The United States has almost always had a racial undercaste—a group defined wholly or largely by race that is permanently locked out of mainstream, white society by law, custom, and practice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“To believe in things that you cannot. Let me illustrate. I heard once of an American who so defined faith: ‘that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.’ Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

And yet, of course, at the same time, I was being spat on and defined and described and limited, and could have been polished off with no effort whatever. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s my official job, yes. But I don’t define myself by my corporate identity. In my spare time, I run this!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She had enough distance now from her upbringing that she felt it wouldn’t define her for the rest of her life. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It can only be defined by the anecdote, the chance encounter or the sentence overheard. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It’s not that the concepts eloquently captured by Metcalfe’s law were entirely new; networks had been developing, and their potential significance were defined in the latter half of the century. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I mean, do our worst actions define us when we’re alive? Or do you think human beings are better than the very worst things we have ever done?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Devastating as the destruction was, it would be the human stories and the human suffering that would best define what would become known as the Great Molasses Flood. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Yet his attack suggests that he hesitated as he tried to define the nature of the enemy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Americans believe in the reality of “race” as a defined, indubitable feature of the natural world. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The movement was defined—by blacks and whites alike—using the narrow and simplistic language of race. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

What was really just a theatrical side show was now being enshrined in memory as the defining moment in the revolutionary drama. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was saying it for Mother, to define the moment: I was a misbehaving child; he was setting the child right. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We defined size as a limit—the sum of the carpets as the individual sizes go to zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

While perhaps a more provincial cause, it had all the advantages of a more concerted and tightly focused political agenda in which each man played a clearly defined role. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

After all, it didn't matter who I was, it was what I had done that now defined me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

As the settlers were outnumbered across most of the continent until the first decade of the nineteenth century, this meant that their interactions with Indigenous peoples were defined by violence for two hundred years. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Jonathan Swift defined war as “that mad game the world loves to play.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past “weird” and “strange” and “goofy.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They behaved in a way that defines a word I would learn later—kowtow. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Like, You have to avoid this truck. Don’t get hit in the head by these metal pipes. Make a right. The rules are defined and you follow them.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As we saw in the last chapter, it is not always easy to define the threshold for saying that a culture ‘has’ something, but language usually provides a useful marker. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Of particular interest to a brainy, idealistic youth such as Farmer, Virchow helped define the field of medical anthropology—the study of human health and disease and public health care systems. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

At this point, Nixon wheeled round and point by point, having defined the terms of the argument to his satisfaction, exonerated himself. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Plant domestication may be defined as growing a plant and thereby, consciously or unconsciously, causing it to change genetically from its wild ancestor in ways making it more useful to human consumers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

One defined the acceleration of computer processing power, which allowed not just speed, but so many capabilities, including, at its core, interactivity; the other captured the rapid expansion of the communications network and its value. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Rules that defined how smart was too smart. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He does suggest that Wayne could have had stronger “tactics” in his monologue—a more defined sense of his character’s objective. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He meant that if we're defined by our desires, I was in for a lifetime of trouble. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But she had no intention of living a life like her mother’s, in which housework defined and limited the horizon of her worldview. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Far below, the gray ocean defined the word “forever.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The parties agreed that decisions would be taken by “sufficient consensus,” which was never defined, but in practice meant an agreement between the government and the ANC and a majority of the other parties. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We, too, shall have no difficulty in doing so once we understand that it is not necessary to enclose space in order to define or articulate it. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I don’t define myself by the boys who may or may not like me.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It gives us comfort to believe we have defined something that is, by its very nature, indefinable. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Laughing, we would try to define words we could not pronounce. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is much easier to define people just in terms of their family personality. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her first boundary was the geography of her family, second her town, Salinas, and finally there was a dotted line, not clearly defined, which was the county line. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the Indians were not property; they were not defined by their years of labor as indentures. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

This is simply defined as the distance that light travels in one second. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1703 Newton became President of the Royal Society and drew up a scheme to define its goals. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"The bad things that happen to us don't define us. It's just important sometimes that people understand where we're coming from." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And what puzzled me was that the old man had defined it as treachery. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch with satisfaction as my hair falls away from me like fog and my head emerges, sharper-featured, more clearly defined. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Watching his father sleep, the face relaxed in slumber, all the harsh lines of age less defined, he remembered hearing that people who had been married a long time began to resemble each other. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the strip winners and losers, enemy and friends were clearly defined. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Therefore, his worth is not defined by a single element, but by the overall success of the production. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Instead, tuning itself is now defined in terms of equal-temperament, with tunings and intervals measured in cents. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I told him never to let the white man define his manhood. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

To define yourself as an activist, an artist, an individual. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Furniture was standard throughout the community: practical, sturdy, the function of each piece clearly defined. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I said that defining your terms is half the battle won. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was hard for Atal to imagine speech without the trunk movements that clarified and defined it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Write and define nouns denoting place where from the following words:— New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least in some spheres, I was now Mrs. Obama in a way that could feel diminishing, a missus defined by her mister. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Across the estuary from the town one section of mangroves stood clear and telescopically defined, while another mangrove clump was a hazy black-green blob. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes glistened as the tears rolled down her face in clearly defined salt creeks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wittgenstein explained that there are some terms we have and use quite reliably which we cannot adequately define. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The later poets define the world of the dead more and more clearly as the place where the wicked are punished and the good rewarded. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

One quality of such places as I am trying to define is that a very large part of them is personal and subjective. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the “subject” and “verb” that have to agree are defined by branches in the tree, not words in the string. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

This moment would define my memory of that night, and of the many nights like it, for a decade. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

One of the most pernicious examples of this is the Population Registration Act, which defined that inequality. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In effect, the meter is defined to be the distance traveled by light in 0.000000003335640952 second, as measured by a cesium clock. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, Chris,” Seven says, “DeVante’s got a point. What makes his name or our names any less normal than yours? Who or what defines ‘normal’ to you? The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

My definition of a black man was, except for the rare instance, a man without an outstanding career, and a man who had to define his maleness by how muscular he was. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But here was a principle through which the dimensions of life could be defined, captured. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Today scientists agree that “race” is a meaningless concept since human differences are only skin deep, but the Nazis defined the Aryan race as Nordic or Caucasian people with no mixture of Jewish ancestry. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In a fifth-grade “reading for comprehension” lesson, students read a short passage and then were prompted to mine facts and define vocabulary words. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

You’re going to have to define “friends” if you want an answer to that question. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

But after their ordeal in the back of the evacuation truck, their relationship changed, although neither of them was exactly sure how to define it. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Architecture’s parameters are defined by utilitarian function and structural system, but there is almost always an aesthetic component as well, even when it consists of nothing more than a decorative veneer. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Combine and define confine + ment.—What other part of speech than a verb is "confine"? Ans. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there is behavioral residue, which is defined as the inadvertent clues we leave behind: dirty laundry on the floor, for instance, or an alphabetized CD collection. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Though she still has a dissertation to write, still has an adviser to monitor her progress, she feels unmoored already, somehow beyond the world that has defined and structured and limited her for so long. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dragon hide, blood, heart, fiver and horn all have highly magical properties, but dragon eggs are defined as Class A Non-Tradeable Goods. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Dr. Treisman and her peers began to realize and define was a powerful clash going on inside the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You still think you’re right about everything as ever, Michael? People make mistakes. Not everyone is defined by their mistakes. Like losing, you have to rebound. Parry and still score the touch.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They thought of them as the precursors of men and they defined them far more clearly as individuals than they had earth and heaven. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s all there is. The mountains are what I define them as.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Write and define adjectives denoting that may be, or having the power, from the following verbs:— New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although they defined “group rights” as a way of protecting the freedom of minorities in a new South Africa, in fact their proposal was a means of preserving white domination. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So much of my life was defined by not knowing. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In three-way mirrors at department stores, I’d see my profile dramatically defined by a long nose, but it was really only the color of my skin that caught my attention. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the fortuitous conjunction of these two vast reservoirs of philosophical and physical wealth that defined America's national interest and made it so special. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But if the secret Mexico trip was the defining test of my loyalty, I really earned my stripes when my sister and her best friend turned me into a legitimate stalker. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

This had led, in turn, to the accident of his being named Gogol, defining and distressing him for so many years. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But a person who crossed the black water lost all caste; he was stripped of the connections that had defined him and his family for generations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It serves to define the meaning and significance of race in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Yet another common suffragist strategy was the presentation of pageants, which the dictionary defines as “an elaborate public dramatic presentation that usually depicts a historical or traditional event.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Those five stores defined the outer limit of his ambition, the necessary end of what he could conceive for himself. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The combination of regulatory sequences and the protein-encoding sequence defined a gene. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She had, on her sharply defined small face, an expression of sullen distaste. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Capsule goes up, capsule comes down, its path defined by a big parabola, its landing place the Atlantic Ocean. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so. A name helps to define who we are. It reminds us of our history.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The failure to secure the blessings of democracy was the feature that most defined their existence in America. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

To her four sixth graders puberty was something they could spell and define but had yet to experience. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t think Fielding was crude at all, or that Richardson was a fine psychologist, but she wasn’t going to be drawn in, defending, defining, attacking. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

John Henry was all work, focused and determined, while High John...well, there was no defining him. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The cosmetics that had seemed superfluous were necessary now, not to improve her but to define her somehow. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

On December 2, we were all found guilty of what Judge Rumpff defined as “statutory communism” — as opposed to what he said “is commonly known as communism.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a thing that sometimes happens in rowing that is hard to achieve and hard to define. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Even the muscles in his forearm are taut, defined. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The curse that colored people carry is having no clearly defined heritage to go back to. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The sheriff laughed and said, “I guess that depend on how you define ‘pay good.’” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I study the soldier's face: blue eyes; tan skin; nice, defined jaw. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I mean, I can even try to define is if I want, because equality isn’t really working in the present tense, is it? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I want to define my place in their worlds and not try to understand the definitions the senator spews forth about his own. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Where the Aristotelian universe had one centre, there were now potentially five different ways of defining the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I noticed the way the artist defined her huge muscles using light and dark and how her knee was foreshortened, just like we were taught in art class. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The rashes on his face seemed to have become bigger and flatter, less defined, so that they made his face look even puffier. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The pay is $6.10 an hour and the hours are nine in the morning till “whenever,” which I am hoping can be defined as a little before two. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if wild populations with variations in genotype keep interbreeding, Dobzhansky knew, a new species would never be formed: a species, after all, is fundamentally defined by its inability to interbreed with another. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They activate and silence genes, thereby defining the embryo’s axis from head to tail. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The list was very long—so long, in fact, that the authors of Standards of Inmate Behavior found it easier to define what was permitted than what wasn’t. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Will had found with the smoke of his fire, that had the effect of defining the angel’s body so he could see it more clearly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The United Nations now defines genocide as an act, or acts, “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

"It's not so funny. It would be more scientific to try to define the case. It has been developing some three hundred years —" "Define? Hell, man, we know all that." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t just about record-buying preferences, either: being a composer in the twentieth century meant making career- defining choices that simply were not relevant to earlier generations. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Bobby explained that the reason he hadn’t competed in almost twenty years was that he was still waiting for the right offer, though he didn’t define what “right” meant. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When we said that men are ‘endowed with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,’ we did not pause to define ‘happiness.’ Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Racial stigma is produced by defining negatively what it means to be black. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

All laced with that scent of burning that defined the world after the sun flares. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It helped define their ability to change their lives and shaped their odds of getting better. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The house never appealed much to Molly, for the inland summers were beastly hot, and Ernest himself never seemed to be around—to him, the inactivity defined by “rest and relaxation” meant boredom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Specific impulse is defined as the thrust in pounds of a given propellant divided by its consumption rate.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

So would just about every person in the state of Texas, where attitudes on the subject became quickly defined on the basis of whether you were black or white. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, the past of P can be defined as the set of all events from which it is possible to reach the event P traveling at or below the speed of light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

All were composed of large, healthy, and highly competitive young men, each of whom was about to face a defining moment in his life. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It defines the value of a telecommunications network, say, the Internet, as proportional to the square of the number of users. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Truly, without her I wouldn’t be the same person. I couldn’t possibly be. She defines me.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

This political definition of “tribe” is thus often much smaller than what linguists and cultural anthropologists would define as a tribe—namely, a group that shares language and culture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The 25,790-foot ramparts of Nuptse defined the right wall of the Cwm, Everest’s massive Southwest Face formed the left wall, and the broad frozen thrust of the Lhotse Face loomed above its head. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

This one looms over us, a miniature mountain, and although his features are poorly defined, I can still make out his wolf’s smile. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And the newly defined role of the bass line altered how composers viewed the shape of harmony for hundreds of years, too. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was, it was as Douglass that he became himself, defined himself. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conservatives found they could finally justify an all-out war on an “enemy” that had been racially defined years before. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I ask you: in the racial sense in which it’s used so much today, whatever “integration” is supposed to mean, can it precisely be defined? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Americans are so nutty about physical appearance and what defines beauty. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t ask us if we knew the meaning of revolution, so I couldn’t raise my hand and define it for the class. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Our attitudes were made, defined, set, or corrected; our ideas were discovered, discarded, enlarged, torn apart, and accepted. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lisa must love this place, though. It pretty much defines outdoorsy.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The most fundamental such distinction is that states are organized on political and territorial lines, not on the kinship lines that defined bands, tribes, and simple chiefdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The photos were black and white but their subjects were modern—vibrant, well defined. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I got the feeling I was looking at something half formed, a monster so old it was from the beginning of time, before shapes had been frilly defined. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She lets it define her for herself, too. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Outdoors was the end of something, an irrevocable, physical fact, defining and complementing our metaphysical condition. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I'm OCD,” “I’m depressed,” “I’m a cutter,” they say, like these are the things that define them. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A new social consensus must be forged about race and the role of race in defining the basic structure of our society if we hope ever to abolish the New Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

My brain lets me see these perfect circles filled with triangles defined by the ratio pi. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to define it at first because I thought no one could possibly believe any of that, not anymore. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Today there are different flowers, drier, more defined, the flowers of high summer: daisies, black-eyed Susans, starting us on the long downward slope to fall. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he is black-haired and gold-skinned and though his eyes are the same pale gray as the Commandant’s, there is no trace there of the gimlet flatness that defines most Masks. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The triangle at left, defined by the mast and two ropes, includes the dead and dying. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

She refused, over and over, to give any single person her devotion, preferring instead to make a home for herself that she defined on her own terms, and of which she was master. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Because civil penalties and sanctions imposed on people with criminal records applied only to a few, they never operated as a comprehensive system of control over any racially or ethnically defined population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

How curious that one who’d never picked a boll or dug a trench or experienced the cat-o’-nine-tails had come to speak for those who had been defined by those things. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The blade Lesedi summons is thinner than mine, but looks sharper and more defined. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

At least as important, King morally and politically legitimized a youth-led agenda of confrontational social change that would define one of the most crucial decades of the American Century. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

His life had been defined by a five-foot-high wall of rock and concrete. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no doubt that Harrison would come through and rescue him from the frozen mornings and venomous newsboys that for the moment defined his life. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, we treat facts as if they are equivalent to things, and dictionary definitions of ‘fact’ slide between defining facts as things and defining them as true beliefs. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They seemed to be complementary pieces making a whole, the way particle and wave manifestations together defined a photon. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Whatever you say, you can’t really know it’s true unless you can truly define it,” he says. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Symbolically and physically, the tracks were still a barrier and still defined an attitude. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Words do more, mean more, than how they are defined. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Emma listened, and looked, and soon perceived that Frank Churchill’s state might be best defined by the expressive phrase of being out of humour. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

When Agent Jones was eleven, his dad had called him into the front room and explained that there comes a time in every person’s life when a choice defines him. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s just not as simple as you’re making it out to be. I don’t think every gay person can be clearly defined and kept in a nifty little box, you know?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Communist theory defined these people as the molders of the future of mankind, but the Communist speeches I had heard in the park had mocked that definition. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She always had a boyfriend—usually a soccer player with really defined abs. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But in America, my skin color did define me, at least in other people’s eyes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Games have, Wittgenstein said, a ‘family resemblance’, but this does not mean that the term—or the difference between a game and a sport—can be adequately defined. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When I was a boy, anyone not a Catholic was defined by that fact and the term non-Catholic. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a town where football mattered most, where it defined the mood and the psyche, who wanted to suffer through a drought that seemed destined to continue into the twenty-first century? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a painting too vivid to be real—every pebble, every blade of grass sharply defined, the sky so blue it hurt me to look at it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But it's the fluttering cape made of streams of orange, yellow, and red and the matching headpiece that define this costume. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Again that chuckle, more defined and louder but still somehow intimate and suggestive, a chuckle that said, I know something you don’t know. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strings of glittering white lights defined the contours of the suspension bridges across the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The river marks the Guatemalan border, just as the Rio Grande defines the Mexican border to the north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Deposition was one of those words that you always think you know the meaning of until you are asked to define it. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Me: I is the hardest word to define. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We’re not words, Henry, we’re people. Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Worse, I buckled. Let his gaze define me. I stopped being myself, being able to see myself. Arden Jones disappeared.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The lot is nearly empty, the outer perimeter defined by people and animals, all running as far and as fast as they can, expanding and dispersing like a ring on the surface of a pond. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

As I am defined, then my name is defined and shaped around me like clothing. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He wears a Pagoda shirt that’s a tiny bit small for him, so his biceps and deltoids are really defined and I can’t help but want to squeeze them. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The anaesthetized area was clearly defined by the patient and after a time the doctor’s fragile delicacy was exhausted and he said it would be better to have an X-ray. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Because the classics are what define language and history, they...” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Dicey had never before defined so exactly just what Maybeth could and could not do. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The steps of the church defined the eternal square where children played and adults talked after dinner. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our curiosity is supposed to have limits, though these have never been defined exactly. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I ask, realizing too late that it’s a word I’d rather not have defined. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Leanne Washington had decided not to let Big Dub’s mistakes define her. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Our house sat on concrete stilts that allowed enough headroom underneath for us to stake out play areas with clearly defined boundaries. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Acromantula eggs are defined as Class A Non-Tradeable Goods By the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, meaning that severe penalties are attached to their importation or sale. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Executive Order 9066 had been signed by President Roosevelt, giving the War Department authority to define military areas in the western states and to exclude from them anyone who might threaten the war effort. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It floated someplace past the burning slave and the great house and the lines that defined the Randall domain. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He defined reliable evidence as one would in a court of law: more than one witness, and the witnesses must be of sound mind, not partial or prejudiced. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He seemed deflated of the energy that had always defined him. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Under the terms of our country’s founding document, slaves were defined as three-fifths of a person not a real, whole human being. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Somehow their movie choices totally define my relationships with them. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Not only might she undo it all tomorrow, she would also define me by my betrayal for as long as I remained in her life, which wouldn’t be long. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Its edges...they weren’t defined, but seemed to melt against the blue of the sky like sugar dissolving into tea. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We define an advanced civilization as one capable of radio astronomy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As some sociologists and marketing consultants see it, the commonly accepted big three—the upper, middle, and working classes—have broken down into dozens of microclasses, defined by occupations or lifestyles. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

As a teenager I felt it was important to define who I was. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

So, in a monumental piece of symbolism that defined his age, at the end of the Ring Wagner annihilated the gods altogether in his musical Armageddon. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“You know, an image that defines what that day was about for her.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, vagrancy laws and other laws defining activities such as “mischief” and “insulting gestures” as crimes were enforced vigorously against blacks. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A gene was defined by what a gene does: it was a carrier of hereditary information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

By waging a war on drug users and dealers, Reagan made good on his promise to crack down on the racially defined “others”—the undeserving. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me that one of the defining features of parents is that they don’t get paid to love you. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Over one thousand Panthers were jailed, many on false charges, as a result of informants, perpetual surveillance, and other law enforcement tactics that would later become defining features of the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We knew the media didn't define our culture. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I said to them, “what is defined by resistance.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But Newton’s genius involved defining these terms rigorously and linking them to each other via a nest of equations—thereby launching the science of mechanics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In my Harlem community, career was defined as having a “good” job versus what my dad called “bull” work. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Often, such music calls for notes that are a little more separate or defined than legato, but still nowhere as short as staccato. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When she started talking, it was all about how nobody is defined by any one thing they’ve done in their life. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

From that time on—the recruitment drive lasted a few days—every student’s position was clearly defined by the Zionist philosophy of the group he had joined. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My last name means “one who believes in God,” another aspect of my name that helps define me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Most of the tents have prominently placed signs in painted wood, and entrances that are clearly defined or marked. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One may say that time had a beginning at the big bang, in the sense that earlier times simply would not be defined. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A similar phenomenon had followed slavery and Reconstruction, as white elites struggled to define a new racial order with the understanding that whatever the new order would be, it could not include slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t try to put me in a box, demigod! I’m not defined by my past.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Only my older sister has a complexion as dark as mine, though her facial features are much less harshly defined than my own. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a microbe, spread may be defined mathematically as the number of new victims infected per each original patient. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Civil rights advocates pursued their own agendas as unelected representatives of communities defined by race and displayed considerable skill navigating courtrooms and halls of power across America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Black families, often working very hard to make ends meet, wanted to clearly define which behavior was acceptable and which was not. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The film would not just reflect but in many ways define the still nascent but increasingly twisted Nazi my thos. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We aren’t just defined by who we are, but by who our friends are. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was a strategy designed to remove the individual from the struggle, allowing him to live a narrowly defined life outside of politics. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t explain it or define it, but there were things I needed to understand. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I had to believe in myself and not allow apartheid to define my humanity. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Write and define adjectives denoting relating to, like, or being, from the following nouns:— New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could define my own identity and I didn’t need to explain myself to others or have them define me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We defined the issues in terms of developing legal doctrine and establishing legal precedent; our clients became important, but secondary, players in a formal arena that required lawyers to translate lay claims into technical speech. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The people who tried to define us as “other” had been doing so for years already. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The experience is understood to define the terms of one’s relationship not only to the state but to society at large. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If permitted to define a decade somewhat loosely, then the next decade was the most crucial and consequential in American history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

These bureaucratic minefields are the modern-day equivalent of poll taxes and literacy tests—“colorblind” rules designed to make voting a practical impossibility for a group defined largely by race. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And his face looked as stony as the streets of the city—chiseled and sharply defined. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In contrast, a domesticated animal is defined as an animal selectively bred in captivity and thereby modified from its wild ancestors, for use by humans who control the animal’s breeding and food supply. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mass incarceration, like Jim Crow, helps to define the meaning and significance of race in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She seemed a little more mature; he noticed the shimmer on her cheeks, the more defined curl of her hair, and knew she had made an effort with her appearance. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The first thing to do was to define that shape. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother has a look on her face that’s hard to define. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Since limits are logically airtight, by defining a derivative in terms of limits, it becomes airtight as well—and puts calculus on a solid foundation. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In Mind the Stop Carey defines punctuation as being governed “two-thirds by rule and one- third by personal taste”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

“One of the defining characteristics of the Divergent is that their minds are Assistant to simulations,” says Tobias. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Anne sang with false joy, “What a perfect description of me. Yes. That’s how a dictionary would define me.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All other note lengths are defined by how long they last compared to a whole note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t going to let the hateful rhetoric of a bigoted few define my life or change the trajectory of my journey. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In ancient music-making, pitch was fixed - defined - only by the length of your string or pipe, hence the need for a label like ‘A’ to denote the same sound made on different-shaped instruments. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It’s almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The dictionary defines “nativism” as a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Rising at this exponential rate, the craft quickly reached maximum acceleration, a limit defined not by the ship's power, but by the delicate human bodies inside. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The muscles on his forearm were defined in brutal knots. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although my mother was the center of my existence, I defined myself through my father. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people lack the imagination to do anything but embrace a stereotype and let it define them. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I would have consented to live under the most rigid type of dictatorship, for I felt that dictatorships, too, defined the use of men, however degrading that use might be. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite their many differences, all human species share several defining characteristics. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They fought to define organic as loosely as possible. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Why should he choose to disarm himself, give up his voice and leave the only organization offering him a chance to "define" himself? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In time this oddly matched pair would play a large role in defining how the world viewed the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and, by extension, the very nature of the new Nazi state. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And in August, the newly defined National Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the drug war, the enemy is racially defined. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Every segment of an embryo can be defined on an axis that stretches from head to tail. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

People who taught me that no accident of birth—not being black or relatively poor, being from Baltimore or the Bronx or fatherless—would ever define or limit me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He coined more than fifty medical terms still in use today and defined a host of new diseases. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

However, there is another property of the strong nuclear force, called asymptotic freedom, that makes the concept of quarks and gluons well defined. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Galen defines hot or cold in the patient in simple terms: a hot patient is one who is hotter than the physician’s hand. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her niceness is writ large, it is her defining quality and she needs it acknowledged, often, daily almost, which can be tiring. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though nouns are often the names for people, places, and things, the noun category can only be defined by the role it plays in a family of rules. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It’s the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

One of my biggest challenges has always been to see past other people’s doubt and negativity so I could define my own path. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It also carries over to logos; how you define the argument as a whole. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Many educators believe that the Race to the Top, with its strictly defined inducements and penalties, will do even more to constrict curriculums than No Child Left Behind. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Write and define nouns expressing diminutives of the following nouns:— New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just don’t always want to be defined that way. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Most celebrity is fleeting, but when you’re a scythe, your defining deeds stand forever. Take my advice, Citra, and remain undefined.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But it takes until I am standing on a table, waving my final goodbyes to the hoarse chanting of my name, to define it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In Eugene Maleska crossword terminology, he's braw and pulchritudinous, while Will Shortz, current puzzle editor for The New York Times, might define him as a "wower," the clue being "Turns heads, in a way." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It defines you to the core of your being, and only in dreams is one free of the yoke. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The black skin glistened with water, the white markings so defined they looked painted by an artist. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And while the size of the system alone might suggest that it would touch the lives of most Americans, the primary targets of its control can be defined largely by race. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had defined me to myself, and there’s no greater power than that. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Riding there from fall to spring every year, they defined themselves as athletes and as men. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He imagined a future for her as a wife and mother, defined by her sex and limited to her proper place—in the “domestic sphere.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sula never competed; she simply helped others define themselves. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The edges of the cloud are crisp and defined. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

We are hers to define, we must suffer her adjectives. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the stuff that I used to think defined me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Others listened as though it were the helpful and defining piano music in a silent movie. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But was what happened so long ago to my great-great-grandparents going to define me? Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Developmental and reproductive biology were recognized and defined as sciences here, beginning with sea-urchin eggs and working up. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s strange that something she was born with, that’s of no choice of hers, is now the sole thing that defines her in the eyes of others. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I even join in the rhythmic clapping and swaying, which seems to define a minimal level of participation. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

What these studies do not reveal, however, is the frequency with which any given individual is likely to be stopped in specific, racially defined neighborhoods. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The effort to define, or merely understand, the relationship between Lawrence and Oppenheimer consumed the idle hours of many who knew or worked with them. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear,” says Four. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The shell of the egg is smooth but also grained; small pebbles of calcium are defined by the sunlight, like craters on the moon. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

All he cared about was truth and living a good life—while trying to define what a good life meant. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

In both cases, the racial opportunists offered few, if any, economic reforms to address the legitimate economic anxieties of poor and working-class whites, proposing instead a crackdown on the racially defined “others.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We don’t have to define ourselves solely by our differences, but we don’t have to ignore them, either. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The fact that the ‘new’ was narrowly defined as ‘contemporary classical’ rather than, say, bebop is indicative of this. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

With five Euclidean solids to play with, and one sphere inside the innermost solid as well as one outside the outermost solid, this defined six spheres—one for each of the orbits of the planets. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Logan was at the base of the mountains, too, the ones that defined Utah in so many ways. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

This was the defining moment in the correspondence. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Its emergence was accompanied by the development of a new stone tool technology, now recognised as a defining feature of this species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks up at me, like I’ve asked her to define a dirty word. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Class, your homework is to define limerence and use it in a sentence. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was a relief knowing that everyone could put their personal feelings that had defined our squad for the last several years aside for this one day. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Coach told Rachel to grab me a lame, a conductive jacket that defined the scoring area on the fencer. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Intimacy grooved our voices in familiar notes; familiarity defined the limits of what could be said. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the effort to make good on that vow is what defines us as human beings. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Since the beginning of time, the Oxford English Dictionary has defined ‘still life’ as a painting of some stuff, fruit or what have you. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And in defining, in giving organization to the fury, it seemed to spin me around, and in my mind I was looking backward over the days since Clifton's death . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, it is also very hard to define. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem like there was any way to define myself other than by what was missing—my legs—and the strange extra I had: a nose made out of a toe. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It may be impossible to overstate the significance of race in defining the basic structure of American society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This being the South, however, another element defined their world: race. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He saluted me for the special mission that the pass defined. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

To see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own—such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be any moment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I told her that I was taught never to use the word you are defining in its definition and that she ought to think of a substitute word for letter if she is defining it. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Any such attempt to define stages of any evolutionary or developmental continuum—whether of musical styles, human life stages, or human societies—is doubly doomed to imperfection. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For the world is divided, experience teaches, into two parts: things to be murdered, and things that would hinder the murder of things: and the Geats might reasonably be defined either way. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was more at ease with formal or geometric designs where the composition was well- defined. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark Twain defined women as lovely creatures with a backache. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When history carried him into war, this resilient optimism would define him. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The two sides of the triangle of which the log was base were less evenly defined. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

As this squirm-making instance illustrates all too well, the time to define your terms is in advance, not as part of a rearguard action. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Although I couldn’t have defined it at the time, I felt that if attention were drawn to me, people would see what this girl had first responded to. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the way ESP is defined—communication without any normal sensory mechanisms—there is no way to tell the difference between a single incidence of ESP and a chance guess. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skin of his face had shrunk back against the skull until it defined bone, not flesh, and made the nose and chin seem sharp and fragile. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor did I see anybody defining a real man as somebody who paid a lot of attention to books. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

