| 单词 | contradictory |
| 例句 | Yossarian leaned forward and peered closely into Oil’s inscrutable mask of contradictory emotions. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The adults would do their best to answer his questions, but their answers were often vague, or confusing, or contradictory, and then Bod would walk down to the old chapel and talk to Silas. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z For more than a year they had waited on a Queen who was petulant, cruel, contradictory, miserable. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I smiled at the thought of anyone trying to dowse for me now, trying to make sense of the dozens of contradictory signals as the leaves swirled and spun in a dozen different directions. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Several witnesses give their statements, but their information is so contradictory that it proves almost useless. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, the old Ionians represent a different and largely contradictory tradition, one in much better accord with modern science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a contradictory physical presence, taking up space, a decent-sized kid, but hollowed out. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z When he asked the local investigators to explain the contradictory evidence we had presented, he wasn't impressed with what he heard. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z All you had to do was maintain a shellshocked expression and handle a variety of contradictory objects. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z If the Bible were a somewhat contradictory source when it came to the question of slavery, the Declaration of Independence, the secular version of American scripture, was an unambiguous tract for abolition. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z When it came to slavery, it would seem, there was no singular vision, only contradictory original intentions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Instead of reconciling these contradictory observations, he had laid the issue before his colleagues. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Moreover, the social practice which we label ‘discovery’ can be confused, contradictory and paradoxical: it really is not always obvious who made a discovery or when they made it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Ortiz went to see the piece and was taken aback; it was, to his mind, clearly a fake, full of contradictory and slipshod elements. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z But the curious thing was that under the king-past of keeping faith with himself and with others, he had a contradictory nature which was far from holy. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z This contradictory way of believing seems to me, right now, the only way I can believe anything. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z We are perturbing our poor planet in serious and contradictory ways. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So, for Aristotle, all space is finite, all space is place, and the idea of an infinite extension is conceptually contradictory, just like the idea of a vacuum. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Everything about Hideo’s words seems contradictory, and I find myself standing in the middle, not sure what to believe. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z During the next two nights, the family received only sporadic, contradictory reports about the disaster: some said all hands had been lost; others, that hundreds of passengers had been saved. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The ideas about Dionysus in these various stories seem at first sight contradictory. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Adding infinite things to each other can yield bizarre and contradictory results. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Just as the father brimmed with contradictory feelings as he crept along the wall—humiliation, anger, and a grudging feeling of pride in his son—so the son felt his own contradictions. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z American physicists emerged from the war torn between two contradictory sensations. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Just why do you think,” he resumed when he had finished, looking up, “that you made those two statements expressing contradictory emotional responses to the fish?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In some contradictory way grief seemed to have etched on Mercy’s thin face a beauty it had never possessed. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The legends are very hazy and contain contradictory stories about the betrayal and ultimate fate of Hippasus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z About a hundred contradictory confused thoughts crowded Sierra’s mind at the same time. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The events that followed have a dreamlike quality in people’s memories, and the memories are contradictory. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This apparently contradictory object turned Brunelleschi’s drawing, almost magically, into such a good likeness of the three-dimensional Baptistery building that it was indistinguishable from the real thing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm still thinking about the tying of love and truth—and it makes me want to tell her the truth—the whole, contradictory truth—because otherwise, on some level, am I not that girl? Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z The idea that the three labs’ results were “ ‘not contradictory’ ... is an optimistic one for which I am not responsible, and to which I do not subscribe.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “So you harbored thoughts contradictory to the general good of the people?” said Jorge. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Their grandmother was looking at him, with a contradictory expression, half amusement and half interest. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Soviet women “were frustrated by contradictory messages: become aviators, but not in the highest levels of the military,” said Adrienne Marie Harris in her PhD thesis about women soldiers in the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z There was something contradictory about his athletic build and his disheveled appearance. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I had come to realize that I didn’t have any feelings towards the AT that weren’t confused and contradictory. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Sitting with me or talking on the phone recounting their experiences, they were flooded with turbulent, often contradictory feelings of fear, anger, sorrow, regret, and pride. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Schrödinger was trying to conjure up a chemical that would capture the divergent, contradictory qualities of heredity—a molecule to satisfy Aristotle. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If she wanted the Tillermans to go, then she wanted herself to go—in a contradictory way this was true. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z "By what logic do you accept the shooter's narrative without investigation, especially when there are so many contradictory reports? Why can they take Jack Franklin's word, but not the word of anyone else present?" How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The news of the battle was confused at first, incoherent, sometimes contradictory, but one thing was certain: here was a clash that roared with a violence and terror such as the country had never known. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z There were about a dozen watches in the window, a dozen different hours and each with the same assertive and contradictory assurance that mine had, without any hands at all. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z As for the boom, it had become a faraway blur, a kind of confused, powerful, contradictory dream that made some people chuckle and others wince in the retelling of it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Danny and I were soon involved in a heated discussion concerning two contradictory commentaries on the same passage, and Reb Saunders sat back quietly and listened. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The news about everything was confusing and contradictory. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Undeniably the instinct to support the arts went - and still goes - hand in hand with a desire to reach out to larger numbers of people, but the two aims were often contradictory. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z His contemporaries are divided on the question, and his own notes are contradictory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, as so often happens in love affairs, the two objects of his affection were contradictory. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Never mind what I make it, my friend,” observed Mr. Jaggers, with a knowing and contradictory toss of his head. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z What a contradictory person he was, she thought, hurrying along South Road. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t answer, as a yes would have been insulting, a no contradictory. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z This good news was followed almost immediately by a contradictory report from Comptroller Wolcott. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The Collinses didn’t know what to say to Bobby about his newfound convictions, which on their face seemed contradictory: If everyone has the right to be here, why was Bobby inveighing against Jews? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Even harder was the threat, or the confusion of feeling contradictory things. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, when she was with the gentlemen who called on her, she assumed a contradictory attitude, encouraging them with a batting of her Arabian eyes, but keeping them at a prudent distance. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Anything comprised of a combination of diverse or contradictory elements. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He took extreme care to prove that statement true by taking the word of his family even in the face of contradictory evidence. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A point that Aristotle makes that is particularly germane here is that arguments are made from accepted premises—“and many accepted premises are mutually contradictory.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Some of what she feels seems to her almost contradictory. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z In the midst of the tramping of boots, contradictory commands, cannon shots that made the earth tremble, wild shooting, and the senseless sound of cornets, the supposed Colonel Stevenson managed to speak to Arcadio. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z A. A combination of contradictory words B. The outcome of a sequence of events C. An implied reference to a literary or historical event D. A symbolic story or narrative.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z One of the problems, ironically, was that there were too many observations, which when brought together often proved contradictory and impossible to resolve. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The key insight, possessing the potential to unlock the mystery produced by the contradictory versions of what happened during the duel, is that both sides constructed their explanations around self-serving and misguided assumptions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z For a variant of gross-beaked finch to appear on a Galápagos island by natural selection, two seemingly contradictory facts had to be simultaneously true. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z You neither are agreed upon the Definition of the Soul, nor on that of Matter...How furiously contradictory are these Opinions! The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The scraps of information we received were frequently contradictory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z A short time later contradictory news of the war began to come in. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It was perhaps contradictory that the market for British art should be attracting a wider than ever international audience days before Britain itself made the decision to cut some of its international ties. Two Views of Cubism 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z That might sound contradictory, considering the presumed male-centric audience for this kind of film, but there’s nothing especially subversive or unusual about it. Male angst in the wild: Emasculation panic fuels “Backcountry,” a satisfying hipsters-vs.-bear thriller 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z “Divine is a great example of that: a man who has the power of being something quite contradictory, both female and male, both glamorous and grotesque.” We took John Waters to a John Waters art exhibit in Baltimore 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z His piece becomes an attempt to understand the extreme and seemingly contradictory forces that drive the athlete. Weekend Reading: Soccer Violence, Nazi Hipsters, and More 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Le Corbusier, one of the 20th century’s defining architects, a controlling visionary with a complicated and contradictory personality, has long had a divisive legacy. Book review: Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z At the same time, Portillo also finds that the story of Oscar’s life remains elusive, that the tellers of his stories bring a variety of perspectives and insights that remain contradictory and inconclusive. “The Devil Never Sleeps,” Reviewed: A Mexican Documentary Filmmaker’s Rare Classic About the Mysteries of a Death in the Family 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z To simultaneously think about how to front the band and then also be behind the band holding it, it’s just a completely contradictory role. Rock’s Not Dead, It’s Ruled By Women: The Round-Table Conversation 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z He finds himself both “in the eye of the storm” and “at a dead end,” pulled between two contradictory desires. Review: ‘Arabian Nights’ Offers Satirical Fabulism Amid Economic Austerity 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z You’re in a giant former military facility on Park Avenue, not in a Harlem ballroom — and that’s a significant part of the complicated, sometimes contradictory experience. Rashaad Newsome Pulls Out All the Stops 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z The second question has two answers, which are sometimes complementary, sometimes contradictory: Adam and the cello. ‘If I Stay’ Weighs Teenager’s Prospects After Horrific Crash 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Rather, it is speaking to a large, shifting, contradictory, multivalent body that is not guaranteed to hear or even to agree. Political Poetry Is Hot Again. The Poet Laureate Explores Why, and How. 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z His characters are bundles of contradictory impulses and qualities. Review: Ben Stiller Is a Dad With a Bruised Ego in ‘Brad’s Status’ 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z That said, Le Corbusier is too contradictory and controlling a genius to conform to nature or any curator’s thesis. Architecture Review: ‘Le Corbusier’ Exhibition Opens at Museum of Modern Art 2013-06-17T22:00:48Z Instead, contradictory impulses arrive in a startling sequence. Dance Review: Bront?s and Medea, Bent Into New Forms 2011-03-17T22:53:06Z They remember her as a woman of contradictory impulses: she was uncompromising yet playful, endlessly curious yet intensely private, and, despite being a caretaker, could be aloof to the point of callousness, even cruelty. Vivian Maier and the Problem of Difficult Women 2014-05-10T04:00:00Z Was any avowedly modern art movement as obnoxious and noisily contradictory as Italian Futurism? Art Review: ‘Italian Futurism, 1909-1944,’ at the Guggenheim 2014-02-20T23:31:22Z The seemingly contradictory logic behind the Sixth Circuit's decision is why The Onion's brief is so important – it provides a definition of satire from a position of experience and expertise. 4.3 trillion readers can’t be wrong — why The Onion’s defense of satire should be heard by SCOTUS 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z This was also one forte of “Breaking Bad”: presenting humans who are complex enough to contain contradictory personalities that don’t seem like contradictions. 'Better Call Saul' Season 1 Finale Recap: It's Never Stopping Me Again 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Which is to say that the Academy bestowing a batch of major awards to “Roma” and to “Green Book” is rather more consistent than contradictory. Oscars 2019: A Spike Lee Win Notwithstanding, Hollywood’s Dinosaurs Prevailed 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z At this point, Johansson’s inconsistent public actions and statements are a well-established pattern, most recently highlighted by her contradictory comments about “political correctness” in casting. Debating Scarlett Johansson's defense of Woody Allen, "View" co-hosts ask if #MeToo has gone too far 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z When we started interviewing people it was clear how much was "he said/she said," and how contradictory their statements were. "Enemies of the State" director on the twisty new doc with "too many secrets still in the story" 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z It’s too much contradictory information, and I get nuts about it. Perspective | A pile of advice books won’t end your parenting anxiety. Here’s what to do instead. 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z In the play, she recalls this incident in three contradictory ways, initially casting the incident as a carefully planned assassination. Review | A first lady and a diva show their vulnerability in two productions 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z The palette was muted, mainly black, white and khaki, but the contrasts in the 57-look show were delivered through the intentionally contradictory styles of dress. Secret gardens and co-ed styles hit Paris men’s collections 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z The narratives are drawn from news photos, which record a history that is complex, even contradictory. TriBeCa Gallery Guide: New York’s Most Vibrant Art Scene 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z It’s no wonder that Samir can dissemble so successfully; Tuil is just as crafty in this narrative, shifting tones without warning, holding a straight face through the most acerbic parody of our contradictory ideals. ‘The Age of Reinvention’ review: A novel of Islamophobia and deception 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z But he’s also a fan of the contradictory theory that the accusations are true in a material sense, but should be blown off on the grounds that the accusers had no right to refuse consent. Bret Easton Ellis goes on a misogynist rant to defend his buddy, accused rapist James Deen 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Exposure to the online torrent of “incomplete, redundant, and often contradictory” information that now invariably follows a major news event is counterproductive and leaves us less informed, he writes. The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z “Welcome to the era of extreme fame leverage,” the magazine continued, in somewhat contradictory fashion: on Planet Forbes, it seems, fame is merely a baseline from which to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Generation Wealth: how the doc fails to capture Trump's America 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Like any real dramatist, Rattigan is able to comprehend contradictory points of view. Theatre review 2010-06-09T02:09:00Z Wade — emerges as a contradictory figure, both heroine and villain of her story and one whose views on abortion are as complex as those of her fellow citizens. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z He's changing his behavior and being very contradictory. "Slalom" director on pushing limits & the abuse of a skier by her coach: "This film is about bodies" 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Only later does she find herself embroiled in a mix of private and public rows that reveal the contradictory impulses behind the project. Little Platoons ? review 2011-01-25T18:30:04Z As in a Cassavetes movie, “Twelve Thirty” is a field day for talented actors to cut loose and create complicated, contradictory individuals whom you feel you both know and don’t know. | 'Twelve Thirty': In States of Undress, Mental and Physical 2011-01-14T00:17:47Z Although Ms. Blunt struggles to create a coherent character, Michaela is less a human being than a bundle of contradictory tics. Movie Review: ‘Arthur Newman,’ Starring Colin Firth and Emily Blunt 2013-04-26T00:31:05Z So he said unto himself many more meaningless and contradictory statements until he reached the city. Digested classic: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 2010-04-30T09:38:00Z As the showdown in Wallace's graduate workshop indicated, the American novelist is buffeted by two increasingly contradictory imperatives. How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z Perhaps it hints at a contradictory wish for disembodied perfection at the heart of human desire. Season's reading: I Sing of a Maiden 2010-12-21T16:11:01Z When we on the pro-choice side get cagey around the life question, it makes us illogically contradictory. So what if abortion ends life? 2013-01-23T15:43:00Z But the Yiannopoulos controversy is made harder to parse by a slippery characteristic of contemporary book publishing: the sheer size of publishing conglomerates, and the vast, often ideologically contradictory, array of books that they peddle. Milo Yiannopoulos’s Cynical Book Deal 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z There are two contradictory sets of questions in the case, depending on who is asking, and Ms. Garbus pursues them all. Television Review: Pursuing Answers, Two Years After a Tragic Collision 2011-07-24T21:55:42Z But Mr. Seavey makes clear that their identities and ideologies are flexible, evolving and sometimes contradictory. Review: ‘Homos, or Everyone in America,’ Urban Gay Life in Bittersweet Focus 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z The show’s making was unusually fraught, plagued by the leaks, squabbles and contradictory briefings that also characterize British politics. Brexit Is Dividing Britain. So Is a Brexit Movie. 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z In creating Macbeth, “Shakespeare embodied a single character with a full and often contradictory range of human traits – ambition, weakness, gullibility, bravery, fearfulness, tyranny, kindness.” Why I loved Charlie Brown and the Peanuts cartoons 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z With the external world thrust into the contradictory duality of chaos and stagnation, he is drawing on his practice of looking inward at an existence he sees as eternal, imbued with joy and playfulness. Laraaji’s music has emphasized stillness and calm for decades. Now the world is trying to get on his level. 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z The Trainspotting director added that Jobs was a thoroughly “contradictory” and “complex” character who has “forged our digital age”. Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs film to be 'centrepiece' at New York film fest 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z The essay form is best for making an argument that is more or less rational, and my feelings on the subject are too complicated and contradictory for that. Mary Gaitskill on the Power of Fiction for Examining #MeToo 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z He articulates the burdens women face, the double standards and unfairness, the contradictory impulses of a sexist world, with a fluidity and fluency that can oddly lead to a kind of resentment. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z The more time Henriques spent with him, the more she understood him as a contradictory figure. How do you humanize Bernie Madoff for an HBO movie? Simple: You don’t. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Morris’s heroine too dances here as if different waves of contradictory emotion were hitting her. Signs of Choreographic Life: Alexei Ratmansky and Mark Morris 2012-01-27T19:35:36Z The next, a series of contentious and contradictory statements were released, and Ms. Cabello found herself on the lonely end of a sharp divide. How Camila Cabello Lost Some Friends and Found Her Voice 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z He made contradictory impressions on people who encountered him. Art Review: Versatile Collagist, Dangerous Times 2011-03-31T22:05:39Z Life for these characters is messy, contradictory and unresolved — a straightforward realism that exists even in Tesori’s more mainstream projects. 'Fun Home' composer Jeanine Tesori hears the music in everyday life 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z All those contradictory kinetic clichés are pulsing away in Elevator Repair Service’s mesmerizing “The Sound and the Fury,” which opened on Thursday night at the Public Theater. Review: ‘The Sound and the Fury,’ Elevator Repair Service’s Take on Faulkner 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z And in the space of a single feature that Goldberg on Monday described as “a fun read,” she reveals the peculiar, seemingly contradictory philosophy of Bustle and its head honcho. The New Yorker busts Bustle 2013-09-16T17:27:00Z As a result, it’s become a contradictory form—the late-night talk show is frenetic and pointless, relevant and irrelevant, funny and not-funny. Larry Wilmore’s challenge: Why he could be the black late-night host who makes it 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Bernstein seems, in Wolfe’s caricature, grand, withdrawn, contradictory, exasperated, squeezed. Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Patrizia urges Maurizio to cultivate alliances with his uncle and cousin, and then schemes to push them out, but rather than being interestingly contradictory her motives just seem incoherent. ‘House of Gucci’ Review: Murder, Italian-Style 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z To put it mildly, it's a bit baffling and contradictory. DC's 'reservoir dogs' attack Chuck Hagel with oxymoronic ads 2013-01-24T21:32:43Z Attitudes toward women at different periods in history also changed how her story was told, and wildly contradictory portrayals of her in literature and art over the centuries have further clouded our view of her. Philly hosts world premiere of Cleopatra exhibit 2010-06-04T20:09:00Z “The most contradictory opinions are now urged at high and all-highest level,” a German diplomat lamented. What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire? 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Metal I-beams and disintegrating concrete dominated the space, serving as a dramatic, contradictory backdrop for a collection that was full of polish and sophistication — and the joy of experimentation. At Proenza Schouler show, all rules about leather in spring melt away While watching “Leaving Neverland,” it is admittedly difficult to hold in mind two contradictory but equally imperative ideas: that victims should be believed, and that the accused are innocent until proven guilty. A Day of Reckoning for Michael Jackson with “Leaving Neverland” 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z But you needn’t buy Cahill’s complex, occasionally contradictory thesis in its entirety to find this one of the most ambitious, fascinating and weirdly endearing films of recent vintage. REVIEW: I Origins: The Eyes Have It 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z A riotously colorful, floral-patterned jar of enamel-painted copper, wrapped by a trompe l’oeil pink ribbon tied into a bow in front, delights in contradictory levels of illusion and reality. Art Review: To See a Universe in the Tiny Details of Chinese Artifacts, Boxes to Birds 2010-12-31T23:22:04Z He was prolific and contradictory, a child of activists signed, late in his career, to Death Row, the label that mainstreamed gangster rap. ‘Holler if Ya Hear Me’ Uses Songs by Tupac Shakur 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z That huge mosaic piles up dozens of seemingly contradictory symbols from Christian legend, Greek myth, Scandinavian folklore, Persian fable and more. Polly Apfelbaum's fallen paintings and beads of devotion in her secular chapel of abstract art 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z The couple’s devotion does not quite square with Poe’s louche, alcoholic temperament, and Mr. Cusack works himself into a lather trying to reconcile the contradictory parts of an incoherent character. Movie Review: ?The Raven,? With John Cusack, Directed by James McTeigue 2012-04-26T23:19:38Z I was turning up so much contradictory information that I finally ran to Barnes and Noble to pick up a “definitive” tome called The Bed Bug Survival Guide, only to find mixed messages there too. Chainsaws, fire and paranoia: my total bedbug meltdown 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z That same seemingly contradictory combination will certainly mark the send-off for the series itself, which begins its third and final season on Sunday night. ‘Getting On,’ Played With Crudity and Grace 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z In his lucid book about this complex and contradictory figure, Robert Elder wisely refrains from assigning Calhoun to a stationary spot along the political spectrum. John C. Calhoun: Protector of Minorities? 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Which is just to say that Mr. Rock was alert to the contradictory nature of the task at hand. Let’s Talk About the Oscars: An Evening of Squirming 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z In an email, "Office" show runner Greg Daniels noted how Wilson made Dwight "more than a nerd" by combining distinct and seemingly contradictory traits. For 'Backstrom's Rainn Wilson, oddball roles just come naturally 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Mondavi’s vision was twofold and, given the economics of the wine business, contradictory. Fifty years ago, Robert Mondavi transformed Napa Valley — and American wine 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z Behind all her photographs lies the force of her huge, contradictory personality: romantic, ruthless, tender, tenacious, heartfelt, hubristic. Review | Sally Mann: A great artist who loves tumbling into trouble 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z When The Toronto Sun asked her in 2003 whether she was planning to retire, she answered: “From what? I love this chaotic, contradictory, loving mess that has been my life.” Olympia Dukakis, Oscar Winner for ‘Moonstruck,’ Dies at 89 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Bradley was noting the longstanding — and contradictory — research into the potential carcinogenic effects of eating food that has been cooked at high heat. Are burnt foods really bad for you — and why do we love them so much? 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z I found his answers evasive and often contradictory. The tangled tale behind The Devil's Double 2011-08-13T10:00:01Z Sometimes the oversight seems fickle, sometimes contradictory, and often the sponsors seem frustrated by the process. Why does it take so long for memorials to be built in Washington? 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Collins heightens such contradictory feelings with a wistful soundtrack provided by Stereolab. Fastest! Tallest! Marxist! The visual art of Phil Collins 2011-02-06T22:29:00Z The diagnosis has “made me try to focus even more on what multiple contradictory things are most important to me.” A Pianist Adapts to Life With Parkinson’s Disease 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Henderson accepts statements by the circus people at face value, dismissing contradictory information. Letters from readers 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z But it is nonetheless a movie that fastens onto some of the contradictory ways Americans — and American filmmakers — are used to thinking about that knotty matter. Film: Drive and Determination of Zuckerberg and Gekko 2010-10-02T00:56:00Z Through interviews and archival material, the film portrays the movement as complex and often contradictory, divided between secular and religious goals almost from its inception. Review: ‘Colliding Dreams’ Explores Varying Viewpoints on Zionism 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott, the chief film critics of The New York Times, examine this complex, at times contradictory character. Arts & Leisure: Katniss Everdeen, a New Type of Woman Warrior 2012-04-04T12:00:00Z ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Movies about American history tend to be somber, responsible and pious, even as the history itself is completely crazy — violent, tragic, ridiculous and contradictory. A. O. Scott’s Top Movies of 2013 2013-12-11T15:00:05Z There is perhaps no episode in all of film history quite as encrusted with contradictory significance as the cresting, in 1959 and 1960, of the Nouvelle Vague. Film: A Fresh Look Back at Jean-Luc Godard?s ?Breathless? 2010-05-21T17:18:00Z By turns revolutionary and retrograde, liberated and conservative, a traditionalist who defied labels and loved a title, Colette was nothing if not contradictory. The Essential Colette 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z We live in a world that is complicated, contradictory. Why I didn't sign the Charlie Hebdo protest letter 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z His ultimate object of contemplation was his own contradictory self, and he turned his obsession with fragmentation, discontinuity and the limits of language into a spectacle that enchanted children, disturbed adults and fascinated postmodernist critics. Jerry Lewis, Mercurial Comedian and Filmmaker, Dies at 91 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z He is compassionate, but also unstudied, slightly naive, contrarian, contradictory and compulsive. Jeremy Irons: ‘I have the natural tendency of a benign dictator’ 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The wit, economy and detachment that she achieved in her fiction also played in her personality, and there, too, they masked contradictory qualities. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala obituary 2013-04-03T15:24:01Z If anything, our contradictory collective fantasies around someone like Jobs seem symptoms of a moral malaise in our society, if not the ruthlessly aggressive individualist core driving our late capitalist culture. Steve Jobs, messiah to jerks: Are we worshiping innovation, or just the freedom to be an a**hole? 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z This perhaps sounds like a rather contradictory arrangement. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Performs Balanchine at Koch Theater 2012-02-01T22:25:02Z They're variously shocking, funny, thought-provoking, nonsensical, contradictory and occasionally reprehensible: the only consistent thing about them is how inconsistent they are. Kanye West: Yeezus – review 2013-06-17T14:56:34Z On one level this was a sensitive look at a complex and in some ways contradictory society; on another level it was just about really big dresses. TV review: Big Fat Gypsy Weddings and Miracle in the Marshes of Iraq 2011-01-18T22:00:05Z One of its most biting sketches imagined a focus group where the wildly contradictory negative feedback about a show involved prescriptive demands. ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’ Has the Most Exciting Comics (and the Silliest) 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z She creates an uncommonly candid portrait of frustrated motherhood, even while deconstructing the art of memoir with all its contradictory potential to reveal and disguise. The trouble with the bad mother memoir 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Two slightly contradictory morals might be drawn from this truth. The Meanings of Ivanka and Justin Side by Side on Broadway 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z “You proceed at your peril,” Mr. Singer wrote, saying that Ms. Dickinson had told a contradictory story in her memoir more than a decade earlier. Cosby Team’s Strategy: Hush Accusers, Insult Them, Blame the Media 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Which turns out to be the perfect voice for expressing the thoughts and drives of the diverse immigrants in the American colonies who came together to forge their own contentious, contradictory nation. Review: ‘Hamilton,’ Young Rebels Changing History and Theater 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z “I realized what was happening in my communities and the value systems that were driving it were contradictory to the form of tourism that I was being a part of.” Hawaii Is a Paradise, but Whose? 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The defining characteristic of the monster, Mr. Carroll argued, is that it’s hard to classify, categorically incomplete or contradictory, or just generally hard to understand. Gray Matter: The Critique of Pure Horror 2011-07-17T04:49:00Z Still others probably resist it in diffuse and internally contradictory ways. Politics and Fiction and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z It's contradictory that the women on a dance competition reality show that championes women of color and their challenges as fat women allegedly ended up facing abuse. That Lizzo lawsuit reminds us that even our progressive faves can be a disappointing letdown too 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z A battleground of contradictory impulses, ideologies and desires. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z Try to describe it and you inevitably tumble into a deep mountain mine of contradictory clichés. Ralph Stanley’s Inimitable Voice 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z On his announced subject, he presented a series of arguments that could seem contradictory, but were actually carefully nuanced. Today's Lecturer on Music and Economics: Iggy Pop 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Inevitably, that symbolism is shattered when the duck is shown to have multiple, sometimes contradictory qualities. How a Joke Becomes a Meme: The Birth of ‘Milkshake Duck’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z For the first half of the novel, these two contradictory yet strangely harmonized accounts of the marriage’s decay command most of the attention. “Gone Girl”: Marriage can be murder 2012-06-04T00:00:00Z For all these reasons, his work is complicated and even contradictory. Shomei Tomatsu 2010-09-06T13:41:00Z These qualities should be contradictory, but instead they reinforce each other. The Practical Magic of Joan Aiken, the Greatest Children’s Writer You’ve Likely Never Read 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Different townspeople espouse multiple and contradictory ideologies; none translates into purposeful action. Dostoevsky warned of the strain of nihilism that infects Donald Trump and his movement 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z For her final farewell Ms. Winfrey chose to separate the two contradictory strands — spiritual guide and show-business diva — that are the alchemy of her success. The TV Watch: Showbiz Diva Gives Thanks and Signs Off 2011-05-25T22:00:20Z But that we don’t always know how to integrate seemingly contradictory truths doesn’t mean one must be a lie. Maybe the word “rapist” is a problem: The utility of nouns and verbs, or accepting who we are and what we do 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The story glows with enchanting asides and stitches together how Jesus' life and meaning were edited and refined through the ages from contradictory accounts and incongruous translations. Tom Bissell's 'Apostle' takes a ride-along through unanswerable questions about Jesus' disciples 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z These characters are all alike in that they are all contradictory. | 'The ___________ With the Hat': A Love Not at a Loss for Words 2011-04-12T06:30:20Z “Two terms which are in a way contradictory — large audiences, beyond the art world — and most contemporary forms of art.” A Masterful Debut, but Can It Rise to Greatness? 2010-05-12T12:30:00Z Not that these guys need any help being contradictory; each contradicts himself, changes his mind, signals one thing and then does another. Just When Restaurants Thought 2020 Couldn’t Get Any Worse … 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions — there’s all this contradictory information inside a human personality.” The Passage of Justin Cronin 2012-10-07T07:00:05Z At first glance, President Obama’s legacy on immigration enforcement appears contradictory indeed. How did we get here? From Bill Clinton to Donald Trump, the immigration debate has been divisive 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z His opinions are sometimes contradictory, but they are always strongly expressed. Why David Chang Matters 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Cutter’s prominence puts her in a contradictory position. Stephanie Cutter Is a Messenger Who Does the Shooting for Obama 2012-10-13T00:12:59Z There were many opinions, contradictory ones as well. A Dutch Museum Celebrates, and Reflects 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z But this is a trick too: What Ball already sees is rich, contradictory and, at times, enough. Four New Poetry Collections Confront Despair With Wonder 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z He complains a lot about America’s puritanical, contradictory attitudes toward sex and likes to say that he is a “one-eyed man in a blind world.” How Hef Got His Groove Back 2011-02-06T07:48:01Z Weber: I’m going to say two contradictory things. How the Clinton-Gingrich years became ‘the good old days’: Republicans revisit 1994 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z They encourage their clients “to put in writing a wish list, in no particular order, things big and small, even things that seem contradictory.” 2009-11-01T04:00:00Z It often seems as if he is using drama to explore his own contradictory attitudes to the subject. Alan Bennett: a quiet radical 2012-10-12T09:38:00Z The plot presents four contradictory accounts of the circumstances surrounding the killing. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘A Tale of Two Kitchens’ and ‘The Wrestlers’ 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z But lately that criticism has taken on an unapologetically political — and often contradictory — bent that reflects both a need for diversity and a new demand for “authenticity.” Authenticity in casting: From 'colorblind' to 'color conscious,' new rules are anything but black and white 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z His 100-point scale, while admirable in its effort to weigh contradictory evidence, seems relatively arbitrary. Books of The Times: Crunch the Numbers; Solve a Famous Murder 2011-06-02T21:24:11Z "Hard and Soft," a compelling show at Acme gallery in Los Angeles, substantiates a single general point about clay's contradictory attributes. In 'Hard and Soft,' four sculptors explore contradictions in clay 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Stone creates a film that is as passionate, contradictory, inflammatory and deranged as the man himself. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z But the most essential text is by Mr. DeWitt, who grapples with the sometimes contradictory implications of Rembrandt’s Jesus. Art Review: ?Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus? in Philadelphia - Review 2011-08-26T04:00:08Z All the Way captures him in all of his frustrating complexity, and his contradictory nature allows his meaning to ebb and flow with time. Why is Lyndon B Johnson suddenly prevalent in pop culture? 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z “The boards of all these organizations are receiving contradictory messages,” Mr. Walker said. The Disrupters: Making New York’s Cultural Boards More Diverse 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z It will be the first American museum survey of the most obstreperous, contradictory and possibly least loved of all strains of early European Modernism. New York Times Critics on What They Want to See 2013-12-31T23:10:26Z But the two views might not be as contradictory as they seem: Perhaps the bomb matters less than policymakers believe precisely because they believe it matters so much. Nuclear Nightmares 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z The magazine credits "expert local sessionmen" with helping to create "an almost contradictory magnificence: a tightly wound tension around Dylan's quicksilver language and incisive singing." Joe South, singer-songwriter from 70s, dies at 72 2012-09-06T11:41:12Z It’s absolutely devastating, and one of the most beautiful pieces of music I’ve heard all year — one that seems to authorize the contradictory emotions it captures and sets free. Review | At Kennedy Center recital, baritone Will Liverman is a voice for this historic moment 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z Whether it's at Live Aid, with a concert after 9/11, or as patrons of the Teenage Cancer Trust, the band remain an oddly contradictory mixture of rock'n'roll devastation and the promise of renewal. This week's new live music 2011-01-08T00:06:12Z Local residents, a sizable number of whom work at the airport, are campaigning in the usual contradictory way for nothing to change — to keep Heathrow open but deny it a third runway. At London's Heathrow, a New Terminal and an Uncertain Future 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Long a site of collision — politically, racially — and contradictory cultural history, Atlanta was called “south of the North, yet north of the South” by W.E.B. How Atlanta History Shaped Lil Baby and Generations of Rappers 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Ms Merridale unpicks the contradictory accounts of what happened on the border. Missed connection 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Beyond that point, you may need poetry or the equivalent to map a territory so ambivalent and contradictory and full of longing. Greg Jackson on the Dialogue Between Myth and Reality 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z It regularly fulfills its contradictory “Pretty/Dirty” subtitle, sometimes within the same work. A ‘Nasty Woman’ of Contemporary Art Fearlessly Renders the Body 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Nearly 50 years before that, George Orwell published his dystopian classic, “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” with its “Ministry of Truth” for falsifying historical events and “double-think,” the simultaneous acceptance of two contradictory ideas as true. Al Franken and Olivia Wilde: Calling a Lie a Lie 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z People coming at it -- often from contradictory angles -- are often correct. "30 Rock" takes on feminist hypocrisy -- and its own 2011-02-25T18:01:00Z On the opening night of the show, “The Duck and the Document: True Stories of Postmodern Procedure,” she gave a lecture that began with a contradictory sort of disclaimer. SCI-Arc show cleverly tweaks the myth of the all-powerful — and typically male — architect 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z “I’m used to not being able to hear, so for me it was contradictory to my world.” Nyle DiMarco Is a Frontrunner on DWTS—Even Though He Can't Hear the Music 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z It turned out to be a roomful of arguing Trumps, spouting verbatim the contradictory statements he has made on issues like abortion, the minimum wage and nuclear proliferation. The New Politics of Late Night 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The beguiling installation — objects dangling daintily from the ceiling — tells a deeper story about the contradictory ways in which women are regarded in the popular culture. Datebook: An artist rethinks Ed Ruscha, paintings of domestic settings, a festival of zines 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z The view of the arena at Nîmes in southern France, where bullfighting takes place, manages the contradictory feat of being both truly figural and close to abstraction. Auctions: A Serious Moment for Contemporary Art 2011-07-01T13:30:36Z But the work’s point, driven home in long, pointed sequences in both acts, is his notion that religion and science should be regarded as complementary rather than contradictory. Music Review: Philip Glass’s ‘Kepler’ at Spoleto Festival USA 2012-06-01T21:25:58Z It has also become a contradictory food category in its own right, stretching from acai and cacao nib-topped breakfast porridges to Hawaiian poké raw fish dishes. From the royal wedding menu to Nigella – why bowl food is so wildly popular 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z A contradictory statement, seemingly from Daniels and issued just before “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” taped Tuesday’s show, made the interview 10 times more awkward and 1,000 times more useless. Perspective | Trump’s long, boring speech wasn’t exactly a gift to late-night. But you work with what you’ve got. 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z For Grey, it was a chance to express some part of himself onstage that he hadn’t yet come to terms with in life: a cathartic, if contradictory, act of self-excavation. Joel Grey’s Open Book 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z There are so many, and they are often so contradictory. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z “Our investigation of the historical facts concerning this painting has convinced us that this is less than a clear cut claim that raises complex historical questions and includes contradictory information.” A Tricky First Case for the Man Who Wrote the Rules on Nazi Looted Art 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z “Different strains can have truly contradictory tastes: really bold and exciting flavours,” she says. Cooking with cannabis: ‘I have a fish guy, a meat guy and a weed guy’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z With this in mind, one can spot a contradictory trend that runs parallel to the recent spate of namelessness: novels whose mission is to belatedly grant identities to past figures who have been unjustly unknown. The Rise of the Nameless Narrator 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Every cross-hatch and marking in his work draws me back to my childhood, which, like everyone else's, was the most complicated, contradictory and sticky place. How Maurice Sendak helped me stage his operas 2012-05-28T17:49:15Z It’s in that tortured, contradictory internal monologue — familiar to other trans people as we contemplate what seems to be an extraordinary, unimaginable truth — that “Pageboy” is most powerful. Elliot Page, From Shame to Self-Acceptance, in Hollywood’s Glare 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z The work, on that day, seemed to be taking its place in an operatic canon full of contradictory, discomfiting, occasionally offensive works that time and again nevertheless demonstrate their relevance and power. The Complex History and Uneasy Present of ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Taken together, Kraus’s books summon these “contradictory, multiple perspectives” on an even broader level: they approach a recurring consciousness from different angles, dip into the trajectory of a life at different moments. This Female Consciousness: On Chris Kraus 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z There are certainly instances of raw prejudice and of sincere decency, but the presidents are complex and contradictory creatures. Movie Review: ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Stars Forest Whitaker 2013-08-15T16:52:46Z Wedged uncomfortably into a narrow witness box beneath a row of multi-coloured box files crammed with contradictory statements, Johnny Depp did not occupy centre stage in court 13. Johnny Depp libel trial: one-word answers pepper eerily desolate proceedings 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Huppert has the unrivaled ability to fuse contradictory traits and actions into a singular, complex and endlessly interesting personality. Review: In ‘Elle,’ Isabelle Huppert Subverts the Role of Rape Victim 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z His precocious son exhibits a strange set of contradictory behaviors. Review | Fresh off a Pulitzer win for ‘The Overstory,’ Richard Powers delivers another environmental ode 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Maybe, instead of asking why people don’t react rationally to online threats, we should be asking whether it’s possible to react rationally to the contradictory ways in which we engage with the Web. Giving Yourself Away Online 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z In “The Lying Life of Adults,” too, Naples provides a socially textured setting for this coming-of-age story, which propels Giovanna from the innocence of childhood into the world of adults’ complex and contradictory compromises. Netflix Brings the Intensity of Elena Ferrante’s Naples to the Screen 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Could both of these seemingly contradictory narratives be true? Do you know the truth behind Herman Melville’s ‘Moby-Dick’? 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z What I discovered as I travelled was how ambiguous and contradictory the issue of writers and alcohol really is. What drives writers to drink? 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z "We found that comedians had a rather unusual personality profile, which was rather contradictory," Prof Claridge says. Robin Williams and the link between comedy and depression 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z “Both. I think it’s contradictory, as always. He is a rat, and I’m glad he didn’t open. But at the time, I felt shocked and hurt.” Agnès Varda: ‘I am still alive, I am still curious. I am not a piece of rotting flesh’ 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z She never ignores their flaws, their perfectly human tendency toward self-justification, but she also captures their longing to be kind, to be just, to somehow behave well despite the contradictory desires of the heart. Review | An African American couple torn apart by the justice system 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z It was a story of clashing, contradictory impulses and of a shift from individual to public figure to societal conscience. Review: U2 Is Still Fighting for the American Dream 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z These contradictory feelings are a central theme in his book. Claiming the Title of United States Marine 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z The fact that you’ve put in time and reporting resources–and don’t doubt that Logan and company worked as doggedly as they say they did–becomes reason to dismiss a source’s contradictory testimony. CBS’s Benghazi Apology: Sorry Is the Hardest, or At Least Slowest, Word 2013-11-08T15:51:06Z Ms. Scott gives off the seemingly contradictory appearance of wide-eyed Midwestern-ness and urban hipness, and that’s precisely who she is — an import from Kansas firmly rooted in the New York theater scene. A Word With Sherie Rene Scott 2012-10-14T22:04:51Z The inconsistent approaches to museum policy mirror the confusing, sometimes seemingly contradictory sets of rules broadly governing public gathering places as officials struggle to contain the coronavirus. Is Seeing That Renoir Essential? In the Pandemic, Cities Differ 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z “Khovanshchina” can be both slow and complicated, a series of contradictory tableaus rather than a linear story. Mussorgsky?s ?Khovanshchina? Comes to Met Opera 2012-02-24T20:07:06Z But they are too often overwhelmed by plot twists, overlapping story lines and contradictory timelines. What to Know About ‘Spiral’ and the ‘Saw’ Franchise 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z The jihadis are hopelessly confused and contradictory, caught between their assimilated lifestyle and righteous ideological fire. Four Lions | Review 2010-03-25T19:45:00Z The negotiations have served as a catalyst for many writers and opera fans to weigh in with all sorts of recommendations for the Met, some contradictory. Met’s Labor Woes Divide Opera Fans as Well as Participants 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z Morton writes, “The two sisters were contradictory and conflicted, butting heads over matters both small and monumental, but they also loved one another.” 9 Books to Read About Queen Elizabeth II 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z But given these contradictory findings, it will be important for more detailed investigations to be done. Keto diet may slow cancer tumor growth in mice — but not without potentially deadly consequences 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z The yearning to connect and the impulse toward flight — those contradictory verities of romantic entanglement — take sharp visceral form in Ms. Tharp’s fast, flashing, remarkably intricate dances. Theater Review: Dancing to Twyla Tharp and Sinatra?s Music 2010-03-26T04:27:00Z The American south is not so much another country as several overlapping, and often contradictory, narratives, all of which continue to tug on our collective imagination even as they elude our understanding. Myth, manners and memory 2010-10-02T23:05:00Z One thing I really like with the movie is, it's interested in the ways in which people are contradictory and imperfect and disappointing and beautiful, all at the same time. "Life feels like an uncomfortable comedy": Zach Woods embraces the awkward and new movie "Downhill" 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z The contradictory tone of the age was set by the Prince Regent himself, dogged by accusations of debt, drinking and non-diligence. George IV: the rehabilitation of Old Naughty 2011-08-28T20:00:05Z He liked him, he disliked him, and it was when he realised "these two contradictory things actually worked together, they were both true," that he finally gained traction with the story. Colum McCann: a life in writing 2013-05-25T07:30:01Z The bleakness of "Boule de Suif" is typical of Maupassant, who considered life "brutal, incoherent, disjointed, full of inexplicable, illogical and contradictory disasters". A brief survey of the short story part 49: Guy de Maupassant 2013-05-24T09:56:31Z The book, first published in 1949, features a devious "Big Brother" government that spies on its citizens and forces them into "doublethink," or simultaneously accepting contradictory versions of the truth. Orwell's '1984' back as bestseller amid focus on 'alternative facts' 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z But if he portrays Sally as a wholly powerless victim, he denies her ability to negotiate the contradictory forces at work in Jefferson’s delusional paradise. ‘Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings’ reimagines his illicit affair 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z "Hamlet" may be eternally in search of a lead actor who can contain the Danish prince's contradictory multitudes. 'Macbeth' succeeds in avoiding its onstage curse when it's on-screen 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z This is a compendium of all the worst facets of the critical mind: a pointless contradictory list of definitions of humor by other critics, serving only to show that Eagleton has read a lot. John Cleese Intends to Have His Unread Books Buried With Him 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words Sadler's Wells, Until 5 aug The choreographer's masterstroke is to cast in duplicate or triplicate so that we see multiple and often contradictory aspects of the characters simultaneously. Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words; Dance GB: The Olympic Project – review 2012-07-14T23:05:34Z It meant that domestic violence was messy and nuanced and often contradictory and confusing. Perspective | The trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard was too much and not enough 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Scott's engagement with this debate is at the heart of the novel, although it is contradictory. Light Falling on Bamboo – review 2012-09-28T21:55:01Z Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/WARNER-SEVEN AR There was something not just contradictory, but almost implausible about Arthur Penn. In person, he was maybe the most amiable and engaging film director I have ever met. Arthur Penn: a gentle man and a master of violence 2010-09-30T10:47:00Z The obsession is almost contradictory, because you start to love the self-hatred a little bit. Jessica Valenti: my life as a ‘sex object’ 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z So on the stage of the Irish Repertory Theater, where Mr. Irwin’s captivating “On Beckett” opened on Wednesday night, you will find a terminally possessed creature speaking in contradictory utterances as seemingly involuntary as hiccups. Review: Wrestling With a Master in ‘On Beckett’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z To me, he looks a lot like a primitive socialist revolutionary, preaching an impossible gospel that combined a vision of radical social equality with elements of deliberately contradictory self-abnegation and self-denial. Jesus Christ: Jewish radical or bathrobe Republican? The “reason for the season” remains an enigma after 2,000 years 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Many of the statements that have been releases by his people have been contradictory, leading Meyers to say: “I guess we shouldn’t be surprised since leprechauns always talk in riddles.” Late-night roundup: Trump's team 'like one of those Russian nesting dolls' 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Revisiting them in middle age only sharpens that suspicion, whetting it against the contradictory pondering of whether letting go of our dreams truly serves us. The "Party Down" cater waiters are back, but has the now-famous cast outgrown the pink bow ties? 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z That black-and-white photograph had showed the head to be a work of great distinction, capturing the contradictory elements of Parker's character. Charlie Parker: a genius distilled 2010-03-21T21:30:00Z She is a fully rounded character: complex, contradictory, forthright. She’s Gotta Have It: why Spike Lee's sex-positive debut is a coming-of-age classic 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z It’s a revealing, warts-and-all portrait of a man of great talent trying to design a career and a life while being buffeted around by a cacophony of contradictory voices and impulses. Review | Robin Williams: The hilarious, tortured life of a comic genius 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z But over the years, I've learned that the when, how, and even if of food washing evokes strong, often contradictory opinions — and even more questions. So, should you wash your chicken or not? 