| 单词 | favour |
| 例句 | In other words, it was wrong for Galileo to believe the Copernican theory and he must not argue in its favour, even from the perspective of, as it were, Devil’s advocate. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Jarvas demanded, in a tone suggesting that he normally let his knife do the talking, but was doing me a favour by giving me a chance to exonerate myself. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was all right: at present I decidedly preferred these fierce favours to anything more tender. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z ‘Thank you, brothers, for helping to kill the giant. I need one more favour - an escape. And, believe me, I am properly terrified. I offer you this, uh, lovely ear as a sacrifice.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z No doubt I should have been miserable whomsoever she had favoured; but a worthier object would have caused me a different kind and degree of distress. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, a faint hypnopaedic prejudice in favour of size was universal. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z That is a great favour and people line up early in the morning and stand waiting. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Poirot sat down and soon found himself in the favoured position of the table which was served first and with the choicest morsels. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z As if I had besought them as a favour to bother my life out. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z But he who attains the principality through popular favour finds himself alone, and has around him either no one or very few who are not ready to obey him. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z But at the core of Descartes’ philosophy there was this set of arguments in favour of belief. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As a necessary sequence, I asked him if he would favour us with his company, and he promptly accepted the invitation. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z These two methods are when one becomes prince through some wicked and nefarious means; or when a private citizen becomes prince of his native city through the favour of his fellow citizens. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Gaheris added: “He favours the young knights, and tries to help them win the spurs. I can’t see your grudge against him.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z For, I cannot adequately express what pain it gave me to think that Estella should show any favour to a contemptible, clumsy, sulky booby, so very far below the average. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z He was, indeed, rejected in favour of David Gregory, a protégé of Isaac Newton. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z "I'm not in favour of blue-stocking girls. A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important than books, Miss Hunky..." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z But such ideas failed to find favour, largely because they flew in the face of ‘common sense’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z At times they were in favour and received privileges ordinary Russians would have marvelled at; at others their continued survival as professional composers hung by a thread. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Bentley surely did not think that Boyle, Newton, Sydenham and Ratcliffe had directly attacked belief in witchcraft; and he probably knew that Boyle had been all in favour of such belief. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I looked at her without favour: it was plain enough why she had come. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z These were specially favoured by millers, smiths, ropers, and cartwrights, and others of that sort; for even when they had holes to live in, Hobbits had long been accustomed to build sheds and workshops. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z If Lakshmi, goddess of wealth, one day favours me bountifully, Oxford is fifth on the list of cities I would like to visit before I pass on, after Mecca, Varanasi, Jerusalem and Paris. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The nature of my relations with her, which placed me on terms of familiarity without placing me on terms of favour, conduced to my distraction. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Why was it useless to try to win any one’s favour? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z And these are the men who have been granted a state either because they have money, or because they enjoy the favour of him who grants it. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z With infinite difficulty, for he was stubborn as a stone, I persuaded him to make an exchange in favour of a sober black satin and pearl-grey silk. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z A splendid Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant as were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave-girt land. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I maintain that one reaches this princedom either with the favour of the common people or with that of the nobility, since these two different humours are found in every body politic. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z As he took the cup from my hand, Adèle, thinking the moment propitious for making a request in my favour, cried out— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z A prince can gain their favour in various ways, but because these vary according to the situation, no fixed rules can be given for them, and therefore I shall not discuss them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He studies the signs: the Sword that robbed him of his treasure re-made; the winds of fortune turning in our favour, and the defeat unlooked-for of his first assault; the fall of his great Captain. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Oh, Charlotte says she hardly ever does. It is the greatest of favours when Miss de Bourgh comes in.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z “But I am very much, and without being at all ashamed of it. My love for Mr. and Mrs. Weston gives me a decided prejudice in his favour.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Egypt’, he said slowly, ‘is one of our finest and most important areas. We are doing you a favour in sending you there instead of to some mosquito-ridden place in the swamps!’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Sir Lancelot was fetched from the pigeon house, for the royal favour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Sir Grummore favoured him with another whack and said, “If you don’t say Pax, I shall cut your head off.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z You was favoured, and he was bullied and beat. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z My appearance, with my arm bandaged and my coat loose over my shoulders, favoured my object. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z At this Snowball sprang to his feet, and shouting down the sheep, who had begun bleating again, broke into a passionate appeal in favour of the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Suspicious Circumstances: The Wagon Lit uniform found is a point in his favour since it seems to have been intended to throw suspicion on him. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lance,” she had. said before the tournament, asking her strange favour humbly and childishly, “now that we are together, you will wear my token at the fight?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Everybody wants to fight, Tom, but nobody knows why. Suppose I were to ask you not to fight, as a special favour to the King? Would you do that?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if they hadn't, even if they did suddenly come pouring in, they would be wonderful kind people who would look with favour upon a young mouse-trainer going about his business. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z The turtle retreated even further, favouring the side where the blade was, and suddenly shot its head forward, beak snapping at me viciously. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Mais oui. It may be that I know it already. But it will be a point in your favour if it comes from you spontaneously.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘One only of us is an Elf, Legolas from the Woodland Realm in distant Mirkwood. But we have passed through Lothlórien, and the gifts and favour of the Lady go with us.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Will you do me a favour?” she asked. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I assured him of my keeping the secret, and begged to be favoured with further particulars. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “I thank you for my share of the favour,” said Elizabeth; “but I do not particularly like your way of getting husbands.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z She also kept doing little favours for me, like making me sandwiches, or taking on parts of my cleaning rota. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Arthur Ashe was favoured to win his first-round match against Sherwood Stewart, a bearded, lanky American from Goose Creek, Texas. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the nobles are more perceptive and cunning, they always have time to save themselves, seeking the favours of the side they believe will prevail. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The only stipulation was that he had to describe the two models impartially, without arguing in favour of the Copernican system, and restricting himself to the astronomical and mathematical arguments on both sides. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “I do not consider its length as particularly in its favour. Such things in general cannot be too short.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Tigers, indeed all animals, do not favour violence as a means of settling scores. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, Madam Mina, I will be grateful; you will do me much favour.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He did not curry favour; rather, he was seeking a relationship with destiny: his music yearned to be the expression of humanity's deepest desires and anxieties. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Dr. Seward, may I ask a favour? I want to see your patient, Mr. Renfield. Do let me see him. What you have said of him in your diary interests me so much!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z And how could it be supposed that his uncle and aunt would spare him again?’ and so forth—I always felt that something would happen in our favour; and so it has, you see. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Elizabeth even granted them a monopoly on the printing of sheet music, such was the favour she showed towards them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Vain favour! coming, like most other favours long deferred and often wished for, too late! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z When I came in he ran to me and said he wanted to ask me a great favour—a very, very great favour; and as he spoke he fawned on me like a dog. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “What! are we to have the pleasure of a call from Mr. Elton?—That will be a favour indeed! for I know gentlemen do not like morning visits, and Mr. Elton’s time is so engaged.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Her brother’s recommendation was enough to ensure her favour; his judgement could not err. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z But Newton was a great one for rewriting history in his own favour, and the inverse square law emerged much more gradually than the story suggests. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In the early 1620s, as the Thirty Years War temporarily shifted in favour of the Catholic side, the political situation in Italy changed in ways that would affect Galileo dramatically. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Now, let the blood of these demigods return the favour. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn’t happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I’d be doing myself and everyone else a favour. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It often took years to repay a favour or to avenge a wrong. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z At last we found one who seemed to fulfill our requirements: he was young and well favoured, the only son of his father from whom he would one day inherit a good portion of land. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The rock might be angry about something that people did and rejoice over some other action, the rock might admonish people or ask for favours. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Alas! the readers of our era are less favoured. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Ma and Pa would think throwing money away was worst than taking it for doing someone a favour, so I didn’t have nothing to worry ’bout! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The coach wouldn’t share details, but he hinted that he was calling in some favours to help with the quest. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The two others kept their hands behind them and constantly rubbed them against each other, as if in joyful anticipation of a great squabble which must end up in their favour. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z And while I am very much in favour of forming an army of well- informed punctuation vigilantes, I can foresee problems getting everyone to pull in the same direc-tion. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z “Some and their uptowning! Now, master! Come. No favouring in this shop. Be a man!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “I never wear favours,” he had said, truthfully. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z All I could say was, “I was wondering, ma’am, if maybe you’d let me borrow your baby and carry her to Buxton so I could show Ma how much she favours my sister?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z ‘You really don’t know what Octavian has planned, do you? He’s been busy pulling in favours, spending the legion’s money.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z In spite of his efforts to please the Emperor, in the summer of 1630 Wallenstein fell from favour and was dismissed from his key post as commander of the army. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I am now going to claim the protection of some friends, whom I sincerely love, and of whose favour I have some hopes.’ Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the way someone apologised when they’d tried to do you a favour, but it hadn’t worked out. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “And I have another favour to ask you. Will you come and see me?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Mr. Pumblechook was in favour of a handsome premium for binding me apprentice to some genteel trade,—say, the corn and seed trade, for instance. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Evolution thus favoured those capable of forming strong social ties. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Few escape her nets, they say. These are strange days! But if you have her favour, then you also are net-weavers and sorcerers, maybe.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z In Ashbury I am not a homeowner, not even a tenant—I’m a lodger, occupant of the small second bedroom in Cathy’s bland and inoffensive duplex, subject to her grace and favour. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But let us come to the second instance, when a private citizen becomes prince of his native city not through wickedness or any other intolerable violence, but with the favour of his fellow citizens. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The student-teacher relationship is inherently imbalanced in favour of the teacher’s authority, even if the student pursues the teacher, rather than vice versa. Dating after #MeToo: I want to date my co-worker – but would it be harassment? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z It’d be a different story if the producers levelled the playing field a little and introduced a few categories that were weighted in the human’s favour. Is Man vs Bear the weirdest TV show of the year? 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z While the others settled out of court, the AJC stood firm and ultimately a court ruled in their favour as their sourcing and reporting was deemed “substantially true at the time they were published”. Stop defending an irresponsible movie and start apologising | Benjamin Lee 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z As a centrist who favours free trade and free markets, though, he does so from within the mainstream. How to fix a broken system 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z In the UK, where textured implants have been generally favoured by surgeons, there have been 45 confirmed cases of the lymphoma, and one fatality. Women with Allergan breast implants may sue over cancer link 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z He fascinates the crowd until, one day, the traditional art of fasting loses favour. Franz Kafka's election guide 2010-04-08T09:15:00Z Music paid so badly that he often sidelined it in favour of pursuits that were more lucrative. Works of Glass 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z In return for springing his son, Parker wants Corso Sr to do him a favour concerning a thief, Riley, played by Toby Stephens. All Things to All Men – review 2013-04-04T20:45:01Z It will be a shame if The Iron Lady overlooks that deep anger in favour of exclusive focus on Thatcher as a woman triumphing against the odds. Meryl Streep playing Margaret Thatcher ? what's not to like? 2011-02-08T20:30:31Z These series of films, glorifying the country's past, found him fame with the Romanian public as well as favour with the Communist regime. Romanian filmmaker dies aged 82 2013-01-03T16:33:53Z The singer and the president-to-be shared the favours of Marilyn Monroe, who was kept out of sight in a chalet overlooking the lake, particularly when her former husband, the baseball hero Joe DiMaggio, came calling. When the Rat Pack ruled supreme 2010-10-07T19:29:00Z Trump took to Twitter to defend himself against Streep’s speech, calling her “overrated”, but his social media retaliation did not find favour with many of Streep’s peers. Robert De Niro writes letter of support to Meryl Streep 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Nominate a few friends to do the same within a set timescale, share the video on your favoured social media platform and you’ve got a viral charity campaign on your hands. 10 more of the best celebrity takes on the ice bucket challenge 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Horry favours plonk, but doesn't refuse the grander tipples proffered by Harry. Horace and Me by Harry Eyres – revew 2013-07-07T09:00:00Z Tipped as one of the acts to watch in 2009, she promptly scrapped her electropop sound in favour of something more organic. F&M Playlist 2010-06-24T21:30:00Z "So in a way, I thought: they did me a favour." Karin Ward: 'I'm not angry at Jimmy Savile now' 2012-12-09T00:04:01Z Titled Douglas Sirk in homage to the director whose melodramas favoured mirror images, it features a series of mirrored boxes, their surfaces silkscreened with pictures of fruit, toys and furniture. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z Unfortunately, it has long fallen from favour, arguably supplanted as the most definitive account of Britain's depression-era woes by Orwell's book The Road To Wigan Pier. Rereading: Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z Strikingly, too, it backtracks on the original speech’s rejection of straight society in favour of the tempting course of oblivion offered by illicit pharmaceuticals. ‘Choose Facebook, revenge porn, zero hours': what does the Trainspotting speech mean today? 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z "Artists have that in their favour, which writers don't," says White. From Yoko Ono to Leonard Cohen ? the old masters finding new inspiration 2012-02-10T19:24:18Z Yet these adventures ditched traditional, high-flown prose in favour of stylised American slang, the pages juggling steel-trap dialogue with silken similes. A Mysterious Something in the Light: Raymond Chandler, A Life by Tom Williams – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z Cannes welcomed back one of its favoured sons today, and it was as he is best known and loved: gritty, uncompromising and angry. Ken Loach returns with an angry look at Iraq 2010-05-19T21:25:00Z Telling children that their living but supposedly pernicious parents were dead was thought to be doing them a favour. Oranges and Sunshine wasn't just a false promise 2011-04-05T09:18:00Z Killing off your two most likable characters is a deflating way to finish a musical, and it takes a rousing encore by the Pitlochry company to win back our favour. Little Shop of Horrors – review 2012-06-07T17:15:01Z I'm sure that her agent might see things differently, but I've rather felt that Sue Perkins hadn't been doing herself any favours by positioning herself as the female Stephen Fry. My New Hand; Heading Out; The Railway – TV review 2013-02-27T07:00:00Z But on the way back she managed to stand in front of me and said: ‘Excuse me, would you do me a favour? Could you just look me in the eye and say Khaleesi?’ 'It was madness': Game of Thrones stars on how it changed their lives 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z Critics at Time Out New York have deemed the race too close to call, but the New York Times favours Matilda to edge it. Tony awards 2013: Matilda and Kinky Boots musicals go head to head 2013-06-05T14:38:38Z Except I’m not, obviously, because as Harley Street dietitian and sports nutritionist Raquel Britzke points out, favouring fruit over vegetables has problems of its own. The 10-a-day diet tested: 'I feel like a sentient composter' 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z He is not the man favoured by Mrs Munning, a hatchet-faced widow, who sees that a marriage between Virginia and her eldest son, Paul, might revive the family's ailing catering business. Zack ? review 2011-01-06T22:31:01Z A recent British poll found 54% were in favour of such targeted killing. Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control by Medea Benjamin – review 2013-05-09T09:01:01Z Meanwhile the court case to decide on Marcellina's contract has been resolved in her favour. Glyndebourne 2012 - Marriage of Figaro synopsis, cast and creatives 2012-08-14T11:26:10Z The oomph has been favouring Washington in recent weeks, with a Screen Actors Guild victory following Affleck’s Globes win. Oscars 2017: our final predictions 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z She replaces original choice Penélope Cruz, who bailed out in favour of shooting the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean outing, On Stranger Tides. Kirsten Dunst joins Lars von Trier's Melancholia 2010-04-19T10:51:00Z What if his role is to shift the terms of what is deemed an acceptable Republican candidate in favour of a more sophisticated authoritarian leader? Michael Moore: 'We have the power to crush Trump' 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z There's no sense of him awkwardly currying favour, and no stench of careerism: Baker simply seems to be a comic who loves being onstage, and can't believe his luck that other people enjoy it too. This week's new live comedy 2012-12-29T00:06:19Z "We have got so much support from people saying we have to keep the spirit of carnival alive – lots of people who have been against carnival in the past are now in favour," he said. Notting Hill carnival: fraught with risk, but the show goes on 2011-08-19T16:55:04Z It does the authorities no favours to be seen as censors. New Africa: the film-maker exploring feminism in Algeria 2012-08-24T23:05:17Z The tide is not currently in their favour. Why the privileged white male is bombing at the Box Office 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z It was widely construed as the studio’s first foray into feminism because it eschewed a traditional happy-ever-after with a prince in favour of sisterly devotion. Frozen fans urge Disney to give Elsa a girlfriend in sequel 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z This would mean anyone in the constituency could help choose a candidate, which can help stop vested interests handing parachutes to their favoured choice. Half of Labour candidates in marginal seats are Westminster insiders 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z The narrative of young women being overlooked in favour of young men is one she is familiar with. 'I was fired for having a miscarriage': the truth about pregnancy and work 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z People are falling in and out of favour, fortunes are made and broken in the span of an episode, and beefs are created and settled in between two commercial breaks. How to catch up with … Empire 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The Germans favour budget austerity even in hard times; the French favour fiscal stimulus on Keynesian lines. France v Germany 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Modern, but not in the harsh, severe way favoured in the 1960s, when most of these people cut their teeth as young new left radicals, mortified by the concrete cities taking shape around them. High stakes 2013-02-12T07:00:01Z It is a measure of how popular he was that even the favoured targets of his acerbic wit rushed to include themselves among his admirers upon news of his death. Carlos Monsiv?is obituary 2010-06-24T18:04:00Z In policy terms, Miliband hinted that he would be in favour of a stronger controlling hand on the banking sector, and said he would be in no hurry to denationalise the Royal Bank of Scotland. Ed Miliband at Hay festival: Coalition was betrayal of Lib Dem principles 2010-05-30T19:04:00Z But, having appeared to make a stand in favour of MP3s, Byrne retreats to the fence, conceding that some indefinable quality may nevertheless have been sacrificed – "Or maybe not." How Music Works by David Byrne - review 2012-11-09T22:55:01Z So to be clear I am not in favour of simply tolerating it – the idea of gender fluidity should be thoroughly welcomed, for all its complications, as an extension of the range of human possibility. Why I’d be happy for my daughters to change gender 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Lila never wholly discards her old life in favour of the new. Amazing grace 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Fascinating facts abound: Victorians favoured gloomy parlours in part because dark colours didn't show the soot. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-04-13T06:59:00Z A TripAdvisor spokesperson said the company is not in favour of the receipt idea. Twitter campaign takes aim at fake restaurant reviews on TripAdvisor 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z I was immediately trying to think of countries that favour triangular or circular units. How England Made the English by Harry Mount - review 2012-05-18T21:55:01Z He breathes thickly as he recalls his childhood attempts to become one of the "tough boys" and the favour the tough boys did him by shutting him out. The Wire re-up: season five, episode 10 - Baltimore's Academy Awards 2010-04-19T23:15:00Z Authors opposed to the revised Google books settlement are celebrating a surprise ruling in their favour by a New York judge. New York judge rules against Google books settlement 2011-03-23T16:32:43Z You're not thinking, 'Is someone going to say, oh, is he in favour of suicide?' Julian Barnes 2013-03-30T07:00:25Z But will his industrial-sized bucket of bluster alone see the competition finally find favour with the Australian public? TV highlights 15/07/2013 2013-07-15T06:00:06Z But the director kept delaying, most recently in favour of The Wolf Of Wall Street. Andrew Garfield: ‘I never compromised who I was’ 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Then, with a heavy sigh, he returns to his favoured spot on the sofa. Not so dumb animals: putting my dog through the IQ test 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z He also suggests limiting the number of cities bidding, adjusting the split of television revenue to favour host cities, making the organisations’ voting systems more transparent and imposing term limits on their members. Just say no 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The economics don't really favour the iceberg home, where the third storey down will probably cost more to dig than it could ever be worth. Deep concerns: the trouble with basement conversions 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z I favoured this argument in a piece I wrote about Hall, Why keeping suspects' identities secret is against the public interest. Arrests - is it possible to publish names without mud sticking? 