As I looked from him to Gay, I felt a surge of something I could not quite define swell inside me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Peace officers and firefighters, for instance, are only partially defined by their job. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Accomplishing this degree of unity may mean giving up fierce defense of policies and strategies that exacerbate racial tensions and produce for racially defined groups primarily psychological or cosmetic racial benefits. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Shawn had a gift for language, for using it to define others. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The wholesome and varied diet, the relatively short working week, and the rarity of infectious diseases have led many experts to define pre-agricultural forager societies as ‘the original affluent societies’. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people had been apart for a long time, and now he sensed a small coming together—although who knew what those who had survived could do with a future nobody had defined? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can’t define your identity.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Write and define adjectives denoting abounding in, having the quality of, from the following nouns:— New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of them knew that a defining moment in his life was nearly at hand; none wanted to waste it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mill claimed that women have been coaxed, cajoled, shoved and squashed into a series of feminine contortions for so many centuries, that it is now quite impossible to define their natural abilities or aspirations. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I pointed at an equation that defined the slope of a line. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Will you please define the meaning of trinkets?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Adams presidency, in fact, might be the classic example of the historical truism that inherited circumstances define the parameters within which presidential leadership takes shape, that history shapes presidents, rather than vice versa. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But you will no doubt also understand what I mean when I say it is not at all easy to define just what this quality is. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Over the coming years I would find a crack in each of the therapists sent to train what Miss Samson now defined as my lazy tongue. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“You look like the effigy of a young knight asleep on his tomb,” she said, carefully tracing the well-cut profile defined against the dark stone. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was also defined as someone who had a lot of money or at least the trappings of money: a big car, an expensive watch, or expensive clothes. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Granting them authority over newly defined regions would help in two ways. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The skull moved subtly under the features, the angle of her forehead tilting back, her chin becoming more defined, her jaw stronger. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I just need to figure out who I am without school, or family, or anything else defining me. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The slope lengthened until a new balance point was reached, one defined by the complex interactions of countless tiny particles and their ability to maintain an angled shape. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And he knows that things between us got...less clearly defined toward the end. And he's fine with that." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The term sex refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women, while gender refers to society’s constructed roles, expectations, behaviors, attitudes, and activities that it deems appropriate for men and women. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Race plays a major role—indeed, a defining role—in the current system, but not because of what is commonly understood as old-fashioned, hostile bigotry. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Researchers point to a number of surveys of Internet users that suggest, at least, that their behavior can fairly be defined as “addictive.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The accident was already defining him in big and little ways, like on the date with Elise, the girl who had the article about him taped to her mirror. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Right there and then, this happening shot to the top of the pile of moments that defined our family, in darkness and in light. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-three years earlier, King Louis XIV had issued a set of rules that defined slavery as legal in the French sugar islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It’s a real thing—defined in psychiatric journals, and everything. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In English, they would be free of the sharply defined gradients of Korean hierarchy: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The engineers provided Hoover with long equations defining the relationships between wing shape and aerodynamic performance and instructed her to substitute into them other equations, formulas, and variables. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Meaning: my life is not defined by my attractiveness, because that brings its own perils as well as its own rewards. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“He’s very articulate, but he has no intuition about things, so he needs me to define the world for him.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

What excited her about her achievement was its design, the pure geometry and the defining uncertainty which reflected, she thought, a modern sensibility. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Machismo was a word never exactly defined by the persons who used it. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was per- perfectly clear. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

That's the equivalent of asking someone with a beer gut for tips on how to get a defined six-pack. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

His preferred term is the post-classical word ostensio, a display or showing, which he defines as ‘a manifest demonstration by means of a body’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Hall’s easygoing facade masked an intense desire to succeed—which he defined in the fairly simple terms of getting as many clients as possible to the summit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Luke, you have to understand that we are not defined solely by our choices. Even by our actions, to some extent. None of us are.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The first equation I needed to do was the one that defined the thrust coefficient. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

By this time, I was five inches taller than she was, and my recently defined shoulders, biceps, and triceps made me look older than my age. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In these online conversations, the word sex referred purely to biology—the chromosomes, organs, and anatomy that define male and female from the outside. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

That, and so many other smaller incidents in my life, made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For a reason I couldn’t define, I had a fear of knowing too much about him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Amanda Werner and several other beautiful, elegant, conically breasted foreign ladies, from unspecified vaguely defined countries, plus a few bucolic so-called humorists, comprised Buster’s perpetual core of repeats. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Briony resisted because she wanted to chase in solitude the faint thrill of possibility she had felt before, the elusive excitement at a prospect she was coming close to defining, at least emotionally. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Lynching was defined as execution by being hanged from a rope. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The lack of treatment makes compliance with the myriad rules that define prison life impossible for many disabled people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Tyler paid a price for that letter, though the price is hard to define. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In a Human Resources kinda way I'm defined as 19 w/ one year of experience. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I understood too well what it was like to feel like you were defined by one superficial thing—to feel like you would never escape the box people had put you in. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was a world defined by the love and warmth of family. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I would remain a Catholic, but a Catholic defined by a non-Catholic world. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tall for his age—he was over four feet tall at six years old—and muscularly defined, he looked amazingly like his father. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In classic style, the writer credits the reader with enough intelligence to realize that many concepts aren’t easy to define and that many controversies aren’t easy to resolve. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The technological advances defined by laws of Moore and Metcalfe got married and long since overtook what our brains can handle. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I had retreated, fled across an ocean and allowed my father to tell my story for me, to define me to everyone I had ever known. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The defining feature of the place is that the only thing the Rose brothers do is fight. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was other people who defined it as exotic or dangerous. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The second article discusses the failings of choosing government officials based on their faction, asking why only people who define themselves as selfless should be in government. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Imports are defined as evil because they allowed foreign countries a way to invade Cambodia, not just physically but also culturally. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to understand and define a new word: segregation. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

By the turn of the century the fringes of the continent were fairly well defined on the charts, but the interior was still an unknown wasteland of ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The ridges in the pottery for his fur were so fine that each hair was defined. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most grammatical rules are defined over trees, not strings, so this momentary tree-blindness can lead to pesky errors. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The Reich Citizenship Law defined citizens to be any German national “of German or related blood” who “proves by his conduct that he is willing and fit to faithfully serve the German people and Reich.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Like Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson knew that the rest of her career would be defined by her ability to use the electronic computers to transcend human limits. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I try not to define myself that way, but I can’t help it. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The shadows of the palm trees slanted across the freeway — defined, sharper than I remembered, paler than they should be. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Slow- moving and dignified, it defined the city, marking the boundary between worlds. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A myth of what the frontier had been, the Wild West legend, was taking hold in the popular imagination, and it would not be long before people defined Smith by it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have mountains of style. I define style. I—I—” “My brother oozes style,” Otis suggested. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It defines a different kind of change to the world and our lives, and indirectly would drive Paul’s eventual research: Metcalfe’s law. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The view to either side was of a sort of tunnel with cells defining one wall and a mesh fence overlooking the flats the other. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were my shelves, heavy with books and stacks of note paper filled with the calculations that had defined our rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had compartmentalized my bad experience into two defined reactions. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, Mount Everest is itself a language-dependent and institutionally defined entity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My time in Brooklyn had become a defining moment for me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The place, he once told me, where no one can define you if you possess enough will. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“More reassurance that my limitations don’t define me?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Combine and define agile + ity.—What is the distinction between "active" and "agile"? Ans. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m inside the plane of focus, sharp and defined and totally still. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

When Little Sister had started drinking wine and riding in cars with white men and Mexicans, the people could not define their feeling about her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A dark tone was especially crucial because the filmmakers were determined to restore Batman to the proper perch that had defined the character soon after his Detective Comics debut in 1939. How Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ radically changed the superhero-movie landscape 30 years ago 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

It was a physical embodiment of that flexibility, but just as crucially it proved a nifty, eye-catching design that became a major selling point for a project still struggling to define itself. New York Chased the Olympics. It Got the Shed Instead. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

I suspect that if you stopped letting him define the terms of your union and started making some non-negotiable demands yourself, you’d see some changes. My boyfriend cheated on me but I want to move in | Mariella Frostrup 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

All of a sudden, Mr. Tyner’s piano was on airwaves across the world, sparring with the drums of Elvin Jones to conjure the special locomotive power that would eventually define the band. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

RuPaul performs the role of grand matriarch, and it’s his unexpected humanity which both defines and elevates the show. RuPaul: ‘Drag is a big f-you to male-dominated culture’ 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z

Because by telling us that, poets name, define and recall the nature of our lives in these "times of trouble". Atiq Rahimi: Should literature be political? 2013-05-22T10:49:51Z

The future was always their particular kingdom, defining it, funding it, making decisions about it, betting upon it. Needed: Global moment of Doh! 2012-08-08T00:00:00Z

These five properties are helping define a new era of quality for the Maconnais. Perspective | Now that cheap chardonnay is everywhere, some French winemakers attempt a reinvention 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

And Mitch McConnell, his voice cracking on the Senate floor, uttered the words that have since come to define his career as a public servant: “God bless us, every one.” Our great healthcare denial 2012-06-17T12:00:00Z

Q's senior editor Matt Mason said it was "a real honour to recognise the careers of so many musicians that have really helped define modern music". Kasabian beat Kate Bush at Q Awards 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

I have looked past slavery, white-only water fountains and the joke that is George Bush to find white men attractive; I don’t define all of you by this history. John Mayer is still gross 2012-06-06T18:50:00Z

What matters is the effort, which helps to define essential questions, including the most basic: What is art? Perspective | The real Turner art prize is the aesthetic riddle we pondered along the way 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

"Is there a solid core at the center of me that defines everything that I do? If you look really closely at it, you find out that there isn't," Silberman said. A 'Familiars' story: Antlers' Peter Silberman finds spiritual center 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

One result on the radio dial is the rise of formats like Jack FM that seemingly mimic a middle-aged man’s iPod in shuffle mode: a restless drifting that nevertheless stays within defined taste limits. The Songs of Now Sound a Lot Like Then 2011-07-17T01:45:26Z

Oakley's job, amid a myriad others less defined: to supervise the flow of British intelligence to German liaison. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – extract 2013-04-12T20:01:02Z

The game was the game, as defined by the people talking on television about it. The Firing of Don Cherry, Hockey’s Self-Appointed Gatekeeper 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

The West Wing and The Newsroom may, indeed, be the perfect shows for a moment in which it’s probably too late to expect a major and defining satirist to emerge. Will McAvoy Nostalgia Proves How Awful 2016's Political Comedy Has Become 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

The writer’s favorite pastimes in the 1930s — catching big fish, eating well and drinking hard — still define the island’s appeal today. 36 Hours in Key West, Fla. 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

But she wants to ensure that her husband’s legacy — their legacy — has more permanence than the disease that defined his death. After the Ebola outbreak, the world moved on. One family didn’t. 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

“I looked at him and realized he’s just who he is, and I don’t need to define him in this way anymore.” Motherlode: Into the Main Stream 2011-06-23T19:12:07Z

It really felt like a defining 'Friday Night Lights' moment. "Friday Night Lights" parents face family woes 2010-10-28T01:05:00Z

They had suggested that defining “woman” was simple, and I’m here to say that it’s not. Perspective | Republicans thought defining a ‘woman’ is easy. Then they tried. 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

Many people whom we may want to categorize at female-to-male would not define themselves that way. Eva: transgender voice-training app helps women and men talk the talk 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Other countries are defined by historical ethnic homogeneity. How to Be a Jew in the Age of Trump? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

"He is hugely adored at a true national treasure level, his career is a catalogue of one defining TV moment after another, and he has never ever written anything before," said Dunn. John Cleese and David Jason reap Fifty Shades bonanza 2012-10-05T12:40:16Z

A woman in a double bind, as the concept was defined by its originator, Gregory Bateson, is subject to mutually exclusive requirements: Anything she does to fulfill one violates the other. Afghanistan, a Double Bind and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

It’s the group’s defining statement, and the album’s mere existence is a testament to Clark’s survival. After a long hiatus, Beauty Pill returns with vigor and a new record 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

There is a long history of tension between cities and the towers that often define their identities. Not Your Grandfather’s Skyscraper 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

Both companies are feverishly trying to mint new headliners capable of drawing the attention of tweens, roughly defined as viewers 9 to 14. Tween Stars Wanted: Must Be Primed for Pressure 2011-05-10T12:45:47Z

It was an unfamiliar position for a man who counts supreme confidence as a defining trait. Chazz Palminteri Is Singing. Sonny Would Tell You to Listen. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

Neither relationship had the expectation of exclusivity, or any defined path into the future. Sex in Silicon Valley: are millennials better at free love? 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

Shaped and mounted between 3,000 and 2,500BC in a powerful architecture of pillar and lintel, its stones define geometry, mathematics, the power of the mind. Circle of light: how Stonehenge shapes a landscape 2012-07-16T16:09:21Z

Sontag’s “Notes” attempts to define a certain aesthetic sensibility—an earthy zest for artifice. The Best-Dressed Men at the Met Gala 2019: Risking Foolishness, Arriving at Defiant Good Taste 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

Each character, inhabiting a rung on an ascending ladder of power, is very clearly defined but without grotesque caricature. Review: An Elephant’s Ghost Stalks the World in ‘Mlima’s Tale’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

Their soundtrack for the movie Saturday Night Fever defined the disco era. Bee Gee 'saddened' by pop industry 2011-01-06T14:52:01Z

But well before that gallery closed in 1966, a new kind of art — Conceptual art — emerged, which, loosely defined, valued ideas and actions over things. Art Review: A California ‘State of Mind,’ Circa 1970, at Bronx Museum 2013-07-11T19:19:47Z

“This show is totally about defining home,” Mx. A Minnesota Exhibit Framed Around Longing for Home 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

What all the movies on this list share on an ideological level is a focus on identity that’s not Latin American but neither conventionally American as defined by Hollywood. The American Latino Experience: 20 Essential Films Since 2000 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Borzage’s heroines are real and not real, strongly defined individuals who seem to glow with an indefinable, eternal quality — conceptualized by soft focus and warm backlighting. DVDs: Tough Women and Flawed Men 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z

I don’t mean songs in which the length defines the composition. Critic?s Notebook: The Musical Rhythms in Images Out of Time 2011-02-16T23:19:08Z

A product of unprecedented affluence and pent-up demand caused by depression and wartime sacrifice, it provided almost unlimited opportunities for those seeking to entertain and define themselves. Was there anything real about Elvis Presley? 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z

Which means that unless we experience some kind of unprecedented sea change in the pathological tribalism that now defines our politics, impeachment is a dead letter. Can Donald Trump Be Impeached? 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Tall treelike pillars define the space, and the showpiece, coming in a few weeks, will be a giant silvery apple with an arrow through it parked on the roof. Chinese Tuxedo, Cantonese in a Grand Chinatown Space, Opens 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

His gratitude to his adopted homeland made him a staunch defender of traditional English values, which he defined as “tolerance, fair play and autonomous liberty.” Review | ‘Tom Stoppard: A Life’ documents the professional successes and glamorous social life of a storied playwright 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z

The likely reason for their disempowerment has less to do with antigay prejudice very strictly defined but a more insidious notion that gay men are “bad for morale.” Wade Davis on NFL’s gay witch hunt: “These athletes are very vulnerable” 2013-03-04T16:04:00Z

The 8th annual International Film Festival opened Saturday in the drug-plagued state of Michoacan to its largest turnout ever, drawing the contrast that defines Mexico today. Film festival shows contrasts of Mexico's drug war 2010-10-18T00:31:00Z

Mr. Lacroix defines the work as “a shimmering kaleidoscope, a patchwork of inventiveness and a mosaic opulent with simplicity.” Special Report: Fashion: Women in the Orient 2011-02-11T12:07:02Z

Yet while visiting attractions have boosted attendance, they have never defined the festival. Jazz Fest at 50: The Stubbornness and Joy of New Orleans 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

Ms. Laubrock has a strong, unflinching tone on the tenor saxophone, but she uses it to outline and define space, not fill it. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

“We spend our lives running around looking for anchors,” the 55-year-old Canadian actor said, referring to how people cling to nationalities and other labels to define themselves. Playing cult comedian Kaufman was identity journey for Jim Carrey 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

It appears as if his body were physically changing form, in a state of transformation that alludes to South Africa’s long democratic struggle to define itself. A South African Artist’s Self-Portraits Excavate the Traumas of Apartheid 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Their relationship lasted just eleven months, but her involvement with the famous, and famously private, man would come to define much of her life. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

When can a museum exhibition be defined by what is absent, rather than what is present? After Guggenheim removes animal-related pieces from 'Art and China,' what's left? More questions 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

Kassay defines the gallery’s space, but he wants that definition to be as transient as a candle’s glimmer. Review | In the galleries: An exhibition that draws attention to overlooked issues 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

“A Really Good Day”—part searching diary, part stringent drug-policy argument—is a book defined by these uneasy multitudes. How Ayelet Waldman Found a Calmer Life on Tiny Doses of LSD 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

“That was part of what defined the original Union Square Cafe. It was episodic.” The Same, Only Different: Designing a New Union Square Cafe 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

Q: Another signature of yours is the use of montage: archival images and vintage objects that define a time and its people. Mike Mills’s ‘20th Century Women’ is ‘very long thank-you note’ to his late mother 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

The steel boxes are far sturdier than the vegetal ingredients, yet open in form, so they define the found objects in space without fully containing them. Review | In the galleries: Disrupting and denaturing the concept of comfortable at home 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Now, the Dutch filmmaker Bianca Stigter has used the fragmentary, ephemeral footage to create “Three Minutes: A Lengthening,” a 70-minute feature film that helps to further define what and who were lost. A Film Captures Jewish Life in a Polish Town Before the Nazis Arrived 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z

It's a constant process in someone's life, and to define that is very subjective. There's no shame in "A Sexplanation," a fun, honest documentary that steps in where sex ed left off 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

That article of faith has always been a hard sell in a society defined by pluralism and, perhaps more persistently than we’d like to admit, by polarization. Are the Movies Liberal? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Brown: This is one of Loren's defining qualities. Jacqueline Bisset on her latest film and career typecasting: "They would say I was too pretty" 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

It's mainly rich in blue-chip art, defined by market value decided through consistent years of sales and confirmed at auction. An early look in the Broad museum reveals a show that doesn't quite gel 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

If we define art as a form that exceeds use, then these are indeed some of the oldest aesthetic objects on earth. Was Australopithecus an Artist? 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

Why was this a defining moment in the Chicano art movement? Cheech Marin, Searching for a ‘Chicano Rockwell’ 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

In fact, adaptability might be THE defining characteristic of our broader genus, Homo. How humans beat out other early hominims 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

“I think you’re the only Supreme Court nominee in history who has been unable to answer the question,” he said — as if defining gender was part of some centuries-old Supreme Court application form. Perspective | Ketanji Brown Jackson did define ‘woman’ at her confirmation hearing 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

Having defined the superhero field decades earlier, DC was “still aiming at little kids” in the late 1960s, profoundly failing to grasp the generational culture divide that Marvel exploited so successfully. The Hand of the Comic Artist 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

Williams' vocal performance would become central to the success of the movie, and, for many who saw it as children, his most defining role. How Robin Williams became 'Aladdin's' Genie 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

Inspired by Susan Sontag’s famous 1964 essay, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” the latest spectacular from the Met’s Costume Institute attempts to define this elastic, constantly evolving concept, which leaves taste, seriousness and heteronormativity in the dust. 22 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

What has fueled and arguably defined this period is its emphasis on experimentation, which has helped turn comedy into a prestige art form. Comedy Is Booming. I Can’t Wait for the Bust. 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Instead, he often chose to lay ballet bare as an art form largely defined by preparation, waiting, recovery, fatigue and distraction. Degas?s Ballet at the Phillips Collection and Royal Academy 2011-09-02T12:39:28Z

So will some 99 other works covering the diverse sweep of what the museum defines as folk art: paintings, sculptures, needlework, furniture, decorative objects, ceramics, paintings, sculptures, illustrated writings and quilts, to name a few. Inside Art: A Bellows Painting Moves From Virginia to London 2014-02-07T02:00:01Z

Babies competition that defines life as we know it, when you lose in the semifinals to three pugs whose only skill is to swivel their heads in unison, you don’t easily recover. Critic?s Notebook: It Was Real, Cradle to Grave. Or Was It Just TV? 2011-10-18T22:32:54Z

An 18-minute, kind-of-true rambler about how an arrest for illegally dumping garbage on Thanksgiving helped Guthrie avoid the draft, it defined the singer’s career and spawned a movie in which he played himself. Tony Bennett, Fleetwood Mac and Run-DMC preserved for the ages at Library of Congress 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Spindel elicited sharply defined, urgent playing that illuminated every mood of this haunting score, from the throbbing ostinatos and angry surges to meditative, eerie sweetness. Manhattan School of Music Symphony - Review?The Penal Colony? by American Opera Projects - Review 2011-10-03T22:40:28Z

I'm closing this with "Scarin' Babies" because, in its own way, it best captures the distinct brand of cynical progressivism that defines the group. The "Whitest Kids U Know" — a cult classic comedy group whose sketches eerily foresaw the Trump era 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

It is a defining moment for the British actor of Nigerian origin in the biggest film role of his career, one that many critics believe will yield him a best actor Oscar nomination. In '12 Years a Slave,' all eyes on actor Chiwetel Ejiofor 2013-10-17T15:23:36Z

He defines essential freedoms – of assembly, access, and of "use and expression" – together with the importance of the "stimulating accident". All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities by Michael Sorkin ? review 2011-08-25T13:51:03Z

The story of the single mother is fast becoming the story that defines our country. Motherlode Blog: Why Are We Talking About Wendy Davis’s Choices? 2014-01-29T22:47:36Z

But the Giorgio Armani collection, which the designer defined backstage as “sober — but refreshed,” was more than an update of the familiar. Armani Shows Soft Tailoring, Prints and Padding 2012-06-26T17:29:11Z

This is music built for meandering; its grooves are malleable but stable, often largely defined by a swinging ride-cymbal pattern. New Music: Air, Of Montreal and the Jim Black Trio 2012-02-13T23:57:44Z

If learning can be defined as picking up new knowledge or skills and being able to apply them later, then how quickly you pick something up is only part of the story. Ditch the 10,000 hour rule! Why Malcolm Gladwell’s famous advice falls short 2014-04-20T15:30:00Z

The corporation is now, we learn, concerned with matters far more difficult to define. Exhibition Review: ?Think? at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-09-23T23:19:41Z

Morality, and its absence, is the novel’s defining theme: in this sense, Sagan is far more of a classicist than others of her existentialist brethren, such as Sartre and Camus. Françoise Sagan, the Great Interrogator of Morality 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

“Their space was defined by the body in movement. In the ’60s and ’70s, fighting for this meant crazy, incredible combat, but they changed the rules, and opened a new field of thought for architecture.” Claude Parent, Visionary Architect of the Oblique, Dies at 93 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

A popular quote often misattributed to Aristotle has the ancient philosopher identifying the defining characteristic of intelligence as the “ability to entertain a thought without accepting it.” No, Daryl Hall did not “destroy” me: The right-wing social media mob’s “social justice warrior” narrative couldn’t be more ridiculous 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

The jazz-inflected rendition wasn't the original, but it would become the most famous and the song that would define her as a legendary singer. Legendary blues singer Etta James dies in Calif. 2012-01-20T16:40:14Z

Waists were cinched to within an inch of life; and high-waisted silk harem pants defined the esthetic. 27-year-old designer Olivier Rousteing has indeed come a long way in stamping the house with his youthful exuberance. Lanvin, Nina Ricci, Balmain are ladylike on day 3 2013-03-01T04:16:08Z

It is a case of steering and allowing rather than imposing and defining. Jonathan Nott: conducting the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra 2011-08-12T21:55:18Z

Yet we have a societal stake in claiming that children are innocent, she added, “because their innocence defines us as a humane society.” In ‘The Innocents,’ Kids Behaving Deadly 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

For her next album, Franklin found inspiration from her fellow pop divas, a title she’s helped define.  Aretha Franklin covers Adele for new album out Oct. 21 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

But it certainly serves as a bellwether of the ways in which money increasingly defines and shapes life in the city. South of Market: How the new SFMOMA reflects the sea change that has engulfed one San Francisco neighborhood 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

The race to define its early days has aligned trained artists, giants of Silicon Valley and billions of dollars in venture capital. At Snapchat, Redrawing the Bounds of Reality 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Meats, seafood and produce from local sources will define the menu. Wan Wan, Focusing on Regional Thai Fare, Opens in NoLIta 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

“There is a void to be filled, a crying need to provide technical know-how and financial support to art institutions to scope their needs, define problems and implement solutions.” Frankenthaler Foundation Energy Project Is Giving Museums $10 Million 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

This wine has some of that eucalyptus, blackberry character that defined Aussie shiraz a decade or so ago, but it displays a more restrained style. 5 wines to try this week 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday night, the soon-to-be retiree took a look back at some of his finest moments of “evisceration,” as defined by a handful of hyperbolic headlines from media outlets through the years. Jon Stewart “eviscerates” 16-plus years of hyperbolic “Daily Show” headlines and it is literally the greatest thing you will ever see in your life 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Western Jews lived in capitalist democracies defined by immigration, assimilation and mobility of labor. ‘Rooted Cosmopolitans’ Review: Of Persons and Peoples 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

“I think you should define the word ‘gentrification,’” my husband tells me now. Confessions of a reluctant gentrifier 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

He defined the DNA, or characteristics, for the Ford and Lincoln brands and led efforts to consolidate engineering platforms around the world, dramatically improving Ford’s efficiency and lowering its costs. Key Leaders in Ford Turnaround To Retire; Mulally Not Going Anywhere 2012-02-09T14:19:50Z

I suspect the way we define it is exactly what happened, something innocent that got right to the edge of something maybe happening. ‘Hitchcock’ and ‘The Girl’ Remember Alma Reville 2012-11-18T04:13:01Z

In NW‘s opening chapter, Leah latches onto a phrase she hears on the radio: “I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.” Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z

That is when dressing the part, as she defines it, is part of the job. Melania Trump’s Wardrobe Goes Mute 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

Reed defines ecosexuality as a mindset, a set of practices and a social movement. Here come the Ecosexuals 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

A handful of authors have similarly defined the periods in which they lived — Dickens, Tolstoy, Balzac, Flaubert — creators of unforgettable characters and the very air they seem to breathe. Perspective | John le Carré didn’t just invent the characters in the foreground of the spy world. He designed the entire set. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

They each want a chance to color outside the lines, reshaping the tropes that once defined their characters and pigeonholed the actors’ careers. Review | ‘BH90210’ briefly verges on a profound statement about middle age: It’s the pits 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Nothing defines the word "chore" like cleaning your waffle iron. How to clean every single crevice in a waffle iron 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z

It's been a defining year for Bud Light, and its parent company Anheuser-Busch, as the brand misstepped its way into being boycotted by both conservatives and liberals. Political stunts and uphill battle: Breaking down Cruz and DeSantis' proposed Bud Light lawsuits 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z

That really defines a lot of what goes on, that each person has their own hunger, their own longing, their own need. Judith Light isn't afraid of aging: "These are the crone years" 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

Artists are increasingly readdressing cultural phenomena that are virtually impossible to clearly define: inspiration, intuition, even the contagious influence of aesthetic beauty. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-08T23:08:45Z

As electronic dance music became a defining sound and subculture in the last few years, Hawtin became a kind of goodwill ambassador between the techno underground and the EDM mainstream. Richie Hawtin's CNTRL series lifts the hood on how EDM is made and played 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Maggots define The Green Death, but the main reason for its place in the canon is the departure of beloved companion Jo Grant. The Green Death: Doctor Who classic episode #6 2013-05-08T15:52:00Z

They lead full, vibrant lives that are not constricted or defined by fear or self-loathing. Even My Mom Is Fat Shaming Me. Not Surprisingly, That Makes Me Feel Lousy. 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

On Saturday, Henri Bendel, the department store whose brown and white stripes once defined the concept of the boutique as a carnival of gewgaws and glamour, will shut its doors for the last time. New York’s Lost Department Stores 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

This fact defined my life for 18 years. I’m living a lie 2013-05-16T00:00:00Z

How much were your choices defined by what you’d seen in the previous “Suicide Squad” film? James Gunn Nearly Blew Up His Career. Now He’s Back With ‘The Suicide Squad’ 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

He paints the background in a warm blue-gray color that will define the overall color scheme. A Beloved Provence-Based Wicker Workshop Comes to Paris 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

I don't ever want her to be defined by what man she chooses because she's just too much of her own person for that. "Miss Scarlet & the Duke" creator on the reality of Victorian women & hopes for the show's future 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

For Mr. Turner, street food was not necessarily defined by mobility. Where to Find Bangkok’s Best Street Food While You Can 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

“It’s really a consumer preference rather than a defined difference on the care of the color,” he said. Skin Deep: Sulfate-Free Products Have Some in a Lather 2010-09-29T19:27:00Z

It meant that we should question how we define the task. Perspective | Jacinda Ardern didn’t make working motherhood look easy. She made it look real. 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

Pathé played a big part in defining the way we perceive the Caribbean. Mirror to the Soul: from Barbados to Basing Street 2013-04-19T06:00:12Z

That was the defining moment in my career. From hood films to a "The Banker," Nia Long wants to change the narrative for black dreams 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

“The question of what we are all stepping into — what it will look like, and what qualities will define it… How do we find beauty in the chaos?” Live music and deconstructed knitwear at Proenza Schouler 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

I'm fascinated by the era of high school basketball and who makes it and who doesn't, and what making it is defined by. From "Soul Train" to Don Shirley, new book celebrates the history of Black performance in America 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

“Perfidia” is an account of men and women forced to respond to one of modern history’s defining moments. ‘Perfidia,’ the new James Ellroy novel, starts the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor

Yes, there are a handful of "good" Mexican characters depicted in the film, mostly defined by their love for Rambo himself, but the vast majority are portrayed as heinous. The MAGA fever dream of "Rambo: Last Blood" 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

And like all the best fictional lovers, their partnership has been defined by one overriding question: what is she doing with him? Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy: The long and the short of it 2010-09-18T23:06:00Z