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Does this run contradictory to what I supported during my campaign? Clinton’s inaugural address: What Hillary should say right before Donald Trump takes the stage 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Writing is always about control and once you read Jones telling her own, highly contradictory, story you realise it is threaded through with clues that speak of delusion; a narrative dysmorphia abounds. Girl Least Likely To: 30 Years of Fashion, Fasting and Fleet Street by Liz Jones – review 2013-07-10T14:00:01Z This iconic, multilingual hybrid text interrogates the experiences of “The New Mestiza”: a person of mixed ancestry who must embrace her multifaceted, and at times contradictory, sense of self. Ten books that explain the complicated nostalgia of being a child of diaspora 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z It’s absolutely stultifying, it’s brilliant, it’s repetitive, it’s contradictory. Philip K. Dick?s ?Exegesis? to Be Published 2010-04-29T21:27:00Z Hurtle grows up a contradictory but brilliant man – prone to destroying his own canvases, love affairs and friendships. The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z The contradictory goals of the film seem fitting, given the nature of Narcissister’s art, and she reconciles them well. Review: ‘Narcissister Organ Player’ (Partly) Unveils an Artist 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Hence its contradictory sense of smoky enclosure and unbounded space, of deprecation and self-belief, of lyricism and improvisation. Birmingham Royal Ballet ? Pointes of View 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z “We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory.” Ali Smith on Her New Book, ‘How to be both’ 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z It is often messy, often contradictory, often paradoxical, and often requires thought processes that do not fit into neat little boxes. A Conservative Catholic Begs the Pope: Lead Us Not Into Temptation 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z The Museum of the American Revolution is not the first institution to draw fire for a rental to groups or figures deemed contradictory to its mission. Historians Criticize Moms for Liberty Event at Museum in Philadelphia 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z "It's a contradictory message given the reality that existed," Zuberi said, "but it's a very powerful message." TV host's black war posters focus of Pa. exhibit 2013-06-01T15:36:11Z Panels of experts present a contradictory portrait, and his identity is the show’s mystery, giving this tricky plot an engine. | 'Invasion!': A Slip of the Tongue Could Lead to Terror 2011-02-22T23:53:19Z It examines two contradictory cases: The argument against mandatory sentences involves a middle-aged Florida man spending 20 years in jail for firing a gun inside his home, hitting only a wall. ‘The System,’ on Al Jazeera America, Examines U.S. Justice 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z It was during this contradictory time that my mother got breast implants. Not Quite “Brazil”: Meg Ryan, plastic surgery and my mother’s augmentation 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z But it’s also far more specific — those who found the advice in Sandberg’s book contradictory or unclear may find “What Works” a better guide. Tightrope-walking and “gender judo”: What women have to do to get ahead 2014-03-20T22:59:00Z But since July 19 the credibility of that denial has frayed under the weight of contradictory testimony from former executives and senior lawyers. Credibility fading, James Murdoch returns to UK 2011-11-09T20:22:08Z “The play is smart enough to realize that there are many truths,” Anita Gates wrote in a review in The New York Times, “some of them contradictory.” Bridgette Wimberly, Playwright and Librettist, Dies at 68 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z She’s sharp and sassy and always willing to confess her own contradictory feelings, which sway erratically from lust to terror. Review | Jonathan Lethem is back on the detective beat looking for America’s troubled soul 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Earthy, contradictory, impulsive and self-aware, she seems effortlessly and shockingly modern. Review: In ‘The Wife of Willesden,’ a Literary Marriage Falters 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z The writer has captured the 'layers'--often contradictory--that we all have. Tracy Morgan Is a Survivor. And ‘a Better Man Now.’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z I explained, no, it was actually a lost and found scrapbook riddled with time gaps, savage violence and contradictory accounts. How the Bible Divided, and United, Allan Gurganus and His Father 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Lewis’s perspective is that “some women try to create change from within, and that we all live complex and contradictory lives.” Mediating Faith and Style: Museums Awake to Muslim Fashions 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z And what about "talk turkey"? Well, that can mean quite contradictory things. Talking turkey! How the Thanksgiving bird got its name (and then lent it to film flops) 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z The writing at times is luminous, especially when applied to the contradictory impulses and loyalties that come with split heritage, as indeed nearly every post-colonial society has experienced. The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska – review by Lloyd Jones 2013-06-13T06:12:13Z The effects of this mixture of words and painstaking handicraft are dense, contradictory, beguiling and unsettling. Two fine shows at Northwest African American Museum 2013-01-03T22:17:00Z “Sister” is a collage extravaganza in which a highly sculptural female head is pieced together, like a personality, with a multiplicity of sometimes contradictory textures. ‘A Closer Look’ at more of Paul Allen’s art collection at Pivot 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Ms. Johnson’s characters are unpredictable, contradictory and many things at once, which make them particularly satisfying. Review: ‘The Most Dangerous Place on Earth,’ Just Seconds Away 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z That seems contradictory, even hypocritical, but not in any way that’s new to advertisers. Enjoy These Super Bowl Ads, For Tomorrow You Shall Die 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z As she did in her previous novels, “The Book of Salt” and “Bitter in the Mouth,” Truong is exploring personal memory in all its creative and contradictory subjectivity. Interpreting the Interpreter: Who Was Lafcadio Hearn? 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z What committee could possibly take account of the often confused and contradictory mores and prejudices of a country of 300 million-plus people? 2010-01-22T20:27:00Z “It’d be contradictory if I said I wasn’t pro-choice,” she continued. Nicki Minaj Says Her Abortion Has 'Haunted' Her 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z With this and other contradictory food policies and guidelines in mind, it's ironic that the U.S. is now attempting to position itself as the arbiter of rational food choices. Escalating U.S.-Mexico debate over corn forces questions about GMOs, food sovereignty 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z This ambivalence is central to Visconti’s work and is often described in terms of the supposedly contradictory facets of his personality. How Luchino Visconti Made History Sing 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Assange himself dismissively refers to these “California libertarians,” a strange and contradictory socio-political class that has gained tremendous power and prestige in recent years. Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z It’s a narrative that fuels ghastly and addictive media images and contradictory political agendas, which is why it’s so powerful and so difficult to resist. America’s gun insanity is crazier than you think: Our delusional era of everyday mass shootings — and record low crime rates 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The show is thus a noir-ish satire about greed and acquisitiveness, adorned with stylishly clownish costumes and bafflingly contradictory dialogue delivered on the fly as the 10 actors concentrate on their slick, tightly controlled movement. Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z “There’s often a real tension in people’s expectations vis-à-vis kitchens between things that are beautiful and things that are functional,” says Chen, 46, “but I don’t see those qualities as contradictory.” A Soup That Tastes Like Being Home for the Holidays 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z It’s not a doomed mission but it’s a delicate and a difficult one, and the project collapses under the weight of its contradictory goals and its scattershot strategies to meet them. “Rolling Thunder Revue,” Reviewed: Martin Scorsese’s Slippery Chronicle of Bob Dylan in Concert 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z She faced Kafka-esque bureaucratic labyrinths and had to juggle contradictory administrative demands, which we discover with horror in the play. His Shows Take On Big Issues. They’re Also Good Yarns. 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z “The contradictory and complex readings of her work reinforces its ongoing relevance to multiple audiences,” Ms. Respini said. Arts & Leisure: MoMA to Showcase Cindy Sherman?s New and Old Characters 2012-02-16T12:00:00Z The film, which uses a collagelike technique of time-hopping vignettes to render a complex, even contradictory portrait, is collecting raves, and Portman is widely considered a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination for best actress. Natalie Portman: The key to Jackie Kennedy was that unforgettable voice 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Equally, consumerism is contradictory to the basic tenet of Buddhism: the idea of ending suffering through detachment. Buddha branding is everywhere – but what do Buddhists think? 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z "It is extremely contradictory," Blo admits, "the systematics of sailing a ship and the cultural work, but they learn a lot from each other." The boat that became a nightclub 2012-06-21T19:30:03Z It was a template later followed by “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Seinfeld” and others, the seemingly contradictory ensemble comedy with a star. ArtsBeat: The Many Masks of Richard Dawson 2012-06-04T18:30:27Z Consider the contradictory strands of his life and career that are coinciding for him, and you may find yourself envying, pitying and disliking him all at once. Ben Affleck’s ‘Broken’ Batman 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z There are also comments from the boys of the Black House who offer contradictory reports about the horrors they've witnessed and participated in. '300,000,000' a vision of dark power, great empathy Only in the mind of a true hater can these contradictory qualities come together in the nasty piece of work that is Woman. What's wrong with Hitchcock's women 2010-10-21T20:30:00Z Female viewers deserve characters that are just as complicated and contradictory as they are themselves. UnREAL and the Evolution of the Female Anti-Hero 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z No stranger to chills and thrills, Monroe has a heavier assignment: For audiences to buy into the movie’s phenomena, her performance must contain several contradictory layers of meaning. ‘Significant Other’ Review: Backpacking Is a Trip 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The book doggedly follows the changeable, inconsistent, sometimes flagrantly dishonest Washington through a morass of contradictory gestures, and Mr. Chernow works hard to parse this material with a judicious eye. Books of The Times: Dusting Off an Elusive President?s Dull Image 2010-09-27T23:42:00Z “It may be because Sally’s really interested in photography’s ability to sustain lots of contradictory levels of meaning.” Sally Mann on Her History, Frame by Frame 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z “This seems quite contradictory, as if the virus only spread on the streets and at Carnival.” In Rio, even a ban can’t keep revelers from Carnival streets 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z In her debut title, Brennan explores our often contradictory relationship with wild places and the sometimes tortuous justifications for how we manage public lands. Summer Brennan: 'oyster wars' reveal a battle for America's public lands 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z “The two contradictory ideas struggled to coexist peacefully. She was a paradox and knew how the poor cat trapped in Schrödinger’s box must have felt.” A Human Cloning Error and Existential Questions Fuel This Science Fiction Romp 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Faced with a constant stream of contradictory advice, it’s no wonder that so many people are reaching so many different conclusions. I’m Not Ready to Go Back to Restaurants. Is Anyone? 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z “I explained, no, it was actually a lost and found scrapbook riddled with time gaps, savage violence and contradictory accounts. And yet...” How the Bible Divided, and United, Allan Gurganus and His Father 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Dickens’s genius was to unite all kinds of contradictory impulses: education and entertainment, misery and fun, violence and laughter, simplicity and sophistication. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z Few dishes feel so at once culturally specific and non-specific than this contradictory dish, one that’s in many ways so American but, according to various food historians, came from Europe. Crimes against potato salad: How not to get uninvited from the cookout 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z The demon died long ago, what remains are many contradictory impressions and explanations. Germany's first Hitler exhibition opens in nervous Berlin museum 2010-10-14T15:39:00Z Her comical images of people in seedy bars and other downbeat situations rendered in an insouciantly contradictory variety of styles are displayed at Jungle Press Editions. Art Review: Metro Show and Editions/Artists’ Book Fair 2013-01-24T22:27:36Z Paced more like a short story than a novel, “Smile” creates contradictory feelings of poignant stagnation and accelerating descent. Roddy Doyle was determined to write a novel that shocked — and succeeded 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z And if you want to get on a high horse and try to police exactly how women share images of their own bodies, prepare for someone to single out your rather contradictory behavior. “Never date a girl who posts half naked slutty selfies”: Revel in the mind-bending, hilarious hypocrisy of #ShirtlessShamers2016 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z "It was just this group of guys who came together that were contradictory to everybody else," Moses says. Ed Moses, 90, prepares nonstop for a new survey at Bergamot Station 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z If Beatles scholarship and fandom has proved anything, it is that even a contradictory summation of the band and its influence can still hold true. Know How the Beatles Ended? Peter Jackson May Change Your Mind. 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Both books received an abundance of visceral criticism, much of it contradictory: Some readers accused her of airing private grievances, while others complained her approach was too impersonal and abstract. Rachel Cusk Said She Was Done With Autobiography. These Essays Suggest Otherwise. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z The performers look at the crowd before turning to each other — their eyes are trusting, huge, brown — but throughout the performance contradictory forces are at play, and their gazes flicker between warmth and distance. Dance Review: Maria Hassabi?s New Dance, ?Show? - Review 2011-11-04T21:34:34Z It will force you to hold contradictory ideas in your head. Books of The Times: ‘Umbrella’ by Will Self 2013-01-17T21:22:51Z Rebecca has problems but her problems are symptomatic of the contradictory messages that women are given every single day. Rachel Bloom Is Breaking TV Boundaries With Spanx and Diversity 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z I did, however, also get supportive messages from fellow pro-choicers, and exactly one email from a self-described “Imperfect Christ-follower” who invited a conversation on the “difficult, potentially contradictory ramifications” of abortion. Bill O’Reilly speaks for the babies 2013-02-05T16:09:00Z Every tactic contradictory, every endeavour repercussive, obviously she was on the path to self-destruction. My granddaughter, the girl who refused to let joy into her life 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z If this advice seems contradictory, let me remind you that I once wrote "Saucy," a column entirely about condiments, for Salon Food. Most picnics suck. Yours doesn't have to 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Marshall has said that he was interested in the “twisted beauty” of the black experience in America and in contradictory perceptions of black bodies, under the white gaze, as both intensely desirable and not. Review: Dancing the ‘Twisted Beauty’ of the Black Experience 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Nor did the contradictory elements of the killer – absent but devoted father, homicidal psychopath and criminal genius – add up to a viable entity. Rewind TV: The X Factor; The Trouble with Aid; The Killing; The Poison Tree; This World – review 2012-12-16T00:05:52Z Planners, he writes, “are tasked with the contradictory goals of inflating real estate values while safeguarding residents’ best interests.” The Plight of the Urban Planner 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z She clears a calm, quiet space around Gibson, allowing him to deliver a brilliantly contradictory performance. The role Mel Gibson was born to play 2011-05-04T20:01:00Z It’s this mass of contradictory effects — the innocent, the infantile, the sexual, the healthy — that makes for such a fertile source of inspiration. Modern Body Horror Is Turning Breastfeeding Into an Act of Terror 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z If Banned Books Week represents, in many ways, a celebration of its own good intentions, Finley’s book – like all her work — is more complicated, contradictory. Karen Finley, Banned Books Week and the responsibilities of art 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z But so did the earlier and wholly contradictory tirade loosed by Mr. Shamos. Review: ‘If I Forget,’ Clashing Currents in Jewish Identity 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z I would work out all my contradictory reactions to it through every character, just like, “I don’t know man! I don’t know!” Lil Rel Howery and Jerrod Carmichael Think You’re Wrong About Multicamera Sitcoms 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z Yet what ultimately makes the image so powerful and resilient is its ability to contain multiple, even contradictory, meanings simultaneously. Robert Indiana’s Best: A Mini Retrospective 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Contrary to Roiphe’s belief, there are plenty of feminists who are neither “perplexed,” as she puts it, by submissive desires nor find it contradictory to their politics. Girls would love science, if it was more like Katy Perry 2012-06-25T15:25:00Z Her eclectic style, mixed with a renaissance curiosity, helped her develop in contradictory ways. Meryl Streep, Diane Lane and Others on the Legacy of Elizabeth Swados 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Real teenagers tend to be turbulent, questing, contradictory, but the Drums' prelapsarian ideal seems to be a lovesick simpleton. The Drums: The Drums 2010-05-27T14:29:00Z Consider yourself fortunate that none of your hosts’ additions are contradictory, as in “business casual.” Perspective | Miss Manners: Turn probing comments into a teaching moment 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z “Retro Reports” details how contradictory stories that didn’t fit this popular narrative were dismissed. Top 5 investigative videos of the week: “Poverty is what makes the rich rich” 2013-06-02T13:00:00Z Rather than attempting to resolve the essential crises of those vectors, Nelson’s essays tease out simultaneous and contradictory truths, or koans. Review | In Maggie Nelson’s ‘On Freedom,’ liberation and entrapment aren’t easy to untangle 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z In addition to his affections for the dead girl, he repeatedly made contradictory statements to the authorities. Hazel’s brutal murder was all but forgotten. Until she inspired ‘Twin Peaks.’ 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Despite her attempt at maturity, however, her solipsistic view of the world laid bare her white suburban privilege and her often contradictory views within that. Riot grrrls, beta males and fluid fashion: how My So-Called Life changed TV forever 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Clearly these 1925 critics weren't being deliberately difficult or contradictory, and we shouldn't assume that those who object to Gatsby today are grandstanding either. The Great Gatsby: F Scott Fitzgerald is right on time 2013-05-07T13:41:06Z This documentary’s title is at least a little contradictory, because the four people it’s about, all cultural touchstones and pioneers for transgender rights, really are New York. ‘I Hate New York’ Review: The Club Kids Are Still Standing 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z In its evolving, contradictory perspectives on a single event, the work evokes “Rashomon.” Review: 3-D Enhances An Enigmatic New Opera 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z The complexities of life laid bare in all their contradictory glory. Beginning a new year of reading 2010-12-31T09:00:03Z Fanatical reporting and occasional invention did not seem contradictory to Mitchell; each was a means of finding beauty in the mundane. The grammar of hard facts 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Because every time I go online, I see seemingly contradictory pieces of information that scare me into thinking that kids, as asymptomatic as they might be, can still infect us. Perspective | I want to cuddle with my kids, but is it safe? 