| 单词 | inscrutable |
| 例句 | “Ready,” Archie said, keeping his face expressionless, inscrutable as usual, even though he felt a bead of perspiration trace a cold path from his armpit to his rib. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They feel hard, unwinking, like the shells of beetles: black, polished, inscrutable. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed to emerge out of the stillness of an implacable force brooding on an inscrutable intention. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Faces hovered above me like inscrutable fish peering myopically through a glass aquarium wall. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are the most inscrutable guy in the universe.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z His eyes were inscrutable as he looked at me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z When we get to the hidden passageway, he crawls in with only a single inscrutable glance back at me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Lee knew that Hester would remain inscrutable, with her eyes half-closed and her ears flat along her back, and he put on a cheerful innocence as he looked from face to face. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Back then, anyone looking up at it was likely to find it looking back with its immense, inscrutable eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He smiled to himself, the expression that is called inscrutable. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Seth reappeared in the opening wearing an inscrutable expression. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It was just that when Dante said that his mother was inscrutable, I knew exactly what he was saying. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Mr. A. H— does not move, his expression inscrutable and unchanged. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “I’m not as surprised at this turn of events as I’d like to be, sir,” Shaan says coolly, with an inscrutable smile. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It rolled over in bed when he got home before sunrise: a green-eyed monster lying next to his young, inscrutable wife, but then Zizmo would blink and the monster would disappear. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Hi,” he said after a moment of silence, the expression in his eyes inscrutable. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Brisen, standing rigid, as she had stood to bear Sir Lancelot’s glare, looked at the closed door with an inscrutable expression. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And then the flash of intelligence was gone, and O’Brien’s face was as inscrutable as everybody else’s. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I knew that some inscrutable energy preserved the breach. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Yossarian leaned forward and peered closely into Oil’s inscrutable mask of contradictory emotions. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Neither of them had ever looked more inscrutable. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Jack lifted his head and stared at the inscrutable masses of creeper that lay across the trail. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z His inscrutable expression became even more so at the sight of the two boys playing chess and the tiny girl with a squirrel in her lap. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z When he turned to his teammates, he encountered a reef of curious, reflective faces all gazing at him woodenly with morose and inscrutable animosity. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It was curious how that beetlelike type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He had to get inside the treasury, but he’d need some kind of cover while he picked that inscrutable lock, and there were drüskelle everywhere. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z There were shelves lined with small, inscrutable tools and pieces of clockwork. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Then the man blinked and Chamberlain realized that there was nothing inscrutable here; the man was exhausted. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that he was dead, they marked his passage to another plane in impersonal and almost tribal fashion—chanting, weaving mandalas, beating on drums, performing their own inscrutable and mysterious rites. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z At the other end of the room, Gaines’s eternal nemesis, Earl Miller, and several assistant coaches from Midland Lee sat on chairs with the inscrutable look of Buddhas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The others watched the next fight—Muzzen avidly, flexing his fingers and speculating on the outcome, Inej silent and still as a statue, Kaz inscrutable as always, scheming away behind that hideous mask. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Up to now I've been focused on whatever mischief Jackson is getting mixed up with, Mr. Redfern's inscrutable glare, and the food everyone has been eating. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Well, me, I figured my dad out—not my mom. My mom is the biggest mystery in the world. I mean, she’s predictable when it comes to parenting. But really, she’s inscrutable.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Or would it come out hidden behind a curtain of black hair, watching the doctors with its inscrutable dark eyes? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Holly can bleed to death in my presence if she likes, and I will just consider her to be specially favored by an inscrutable God, more or less as Jesus was. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “This has been a most interesting meeting,” Lord Roiben says with a small, inscrutable smile. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But Singer pretended that he did not understand their questions, and his smile was inscrutable. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I tried, persistently but in vain, to reach out for his love and understanding, and each time he reciprocated by becoming more distant and inscrutable, more morose and frightening to me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They had no documents that proved they were human beings, and they were silent, stubborn, and inscrutable. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For thousands of years humans were oppressed—as some of us still are—by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The moment I spoke I regretted my words, for the secret, inscrutable look came back in his eyes again, and once again I suffered the intolerable discomfort that floods one after lack of tact. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I went home and looked up the word “inscrutable.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z She seemed to me every bit as inscrutable as M. Yoshoto, if not more so. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Our Ford—or Our Freud, as, for some inscrutable reason, he chose to call himself whenever he spoke of psychological matters—Our Freud had been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z "Your wife is quite lovely, you know, so doll-like and inscrutable." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Patrick offered her an arm and she slipped a gloved hand in the crook of his elbow, inscrutable behind her dark glasses, calm as a bride. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The prophecy could have referred to either of them, yet, for his own inscrutable reasons, Voldemort had chosen to believe that Harry was the one meant. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z It was constant, the only eternal thing, inscrutable, detached, dispassionate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She blows a long strand of black hair away from her face, revealing inscrutable dark eyes that pierce in a very different way than the kid’s blue ones. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The scythe looked at her with those cold, inscrutable gray eyes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z His expression—and my word for it came straight out of a French edition of Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu books—was inscrutable. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z They pondered a while over their mother’s inscrutable ways. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as beautiful and inscrutable, she thought, as he was. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The young woman was still staring, her expression inscrutable. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z His instructor looks at him for a moment, his expression as inscrutable as ever. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Charles stood up nervously; Cloke stayed where he was and looked at us with sleepy, inscrutable eyes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z If Washington was the epitome of the virtuous leader who subordinated personal interest to the public good, Burr was a kind of anti-Washington, who manipulated the public interest for his own inscrutable purposes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The emotion in Baba’s face was inscrutable, but his words were soft. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He looked up at me, his expression inscrutable. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z His austere, shiny face, inscrutable and imposing, reminded me of my father. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Asked that very question, the inscrutable Carax proved to be of little help. Holy Motors: love it or hate it, Cannes cognoscenti can't stop talking about it 2012-05-23T17:01:28Z Likely inscrutable to anyone but him, this was his rendering of the schedule for New York, with each of the scores of activities assigned to its segment of a day. Here’s One Canadian Theater Company That Isn’t Afraid to Show Off 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Crystalised prompts a hushed singalong, while two big screens on the sides of the stage reveal both Croft's inscrutable expression and the vulnerability in her eyes. The xx 2010-07-13T21:00:00Z We could sleepwalk into a "dictatorship of data", where the algorithms mining the data for actionable recommendations are inscrutable and unaccountable "black boxes". To Save Everything, Click Here by Evgeny Morozov – review 2013-03-20T08:01:01Z So it's a surprise when he bounds into the dining room of Dinner with a cheerful kiss for a greeting, altogether looser and less inscrutable than the version we see on our screens. Heston Blumenthal: 'I like a kebab as much as the next person' 2011-02-13T20:30:00Z Atlantic salmon have long had a strong pull for anglers, in part for their beauty and fine table presentation, in part for their proclivity for long, leaping battles and in part for their inscrutable ways. The putter, the pint & the Hairy Mary: A golf and angling odyssey in Western Ireland 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The political symbolism is less fixed, although the use of military camouflage and inscrutable radio chatter suggests a soldier damaged by war. Steve Paxton Reprises Dance Works at Dia:Beacon 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z But oftentimes that ends up in inscrutable or not very exciting sentences. Raven Leilani, a Flâneur Who Is Going Places 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z And yet, viewers’ tastes are as inscrutable as ever: Shows molded after old blockbusters bomb in the ratings. Keeping it real 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Towering, inscrutable machines called Tripods stride about like giant Humvees atop metal stilts. An Early Dystopian Trilogy About Resistance—and What Comes After 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z In her new songs, love is combative, tempting, cruel, inscrutable, predatory and yet, occasionally, a comfort, with music to match every change of heart and mind. New Music: New Albums by Laura Marling, Terence Blanchard, Frankie J and Cecile McLorin Salvant 2013-05-27T21:56:34Z It was in the car with us, whatever it was — his friend’s sorrow or the finiteness of life and the mystery of its inscrutable design. Is There Anything Marc Newson Hasn?t Designed? 2012-01-27T17:23:09Z Such harmful opinions are reproduced in mainstream movies like "Ex Machina," which paints Asians as inscrutable bots. Stop calling Asians "robotic" please 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z And David Beames, playing the inscrutable disc-jockey B, on a cross-country trip to Bristol after his brother dies, has the role of a lifetime. London and Radio On: watch the double bill 2012-11-30T15:02:03Z Hopper had a reputation as an uncooperative collaborator, prone to delaying productions and arguing with directors while pursuing his inscrutable creative whims. Easy Rider at 50: how the rebellious road movie shook up the system 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Wendy, however, is more inscrutable, because she devotes so much of her energy and intellect to helping Chuck and Bobby function, but seems to get so little back in return. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 11: The Doctor Is In 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z The Prom performance was described in the Guardian by Andrew Clements as "the definitive Bluebeard of our time, implacably dark-toned and inscrutable". L?szl? Polg?r obituary 2010-09-28T18:13:00Z The road to therapy is often inscrutable, windy and unsatisfying, with availability, cost and fit frequently preventing people from getting the care they need. 'The glue between therapist and patient': can Silicon Valley fix mental health care? 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z One of the show’s most enigmatic characters is an assassin of inscrutable allegiance played by Indian actress Shruti Haasan who has very few lines but very quickly establishes herself as a formidable, highly watchable force. USA’s Bourne spinoff “Treadstone” feels retro and exactly what’s needed today 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Genius always appears inscrutable, but maybe what Dylan was doing during these early years wasn’t that complicated. Review | ‘The Double Life of Bob Dylan’ is the definitive account of a shape-shifting genius’s early years 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z The ballad gradually eased from a rubato stir into waltz time, but the sentiment stayed irresolute, a little inscrutable, coolly resigned. Review: Karin Krog, a Norwegian Star, Plays at Joe’s Pub 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z During the past year he’s been one of the most visible rappers on the Internet, and also one of the most inscrutable. Music Review: Rap?s Pied Piper, Lil B, at Santos Party House 2010-07-26T22:36:00Z The piece’s various elements hang together better in the script than they do onstage, partly because of two inscrutable segments that depend on movement and shadows to tell significant parts of the story. Review: ‘Chase: What Matters Most?’: Banking After the Apocalypse 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Instead, its images and scenes are suffused by an intensity that seems almost to be a quality of the light and air as they play across Ms. Chemla’s watchful, sometimes inscrutable features. Review: Indelible Heartbreak, Moment to Moment, in ‘A Woman’s Life.’ 