The rhythms of the third movement laendler were strongly defined, yet fluid and delicate when they needed to be. Lewis' Schubert recital a thing of rare beauty 2011-05-23T17:16:10Z

Also, you may be longing for something that is hard to define but crucially important to get from your family: a mature recognition of you as an individual, confirmation of their confidence in you. Is my sister after my beau? 2013-06-07T00:00:00Z

And yet he has always managed, with startling rhetorical nerve, to define it as work. Now we await the floodwaters, this time with a peppering of pipes and carrots 2013-01-27T00:04:04Z

His fancy was a defining characteristic, one that fueled the creation of his kingdom. Nek Chand, Creator of a Sculpture Kingdom in India, Dies at 90 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

In the absence of a broader consensus about what “infertility” means—or of the treatments that would be covered under a socialized medical system—American employers have begun defining it for themselves. The Case for Redefining Infertility 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

As a teenager, did you struggle to define yourself? After a Quick Breather, Chloë Grace Moretz Comes Out Fighting 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

During the Cold War, there were different ways of thinking about these things, the big bipolar confrontation defined all the little wars around the world. Philip Gourevitch: Memory is a disease 2012-09-26T20:31:00Z

He likes to call his films “musical comedies,” which is an apt enough phrase if each word is broadly defined, but he also speaks of them in terms of “mutation” and “contamination.” Film: ‘Tabu,’ Newest Genre Breaker From Miguel Gomes 2012-12-23T03:49:46Z

Another worry involves diminishing artistic experience, or “flattening,” as Mr. Bailey put it, which can happen when films are narrowly defined and labeled. Toronto Film Festival: Just Don’t Call Them ‘Black Films’ 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

How can an exercise program make you fitter if it can’t define, much less measure your fitness?  CrossFit mirrors American militarism 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z

But as directed by Eleanor Rhode, and acted by a vigorous cast of seven, it is also a shrewd and poignant study of how rote work defines those who perform it. Review: ‘Toast’ Blends Farce With Kitchen-Sink Realism 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

The characters operate on a narrow scope of good and bad, defined by their taste and consumption habits. When You Hate Your Neighbor, and Then Your Kids Start Dating 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

Elongation and profound strength define both bodies and architecture. Review | The bodies of his work: Michelangelo’s muscular mastery is on display at the Met 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

Because of that, African-American communities have defined the value and meaning of social dance for themselves. The School That Camille A. Brown Built 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

Instead, the sorority I'm referring to is defined by its excellence. Racist attacks on a Black girl earning a supposedly "white" role isn't about canon but excellence 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

The ALA defines such "challenges" as formal written complaints to a library or school requesting that a book or other material be restricted or removed. ''Captain Underpants'' beats ''Fifty Shades'' in library complaints 2013-04-15T20:47:33Z

Yet he largely ignores the many Indian writers who, pace Taseer, have managed to define it quite well from the inside. A Pakistani-Indian Journalist Attempts to Rediscover His Roots 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

Our habit of defining risk in traditionally male terms has rigged the game against the perception of women as risk-takers in their own right. Not From Venus, Not From Mars: What We Believe About Gender and Why It’s Often Wrong 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

The distinctions between religion, nationality and ethnicity carry vast political implications in the state that defines itself as "Jewish". Yoram Kaniuk 2013-06-10T11:58:08Z

For a venture that has been so pervasive, crossover is actually hard to define. music: Ren?e Fleming?s Crossover to Rock, ?Dark Hope? 2010-05-28T14:47:00Z

I suddenly realized that a collection is defined by what it leaves out. Samuel West Takes Comfort in D&D, Mendelssohn and Ron Swanson’s Whiskey 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z

I think that everybody has moments in their lives that defines who they are or sends them down a certain path. Adam Levine of Maroon 5: 'Moves Like Jagger is an inch away on any side from being a disaster' 2012-07-12T17:33:52Z

“We don’t look at fall as the defining mark” of diversity. TCA 2014: CBS chief Nina Tassler grilled on casting diversity 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

And they are generally dismissive of the traditional political parties that are the forebears of today's opposition movement, using the two administrations that preceded Chavez in power as examples to define the term "in decline." 'Chavista' school books stoke passions in Venezuela 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

Nyborg's gender goes apparently unnoticed by Danish voters and media, but Gillard's gender continues to define her political leadership, and many of the public responses to it. What Borgen's prime minister tells us about Julia Gillard 2013-06-13T01:16:44Z

I found it interesting that the director doesn’t define your character as either a victim or a villain. | Jeff Goldblum, Star of the Off-Broadway Play ‘Domesticated’ 2013-12-18T19:45:29Z

But it was a bipolar world that had a shadow side: The pied piper of good times endured bouts of melancholia that defined his increasingly tragic vision of life. Frank Sinatra: A Hundred Years On, the Voice Resonates Still 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

He was not only affiliating himself with an American city rather than a foreign city, but with a regular city — as opposed to a city known for defining global cool. Perspective | Washington is now a cool city. That’s terrible news for American democracy. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

The defining virtue of the first X-Men movies was the seriousness that Mr. Singer brought to this saga of mutants uneasily sharing fates and plotlines with humans. | 'X-Men: First Class': Mutants Go Back to Where It All Began 2011-06-02T18:23:02Z

The solitary man in a room is Schrader’s most indelible authorial signature, a defining image and idea in one. ‘The Card Counter’ Review: A Gambler’s Existential Solitaire 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

In his Dictionary of Weasel Words, the doyen of management-jargon mockery Don Watson defines "to action" simply as "do". 10 of the worst examples of management-speak 2013-04-25T13:01:55Z

Davis defined the sound — and sounds — of modern jazz like no other in the way he integrated the electrical instrumentation of genres like rock, funk and soul. How Miles Davis electrified jazz 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

Both of them were defined completely by their marriage and their motherhood, and I know both of them fiercely loved but were totally consumed by the families they had created. Pop-up book club: The Feminine Mystique – day one 2013-02-20T19:05:08Z

You might be comfortable with your diagnosis but worry that it will define you in the eyes of others. Temple Grandin on DSM-5: “Sounds like diagnosis by committee” 2013-05-18T12:30:00Z

It wasn’t until Piper was in prison that I realized I would resent her if I didn’t retain some semblance of what I defined as my “normal life.” Modern Love: A Life to Live, This Side of the Bars 2010-03-25T22:15:00Z

Though the bill’s genesis is in preventing rap stars’ lyrics from being weaponized against them, the measure loosely defines “creative expression” to include “forms, sounds, words, movements, or symbols.” California Bill Could Restrict the Use of Rap Lyrics in Court 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

Ms. Stanley, Mr. Browning’s underwater partner in that eerie scene that helped define the film, died in January in Orlando, Fla., at 91. Ricou Browning, Who Made the Black Lagoon Scary, Dies at 93 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

The Point Horror books were a feature, Roald Dahl was a champion, but Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy defined me as a young reader. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Loves Antiheroines. Of Course. 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

The United States remained the largest market overall, with $21.3 billion of combined auction and dealer sales, followed by China, which the report defines as including mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Art Market Shrank 22 Percent in Pandemic Year, Study Says 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

AP: How would you define your approach to clothes and to life? Simon Doonan dishes on French chicks, straight men 2012-01-11T20:29:45Z

And the two single most potent interventions from some of the literature are keeping kids in defined social pods, so keeping kids within small groups, and implementing regular surveillance testing. Former FDA commissioner: ‘We remain almost equally vulnerable to threat from the next pandemic’ 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

The large canvas is mostly white with scattered strokes of gray and black that define a high horizon seen, it seems, from the middle of a river. Zao Wou-Ki, an Abstract Fusion Master 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

“The Night Before” depicts pop-cultural effluvia as a defining force of social identification and personal experience, and contrasts it with the sentimental but flimsy commitment to the rites and doctrines of organized religion. “The Night Before” and Seth Rogen’s Ethical Comedy 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Accompanying this discussion is a close-up of a Lebanese cedar, a non sequitur that works to highlight the gaps and the absences that define documentation and nonfiction. Teju Cole uses his camera and his writing to pry open the cities he visits in 'Blind Spot' 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

The premise of the “battle” is loosely defined, and neither of these contestants is known for a barbed tongue. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Though its origins can be traced back to the old country, the Feast of the Seven Fishes is a tradition that crystallizes and defines the Italian-American holiday ethos. Abbondanza: A brief history of the Feast of the Seven Fishes 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z

He has not only shaped but helped define the modern Metropolitan Opera since becoming its music director 40 years ago, conducting more than 2,500 performances, choosing repertoire, and nurturing many careers. Adjusting Medication May Prolong Levine’s Tenure at the Met 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

He and his films are nasty, brutish and long, and “Nixon” is his defining moment. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z

For Snyder, the 30s marked the collapse of the first globalisation, defined as an era in which a nation’s wealth becomes ever more dependent on exports. The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

OK, OK, before we go any further, define your terms. Christos Tsiolkas: 'There's love in this book' 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z

It was a dispensation that privileged “community well-being,” however defined, over individual liberty. A Powerful New Framing of America’s First Civil Rights Movement 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

The Met said that it would focus on identifying candidates of color for its board and would “consider setting a numerical goal over a defined time period.” Is New York’s Arts Diversity Plan Working? It’s Hard to Tell 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

Psychiatrist Jonathan Shay, in his work with Vietnam veterans, defined moral injury as the psychological, social and physiological results of a betrayal of “what’s right” by an authority in a high-stakes situation. “Moral injury” in veterans can be a harmful as physical wounds 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

Compensation categories, or each worker’s actual pay, will be clearly defined and shared. When Paying Dues Doesn’t Pay the Rent, How Does the Theater Survive? 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

“Kennedy and King towered over the national landscape, and their interactions defined the early years of the civil rights era,” he writes. Kennedy and King: The remarkable intersection of two great lives 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

In The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde defines fiction as requiring that the good end happily and the bad unhappily. 'I was definitely a bit of a tool': Louis Theroux on 25 years of documentary-making 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

Kennedy cautioned that the United States ran the risk of “imperial overstretch,” which he defined not just in terms of military commitments, but in regard to the balance between resources and obligations. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z

The exhibition, two years in planning, celebrates some of the region’s most famous artists — Klee and Giacometti among them — but also the lesser-known ones who helped define Ticino’s art diaspora. In Switzerland, Culture With a View of Scenery and History 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

This music was a bit more distant than the records that defined the radio show’s early years, the signature sample-heavy boom-bap that moved with a heavy strut. Critic?s Notebook: Reliving Rap?s Down-and-Dirty Early Days 2011-02-12T00:00:15Z

The city’s residents haven’t given up on preserving the humanity and good faith that define our civic crossroads and symbols of democracy. How terrorists became the unspoken architects of the Capitol 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

That, in a nutshell, defines Mr. Beck’s peculiar situation. 2010-02-12T21:05:00Z

This quality is hard to define, though, even as it applies to men. Non-stop action: why Hollywood’s ageing heroes won’t give up 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

"So as long as you're organising acoustic material, it's just the perception and the context that defines it as music or noise or sound or just a nuisance." Haroon Mirza: Adventures in sound and light 2013-05-29T07:33:23Z

That search led her deep into repetition, a defining feature of “Fase” and “Rosas.” Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Youthful Dances Get a Youthful Jolt 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

I define euphemisms as what I call comfort words — they're words we use in place of words that make us uncomfortable. Q&A: Author Ralph Keyes on 'Euphemania' and Euphemisms 2011-01-18T23:35:00Z

In any case, there’s a reason we call them “defining” moments. Midori’s career started with a fleeting moment. It’s evolved into a lasting legacy. 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

In 2010, Unesco named the multicourse French meal — the organization defines as “commencing with an aperitif” and consisting of “at least four successive courses” — as a heritage worthy of protection. Japanese Chefs Make Their Mark in Paris 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

Alcott’s reputation is defined by “Little Women,” the classic novel from the late 1860s about a New England family that was based on her own childhood. Early, rarely seen Alcott story published in Strand Magazine 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

But none of these share the element of quest or quality of restlessness that define the male road narrative. Where are the women Kerouacs? 2013-03-13T22:28:00Z

Yet within the current necessary cultural reckoning about inequality and abuses of power, the complicated issues around what it means to be male right now have been harder to define and discuss. Michael Ian Black: Trump's "anachronistic sense of masculinity . . . is literally killing people" 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

He was rightly proud to be defined by his defining role. Nicholas Courtney, Doctor Who's legendary Brigadier, mourned by fans 2011-02-23T14:25:48Z

I actually chose for most of my childhood to refuse race as my most defining feature. Dear white Facebook friends: I need you to respect what Black America is feeling right now 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

Martin Nolan, executive director of Julien’s Auctions, said: “This dress, this story, this momentous occasion represents a defining moment in history. “This auction will remind the world why Marilyn Monroe remains an icon.” Marilyn Monroe's 'Happy birthday, Mr President' dress sells for record $4.8m 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

From a promotional perspective, Lafayette 148 is particularly suited for these in-home events because it has long defined itself by its close relationship with its customers. Perspective | Inside the virtual fashion party scene, where supermodels may materialize and your clothes don’t matter 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

In an age of defined ideological divisions, framed by the 1984/85 miners' strike, Live Aid tapped into a desire among musicians to address social issues, and a willingness among audiences to accept that. The Concert for Bangladesh and its charity pop legacy 2011-07-28T21:00:01Z

Portraying characters who virtually define the generic, Mr. Llana and Ms. Brown infuse Adam and Eve with some pleasing sparkle. | 'Falling for Eve': Joe DiPietro?s Look at Eden by York Theater Company 2010-07-16T03:54:00Z

It appears that Donald Trump did not have anyone to help define him as a person and help him learn boundaries and correct behavior. Author Don Winslow: Trump's administration feels like it's "manifested itself" as the coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

Many chilli heads claim that a pepper’s heat is defined by more than just intensity. Feel the burn: why do we love chilli? 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

It's a comment that may define his presidency more than any other. Donald Trump and the “N-word”: Many voters would still support him — but not enough 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

She gets to ask the defining question of the night: “If you don’t go over the top, how are you going to see what’s on the other side?” A London Musical With Energy to Burn, and Two Without It 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

A total of 13 types of content are banned in the draft law, but no terms or phrases were defined. China wants to ban several types of movie content 2011-12-15T07:01:04Z

Washington — like the country that it came to define — was created more than 200 years ago in sin and in democratic principle. Perspective | Washington is now a cool city. That’s terrible news for American democracy. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

But the contemporary needs stressing too; he's absolutely keyed in to the present moment both in terms of the detail and the larger historical forces that define it. A serious man 2010-08-14T23:06:00Z

But his sandwich is also a piece of a story that goes far beyond the Midwest, one defined in large part by the very specific ways America puts beef on its bread. One America, but so many different roast beef sandwiches 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

It’s very interesting seeing a show where none of the women are defined by their relationships with a man. Call the Midwife Stars on Delivering Drama, History, and Female Empowerment 2013-03-29T17:06:30Z

Intellectuals take pleasure in celebrating Davis, an actress defined by her theatre-based methods, artistic self-consciousness, and affinity for literary material. What “Feud” Misses About Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and the Art of Movies 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Fat does not define me, it doesn’t define my character, or where I’ve been in my life. Plus-Size Fashion Bloggers Are Role Models 2012-11-07T21:38:04Z

Having experienced his share of triumph and failure, Mr. Goldwyn, 55, is blunt about the film business and the culture of hit-making that still defines it. ‘Walter Mitty’ Producer John Goldwyn Feels the Pressure 2013-12-23T22:57:14Z

At a time when a lot of indie rock is being defined by more pastoral or orchestrated sounds, Metz plays it nasty and violent. Metz: All out, all the time 2013-05-09T22:15:00Z

"Need to" because now, more than ever, our choices in television define us. How TV's age of exploration took off in a huge way 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

The motley pageantry of our politics — the endless arguments about race, class, religion, ideology, sex, region and heritage that have defined the republic since the beginning — boils down to a single personality. ‘Vice’ Review: Dick Cheney and the Negative Great Man Theory of History 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

“Black writers operate within a small, culturally defined sphere,” she said. New Wave of African Writers With an Internationalist Bent 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

In the same interview, also included in the booklet, the bassist Pierre Michelot says that “what characterized the session is the absence of a defined theme.” Louis Malle’s “Elevator to the Gallows,” and Its Historic Miles Davis Soundtrack 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

The ingénue is defined by her age — that crepuscular moment between adolescence and adulthood — and also by her innocence. Riff: Thelma, Louise and All the Pretty Women 2011-04-24T01:43:01Z

At the same time, he fended off attempts to define him as a surrealist or a magic realist. George Tooker, Painter Capturing Modern Anxieties, Dies at 90 2011-03-29T20:32:21Z

At its best, large-ensemble jazz composition retains the whirling kinetics that defined the original big bands. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

In years past, the Academy had showered him with Oscars for a string of films that helped define independent cinema in the 1990s, including “Shakespeare in Love” and “Pulp Fiction.” Film producer Harvey Weinstein due to enter plea on rape charges 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

This week we present the results of our Week 1355 “air quote” contest, in which you define a term by pointing out another, relevant word or short phrase within it. Style Invitational Week 1359: Back up in the ‘air’ 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

A sense of middle-age contentment defines much of his music these days, which clearly makes matters easier on his instrument. Kurt Elling: The thrill is gone 2011-02-12T15:14:00Z

Set in the world of sports betting, and based on a memoir by Beth Raymer, the film always represented a distribution challenge, with no defined audience to target. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter slays competition at UK box office 2012-06-26T12:33:39Z

The drawings suggest that Perriand solved the problems Le Corbusier defined. Charlotte Perriand, Stepping Out of Corbusier’s Shadow 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

It’s an ambitious task, one that calls for skill, cleverness and strong nerves, qualities that define “The Odyssey’s” wily protagonist himself. Review | The first English translation of ‘The Odyssey’ by a woman was worth the wait 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

There’s this American thing in which jobs define us, and those definitions tell us what our individual futures and the future of our society is likely to be. The glamorous life of a whistleblower: Working a dead-end job for minimum wage 2014-04-25T12:15:00Z

Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian It was Hemingway who perhaps came closest to defining the art and craft of the great short story. Claire Keegan 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

He also may misidentify the degree to which most people fret about the nature of their productive output; for some, work is the least important and defining of life’s commitments. The Bullshit-Job Boom 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

But by the end of the film, Malik has succeeded in defining himself not as an honorary Corsican or a loyal Muslim but as a free and self-created man. T Magazine: Changing of the Avant-Garde 2011-02-25T20:22:41Z

Blades’s sense of mixture is emblematic of how many artists and intellectuals have viewed Latin American culture as a whole — a layered conglomeration of racial and cultural influences, an identity defined by difference. Rubén Blades, a Salsa Legend, Swings in a Different Direction: Jazz 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

Forte showed up for training camp last summer in the best shape of his career with a more defined upper body. Biggs: Other backs seem to be setting price for Forte 2012-05-18T04:54:00Z

Gentile characters are usually flat and stock — the cruel landlord, the boorish peasant — and the defining characteristic of the gentile female is a straightforward binary: either she is a temptress or she is not. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z

“I’ll never be perfect or flawless and this doesn’t define my worth,” she declared. Instagram influencer praised for 'real' postpartum photo after backlash 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

“The potential of an online dictionary has to go beyond that of even the greatest print lexicons,” says the 68-year-old dictionary maker, who has been studying, collecting and defining slang for decades. Green's, the Biggest Slang Dictionary Ever, Just Went Online 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

"What bore on me quite heavily was the idea that this man's story, to a large extent is an unknown story, and doing something culturally that helps define his legacy a little bit," he said. Benedict Cumberbatch hails unsung hero in 'The Imitation Game' 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

No one could fault him for his determination not to be defined by his time at Hogwarts. Swiss Army Man: Daniel Radcliffe’s flatulent corpse prompts Sundance walkouts 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

Many of us were raised to hug, be hugged and be generally touched without our consent; it is worth asking how you define kindness and whether you are too narrow with this definition. Perspective | How much empathy can I expect from a 5-year-old? 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

Some readers may object that these chapters have the effect of defining Mr. Obama largely through the prism of race. Books of The Times: David Remnick?s ?Bridge? Adds Details on Obama?s Life 2010-04-05T22:06:00Z

Wikipedia defines “comfort food” as “soft in consistency, and rich in calories.” Rembrandt and Gerard Manley Hopkins: How to Take Comfort in Art 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z

Within a year of his arrival, Mr. Kelly was painting his first abstract pictures using a mix of chance elements and references to nature, which he defined as everything seen in the real world. Ellsworth Kelly, an Artist Who Mixed Abstract With Simplicity, Dies at 92 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

It was an aesthetic formed in Los Angeles, the postmodern megacity defined by combustion engines and soft power. An L.A. Artist Who Anticipated Our Trumpian Moment 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

That is the case here: An experience often defined by dread, indignity and tedium is softened and made beautiful. ‘Ordinary Love’ Review: In Sickness and in Health 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

Initially, he couldn’t comprehend why Freddy had fought so hard to become a man, and was now doing the very thing that appeared to define womanhood – having a baby. The dad who gave birth: ‘Being pregnant doesn't change me being a trans man’ 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

The term dates to 1945, when it was used by the military psychiatrist William Menninger to define the attitude of sulky, balky soldiers. Review: A Master Class in Passive Aggression in ‘Miles for Mary’ 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

Haggerty’s career was defined by the role of “Grizzly” Adams and, not concerned about being typecast, he played other animal-loving characters on screen. Dan Haggerty obituary 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

"Certainly his disability was important, but it didn't define him at the end," Sinise said of his character. 'Forrest Gump' actor Sinise to raise money for vet 2012-05-21T13:47:10Z

Except for geographically designated foods like wine and cheese, it’s often hard to define it. | Made in France 2012-04-24T17:30:07Z

Conversely, for Grace, MWB was “a defining moment where I had to decide whether I was in or I was out.” Naked Mormon women go viral, talk back 2014-02-02T15:30:00Z

Hollywood got a bad name for a reason, not least the gatekeeping of executives defined by greed and timidity. Over the hills: Quentin Tarantino and the end of Hollywood as we know it 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

Dr Erin Vogel, a social psychologist who explores the influence technology has on our lives and wellbeing, says: “Social media seems to define ‘living fully’ as being adventurous, spontaneous and extroverted. What does 'living fully' mean? Welcome to the age of pseudo-profound nonsense 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

Did I like it because of some biological truth about being female — something one might assume from Gottlieb’s article  – or because my socialization and beliefs are instrumental in defining my taboos? The truth about sex and equality 2014-02-09T01:00:00Z

But even the band members agree that the record they made 15 years ago is the one that best defines who they are. Texas Monthly: The Old 97’s Will Tour for ‘Too Far to Care’ Anniversary 2012-08-05T02:19:38Z

The workers in “Squid Game” who wear bright pink boiler suits are defined by their anonymity and opposition. When a Track Suit Embodies a Nation 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

With so much historical material, generously displayed, the overall impression is of a soaring creative talent whose work defined the new role of the modern woman, while at the same time embracing her timeless beauty. Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: Saint Laurent: Revolutionary Romantic 2010-03-09T19:28:00Z

Our racial stories are critical to who we are, our culture is critical to who we are, but it doesn't define every single thing we do. Hari Kondabolu: "It works in the interest of those with power" to divide people of color 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

Auditing, as the official Scientology website defines it, is “a precise route by which individuals may travel to higher states of spiritual awareness.” Laura Prepon’s baffling Scientology tell-all: “Honestly, I’ve become more me” 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

Gleaning is a hallowed agricultural tradition, traditionally defined as gathering anything left over after a harvest. Meet the Gleaners, Combing Farm Fields to Feed the Newly Hungry 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

“If you were to ask for 10 things that define this country, I’d say Sherlock Holmes is one of them.” At the Museum of London, the City That Sherlock Holmes Knew 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

Sorkin reinforces the necessity of a towering Atticus by shifting the perspective away from his daughter, Scout, whose narration defines the voice of the novel and the 1962 movie version. Review | Broadway’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is here, and Jeff Daniels soars as Atticus Finch 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Alvarado’s larger subject is San Juan itself, and the ways a small town both defines and destroys its inhabitants. Theater Review: ‘Basilica,’ by Mando Alvarado, at the Cherry Lane Theater 2013-05-24T02:00:01Z

The bar is very high for one-person exhibitions — usually defined by names that changed the vocabulary of dress. The Met Walks a Fine Line on Lagerfeld: Judge the Clothes, Not the Man 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

This means few produced, big-theater shows around a person or a theme, the kind of thing that almost defined the summer jazz calendar in the city. Jazz in June: Sorting Through the Abundance 2011-06-02T22:13:45Z

They were also defined by their dysfunction, gleefully embodying the mantra of sex, drugs and rock and roll. Guns N' Roses, Chili Peppers in Rock Hall 2011-12-07T11:37:24Z

“You’re sitting next to people who changed the culture, who defined the culture.” Kennedy Center Honors will stage almost a week of events celebrating Garth Brooks, Debbie Allen, Joan Baez and more 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Butterworth has taken pains to define every one of them, and the cast repays him with performances that blaze unconditionally in the moment. Review: A Thrilling ‘Ferryman’ Serves Up a Glorious Harvest Feast 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

“Really, it didn’t define much about the band,” Mr. Hart told the A.V. Grant Hart, Hüsker Dü Drummer and Singer, Dies at 56 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

“A huge problem,” says Catherine Ruckelshaus, is employers illegally defining workers as independent contractors. A nation of temps 2012-08-22T21:53:00Z

All of these shows wedded varying degrees of melodic lushness and pop opera anthems to one defining scenic characteristic or another — the falling chandelier, for instance, in “Phantom” — that spoke to audiences the world over. Musical Revivals Offer Mixed Rewards 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

At 36, he’s serious, intense, still handsome, impressively bulked up — the very image, but also the clone, of an action star, without the danger or appeal that defines star quality. A Total Recall Remake: Why? 2012-08-02T16:52:27Z

The lawsuit sets in motion a cultural debate about what defines family and parentage at a time when same-sex marriage was a distant fantasy, and archaic notions of "family values" condemned father-less families like Ry's. How a queer, "Nuclear Family" was threatened by a sperm donor: "Biology trumped everything" 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z

A man named James whose most defining characteristic is that his neck is as wide as his head. The Bachelorette Watch: Mr. Jersey Shore 2013-06-18T03:06:04Z

True genius was defined by a quality of sprezzatura, creating brilliant work without any toil. The many ways art goes missing 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

For as he would discover, he had been born to a family defined by absence. Peter Bogdanovich, 82, Director Whose Career Was a Hollywood Drama, Dies 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

The idea of a toxin-filled uterus is literally used by many cultures to exclude women from society – it’s a defining characteristic of the patriarchy. Jennifer Gunter: ‘Women are being told lies about their bodies’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

By “systems of constraint,” he seems to mean defined concepts. Diaspora: Lily Garafulic’s 100th

It’s the next thing that defines your career, or your career is defined by a body of work. ArtsBeat Blog: Don't Stop Screaming: The 'Glee' Guys Introduce Their 'American Horror Story' 2011-10-03T03:10:29Z

But marital strife has a way of undoing hubris, and Jay-Z’s public arc has lately been defined by a kind of deflation. Hip-Hop Is Evolving. Just Ask Its Superstars. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Her defining experience as an outsider informed her ability to inhabit characters regardless of their gender, class, race and caste. Review | Ruth Prawar Jhabvala’s stories capture an India that no longer exists 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

If we assume that subject matter is what defines a book as “young adult,” it doesn’t make much sense to discourage adults from reading a book with that label. Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Kings Dominion is defined by its divisions, with the privileged existing uneasily on the same social strata, taking out any pent-up disdain on the kids of the lowest caste. Hogwarts for killers: "Deadly Class" takes teen drama to deadly extremes 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

"Cable likes controversy and defined personalities with a strong point of view," a leading syndicator said. Rosie O'Donnell at work on daytime talk show 2010-03-21T23:36:00Z

Largely defined by her Carol Brady days, she has augmented the persona of cookie baking grandma with a healthy dash of salty saloon madame. "Dancing with the Stars": The new season kicks off 2010-09-21T12:30:00Z

It's a holiday tradition that will live on without him, but forever defined by him. Dick Clark's biggest impact was personal 2012-04-19T01:46:07Z

It’s defined partly by what the island is not. What Dominica is: Beautiful, natural. What it’s not: Cluttered with resorts. 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Trade and cinema are inseparable; but cinema is too important for critics to let a trade group—or anyone else—define it. Pay Attention to Movies Released on Streaming Platforms 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

She plays with different kinds of projection and microphone technique, throwing sounds and withholding them, shutting down phrases before they’re done and defining a hundred quiet, shivering notes with a single loud and clear one. Music Review: Feist at the Brooklyn Academy of Music - Review 2011-11-03T21:20:18Z

The epistolary form enables Saavedra to introduce anonymity and missed encounters into a modern world defined by traceability and instant communication. Contemporary Brazil, Captured in Two Novels and a Journalist’s Collection 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

But if this show is inevitably and openly defined by a 21st-century gaze, it also revels in the timeless and transcendent power of its source material. Review: Reliving Those Arabian Nights in ‘Pay No Attention to the Girl’ 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

And they have progressed beyond decay and into sterility, a feeling underscored by the Dan Flavin-like bars of light that are used to define space. | 'The Threepenny Opera': ?Threepenny Opera? With Berliner Ensemble at BAM - Review 2011-10-05T16:50:18Z

Throughout the 20th century, photography as proof, or documentation, of the physical world was a defining principle of the medium’s art-making practice. A Bygone Time Captured Through the Lens of Walker Evans 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

On “One Life to Live,” Dorian Lord, a United States senator, gets herself into a vaguely defined scandal that has something to do with C.I.A. black ops. Critic’s Notebook: ‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to Live,’ on Hulu and iTunes 2013-05-03T21:37:46Z

In the professional world, this is a waste of her potential; in her social world, it’s the thing that defines her; in her own mind, it’s something she only considers when pushing back against it. Review: "Odd Mom Out" is a Tough, Refreshing Summer Satire 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

If there is a defining aesthetic, it’s virtuosity. Claire Chase Is Changing How People Think of the Flute 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

