and if so, Gyllenhaal has been taking advantage. The Kindergarten Teacher: is this Maggie Gyllenhaal's finest performance to date? 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Growers shifted their attention to roses, and the thorny things thrived, thanks to Tyler’s sandy soil and typically mild winters. The Rose Queen of Texas 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z It is, most simply but also most elusively, a sweet and thorny tale of father-daughter bonding with a finely honed edge of generational conflict, propelled by two extraordinarily natural, utterly fearless performances. Review: In ‘Toni Erdmann,’ Dad’s a Prankster Trying to Jolt His Conformist Daughter 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z As far as the business side of it, however, the issue of sampling is thorny. Jimmy Page Talks About His Old Band, Its Legacy and Himself 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The use of rap lyrics in criminal prosecutions has long been a thorny topic, with critics and defense lawyers contending that negative attitudes toward crude and violent lyrics in hip-hop could bias a jury. Young Thug Lyrics Will Be Allowed as Evidence in YSL RICO Trial 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z “Wannabe,” the debut essay collection from Aisha Harris, a co-host of NPR’s “Pop Culture Happy Hour,” is at its best when engaging with those risks and the thorny questions of her profession. Seeing Yourself Onscreen Is Good, but Not Good Enough 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z As for why this is, that's a thornier question, with multiple potential answers. The Carpetbagger: What Helps a Film More: a Globe or an Oscar? 2013-01-15T20:57:49Z Now Smith turns his attention to the thorny issue of education. Is Jaden Smith the World’s Next Great Philosopher? 2013-09-18T13:00:20Z The holidays are a thorny time for people who are recently bereaved. The holidays are a lonely time for those who have loved and lost. These books can help. 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Thanks to its success, that quandary has become even thornier. PBS Showed TV the Future. But What Does Its Own Look Like? 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The production at 59E59 Theaters has the playful mood and aesthetic of an insightful and ambitious school project, traversing thorny terrain with deceptive simplicity. ‘Hooded; or Being Black for Dummies’ Review: A Tragic Pageantry 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z It is part of the Danspace series Parallels, designed by the choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones to examine thorny questions around the idea of race in dance. Dance Review: ?Where We?re Calling From? at St. Mark?s Church 2012-02-20T23:37:57Z Klay does not shy away from the thorny moral questions and psychological impacts of conflict, and the result is at once terrifying and thought-provoking. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z I reached the lunch truck under the shade of a thorny acacia tree, I got a second wind. 4,000 Miles, Seven Countries: An African Adventure on Two Wheels 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z It's quite short, however, for something that sets up such a complicated premise, opening a bee-barrel of questions and potentially thorny issues, and then just complicating them with extreme violence. Does MIA's Born Free video overstep the mark? 2010-04-28T10:30:00Z His intention, he stressed, was to raise the thorny moral questions facing senior administration officials when the top guy in the White House appears to be recklessly lurching toward global destruction. Is Trump Imitating Fiction? Or Is Fiction Imitating Trump? 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z This, it turns out, is the easiest solved of the thorny issues up for discussion in the packed Conner household. A ‘Roseanne’ for Our Times 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The intersection of loss and our virtual lives is a thorny, occasionally poignant and often awkward thing. Revisiting Millsberry: The wild rise and fall of General Mill's virtual cereal-themed town 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Issues of representation are always complex, thorny, and difficult. Poet Martín Espada: "The imagination is absolutely critical to political activism" 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Lynd Ward’s “Thicket” shows a thoughtful child weighing his options in a thorny labyrinth. Davidson Galleries’ ‘Wood Engraving Invitational’ 2014-01-16T21:48:16Z Each concert has its own arc and character, balancing deep rhapsody against thorny dissonance. Pop Music Gifts, All Bundled Up 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Last week’s big technology announcement spotlighted the thorny issue. Let’s watch a murder 2012-06-10T01:00:00Z Our usually cozy Copland took his rightful place as both the true contemporary of his thornier friend, Ginastera, and the antecedent of young composers like Mr. Norman, 36. Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic Makes the Familiar Feel Fresh 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Just over 20 minutes long, it’s more succinct than any other Shostakovich symphony, boasting wily, sonorous, captivating touches that take manic or thorny turns without ever veering into bombast — and that was the problem. Guest conductor Olari Elts to lead SSO Shostakovich program 2014-01-24T01:35:08Z And then there is the thorny matter of regrets: the business of what we could have done, if a spouse or kids or just the workaday need to make a living had not intruded. Playhouse finds resonance in Chicago's 'Working' lives 2011-03-03T02:00:12Z Coverage of several parole hearings sheds additional light on DeFriest's thorny profile. 'Mark DeFriest' documents a Kafkaesque tale of imprisonment 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z People who analyze how women are treated in film suggest that the paucity of serious movies about adoption reflects in part the subject’s often thorny nature. Film: In Rodrigo Garc?a?s Film, Rare Insights Into Adoption 2010-04-24T02:37:00Z It’s a relatively rare depiction of hazing onscreen, though it’s not unusual for television and film to use collegiate life to dissect thorny subjects. Rarely Depicted, the Ugly Truths of Hazing Play Out Onscreen 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Race is one thorny topic Kahn loves to probe. Joseph Kahn, the infamous director of Taylor Swift’s music videos, tells the ugly truth 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z In the piece “All Hail Elasticity,” Mr. Mitchell showed the strengths of this arrangement, with a capricious melody reinforced with thorny cross talk. Music Review: Matt Mitchell, With Trio, at Greenwich House 2012-08-10T21:26:44Z It’s a plane that occupies the thorny reserve of memory. Toni Morrison and What Our Mothers Couldn’t Say 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Brown is at her best in her chapter on consent, as she engages intellectually with thorny issues involving language, school culture and the more troublesome aspects of today’s parent universe. Review | How can we better raise boys? A new book looks at where we’ve gone wrong — and how to fix it 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z And the movie dances past all of the thorny moral and ethical questions of white people making Black stuff. ‘Wham!’ Review: They Made It Big, Then Broke Up 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z For it is in its score that “Into the Woods” burrows from its bright, sardonic surface into the shadowy, thorny recesses of the conflicted heart. Theater Review: ‘Into the Woods,’ by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine 2012-08-10T04:58:42Z Stay for the history of intelligence tests as a deeply racist enterprise and the thorny, unresolved examination of the disparities between the selves we present online and off. The Best New Podcasts of 2020 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z The particulars of Mommy & Me's storyline are being kept under wraps, but the film is said to focus on the thorny and funny sides of mother-daughter relationships. Meryl Streep and Tina Fey to star in Mommy & Me 2010-07-30T13:20:00Z In realizing these projects, Futter had to navigate often thorny city politics. President of Museum of Natural History to Step Down After Nearly 30 Years 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z “A Song of Ice and Fire” itself has a lot of thorny politics, notably when it comes to race. Have faith in “Game of Thrones”: We need its urgently human, primal fantasy now more than ever 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Last year, the Court sidestepped the thorny question of what is indecent by voiding FCC fines to two broadcasters. America’s new sex toy revolution 2013-03-09T16:00:00Z Shot through with looping rhetorical jokes and sight gags that play on the absurdities of the urban environment, the film seeks answers for thorny moral questions in the startling clarity only afforded by dreams. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The novel tackles the thorny subject of racial injustice in America. In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z The issue of how long film-makers should wait before attempting a meaningful interpretation of a youth movement is a thorny one. Youth culture movies: how soon is too soon? 2011-08-18T21:00:01Z President Biden and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, face a host of thorny geopolitical issues as they meet Wednesday in San Francisco: trade, Taiwan and the war between Israel and Hamas. As Leaders Meet, Musicians from Philadelphia Orchestra Tour China 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Characteristically, he is following “Two Pianos” with something like its opposite: Messiaen’s thorny, monumental “Turangalîla-Symphonie,” with the New York Philharmonic, beginning on Friday. For This Classical Piano Star, a Detour Is Business as Usual 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Be warned: It comes with all the thorny issues of coercion that Butler liked exploring. Review | Coronavirus feels like something out of a sci-fi novel. Here’s how writers have imagined similar scenarios. 