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z It’s a relatively interesting perspective to use in considering a monarch who remained obstinately inscrutable from her coronation in 1953 to her death in 2022, at 96. ‘Portrait of the Queen’ Review: Seeking Fresh Angles on a Familiar Face 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Bowen pictured the "inscrutable canyons" of the city under a terrifying blackout. The Love-charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel – review 2013-01-20T09:00:03Z The movie dramatises the old adage about no good deed going unpunished, or perhaps it demonstrates how inscrutable fate may find a way to punish a wrongdoer through his one, atypical, altruistic act. Boudu Saved from Drowning ? review 2010-12-16T22:42:00Z Mr. Dano, gentle and inscrutable as a panda bear, conveys the pathos of a young man’s unraveling. Review: ‘Love & Mercy’ Gets Inside Brian Wilson’s Head 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z As I wrote in an appreciation, “Jean was at home everywhere with everybody — disarming high-ranking cops and inscrutable former gang members.” Essential Arts: Dudamel speaks out, the new rack of Tony nominees, Cheech Marin's Chicano art center 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Her features are grave and somewhat inscrutable, and she is at once a watchful, reactive presence in the world of Panem and a determined, free-thinking actor within it. Arts & Leisure: Katniss Everdeen, a New Type of Woman Warrior 2012-04-04T12:00:00Z It's the inscrutable workings of another mind, so adroitly suggested by Price, that really captivates. Artist of the week 191: Tom Price 2012-05-31T13:35:24Z Audience members may draw different conclusions, but along the way, they’ll have no idea what to expect next from this inventive but ultimately inscrutable script. Who is Deb, anyway? In 'D Deb Debbie Deborah,' more questions than answers 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z The authorities’ erasure of historical remnants is inscrutable and unpredictable. The Timeworn Beauty of Asmara, Eritrea 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z Also, because the language was so very different and difficult for Westerners, the Chinese were often perceived as inscrutable and unreadable. There is no “Chinese cuisine” 2012-12-03T12:45:00Z Critics have said his inscrutable bearing allows the audience to project their own assessment of the situation on to his character. Flight of the Conchords the musical is coming, says Jemaine Clements 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z These personae transfer to the stage, where the swaggering Jay-Z, inscrutable and ice-cool behind shades and a baseball cap, appears very much the senior partner. Jay-Z and Kanye West ? review 2012-05-20T16:24:58Z Although it's less important to acknowledge that a few phrases and inscrutable turns begging to be discussed and dissected, such as: What does that coded reference to preferring "North Indian" options mean? Remember, "Indian Matchmaking" is as much of a entertainment fable as all of romance reality 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z His “retired internet slang” and earnestness are, “compared to the inscrutable advances of younger men, … a relief.” In ‘Luster,’ Young Black Women Feel Uneasy in a White American Home 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z And he is no apologist for the sometimes inscrutable decisions of immigration officials. A Bridge Over Musicians? Visa Barrier Into the U.S. 2010-03-16T21:51:00Z The action sequences are impressively glossy and detailed and not inscrutable like some of the protracted "Transformers" showdowns; the bad guys' mean, circular doo-dads that resemble giant tires with vicious metal teeth are especially cool. Review: `Battleship' loud, dumb but stays afloat 2012-05-16T01:31:06Z These self-preserving measures frustrate, rendering women inscrutable, their capabilities a threat. Review | Anna Solomon’s ‘Book of V’ will please fans of ‘The Hours’ with its sprawling take on a biblical tale 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z The company marketed its slides in batches with titles as inscrutable as “Human Territoriality in the City” and “Ultimate Crisis.” Renewed Interest for Lockwood de Forest’s Designs 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Thanks to her words, her voice, and her inscrutable presence, she gives those women inner life. REVIEW: Lana Del Rey's Ultraviolence Is the Album We Need Right Now 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z It also means that Breivik — his plan, inscrutable face and horrifying actions — immediately takes over the movie, making him its focus and most obvious reason for being. Review: Looking Anew at a Norwegian Massacre in ‘22 July’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z I wouldn’t quite say that Bob was inscrutable. Lunch with Bob Silvers 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Some are inscrutable: still scenes of a barn, someone breathing quietly. In 'Universal Harvester,' John Darnielle walks into cornfields, family and horror 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z When you visit the expanded Glenstone Museum, you may find the contemporary artwork to be moving, provocative, weird or simply inscrutable, but one aspect of the experience will be constant: its mindfulness. Glenstone’s landcaping as mindful as its artwork 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z This book is filled with references to his “demon-filled mind,” his “aloof and inscrutable and unpredictable” personality, his personal sense of “self-hatred, failure and low self-esteem.” Books of The Times: ?West by West? by Jerry West and Jonathan Coleman ? Review 2011-11-01T22:56:20Z Perhaps Dylan is the true canary in America’s coal mine—each seemingly inscrutable move is merely a reflection of the national condition. Shelter from the Storm: A Review of Bob Dylan’s Whiskey 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" offers a meditation on the fragile estate of mankind operating in a world whose larger design remains inscrutable. The arts become Earth-aware: Dawning age of what are known as eco-arts 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z The Buddha and the telly look at one another, inscrutable, meditating. Nam June Paik: Watch with Buddha 2010-12-19T21:30:02Z It’s not quite a Gertrude Stein landscape, but it leaves lots of space for the machine’s myriad inscrutable parts. | '3 2?s; or AFAR': ?3 2?s,? by Mac Wellman, at Dixon Place - Review 2011-10-17T23:32:34Z With a plot so rudimentary as to be virtually nonexistent, this experimental and aggressively inscrutable horror movie is mesmerizing in its dearth of action. ‘Skinamarink’ Review: Night Terrors 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z But the extraordinary quality of suffering that he had witnessed, and the inscrutable arbitrariness of sickness and death, benumbed him. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Magic, particularly magic on TV, requires a fair amount of mystique and Lenny, bless his big, Brummie heart is about as inscrutable as a tin of Happy Shopper beans. Disillusioned with The Magicians 2011-01-17T14:26:03Z But expect a hodgepodge of works, some interesting, some inscrutable, from this ingenious bunch. Seattle Art Walk highlights: 'Thunderbitch,' Molly Epstein and Casey McGlynn 2010-08-03T22:00:00Z She has, from the pilot of “House of Cards,” been Frank’s enigmatic arm candy; he shares his strategies and observations with us, the audience, but she keeps her own inscrutable counsel. “House of Cards” returns: Let the war between Frank and Claire Underwood begin 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z People are so inscrutable on a certain level. Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks on the #MeToo Moment and ‘The Post’ 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z “He is cultured, suave and inscrutable — made to order for moviegoers.” Turhan Bey, Actor, Dies at 90 2012-10-11T16:25:55Z People talk about it like it’s an inscrutable quality, but recently it has become a little more clear. The Sexual Predator’s TV Wife 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z “Little Eyes” is a novel-in-stories about these keepers and dwellers — a brisk survey of 21st-century life as seen through the inscrutable camera eyes of a plausible and revealing consumer fad. The Cute Little Devices Are Watching You 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Yet three of the novel’s four parables refuse resolution outright; the language, rich and inscrutable, is both a barrier to and a protest against certainty. “The Divers’ Game,” Jesse Ball’s Unnerving Parable of a Country That Feigns Innocence 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Her delivery was languid in Mr. Cooper’s “Fame” and “Antique Windfall,” two songs set to gently pulsating electronic tracks; inscrutable and incantatory in Mr. Norman’s “Don’t Even Listen.” ‘Poetry in Motion,’ a Tribeca New Music Concert at the Cell 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z His skepticism extends to the very rooms and doorways of the Convergence, as he becomes convinced they’re decoys, elaborate fictions to some inscrutable end. Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Beer geeks might be excited when they read that Ballast Point’s Dorado is “dry-hopped with Crystal and Mt. Hood hops,” but for the average patron, that description might be as inscrutable as Latin. With 600 bottles of beer on the wall, how can a staff keep up? Taste, talk and learn. 