The 10 stamps feature defining scenes from RSC productions of Hamlet, The Tempest and other plays. Royal Mail stamps mark RSC's 50th year 2011-04-12T10:47:10Z

The Fresh Cut Orchestra is a new young 10-piece Philadelphia-jazz municipality, a little hard to define and very much worth looking into. Fresh Cut Orchestra, a Jazz Band That’s Hard to Define 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

The researchers defined responsiveness as a trait “that may signal to potential partners that one understands, values, and supports important aspects of their self-concept and is willing to invest resources in the relationship.” How Should Men and Women Behave On A First Date 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

But neither star has time to get a groove going that would define the perimeters of a complete, self-contained fantasy world. Theater Review | 'All About Me': Michael Feinstein and Dame Edna, at Henry Miller?s Theater 2010-03-19T03:32:00Z

While the police in these crime stories are all flawed and, to some extent defined by their mental conditions, be they depression, childhood trauma or OCD, the criminals walk a more hubristic path. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-08-10T23:05:24Z

I turn out to be one of the Semi Internet People, defined by “ambivalence towards technology and an orientation towards offline relationships over online ones.” The Long Hot Summer of Grammar 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

“You didn’t need to define yourself by medium anymore,” Ms. Hiller recalled, because conceptual art was “ democratizing the kinds of practices that could be considered art.” Conceptual Art’s Long Shadow 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Khalifa’s story is episodic rather than linear; it is more about an atmosphere, both emotional and physical, than any defining event. Review: ‘No Knives in the Kitchens of This City’ Describes a Syrian Hell 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Within the last three decades it’s also been defined as viewing or treating people who are differ from a dominant group as alien. How the media centers whiteness: "Today," Nicholas Sandmann and "the others" 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

It elicits emotions, but not in a rigidly defined way. Review: A Ukrainian Orchestra Speaks With Quiet Intensity 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

As a result, she’s been pleasant, but not essential, a singer living between defined worlds. Review: Estelle, Adam Birnbaum, and Sonny and the Sunsets Release New Albums 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

Edge has always been the prow that cuts through the culture, and without a forward edge to define them, our entertainments and arts wouldn't have any shape or direction at all. A race to the finish in the age of edge 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

It is part of Booth’s point, I think, that when money is as elusive as it is for these people, character is indeed primarily defined by privation. Review: Shrinking Lives at a Big Box Store in ‘Paris’ 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

If you took an objective view out there in the universe and observed this planet, wouldn’t you define that as a plague? 'It is fantastic, better than travelling to the moon' – David Attenborough returns to the Great Barrier Reef 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

From a young age, we are influenced by what our social group defines as funny. What effect has the internet had on comedy? 2011-04-02T23:07:08Z

Fuschia Sirois, a professor of psychology at the University of Sheffield in England, defines procrastination this way: “The voluntary, unnecessary delay of an important task, despite knowing you’ll be worse off for doing so.” Why do we procrastinate, and how can we stop? Experts have answers. 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z

To keep spending them on rehabbing the shows that defined other eras is just keeping this era from having its own defining hits or keeping us from fully appreciating the ones that we already have. The 90s sitcoms that should never be rebooted 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

“Tracker,” the eighth solo album by Mark Knopfler, begins with a man remembering his youth and all the revelry that defined it. Mark Knopfler: “This getting older stuff ain’t for wimps” 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

The Woodstock Music & Arts Festival turns 50 this year and helped define music festivals for the counterculture generation. Afropunk, Huichica and More: 8 Music Festivals to Hit This Year 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

First we see the animal in the under-drawn image, tenderly formed; then in the painting, every rough hair of its coat defined. Critic?s Notebook: Alone in the Wilderness and the Spotlight 2011-06-09T23:01:20Z

But the book’s defining quality is its roll call of who’d-a-thunk-it pairings, those unlikely connections that link boldface names from vastly different worlds. Crazy tales about Alice Cooper, Groucho Marx and more 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

That doing so involves her first venture into larceny says a lot about the terms on which "Boardwalk Empire's" characters define themselves. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Unhappy surprises 2010-10-11T05:01:00Z

The politics of Black Lives Matter inform the story but do not define it; what defines the story is Starr Carter, a teenage girl fighting the system. Adriana E. Ramirez on why readers love 'The Hate U Give' 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

One gets the feeling that every important band since the ’60s had such defining and bonding moments in garages and cellars. Lukas Moodysson’s ‘We Are the Best!,’ About a Punk Band 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

The goal is not simply to define an urban detail, but also to preserve an artery that links two sides of a landscape bisected by heavily used railroad tracks. In the galleries: Remapping the boundaries of drawing 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

Giselle, as a character, is defined as a girl who loves to dance though she’s in fragile health and really shouldn’t exert herself. Review | ABT’s David Hallberg and Natalia Osipova give ‘Giselle’ a sensual charge 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z

His Nuremberg case, which the Associated Press called “the biggest murder trial in history,” defines him. The improbable story of the man who won history’s ‘biggest murder trial’ at Nuremberg 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

The Sienese style they collectively shaped was defined by the interplay of two seemingly antithetical preferences, one being descriptive realism and the other abstract decorative patterning. Art Review: ‘The Adoration of the Magi’ at Museum of Biblical Art 2012-08-10T04:40:08Z

Without a defined hierarchy of ownership, members collaborate to take on responsibilities from curation to production to even quotidian tasks such as gallery-sitting or visitor services. Seattle’s SOIL Gallery, run by local artists, speaks to the issues of our time 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

These streets defined her and she, in turn, defined them. Chloë Sevigny: ‘I now have total disdain for directors’ 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

Combining the aggressive with the lyrical, the piece foreshadows the jagged contours and percussive explosiveness that would define her later works. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

Isaac’s story is not just a story about exile and loss, but about how individuals define themselves by their dreams, their choices, the place or places they call home. Phil Klay’s 'Redeployment,' Gary Shteyngart’s Memoir and More 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

This week: Combine any two words, names, abbreviations, etc., from anywhere in the redacted Mueller report, into a two-word or hyphenated phrase and define it, as in the examples above. Style Invitational Week 1334: Mull ’er over — a search for collision 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

His landmark 1980s British series ‘‘The Last Resort’’ and ‘‘The Cost of Living’’ captured such defining, unvarnished images of kitschy Englishness with their bingo nights, fish and chips, and glossy-haired public schoolboys. ArtsBeat: A Briton’s View of Paris: Martin Parr at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie 2014-04-23T15:16:16Z

Best rap album was won by Nas, one of the defining rappers of the … 1990s. The Grammys Discover Youth 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

“It helps you define your visions, goals and objectives,” he said, and focusing on one task at a time is a smart idea, because “multitasking is a myth.” Set a tomato timer? Eat a frog? Be like Ike? Comparing 5 common productivity systems. 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z

Though it varies depending on its age, the cheese is defined by its slightly grainy, crystalline, and crumbly texture, as well as its nutty, complex flavor. What's the difference between Parmigiano Reggiano and Parmesan? 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z

Many stories of diasporic families lead from the heart, playing on the sentimentality and nostalgia that so often define intergenerational narratives in mainstream Western literature. ‘Bestiary’ Offers a Compendium of Creatures, and Generations 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Perhaps just as much as the fact that it’s set in outer space, “Star Wars” is defined by how its different characters interact with this mystical element known as the Force. The Force, explained and what its patterns could mean for "Rise of Skywalker" 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Clean up the shape with a Q-Tip so the edges are defined. It’s Holiday Time. You’re Not Supposed to Look Natural. 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Attempting to define the "latent motifs" of manic depression, he seeks increasingly garbled explanations in tropes of language and symbolism. Strictly Bipolar by Darian Leader – review 2013-05-06T07:00:01Z

The Allmans would go on to reach incredible heights in the burgeoning scene, partying at the vanguard of excess while defining a sound that still excites millions of fans. Love, family, drugs: Gregg Allman tells it all 2012-05-07T13:12:48Z

The trailer contains no hints about its plot, or any other defining descriptions about those characters, which may not matter since odds are most people never saw it. "Strange World" is a box office flop, but not for the reasons the right is claiming? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

"Nigel helped to define the show I created almost 10 years ago, mentoring our judging panel and nurturing our talent," Fuller said. Lythgoe returning as executive producer of `Idol' 2010-08-05T12:12:00Z

“This is deeply entwined with how people understand themselves as a community, how they understand their identity, and it’s part of the rituals and traditions that help define the community.” A mixtape of Basque culture and California sounds coming to the Mall 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Yet its soundtrack defined a musical moment almost like no other on this list. The 22 Best Movie Soundtracks of the 2000s 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

They’ll often choose famous quotations from famous authors or descriptions of famous characters, the type of people who define our times just like those lexicographers define our words. David Bowie Is All Over the Oxford Dictionary 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

In a recent interview with The New York Times, he defined his own approach when he called his masterpiece, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” an “intimate epic.” Television Review: ‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’ Has Its Premiere on HBO 2012-05-27T22:40:54Z

I’d define a showstopper as any moment so thrilling that the audience is temporarily in the story and out of it, united in a paroxysm of theatrical bliss. The Top Ten Showstoppers of 2015 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

“As Good As it Gets” isn’t quite as good as it gets; it lacks the emotional force that defined “Terms of Endearment” and the whip-smart sense of purpose that carried “Broadcast News.” The 7 best movies new to Netflix in February 2019 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

It also defined what a concept store was, setting the tone for shops like Dover Street Market in London. Shopping frenzy as Parisians say adieu to Colette, cutting-edge fashion store 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

The Labèque sisters favor rhythmic precision and quick, sharp action — a solid way to achieve clarity in the double piano repertory — and they use dynamics rather than color to define phrases. Review: Nico Muhly’s Moody Concerto for Two Pianos 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

It may not be easy to define a good prose poem, but it's easy enough to spot a bad one when you read it. Poster poems: Prose poems 2011-08-12T09:28:45Z

It was a hit among the imperial court, and the gift became a defining memory of a landmark cross-cultural encounter. Some Japanese Whiskies Aren’t From Japan. Some Aren’t Even Whisky. 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

All of the room’s elements — windows, desk, bookcase, carpet — were defined entirely by printed labels stuck to a gallery’s walls and floor. Art Review: In the Beginning Was the Word 2011-02-16T13:00:07Z

It’s not fundamentally about numbers, either, but about the search for meaning and the consoling satisfaction of finding the patterns that define and describe both the physical universe and individual human lives. | 'A Disappearing Number': Simon McBurney?s Play at Lincoln Center Festival 2010-07-16T22:29:00Z

I began, in a moment of connectedness and spirituality that hadn't defined either of my other pregnancies, to love this child. Motherlode Blog: Egyptian Abortion, American Choice 2012-10-21T15:55:26Z

Quavo was joined by Maverick City Music, a worship group that originated in Atlanta, where Migos helped define the most recent incarnation of the city’s influential rap sound. Loretta Lynn, Takeoff and Christine McVie Receive Musical Tributes 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

Biltgen’s reliance on sumptuous materials defines the minimalist luxury of Sinople, the club’s freshly christened canteen, which caters to the dietary predilections of those for whom pain au chocolat is never an option. Paris’s Klay Club Gets An Update From Charlotte Biltgen 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

That’s why, though True/False marks a major trend in contemporary filmmaking, it also defines a crucial, exemplary exception to the rule. Three Genre-Expanding Documentaries About Racist Crimes of the Past 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

James Franco embodies Beat poet Allen Ginsberg at his defining moment. This week's new films 2011-02-19T00:05:41Z

Mr. Kang was no less a defining force, taking full advantage of his instrument’s potential within the trio. Music Review: Floating Along on the Rhythm While Staying Anchored to the Beat 2011-04-20T21:48:56Z

Emotions, whether verbally defined as love or friendship, speak the same musical language here, and it is soon apparent that Artaserse's feelings for Arbace run deeper than his affection for his own fiancee, Semira. Vinci: Artaserse – review 2012-11-14T15:31:00Z

But they played a key role in defining adolescence as a time of life distinct from childhood or adulthood. | Filmmaker Matt Wolf on the Origins of Teenage Culture 2014-03-11T21:24:59Z

Colorful wallpapers and playfully painted antiques define the six doubles and suites at the updated and newly renovated hostel on the main square. Overnighter: From Lisbon, Visiting the Storied City of ?vora 2011-06-24T18:55:01Z

Noxon wanted to avoid one trope in particular: “this idea that the perfectionist quality of anorexics is their most defining trait,” she said. ‘To the Bone:’ Can you make a movie about eating disorders without glamorizing them? 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

The American southern style of cuisine referred to as Lowcountry cooking is defined by ingredients that are grown and harvested in the coastal area between Georgia and South Carolina. Celebrate coastal flavors with this pan-fried catfish with stewed tomatoes and okra 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z

The fetus, an unseen body inside of a body, suspended between nonexistence and existence, is defined by parental expectation and cultural imagination. The Empty Spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s Fantasy Fetus 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

I admire this duality; I only hoped to glimpse more of her behind-the-scenes thoughtfulness, rather than the dogged levity — the bend-and-snap, if you will — that defines her public persona. Review | Mindy Kaling’s new essays are lightweight entertainment for trying times 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

The lines of beginnings and endings aren’t defined, but the critical response was so negative that considering the 1993 Whitney Biennial now, it seems like it marked the end. When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z

Yet they tend to leave their collections and their point of view hazily defined. Paris Fashion Week Collections from Kenzo, Isabel Marant and Acne 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

He just wrote punch lines that snap like mousetraps, spread them throughout a special dominated by a clearly defined point of view and when blowback came, he laughed it off. Best Comedy of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

“That fundamental experience of being so decentered and so destabilized has really defined all my work,” said Mr. Row, a practicing Buddhist who lives in Greenwich Village with his wife and two children. Jess Row’s ‘Your Face in Mine’ Explores ‘Racial Reassignment’ 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

From the very first scene, when I got the first script, I felt that the defining characteristic of Mike Prince is that he’s home wherever he goes, that he’s completely comfortable in his skin. Corey Stoll on Becoming the New Face of Fortune in ‘Billions’ 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

Then Marx sent these tweets from his verified account: “You call me ‘shameless’ in print in my home town but won’t respond to my emails to define/explain. Richard Marx hates my guts 2013-01-19T00:30:00Z

The talent that spawned this success and popularity was not so easy to define. Tony Bennett, Champion of the Great American Songbook, Is Dead at 96 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z

In the West, you’d have to live at the gym and be 30 years younger to have arms as defined as hers. Apocalypse then, now, always: the truth about violence in Leer, South Sudan 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

I wish the word 'culture' was not used just to define the arts. Jonathan Miller attacks West End trend of 'dumping' classic plays in a new era 2013-02-02T11:23:44Z

The word “drunks” also defines addicts by their addiction, further reinforcing the notion that addicts are somehow different from the rest of us, as if addiction is an innate quality rather than an acquired behavior. Debunking Alcoholics Anonymous: Behind the myths of recovery 2014-04-05T18:00:00Z

Dr. Kounios, who studies the neural basis of insight, defines creativity as the ability to restructure one’s understanding of a situation in a nonobvious way. The Mind Research Network and Charting Creativity 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z

Class can be difficult to define, because it’s amorphous, and elastic, based as much on income and assets as behavior, outlook and sensibility. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z

While we walked on a chalky white road through vineyards, the vines bursting with the new, bright-green leaves of springtime, I tried to define what’s so pleasant about traveling by foot. On the Via Francigena in Tuscany, Monasteries and Fellowship 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

How do we define rehabilitation; how do we enforce accountability? In ‘Women Talking,’ Miriam Toews Ponders Punishment and Justice After Horrifying Crimes 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

Many of Simpson’s issues stemmed from the fact that for many years, she was defined by the men in her life. Review | The juicy details of Jessica Simpson’s memoir are only part of her misunderstood story 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

Those designers are defining their own approaches, which are influencing their peers elsewhere. Design: Design Gets More Diverse 2011-03-20T22:30:06Z

The desperation of staying alive is intense -- 18 years of your parents building and defining your morality is just gone. Former 'Bachelor' producer gets real on Lifetime's 'unREAL' 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Don’t let age define you, wear anything you want to wear, there’s no fashion police around here. The Far Out Freestyle Fashion of Byron Bay, Australia 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Viewers will find her earliest research and drawings from graduate school and the first paintings in which she invented her signature mark making, which the artist defines as “an insistence, persistence of being.” Julie Mehretu’s Reckoning With Success 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z

This was the golden key that unlocked the door that opened onto one of the defining events of the era. Elliot Tiber, Who With a Permit Unleashed Woodstock and Himself, Dies at 81 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z

Deep inside a cave of bats, Zimmer discovers yet another defining feature of life: homeostasis, the maintenance of constancy. What Does It Mean to Be a Living Thing? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

Because when you watch a Coen brothers movie, there is no detail too small, and so much of the world is defined by the look of people's faces. 'Fargo' mastermind Noah Hawley makes stranger-than-fiction real 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

No single writer can define London because it can never be essentialized. Read Your Way Through London 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

Which is to say: Are women able to develop identities that are independent of their relationship status—wife, mother, singleton, etc.—or are we still primarily defined this way? I choose to be single 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The best way to get this new category across would have been to define it from the get-go. How the Academy fumbled the push for Best Popular Film 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

The slightly less common hate-watch, defined as watching something “for the sake of the enjoyment one derives from mocking or criticizing it” joined the dictionary as well. Oxford Dictionary Recognizes: YOLO, Amazeballs and Hot Mess 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

The more rugged outposts of rock – punk, metal – often define themselves as true believers in unchanging values, pitched against the mutable sins of fashion. Frank Turner – review 2013-04-19T15:00:03Z

“If you grew up very self-conscious, feeling that you’re not as good as other people, I think that it defines you,” she said. Jeannette Walls Settles Down Far From the Noise of New York 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z

It should be a bold premise, but there is a curious contrast in this film between the richly defined images and the story’s ethical indeterminacy. ‘Mayday’ Review: Misandry Is the Most Dangerous Game 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Meaning that the defining sketch of the night was a room full of people driven to either violence or performance-stopping freezing-up by Trump’s mere digital presence. “SNL”’s Donald Trump trainwreck: Welcoming a racist megalomaniac under the guise of edgy humor blew up in the show’s face 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

Avery consistently made gentle, optimistic, profoundly optical paintings that defined their own strip of no man’s land between representation and abstraction, refusing both extremes through their use of simple shapes and saturated colors. A Singular American Painter and His Perennially Disregarded Wife 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

They envision a future guided by better, often organic, farming and defined as much by red wine as white. Perspective | Now that cheap chardonnay is everywhere, some French winemakers attempt a reinvention 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

Her defining quality is a commitment to providing, for near-constant consumption, a personality that, whether intentionally or intuitively, refuses to be fully consumed. The Profound Silence of Kendall Jenner 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

At home with their dog, Booker T., Mr. Richardson pumped his fists, knowing his wife was defining a key point of this election. Abby Phillip Is Next-Gen CNN 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

It offers a lucid examination of the mirrors in which its author has seen herself, and her indoctrination into the cult of beauty as defined by powerful men. Memoirs of Womanhood by Emily Ratajkowski, Toufah Jallow and N. West Moss 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

He isn’t part of what we now see as something of a cultural elite among filmmakers, people who made the big, defining statements about the era. Donald Trump, Dante and the End of Your Elitist Tastes 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

The Internet search engine Kayak says prices will be higher for the holiday travel season, defined as Nov. 12 to Jan. 7. Perspective | How to survive the 2021 holiday travel season 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

It is such a new territory of, “What defines a TV show?” Grace Helbig's Guide to Taking Fashion Less Seriously 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

He was defined more by what he was denied, and his early life demonstrates just how limited a path was available for any African-American with artistic ambitions. The Man Who Taught a Generation of Black Artists Gets His Own Retrospective 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

And for the next generation of TV auteurs, Twin Peaks became the defining text. Damn fine telly: why everything is now ‘a bit Twin Peaks’ 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

Where Faith No More once defined itself in opposition to a rock mainstream it viewed as a kind of macho wasteland, that rock mainstream has now all but disappeared. Faith No More with new 'Sol Invictus' album: 'We can do anything we want' 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

There are all kinds of ways to define science fiction, and it’s been described in different ways in different periods. Diversity is making science fiction better: “We’re in a full flowering of potential” for the genre 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z

Shame on Burkett or anyone who tries to define what that is for others, or demands a litmus test for it. Memo to crotchety feminists: Caitlyn Jenner is a woman, and we must embrace her — it’s what’s feminist and what’s right 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

The third is: how do we preserve or define our personal psyches in a world increasingly dominated by technology? Source Code ? review 2011-04-02T23:08:39Z

This could position Ms. Chiquet as something of a cross between Sheryl Sandberg and Elizabeth Gilbert: a life coach/empowerment guru focused on the virtues of defining your own value system professionally, emotionally — whatever. Maureen Chiquet’s Move From Chanel to Self-Empowerment 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

If Washington’s policymakers were indeed pursuing a coherent strategy — as opposed to simply demonstrating a knack for opportunism — that strategy’s defining feature was not isolationism but a shrewd preference for plucking low-hanging fruit. Where Does American Foreign Policy Go From Here? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Brochu defines a character man as someone able to play either leading or supporting parts while displaying “unusual characteristics or peculiarities,” who works in television, movies and theater but rarely becomes a household name. Theater Review: Jim Brochu Honors Broadway Colleagues With ‘Character Man’ 2014-03-09T21:16:11Z

In doing so, he established Balenciaga as the brand most effectively channeling the complicated tension between technology and nostalgia, elitism and accessibility, that defined 2021. The Year of Balenciaga 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

But, for me, the show’s defining moment was a single still image — a photograph from 1872 of Muybridge sitting in front of a giant sequoia. Art Review: Tracing Muybridge, Pioneer of Photography, at the Corcoran 2010-04-26T22:54:00Z

A huge museum for contemporary arts and architecture opens in Rome this weekend in a bid to draw avant-garde art lovers to a city defined by its ancient monuments and Baroque fountains. Contemporary art museum to open in Rome 2010-05-27T14:53:00Z

White supremacy isn’t just a chronic and defining condition of American cultural life. Perspective | Lonnie Bunch isn’t afraid to address white supremacy. What else will that change for the Smithsonian? 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

Chris’ being a guy affects his parenting sometimes—his nervousness in hiring an attractive woman as a sitter, for instance—but it doesn’t define it. Up All Night, Modern Family and TV?s Feminism for Men 2011-11-17T15:28:30Z

And whether trauma completely defines these heroes — and, if so, if they can find kinship in that. ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Review: Worlds Wide Web 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

The opening gesture is defining — and common in his work — hands reaching behind backs to grab wrists, a sort of self-embrace that looks tender as a wound. Fall for Dance Review: Splats, Blue Moods and Go-Go Grooves 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

The galactic bounty hunter also had the best outfit of his kind, largely defined by that streamlined helmet he never took off. The Force is strong with “The Mandalorian” debut, but not the glitchy Disney+ launch 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Whatever it is, it will define our world. Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik – review 2013-06-17T08:01:04Z

“His grace notes, his softest notes, defined a generation.” Clyde Stubblefield, the ‘Funky Drummer’ for James Brown, Dies at 73 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

“He’s so engaged in the day-to-day activities in the world. I am sure it will be a clearly defined role — not that that ever stopped Bill Clinton from changing lanes.” Is Bill Clinton running for first gentleman? No? Well, it doesn’t hurt to speculate.

"When people try to define it, they either say it is 'knowledge' or 'wisdom.' But for me it's knowledge that leads to wisdom," writer-director Eugène Green said. Baroque architect reaches across centuries to influence another in 'La Sapienza' 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Is it foolish to even try to define what "guitar music" means? Is guitar music on the way out? 2012-06-29T11:40:00Z

Perhaps Doll's favourite aphorism represents a more reasonable proximal goal to define success in the war on cancer. Cancer: The new normal? 2011-01-17T17:35:24Z

“Maybe my time is better organized than many other people’s. But compared to classical composers like Bach, Frescobaldi, Palestrina or Mozart, I would define myself as unemployed.” Ennio Morricone, Oscar-Winning Composer of Film Scores, Dies at 91 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

Figs aren’t even botanically defined as fruits; they are inverted flowers. Are there wasps in the figs we eat? The answer is 'maybe' 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

Almost all other games at the time consisted of discrete virtual levels and rigidly defined play structures; it would be 14 years before Grand Theft Auto III defined the modern “open world” game. Video Game Review: Down to the Seas Again, With Remote in Hand 2010-10-11T21:59:00Z

One, of course, was Stephen Sondheim, setting words to his own music with a neurotic complexity that defined that time and ours. Sheldon Harnick, Musical Theater’s Great Marriage Broker 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

The defining one came at Union when he crossed the street on, yes, Epiphany Sunday, and entered Riverside Church where the day’s sermon was “The Mystery of Christian Vocation.” ‘The Reverend’ Review: A Beer With a Music Chaser 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

The oneness is also integral to the paintings’ defining idea. Review | In the galleries: Sequence of photographs creates a graphic continuity 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

So, I think that’s the big thing that is changing: what used to be defined by rules and duty and obligation now has to take place in conversation. Love Is Not a Permanent State of Enthusiasm: An Interview with Esther Perel 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z

That also defined the evening itself: this gig commemorated marching shoulder-to-shoulder for 40 years, the last Queen men standing. Queen and Adam Lambert – review 2012-07-12T16:51:35Z

My five-year goal was to appear as a sidekick on the show, ideally with a subtitle that defines me solely as the friend of someone else. 'The Hills' fans lament end of MTV reality series 2010-07-14T05:16:00Z

The male gaze that still largely defines and decides what Hollywood is interested in might render women invisible, but it’s to the industry’s detriment. Perspective | And the summer box office’s big winner is . . . Ruth Bader Ginsburg? 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

In many ways that’s especially true in Chicago, and that’s probably what defines our scene more than anything that I can think of: we are a family.” Critic’s Notebook: A Hurricane Benefit in Chicago for a Brooklyn Record Label 2012-12-18T23:24:53Z

It begins 2017 by concluding a survey of 40 years of movies at least partly defined by their use of Steadicam shots. This Past Provides a Nice Prologue at Film Society of Lincoln Center 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Not too long ago, a study revealed that most people define old age as 68. Old age begins much later than you might expect 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

Certain motifs reoccur, but it's never one piece that is truly "defining" what this score is. A dream job: Hans Zimmer and the music of 'Inception' 2010-07-20T05:02:00Z

“Many men still define masculinity as someone who can provide for his family, who can wrestle a tiger and protect,” Dr. Watkins said. A Master’s Degree in ... Masculinity? 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z

I don’t ever have that thought, which was the defining factor of my life for 18 months.” Dying to beat depression: how 10 induced comas saved a blogger's life 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

“I refuse to allow society to define me at this time,” he said. He?s Only Just Begun to Fight 2011-04-13T22:52:55Z

At the southern end of the park, the 55-acre Prospect Park Lake defines the landscape. How to Enjoy Brooklyn’s Prospect Park 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

But aesthetics are not simply about whether something looks good; they aren’t defined using only a single, isolated metric. Perspective | Biden wore a mask. Trump did not. Now a single accessory can define the presidency. 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

And some prefer not to discuss the issue, often for fear of being defined by it. Design: Design Gets More Diverse 2011-03-20T22:30:06Z

In discussions with friends, he expressed mixed feelings about the song that defined his career and life. Scott McKenzie, Singer Known for ‘San Francisco,’ Dies at 73 2012-08-21T04:43:04Z

The vodka is distilled from wheat and a mixture of olives hand-picked in Nafpaktos, a town defined by a castle, the Kástra of the name. This Greek Olive Vodka Calls for a Martini 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

At the time, it was a sentimental and well-worn vision that defined the West: rugged cowboys, sweeping pastoral beauty, the triumphalist, freedom-loving heart of America itself. Richard Avedon’s Portraits of the American West Ride Again 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Install neutral, low-pile carpeting in place of the existing red, and layer an area rug on top to define the seating space. Bring life to a dated and dark family room 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

One entitled “Performance,” meant to be evergreen, and defined by classic couture tropes — the sack dress, the cold-shoulder top — remixed and regurgitated in the everyday uniform of his borderless land. It’s Telfar’s World. We’re Just Living in It. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

Each of their characters has to some extent been defined by archetypal shorthand — the funny one, the angry one, the helpful one, etc. Review: Reckoning With Medical Betrayals ‘Behind the Sheet’ 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

He cut back on some of the profuse chaos that defined the earlier “Transformers” films, working off a screenplay by Christina Hodson. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Bumblebee’ and ‘Mel Brooks: Unwrapped’ 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

At 19 he moved to Chile where, at age 21, he published “Azul,” a collection of poems and prose that came to define the Spanish Modernist movement and catapulted him into literary stardom. The Inescapable Poet of Nicaragua 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

“A lot of thinking went into what defines the concert experience in itself,” Mr. Fichter said in an interview. A Contemporary Music Festival Thinks Beyond the Concert Hall 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

It is generic in the truest sense, a genre defined and constrained by a handful of conventions. The Latest Romance Novels: Firefighters, Buff Male Nannies, Astronauts and More 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

"I guess it depends how you define best," she says eventually. Karen Green on life after suicide 2011-04-09T23:04:02Z

A fata morgana is defined as a mirage. Teresita Fernández’s New Installation the Largest to Date in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Lynch plays a brittle Marilyn Monroe type, mooning over images of JFK and holding a séance in her sitting room, a space defined wholly by Crow’s paintings. 'Madame Psychosis': Kelly Lynch is obsessed with JFK in art film 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

In the lost Jerusalem that Hoffman so skillfully and sorrowfully rebuilds, the permeability of boundaries — be they ethnic or aesthetic — was not a threat but a proud and defining characteristic of urban life. Three architects who built Jerusalem: How they shaped and fled (and were forgotten by) the conflicted city 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Few characters defined the sitcom archetype of the bad mother quite like Peg Bundy. Perspective | Why Peg Bundy was the true ’90s-sitcom domestic goddess 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

The film academy plans to gather and analyze data over the next few years from confidential surveys to ensure that the standards are defined properly. Oscars diversity criteria ‘not about exclusion’ say leaders 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