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z In the long days between his early morning and evening workouts, the governor tackled every thorny public policy issue by convening with experts from across the political spectrum, and the world. Professor Schwarzenegger 2012-08-31T23:30:00Z The team also doesn’t shy away from highlighting thorny issues, despite the risk of having their app banned in countries that might disapprove. Blacktag Has Big Plans 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z There was a relaxed vibe backstage before their show, where the models were being made up with thorny nails. | Fast Fashion: Insects on the Paris Runways 2012-02-29T22:26:48Z Tackling an issue as topical and thorny as consent on college campuses suggests a writer who doesn’t fear, or even enjoys, poking a hornet’s nest. Sex, consent, gender, race: A potent cocktail in 'Actually' 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z The song's title encompasses the moral of this chronicle of mortality and survival, a thorny and intricate film that is also breathtakingly simple and honest. 'The Time That Remains': Darkly comic tale chronicles mortality and survival in Nazareth 2011-03-31T20:38:05Z In the late 18th century, a German Jew by the name of Moses Mendelssohn, the pupil of a rabbi from Dessau, grappled with the thorny Jewish dilemma. Millenniums of Tribulation 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z He hears a signal, a staccato clicking, that gets stronger as he scrambles up a hillside and through tight, thorny shrubs. An unlikely wildlife haven on controversial Guantanamo Bay 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Before I even get into the thorny issue of how the media represents female sexual submissives, I want to lay some groundwork. Evaluating female submission 2012-07-09T19:00:00Z Sesame Street is taking a new step to help American kids navigate the thornier parts of life in America: the opioids crisis. Sesame Street takes on opioids crisis as muppet's mother battles addiction 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z But it’s very hard to get that musical on — it’s thorny and challenging, but I don’t shy away from those. Alan Menken on ‘The Little Mermaid’ and the Mixed Blessing of Disney Fame 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Gabe isn’t a lead role, but Mr. Patinkin’s moving, understated portrayal of a thorny older man facing the end makes him the film’s emotional center of gravity. Zach Braff Directs and Stars in ‘Wish I Was Here’ 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Skiers and snowboarders sometimes want a little unpredictability, and Bretton Woods — part of the only true Alpine range in the Eastern United States — is nestled among some of the thorniest ski mountains in America. In New Hampshire, Can Bretton Woods Get Gnarly? 2011-02-18T19:55:00Z The phenomenon of passing is complicated, and rightly thorny. From the Philippines to Harvard, Boyhood to Womanhood, a Coming-of-Age Across Borders 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Alano Miller plays a thorny and cynical overseer whose seemingly questionable morals keep us guessing. Promised land: Citizens, superheroes and the Gullah Geechee Nation 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Hay’s method is to wake up bodies by asking questions — cagey questions, thorny questions, questions with no straight answers. Review: Dancing for Themselves in an Underworld of Shadows 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z We should therefore get a thorny matter out of the way. ‘Divine Pleasures’ Celebrates the Colors of Desire in Indian Paintings 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z As her investigation expands, the ethics grow thornier, not least because of corporate pressure and misogyny. ‘A Balance’ Review: Critical Distance 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z “Moon” is a thorny and extravagantly demanding play, and it took the American theater decades to clasp it to its bosom. Review: In ‘A Moon for the Misbegotten,’ Audra McDonald Is Front and Center 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z The organizers and participants acknowledge that engagement with an oppressive government is a thorny issue. Group of American Cultural Figures to Visit China 2011-10-27T00:20:49Z We should always resist the fallacy that we learn something essential about actors as human beings from the roles they play on-screen, but beneath that fallacy lies a thorny problem. “Boulevard”: In Robin Williams’ tormented final role, the beloved star still doesn’t know what he’s looking for 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z And through their stories, the series deftly engages the viewer with thorny, unpleasant social concerns, inviting us to comfortably in zones of discomfort for hours at time. "Little Fires Everywhere" is a gripping, soapy reminder of that yesterday's ills are still present 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Though still a long evening, it flowed now, and audiences were, for better or worse, introduced at the start to Bernstein’s thornier late style. ?A Quiet Place? Of Dysfunction And Dystopia 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z Trevor Noah is facing the gauntlet between impossible expectations and thorny subject matter, and he knows it. “I don’t strive to be offensive”: Trevor Noah tells Salon how his “Daily Show” will be different from — and similar to — Jon Stewart’s 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z But the question of who might watch is thornier. Tom Ewing 2010-12-23T22:14:01Z The legal wrangling centered on the inmates’ rights versus the public’s right to know and opened a constellation of issues involving documentary ethics and thorny questions of informed consent. Frederick Wiseman: The Filmmaker Who Shows Us Ourselves 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z "Norris's play nails the thorny subject of race relations with a bilious zest that takes one's breath away," says Michael Billington. What to say about ? Clybourne Park 2010-09-08T11:39:00Z They bypassed easy insults and ignorant caricatures in favor of confrontation and analysis, forcing listeners of whatever color to think about the thorny contradictions of identity in America and to laugh at them together. Adjusting to a World That Won’t Laugh With You 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The unusual events he witnesses gives Shawn and Gus the thorny job of sorting out a twisted case while navigating their personal lives and, possibly, the supernatural. New this week: ‘Psych,’ The Chicks album, ’30 Rock’ reunited 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Time Warner Cable customers went a month last year without CBS stations in a particular thorny dispute. Dish drops Turner cable channels 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z The key to thorny issues that require a balance between public safety and business interests, Holmes says, is not to leave industry heavyweights like Meinert on the sidelines. Seattle's Dave Meinart is a nightlife entrepreneur and a political player 2010-07-16T21:08:00Z But it does leave the viewer in the thorny clarity of what we know now, making it impossible to ignore the crimes of what came before. Letting go of Michael Jackson: "Leaving Neverland" wakes us from a false dream 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z I want to let Segel’s performance during our interview speak for itself, as does his performance in this thorny, talky, frustrating and intriguing film. Jason Segel on playing David Foster Wallace: “I’m starting to think the things we’ve been told will make us feel good are a lie” 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Though known as an uncompromising serialist, Babbitt in his youth was immersed in musical theater and even his most complex, thorny scores cook with spiky American rhythms. Classical & Opera Listings for Sept. 25-Oct. 1 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Almost the thorniest question to ask a designer is ‘‘Who exactly is your customer?’ Zegna Turns Jackets Into a World View 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z The film set was the workshop where one could confront thorny issues, from one’s own writer’s block to society’s malaise, from the mysteries of sex to man’s place in the universe. Federico Fellini: 5 Reasons He Still Matters 2013-10-31T17:35:27Z In her transfixing performance, she moves back and forth between a stubborn, thorny young woman fighting shame, anger and despair into a radiant being infused with hope. Theater Review: Sutton Foster in ‘Violet’ at City Center 2013-07-18T21:33:34Z Still, it’s illuminating to see this ballet, especially knowing what marvelously thorny vision Mr. Wheeldon would soon grow into. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Dances Balanchine and Wheeldon - Review 2011-09-25T22:17:14Z Both novels raise thorny questions about the burden and nature of Black manhood and its relationship to Black boyhood. Black Boyhood and Its Superpowers 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z The theme is “Broken Nature,” an appropriately thorny topic for the times. Who Is Neri Oxman? 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z There was also a great deal of foreshadowing with regard to the thornier politics ahead. "Game of Thrones" recap: It's a reunion! The dying can start any day now 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z But five years later, at a time when museum leaders across the country are being challenged on whether their institutions are systemically racist, few are confronting as many thorny issues as Mr. Salort-Pons. Has the Detroit Institute of Arts Lost Touch With Its Home Town? 