2013-05-08T14:02:00Z After the event, because I remember this £100,000 or favours being floated about, and me and my mother were like, 'No way, that's a phenomenal amount of money. Charlotte Church: my private life 2012-10-05T21:59:00Z May the odds be forever in your favour! The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - review 2012-09-28T08:00:00Z What this book did was popularise the idea that cooperation can indeed be favoured by natural selection. Sharing is in our nature 2012-08-13T11:45:00Z The film’s plot hinges on an initiative to ditch field agents in favour of virtual espionage. Ralph Fiennes: Loosey Goosey? ‘I like that!’ 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z The other sort of research he favours goes by the technical name "eavesdropping". Real-life violence rocks the Comic-Con nerds in San Diego 2010-07-25T13:25:00Z One was a Channel Islander who had lost favour with her lover, the Prince of Wales, after dropping ice cream down his neck. Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America by Roy Morris Jnr – review 2013-02-15T14:01:01Z La Sestina are a hugely accomplished group, but the rather warm, close recording does their rapt singing no favours. Guerrero: Missa L'Homme Arm?, etc - review 2011-03-24T22:15:00Z But the quiet, closing title track doesn't actively rage against the dying of the light, it favours the shifting resistance of water or wind. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Push the Sky Away – review 2013-02-17T00:07:20Z They had cast lots and it simply fell out in favour of Matthias. How Joseph Barsabbas's letter might have read 2011-04-07T09:00:01Z But as soon as I sink into the soft flock cushions favoured by British Indian restaurants of the old school, all such worries melt away – I know exactly what I'm going to have. How to make the perfect saag paneer 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z "The numbers are in your favour," he says. Bobby McFerrin gets vocal 2010-05-06T22:05:00Z Bond films have increasingly toyed with topicality, with Spectre hanging on an initiative to axe field agents in favour of virtual espionage. Danny Boyle's exit from James Bond throws franchise into chaos 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Stephen Deuchar, director of ArtFund, the national fundraising charity for works of art, believes that the arts community is broadly in favour of the government supplying a smaller proportion of arts funding. Vivien Duffield: The women who thinks it's better to give 2011-03-27T00:06:25Z The Screen Actors Guild has announced its award nominations, a key indicator of who will be in favour when the Oscars are awarded early in 2017. Screen Actors Guild showers nominations on Manchester by the Sea 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z By jumping on the fashionable interactive bandwagon, this potentially interesting devised piece does itself no favours. Beyond the Pale | Theatre review 2010-04-04T22:00:00Z The two movies would also appear to be in opposite corners visually, with Avengers' candy colours enhanced in loving 3D, while Nolan favours the large-format detail of Imax for his intricate visions. The Dark Knight Rises tries to match The Avengers in superheroes battle 2012-07-08T13:36:52Z Now it seems we are all content to dismiss the beauty around us in favour of fiddling with filters. Is Instagram changing the way we design the world? 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z But his centrality – he's filmed in loving close-up and to emotive strings – loads the dice in favour of the past and against the present. Before I Sleep 2010-05-07T20:35:00Z And yet Hollywood has kept its distance, favouring conditions such as blindness, deafness and discreet mental illnesses which exhibit no outward sign of deformity, though good-looking wheelchair users have proved acceptable. Disability in film: is cinema finally moving with the times? 2012-11-12T12:25:57Z But now, evil property developers seek to bulldoze in favour of a grotesque development of luxury flats. Got any change? Why cinema struggles with homelessness 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Tall and watchful, he is 64 years old and, like a famous tennis player who shares his first name, he favours a headband. Life on the ice: one last hunt for Norway's sealers 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Still, with Dappy's face sidelined in favour of a group of young dancers, it has inspired us to practise body gliding in the hope of scoring a role in the inevitable sequel. Songs about dirtee dancing and indie romancing 2010-05-25T15:37:00Z But this already seems to be on the wane, in favour of things like “*sigh*”. Don’t p@nic 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z In both sequels, the protagonists' superficial wants remain unsated; they're rejected in favour of the more profound unconscious hunger inside. John Yorke on why the best screenwriting works 2013-03-15T16:00:03Z His quick wit and charm soon find him favour with the King, who appoints him veterinarian to the Royal Dogs and 'paper groom' to Celia Clemence, the youngest of the King's mistresses. Restoration by Rose Tremain 2012-08-13T15:34:33Z A tray is essential – I favour one with a padded underside. Is it ever ok to eat in bed? 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Photograph: Arctic-Images/Corbis Related: Top 10 hotels in Reykjavik The farm’s Arctic location actually works in its favour: there are fewer pests here, and warm ocean currents keep the climate deceptively warm. The foodie traveller on … probably the best bloody mary in the world 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z A former professional footballer, the actor began his career on stage as a favour to a friend. Mali actor Kouyate dies aged 74 2010-04-18T13:29:00Z Both genres favour stripped-down structures maximising improv space and subtle rhythmic volatility. Holland/Habichuela 2010-07-06T21:15:00Z Whether we are in favour or against the death penalty, it seems the trappings that surround the dreadful act draw us in. Readers recommend: songs about capital punishment – results 2013-07-11T13:00:00Z They dismissed the traditional "best man" and "maid of honour" in favour of a joyous, 15-person hodgepodge of a wedding party in which nobody's role is dictated by their gender. How to have a feminist wedding 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z He'd connect them with vendors he knew, pull favours, cut deals, cut fat. A Hologram for the King – extract 2013-01-26T21:00:02Z Unfortunately, it was torpedoed by Ridley Scott in favour of Alien: Covenant, his own bland sequel to the insipid Prometheus. Where will Hollywood's search for authenticity end? 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Men are expected to return the favour one month later on "White Day" – for which FabCafe is planning a follow-up workshop. 3D-print your face in chocolate for that special Valentine's Day gift 2013-01-25T15:06:00Z I’m witnessing a return to the adversarial, angry stance favoured by my mother’s generation of feminists. My daughter was raped, but won’t let me help deal with her pain | Dear Mariella 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z I would only be in favour of positive discrimination as a means of discovering the best students with the potential to thrive in that environment. Should Oxbridge discriminate to boost the numbers of black students? 2010-12-12T00:07:00Z Not surprisingly, the play is often overlooked in favour of subsequent comedies including The Comedy Of Errors to which it bears some similarity. This week's new theatre 2013-03-30T06:00:21Z It is not, in fact, an onerous task, more a privilege for a favoured grad student. The 50 top films of 2017: No 1 Call Me By Your Name 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z It rises from the site of the lodging house where the artist enjoyed the ample favours of its landlady, Sophia Booth. Turner Contemporary's boardwalk empire 2011-04-06T20:30:00Z There is a "clear funding imbalance" in favour of the capital, a report by the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport select committee has concluded. Arts funding must be fairer, MPs say 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z After Elizabeth's death Dee fell out of favour with James I's court and he died penniless at what was then the great age of 82. The fantastic Dr Dee: angels, magic and the birth of modern science 2012-06-25T16:52:34Z “Very traumatic … but matters turned much to my favour when I got married in 1946.” The secrets of people who never get sick 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Two women tend them, with the occasional sexual favour, much cooking of snails and a virtuoso hardiness; when the sheep sound funny, it's because Mrs Peel is castrating them. Ditch; Marine Parade 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z The Man Booker, for example, has been accused of favouring stuff that is more loved by critics and creatives than by consumers. Baftas 2014: was this the BBC's worst-ever year? 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z The highlight of David Walliams's tribute to Larkin was hearing the archive recording of the poet reading his homage to the traditional New Orleans sound that he favoured. Rewind radio: Jamie Cullum Interviews Dave Brubeck; Brubeck at 90; David Walliams on Philip Larkin; Decoding Basquiat; Ernest John Moraen 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z She was said to have disguised herself as a man and risen to the favour of the previous pope due to her great learning and intellect. Female pope film sparks Vatican row 2010-06-22T12:08:00Z Of course, you can always turn a case of mistaken identity in your favour by piggybacking on someone else's success. Behind the music: What's in a band name? 2010-06-24T08:30:00Z He was offered a scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama but, pressurised by his father, turned it down in favour of studying psychology at University College London. James Rhodes: 'I hate the term "classical music"' 2011-01-23T00:05:24Z An early sequence in which Keaton smears his lady's white horse with oil is ditched in favour of the chase scene and that interrupted proposal. Film historian discovers unseen footage of Buster Keaton's The Blacksmith 2013-07-17T13:54:32Z Flit Fleet Float is almost onomatopoeic, although the ratio of flitting and fleeting to floating is distinctly balanced in favour of the former. New band of the day – Sonnymoon (No 1,340) 2012-08-30T14:55:34Z I neither like it nor think well of it, even though the world, by common consent, has decided to honour it with special favour. Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z And when patients reject or delay chemotherapy in favour of natural cancer cures, not only are they burning their money, they’re risking everything. Homeopathy won’t cure you – unless you have a little faith 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z This Boy has even been credited with helping to persuade the record industry to shelve plans to scrap B-sides in favour of one-sided singles. Readers recommend: B-sides ? the results 2011-02-03T16:36:46Z I favour the films that can get a physiological reaction out of me; if I’m laughing or crying or screaming in terror, that’s generally a good sign. Mutant bears, flying heads and chainsaw duels: the best movie moments of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z To be fair, other studies show age does matter sometimes: maths favours the young; and physical pursuits, such as ballet or athletics, aren’t exactly welcoming to the achy-kneed. Are you too old to find success? | Oliver Burkeman 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z With Andrew Kennedy's unusually lyrical Evangelist at its heart, this was Bach as intimate chamber music rather than hectoring religious experience, favouring the beauty of the writing over its angularity. St Matthew Passion | Classical review 2010-03-23T22:20:00Z CleanStar has steered clear of monoculture crops in favour of sustainable farming methods. Africa innovations: 15 ideas helping to transform a continent 2012-08-25T23:05:54Z Reports of acupuncture arrived in the west in the 17th century; it grew in popularity before falling out of favour globally by the 20th century. Why acupuncture is giving sceptics the needle 2013-07-26T09:31:00Z The best argument in favour of generosity is that no one remembers a skinflint fondly. Arts cuts? Pah ? let's hear it for patrons 2010-06-09T15:59:00Z I've worked with all those people so I might call up some favours. One last thing? Nicole Scherzinger 2010-12-04T00:06:00Z There are those in the pro-life movement who lament the demise of 1950s morals, but it is hard to find anyone in favour of other laws that resulted from the same impulse. Multiple choice 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Like Roman Polanski and Woody Allen, Von Trier remains a favoured son of the most prestigious film festival in the world. Lars von Trier’s Cannes return proves festival is still in thrall to male privilege 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z The DVDs were rather ignored in favour of the previously unheard recordings on the CDs, but they're actually more rewarding and revealing. Your next box set: The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story 2011-01-07T08:00:01Z Close to 100 horror movie lovers eschewed the fresh air, baking temperatures and temptations afforded by the city in favour of a psychotic surgeon, mutated insects and numerous other nightmarish entities. Festival radar: Frighten Brighton 2012-08-30T14:03:27Z Mr Justice Briggs ruled in his favour following a hearing in London. RocknRoll wins press photo battle 2013-01-08T14:35:22Z “Every conversation is a productive conversation,” says Robbie, who favours the general take. Margot Robbie: ‘I asked my girlfriends what they'd been through. And they were angry’ 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z Nowadays, awkward silences have been ditched in favour of belly laughs, and in The Heat he's ramped up the one-liners even more. Paul Feig: Hollywood's accidental feminist 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z “For too long the abhorrent racism of The Birth of a Nation was swept under the rug or dismissed in favour of praise for the film’s cinematic innovations,” she says. Lillian Gish: should a great actor be judged by a racist film? 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z The nation still favours traditional acts of romance. Lovable or rogue? Britons admit confusion about romantic gestures 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z While the site was obviously unwelcome, the villagers recognised its importance to their country, and voted 51% in favour. Michael Sandel: 'We need to reason about how to value our bodies, human dignity, teaching and learning' 2012-05-27T19:01:01Z Mark Tildesley, Boyle’s favoured production designer, was also recruited to the Bond film this year. Danny Boyle's exit from James Bond throws franchise into chaos 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z When it comes to stories such as this, Levinson is not always comfortable putting words into the actors’ mouths, favouring instead a more collaborative approach. 'It triggered mass panic!' – is Euphoria the most shocking teen show ever? 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z Established in 2009, the band were supposed to be an outlet for Lightbody's love of country music, but their second album ditches that in favour of a mix of Americana, soul and even Krautrock. Tired Pony and tales of America's underbelly 2013-08-22T01:21:05Z He favours a readmission of religion to the public square along more honest lines. Jerusalem, Jerusalem by James Carroll ? review 2011-08-05T21:54:01Z An international hit since its 2007 Abbey Theatre debut, Mark O'Rowe's Terminus has found favour in most quarters – save, I suspect, the Dublin tourist board. Terminus ? review 2011-04-05T17:31:17Z He played her false over the invasion of Grenada, and shocked her by appearing to favour abolishing nuclear weapons in 1986. Missionary zeal 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Olivia was the sister whose acting career was favoured by her mother; their parents were grand British expatriates in Japan, whose family was connected to the aircraft manufacturer. Olivia de Havilland: Hollywood’s queen of radiant calm 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z They're abandoning this elegant ruin in favour of the bustling modernity of Toronto, the next event on the circuit. Venice film festival: thunder clouds and silver linings 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Tina Sinatra was said to favour a sanitised retelling of her father's life, with George Clooney in the lead, while Scorsese reportedly planned a warts and all version with regular collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio as Sinatra. Al Pacino is Martin Scorsese's first choice to play Frank Sinatra 2010-05-25T13:07:00Z She favours gritty female protagonists, who are more than just a little scary or even unhinged. Gillian Flynn: chronicler of the midwest's dark side 2013-03-24T00:06:17Z While the film had an original score written by Alex North, Kubrick shelved it in favour of the classical music the film was cut to. Kick-Ass needs some kick-ass music of its own | Phelim O'Neill 2010-03-19T12:32:00Z Certainly such a response would prove consistent with other historically popular intellectual property that has fallen out of favour with cinema audiences in recent times. Epic fail: why has King Arthur flopped so badly? 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, there are suggestions that diehard fans are ignoring the reviews in favour of seeing the thing for themselves. Post-credits scene: Sex and the City 2 2010-06-01T14:27:00Z Mr Stiglitz is not the first economist to make dark predictions about the euro, though it is clear that he favours its success. On course to fail 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z He supported his Impressionist friends by buying their paintings; later he was able to acquire favoured old masters such as Ingres and Delacroix. Beyond influence 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Critics of the BBC Two show accused it of abandoning seasoned gardeners in favour of trying to win over viewers who were new growers. 2010-01-12T12:04:00Z As the band fell from public favour, many Oldies were bullied, sometimes even beaten up. Abba: who actually likes them? 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z For black women, doing what most people do and seeking a partner of the same ethnic background as them, the odds are not in their favour. 'As a black woman I'm always fetishised': racism in the bedroom 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Rather than the hand of destiny or the favour of the gods, Rome’s rise to greatness turns out to have involved a mix of sheer blind luck and ad hoc adjustments made on the fly. What a strange lot 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Photograph: Steve Forrest / Rex Features , who has been found dead aged 47, always favoured the provocative and outre in his writing and his art. Sebastian Horsley obituary 2010-06-18T14:40:00Z The supreme court eventually ruled in favour of the newspapers' right to publish, a landmark decision for the American media. Meryl Streep's newfound politicisation fires up timely drama The Post 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z The palace said the duke had a bladder infection and had been taken from Windsor Castle to the King Edward VII hospital in central London, the facility favoured by the royal family. Jubilee concert: big noise and a big gap as duke misses date with pop royalty 2012-06-04T22:37:22Z I'm still slightly sad about Dogville being spurned in favour of Breaking the Waves. Our arthouse and drama top 25: which omissions leave you breathless? 2010-10-20T11:02:00Z Recently, he seems to have changed his stance on key policies – on pension reforms and retirement age, for instance – according to what might curry more favour with his rapidly dwindling electoral base. Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy: The long and the short of it 2010-09-18T23:06:00Z Many a bold word was written in favour of "urban regeneration", notably Towards an Urban Renaissance, an optimistic government report championed by the architect Richard Rogers. What have Labour done for architecture? 2010-04-21T20:30:00Z When Brigette was two, the family heard that Matthew was in the area again and took her to see him at the bar he favoured, but couldn’t get inside. 'Do you ever think about me?': the children sex tourists leave behind 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z In its favour, the plot is clockwork-perfect and consistent in its systematic unfolding, just like a crime novel. DCI Banks: the case of the literary TV detectives 2010-09-27T11:46:00Z In the first act, a fond and foolish old king divides his kingdom in favour of pretty daughter Rose, unleashing vengeance from her wicked sister Epine. Royal Ballet: The Prince of the Pagodas – review 2012-06-06T12:15:12Z "The first thing we had to ask, when Nick's PA rang and told us he had done this, was whether he was just doing Joe a favour," said Martin. Nick Park denies plugging friend Joe Rose's music on Desert Island Discs 2010-12-27T20:24:09Z Design covers everything from the ultra-frivolous to the deadly serious and the current mood favours the latter. Designs of the Year 2012 ? review 2012-02-12T00:05:52Z While admiring it, you can see why people in the early 20th century reacted against this kind of thing, in favour of simpler, fresher, less pretentious spaces. St Pancras Renaissance Hotel: The rebirth of a gothic masterpiece 2011-02-13T00:05:22Z About them: A family of reivers and raiders raised on the harsh, forbidding Iron Islands, the Greyjoys prefer plunder to favours i.e ‘paying the iron price’. Game of Thrones: would you join Julia Gillard in House Targaryen? 2013-05-27T02:40:05Z As Gainsbourg jettisons his early interest in art in favour of music, Sfar develops this hateful cartoon into a hallucinatory figure, a walking tailor's dummy following Gainsbourg around in his mind. Film review: Gainsbourg (Vie H?ro?que) 2010-07-29T21:25:00Z What can, just about, be said in Britten's favour is that though his fascinations often threatened to create a scandal, there are very few, if any, instances where a child was actually molested. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z For instance, she favours gloves in the kitchen – but not just any glove. 'Spoons are so brutal!' Paris Hilton's cooking show is a rare work of comic genius 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z The Coen version – if the trailer is to be trusted – seems to have eschewed the original's comedy stylings in favour of a more stripped-down approach. Could the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit make an Oscar killing? 2010-09-28T14:41:00Z Instead she chooses to favour a cute little opera house. Ceclia Bartoli: the limitations of being a mezzo 2010-12-23T22:00:04Z But the singer seemed emboldened: at an appearance in Kiev she spoke out in favour of Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine's jailed former prime minister, advising the crowd to "fight for what is right". Madonna: Pussy Riot verdict is 'inhumane' 2012-08-20T10:57:53Z Those who favour history, politics and current affairs don't have to make do with some 800-page tombstone of tightly packed prose. Best graphic novels of 2012 2012-11-30T11:00:01Z That said, the decaying, blood-spattered zombie look is by far the most highly favoured costume. Real-life violence rocks the Comic-Con nerds in San Diego 2010-07-25T13:25:00Z The angle Wilcox favours is eccentric and personal: the tragic tale of the ill-fated pet dog of the murdered Romanov princesses was a memorable highlight. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-11T00:15:00Z It can sometimes feel that this festival favours bands who soundtrack the act of pouring lager over your head, perhaps the one thing beyond Arcade Fire. Leeds festival 2010 2010-08-29T17:04:00Z If the high court rules in our favour, it will ensure that this new Westminster legislation allowing it cannot later be overturned by a future Northern Ireland assembly. ‘We’d been denied a personal life’: Northern Ireland’s long road to equal marriage 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z "He pitched it to MoMA, and MoMA approached us with it and we were kind of right away in favour of it," the band's lead singer and lyricist, Matt Berninger, explained to me recently. Six hours, one song: the National perfect the art of repetition 2013-07-11T18:03:02Z And like Chandler he has a willingness to forgo plot in favour of character. Can John Banville resuscitate Philip Marlowe? 2012-08-09T11:44:54Z This favoured sector of the Cape Winelands dishes up some lush scenery, with row upon row of gnarled vines as a foreground and the abrupt Groot Drakenstein Mountains as a backdrop. Top 10 bike-friendly wine routes 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Working in this vernacular mode, Hokusai eschewed high-flown rhetoric and pompous symbolism in favour of images that entertain with anecdote and delight with their bright colour and eye-catching compositions. Riding the crest 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The 16 grasping nitwits who began grovelling for Lord Sugar's favour at the outset were loathsome even by the formidable standards established by the franchise, and this isn't the week they suddenly grow more likable. TV highlights 22/05/2013 2013-05-22T06:00:04Z In fact, if you're in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you're at least minimally moral, it's because you think it's somehow good for people. Noam Chomsky: 'No individual changes anything alone' 2013-03-22T19:08:27Z It remains to be seen whether the new dramas will inspire patriotic fervour in a country currently rooted in the "no" vote – an Ipsos Mori poll from May showed only 31%in favour of independence. William Wallace leads charge of TV history dramas 2013-07-20T12:10:37Z Three years after the country voted narrowly in favour of quitting the bloc, some comics at the Edinburgh fringe consider the issue too risky to mention. Paradise Lost? Edinburgh on edge as Brexit divides festival audiences 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z At one moment of crisis, our beautiful heroine actually tells another character, “Tonight, I shall grant you my supreme favours.” ‘Sea of Glass’: A 1955 masterpiece you’ve probably never heard of 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z There is a clear structural argument in favour of Last Post: the first volume of the quartet is set before the war and the middle two during it; so a fourth, postwar volume makes sense. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z Direct comparison with the Berlin players would do few musicians many favours, but was unavoidable in one work: Mahler's Piano Quartet Movement in A minor. Orchestra of the ROH/Pappano ? review 2011-03-01T18:14:03Z Sometimes it gains favour with their fans and sometimes they say: 'Oh, shut up – it's music criticism. Behind the music: An interview with Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber 2010-10-21T16:03:00Z They believe doctors should tell patients in detail about the risks and benefits of using statins or the alternative of making non-medical, lifestyle changes, and let them decide which approach they favour. Mediterranean diet 'as effective as statins' in reducing heart attack risk 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z The Academy Awards are decided by around 7,000 members, and they traditionally favour dramas. Golden Globes 2017: La La Land leads pack with seven nominations 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z This was confirmed by Grant on Thursday, who also suggested it wasn’t the only prosthetic favoured by the actor. Julianne Moore was fired from Can You Ever Forgive Me? over fat suit and fake nose 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Kale Kale – chewy and bland, but high in fibre and iron – is nothing new: it featured prominently in the Dig For Victory campaign during the second world war, but fell from favour soon after. Snack to the future: foraging in Texas for the next big food sensation 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z It might seem trivial, but it is characteristic of the airport novel's aim to suppress the complexity and variety of human motivation in favour of neat story-serving points. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini – review 2013-05-23T08:00:02Z Like America with its trickle-down theory of affluence, she allowed the rest of the world to partake of her bounty, so long as it remained appropriately grateful for the favour. Anna Nicole: the opera 2011-01-02T00:04:04Z Moore has exploited this unique access with thoroughness and skill; but a sense of the British establishment granting favours to one of its own hangs over this book, and is never quite dispelled. Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore; Not for Turning by Robin Harris – review 2013-04-24T12:57:02Z However, that year, the system was dropped in favour of semi-finals. Eurovision 2013: who's going to win? 2013-05-17T12:52:00Z There's a roughness to the strings and a fuzziness to the brass, and conductor Christian Vásquez's phrasing favours the four-square over the fancy free. Teresa Carre?o Youth Orchestra of Venezuela ? review 2010-10-13T08:12:00Z None of the cuts Garnett made removed the hard veracity of Lawrence's dialect words – a point in his favour, since other London editors would surely have done so. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z She told Lord Leveson that her management persuaded her to accept the promise of favours. Charlotte Church: my private life 2012-10-05T21:59:00Z But even by the time he was given a major retrospective by the Tate in 1972, he had begun to fall out of favour. William Scott, the painter who made the everyday into a masterpiece 2013-03-02T08:00:10Z Wainwright says people are often surprised at her decision, thinking she should favour the relative freedom of her early 20s over looking after children. 'Missing out is not a worry for me': the millennial foster carers 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z From an evolutionary point of view, natural selection favours traits that increase our individual reproductive success. High heels and their perennial appeal: why pain seems a small price to pay 2012-07-21T14:48:19Z A big finish is eschewed in favour of a slow fade, which is annoying considering the potential. TV highlights 16/07/2012 2012-07-15T18:59:01Z Nineteen years after his death, the forthcoming exhibition at the Tate will no doubt further redraw the balance in his favour. Does Stirling work? 2011-04-01T23:05:23Z Photograph: Rex Allow me to favour you with a little movie list. Brooklyn's Finest is an abysmal film so it's business as usual for Richard Gere 2010-06-04T23:09:00Z Iggy started out as a bright, rather ordinary kid who one day decided to end his academic studies in favour of finding the essence of "real black blues" in the gutters of Chicago. An initiation into Iggy Pop – a classic feature from the vaults 2013-04-30T14:30:19Z Blame such factors as internships that benefit those who can afford to work for no pay in London and who already have useful contacts via parents, as well as employers favouring Russell Group graduates. Tonight's TV highlights: Beauty And The Beast 2011-02-02T00:05:02Z Guinevere's had a post-break-up makeover and has finally ditched the Wonder Woman headband in favour of a modest bun and a smock with a modest neckline. Camelot: episode nine 2011-07-30T21:01:00Z Yet she felt her criticism was justified and as she was right about almost everything, history may find in her favour. Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography – Volume One by Charles Moore - digested read 2013-04-22T23:52:02Z Maybe the next general election could be scrapped in favour of a massive risotto-off. Last night's TV 2010-08-03T07:00:00Z He is aware of the pitfalls of a fixed approach – all those artists who get better and better at less and less, falling from favour as fashions change. Artist Jim Shaw stuffs American pop culture through the Rinse Cycle 2012-11-08T17:21:36Z It's during the early days that you find an imbalance of opportunity in favour of the wealthy and well-connected. Is pop too posh? 2013-03-30T18:00:01Z Political ideology changed in favour of more functionalist buildings and the architects were condemned as "elitists" and "cultural aristocrats". Can Foster and Acosta rescue Cuba's lost temple to ballet? 2012-11-25T00:05:43Z However, in 2013 he fell out with Labour and declared himself in favour of a new party of the left. Obituary: Roger Lloyd-Pack 2014-01-16T12:27:05Z But Natali seems to think this could actually work in his movie's favour. Is William Gibson's Neuromancer too vast for the big screen? 2010-05-14T14:45:00Z Offstage, away from the spotlight, she felt desperately unloved by her mother, Agnes, who favoured Richard, and struggled with low self-esteem, eventually developing anorexia nervosa from which she never recovered. Karen Carpenter's tragic story 2010-10-23T23:03:00Z He favours sea lettuce and gutweed for his, drying it for 72 hours before grinding it and adding it to homemade butter. Sea spaghetti in the supermarket: the unstoppable rise of seaweed 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z I remember talking to a respected director about cross-casting, which he was all in favour of – up to a point. Black British theatre: who says I can't do Chekhov? 2013-07-17T17:25:03Z The jury decided in the musician's favour on Tuesday after two days of deliberation. Funk legend Sly Stone awarded $5m 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z “Yes. I’m in favour of decriminalisation but with regulation. I would say to my kids, ‘Please don’t do this. 'The show needed to come back': how Drake rescued the druglords of Top Boy 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Many critics are this time tipping Mike Leigh, for Another Year, while others favour Xavier Beauvois' Of Men and Gods. Kate Beckinsale wows Cannes - and makes a habit out of changing dresses 2010-05-21T18:41:00Z There are also artists who are shunning record labels in favour of making their career though the video sharing website. Russell Simmons launching new label 2013-07-25T15:31:17Z Ditching their previous band's smooth edges in favour of something gauzier and more distorted, they went into the studio with Newfeld and created Give In, their debut album with City Slang. New music: On An On – The Hunter 2013-01-28T16:40:53Z My inability to say no to people who ask me favours. Q&A: Burt Reynolds 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z The government does not advise taking a month off alcohol, favouring instead having alcohol-free days every week. Alcohol-free months are all the rage – but will a sober October lead to long-term health benefits? 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z An unplanned spot of sobbing in front of the cameras seems to turn events to her favour, though not for terribly long. TV highlights 13/08/2012 2012-08-12T18:59:01Z Affleck's Oscar snub has not hurt Argo and may even have earned it some favour among awards voters as an underdog favourite. Ben Affleck's Argo becomes Oscar favourite with DGA win 2013-02-03T09:52:08Z Attachment parents shun basic baby conveniences such as bottles, cots and buggies in favour of extended breastfeeding, co-sleeping and “babywearing”, an oddly politically charged way to describe carrying your baby in a sling. Stop fetishising parenting - you’re sucking all the joy out of it! 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z It was founded in 1965 and follows the ideals of the liberal prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh, who was ousted by the US and Britain in favour of the Shah in 1953. Marzieh obituary 2010-10-19T17:18:00Z In middle age he had neglected poetry in favour of lectures, essays and TV. The joy of Alex Comfort 2012-12-28T22:55:14Z Women favoured the Bible, which they argued contains the "guidelines to be a good person". Bible tops 'most influential' books 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z I favour vinyl over playlists when at home, and I'm constantly changing the record, going from one thing to another. Audio advent calendar: Bibio's playlist 2010-12-05T09:00:00Z As ever favouring the demotic, Sellars had Owens as a lumbering janitor. Michelangelo Sonnets; Hippolyte et Aricie – review 2013-07-06T23:09:04Z But even if the judge rules in favour of Soho, the court will not force the defendant to pull the building down. Seeing double: the rise and rise of China's copycat architecture 2013-01-07T18:59:00Z And so, as I and many of my female friends work our way through various dating apps known to womankind, I’m generally in favour of anything that is designed to keep us safe. Does Tinder’s Menprovement initiative do enough to protect women? 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Perhaps, by stressing the smell of diesel, which "has been poured over the floor several times", von Trier isn't doing himself any favours. The Nymphomaniac may be next Lars von Trier film 2011-03-25T13:46:51Z I don't say the Turner prize should be abolished, since I am keenly in favour of rewarding artists with money and space. Does the Turner prize matter? 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z He favours what he calls a “motor-centric” view of the brain – that it evolved to support movement and, therefore, if we stop moving about, it won’t work as well. ‘It’s a superpower’: how walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z The lending of the tuxedo was a favour by a stranger, an intimate gesture made to benefit the general welfare of homosexuals. Sarah Manguso: the disease that stole my youth 2011-01-23T00:05:41Z And, while the argument was a tactic to prevent blabbing, it also did the audience a favour. Shhhh! How keeping secrets became cool 2013-04-23T15:29:58Z However, there is one favour you can do for me. Ursula Wills-Jones: Vusi Makusi 2011-07-22T22:02:23Z What follows is like a Gallic Home Alone, sidelining parental panic in favour of telling asides on how the young register time and basic tasks differently. On the Sly – review 2012-05-31T21:45:01Z This month, the challenge is to write a poem in Sapphics – the form favoured, unsurprisingly enough, by Sappho. Poster poems: Sapphics 2010-07-02T09:32:00Z Having previously turned her back on Hollywood in favour of working in New York with Charlie’s theatre company, Nicole has now returned to LA with their eight-year-old son, Henry, to star in a TV series. Noah Baumbach: ‘Marriage Story illustrates that to take sides is folly’ 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z However the CWA favoured classic crime fiction above more contemporary works. Christie whodunit tops crime poll 2013-11-06T11:41:31Z Eugène Ionesco's 1952 absurdist classic is a bit like that, too, ditching as it does conventional characters, psychology and plot in favour of rootless, puzzling moments of being. The Chairs 2010-08-29T20:30:00Z Related: ‘Why aren’t we earning enough to live?’ – how The Divide lays bare global inequality Does this mean you’d favour a British exit? Noam Chomsky on Donald Trump: 'Almost a death knell for the human species' 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Vannucci's listless voice does the songs few favours, either: he's nobody's idea of a commanding presence at the microphone. Big Talk: Big Talk ? review 2011-07-14T21:00:03Z While the Hollywood majors have abandoned the mature, mid-budget space in favour of megabucks spectacle, over the past five years A24 has set about filling the vacuum. From Ex Machina to Moonlight: how A24 disrupted Hollywood 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z It doesn't matter that his last role was as the singing teapot figure in Beastly, or that he appears to favour money over artistic merit these days. There's nothing like a good Smurf 2011-03-16T10:42:26Z Lawyers like to call their dogs Shyster, and architects favour Zaha, and there are an awful lot of young Fleabags in the parks these days. Who’s a good boy? The unbreakable bond between humans and dogs 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Director James Gray has been a long-term favoured son of Cannes, and will be even more so since Lost City of Z made him a Hollywood player of sorts. Cannes 2019: 20 films we hope will be at the film festival 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Good fortune favours the well-primed, and the habit of seeing yourself as someone who doesn't do that sort of thing, or have that kind of luck, can be hard to get out of. The cultured classes | Lynsey Hanley 2010-03-19T20:30:00Z The art world has “disregarded his personal tumult with women in favour of keeping the ‘art separate from the artist’,” wrote one critic. Antonio Banderas: ‘I don’t want to live my life like I’m already dead’ 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z Don't worry, in the next chapter she'll be round with a herbalist and doing everyone a big favour. Booker club: The Famished Road 2011-01-20T13:46:07Z More than that, it belittles the radicalism of Christianity in favour of a sweeping and superficial sameness. And Man Created God by Selina O'Grady - review 2012-12-20T07:00:02Z Was this bad luck, or might the challenges favour larger contestants? The Door 2010-04-07T23:05:00Z DeGroff is in favour of muddling a slice of orange and a maraschino cherry into the drink, writing that "those other guys just want some sweetened whiskey, not an old fashioned". How to mix the perfect old fashioned 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z But what you have there is a pasta bake; an increasingly worthy and healthy pasta bake, that sacrifices comfort in favour of vitamins, fibre and unwelcome textural variations. How to eat: macaroni cheese 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The present system is weighed against them and in favour of privileged backgrounds. Should Oxbridge discriminate to boost the numbers of black students? 2010-12-12T00:07:00Z This sestet is sharpened by Robert's characteristic division of the six lines into two separate triplets, a structure favoured by Philip Sidney in Astrophil and Stella. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z Out of favour in Aldeburgh and no doubt aspiring to perform in the Royal Opera House, he chose the latter, in the role of Dov. Robert Tear obituary 2011-03-29T17:26:32Z A fluent reader would also enjoy Charlie and the Chocolate Factory although you might think six is too young to be introduced to the very savage retributions Dahl dishes out to Charlie's less favoured companions. How do you pick the right books for a young but fluent reader? 2012-08-13T16:55:26Z Inevitably, though, nu-metal fell out of favour and those bands playing this year's Download have evolved to survive. Nu-metal: Download and Reading show that there's life in the old beast yet 2013-06-07T14:00:00Z And yet his career has seen him flicker in and out of favour, mostly through his own wilful refusal to dig the same musical furrow. Paul Weller: National treasure 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z And however much Manguso wishes to renounce narrative in favour of something more instinctual and impressionistic, she ends up telling the story of how she lost a friend and found a husband. The Guardians: An Elegy by Sarah Manguso – review 2012-07-06T21:55:15Z When he turned away from hardcore SF in the 1950s, Ballard rejected "outer space" in favour of its opposite: "inner space". The Drowned World by JG Ballard 2012-07-13T07:00:07Z Madonna also did the world a favour in revealing Don McLean's American Pie to be soulless, leaden tripe with no meaning at its heart. Readers' panel: What we think about Madonna 2012-02-10T15:51:39Z She campaigned for the Centre party, which favoured a transition to majority rule, demonstrating her conviction that journalists and writers must possess, and act on, moral perspectives. Heidi Holland 2012-08-22T11:56:32Z For all that, most pundits are favouring Ben Affleck's Argo to seize the crowning best picture Oscar. Oscars 2013: live! 2013-02-25T01:16:07Z Early evidence suggests that Salmanian's film may opt to ignore the rescue mission altogether in favour of a parallel hostage drama. Alter Argo: Iranian film to tell other side of hostage crisis 2013-01-11T17:37:56Z He favoured sober suits and called the acts "fellas" when interviewing them, which could have been a way of ensuring against getting their names wrong. Radio: The Sound Of The 60s may not be the music you expect 2013-03-23T06:00:06Z The Lego Ninjago Movie proves that this isn’t going to be the case at all; that Lego instinctively favours quantity over quality. Bricking it: why the Lego movie franchise is on shaky foundations 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z The 2001 film was a big misfire which watered down the original's nihilism in favour of a misguided Hollywood action tone. Should we rise up against the Planet of the Apes prequel? 2010-06-24T16:15:00Z Courtiers gained Elizabeth’s favour through exploits of land and sea, to the consternation of the old nobility. Smart redhead 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z It looks like a lot of favours have been called in, from very big names who are being very good sports. Movie 43 – review 2013-01-29T18:45:01Z But what if it favours those who are nice to check-in staff, happen to encounter a hospitality worker in a good mood or are canny enough to hit a market just before it closes? Isn’t it the best to be given an unexpected treat, offer or upgrade for free? | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z It’s often difficult to distinguish between cultivating guanxi and doing someone a favour. Teaching the People’s Republic 2012-09-03T13:00:00Z I wanted to test their public proclamations against privacy and in favour of free speech, to see how genuinely they hold to those principles when they're turned against them. Edinburgh fringe's amateur comedians turn headlines into punchlines 2012-07-23T14:26:47Z I don't favour the random desecration of views, but this one was already more haphazard and compromised than most. The Shard: A symbol of towering ambition 2011-01-30T00:05:57Z This is not to suggest that neurochemical components are the sole explanations; but to ignore elementary medical facts in favour solely of personal meaning is as blind as believing that psychology is irrelevant. Strictly Bipolar by Darian Leader – review 2013-05-06T07:00:01Z Richard Sennett: powerful arguments in favour of getting along with one another. Together by Richard Sennett – review 2013-04-07T11:00:02Z Way before clubland eschewed overt melodies in favour of more minimal, electronic sounds, Birmingham boasted two of the UK's best multiple-roomed techno nights in House Of God and Atomic Jam. Clubs picks of the week 2010-12-11T00:07:00Z Wasim was promptly trolled on social media by Kashmiris who favour independence from India and ridiculed for meeting a politician they detest. Geeta and Babita Phogat: ‘Our father taught us never to be scared' 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Backing a design known as "The Void" is the influential artist Ariana Montagu; in favour of "The Garden" is the beautiful widow Claire Burwell, who represents the families of those who died on September 11. The Submission by Amy Waldman ? review 2011-08-24T13:30:02Z There was a general consensus among the production team that the cliched "man in a suit" look be avoided in favour of something more otherworldly. Raymond Cusick 2013-02-24T18:19:55Z The General Synod vote runs against the current of history, which suggests that women are increasingly voting for politicians who favour equality, such as President Obama. Why women fight women 2012-11-27T19:40:01Z "Jive Talkin' was the record that got them back in a big way when they'd been out of favour," he says. Bee Gees 'on a par with Beatles' 2012-05-21T15:36:29Z Working in Room’s favour is the fact that Hollywood’s most influential guilds can’t seem to agree – meaning it could potentially slip through and claim the prize. Oscars 2016: the winners and losers on the campaign trail 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Readers of both genders overwhelmingly prefer anything to do with their own nation than anything to do with any other, and more often than not favour the perspective of its ruling class. Macaulay and Son: Archtects of Imperial Britain by Catherine Hall - review 2012-12-21T22:55:02Z The current line-up plays with unforced elegance and cleanness of detail, avoiding heavy gesture in favour of nimble energy. Beethoven: Quartets Op 18, Vol 1 – review 2013-06-01T23:05:20Z The plan was to abandon the professional studio and all its trappings in favour of a more DIY approach. British Sea Power: Our memories of making Valhalla Dancehall 2011-01-05T15:57:45Z In his judgment, Wigney found in favour of Rush and said the reports in the Daily Telegraph were “in all the circumstances, a recklessly irresponsible piece of sensationalist journalism of the worst kind”. Geoffrey Rush's record $2.9m defamation payout faces appeal by Daily Telegraph 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z I am in favour of this content, by the way. How can you tell when someone has a dog? Don’t worry – they’ll tell you 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z He later returned production and writing favours on the first two seasons of Better Things. Pamela Adlon: ‘Better Things is about hope and love amid the darkness’ 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z There are also artists who are ignoring record labels in favour of making their career though the video-sharing website. Russell Simmons launching new label 2013-07-25T15:31:17Z It's mainly quiet music, with both men favouring improvisational bursts rather than sustained grooves, but older originals such as the elegaic Wistful Thinking will receive a new sheen from Fresu's warm sound. This week's new live music 2011-03-05T00:07:31Z The closed mines and slag heaps of Silesia became the directors' favoured location. Poland's artists now speak to the world 2011-04-04T21:00:00Z But Stasey’s actually against a society that favours men, not men themselves. The many layers of Caitlin Stasey: 'A lot of people think I'm a really angry person' 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Celebrities who go round apologising are pitiful, and don't do themselves any favours. Steve Coogan: celebrities who apologise over tabloid exposés are pitiful 2013-07-29T23:05:00Z Compared to the affability, the clubbable nature of many of the thinkers it describes, it is strident, partisan and always willing to overlook a fact in favour of a thesis. The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters by Anthony Pagden – review 2013-07-24T11:19:42Z These are "Discerning Discoverers" who favour educational programmes about the arts or travel. The Apprentice and Strictly Come Dancing finals to deliver record BBC1 audiences 2010-12-19T00:07:36Z The culture of selling face-to-face peaked at the millennium, when fans were turning away from mainstream rap in favour of more independent labels such as New York's Rawkus Records. Street music: Why face-to-face mixtape selling still matters 2011-01-13T22:30:02Z Would the porters get fired in favour of know-nothings in off the street? Rewind TV: Hit & Miss; Hell on Wheels; The Fish Market: Inside Billingsgate – review 2012-05-26T23:05:38Z Not because they were doing me a favour. I am ugly, and proud of it 2013-06-28T14:00:03Z For centuries, it persuaded Christians, when talking to or about God, to drop normal English in favour of cod Jacobean. King James Bible: 'Twas a work most modern 2011-03-01T13:05:13Z Some people favour ostrich meat as a low-fat alternative to chicken. David Attenborough: 'I wouldn't be prepared to sit on an egg' 2012-11-22T17:00:20Z However, he agrees to help them out but only if they do him a favour in return. TV highlights 25/06/2013 2013-06-25T06:00:03Z Do yourself a favour, become your own saviour … Start each day with a clean slate, you'll feel better if you can shake off all that hate. Readers recommend: songs about forgiveness – results 2012-11-15T14:00:00Z In movies dealing with crime, gangsters like to promenade around the old neighborhood, dispensing favours and advice, often consuming small amounts of fruit or nuts as they do so. Joe Queenan's guide to crime cliches 2010-10-17T11:00:00Z The world is insanely unfair, and 99.9% of the time it's unfair in your favour. Last exit from Brooklyn 2010-04-23T23:16:00Z However, faced with government inaction and a Corporation of London whose planning committee last week voted 19 to two in favour of the Henderson scheme, Save is opening a new front in North America. Stars battle to save Smithfield market 2013-07-20T23:06:02Z The long, low, timber sideboard became a kind of theme tune, now once again in favour with collectors of mid-century "contemporary" design. Ronald Carter 2013-05-30T14:09:38Z Many critics thought De Niro would have favoured Drive, a violent road movie that had critics cheering during its goriest parts. Highs and lows 2011-05-23T10:51:12Z While many others had the same idea, he says his bid was favoured by the building's co-owners because he was one of the few who proposed restoring the rooftop back to its original state. Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse rooftop gym transformed into art space 2013-04-08T15:42:03Z Obliterating one in favour of the other is destructive to all. Christine O'Donnell praises Tolkien's women 2010-09-17T08:38:00Z Perhaps we'd be doing him a bigger favour by ignoring him, not rewarding him with the attention. Charlie Sheen deserves our pity not our admiration 2011-03-04T12:29:01Z The numbers still weigh heavily in favour of Big Towel. Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Provides advice based on his own wealth of experience but is often ignored in favour of the white police officer’s instincts. How to fix Hollywood's race problem 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z It's well known that British literary fiction seeks out the exotic, avoiding middle England in favour of immigrant communities, the more exciting past and urban Scotland. Best of Young British Novelists 4, edited by John Freeman – review 2013-04-16T14:14:05Z Where Macbeth wins favour by his bravery on the battlefield, Seymour puts Mushnik's flower shop on the map with his cultivation of a previously unseen variety of plant. Little Shop of Horrors – review 2012-06-07T17:15:01Z Some experts suggest easing into veganism via a sightseeing tour of the world of vegetarianism, while others favour going cold tofu. The 14 things you need to know before you go vegan 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Emilio retorts that he's never asked for another favour since that day. Martin Sheen: Being a dad 2011-03-25T22:29:56Z It's true that most, but by no means all, well-dressed men favour fairly traditional clothes. Do men really care about fashion? 2013-01-12T18:00:01Z The Swiss also made full use of new innovations, enthusiastically replacing the old method of winding a watch by key in favour of the modern stem-and-crown mechanism. Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Eisenstein was never terrorised by Stalin in the way other artists were, and was arguably as complicit as any apparatchik, but he was certainly later compelled to abandon his experimentalism for Stalin’s favoured “socialist realism”. Hallucinating history: when Stalin and Eisenstein reinvented a revolution 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z It's caused a lot of noise in the States, but all that can be said in its favour is that no one goes near a kitchen. Delicious Dahl 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z Passionate about provenance, he favours locally grown tomatoes over the traditional San Marzano and uses his own blend of flour, with its superior nutritional value and digestibility. 