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Only the vinyl persons, mute and inscrutable, keep their stories to themselves. The Out of Towner: All Those Great Stories, Crying to Be Overheard 2011-10-20T20:30:09Z Painted in matte, light-absorbing tempera, the untitled works are like beautiful but inscrutable monoliths. Jennifer Boysen's paintings stretch the form 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z But if there’s irony here, it is inscrutable. It’s written all over their faces 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z A pair of legendary fighters entered the ring, a suffocating family courtroom where the matter of the guardianship of traumatized twin brothers would be decided by a sympathetic but inscrutable judge. The Disappointing, Emmy-Baiting Finale of “Big Little Lies” Season 2 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z In her imagistic tangles — and in a song on the album she didn’t write, Nico’s serenely inscrutable “Afraid” — Ms. Case often ponders shifting identities and transformations, while the music enacts them. New Music: Albums From Neko Case, Ariana Grande, Gorguts and Chelsea Wolfe 2013-09-02T21:24:22Z An unassailable young virtuoso on trumpet, Evans uses extended technique to create some of the most darkly inscrutable music around. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Scott Thomas's Kate curls up on the sofa looking as inscrutable as a Siamese cat until she at last puts out a devastating claw. Old Times - review 2013-01-31T23:00:02Z If the oboe concerto shows Strauss at his most Mozartian, the Five Movements for Strings find Webern at his most inscrutable. Northern Sinfonia/Holliger | Classical review 2010-03-18T21:45:00Z Only Stella, gifted in all forms of escape and wonderfully inscrutable to the end, is permitted the mystery and self-contradiction that allows for the fullness of personality on the page. Brit Bennett’s New Novel Explores the Power and Performance of Race 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z These are Liberty and Clem, “a big white Alsatian with pale eyes,” and their inscrutable gazes — wary? teasing? hostile? bereft? — hint at the novel’s shifting, enigmatic emotional weather. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z For 30 minutes in near-darkness, the trio cycled through these and other elemental poses, immersed in an inscrutable meditation. Gillian Walsh, Taking Dance to a Still Place 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z His inscrutable glares and theatrical pauses are the intangibles that make this show unique. Turns out Alison Hammond is the zesty ingredient "The Great British Baking Show" has been missing 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z But of course it is also part of the character’s appeal – his motives aren’t inscrutable, after all. The Punisher: was there ever a right time for Netflix's gun-toting vigilante show? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z There’s a line in the end of the film about people being inscrutable on the inside. "The Death of Dick Long" dares you to love the men who love Nickelback 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z For someone like me, someone educated in a rural-suburban public school system, the entire process seems bizarre, inscrutable and utterly daunting. My private school guilt 2012-10-09T00:00:00Z Instead, it was about a certain kind of power — dumb, pumped, ugly, but also uncomprehending and abstract, as surely trapped by circumstance as its victims were, controlled by some inscrutable greater evil. Art Review: Jane Alexander’s Work at St. John the Divine 2013-04-25T20:34:53Z Her own aesthetic agenda is a bit inscrutable, but she gets results, at least in the rehearsals we witness. ‘Official Competition’ Review: Madness in Their Methods 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z “Brother’s Keeper” is partly a story of a family bond so hermetic and tight-knit that it is all but inscrutable to outsiders. Three Great Documentaries to Stream 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Over the last few years especially, he has made contrarianism a usable facet of his art, pushing back against the script in deftly inscrutable ways. Music Review: Words and Music: A Jazz Trumpeter Plays, Sings and Blogs 2011-03-02T22:19:39Z Its was an artificial jungle, a plastic landscape with oscillators for birdcalls and woofers for roars, and a place for inscrutable ritual. Music Review: The Trippy ?60s in a Guggenheim Time Machine 2010-03-06T08:06:00Z Like Lucifer in “Paradise Lost,” the Milton Library Assistant is a more fascinating creature than the remote and inscrutable Elohim. The Talos Principle Prompts Thinking Beyond Virtual World 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Everything that came after—fifteen studio albums as a solo artist, and three film soundtracks—was inscrutable, immense, challenging, and gloriously non-commercial. The Weird and Vast and Periodically Devastating Music of Scott Walker 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z But even the unidentifiable forms were empathically there, like some of Dickinson’s more difficult images: inscrutable but exact. An Art Critic Is First Inspired by Words 2013-08-14T22:01:50Z Berg’s life and even the inscrutable circumstances surrounding his death 49 years ago linger as ongoing mysteries, a melange of fact, myth and opaque clues. The strange life and death of Moe Berg, the baseball catcher who became a spy 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Other gestures — four pointers jutting from Sorey’s hand, or a hand-held whiteboard bearing some directive to the musicians on the bandstand — were more inscrutable. Transcending genre labels, Vijay Iyer leads the Ojai Music Festival toward bold new territory 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z In contrast, throughout the Hebrew scriptures God is inscrutable. The cringe at the heart of Christmas 2010-12-11T07:00:00Z Invariably produced in obsessive, multiyear series, with inscrutable and number-heavy labels, Mr. Ruff’s images are as quizzical as they are conceptually serious. Passport Photos and Online Porn: The Dizzying World of Thomas Ruff 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z When he spoke, his ideas were often ethereal, more often inscrutable — though you could feel as if you almost understood them. Ornette Coleman’s music polarized jazz, then became part of its DNA 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z At the time, China, for most Americans, was a wondrous abstraction, an inscrutable assemblage of four hundred million future Christians, consumers, or citizens, depending on your game. The Remarkable Forgotten Life of H. T. Tsiang 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z “It’s my summer of inscrutable men in difficult British plays,” he said. Corey Stoll on Shakespeare Boot Camp and Killing Tiny Vampires 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z So who better to represent us, who is more misunderstood, literally, than the madwoman, trapped in a deeply personal world of inscrutable signs and symbols? I’m in love with a psychotic 2012-07-06T00:00:00Z He suggests that the inscrutable Gorey lived “as if he’d been born in the wrong time, maybe even on the wrong planet.” Review | A peek inside Edward Gorey’s modern Gothic world 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z In every guest performance he has made, or in the film A Million Ways to Die in the West, he has come off as inscrutable and insincere. A futuristic 'dramedy'? Stick to the cartoons, Seth MacFarlane 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z But the virus, with its vast and inscrutable path of destruction — its fundamental indifference — is a natural foil. Should We Be More Pessimistic? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Complex, twisted and inscrutable, when she walks into a scene fireworks are never far away. All Made Up by Janice Galloway ? review 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z Not only is Charles' guilt an open question, but the motivations of all the characters are inscrutable to a degree. 