| 单词 | decisive |
| 例句 | After all the decisive victories of the day my life was to end in sticky death. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Brinker for example had begun a long, decisive sequence of withdrawals from school activity ever since the morning I deserted his enlistment plan. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z This is the genuinely decisive technology of modern medicine, exemplified best by modern methods for immunization against diphtheria, pertussis, and the childhood virus diseases, and the contemporary use of antibiotics and chemotherapy for bacterial infections. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I already mentioned that the invention of pottery in Kyushu around 12,700 years ago and the resulting Jomon population explosion were the first of two decisive changes in Japanese history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It is their job to be totally decisive at all times. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Hamilton lobbied his Federalist colleagues in the House to support Jefferson over Burr for the presidency, a decision that probably had a decisive effect on the eventual outcome. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “He is able, certainly. A more decisive and forceful personality than Cornelius.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z In reality, even for the most famous and apparently decisive modern inventions, neglected precursors lurked behind the bald claim “X invented Y.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It seemed to him that it was only now, when he had begun to be able to formulate his thoughts, that he had taken the decisive step. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He was answering them, not with words, but with one decisive, unanswerable action. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In the Adams version, this decision was truly decisive because it created separate and independent American governments. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Any attempt to take decisive action against slavery in 1790, given all these considerations, confronted great, perhaps impossible, odds. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Some of its great achievements had a decisive influence on Greek and Roman art, and thus we can still feel ourselves linked to the Egypt of 5,000 years ago by a continuous, living tradition. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z No decision he makes at Gettysburg will be decisive, except perhaps die last. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I hope the church as a whole will meet the challenge of this decisive hour. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In reality, Ebola had not yet made a decisive, irreversible breakthrough into the human race,, but it seemed close to doing that. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Following Eisenhower’s order, Strauss summoned Oppenheimer to his Washington office for what he expected to be a decisive encounter. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He wrote his reminder to himself in a heavy and decisive hand, amplifying it sharply with a series of coded punctuation marks and underlining the whole message twice, so that it read: Yossarian! Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Even if climate change abetted us, the human contribution was decisive. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We Liars used to roll our eyes at these pronouncements— “Be decisive; no one likes a waffler”; “Never complain, never explain”—but we still saw him as full of wisdom on grown-up topics. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z What it is is decisive, and if you pay attention to the street plans, all laid out, the City can’t hurt you. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z For a second the idea glittered before Sefia like one of her Visions: the Five Islands working together in concert, all the warring kingdoms united, their turbulent histories smoothed over in a single decisive victory. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Such imbalances of equipment were decisive in innumerable other confrontations of Europeans with Native Americans and other peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z No single step separated the woman gathering wild wheat from the woman farming domesticated wheat, so it’s hard to say exactly when the decisive transition to agriculture took place. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He did this, he knew; he dispensed with things, trying to be like other people — decisive, practical — only to discover he’d overdone it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A bullish, handsome man with decisive eyebrows and more hair than he could find use for, Lin had a great deal of money and a habit of having things go his way. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But the ants continued to appear and multiply, daily growing more impudent and more decisive. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the decisive battle, ten members of the defeated tribe were killed. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was he who tried to reassure me: “It’s not certain yet. There’s still a chance. Today, they will do another selection ... a decisive one . . .” I said nothing. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z What gave the Spaniards a decisive advantage was smallpox, which reached Mexico in 1520 with one infected slave arriving from Spanish Cuba. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z People are so wildly different, and it’s hard to know when genetics or environment or just bad luck is decisive. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Because diseases have been the biggest killers of people, they have also been decisive shapers of history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In this way they made their way around the room repeatedly, without anything decisive taking place; indeed because of the slow pace it didn't look like a chase. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come now, no indecisiveness. You were decisive enough when you ran to the back of the plane. Bring that formidable will to bear on this moment.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It is the only myth in which magic plays a decisive part, and it seems to have been a great favorite in Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Three overlapping reasons appear to have converged in Adams’s mind and provided decisive direction to a foreign policy that, until then, had been vacillating between the incompatible agendas of the Federalists and the Republicans. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It was a vintage Franklin performance, reminiscent of his bemused but devastating recommendations to the English government in 1770 about the surest means to take the decisive action guaranteed to destroy the British Empire. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Sheridan had made a dramatic ride to rally his straggling troops and turn a nearly-lost battle into a decisive Union victory. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z In all my wishing for a job I had not thought of how I would be treated, and now it loomed important, decisive, sweeping down beneath every other consideration. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In his own memoirs he had selected May 15, 1776, as the most decisive moment, because that was the day the Continental Congress passed a resolution calling for new constitutions in each of the states. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Franklin wanted to put slavery onto the national agenda before it was too late to take decisive action in accord with the principles of the Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He did everything with direct and decisive movements, in contrast to his languid look. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The day before, at the decisive Battle of Five Forks, Union General Phil Sheridan and 45,000 men had captured a pivotal crossing, cutting off the main road to North Carolina. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z However, a voice responded at once, a crisp, decisive voice that sounded as though it were reading a prepared statement. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She was a competent midwife and decisive diagnostician. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The pentominoes were yellow plastic and clacked against the kitchen table in a satisfying, decisive way. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z He was by nature a decisive man, and although this was one of the great decisions of his life and he knew it, he made it quickly and did not agonize over it. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “And the city fell shortly after, which means our boys dealt a decisive blow, fellas.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The two candidates had tested each other mightily, with Barack opening up a small but ultimately decisive lead midway through February. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Thanks to auxiliary fuel tanks and slender, ultraefficient Davis wings, it could fly literally all day, a decisive asset in the sprawling World War II theaters. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Thus the Cartesian distinction between mind and matter turned out to be less sharp and decisive than at first it had seemed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Linguists term this decisive innovation, which also underlies puns today, the rebus principle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z More to the point, the bomb program was moving toward a concrete conclusion, with plans laid for a decisive test in the desert. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But we humans now represent a new and perhaps decisive factor. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Raheem patted my shoulder then withdrew his arm, his jaw set at a decisive angle. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Also in 1915, blacks played a decisive role in electing the mayor, Republican William Thompson. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Their decisive naval encounter, with the Emperor on board ship, occurred at Danno-ura in the Japanese Inland Sea on April 24, 1185. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, Atahuallpa’s capture interests us specifically as marking the decisive moment in the greatest collision of modern history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Bigger watched Jack closely; he knew that the situation was one in which Jack’s word would be decisive. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He let out a cheer, like a football fan after a decisive touchdown. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The country had waited expectantly that summer to hear of a decisive victory by its hero-commander, Grant. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z In a swift and decisive practice of preventive medicine, Dr. Snow removed the handle from the pump. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Game theory suggests that success favors the decisive. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She imagines seizing El Lider’s pistol, pressing it to his temple, squeezing the trigger until he hears the decisive click. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the same way he worked on the mat, quick and decisive. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Mr. Trepid had decided to be firm and decisive. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z In the end, it was Adams who made the decisive move. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z That was the decisive factor in the British Empire’s eventual defeat of New Zealand’s well-armed indigenous Maori population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She sat paralyzed on the bed for fifteen minutes before springing up, suddenly decisive. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I think I had been waiting for a long time for someone to say this so that I could entertain these decisive words myself. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The sergeant, a decisive man, ordered that the sound should not be answered, but that the course should be changed, and that his men should make towards it “at the double.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Burnham was decisive, blunt, and cordial; he spoke under a level blue gaze that Olmsted found reassuring. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z These forks in the road can happen so fast for young boys; within months or even weeks, their journeys can take a decisive and possibly irrevocable turn. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The end of the Ice Age was accompanied by the first of the two most decisive changes in Japanese history: the invention of pottery. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Atahuallpa and his army came to be at Cajamarca because they had just won decisive battles in a civil war that left the Incas divided and vulnerable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a decisive battle, because it was in some ways the twelfth century equivalent of what later came to be called a Total War. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Germs thus acquired ultimately from domestic animals played decisive roles in the European conquests of Native Americans, Australians, South Africans, and Pacific islanders. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But he knew Gus, as he knew himself, and he knew that one of them might fail through fear at the decisive moment. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It disappeared into the veins of the ship with a decisive thunk. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The war games required them to make decisive, rapid-fire decisions under conditions of high pressure and with limited information, which is, of course, what they did all day at work. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Their decisive movements showed they knew exactly where to go and what they were looking for. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z But just as guns did not determine the outcome of conflict in New England, steel was not the decisive factor in Peru. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She was decisive without being bossy and didn’t easily get angry. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Jethro noticed that there was no more talk of taking the South “by the britches,” no more confident statements of ending the whole affair in one decisive swoop. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z A final factor in the transition became decisive at geographic boundaries between hunter-gatherers and food producers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was then that he thought of the decisive step, not only for the modernization of his business but to link the town with the rest of the world. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Madison wanted to take slavery off the national agenda because he believed that decisive action would result in the destruction of either the Virginia planter class or the nation itself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But before any decisive combat had taken place, a youth in Thebes not yet grown to manhood had died for his country and in his death had shown himself the noblest of all. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The door shut behind her with a decisive click. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z There was so little time; and he needed, Matty knew, to present it to her in a decisive and convincing way. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Above all, he has no conception of a decisive transition in the natural sciences. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Two incidents were decisive in Mary’s decision to move. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The hairy outlaw gave a loud and decisive snort. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Apparently, there had been a brief and decisive skirmish and I’d just missed it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “There is not one decisive break saying that the people below this all have this common experience,” Kingston said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The decisive confrontation took place by his sickbed upstairs in his home. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When the decisive vote came in April, Madison attributed his defeat to “the exertions and influence of Aristocracy, Anglicism, and mercantilism” led by “the Banks, the British Merchts., the insurance Comps.