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z I think it says that most Americans see very little that is contradictory about connecting consumption and spirituality. "Oprah: Gospel of an Icon": Worshipping at the church of Oprah Winfrey 2011-03-13T18:01:00Z He spoke about Verizon, a company that has sent out a contradictory message. John Oliver on net neutrality: 'Every internet group needs to come together' 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Mostly that contradictory attitude is faint enough to be imperceptible, or nearly so. MoMA's love-hate relationship with Frank Lloyd Wright is on display in wide-ranging new retrospective 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Two recent stories from the world of standup lead to contradictory conclusions. Can comedy make us happier ? and healthier? 2011-03-11T17:39:26Z Evidence is hard to find, patchy and often contradictory. Pianists play it again at the silent movies 2011-04-12T14:25:01Z People always seem to be offering Joan contradictory, poetically fraught advice about how to live. Review: In ‘Joan,’ a Photographer Tries to Focus Her Past 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Critics praised him for his nuanced understanding of the contradictory impulses that bedevil people and his capacity to find tender humor amid sorrow and despair. A.B. Yehoshua, Israeli Writer Who Explored Moral and Political Dilemmas, Dies at 85 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z It’s because it’s time for the hall to move beyond its rock bias, even if doing so is contradictory to the name of the institution. Why It’s Time to Take ‘Rock’ Out of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2012-10-10T12:00:41Z "It's about 40 pages and much of it is contradictory." Networks risk millions on longform TV productions 2010-06-14T08:35:00Z More likely, their tensions reflect the ambivalent nature of the average film-goer; even the contradictory nature of the US as a whole. Will Hollywood ever end its love affair with guns? 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Tolkien wrote contradictory versions of their tale, but it seems likely that the Stranger might be searching for a fellow fallen friend. ‘The Rings of Power’: Who Is That Guy? 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z In this version of the biblical story, in which Judith saves Israel by slaying the all-powerful Holofernes, both characters are prone to windy, contradictory philosophical discourse. Review: ‘Vinegar Tom’ and ‘Judith’ Examine Woman as Myth 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Especially in the twentieth century, narratives began to “remain insistently fragmentary, open-ended, contradictory, or defiantly ‘plotless.’ The Narrative Experiment That Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z But legal experts say the tape's effect may be as contradictory as his story. Jurors get first glimpse of doctor's personality 2011-10-10T21:54:37Z Ultimately, Argerich comes across as many contradictory things at once, without any of them being contradictions. Martha Argerich mesmerizes the L.A. Phil 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Ms. Kendrick, who lives in Los Angeles and has been dating Ben Richardson, a cinematographer, puts the contradictory parts of her personality on vivid display using Twitter. Anna Kendrick on ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ and Not Trying Too Hard 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z In contrast, “Fleabag” keeps all contradictory shards and shades of feeling in play at the same time. Review: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Gives New York a Fabulous ‘Fleabag’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z And he stuck up for the writers when the money people asked for stupid, contradictory, anti-dramatic things. I was Dennis Hopper's henchman 2010-06-03T21:29:00Z A program note from Ms. Lee suggests some contradictory impulses at work: she writes that the creators “wanted a world in which people could identify and be however they wanted regardless of their sex.” | 'Young Jean Lee?s ?Untitled Feminist Show': Young Jean Lee?s ?Untitled Feminist Show? ? Review 2012-01-16T23:03:34Z Mr. Cole’s novels can summon contradictory voices in your own mind. Books of The Times: ‘Every Day Is for the Thief’ by Teju Cole 2014-03-25T20:21:54Z “Songs of Innocence” has a dual and sometimes contradictory mandate. U2’s Flight to Now (Turbulence Included) 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Though it tells a simple story, the emotions it churns up are as mixed, contradictory and ineffable as those we live with every day. Theater Review: ‘The Most Happy Fella’ Is Revived at City Center 2014-04-03T23:17:30Z But it's important that characters are three-dimensional, complex human beings who can make mistakes and have contradictory feelings and are not archetypes. "It's America's genre": Thandiwe Newton defends her land in "God's Country," a modern-day western 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Foxx faced criticism for scant, contradictory explanations for why charges were dropped . Kim Foxx: Work of Smollett special prosecutor underway 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z It’s all around them in our culture, and everywhere the messages are contradictory. My Kids Say I Drink Too Much. Do I? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z It is invigorating and irritating, astute and facile, rigorous and flippant, fair-minded and score-settling, practical and hyperbolic, and maybe a dozen other neurotically contradictory things. ‘Unwanted Advances’ Tackles Sexual Politics in Academia 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Truong is exploring personal memoir in all its creative and contradictory subjectivity. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Miranda is spiky and no-nonsense, so when she throws everything out the window in "And Just Like That" it is entirely contradictory to what we expect of her. "And Just Like That," Steve offers a chance at renewal – but did he have to be so mean about it? 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z “That’s never been my strong suit, making friends,” he added wryly, and in the face of much contradictory evidence. Music: Jeff Tweedy and Wilco Build a Festival at Mass MoCA 2010-08-16T22:44:00Z In this moment, the soothing summer single is a contradictory mirage. Drake Clears His Throat With DJ Khaled, and 10 More New Songs 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z So now that you realize you can’t follow both, I’m not sure which of these two contradictory paths you prefer to commit to here — with “here” being the corner you’ve married yourself into. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She whitewashes her past, and he paints himself into a corner 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Instead, the movie is a sprawling anthology of contradictory feelings, sensations and genres. Review: Youthful Recklessness Finds Adventure on the Road in ‘American Honey’ 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Pomsel’s obituary noted her contradictory statements in this film and other interviews. Review: In ‘A German Life,’ Goebbels’s Secretary Explains Her Actions 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z I think you loved me for contradictory reasons. A letter to … my ex-boyfriend’s mother, who led me into a cult 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z Birch sings, writes and plays bass like someone who cannot help but be herself, and her distinct, sometimes contradictory personality oozes out of every track. The Raincoats’ Gina Birch Goes Solo (and Still Makes the Floor Rattle) 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Ultimately, this is a book in vigorous debate with itself, just as strange and contradictory as the author of the Declaration of Independence. ‘Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings’ reimagines his illicit affair 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Coleman was dismissed as too angry, too despairing, too contradictory, too unruly and too black. The Poems That Poets Turn To in a Time of Strife 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z “I’m interested in our capacity to make friends with the irreconcilable and the contradictory.” Air-Powered Art From a Newly Minted Winner of a ‘Genius Grant’ 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Her account of the events leading up to Elise’s death is lucid and thorough, if sometimes contradictory, and she delivers it in measured, formal, grammatically flawless French. ‘Saint Omer’ Review: The Trials of Motherhood 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Their shifting, sometimes contradictory perspectives lend color and substance to this sprawling mosaic of a book. Book World: ‘You,’ by Zoran Drvenkar is a thriller/road novel, stylishly written Yet, through her, Parini conjures into being a difficult, contradictory character animated by his emotional fragility. The Passages of Herman Melville by Jay Parini ? review 2011-02-13T00:08:03Z In short, cultivating a young reader requires two, only superficially contradictory, strategies: We need to engage with our children deeply on their own terms, with loving, respectful conversation about things that genuinely interest them. Beyond the summer book list: How to cultivate a childhood reading habitat 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z He appeared agitated and angry when Baier pressed him on contradictory positions he's taken on issues like abortion. Free media helping to define presidential race 2011-12-10T11:01:05Z A lack of time was widely believed to have contributed to Mr. Simons’s decision to leave Dior, so it would seem contradictory for Mr. Elbaz to turn around and opt for that job. Assessing the Alber Elbaz/Dior Rumors 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z He retains these contradictory characteristics in “District Merchants,” but Posner complicates his quest by transforming him into a character who’s trying to pass as a white man. 'Merchant of Venice' set in post-Civil War America? That's Aaron Posner's 'District Merchants' 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Instead, Vollmann creates complex characters, fully alive in the moment of their existence, buffeted by contradictory and compelling impulses, and the effect is incredible. William Vollmann’s ‘The Dying Grass’ is the reading experience of a lifetime 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z They begin with two contradictory but inarguable facts: One is that the world game has “made it” in America, to a degree that would have seemed inconceivable 15 or 20 years ago. Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Feminism is a complex, and sometimes contradictory, collection of beliefs. With ‘Roar,’ the Creators of ‘GLOW’ Got Extra Personal. And Weird. 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z “I am contradictory in my need for privacy to write about what is private,” she notes in the book. Amy Tan: Still ‘Joy Lucky’ after all these years 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z The show begins with Fleabag being interviewed for a clerical job, and it establishes her contradictory approach to others, including the audience, equally ingratiating and antagonistic. Review: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Gives New York a Fabulous ‘Fleabag’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z As Murphy's Oppenheimer tells his Berkeley students about the occasionally contradictory nature of quantum mechanics, "It's paradoxical, but it works." We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z How, the narrator asks, can he “express the complex, often contradictory alchemy at work in translating experience into art?” Review | Ayad Akhtar’s play ‘Disgraced’ won a Pulitzer Prize. Now ‘Homeland Elegies’ shows what that success cost him. 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z The 1949 book, which returned to the U.S. best-seller list in January, features a "Big Brother" government that spies on its citizens and forces them into "doublethink," or simultaneously accepting contradictory versions of the truth. Orwell's '1984' back in theaters in stand against 'alternative facts' 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z The sides of his personality — sociopath and family man, scientist and killer, rational being and creature of impulse, entrepreneur and loser — are not necessarily as contradictory as we might have supposed. Cross Cuts: How Walter White Found His Inner Sociopath 2013-07-24T14:48:26Z A DNA test did not match any of the players, and Mangum gave numerous contradictory accounts of the events of the evening. Todd Akin: Blame “Law & Order” 2012-08-23T15:56:00Z I tried to look at roles that are different and have some complexity, that are ambiguous, contradictory. "It's very complicated": Salvador Dalí biopic delves into odd and kinky relationship with wife Gala 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z It is easy when you're dealing with this type of story to become too heavy, or dwell in melodrama, but the goal was to play characters who are real and complex and occasionally contradictory. "Wildhood" is a Two-Spirit liberation: "I’m done with Indigenous and queer characters that are sad" 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z In the biography “Child of Light,” Madison Smartt Bell captures every aspect of Stone’s contradictory nature, especially his work ethic. Review | An unvarnished look at the troubled life of novelist Robert Stone 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z But combined these get complicated, and not just because they’re obviously contradictory; they also involve “fixing” something that isn’t yours to fix. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Can a separation save a reader’s marriage? 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Instructions for how to use the cleaners differ by brand, and there is a lot of contradictory advice on the Web. How can I get rid of the gunk in my whirlpool tub? 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z His desires pull him in contradictory ways that threaten to derail his great expectations. ‘Selection Day’: Two brothers and an obsessed dad seek a ticket out of poverty 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z In a statement, the gallery's director, Martin Sullivan, gave an apparently contradictory explanation for the decision, repeating his defence of the video in the face of misleading media coverage but announcing its removal. Christian activists force Smithsonian to pull Aids video from show 2010-12-01T18:56:00Z “History and America are contradictory and ambiguous, and yes, 4-year-olds who are capable of being racist and sexist should be exposed to some of that ambiguity as a form of inoculation.” Feeling Conflicted on Thanksgiving 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Italian academics working later, in the 16th and 17th centuries, then preferred Vicentino’s point of view and amplified it, despite their awareness of contradictory sources. A Black Composer’s Legacy Flourishes 500 Years After His Birth 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Our ability to forgive men in power, to celebrate their contradictory aspects, is well-documented. Lena Dunham: ‘Caroline Flack’s death hit me with a sickening power’ 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z Incessant, restless, often contradictory progress is the name of the game here. Art Review: Lines That Kept Moving and Knew No Boundaries 2011-10-06T22:45:51Z He said the company had fibbed about the amount of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico and should be asked to explain contradictory statements. CNN's Anderson Cooper attacks BP for staying away 2010-06-15T23:46:00Z And Britain’s contradictory clinging to notions of a noble yesteryear even as it erases the evidence of its past. Review: Song Trumps Senility in the Angry ‘Allelujah!’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z He recalled witnessing "the depth of contradictory emotions" between his friend and her family. Don't believe the K-dramas: Look to "Return to Seoul" for a more realistic view on Korean adoptees 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z The stuff of lofty intentions and grubby backstreet life, the city represents much of our restless and contradictory natures. City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age by PD Smith – review 2012-06-08T21:55:08Z In their letter, the university and medical leaders called Johns Hopkins’s personal legacy “complex and contradictory.” At Johns Hopkins, Revelations About Its Founder and Slavery 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Women are fed all of these contradictory ideas about what love is and what you should and shouldn’t have and you’re supposed to have it all, but you’re also supposed to fall in love. Rachel Bloom on 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' and Flipping the Bechdel Test on Its Head 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z “Some of the greatest art is someone who’s working through something they experienced that they have contradictory feelings about it.” ‘The African Desperate’ Expands the Movies’ Narrow View of the Art World 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z But this is a film full of peculiar personalities whose often contradictory points of view make its fabric and whose expression is its poetry. TV Picks: 'Ray Donovan,' 'Matador,' NOLA on 'P.O.V.' 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z But Lizzo’s career has always featured surprising and somewhat contradictory combinations. Lizzo’s ‘Big Grrrls’ Asks Big Questions 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z On “Late Night,” Seth Meyers hit on a way to understand — and maybe even predict — Mr. Trump’s apparently contradictory statements. Trevor Noah Has a Hard Time With Confederate Memorial Day 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z The combination of conversation and callout, friendship and confrontation, inquisition and inclusion—all the contradictory elements of today’s college campuses—pressed Derek to examine and abandon his beliefs. The Plight of the Political Convert 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z I wanted her to be complicated and contradictory and real, to care about something and want to succeed at it. My fancy law firm hell: I set up a Scale of Dismay to measure the degree to which my job was ruining my life 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z The man handles contradictory impulses, twice doing pirouettes on a foot that doesn’t look ready to support his weight, and elsewhere tilting his torso backward, forward, sideways. Dance Review: Stripped Down to Black and White, Revealing Balanchine at His Core 2011-05-04T22:08:37Z Most of what’s sold at La Garçonne, though, suggests not grunge dishabille but a life of enviable polish, self-command and — contradictory though it may seem — studied indifference to material things. La Garçonne Opens in TriBeCa 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z With his latest offering, the riddle is life itself — and particularly, life for someone finding her way through the contradictory directives for being a woman in the 20th and 21st centuries. Review: In ‘Joan,’ a Photographer Tries to Focus Her Past 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z It seems contradictory that medieval fashion and tools could also be futuristic, but movies and television shows and films like “Game of Thrones” and the “Mad Max” franchise exploit this formula. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Yet, while embracing those brisk qualities, they also entertain such contradictory elements as idiosyncrasy, irrationality and visual repose. John M. Miller, artist behind painstakingly painted geometric abstractions, dies at 77 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z I talked about how living here helped me examine my braided, contradictory ideas about the city. Who Stays Gone, and Who Can Afford to Return 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s ambitious park plans, in fact, are in some ways contradictory. Architecture Review: Plan for Governors Island Has Hills, Views and Hammocks 2010-04-12T22:21:00Z How could I bring back a character that people had such expectations about, and such contradictory expectations? Erica Jong is back — as fearless as ever 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z At Dickens World, these contradictions just felt contradictory. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z She’s trying to capture what it’s like to experience multitudes of contradictory things happening simultaneously. From Dana Schutz, Concoctions of Cubist Abstraction and Funky Expressionism 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z It seems the title is bestowed or stripped based on some complex and contradictory matrix with an ever-changing formula for determining who qualifies and how that qualification must be upheld. bell hooks vs. Beyoncé: What this feminist scholarly critique gets wrong about “Lemonade” and liberation 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z What you see and what surrounds the subject are two seemingly contradictory stories, raising the question of how content and context inform each other. Don’t Call It Street Style 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z In addition to these broad and contradictory areas of similarity, Pagden also identifies an increasing trend towards what was then called "freethinking" and is now called atheism. The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters by Anthony Pagden – review 2013-07-24T11:19:42Z Mr le Carré’s recollections are hazy or contradictory Mr Sisman singles them out as “false” or “imagined” memories and strives to correct them. The spy who came in from the cold 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z It was a contradictory experience, creative and reductive. Music Review: The Songs of William Onyeabor, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-05-04T21:29:33Z One will like what another dislikes; contradictory advice can be given in two different classes about the same piece of work. In praise of the creative writing course 2013-01-18T07:01:01Z Yet this biography suffers from its refusal to grapple with the stubborn fact that Holmes was, and remains, a deeply contradictory figure. The Many Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z As such, they play the contradictory roles of enforcer, counsellor and, in some cases, parent figure. The Rachel Zoe Project 2010-05-10T07:00:00Z “The fact that critics often say Pac is contradictory — great material for a dramatist,” Mr. Kreidler said of the process that saw him dissecting lyrics to forge a narrative. ‘Holler if Ya Hear Me’ Uses Songs by Tupac Shakur 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z These songs seem to address the listener in a strange and contradictory way, directly and abstractly. FKA twigs Tries a Different Tack on ‘LP1’ 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z The city’s contradictory charms, as they are wryly termed, its fabled mix of savoir-vivre and absolute crumminess, remain in good supply. T Magazine: The Last Casbah 2011-05-20T14:00:57Z The film does offer "some moments," Phillips says, "most of them thanks to McAdams. She can make truth out of contrivance, often nonverbally, dramatizing contradictory impulses within a single moment." 'Aloha': Cameron Crowe rom-com gets cold greeting from critics 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z But for the most part, Finn manages to make the two seemingly contradictory impulses of “The Hare” — the meditative character study and the densely plotted mystery — coexist. Review | ‘The Hare’ is a richly told tale of female resilience 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z He’s perfectly capable of saying contradictory things at the same time. Noam Chomsky on Donald Trump: 'Almost a death knell for the human species' 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z When an invitation arrived to deliver the Lyman Beecher Lectures at Yale, it might just as well have come with this odd, apparently contradictory, slogan tucked inside the envelope. Faith must fight capitalism: Forget theological purity — the church needs a revolutionary spirit 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z In that space, two and two do not have to equal four, and the most recent assertion need not remember the contradictory assertion that was made a few seconds earlier.” What Would Shakespeare Have Made of Donald Trump? 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z The movies are serial offenders at making characters seem contradictory and unintentionally incompetent, and this week’s “Picard” falls right into that tradition. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: Family Secrets 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z But the teasers are contradictory in terms of revealing each project’s tone and intent. Attack of the clones: Four new JonBenét Ramsey shows jump on the true-crime TV bandwagon 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Jones’s characters are as layered as elaborate wedding cakes — complicated, contradictory, less aspirational and more recognizably human than most romantic comedy types. In ‘Run,’ a Romantic Comedy That Breaks Free 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Naturally, I'm with her on this one. Surely feminism should allow women to be as complicated and contradictory in their personalities as we allow men to be, with their football teams and fishing rods. Kirsty Wark: why can't feminists care about fashion? 2013-03-22T16:30:00Z And this also allows Pearce to explore the contradictory beginnings of the confrontational force that the band eventually became, with Jones finding music and performance as a means of disappearing from a life he detested. Hulu's new Sex Pistols series is a rock 'n' roll swindle that plays like edgy karaoke 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z In the second season of his PBS series "Broken Bread," Choi brings his unique brand of activism, appetite and optimism to our complex and often contradictory American food system. Roy Choi shines a light on our broken food systems: "We'll throw away food before we feed people" 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z The boring form of feminism takes male power as the absolute, and believes the hype, where I think just a more nuanced and contradictory and complicated field. Laura Kipnis talks about power, anxiety and 'Men' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z They're more likely to give a contradictory account of their movements through lapses of memory than someone who's carefully prepared a fake but apparently watertight alibi. Do you have the courage of Conviction to fight miscarriages of justice? 2011-01-17T15:49:38Z During visits to Jamaica she grasped how colonialism and resistance, rather than contradictory, produced complex, continually renewing, social values and aesthetics. Simone Leigh, in the World 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z The participants were willing to talk, and Laub lets them, without directing you what to think -- there is room here for many different, even contradictory thoughts. Two documentaries: '1971' on PBS, 'Southern Rites' from HBO 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Much of what follows alternates between the police’s account of events and the Panthers’ contradictory evidence. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z However, before this is perceived as contradictory, let’s look at just what each product already does and is looking to provide. A complicated race to the best cruise Wi-Fi 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z He cites various passages that are either contradictory or seemingly absurd in the modern world. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Two Books About Muslim Identity 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The play is propelled by contradictory demands: Give up on me. ‘4:48 Psychosis,’ a Polish Adaptation of Sarah Kane’s Play 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z “Almost all of Verdi’s roles, especially for mezzo-sopranos, are contradictory and bright,” she said. The Women of ‘Don Carlo’ Portray a Moment in History 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z Covid also helped to expose our society’s confused and contradictory messaging around alcohol. ‘I was hammered for the first month of lockdown’ – meet the people who quit alcohol in the pandemic 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z To see Vin in that context was surreal: The elegance and the familiarity of London and Vin there was very contradictory! Honk if Helen Mirren and Vin Diesel Should Have Kissed in ‘F9’ 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z She was especially drawn to his dramatic, sometimes contradictory statements about jihadism, including his slippery view of 9/11. An interview with the director of 'The Oath,' about Osama bin Laden's driver and bodyguard 2010-06-14T22:49:00Z It takes a steady compass to navigate the sea of contradictory impulses defining fashion now. In All the Spring Fashion Looks, a Balance 2014-04-16T21:59:46Z But the reality of selfhood is cloudier, more contradictory and harder to parse than those constricting categories allow. Review | First the New Yorker profiled Romare Bearden. Then the artist and activist decided to tell his own story, in pictures. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Tayou's numerous installations give a platform to the western conception of African exoticism that is full of energy and vitality, but is also complex and contradictory. African art around the globe 2012-11-30T12:10:54Z A screaming match is a contest in which contradictory points are stubbornly reiterated, with no regard for whatever else has been said. Books of The Times: ?Drift? by Rachel Maddow of MSNBC Traces American Militarism 2012-03-28T22:36:04Z But never mind, she argued, dismissing the contradictory stories as “semantics” since Trump and Rosenstein agreed on the need to dump Comey. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is suddenly the star of the feel-bad story of the day 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Her portrayal, of a woman filled with contradictory feelings for the man she loved, he writes, delivers a “humane truth.” Essential Arts & Culture: The Lucas Museum, reflecting on culture, zoot suits and racy French sculpture 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z This is a place where fans encounter one another in pursuit of the objects of their devotion, a transaction that is both straightforward and laden with complicated and contradictory meanings. At Comic-Con, Bring Out Your Fantasy and Fuel the Culture 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Did you have fun grappling with contradictory impulses of yourself and human nature in general? Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z This is a caricature of Highsmith that would rather grandly theatricalize her contrarian hatefulness than understand her as a tormented, bitterly contradictory yet fiendishly productive writer. Despite star Laura Linney, 'Switzerland' an unconvincing stab at noir 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z He took whatever means he needed to express a vision that was alternately empathetic and obstreperous, as contradictory as the man himself. Robert Frank Revealed the Truth of Postwar America 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z A review in The New Yorker said the book “mortalizes” Kennedy “by bringing his complex and contradictory character most vividly to life.” Jean Stein, Who Chronicled Wealth, Fame and Influence, Dies at 83 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z The heat in “The Committed,” of which there is a good deal, derives from the friction created by the narrator’s contradictory thoughts about France, his country’s colonizer. Viet Thanh Nguyen Packs Plenty of Action and Outrage Into ‘The Committed’ 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z Within such a contradictory context, it’s no wonder that Goodell and his colleagues have been so dizzyingly incoherent in their responses to real-life violence this week. In movies, violence against women lets filmmakers indulge toxic fantasies Or the idea that these elements are in eternal, contradictory coexistence. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Surprised by 'Betrayal' 2011-07-13T16:31:48Z She commits absolutely to Anne’s ridiculousness, and also to the contradictory facets of her humanity. ‘The Favourite’ Review: Scheming for Power in a Kinky Palace Triangle 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Gordon-Levitt’s grief is still real and knotted up with all sorts of contradictory impulses, as he goes on to explain. Joseph Gordon-Levitt: 'Edward Snowden was warm, kind, thoughtful' 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z I admire his willingness to get into the murk and muck of truth, where things turn strange and contradictory. Leslie Jamison on the Best Book She Ever Got as a Present 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Hunter weaves into this character, who is hiding that her wife has left her, an array of contradictory qualities, and Lockwood makes every one of them seem natural. Character development counts in bringing plays to life onstage 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z A society ruled by fear stumbles along from crisis to crisis, guided by no clear principles and riven by contradictory impulses. The Year in Fear: From Ebola to street violence to Comrade Kim 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z It might seem contradictory, but one of the most fascinating attributes of Gov’t Mule is the ability to take an artistic journey with both intelligence in their sense of direction and an experimental aimlessness. The spontaneous magic of Gov't Mule in concert: "We feel more comfortable on stage than anywhere" 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z To the outside onlooker, American culture—I’m consolidating an infinitely layered thing to save time and space—is contradictory and bizarre, hypocritical and self-congratulatory. Delusional, prudish, selfish, violent: This is how Americans compare to the rest of the world 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Hawks’s stroke of genius in “Twentieth Century” lay in the realization that the two sides of Lombard’s screen persona were not contradictory but natural complements. New DVDs: ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much,’ Carole Lombard Films 2013-02-01T21:45:15Z Yet while the academy issues contradictory and increasingly ridiculous statements, Banksy remains characteristically silent and his spokesperson, Jo Brooks, had only this to say on the artist's attendance: "No comment." So why do women film-makers find it so hard to win an Oscar? 2011-02-25T16:19:28Z Borderlands offer opportunity for reinvention, for absorption; they also brim with unspoken and contradictory rules. Muhammad Ali is home: From the “universal soldier for our common humanity,” let us learn how to fight for each other 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z My feelings about Jobs are exactly the sort of complicated, contradictory ones that I was trying to explore in the movie. ‘Thoroughbreds’ movie is a mixed bag — and the director likes it that way 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z To appreciate parody, you must be capable of holding two contradictory ideas in your head simultaneously. Craig Brown: The Lost Diaries 2010-10-01T23:05:00Z We replace the myth of Salinger with an extraordinarily complex, deeply contradictory human being,” Salerno said in a statement. New J.D. Salinger Book and Film Coming Within Next Year 2013-01-29T22:58:40Z Ethical and legal dilemmas swirled about, as did the often contradictory best interests of mother and foetus. Radio review: Inside the Ethics Committee 2011-07-14T19:29:01Z History and America are contradictory and ambiguous, and yes, 4-year-olds who are capable of being racist and sexist should be exposed to some of that ambiguity as a form of inoculation. Feeling Conflicted on Thanksgiving 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z It's a seemingly contradictory place, but that is kind of where we are as people isn't it? Keith Urban ready to take fans on carnival ride 2011-06-15T18:34:55Z He had previously given contradictory statements about whether Hogan knew he was being filmed, and reportedly feared perjury charges if he testified at the Gawker trial. The Stakes in Hulk Hogan’s Gawker Lawsuit 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z She hit a chord that was at once wise and understanding, confused and contradictory, defiant and fragile. Lykke Li's dramatic, confident star turn 2011-05-24T16:07:20Z While it may seem contradictory for these sex-centered movies and shows to be a symbol of the failure of the sexual revolution, sex in these depictions are not portrayed under the male gaze. Women are ferally horny, according to TV and movies. Then why are they not having sex? 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Cappellini: The work looks very strongly influenced by the Bauhaus and Art Deco, which may seem contradictory. Brad Pitt Creates His Own Furniture Collection 2012-11-07T23:41:43Z But the contradictory calls on network television helped fuel confusion through the ensuing recount. How is TV news going to cover the weirdest, most fraught election in history? All of your questions answered. 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Awards shows have conflicted agendas and contradictory incentives. 12 Grammy Nominees You Need to Hear 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z Incomplete to the last, Raymond Chandler goes out as he came in: contradictory and confounding, an abiding mystery, perhaps even to himself. A Mysterious Something in the Light: Raymond Chandler, A Life by Tom Williams – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z Mr. Quinn, with his contradictory blend of smugness and wounded pride, replies: “Well, I was just doing my job, fella. And I left of my own accord, I wasn’t forced out. Over the summer.” Review: ‘Cop Show,’ Colin Quinn’s Police Procedural Satire 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Disconcertingly contradictory advice abounds — whether it’s snagging a husband in college or settling for Mr. Good Enough. “Your Prince Charming will come!” and other dumb advice that married people give their single friends 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z It means acknowledging that the most innovative, productive reading of contemporary Los Angeles is one that understands it as a layered, complex and often contradictory city, not merely a private one turning slowly public. Los Angeles public space is rambunctious again; let's dress it properly 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z That is, if you think about them, which is contradictory to the point of a buddy comedy. "Vacation Friends" is a happy buddy comedy in a world where race doesn't matter. That's a problem 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z It makes arts organisations contradictory: one evening they are putting on corporate events, the next, it's a play with refugees. Crude awakening: BP and the Tate 2010-06-30T20:31:00Z The TV show has a rueful subtext undercutting its otherwise peppy tone, but Lathrop doesn't quite have the same ear for bathos or the contradictory impulses that make humans so complex. Sex for sale and the cliches abound in 'Bordello' 2011-02-08T00:30:00Z “They’re these huge laboratories for all the different contradictory notions of what art is,” he said. Ben Lerner Imagines ‘Different Futures’ in His Novel ‘10:04’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Today, we’re bringing you pieces about children’s television—its surprising history, its broad, enduring impact, and its many, sometimes contradictory meanings. Sunday Reading: Children’s Television 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z The closer one looks, the more contradictory the myth becomes. How the Robin Hood myth was turned on its head by rightwingers 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z “It’s two contradictory things at once, and they somehow meld together and make a really harmonious, wonderful television show,” DiMaggio says. The Weird World of Adventure Time Comes Full Circle 2013-03-29T11:00:44Z News outlets carefully parsed information and sometimes used the same facts for contradictory conclusions. Media taking care in early coverage 2012-11-07T03:33:17Z A contradictory side note: many ATMs won’t accept your United States bank card, so when you find one that does, withdraw the maximum. Bound for the World Cup? Tips to Save You Money 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z Indeed, even when shows are eligible for the same prizes, the results are often contradictory. And the award for most awards goes to ... the Edinburgh festival 2010-09-07T13:42:00Z They offered seemingly contradictory pictures of a musician they variously described as warm, distant, intensely focused on the moment, balancing spontaneity with a number of strong ideas about how music should be played. Eschenbach, NSO offer mammoth but gentle Bruckner in season’s final program. He liked self-promotion but hated interviews; he even crafted a comedy segment—that he performed about a dozen times—on how to baffle interviewers with mounds of contradictory answers. The night Mark Twain brought Huck Finn alive 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Her agency's PR office offered different, contradictory explanations: highly fashionable "greylights", toner left on too long, over-use of dry shampoo ... anything but natural loss of pigment. The haters of Mary Beard's grey hair 2013-01-25T10:31:28Z Overlapping these fictional types is a constant, contradictory flow of media images — of heroic cops on 9/11, abusive cops at protest demonstrations, cops as community good guys or trigger-happy bigots. A theatrical cop-land, from an officer's perspective 2011-11-10T20:55:38Z Like everyone else willing to speak about it, her view of that culture was perplexingly nuanced, sometimes contradictory. The age of banter 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z He was possessed of extraordinarily powerful, complex, and contradictory emotions, desires, and ideas, which he transmuted into a similarly complex range of speech, both in manner and in substance. Just Let Marlon Brando Talk 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Most of the portraits describe an author’s encounters with the creatures depicted, encounters that spark real-world musings on race and diaspora, framing the often contradictory ways in which we represent, consume or reject monstrosity. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Despite the character’s bulldozing vulgarity and contemptible bullying, a contradictory human empathy sustains. Paper Giants: Magazine Wars - TV review 2013-06-02T15:04:00Z His “White Noise” would seem to be partly inspired by Samuel Beckett’s great monologue “Not I,” in which a disembodied mouth delivers a lifetime-spanning roster of contradictory impressions before being subsumed into darkness. Review: The Lists We Live by in Daniel Fish’s ‘White Noise’ 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z This year’s festival was, as usual, a wild jumble of overlapping and contradictory agendas for musicians, corporations, news media, music fans and full-time partygoers. At SXSW, Stepping Back to Allow Hopeful Artists to Step Up 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Making sense of the contradictory, whimsical and largely evidence-free doctrines he and others espoused is difficult. The in crowd 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Syms’s work pinpoints these in relation to the Black body in the American psyche, and its contradictory nature, from the revered status of Janet Jackson to the victims of police violence. Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z How to evoke his musical genius and political courage, but not sidestep the less savory, more contradictory aspects of his hedonistic life? Get-up-and-dance ‘Fela!’ coming to Seattle May 28-June 2 2013-05-22T23:12:41Z The director Nick Rowland locks your interest in early and firmly with a curious, seemingly contradictory mix of beauty and danger, a combination encapsulated by the delicately blurred image of man’s powerful hand. ‘The Shadow of Violence’ Review: Behold, the Bad Man (Again) 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Cheadle and Hawke exemplify what distinguishes a performance that has a higher degree of difficulty, if only because it depends on so many contradictory impulses converging. Why music biopics so often fall flat 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z A rebel mindstate and a rock star lifestyle: it's a slightly contradictory mash of attitudes. A$AP Rocky: 'We're grungy but we live like rock stars' 2012-06-01T23:04:00Z It's absolutely stultifying, it's brilliant, it's repetitive, it's contradictory. Philip K Dick's visionary journals to be published 2010-04-30T11:49:00Z It is also an inherently contradictory one: there’s a limit to how altruistic one can be when producing and shipping clothing at anything approaching that scale. The Vexed Appeal of Reformation 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z It was held true, however, by its fierce metaphysics and by the wonderfully contradictory figure of the monster. A Literary Dinner Party? Anne Enright Would Prefer Lunch 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z It's merely acknowledging that, if a jury were to find these allegations plausible, her contradictory backstage behavior reveals a lack of awareness that made such a stumble inevitable. Can fans accept the new reality of Lizzo? 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z This is a contradictory, rapidly evolving and messy place, which for many is teetering on the brink … of boom or bust. Portland city guide: what to see plus the best hotels, bars and restaurants 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z It’s been a contradictory and uneasy 12 months, and this pointedly idiosyncratic list covers a few of the highlights. Comedy Highlights of 2017 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Her mystique has ballooned in absentia, allowing people to project onto her seemingly contradictory ideas. Rihanna: Since She’s Been Gone 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Lambert comes across as a complicated, sometimes contradictory character. Review: ‘Lambert & Stamp’ Recalls the Duo Who Helped Ignite the Who 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z This troubled grandmother, though, is her best performance yet, reaching with perfect pitch all of the script's demandingly contradictory notes of tragedy, comedy, love, guilt, weakness and courage. Happy Valley TV review – Sarah Lancashire gives her best performance 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Identities keep shifting — ominously, senselessly — and characters are given to cryptic, contradictory remarks uttered with heightened gravity. ‘The Listeners,’ a Matthew Freeman Drama at the Brick 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z The musicians occasionally give contradictory accounts of who played what or how an effect was created. Review | Revisiting ‘Imagine,’ in John Lennon’s own words and pictures 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The conflicting and contradictory viewpoints create the opposite of agitprop and, in its way, something more politically radical, opening up a complex, unsettling debate that does not stop at the curtain call. Girl X - review 2011-03-06T17:07:36Z Given her lack of firsthand experience, she deserves praise for accepting without knowing the fierce and contradictory nature of maternal attachment. 'Are You My Mother?': Alison Bechdel's take on the mother-daughter bond 2012-05-10T20:25:04Z But the Bible of course is contradictory, as it is in so many other instances. ‘First Reformed’ Asks, Can God Forgive Us? Its Director Has an Answer 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Given that it is so difficult to test, and the studies are so prone to bias, it isn't surprising that results of clinical trials are contradictory. Why acupuncture is giving sceptics the needle 2013-07-26T09:31:00Z Later news reports presented contradictory accounts of how and when the manuscript was found. Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z He injected a contemplative aura into the grueling, and contradictory, desert isolation actually endured by the saint. Santa Barbara's 'Botticelli, Titian and Beyond' a quirky gem 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z And, contradictory though it may sound, in a show that features both graphic sex and violence, there is also an innocence to the trade it portrays. Maggie Gyllenhaal: ‘Pornography is an art form’ 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z Scrolling through my memories of 2022, I find a lot of interesting movies and a lot of anxious, contradictory opinionizing about The State of Cinema. Best Movies of 2022 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Admiring of the work but unblinking about the complex, contradictory man, "Mr. Turner," like his paintings, is unlike anything else you'll see this year, and that is welcome news, indeed. 'Mr. Turner' an unblinking portrait of British artist J.M.W. Turner 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z That fascination is partly due to Michael Halling’s subtle, intriguingly contradictory performance as Jefferson. Review | ‘Jefferson’s Garden’ blooms with contradictions at Ford’s 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The subtle and often contradictory associations carried by specific tunes – what the good people in the mood-music industry call its "topology" – are deeply subjective. Soundtracks of my tears: how movie music sets a mood and sums up an era 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Paradoxically, Eschenbach’s episodic approach had a cohesive effect on this tricky, contradictory music, bringing out the joy and warmth as well as the earnestness. A maverick soloist offers a classic new work 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z It is about the complicated, contradictory and painful choices made by French literary figures during and after the Nazi occupation. Exhibitions: Occupation of France During World War II Revisited in Words 2011-06-08T12:05:29Z Even his dress, today, is contradictory, the pastel polo shirt at odds with the tattoos and big jewellery – part country club, part rocker. Nicolas Cage: 'People think I'm not in on the joke' 2013-07-20T08:00:00Z But it probably won’t provoke the complex, shaded, sometimes contradictory personal reactions that many works of art do. At In Situ in San Francisco, Originality in Careful Copies 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Jack’s confessions uphold two contradictory claims: that love inscribes the body, and that love refuses to mark the body; for these characters, what is beloved flourishes in its own private mystery. “Confessions of the Fox” Is a Cunning Metafiction of Vulpine Versatility 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z As his interviews progressed, Mr. Layton was bewildered, he said, by the contradictory stories told by his subjects, including the members of the Barclay family, who brought Mr. Bourdin into their home. ‘The Imposter’ and a Sense of Balance 2012-07-06T14:30:00Z We were told to run through the moonlit corn maze if we wanted to live; as we ran, armed soldiers yelled contradictory instructions while hissing zombies emerged from the corny darkness. My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead 2010-12-03T15:18:00Z Fitzgerald himself contributes to the confusion as the author of countless contradictory zingers: "Parties are a form of suicide," he said, but he was an Olympic party animal. Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell – review 2013-06-02T07:01:17Z But for years he had dreamed of an “art totale,” he said, that would meld the contradictory disciplines of photography and sculpture. Monuments: The Poetry of Dreams 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z “Sees the Light,” the second album by her band La Sera, was as fearlessly contradictory as the group’s self-titled debut; its surf-punk sheen crashed into aggressive distortion and its girl-group harmonies cooed of crushing isolation. Pop & Rock Listings for May 9-15 2014-05-08T22:39:49Z Mostly, it was a singular, contradictory and at times poignant unburdening by an actress who is best known for staying buttoned up. The TV Watch: Jodie Foster Lifts a Veil at Golden Globes 2013-01-14T23:02:55Z She understands the contradictory, sometimes deadly demands that second-generation young people face, but she commands the narrative power to demonstrate that this struggle is central rather than merely tangential to the American experience. Review | Sanjena Sathian’s ‘Gold Diggers’ is a witty social satire with a dash of magic 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z The element of comedy there never got in the way of the wounded humanity, and it was proof that Clarkson could handle contradictory impulses – another impediment to playing monolithic lead parts. David Thomson on Patricia Clarkson 2011-08-25T21:15:01Z Virility only gets more contradictory and complicated with time and, reading through “A History of Virility,” one looks with mounting dread toward each new historical epoch. When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The proceedings in Virginia often became a stage where the couple, and many of their associates, recounted some of the most intimate, embarrassing and often contradictory accounts of their relationship. Johnny Depp Jury Finds That Amber Heard Defamed Him in Op-Ed 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z To the Russians themselves, the twin attraction to East and West never felt contradictory. Review: The Foundations of Russian Culture and Art 2010-03-05T14:00:00Z It is structurally antagonistic to private property, but in contradictory ways. Is piracy a radical force? 2012-09-03T14:30:00Z At the same time, however, virility was felt as “a network of anxiety-producing injunctions, often contradictory, to which one must, in one way or another, give in.” When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Mamie was “the hardest to grasp, the most contradictory and possibly the least happy.” Books of The Times: Robert Gottlieb’s Book on Dickens and His Children 2012-12-06T19:06:19Z The contradictory answer supplied by the movie is that he thought he was just like everybody else: exceptional, a winner, a V.I.P. The Luxe Life in ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Bling Ring’ and Other Films 2013-05-16T12:00:01Z While it might have been the alcohol talking, Mr. Hill could be somewhat contradictory in discussing his post-”Moneyball” strategy. Arts & Leisure: Jonah Hill?s New Movie Is ?The Sitter? 2011-11-30T16:13:30Z There were so many things that were contradictory,” says Hedges. LaBeouf thought he was finished, then he wrote ‘Honey Boy’ 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Roderick is a strange, shy, intelligent boy, and while we get several views of him throughout the book — many of them contradictory — he comes to life most brightly in his own voice. A thriller with a fine literary pedigree: 'His Bloody Project' by Graeme Macrae Burnet 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Kauffman's stylish production is a perfect showcase for Schwartz's unique way of communicating how humor may inform and illuminate the messy, contradictory human condition. Review: Memory gets surreal in 'Somewhere Fun' 2013-06-05T18:20:09Z It’s funny, so many of these stereotypes about bicycling going so unquestioned that people are able to hold them simultaneously, even when they’re completely contradictory. The unstoppable rise of bikes 2013-10-21T01:30:00Z "Artworks that exist only in one or the other in some ways are contradictory to how we experience the world around us." Digital theatre: 'A new sort of artform' 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Walls is too well versed in Thoreau’s life to accept his own often contradictory pronouncements or his semi-fictional first-person narrator as necessarily factual. This new biography of Henry David Thoreau is the masterpiece he deserves 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z All those contradictory, fleeting, haunting shades of thought that you expect to see playing on the features of Pinter's characters are nowhere in evidence. Press views: Weisz and Craig in Betrayal 2013-11-04T11:37:56Z He, and we, are rightly fascinated by the limelight, by the culture of consumption and by Mr. West’s endlessly contradictory reactions to all that attention. Music Review: ‘Yeezus,’ Kanye West’s Raw and Jolting New Album 2013-06-16T18:25:47Z Such richly contradictory portraiture gives us a sense of what the painter Nirad means when he speaks of “rasa” in art. Tom Stoppard’s ‘Indian Ink’ Focuses on English Sisters 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Uklanski, who has always relied on the push-pull of contradictory forces in his work, said that his own paintings functioned as both “critical tool and homage.” An Artist Who Appropriates With a Wink 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z But as the culture has evolved, the film has proved to be very much of its time, with a contradictory legacy that trans viewers have grappled with. ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ 20 Years Later: For Trans Men, a Divisive Legacy 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Many critics have already reviewed the highly anticipated movie, which opens Friday, finding in it the seemingly contradictory qualities of chauvinism and feminism. 'Gone Girl' powers up with formidable women taking lead 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Ray’s songs zero in on all the contradictory pressures women face: to be cosmetically perfect but authentic, independent but nurturing, flippant but honest, and more. Playlist: Falling in Love, Longing and Leering 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z The ten months between these two points exist now as a suspended and contradictory zone in recent cultural history. The Music of “Hustlers” and the Soaring, Stupid National Mood Circa 2008 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Her neighbors turn on her, too, invoking the classic, if contradictory, “she asked for it” canards: She was drunk when it happened. Review: Sexual Assault as Both History Lesson and Satire 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z But Bratton, a photographer and documentary filmmaker directing his first scripted feature, is alert to the contradictory nuances of masculinity. ‘The Inspection’ Review: Boot Camp, a Love Story 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Even his simplest, most assertive melodies usually sound as if they’re being pulled in contradictory directions. Stephen Sondheim, the Man Who Felt Too Much 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z One imagines that the artist was too slippery or contradictory for the museum, too much of a prankster and publicity hound. Francis Picabia, the Playboy Prankster of Moderism 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z It’s contradictory on many levels, and I think it’s interesting. When Don Draper toppled a dictator 2013-03-15T17:10:00Z If God really wants to speak to us, why would he use as his medium vague and contradictory books full of cryptic literary games? The Book of Mormon: the Great American Bible 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z As we made the long descent, I found myself fixating on the contradictory meanings of the phrase “it’s all downhill from here.” There Are No Real Roads in Guadalupe Park. You Earn the Incredible Views. 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z “You feel like you exist in two contradictory universes — so writing novels is a way of curing myself.” Raised on Le Carré, He Wrote a Thriller Dipped in Poison 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Noël Carroll has argued that "Citizen Kane" was designed to support two entirely contradictory interpretations of Rosebud’s importance to Charles Foster Kane. In "Blade Runner," who are the androids and what do they dream of? 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z This summer, Vivien Goldman is giving those contradictory feelings a ruffle. Review | Vivien Goldman is stepping out of punk lore and into the present 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z A cancer diagnosis pitches you into a disorientating fog of confusing, alarming and often contradictory advice, which would be hard enough to navigate at the best of times. How to get through chemotherapy: Decca Aitkenhead on cancer treatment 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Ultimately, Jobs was captivating as a human being who embodied many common and contradictory attitudes, not just about technology but about work, family, and spiritual life. Apple at Forty: Steve Jobs Led Us to the Fourth Dimension 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Clinton was expected to be perfect, according to contradictory standards, in an election that became a referendum on her likability. Now Is the Time to Talk About What We Are Actually Talking About 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z He parses President Trump’s seemingly contradictory stance on immigrants. Andrew Zimmern moves from entertainer to advocate on his new MSNBC food show 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z But to understand that piece of music you need to do what adults are capable of doing, which is to hold two contradictory ideas of one thing in your mind at one time. Bruce Springsteen Is Living in the Moment 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z But they are also linked in a system that serves a lot of different, sometimes contradictory purposes. A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis on Film Festivals 2011-10-01T01:13:02Z However, as contradictory results of several studies have shown, these changes do not always improve athletic performance. How does intermittent fasting affect athletic performance? 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Most of the characters in “This Is Us” are flawed and complex, acting in ways that are contradictory yet relatable. Defined by her dress size: “This Is Us” is NBC’s best new show — and it has a fat-shaming problem 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z But this orthodoxy does not spring organically from the complex and contradictory mix of feelings and desires that is who you really are. I like to be objectified 2012-11-20T01:00:00Z The contradictory sentiment is part of Drake's persona, a persona that blends persona with personality. Video: Drake "Over" 2010-04-13T01:49:00Z Though basic impulses may be dividable here along gender lines, variations on those instincts are countless and contradictory. Theater Review: ‘The Castle,’ by Howard Barker, at Atlantic Stage 2 2013-07-17T21:11:30Z "The play is in doublethink," says Macmillan, invoking the Newspeak word for people's capacity to accept contradictory notions as true. In a new era of surveillance and doublethink, '1984' takes to the stage 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z But it also came because two contradictory narratives were colliding on television: that of the inauguration ritual and that of the new president, Donald J. Trump. Mr. Reality TV Goes to Washington 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Today, you will get very contradictory interpretations about the nature of the country he created. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Q. & A.: Mila Turajlic on 'Cinema Komunisto' 2011-04-21T18:50:26Z These goals are inherently contradictory, and the Fed has only a limited number of dials it can fiddle with to achieve the best possible combined result. Ben Bernanke’s ‘The Courage to Act’ 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z What a strange and contradictory—and not unentertaining—thing the Golden Globes were to watch last night. Meryl Streep at the Golden Globes 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Now, she runs an increasingly desperate gantlet of contradictory demands. ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ Review: Life and Death in Srebrenica 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Messy, contradictory details like this, paradoxically, argue for the story's reality. The Way Back ? review 2010-12-23T15:00:00Z For a contemporary instance, there is the recent work of Coetzee, who has explored the contradictory and irrational ways in which people hold ideas and propositions. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z And both use contradictory pronouncements to cover all bases. Kanye West Writes a Song of Himself on ‘Ye’ 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z And it was not yet freighted by spinoff projects, a splintered fan culture, and a mythology that’s complicated by the incompatible, sometimes contradictory visions of multiple film-makers and a corporate parent fussing over its investment. The Empire Strikes Back at 40: did the Star Wars saga peak too early? 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Currie's feelings for him are contradictory; she is bitterly resentful of almost everything, from being offered the wrong job to being served some unsatisfactory lamb. Diaries Volume II: 1992-1997 by Edwina Currie – review 2012-09-28T21:54:01Z But there is already something meaningful preserved in hues that stretch from creamy corn-silk yellow to screaming candy-apple scarlet: a wildly colorful — abstract, and at times contradictory — portrait of a land in chaos. The Unmitigated Chaos of America’s Attempt at Color-Coded Covid Guidance 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Their model of heroic manhood — flawed, contradictory, seemingly anachronistic — is perhaps best encapsulated in the motto Wayne envisioned for his epitaph: “Feo, Fuerte y Formal,” or, in English, “ugly, strong and dignified.” Hollywood’s Biggest Stars Seen Inside and Out 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The dialectic of loyalty and betrayal — within families, local communities, political movements, subcultures and the nation itself — is his great theme, and Masino Buscetta supplies him an aptly contradictory hero. ‘The Traitor’ Review: Turning the Tables on La Cosa Nostra 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Malina captured their contradictory responses: “What Julian sees as full of vitality I see as full of death. It is a bright doom that hangs over these paintings.” Review | Robert Rauschenberg: A clear-eyed views of chaos, or just chaos? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z He tapped into the score’s contradictory, two-faced personality without exaggerating it. Thomas Dausgaard leads Seattle Symphony in a deeply satisfying Brahms program 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z They also analyzed their protagonist’s story in complex and intriguingly contradictory terms: over seven seasons, they said, Alicia had in fact become stronger and more independent, capable of great things, particularly in court. Goodbye to “The Good Wife” 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z The sometimes contradictory facets of Chela’s personality are revealed through a gradual and elegant kaleidoscopic motion. ‘The Heiresses’ Review: A Surprising Drama of Status and Sexuality 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z “Little Sister,” written with Lindsay Harrison, presents the various, often contradictory narratives of what happened that Saturday night, compiled from witnesses and police reports. Review | How did Natalie Wood die? Forty years later, her sister offers theories in a new book. 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Here is Diana in her contradictory glory, naïve and conniving, full of charm and full of guile, destined to marry a prince and wreak havoc on a monarchy. ‘The Crown’ Has Had Its Scandals, but There’s Nothing Like Diana 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Besides, what Gilpin is most thankful for is living and working in an era when women are increasingly showing their complex, contradictory sides, both on and offscreen. How ‘GLOW’ Helped Betty Gilpin Embrace Her Inner Weirdo 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z They relish human connection and odd, stretched out, sometimes contradictory perspectival effects, often perpetuated by radical shifts in scale. Art In Review: MERNET LARSEN: ‘Three Chapters’ 2012-10-04T21:09:17Z It “has the feeling of a contrived acting exercise,” writes Times theater critic Charles McNulty, “but the experience deepens as the actors probe their characters’ contradictory hearts.” Essential Arts & Culture: Misty Copeland and Dudamel, 'Heisenberg' uncertainty, authenticity in casting 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Instead, he is forced to turn to the contradictory work of praising recent expansions in democracy even as he works to denigrate them. Andrew Sullivan is wrong again: His mainstream liberalism has become scarily anti-democratic 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z While this, too, might strike one as amusing or contradictory, my dive into the modern cake-mix market reveals that, for many — especially millennials — this state of affairs is normal. Be better than Betty Crocker. Here's how to make your own baking mixes like a pro. 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z In that sense, it highlights the plight of contemporary consciousness, straining to assimilate vast amounts of noisy, complicated and contradictory input. ‘Sites of Reason’ Underway at Museum of Modern Art 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z The British values that immigrants are being asked to sign up to are often contradictory. The British Dream by David Goodhart – review 2013-04-03T10:04:20Z The filmmaker examines tobacco’s contradictory place in the state’s culture. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Two seemingly contradictory things can be true at the same time. What do all these stories of vaccine denial deaths do to our sense of empathy? 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z It may be that the Nobel was never worthy of this iconoclastic satirist, wily cultural historian, sublime fictive ranter, comic tragedian, outraged citizen, contradictory wit, epic insulter and monumental imaginer. Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z My very plans for this column aptly reflect the contradictory forces that characterize the film world these days. When will Hollywood learn the value of a diverse, well-balanced diet? 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The title "Delta Machine" reflects the musicians' contradictory sounds - they're influenced by the Delta blues, but they also use technology like computers and synthesizers. Depeche Mode, 'pessimists at heart,' never imagined longevity 2013-03-14T19:45:05Z Sternburg is at her most astute when she can hold sometimes contradictory truths in mind, but she is prone to slipping into a more brittle moralism. The miracle cure that wasn't: 'White Matter' on the personal tragedy of lobotomy 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z So social-media use for public figures is full of contradictory rules. Birdbrained 2011-06-09T11:20:00Z As usual, there is room for diverging, even contradictory interpretations, and the political certainly is as much at play here as the Oedipal. Movie Review | 'A Prophet': Learning to Read, Murder, Survive 2010-02-25T23:22:00Z In each of these pieces, multiple and often contradictory elements are at play. Martyrdoms, border violence, a tree-eating android are all a part of 'What I See' 2010-07-15T20:59:00Z No rapper has embodied hip-hop’s often contradictory impulses of narcissism and social good quite as he has, and no producer has celebrated the lush and the ornate quite as he has. The Visionaries: Kanye West Talks About His Career and Album ‘Yeezus’ 2013-06-11T23:25:32Z The characters, who appear at first as easily identifiable types, eventually reveal contradictory aspects that aren't always easy for the actors to integrate organically but are part of Jacobs-Jenkins' unsettling vision. 'Appropriate' unearths ugly family dynamics in epic dramatic fashion 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z The snake, a recurrent element in Mr. Huang’s art, is an enigmatic symbol in both Chinese and Western mythology, endowed with multiple, contradictory qualities. Huang Yong Ping Brings 'Empires' of Globalization to Paris 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z The title, she writes, refers to “a characteristically female way of thinking that appears to be contradictory and circuitous but is actually a complicated and highly evolved way of looking at the world.” Travel Tips From Comedians: Iliza Shlesinger 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Politician, lawyer and intellectual, Cicero was thoroughly imbued with Greek culture, but also bears witness to the equivocal, even contradictory attitudes Romans had toward its seemingly all-pervasive influences. Review: The Face of Captive Greece in Rome 2010-08-13T15:41:00Z It’s part of why we work so hard to contain sex: it is feral, untamed, uncivilized. Sometimes desire seems terribly contradictory, even hypocritical. The truth about sex and equality 2014-02-09T01:00:00Z “Everyone has a set of contradictory expectations about George, Grand Old Man of publishing,” the journalist Elizabeth Grice wrote in The Daily Telegraph in 2005. George Weidenfeld, British Publisher of ‘Lolita’ and London Fixture, Dies at 96 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z It also matches a modern identity that elevates an imperial past once held in disdain, and reinforces faith, ethnicity and a message of tolerance in an often contradictory brew. Turkey: epic movie highlights Ottoman conquest 2012-03-02T10:46:04Z Which speaks to a reality that the Selfridges project exposes for all to see: the fashion world’s contradictory relationship with the concept of age. Fashion’s Two-Faced Relationship With Age 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z A running theme in these eloquent essays, most of which appeared in The New York Review of Books and incorporate political reportage with personal history, is the contradictory nature of middle-class black life. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z As has become standard, criminal and detective are equally complex and contradictory. 'True Detective' turns cautious at the beginning of Season 2 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z This is especially important in a culture that generates so many contradictory and frankly manipulative messages about drugs and alcohol. My Kids Say I Drink Too Much. Do I? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z It is snarled in decades of incomplete, contradictory and sometimes flat-out incorrect information on nutrition, plus elements of nature and nurture, plus tectonic shifts in how and what we eat. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A husband who’s headed toward obesity and health problems 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z And characters at constant contradictory extremes are almost impossible to act. Review: Taylor Mac’s ‘Gary’ Finds Hope and Humor on a Pile of Corpses 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z It was passionate, confusing and at times contradictory. At This Museum Sixth Graders Learn Lessons in Democracy 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z It appears to run contradictory to the ethos of the brand, which has long promoted diversity, inclusivity and female empowerment. Johnny Depp is a disheartening choice for Savage x Fenty 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z But they are contradictory in their own, specifically defined ways. | 'The ___________ With the Hat': A Love Not at a Loss for Words 2011-04-12T06:30:20Z Rife with contradiction, comfort seems most contradictory—most rich and wonderful—in the domain of art. Rembrandt and Gerard Manley Hopkins: How to Take Comfort in Art 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z His dissatisfaction is palpable, yet his terse directives begin to seem contradictory. Review: ‘Mr. Gaga’ Doesn’t Sing but Has His Own (Dance) Language 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z In discussing the best ways of fostering such variety, Mount can be infuriatingly partial and contradictory. How England Made the English by Harry Mount - review 2012-05-18T21:55:01Z All these things tend towards the contradictory and therefore dukkha – or, if you prefer, the annoying. Annoyance is part of family life, so get over it 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z As with so much about President Trump, his Phoenix rally on Tuesday night was two contradictory things: both shocking and completely predictable. Perspective | Trump’s vicious attack on the media shows one thing clearly: He’s running scared 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z David contradicts himself even in his grace, because to be alive is to be contradictory. Leonardo or Michelangelo: who is the greatest? 2010-03-30T07:00:00Z We will celebrate a self-destructive form of ignorance that shows little regard for the messy and contradictory realities of political progress at the governmental level. My regrettable libertarian romance: I rebounded from my experimental phase, but many don't 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Adichie is particularly good at exposing the contradictory ebb and flow of America's painful attempts to reconcile itself with its recent past, when segregation still persisted in the south. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – review 2013-04-15T08:00:02Z But they tell us something about what was going on inside that complex, contradictory, eternally fascinating mind. Art ? Miles Davis's last addiction 2010-12-09T22:28:00Z The point is, there is a lot be exercised about when it comes to the behemoths of our operatic institutions, but Thicknesse misses his targets with a contradictory analysis of what's going on. Love opera. Don't fall into the trappings trap 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z The play is worth dusting off only if these contradictory dimensions can be fully drawn out in the harsh ironic light of the playwright’s vision. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z It doesn’t help, she adds, that the credibility of the police who responded to the shooting in Uvalde has steadily unraveled, as law enforcement officials have made contradictory statements and changed their story numerous times. The prospect of more police at schools is no comfort for Black parents 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z I asked Planck and others associated with Tolstoy College if they found it contradictory at all to establish an anarchist college that was funded by the state. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Something that I nurture in my readers is the ability to think two contradictory thoughts at the same time. Swimming against the tide: Lawrence Weschler on 'Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of Astrophysicists' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z As portrayed in galvanizing performances by David Oyelowo and Tom Wilkinson, these two canny political players emerge as fascinating, often contradictory characters, one whose genius lies in grass-roots activism, the other in Washington realpolitik. Film fact-checking is here to stay. So let’s agree on some new rules. 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z The complicated, contradictory, raw, real truth is emotional and it opens our hearts. "Most of us are broken": Author Cheryl Strayed embraces the imperfection of "Tiny Beautiful Things" 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z Maureen is cracked and contradictory, an oracular, foul-mouthed figure, the embodiment of Ireland at its most destructive. Irish charm 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Lipsky is committed to the concept that every person is an infinitely complex, ultimately unpredictable bundle of contradictory forces. | 'Twelve Thirty': In States of Undress, Mental and Physical 2011-01-14T00:17:47Z I hope that the visual storytelling will stir authentic emotions — complex and even contradictory sentiments. Elena Ferrante on ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Moving to the Screen 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z The new literature of the long war consists of voices calling across that divide, and the truths this fiction tries to tell are complex, morally ambiguous and often contradictory. Veterans' new fiction adds needed perspective on war zones 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z The outcome was that he was able to live multiple, often contradictory, lives. Remembering Buchenwald survivor Jorge Semprún, a key witness to the 20th century 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z In any event, as he recently wrote in an open letter to those unsettled by the marketing images for this production, “A complicated and contradictory response is an appropriate one.” Donald Byrd’s ‘Minstrel Show’ tackles touchy racial history 2014-02-17T01:42:55Z And the most gnawing question for this character: How does he reconcile the contradictory elements of his nature, especially his yearning for other men? Review: The Opera ‘Crossing’ Shows Why Whitman Matters Today 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z The film is simple and straightforward, but it doesn’t ignore the story’s contradictory power dynamics. Perspective | ‘Green Book’ won big at the Golden Globes. Will it hold up under increased scrutiny? 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z That conversation, Sheridan says, encapsulates so much that is true and contradictory about the modern west: not just its stubbornly lingering cliches, but the sense that something is, inevitably, slipping away. With ‘Wind River,’ Taylor Sheridan continues to smash western stereotypes 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z But he made contradictory statements about his intent in attacking Harpers Ferry, and I'd love to be able to pin him down posthumously. BookTalk: John Brown's "Midnight Rising" 2011-12-22T10:03:38Z An enchanting place of eccentric celebration, Apfelbaum’s secular chapel threads the contradictory needle in surprising and pleasurable ways. Polly Apfelbaum's fallen paintings and beads of devotion in her secular chapel of abstract art 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Those hands might account for the contradictory brushwork, as thick as raw meat here, fleecy there. A Question Still Hanging at the Met Breuer: Why? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z The Mall, after all, is a contradictory landscape: It’s packed with food options, most of which reveal nothing about the D.C. scene. The best places to eat within walking distance of the Mall 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Or at least our children, who labor under intense and contradictory pressures from which the end of adolescence offers at least partial escape. Film: They Grow Up So Quickly, Don?t They? 2010-07-09T04:31:00Z In this commentary on male bonding and unbinding, Mr. Saire explores men’s often contradictory emotions and their needs for both togetherness and separation. The Week Ahead: Jan. 2 ? 8 2010-12-31T15:49:43Z Warm Bodiesby Isaac Marion This eloquently written and smooth flowing narrative kicks off with a quote that is nothing but contradictory. Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion - review 2013-04-29T08:00:00Z But David is as much a captive to Elise as a fugitive from those meddlesome strangers, and he’s also caught between seemingly contradictory forces: his ambition and his heart. | 'The Adjustment Bureau': Creepy People With a Plan, and a Couple on the Run 2011-03-03T20:00:07Z At its center are the myths by which we define ourselves: myths of liberation, myths of degradation, myths of power and oppression and celebrity, and the uneasy and often contradictory ways they intersect. Fall books preview: A busy literary season ahead 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Like Walt Whitman, another hard-to-classify embodiment of the spirit of New York, he is contradictory and multitudinous. Movie Review: ‘Koch,’ Neil Barsky’s Documentary on the Former Mayor 2013-01-31T16:55:40Z |
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