I like fiction better than nonfiction, but beyond that it’s easier to define the kinds of stories I steer clear of rather than those I’m drawn to. Amanda Knox: By the Book 2013-05-07T18:24:20Z

The result of this commingling of cultures is one of the most fascinating pockets of India, defined by a leisurely pace and laid-back attitude. 36 Hours in Goa 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

He’s unabashedly political in his aspirations for this program, attempting to define an American identity by interviewing its wild and woolly citizens. Who is America? Sacha Baron Cohen's new show aims high but goes low 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

Half a lifetime after Trump built it, the tower still defines the man. Seeing Trump in Trump Tower 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Asked to define Corella as a dancer, Kent says: "Intensity, passion, generosity." Ready for his adieu: A beloved dancer reflects 2012-06-27T21:02:11Z

“But I would ask myself: ‘Why am I not more defined? Losing the Fight Against ‘Dad Bod’ 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

The experience was a defining event in Kahn’s professional life, along with the founding of his own firm, Albert Kahn Associates, in 1895. In Energized Detroit, Savoring an Architectural Legacy 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

“A lot of my friends in New York think, ‘Oh, being gay doesn’t define who I am,’” he said. Ethan James Green, an Ex-Model Who Turns His Lens on the Underground 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

The trend is especially evident this year with the rise of Soundcloud rap, a loosely defined, swaggering genre whose teenage stars have garnered millions of streams — and, more recently, record deals — from blown-out, bedroom-recorded tracks. J. Cole has stories to tell at Seattle’s KeyArena 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

It got my parents’ attention, helped me make friends, defined my exterior personality and gave me a kind of superpower, allowing me to fake an extroverted existence. In Defense of My Emu Tattoo 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

Returning home to Florida with a newly defined commitment didn’t spare them new trauma. Matters of the Heart Precede Love and Marriage in Florida 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

You can’t raise a family on minimum wage, not in the way Americans once defined raising a family when our country emerged from World War II so fat and happy. The glamorous life of a whistleblower: Working a dead-end job for minimum wage 2014-04-25T12:15:00Z

But for many people it is hard to define where Mr. Richardson the brand ends and the man begins. Terry Richardson?s Photographs Provoke and Reveal 2012-03-02T23:29:02Z

The issue of intention, or lack of it, was at one time a factor used to define and isolate the “outsider artist,” particularly if that artist had mental disabilities. Judith Scott’s Enigmatic Sculptures at the Brooklyn Museum 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Yet the quality that has best defined his show over forty years is its ready malleability—which the show itself has never been shy in pointing out. The Nine Lives of “Saturday Night Live” 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

This juxtaposition of hard-driving virtuosity and plangent elegy is also a defining feature of “Knee Play 4” from Mr. Glass’s opera “Einstein on the Beach.” Music Review: Philip Glass at Issue Project Room 2012-06-14T21:26:50Z

The efforts also define a new approach to challenging corporate power— a strategy that changes who owns, controls and benefits from the underlying economic wealth of the system. Stop-and-frisk, eviscerated 2012-05-29T19:30:00Z

When the Apples, Gabriels or Michaels have railed about Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump or Andrew Cuomo, it has been as a way of defining themselves. Review: In ‘What Happened?,’ a Questioning Farewell to Rhinebeck 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Sartre defined hell as being confined with your mother-in-law in a car with no doors. Style Invitational Week 1342: Mrgrs — combine two abbreviations 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

What’s most remarkable about our culture’s whirring fidget spinner fetish is that it didn’t happen sooner; that this peak fad didn’t emerge from among the long, rolling sierra of hollow amusements that defined the 1990s. CNN’s “The Nineties”: Empty nostalgia for a decade we should let die 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

While seeking to define them, he blurs the difference between disadvantage and discrimination and so ends up asking if we need affirmative action for men. The Second Sexism is just victim-envy 2012-05-16T19:00:05Z

Each season of “The Good Place” hinges upon a defining “a-ha” moment, but this one is particularly sobering. None of us are getting in The Good Place: NBC's comedy exposes the impossibility of virtue today 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Do you worry that this song will define your career to the exclusion of everything else? For Lukas Graham, ‘7 Years’ Changed Everything and Nothing 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

YOUNG’S COVE, seen at low tide in the “Then” photo, is a notch defined by Pigeon Point on the west side of Elliott Bay. The road to West Seattle, 1916 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Arbitrarily defining unreasonable premium rate increases at 10% doesn’t get to the problem. Unreasonable Rate Review for Health Insurance 2011-12-13T23:03:22Z

No, the cause — to use a word Othello memorably repeats — lies in the precisely defined personalities of everyone who inhabits the play’s closed universe. Review: Jealousy and Lies in a No-Exit Theater of War in ‘Othello’ 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

Bruce McIndoe, a senior adviser to WorldAware, a travel security company, says the emergence of effective vaccines is likely to open travel to limited destinations through defined travel corridors. Perspective | How will the covid-19 vaccines affect your travel? 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

Indeed, viewers tend to ascribe to Ms. Jones the chilly detachment, questionable judgment and unsteady nerves that haunt and define Betty Francis. An Interview With January Jones of ‘Mad Men’ 2013-05-17T22:09:45Z

Reeves’s admirably minimalist expressivity and air of distraction, as if he is perpetually tuned into a higher frequency, lends Wick a deceptive semblance of substance that the script doesn’t define and the action doesn’t dramatize. “John Wick: Chapter 2” Is Just a Trailer for Chapter 3 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Success in school calls for a specific set of skills—for instance, time management, reading comprehension, and the application of learned abilities in narrowly defined contexts. 5 Real World Skills You Won’t Learn in School 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Which is to say that “At Long Last Love” is a lavish feast of performance; for that matter, like many great movies, it defines a mode of performance. Review: “At Long Last Love,” a Peter Bogdanovich Masterwork That Was Despised in Its Time 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

"All the people he's worked with, he has helped shape and define the New Orleans sound," she said. Second weekend of Jazz Fest kicks off Thursday 2012-05-03T12:31:08Z

But the really memorable moments that come out of the Grammys are the ones that clarify and define a star’s role on the public stage. Here Are the Best and Worst Moments of the 2016 Grammys 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Critics “will define it as the quintessential bit of insecurity, and it so wasn’t insecurity,” she says. Sally Field’s relentless quest for respect: ‘The roles I cared about deeply I had to fight for’ 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

In it, he defined perverse actions as those undertaken when our normal desire for the good—perhaps the moral good, or maybe just the narrower good of self-interest—is reversed. The Strange Appeal of Perverse Actions 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

But her lack of defining characteristics that might suggest a future artistic trajectory, is, I think, part of the movie’s point. The Cringey Teen Spirit of “Eighth Grade” 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

“Captain America: Civil War” and “The Purge: Election Year” may sound like the zeitgeist, but if you’re looking for the defining movie of 2016, look no further than the new “Ghostbusters.” The Best Movies of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

And finally, there are the “case studies” — glass cases containing garments that represent an important turning point for American fashion, as defined by the curators. The Multi-Layered Movie of American Fashion 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

The group included sisters Yvonne, Mavis and Cynthia, but Cleotha was the backbone, defining herself by being the "strong, silent type," said Carpenter, author of "Uncloudy Day: The Gospel Music Encyclopedia." Correction: Obit-Cleotha Staples story 2013-02-25T18:00:10Z

An interaction is defined as hovering or clicking on a display ad. Capitalizing On Attention, A New Pricing Scheme Will Change How Digital Ads Are Sold 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

It’s also a defining factor in the crime stories “The Kitchen” and “Hustlers,” where women form uneasy, contingent sisterhoods as a bulwark against male power and as a way to provide for their families. Men Are in Trouble and Hollywood Wants to Help 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

We get into issues like, how do we define what being intelligent and a good student is? White adults need to watch “America to Me,” the most important show about teens on TV now 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

In many ways, Spam is what the food critic Soleil Ho defines as assimilation food, or "food that's made to close the gap between homes: a critical need when one lives in exile." The lonely legacy of Spam 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z

I would say that to define oneself is to limit oneself. Deepak Chopra Has Never Been Sick 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

They define details such as perspective and camera movements, as well as positions of figures and other moving objects. Ghost in the Shell's urban dreamscapes: behind the moody art of the anime classic 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Like I could just go from one social scene to another but don’t have to be defined or limited by each one. Rachel Kushner on What She Takes From Art (and Artists) 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

Staying power defines a star in an industry with the attention span of a flea and the memory of a goldfish. How to stage a Hollywood comeback 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

Not everyone, alas, defines academic privilege the same way. Cultural Studies: The Littlest Redshirts: Postponing Kindergarten 2010-08-20T18:22:00Z

He wants you to know this large fact because he believes it defines him. Modern Love: The Hardest Lesson to Learn 2011-02-04T18:20:03Z

William McDonough is the American architect who co-authored the book, “Cradle to Cradle,” which defines design as a force for good. 2010-02-01T08:36:00Z

Their friendship and its convulsions are defining elements of the story, of course. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1 Finale Recap: The Angriest Dragon 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

“Everything is done with a little bit of a wink, wink,” Himebauch, who defines himself as self-taught, said in a recent interview. Artist or Artifice: Who Is Adam Himebauch? 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

Until early this year, the newspaper reviewed, in principle, every movie that received a theatrical release in New York—though I’m not certain how they defined “theatrical release.” The Cinema Isn’t a Place; It’s An Idea 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

The word “define” literally means “to set boundaries against,” as in to box up our understanding, pen it in. The monsters we create: On Stephen King’s “It,” the creepy clown epidemic and Donald Trump 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

What was supposed to be background set dressing was rebuilt to support Hardy, and thus spawned the defining moment for a weird and warped comic-book franchise. Tom Hardy, Andy Serkis sink their teeth into ‘Venom’ sequel 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

Linguists define the word palindrome as a term or set of numbers that read the same when arranged forward and backward. Baby born 2/22/22 at 2:22 am in room 2: 'Blessing for her family' 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Taylor has written about the idea that a masculine aesthetic, developed over centuries, continues to define excellence in literature. Has Virago changed the publishing world's attitudes towards women? 2013-03-14T08:00:02Z

It was an experience that changed his life and came to define his signature style. Don Bachardy puts honest face on fame in 'Hollywood' 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

American culture – and define it along any brow you like – has been integrated, however uneasily and imperfectly, for a lot longer than the nation itself. The unbearable whiteness of the Letterman farewells: Let this truly be the end of a show-business era 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

The city that once defined hippie counterculture and gay liberation has become a decadent emblem of American inequality. She's stepping down from A.C.T., but Carey Perloff continues the fight for women's stories 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

It is, or should be, different—life’s defining traumatic event, and one with the power to reshape everyone it touches. 'Game of Thrones' Proves Death on TV Is Meaningless Now 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

This one dude says there are various ways of defining nothing. TV review: Horizon: What Happened Before the Big Bang? and Wild Britain with Ray Mears 2010-10-12T07:00:00Z

Selling many thousands of copies, it defined Wagner singing in the minds of the broader public. A Tale of Two Sopranos: Astrid Varnay and Birgit Nilsson 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

At last, courtesy of the Cubitt Gallery in London, the firm that defined British design for three decades is getting a reappraisal. Design Research Unit: the firm that branded Britain 2010-10-12T14:47:00Z

So especially in America, and the West more generally, we've defined ourselves in opposition to an agreed upon enemy. "American Carnage" isn't about Donald Trump: "I don't think the Trumps are that interesting" 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

Especially as Mr. Goldstein has defined the heist film for this series, it is more of an elastic label than a strict genre. It?s All About a Dishonest Day?s Work 2010-10-01T04:19:00Z

But Hlehel, 35, is a citizen of Israel, and Israeli law bans its citizens from visiting countries defined as "enemy states" – which include Lebanon – without a permit from the interior minister or prime minister. Writer petitions the Israeli supreme court over travel ban 2010-03-26T15:04:00Z

For some, it will also be their first brush with the kind of social hierarchies and snarkiness that define school for many of their peers. How a small school for gifted kids in the D.C. exurbs gets big results 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Overly sombre and self-important, it does at least attempt to explore what it would entail for a life to be defined by the joyless pursuit of emotionless sex. Are you a female movie character? Are you promiscuous? Things won’t end well for you … 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

When I asked Blair to define Blairism, he talked for a moment about equality of opportunity, but his real interest seemed to be in how the formula could be updated forever. The Return of Tony Blair 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

Now 77, he remains defined by his sideman work, though his ambitious works as a bandleader and composer has helped connect anarchic avant-gardism with a vast historical family of music from America, Europe and Africa. Jazz Giants Dave Burrell and Archie Shepp Retrace Their Five-Decade History 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

“It’s hard to define them now,” Dr. Frank said. Skin Deep: Toner, Often Met With a Shrug, Is Having Its Moment — Skin Deep 2013-06-04T00:36:05Z

Whatever word you choose to define the moves the manager made in Game 1 of the World Series, there is only one way to describe the outcome: successful. Game 1: Cardinals beat Rangers 3-2 2011-10-20T03:16:00Z

How do you define activism to that point in your own day-to-day life? Maggie Q returns to action with "The Protégé" despite an injury: "Everyone around me was terrified" 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z

Hopper continued photographing the world around him and defining his distinctive observational style until 1967, when the idea for Easy Rider started gestating in his head. Dennis Hopper's Lost Album: life both sides of the lens 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

A helicopter will try to deliver food twice a week, but in a place where “every hour of your day is defined by nature”, the archipelago is impenetrable most of the time. They got their dream job away from it all – but what happened next? 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

I love it with all my heart; it is the craft that defines me. My awful past keeps me from writing 2013-02-25T01:00:00Z

We come to know them as defined entirely by their degree of faith. New Books by Claire Vaye Watkins, Marie NDiaye and More 2012-08-29T21:12:46Z

The hair that blanketed his back helped define his identity. When we all shaved our heads 2012-10-18T00:00:00Z

I prefer the noun to the adjective because it highlights that my blindness does not define who I am; it is one tile in a complicated mosaic. I’m blind – but it can be a blessing in disguise 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

Even so, his fusion of text, music and stage action rarely refutes a tenuous connection to opera as conventionally defined. Music Review: ?That Morning Thing? at the Kitchen for Performa 11 - Review 2011-11-23T23:38:54Z

Spielberg’s career is, of course, defined by his successes. Steven Spielberg’s 3 Biggest Failures, According to Steven Spielberg 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

For example, if you’re going to moderate, you’ve got to define for yourself exactly what that is and then constantly prevent yourself from having “just a bit more.” Help! How do I stop smoking pot? 2012-10-07T15:00:00Z

Having defined the pictorial grammar of Neo-Plasticism, Mondrian bent the rules, composing variations and taking the idea to minimalist extremes, with a single triangle of colour and two intersecting lines, for instance. Mondrian and De Stijl at the Pompidou Centre, Paris ? review 2011-01-11T14:00:19Z

In 1870s America, “whiteness was defined by more than white skin,” Posner, who is Jewish, points out. The election is on everyone's mind as SCR presents 'All the Way' and 'District Merchants' 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

And money defines the character relationships, not just between the guests and staff but among the guests. Review: ‘The White Lotus’ Offers Scenery From the Class Struggle 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

“She has to define herself as a woman for the first time,” Ms. Carter said. Standouts on ‘Grimm,’ ‘Legit,’ ‘Blue Bloods’ and Other Shows 2014-03-21T20:16:42Z

For Jones, a scholar of the ’60s, the letters illustrate the paradox of an era defined in popular memory by a countercultural ethos that didn’t penetrate very deeply into society. An Heir, a $25 Million Giveaway and 30,000 Unopened Letters 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

It was only when she watched the series that Coel really understood how the show’s creator, Hugo Blick, used Kate’s fight to accept a new part of her identity to interrogate how we define ourselves. How Michaela Coel Shaped ‘I May Destroy You’ 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

We all tend to have personal mythologies — images of ourselves that we accept as defining, even if they are not entirely wonderful. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: The case of the missing hidden books 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

Here, the rhetoric is not as grand, the stakes are less sharply defined and the actors wear their borrowed personalities lightly. ‘Tesla’ Review: Lightning Strikes, but Quietly 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

How long before no gathering of family and friends was complete without it, before major holidays and celebrations were defined in part by the use of this drug to assure pleasure? Is sugar the world’s most popular drug? | Gary Taubes 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Anthony Dickey, who in 2007 founded Hair Rules, said he’s seeing more products like his, which define hair according to texture, thanks in part to women sharing advice over the Internet. Skin Deep: As the Curl Turns ...(and Turns and Turns) 2013-08-28T16:13:19Z

But as much as any other virtue or quality he possesses, what has lately come to define Mr. Fallon is his interview with Mr. Trump from Sept. 15. Jimmy Fallon Was on Top of the World. Then Came Trump. 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

"For the first time, there will be a clearly defined web address for adult entertainment, further out of the reach of minors and as free as possible from fraud or computer viruses," he said. Adult entertainment domain .xxx is finally approved by US authorities 2011-03-20T00:05:53Z

My experience differed only by name and by those who assumed power to define what was pure or impure. True love waits? The story of my purity ring and feeling like I didn't have a choice 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

To find good barbecue while traveling, Michael Smith advises that you look for ambience—depending, of course, on how you define the word. These Are America’s Best Cities for Barbecue 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

In fact, "The Biggest Loser" may be the world's most American show, built on the same principles of capitalism and dreams that have long defined this country. Why "The Biggest Loser" is the most American show 2010-05-25T19:01:00Z

The Education Department disappears, and the trees, not yet substantial enough to offer shade by day, become pleasantly ornamental, defining an allée that leads to the Capitol. Review | The new Eisenhower Memorial is stunning, especially at night. But is this the last of the ‘great man’ memorials? 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

“I think our brand is much more clearly defined,” he said. Discovery Woos the Man With Cash for Cars, Sports and Fancy Toys 2011-09-18T23:00:13Z

A more hidebound Japanese game would force you to partner with specific premade characters defined by the game’s developer. Video Game Review: Dragon Quest IX, a New Game for the Nintendo DS 2010-07-26T22:58:00Z

A more culturally subtle answer might be Tony Blair, since he defined so many of the questions with which mainstream politics still grapples. Heard the one about the corrupt, lying politician? 2011-08-25T21:30:03Z

That final sentence has come to, if not define then at least hint at, the singular attitude that underlies his democratic way of seeing. Writing and photography ? is a picture really worth a thousand words? 2010-08-04T05:00:00Z

I’m more interested in exploring what the sound of this decade is, because I don’t think it’s clearly been defined yet. | Lo-Fang: Lo-Fang Embraces His New Success 2014-02-20T16:20:22Z

For Wang, the experience of schizophrenia is defined as much by the spectre of her symptoms returning as by periods of actual psychosis. In “The Collected Schizophrenias,” Esmé Weijun Wang Maps the Terrain of Her Mental Illness 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

The garden is defined by its cycles, and although some periods are a lot quieter than others, they are all dynamic and available to be seen and impart their wonder. The growing season may be almost over, but the gardener’s work is not done 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

But this vast array of news and information sources — from the New York Times to Rubber and Plastics News — helps define what’s wrong with referring to “the media.” Dear readers: Please stop calling us ‘the media.’ There is no such thing. 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

“Agon” — black and white, with no more story than the complex, dodecaphonic music and tensely intricate dance design — still defines modern ballet. Review: At City Ballet, Taylor Stanley Is a God for Our Time 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

“The root idea was about how religion has been a force of civilization — almost like a technology that has defined some of the ways we perceive things,” Fennell said. At Seattle’s Museum of Museums, a pseudo-religion generated by artificial intelligence and machine learning 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

The desire for an unmediated meeting of artwork and viewer is the defining objective at the museum campus in Potomac, Md., and is achieved through its own state of applied thoughtfulness. Glenstone’s landcaping as mindful as its artwork 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

"And one of the defining characteristics is that they’re so highly engineered and processed, you really can’t tell what original food stuff from the farm went into them." Journalist Michael Moss says people have been conditioned to consume processed foods like a drug addiction 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

This preoccupation can be seen as Borges's defining concern and is the meaning at the centre of the symbol he most frequently employs: the labyrinth. A brief survey of the short story part 27: Jorge Luis Borges 2010-07-22T10:59:00Z

Dock’s soulful style defined 1970s baseball as he kept hitters honest and embarrassed the establishment. The Carpetbagger: Sundance, Film by Film 2013-12-04T22:31:45Z

But it fits the mood right now, one defined not by the army of his television successors but by the Australian stand-up Hannah Gadsby. If Comedy Is Making You Feel Bad, You’re Not Paying Attention 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Melania Trump’s tenure as first lady is being defined largely by her inscrutability. Late-Night TV in 2018: Trump, Trump, Facebook and More Trump 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

Around 2016, she went symmetrical, most impressively with a series of cruciform compositions defined by right-angled bands of slightly jarring colors radiating into the paintings’ corners. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Tonight's "Breaking Bad," "Shotgun," ended with a scene that did what TV drama does best: define characters so completely that you feel as if you know them as well as you know yourself. "Breaking Bad" 4x5, "Shotgun" 2011-08-15T06:01:00Z

An orchestra in the international super-league, as excellent as those of Berlin and Vienna; an orchestra that defined the cultural identity of London, a source of pride way beyond its regular audiences? The secret of Berlin's shine 2011-02-27T17:00:01Z

This is particularly crucial at the outset of their primary campaigns, when they have a chance to define themselves before their opponents are able to, and before super-PAC money floods the general election. Perspective | Ocasio-Cortez, Hegar and the art of making your political ad feel like an uplifting movie 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

The little two-story storefront, which opens onto the street where some of the grilling takes place, is furnished with those same oilcloth-covered tables and plastic stools that seem to define street food everywhere. In Vietnam, Street Food Moves From Sidewalk to Storefront 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z

Five years ago, Quinn made a series of sculptures of people with disabilities whose body defined them – most famously Alison Lapper, armless and with short legs, displayed on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth. Just don't call it a freak show 2010-04-30T23:07:00Z

For a long time, it was about finding and defining myself. What women want: a vivid portrait of female lives around the world 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

"That age for a child is very, very defining, so I'm very cautious and hope I'm doing the right thing," she says. Act your age: the new wave of high-powered child stars 2010-07-22T20:59:00Z

Blanca got her positive diagnosis minutes after that initial Royalty walk, but it doesn't define her road in the series. "Pose" kicks off its final fabulous walk by ratcheting up the nonsense as well as its optimism 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z

“It’s about discovering the application of their greatness. The problem is that no one has defined what greatness looks like, so the quest has no specific destination.” 'Toddler twins, a demanding job... why not take on an Ironman?' 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

That was the defining word, in one of his signature neologisms, meaning: “Being there in the world.” A Black Forest trek to German philosopher Heidegger’s writing ‘hut’ 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

That’s all because it feels like an incomplete way to define all of the Black cooking experience. Two Chefs on Keeping Alive, and Redefining, Soul Food 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

One is insurrection, defined as “an act or instance of revolting against civil authorities or an established government.” Riot? Insurrection? Words matter in describing Capitol siege 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z

The city that’s been my home for 12 years has always been defined by its dualities and contrasts. Read Your Way Through Edinburgh 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

“It defined my thought patterns; its TV defining my day-to-day life.” Perspective | A Palestinian play comes to the Kennedy Center, offering a comedic olive branch 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

Aside from the short-lived television drama “Commander in Chief,” in which Geena Davis played the title role, there’s little that visually defines how such authority and strength might look on a woman. Women’s power dressing enters the enlightened era

To Freedman, Finch’s acts and omissions defined a lawyer who lived his life as a “passive participant” in “pervasive injustice.” Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

He doesn’t yet have the gift for defining a person with a posture, a gesture or a linguistic tic, and his accents tend to travel. Review: In ‘Draw the Circle,’ a Girl Becomes a Man 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Among them are early photographs and sculptures that helped to define West Coast Pop, graffiti-inspired paintings, set-like wall constructions and the requisite film installations. July 11 ? 17 2010-07-09T22:44:00Z

More than seven decades later, the whereabouts of a panel belonging to one of Western art's defining works, the "Adoration of the Mystic Lamb," also known as the "Ghent Altarpiece," remains a mystery. Art's perfect theft: the `Ghent Altarpiece' 2012-11-19T10:46:03Z

This is important, especially when it comes to her religious agenda, which, he argues, is defined by Third Wave/New Apostolic ideology and the desire to tear down the walls between church and state. Tales of of cocaine, infidelity in Palin book 2011-09-15T15:41:00Z

Indeed, it may end up being one of the defining comedy specials of our time. What happened to Dave Chappelle: The cruelty of "Sticks & Stones" is a sign of the times 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Since the Kennedy Center run that ended in July, their portrayals have matured and their characters grown more finely calibrated to one another — even, paradoxically, as each of the sisters’ personalities seems more clearly defined. A big, beautiful “Side Show” on Broadway

Ruby, who defined gracious country living, served delicious food in a quiet and beautiful setting. Bronson’s Last Call: Arkansas Chili 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Later, she sings “nobody out there ever gets to define/the life I’m meant to lead.” ‘The Prom’ Review: Showbiz Sanctimony, and All That Zazz 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

“Sam enjoys the lighter aspects of her life, but they are not what defines her,” said Ms. Burch, who has known her for 20 years. Paging Dr. Samantha Boardman, for My Mental Health 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

For them it is still a place defined by a war. Art Review: Vietnamese Voices Against a Whir of War 2010-08-12T21:59:00Z

Here is a look at some of the defining events that have shaped the NFL and television: A look at the seminal broadcasting moves that define the NFL 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

“Sound is ubiquitous and penetrating, defined by the indefinable, exciting and fluid,” Ms. Little said. Special Report: An Artist Whose Work 'Sounds Like Stars' 2010-10-13T13:00:00Z

The central part of the vast, sprawling city is defined by semicircular ring roads that arch around the Kremlin — the city’s heart — like crescent moons. Moscow in the Winter, Alive and Illuminated 2011-11-25T06:01:08Z

Many of these workers are now either temps or defined as “independent contractors.” A nation of temps 2012-08-22T21:53:00Z

The dazzling conceit that defines Caroline’s workplace, a basement of anthropomorphic appliances, remains thrilling. Perspective | In words and music, New York theaters take aim at an America at war with itself 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

Mr. Boltanski, who is French, holds celebrity status here for a permanent installation he designed 10 years ago that defined a commemorative Museum for the Memory of Ustica. Christian Boltanski Project Touches Bologna’s Traumas, and His Own 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

“Whatever she is, Temple was not defined by the boy she had a crush on.” 2010-01-31T05:37:00Z

The group helped define the rock ‘n’ roll sound of the early ’90s with Seattle contemporaries Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains. Soundgarden and Dave Matthews Band not among Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2020 inductees 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

Fashion photography, a discipline defined by artifice, is perhaps not the most immediate venue for politics. Tyler Mitchell: ‘Black Beauty Is an Act of Justice’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

In defining himself as black, Williams lived in “an extremely complicated and willed simplicity that, for me, was a telltale sign that I was back home.” How Moving to France and Having Children Led a Black American to Rethink Race 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

In fact, it is precisely this fascination with defining space through light, with mapping atmospheres of sun and shadow, that is the great Venetian gift to European painting. How Canaletto and the Venetian artists light up the National Gallery 2010-10-15T11:19:00Z

I would think something like, “Well, it was the defining event of your adulthood thus far, so naturally you’re going to be preoccupied with it.” I took my dead father to a Red Sox game 2013-03-09T15:00:00Z

But he doesn’t want the world to define him in terms of difference. An Indian Food Writer Breaks Free From Tradition 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

The responsibilities defined in a music director’s employment agreement are often nebulous. Baton Inflation: American Conductor Salaries Hit a New High 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

Everything is sharply defined, in sleek monochrome, relieved only by Krapp's red socks – a clownish touch – and the banana he swallows in ritualised movements. Krapp's Last Tape – review 2012-08-26T17:00:01Z

But Mr. Zukofsky’s retreat also seemed to have resulted, associates said, from the uneasy relationships that had defined his life from earliest childhood. Paul Zukofsky, Virtuoso Violinist and Literary Executor, Dies at 73 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Pich, who lived through the Khmer Rouge years as a child, resists defining his work autobiographically but acknowledges in it traces of his own and his country’s past. Art in Review: ‘Cambodian Rattan: The Sculptures of Sopheap Pich’ 2013-05-02T19:18:48Z

And for young artists with disabilities seeking to define virtuosity on their own terms, it offers a path forward. For composer Molly Joyce, disability is no barrier to virtuosity 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

To define some spaces, Hale sought to enclose them. With rooms remade and all kept simple, condo design shines 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

But accepting someone’s right to define their own personhood and identity is what it means to love someone. Perspective | Ask Amy: Denying child’s identity is a rejection 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

This is a cuisine defined by its multiplicity. Tejal Rao’s 10 Essential Indian Recipes 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

It's a key part of his journey and a defining time for a character who has always been strong. "Peaky Blinders" and Tommy Shelby's perceived crime of sobriety 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

The shifting currents of desire, jealousy, frustration and decency that define the Austin-Nora-Martha triangle flow through a complicated circuitry that encompasses the extended King family, the neighborhood, the town and even the nation. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Kendrick's career has been defined by a string of strong and unorthodox characters. Anna Kendrick: 'It's all about that fatal flaw' 2012-05-24T19:30:00Z

"We're just trying to use the witchcraft as a backdrop to explore otherwise relatable issues that these kids are going through as they transition into adulthood and as they define themselves." The CW invites you into its 'Secret Circle' 2011-09-15T19:10:04Z

The exact nature of the show hasn't yet been defined, but MTV says it will be a "multiscreen experience," including the Internet, social media and mobile — but not broadcast. Music news: Keith Urban to warm up Super Bowl crowd; MTV announces new awards 2011-01-20T20:17:04Z

“Bro-country and all these happy party and love songs have been on the radio for the last 15 years. I still don’t get it, but radio, unfortunately, kind of defines what country music is.” Dave Cobb: Wrangling Rough Country Beasts Toward Nashville 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