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “The retreat is a bloody shambles. For heaven's sake, man. This is your one last good chance to show what we can do when we're decisive and determined. What's more...” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Instead, it concluded that the first bombs could be produced by the end of 1943, and therefore were “likely to lead to decisive results in the war.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Yet changes in the human condition that mark this road, decisive though they are, seem incredibly slow-paced and gradual when measured against the events of the last 5,000 years. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think something decisive will happen in the spring,” he said. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And so his texts played a decisive role in legitimizing the new post-Kuhnian history of science because they were wrongly read as endorsing a thoroughgoing relativism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Atahuallpa’s capture was decisive for the European conquest of the Inca Empire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If both races were agreed upon, Belmont’s race would be of far less interest, especially if the first event proved decisive. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Former president Harry Truman, idealized by many blacks for integrating the military, may have been more decisive than his successor, but his stand on the lunch-counter protests didn’t please blacks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z One reason for its remaining unsettled is that different factors may have been decisive in different parts of the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To mark the paper was the decisive act. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z With the domestication of animals and edible plants, people won a decisive victory in this battle, assuring our survival on this planet. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z All three powers merely continue to produce atomic bombs and store them up against the decisive opportunity which they all believe will come sooner or later. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It was his determination to present this argument as decisive that led to his condemnation by the Inquisition. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Racing for home, Joe and the reconstituted first boat beat the second boat by a decisive margin. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She was reliable and decisive in a position where rhythm mattered most. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I recognised his decisive nose, more remarkable for character than beauty; his full nostrils, denoting, I thought, choler; his grim mouth, chin, and jaw—yes, all three were very grim, and no mistake. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z In the early sixteenth century the voyages of Vespucci provided further evidence against that theory, and it was decisive. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Besides permitting sedentary living and hence the accumulation of possessions, food production was decisive in the history of technology for another reason. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Look at the decisive battle of Brenneville in which a field of nine hundred knights took part end only three were killed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Something had to be done, something decisive—he couldn’t spend the rest of the school year hiding from Dana Matherson and Beatrice Leep. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In her decisive script, she wrote on them “important” and “save.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Want to see my second decisive move of the night?” she asked. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Everyone waited for Ulbrickson to stage the decisive time trial that he had promised before leaving Seattle. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She puts her shoulders back and looks decisive. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z In the High District there was no alarm at the first partial returns from the provinces, which favored the left, because everyone knew that it was the votes from the capital that would be decisive. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z With this they summoned all their energies together for one decisive encounter, leaned forward, lowered their heads like two billy-goats, and positively sprinted together for the final blow. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Sedentary living was decisive for the history of technology, because it enabled people to accumulate nonportable possessions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I watched the men in the hallway; they had clearly been expecting the officer to do something more decisive and effective. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They say the Trojans are fighters too; good lances and good bowmen, horsemen, charioteers—and those can be decisive when a battle hangs in doubt. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z No more decisive case against early retirement has ever been mounted by the movies. Postscript: Christopher Lee 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z This music sounds as if it’s shaking itself loose, but even as Logan uses his horn to smear and smudge different notes, he’s being decisive, shifting his priorities as the moment demands. Perspective | The coronavirus is devastating a uniquely American art form 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z The release of key segments of President Richard Nixon’s tape recordings of his conversations in the Oval Office were a decisive step in the road to his resignation. Who’s taping now? In Trump’s world, everything is recorded. 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z It is, in short, the decisive moment writ large. Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century by Peter Galassi | Book review 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z "Minimalism reigns in a decisive pattern of black, white, and shades of gray," the New York-based designer said in a statement accompanying the show. Designers in New York keeping it simple with black and white 2013-09-08T22:59:00Z The shift in Swanberg’s work is as drastic as the shift in Rossellini’s—and yet, there’s an essential and decisive continuity between the earlier, more overtly raw work and the brisk dramas that followed. Joe Swanberg’s Decade of Revolution 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z After The Birthday Party, however, his career took a more decisive turn. Richard Pearson obituary 2011-08-02T19:32:58Z But fluff has ruled in morning TV for decades, as a decisive moment for a Curry predecessor reminds us. 'Today' host Ann Curry takes hit, counts tomorrows 2012-06-26T20:42:10Z During one packed Moscow showing this week, some audience members broke into spontaneous applause and others wiped tears from their eyes at decisive moments in the narrative. We are the champions: basketball film wows Russians before election 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z The tumultuous 1968 student revolt was a decisive marker in the cultural life of France. 'Kinesthesia' exhibit in Palm Springs spotlights kinetic art in breathtaking new dimensions 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Taylor almost completed a nine-dart finish at the start of an 11th set he won 3-0, and won the decisive fifth leg in the following set to level the match at 6-6. Anderson beats Taylor to world title 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z It turns out that we’re in an alternate timeline in which England has been annexed by the French, the result of Britain’s decisive loss in the Napoleonic Wars decades before. A Novel Imagines a Victorian England Ruled by France 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z But Beverly caps the discussion with a decisive line—declaring that, as soon as she graduates, she’ll move to New York—that emphasizes the difference between their pursuits. "Everybody Wants Some!!” Is Richard Linklater’s Personal Best 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z But “Revolver” was a decisive step; the Beatles were determined to sound stranger and more idiosyncratic than ever. ‘Revolver,’ Newly Expanded, Shows the Beatles at a Creative Peak 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z He poked the screen with a decisive finger. It’s Always Sunny With Rob McElhenney 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z It was a tiny gesture, but a decisive one. Review | In the heart of an ‘empire in decline,’ Blacks’ Myths try to spark another big bang 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Top faculty disagreed, sending a second letter to the board Thursday asking for his "rapid and decisive termination." Departing U. of I. boss may get $285K as prof 2012-03-23T16:37:00Z Whatever the origins of horse riding, this skill is depicted in world art as a decisive advantage in war. Horses shaped our art of war and peace 2011-08-29T09:44:37Z His documentary work coincided with the advent of portable cameras, a decisive influence on his style. William Friedkin, Director of ‘French Connection’ and ‘Exorcist,’ Dies at 87 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z The balance sheet of his company is, in Cucinelli’s telling, only half of the larger ledger in his heart, and maybe not even the decisive half. Brunello Cucinelli: Life By Design 2013-03-28T14:25:42Z They agree to fight another decisive duel in three days' time. Musashi 2010-05-06T20:30:00Z While Trump and conservatives were decisive with their response to the game, neither the media nor fans knew how to react. Why Donald Trump and the right can't leave women's soccer alone 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z On top of that, Del Rey has evolved into a more decisive vocalist, and her smart articulation makes the dreaminess of her new work feel more tangible than tenuous. Review | Lana Del Rey suddenly sounds like the poet laureate of post-truth 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Experts say that’s what travelers want: decisive action by the government’s consumer protection agency. There may be an end in sight for controversial — and often invisible — resort fees 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Komaroff, who sat on the panel and argued against Ampligen, told me that he was worried that the data was not yet decisive. A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z In the fall, Cherry Point took a decisive turn into the second category when a new chef took over, but not everyone in the neighborhood seems to realize it yet. Refined British Restaurant Found Hiding in a Brooklyn Bar 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z When the poet Ruth Padel joined the project, it took a decisive turn. Symphony of life: making music out of the human genome 2010-06-24T21:29:00Z But Mr. Homoki went on to note that the opera house’s “decisive condemnation” of Mr. Putin and his actions was “not compatible with Anna Netrebko’s public position.” Valery Gergiev, a Putin Ally, Fired as Chief Conductor in Munich 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Most baritones handle this as the decisive moment of profound resignation, the sealing of fate. Plácido Domingo's sound and fury in L.A. Opera's 'Macbeth' 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z “So while critics and starstruck fans have hailed Crazy Rich Asians as a decisive victory for Asians everywhere, in reality, such an assessment is simplistic at its very best and destructive at its very worst.” Where are the brown people? Crazy Rich Asians draws tepid response in Singapore 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Most agree that a decisive factor in the company’s fortunes was what has come to be known as the Mortier debacle. How People?s Opera Orchestrated Its Peril 2011-06-15T13:37:18Z But judging by “Kinaesonata,” she was a choreographer with a style and technique as decisive and crafted as any of her more celebrated peers. For a Los Angeles Dance Festival, Reviving a Homegrown Modernist 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z It’s a vision of filmmaking that didn’t get seen when it could have made a decisive difference for a new generation. The Daring, Original, and Overlooked “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One” 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Dumpy and balding, a karaoke fiend who dresses in a short-sleeved shirt, Chang makes an unlikely avenger but with a sharp little sword he takes decisive action against the brothers. Cannes 2013 round-up, week 2: Gosling for breakfast, skinflicks for lunch 2013-05-25T10:59:01Z Black, it is also worth noting, made a decisive impact in the fall collections at Alexander McQueen, Dior, Hermès and Rick Owens, who told Vogue, “I felt like I needed some grim, determined glamour.” What Pops in a Sea of Shrill Color? Hint: It’s Not Pink 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z As the video went viral, Dior took swift and decisive action against the man it had long treated as a sort of demigod, sacking Galliano days before the label's fall-winter 2011 runway show in March. Paris court to rule in Galliano anti-Semitism case 2011-09-08T10:01:11Z Aided by the boon of soaring oil prices, Mr. Putin also took decisive steps to restore the Kremlin’s administrative control of the country once he took office. Books of The Times: ‘Russians,’ by Gregory Feifer, Portrays the Putin Era 2014-02-17T23:06:32Z Thus, “at the time” of the Union victory at Gettysburg, the individuals whose letters and diaries are quoted here did not understand the battle to be a decisive turning point in the war. Seeing the Civil War From the Ground Up 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z And usually I'm pretty decisive and I'm just like at sea. Katherine Heigl unfiltered: "I know my value. Beauty ... is the least interesting thing about me" 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z It’s giving strong guidance and a decisive sense of, Yes, that feels good or That feels bad, but ultimately wanting every writer in the room to feel some fundamental sense of authorship. Two Television Showrunners on ‘Creative Short Circuits’ 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Beside him and Ms. Kent, Jared Matthews as Rakitin seems too young for a role that, with little dancing, requires decisive force. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater Presents ‘A Month in the Country’ 2013-05-22T21:48:48Z We meet Liselle on the evening of a dinner party she is hosting after her husband’s decisive political defeat. This Novel Nods to Virginia Woolf While Staring Down Modern Class Lines 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z But Hitchcock wasn’t the only director who released a film in 1960 that pushed the boundaries of onscreen violence or raciness, or that represented a decisive break from anything he had done before. Want a Halloween Thriller as Daring as ‘Psycho’? Try ‘Peeping Tom’ 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Cole’s assertive keyboards provide ballast, while Weiss’ drums – titanic and yet focused – often play fills and rolls so decisive they function like hooks or guitar riffs. Wild Flag: Year's first 4-star album 2011-09-09T05:14:00Z Democrats won a decisive House majority in the fall, but a significant number of candidates campaigned with a promise to buck Pelosi's leadership. ‘Makes going to work look easy’: Decades before she was House speaker, Nancy Pelosi had an even harder job 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Whether quick or slow, the profusion of violence in The Winds of Winter offers a lesson fairly consistent with GoT’s wider calculus: above all, you must be decisive. Game of Thrones finale: fancy some son pie? 