'Race's' incendiary topic defused by Mamet's underwritten characters 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Like many Dirty Projectors' songs, its crescendos came in all the wrong places, its logic and meter inscrutable. Dirty Projectors adopt 14th-century musical style in eclectic Seattle set 2010-10-01T19:32:00Z The evening’s most effective weapon by far is Hurley, looking entirely Poppins-like in her prim blue jacket, dancing with graceful precision and singing sweetly while flashing an inscrutable smile. A breezy Mary leads Olney’s ‘Poppins’ 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z It was epistemic, I guess—what we were saying is that the act was deeply inscrutable to us. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z The fashion industry is notoriously opaque and often inscrutable for outsiders, even ones as well connected as him. Kanye: Not a run of mill celebrity fashion line 2011-10-02T00:01:04Z Both Laney and Miss Baby become romantically involved with Lester Stipp, an inscrutable veteran of the Iraq war, where he participated in a horrifying war crime. Books of The Times: Two Women Love One Man, Worthy of Neither 2011-06-19T21:55:18Z Yet again, as we have twice or more each year since 1994, we offer a set of inscrutable cartoons by Bigger Shot Than Ever Bob Staake, and ask you to scrut them. Style Invitational Week 1338: Picture this 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Maybe this accounts for why Italian headlines trumpeted “Die Walküre” on opening night and even gave a pass to the gloomy and inscrutable sets and to the opera’s director, Guy Cassiers. Abroad: In Italy, a Political Opera About Opera 2010-12-10T19:15:00Z “Get yourself organized,” yells the inscrutable Chandler, he of the paperless desk and the lavender relaxation balm, lambasting his team. The Week Ahead: Oct. 23 ? 29 2011-10-21T18:04:22Z Looming like an inscrutable monolith, “Dark Side” spent nearly all of the next 14 years — through punk, disco, early hip-hop and the pop heyday of MTV — lodged in Billboard’s Top 200 album chart. After Half a Century, ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ Still Reverberates 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z If you are interested in the odd and inscrutable alchemy of creative work, it is an engrossing document—little bits of melody eventually either coalesce into coherent songs, or they don’t. Solving the Riddle of Metallica 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Softly-spoken and inscrutable, it's hard to tell where his quiet intensity comes from. Jamie Woon: 'I've always wanted to make pop' 2011-01-27T22:00:01Z As a screen presence, he is singular; as a person, he is inscrutable. What Becomes a Star Most? For Tom Cruise, It’s Control. 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist unveils this inscrutable country, comparing its calcified regime to the Soviet Union in its final days. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z Though its weapons are modern, its thinking and beliefs are 2,000 years out of date and inscrutable to us. America loves its war porn: “American Sniper” and the Hollywood propaganda machine 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z In the first of two performances on Saturday, Mr. de Leeuw played the piece, a half-hour long, with suitably inscrutable expression as Ms. Hannigan mimed a sort of funereal ritual around it. Review: Barbara Hannigan’s Legend Grows in an Intimate Setting 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z As such, Taroudant retains the inscrutable aura of the small caravan trading outpost it was in the 16th century. T Magazine: Lost in Time 2013-05-09T14:30:49Z Julian – inscrutable, moody and charismatic – has always been the leader of this archetypal rock'n'roll gang and the band still tend to defer to him. The Strokes: no Spinal Tap 2011-02-27T00:03:00Z But rave reviews from the Sundance Film Festival homed in on the rarity of what he’s made: a revealing, heartfelt dispatch from the inscrutable universe of “kids today.” Bo Burnham made a movie to work out his anxiety. It ended up explaining our Instagram age. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Qui Nguyen’s new play, “The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G,” an ambitious entertainment about modern identity wrapped inside an exploitation drama about what used to be called the “inscrutable Orient,” suggests we have an answer. | 'The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G': Identities as Elements to Play With and Juggle 2011-04-03T21:28:15Z Master Yoda’s aphorisms up against an inscrutable textbook is a battle that may end in a tie. Force of argument: why Jediism should be recognised as a religion 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z It is crowded, with shirts crammed onto racks and into piles, in sometimes inscrutable order. The Advanced Style of Orchard Street’s Old-School Men’s Shops 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The idea, beyond highlighting all the “inscrutable, mystical loveliness” of sex, in the words of one facilitator, is to get participants to seek out what turns them on or disgusts them, or both. What I learned talking to 120 women about their sex lives and desires 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z But with the new President as an inscrutable closed circuit, it was hard not to seek some insight somewhere in the day’s events. On TV, Trump’s Inauguration Made Him Seem Small 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z But it also lets you keep control of your time and your privacy, and satisfies that inscrutable desire for a kind of aloneness that isn’t really aloneness at all. First Person: Sheltered by Online Scrabble?s Anonymity 2011-09-16T23:02:17Z The French are all inscrutable, but each one is baffling in a particular way, depending on gender, class, generation and temperament. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z After struggling through the five nearly inscrutable prefatory poems, I put the book down for a week before taking it up again. The Hidden Life of a Forgotten Sixteenth-Century Female Poet 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z But not all of the goons involved in the McCutcheon murder are quite so inscrutable. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap: ‘King Kong’ Ding-Dong 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z The song's compelling fusion of blast furnace punk, whimsical melody and inscrutable lyrics was unlike anything else commercial radio had embraced up to that point. "Nevermind" 30 years on — how Nirvana’s second album tilted the world on its axis 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z You learn, though, that for an actor like Page, a total grasp of a character’s interior life is not essential, especially for one whose evil, he concludes, is “ultimately inscrutable.” Review | For Patrick Page, it’s Shakespeare’s bad guys who steal the show 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z An inscrutable van driver — likely limited by the language barrier — distributed well-worn wet suits and mismatched neoprene bootees to us and a backpacking couple from Switzerland. Returning to Montenegro 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z I have given up on ever finding anyone interested in this or it ever spontaneously coming up in conversation, and so admire those that can find an outlet for their arcane and inscrutable information. University Challenge: I'm glad someone knows about the Grand Duke of Finland 2012-11-09T12:07:07Z An inscrutable smile apparently played on the lips of the then chamberlain of the king of Prussia and the searching look he gave Batoni may have sent a shiver down the Roman artist’s spine. Fair Swamped by Second Raters 2010-03-12T12:30:00Z Its workings are inscrutable – near the end of this novel, Zakalwe is commanded to lose a war that he has been rather brilliantly winning on behalf of the Hegemonarchy, and he rather regretfully complies. Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks 2012-07-27T21:50:00Z Their motions and poses are often inscrutable, but their faces are sometimes telegraphic, contorting into open-mouthed expressions of amusement or agony as readable as the masks of comedy and tragedy. Review: Slow Poses and Clouds of White Powder 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z Maybe because they were full of white British men whose angst was fundamentally inscrutable to me, and seemingly tethered to Margaret Thatcher, whoever that was, or grossly thefted from American blues. Darling Nikki 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z “I keep returning in my mind to the glass onion,” Blanc says in the final act, “something that seems densely layered, mysterious and inscrutable. But in fact, the center is in plain sight.” At the Movies, Bagels, Onions and a Side Dish of Nothing 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Brand: A whimsical British company known for playful, often inscrutable, pop art dials. A Watch With Snob Appeal for Under $1,000? Six Watch Insiders Offer Picks 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z “Oh, the dirty of it,” she intones in a gruff voice at the beginning of the “Warm Chris” highlight “Tick Tock” — a line that is somehow both inscrutable and precisely vivid. Aldous Harding’s Gloriously Peculiar World of Songs 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The question, instead, was why Juilliard had become so enamored of names that most listeners would find inscrutable. Classical Groups Get Creative With Names 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z At the same event, Theron talked about her struggle to portray Kelly, whom she finds emotionally inscrutable and politically distasteful, with the right notes of humanity. Perspective | Can ‘Bombshell’ be a feminist movie if the characters hate being called feminists? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z What we said: An elegant, eccentric relationship comedy of ideas, highly rarefied and possessed of an almost inscrutable sophistication. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z This commission is her first exhibition in the United States, though in Europe she's well known for her manually and mechanically manipulated forms that are by turns delicate and inscrutable. T Magazine: Nairy Baghramian at SculptureCenter 2013-01-28T14:00:13Z This is surely delusion; The New York Times, in the late 1800s, described his script as “an unutterably dreary, romantic play,” and here it’s comically inscrutable. Review: ‘The Black Crook’ Inspires Its Own Alcohol 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Greta Garbo, the elusive Hollywood actress of the 1930s, was so inscrutable she was known as the Swedish Sphinx. ‘I go nowhere, I see no one’: Garbo letters reveal lonely life of film icon 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Seemingly crucial plot incidents — Klinghoffer’s murder, for example — take place offstage, while brooding choruses further fragment what is already stylized, sometimes inscrutable action. ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Ours is a marriage that some of my relatives call “modern,” and by modern, I think they mean inscrutable. Our most dangerous hike 2012-05-21T01:00:00Z Although most of us find time slightly mystifying, for some of us it is utterly inscrutable. What does it really feel like to fall out of a building? 2013-05-25T22:30:00Z Wonderment was a desired middle state between delight and instruction, proving God’s inscrutable ingenuity. Wonder and Awe in Natural History’s New Wing. Butterflies, Too. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Has there ever been a signal more inscrutable? Date Lab: If he wasn’t interested, why did he ask for her number? 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z For viewers, one of Mr and Mrs' pleasures was the insight into the otherwise inscrutable privacy of the British marriage. Derek Batey obituary 2013-02-20T19:23:11Z Everything will be a choice – inscrutable algorithm-based choices will clutter your screen, your family will spend hours arguing about what to watch, the gin will run out, and then what will you do? Drama-free Thanksgiving: alternative movie marathons for every taste 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z A heavy-lidded Devon smiles, her motives inscrutable but her attraction to Hannibal undeniable. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1, Episode 5: Hannibal’s Anagrams 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z And Dot, an older local native unwilling to sell her family home to developers, is so inscrutable it's hard to tell how she feels. Women on the edge, in 2 plays with local settings, on Seattle stages 2012-03-15T21:02:05Z And “The Good Wife” ended as it began, with Alicia Florrick standing by her husband at a press conference, her face pale, her hair unnaturally straight, her gaze inscrutable. Goodbye to “The Good Wife” 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z The face was weathered and knowing, the expression inscrutable. The Worldly Digressions of Javier Marías 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z People believe ‘Ulysses’ is this complex, difficult, inscrutable text full of references. The Politicians Who Love “Ulysses” 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z This version of art history, as many of us received it, conveniently bypassed all sorts of embarrassment, from Gauguin's brute behaviour to that of his frequently inscrutable paintings. Gauguin: Maker of Myth 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z Kyle Buchanan: At least this number has returned inscrutable modern dance to the Oscars, where it belongs! Best and Worst Moments From the 2023 Oscars 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z He has since said he was prepared to meet someone not only reserved but also “totally inscrutable.” I’m in ‘Spotlight’, but it’s not really about me. It’s about the power of journalism. 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z The man and the artist still remain inscrutable — we understand that he is a mystery to his wife and to many others too — but we see him here both at ease and at work. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nikolai and the Others,’ a Theatrical Portrait of Balanchine 2013-06-10T21:45:47Z Bloom had plenty of access to Iridium’s savior, as the author’s note explains, but his character and leadership style remains somewhat inscrutable. 'Eccentric Orbits' chronicles the stunning failure (and improbable revival) of the Iridium satellite phone 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z There is a particular difficulty in discerning whether this book is good, not because the text qua text is somehow elusive or inscrutable but because one struggles to read it without sweeping for psychological clues. The Idealized, Introverted Wives of MacKenzie Bezos’s Fiction 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z This book is an anthology of yellowing snapshots and postcards, all with sometimes inscrutable sentences written on them, that the author has discovered in junk shops and at rummage sales. A Roundup of Holiday Coffee Table Books 2012-11-22T19:55:15Z The stories may be bummers, but at least you’ll have fun putting all their jagged pieces together or just savoring their inscrutable depths. ‘Ultrasound’ Review: Trapped in a Murky Mystery 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z "Inherent Vice" references and evokes plenty while being its own oddball, abstract, inscrutable thing. NYFF: 'Inherent Vice' and the contemporary cult hit 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Energetically formal like its Schubert music, “Mercuric” is an inscrutable ceremony whose simultaneous geometries pass as satisfyingly and inexplicably as those of constellations in the sky. Review: Paul Taylor Jump-Starts His Season With a Frisky Burl Ives 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z “They were the perfect backdrop buildings, minimalist pylons signifying nothing in particular—unlike the heroic Empire State Building—but serving always as inscrutable signposts.” When the Twin Towers Quietly Commanded the New York Skyline 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z There are so many moving parts spinning in so many directions that this movie’s purpose is inscrutable and the noise of its grinding parts distracting. Movie Review: Schizophrenia in Dustin Lance Black?s Film ?Virginia? 