10 of the best pizzerias in Naples 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Ask yourself: “Am I using the kind of language that is building something or destroying something? Is this in my favour or working against me?” How thoughts and speech shape our wellbeing | Gary John Bishop 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Gordon Brown was once in favour of "English votes for English laws", writing 30 years ago that it was worth creating "a semi-permanent Tory majority" for what was then a Scottish assembly. English devolution: a view from Scotland 2010-04-23T12:25:00Z YouTube’s recommendation algorithm was even co-opted by the group: after a viewer watched enough videos favoured by the ring’s members, the algorithm would automatically start to recommend other videos featuring young children. YouTube turns off comments on videos of children amid child safety fears 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Shows are often compromised – whether it's Bloc Party booming on a nearby stage or the comings and goings of itinerant audience members – but the festival favours an approachability and accessibility that theatre rarely enjoys. Latitude theatre review: marquees and mash-ups 2013-07-22T16:41:20Z This nearly made page 7 of Tuesday's Daily Mail but was spiked at the last minute in favour of a photograph of Prince Harry nibbling the Duchess of Cambridge's ear. Read all about it! All the news you missed during the jubilee knees-up 2012-06-09T23:06:02Z When you are first starting out, and the tickets aren't flooding through your door, you will need to do a few people a few favours. Why art students should go to gallery openings 2013-06-26T09:01:43Z Tarantino does himself no favours, though, when he claims to be a victim of racism, judged by the colour of his skin. The Quentin Tarantino race debate isn't black and white 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z And the old myth that arena stages favour the image over the word was effectively nailed: from where I sat I heard everything in what seems a very actor-friendly acoustic. King Lear ? review 2011-03-11T00:02:03Z Love's haunting song Shock and Awe has a line that sums up what people love about the Fanclub: "I favour a peaceful life." Teenage Fanclub: growing old peacefully 2010-07-08T22:10:00Z The actors' commitment to their perilous work was, he said, "a commitment in favour of cinema, because we want cinema to continue to exist in Egypt". Cannes 2012: After the Battle, the Egyptian fight for film 2012-05-17T16:11:53Z But the results don't do either party any favours. The Great Directors ? review 2011-03-31T21:05:01Z My ignorance, which I had disguised as rebellion, worked in my favour – the plots are brand new to me, the politics a revelation. My verdict on books I haven't read 2012-07-29T20:30:01Z Alternatively, Moore – who favours Parisian labels with a modern attitude and a blue-chip heritage, such as Lanvin or Balenciaga, might look to YSL. What will the stars be wearing on the red carpet? 2011-01-11T20:36:34Z There's also a conflict between the flying angles and the rectangular shapes that classroom planning and economic construction tend to favour. Amazing Grace 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z His two piano concertos deploy the sectional single-movement form that Liszt favoured. Lyapunov: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Rhapsody on Ukrainian Themes ? review 2011-01-13T21:30:00Z Plays that directly dramatised the Troubles were under considerable internal and external pressure to be "even-handed", although, in practice, this advice frequently meant favouring the British government position. Belfast-set thriller The Fall joins the few dramas to tackle the Troubles 2013-05-14T13:23:58Z Steinem, thankfully, has no time for the tedious academic theorising that bogs down so much feminist discourse but favours instead plain speaking, good humour and common sense. Hadley Freeman's 10 awesome women: from Katharine Hepburn to Miss Piggy 2013-04-22T15:38:00Z Revolution Muslim put out a long statement in which it insisted that it was in favour of a rational dialogue with non-Muslims. South Park censored after threat of fatwa over Muhammad episode 2010-04-22T20:16:00Z Zane, also favouring black, also 16, was wearing a lot more makeup than Lydia, and had finished off his outfit with a top hat whose brim was jauntily stuck with Broadway ticket stubs. Tony awards in Times Square make for perfect street theatre 2012-06-11T13:16:53Z Lennon gave Palmer his number, saying if he was ever in London to call so he could return the favour. Tony Palmer: he's with the band 2013-07-28T18:00:00Z If you’re anything like me, your first thought upon hearing Donald Trump argue in favour of torture last week was probably, “Wow, I bet Donald Trump watches a lot of 24.” 24 under Trump: why the hit show's use of torture is all-too-relevant 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z The study also found that Hollywood still favours white female leads, with Asian characters rising to 6%, black female characters going up to 14%, but Hispanic women falling to just 3%. From La La Land to Jackie, women lead the way at this year’s Oscars 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Mr Ebenstein looks at the ideas of scholars such as Jacob Viner and Frank Knight, and concludes that while they favoured individual freedom, their policy prescriptions did not exclude government action. Going off the rails 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Britten revelations tend to be about specially favoured boys, and this biographer's diagnosis raised a certain amount of interest through its novelty. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z But beauty is no longer a favoured word of the trendy Frieze aficionados currently thronging to Regent's Park for London's super-cool art fair. Victorian social reformers saw beauty, truth and goodness as one. We no longer do 2012-10-12T18:00:01Z He favours the low-emission Eurostar – he is some sort of cultural ambassador for the train company and hops on it frequently to visit his son Albert in Paris. Jarvis Cocker: the iceman cometh 2012-06-02T19:53:37Z He would, she says, turn up in his Rolls-Royce, distributing sweets and cigarettes in return for sexual favours. Karin Ward: 'I'm not angry at Jimmy Savile now' 2012-12-09T00:04:01Z The book deconstructs with especial vim our modern prejudices in favour of self-expression, unconditional self-love and trusting one's feelings; even tenacity, the two agree, is not always well-directed. Et cetera: non-fiction roundup ? reviews 2012-05-18T21:54:01Z But it does sometimes seem as though our times favour the methodical over the seemingly directionless. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z Or as Johnson also puts it: "Chance favours the connected mind." Steven Johnson: 'Eureka moments are very, very rare' 2010-10-19T19:30:00Z After noticing a pattern in the media’s willingness to disregard journalistic integrity in favour of graphic violence, Deodato decided to create a film that drew on their savagery. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Some recitative went in favour of reinstating arias: a wise decision. Julius Caesar; Siegfried – review 2012-10-06T23:08:03Z And yet it has been overlooked in favour of less interesting work. The Shape of Water's Oscars win is the triumph of a real artist and immersive cinema | Peter Bradshaw 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Interpretatively, he avoided the idea, favoured by some, that Das Rheingold should be played as the darkly comic prelude to subsequent tragedy. Das Rheingold - review 2013-07-23T09:08:52Z And, in the 16th century, when European aristocrats adopted the heels favoured by Catherine de Medici, they were outraged when commoners began to wear them too. High heels and their perennial appeal: why pain seems a small price to pay 2012-07-21T14:48:19Z Not only has this theatrical practice been dropped in favour of a simple signature, but last week came the news the museum has also stopped searching students' bags upon entry. Swindon gets a taste of Oxford's dreaming spires 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z Modern trends may be working in Madame Tussauds' favour: as celebrities turn ever more plasticky with their botox and botched surgery, so the waxworks look ever more real. What makes Madame Tussauds' wax work? 2011-02-26T09:00:02Z A Polish film, Ida, is among the pictures favoured to earn a best foreign language film Oscar nomination when the shortlist of films in the running for an Academy Award is announced next week. Polish nun's journey tipped for Oscars 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z But the policy wonks favoured extending health coverage to as many people as possible—in large part by expanding Medicaid, the public health programme for the poor—and dealing with the cost stuff later. Good, bad and ugly 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z “Do me a favour and eat slowly,” my dad said over dinner recently. I’ve been on a diet since I was four. Can I finally make peace with my body? 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z The belief was that doing so would help the US and UK governments to swing wavering countries in favour of a planned invasion of Iraq. Keira Knightley to star in ‘forgotten’ story of Iraq war whistleblower 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z Little things like self-editing and narrative coherence were abandoned in favour of vast, meaningless spectacle. 'We're gonna need a smaller boat': where should Pirates of the Caribbean 4 make its savings? 2010-05-06T13:13:00Z In Disney's favour are the strong legs often exhibited by animated features. Pacific Rim flops the test against Monsters University and sun 2013-07-17T09:54:00Z Despite the extreme proximity of the paper copy, my fastest option, I'm quite sure, is to eschew riffling through a stack of already-fading cuttings in favour of some Googling at the kitchen table. Wikipedia is the non-fiction writer's best friend 2011-01-17T11:14:36Z It was like watching Tony Blair's eight-year fall from public favour distilled into 90 seconds. Charlie Brooker's 10 years of watching Big Brother 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z Former Faber director Desmond Clarke, also a former chair of the board at the Poetry Book Society, said he found ACE's decision to favour the publisher over the Poetry Book Society "extraordinary". Withdrawal of Poetry Book Society funding sparks outcry 2011-04-04T14:48:48Z Williams astutely interleaved Bagatelles by Jones with those of Bartók, emphasising the metrical complexities they both favoured, as well as an elegiac strain. Llyr Williams – review 2012-07-18T16:46:24Z At its heart, this is a Pixar film which eschews the genre's trademark reliance on facile, saccharine moralism in favour of the robust, no-nonsense and heartfelt nonconformity that runs through all the studio's best efforts. Brave – review 2012-06-25T16:04:08Z After the experimental vindication of Relativity in 1919, science itself had become a battleground, with some German physicists, led by Philipp Lenard, rejecting Relativity in favour of "sound German spirit". Peter Forbes: rereading Einstein's collected papers 2013-06-21T09:00:02Z All this was, you might say, the perfect background for a director of a national collection – and there was some surprise when Penny was passed over in 2002 in favour of Charles Saumarez Smith. Young British Artists versus old masters 2012-06-01T21:55:05Z The Sopranos favour Fila tracksuits – as Uncle Junior noted, "I swear these bums would get buried in sweat-suits if they could." Gangster dramas: the cliches fly like a hail of bullets 2011-04-07T13:11:36Z Another game Campbell favours is to say: “Tell me something I don’t know about you. Whether that’s a sexual something or not.” The intimacy secret: how to have fantastic sex after decades together 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z As cinemas tentatively reopen, many of the year’s best films continue to forsake them in favour of streaming – sometimes popping up in highly unpredictable places. Streaming: great horror films with a political undercurrent 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z One day when Cat finds herself in the King's favour, she promises to bring Kitty to Court, just as they'd dreamt as children. Gilt by Katherine Longshore - review 2013-04-09T08:00:00Z Speaking at a London press conference Cowell dismissed allegations that the show's voting rules were changed to allow the judges to save favoured contestants. Simon Cowell: no X Factor fix 2010-12-09T17:31:00Z Unlike cable operators, streaming music services pay creators according to what consumers actually listen to, which favours acts and labels with big catalogues. It's only rock'n'roll, but if you like it, how much are you prepared to pay? 2013-07-20T20:34:13Z Slender, dark-haired Shapran, if sometimes lacking in technical finesse, is a very beguiling and pretty heroine, but the brittle choreography does her few favours. Coppélia – review 2013-07-13T23:05:57Z The significance of 2009 for Axworthy is that a ruling clique abandoned Khomeini's policy of balance between the factions in favour of "naked force". Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy – review 2013-03-01T17:30:02Z Rogers' vision – which he continued to promote across the capital as adviser to former mayor Ken Livingston – favoured inner-city densification and building tall. Designs for life 2013-03-25T18:10:25Z For a while he was in favour of the Nazis, but became a Marxist while a PoW after taking part in a commando raid at St Nazaire in France in 1942. Michael Burn obituary 2010-09-23T16:57:00Z Jon’s back but as Stark not Snow Stannis offered to legitimise him and make him a Stark, but Jon turned him down in favour of remaining true to the Night’s Watch. Game of Thrones: every possible way Jon Snow could come back from the dead 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z He continued: "This year's awards were competent, perhaps, but created scant opportunity for the gods to favour them." Emmy Awards win bigger TV audience 2013-09-24T09:44:01Z Countries are not allowed to vote for themselves, but typically favour neighbours and allies. In pictures: Eurovision 2012 2012-05-27T00:30:39Z It seems to me that TV comedy studio recordings favour dead-eyed autocue gobbling monologists, indifferent to the reality of the room, and penalise proper live performers who are the best really. Farewell, BBC TV Centre. You were Britain's very own Disneyland 2013-03-31T00:05:37Z Here, Thoma tells Tom Service about her vision for the piece – a vision that hasn't found much favour with the critics. Ariadne auf Naxos: watch the opera live 2013-06-04T09:31:25Z Wiesenfeld continues to say that I want to see Israel destroyed and favour a boycott, which is simply not true. Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified' 2011-08-15T20:31:01Z Weinstein cultivated journalists who ran glowing pieces about favoured actors – and negative pieces about those who angered or defied him. 'Pack of hyenas': how Harvey Weinstein's power fuelled a culture of enablers 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z As if in defiance of her subject's literary gifts, Hall consistently skirts his glorious cadences in favour of dry synopses, and hauls in legions of leaden-tongued scholars to bolster her analysis. Macaulay and Son: Archtects of Imperial Britain by Catherine Hall - review 2012-12-21T22:55:02Z However, not everyone in favour of some state control of the economy was a socialist. Ken Loach's Spirit of '45 is a fantasy 2013-03-08T07:00:32Z A number of sculptures by Moore, greatly favoured by the film legend, will be offered in separate art sales. Bacall treasures to be put on sale 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Chrome Dreams, from 1977, was shelved in favour of American Stars 'n Bars. Neil Young to issue four unreleased albums 2010-07-28T09:31:00Z One response favoured by productivity gurus is microscheduling – creating a deliberate and detailed roster of work, broken down not by weeks and days but hours or even minutes. A 4.30am start and three-minute toilet breaks: are you ready for microscheduling? 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Berezin has put aside his normal dress of black combat fatigues in favour of a T-shirt with his name printed on it in Arabic. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z Except it's not, because this year's seasonal special confusingly finds the Crawleys and a few favoured retainers on a summer visit to Lady Rose and family in the Highlands. TV highlights Christmas Day 2012-12-21T10:09:43Z The notion – that Stonehenge is essentially a large funerary temple created between 3000 and 2500BC – does not find favour with every scientist, however. Stonehenge remains a mystery as scientists ask: was it a health spa, or a cemetery? 2013-03-16T13:49:02Z But almost as soon as the Pompidou Centre opened, and the critical tide turned in their favour, Rogers and Piano went their separate ways. Richard Rogers: 'The street is where society comes into itself' 2013-07-11T06:00:02Z Not that the contestants did themselves any favours, either. Show Me the Funny: a slow painful death 2011-08-25T11:05:21Z It will necessarily be aimed at the lowest common denominator and probably favour action over dialogue to ease its passage into overseas markets. Before Midnight rages against film's dying of the light 2013-06-24T15:50:20Z Kennedy is also withering when it comes to violinists from the influential New York school of Ivan Galamian, whom he accused of sacrificing soul in favour of technical virtuosity. Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy 2011-08-13T21:56:11Z The development of the Asian community in Bradford during the mid-1960s coincided with a decline in cinema attendance among the mainstream; people were turning their backs on cinemas in favour of newly purchased TV sets. Bradford: city of Bollywood dreams 2013-05-17T12:04:43Z Then there's the sheer sonic opulence, attained by snubbing computers in favour of veteran session musicians, legendary studios and a 70-piece orchestra. Daft Punk: the midas touch 2013-05-18T23:05:39Z Across the street from Winnie's and down the stairs is Ziggy's, a cosy sports pub favoured by Richler, hockey fans and players. A literary tour of Mordecai Richler's Montreal 2011-01-11T11:27:00Z But it doesn't necessarily follow that every Isolde will sound right in it, and Stemme's dark, implacable tone seemed unwieldy and disproportionately enormous against the muted orchestral colours that Dausgaard favoured. Prom 51: Swedish CO/Dausgaard 2010-08-24T11:49:00Z She fell out of favour with Ronald Reagan, with whom she had once appeared in a film called, That Hagen Girl, but his successor, George Bush Snr, appointed her Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. Obituary: Shirley Temple 2014-02-11T10:31:05Z It didn't do them, or us, any favours. TV review: Horizon: Are We Still Evolving? and Neighbourhood Watched 2011-03-02T23:30:00Z Despite its handful of cosmetic changes, The Havocs finds Polley exploring his favoured territory in familiar ways. The Havocs by Jacob Polley – review 2013-01-04T21:55:01Z The narrative is complex: Phaëton's arrogance is encouraged by his pushy mother Clymène, and first finds expression in his decision to reject his mistress Thóne in favour of a dynastic marriage with the princess Libye. Phaëton – review 2013-03-10T17:47:39Z In her book, Kika remembers Rachel’s response to seeing her demonstrating at the Granada rehearsal rooms in favour of union rights for Equity members. Corin Redgrave: He lost his memory of our life together 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z A primer on how to read cinema that grapples with the strange alchemy of why the camera favours certain faces. TV highlights 22/12/2012 2012-12-21T10:04:48Z I'm all in favour of children reading and congratulate the library on running a scheme like this in the holiday but should the challenge really be the number of books you read? Is the Six Book Challenge a good thing? 2012-07-17T13:31:00Z Billboards for the current Marvel/DC fare tend not to stoop so low – these days, it’s the films that are doing their stars a favour. 'I'm sucking up your IQ!': what 90s Batman teaches us 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Gaydos blames the requirements of an international market that favours spectacle over drama, action over dialogue, homogenous fantasy over localised reality. Will Hollywood ever end its love affair with guns? 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Both here and in the next, final stanza, Woodward resists a certain kind of completeness in favour of a more tentative and unsparing response, the laughter hesitant and complicated. The Seacunny by Gerard Woodward – review 2013-01-18T21:00:04Z But Arbor is dismayed when Kitten appears to favour Swifty as a possible jockey in the fantastically dangerous and illegal horse-and-cart drag races he's running. Cannes 2013: The Selfish Giant – review 2013-05-17T08:30:01Z He was also a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat and – who knew? – came out in favour of gay liberation in 1969, in the week of the Stonewall riots. Lee Marvin: rising above the reputation 2013-03-25T06:00:00Z Daenerys talks a good game, but she’s never had any intention of breaking the wheel – she just wanted it to turn in her favour, then use it to crush her enemies. Is Arya Death? The questions we need answered in Game of Thrones 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z If Gardiner's brisk clarity, favouring symbolist hues over impressionist gauzes, sometimes stripped the score of an element of its mystery, the delicacy of the ORR's playing, in the final act especially, was something to savour. Prom 3: Pelléas et Mélisande – review 2012-07-16T11:08:16Z In China “land, labour and capital are all underpriced for its favoured industries,” he writes. In need of a green revolution 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z We tried to reconcile what they wanted – traditional brick houses, pitched roofs, private gardens – with the contemporary aesthetic favoured by the developers. Home truths: architects tackle the housing crisis 2012-07-11T17:15:59Z Was this the point of Merivel's concern with the poor, once he finds himself an exile from the king's favour? Book Club: Restoration by Rose Tremain 2012-10-05T21:55:08Z Really, this development shouldn’t do Blunt Talk any favours. Patrick Stewart: totally over the top – but impossible not to love 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z He was often able to abandon his combativeness in favour of rugged good nature, producing interesting material from people unused to talking publicly. Robert Robinson obituary 2011-08-13T12:28:49Z But it's important to gauge his careful distance from the tradition of photomontage – a term he avoids, in favour of "collage". Brian Dillon on John Stezaker at the Whitechapel Gallery 2011-01-29T00:06:00Z Crowe’s decision to skip the glitzy ceremony in Beverly Hills, California, in favour of fire-ravaged Australia, along with his firm statement on climate change, quickly drew comparisons back home with Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Absent Russell Crowe uses Golden Globes win to highlight Australia bushfire crisis 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z A young man falls in love with a beautiful young woman who dumps him in favour of a rich smoothie who has a creepy obsession with setting things on fire. Royals, rogues and Rudolf Nureyev: the best films of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Take the colonel's inconvenient disavowal of luxury hotels on foreign visits in favour of a traditional tent. Gaddafi, the great-taste dictator of interior design 2011-08-25T17:03:47Z The former Labour party member had initially wanted to stay on, but Downing Street sources indicated that the new coalition government was not in favour. BBC Trust's Lyons looks back on successes and 'memorable cock-ups' 2011-03-09T18:30:48Z He was asked if he would favour renaming the intelligence agency Mr Tiggles. How John Oliver started a revolution in US TV's political satire 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z It's a disconcerting, oddly captivating experience that does away with the music rulebook in favour of creating various sonic textures that seem to be almost working against each other. New music: BTU – Swordbeerfish 2013-02-28T11:54:00Z However, Keating's highly contrived plots and acute sense of whimsy failed to find favour in the US. HRF Keating obituary 2011-03-28T17:04:57Z From a performance point of view, I know I may not be doing myself any favours. Running with music: the case for and against 2013-03-13T16:54:00Z Cassell decides in favour of it, but by then, thankfully, the women have moved on. 50 years of pickup artists: why is the toxic skill still so in demand? 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The book shows that Winogrand was not just a street photographer, and that New York, though his favoured location, was not his only one. Garry Winogrand, edited by Leo Rubinfien et al – review 2013-05-18T23:05:28Z First, it was the sex tourism capital of Europe, a paradise of hedonism particularly favoured by gay young English gentlemen of a literary persuasion. TV review: Christopher and His Kind 2011-03-20T21:04:00Z Nowadays you'd go 75:25 or 80:20 in favour of the writer. Mike Batt: my greatest mistake 2011-07-29T22:01:28Z Revenue splits between exhibitor and distributor are traditionally in the 70/30 ballpark in the UK, favouring the exhibitor. Ice Age 4: Continental Drift floats off UK box office radar 2012-07-03T15:57:44Z He thinks his critics are still incapable of recognising merit in any form of the English language that departs from the one favoured by educated elites in England. James Kelman 2012-07-29T19:00:01Z Mortimer stacks the deck so firmly in Rumpole's favour that it is hardly a fair fight. Forever Rumpole by John Mortimer – review 2013-02-05T07:00:06Z The skill lies in tipping the odds in your favour. Jason Bell's best shot 2010-07-21T21:01:00Z Thankfully, it’s volume that stands in the Fast Show’s favour. From Python to Seinfeld - are these 12 classic comedies still funny? 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z Local authorities all over the country favoured the section 106 agreement – a form of "planning gain" where developers were legally obliged to provide some sort of public infrastructure as part of their schemes. High stakes 2013-02-12T07:00:01Z Do you favour the choppy guitar rock of Arctic Monkeys or the operatic grandeur of Muse? Readers' panel: Which band represents the best of British? 2012-09-25T14:05:37Z Inside a landmark hotel on the seafront strip in the South of France, loud calls for positive discrimination in favour of women's films were being voiced. Cannes 2012: Why have no female film directors been nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes? 2012-05-19T23:06:41Z I don't think his exam results are going to be doing him any favours. TV Review: This Is England '86 and The Big School Lottery 2010-09-07T22:03:00Z But the plot soon proves as elusive as the boffin, rapidly abandoned in favour of increasingly bizarre left turns and hilarious digressions, including a hilarious routine about devising a new system of mathematics. This week's new comedy 2011-03-05T00:07:44Z But his loyalty did not do him any favours. Ted: the bear necessities of our love affair with the cuddly toy 2012-08-06T14:02:07Z The board of the National Theatre are currently looking for a successor for Sir Nicholas Hytner: initial interviews have just taken place, with favoured candidates going through to a final round in late summer. Why the National Theatre could use a history lesson from Richard Eyre 2013-07-12T07:30:06Z While never underplaying the misogyny that triggers Jennifer’s ordeal, Fargeat abandons realism in favour of mythic fantasy, archetype and superhuman endurance. How the 'rape-revenge movie' became a feminist weapon for the #MeToo generation 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The next 30 years were spent as a ferocious gatekeeper, allowing only a very few favoured scholars access to the archives, and then berating them when they did not write exactly what she wanted. Without the great secretary-wives, who will guard great writers' archives? 