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Problematic people in problematic times were dealt with by means of swift and decisive “justice,” usually violent justice. Did Jesus think he was God? New insights on Jesus’ own self-image 2014-03-23T17:00:00Z Ms. Jenner’s dual citizenship, as it were, in the realms of fashion and celebrity is a decisive factor in her appeal. Keeping Up With Kendall Jenner 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Breakup albums mark decisive turning points in lives and careers. Dirty Projectors Confronts a Breakup, Emerging With a New Sound 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z “We’re about to prove that black women can open a film,” she said, making a big circle with her hand that seemed at once inclusive and decisive. The ‘Hidden Figures’ stars on how working at NASA in the 1960s is a little like Hollywood 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z His study explains that one of the decisive features of cynicism is anger and anger directly leads to a desire to fight back. Don’t worry, be cynical: Why the fear of a nation of critical skeptics is overblown 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z “Rebecca is at once incredibly flexible and very decisive — a rare combination,” Ms. Moore said. Rebecca Miller Is Brainy, and Very, Very Funny 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Either way, they should be heroes, with decisive achievements and expansive souls. Modern Is Modern Is ... 2011-06-03T20:27:28Z Shot in Rome shortly after the end of the German occupation, “Rome Open City” was an early, decisive example of neorealism. 8 Cannes Film Festival Prizewinners We Love (and 3 We Don’t) 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mr. Erwitt has been a seeker of the “decisive moment,” an instant in real time when people, animals or objects appear before the camera in surprising and illuminating ways. Art Review: Captured: A New York Minute, or One in Havana 2011-06-09T23:00:29Z But what was decisive for me is that in cinema it's usually the author and director who are the people who really determine what the film is going to be. The Carpetbagger: Michael Haneke Finds His Brando 2012-12-19T17:06:21Z His decisive contribution to the breaking of the Nazi Enigma code gave the Allied forces an intelligence advantage that helped defeat Germany, though the extent of his wartime role was kept secret for many years. ‘The Imitation Game’ Stars Benedict Cumberbatch 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Has that last answer changed since you were 18 and a freshman, or is the fact of their financial support the decisive one? Should you allow parents to hold your college tuition hostage to their morality? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z His title actually enjoys larger significance than Atkinson lets on, because the decisive factor in converting reluctant patriots to what was called “the Cause” was the looming British invasion in New York. Rick Atkinson’s Savage American Revolution 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z Ravani falls headlong into their world and learns what it means to protect and be protected, to care about someone else more than himself, to take decisive action when the stakes are life and death. This Novel Surprised Our Reviewer: It Didn’t Make Him Cry 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z The anxiety, though, has made brides more decisive, she said. You Want That Wedding Dress When? 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z As in other recent performances, she has suddenly bloomed into a marvelously free personality: adult, decisive, engagingly robust, merrily witty. Review: Balanchine Jewels from Paris, Moscow and New York 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z When it falls, it is because they show us that they are done, or because they’ve reached an apparently decisive resolution, or because we see that they’re evidently heading into transcendence. Dance Review: The 3 Glittering Tales Balanchine Tells 2010-02-26T22:55:00Z Still, Slatkin turned in a decisive, vigorous reading of his own, bringing strong forward thrust and point to the jostling neo-classical rhythms while keeping sonorities properly clean and grounded. CSO goes to the mat for sub conductor 2011-01-21T17:34:13Z Questions building upon questions, never leading to decisive action? 10 Simple Ways to Become a Better Writer 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Four seasons’ worth of history were artfully built upon by this series, one that, in an era of endlessly wending fantasy series, is admirably unafraid to be decisive when it counts. Here Are the Best TV Shows of 2016 So Far 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The exhibition at the Serpentine will be animated by what he calls “decisive moments or epiphanies” throughout Hurtado’s life. This Pioneering Artist Is on the Brink of Her First Big Retrospective, at 98 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Jon Stewart took the NFL to task on Wednesday night over its gross failures to act in an appropriate and decisive manner on domestic violence and child abuse cases. Must-see morning clip: Jon Stewart blasts NFL for its “special brand of spiteful ignorance” 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z This confined space — realized in rich detail but no kitschy atmospheric excesses by the set designer Collette Pollard — cannot house both the damaged, delicate Blanche and the insensitive, egoistic Stanley without a decisive conflagration. | 'A Streetcar Named Desire': Small Space, Big Egos: Something Will Explode 2010-06-18T23:18:00Z But as you object, then let us be decisive in describing the problem to him and to yourself: Perspective | Miss Manners: Husband’s creepy habit is unlikely to change 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z What follows over the course of the novel’s two decades isn’t as decisive as a breakup. In This Novel of Female Friendship, Birds of a Feather Drift Apart 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z It’s been a long time since Henri Cartier-Bresson told us about the “decisive moment,” and since Robert Frank loosened that moment up even further. The Freedom of Young Photographers 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z For me, there was never a decisive moment where I felt obligated to pick whether to show in galleries or to only paint on other people’s property. | Swampy 2011-01-25T21:05:16Z He says that market forces should play a decisive role, but does that mean he wants to topple state-owned enterprises from the commanding heights of the economy? The people's pope 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z He was booked to play the decisive Germany-South Korea game at a private screening for inmates at a prison in Berlin. A Waltz for a Soccer Game? This Composer Sets the World Cup to Music 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z A brief nod from Nina to the “coconut man” a few steps away, one decisive machete strike, and off comes the greenish top, revealing flesh as white as a cotton cloud. Touring St. Lucia with its Top Chef 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z There’s a coolheaded but decisive tension between moment-to-moment details and the arc of a larger design in the recent music by the alto saxophonist Tim Berne. Review: Tim Berne’s Snakeoil at the Jazz Standard 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z But now the first-place votes are all but decisive, which may provide a path forward, albeit a narrow one, for Warner as it steers “Extremely Loud” through the Oscar race. Just Close Enough for an Oscar Nod? 2011-12-19T23:22:47Z In his riveting account of this and other decisive global convulsions that occurred in the space of that single year, Christian Caryl notes that "most outsiders couldn't fathom what was happening in Iran". Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl – review 2013-07-25T07:01:00Z Further adverse events, possibly another financial crisis or a major armed conflict, will galvanize public opinion and mobilize leaders to take more decisive action. Where did Steve Bannon get his worldview? From my book. 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z “In the Dark” asks different kinds of questions and provides decisive and provocative answers, with implications far beyond the details of each particular case. Why “In the Dark” May Be the Best Podcast of the Year 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z As with so many aspects of Frisell’s career since he moved here from New York in 1989, Seattle played a decisive role in the trio’s formation. Jazz guitarist Bill Frisell returns to Seattle for a Jazz Alley gig with his trio 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Martelly made it into the top three, but not into the decisive second round. Sweet Micky and the Sad Déjà Vu of Haiti’s Presidential Elections 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Fans of the Stewart era of The Daily Show might have hoped for a more decisive indication that the host will be returning to straightforward on-camera work. Jon Stewart's HBO Deal Is Perfect for Him—And HBO 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z This pause feels loud, loud and more sudden than the pause of an ellipsis, not a trailing off or a vague omission but a slam, decisive, like a palm on a table. How Poets Use Punctuation as a Superpower and a Secret Weapon 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Music brought him to Finland’s storied Sibelius Academy, and it was there that he made a decisive move to devote himself to conducting. A Conductor Who Knows His Way Around a Score, and a Farm 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z O'Brien identifies the first "phenomenal" reviews as decisive in putting the Firehouse on the map. Want to join Bill Clinton and Kate Moss at Chiltern Firehouse? Dream on 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z The male partner’s movements are meant to be sharp and decisive, while the female dancer is meant to be flowy and expressive. Can a waltz be a form of activism? Ask these same-gender ballroom dancers. 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z He described to his son the brief termination meeting with his boss, but there is no visual documentation of that decisive moment. A Photographer Turned the Tables on His Parents to Learn About Himself 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z The director provides actors with the crucial guidance—or the decisive environment—that makes the performances what they are. Martin Scorsese Avenges the Auteur 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z It also marked a decisive turning point in US television drama. Twin Peaks: 20 years on 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z But it was Bernhardt's active participation in decisive historical events that did even more than her acting to seal her reputation. Stop treating actors with contempt 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z But then something happened that did surprise me, that felt powerful and healing: the immediate, decisive response by University of Oklahoma President David Boren. Lonnae O’Neal: Dear President Boren, thank you for your outrage and action 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z There was a vaguely tribal feel about the collection, but the beauty of the clothes - more than any particular "inspiration" - was its decisive narrative. Lanvin gets world-weary fashion crowd worked up 2010-10-01T21:00:00Z Because it killed four children, and because two more children were killed in racist attacks over the following days, there is no doubt that the Sept. 15, 1963, bombing was a decisive moment. Review | This photographer transcends his medium — by turning day into night and past into present 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z In some instances, the newly issued material captures a decisive moment of creation. New Miles Davis Boxed Set Features His Quintet at Its Peak 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z It was the first war in which airpower would be decisive, and the U.S. Kurt Vonnegut’s POW nightmare: Inside the World War II battle that shaped “Slaughterhouse Five” 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z "Not the coolest or the toughest person. The organizer. The person who knows where everything is. The person who is doing the planning. The person who can multitask. The one who's decisive." Melanie Lynskey's "The Last of Us" character shows strength beyond physicality 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z The night before a decisive match, her daughter fell out of her high chair and broke her wrist. "Archetypes": Meghan Markle would like to have a word, but the media circus won't hear it 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z It was the day -- using the western calendar -- that Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks overthrew the more moderate Kerensky provisional government, a decisive step in the revolution that eventually created the Soviet Union. Reuters reports big changes as Bolsheviks triumph 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z And then the film takes a decisive turn, as Oshima’s mousy fiancée, Yoshie, who has been a mostly silent presence, suddenly moves to the center of the story. Shohei Imamura’s Documentaries at Anthology Film Archives 2012-11-09T23:03:37Z Thomas pretty much lets O’Connor off the hook for her shabbiest moment on the court — her decisive role in the 5-to-4 travesty that was Bush v. An Intimate Portrait of Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on the Supreme Court 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z It was a decisive shift away from the Martha Stewart with the carefully tended vegetable patch and the regular reservation at the Four Seasons. What Would You Serve With Gin and Juice? At the Table With Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z If you at first feel that some of the performances are too tentative, you come to realize that this hesitancy belongs to characters who are forever hovering on the brink of decisive gestures. Review: 3 Generations Aching to Connect ‘On the Shore of the Wide World’ 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z The drama of “Leave No Trace” is diffuse and vague, but its lack of specificity opens the door to the powerful abstraction of a central and decisive idea. Review: “Leave No Trace” Explores the Ground in Which Poisonous Politics Grow 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z That dynamic, on “The Apprentice,” framed him as decisive, powerful and important. Vanity Cabinet: Trump Throws Himself a TV Pep Talk 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z In these half-historical soap operas, the heroes are decisive, brave, glorious, but the polities they lead are fragile, teetering, menaced by outsiders. How Erdogan Reoriented Turkish Culture to Maintain His Power 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Now, at 45, she was taking her decisive turn — as an artist. Lorraine O’Grady, Still Cutting Into the Culture 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. Atiq Rahimi: Should literature be political? 2013-05-22T10:49:51Z Arriaga is often called the Spanish Mozart, but as the Quiroga’s robust performance made clear, Beethoven was a far more decisive influence. Music Review: Cuarteto Quiroga at the Frick Collection - Review 2012-01-16T22:28:26Z "We will get through this, and taking strong, decisive action now will ensure that we are properly positioned to recover our business when customers start to travel again." Delta Air Lines suspends all travel to Europe amid travel ban 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z If only everyone were as decisive about decorating the rest of the year. 6 holiday decorating tips you can use year-round 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Jorge Luis Borges made a decisive career out of recognizing, in his ficciones, the near impossibility of making original works of literature. A Human Wrote This Book Review. A.I. Wrote the Book. 