2012-05-17T23:03:55Z He couldn’t get a handle on the president, whom he found inscrutable and “simply boring.” An Inventor’s Life That Was Incandescent Any Way You Look at It 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z In “Palindromes” — perhaps Solondz’s most perverse and inscrutable work — the naive runaway protagonist is played by numerous different actors, varying in age, race, gender and size. Todd Solondz: I’m Judd Apatow’s dark side 2012-06-06T00:00:00Z And he observed the sense of mystery in the writing, as inscrutable as birds themselves. Review: A Pianist Pays Homage to Birdsong 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z “They want this maestro mythology. They want a maestro that is inscrutable, or inaccessible, or tyrannical. There are these lingering myths.” Perspective | If conductor Marin Alsop’s done it, it’s probably because someone told her she couldn’t 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Sometimes in oracular free associations, sometimes in terse narrative, Mr. Dylan has a lot on his mind: women, class, journeys, power, the inscrutable will of God and the omnipresence of death. New Music: BOB DYLAN, review 2012-09-10T16:28:05Z Fairy tales and lullabies are evoked, as these two explorers continue on their inscrutable way. Dance Review: ‘I came here on my own.,’ by robbinschild at Art in General 2012-12-17T05:20:05Z Especially since the rest of “Drowning,” missing its video ending on Thursday because of a technical error, is blandly inscrutable. Dance Review: Rosie Herrera Dance Theater and Doug Varone at Joyce Theater 2013-01-16T17:37:51Z Since the sordid Epstein saga began unspooling, years ago, Maxwell has continued to be one of its more inscrutable characters. Perspective | Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly turned an intuitive female bond into a tool for abuse 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z This inscrutable man speaks many languages – Arabic, Hebrew, and English, among others – and appears to predict or cause unbelievable events. Savior or con man? Netflix’s new series “Messiah” questions how belief is built 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Cox’s performance as the inscrutable then suddenly, terrifyingly, raging centre of the family already feels definitive. Succession’s Brian Cox: ‘I was touched up by Princess Margaret’ 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z The decades leading up to the war were a time of virulent hatred for the Japanese, with terms like “inscrutable,” “repulsive” and “the yellow peril” thrown around freely. Hawaii’s fight against Trump’s Muslim travel ban has long roots of resistance 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Once you've nestled into her seemingly simple, initially inscrutable, finally profound vision of art, it's like enveloping your mind's eye in a soft, methodical, determined but exalted radiance. Survey of Agnes Martin's powerful yet meditative work draws a straight, vibrant line to Zen 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z But from the beginning, Hitch is odd and inscrutable, reciting dirty limericks without cracking a smile. Television Review: ‘The Girl,’ on HBO, With Sienna Miller and Toby Jones 2012-10-18T21:44:37Z Would it be the inscrutable Paul Thomas Anderson, daring you to love his increasingly fractured movies? Richard Linklater: American cinema’s last true maverick? 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z In these compelling interviews, granted when Duchamp was over 80, the artist presents himself as drily affable, charmingly open and utterly inscrutable. Michael Bracewell's top 10 art books 2012-06-06T10:35:15Z There are some sculptures but they are wan and inscrutable. Tracey Emin should have had more fun at the seaside 2012-05-25T15:16:36Z Patrick Kerr summons some wild-eyed Martin Short lunacy in his handling of Sir Nathaniel, the curate who always looks happily stunned by Holofernes’ inscrutable erudition. Shakespeare's 'Love's Labor's Lost': Kathleen Marshall directs a winner at the Old Globe 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z At Monday’s hearing, Jackson’s face was inscrutable, set with a resolute smile through the bloviations of Republican senators whose approval she will almost certainly not receive no matter what happens in the hearings. Perspective | Indelible in the hippocampus is Brett Kavanaugh 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z After all, she has had six decades to practice looking inscrutable. Stars shine on Queen's concert 2012-06-05T03:45:34Z The fashion muse is capricious and inscrutable sometimes, but it always tells us something about ourselves. He’s designed hats for Dior. Now, he’s created one inspired by the African American Museum. 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The baby is not a metaphor, the narrator warns us, yet her wild, untrammeled, inscrutable being is everywhere counterpoised by the internet’s similarly enigmatic existence. Patricia Lockwood’s First Novel Reaches for the Sublime, Online and Off 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Meandering though it is, that back story illuminates what might otherwise be a thoroughly inscrutable if intriguing solo. Review: ‘The Return of La Argentina,’ a Solo Dance Fed by Chips and Pistachios 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z But visitors often leave without a real sense of the island’s rich, pre-Communist past, much less its inscrutable present — both the subjects of new photo books. T Magazine: La Otra Cuba 2011-09-20T18:15:20Z Its custodian, Jeff Roth, comes across in “Obit” as a droll, mildly frantic version of a Jorge Luis Borges character holding inscrutable dominion over a vast, seemingly impenetrable labyrinth of arcana. Review: ‘Obit’ Follows the Team That Writes Death Notices for The Times 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z The other previously unreleased song is “Hawaii,” an inscrutable encounter set to a folky tune. Blasts From the Past From the Rolling Stones, D’Angelo, Neil Young and Can 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z When she smiles, she distills a quality that Henry James evoked in describing Daisy Miller and her “inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence.” Movie Review: ‘Starlet,’ With Dree Hemingway 2012-11-09T01:27:15Z The old man remained inscrutable to the end, for sure. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 4 Recap: A Coronation Demolition Derby 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Off-the-charts charisma, collective exuberance, decently competent band, and yet at the center of it all, Styles was inscrutable. The Harry Styles Show (and Some Music) Comes to New York 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Compared with its male counterpart, Silverman’s female rage is quieter, more vindictive, more inscrutable. Order and Chaos, Mostly Chaos, in 3 Debut Novels 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Thus the three villains on display last week were a macho Arab, an inscrutable psychopath and a cockney gangster-turned-businessman, holding their faces in such ways as to convey, respectively, machismo, psychopathy, and tasty geezerness. Rewind TV: Hunted; Monroe; Arena: The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour; Best Possible Taste: the Kenny Everett Story; Exposure: the Other Side of Jimmy Savile; Welcome to India – review 2012-10-06T23:05:46Z I bought a small box of novelty gum with an inscrutable yet somehow delightful slogan: “I Blogged Your Mama.” The Art of Summer: The Words We Live By 2011-08-03T12:00:05Z She looks into homes, into bomb sites, into graveyards, into torture centers, into the “glassy, inscrutable” lakes. Arundhati Roy’s Return to the Form That Made Her Famous 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z What happens when a young, relatively inexperienced writer is tapped to write the biography of an enigmatic Russian model turned inscrutable first lady? 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z But it does need to act as a translator: Desiigner, a 19-year-old Brooklyn unknown, is largely a cipher still, and his lyrics verge on the inscrutable. The Playlist: Searching for the Real Desiigner and Saying Farewell to a Punk Band 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z His black mask bore a picture of his brother, the image that’s become so familiar to the public: George Floyd looks straight on; his eyes are alert and curious, but his expression is inscrutable. Perspective | George Floyd’s brother came to Washington to speak. But his power was in the silences. 