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z But looking away from thornier truths and concealing the singularity of the people at the heart of one’s story risks perpetuating the very shallowness a project like this is meant to oppose. When Your Family Becomes a Noah’s Ark-Style Experiment With Race 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z A thornier obstacle, though, is that Gen Z is demonstrably less loyal to any single information resource than its predecessors. Long ago, younger viewers wanted their MTV News. Can we learn from what it did right in its prime? 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z In its brief run, Wilmore's show has tackled some thorny subjects, such as a recent episode that featured a frank discussion of black fatherhood. New 'Daily Show' host Trevor Noah heralds a new frontier in TV: diversity 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z But more than that, there was no room for Jelinek's intense, thorny writing in the conservative confines of the American literary establishment, where the entire history of modernism seems a thing of the unknown. The gripes of Roth: US incredulity at not winning the Nobel literature prize 2012-10-11T18:07:59Z Our review, by the science writer James Gleick, calls it “a thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science,” one that raises thorny philosophical questions. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Often as thorny as its subject but also oddly fascinated by his near-magical abilities, “Charlatan” is a temporary cure for the common biopic. ‘Charlatan’ Review: The Miracle Worker 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z As I dug through piles of economic texts and interviewed hundreds of men and women about the thorniest issues they faced in their marriages, I started acquiring tools to help me through everyday conflicts. Cultural Studies: Adam Smith, Marriage Counselor 2011-02-11T16:50:32Z By the start of “Book Three” he has morphed into the overweight, hence overlooked, thornily rebellious Kim. These Young Adult Novels Come With Back Stories: The Authors’ Own 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z While some academics and critics who favored a thornier modernism found Floyd’s works simplistic, artists and audiences embraced his compelling characters and passionate music. Carlisle Floyd: Artists Share Memories of a Composer 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z And while the show brings up tantalizingly thorny issues of faith, hypocrisy, sacrifice and selfishness, they are like dark clouds hovering above the story without ever breaking into a full-fledged dramatic storm. Review: In ‘The Price of Thomas Scott,’ Puritanism Prevails 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z He often succeeded, with popular early-career thrillers that tackled thorny political and social issues. Wolfgang Petersen, Director of ‘Das Boot,’ Is Dead at 81 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z “The Legend of Swee’ Pea” is thornier than a conventional sports biography, mainly because of the figure it chronicles, the basketball player Lloyd Daniels. ‘The Legend of Swee’ Pea’ Review: Obstacles Put Talent to the Test 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z The question of pain medication in sobriety — as well as the use of antidepressants and other psychotropics — is a thorny one. My slide back to OxyContin 2012-07-17T01:00:00Z But the whole horror story is starkly rooted in thorny, real-world technology, race issues and politics. Dear Match Book: I’m Seeking Satirical, Semifantastical and Stand-Out Literary Fiction 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z But in telling its story, “Feud” has one whopping advantage, in that Davis and Crawford actually worked together, side by thorny side. Review: In ‘War Paint,’ Sing a Song of Face Creams 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z This is Mr. Wainwright’s second venture into the thorny trenches of opera. Rufus Wainwright’s First Opera Was ‘a Nightmare.’ He’s Trying Again. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Zimmer does a deep dive into the question of heredity, exploring everything from how genetic ancestry works to the thorny question of how race is defined, biologically. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z The woman who emerges from this memoir seems much like the young girl she was, a very human mixture of insecure and fearless, thorny and placating, buoyant and depressed. Review: Carrie Brownstein’s ‘Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Listeners who overlooked Mr. Babbitt’s philosophical abstractions and thorny analyses — who simply sat back and listened, rather than trying to understand his harmonies and structural processes — often discovered works of great expressive variety. Milton Babbitt, Composer, Dies at 94 2011-01-30T03:00:14Z Since gender supposedly transcends biology, its relation to sex and sex differences is a thorny issue. The 1,328-Page Novel That Captivated the Primatologist Frans de Waal 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z William Jackson Harper, who played a conflicted philosophy professor on “The Good Place,” recalled having conversations with Schur about thorny variations on the Trolley Problem that made his head spin. Michael Schur’s Unending Quest to Be Perfect 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z The Prokofiev concerto itself is an angular blend of passion and reverie, infused with a wit that ranges from jaunty to thorny. 2013 SSO opener: Lang Lang, Morlot, Prokofiev are the stars 2013-09-13T14:01:09Z The thorny question of whether or not pianists should take the exposition repeats in Schubert’s late sonatas. Classical Music This Week: Schubert, Bloland and Lip-Synching ‘Salome’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z “He raises thorny topics about racism against Asians,” Ms. Tsai added, but he does so in paintings “couched in visual splendor.” Oscar yi Hou’s Paintings Lend New Frames to Queer, Asian Identity 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z It’s just a thornier path for some children. Perspective | For an impulsive, excitable 7-year-old, first get through the school year. Then dig deeper. 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z The image, tinted jaundice-yellow in some places and seasickness-green in others, was striped with thorny lines of static that made you feel as though you were watching the movie through barbed wire. My favourite film aged 12 ... Conan the Barbarian 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z But on a previous trip, I had hiked to the ragged stone remains of a sugar mill, overseer’s residence and a guardhouse, much of it overgrown by thorny bushes. In the U.S. Virgin Islands, returning to a changed but resilient St. John 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Though some of the subject matter is thorny and emotional, Ms. Glucksman described the making of “Witness” as “the most joyful professional process I have ever experienced.” Katy Perry Woke Up. She Wants to Tell You All About It. 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z A slightly thornier issue is the humour derived from this cruelty. Why Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z I don't agree with how the show handled that, or the reasoning for why it had to be Eskel who died, but I'm sympathetic to the writers who need to untangle these thorny issues. Why "The Wheel of Time" succeeds as an adaptation (and "The Witcher" fails) 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z If you are unable or unwilling to answer these thorny questions, Hall writes, “you might as well stop reading here.” Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z A thorny journey through identity and allegiance, “The Americans” was fundamentally a family drama disguised as a Cold War spy thriller. Are You Strapped In for ‘The Patient’? The Therapist Is. 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z It’s technology so new that, despite its thorny implications, has yet to be regulated. Review: In ‘Upload,’ Do Blockchains Dream of Electric Lizards? 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z A successful entry is “Nickel Mines,” a chamber musical that hauntingly navigates a thorny matter — the real-life shooting at a Pennsylvania Amish school in 2006. Review: New York Musical Festival Is a Smorgasbord 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z The panel avoided ruling on the thorny issue of how many witnesses should be allowed to testify about a defendant’s prior bad acts in a criminal case — an issue many lawyers hoped they would clarify. Hard lessons for lawyers in Cosby case; tougher for victims 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Shilvock, who worked with Mr. Gockley at the Houston Grand Opera and followed him to San Francisco, already runs some of the thorniest operations in the opera house. San Francisco Opera Picks Matthew Shilvock, an Insider, to Be Its Leader 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Stine and Agatha Christie — is a less discussed but no less thorny question about the method of the revisions. It’s Their Content, You’re Just Licensing it 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Barbara Kopple is one of only a small group of filmmakers who have received two Oscars for best documentary feature — and both of Kopple’s winning films concern the thorny, almost intractable complexities of organized labor. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z This proves a thorny task when dealing with men who led pointedly secret lives. These Gay Men Frequented Manhattan Piano Bars. So Did Their Killer. 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z It will be thorny, to say the least, with my dad and sister in attendance — and I can’t be assured that she won’t behave poorly. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Inviting your mentally ill mom to your wedding 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z These aren’t necessarily the greatest or most popular Monets in the world, but each of them is tough, thorny and beguiling. Paul Durand-Ruel, the champion of the Impressionists 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z He was steeped in music history and his work was fundamentally grounded in blues, but Ornette often put himself in situations where he had to come up with new solutions to thorny problems. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Ornette Coleman 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z The three-disc survey reveals a musical landscape which, though thorny for the players, produces music of disarming charm, strange beauty and sometimes dreamlike familiarity. Players Are Wanted for Ben Johnston’s Works. Some Sacrifice Is Required. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Charles Marowitz, who brought a thorny iconoclasm to a versatile theater career as a director, playwright, teacher and critic, died on May 2 in Agoura Hills, Calif. He was 82. Charles Marowitz, Director and Playwright, Dies at 82 2014-05-12T00:20:07Z But it fails to avoid thorny territory when the team agrees to form an alliance with white Chicago police officers. ‘A Most Beautiful Thing’ Review: New Life on the Water 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Sure, the book’s ending is a bit tidy; real life tends to be a lot thornier than the endings of middle grade novels. Jewish Pride, and Prejudice, in Veera Hiranandani’s New Middle Grade Novel 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z A rather thorny issue with the X-Men films as a whole is how poorly they’ve juggled their vast stable of characters, focusing primarily on the same white, often male, leads. The New Mutants: what should we expect from the cursed X-Men horror film? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z As they embrace the latest technologies, their work is bound to become easier and more effective, raising thorny questions about privacy, civil liberties, and due process. How Facebook could get you arrested 2013-03-09T19:20:01Z Hopper seemed to develop his own expanded, synthetic interpretation, probably shaped by his appetite for consciousness-altering substances, avant-garde art and thorny philosophy. Dennis Hopper's strange, brilliant career 2010-05-29T18:04:00Z In a time — the 1980s and ’90s — when some artists re-embraced representational painting and others tackled thorny political topics, Moore did both, and with unusual flair. Art Review: ‘Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore’ at N.Y.U. 2012-09-06T22:07:05Z Of Jane Austen's six completed novels, "Mansfield Park" is probably the thorniest and the least loved. 'The Beresfords': 'Mansfield Park,' 1980s edition 2012-07-12T17:39:03Z Reed's initial comments were vile, and his attempts to spin them as concern for the obese is laughable, but his wriggling does inadvertently shed light on a thorny matter. Is obesity a laughing matter? 2013-06-28T13:00:00Z But only a year later, he’d turned to thorny rock for “Time of the Last Persecution.” Bill Fay Was a Hidden Gem. One Musician Made Finding Him a Mission. 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z It might be Mediterranean otoro, the fattiest section of the bluefin belly, or it might be live sea urchin from San Diego, still encased in its thorny, black-and-iridescent shell. Sushi Capitol review: Dig deep, past the standard rolls, to find raw beauty 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Thus, that complicates all the thorny questions we wrestle with in even the sunniest of times about the ethics of travel. With CDC saying it’s safe for those vaccinated against COVID-19 to travel again, eager Seattleites weigh the pros and cons 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z “She could be spiky. She could be thorny. Her wit, sometimes it stung,” Shuster said. Fellow SNL writer remembers Anne Beatts as courageous, witty 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z As the writer Rebecca Jennings noted in Vox in an article about the online dance world’s thorny ethics: “Dances are virtually impossible to legally claim as one’s own.” The Original Renegade 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z It's an unquestionably thorny question to navigate, rife with irresoluble ambiguity. The latest explosion of allegations against Woody Allen has returned moviegoers to a familiar place: debating the ethics of seeing _ and possibly of loving _ Woody Allen films 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Sarno, a classic example of an auteur laboring in the shadows, used his genre to delve into thornier truths and anxieties about desire. 'A Life in Dirty Movies,' From Wiktor Ericsson 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z “Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us” insists on plumbing the thorniest details of history’s scandal, suggesting — convincingly — that certain truths are best revealed in fiction. He Planted a Bomb That Never Went Off. He Was Executed Anyway. 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Beyond that, there is the thornier issue of how much Strand has to stretch reality to paint Scalia as open to serious challenges of his views. Scalia and his audience 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z But Loewith doesn’t run from this thorny matter, either, and you can tell the team has thought it through and opted neither to radically reframe the moment nor to gratuitously undermine it. Spinning a big ‘Carousel’ at the Olney Theatre 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z It helps that Mr. Slatkin’s taste is broadly accessible; though they can be thorny, the works he programs tend to grab listeners emotionally, and he offers helpful introductions from the podium. Detroit Symphony Tackles an Adventurous Premiere 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z The issue is a thorny one for Nielsen, which acquired the Arbitron radio ratings company last year. 2 months of L.A. radio data may be wrong, Nielsen says 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z In a review, School Library Journal said the book “raises such difficult, thorny issues and doesn’t try to offer any easy answers.” Where Fiction and Reality Collide: Books and Black Lives Matter 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The petition raises a thorny question: Who is truly in charge of this peerless treasury of artworks for the next decades? Perspective | Who really controls Balanchine’s ballets? The dance world deserves to know. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z If the story needed very thorny dissonance, he provided that. Carlisle Floyd: Artists Share Memories of a Composer 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z But the dancers, by turn thorny and fluid, are the focal point as they navigate Ms. Shick’s theatrical terrain. Review: Vicky Shick at Danspace, Tough and Tender 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z As it progressed, the show posed thornier challenges for Sharon and Rob — right up to this season’s final and faintly ambiguous walk-off. Review | ‘Catastrophe,’ peak TV’s finest love story, drifts away as beautifully as it barged in 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Handicappers are facing thorny questions right up to showtime. Oscars 2016: Doubts Swirl on Viewers and Chris Rock’s Approach as Host 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z But rather than trust the audience’s ability to think through the thorny historical and ideological issues at the heart of the story, Mr. Redford and the screenwriter, James Solomon, descend, perhaps inadvertently, into Confederate apologetics. | 'The Conspirator': History?s Loose Ends, and a Tightening Noose 2011-04-14T22:29:34Z But this year will be remembered, rightly, for its thorny racial politics and for the way that Rock, probably as well as anyone could, held the industry to account on its biggest night. Chris Rock’s Oscars 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Adding thorny family dynamics to the mix complicates matters further. Review: In ‘The Mother of Invention,’ Middle-Aged and Not at Peace With Mom 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Perceptual experience, of which kinesthesia is just one part, is thornier and more multifaceted. 'Kinesthesia' exhibit in Palm Springs spotlights kinetic art in breathtaking new dimensions 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z They are twisted and thorny and beautiful, and wholly dependent upon that which holds them. Something Wicked This Way Comes 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The influx of original programs coincides with news reports about Netflix’s thorny relationship with cinema. Chipping Away at the Huge Block of Netflix Originals 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z It was a thorny problem, this balancing work and motherhood, but she took the long view. Google honors a feminist original 2013-04-02T16:11:00Z When circumstances conspire to make Mason necessary to Citadel again, the reverse transition makes for a thorny process. The Spies of ‘Citadel’ Have Big Plans: Global Domination 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Dunham’s knack for writing amusingly self-destructive women and dopey men remains intact, and her own turn as the mother caught in the middle is as thorny and complicated as the movie surrounding it. ‘Black Bear,’ ‘Sharp Stick’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z But too often the episode, “Rallying to Keep the Game Alive,” speeds past the juiciest, thorniest, most revelatory moments. Review: ‘Modern Love’ Is Charming but Uneven 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z That dynamic turns a possible part for Brydon in a new Michael Mann movie into a thorny issue. 