2012-11-13T20:15:19Z And though distant walking is currently the favoured mode to revelations about the self and the land, for much of the past two centuries it was rootedness, staying put, which was regarded as the key. Richard Mabey: in defence of nature writing 2013-07-18T13:00:02Z The split favours both films because they can't cannibalise each other. Paramount has the last laugh with Jackass 3D 2010-10-18T13:41:00Z It's hard for arts organisations outside London, particularly those working directly with local communities, to attract the philanthropic support that culture secretary Maria Miller and the government so favour. Newcastle: slashing your arts funding would be a shortcut to disaster 2012-11-23T13:33:48Z You wouldn’t think there was much debate about this, but Christal Sczebel of the Nutrition in the Kitch blog rejects the usual “puffed refined rice” in favour of the brown version. How to cook the perfect chocolate crispy cakes 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The new film is currently untitled and its format is unknown, though it seems unlikely that Fox would stray too far from the traditional hand-drawn look favoured by Schulz. Peanuts comic strip to get big-screen treatment (told you so, blockhead) 2012-10-10T10:17:16Z A proper industrial strategy for the creative industries, though, would offer tax break-like support on a media-neutral basis, rather than favour film over music and indeed computer games. This half-baked, half-hearted, slow-motion anti-piracy strategy does music no favours 2011-08-07T20:19:00Z From the 1920s, they were criticised and belittled for concentrating too much on emotions and inner lives, at the expense of the "big" political issues favoured by male writers: war, revolution, nation and so on. The Bathing Women by Tie Ning – review 2013-03-22T08:00:01Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian For those of us who favour good sightlines and acoustics, the transfer of these two productions from Shakespeare's Globe to the West End is welcome news. Twelfth Night/Richard III – review 2012-11-18T16:00:01Z At Cannes its ambition baffled a few reviewers but it found favour with the nine-member jury, chaired by Robert de Niro. Malick's drama triumphs in Cannes 2011-05-22T21:18:05Z Mr Brooke-Hitching employs a useful taxonomy, noting that games tended to fall from favour because of their cruelty, danger or ridiculousness. When fun was cruel 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Ferocious counter-measures, like those favoured in the movies, are recommended since quarantine would be ineffective. World War Z unleashes an unedifying breed of zombie 2013-06-17T13:58:58Z Whether Johansson has permanently left behind her cinematic reputation as a costume drama actress in favour of robotic antics and superheroes is not yet clear. Scarlett Johansson, charismatic queen of science fiction 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z He now believes such a role would be divisive, as an architectural tsar could favour a particular style of architecture over another, not a good idea in a pluralist society. What have Labour done for architecture? 2010-04-21T20:30:00Z Unimportant page-filling pap, rightly excised in favour of more snaps of Her Majesty nearly smiling? Read all about it! All the news you missed during the jubilee knees-up 2012-06-09T23:06:02Z There was still a tendency to favour the easy gag. 10 O'Clock Live: did the Channel 4 hype backfire? 2011-01-21T10:43:58Z When the different documentary sources I consulted gave different versions of the same event, I favoured the one that seemed most plausible to me as a novelist. David Lodge on HG Wells 2011-03-11T10:00:01Z "Your opulence in promises" is risky, and "your house / Busy with parasites" would be a fatal misstep for one hoping to win favour. Collected Poems 1935-92 by FT Prince - review 2012-10-12T21:55:07Z After the second world war companies started to swap downtown for the suburbs, establishing office parks like AT&T’s celebrated Bell Labs, a precursor of the “campuses” favoured in Silicon Valley today. Inside the box 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z The psychiatrist has been a favoured character for novels before this one, leading the reader into the hidden stories of those whom he or she treats. Regeneration by Pat Barker 2012-08-24T21:55:08Z Sunny Side Up saw Nutini jettison the James Blunt- and James Morrison-style anaemic soul of his debut album, These Streets, in favour of a more maverick concoction of folk, blues and, primarily, Celtic soul. Paolo Nutini 2010-04-11T21:05:00Z We are all in favour of press freedom. Coogan fears press reforms delay 2012-09-25T19:47:00Z Perhaps helped by the fact that the voters' choices are guided by an initial shortlist prepared by ITV, the results will tend to reflect populist taste and usually favour the broadcaster's shows. National Television Awards: the populist choice, for good or ill 2013-01-24T10:57:30Z Still, the experience of being out of favour with Hollywood was deeply unnerving. Matthew McConaughey: ‘My agent said no to romcoms. And then there was nothing’ 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Gdynia is a jewel of modern architecture, while Sopot, nestled along the coast between the two, is a party town favoured by Polish actors that boasts the longest wooden pier in Europe. Trip Tips: Long Baltic summer days in Poland's 'Tricity' 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z A non-Texan professor from Princeton, Mr Wuthnow offers a clear-eyed view of the lingering legacies of slavery and segregation, matters that many Texans today prefer to pass over in favour of Alamo heroics. Clinging to religion 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, given his central message, Maté is in favour of drug decriminalisation. How dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z One of the reasons he has never won here, he says, is because the rules don’t work in his favour. 'It seems so simple': can I cut it at the World Stone Skimming Championships? 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z There are plenty of changes in tempo, a scoring system to encourage replay, and a superb range of online multiplayer modes favouring teamwork and tactics. This week's new games 2012-05-25T23:05:20Z I Still Believe's closing message that rock'n'roll will save us all reveals Turner's weakness for favouring prosaic bluster over poetry's subtle power to unlock more meaningful truths. Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls – review 2013-04-21T16:20:05Z But for British dramas fictional cops cannot get away from the cheaper and often overworn suits favoured by their non-fictional contemporaries. Now everyone wants a silk shirt to look as cool as TV's sexy sleuth 2013-06-08T10:43:08Z His strong social media presence, which includes 4.3 million Twitter followers, is also seen a factor working in his favour. James Corden 'to host US chat show' 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Livingstone helped get this scheme defeated, in favour of Coin Street Community Builders, which proposed – and built – a scheme of low-rise, low-density, traditionalist stock-brick houses. High stakes 2013-02-12T07:00:01Z He was pioneering a new rough-and-ready, rock'n'roll look to his work, and Huston featured prominently; her dark, angular looks in stark contrast to the bosomy, corn-fed Cybill Shepherd specimens then in favour. Anjelica Huston: 'I find extreme characters irresistible' 2011-07-21T20:00:01Z Then again, perhaps he was just overcome by the ectoplasmic amounts of hair gel he favoured. Most Haunted: a guilty pleasure? 2011-08-17T10:44:57Z And, as senior managers across our case studies were themselves overwhelmingly from privileged backgrounds, this acts as another way that progression is rigged in favour of the privileged. The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z But he believes the proliferation of claims against The Shape of Water may work in its favour. Seen it all before? The Shape of Water and claims of movie plagiarism 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Another topic that concerns me is the tendency of the US government to leak classified information strategically when they believe it will shape public opinion in its favour. Serial tackles Bowe Bergdahl: our expert panel gives its verdict 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z In Visegrad, an elderly Bosniak stands at the highest point on the bridge, a favoured spot for executions down the centuries. Serbian film director's 'theme park' echoes The Bridge on the Drina 2012-10-11T12:41:46Z Judging by the look of him, you'd have to assume that the jobs in Scunthorpe pay very poorly because crime didn't seem to be doing Jay too many sartorial or dental favours. Rewind TV: The Fall; The Murder Workers; Skint; Made in Chelsea – review 2013-05-18T17:00:05Z Farsighted investments were typically neglected in favour of projects dedicated to resource extraction. A grand tour 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z In Perkins's favour was his guitar playing, an unlikely pause in the introduction and the not insignificant fact that he wrote the song. Readers recommend songs about shoes: The results 2010-04-15T20:45:00Z The cross-stitch of chiasmus is particularly favoured in Sonnet 30. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z Osaka, Calgary and Sydney completed the top five in the survey, which the EIU says tends to favour medium-sized cities in wealthy countries, often with relatively low population densities. Vienna tops Melbourne as world's most liveable city: Economist survey 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Aside from Grillo’s enthusiasm and desire to cede the spotlight to his subjects, Fightworld’s smartest move is to reject the usual grim-and-gritty aesthetic of fight stories in favour of making something beautiful. Can Netflix's Fightworld help rehabilitate MMA's image? 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z The name subtly referenced the fact that previously, whenever people had looked for solutions to their problems, we tended to favour talking cures. Self-tracking: the people turning their bodies into medical labs 2012-11-24T00:05:29Z He shrugs away the suggestion: “They’re doing me a favour, too.” Jason Bateman: ‘My dirty secret? Playing the straight man. Because he gets to be in every scene’ 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z But what is endemic, they say, is a deeply entrenched culture of actors – mostly women, but some men – being pressured to exchange sexual favours for roles and the promise of fame. Bollywood sexual harassment: actors speak out on Indian cinema's open secret 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z His protagonists tend to see women as ruthless money-grabbers who exchange sexual favours for shopping trips. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) ? review 2010-11-19T12:35:00Z And it can favour causes that only reflect the interests of the wealthy. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Why did Shakespeare reach for rhyme in his most romantic play, despite blank verse being favoured from the 1580s for its realism? How to teach … Shakespeare 2013-04-15T17:45:01Z They didn't get anything by favour – nothing, not once. Martin Sheen: Being a dad 2011-03-25T22:29:56Z Trees that require early pollination will fade and the countryside will shift to favouring plants that flower later, when there are other pollinators around. Isabella Rossellini: the Bee movie star 2012-09-29T23:05:16Z The Oscars best picture category has a long and ignoble history of favouring the inoffensive over the revolutionary – Citizen Kane lost out to How Green Was My Valley. My favorite best picture Oscar winner: Midnight Cowboy 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z A local pianist who favoured Fats Waller's ebullient style, and was also "a superb tap dancer", gave him piano lessons and took him on gigs, "teaching me how to play along with the band". John Bunch obituary 2010-05-03T19:59:00Z There are 26 species of earthworm in Britain, including the lob worm, blackheaded worm and the green worm, and each favours a slightly different habitat. The great garden worm count finds our underground allies are thriving 2013-01-20T00:07:16Z Maybe he favoured one of the other contenders. Today and In Our Time - review 2010-10-15T06:59:00Z Like any courtier, you fall out of favour from time to time, and looking back at my diary it is embarrassing to see how often I was on the verge of resigning. 'Tony Blair called back to see if I had blown myself up' 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z The episode moved things along at such a tremendous clip that you might have expected jokes to be sacrificed in favour of plot. The Thick of It – Lines of the Week 2012-09-29T21:15:00Z Symbolism rejected outward appearances in favour of inner truth. Dieter Roth: the video-diary Rembrandt 2012-08-01T17:15:01Z It turns out that teenage girls, usually overlooked in favour of their brothers and boyfriends, are a film-maker's dream come true. The Twilight saga: a modern-day marketing fairytale 2012-11-16T11:29:25Z And even when heredity was replaced by theories that favoured "nurture" over "nature", there was no let-up in the potential for shame. Family Secrets by Deborah Cohen – review 2013-01-12T10:31:01Z Scheeren is a promising young architect, but the documentary does him no favours. Memo to Venice Architecture Biennale: architecture before architect, per favore 2012-08-29T13:13:06Z More than half, or 345 men, said they mostly wore boxer shorts, with 311 men favouring more snug items of underwear. Wearing boxer shorts boosts sperm count, scientists say 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Or could it be that he was against it simply because Blair was in favour? The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq by Alastair Campbell – review 2012-06-21T07:00:01Z Here are five superb modern British artists who fell dramatically out of favour, but who may soon be back in fashion. Not flushed with success 2011-07-18T07:59:05Z Archestratus favoured "the nouvelle cuisine of the ancient world", as the translators of this excellent edition point out. Fragments from 'The Life of Luxury' by Archestratus ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:10Z For, behold, she is sporting a lavish afro rather than the Wasp blow-dry she usually favours – as advocated by the $9bn black hair industry examined in Chris Rock's 2009 documentary, Good Hair. Cosmetic surgery: a stealth imperialism with self-harm its main weapon 2012-08-29T18:35:01Z I think all of it's a shame frankly, I really do – the way that creative integrity has been devalued in favour of commercialism and reality television. Zachary Quinto: 'Playing Spock was about cultivating an inner life' 2013-05-04T17:00:02Z In this case the author does the reader the favour of giving up first. The Seacunny by Gerard Woodward – review 2013-01-18T21:00:04Z Among the symptoms: otherwise pointless “mileage runs”, flights made solely to gain the favour of the airline gods. Give up life’s luxuries? It’s not that easy 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z He does impressions of Gary Oldman's cockney thug in the film just screened, and quotes favoured Philip Roth passages that acclaim New York, his indefinite home town. Martin Amis: a new chapter in America 2012-06-02T23:04:03Z People sometimes say their wife to curry favour at home. Q&A: Paul Merton 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z The Lord must have favoured you especially, to be so sweet and so gracious, to have such eyes and such lips . Philip Pullman: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z Even her shape is serpentine: her leanness is clothed in clinging gowns and her hair puffed out at both sides to give her head that triangular look that fashionable adders favour. Women Beware Women; Bingo 2010-05-01T23:11:00Z Give Me My Month dispenses with sonic trickery in favour of a simple piano ballad; it's the least interesting track here, because it isn't a particularly striking song, suggesting that Blake can't really do straightforward. James Blake: James Blake - review 2011-02-03T15:30:00Z A recent poll found that 61% of California voters are now in favour of same-sex marriage. Clint Eastwood backs gay marriage 2013-03-01T17:13:34Z West is conscious of the fact that the industry is male dominated, but she feels that could work in her favour. Why stuntwomen are angry about 'wigging' – and are changing the industry from within 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z But each role is also mainly located in a different zone of his vocal and emotional range, in the way that top singers learn to favour aspects of their register according to the role. David Tennant and Olivia Colman: the best actors on TV? 2013-04-25T11:07:42Z "But I don't," he says, "I was in favour of the war." Jack Straw: 'I didn't have a nervous breakdown, but I was close to one' 2012-09-29T23:07:05Z When he confronts her about this and reiterates his romantic interest, she reveals her disbelief that he would want anything more than sexual favours from her. How "Euphoria" challenges viewers’ expectations of what a television show should be 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z THE fat reports favoured by international development agencies are full of lofty goals like “making poverty history”, not to mention grand claims about big victories. Poor and benighted 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z It paved the way for shows such as Total Wipeout and The Whole 19 Yards, shows where things such as skill and ability are sidelined in favour of YouTube-friendly outright physical humiliation. Leaving a Hole 2010-04-27T14:19:00Z But, when asked to describe a favoured map, she nominates something very different. 'The perfect combination of art and science': mourning the end of paper maps 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Dressed in his painting clothes of splattered pyjama bottoms, cartoon-themed sandals and the sort of maroon collarless shirt favoured by the Indian independence leader Nehru, Shorya set to work. India's 'child Picasso' puts on his goggles and takes aim at the canvas 2012-07-03T13:40:55Z They can ignore the schedules entirely in favour of gulping down several episodes of House of Cards or Breaking Bad or Dexter at once. Food Glorious Food serves Simon Cowell his TV comeuppance| Stuart Heritage 2013-03-01T13:08:05Z Unlike the auction model favoured by sites like Upwork, Sevendays invites a carefully selected number of jobseekers to apply for each job and does not take a cut of their earnings. Five ways work will change in the future 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z It doesn't do Rob Green any favours though, fumbling helplessly towards it just a couple of yards away. World Cup Live: England v USA 2010-06-14T05:45:00Z Meadows, 37, has always favoured a collaborative style of directing. This Is England redux 2010-09-03T23:03:00Z "Unsurprisingly," Emyr said, "it found little favour with the conservative Welsh establishment, which it fingered for its acceptance and promotion of a narrow and bigoted version of Welsh-language culture." Label of love: Ankst 2010-05-06T10:34:00Z Many undergo peer review, but an experiment can be structured in a way that favours a particular outcome and still be valid science. Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Blackwater rectified that by ignoring everything else in favour of telling us one tense, terrible tale as Stannis and his fleet finally arrived at King's Landing. Game of Thrones: season two, episode nine – Blackwater 2012-05-28T18:08:00Z Despite all the strikes against him, Cruise still has certain things in his favour. Two men. One dream 2010-08-05T07:00:00Z With another golf piece, written for the Talk of the Town section in 2000, the New Yorker for once received short measure from a favoured son. Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by John Updike – review 2012-05-24T10:00:01Z It is favoured by those who wish to control portion size and calorie consumption and those following, say, a high-protein diet. From overnight oats to boiled eggs – is meal prep taking the joy out of eating? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The economics of Hollywood blockbusters undoubtedly favour spectacles of strength – steroidal heroes battling against apocalypse. Kong: Skull Island – why do Hollywood blockbusters have such Trump-like politics? 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Spielberg, according to reports, elected to skip the ceremony in favour of pre-production work on his latest picture, War Horse, which shoots next month in the UK. Steven Spielberg skips Clinton wedding to meet Dartmoor pigs 2010-08-09T15:56:00Z Their image was supported by rabble-rousing live shows and music that was so heavy it unsurprisingly found favour with fans of Slayer and Pantera. Slipknot: Paul 'the Pig' Gray remembered 2010-05-25T13:47:00Z Broader shifts in mood can also work in favour of certain plays and playwrights. Timing is everything: how plays find their moments 2012-07-11T12:06:29Z The Whitby Soul Weekender is a highlight favoured for its classic northern playlist. Clubs picks of the week 2012-06-29T23:05:25Z Unfortunately, the recording doesn't really do the performances many favours; Allegrini is placed too far forward in the sound picture, relegating the orchestra to a definitely subsidiary role. Mozart: Horn Concertos ? review 2011-08-18T21:20:01Z There is something seductive about the idea that professional success springs from our innate abilities, rather than the degree to which society tips the odds in our favour. Why are there so few women in tech? The truth behind the Google memo 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z In any case, the studio, Paramount, favoured Hepburn over Monroe, so that was that. Audrey Hepburn: an iconic problem 2011-01-20T21:30:02Z The directors ignored its royal palaces, lovely parks and elegant 17th-century terraces, instead favouring damp motorways glistening under street lights, a 21st-century cityscape brooding beneath leaden skies. The Killing: in cold blood 2011-03-31T07:00:00Z Hall is likely to favour the BBC's ambitious "Project Barcelona", the iTunes-style service that will allow viewers to buy programmes minutes after they have aired on TV. How will the next 10 years shape the BBC's output? 2013-04-02T19:52:00Z This was the series in which Ruby Tandoh – in the top five contestants of all time for her technical skill in folding bad attitude into false modesty – was accused of being favoured by Hollywood. Bake Off at 10: the greatest moments from the nine series so far 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z The series had to be considered “an act of fiction”, it said, given it drew inspiration from a book that was not authorized - Maureen Orth’s ‘Vulgar favours’. Versace family disowns 'fiction' of U.S. TV series on designer's death 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Smith The stylish guitarist, the cocksure front man; Kasabian are often dismissed as an Oasis tribute favoured by lager-swilling football hooligans. Who are Britain's best band? 2012-09-28T10:10:00Z There will be some overlaps, but the Dairy will stage one-man shows rather than the group exhibitions favoured by Saatchi. DIY billionaire turns dairy into gallery to rival Charles Saatchi's 2013-01-27T00:06:57Z Conduitt probably recognised the explosive nature of Newton’s religious writings, which showed him to favour the doctrine of one God, denying the unity of Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Magician’s brain 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Some closed down, and others abandoned CDs in favour of digital distribution. Humanity’s heartbeat 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z There are merchants and mothers; novelists and navy men; one of Byron's bankers and a favoured pupil of Mary Wollstonecraft. Italians unveil long-lost tomb medallion of Scottish MP 2013-05-18T11:39:00Z My favoured candidates are a failure to understand software and missing the significance of the internet. Apple drives another nail into sluggish Sony's coffin 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z There is also a full complement of letters in an archive to his agent, Sheila St Lawrence at the Watkins Agency, all handwritten on the yellow legal paper that Dahl favoured. African cats and American espionage – Roald Dahl's letters due in 2016 2013-07-25T09:10:30Z A few days back, he screened a favoured Gary Oldman-starring film, The Firm, at an event in SoHo. Martin Amis: a new chapter in America 2012-06-02T23:04:03Z Arctic Monkeys, The Beatles, Daft Punk and Pink Floyd were among the acts jostling for favour. Led Zeppelin wins 'best guitar riff' 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z "I'd definitely be in favour of streaking, but only the attractive ones." The Duckworth Lewis Method: 'Cricket forces you to sit on your arse, which is healthy' 2013-06-22T23:05:08Z Mr Geithner has been criticised for doing too little to rein in the banks, in particular Citigroup, that he supervised before the crisis, and for doing them too many favours afterwards. Man in charge 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Go get the bad guy, dead or alive, appears to remain the favoured approach. Oscars 2013: what the nominations say about America 2013-02-21T16:00:00Z I'm in favour of interfaith dialogue, but that's just a step too far. Another view on Rev 2010-07-18T20:45:00Z Claude Lévi-Strauss observed in The Savage Mind that the virtue of a small-scale model is that it sacrifices the sensible in favour of the intelligible. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z There is a pleasing straightforwardness to Foster that, I imagine, at times did not help her in Hollywood, but has, in the long run, worked in her favour. Jodie Foster: ‘I have a magical thinking that I can cope with anything’ 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z That will be of little comfort to Scotland, which had been in the frame as a front-runner, with reports that uncertainty over Brexit saw it fall out of favour with Amazon. Amazon's Lord of the Rings TV show to be filmed in New Zealand 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z While Miranda wore fruit in her hair, Hilda favoured curlers and headscarf, as if her hairdo were permanently in preparation for a glamorous invitation that never came. Jean Alexander obituary 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Takei, a regular critic of Hollywood’s habit of sidelining actors of east Asian extraction in favour of white performers, took to Facebook to lambast comments made by Doctor Strange screenwriter C Robert Cargill in April. George Takei on Doctor Strange controversy: 'Marvel must think we're all idiots' 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Today, Jews use them as part of daily set prayers and also for receiving favour from G-d. Who's your favourite religious poet? 2010-04-27T09:00:00Z As used by branders or politicians, "storytelling" is, on his argument, a sedative, suppressing the desire for truth in favour of satisfying narrative form. Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z Ms Hirsi Ali, as you might expect, favours more freedom, and she reckons that some tentative movement in that direction is already in progress. Thoughts on its future 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z They eschew the sources, leaks and scoops that are pursued by their more traditionally minded colleagues in favour of the sage counsel of academic political science. Pushback 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Even though its over-familiar bestiary, dungeons and city folk in need of favours are so routine they're almost invisible, taking on the game's battles involves a novel twist in the hired hands called pawns. This week's new games 2012-06-01T23:06:07Z This is a hard title to find, but do yourself a favour and go looking. Carlos Ruiz Zaf?n's top 10 20th-century gothic novels 2010-06-02T09:17:00Z Stair favours spherical and round composure, but not exclusively – there are some square and triangular jars as well. Death comes to Middlesbrough 2012-07-20T14:00:00Z "I have had word that La Moss wishes to bestow her favours upon you," my witless side-kick Matt said the following day. HarperCollins, ?20 2010-10-04T23:07:00Z These cultural dissonances occasionally play in Oliver’s favour. John Oliver: ‘I’m used to audiences not liking me’ 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z We are not asking for favours here; we are supporting an industry that has now … locked us out. Al Sharpton backs Oscars boycott over all-white nominations 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Back with Bogart, and Hawks behind the camera, Bacall swiftly returned to favour with an unarguable classic, and her third adaptation in a row. Lauren Bacall: a career in clips 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Families were encouraged to dig up beloved roses in favour of patriotic cabbage and potatoes. A Green and Pleasant Land: How England's Gardeners Fought the Second World War by Ursula Buchan – review 2013-04-06T16:00:01Z Samuel L Jackson, who plays a sinister house slave in Django Unchained, told the LA Times he was not in favour of new legislation in an interview published on Sunday. Django Unchained premiere cancelled after Connecticut shooting 2012-12-18T11:42:01Z Lumet's preferred location was the cauldron of inner-city New York and his favoured subject matter tended to be the porous line between order and criminality. Sidney Lumet dies aged 86 2011-04-09T15:44:58Z Graham is leaving the supreme court after the fateful ruling in the newspaper’s favour. Steven Spielberg: ‘The urgency to make The Post was because of this administration’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z "Intervention that damages one part of this sector in favour of another risks undermining this success and putting at risk the UK's status as a global television hub." Channel 4 boss voices US buyout fears 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z In June a six-person jury found in favour of Wilson’s claim against the publisher of Woman’s Day and the Australian Women’s Weekly. Rebel Wilson wins $4.56m damages from Bauer in record libel settlement 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z One need not score this debate entirely in favour of the microaggressors or their victims. Double-edged words 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Elsewhere in Europe, it never fell from favour. How to make the perfect rye bread 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Coston is not in favour of legalisation, and nor is Dale D'Amico, who is serving life for the attempted murder of a policeman. Eugene Jarecki and the campaign to end America's war on drugs 2013-03-31T00:02:00Z The highest court of appeal displayed remarkable similarities to modern judiciaries, with justices chosen by the court itself, giving independent rulings that could favour the humblest plaintiff against the most regal defendant. Neither holy nor a failure 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The workshoppy feel is suddenly abandoned in favour of a conventional costume drama approach in which Horwood's solecisms seem an increasingly capricious means of pepping up the narrative with a few cheap laughs. The Count of Monte Cristo 2010-04-23T20:30:00Z Winston Churchill had added handwritten comments in favour of the proposal but it fell through as the Magna Carta was not the government's to give away. Churchill Magna Carta plan revealed 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Cuisine: The Basques favour an adventurous blend of fish, meats and vegetables, drawing on their enviable position between the Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay. Could Dundee be the new Bilbao? 2010-10-03T19:00:00Z Happily even the kebab and pizza place backdrop has disappeared since 2009 in favour of the Royal Opera House and Covent Garden. The Baftas are so British, and no one blubs when they win 2012-02-12T14:30:01Z The novels of Helen Schulman could fruitfully be taught on such a course, as her favoured method is to incorporate national trends or tensions within a domestic scenario. This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman - review 2012-02-10T22:55:01Z Human triumph over the surly forces of destiny has therefore come to be favoured. The Adjustment Bureau's will won't be done 2011-03-07T10:57:44Z That way, they will be able to skew the portrayal of them in their favour. El Chapo, Hollywood and the lure of the mob movie 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Several years ago, he tells me, he abandoned listening to Beethoven and Shostakovich quartets as he worked, in favour of Bach and Schubert. Leon Kossoff's love affair with London 2013-04-27T10:00:04Z MTV News even quotes a number of critics willing to bet their last greenback that the US film-maker is about to be unceremoniously dumped in favour of another director. Has Sucker Punch ruined Zack Snyder's Superman chances? 2011-03-31T12:56:40Z But it did include storylines that will slow-burn marvellously through village life, and they avoided the one-off disaster storylines with much carnage that television soaps favour for such key episodes. The Archers: Ambridge does disaster 2011-01-02T21:01:28Z What’s more, it’s operating out of a British tradition that has been unfairly sidelined in favour of more straightforward fare. Naysayers be damned! Tom Hardy's Taboo is a work of Wicker Man genius 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The name bitter – a type of pale ale which is not in fact very bitter – alienated drinkers who favoured smooth, light lagers. Warming up to ales: the British beer movement brewing in America 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z She had been asked to write a biography of Wittgenstein, but stepped aside in favour of Monk since she confessed to knowing nothing of his philosophy. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Show up late Not for the first time, Broadway smiled most on those that opened last, in much the same way that the Oscars often favour movies that are released in the autumn. Tony awards 2010 2010-05-04T16:12:00Z Amusingly, Phoenix almost return the favour on one track. Phoenix: Bankrupt! – review 2013-04-20T23:05:05Z It is one of a number of running jokes favoured by Sullivan, along with Del's supposed affair with Marlene and the brothers' main mode of transport - a broken down Reliant van. Lovely jubbly! 2011-04-23T18:57:33Z Using his oldie reputation, Dunn visited many pensioners' clubs and homes to cheer up the occupants, and once spoke at Trafalgar Square in favour of a campaign for better pensions. Clive Dunn obituary 2012-11-07T18:29:21Z The use of two lesser-known leads works in the film’s favour, stripping away any preconceptions and enhancing the film’s naturalism. The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: No 4 – 1917 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z The dance repertoire of gentlemen of a certain age seems to consist solely of moon-stomping, a step favoured by first-generation skinheads. Readers recommend: songs about dance styles ? results 2011-07-28T15:08:29Z Here, it is alienating and typical of an essentially narcissistic school of production in which fundamentals of characterisation and story structure are neglected in favour of postmodern hyperstyling. The Most Incredible Thing ? review 2011-03-27T00:05:25Z What measure of meritocracy remains in Iran's version of crony capitalism favours them. A Separation can't be divorced from Iranian politics 2011-07-05T12:13:51Z The method was later abandoned in favour of more “merciful” treatment. Global power 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z "It's nice to see I have done Joe some kind of favour," he said. Nick Park denies plugging friend Joe Rose's music on Desert Island Discs 2010-12-27T20:24:09Z Some of these were attached to gleeful articles by the kind of journalist who never misses an opportunity to favour the world with the information that everything was better when they were young. Worst ideas of 2012: making all pop sound the same 2012-12-28T22:59:56Z The case went ahead and the high court found in Chambers's favour on Friday and overturned his conviction. 'Twitter joke' case only went ahead at insistence of DPP 2012-07-28T10:09:08Z Takeley, however, is a one-off, and it is idle to pretend that the pressures that favour standardised buildings will go away. Michael Gove's standardised schools not such a class act 2013-04-13T23:05:30Z The Coen brothers are among this festival's favoured auteurs, the equivalent of the Mafia's "made guys", and it is no surprise to see their new movie Inside Llewyn Davis on the competition list. Cannes 2013 lineup: heavy-hitters and unexpected gems 2013-04-18T15:22:59Z Here We Come A-wassailing speaks to a widespread tradition that remains a favoured festive pursuit. Faithful or not, all can rejoice in carols ? hymns drenched in our folk memory 2010-12-07T19:59:00Z "This is their town. This is their country. This is their sport. The odds are in their favour. All of the odds." Brazilians for a day, tourists wear 'verde amarelo' for World Cup opener 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Do rising rents and living costs, combined with shrinking benefits and record deals, not favour the financially privileged at all? Is pop too posh? 2013-03-30T18:00:01Z In one episode she does more with one line – “Give her an interview as a personal favour to my fist” – than most actors have achieved in their entire careers. Great News is the best show on Netflix. Why was it cut down in its prime? 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Though you might expect Springsteen’s lyrics to be heavy on the New Jersey specifics, he is in fact quite restrained in this department, favouring instead a more general sense of the state. 10 of the best Bruce Springsteen landmarks in New Jersey 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z The space in Edinburgh does the production few favours, but it nonetheless creates its own unsettling, dislocated world. Mies Julie – Edinburgh review 2012-08-08T11:53:50Z If you want to do me a big favour, he says, give her beauty company a name-check. Dustin Hoffman: facing down my demons 2012-12-14T23:00:18Z Ian Fleming, on whose books the Bond series is based, initially favoured Cary Grant for the part, but warmed up to Connery after he proved a critical and commercial hit. Sean Connery voted best Bond, with Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan runners up 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z I suppose I could have then written another story to even things up more in my mother's favour, but I didn't feel the need. Sue Grafton: 'My childhood ended when I was five' 2013-03-18T09:00:06Z The most significant story is the knee injury of England's Kevin Pietersen, now back in favour with selectors after a period in the wilderness. TV highlights 16/05/2013 2013-05-16T06:00:22Z I am not a big fan of the "open space" format favoured by the Devoted and Disgruntled organisers, either: with no nominated chair to guide a discussion, nothing gets done. Arts conferences: too much talk and no action? 2011-08-23T15:32:12Z How the blandness of the film affects Moore’s Oscar chances remains to be seen – for now, the odds don’t look to be in her favour. Oscars 2016: a look at early frontrunners after the Toronto film festival 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Our own desire to create narratives, to suppress certain kinds of observations in favour of others. The Fort Bragg murders: is Jeffrey MacDonald innocent? 2013-04-13T23:05:28Z Generally the Serpentine Pavilion favours spectacular more than subtle architects, as the 2005 edition confirmed. Serpentine's star pavilions 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z Many of Chicago’s largest parks are connected through a system of historic leafy boulevards often overlooked by visitors, who often favour the lakefront. A local’s guide to Chicago: 10 top tips 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z That film, like Esio Trot, dealt with characters of a mature vintage that are relatively under-represented by an industry that tends to favour storylines aimed at a younger demographic. Never a Dahl moment: Esio Trot on TV 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z However, the grandiose term has been quietly dropped, in favour of the more informal term "the Oscars" – hitherto the trademarked name for the gold-plated statuette itself. Oscar losers' silver lining – a $45,000 goody bag 2013-02-20T20:10:22Z Not every progressive musician is in favour of a boycott. Rage Against the Machine lead Arizona boycott 2010-05-27T09:16:00Z Even today, when Gibbs's lyrics tend to the more oblique, they are still wont to release singles such as Underage, a song that curiously failed to find much favour with radio programmers. The Hidden Cameras | Pop review 2010-03-18T21:30:00Z They do favours for us – free plumbing when he blocks the toilet yet again, an afternoon’s care off the books, a computer that turns up on the doorstep. Floods, fires and a very reggae Christmas: how autism touched my family 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z On the other hand, because it's secret, we can't be sure that Google isn't skewing results to favour its own commercial interests, as some people allege. How algorithms secretly shape the way we behave 2012-12-16T00:05:57Z "He was against going to war with Germany until the very last minute when he suddenly came out in favour of it as a result, he claimed, of a dream," says Dr Stock. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z Nazis and Soviets alike condemned modernism, favouring nationalistic conservatism and social realism respectively; Shostakovich shines for steering a tricky path through Stalinist aesthetics without losing his style. TV highlights 19/02/2013 2013-02-19T06:59:01Z However, they otherwise eschew gimmicks and rock posing in favour of killer harmonies, with evocative moods and words. First sight: Goldheart Assembly 2010-03-18T23:30:00Z As the first black Miss America, in a competition which historically favoured white women, Miss Williams, aged 21, has been one of the most sought after title holders in the competition's history. Resignation of Miss America lays bare nation's neuroses: from the archive, 24 July 1984 2013-07-24T06:30:00Z As Hanks rightly marvelled at, films like La La Land just aren’t made in today’s studio system that tends to favour franchise-building over fresh concepts. Damien Chazelle on La La Land: 'Los Angeles is full of people chasing dreams' 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z “It’s a terrible thing if somebody’s job depends on what sexual favour they will give in return for work.” John Malkovich: 'I had a lot of violence growing up, but so what?' 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z The continuing global recession, competing demands for funding are not working in Long's favour. V&A at Dundee plans gets much-needed but modest private funding boost 2013-01-17T13:04:38Z The film-maker and actor said: "Even in England, the polling shows more in favour of returning them. There should be an open discussion." Murray backs Clooney on Elgin Marbles 2014-02-11T14:46:48Z Lee also recalled the Academy Award ceremony in 1989, at which his film Do the Right Thing was passed over for best picture in favour of Driving Miss Daisy. Spike Lee denies calling for a boycott of Oscars over lack of diversity 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z However since no terms were submitted in writing, the jury found in favour of Scott claims that Kudrow was liable for breach of contract. Kudrow must pay ex-manager $1.6m 2014-02-28T11:14:49Z That was a lie, but a lie that might work in my favour. Work, pray, fear: my life in the Family cult 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Joining our group, he explains that these scrubby fields are not the eagles’ typical habitat; they usually favour marshland. Chernobyl: the wildlife haven created when people left 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z The "Is this really happening?" scenes between the mourning and the dead are also beautifully done, including a moment when a mother struggles not to favour her resurrected daughter over the living one. The hottest French TV of 2013: The Returned 2013-05-25T08:00:00Z To a degree, Burley's book reflects this sudden, silent death, but his style forgoes sentimentality or nostalgia in favour of a detached, sometimes clinical, approach to landscape and interior. The Disappearance of Darkness: Photography at the End of the Analog Era by Robert Burley – review 2012-12-09T00:05:44Z The band's lighter material had been given short shrift in favour of a new transcendental, "no singles" direction. Why are new acts so reluctant to show us their hits? | Priya Elan 2010-03-24T11:52:00Z Delegates voted in favour of her call for teachers to be trained in giving age-appropriate lessons on the subject. Children need lessons on perils of pornography, say teachers 2013-03-26T14:09:27Z The balance of words to music weighs too strongly in favour of the former, yet Little is genuine and engaging, particularly when making connections with Yehudi Menuhin, a prime influence. Tasmin Little ? review 2010-12-01T22:40:00Z Emilia: That is the wrong opera / You moron / But you can do me a favour / And help me find the codicil / To the will. Digested opera: The Makropulos Case 2010-10-01T15:08:00Z As a director, León favours slow, gliding tracks across the country’s bone-dry interior. Cannes 2019 week one roundup: zombies, babies and a sleeping Bill Murray 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z An increasing proportion of Britons favours a more liberal approach to drugs and would support decriminalisation strategies, according to a comprehensive survey commissioned by the Observer. Huge majority thinks 'war on drugs' has failed, new poll finds 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z This category will presumably favour movies that have made over $100m, and celebrities – heretofore not known for an aversion to money – were uniformly horrified. At last, an Oscar for popular film. Because who needs another The Shape Of Water? | Hadley Freeman 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z In Torbay, for example, the youth team rejected architects Feilden Clegg Bradley's original proposal for a flat roof in favour of an irregular jagged profile. Myplace: Putting the youth back in youth centre 2010-04-11T21:05:00Z But the exam for which these sadly confused students were preparing was one on "post-1800 English Literature Gothic texts", so maybe, after all, their teacher did them a favour. Frankenstein or Dracula? A mix-up that may have done pupils a favour 2013-06-01T10:30:01Z The arena is full of fans rooting for the Viking blonde who has a great voice, a powerful ballad called Undo and some lovely lighting in her favour. Eurovision 2014: Reporter's diary 2014-05-11T11:21:17Z In 1951, black actor-singer Horne lobbied for a lead role in the musical Show Boat, but was rejected in favour of the white Ava Gardner, whose singing voice had to be dubbed. Sex, lies and celluloid: how realistic is Netflix's drama Hollywood? 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Yet at the same time, Stam's modernist principles got him into trouble with communist regimes, who under Stalin favoured a return to the heavy and ornamental in everyday design. When is an East German plastic eggcup a piece of communist nostalgia? 2012-07-09T15:17:32Z Elegantly observed and hysterically funny, it is Rich's spikiest work to date, sidestepping his usual romantic softness in favour of addressing tensions between Brooklyn's hipster excesses and Herschel's desperate poverty. Simon Rich: the funniest man in America? 2013-07-16T19:00:00Z What I want to stress, finally, is that I do not - and never have - favoured a ban on Page 3. High profile celebrities back the anti-Page 3 petition 2012-09-26T12:40:00Z The film, with its chapter headings, aspires to a novelistic structure, each part favouring a different character or storyline. Hannah and Her Sisters: No 7 2010-10-16T10:48:00Z The one lesson to be learned was that conditioning a non-native speaker to repeat does them few favours. Why Don't You Speak English? – TV review 2013-07-24T06:00:10Z But Badwan, who has height and long arms in his favour, is winning. When Cat's Eyes met Ron Arad 2011-08-16T20:31:00Z As often, in this sonnet, abstract nouns are favoured to good effect, giving the reader space in which to translate them into imagery. Poem of the week: Sonnets from the Portuguese, No 43, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2010-05-24T14:28:00Z Seal also comes down in favour of dill, Stein suggests you can use either, while Kyriakou uses dried mint instead of fresh. How to make the perfect tzatziki 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z While the voters tend to favour impersonations, Cedergren not only creates his character, he forges our journey through the story. My Oscar goes to... Our film critics reveal their personal shortlists 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Girl X is not a polemic in favour of the right of disabled people to choose their own lives, although that is where Softley's sympathies lie. Girl X: An actor? In a wheelchair? 2011-04-11T20:59:01Z Feinberg himself favours 12 Years a Slave - which has nine nominations in total - based on what the Academy has done in the past. Oscars: What to watch out for 2014-03-01T09:07:27Z Both favour one hand cream in particular: Norwegian Formula concentrated hand cream – although Griffin says that the Aldi version is just as good. How to keep your hands clean – without getting dry skin 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Those good looks, and that boyish sensitivity, have already won him, or at least his music, favour in the fashion world, as it featured during a recent Burberry show. New band of the day – Tom Odell (No 1,388) 2012-11-06T16:29:00Z Bluesy, and with a raw groove, Sartain's songs have unsurprisingly found favour with White Stripes man Jack White, who has employed him as both opening act, and released a single on his Third Man records. Music picks of the week 2010-05-14T23:33:00Z But Immanuel Kant’s scepticism about romantic passion – he favoured a deeper and more rational kind of love instead – reminds us that infatuation isn’t everything. Lessons from the ancient philosophers to help improve our lives today 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z God was simply irrelevant, except to the extent that mistaking earthly power for divine favour led to sin and destruction. Why Reinhold Niebuhr matters now 2011-07-21T11:45:29Z In Flare Path, Miller's character turns her back on fame in favour of a more grownup life. Sienna Miller: 'I've bought my freedom' 2011-03-08T21:30:01Z However Gordon-Levitt's forthcoming role as DC Comics' The Sandman is believed to have swung the vote in Rudd's favour. Rudd to play Ant-Man in new film 2013-12-19T11:11:20Z A demonstrator dressed up as a surveillance camera at a Hamburg protest in favour of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Science fiction's five best guides to the present 2013-07-26T09:59:29Z The series had to be considered “an act of fiction”, it said, given it drew inspiration from a book that was not authorized - Maureen Orth’s ‘Vulgar favours’. Versace family disowns 'fiction' of U.S. TV series on designer's death 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Start with small things, such as when you are offered a drink at the hairdresser’s or if someone asks you for an insignificant favour. Want to improve your life? Just learn to say no 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z From the swarthy charm of You Ain't Alone, to my current favourite, Hang Loose – a lolloping argument in favour of the simple joys of not worrying. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2011-08-18T21:30:00Z Altering the spirit of Radio 4, then, is one of those strange things of which absolutely nobody is in favour. A cool Radio 4? What a turn-off 2011-02-13T00:06:03Z They seem to be obeying his instructions to the letter, which isn't doing the world any favours. If God saved an American doctor with Ebola, why did he let 1,200 Africans die? 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z In the 1988 presidential election, he vainly favoured the erratic TV evangelist Pat Robertson as the Republican candidate. Murdoch's Politics: How One Man's Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes Our World by David McKnight – review 2013-02-20T07:01:01Z On a technical level, Nolan told Collider he would be eschewing 3D in favour of the combination of Imax footage and high-definition film which made The Dark Knight such a bravura visual experience. Christopher Nolan's Inception: the first brain-ache blockbuster 2010-05-06T13:14:00Z So why are so many people ditching cow’s milk in favour of plant-based alternatives such as soy or almond milk? Leave it out: are food intolerances fact or fad? 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Mendelssohn's iconic oratorio, beloved of UK audiences since its Birmingham premiere in 1846, fell from critical favour with the passing of the Victorian era. Prom 58: Mendelssohn's Elijah ? review 2011-08-29T10:24:31Z Millions of viewers have abandoned it in favour of the sunshine, or other television programmes, or just curling up in a ball in a dark room and thanking God that they're not watching The Voice. The Voice: does anyone really deserve to win the final? 2012-06-01T15:13:17Z Woodward in this instance favours something akin to a shaggy-dog story. The Seacunny by Gerard Woodward – review 2013-01-18T21:00:04Z Murphy has imagined away decades of institutional prejudice in favour of an ahistorical narrative about optimists pluckily seizing control of the power structures. Sex, lies and celluloid: how realistic is Netflix's drama Hollywood? 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z But it worked to my favour that night. Sam Smith's 'incredible, crazy' year 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z For the first time, getting gigs wasn't like pulling teeth, or the result of calling in favours. The Gaslight Anthem: 'Fans look up to us. That's creepy' 2012-08-09T19:00:00Z It’s interesting, he adds, to look at the films she didn’t do – especially Under the Skin, a film she was dumped from in favour of Scarlett Johansson. Gemma Arterton: ‘It’s easier to conform and shut up’ 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Claiming to look like an unprepossessing Plasticine model he does not in fact remotely resemble seems an odd way to curry favour. Ed Miliband looks as gormless as Wallace but in a totally different way 2012-12-16T00:06:04Z They were so far from it that they openly renounced the prospect in favour of what they valued more. Authors and life of poverty: From the archive, 18 Feb 1852 2013-02-18T07:00:00Z Probate eventually found in favour of Tina, but it took months, during which time Tina was grieving, and had no idea whether she would lose her home and everything she owned. Last orders: what do our wills say about us? 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Like most of Apatow's favoured actors, O'Dowd looks how the average guy imagines he looks, yet has enough subtle appeal to make a woman feel rather canny for fancying him. Chris O'Dowd: from The IT Crowd to Hollywood 2012-05-18T22:01:08Z The deliberate, ultra-precise performance of the Classical Symphony allowed the intricacies of the orchestration to shine through, particularly in the finale, where clarity is often jettisoned in favour of a boisterous dash to the conclusion. SCO/Kamu 2010-03-22T22:45:00Z But how does Johnson's passivity square with his signature mantras that he is a mayor who favours taxpayer value, economic growth and the preservation of London's cultural heritage? Walthamstow stadium: viabilaity, credibility and democracy 2012-11-06T17:34:00Z For a while there was this ridiculous view that there was this massive consensus in favour of Keynesian stimulus. What can we learn from the Great Depression? 