“We don’t even know how to define what Snooki is so good at,” he said. Snooki?s Time on ?Jersey Shore? 2010-07-23T21:47:00Z

It’s this inescapable brawl of ideas and ideals, needs and resentments that define Algiers. Algiers is a political band in a political time. But don’t try to box them in. 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Shift isn’t necessarily supposed to be a festival of American music, but when a small orchestra is aiming to define itself to a new audience, new music is one clear way to go. Review | In festival opener, a small orchestra shows it deserves the spotlight 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

“It is art and culture which defines us.” Arts Groups Draft Battle Plans as Trump Funding Cuts Loom 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

So, too is that admixture of high glamour and drawstring comfort that defines the actual relationship between Hollywood and fashion. Tom Ford’s ‘Very L.A.’ Show 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

He’s not the only distinctive sound artist of modern jazz, but he’s the one whose sound defines a sensibility and an era. Postscript: Rudy Van Gelder (1924-2016), Modern Jazz’s Listener of Genius 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

States that defined themselves as secular now started arguing that a war against Iraq might well be "just", or even "holy". Kathryn Hughes: rereading Alone of All Her Sex by Marina Warner 2013-03-23T07:00:15Z

In this framework, “your” side is defined as pretty much the opposite of whatever the people you usually hate are saying right now. Crossfire Is Returning Early, Just in Time to Oversimplify Syria 2013-09-03T15:20:07Z

A film defined by close, cramped quarters and, for McCarey, an uncharacteristically restrained use of music, suddenly becomes spatially expansive and filled with melody. DVDs: In the Depression, a Couple Undone 2010-02-19T23:59:00Z

Lexington is in the central-west part of the state, and its style is defined, in part, by “red slaw,” chopped cabbage in a thin ketchup-inflected vinegar and pepper dressing. The powerful culinary imprint that’s missing from the African American Museum 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

One of the defining characteristics of London is its dramatic blending of architectural styles. ‘Mortal Engines’: How the Filmmakers Created a Roaming London 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

We’ve not seen a president this hostile to core values that have defined the workings and the strength of our democracy.A free and open press has become “enemies of the people.” ‘We the people’ means all of us, ACLU director says 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

He defined himself on his own terms, not least in his writing. A Provocative Satirist Left a Pervasive Legacy, Influencing African Writing 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

The cabbie had noticed my hair colour, my friend's Highland jaw, our different yet somehow singly defined accents. What's the future of the Union? 2011-08-27T23:05:40Z

To instead bring the audience into the celebration of the human spirit in all its complexity and glory that drives and defines the words of Dr Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou and me: adapting her memoirs brought me eye to eye with an icon 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

She certainly was writing at a time when the resistance was not only the white establishment but also black theaters that really defined theater as that which was written by men. Seven Flames Kindled by the Focused Fire of Ntozake Shange 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

How do you define yourself in the field? Dr. Drew is worried about the "impact of pornography" and reveals his COVID-19 fears 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

With a few defining strokes, he paints whimsical faces on tables, chairs and doors, breaking with Modernism’s abstraction, blurring the boundary between art and design. Gaetano Pesce Adds ‘Performance Artist’ to His Portfolio 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

That’s precisely what I found in this city, where creative bartenders are establishing new traditions in a way that’s uniquely Berlinesque — imaginative while nodding to the “cultural extravaganza” that historically defined it. Drinking in Berlin’s traditional, yet iconoclastic, cocktail-bar scene 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

All eyes are on Somnez's suit, the results of which could pave the way for how bias is defined in reporting going forward, especially in regards to the personal experiences and identities of journalists. “Being emotionally closer to stories isn’t weakness”: Inside Post reporter's bombshell lawsuit 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

Their story exemplifies the tension between idealism and profit that became a defining element of our national character. ‘The Manor’: unearthing a history of Northern slavery 2013-07-24T22:05:57Z

As a "true democracy," public opinion defined the limits of India's forebearance, but Menon stressed that India did not wish to play into the hands of the terrorists by shunning dialogue. US embassy cables: Indian concern over security in Afghanistan 2010-12-16T21:30:34Z

Oh, and it rocks too, in the genre-defying way that defined Prince’s career. Music Review: Prince’s ‘America’ vault release stunning 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

Ms Dumas is not unhappy about her auction results, but she resents being defined by them: “You want to be recognised for something that you’ve done,” she says. Brushing with the world 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

“My friends. This film will not be the defining image of Amy,” he wrote on Feb. 21. Amy Winehouse’s Father Denounces Amy Oscars Win 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

And you can't allow either a crisis or a triumph to be the only thing that defines you. A Minute With: Colin Firth from royal to ordinary 'Arthur Newman' 2013-04-25T17:20:37Z

The most defining point in a young boy’s life, and you missed it all. A letter to … My dad, whom I haven’t seen for 10 years 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

In a humorous, lively style, she made compelling drama out of the everyday problems, small injustices and perplexing mysteries — adults chief among them — that define middle-class American childhood. Beverly Cleary, Beloved Children’s Book Author, Dies at 104 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

His ordinariness is the defining characteristic of his celebrity. Adam Sandler: goofy chipmunk known for fart jokes has a serious side too 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

“We are always forced to try to define ourselves as one thing,” Mr. Trier said. Renate Reinsve Steps, Reluctantly, Into the Spotlight 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

They illustrate two styles the grape can achieve, with the level of sweetness defining the difference. Rieslings to help you decide whether you like them sweeter or drier 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

It was the end of an era – if you define era as "the third series of BBC1 drama Mistresses". Mistresses: series three, episode four 2010-08-26T21:00:00Z

It takes in the elegant Edwardian "three graces": the Royal Liver, Cunard and Port of Liverpool buildings, which have defined the view from the Mersey for almost a century. Unesco meets to discuss Liverpool's world heritage status 2012-06-20T13:54:39Z

Trends are slippery things that consistently resist our best attempts to define them — particularly these days when any “-core” can go viral on TikTok, distorting our ability to determine what has mass popular appeal. Searching for the ‘Vibe Shift’ at Coachella 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z

What defined each character was utter confidence, a blowhard belief that blinded their cluelessness. Dr. Steve Brule, Tim & Eric comic forces to be reckoned with 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

He defines his "real politics" in opposition to what he calls "parliamentary cretinism". Alain Badiou: a life in writing 2012-05-18T21:55:11Z

Cambridge Dictionary defines it as “the type of food that people eat when they are sad or worried, often sweet food or food that people ate as children.” These Gingery Soba Noodles May Just Defy Definition 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

The other, the press took little interest in at the time – but since her death in 2000, this is the story that has come to define her. Hedy Lamarr – the 1940s ‘bombshell’ who helped invent wifi 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

No feminist herself, Ms. Frankenthaler was often defined by her romantic relationship with formalism’s ruthless arbiter, Clement Greenberg, and her later marriage to the painter Robert Motherwell, another polemicist of high modernism. Berkshire Tour: Formalism Relaxes, Handcraft Goes Digital 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

Hollywood’s comic interpretation of the pregnant man always masked some deeply misogynistic ideas, and now they have emerged from the subtext to define the character himself. Pregnant Men Were a Movie Punchline. Now They’re Horror Villains. 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

In a trailer for Game of Thrones, the voice of the actor Aiden Gillen can be heard defining chaos as a ladder: "The climb is all there is." 'Game of Thrones is more brutally realistic than most historical novels' 2013-03-24T19:00:01Z

The shake is a shocking color, and its flavor is not defined by the company, making it ripe for debate. In a TikTok Trend, Grisly Scenes of Purple Milkshake Horror 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

Their very names say "no" to a system that signifies who you are supposed to be, defined by your caste. In "Writing With Fire," reporters from India's lowest caste defy the patriarchy to seek justice 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z

Infidelity is as difficult to study as it is to define. Two Real Stories That Will Change Your Mind About Cheating 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

The rational mind seeks to define the experience in positive, if awestruck terms. Jon Savage on song: The Dovers open their Third Eye 2010-10-04T12:55:00Z

An individual whose most defining moment came as an intern, and nearly twenty years ago, might not at first sound like a likely candidate for a TED talk. Monica Lewinsky is right about public shaming 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Drawing on his own experiments with peyote and his growing understanding of metaphysics, he created an image that exactly defines the Grateful Dead in performance in 1968. The greatest ever album covers 2012-07-06T16:00:14Z

It took three years to construct, cost the equivalent of almost $50 million and is the defining landscape feature around the house. The landscape architect who bottled nature 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

Sometimes a writer might even define a place, as Hemingway did for 1920s Paris. Footsteps: Where a Poet’s Vision Lives on in India 2013-02-01T18:07:13Z

It refused to be defined with its own rebellious spirit, much like the sherry-makers themselves. Pursuits: Sharing a Sherry Treasured in Spain 2013-01-02T17:44:45Z

His guitar style — with chainsaw chords producing bright melodies — helped to define the postpunk sound, influencing everyone from the Pixies to Green Day to Nirvana. Bob Mould's See a Little Light: From Angry Young Man to Wise Elder Statesman of Rock 2011-06-29T09:30:00Z

That she uses fashion in some sense to define herself. Candace Bushnell: Author of Sex and the City and The Carrie Diaries 2010-05-07T09:00:00Z

The two things that define our sovereignty – the royal family and our nuclear technology – are under attack. Is a catchy title really the best means of safeguarding nuclear security? 2010-12-19T00:06:14Z

I don't particularly define myself as middle class, It just doesn't work like that. Melvyn Bragg: 'I'm a class mongrel' ? interview 2012-02-12T00:06:06Z

Bright reds and blues and sharply defined forms contrast earth tones and abstractly patterned areas. In the galleries: Rooted in nature but not always natural 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

But they’re all that defines her; so many of the characters here seem more like personifications of suffering or dysfunction than like people. Review: ‘Seven Seconds,’ a Grim Account of Whose Lives Matter 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

In his best-known painting, the 1909 “Stag at Sharkey’s,” the colliding bodies of the two fighters are defined by sinuous strokes of paint that make their flesh seem almost to meld at impact. Art Review: ‘George Bellows,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-11-15T23:23:38Z

“Transformative travel is typically defined as something that wraps you up in story, is extremely emotional, challenges you and shakes up your life.” Your Next Trip Might Change Your Life 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

I like the thought of, "Who am I? Do I define who I am? Does my life define who I am? Can I change that?" "Dual" director on a world where Karen Gillan duels her own clone for survival: "Karen is a maestro" 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

A third generation of modern conservatives is now taking shape, he added, although its defining characteristics are still unclear. ?Epistemic Closure?? Those Are Fighting Words for Conservatives 2010-04-27T22:19:00Z

He wrote euphemistically in “Abraham Lincoln: The War Years,” a 1926 biography of the 16th president, that their kinship was defined by “a streak of lavender and spots soft as May violets.” Caught in a bad bromance? We should be encouraging man hugs, not mocking them 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

There are also flashbacks to some kind of childhood trauma — young Bessie is seen running around screaming — that is never really defined or connected to anything driving the adult. Review: ‘Bessie,’ on HBO, Stars Queen Latifah as Blues Singer 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

But it was the presence of the mountain rising above the town that seemed to define its character, for me at least. Imprint: Echoes of the Savage and Sublime on Mount Tamalpais 2013-08-14T19:06:13Z

This overview of postmodern design paints a complete portrait of the playful, colorful and innovative aesthetic that defined a decade. Inspiring, transporting and just plain gorgeous coffee table books 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

These viral anti-logos were for a while a phenomenon, they defined their moment, and demonstrated the immediacy with which ideas of spoof and protest could be disseminated. London 2012 anti-logos 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a simplicity to the next summer's collection that is hard to define as minimalist, given the volume-creating effects of folds in A-line skirts and peplums, or short overskirts, added to tops and jackets. Colors in, and black out, on Milan runway 2012-09-23T22:46:03Z

The minute a hip-hop producer establishes a signature sound, his challenge is to prove that sound doesn’t define him — and to stay ahead of his imitators. Lex Luger Can Write a Hit Rap Song in the Time It Takes to Read This 2011-11-04T17:42:52Z

In his book The Necessity of Theater, American aesthetician Nick Woodruff defines theatre as a combination of two practices: the art of making human action worth watching and the art of watching. Snooze and you lose: the dangers of falling asleep at the theatre 2010-10-05T13:38:00Z

Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that he was a person of letters in the classic mold, in which literature is defined by its engagement with the world. How will Guenter Grass be remembered? 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

In this story, over time, the trials, terror and uncertainty that characterized his son's early life fall by the wayside, and Bissinger learns to define him not by his limitations but by his unique gifts. Buzz Bissinger's 'Father's Day': a father's love for two vastly different sons 2012-05-23T22:59:03Z

Simon Wall relished the challenge of defining ornately decorated lines and was expertly matched by Thomas Herford in tenor duo partnership. La Nuova Musica/Bates ? review 2010-12-16T22:00:01Z

Kirk tries defining it — and Trump’s thinking — a few times, but he can’t quite agree with himself even on its back story. Three Views of Donald Trump 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

Even if there were plenty of racists in the North and unionists in the South, the question of slavery largely defined the outlines of the war. 7 misconceptions about the Civil War 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z

Unlikability–or, more accurately, a certain coldness, harshness, not being easy to get along with–is one of the central circumstances defining of her life. Olive Kitteridge and Why "Likability" Is for Saps 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

One of the defining aspects of a director’s job is to find what actors have and to exalt it. Nina Simone and the Clichés of the Musical Bio-Pic 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Her adventure, she said, was to define — or redefine — “What is dance?” Twyla Tharp, the Maximal Minimalist, and Her ‘Eight Jelly Rolls’ 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

How do we define what a piece of art is? Sarah Sze Aims for Precise Randomness in Installing Her Gallery Show 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

A large area rug defines the space while adding warmth and interest to the design. How to create a modern, comfortable living space with room for games and reading 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

“I hate that something that I love so much is defined as something elitist,” said Gaffigan, a native Staten Islander and public school graduate. A Conductor Comes Into His Own in the Opera Pit 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

It all had the monkish purity of form, rigor and lack of extraneous froufrou that defined Balenciaga in the first place, powered by the pull-the-walls-down forward momentum that marks Mr. Gvasalia’s work. Falling for Couture’s Gravitational Pull 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

Actually, the writers define civility versus raw reality during the series premiere, in an exchange Diane has with another lawyer who smiles in her face even as denies her colleague a second chance. Forget civility: On “The Good Fight,” “Luke Cage” and “Dietland,” resistance means go... 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

Its focus is on "the relationships that define a woman's life," he said. Other networks aimed at women waiting for OWN 2010-12-20T14:04:17Z

Elsewhere, collars - like flaccid marzipan in celebratory cakes - unfurled down from the neck; while a few white stitches, that he used sparingly, succeeded in dominating and defining whole looks in black. Lanvin, Nina Ricci, Balmain are ladylike on day 3 2013-03-01T04:16:08Z

To be clear: Difficulty staying well regulated emotionally and physiologically should be a core, defining feature of autism. We have autism all wrong: The radical new approach we need to understand and treat it 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

At a time when superhero movies were camp irrelevances, these were the characters that defined America, poster boys of cold war dominance, movie stars as walking propaganda. Rambo and the Terminator: the cold war warriors are back 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z

This cycle of expansion and collapse defines the piece; lush, even cinematic gestures are pulled at by sickly downward moans. Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen Takes a Bow in San Francisco 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

Her return to the piano was one catalyst for her indelible Atlantic hits, defining the groove with churchy foundations and building a visceral call-and-response between her fingers and her voice. Jennifer Hudson Knew Aretha Franklin. To Play Her, She Had to Learn More. 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

Before she lost Harry, the couple lost their son, and bereavement is what defines her and drives her forward. ‘Widows’ Review: Viola Davis Commands the Screen in a Somber Heist Film 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

I like it when there's something that's held back so a character isn't defined for you. The Killing: in cold blood 2011-03-31T07:00:00Z

But perhaps it is two other projects that will ultimately best define their relationship; one that succeeded and one that failed. Richard Williams: the master animator 2013-04-19T17:59:00Z

Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham claimed the vote on the bill would "without doubt be the defining moment of what remains of this parliament". David Cameron warned NHS in danger of collapse within five years 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

We live in an age where like-minded communities are a given, where individuals use their love for a movie franchise or a pop singer to define themselves, how they ought to exist in the world. A 500-Story Tower Has Collapsed. Can Humanity Be Rescued From the Rubble? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

Leo does not want me to meet his mother, does not want to get serious and does not want to define the relationship. I Proposed to My Invisible Boyfriend and Here's What Happened 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

“Are borders still representative symbols that help to define us?” More than 65 art galleries to join PST LA/LA museum exhibitions with Latino and Latin American shows 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

And they define a particular genre, what I call “needle-drop” movies, referring to the term for laying songs, or portions of songs, over scenes rather than a specifically composed score. Perspective | Filmmakers are making their soundtracks do all the work, and it’s getting a little lazy 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Servers define the doneness of the meat when you order it and ask diners to verify the grill work by slicing into the steaks once they’re dropped off. Restaurant reviews: Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House and STK DC 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

We worked for almost six years on the worlds and the aliens to define their way of living. Luc Besson Narrates a Scene From ‘Valerian’ 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

One dictionary from 1859 defines it as "To talk in a silly manner, talk nonsense." Talking turkey! How the Thanksgiving bird got its name (and then lent it to film flops) 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

“Legally we define it differently, and culturally we define it differently, and Bill and James were way ahead of the curve.” An AIDS-Era Musical in an Age of Marriage Equality 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Her childhood was defined by working hard, with the major business decisions primarily being made by others. Selena Gomez Tilts the Disney Halo With ‘Revival’ 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Little by little, the client integrates their traumatised self within the bigger narrative of a life that need not be defined only by the bad things. Remember the bad and the good times to build your future 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

Kelly is a bewildering omission: His intricate choreography is a sparkling, distinct part of what defines Usher, the main character, in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical by Michael R. Jackson. ‘MJ’: Dancing the Pain, and Dancing the Pain Away 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

You can wake up and find yourself defined by their space or the world’s space. David O Russell: ‘I relate to Joy – she manages a lot of commerce that is unforgiving and nasty’ 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

In Springora’s account one sees his effort to define and write over their interactions, his refusal of her experience. Two Memoirists Explore Abuse and Survival 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Melting these barriers fills "Only Murders in the Building" with sweet core augmented by the writers' loving attention to the personal quirks defining the most tangential characters. "Only Murders in the Building" bridges Boomer and Millennial sensibilities for a comedy that slays 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

Reflecting on the century marker, Michele said Gucci’s magic is its ability to redefine itself over time, unbeholden to any strictly defined image. Gucci celebrates 100 years with Michele’s ‘Aria’ collection 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

“This one is more defined. We were trying to be bolder with the sonic palette, and making more decisions.” L’Rain’s Songs Hold Ghosts, Demons and Healing 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

Is that what defines soul food for you? Is It Southern Food, or Soul Food? 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

It’s really an amazing insult when you think about it — because it defines precisely all that is wrong with Hannity’s public persona. Jon Stewart vs Sean Hannity: We all know who the real “sanctimonious jackass” is 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

"This is a defining moment in our company's history." Shanghai begins building long-sought Disney park 2011-04-08T10:37:09Z

An incredibly prolific director, Apted’s legacy is perhaps most defined by the nine “Up” films, which followed the lives of 14 economically diverse British children from age 7 to 63. Michael Apted, director of ‘Up’ doc series, dies at 79 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

That update required museums to adopt policies defining “direct care”; it did not require financial duress. The Met plans to use money from art sales to help it survive the pandemic. Critics say it’s a dangerous precedent. 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

It was October 1888, in the midst of a critical six months that defined him as a painter, a period in which he also painted "Sunflowers." 6-month restoration ends of Van Gogh's "Bedroom" 2010-09-02T11:46:00Z

Season 12 confirms that we'll take that any day over the mediocrity that defined the 11th season finale that left the fandom dissatisfied, the baker's least desired taste test verdict. "Great British Baking Show" was a showstopper, redeemed this season by fantastic contestants 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z

The other surprise, revisiting the pilot, is how emotion defines it as much as eccentricity. Twin Peaks at 30: the weird and wonderful show that changed television 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

The question of why we suffer is unanswerable, but how we suffer defines our character and shapes our lives more than we care to acknowledge. | 'Sons of the Prophet': ?Sons of the Prophet? at Laura Pels Theater - Review 2011-10-21T02:14:08Z

Americans like to believe that our thoughts define us: that we need to control that running commentary, shape it and aggressively avoid the “bad” thoughts that supposedly doom us to unhappiness. Perspective | Our obsession with happiness is making our kids miserable 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

The wild differences in appearance between the 39 species are due to their confinement within sharply defined habitats. Bird-of-paradise rituals on display in National Geo show 2013-04-26T16:57:51Z

While everyone probably knows a good "dad joke" or two, it can be a little harder to define a "dad show" on television. 10 TV shows with big dad energy 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

So if anything, I just hope people that this book gives them the permission to stop defining themselves by their jobs. TV writer talks "Breaking Bad," writers strike and the toxicity of the "auteur genius showrunner" 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z

“First and foremost,” said Scott Grossfeld, chief executive of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, “make sure there’s a defined travel policy in place and that employees know what the policies are.” Itineraries: A Little Extra on the Road 2010-11-18T07:30:00Z

They all wrestle with similar questions: How do you develop a self, what defines a legacy, and what do you need to destroy to create it? A Sweeping Family Saga of Breaking and Mending 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

He learned printmaking, which he would master, and how to be a documentary photographer, which is how he defined himself for the next 70 years. George Zimbel, Photographer of Marilyn Monroe and J.F.K., Dies at 93 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

People enjoyed the benefits of attractiveness as defined wherever they lived. Let's celebrate the art of the glow-down 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

As Leonardo studied sight, he found that shadows, not hard outlines, defined the shapes of objects. A New Biography of the Renaissance Genius 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

Johnson is at his most moving when he talks of his mismatched parents living together in a state of mutual solitude and when he defines melancholy as "a lazy frost, a numbness of the mind". A Dish of Tea With Dr Johnson ? review 2011-03-09T01:20:25Z

These sections push the story forward, laying the foundation for the existential divide that defines every superhero, even a putative roguish outlier like Deadpool. Review: ‘Deadpool,’ a Sardonic Supervillain on a Kill Mission 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

I then search for the faint pencil marks that Close made to define the underlying grid. My Chuck Close problem 2012-07-10T14:03:00Z

That’s also the reason I don’t like comedienne and I don’t use the word actress, though I don’t have as much of a problem with it, because it just defines other. Aisha Tyler on the Value of Failure (and Embarrassment) 2013-07-09T15:44:42Z

But however the category was, or is, defined, the Outsider Art Fair, compared with other fairs, seemed the least pretentious, the least focused on money, the rawest, liveliest and most full of surprises. The Outsider Fair Made Art ‘Big’ Again 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Known for their quiet-loud-louder dynamic with instrumental guitars and defined bass riffs making layers of moody melodies, they enjoy a cult-like status among fans. Mogwai still pushing boundaries 2014-01-20T10:48:27Z

She has only been defined through her relationships with others — fiancés, boyfriends and her parents. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 12: Your Child Is Your Child 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

And natural wine — like veganism, or nihilism — is most often defined by what it is not. 12 natural wines for those intimidated by natural wine 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

In a letter to his wife, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke defined the artist’s baleful choice: “Either happiness or art.” ‘Forty Rooms’ asks: Can a woman be an artist and happy? 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

The characters are engaging, strong and clearly defined. If you lived through 'The Help,' do you have to read it, too? 2011-02-12T01:07:08Z

People were apparently confused about how to define him. Abdulrazak Gurnah Refuses to Be Boxed In: ‘I Represent Me’ 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z

But the withholding of details necessary to engineer the initial lull backfires in the second half, when the lack of specificity leaves the characters ill defined. Review: In ‘This Time Tomorrow,’ a Family Will Be Upended 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

The spaces are enormously, cavernously defined, but they serve as mere backdrops. The Superhero Movie as Secular Religion in “Aquaman,” “Bumblebee,” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z

"Every male between the ages of 14 and 65 worked in the yards, and it defined their lives and who they were." Art revives the glory of Clydeside shipbuilding 2013-06-08T23:05:45Z

So the New York Dolls, a defining punk band, made sense. Arcade Fire at Barclays Center 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

Mudis are also defined by its unique merle markings and "loyal" demeanor. American Kennel Club adds 2 breeds to purebred dog registry 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

It is defined as a woman going 12 months without a period. Menopause experts say compounded HRT is unsafe 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

Those feelings illuminated some unanticipated boundaries of where I define attractiveness in men and when I still crave traditional masculinity. My boyfriend’s wedding dress unveiled my own shortcomings over masculinity 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

“But if it was watched by an audience from within the intelligence community, it would be as an exercise to watch a show in order to define what’s wrong with a situation.” ‘Tehran’ Is the Latest Israeli Thriller, Emphasis on Thrills 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

The responsibilities of foreign governments—and of France in Rwanda, in particular—seem to work at a different level than what is defined by international criminal law. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

It’s exactly the kind of charming anomaly that defines the veggie burger’s past, and maybe — hopefully — its future. In Los Angeles, Veggie Burgers With Real Veggies Still Appeal 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

The defining quality of Welsh National Opera's new staging by David Pountney, his first since becoming artistic director of the company in 2011, is its beauty. Lulu; Huw Watkins day – review 2013-02-17T00:06:20Z

He’s also been one of the defining musicians of our time. Prince’s power move: Opting out of Spotify and Apple right as the streaming wars heat up 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

But in real life, it’s not so uniform — so I decided to talk to people about defining their first time. What’s a “first time,” anyway? 2013-02-02T23:00:00Z

"We want to capitalise on the revolution in social media by letting audiences and critics define this film concurrently," Lionsgate said in a statement. Post-credits scene: Killers 2010-06-22T10:26:00Z

Still, the images that have defined us can no longer be credibly monochromatic, or monolithic. Has there been an ‘Obama effect’ in Hollywood? 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Like Lincoln, Mr. Obama taught himself how to write, and for him, too, words became a way to define himself, and to communicate his ideas and ideals to the world. Obama’s Secret to Surviving the White House Years: Books 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

Italian fashion house Prada brought to the catwalk soft and strong designs in an attempt to define the role of women in society, in a powerful show ending the second day of Milan's fashion week. Prada combines soft and strong elements for its winter collection 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

The industries of coal, timber, and more recently hydraulic fracturing, have defined the culture here. With a focus on food sovereignty, rural Appalachian Ohio is rebounding 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

With their traditional portrait format and imposing scale, they seem at odds with the modest plein-air paintings that define the movement. Art Review: Renoir?s Full-Length Paintings at the Frick Collection 2012-02-09T13:00:00Z

“My entire visual sensibility was defined by this museum.” Channeling His Youth, Rem Koolhaas Redesigns the Stedelijk’s Collection Display 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

But despite all this versatility and acclaim in so many media, it was Novello's 1935 musical Glamorous Night and its successors that finally defined his position in the theatrical firmament. Ivor Novello, master of the musical 2012-08-03T21:55:11Z

Lebedev grew to appreciate le Carré, the author of such books as “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” and “The Russia House,” for, he said, “defining what the Cold War looked like for ordinary readers.” Raised on Le Carré, He Wrote a Thriller Dipped in Poison 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

“They were youthful, elegant, without unnecessary details or defined waistlines,” it added. Gustave Tassell, Who Clothed Elegant Women of the ’60s, Dies at 88 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

And with this work, Calder, then in his mid-30s, made his defining contribution to Modernism. The Biography of Alexander Calder, Part I 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

In the essays in “Watching Them Be,” the critic James Harvey attempts to define what so attracts the public to movie stars, and inspects the ways that charisma is communicated on film. Books to Watch Out For: July 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

The Wellness Tourism Association defines wellness travel as travel that allows people to “maintain, enhance or kick-start a healthy lifestyle.” Why women-only adventure travel is surging 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

This killing was done both under male and female rule but it was the exploitation of male physicality that defined things male. From Ancient Myths to Modern Day, Women and the Struggle for Power 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

"He defines the word legend, he is remarkable and everybody knows it," Winfrey said. Oprah, Usher, Mayer honor Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees 2013-04-19T08:48:03Z

Shortly after she became an author, she struggled to define what distinguished a children’s book. Natalie Babbitt, Author of ‘Tuck Everlasting,’ Dies at 84 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

It’s not defined by age, although there is a desire here for this sort of eighteen-to-thirty-five demographic to sort of echo within the work. Kehinde Wiley on Painting Masculinity and Blackness, from President Obama to the People of Ferguson 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

The scowling, defining cover image for “Blonde on Blonde” was shot by Mr. Schatzberg, who by 1967 had become more than an auxiliary of the famous but a minor celebrity himself. The Gimlet Eye: Heeding a Call to Cross the River 2010-10-20T20:07:00Z

Food insecurity — defined as the lack of consistent access to enough healthy food — is often under-examined and under-addressed in the population of college students. Colleges have high rates of food insecurity and food waste. Students are helping address both 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z

Prince Buster, one of Jamaica’s most revered musicians and producers who helped define the ska movement from its inception, died Sept. 8 at a hospital in Miami. Prince Buster, Jamaican producer who helped ignite ska, dies at 78 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The Mayo Clinic defines a panic attack “as a sudden episode of intense fear that triggers severe physical reactions when there is no real danger or apparent cause.” Heart pounding, body sweating, thoughts racing? It might be a panic attack. Here’s what to do. 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

But here she does, arguing to her predecessors that history, which has merged them into a monolith defined by the one thing they had in common, must be rewritten to see them as individuals instead. Review: In ‘Six,’ All the Tudor Ladies Got Talent 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

The plants and the devotion to them define this garden. Review | Dig into these gorgeous books for gardening inspiration 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

The primary defining force of the Johnson kids is money, not color. ABC's 'black-ish' gamely takes on racial identity 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

With a line of models draped over chairs Thursday night, Jacobs mined different eras to define the new look for next season. Marc Jacobs closes NY Fashion Week with dance hall 2011-09-16T14:58:12Z