'The Trip to Italy' a movable feast with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z “Discomfort has always served this band well, but it’s thorny,” Ms. Brownstein said. Sleater-Kinney Reunites 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Earlier this week, TIME’s Lily Rothman wrote about the backlash that often follows when celebrities wade into the thorny issue of Middle East politics. Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz clarify their views on Gaza 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z The books that I modeled mine after are really fun, engaging, fast reads that have a kind of thorny depth to them. Christopher Noxon on being a 'domestic first responder' and 'Plus One' 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z In 2011, 42 percent of the 357 deaths reported by the Border Patrol were in Texas, where many of the bodies are recovered from the thorny scrub of ranches. Who will claim the bodies of unknown immigrants? 2013-01-13T14:00:00Z Such a paradox, in which affection takes the form of enmity, is intrinsic to Benedick and Beatrice, sparring partners who begin as sworn enemies and wind up by vowing undying — if still thorny — love. Lily Rabe in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in Central Park 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z It's a place of scorching dunes, thorny acacia trees, wind-sculpted rock formations, stony plateaus and echoing canyons. Hot Stuff: Rolling Up Your Sleeves With the Bedouin 2010-05-20T11:30:00Z Noises off is choosing its words very carefully: this week we're discussing the thorny issue of censorship on stage. Noises off: cross purposes and web slingers 2011-01-12T17:17:12Z The recent years in particular have been filled with thorny projects — his talent more often tucked into some tight corner, a secondary player when center stage was his strong suit. Robin Williams seized the day in every role 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Azazel Jacobs’ The Lovers, which opens in the US today, follows in this noble, thorny tradition. Bad romance: a thorny history of marital strife on film 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Often the entire cast will meld into a single cluster of entwined flesh, suggesting everything from a thorny thicket to an erotic pretzel of confused identities. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Tailored for Multitaskers 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z It’s a sparse, thorny, unstable track — and haunting, too. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Strikes Back, and Fleet Foxes Return With a Folky Epic 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z The incident with Harrison is just the tip of the iceberg, or to use the "Bachelor" parlance, a thorny rose among a bouquet of such roses over the years. Chris Harrison exits as “Bachelor” host, but is the franchise salvageable? 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z The more visible problem of diversity among a troupe’s dancers hinges on this thornier one of leadership. Perspective | Black women are finally shattering the glass ceiling in dance 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z Your brother raises similar, but thornier issues: The protests took place over a year ago now. Should My Brother’s Bias Dictate Our Thanksgiving Plans? 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z And, perhaps, the desire to illuminate a thorny legal and moral concern of the digital age, for an audience with disparate levels of technological knowledge, may have stymied the play’s more nuanced ambitions. Review | A new play asks: Should the Internet let you erase your past bad acts? 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Political songs are a thorny issue for British broadcasters, which are bound by impartiality regulations, especially around elections. 'Liar liar': Sales boom for song attacking Theresa May ahead of election 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z That easy flow, though, managed to convey the opposite of ease, making this score sound more mysterious and thorny, and more engrossing, than I’d ever heard it. The Vienna Philharmonic Tends the Classics With a Perfect Partner 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Things like soaking precious beans overnight, shucking pounds of fresh peas from their pods, and gingerly trimming thorny raw artichokes to steam and eat with clarified butter. Canned Artichokes Deserve Your Respect 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z The Maori case is not the first thorny debate surrounding exotic cultural treasures in France's esteemed collections. Maori warrior heads' repatriation approved by France 2010-05-04T18:33:00Z Spec Ops: The Line's sandblasted Dubai setting played host to some thorny moral choices, while Marvel vs Capcom 3, Dead Rising 2, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and Portal 2 also impressed. Battle of the machines in Los Angeles 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z Once in the dressing room with Beau’s and my three picks, I came face to face with a thorny verity: It is the curse of the middle-aged male body simultaneously to shrink and enlarge. Does This Swimsuit Make Me Look Fat? 2011-06-08T20:34:03Z What follows is, for Jack, a rude awakening, an especially thorny chapter in his passage from innocence to experience. The Oscars: A. O. Scott on the Musical Movement of ?The Tree of Life? 2011-12-31T02:20:50Z But even their straight-up renderings of thorny classics of the European avant-garde are as compulsively watchable as an episode of “American Ninja Warrior.” A New Season for Reshuffled, Mature String Quartets 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Using the mugshot specifically on a beer label also raises thorny questions about whether it could be perceived that the beer is actually endorsed by Trump. Donald Trump's mugshot beer: How the Bud Light boycott bred the ultimate conservative cash grab 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z “Lo and Behold” is a strange, graceful philosophical inquiry from a filmmaker who does not shy away from thorny topics. There are two Washingtons, and this week you can see both of them on screen 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The four Indigenous artists featured in this show of 21 works take on thorny issues like race and Indigenous land rights. At Museums and Auctions, Paintings, Posters and a Magician’s Treasures 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z But it also promises progress in another thorny area: the long-standing and systemic gender pay gap. Women are increasingly getting the top museum jobs. Will more of them finally get equal pay? 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z More important, the book implicitly raises thorny questions about responsibility, agency and forgiveness, especially in the context of #MeToo and its fraught narratives of personal downfall and potential redemption. Review | ‘Howard Stern Comes Again’ gives a glimpse of a kinder, gentler shock jock 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z The production also raised thorny questions about how to differentiate cultural appreciation from cultural appropriation and accusations, fairly or not, that its white creators had engaged in a modern-day form of blackface. Protests Shutter a Show That Cast White Singers as Black Slaves 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z My own work," he said, "has often been labelled conceptual, as though it had gone down a certain path, entered a thorny, awful region ... This week's arts diary 2011-08-16T21:01:02Z Given the right encouragement, teenage boys are keen to tackle thorny issues such as misogyny and consent, and want to develop the emotional skills to help them handle their relationships. 'Any boy who tells you that he hasn't seen porn is lying. Porn changes what you expect from girls' 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Potentially thornier matters involving labor, power and global capital are skated over. Movie Review: ?How Much Does Your Building Weigh,? on Norman Foster 2012-01-25T01:00:22Z The definition of postmodernism is a thorny one and is not lost on the curators of the biggest style show dedicated to the movement. Postmodernism? London's V&A museum attempts a definition 2011-02-28T17:58:57Z Blossoms the shape and color of flame sit atop thorny tentacles of ocotillo, the dead ones collapsed and desiccated like ropes. "Finding the bones was heartbreaking": What I learned about migrants picking up trash at the border 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z But without the content restrictions of the major networks and their fickle advertisers, shows on HBO and Showtime could more freely explore such thorny subjects. From gay rights to Black Lives Matter: why network TV suddenly got serious 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Despite 13 years of a Labour government and numerous reports and inquiries, the thorny issue of how to pay for social care funding and tackle the burgeoning numbers with dementia has still not been addressed. Coalition agreement - the full deal at a glance 2010-05-20T14:13:00Z The sky was gray, and overgrown grass pathways and thorny pink rosebushes smelled damp from the deluge of rain. Rodarte’s Founders on Being the Newest Americans in Paris 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z “The Help” brings up thorny questions about race and history. Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z This film offers many answers, each extraordinary in their means of meeting others to ease our way into a painful, thorny field we'd rather not cross, but that Bell makes us less fearful to travel. The excellent "We Need to Talk About Cosby" skilfully opens a necessary, uncomfortable conversation 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Working with thorny dissonance but a gentle touch, he grounded the improvisation in an unsettled, wakeful vein. Music Review: Tyshawn Sorey’s Wu Wei Quintet at Greenwich House 2013-04-18T22:47:19Z “If they did, they would be looked down on. So they were mostly doing art about other things. And when they would go there, it would be a very thorny issue.” Call Them Dissidents. But Don’t Call Them Feminists. 