2012-08-27T11:45:00Z The gallery's rules were that the pavilions had to be designed by leading architects who had built nothing in Britain, and those at the spectacular, eye-catching end of the profession were favoured. Serpentine's star pavilions 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z They met originally to discuss a little book about a donkey, but that was shelved in favour of a much bigger project, Arthur, High King of Britain. Michael Foreman: life through a line 2011-03-07T15:39:18Z Beautiful, with flashing eyes and jutting chin, her wild, scattershot style – she favours bright colours, African and Asian prints, hoodies, all-in-ones and has modelled for Marc Jacobs – is accessorised by wild, scattershot statements. MIA: 'I'm here for the people' 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z There has been very little on stage avowedly in favour of retaining the union. Scottish theatres lukewarm over referendum 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z Current performance practice favours original style and performing the scores as written. ‘I Could Barely Sing a High C’: Pretty Yende Finally Conquers Lucia 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z That no film-maker seems to have the slightest compulsion to do Hemingway the same favour seems very telling to me. A Farewell To Arms: a great movie but a terrible adaptation 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Yet such is our topsy-turvy world it is the Jews who get demonised for trying to do everyone a favour by preventing the Palestinians from becoming a recognised terrorist state. The World Turned Upside Down by Melanie Phillips 2010-06-14T20:59:00Z In Fierstein's favour is the fact that he varies the form for each segment: the plays move from self-absorbed monologue to parody Coward to, in the last piece, forerunner of La Cage aux Folles. Torch Song Trilogy – review 2012-06-13T17:34:25Z On a Saturday night drinkers are spared any bland dance muzak in favour of low-level psychedelic folk. 10 of the best cocktail bars in Edinburgh 2011-08-02T08:30:00Z She’s favoured to win in this category for her haunting performance as a robot in Ex Machina, over her work in The Danish Girl, for which she was nominated in the best actress section. Golden Globe awards 2016: who will win, and who should win 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Ever since mainstream comics "grew up", with Alan "Watchmen" Moore as instigator, the way they tended to show their maturity was by ditching ass-kicking in favour of ideas. Grant Morrison, The Invisibles and the comics that put novels in the shade 2010-12-19T22:30:01Z On the eve of leaving high school, they ditch their plans to watch the latest Ken Burns documentary in favour of going berserk at last and experiencing, as Molly puts it, “a seminal fun anecdote”. Booksmart star Beanie Feldstein: ‘Everyone said we didn’t belong in LA’ 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z “I don’t talk about politics in public, but I am in favour of facts. I think science has been under attack for a while by a number of groups, some of which support the administration.” Alan Alda: 'It's amazing that most of us live as if we're not gonna die' 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Perhaps it’s more to do with the selection process that favours certain stereotypically “masculine” attributes in male actors, attributes that only overlap with singing ability once in a Hugh Jackman. The Lamest Showmen: why can’t male actors sing? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Disney offered a $1m settlement, which the writers rejected in favour of going to trial. Seen it all before? The Shape of Water and claims of movie plagiarism 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z So I guess I have favoured Polo as a subject, but was that writing gushing? What makes us connect with an artist? 2013-07-23T02:05:03Z “The most surprising thing is that age tends to work in favour of happiness, other things being equal,” he tells the Guardian. Life gets better after 50: why age tends to work in favour of happiness 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z And it's why 2000's U-571 famously rode roughshod over any sense of reality in favour of simply telling an entertaining story. How WikiLeaks killed the conspiracy thriller 2010-12-02T22:30:00Z Quite artistic by nature, she surrounded herself with artistic people but favoured simplicity. Jamie Oliver: the recipe that changed my life 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z If ever a prize did an unknown writer a favour it must be this one. Miguel Syjuco shows how prizes are literary powerhouses ? not reviews 2010-05-10T11:56:00Z Jenkins’s philanthropy meant it was beneficial for everyone, husband included, to stay in her favour. Simon Helberg: from Big Bang nerd to Meryl Streep’s cartoonish pianist 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z I can't think of a biographer of Stravinsky who troubles to return the favour. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z The reconciliation reads like the final chapter of the kind of inspirational literature often favoured by Winfrey's book club. Oprah Winfrey and Jonathan Franzen make up over Freedom 2010-09-16T22:18:00Z The majority of Americans are now in favour of gay marriage but the victory came as many politicians remain firmly against it. A guide to a hopeful 2016: a Guardian list of things to look forward to 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Gone is the lumbering beast in favour of a svelte Eckhart who fights with kali sticks and is battling two ancient clans. Comic-Con: Jennifer Lawrence on Hunger Games sequel and Aaron Eckhart's 'fit Frankenstein' 2013-07-21T09:23:08Z The three judges ruled in favour of publishing the first set of letters in September after two years of deliberation. Prince Charles: 'black spider memos' to ministers could spark second veto 2012-12-26T15:39:03Z So much so, argues this documentary composed of film clips and archive interviews, that its most favoured daughters during the studio era became goddesses; actors around whom movies were crafted. TV highlights 22/12/2012 2012-12-21T10:04:48Z From past experience with films like Mrs Brown, The Queen and Shakespeare In Love, royals tend to find favour with Bafta voters. Baftas 2011: surprises and sure things 2011-01-18T15:15:13Z This overlooked the fact that the other three weren't, or that, year after year, the Stirling jury is loaded in favour of the established and middlebrow. Coming up short 2010-07-24T23:05:00Z Smith was also beginning to fall out of favour with TV executives. Mike Smith: The high-flying host 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z What's more, Strauss gives them to the orchestra – not a way to curry favour with singers. Strauss's Intermezzo: Scottish Opera whip up a perfect storm in a teacup 2011-03-24T22:30:01Z The masterful pace of the Danish version is jettisoned in favour of speedy exposition. TV highlights 07/07/2011: The Apprentice: The Final Five 2011-07-06T22:00:00Z It's a limitation rather than a liberation, largely ignored in favour of over-extended comedy sequences featuring an unlovely array of spoof yoga teachers, revivalist preachers and deranged megalomaniacs. Hans Was Heiri – review 2013-01-24T17:46:11Z At this year's , the competition directors have reportedly all been asked to sign a petition in favour of Roman Polanski, who remains under house arrest in Switzerland. Cannes film festival diary: Certified Copies and Biutiful discoveries 2010-05-18T14:09:00Z Wider questions about American foreign policy, or how ordinary Afghanis and Iraqis felt about being invaded, are sidestepped in favour of heat-of-the-battle immediacy. ‘Death to the infidels!’ Why it’s time to fix Hollywood’s problem with Muslims 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z But, loth as I am to disagree with two personal culinary heroes in favour of a third, I’m with Grigson here. How to cook the perfect asparagus soup 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Davies has been almost single-handedly responsible for reviving the reputation of costume drama, but this kind of slap-it-on production does no favours to the genre. Rewind TV: South Riding; The Model Agency; Friday Night Dinner; Silk 2011-02-27T00:05:40Z The call to action stimulated property developers to tag museums on to many of their projects in return for tax benefits and to curry favour with local authorities. Shanghai is racing to become China’s cultural capital 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Despite a flagrant attempt to curry favour with the audience by allowing the glamorous Rebekah to dominate the stage, we are again defeated by the clumsiness of the dialogue. How did Murdoch and company perform on the world stage? 2011-07-20T11:29:00Z An old trick, but an effective one – particularly for punters favouring traditional forms of festival transcendence. The best new festival acts of 2013 2013-05-10T23:00:06Z Faced with one version of physical perfection, there is something brilliantly heroic about ignoring it entirely in favour of making frantically disparaging comments about kitchen hygiene. Ooh, have you seen the state of Kim Kardashian’s kitchen? 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Lennon recorded I'm Losing You with Cheap Trick before ditching the recording in favour of the one that appeared on Double Fantasy. Readers recommend: solo Beatles songs – results 2012-06-21T11:53:16Z According to the most recent polls Irish voters are expected to overwhelmingly vote in favour of the amendment to the country’s constitution. Could polls be wrong about outcome of Ireland's gay marriage referendum? 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Politicians curried favours from the Murdochs and fiddled their expenses, the police had become arrogant, over-paid footballers behave like "cheap thugs on and off the field". Broken Britain? Read returning natives before Joan Collins 2011-08-25T08:56:29Z Signed now to CBS as a favour to Johnny Nash, they had earlier cut a record at the label's Whitfield Street studios in central London. Marley's haunts 2011-05-11T14:07:21Z The researchers also argued that common tests used to study mental capacity were unintentionally biased in favour of the young. Age shall not wither us: why great art isn't the sole preserve of the young 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z Which is ironic, as this damp flannel of self-pity and mandolins is a compelling argument in favour of nationalising the British music industry. Peter Van Hoesen, Frank Turner, Dizzee Rascal: this week's new tracks 2013-06-14T12:00:00Z In fact, the tide seems to be turning in Calloway’s favour, just as she learned to swim. 'I love fame': how Caroline Calloway survived being cancelled 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z The government favoured Natural England's recommendation that there should be legislation to achieve coastal access, rather than any permissive arrangement. South Shields by-election: why the seat's tradition of public freedom is at stake 2013-05-02T15:00:02Z The date will be marked with a Late Night Prom, followed by Lights Out, when people will be invited to switch theirs off in favour of a single light. Lights to go out for World War One 2014-03-27T13:39:05Z Tapley said that Sag could even have done the actor a favour. Screen Actors Guild snubs Joaquin Phoenix as critics question The Master 2012-12-12T22:54:00Z Why on Earth would she ignore goodies like that in favour of a rubbishy-looking box? The Possession – keeping it real 2012-05-30T12:29:00Z Although in favour of diversity, I have often railed against the glut of new releases – as many as 14 some weekends. Trailer trash 2012-07-14T23:06:26Z A major study into the impact of underwear on sperm quality found that men who favoured airy boxer shorts made significantly more sperm than those who tucked themselves into more restrictive items of underwear. Wearing boxer shorts boosts sperm count, scientists say 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z This was due to his chief innovation – the use of sections of prosthetic makeup applied separately, rather than the more unwieldy and restrictive one-piece mask favoured by his predecessors. Dick Smith obituary 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Alongside Le Corbusier, Gropius and Aalto are some much more recherché names – Gaston Eysselinck, anyone? – with a geographic sweep that, while possibly favouring Scandinavia and Switzerland, and neglecting eastern Europe, is wide. The Architect's Home by Peter Gossel – review 2013-04-21T08:00:04Z However, the move is still bound to cause offence somewhere, so let’s do everyone a favour and try to pre-empt all the angry thinkpieces now. Thomas the Tank Engine goes multicultural: how the world will react 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Mirren shied away from further political questions, but she said she had already voted by proxy in favour of Britain remaining in the European Union. Helen Mirren criticises Israel boycotters 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z She fell out of favour with Ronald Reagan, with whom she had once appeared in a film called That Hagen Girl, but his successor, George HW Bush, appointed her ambassador to Czechoslovakia. Obituary: Shirley Temple 2014-02-11T12:58:42Z The Roses don't really engage, however, with the reasoning offered by some philosophers in favour of such enhancement. Genes, Cells and Brains by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose - review 2012-12-19T10:10:01Z Early designs, such as this example from 1935, "favoured form over content and highlighted the exotic and adventurous attractions of the Soviet Union". In pictures: Selling the USSR as a travel destination 2013-08-14T07:30:09Z The couple took their case to the Supreme Court, which ruled in their favour, disarming similar legislation across America. Dead certs to dark horses: 20 films we think will be at Cannes in 2016 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z The Enlightenment, a movement which gripped Europe from the 18th century, loosened the hold of the Church in favour of rational thought. Getting into Valhalla 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Most movies played for half a week before being replaced, with a favoured few lingering in circulation a little longer. A Hitch in time: save the Hitchcock 9 2011-08-18T21:00:01Z Earthquakes are not a punishment from God, which was the favoured explanation up to and even beyond the Lisbon earthquake of 1755. The Million Death Quake by Roger Musson – review 2012-11-09T09:20:19Z A Canadian novel, The Diviners by Margaret Laurence, in which the young heroine is in love with two men but rejects both in favour of adventure, inspired her to take off. Lennie Goodings: 'Virago survived because it's a brand with a philosophy' 2013-07-20T07:30:01Z Actually it cripples art, too, in that it only favours one aspect of art – the immediately striking surface effect. Can books be compared with works of art? 2010-10-13T17:01:00Z “In the long run the hoteliers aren’t doing themselves any favours, because it is not possible to maintain standards under these conditions,” García says. Chambermaids’ revolt aims to shame Spain’s rogue employers 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z I've no doubt people buy Mumford & Sons records because they like the songs rather than as a favour to the King's College school alumni association, but you're skipping to the end of the process. Is pop too posh? 2013-03-30T18:00:01Z Years later he said, "You did me a favour." Bowie and me 2013-02-23T08:00:24Z A lot of people say Jesus, but I'd pass that up in favour of Mary Magdalene. Paul F Tompkins's favourite TV: Hannibal, The Colbert Report, Firefly 2013-06-24T11:00:00Z McCarthy frequently uses silhouette – even, as here, the repeated silhouettes of trees – although he seems to have abandoned his preference for a starry night sky in favour of a chillingly blank one for Tyrannosaur. Poster notes: Tyrannosaur 2011-07-27T11:45:08Z Our plan to eat a proper meal was promptly kiboshed in favour of a KFC, because eating a meal two-handed with cutlery at this stage is still an entirely alien concept to us. The terror of the first post-baby date 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z Avoiding topical subjects of child abuse or the collapsed Irish property market, Mercier also withholds the big denouement that seems to be looming, in favour of a more elusive moment of recognition. The Passing ? review 2011-03-21T18:27:26Z Georgia state lawmaker Jason Spencer resigned after yelling racial slurs and exposing himself during one segment, while another saw a prominent conservative speak in favour of a bill that would arm pre-schoolers in classrooms. Who Is America?: Sacha Baron Cohen tries to draw OJ Simpson confession 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Topping them all, and favouring the "less is more" route, is Ice Cube, who has progressed from tooled-up criticism of Compton in his NWA days, into a deeper appreciation of the architecture of Los Angeles. Straight outta Hamptons: hip-hop's architectural roots 2012-08-01T15:43:39Z The second is that local collectors favour local artists, and these are often undervalued. African horizons 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z As far as mixers go, the publicity economy of podcasts favours the young. In pod we trust 2010-07-08T20:55:00Z “People here are really not far from the old mythology. I voted in favour.” A tale of ice and fire: touring East Iceland 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z And after that, he largely retreated from live music in favour of being a DJ and running nightclubs. Still special 2010-02-25T12:34:00Z Gone are the tsarist-era costumes favoured by most who put on Boris Godunov, the 19th century opera by Modest Mussorgsky about a ruthless tsar who takes the throne after murdering the rightful heir. Protests against 'tsar' Vladimir Putin reach new operatic stage 2012-05-31T17:38:59Z That is the explanation favoured by the liberals who tend to see the hand of the president and the Muslim Brotherhood behind every case brought against the media. Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef will not let his humour be silenced 2013-06-11T13:05:45Z All parties are in favour of development anywhere outside national parks if it is dressed up as economically advantageous, "affordable" or "green". We all care about beauty ? why don't politicians? 2010-04-08T07:06:00Z These memorable moments of humanity bring depth to a production that favours theatrical flourish over political bite. The Plough and the Stars 2010-08-04T21:00:00Z While Nicholson claims that publishers favour "abused Irish alcoholics" as protagonists, what sort of characters do you think are the most entertaining to read or watch? Anyone for a spot of middle-class drama? 2011-07-13T12:17:02Z Positioning himself in his favoured role as "the outsider", he denounced the "sneering" BBC-ITV duopoly, "protected by public subsidy and state privilege". Torin Douglas: 24 years in media 2013-06-03T07:43:41Z While it might not be fair, the deciding mark in favour of LCD's first album being their best – and my favourite – is its second disc. My favourite album 2011-08-04T12:17:00Z In the 1990s he announced that he would not back the Tories again because they were in favour of hunting. Sir Patrick Moore 2012-12-09T16:19:01Z He condemns most diets in favour of an ayurvedic-approved one, and proffers opinion on antidepressants, climate change, and Trump voters. ‘No sex please, we’re meditating’: peace and positivity on a weekend retreat 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z There was no great appetite among parents for the introduction of default filtering of the internet by their ISP: only 35 percent of the parents who responded favoured that approach. Ministers step back from online pornography legislation 2012-12-14T22:53:01Z By that logic, the actor's age may even work in her favour. Riva, 85, poised to make history 2013-02-06T16:48:13Z American noirs especially favour stories told in retrospect, with a voiceover by a desperate, dying or imprisoned narrator anxious to explain how they got where they have. Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z And so it seems the perfect time to dive into a simulation far more likely to bring about some much needed happiness than the useless cloggers plodding about on whichever is your favoured pitch. Championship Manager 1980s Legends ? review 2011-04-02T23:08:33Z I did a song for them and when it was their turn to return the favour, they just didn't. Wiley: 'I did a tune for Ed Sheeran, but he didn't want to do one for me' 2012-11-15T11:00:00Z Men and fathers are so favoured in our society, the world is weighted so much to their advantage, that comedy writers can safely make them the perpetual butt of jokes. Homer Simpson isn't a positive role model for kids? Eat my shorts… 2013-06-15T23:05:26Z He declared himself in favour of poets having recognisable jobs and against the emergence of the university-subsidised poet. Edwin Morgan obituary 2010-08-19T17:23:00Z The majority of reviews have been positive, particularly in Pattinson's favour, but frankly, it could have gone either way. Robert Pattinson: 'I want to strangle whoever invented that R-Patz thing' 2012-06-08T23:05:10Z It also blazed a trail for self-referential comedy, swapping out the traditional episode-to-episode story arcs in favour of deconstructing the sitcom format which it so closely followed. Six to watch: Standups in sitcoms 2011-07-06T13:16:26Z Perhaps that's an argument in favour of Nolan leaving the story open-ended, but even with a slew of new characters to introduce and presumably some explanation of the Joker's disappearance, I can't see that happening. Anne Hathaway's Catwoman walks into a crowded Dark Knight Rises 2011-01-20T14:56:04Z Landmark victory … Judge rules in favour of Kraftwerk in sampling court case. Kraftwerk win landmark sampling case in German supreme court 2012-12-20T10:54:08Z But does his argument have any points in its favour? Poem of the week: Lycidas by John Milton 2010-09-06T15:30:00Z Yet despite Laing’s successful rhymes, poetry cards have undeniably fallen out of favour. Enduring love: how gen Z saved the greetings card 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z During Barnard’s visit here, he wrote, “The Distillers say the proximity to the sea favours the various processes of malting, brewing and distilling.” The Whisky Chronicles 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Yet this indeterminacy is cleverly managed and always works in its favour. Why La La Land should win the best picture Oscar 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Bana and Wilde don't look comfortable with their roles, and their relationship is in any case jettisoned in favour of the siblings' individual adventures, which tangle boringly with other sub-plots. Deadfall – review 2013-05-09T20:44:01Z Sometimes they would get angry when they discovered they weren't doing us a favour but that we were doing them a favour. Nalaga'at theatre: Blind man's loaf 2010-06-21T21:00:00Z In this instance, the name worked in his favour. Alessandro Nivola: The Sopranos film was one of the few times I was first choice 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Obverse Books' 'Team Up' of Paul Magrs and George Mann Like wedges, blue eyeshadow and harem pants, the tête-bêche is making one of its periodic returns to favour. T?te-b?che books make a speculative return 2011-07-28T10:57:58Z Carl Dix, one of the activists responsible for Rise Up October, says that he doesn’t like Tarantino’s use of the N-word in Django Unchained, but is otherwise in favour of the film. Quentin Tarantino: film maverick and police critic delights in controversy 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z He called for the abolition of slavery, but failed to topple a system that still favours paler-skinned Latin Americans. Bolívar by Marie Arana – review 2013-06-15T15:00:01Z Those in favour of reform face an indifferent or often hostile response from large sections of the medical profession and the public. We love the NHS too much to make it better 2013-03-09T06:31:01Z Rather than face the criticism, Chad and Jeremy took themselves off to America, a country so crazed with Angolophilia in the wake of the Beatles that the whole velvet-knickerbockers-at-the-Coronation business actually played in their favour. Hidden treasures: Chad and Jeremy – The Ark 2013-01-29T10:41:01Z Did that, combined with an Academy-wide sense of guilt, tip the balance in Moonlight’s favour? Don't let that Oscars blunder overshadow Moonlight's monumental achievement 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z The report, which appears in the Lancet, says the laser technique – known as selective laser trabeculoplasty or SLT – should replace the prescribing of eye drops, the current favoured way to treat glaucoma. 15-minute laser is best treatment for glaucoma patients, says study 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z But with these, we're really trying to be in a place where we don't favour one sex. Richard Linklater on the enduring appeal of Jesse and Celine 2013-06-15T05:00:00Z Immediately, his childhood memories are jettisoned in favour of a long, Seinfeldian look at preposition use. Jerry Seinfeld is back – and he's still the ultimate laser-precision joke machine 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z They were the singers who the show had lingered on for longest, the singers who'd been allowed to develop their personalities, and the singers clearly favoured by their own coaches. The Voice: does anyone really deserve to win the final? 2012-06-01T15:13:17Z The two-state solution favoured by the UN and the EU is still possible – just – but only if Israel will acknowledge the historical facts of 1947-49 and subsequently accepts the rule of law. Letters: To achieve Middle East peace, first we need justice 2011-01-25T00:06:02Z It should also address audience concerns about the "imbalance" of its international coverage in favour of the US, compared with Europe and the rest of the world. Trust approves Radio 7 shake-up 2011-02-08T17:54:47Z There’s a weasel form of words some journalists favour. Michael Hutchence: in the eye of the storm 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z If it had not been for director Josh Trank’s unfortunate fall from favour three years ago, they would likely have got their wish by now. Time's up for James Bond: is 007 too toxic for the #MeToo era? 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z We don't do people favours and we don't copy and paste press releases. Blog jam: GoldFlakePaint 2012-06-07T09:45:00Z Blueberry soup is another local speciality and much favoured by those in training for the Vasaloppet because it is said to be good for hardening the muscles. Sweden's ice-cool winter music festival 2012-12-12T09:18:57Z And a good thing too: because everything you loved about those actors in 24, Lost and Ghost Whisperer would surely have been jettisoned in favour of big hats and inexplicable storylines. TV reboots: which shows are ripe for an update? 2010-10-07T11:10:00Z Nor a hundred, maybe thousand, others Anyway, have a good read on the Arts Fund's website and please do your bit, whichever of the ten contenders you finally favour. Hepworth Wakefield flies the northern flag in ?100,000 Art Fund Prize longlist 2012-02-13T11:53:00Z Over the next two years, he would pull off a breathtaking act of reinvention, disbanding his lauded quintet in favour of electrically charged line-ups using two drummers, two bass players and two, even three, keyboards. The muse who changed Miles 2010-09-04T23:05:00Z But the judge ruled in favour of the UKUO, saying it was not in competition. Ukulele band loses copyright battle 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Yet because Lord Patten, head of the BBC Trust, is thought to favour an outsider, a range of new possibilities have come into view. Bookies tip Richards for next DG 2012-11-13T14:03:41Z Radical for 1784, German philosopher Immanuel Kant's argument in favour of freedom of speech — what he called the "public use of reason" — was specifically dependent on non-democratic and illiberal restrictions on all other civil freedoms. Why "free speech" needs a new definition in the age of the internet and Trumpist tweets 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z Bass later worked for Alfred Hitchcock on North by Northwest and Psycho, once again using his favoured lines, which morphed into a vortex of whirling spirals in the opening credits of Vertigo. Saul Bass's film titles celebrated in Google doodle 2013-05-08T00:16:17Z Those favouring the more esoteric could be tempted by the likes of Slaughtered Vomit Dolls, The Gateway Meat or Nekromantik. Is The Human Centipede the most horrific film ever? 2010-08-23T10:38:00Z In “Billion Dollar Ball” Gilbert Gaul, a journalist, eschews these criticisms in favour of a more fundamental angle of attack: that running such large entertainment businesses is incompatible with the core task of universities. Punishingly profitable 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Related: Catherine Zeta-Jones denounces ageism of Hollywood bosses So, while the shoot gives the impression of diversity, it’s another telling sign of an industry that still favours young white women. Why Vanity Fair's Hollywood diversity cover fails to conceal industry prejudice 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Third, it is modern Myanmar, a deeply wounded and fractured multi-ethnic society that is working through – in a phrase favoured by optimistic citizens – its "democratic transition". Rory MacLean's top 10 books on Burma 2013-05-08T14:43:33Z Social division is a theme that runs through much of Bong’s work, and, despite his avowed neutrality, he tends to favour the underdogs. Parasite director Bong Joon-ho: 'Korea seems glamorous, but the young are in despair' 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z This can hardly be seen as doing animals a favour. Animals United defeat themselves 2010-12-20T11:11:45Z By the mid-1930s many politicians in the region were in favour of mass Jewish emigration. Backwards and forwards 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z While The Lord of the Rings is all ominous portent and epic adventure, the earlier book has a homely, fable-like quality that means its worth has often been overlooked in favour of the sequel. Is Peter Jackson planning Lord of the Hobbits? 