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z It’s the film in which Bergman exposed a deep and decisive artistic fault line in his own work and, in the process, made much of the tremors it unleashed. Ingmar Bergman and the Risk of Ridicule 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z His wife died four years ago, and their daughter said that her death was a decisive factor in his health. Claude Rutault, Master of the Painted Word, Is Dead at 80 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z They also get circumscribed by decisive lines and black shadows. At 'Ken Price: Drawings,' life's little details in broad strokes 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z There are diverse silhouettes that require decisive judgments about what relates to body type and personal preference. For the New Season, Sleek Severity Rules 2010-09-06T18:30:00Z Some problems — like avoiding oncoming trains — can best be solved with quick, decisive action. Perspective | Miss Manners: Uninvited guest unfrosts the cake 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z The decisive insight is the proximity of writing and acting, and the reservation of a special status for the thing that makes movies special, directing. Elaine May Talks About “Ishtar” 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z The bill may face opposition from congressional Republicans, and comes just two months before the midterm elections, in which many expect women to be a decisive voting bloc. Lawmakers Push Increased Access to Emergency Contraception 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z I completed my dissertation within a few weeks of that decisive dream. Long aftermath of a mass shooting: Remembering my father, killed in 1991 at the University of Iowa 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z Shariatmadari organizes his book around a few core misapprehensions, taking decisive aim at some well-chosen foes. ‘Don’t Believe a Word,’ a Look at Language and Power (and Why Dolphins Have Accents) 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Tinafey is a kind, engaging character, a decisive departure from the trope of the sexual and therefore evil femme fatale, and their romance gives this hard-boiled novel a measure of earnest sweetness. Richard Lange's 'The Smack' is refreshingly realistic L.A. Noir 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Step 1 in producing a subharmonic is “clunk,” a brusque, decisive smack of the bow on the G string. For a Violinist, Success Means A New Low Point 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z The move hastened a decisive shift in Mr. Dargel’s compositional trajectory. A Voice Where Romance and Dysfunction Meet 2011-04-29T18:00:32Z Even the decisive moment itself isn't entirely shocking, given Loki's deliberate if swift moral transformation. "Loki" finds its glorious purpose in the end of the MCU as we know it 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z He called Mr. Marshall’s attention to blackness, at a time when it was a more radical move, “decisive and unapologetic.” Kerry James Marshall’s Black Birds Take Flight in a New Series 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z It is clear that the holiday marks a decisive break between Tina and her cantankerous mother. Cannes 2012: Sightseers – review 2012-05-24T11:59:47Z Lynch would engineer more decisive temporal ruptures in his later films, but Blue Velvet represents his most haunting manipulation of time in cinema, a palimpsest through which multiple eras and genres are visible. “David Lynch should be shot”: Looking back on the madness and chaos of “Blue Velvet” and Ronald Reagan’s ’80s 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z You need to be confident, very decisive and opinionated, I'm afraid. Top 10 tips for being a literary agent 2014-05-10T00:21:16Z I’m the least decisive person and the least patient person. What Do Gen Z Shoppers Want? A Cute, Cheap Outfit That Looks Great on Instagram 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z With a few decisive incisions, headshots of pin-up men and women are sundered and recombined in startling distortions of gender codes or facial features. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-29T00:06:24Z I trust you because of your recent swift and decisive actions in The Sombrero Affair. Gene Weingarten: A mea culpa (no offense to the Romans!) 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Last week, Yale’s meme group paused to debate the same question that students at Harvard were considering: Was the university’s decisive disciplinary action justified? Harvard’s Ugly Offshoot of Campus Meme Culture 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z So, yes, when Libras were recently told they must act decisively, it is entirely possible that some of them blundered into the most decisive, worst reckless decision of their lives. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Guess what? Newspapers have published fake news for ages. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z “The movie constitutes a decisive step in spreading awareness because more than a million people have already seen it. Teachers will be able to use it.” Movie Honors the African Soldiers France Tried to Forget 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z This year is especially meaningful since it marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, a decisive moment in the advancement of human rights in this nation. Sunday Reading: Pride & the Fiftieth Anniversary of Stonewall 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z When her sentences run the risk of tapering off, she punctuates them with a short, decisive voilà. In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z It feels like the final, decisive act of auto-infanticide for Radcliffe and Harry Potter: the Kid is dead; long live the King. Harry ever after: tracing Daniel Radcliffe's evolution, from Potter to flatulent corpse 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z It was a decisive gesture by a fiercely ambitious man who is clearly determined to show from the outset that he is capable of leading from the front. Crisis at the BBC: Media reaction 2012-11-13T14:11:31Z Because every page in this book gainsays his claim in the most forceful fashion imaginable that democracy is now decisive in defining Russia's political direction. The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of?the KGB by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Of the women in Meek's Cutoff, only Emily seems like a survivor, practical and decisive. Meek's Cutoff: Michelle Williams Hits the Oregon Trail in a New American Classic 2011-04-07T09:20:00Z After the company finally gave in, Simone Messmer came into focus, taking charge with her decisive yet casual power: giving into the movement without letting it overtake her. American Ballet Theater?s New Generation Comes Into Focus 2011-12-17T05:26:18Z He creates texture, basically, in mysterious but decisive acts, within a recognizable frame. Music Review: Tomatito and His Flemenco Guitar at the Rose Theater 2014-03-17T21:42:01Z The decisive style “allows us to identify this as an original Caravaggio that we thought was lost until now,” he wrote in a 2015 evaluation for Mr. Turquin. Art Dealer Says Painting Found in French Attic Is a Caravaggio 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z And several quality-minded theatergoers were skeptical that Equity’s stamp was a decisive factor in their enjoyment. Equity Tries to Influence Show Tours 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Nixon was actually a decisive, confident speaker – which was how he convinced large numbers of people to vote for him. Far from unimpeachable 2010-06-03T11:40:00Z And for many readers, he said, “the most surprising revelation will be that the seemingly decisive conquest of the continent was anything but.” A Finnish Scholar Wants to Change How We See American History 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Blackshaw was decisive and pointed in the allegro first movements, his detailed articulation never became fussy. Christian Blackshaw – review 2013-01-07T18:23:54Z This was Bush at his best: decisive, in charge, imbued with a mission. Jon Meacham’s ‘Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z The Mother of Dragons in “Game of Thrones” who’s so impressively decisive? The Bad Nurse 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z After back-to-back years when a female filmmaker won the best director Oscar, that trend came to a decisive halt Tuesday when no women were even nominated in that category. 2023 Oscar Nominations: Snubs and Surprises 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z In “The Old Gods and the New,” which begins in medias res, Winterfell suddenly has a new lord, but one not quite so decisive or capable with the steel. Game of Thrones Watch: I Capture the Castle 2012-05-07T10:10:45Z He won more than 92 percent of the D.C.-area vote in the second, decisive round of the 2017 election, when his opponent was Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front. How French expats in Washington are preparing for an election back home 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Gerard Wallop, Viscount Lymington, used parliamentary questions to make decisive interventions against the possible admittance into Britain of refugees from Germany. Adam Foulds salutes Romantic Moderns, winner of the Guardian first book award 2010-12-02T14:09:00Z “The city’s project seems to be on a firmer financial footing, and that will be decisive in all likelihood,” said Mr. Farnsworth, the professor. Who Will Tell the Story of Slavery? 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Almada was inspired to make the film after giving birth to her son and newly confronting technology’s decisive effects on our relationships. ‘Users’ Review: Brave New World 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Never did an outsider have such an impact on Western art at a decisive moment of its evolution. Review: Paul Sandby, Unlikely Founder of Dazzling School of European Art 2010-04-16T12:05:00Z And here the Weinstein brothers' deep pockets and influence may prove decisive. The Carpetbagger: Dueling Weinstein Films and Other Subplots in the Foreign Film Race 2013-01-02T19:47:56Z They nominated and spoke for and against the names of people, places and things that mattered last year before a decisive vote. 'Ferguson' Is 2014's Name of the Year 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z And so Wolf combed through mile after uneventful mile of boring footage in search of moments that might or might not prove decisive. How Google Street View is inspiring new photography 2012-07-14T18:36:10Z On tunes like Mr. Evans’s “Boffadem” and Mr. Anderson’s “Safe Passage,” the pianist’s thick and decisive left-hand chords nod toward an established language. The Bad Plus Greet the New Year With a New Lineup 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Lee’s attempt to steal from a convenience store is interrupted by a more decisive and committed bandit. My streaming gem: why you should watch River of Grass 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Katniss, at a decisive moment, is a mere observer, her skills held in abeyance in anticipation of later opportunity. “Mockingjay” Is a Paean to Movie Producers 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z This concern has ramifications now, after Lizzo swiftly and efficiently admitted her mistake and took decisive action, doing so in record time. Lizzo listened and changed an ableist lyric. Will it be enough for white critics? 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z “Like the Hegelians, Wagner saw the contest over religion as the decisive episode in the emergence of the modern world,” Sir Roger writes. Getting into Valhalla 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Among French composers Saint-Saëns was a decisive force in a purposeful shift from opera and other dramatic entertainments toward ostensibly more exalted absolute forms like the symphony and the sonata. Critic’s Notebook: A Bard Music Festival Weekend of Saint-Saëns 2012-08-13T21:46:15Z Brody, energized now, enters into Scott’s passion with the mixed fascination and fear of a man who may be throwing his life away but is happy to be doing something decisive at last. David Denby: “Third Person” and “22 Jump Street” Reviews 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Mr Davenport-Hines calls it a decisive moment in arts funding, though it happened, Keynes said, in a “very English, informal, unostentatious way”. A man for all seasons 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z He should react to threats with rapid and decisive acts of violence, and shouldn't be afraid to be feared rather than loved by his citizens. The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World that He Made by Philip Bobbitt – review 2013-07-11T14:59:00Z Part of the physicality of the work stems from Ms. Frecon’s earthy color sense but also from her subtle yet decisive contrasts of matte and shiny surfaces. Suzan Frecon: ‘Oil Paintings and Sun’ 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z There are quite a few younger players and they responded confidently to his decisive direction. Under Gatti, French National Orchestra focuses on style, color 2011-04-14T17:25:00Z Homo sapiens had the gift of innovation, and that proved decisive. Books of The Times: ?How to Think Like a Neandertal? ? By Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge ? Review 2011-12-27T23:05:30Z In “Strong Island,” family secrets are a decisive part of the story. Three Genre-Expanding Documentaries About Racist Crimes of the Past 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z We need decisive action on a scale that we’ve yet to see materialize. 5 reasons global warming is more terrifying than you think 2012-12-18T14:38:00Z You would think that being awarded $55 million would constitute a decisive victory. Erin Andrews’ peephole video nightmare isn’t over 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Ritual objects like these were decisive for the development of Western modernist painting, and a Cameroonian crest was even shown at MoMA in the 1930s, as a “sculpture” divorced from ethnography. 16 Art Exhibitions to View in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Her chatty voice alchemized into something warmer and gentler, but also more decisive: “‘I’m so sorry, baby! Keke Palmer Keeps a Check 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Unlike "The Sopranos," the finale of "Boardwalk Empire" provided a decisive conclusion to the story. 'Boardwalk Empire' finale: Did the fans love it or hate it? 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z He is muscular and bulky and seems to scowl, and his expression — is it commanding or brutal? decisive or megalomaniacal? — is unnerving. National Gallery of Art offers rare chance to see ancient Greek bronzes 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z After the decisive defeat, Confederate troops retreated to Virginia, ending Lee’s campaign into Pennsylvania. 36 Hours in Gettysburg, Pa. 2013-06-27T23:20:01Z Because I use film, printing is the decisive point in my work. Candida Höfer's best photograph – an 18th-century theatre in Mantua 2013-02-06T17:15:32Z It’s awash in regrets, but decisive; it’s high drama and a musical tour de force. Adele Has a Lot of Big Feelings on ‘30’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z The only movies that had a decisive effect on an American election were released four decades before the race they influenced. Hollywood won't decide the US election 2012-08-29T19:00:30Z He made some bold suggestions, he was decisive, he moves very quick. Lorin Stein, the Paris Review?s New Party Boy 2011-02-25T19:58:16Z Unions have been gaining momentum in recent years, but this strike's visibility could be a decisive swing in the opposite direction of what Reagan set in motion 42 years ago. Look to the Logan Roys to understand who's causing the Hollywood "double strike" 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z In the end, Whippman’s own cheery nature gets in the way of a decisive critique. Why Are Americans So Anxious? 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z “I think those lines are less apparent now. I think the change in the 1990s, when we look back, will be as decisive as the shift from the ’60s to the ’70s.” Grace Mirabella, Who Brought Vogue Down to Earth, Dies at 92 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z First things first: How did you guys choreograph that, uh, decisive shot? Tim Baltz on How B.J. Grabbed a Win in ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z Chester has the most completely preserved cycle of mystery plays, and Dale has exerted a decisive hand editing three days' worth of drama into three hours. Chester Mystery Plays – review 2013-07-02T14:36:00Z Why is it so hard to acknowledge that, with a 77,000-vote margin separating Trump’s vote from Clinton’s in 2016, the Kremlin’s disinformation efforts were by themselves decisive — along with other factors and forces? ‘Wagner’s Music is Bombastic and Boring’ and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z They are firm neither in principle nor in self-definition, curious and tolerant and heuristically malleable but lacking a clear identity that allows them to take decisive action at all. “The Intern” Is a Very Strange Workplace Fantasy 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Describe Briony in three words Chatty, energetic, decisive. Blind date: ‘Any awkward moments? When I guessed his age’ 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z A spokesman for North Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the film was tantamount to "an act of war" and threatened "a decisive and merciless countermeasure" if the U.S. government allowed it to hit theaters. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg like that Kim Jong Un doesn't get the joke Even as they doubted the future of peaceful coexistence between Israel and the Palestinians, the audience clearly hoped that America may yet play the decisive role in forging a Middle East peace. Pick of the week: One Palestinian village resists 2012-06-01T00:00:00Z That’s because the new Whitney forces a decisive yet organic realignment of the balance of power among New York’s main museums that is good for all concerned. New Whitney Museum Signifies a Changing New York Art Scene 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Will Clare be more decisive than some of her predecessors and more secure in her singleness? ‘The Bachelorette’ casts Clare Crawley, 38, the show’s oldest star, reflecting a shift in the way we date now 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z From an internet perspective, the emergence of English as a global communications phenomenon which can celebrate a real independence from its Anglo-American roots is potentially decisive. Globish: the worldwide dialect of the third millennium | Robert McCrum 2010-03-29T12:51:00Z If you see or hear them beginning to joke about their little brother, it is your job to bring a swift and decisive end to it. Perspective | How do we get our quiet 12-year-old to open up? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z In classic Hollywood movies, there’s an extra, and decisive, reason to pay attention to the lives of actresses in particular. What “Feud” Misses About Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and the Art of Movies 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Intercutting scenes of Jen’s moral dithering with scenes in which Waiter and Manager dither emotionally, the playwright convincingly suggests a world in which only evil is decisive. Review: Hipsters Double-Check Their Privilege in ‘Cute Activist’ 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Yet in the aftermath of marriage equality’s recent decisive victory, a few people are having a hard time with that concept. Your “sincerely held religious beliefs” don’t matter: County clerks must uphold the law and issue same-sex marriage licenses 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z We all laughed, didn’t we, when the spread of misinformation played a decisive role in Brexit. How Katy Perry and her drag queens found themselves on the fake-news frontline 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z With this taken into account and with guilt suitably assuaged, it has to be said that this particular punch, thrown in Mel Brooks's seminal slapstick masterpiece, is an absolute peach: quick, clean, and decisive. Clip joint: knockouts 2012-10-03T16:41:34Z The ruling by New York's trial court, the Supreme Court, was decisive and "finally removes lingering headline risk," Standard & Poor's equity analyst Tuna Amobi said in a research note. Stern fails to win $300M payday in Sirius suit 2012-04-17T18:55:13Z In the central role of Meg, Ms. Baker is too brittle to win our sympathy, and her decisive action at the end doesn’t pack an emotional punch. | 'Milk': Emily DeVoti?s Barnyard at Here Arts Center 2010-05-06T21:23:00Z Take some time, then, for what might prove to be the strangest few minutes of your day as the New York Times presents 14 esteemed actors in a series of silent, black-and-white "decisive moments." N.Y. Times' pretentious, riveting acting videos 2010-12-09T19:52:00Z The poem ends with a tragic-comic pursuit, as the sisters travel from place to place, and Claude, finally decisive, tries to catch up with them. Poem of the week: Amours de Voyage by Arthur Hugh Clough 2011-08-29T12:49:42Z At the decisive moment, however, the factory was built in Berryville itself. Review | Berryville, Va.: The publishing world’s best-kept secret 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z The most important aspect of what I did at Woodstock in relation to what I do now is the pictures came together in a decisive moment that I tried to capture. Roger Ballen Revisits His Never-Before-Published Woodstock Photos 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z She agreed to visit the class and she was a joy — sensitive to the students, soft-spoken yet decisive, principled yet openhearted. Landing in California, Remembering Tolstoy and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Still, a decisive cool factor does not in itself guarantee a red-carpet triumph. Jewelry Designers Seek Oscar-Night Exposure 2014-02-26T23:33:43Z Then Mr. Sullivan took the unlikely yet decisive step of sending the treatment to Mr. Belton. Faith and Politics, a Rocky Romance 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z “She puts the institution before herself and doesn’t have to be the one with all the ideas, but she’s also strong and decisive,” said Adam D. Weinberg, director of the Whitney. After Upheaval, MOCA Bets on Johanna Burton to Bring Stability 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z More than Picasso, though, it was Matisse for whom Shchukin’s patronage would prove decisive. ‘Icons of Modern Art’: Picassos, Matisses, Monets, Oh, My! 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z By establishing the Democrats’ brand as "communists, maybe," and the media as dithering reactionaries, Trump’s outrageous racism appears strong and decisive, American made. The media's "Made in America" problem: Trump creates racist controversy, gets free campaign coverage 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z When Bill Scheft, a writer since 1991, had his decisive job interview with Mr. Letterman, he recalled, “The last thing I said to him was, ‘I hear your softball team needs a center fielder.’ No. 10: How to Leave ‘Late Show With David Letterman’; No. 9: What’s Next? 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z It was the day -- using the western calendar -- that Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks overthrew the more moderate Kerensky provisional government, a decisive step in the revolution that eventually created the Soviet Union. Reuters reports big changes as Bolsheviks triumph 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z So the first revelation of the Estorick show, which brings together more than 80 prints and drawings, is just how strong and decisive they are. Morandi: Lines of Poetry – review 2013-01-13T00:05:35Z This musical elevates style to a decisive standard of expression that unfolds and develops throughout the show. Review | Love it or hate it, ‘Cats’ the musical has way more than nine lives 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z The network’s response to the Scaramucci story, however, was quick, decisive and largely private. The story behind a retracted CNN report on the Trump campaign and Russia 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z How do you gain perspective and become decisive when you are so caught up emotionally? I love an angry heroin addict 2013-02-08T01:00:00Z We just had an election that was a de facto contest between America’s competing cultural factions, and one side won a narrow but decisive victory to the intense amazement and anger of the other. Hey, liberals: You haven’t won the culture war 2012-11-10T20:00:00Z But the farmers who turned out in their droves believe Suu Kyi can be the decisive factor in transforming the country. Rock star welcome for Suu Kyi on Myanmar campaign trail 2012-02-11T12:24:05Z While he is aggressive even at times of indecision, Florence, at her most decisive, still seems tentative and hesitant. Movie Review | 'Greenberg': Ben Stiller as a Slacker in Noah Baumbach?s Work 2010-03-18T21:46:00Z There were some missed opportunities — such as the dark timbres that color the Act II duet for Senta and the Dutchman — but overall, Guggeis was a confident, sensitive, decisive presence. Review: A Singer Returns to Shore at the Met in ‘Dutchman’ 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z She was Miss May Sutton, and she won Wimbledon in 1905, wresting the title from the defending champion, Miss K. Douglass, “in decisive fashion,” The Times reported. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Which way will Ms. Borda’s vote go, and will it finally prove decisive? What to Look Forward to in the Fall Classical Music Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z In terms of storytelling and style, I would call “Thoroughbreds” extraordinarily decisive. ‘Thoroughbreds’ movie is a mixed bag — and the director likes it that way 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z She is in danger of coasting on her physical allure and prone to attaching herself to decisive men in order to obtain the forward momentum she professes to crave. Rachel Kushner’s ambitious new novel scares male critics 2013-06-05T23:00:00Z With the Bechers, the “decisive moment” of 35 mm photography gets replaced by a gray-on-gray stasis that feels as though it could last forever — as though it’s as immovable as the steel girders it depicts. Photography’s Delightful Obsessives 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z It styled him to appear successful, decisive, wise, desired and obeyed. President Trump Finds His TV Niche in Softball Interviews 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z In what might be this memoir’s decisive paragraph, he writes, like a dentist scraping around a nerve: A Survivor Recalls the Charlie Hebdo Massacre and a Long Road to Recovery 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z The press release highlighted Manigault-Newman's 15-year history with Trump, yet noted how "that relationship has come to a decisive and definitive end." Omarosa set to release “Unhinged” – an “explosive” account of her time inside Trump’s... 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z That, at any rate, is the decisive wager for Mr. Opdyke and artists like him. To Get This Artist’s Message, You Have to Look Really Closely 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z “Families, I hate you,” he thunders, then, chastened: “Yes, I know, dear readers, if you’re sick of this topic, just skip to the next, decisive chapter.” A Prize-Winning Blend of Fact and Fiction Makes Itself at Home in the Minds of Killers 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z That was one of the most explosive, decisive cancellations in television history, a rare example of television networks choosing basic decency over revenue. From Brooklyn Nine-Nine to Lucifer: TV shows have become unkillable 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Eastwood eases up considerably when it comes time to show us the big decisive match against the New Zealand team. 2009-12-11T03:16:00Z “Henceforth,” as Tooze rightly points out, “down to the beginning of the twenty-first century, American economic might would be the decisive factor in the shaping of the world order.” Book review: ‘The Deluge, the post-World War I global order, by Adam Tooze 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Southgate’s playing career is best remembered for a decisive miss in a penalty shootout against Germany in the semifinal of the 1996 European Championship, played in London, which resulted in England’s elimination from that tournament. ‘Dear England’ Review: When Soccer Success Becomes a Moral Victory 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z That sounds decisive and optimistic, but the track is more ambivalent. The Playlist: Arcade Fire and Gorillaz Return, With Money and Power on Their Minds 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z And, of course, a decisive, varied focus on black figures and identities. ‘MUSE’ offers a look at painter Mickalene Thomas’ photography — and at the artist herself 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z The book reads in part like a good mystery: She alludes to being better from the start, but we are constantly guessing which doctor or intervention made the decisive difference. How a Mystery Illness Cost One Writer a Decade of Health 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z “We were strong and decisive, but unfortunately we didn’t get what was promised,” said Mordashov. Betting on America 2012-06-07T01:34:51Z Sure, earlier seasons of the show featured shocking and decisive ends for beloved characters, from protagonist Ned Stark’s beheading in Season 1 to the high-body-count “Red Wedding” of Season 3. 'Game of Thrones' Proves Death on TV Is Meaningless Now 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z The history of the Twin Towers is about a decisive change in the political course of the world; it’s also about a salt cellar with a soft burnish to its exterior. Watching New York City Take Shape at Windows on the World 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z As the model of the movie star became the decisive influence in literature as in so many fields, a lot more bells and whistles were added to the idea of the American writer. “Plimpton!” doc tells tale of literary heavyweight 2013-05-28T20:05:00Z Two major announcements by David Cameron marked decisive victories for Daily Mail campaigns last night. Daily Mail celebrates a double campaigning victory 2012-12-20T10:59:00Z But attendance in a movie theater requires more decisive activity: get up and walk out. Life As We Know It: Katherine Heigl Crashes Again 2010-10-08T18:55:00Z The cryptanalysis of the Enigma machines used by the Axis was “decisive to the Allied victory” — those are the words of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eight areligious scientists who changed the world 2012-08-21T13:40:00Z If that position doesn’t sound very decisive, it may be because fashion isn’t very decisive at the moment. On the Runway: Spring Theater of the Absurd 2011-04-15T18:43:26Z Hitler and Mussolini made decisive contributions of arms and men to the future dictator, General Francisco Franco, a man who boasted of preferring blood and bayonets to “hypocritical elections”. The opening act 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Every movement he makes is ardently decisive, devoid of all excess or waste, pared down to the essence. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-14T22:08:35Z Variations of these gestural abstractions crop up across the exhibition, each painting bearing a loose but decisive inheritance to post-1980s German and American abstraction, which still excites because it did away with abstraction’s stodgiest rules. 5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Pope.L takes democratic promise seriously, this sculpture affirms, and he knows as well as anyone that Obama went on to a decisive, 10-million vote election victory. William Pope.L sets the U.S. flag waving at the MOCA/Geffen 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z If a man comes on set and says, ‘Here’s how I see this being done’, people go, ‘He’s decisive.’ Kathleen Turner: Donald Trump has a 'gross' handshake 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z As a child, Pessoa professed hatred for “decisive acts” and “definite thoughts.” ‘Pessoa’ Is the Definitive and Sublime Life of a Genius and His Many Alternate Selves 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z The results proved decisive — purposefully so, as Refn seems determined to see how much extreme violence and arch style his audience can take. ‘Night Catches Us,’ ‘Ida’ and More Offbeat Streaming Options 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Confidence is also under-depicted in media, Asians taking confident, decisive action, or confident Asian men is not popular, or often seen. "Have more Asian friends": James Shen reflects on Hollywood, activism & new series "Run the World" 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z He takes Ahab’s whole ship in his dagger-toothed mouth and claims decisive victory. At Under the Radar, Stories Unfold via Sexts, Tweets and Puppeteers 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Though Instagram has previously banned meme accounts for violating terms of service, Thursday’s crackdown is the most public and decisive action Instagram has taken against people manipulating the platform for financial gain. Instagram Bans Hundreds of Accounts With Stolen User Names 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Mack was a friend of the French painter Yves Klein, whose influence on the emergence of Zero was decisive. 2010-02-11T17:00:00Z Responsible for hiring the top administrator, it plays a decisive role in shaping the direction of a company. The real motor of the performing arts isn’t vision. It’s the board, stupid. 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Still, the Kelpien rises to the task magnificently, proving himself a decisive and competent commander. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1, Episode 5: Saru’s Moment 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z But it was also a decisive decade in which a new generation of emancipated young men and women separated themselves from their Victorian parents through the twin rebellions of work and sex. West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West by Lorna Gibb – review 2013-04-07T08:01:02Z Right or wrong, it led to decisive leadership.” Books of The Times: At the Center of the Storm, but Still a Mystery 2010-09-01T20:10:00Z He also began developing two other television series based on decisive moments in Deaf history, like the 1988 student protests at Gallaudet, which successfully forced the installation of the school’s first Deaf president. In ‘Deaf Utopia,’ Nyle DiMarco Dreams of Integrating the Deaf and Hearing Worlds 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z And although what she was saying was bad, the decisive way she was saying it was something to hang on to. Wife/Mother/Worker/Spy : Even an Empty Nester Needs Somewhere to Sit 2010-03-30T23:32:00Z You can no more pick your early, decisive influences than your dominant hand. Martin Amis Offers the ‘Inside Story’ of His Relationships With Three Famous Writers 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Hers may not be the most charitable of choices, but she was admirably decisive and didn’t prolong the potential torture of withdrawal from your life. We are old and in love, but she left me after my cancer diagnosis | Dear Mariella 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z The program is a decisive farewell to the regular season. Eschenbach, NSO offer mammoth but gentle Bruckner in season’s final program. Joining a feminist consciousness-raising group that later merged into New York Radical Women proved decisive. The Miss America Protests, Fifty Years Later, and a Photographer’s Life-Changing Encounter with Political Struggle 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Above all there is his fascination with the decisive impact of geography on the calculations, ambitions and illusions of statesmen and societies. Foreign Policy From the Dark Side 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z She remains as elusive in this admirable book as in life, as in the photographs that remain to us — a round-cheeked young person with a decisive mouth, not quite meeting our eye. An Enthralling New Look at the Mystery of Lizzie Borden 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z The question of how wars are financed is about as far as one can get from traditional military history about great generals and decisive battles. George Washington, William T. Sherman and Viking Marauders 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z “The decisive point is that the business was still there” after the war, “including the property and machinery,” he said. Artists Scrutinize a Collector’s Nazi Family Past 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z The letter echoes a recent statement from North Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs that denounced the movie and threatened "a decisive and merciless countermeasure." North Korea files U.N. complaint over Seth Rogen film 'The Interview' 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z There are motifs, structures, incidents and dramas making us sense that we’re observing fragments of a sometimes formal, even ritualistic whole, yet it concludes without any decisive ending. Dance Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, Mark Morris Premiere 2012-11-05T22:54:53Z While filming, it was being there in the decisive moments in their lives. In "The Painter and the Thief," an artist paints a portrait of the man who stole her masterpiece 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z “I was looking for a decisive moment,” he said. Chuck Stewart, Jazz Photographer, Dies at 89; You’ve Seen His Album Covers 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z At Chateau-Thierry, in the Aisne department, just 50 miles from Paris, green U.S. forces fought alongside the French to stop the German advance in the decisive Second Battle of the Marne. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z At least 30,000 signed up for the British army, receiving training, security information and weapons, which later proved decisive in Israel’s war of independence in 1948. Making of a martyr 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z He described her as “affable, decisive and empathetic” and said that she “knows how to set challenges for herself.” A Woman Now Leads the Vatican Museums. And She’s Shaking Things Up. 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z The decisive Supreme Court case on the matter is no longer Roe v. John Oliver lays bare the South’s abortion-clinic nightmare: “Mississippi now has four times as many S’s as it does abortion clinics” 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z But we said from the start that this series wouldn’t see the light of day without the decided and decisive support of the federal police. Television: Mexican Cops: These Are Their Stories 2011-06-10T21:07:03Z "They're both visionaries, though they would be the last to admit it," said museum curator Pamela Golbin, "and they both lived an exact same story at a decisive moment in fashion." Louis Vuitton exhibit: It's the bag, stupid 2012-03-08T22:38:11Z The massacre at Sandy Hook, during which 20 first graders and six adults were killed, was a decisive moment. With ‘Gunfight,’ an Insider Takes On a Community That Was Once His Own 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z At decisive moments he slowly outstretched his arm to snap his fingers, forcefully, with his pinky extended. Music Review: Diego el Cigala at Town Hall - Review 2011-11-03T00:01:26Z The Modern Century, then, is a reassessment of Cartier-Bresson's importance both as the master of what he called "the decisive moment" and as a chronicler of the changing times in which he lived. Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century by Peter Galassi | Book review 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z It was a decisive turn in their career. Allan Williams, First Manager of the Beatles, Dies at 86 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z He characterized polygenic scores as providing decisive insight into I.Q. that was “impervious to racism and other forms of prejudice.” Charles Murray Returns, Nodding to Caution but Still Courting Controversy 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z She credits the abortion and marriage referendums, driven by decisive popular vote, as giving people “a sense of pride.” What’s Driving a Fresh Wave of Irish Music? Tradition. 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z He was seeking not only decisive moments in studios and nightclubs, but also images that were undeniably his. Chuck Stewart, Jazz Photographer, Dies at 89; You’ve Seen His Album Covers 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z “This is diplomacy in motion, soft power wielded like a machete through the diligent, decisive act of dressing,” “Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins exclaimed on Twitter. Nancy Pelosi's 'blood red' coat sparks a frenzy 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z But reviewing “Restless Creature,” he wrote: “She’s uncompromising, generous, bold, enthusiastic, adult, at the same time decisive and investigative. Few dancers in any genre show better that a work should be a process of self-discovery.” Wendy Whelan Says Farewell to City Ballet 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z A very well-mannered though decisive young man asked what kind of stick I required. Whangee, crook or derby? I have entered the world of the walking stick 2012-10-05T21:30:01Z The title of the album was also incredibly bold and decisive — this really pulled me in and I was pretty intrigued. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Ornette Coleman 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z The show took its name from a controversial ruling in World Cup history: In a 1966 match between England and West Germany, a linesman awarded a decisive goal to England. The Id and the Ego, Depicted in Color 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z He does this by transforming into a 100-foot-tall giant and decimating the Viet Cong with the wave of his hand, forcing them to surrender and delivering President Richard Nixon and America a decisive victory. A divine interlude in the tunnel of love: "Watchmen" and the intersection of comic books and faith 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Our unraveling had not been a swift, decisive catastrophe but a smaller series of no less destructive forces. Modern Love: A Second Embrace, With Hearts and Eyes Open 2014-03-13T19:16:35Z Contrast dated observations like those with the clear and decisive statement that the designer Kim Jones made with his authoritative Dior Men show on Friday. Fighting Back With Color 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Or the supervisor hasn’t mastered the art of the decisive directive. What do you mean ‘we,’ boss? 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z And that could be one, if not the, decisive factor in “The O’Reilly Factor’s” continued existence. Is this the end of Bill O’Reilly? That’s a complicated question. 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z C.I.A. directors have played a major role in the decisive struggles of American foreign policy, from the Cold War to the war on terrorism to today’s competition with China. One of the Most Perilous Jobs in Government 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z But the East Coast’s slow reopening, plus phase-in guidelines that didn’t distinguish between live performances with or without an audience meant delays, then a decisive shift. Depending on the Kindness of Sound Engineers 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z As the decisive moment draws near, Mr. Padilha uses a dance performance — by a company that includes the girlfriend of an Israeli soldier — to amplify the suspense and vary the film’s visual texture. Review: ‘7 Days in Entebbe’ Revisits a Notorious Hijacking 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z “While these new travel restrictions will be disruptive to some travelers, this decisive action is needed to protect the American public from further exposure to the potentially deadly coronavirus,” Wolf said. Trump's travel ban: Travelers in Europe, US experience confusion at airports amid coronavirus restrictions 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z “The Irishman,” rather self-evidently, is filled with the subtle and deadly half-tone negotiations and whispered hints on which the bloodily decisive realm of the Mob is formed. Watching “The Irishman” on Netflix Is the Best Way to See It 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Some would argue that this is the most challenging part of getting organized because it requires you to be firm, decisive, and clear about your priorities. How to Have the Most Organized Year of Your Life 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z All the while, there’s a faint tinge of denial; Sheeran repeatedly says that being interred in a mausoleum “isn’t final”, because the body’s still there, as opposed to the decisive finality of cremation. The Irishman: the murder, the women, the ending – discuss with spoilers 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z His Doss is a corn-fed guy who, for a decisive flash of time, will end up carrying the world on his bony shoulders. A Leading Man Saves Hacksaw Ridge from Hackdom 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Turnout may prove decisive in Friday’s vote When polls get it wrong, one of the possible explanations is usually a difference between the expected turnout implied by polling and actual turnout on the day. Could polls be wrong about outcome of Ireland's gay marriage referendum? 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Is there any escape for young Nick and decisive Dave once the caricatures of night begin to close? Nick Clegg as a cartoon figure - it's fun but does it really hurt? 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z Imagine any 5–4 decision involving Trump in which Kavanaugh casts the decisive vote. Garry Kasparov Says We Are Living in Chaos, But Remains an Incorrigible Optimist 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z The decisive pair were two American RB-47 airmen, who had been shot down over the Arctic Ocean on July 1, 1960. Kennedy-Nixon 1960 election clash: The last time Russians intervened in a U.S. election 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Thomas, the supreme court’s only black justice, played a decisive role in gutting the Voting Rights Act in 2013. Kimberlé Crenshaw: the woman who revolutionised feminism – and landed at the heart of the culture wars 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z In the twentieth-century literature on the history of architecture, there have been frequent debates about which element — the elevator or steel frame construction — was decisive for the rapid increase in vertical expansion. The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z In Freedman’s view, however, those considerations were not decisive in influencing Atticus Finch. Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z The next year, jurors were more decisive — convicting Blagojevich on 17 of 20 counts. Blagojevich prepares to deliver last word 2012-03-14T21:05:00Z And he has taken decisive action through every single challenge in his presidency. ‘This can’t be happening’: An oral history of 48 surreal, violent, biblical minutes in Washington 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The rest of the decade was decisive for him. Roland Petit: a career in clips 2011-07-11T11:10:51Z Every so often, Mr. Schrader manages to deliver a jolt, an image, a line reading and even a scene — like a narratively decisive down-and-dirty sexual four-way — that fleetingly lifts “The Canyons.” Movie Review: ‘The Canyons’ Is an Erotic Thriller With Lindsay Lohan 2013-08-01T17:11:39Z You may be aware, there’s another famous TV finale that cuts to black at a decisive moment. ArtsBeat: The 'Mad Men' Season Finale: Series Creator Matthew Weiner Discusses 'The Phantom' 2012-06-11T18:58:07Z Clinton, he fears, won’t win, despite the polls, because Trump’s supporters are “decisive, organized, and disciplined,” and, what’s more, mad as hell. What Michael Moore Understands About Hillary Clinton 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z But that would have required more decisive action on the part of the protesters. Garry Kasparov Says We Are Living in Chaos, But Remains an Incorrigible Optimist 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z We like to imagine technology as a kind of superego: rational, impersonal, decisive. When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Offense and defense remain delicately poised for both players throughout the game, but Black proves better able to negotiate the tactical shoals in the game’s decisive phase: 32. SANDS: Cadets battle as D.C. summer chess scene heats up 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z The rumour is that somebody on high wasn't too thrilled by the idea of potentially disparaging reviews appearing ahead of the film's world premiere that evening and took decisive steps to prevent it. Toronto 2013: Reporter's diary 2013-09-12T13:42:39Z But her personality sounds undiminished, with long, curvy phrases that are decisive, knowing and, in Bobby Bland’s heartsick, disillusioned “Dreamer,” bitterly authoritative. Music: Listening to Sia Tolno, Wye Oak, Etta James and Givers 2011-12-30T17:00:00Z The early work, between post-Impressionism and Symbolism, and above all the decisive period from 1910 to the 1920s, when Mondrian tried his hand at Cubism before becoming increasingly abstract, is perfect. Mondrian and De Stijl at the Pompidou Centre, Paris ? review 2011-01-11T14:00:19Z A bloody fingerprint in "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder", she tells us, is to Holmes decisive evidence of the innocence of the accused. Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova – review 2013-01-04T15:19:54Z Who knows how it’ll wear over a season, but the first hour was delightfully decisive in a way few other comic-book shows allow themselves to be. The 8 Best New Fall TV Shows You Should Watch 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z By simply showing us the album’s track list, Lamar was framing his music as something declarative and decisive. Perspective | Our biggest pop stars keep falling for lowercase letters (AND CAPS LOCK, TOO) 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Even in the king’s scenes near collapse, Holland stayed composed, his voice reflexively decisive and self-assured. ‘Richard II’ Review: A Radio King With a Tottering Crown 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z There’s no villain, no decisive action, and not much argument—just terrible lassitude and growing mental incapacity. What Disaster Films Miss About Death 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z She is decisive and no-nonsense, preferring short hair and soft pants with elastic waistbands. Motherlode Blog: I Do Not Want My Daughter to Be ‘Nice’ 2013-07-31T13:54:11Z Young led the orchestra with decisive urgency and refreshingly little over-the-top physical extroversion. Review: The Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason Makes an Entrance 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Caragol assembled photos, videos and objects that concentrate on the decisive first 15 years of the movement. Dolores Huerta’s ‘One Life’ at the Portrait Gallery: Yes she could 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The seed was Taylor Stanley, whose decisive, quicksilver dancing couldn’t, try as it might, carry this incoherent ballet; the storm was Sara Mearns, whose hair acted like something of a fifth limb. Review: The Costume Dramas of New York City Ballet 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z So after intermission on Saturday, the program took a decisive turn. Critic’s Notebook: Under Leif Ove Andsnes, Ojai Festival Enjoys Long Scandinavian Nights 2012-06-12T21:53:19Z This, Scott believes, is the lesson that 40 years in Hollywood has taught him: you have to be decisive. Ridley Scott: ‘I wanted to scare the shit out of people. That’s the job’ 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z McElwee then tendentiously defines religion so as to paper over its often decisive role in precipitating conflicts. The real New Atheism: Rejecting religion for a just world 2013-12-14T19:00:00Z In many ways the decisive battle of his wars was not Austerlitz or even Waterloo but Trafalgar in 1805, to which Mr Roberts devotes only half a page. Flawed sparkler 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z He singled out Mr. Thompson for doing “perhaps the most effective job of suggesting individual tension, because of the decisive nature of the role he plays.” Roy Thompson Jr., Real-Life and Movie Hero, Dies at 85 2014-05-07T02:35:40Z Then, still in her 50s, she called herself retired, “because I am decisive — I was brought up that way,” she said. Kyung Wha Chung Makes Comeback at Southbank Center, London 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z A clue in the script: “Moses’ life is so prodigious and his reach so great,” Hare notes, “that I have chosen to concentrate on just two decisive moments in his extraordinary career.” ‘Straight Line Crazy’ Review: The Road Rage of Robert Moses 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z When I reviewed his novel “Wolf in White Van” in 2014, I printed a decisive spoiler — I stupidly thought it wasn’t one — and I moped about it for a long time. ‘Devil House,’ a Confident, Creepy Novel About a Wicked Unsolved Crime 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z In “Divertimento No. 15” the Miami women — scintillatingly musical — perfectly show how Balanchine combined womanliness with youthfulness; they’re both fresh, like buds, and decisive. Dance Review: Miami City Ballet in Liam Scarlett Work at Kravis Center 2013-01-28T23:05:18Z A letter signed by about 120 professors, some two-thirds of the most distinguished faculty at the Urbana-Champaign campus, was delivered at a trustees meeting Thursday morning asking for the "rapid and decisive termination" of Hogan. U. of I. faculty again urge president's removal 2012-03-16T10:15:00Z But this sort of wake-up call and a decisive response to it is rare. 'Today' host Ann Curry takes hit, counts tomorrows 2012-06-26T20:42:10Z What Mäkelä elicited from the Parisians was cleaner and more decisive than on their recording of “Firebird” and the “Rite” earlier this year. The Ups and Downs of Europe’s Most Interesting Opera Festival 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Undergoing many a torment on the field, the players have a way of disintegrating at decisive moments, earning incredible derision by fellow Chileans who see some underdog aspect of a national character in their footballers. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z Noseda’s fluid line supported Ehnes’s shining one, mounting to big dark drama and another suspended ending that was more decisive, closing the parenthesis that Berg’s ending had left open. Review | Noseda ends his NSO season with 3 B’s, and a bang 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z More than any compulsion of economics, Hobsbawm argues, revolution and war were the decisive factors in the emancipation of the French and parts of the European peasantry. Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z He rubs his eyes with the backs of his hands, and lets out a decisive sigh. Robert Mugabe's brutal 2008 crackdown: torture, death and a stolen election 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Across the English Channel, June 6 is the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the decisive battle of the Second World War, memorialized on the beaches of Normandy in France. Events of 2014, From Food to Art to Music 2014-01-08T16:22:46Z Trilling liked to hold off until there was, as he says in one letter, “a decisive occasion” for responding. A Cool Head and Warm Affections in Lionel Trilling’s Letters 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z “Somewhere in that cross-racial nexus lurked a uniquely American sensibility whose decisive attraction was that it was no respecter of propriety,” Christgau writes. The Rock Critic Robert Christgau’s Big-Hearted Theory of Pop 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z But neither element looks decisive this year, with five albums of all-new songs. The Grammys: What Makes an Album of the Year? 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z A decisive influence was Francis Bacon, a fellow artist at the 1954 Venice Biennale and the subject of one of his most famous works, a head painted in oil on copper in 1952. Lucian Freud, Adept Portraiture Artist, Dies at 88 2011-07-21T19:28:45Z As I watched from over his hunched and courduroyed shoulder, he wrote a beautiful, decisive and neat "1" on my form. Motherlode Blog: In Defense of Algebra 2012-07-31T14:08:45Z Only in the 20th century, when the fall of the Ottomans signalled a decisive tilt west, did the country begin to turn out great novelists. 10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z “Tower” plays like a historical Hitchcock film about ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances of which they have agonizingly partial views but nonetheless take decisive action. A Hitchcockian Re-Creation of the First Modern Mass Shooting 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z From the get-go, Ms. Barker was direct, decisive and kind, the type of qualities that Ms. Caskey admired and continues to appreciate. Mom, and Maybe the Supreme Court, Said It Was Time to Get Married 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z He continued, "Kennedy has been the decisive vote in many cases, and his retirement gives Trump the opportunity to fundamentally change the Supreme Court." Stephen Colbert bemoans Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement: “We are supremely screwed” 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Winters was feeling wistful about the women’s finalists, Madison Keys and the decisive winner Sloane Stephens, two unranked players who came roaring back after injuries in ways that her character Mallory does not. They Can Act. But Can They Serve? 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z I need to feel that for her it’s necessary and important and decisive that I film her. Benoît Jacquot, the Director Who Loves Women 2012-07-06T17:00:00Z Ms. Futral enrolled at Samford University, a Baptist college near Birmingham, Ala., intending to teach music but took a decisive step toward a performing career by earning her master’s degree at Indiana University. Elizabeth Futral at Lincoln Center Festival and Glimmerglass 2012-07-18T21:49:41Z The company quickly earned plaudits on the community-theater circuit, but it took the pandemic to give the company a decisive push into greater recognition. Chekhov Two Ways, With a Robot and Baryshnikov Along for the Ride 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z The trills in the first movement unfolded with decisive flair, the concluding Allegro sounded lithe and vigorous. Review: Musicians From Marlboro, With Works by Mozart and Fauré 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z That explains the decisive "Okay?!" finishing off every fifth season title. "Insecure" no more: The HBO comedy departs with satisfying confidence 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Her writing is trenchant and decisive; it’s also dominant. The Crucial Lessons of Democracy in “Selma” 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Moreover, Tabloid may well be Morris's swansong, a sobering thought for the man whose career has forged a decisive change in the direction of American . Errol Morris: two sides to every scandal 2011-03-10T22:34:01Z The recital, which drew a healthy but not capacity crowd, was an early but by no means decisive test of Washington Performing Arts’ new direction. A lot riding on Hilary Hahn’s bow at Strathmore 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z This caused them to withhold troops from the battle, a mistake that both Erwin Rommel and Dwight D. Eisenhower regarded as decisive to the Allies’ success. “Agent Garbo”: Wartime’s greatest double-cross 2012-07-08T22:00:00Z And why not, given the conductor Xian Zhang’s tight, decisive reading of Beethoven’s Fourth in the first Alice Tully Hall program? At Mostly Mozart Concerts, Casual Vibes and High Musical Values 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z She is armored for a foray in search of department store bounty but this photograph is not a decisive moment. Art Once Hidden From Hitler, Now on View 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z It was a burst of youthful, irreverent energy that was also a decisive engagement in the continuing battle to establish cinema as a serious art form. Film: A Fresh Look Back at Jean-Luc Godard?s ?Breathless? 2010-05-21T17:18:00Z Photograph: The National Gallery It was a decisive moment in the Renaissance as artists discovered a new harmonic beauty. Baby, it's cold outside: art's best nativity scenes 2012-12-24T08:00:04Z The diagramed deal was Board 79 of this decisive penultimate set. Bridge: In Netherlands, Indonesia Deftly Reads the Cards - Bridge 2011-11-09T22:24:45Z After more than half a decade on the air, Game of Thrones is no longer inclined to show an onscreen death as jarring, random and decisive as a death in real life. 'Game of Thrones' Proves Death on TV Is Meaningless Now 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z She then performed a jittery solo that sent her across the space with decisive, pounding steps, as she held her fists at her hips or raised them overhead. Review: Looking for a Hero? Hold on to These Dancers 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Also on Monday, the Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon” won a decisive first-round victory in the critics’ balloting. ArtsBeat: Deliberative Theater Critics Honor 'Good People' 2011-05-10T21:00:56Z If most monster epics are about a set of daring, decisive humans confronting a super-normal adversary, Godzilla is focused instead on setting a mood, conjuring an atmosphere and perhaps sparking a debate. ?Godzilla? the Great: New Criterion Release Celebrates the Greatest Monster Movie 2012-01-25T16:20:11Z He was not searching, like Henri Cartier-Bresson before him, for the "decisive moment" when form and content, vision and composition merged into a transcendent whole. Moment of truth 2010-04-17T23:05:00Z “It has done credible job of uncovering the facts and, where appropriate, it has taken swift and decisive action.” Library of Congress taps 25 sounds for registry 2012-05-23T14:47:00Z The subject of the film is Lady Susan’s carefully but boldly wrought self-liberation—and the collective, societal liberation that sweeps outward from her quiet but decisive defiance. Whit Stillman’s “Love & Friendship”: Subverting the Social Order with Style 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z “So clear and so decisive,” Mr. Frank told Nicholas Dawidoff in 2015 for a profile in The New York Times Magazine. Robert Frank Dies; Pivotal Documentary Photographer Was 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Lydia Wellington and Meagan Mann, eye-catching beauties too, are being given more opportunities at last, as is the bright, decisive Sara Adams. New York City Ballet Is in Limbo, but in Bloom 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Be decisive, put your trainers by the door and try not to think about the cold/drizzle/greyness. How to stay fit for ever: 25 tips to keep moving when life gets in the way 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z The response then sure seemed quick and decisive — especially in the context of the burgeoning #MeToo movement inspired by multiple abuse allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. Perspective | James Levine was a powerful maestro, but an even more powerful myth 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z This was surely a decisive moment in the globalisation of political Islam that he rightly says is one of the enduring legacies of the events of that tumultuous year. Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl – review 2013-07-25T07:01:00Z And the runaway train of yoked events will culminate in a decisive mortal struggle amid the ruins of the Perry Friendly Motel. Review | ‘Lucifer’ writer Mike Carey continues to cement his status as a novelist 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z The same went for a single note played by Mr. Sanders toward the end: not particularly long or showstopping, but big and strong and decisive, full of overtones. Review: Pharoah Sanders at Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Instead, very often, when our interviewees narrated decisive moments in their careers – key decisions, new jobs, big promotions – there were others in their stories who provided a significant hand up. The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Toobin goes on to lament that “Thomas pretty much lets O’Connor off the hook for her shabbiest moment on the court — her decisive role in the 5 to 4 travesty that was Bush v. Gore.” Letters to the Editor 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z His mother, who ran a tea shop in Port Elizabeth, came from a Calvinist, Afrikaans background that left an even more decisive mark on the young Athol. Playwright Athol Fugard: a man of obstinacy and courage 2012-06-03T17:45:01Z Nor are ethical considerations decisive in Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones; Jonathan Creek – TV review 2013-04-02T06:00:03Z But once he’s in position, he’s as decisive as a painter throwing color at a canvas. ‘Creative Domain’: Film takes us into mystery of Paul Taylor’s dances 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z As Hone tells it, Navy commanders knew they were outmatched by the Japanese but also recognized that Guadalcanal was a decisive campaign of the Pacific War. George Washington, William T. Sherman and Viking Marauders 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Will it be decisive in Apple Music’s future? Popcast: Apple Music and Beats 1 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z His emergency brake, the decisive watershed in the canonical history of the elevator, was in 1882 still considered an inessential addition. The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z The changes that occur, and that yield something like a drama, occur with an environmental gradualness punctuated by spasms of sudden, decisive, irreparable actions. Jacques Rivette’s Thirteen-Hour Experimental Film 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z We live in a time of clear-cut divisions and stern edicts, and it feels like this story should have a decisive resolution. How to screw up in Arabic 2012-09-07T23:30:00Z Black is steadily pushed back until White launches the decisive invasion: 26. SANDS: Song soars with dramatic Cadet chess victory 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z “Her choices are pretty swift and decisive, and always very true to herself.” Red Carpet Watch: Cate Blanchett’s Fashion Choices 2014-02-28T22:38:29Z But I was more decisive, and I knew what I thought, and hoped, my audience wanted from me after interacting with them for two years. Jessie Ware brings her 'Tough Love' to America 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Who would you turn to if you learned a comet was on a collision course with Earth and decisive action was required to prevent the extinction of all life on this planet? Meryl Streep for President 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z North Korea issued a statement promising a “decisive and merciless countermeasure,” so Time asked Park the obvious question. In The Interview, Playing the Heavy Gets Dangerous 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z But if the men were nevertheless so similar that, even as strangers, they tended to finish one another’s thoughts, it would seem to mark a pretty decisive victory for heredity in the nature-versus-nurture debate. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z But that one concept, the decisive moment, is the thing I’ve built on for the past 52 years. Roger Ballen Revisits His Never-Before-Published Woodstock Photos 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Maybe in picking the days she is being decisive rather than controlling. My sister is a nightmare at Christmas. Do we spend it together? 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z A shepherdess who heard the voices of saints in the sound of church bells, she led the French army toward decisive victories in the Hundred Years’ War before being tried for heresy, witchcraft and cross-dressing. Joan of Arc, Superstar? Not to the Woman Playing Her 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Still, this very limited judicial enterprise, and the momentum that the Duch trial created, have been decisive in allowing, for the first time, a national public debate on the Khmer Rouge era. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Asked about the author’s state of mind, Sentell says that “other than some mobility issues, she is sharp, decisive and in charge.” The mood in Monroeville, Ala. -- Harper Lee land 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z He lends both characters a calm, decisive moral authority. Movie of the Week: “Wichita” 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z She remains thoughtful and decisive and deeply compassionate. Perspective | Who would be a better president than the current one? For starters, my cat. 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Whether that’s a decisive point in their favor is up to you. “Magic in the Moonlight”: It’s time to stop making excuses for Woody Allen 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z As soon as Ms. Vaidyanathan began, she compellingly showed two opposite forces: communicative charm, in which eyes and every part of the body speak, and decisive, uncompromising stillness. Dance Review: Indian Dances at the Erasing Borders Festival 2013-08-16T22:24:56Z She knew me to be a promise keeper, a maker of decisive moves. “I’m not drinking right now”: Sometimes even non-alcoholics need to stop 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z That’s why a decisive statement from a respected, venerable organization is such an encouraging and happy development. Doctors prescribe a dose of marriage equality 2013-03-21T18:42:00Z “She tends to wish for things to ebb and flow,” he said, “and I tend to be more decisive about ‘here is the beginning and here is the end.’ Under the Stars and Quilts, With Randalls Island as Her Stage 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z “I don’t remember anything except feeling like one of those Buddhist monks who throws gasoline on themselves,” David Berman says a decade later, thinking back on that decisive day. David Berman was the cult musician who went away for 10 years. What made him finally come back? 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Ike runs back to the kitchen to find the entire staff, all Cubans, frozen around a television set, watching news about Che Guevara’s seizure of Santa Clara, a decisive victory in the Cuban revolution. Television Review: ?Magic City? on Starz Is Set in Miami Beach, Circa 1959 2012-04-06T00:24:34Z When “Pepper” came out, Time magazine declared it “a historic departure in the progress of music — any music,” while the London Times called the release “a decisive moment in the history of Western civilization.” Meet the critic who panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’ then discovered his speaker was busted. He’s still not sorry. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z An unusually physical performer, Mr. Campbell, who is backed by a pop quartet, illustrates songs with broad, decisive gestures that suggest an entertainer still bent on world conquest. Music Review: Broadway Cowboy of Australia 2010-12-01T05:15:00Z Maxim Litvinov, a Soviet diplomat, later said that the decisive factor that led the Germans “to authorize the passage of our comrades was the entry of the United States into the war.” Lenin and the Russian Spark 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z This is, in small part, a cracked vision of Clinton’s image as decisive and competent. Review: Hillary Clinton's 'Broad City' Appearance Was a Win 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z They made music that was decisive and purposeful and authoritative — almost as if attaining the greatest balance and coherence of written music were the point of free improvisation. Tyshawn Sorey and Marilyn Crispell Improvise at the Stone 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The movie, Puig writes, "had decisive potential. But a weak script, lack of subtlety and tonal inconsistencies impede what might have been a powerful family drama." 'The Judge': Well-acted but guilty of sentimentality, reviews say 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Inside Condé Nast’s headquarters, both Brown and Wintour were prized by Newhouse as decisive leaders, known for brilliant snap judgments and a keen sense of what was right for their respective publications. Anna Wintour and Tina Brown: Inside their Condé Nast rivalry 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z This was just a pleasant, aimless subplot until, at the end of the season, it turned out to be decisive. The Question at the Heart of “The Good Wife” 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z That sounds wonderfully decisive, but the more I think about that message, the more I find my First Amendment absolutism chasing its tail. Perspective | A hateful, conspiracy-filled book just got harder to buy. That’s no cause for celebration. 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The reason that Clinton lost the electoral college, and in turn the election, was that she failed to appeal to enough white women, especially in decisive states. Trump’s misogyny didn’t win him the election. But it will change women’s lives 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z This abstract trench – or big silent 1 – is at its simplest and purest in this early example of his decisive style. Man Ray does glam – the week in art 2013-02-08T16:01:44Z Nézet-Séguin didn’t merely keep time or hold the Philharmonic together; he led them with passion and decisive interpretation. Review: Upended by Global Conflict, the Vienna Philharmonic Plays On 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z Skyler finally takes decisive action early in Season 3, a welcome development that doesn’t really change the status quo. Television: Sustaining a Crisis Into Three Seasons on ?Breaking Bad? 2010-03-18T22:44:00Z For many of his pupils, his was a decisive cultural influence, not just on their education but on their lives. Peter Hardwick obituary 2013-02-28T11:49:32Z A flower of Kent apple tree in the grounds of Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire proved decisive in Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravity. Capture the history of Britain's ancient trees 2011-08-01T06:00:01Z Try taking a decisive stance, rather than wrapping up your writing with an open-ended prompt. 10 Simple Ways to Become a Better Writer 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z In 2000, George W Bush's alleged "draft dodging" became a campaign issue, though not a decisive one. Vietnam road 2010-07-10T23:01:00Z It seems obvious now that Gus will have a decisive hand in whatever lands Hector in that terrible condition. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3, Episode 4: Chicken vs. Ice Cream 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z She campaigned in what turned out to be a decisive swing state but, like many of us, fell for the polls and punditry which dismissed Trump’s chances. Natalie Portman: ‘JFK was a great proponent of civil rights. Trump is taking us backwards’ 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z First seen in 2015 at the National Theater, “The Hard Problem” takes its title from a decisive neuroscience riddle: What is consciousness? Tom Stoppard, Always Tackling ‘The Hard Problem’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z By summer 1920, that number had reached 35, and Tennessee provided the decisive tipping point — but only narrowly, passing by a single vote in its House of Representatives. Review: An Oratorio Cautiously Looks Back on Women’s Suffrage 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z “And I’m a little concerned which direction they will go. It will be a very decisive decision for the future of the festival.” After a Quarter-Century, the Queen of Salzburg Calls It Quits 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Readers, we learn, want a colloquial style, a decisive main character, a fast-moving, rhythmic plot. “The Bestseller Code” Tells Us What We Already Know 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z In June, North Korea called on the U.S. government to block the film's release or face a "decisive and merciless countermeasure." Sony Pictures execs debated risk of 'The Interview' before cyberattack 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z This encounter, so decisive for the conquest of health and for the victory over fear, is also supreme in its moral value. Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? 2013-07-06T07:01:00Z During one packed Moscow showing this week, some audience members broke into spontaneous applause and others wiped tears from their eyes at decisive moments in the narrative. We are the champions: basketball film wows Russians before election 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z The barrier provides a decisive moment for them: It’s time to fight back. Analysis | That Ohio protest photo looked like a zombie movie. Zombie movie directors think so, too. 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z They also have retractable claws, decisive in close combat – and definitive proof that 1970s kids' TV is better than today's. The Wombles at 40 – why we need them more than ever 2013-02-05T18:08:18Z He’s a cornfed guy who, for a brief, decisive flash of time, will end up carrying the world on his bony shoulders. Mel Gibson Reaches Toward Redemption with Grisly, Effective Hacksaw Ridge 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z The situation resembles a suspenseful decisive moment in an Alfred Hitchcock thriller. Artworks That Shine in New York Museums 2013-01-04T00:50:22Z He has a great design vocabulary and is very decisive. Shepard Fairey gets his sticky fingers on the Stones 2012-07-06T00:00:00Z If Mr. Arnault were less decisive, less stimulated by the action in the chiffon trenches, and less mindful of the world’s new deposits of capital, he would be merely another corporate chief. Fashion’s New Order 2012-09-07T20:36:32Z Even in our digital age, architects generally prefer drawings, which direct your attention to edges and intersections, to seemingly decisive lines and seemingly definitive points. Zaha Hadid Was Just Getting Started 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z That is what Exxon Mobil wants from the American government — decisive help in a pinch, but only when the corporation requests it, and on its terms. ArtsBeat: Steve Coll Talks About the Power of Exxon Mobil 2012-05-02T17:31:09Z Few if any of her photographs, printed here in black and white, capture what Cartier-Bresson called decisive moments. When War Came to Ukraine, She Took Up a Diary and a Camera 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z But as it became clear that no decisive call was imminent, there remained one heavily foreshadowed bit of drama: What would Donald Trump say, and how would the networks cover it? Blue Wave? Red Wave? Election-Night TV Was More Like a Whirlpool 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z He wants to appear decisive and courageous for the photographer. Police arrest artist setting up ‘I Love NY’ work 2012-05-21T20:16:00Z Be decisive and strong when you change your mind; the tone and stance are more important than the change of decision. How parents can learn to say yes again 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z As with so many literary controversies, this one exhausted itself without a decisive win. Review | Paula Hawkins has a new thriller, and let’s just say it’s no ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Thirty-six years later, Japan struck the decisive blow to European power in Asia. The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z “Ambassador Hartley was very decisive,” Ms. Shore said. At U.S. Embassy in Paris, the Art of Welcome 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z This was a catastrophic violation of protocol — and probably a decisive one; as Stewart notes, the new email story led the news in six of the seven days in the final week before the election. Two Candidates, Two Investigations, One Deeply Flawed Agency 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z While Trump and conservatives were decisive with their response to the game, neither the media nor fans knew how to react. Why Donald Trump and the right can't leave women's soccer alone 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z In deference to the spoiler-sensitive, I’ll tread lightly here, but what happens near the end of “One Day” is likely to have a decisive effect on your opinion of the movie. | 'One Day': Emma and Dex and July 15 2011-08-18T12:00:00Z The Brazil that she discovered was undergoing a wholesale transformation under the decisive civilian president Juscelino Kubitschek, with a brand-new capital, Brasília, rising like magic in the country’s interior. Weekend in Los Angeles: That Touch of Brazil 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z It's decisive and makes a statement, but it doesn't quite feel like it's hers. Let Miley Cyrus be the last lesson we need about how to treat young stars 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z An exception occurred on May 13, 1975, when the Philadelphia Flyers faced the upstart New York Islanders for a decisive Game 7 in the National Hockey League championship semifinals. Music Review: Nuanced Comfort Music That Channels Kate Smith 2011-02-18T22:55:13Z Control of supply routes can be just as decisive. Dungeons & Dragons Saved My Life 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Popular accounts of this decisive session have portrayed Obama facing down a wall of opposition and doubt among his top advisers. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z Neurological conditions, such as paralysis, motor neuron disease, Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis were the decisive factor in almost half of the cases examined in the study. Foreign assisted suicide cases in Switzerland double in four years 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z In the case of Erraught, one decisive factor is that the singer is not, in fact, fat. Male critics on female bodies: Tara Erraught, Liza Minnelli and intelligent reviewing Moore then pivots to his decisive point, a masterstroke of political psychology that he extracts from a sharp history lesson. What Michael Moore Understands About Hillary Clinton 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z And his enigmatic gaze, in the midst of much New York Times and A-list actors taking themselves too seriously, reminds us of the power of a great performer, revealing his own decisive moment. N.Y. Times' pretentious, riveting acting videos 2010-12-09T19:52:00Z The support of Sciascia, already well known as a novelist and public intellectual, was decisive. Elvira Sellerio obituary 2010-08-23T17:52:00Z |
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