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z How else to navigate the thorny ethics that seem to sprout up each year around the question of separating the artist from the art? The Thorny Ethics of the Oscars 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z And the national debate over Brexit has highlighted thornier questions — about what and who belongs inside British borders — that extend into the food world and, by extension, the Henderson Triangle. The Culinary Couple Who Built a British Empire 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Her music draws on a wide range of material from other mediums, including literature and visual art, in scores that are now thorny, then surging with a kind of contemporary romanticism. Perspective | The top 35 female composers in classical music 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z As the last man on Earth—or at least one of the last two—Ejiofor gives a thorny, nuanced performance that spans the extremes of male tenderness and aggression. Top 10 Best Movie Performances 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Posts include the thorny question "do films need music" and less thought-provoking "Deer in film". Internet picks of the week 2011-01-08T00:06:21Z They interview parents and students, teachers and politicians, and landlords and activists to illuminate a thorny urban upheaval happening across the country. Podcasts for Horoscopes, Adulting and Phish Fans: Here’s What’s New 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z The issue of how to contend with Song of the South is as thorny as the briar patch the film’s mischievous animated hero, Br’er Rabbit, calls home. Song of the South: the difficult legacy of Disney's most shocking movie 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z These and other serious documentaries are all the more welcome because they arrive at the start of Hollywood’s silly season, when the pickings are slim for thoughtful films about thorny issues. The Human Rights Watch Film Festival Explores Social Justice 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Broadly speaking, the final three are thornier and more troubled than the three before. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z With eight hours until the debate, Dan sat in his farmhouse dining room preparing to deal with what he considers a thorny topic: "Women's issues." This Democrat thinks his opponent has an advantage because she’s a woman. Is he right? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z As Mr. Carter’s centenary neared, the frequency with which his music could be heard only increased, making it clear that for at least two generations of young performers, even his thorniest works held little terror. Elliott Carter, Composer of the Avant-Garde, Dies at 103 2012-11-06T03:06:19Z The Manhattan furniture gallerist Todd Merrill, who produced the new Evans documentary with his wife, Lauren, said he has had trouble persuading original owners over the years to part with the massive and thorny objects. Antiques: The Furniture and Life of Paul Evans 2014-02-20T23:33:55Z Rebanks, a third-generation sheep farmer in England’s Lake District, tackles the thorny question at the heart of sustainable agriculture: How do you make money from the land without wrecking it? 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z This career-spanning collection of Ms. Williams’s stories solidifies her position as a thorny American writer of the first rank. The Top Books of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z No wonder, then, that Zambra and McDowell have made a good team here; “Chilean Poet” treats the thorny topic of collective identity not as tragedy, but as a familial comedy. ‘Chilean Poet’ Is a Playful Novel About (Yes) Chile and Poetry 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z He opened his first season in 2009 with an important revival of Hugo Weisgall’s “Esther,” a thorny, urgent and musically gripping work. City Opera Faces Hard Times With Daring 2010-12-18T23:20:19Z And this leaves the thorny question of what we are to think of these people. A Dramatic Play About Finance? Yes, if It’s Lehman Brothers 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z It wasn’t an easy monologue; it was uncomfortable, thorny, and one of the most shocking segments the typically inoffensive Oscars have ever produced. Chris Rock’s Oscars monologue stuns: “When your grandmother’s swinging from a tree it’s really hard to care about best documentary foreign short” 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z “The Morning Show” narrative draws its catalyzing heat from the thorny #MeToo themes of office politics and gender disparity, making it very relevant to the current climate. CNN’s Brian Stelter reflects on “The View” venom and leaving Trump out of “The Morning Show” 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Daniel Sullivan plants a hot kiss smack in the middle of his captivating production of the thorny “All’s Well That Ends Well” for Shakespeare in the Park. | 'All?s Well That Ends Well' : Flawed Man Draws a Good Woman 2011-06-26T22:27:12Z Thus we must move on to the thorny problem of the shepherds, which has troubled scholars since Justin Martyr raised the question in AD165 of whether or not they were really filled with "great dread". Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives by Pope Benedict XVI – digested read 2012-11-25T19:30:02Z “We’d been trying all these sounds and making these different kinds of music and I’d just spent a year playing all this thorny contemporary music,” she recalled. Caroline Shaw, Award-Winning Composer 2013-04-18T00:31:19Z Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Observer There is a perennial debate that occurs in the literary world, as regular as spring tulips but a good deal more frequent, concerning the thorny issue of genre. The Quickening by Julie Myerson – review 2013-03-31T09:00:01Z Of course, there are the thorny matters of privilege and expropriation. 'Ladies of the Canyons' tells the story of extraordinary women who blossomed in the Southwest 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Black film-makers, meanwhile, have given the genre two of its thorniest, most distinctive works. Streaming: great basketball films to watch after The Last Dance 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z He is then expected to turn his attention to the thorny issue of reforming English football's dysfunctional governance structure. Coalition agreement - the full deal at a glance 2010-05-20T14:13:00Z And this is where the humor crisis lives: in thorny, almost philosophical questions of intention, context and social power. Adjusting to a World That Won’t Laugh With You 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z But because that balance is not the same for every family or every child, things can get thorny. Motherlode Blog: Negotiating My 13-Year-Old's Social Life 2012-01-04T17:06:21Z In the meantime, let us all delicately start a conversation about one of this topic’s thorniest issues. What a Nice Vacation You’re Having 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Especially thorny were issues of condensation and evaporation. Lots of Wine, but None to Drink 2010-12-03T05:39:00Z Each represented disparate periods of the author's life, and in their heterogeneous ways, each guided me out from the thorny thicket of machismo that Hemingway had helped lead me into. The androgyny of being Ernest: A gender-fluid reading of Hemingway that upends his macho image 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Both are formidable writers who grapple with thorny topics in their lyrics. Damian Marley and Nasir Jones in ?Distant Relatives? 2010-05-13T17:54:00Z The song’s title encompasses the moral of this chronicle of mortality and survival, a thorny and intricate film that is also breathtakingly simple and honest. | 'The Time That Remains': In Nazareth, Human Comedy as Wind Rustles the Olive Branches 2011-01-06T23:52:20Z In the novel, she’s understood to be awkward, off-putting, thorny, superior, sometimes callously blunt. Bringing ‘Normal People’ to Sexy, Soundtracked Life 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z “The Hard Problem” is the title of Tom Stoppard’s first new play since 2006’s “Rock ’n’ Roll,” and it refers to the thorny issue of consciousness. Mind games and melodrama in Stoppard’s ‘Hard Problem’ 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Forget about the thornier issues holding women back, just buy a book, do things by the book, eat your quinoa cereal, buy your Trump pumps, and you’ll be CEO in no time! #WomenWhoWork: what we know about Ivanka Trump's plan to empower women 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z He treads carefully around thorny issues of love and money, yet paints a convincing picture of the relationship between Lennon and Yoko Ono and its impact on the financial and legal disputes which trailed success. You Never Give Me Your Money: The Battle for the Soul of the Beatles, by Peter Doggett ? review 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z The movie entertains some potentially interesting problems and shows an admirable inclination to delve into thorny thickets of female friendship. | 'Something Borrowed': New Lovers and the Old Triangle 2011-05-06T05:23:01Z It has been hailed as "a scalpel-sharp satire on the contingencies of liberalism", which "nails the thorny subject of race relations". There's nothing funny about putting racism on stage 2011-02-21T17:42:14Z Mr. Cannavale said he loves their confrontational nature — the blend of poetry, humor and