McNamara: I wonder if it's time to consider categories defined by numbers of episodes. Emmys 2014: Glenn Whipp, Mary McNamara on Emmy ills and how to cure them 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

The 1992 murder mystery told in reverse deftly connects its characters and plot to the English suits, French cuffs, plaid shirts and tweed jackets that define them. Academia Lives — on TikTok 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Her fleshy, muddy figures are often barely legible, sometimes heaped into clots of roughly defined bodies, which suggest mass graves and other attendant horrors of the camps, an inherited trauma that reverberates. Art We Saw This Winter 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

Here’s a look back at some of the highlights, including the photos that defined the year in our region and beyond, and the most-read stories on our site. 5 things to do this weekend: plunge into cold water, make plans for a healthy year and more 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Skating is a defining part of his world, which aligned perfectly with “Mid90s.” Sunny Suljic of ‘Mid90s’ Checks Out His Favorite Skate Shop 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do," wrote Jane Austen in her debut novel, "Sense and Sensibility." Review: Book-It's 'Sense and Sensibility' a delight 2011-06-06T21:48:04Z

I had carried all of that for so many years, thinking these things define me, and they make me a flawed human. Chasten Buttigieg: We built a campaign where gay people felt seen 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

But unlike sitcoms today, these are things that neither define her nor bother her. The Mary Tyler Moore Show: box set review 2013-07-18T14:00:01Z

Demeter has two standards - one is identical to the Made with Organic Grapes standard in defining sulfite levels. Five Wine Books to Give This Holiday Season 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Church called "Chief," which was nominated two years in a row, a defining album. No one more surprised than Luke Bryan by ACMs win 2013-04-08T12:57:13Z

Again and again, we hear stories of how a mythology that defined a generation was put together pragmatically out of leftovers by a gang of middle-aged men who did not like each other very much. The Toys That Made Us: Netflix's show will make you rethink your childhood 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Our public transportation is now defined by something called “recovery maps.” Let the post-Sandy election gloating continue! 2012-11-09T20:35:00Z

In 1845, the philosopher Moses Hess defined money as “the coagulated blood of those who suffer”; Marxist theorists envisioned the bourgeoisie as “leeches” and “images of the living dead.” Are Vampires Cancelled? 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

While Gilded Age excess once defined the Adirondacks, Winslow Homer’s paintings provide a more nuanced image of the region. Paddling through a painterly landscape in New York’s Adirondack Park 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

In some cases, that history is more clearly defined. A lot of Americans believe in ghosts. But what do their ghost stories actually tell us? 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

Prince and the Revolution defined their pop sensibilities, while Kate Bush appealed to what Mr. Tiffany called “our arty, pretentious side.” Spring Performance: John Tiffany and Steven Hoggett Collaborate on ?Once? 2012-02-22T21:17:17Z

Disability in such films helps to define normality and reassure able-bodied audiences that they are “normal” – disability is abnormal and something to be feared. Isn't it time we let disabled actors and directors make their own films? 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

The survey specifically defines popularity as "the % of people who have a positive opinion of a grocery store." Among millennials, this is the most popular grocery chain 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z

If television is a mechanism that both defines and moves with the current of fashion, "Single Drunk Female" is right on time in this respect and others. "Single Drunk Female" isn't just sobriety TV. It's a show that makes recovery feel universal 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

But Low’s minimalist, melancholy sound stood in sharp contrast to the anthems of Generation X angst that came to define the era. Mimi Parker, Moody Alt-Rock Vocalist, Is Dead at 55 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

When we first met them — Bonnie re-entering her daughter’s life after a long estrangement; Christy a single mother trying to straighten out — their relationship was defined by shrillness. CBS’s ‘Mom’ Handles Issues Beyond Kissing Boo-Boos 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

In January, California enacted a law that defined coercive control, making it easier for behavior like isolating a partner to be introduced in family court as evidence of domestic violence. Il Divo Tenor’s Ex-Wife Sues Him, Citing Sexual and Physical Abuse 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

It has been used as an investment framework, a conversational shortcut and, in at least one case, a defining personal identity trait. What Makes a ‘Narrative Violation’? 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Her pieces were pointillistic and dizzying, defining odd meters and adding and subtracting notes to make the patterns endlessly flex and realign. At Moogfest, Electronics Stimulate Ears and Emotions 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

Bruce Forsyth, who admits in his memoirs to having desperately wanted to break the defining entertainment market, made only one American show, Bruce Forsyth’s Hot Streak, which lasted for a brief season in 1986. Morecambe & Wise in America: how the duo made it in the US 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

She came up from the world-famous strip clubs of Atlanta and became something of an entrepreneur, at least in the way that we define that word in 2016. Rob & Chyna: the saddest show on TV 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

With a banner year, he’s not only become Hollywood’s most exciting new leading man, but he’s helping to define what we should expect of other leading men in the future. How Michael B Jordan fought his way to the top of Hollywood 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

Those distinctions, which bind but by no means define them, lie at the heart of their recent work. These Young Adult Novels Come With Back Stories: The Authors’ Own 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

In every field, criteria unrelated to aesthetics define works as ultimate trophies for which bidders are prepared to pay prices beyond all expectations. Auctions: Buyers Scoop Up the Trophies at Auctions 2011-07-15T11:30:07Z

As interest in mezcal grows, there’s an ongoing battle to define what it is and to shape what it might become. Agave spirits, on a need-to-know basis 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

But it’s mainly the memoir of Venter Lowood, whose entire life has been defined by the Epiphany Machine. Best new science fiction for summer 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Because McSally's dress shows no hint of her background, she may be sending the message that her military experience does not define her. The clothes make the candidate: The sartorial politics of this year’s key Senate races 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z

During a phase defined by social churn, everyone benefits from some social flexibility. Seven steps parents can take to ensure kids work for the right kind of popularity 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

She did not require a lifetime of devotion — she did not even sustain her own relationships or defined interests all that long. Skout’s minor problem 2012-06-19T23:20:00Z

Jones has written a novel about a girl whose identity is defined by horror films — a girl who sees her inner world through an exterior lens. Read It and Scream 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

The “believers’” lives could be confining—sisters and brethren working hard at narrowly defined jobs with little crossover. The Shakers — the ones who made furniture and hated sex — were not only ahead of their time on women’s rights, they were ahead of ours, too 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

The other defining event of his childhood seems to have been an accident involving his older brother, Hap, and a wagon that led to the amputation of one of Hap’s legs. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

But while some try to define heirloom cultivars by age — at least 50 years old, for example, or predating World War II — there's another facet of the word "heirloom" that's much more important. Why heirloom seeds matter 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z

The British Dance Council is planning to introduce a rule that defines a dance partnership as "one man and one lady... unless otherwise stated". Two to tango: Who can dance together? 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

It’s interesting to watch the Bridget Jones franchise withdraw from the game that it helped define fifteen years ago. Bridget Jones Abandons Irony 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

It’s a somewhat familiar if rather elevated sentimental education, with in-class discussions about the ancient Greeks and democracy, and an outside world that seems largely defined by its stark black-and-white truths. Review: Before Barack, There Was ‘Barry’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Because fiction, unlike news, is not defined as key media work, the numbers of people, travel and amount of close contact involved in filming were deemed a health risk. 'Can we do this without breaking the law?' Inside the first lockdown TV drama 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

It speaks to what female leadership might look like in a new era, one less defined by trouser suits and bright fruit-bowl colors; one tailored for a different majority. The First Female President Will Not Carry a Handbag 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Recall that the philosopher Hegel defined "genuine tragedies" as "conflicts between two rights." Life As We Know It: Katherine Heigl Crashes Again 2010-10-08T18:55:00Z

The company has put a lot of money into “Marco Polo,” a 10-episode historical drama that becomes available on Friday, and those are the defining characteristics of the series. ‘Marco Polo,’ Fur-and-Armor Drama From Netflix 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Aristotle defined politics as “matters relating to the collective,” and Freud delineated society as containing three elements — the family, the state, and social norms. My regrettable libertarian romance: I rebounded from my experimental phase, but many don't 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

And how is she going to define herself? "Sanditon" boss on that heartbreaking finale, a curious "Bridgerton" connection to and Season 3 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

"This world of orchestras is one that's always been defined by well-established strata - the best orchestras in the country, the second tier and so on - and that is very much in flux at the moment." Labor standoffs silence orchestras in Minn., Indy 2012-10-02T20:17:14Z

"It's very hard to define without verklempting," Stewart said of the relationship. 'Rosewater's' Jon Stewart, Maziar Bahari bonded after joke bombed 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Where you sit in the theater can define your experience. Down In Front! Where Do You Sit In Movie Theaters? 2011-11-28T19:45:58Z

Secondly, I think it’s because of “Birth of a Nation,” and members of what's called the Dunning School, the historians who defined what we think about Reconstruction before W.E.B. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

A life defined by politics here rightly gets a political life. Is This the Best One-Volume Biography of Churchill Yet Written? 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Norris has defined himself as a liberal with a pessimistic world view. Peter and Alice; The Low Road – review 2013-03-31T00:05:46Z

Mr. Lynch founded Bijou Funnies with his fellow cartoonist Skip Williamson to publish his work and that of other artists, and acted as a publicist for the loosely defined industry. Jay Lynch, Underground Comics Creator, Dies at 72 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

I think the artworks, which are constantly defining art history, should be allowed to move too. Rome's Depart Foundation opens L.A.-area space with Gabriele De Santis 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

We’re invited only to marvel at the copiousness of the term; Garber abstains from exploring how differently each party privately defines “character,” and why. What Is Your True ‘Character’? And Who’s to Judge It? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

With his careful mix of plainspoken honesty and reactionary delusion, Trump is following an old rhetorical playbook, one defined and employed successfully in the 1936 presidential campaign of Senator Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip. It really can happen here: The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

That is my formative memory of the Beatles, the moment I became aware that their music had not only captured a generation but defined it, too. Readers recommend songs about the Beatles: The results 2010-10-07T22:30:00Z

But Hamlet is a play as well as a role and Simm would do even better if Paul Miller's production were something more than blandly efficient and offered a much more clearly defined Elsinore. Review: Hamlet 2010-09-23T11:41:00Z

We spoke to booksellers in popular vacation destinations across the country about how they define the perfect “beach read,” their predictions for this year’s best sellers and more. Ask the Booksellers:What Is a ‘Beach Read,’ Anyway? 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Brook Berlind, his second wife, defined the switch in stage terms. Roger Berlind, Tony-winning Broadway producer, dies at 90 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z

Even though the code is vaguely defined, it cannot be violated. Joe Queenan's guide to crime cliches 2010-10-17T11:00:00Z

The rules define one form of restricted gift as “admission to an event for which a member of the general public would be charged.” Chris Christie’s bromance with Jerry Jones could be his undoing 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

So it depends on what you define as significant experiences.  Buy less, do more: 5 reasons why experiences make us happier than things 2014-03-08T21:00:00Z

No longer content with defining epic television, "Game of Thrones" is poised to redefine it by making a genre built on action and archetypes irrefutably human. 'Game of Thrones' enters Season 5 at war with it all 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

The defining difference in their campaigns, beyond the niceties of policy, is the particular strands of Labour tradition that they have sought to invigorate. David and Ed Miliband on sibling rivalry 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

Resilience is a property traditionally defined as the ability to bounce back. Rethinking the "infrastructure" discussion amid a blitz of hurricanes 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

Marco Tronchetti Provera, the chief executive of Pirelli, wrote in an email that the calendar’s purpose is “to mark the passing of time” by capturing the issues or obsessions that define it. The Pirelli Calendar Finally Makes Women Subjects Instead of Objects 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Here are a selection of the defining moments of 2020 from the perspective of The Associated Press’ media and television writers. 2020 indelible TV moments: Trebek, debate bluster and Floyd 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

Why not start knitting and distributing baby hats, or launching some sort of loosely defined, mum-based consultation firm? Bundles of joy: which baby movie is for you? 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

SB: It seems that prison is one of those particularly American experiences that tend to either be a defining component of our lives, or one that we participate in only through television and film. “The most ludicrous scenes of ‘Orange is the New Black’ are the most realistic”: My time in federal prison 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

Until the idea is well defined, we don’t use computers.” 2009-11-01T04:00:00Z

It also defined what a human trafficking victim is. The scourge of human trafficking: It’s not just other countries’ problem 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

I really don’t define beauty by model standards. Fashion superstar Zac Posen on his new career documentary: “What’s the point? To make people dream” 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

I’m defined by me and how I look. Television Review: ?It?s a Brad, Brad World? on Bravo - Review 2012-01-01T23:21:52Z

The debut is considered one of hip-hop’s most defining works; a quintessential piece of hip-hop history. Nas: 'It's Not Cool For the U.S. to Look Like Apartheid South Africa' 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Polio, as Gareth Williams suggests in his fascinating study, was one of the diseases that defined the 20th century. Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio by Gareth Williams – review 2013-07-17T15:02:02Z

Those are the choices that define him now, after all, not “Twilight,” and not “The Batman.” With ‘Cosmopolis,’ a Limo Ride That Redefined Robert Pattinson’s Career 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

If the trailer is anything to go by, then all the defining characteristics that made the original so much fun are still firmly in place. Birdemic 2: it'll be poultry in motion 2013-02-13T11:50:27Z

Something She is also entangled with a group called the Akergirls, a younger trio whose sisterly vibe seems like a generational rebuke to the dysfunction that defines Becky’s relationship with Ali and Marielle. ‘Her Smell’ Review: The Road to Rock ’n’ Roll Transcendence Goes Through the Gutter 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

For one middle-age office cleaner, effort seemed to be the defining criterion. An Artist Redefines Power. With Sanitation Equipment. 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

For the last two years Tam has been speaking out about re-appropriation, which he defines as the process of reclaiming disparaging terms. Review | He named his band the Slants to reclaim a slur. Not everyone approved. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

“Every step and gesture was defined with a clarity and simplicity that made them shimmer as parts of a flowing whole.” Stephanie Dabney, Electrifying Prima Ballerina, Dies at 64 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

The same applies to what people define as mainstream or underground. Blog jam: The Schoole of Abuse 2013-04-10T14:03:15Z

“How do you define worthy?” he asked rhetorically. For Vulnerable Art, Help Making a Fresh Start 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

Such roles are only part of a wide-ranging résumé defined by adventurousness. Julia Garner Is the Tough but Tender Heart of ‘Ozark’ 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

Gone is the combative tone toward Cherokee Freedmen that helped define the Smith administration. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z

“You might think a parent is acting ‘weird,’”    he says, “but define ‘weird.’ Motherlode: When to Report Another Parent 2011-03-08T23:02:36Z

In the end, being a filmmaker is defined by whether you can raise money or not. | Filmmaker Ira Sachs’s Sundance Stories 2014-01-17T23:20:54Z

It's a concept that's hard to define and even harder to grasp. Alan Partridge: How I became a national treasure 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z

When you're young, your compass is spinning so fast that you tend to gravitate towards artists who help you define yourself. Patti Smith: how she rocks our world 2012-05-26T23:15:26Z

She’s alert to the way the lack of “human decency” by employers has compromised the values and ideals of their employees, who have come to define themselves by their jobs.    Who are these Trump voters? For a thoughtful portrait, turn to playwright Lynn Nottage's 'Sweat' 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

You don’t want to have to be defined. Love Story: A Q&A with Singer-Songwriter Robyn Hitchcock 2013-03-05T20:02:08Z

The arsenal in the update released on Monday also includes “beatdown,” defined as an overwhelming defeat; “bizjet,” a small airplane used for business; and “frowny,” which unsurprisingly means showing a frown. Secret to Scrabble beatdown: 300 words added to game's dictionary 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

In fact, don't make beurre blanc, or anything else defined by the particular flavor of butter. The best butter substitutes for baking (that actually work) 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

Here are some of the night’s defining themes, shows and moments. The Best and Worst Moments of the 2020 Emmys 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

The question that advances this episode is whether Chase, with his injury, will become as cynical as House, whose injury defines him. House Watch: Ending the Chase 2012-02-14T14:45:51Z

As if, as one character reports him saying, “any given entity can only be defined as a function of its observer.” The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

And Pentagon planners still emphatically define their mission as “full-spectrum dominance” globally. An American century of carnage: Measuring violence in a single superpower world 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

In many of Herzog’s nonfiction films, the director himself is a defining presence. ‘Family Romance, LLC’ Review: Werner Herzog’s Comfort for Hire 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

But when they work, they stoke an exhilaration that obviates the need for sensitive characters. 's "characters" are no more realistic than creatures in a video game; each figure has one defining trait, tops. Fast Five: The First Great Post-Human Movie 2011-04-28T11:20:00Z

To give coziness and livability to the idiosyncratic interior spaces, several of which are defined by partial walls, the Dempseys called on Estee Stanley, a decorator and fashion stylist who had designed their previous residence. Patrick Dempsey's Frank Gehry–designed Malibu Estate 2014-02-04T05:00:00Z

But the videos below defined recent uprisings in Iran, Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Montreal, Syria, and elsewhere around the world. 14 protest videos that went viral and changed the world 2014-02-25T14:00:00Z

Forgoing the traditional demands of plot and psychology, they instead treat their supposed subject as a text, an organizing principle or a defining absence. film: Anti-Biopics Series at Anthology Film Archives 2010-07-09T07:25:00Z

As a work of criticism, Raftery’s essay is exemplary of the very phenomenon that he’s documenting—and that circularity, that self-fulfilling critical criterion, is the defining trait of the time. Why Movies Still Matter 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

She ends this catalog with a few words that somehow define the experience of reading her book: “Bored yet? Because I can’t stop.” Book Review: Amy Poehler’s ‘Yes Please’ 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

Holsinger doesn’t shy away from the moral questions implicit in defining what it means to be gifted without acknowledging that not all children start from a level playing field. What Wouldn’t a Parent Do to Get a Child Admitted to ‘The Gifted School’? 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

Let us start by defining what is meant by our use of "literature" here and – even more important – what we mean by "politics". Olive Senior: 'Literature is political because we are political animals' 2013-04-29T15:05:06Z

"Nature-friendly farming" is not defined, nor is it based on any internationally recognized principles, making it impossible to assess the government's progress. Environmental plan for England asks farmers to "restore nature" 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z

Cutting divides a whole into separate parts, the dividing line defined by pain. Motherlode Blog: A Son 'Cuts,' and a Father Struggles 2013-02-05T14:26:41Z

Yet in a world in which anyone with a phone – which is pretty much everyone – can be an amateur lensman, the opportunity to go too far is always present, if fuzzily defined. Photographed secretly at home: Is it art? 2013-05-17T14:41:00Z

Male arousal defines female fashion from earlobe to stiletto heel. Sex? No, thanks: Rather than obsession, what millions of Americans feel about sex is indifference 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

But Balanchine used these stereotypes to define in the shortest possible time the prodigal’s all-too-human arc from rebellion to contrition. L.A. Ballet's ambitious all-Balanchine program leads to missteps, but also one big triumph 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

There is no reason to think the printed book will be the defining literary format. Top novelists look to ebooks to challenge the rules of fiction 2013-03-10T00:06:11Z

It was music that couldn't easily be defined or pinned down, elusive and allusive, much like Plant himself. Robert Plant in ghost dance with roots 2011-04-11T00:28:26Z

The biggest hurdle is still getting the land," says Stevens, "as well as defining a common brief between residents. The future's communal: meet the UK's self-build pioneers 2013-05-07T06:29:01Z

But an untampered-with revival of Scott's 2002 work "Praying Mantis," in which seven dancers kept transecting a sharply defined rectangle of light in different dance styles, made clear what the homage to Scott was about. 'Spotlight on Seattle': performers go to town in dance city 2012-06-07T19:12:13Z

It was the defining political act of that decade, its success a reminder that radical ideas could be conveyed through crisp-edged rock, reaching the ideologically aligned and, almost certainly, many who were not. Rage Against the Machine Returns for Fresh Battles 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

We are reminded that the images of difference generated by the performances were images not defined by ethnicity, and that the original Mythic Being series was as much about gender as it was about race. Adrian Piper: The Thinking Canvas 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Or is the possibility of tragedy as it was classically defined out of step with the contemporary world? Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z

Zimmer does a deep dive into the question of heredity, exploring everything from how genetic ancestry works to the thorny question of how race is defined, biologically. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

Pete's other defining role for me was his part in the environmental movie Age of Stupid. Pete Postlethwaite: an actor who made others act 2011-01-03T12:40:17Z

Many Occupy activists were reluctant to engage with the existing system or even agree to properly define what changes they wanted, she says. ‘People are finally talking about class’: Astra Taylor on US democracy, socialism and revolution 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

You might even define a great artist by the ability to pitilessly remove the inessential, no matter how clever the sentence or brilliant the movement composition. Review: Boris Charmatz Unveils a Different Tanztheater Wuppertal 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z

How distant the idea that the fall garden is defined by potted chrysanthemums. The growing season may be almost over, but the gardener’s work is not done 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

But I also don’t believe in genre as a defining feature of substance. Maria Popova: By the Book 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Grace finds happiness in writing, bits and pieces of prose that define her sunny outlook despite a tense, unhappy domestic life. Marvel a marvel in diffuse 'Book of Grace' in NY 2010-03-18T01:46:00Z

In a statement shared with Fox News on Tuesday, United Airlines said the incident was a “defining moment” that the company uses as a learning experience. Doctor forcibly dragged from United Airlines flight finally speaks out: 'The accident turned out the positive way' 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

The latter defined dresses mildly curvaceous from the front that, when the models turned, revealed cut-away bared backs. Special Report: Fashion: Burberry: A Crowd Pleaser 2011-02-21T18:29:01Z

“Stay and Fight” succeeds in mapping the obscure psychological and emotional territory that defines a life caught between commitment and ambivalence, between rebellion and resignation. A Contemporary Feminist Spin on the Traditional Pioneer Novel 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

Teens can, thanks to Dan Savage and others, know it gets better, while gender is less defined and less binary. When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z

That advice gives a sense of Eastman’s risk-taking and, for better and worse, loosely defined music. From a Composer’s Resurgence, a Masterpiece Rises 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Spielberg didn’t define himself in opposition to anything. Review: HBO’s ‘Spielberg’ Is a Close Encounter with Genius 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

First at Mercury Records and then at Columbia, he helped define American popular music in the postwar, pre-rock era, carefully matching singers with songs and choosing often unorthodox but almost always catchy instrumental accompaniment. Mitch Miller, Maestro of the Singalong, Dies at 99 2010-08-02T16:28:00Z

“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl,” she muses. How the scathing "Gone Girl" rant about being the "cool girl" defined the decade 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

We always want to define things, or to simplify things. An Artist in Pursuit of Balance 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

Keith's spooky steel accents helped define the album's mood, particularly on songs such as Albuquerque and Tired Eyes. Ben Keith obituary 2010-07-28T17:58:00Z

Not the grand tour as defined by young men through the years. PBS series explains why Chicago needed a lift 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

America is defined by its dedication to the illusion of equality and endless opportunity, of being best. What "Loki," "Lucifer" and "Cruella" tell us about our love affair with rewriting ugly stories 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

He added: "Generally I try to define and translate in images the intention, tone and message that the director wants without distorting it." The Skin I Live In 2011-08-09T08:25:49Z

Now is using indie musicians as a way to define itself. In Transit: Hotels Reach Guests Through Their Ears 2011-06-01T18:02:17Z

It all led up to Facebook, the company that's come to define social networking by getting 900 million people around the world to share everything from photos of their pets to their deepest thoughts. Facebook begins trading after $16 billion IPO 2012-05-18T11:32:00Z

Altman’s heyday was the 1970s, when movies like “Nashville,” “The Long Goodbye” and “California Split,” full of overlapping talk and intersecting lives, helped define an era and a certain sensibility: revisionist, romantic, downbeat. What This Town Needs Is a Brothel 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z

I miss defining myself by the films I love and the ones I hotly despise. This was the year of not watching any Oscar bait ... but hey, at least "Eurovision" was fun 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

Part of the charm of this character, which was crucial in defining Bruce Willis' career, was the regular-guy, Reagan-era resourcefulness he represented; now, he's weirdly superhuman. Review: The latest `Die Hard' movie simply won't 2013-02-13T22:46:05Z

You read a million scripts and you are always like the doting girlfriend or the shrewish wife, but always defined by the man. Jennifer Westfeldt: Not just Don Draper's other half… 2012-06-02T23:05:57Z

Minutes away, the stately Angell Hall, with its numerous columns, helps define the collegiate atmosphere. In Energized Detroit, Savoring an Architectural Legacy 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

His breakthrough occurred in the late 1960s as he had been searching for a way to represent that tumultuous era — in effect, a way to “portraitize” a set of cultural values that defined the period. Richard Avedon’s Wall-Size Ambitions 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

But despite the show’s best efforts, the next three hours were defined by what viewers didn’t hear. Perspective | Women aren’t the future of country music. They’re the present. 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Violence and poverty are part of this world, but neither defines any of its characters. ‘Atlanta’ Has Brilliant Characters. And Some of the Best Acting on TV. 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

And Dre and Bow constantly confront whether, in their financial and social success, they've grown too distant from their own cultural identity . . . however that is truly defined. Netflix's "#blackAF" is Kenya Barris' wealthier, shallower, and meaner "Black-ish" 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

Previously, the state party platform defined marriage as “between a man and a woman,” as does the Nevada Constitution. Nevada GOP drops platform against marriage equality and abortion rights 2014-04-14T13:28:00Z

Buell's personality is entirely defined through lines of dialogue as opposed to revealing its identity through its people. In Showtime's small town drama "American Rust," abandon all hope ye who break down here 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z

At its best, the show is a compassionate look at the struggle to define oneself, from gender identity to, in the case of Maura’s kids, finding one’s place in early middle age. Transparent's Second Season Comes with More Angst and Less Insight 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

Over four studio albums — the last and highest-charting, “Mosquito,” was released in 2013 — Yeah Yeah Yeahs came to define the resurgent New York rock scene of the aughts. The Electrifying, Emotional Return of Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

The one-drop rule – that even one distant black relative meant a person was black, or at least, most definitely, “not white” – increasingly became a way to define people. Why black people discriminate among ourselves: the toxic legacy of colorism 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

Saval: Kurt, you asked a question about buildings that define a city, and this is probably the most defining: I’m not a huge fan, personally, but I’m not going to make a case against it. The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

In many ways, Larry Harlow — one of the central figures of salsa and its defining label, Fania Records — was a master at mixing the diverse musical connections between New York and the Caribbean. Larry Harlow, a Salsa Revolutionary 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

In touches like these, Kratzer takes the competing loyalties that define this opera’s title character and extends them to broader cultural coteries. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

This type of categorical thinking poses a major problem: the focus is on defining dance rather than examining what is onstage. Bessies’ New Categories Limit Definitions of Dance 2012-08-11T22:04:11Z

There would be much talk of defining your “brand” and driving up page views. Honey, Don?t Bother Mommy. I?m Too Busy With My Blog and Building My Brand. 2010-03-12T23:14:00Z

I was never looking for my career to define me.” Amanda Brooks Is Taking Her Leave 2012-05-30T21:48:56Z

Another thing that sets “Duck Dynasty” apart is that the characters’ roles are as clearly defined as they would be on a scripted show. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Porter Ridge’ Looks for the Magic of ‘Duck Dynasty’ 2013-08-12T21:45:11Z

But after more than 25 years, N.W.A's return as part of an all-star bill underlined how hip-hop crews have fundamentally changed the way L.A. defines itself. BET Experience: N.W.A, Kendrick Lamar capture L.A. hip-hop history 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Values are sometimes tricky to define and yet, they play a fundamental role in decision-making. 6 Ways to Strengthen a Long-Distance Relationship 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

As historian Michael Beschloss notes in the introduction, Jacqueline Kennedy once accepted that wives were defined by their husbands' careers and worried about "emotional" women entering politics. New book shows another side to Jackie Kennedy 2011-09-12T03:51:08Z

“Because Batman is defined by his personality, his enemies have to be as well. No other superhero has such a rich, well-known gallery of enemies, and the Joker is king of them all.” ‘He is a psychopath’: has the 2019 Joker gone too far? 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

“We’re afraid,” she continues, “we will be defined by our worst decisions instead of our best.” Liz Phair Still Doesn’t Care What We Think 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

I think that the number one thing allies can do—beyond just taking their education upon themselves—is go out and get your people, however you define that. Janet Mock on 'The Trans List' and a Trump Presidency 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

I wanted to show how literature could be of help when you are trying to form an identity and define your place in the world. Rachida Lamrabet: 'Literature helps when you are trying to form an identity' 2013-03-22T17:57:44Z

I especially loved how the episode cut between locations defined by music, and locations defined by chanting voices and marching feet. The hard cut beauty of "Treme" 2011-05-23T13:24:00Z

It’s about the way technology constrains us and defines our lives the way that when your phone dings, you answer it. Discovery’s “Manhunt: Unabomber”: Kaczynski as a true, heartless prophet 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

His language grew more colorful when he defined his type of music negatively. Chris Strachwitz, Who Dug Up the Roots of American Music, Dies at 91 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement The latter portion of his film career was defined by the Snape character in “Harry Potter,” a franchise that has sold more than $7.6 billion in tickets worldwide. Alan Rickman, Watchable Villain in ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Die Hard,’ Dies at 69 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

It is that kind of defining moment, when a threshold is crossed and one thing becomes another, that continues to fascinate Mr. Wallinger. The Id and the Ego, Depicted in Color 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

The scent, neither masculine nor feminine, was hard to define. The Met Conductor Fabio Luisi Seduced by Creating his Own Perfumes 2014-03-06T00:46:01Z

Even in that best-case scenario — say, a May return — it may take years to return to the vibrant, cultural universe that defines our country. Arts groups have never been very flush with cash. Now, they’re facing an even bigger battle for survival. 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z

For many of the best, most adventurous novelists, in fact, negative criticism is an essential part of defining their own artistic identity. Bookends: Are Novelists Too Wary of Criticizing Other Novelists? 2013-09-03T17:19:22Z

Some are arguing, however, that the guidelines do not properly define its terms, allowing airlines to interpret them as they see fit. DOT warns airlines, for a second time, for not issuing refunds for canceled flights 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