2010-12-09T13:41:00Z At Oxbridge the playing field is tilted in favour of those youngsters from privately educated, middle- and upper-class, often white British backgrounds, and it needs to be levelled. Should Oxbridge discriminate to boost the numbers of black students? 2010-12-12T00:07:00Z By the beginning of this century, while the general American public remained firmly set against Polanski, the mood in Hollywood was openly in his favour. What does Hollywood's reverence for child rapist Roman Polanski tell us? 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z And Cannas is a big fan of hats – today he is sporting a black beret, but on other days he favours a sloppy woollen beanie or even a baseball cap. A working life: the make-up artist 2012-06-22T22:00:39Z The early century favoured coy euphemism – "the curse", "time of the month", flower motifs, being "on", having one's guest/friend/relative/decorators in, and the jolly hockey sticks being "off games". 'Jam rags' outrage 2010-07-28T12:03:00Z It wants to open up the whole approach to intellectual property to create a bias in favour of exchange and access – new markets in licensing rights, for example. It's fine to boost the arts, but we should first redefine them 2013-04-27T23:06:23Z So English is very much first among equals, despite the fact that English voters may favour leaving the EU. English becomes Esperanto 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z But those who prefer the surging phrases favoured by Christie or Gardiner might have found it a bit tasteful – the music, at least. Prom 55: Rinaldo ? review 2011-08-26T10:23:41Z Elle: Right now, Elle seems to be favouring a "big sister" strategy that only really holds true if your big sister is a great big empty vessel in a nice dress. Tyra v Elle 2010-07-06T10:19:00Z Gordon appears to be set on dropping the Gotham City police department’s traditional public opposition to Batman’s activities in favour of working alongside the dark knight. The Lego Batman Movie: five things we learned from new trailer 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Opera broadcasts often seem to favour voices, but here all was audible – essential in this score. Götterdämmerung; BBC Proms – review 2012-07-21T23:05:54Z But Gasparo restored the family fortunes by winning favour at the Vatican and getting a prestigious Jesuit education for his son, Antonio, who later wrote about the Ottoman lands in Europe. Coasts and coalitions 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z ‘Women’s bodies don’t belong to themselves’ This summer, hundreds of New Yorkers have demonstrated in favour of women’s equal right to expose their bodies at will under the #freethenipple banner. A day with Saira, one of the original topless painted ladies of New York City 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z “The guy’s a good guy. I’m in favour of him,” says one young man. Chappaquiddick: the film that relives a damning moment for the Kennedys 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z His favoured materials are MDF, cardboard, photos and charity shop finds, brought together in tottering, risky constructions. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-08T00:06:27Z They favour decreased government regulation of big corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wall Street and the City of London. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z The town sits on the Clyde, 30 miles west of Glasgow, and the old river always favours it with its most fetching garments. Art revives the glory of Clydeside shipbuilding 2013-06-08T23:05:45Z In fact, I find most of the people whose palates I really respect tend to favour bitter flavours. Claire Ptak’s recipes for pink grapefruit brulee and Campari sorbet 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Or maybe it’s just a favour to the Strokes’ Julian Casablancas, whose new Cult Records label is releasing the album and could do with a blockbuster name on their roster. Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O Gets Intimate on Her Solo Debut 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z He wrote about the sexual oppression experienced by married women and in favour of the right of unmarried women to have sexual experience and to have children. Response: Germaine Greer's criticism of George Bernard Shaw is unfair. He was strongly pro-women 2011-02-02T08:00:02Z Or ditch the urban jungle in favour of the wilderness on a landscape photography course. Photography: Britain through a lens 2011-08-05T21:45:00Z There is a common view that the justice system is skewed in favour of the defendant, but nothing, he says, could be further from the truth. Clive Stafford Smith: 'The jury system in this country is utter insanity' 2012-07-08T19:00:02Z This, in turn, confers some “power” on the woman – to spurn the man, to flaunt his love, or to exact favours or payment in return for her attentions. Ne me touche pas… the shift in sex and power sweeping France 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z As the rich have got richer and rigged the rules in their favour, upward mobility for the poor is becoming nothing more than a vapid dream. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 26-30 November 2012-11-26T07:00:00Z Henson plays a high-powered sports agent who is unfairly overlooked for promotion in favour of a junior male colleague. Taraji P Henson: 'Hollywood didn't grasp my talent' 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The impact of the film was great and this, along with research of the four children in foster care, led to the closure of residential nurseries in favour of foster care. Joyce Robertson obituary 2013-05-19T11:56:05Z She warned, too, that huge housing projects favoured by developers from the school of Le Corbusier would only bring social dislocation to the poor while making developers wealthy. How one woman harnessed people power to ‘save’ old New York 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z The actor has a reputation as a warmongering neo-con – he was in favour of invading Iraq and once said of the death penalty: “I would have no problem pushing the switch while having dinner.” John Malkovich: 'I had a lot of violence growing up, but so what?' 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Not only that, the show has also found favour with a certain NSA whistleblower... Mr Robot: 'Edward Snowden is a huge fan of our show' 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z The radical orator Henry Hunt was to speak in favour of widening the franchise and reforming Britain's notoriously corrupt system of political representation. Anarchy in Peterloo: Shelley's poem unmasked 2013-07-08T17:28:22Z The actor tends to favour independent movies by auteur directors such as Spike Jonze – with whom he filmed the critically acclaimed sci-fi drama Her last year. Joaquin Phoenix estranged from Marvel's Doctor Strange 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The seamlessness of her friendships was depicted in the fluidity of the characters’ wardrobes, with Angela later on in the series, for instance, sporting the kind of shearling jacket favoured by Jordan. Riot grrrls, beta males and fluid fashion: how My So-Called Life changed TV forever 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Here, the Bond glitz was displaced by Saltzman's other favoured ethos, kitchen sink realism, and some kind of 60s circle was made complete. The name's Saltzman, Harry Saltzman 2012-09-28T16:00:00Z The location was a poor relation of the City, just across the Thames, but it was one favoured by the London Plan, drawn up under the then mayor Ken Livingstone. The Shard: A symbol of towering ambition 2011-01-30T00:05:57Z If you make Punch funny, charismatic, charming, if people think: 'Ooh, good, Punch is back on stage again,' it doesn't mean you're in favour of domestic violence. National Theatre to stage play about phone-hacking scandal 2013-07-18T15:48:19Z They’re making me look good here – how can I return the favour?” Ryan Reynolds: from buff buffoon to Hollywood heavyweight 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z The reason she's against the more progressive approach favoured by the majority of state schools is because she's seen it fail children over and over again, particularly those from low-income families. State schools: are they failing our children? 2011-02-27T00:05:50Z But the culture was and still does favour light skin. Shades of Black: how readers responded to our series on the colorism taboo 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z In the 1960s, he revolutionised sculpture, kicking away the plinth and ditching the smooth surfaces of his former employer, Henry Moore, in favour of rusted or glossily painted, welded steel abstractions. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z Tough stuff, to be sure, and aficionados of the rough street justice favoured by a certain strain of Asian cinema are in for a treat. Slash and earn: the blood-soaked rise of South Korean cinema 2011-03-31T09:33:47Z The way the sound subtly warps and mutates over time does no favours to Lady Gaga, but it breathes extra vibrancy into lo-fi, experimental music. Return of the audio cassette 2010-03-29T20:00:00Z Mravinsky rejected all the Kingdom of Sweets confectionery in favour of the rather scary second half of act one, the climactic pas de deux from act two and the ballet's closing scene. Philharmonia/Lazarev ? review 2010-12-15T23:20:01Z In the episode, the fashion expert – known for favouring French tucks, cropped pants and rolled sleeves – says he is “intimidated” by the prospect of dressing a trans man. Yass queens! Queer Eye’s Fab Five on how they are changing men – one makeover at a time 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Emotive rabble-rousing and heart-on-sleeve sentimentality were both jettisoned in favour of a searching appraisal of the work's structural coherence and its emphasis on the links between landscape and legend. Prom 8: BBCSO/B?lohl?vek ? review 2011-07-21T10:00:34Z Wilson is presented as a regal favourite: the Queen invited herself to dinner with him at Downing Street in a mark of favour extended to no other PM except Churchill. The Audience – review 2013-03-10T00:06:29Z Having an unusual name, like mine, can sometimes work in your favour, at least when it comes to SEO and creating a website. Behind the music: What's in a band name? 2010-06-24T08:30:00Z "It got into the local newspaper, the socialists made the proposal and finally all parties voted in favour," Dudanski said. Plaza de Joe Strummer inaugurated in Granada 2013-05-20T20:00:04Z Perhaps as your loss inevitably dims and daily life becomes a distraction rather than an endurance, your fellow humans will regain your favour and be bathed in a more positive light. Our young son died suddenly. It’s hard to cope with people’s reactions | Mariella Frostrup 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z On the one hand, Chic's orchestrations were subtly done – devoid of the high-camp theatrics favoured elsewhere – their grooves tougher and more obviously rooted in funk. The Chic Organization: Up All Night – review 2013-06-27T14:30:00Z Writing in the mid-19th-century, Thackeray departs from the historical fashions of the Regency era, however, in favour of the fashions of his own time. Bridgerton: in defense of "inaccurate" costumes in period dramas 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z For example, he peppers the text with one-paragraph comments expressed in the transatlantic slang favoured by Owens: "humdinger"; "right hot"; "absolute jake". Double Agent Snow by James Hayward – review 2013-01-04T22:55:13Z As seaweeds have a umami flavour, many chefs also favour seaweeds as a way to enhance the depth of flavour in their dishes. Why seaweed is a great food for the future 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z It’s quite conceivable that Academy voters will favour Chazelle’s film as much as Globes voters – who gave it the screenplay award, despite consensus that it is more a triumph of direction and mise-en-scène than writing. 'And the Oscar will go to' … who shall win the 2017 Academy Awards, and why 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z One favours odd angles and curves and eclectic materials; the other right angles and straight lines. Designs of the Year 2012 ? review 2012-02-12T00:05:52Z There are graver dangers in the path Howard may chart, a path many universities in the USA may soon pursue, the dismissal of the creative imagination and devalutation of eloquence in favour of technical expertise. Why the historically black Howard University shouldn't cull classics 2011-02-07T15:46:09Z It was a bitterly divisive experience with some in favour and others against, and one most of us will likely never forget. The Hobbit's 12 minutes of frame at Comic-Con 2012 2012-07-16T10:39:23Z Speaking in front of MPs on the culture, media and sport committee, Ms Fairhead said the public was also broadly in favour of the fee. BBC Trust boss backs licence fee 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Those who favoured abortion before Roe tended to do so on grounds that many people might consider conservative today. Multiple choice 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The Hollywood star said he was "touched and moved" as students voted overwhelmingly in favour of extending his reign for another three years. Cox re-elected university rector 2013-01-18T22:33:40Z An entire floor of Degas’s Paris house was stuffed with easels displaying old masters, which favoured visitors were allowed to view. Beyond influence 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Your lack of domestic skills, daily bribery with chocolate, the number of favours you’ve received from your parents, each scrawled on the inside of your skull like cave paintings. Map the smells of your day. It will be heady with truths 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Roth quickly and likably departs from any such rational scheme in favour of the more chaotic and obsessive, hopelessly self-absorbed stuff of his life. The Scientists: A Family Romance - review 2013-01-14T07:00:01Z This ditches characters and charm in favour of multiple references to Seven Samurai, and non-stop tank action. Battling on: what Russia's unrelenting appetite for second world war films means 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z He then took another traditional route – working in the Catskill mountains, the holiday resort much favoured by Jewish New Yorkers. Eddie Fisher obituary 2010-09-24T16:11:00Z Chesterton favoured many writers – Chaucer, Shakespeare, Browning, Dickens – and there is something of a dark version of their abundance in these stories, in the figure of a man who imagines himself inside 100 murderers. Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z Bob says he has a favour to ask: if the gasoline ignites, he wants Dan to shoot him. 'Robert Hughes was brutally honest about art and himself,' writes Nick Kent 2012-08-13T13:33:22Z He favours "engineering a few years of significantly higher inflation", or "restructuring the debt burden directly" – that is, writing it off. Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin – review 2013-06-05T06:00:11Z After the war, returning to Cambridge, Hobsbawm made another choice, abandoning a planned doctorate on north African agrarian reform in favour of research on the Fabians. Eric Hobsbawm obituary 2012-10-01T09:59:14Z Melamid suppresses the momentary vitality of his sitters in favour of ceremonial stillness, turning each into an effigy of the same size and proportions. Alexander Melamid and Yinka Shonibare 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z The metal in Denoke's tone precludes the opulence that many favour in this music. Philharmonia/Nelsons – review 2013-03-03T16:35:21Z The tide seems to have turned again in favour of much more potent forms of ecstasy as the shortage of precursors has ended. Ecstasy in comeback as new generation discovers dance drug 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z This remains the core of his argument – that human beings favour their own sort and are suspicious of outsiders, so mass immigration fragments society, strains the welfare state and loosens the ties of the nation. The British Dream by David Goodhart; The Diversity Illusion by Ed West – review 2013-04-14T08:00:02Z In fact, the bubble imagery favoured by many a Brummie is not so far off the mark. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z He's a dichotomy, which is what I favour in characters. William Friedkin: 'If I wasn't a director, I might have become a serial killer' 2012-06-29T11:31:00Z Recording in Chicago with Tortoise's engineer doubtless seemed a cool idea, but the resultant muddy sonics do their quirkiness few favours. Sexy Fi: Nunca Te Vi De Boa – review 2013-01-20T00:05:43Z Your memory does you a favour by righting perceived wrongs. Sticky brain or memory like a sieve? | Ben Ambridge 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Struggling with the spelling of “osteoblastogenesis” I abandon my notes and instead look across the lecture theatre at Rigby who has ditched his suit in favour of a professorial knit sweater. The secret world of liggers: ‘Free booze is everywhere’ 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z The rapper even announced that following recent comments by Barack Obama, he is now in favour of legalising gay marriage. 50 Cent voices support for Frank Ocean 2012-07-17T09:35:00Z At her best, Robinson is one of the sharpest and funniest comics around: unfortunately, this show didn't do her any favours. True Stories: The Battle for Barking 2010-12-01T08:00:00Z The song in question is Do I Wanna Know?, which once again veers away from the frenetic urgency of their early singles in favour of a more creeping, groove-lead crawl. Arctic Monkeys – Do I Wanna Know?: New music 2013-06-19T12:11:00Z Gone for the most part were the infectious hooks of their debut, I Will Be, in favour of a more layered, slow-burn sound that crawled rather than strutted. New music: Dum Dum Girls – Lords Knows 2012-08-02T14:45:10Z Campaigners in Britain hope that shareholders and investors in TIAA-CREF will put pressure on its new partner, Henderson, to abandon the Smithfield Market scheme in favour of one which protects the historic structure. Stars battle to save Smithfield market 2013-07-20T23:06:02Z On balance, I’m in favour of faithless adaptations: ones that set about their subject matter like creative vandals, freestyle and irreverent. Julian Barnes: 'I told the film-makers to throw my book against a wall' 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Stella saw this and got him to paint “favours”, little presents for their wedding guests. Anthony Hopkins: ‘Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Amsterdam is one of many cities making a strong case in favour of paid entry. Making a museum game that's more than just a tour of the building 2013-06-14T15:18:29Z Grace, out of favour with the press, needing to refresh her image and project a new "innocence", agrees to do the job. A Great Big Shining Star by Niall Griffiths – review 2013-02-01T15:01:01Z I'm not in favour of people from outside making comments on the situation. Bono rebel song row takes centre stage in South Africa 2011-02-13T21:14:03Z With face-to-face interviews abandoned in favour of the telephone, and the actor confined to his Dublin home, Gleeson could have made up something classy. Domhnall Gleeson: ‘As far as I can remember Phoebe Waller-Bridge smelt lovely’ 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Composing and arranging for the jazz orchestra has long been a Cinderella artform, neglected and denied critical attention in favour of its brasher siblings. Colin Towns Mask Orchestra 2010-08-17T21:30:00Z It reflects perhaps the most prominent symptom of the Capital of Culture: wherever it descends, it results in a spasm of accelerated projects, favouring exterior image and the power of spectacle over long-term, joined-up thinking. Marseille's £6bn Capital of Culture rebirth 2013-04-01T16:59:40Z The solo percussion piece, Dark Ground, performed by Joby Burgess, eschews stick-juggling mesmerism in favour of the layering of complex processes and contrasting timbres. Tansy Davies – review 2013-04-10T17:30:04Z It’s desperately needed: young voters who favour the Democrats are least likely to vote. Michael Moore: 'We have the power to crush Trump' 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z His paper fought the cold war, was routinely Atlanticist and favoured a federal Europe. Per ardua ad Astor 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The shiny suits are gone in favour of a Pacific-side uniform of surfer T, loose wristbands, espadrilles. Neil Strauss: 'My thinking was: If this woman’s going to be naked with me – I must be OK. It doesn’t last’ 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z For unlike Thatcher he would ditch even the identity of nation in favour of a globalised identity. The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine – review 2013-04-11T09:00:01Z But this isn't the Mecca-friendly evening out that was traditionally favoured by your auntie. Clubs picks of the week 2010-03-20T00:08:00Z The result was an uneven show that favoured the newcomer. Prom 33: Ilham Al Madfai and Khyam Allami 2010-08-10T11:51:00Z The conductor, Franz Welser-Most, noted that the Austrian composer Alban Berg "was in favour of the outbreak of World War One". Sarajevo marks war centennial with message of unity to divided country 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z The more obvious titans of the back catalogue, such as Ladytron and In Every Dream Home a Heartache, are ignored in favour of unexpected treats, including 1973's funky Amazona. Roxy Music ? review 2011-01-26T18:55:26Z Photograph: Taschen A favourite fiction of Prince Charles and other bashers of modern architects was that they didn't live in their own creations, but favoured elegant Georgian houses while condemning others to concrete hells. The Architect's Home by Peter Gossel – review 2013-04-21T08:00:04Z In that report, Wilson spoke in favour of Proposition 62, while Marc Klaas rallied passionately in favour of Proposition 66. The Prison Within: inside a moving documentary about restorative justice 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z This, apparently, is "a trend that undervalues the virtues of the well-made play" in favour of theatre that is characterised by a "smoke and mirrors of post-modern moves". Noises off: Memo to budding theatre professionals ? know what your 'why' is 2011-03-25T16:21:02Z The then Duchess of York ended up rejecting the birthing pool, the candles and the soothing playlist in favour of having the home secretary present. Why have the papers become such crybabies about the royal baby? 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z He favours the stories of old, old ladies, so of course this endears him to me. Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z Oliver Lyttelton, features editor at the Playlist film blog, said Sag had "very much stuck with the establishment this year, with big names favoured in almost every case over breakout actors or 'difficult' films." Screen Actors Guild snubs Joaquin Phoenix as critics question The Master 2012-12-12T22:54:00Z At the time, they were critically derided, mostly because they lacked the Jam's anger-fuelled energy, though they seem to have come back into favour now. Paul Weller: National treasure 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z Hoping to tip the very considerable odds in my favour, I would try to dress the part, hopeful of standing out from the crowd. The Secret Actor on desperate times 2013-05-07T07:59:01Z And in past years, the ceremony have been known to favour films documenting the financial crisis, like Margin Call and The Wolf of Wall Street, both of which received major nominations. Oscars 2016: How The Revenant, Creed, Joy and more will factor into the race 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z At the Guardian, we favour the literati, social thinkers, political activists, the liberal left establishment – much as you'd expect. Open door: The Guardian's birthdays editor on... who's in and who's out 2010-07-26T10:46:00Z Art experts are concerned the rent deal, billed as an open contest, is a stitch-up favouring a multinational finance group advised by a former culture minister. Nicolas Sarkozy offers France's heritage sites to hotel chains 2011-01-11T18:56:15Z And the censorship undoubtedly works in 24’s favour. From Homer Simpson to Hank Kingsley: TV's greatest catchphrases ranked 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The "scapegrace peer" fights with the dissolute Duke of Andover for the favours of Diana Beauleigh, and charm wins the day. John Mullan's 10 of the best: highwaymen 2012-05-18T21:54:02Z He was King Henry VIII’s favoured minister, the London-born blacksmith’s son who severed England’s ties with the church of Rome. Henry’s hooray 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z In Myanmar, he adjusts to the ancient art of Lethwei, a stripped-down fighting style where tape is favoured over gloves and headbutts are permitted. Can Netflix's Fightworld help rehabilitate MMA's image? 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z They believe Sarah Koenig and Serial’s producers will paint the military in a negative light, and are biased in favour of Bergdahl. Serial tackles Bowe Bergdahl: our expert panel gives its verdict 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The Fringe seems to favour the sort of short and punchy show that is easy to package. There's more to the Edinburgh festival than one-hour wonders 2011-08-15T15:32:13Z “Displaying a little vulnerability rather than being too competitive will work in your favour.” Ditch candlelit dinners: five activity dates to try – from bowling to board games 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z For one thing, they are more likely to be gun owners, and white men favour gunshot as a means of suicide. Why are the poor blamed and shamed for their deaths? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z In the second half of the novel, Collins loses his nerve and subordinates and constrains Fosco and Marian in favour of the pallid official hero and heroine. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z "You've got a lot of nerve to come here asking me to do you favours," she growls. Frida: raises an eyebrow 2010-06-17T09:09:00Z His specialist clothing was discarded in favour of kit given him by the Nenets. Sebastião Salgado documents world's wildernesses in new Genesis exhibition 2013-04-09T14:42:02Z Philanthropy very often favours the rich – and no one holds philanthropists to account for it. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Modern culture – the world of work, business and education – favours the early riser. Keep the dream alive: why waking up later is good for us all 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z I concluded he wasn't strongly in favour and suggested he meet my mother: "You'd have a lot in common." My month of being Jewish 2010-04-08T07:00:00Z "It could be in the favour of Ukraine, that people vote for Ukraine and people don't vote for Russia because they don't like the political situation," said another Dutch fan, Patrick Van Der Ploeg. Austria's 'bearded lady' Conchita Wurst wins Eurovision Song Contest 2014-05-11T00:49:42Z But Prokofiev was sanguine about such matters, preferring to believe that artists would be favoured under Stalin and that he himself, as a world superstar, would always receive favourable treatment. The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev by Simon Morrison – review 2013-03-30T08:59:01Z His agent had a suggestion: write a sitcom, vaguely based on his own life, about a man who trades the use of his disabled parking badge for erotic favours. Ben Lewin on The Sessions: 'You can reach women without brute force' 2013-01-03T19:00:00Z A sporadically enjoyable piece of fluff, but one that undoes almost everything good about the Hornet in favour of a campy tone. This one bought the rights and flew right over The Green Hornet's nest 2011-01-27T16:49:19Z |
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