animosity that emerges naturally from the thorny situations in which they find themselves. A Hard-Hitting Role That?s Close to Home 2011-05-25T15:10:54Z The other questions were more thorny, even after the first show finished. BBC Music Awards: The verdict 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The battle-of-the-sexes theme is less edgy now than all of the material about television and acting, which allowed Hoffman to spoof his own reputation as a thorny perfectionist. New Releases: 'Maze Runner' action starts early and never stops 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z The Gershwin is suave, the Carter, a Seattle commission not heard until after the composer’s death, episodically, thornily witty. Classical Playlist: Bach, Haydn, Seattle Symphony and More 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The question of whether one work unfairly appropriates another is notoriously thorny. Why Warhol Images Are Making Museums Nervous 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z The novel raises thorny questions about the cost of blackness. A Novel Imagines the Fate of Twin Sisters, One Passing for White 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z And “Toni Erdmann,” proceeding in a perfectly straightforward manner, from one awkward, heartfelt, hilarious scene to the next, wraps itself around some of the thorniest complexities of contemporary reality. Review: In ‘Toni Erdmann,’ Dad’s a Prankster Trying to Jolt His Conformist Daughter 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z As the piece finished, Mr. Schulte lightened the end of a held note with the very slightest diminuendo before a thorny little riff emerged and vanished. Music Review: Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance 2012-06-15T22:14:58Z A thorny love story proposes to take wing. Review: Francis Spufford’s First Novel Is a Swashbuckling Tale 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Lieberson was an eloquent voice in the generation of composers seeking to infuse the thorny rigors of academic music with a more accessible, lyrical sound. Peter Lieberson, Composer Inspired by Buddhism, Dies at 64 2011-04-23T23:48:51Z A biting, whip-smart satire on the thorny subject of organized religion, the Bollywood musical "PK" enlightens and provokes through outrageous slapstick. Bollywood musical 'PK' a radical film in extraterrestrial guise 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z Stopping him raises thorny questions involving the First and Second Amendments, and introduces broad arguments over liberty and innovation. Review: ‘The New Radical’ Asks, Is It O.K. to Build Your Own Gun? 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z He guided his pool of reporters through thorny ethical questions as they wrote about pressing social issues. Ed Asner helped usher in the secular rabbi, making America warmer and a little more Jewish 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z “On Freedom” explores some thorny ethical questions concerning its title subject, especially in regards to our relationships with other people. Why Maggie Nelson Is Drawn to Certain Autobiographies 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z And oh, right, the music: Did the thorny debate over the proper way to perform Bach play a role? A Firing and a Question of Race Roil the Oregon Bach Festival 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Watchmen has so much going for it, from the immersive detail of its speculative-fiction America to its thorny meditations on the politics of law enforcement. Riddle me not: why I'm sick of TV shows that revel in WTF storytelling | Charles Bramesco 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z It’s fair to assume that the Christ spirit did not inhabit Wilkinson, but whether she believed it did is a thornier question. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z At issue are thorny questions about the place of wild fauna amid the manicured flora of the suburbs and the gory details of getting rid of deer en masse. Battle lines drawn over deer cull 2011-11-25T00:00:00Z Prokofiev’s thorny Piano Sonata No. 6 — in many ways an “Appassionata” updated to reflect the horrors of the 20th century — also became a vehicle for Mr. Abduraimov’s purposeful storytelling and sense of space. Review: No Blood Spilled at This Concert (Though It Seemed So) 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Jeffrey Milarsky, the group’s music director, is a percussionist by training, which may be a reason for the easy facility with which he navigated the twists and rhythmic turns of these thorny, changeable scores. Music Review: Axiom Plays Boulez and Stockhausen at Alice Tully Hall 2014-04-21T21:49:17Z It was whispered that Carter’s thorny new String Quartet No. 2, soon to have its premiere at the nearby Juilliard School, would change the face of American composition. Remembering Jack Beeson, Composer and Teacher 2010-07-09T22:50:00Z All week we have sat at four tables placed in a square formation, 20 of us facing in on each other as we picked our way through the gorgeous, thorny script of “King Lear.” Learning 'Lear': Put It In the Blog! 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z In fact, the best sequence in the movie combines these ambitions of so-called inclusion with thornier American musical traditions. ‘The Little Mermaid’ Review: The Renovations Are Only Skin Deep 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Worse yet, her thorny brusqueness prevents her from making close friends. Review: In Christine, Rebecca Hall Shines as Troubled Newswoman Christine Chubbuck 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Similar notions hold true of the role of the series itself, adding a level of thorny discomfort to its narrative. To be a woman in “Westworld”: HBO’s brutality fetish still going strong in presumptive “Game of Thrones” successor 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Even so, the news does raise a few potentially thorny questions. Michelle MacLaren to direct 'Wonder Woman': How significant is it? 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z While that moment in the show may have made me feel uncomfortable, I was also grateful for the scene, and even the thorny feeling it inspired — theater should sometimes cause us discomfort. Review: In Clare Barron’s ‘Shhhh,’ Staging a Memoir of the Body 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Jean-Michel Tobelem, director of the French research institution Option Culture, said the itinerant circuit for fine art posed thorny questions about sharing masterpieces only with rich museums. ?This Space for Rent?: In Europe, Arts Now Must Woo Commerce 2011-01-23T23:21:17Z Clusters of acacias rose 20 feet, and thorny Indian plum trees grew nearby. The odd tale of Britain’s wall — a hedge — across a swath of India 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z He pursues thorny moral questions, including this one about nuclear retaliation: “Would it be justice, vengeance or pure genocide to strike back” once our country had been comprehensively bombed? Books of The Times: Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a New Nuclear Age 2011-03-01T16:45:09Z Mr. Spratlan concedes that not all audiences will take to “Life Is a Dream,” a rich, complex score that is often dissonant and thorny. Santa Fe Opera to Stage Lewis Spratlan?s ?Life Is a Dream? 2010-04-11T21:56:00Z Neither collector was given to the most radical currents of the day, and both avoided the thornier side of artists such as Picasso, whose cubist works held little appeal to them. One last look at Switzerland’s $300 million view 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z “There is no death,” she says right off the bat, resolving in four words one of humanity’s thorniest questions and bringing relief to her clients. Review: Death Is a Two-Way Door in ‘The Thin Place’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z That’s something to wrestle with separately, because it’s a thorny question with plenty of nuance. Beyond “The Joshua Tree”: Here are 10 more big music milestones to celebrate in 2017 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z I think we’re all going through a thorny cultural shift, reassessing illustrious artists who also may have demeaned or abused people. Joan Jett: ‘My Lot in Life Is to Battle’ 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z The science of bringing a test-tube baby into the world was formidable — not to mention the thorny ethical questions that IVF posed. 'A Perilous Conception': a test-tube mystery 2011-12-15T20:53:04Z The first part of the show is fascinating, if self-indulgent, as we watch creators attempt to negotiate thorny material in the highly sensitized environment that is art-making in 2019. Review: ‘jazz singer’ Looks to Complicate a Film’s Fraught History 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z As a teenager Mr. Eskelin had some formative bandstand experience playing house parties with her, but his own career would follow the thornier prerogatives of the avant-garde. The Week Ahead: July 31 ? Aug. 6 2011-07-28T15:11:28Z And young adult novels like to feature thorny social and family issues. ‘My Absolute Darling’: A brutal, tremendous novel about a tough teen girl 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z In Arena’s big fall production, a revival of the team’s 1945 “Carousel” directed by Arena artistic director Molly Smith, Rodriguez has the showiest and thorniest role. Can a good guy playing a bad boy finish first? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Reed, who won a National Book Award in 2018, blends intersectional politics and bodily hunger in precise, thorny language: “My horror and my need made sour housemates.” New & Noteworthy Poetry Books 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z But now after the Tintin kerfuffle, the issue is sure to become even thornier. The Oscars vs. Motion Capture: Tintin and Apes Snubs Raise Big Questions About the Academy 2012-02-08T17:02:25Z If a streamed single counted towards the official Top 40, one thorny question is how much one stream would be worth compared to one sale. Pop charts seek to stay on top 2012-11-14T02:08:24Z So the audience, in essence, will play itself — bearing witness to a performer contending with a complicated legacy: Lawson playing Vereen playing Williams, grappling with the thorny question of race and representation in America. Art, Reagan and blackface: Edgar Arceneaux examines controversial performance by Ben Vereen 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z In addition to inhabiting the existence of this paper man and the peculiar world he moves through, the novel also delves beautifully into thorny philosophical questions about art, identity and transformation. Gallagher Lawson discusses creativity and his debut novel, 'The Paper Man' 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z We discuss the thorny issue of who exactly is the straight man, and who the funny man, in the Parrot Sketch or the Cheese Shop sketch. Bill Hader: ‘I’m a fraud, I really shouldn’t be here’ 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Any thorny moments, as when a singer from a military family clashes with an immigrant vocalist over questions of national pride, are brushed aside too quickly. ‘Anthem’ Review: Flying High 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z He is a thorny soul, a man neither happy nor particularly kind, and not someone you’d be likely to befriend. Review: ‘Sunday in the Park With George,’ a Living Painting to Make You See 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Still, while he may have seen this as an easy win, electorate-wise, it may prove to be a thornier problem than he was anticipating. From the L.P.G.A. to Congress, Dress Code as a Cause Célèbre 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z It was clear to me that a life of rendezvous was far too thorny to navigate and that my future would best be spent typing on a nice Olivetti Lettera 22. T Magazine: Vexed in Venice 2011-12-01T00:10:20Z And that forces viewers to confront some of the thorniest issues of contemporary culture in uncomfortable and complicated ways, including identity politics, cultural appropriation and historical revisionism. Review | The American Indian museum comes of age by tackling this country’s lies 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Then there's also the thorny issue – neatly overlooked by Noth – that Sex And The City 2 was simply a very bad film. Wanted: whoever killed Sex and the City. So we can shake your hand 2010-09-28T10:39:00Z Never one to shy away from thorny topics, Tom Stoppard delves into the concept of consciousness in his latest play, which had its premiere in London in 2015. 72 Plays and Musicals to See This Fall and Beyond 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Award bonus points for arcane trivia, frequent visits and thorny or new works. The Met Opera Is Struggling. How Can It Fill Those Empty Seats? 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z These are the thorny issues upon which the fate of the monarchy rests, as the remarkable queen, now 85, inevitably ages and declines. History in the making: Kate, William are wed 2011-04-29T11:43:13Z Much of “A Path to Peace” deals with the thorny issue of Israel’s settlements. George Mitchell wrote 'A Path to Peace' about Israel and Palestine. Is there one? 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z As the characters grow ever more sodden, the mood grows thorny and dark. Laura Wade's posh | Interview 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z But communicating respectfully in the early years of parenthood can save you a world of grief as the children get older, and the challenges become thornier. Perspective | My husband and I disagree about what is safe for our toddler. How can we find common ground? 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Algren was a thorny character, there’s no doubt about it. Nelson Algren: Unappreciated genius of American literature 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z That, they said, would help smooth out some of the thorny racial issues, while giving an Asian-American actor the kind of leading part that has been hard to come by. ‘Iron Fist’ Actor, at Center of Whitewashing Debate, Asks Fans to Wait and See 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Set in the countryside in Idaho, the play opens with two characters whose relationship portends an emotionally charged exploration of a thorny subject. Theater Review: ‘A Great Wilderness,’ by Samuel D. Hunter, Opens in Seattle 2014-02-11T22:02:45Z She shares the program with Mr. Kogan, whose more character-driven “We Love Arabs” brings some levity to thorny issues of religious and cultural conflict. Dance Listings for March 13-19 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z This works beautifully with a thorny enigma like “Measure for Measure,” where concentrating too much on the characters’ warped psychology can strand you in a Freudian wilderness. Review: Finding Serenity in a Tempest-Tossed ‘Twelfth Night’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z All matters of related to this litigation were settled finally in 1998, making the "My Sweet Lord" controversy a crucial, thorny textbook case in the field of copyright law. Song authorship controversies, from George Harrison to Oasis 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Rather, the thorny questions raised should be used as a means for our progression. The arts need diversity schemes 2010-08-16T17:00:00Z Mr. Ridley sidestepped the thorny — and expensive — issue of music rights by focusing on an origins story that does not require using music written by Hendrix in his prime. Hendrix Biopic at Toronto Festival Bucks a Trend 2013-09-09T12:58:18Z Many of his most ambitious set pieces examined the thorny relationship between the performer and the audience, with sensitivity to the dangers of pandering. Lenny Bruce Shattered Taboos, but Was He Funny? 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z “Never Look Away” traffics in all kinds of thorny, ambiguous material: It’s about family secrets, psychological misdirection, the sometimes uncanny harmonies between artifice and reality. ‘Never Look Away’ Review: A Lush Adventure in Sex, Politics and Painting 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z W. H. Auden selected Rich’s volume and brought to the world’s attention Rich’s first thorny questions, embedded in lyrics, addressing a culture’s disengagement with its embattled selves. Adrienne Rich’s Poetic Transformations 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The politics of the Spanish Civil War were, and remain, thorny. Review: Adam Hochschild’s ‘Spain in Our Hearts,’ About a Strangely Literary Conflict 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The Visiting Privilege” solidifies her position as a thorny American writer of the first rank. Review: The Stories of Joy Williams: Short, but Seldom Sweet 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Intellectual property and ownership in the worlds of entertainment and design are notoriously thorny issues, said Galloway, the MoMA collection specialist. He Created the Katamari Games, but They’re Rolling On Without Him 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z But his colleagues know Matthews best as a maestro of the intricate world of Shakespearean drama, the man who can tell you exactly how to untangle a thorny text from “Henry IV.” Transmitting Shakespeare to the Next Generation 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z That was a facet of something I was trying to understand with the heavy, thorny text of Shakespeare. To Play Hamlet, Alex Lawther Became an ‘Expert on Grief’ 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z If the resulting portrait looks less like Sardinia than that other marooned, thorny island, Lawrence himself, this is no surprise. Lawrence of Sardinia 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Its unwieldy title only begins to suggest the thorny issues it raises. What to see in L.A. galleries: Andrew Masullo's off-kilter world, plus Gary Lang and Ruth Pastine 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z To re-enact or not? — have a way of opening thorny ethical and philosophical problems. Film: Documentaries (in Name Only) of Every Stripe 2010-10-13T18:08:00Z But what is timely and interesting — even thorny — about these films is their focus on the economic opportunities generated by athletic achievement. Review: ‘Sisters on Track,’ ‘LFG’ and the Price of Star Power 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z As Stephen, Mr. Jackson must navigate a host of thorny issues about race and class, which he took in stride. The Carpetbagger: De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson Are Supporting Actor Hopefuls 2012-12-19T23:28:11Z However, Paris’s fashion body has tried to address this thorny point with a statement sent to AP of solidarity with Ukraine. Dior reimagines feminist fashion in history in Paris show 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z His signature obsession is the thorny connection between good intentions and the bad actions they so often provoke. In ‘The White Lotus,’ Mike White Takes You on Vacation 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z While attending to ballet — always the thorniest of dance arts, as controversial as it is prestigious — I draw attention to two very unalike trends: one heartening, one dismaying. Hail, Dance, and Farewell to the Critic’s Life 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Moreover, he presciently foresaw that once freed from Spanish rule, Cuba would face a far thornier foe: the United States. ‘José Martí,’ by Alfred J. López 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z |
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