“The defining mystery of the future president’s childhood was how he nevertheless was molded into something quite alien from his South Georgian racist culture,” Bird notes. The Many Successes of Jimmy Carter — and His Ultimate Failure 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

“It became a joke – a moment that defined you. But, it wasn’t a joke,” Maitlis pressed. “Littered with inaccuracies” and “so dull”: The reviews of Sean Spicer’s new book are n... 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Economics defines itself as the study of how we use our limited means to achieve our unlimited desires; how people and societies manage physical scarcity. Scarcity changes how we think 2013-09-08T12:30:00Z

This deeply empathic version of Tennessee Williams’s defining 1947 play is scheduled for a limited run at North London’s Almeida Theater through Feb. 4. Review: Paul Mescal Electrifies in a Revelatory ‘Streetcar’ 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

"What defines the fiction and reality of what happens?" she asks. Charlyne Yi 2010-08-09T16:29:00Z

So do I think my defining feature is my wardrobe because I lack confidence in the actual me? I tell the Queer Eye guys everything: from politics to dresses, they have the answers 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

Because I do think childbirth and also pregnancy, defines what it means to be human. Isn't that selfish? Introducing our new series on childfree women 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

Our culture has come to be defined by adrenaline. Should women really be rushing back to work after giving birth? 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

It was awe, what Edmund Burke memorably defined as “tranquility shadowed with horror.” Turning Bridges Into Music 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

It was defined by its independent spirit and its all-inclusive nature, with an emphasis on social justice and female empowerment. Riot Grrrls stake a new space in 'Alien She' 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

“What interested me,” she said, “was that as we age, those seemingly unbreakable barriers that define us, our gender, they begin to crack, to blur; they’re not absolutes anymore.” Glenda Jackson on Quitting Parliament, Playing Lear and Returning to Broadway 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

But the reason it’s bad for discourse is that it’s bad for people engaging in the discourse; once you define yourself by your diet, it gets much harder to see evidence clearly. Perspective | Why making your diet part of your identity is bad for your health — and society 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

Critics of the invasion believe it will always define Bush’s presidency. Donald Trump may be the best thing that ever happened to George W. Bush 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

An international exhibition, featuring more than 120 photographs from the 1920s through the 1970s, showcases the career of this artist, whose images of the South during the Great Depression helped define American documentary photography. A Nationwide Guide to Art Exhibitions This Spring 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

How would you define the legacy of “Queen Sugar”? ‘Queen Sugar’ Ends on Its Own Terms 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a lie as “a false statement made with intent to deceive.” How Should 21st-Century Readers Approach the Bible? 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

Even in the original comics the show is based on, Jessica Jones is defined by her difference from the rest of Marvel’s superheroes. “Jessica Jones”: Marvel’s newest show makes surviving trauma a superpower 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

He’s more interested in defining the terms of the discussion and giving you historical and philosophical perspective. What Are the Biggest Problems Facing Us in the 21st Century? 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

While her trauma is extreme, the real story takes place in its aftermath, in the ways it defined the victim’s life. Memoirs of Womanhood by Emily Ratajkowski, Toufah Jallow and N. West Moss 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

And as Liz told Adrian, justice does not define the law. "The Good Fight" dreams up a Hillary Clinton timeline we've all wondered about 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

Really, there is so much about popular singing of good taste that Sinatra simply defined that it’s tough not to throw one’s hands up at the idea of even attempting to match him. Memorable Sinatra Moments 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

Boys’ Night In started as an adaptation to fatherhood, it marked the end of an era when a good time was defined by where you went and who you met. Boys’ Night In pork tacos 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

The album’s closest approach to a pop song is “Interference,” a despondent breakup ballad — “We stare into each other’s eyes/ Like jackdaws, like ravens” — with clearly defined verses and choruses. Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Releases a Surprise Album 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

Public speech was not the defining attribute of maleness. From Ancient Myths to Modern Day, Women and the Struggle for Power 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Asked to define his father’s brand of cool, he explained: “The house could fall down and everyone would be running around, and he would still be sitting in his same chair.” Ellis Marsalis, Jazz Pianist and Music Family Patriarch, Dies at 85 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

Perhaps unfairly, I want my students to define themselves personally by defining themselves musically. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z

Film scholar David Bordwell said it's exactly that pedestrian quality, the lack of a "star persona" that has defined Yen's career. Yen emerges from shadow of Chan, Li 2010-08-04T03:54:00Z

Q. What do you think defines American fashion today? New York Fashion Week: The Next Wave 2010-09-09T07:53:00Z

Despite this setback, the Abbasids defined the sumptuous and extravagant potlatch style of the high-court feasts that resumed with the Ayyubid caliphate, which occurred after Saladin’s armies took back Jerusalem from the Europeans. A Feast for “Jerusalem” at the Met 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

Gatto said she is living proof “that your circumstances do not define your life.” Miss Nevada Nia Sanchez crowned as 63rd Miss USA 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

“Whistleblower” is now one word, generally unhyphenated, and defined by activists as someone who exposes wrongdoing, often from the inside at personal risk. Trump-Ukraine whistleblower is part of long tradition 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

Examining 7,750 protests, the group identified about 220 locations where the protests became violent — defined as demonstrators clashing with police or counterprotesters or causing property damage, The Washington Post reported. Perspective | Rewrite that list of debate topics, Chris Wallace. And put the climate crisis at No. 1. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

So what do you think are the defining symbols, besides the ring, of Gene or whoever this man that Jimmy McGill is, as he's leaving us? How the tragic imagery of "Better Call Saul," rendered in black & white, tells the "emotional story" 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

Thirty years of inspired development has benefited numerous writers, and contributed to the range of artistic activity that helps define Lancaster as a culturally vibrant destination. Letters: No go leads to no show when it comes to the arts 2011-04-10T23:05:05Z

The project has involved Chinese historians, designers and artisans; it has forged relationships with local Chinese communities and defined new interactions between the Huntington and its surroundings. Exhibition Review: ‘The Library Re-Imagined,’ at the Huntington 2013-12-20T22:18:50Z

“I think that was a defining moment for us. He waited for me outside the hospital.” How we met: 'Kärri suggested getting married. I just thought: yes! Let’s do it' 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

While Cruise may have learned his lesson about keeping his beliefs out of his public persona, this may be one area over which he no longer has the steely control that defines him. Tom Cruise, the bankable kook 2012-07-05T15:19:32Z

The last 12 months have made us all intimately familiar with our homes and the many, many details that define them. Alfred Kazin’s “A Walker in the City” charts an intellectual awakening, block by block 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

One way or another, 2020 will be a defining year for passenger rights. Perspective | Is the government doing enough to protect air travelers? 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

So Beautiful," and Simon defines it on "Love is Eternal Sacred Light," an electric-guitar romp punctuated by harmonica, congas and cymbals: "Love is eternal sacred light/Free from the shackles of time. Review: `So Beautiful or So What' is vintage Simon 2011-04-11T18:25:06Z

Historically, the case has always been the opposite with media catering to and conscious of a white audience, a term defined by Toni Morrison as the white gaze. "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" is beyond subtitles — and the white gaze 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

“Part of the problem is the delicacy of trying to define a future canon,” said Caryl Emerson, a professor of Slavic Literature at Princeton University, who attended the conference. Columbia University Press to Publish New Translations of Russian Literature 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

For the most part, the day’s mood was closer to a festival or parade than the 1960s protests that have come to define Americans’ protest ideal. Lemme Take a Selfie: The art and vanity of protest photography 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

“Those defined as back of house were more likely to say they felt valued, which contrasts greatly with the front of the house,” she said. The Prado Museum’s Unsung Workers Step Into the Limelight 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

With male superheroes being defined by their refusal to give women head, it's no surprise supervillains are becoming more and more appealing. Catwoman's oral sex scene erasure is just one more way media denies women sexual pleasure 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

For Carroll, the Holocaust is a defining moment for Christians, one that requires a new look at the religion’s history. James Carroll on disarming the memory of Jesus: “America threatens the world with violence in ways that no other country does” 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z

Together, the two women demonstrated the yin and yang of how social media, fashion and politics combined to define our shared experience in 2021. The Year on the Red Carpet 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

Since its 2015 debut in Miami, Rolling Loud has grown into the defining and farthest-reaching music festival for rap, though it has also been connected to spates of arrests and occasional violence. New York Drill Rappers Say They Were Removed From Rolling Loud Festival 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

I really feel like even if you have a small space, you still need to define your space. In Bobby Berk's design book "Right at Home" he asks "when was the last time you felt safe? 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z

Each time commentators rebuke the O.E.D. for admitting teenage slang or marketing jargon, they misunderstand the dictionary, which aims not to define how language should be used, only how it is. O.E.D.’s New Chief Editor Speaks of Its Future 2014-01-21T21:45:05Z

They look at the Constitution, which doesn’t really define who is a citizen, but does have this clause saying that the president must be a natural-born citizen. The History Behind the Birthright Citizenship Battle 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Like some malignant hologram, the characters are surrounded by the trace images of their actions, and how they react to that residue defines them. “Breaking Bad”: Walter faces the abyss 2012-07-23T02:59:00Z

“It would certainly help professional chess if it became more visible in the States, if there were clearly defined personalities.” Young Grandmasters Try to Make Chess Cool 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Easily accessible to foreign collectors and defined by its effortless cosmopolitanism, the British capital is a natural terrain for the promotion of artists from afar. Scene/ Seen: At Home, Again, in the West End 2011-02-25T12:00:05Z

What united them was that they existed under the radar of mainstream culture and defined themselves against it. Reaching Nirvana 2011-03-04T21:30:00Z

“There’s no substitute for the biscuity, chalky qualities that define Champagne.” Among Sparkling Wines, the Other Half Lives Pretty Well 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

If we define the concept too narrowly, then we absolve liberal institutions for their responsibility. What is “white supremacy”? A brief history of a term, and a movement, that continues to haunt America 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

While the show has spawned many “Peaky”-inspired haircuts and themed events, Tommy, as the story’s defining figure, is the character most fans seek to emulate. Saying Goodbye to Tommy Shelby, a Traumatized TV Antihero 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

For a buffet, few people will eat an entire “serving” — at least as far as a serving is defined in a recipe. Here’s a pot-luck dish that appeals to everyone, vegan and omnivore alike 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Together, they made work that highlighted the skewered, slightly off glamour that defines New York style. Ingrid Sischy’s Flame 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

My job was to investigate sightings and assess whether any were of “defence significance” – a phrase that was never defined, and thus meant whatever we wanted it to mean. Is anybody out there? The real-life Fox Mulder opens up his X-Files 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

It didn’t adopt abstraction as its defining advance style. A Lesser-Known Modernism Inspired by African-American Culture 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Abducted as a child, she'd been raised inside a cold, regulated, racially defined institution. Margaret Thatcher never liked her country 2013-04-14T07:00:00Z

Whitewashed brick, splashes of blue and graffiti-style artwork define the space. Baked Pastas Nodding to Florence Come to the West Village 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

There was too little of the style and musicality that define great salsa dancing. Dance Review: Roclan Gonz?lez Chavez in ?Kings of Salsa? - Review 2011-10-18T20:50:41Z

Film company Ecosse said the biopic "charts how finding true personal happiness allowed her to achieve her defining successes, as she evolved into a major international campaigner and humanitarian". Watts pictured as Princess Diana 2012-07-04T10:33:55Z

An introductory voice-over announces the movie as a depiction of life among the “poverty-stricken classes,” facetiously defined as the “common people” who “travel on streetcars.” The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema Lives Quietly Online 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

Simply knowing there is a band thoroughly, unreasonably and fanatically dedicated to soaking up sex and then not doing anything with it truly defines evil genius. Unseen Swells: The Jonas Brothers are the ultimate cock block 2010-06-18T13:10:00Z

Joseph Chan, the development corporation’s chairman, said his board would work over the next two months to help the center solidify a more modest proposal and define “the private sector fund-raising plan.” Ground Zero Arts Center to Shrink Further 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

“To see their character, their strength and resolve: they weren’t going to be defined by those things.” 'Visibility is so important': trans teen athletes shine in new documentary 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z

“There is something wonderful about putting models of different ages and from different eras who previously defined runway fashion up alongside the younger girls today who are half their age.” At Fashion Week, Comeback Queens Rule the Catwalks 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Ailes’s defining triumph is made to seem remarkably easy in this telling: It was there for the taking. Review | ‘The Loudest Voice’ really sticks it to Roger Ailes, who is still dead and doesn’t care what anyone thinks 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

From Jehovia and the Vine, Divine borrowed the traits that would define his spiritual empire and would later be copied by Jones into the doctrinal architecture of Peoples Temple. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

This dissension arises partly because everybody has a different idea of what makes a concept album, well, a concept album — something I discovered after idly asking my Facebook friends how they defined the term. “Sgt. Pepper’s” at 50: was it a concept album or an identity crisis? 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

A smaller area rug helps define the seating area. How to design a narrow living room around an inherited piano - The Washington Post 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

And because they were no longer infallible, and because the Beatles no longer defined the zeitgeist, the best of their solo work has been unfairly dismissed. Readers recommend: solo Beatles songs 2012-06-14T21:00:02Z

Sex positivity defines modern gay life, sure, but so does awareness, prevention and treatment of disease. Monkeypox is rousing old fears — and ways gay men care for each other 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

Here, 11 of them that defined the stylish year. 2018: The Year in Stuff 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

The masses are defined and affirmed to the point of their own destruction. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z

Everything was going well until Ms. Stevenson asked him to define their relationship. True Stories of Hooking Up During Covid-19 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z

The absentee dad who suddenly wants a relationship with his son is a tiresome construct, and it’s even more tiresome when the dad’s behavior is defined by selfishness. Review: ‘American Hero,’ a Deadbeat Superhero, Forever Backsliding 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

It is her funny, conflicted intelligence that in part defines our standards of beauty. | Of Brains and Beauty 2013-05-31T23:08:23Z

Today’s cultural consumers are less content to be routed through rigidly defined spaces that provide ready-made experiences. A Park as an Extension of the Museum Itself 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

But with its own streaming service now up and running, San Francisco is giving Salonen a chance — however curtailed — to start defining his tenure. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Numtot’s microcommunities have created about 100 splinter groups, which define themselves in relation to — and sometimes in opposition to — the parent group. Can Society Scale? 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

On the map of an immemorial literary England, populated by butlers, pigs and – over the hills and far away – the Hobbit, Blandings is defined to the south by the Wyre Forest. Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z

In writing “Let’s Clap,” she told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, she was struck that some of the same songs and stories that defined the civil rights movement of the 1960s still reverberate. Patricia McKissack, Prolific Author Who Championed Black Heroes, Dies at 72 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

They identify two problems: the psychiatric profession’s obsession with simplistic, symptom-based diagnoses, and the looseness of its criteria for defining mental states as pathology. Psychiatry’s Legitimacy Crisis 2012-08-08T20:52:00Z

These relationships were actual, bona fide addictions, defined by unhealthy involvement that wreaked havoc on other important areas of life. Love is the mother of all addictions: Compelling as nicotine and heroin — and just as hard to kick 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

That’s how the arts think, how they operate, how they define the parameters of aesthetic experience. Perspective | It’s not an attack on the arts, it’s an attack on communities 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

The pursuit of simple forms, which has always been a defining element of Japanese art, is in many ways an open canvas for fresh works and new audiences, the gallery said. Rediscovering the Joy of Japanese Art in London 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

We are all defined in ways far greater than what’s between our legs. The fight over the “v” word 2014-01-31T22:05:00Z

Of course, the significance of Olympic competition is defined not by the universality of the sports but of what happens, the human drama. We made a sport 2012-08-19T13:00:00Z

Before the comic launched, Jaime came to a realization that would forever define the book. ‘Love and Rockets,’ a Series that Helped Redefine Comics, Turns 40 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z

Not listed in that document is any advice about being ready to pivot, relaunch and define your own version success. It was Conan O'Brien's choice to leave late night this time – and we've never identified more 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z

It’s the defining characteristic that endears him to his millions of adoring fans, but for critics who only find snore-inducing banality in his candor, it’s a high crime. In D.C., J. Cole’s heart was on his sleeve, right where it belongs 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

Golding, born to a Malaysian mother and an English father, is one of the few east Asian actors who has been able to move beyond roles that are defined by race. The new heart-throbs: how Hollywood embraced east Asian actors, from Henry Golding to Simu Liu 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

Their struggles and successes defined a drag scene where becoming a legend is a career move. It’s Not Just the Story of Drag in Brooklyn, It’s the Story of America 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

The key message was on match funding, yet the amounts seem yet to be agreed, the criteria for inclusion are not established and the kinds of funding are not clearly defined. Jeremy Hunt launches ?80m arts match-funding scheme 2010-12-08T17:51:00Z

Because I think our lives are defined by moments. Must-see “Daily Show”: “We are all afraid,” says Trevor Noah in passionate Paris plea 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

As those other museums attest, it’s hard to rigidly define how to cram “capitalism” into the tidy exhibit spaces that typify the museum system as it exists in, uh, capitalism. Opening day at Oakland’s Museum of Capitalism 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

After years of dreadful press that defined Athens as a broken-down capital prone to fiery riots, the city’s self-confidence and creativity are stirring again. 36 Hours in Athens 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Fiddles, guitars and banjos even accompanied the routine of haircuts at the Star Barber Shop in downtown Bristol, where the main street defines the Tennessee-Virginia line. Where the Hills and Hollows Are Alive With Music 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

It feels as if that tone which has always defined Channel 4, and been so very appealing, is gradually being drowned out. Channel 4's innovative spirit gets buried under car crash TV 2011-01-10T07:47:54Z

So we wear our masks, without letting them define us. Review | Anna Solomon’s ‘Book of V’ will please fans of ‘The Hours’ with its sprawling take on a biblical tale 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

A series of fouetté turns — the defining feat of “Swan Lake” — in her living room in Copenhagen. Some Pros Let It Go on TikTok: ‘Is This the Future?’ 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

In Genesis, Collins helped define progressive drumming, evolving from the jackhammer force of “Selling England By the Pound” to the arena-tailored boom of “Duke.” Take a look at Phil Collins now: It’s time to recognize the critical punching-bag’s true genius 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

Dance music is well on its way to becoming one of the defining sounds of 2013. Dance music overtakes R&B sales 2013-07-05T14:25:45Z

We let people define that for themselves, generally speaking. How should we treat addiction? 2012-09-03T13:30:00Z

Unlike the Genie, Long possesses a compelling human back story and follows a defined character arc. ‘Wish Dragon’ Review: ‘Aladdin’ Goes to Shanghai, Sort Of 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

The South Carolina-born Ms. Rosebrock, whose earlier works include “Dido of Idaho,” has a nice feel for barbed comic dialogue and for topical references that quickly and unobtrusively define a time and place. Review: Marin Ireland Brings Down the Halfway House in ‘Blue Ridge’ 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Finkel’s admitted sins of arrogance and sloppiness turn out to be virtues in disguise, side effects of a professional temperament defined by passion, courage and a fierce work ethic. Review: ‘True Story’ Stars Jonah Hill and James Franco 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

“A white man is never defined by his whiteness and maleness,” continues Rosenberg, “whereas being female is treated as a defining facet.” Fight the power: how the female superhero is finally taking flight 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z

Maybe I use the term revolution too frequently in this book, without really defining it. ‘Power Must Be Taken’: Excerpts From ‘The Anarchist Cookbook’ 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

“In Buddy’s Eyes,” from “Follies,” more or less defines Barbara Cook’s wistful, empathetic warmth. Music Review: Karen Akers at the Oak Room - Review 2011-10-03T21:42:51Z

“As an historian I have always been interested in the problem of defining historical periods and understanding the transitions between them,” he wrote on the website Rorotoko in 2012. Donald Weinstein, Influential Historian on the Renaissance, Dies at 89 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Vast acreages of grain, a practice called monoculture, define much of Midwestern farmland, but Gill prefers to grow a diversity of fruits and vegetables. Perspective | The key to a family farming renaissance? Niche crops. 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

The figure’s stomach muscles are more exactly defined. Review | From the Pharaohs to Cleopatra and Julius Caesar: how Egypt influenced Greece and Rome 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

This form of amnesia is defined by the inability to form new declarative memories of facts, personal experiences or plans for the future subsequent to the injury or illness. “I don’t care who I am or what I did”: What the Bourne films get right and wrong about amnesia 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z

Such an accomplished woman hardly needs defending, but defining a life is another matter. ‘Emilie’ Review: Defending, and Defining, a Life 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

“I’m trying to define our musical soul,” he said. A Critic’s First Orchestra Defines Britain’s Musical Soul 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

For the Allies, the conflict was defined by Imperial Japan’s ravaging of Nanjing, the aerial bombardment of Chongqing, the Bataan death march of helpless American and Filipino prisoners of war and the sack of Manila. Trying the Japanese for War Crimes 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

We talk about how your mental illness doesn’t define who you are, but on TV you are your mental illness. Lights, camera, depression: Why does mental illness on TV rarely look like real life? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

The outdoor dining terrace fills much of the space between the wings of the house and is defined by vine-clad arbors built from salvaged classical columns. An architect couple designs a dream house 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

It is this anxiety, which afflicts Curtis in especially virulent form, that defines the mood of “Take Shelter,” Jeff Nichols’s remarkable new film. | 'Take Shelter': ?Take Shelter,? With Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain 2011-09-29T22:13:08Z

Its editors don’t just define words using their guts or brains. David Bowie Is All Over the Oxford Dictionary 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

One of the pleasures of flash fiction is the impossibility of ever finally defining what it is. Flash mob 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

It also helps that her fans are properly fanatical, latching on to this term and proudly defining themselves as such. The rise of the Twitter tribes 2011-04-01T23:06:07Z

There I hung my hat -- and hung out on a balcony for a golden view of the chapel dome at Les Invalides, part of the historic military complex that helps define the neighborhood. I remember Paris and I'm not alone. Share your 2-euros? 2011-02-07T17:21:04Z

We live in a world that is obsessed, fixated and defined by the external which is ultimately and essentially an illusion and delusion. All Twisted Up by Gender Bending 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Her birth story in no way defines her. Motherlode Blog: Whose Belly Did I Come From? 2011-09-21T16:01:44Z

Rauschenberg not only made work that remain enormously influential, he established habits of work — collaboration, performance, and wandering promiscuously across media — that are still the habits that define most contemporary artists today. Review | Five art exhibitions you really didn’t want to miss in 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

I’m looking roughly at the era an undergraduate survey of Western civilization might define as modern history. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z

In ways both personal and professional, 2011 is shaping up to be a defining year in his life. Citizen Kushner 2011-06-24T21:35:16Z

That killer clown postcard turned out to be bankrolled by dark money, which the Republican state senator Llew Jones defines here as “advertising where you don’t know who’s paying for the ads.” Review: Tracking ‘Dark Money’ in Montana Elections 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

If there's any consolation here, it's that bands tend to define their names rather than the other way around. Are there any great band names left? 2011-04-04T22:13:00Z

On a clear evening, the edges of the illuminated towers were sharply defined against the dark sky. When the Twin Towers Quietly Commanded the New York Skyline 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

He’s miserably aware that human beings can’t be anything but themselves, defined by their personal characteristics and imprisoned by routine. Experimental Literature That Tests Family Bonds and Routines 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

But her beguiling mix of the gossipy and the scholarly was put to best use in a six-parter about one of the defining icons of cinema’s first century, Joan Crawford. The 50 best podcasts of 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Among those who exercised vigorously – defined as hard training several times a week – the lifespan was as much as five years longer than among those who were sedentary. Daily exercise as beneficial to health in old age as quitting smoking, study finds 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Attempts to link the dramatic and the gastronomic contrast with the tradition of dinner theater, which a lengthy New York Times article from 1973, during that phenomenon’s heyday, defined as “restaurants that feature live theater.” Rib-Eye Steak With a Side of Shakespeare 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Youth Speaks’s goal, Kass said, is to create a new generation of people who will define the culture of the future — just as Diggs is doing. ‘Hamilton’ star Daveed Diggs: Slam poetry saved my life 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

It’s yet another example of the creators imprinting the hosts with their flaws, but a poignant one for a man like Ford, who’s defined more by his aloofness than by his soul. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 6: The Tipping Point 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

“This is a list of cultural touchstones, the things that define Jewishness,” she said. Is Seltzer Jewish? And 99 Other Argument-Starters 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

We’ll look back on it as a discrete chapter of our lives, defined by anxiety and grief, and punctuated with moments of grace. Perspective | Best movies of 2020: Diverse thrills, chills, Dickensian laughs and a pandemic-friendly trip to Greece 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

When it comes to defining an awards show’s sensibility, what is omitted is often as telling as what gets recognized. Golden Globes 2023 Snubs (Will Smith) and Surprises (Brendan Fraser) 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

Rock and roll is defined by its inherent theatricality and excess. Rock stars in fiction 2011-03-17T16:00:50Z

At the time, Ms. Reffstrup was a buyer in Copenhagen and felt boxed in by the stereotypes of cold androgyny or flower-crown-wearing bohemian that defined Scandinavian style. Ganni Girls Like to Have Fun 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

Who knew, for example, that bel canto, an Italian opera term, came to define European classical singing mainly because the open vowels of Italian were easier to sing than French or German? Voice-overs 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

It reveals the deep roots of the current movement to reject a system of law enforcement that defines as the problem the very people who continue to seek to liberate themselves from racial oppression. Recasting ‘Riots’ as Black Rebellions 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

And on Wednesday evening, Trump will further define his immigration policy during a rally in Phoenix. #AmnestyDon: Joe Scarborough releases parody song mocking Donald Trump 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

“There are enough characters that are well-enough defined where we can imprint whatever we want on them,” he said. ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’; A heavyweight bout with a light touch 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

“The Catch” is defined merely by slickness, and it might have made a decent “Ocean’s Eleven”-style caper movie. Review: ‘The Catch’ Is a Glossy Game of Cat and Mouse 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

The atrocities that power modern life are now integral to what we define as the norm. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z

To help define the space and create a focal point, Borden suggests adding a fireplace mantel in the middle of the long wall where the sofa used to be. How to design a narrow living room around an inherited piano - The Washington Post 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

I did not tell her that she is the carrier of the defective gene, X-linked inheritance a defining characteristic of Duchenne. Our beautiful sons could die before us 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

I think people use music or sports teams or whatever to define their tribe. Matt Berninger has always been funny: “I actually think The National’s stuff has more humor than people pay attention to” 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

We would have little progress in the humanities or life sciences without the dedicated, some might say obsessive, pursuit that defines a collector. In defense of souvenirs: For travel-lovers stuck at home, even the unlikeliest tchotchkes can spark joy 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

I told him Cathlin was doing great, but when I asked him if he was still fine, he said, “Well, let’s define fine.” As He Cut My Hair, I Wept 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

The end result was one of the film’s defining images, but it was hardly fun for McDowell. Malcolm McDowell looks back at "Clockwork Orange" and Stanley Kubrick stealing his pay 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Going back to school was my way of saying, “I’m not going to be defined by this business.” ‘Cobra Kai’: Strike First. Strike Hard. Come Back for More. 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z

They usually press me to define those three categories, and I tell them to use their judgment. “No living woman actually looks like Kate Moss”: The unattainable thin ideal 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

Walter Mitty, a fictional character from a 1939 short story by James Thurber, defines a person not comfortable in his own skin or surroundings, alienated by idealistic aspirations. Social alienation proves popular in Hollywood's fall lineup 2013-10-23T13:02:18Z

Al Kooper, organ: His playing defined countless Bob Dylan songs, including "Like a Rolling Stone," and he served as band leader and arranger on Dylan's double-album masterpiece, "Blonde on Blonde." A sampling of some of rock's greatest foils 2011-06-20T01:07:00Z

"After decades of displacement and many years of war, we are entering a defining moment for Afghanistan," Jolie added. Jolie to take on new UN refugee role 2011-10-04T16:37:21Z

It was part of her life, but it didn’t define her. What the world misunderstands about artist Agnes Martin and how her biographer unearthed her story 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

The white North Side is brimming with prosperity, presenting a small scale version of the stratification and inequality that now defines much of American life. The absurd outrage over Jussie Smollett 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Miles into Tunisia’s southern desert wastes, fantastical structures define the desert landscape. Star Wars' abandoned Tunisian locations – in pictures 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

There’s Chick-fil-A, the family friendly chicken chain that “supports programs and marriage retreats to help strengthen and enrich marriages” – as defined by the company’s “biblically-based principles.” Kicked out of the mall — for an anti-cancer hat 2013-05-22T20:33:00Z

And like that mess, “Bird Box” is defined by its derivative plot design and its contrivances. Why "Bird Box" is smashing Netflix records: We're so close to apocalypse ourselves 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

But in casting sessions for New York Fashion Week, it seems the most coveted look isn’t from a particular region or defined by a body type. Skin Deep: For Fashion Models, Quirk Is In 2013-09-04T20:49:44Z

No offense to them, but I didn't want their palate or their sound to then define us. Rock on radio: Ryan Tedder on band's new album 2013-03-29T21:31:06Z

“In the world of Elmore Leonard, people are defined not by good and bad but by whether you’re a jerk or not,” Mr. Olyphant said. Television: Timothy Olyphant in Elmore Leonard?s ?Justified? on FX 2012-01-05T12:00:00Z

"To me that doesn't really define anything," he says. Emmy-worthy guest performers deliver under pressure 2010-06-09T04:41:00Z

Some time ago, the Hills decided to collect in depth, which Mr. Hill defines as owning “at least four” works by an artist. A Billionaire Is Opening a Private Art Museum in Manhattan 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Arthur Bispo do Rosario, a former Marine Corps signalman, boxer, tram cleaner and domestic worker in Rio de Janeiro, had no interest in defining his extensive activities as art. For Bispo do Rosario, Art Could Only Be a Divine Calling 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

With her perfect execution of the Graham dance vocabulary, however, Ms. Hinkson made her reputation as a Graham dancer and was not defined as a dancer who usually explored the black heritage. Mary Hinkson, a Star for Martha Graham, Dies at 89 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z