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z But mostly the intent is inscrutable, as when the tiny marionettes are replaced with larger, vaguely menacing hand dummies that form a Greek chorus: “Characters in the Pantheon of American Ventriloquism,” it turns out. Review: ‘Lee Harvey Oswald,’ an American Assassin in Puppet Form 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z “Who else was on the list?” he asked quietly, maintaining his usual inscrutable calm. Is Ben Carson the worst or the best surrogate of all time? Yes. 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z His meaning, like his motivation, was plural, inscrutable, unstable. Picasso's politics 2010-05-07T23:09:00Z Ninety-five years after she wrote it, in 1927, her text is as inscrutable as ever. ‘Four Saints in Three Acts’ Review: An Opera Becomes a One-Man Show 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Neither as majestically inscrutable as Kafka’s panther nor as pointed as “Infinite Jest”’s fatally addictive videocassette, the Curio thus spends much of the book somewhere in the horse latitudes of allegory. What if, Instead of the Internet, We Had Xenobots? 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z A take on the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows" wafts into astral realms, Dave Matthews' voice rendered with lysergic shading backed by a swirl of inscrutable instrumentation. Herbie Hancock takes 'The Imagine Project' to ZooTunes' stage at the Woodland Park Zoo 2010-08-26T20:10:00Z And there comes a finally inscrutable history of influences back and forth. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z He raps with a slurry intricacy that’s inscrutable to old-fashioned hip-hop purists, but holds consistent thrills. Gucci Mane, Buff, Sober, Out of the Pen and Ready to Flow 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z This time it was Thierry Fischer's turn to deliver a brisk interpretation of the inscrutable Eighth. Northern Sinfonia/Fischer – review 2013-03-18T17:49:30Z As we insist on doing year after year, we put up some inscrutable Bob Staake cartoons and asked for captions. Style Invitational Week 1468: The Year in Redo, Part 2 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Galloping across the desert, his inscrutable baby blues fixed on the horizon, Daniel Craig makes for a surprisingly convincing cowboy. Movie Review: Extraterrestrials Land at the O.K. Corral 2011-07-28T18:58:54Z Then try this latest litmus test, in which Mexican auteur Reygadas takes his penchant for striking imagery and disjointed narratives to commendably ambitious/infuriatingly inscrutable extremes. This week's new films 2013-03-23T06:00:09Z During the scuffle, Houdini drops into Strauss’s pocket a code book filled with inscrutable sequences of letters. ‘The Confabulist,’ a novel by Steven Galloway Executive producer Jordan Peele's attachment is enough to entice people wowed by "Get Out" and "Key & Peele" before that to give "Hunters" a whirl, especially those willing to forgive the inscrutable "Us." Want to punch a Nazi? Amazon's "Hunters" is the show for you 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z Only Ms. Benanti, with her ludicrous self-pleasure and inscrutable intentions, achieves the perfect, heightened style to land the airy jokes while maintaining a bright, solid presence. Review: Look Up! It’s Amy Schumer in ‘Meteor Shower’ 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z In “Shadow Families,” an inscrutable working-class woman, Baby, becomes the target of gossip and envy by a group of wealthy expat women in 1980s Bahrain — but she coolly exacts her revenge. Reviews: New Books From Sarah Hall, Mia Alvar, Katherine Taylor and Others 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z She noted that some men use emoji in ways she finds inscrutable, particularly in the context of romance, when they are given to texting the symbol of the winky face with the tongue sticking out. Should Grown Men Use Emoji? 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z He’s been personally elusive and at times inscrutable. Prince’s power move: Opting out of Spotify and Apple right as the streaming wars heat up 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Yet what historians and critics have generally failed to see is that they were inscrutable and even crypt-like not by accident but by design. Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Why his Los Angeles houses deserve a closer look 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z In the course of this section – part sinewy historical fiction, part inscrutable moral fable – Roth increases the tension by piling on even more niceness. Nemesis by Philip Roth 2010-10-02T09:03:00Z The genuinely funny ideas — a cheerleading routine with film-stock pompoms — tend not to be developed, and too many of the sequences are poetic in a vague, inscrutable sense. Dance Review: Catherine Galasso?s ?Bring on the Lumi?re!,? at Joyce SoHo 2012-01-31T23:19:58Z The one before that had been “Document,” which had some weird, moody, classic inscrutable R.E.M. stuff. Peter Buck sounds off: Looking back at R.E.M’s “Out of Time” and “Losing Our Religion” 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z This, at least, is one interpretation of an often inscrutable opera. Review: Better the Devil You Don't Know? 2010-03-02T12:00:00Z The allusive, somewhat inscrutable “Pictures at an Exhibition” project is a kind of activity he continues to explore with the Kremerata. Gidon Kremer: A Violinist on a Mission, or Several of Them 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Other lists identify the best covers of Dylan songs -- inevitably including Jimi Hendrix's overhaul of "All Along the Watchtower" -- his most inscrutable songs, and his best bootleg recordings. "Like a Rolling Stone" Dylan's best song 2011-05-12T19:13:45Z When the camera does capture their expressions, they are often inscrutable, hinting at despair yet kept at a remove. The Forgotten Mountains of Darfur 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z “Duck Dynasty” follows the goings-on at Duck Commander, a family business in Louisiana that is built on duck calls first manufactured by Phil Robertson, who now fills the role of odd, somewhat inscrutable patriarch. Television Review : With ?Duck Dynasty,? A&E Makes Way for a Workplace Show 2012-03-16T12:00:00Z Much is inscrutable in “Man of Flesh & Cardboard,” which presumes a great deal about the case. | Bread and Puppet Theater: Bread and Puppet Theater?s ?Attica? and ?Man of Flesh & Cardboard? 2011-12-12T22:23:55Z His curtain of dark hair, ubiquitous sunglasses and inscrutable smile, as well as the fact that no one in South Africa knew much about him, only burnished his appeal. Movie Review: Malik Bendjelloul’s ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ 2012-07-26T21:59:59Z To her classmates, professors and even her romantic partners, this dazzling performance is sometimes inscrutable; unfortunately for the reader, Gyasi sometimes obscures Gifty from us as well. In Yaa Gyasi’s New Novel, a Young Scientist Tries to Understand Her Family’s Pain 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Donning his Mao suit and dark glasses, he turned himself into the satirical embodiment of the stereotypical inscrutable Asian Other. Review: Tseng Kwong Chi’s Darkly Comic Images at Grey Art Gallery 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z He’s always been a fascinating figure, as inscrutable as he is ubiquitous, as unreachable as he is trusted and loved. Review: “Cosby: His Life and Times” by Mark Whitaker In seventy-two photographs shot across the span of a decade, van Agtmael’s book delivers new ways of seeing American violence and fortitude, at a moment when the country’s divisions feel otherwise inscrutable. Peter van Agtmael’s Decoding of American Violence 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z In four episodes made available for review, the show rummages through a mixed bag of inscrutable themes, one of which appears to be an indictment of the performative cultural correctness that sets people off nowadays. Review | HBO has a real stinker in the dreadfully unrelatable ‘Here and Now’ 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Aside from her inscrutable nature, Rosa is known for her sardonic tone and dedication to being a solid detective. ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Is Back, and Stephanie Beatriz Is Making the Most of It 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z But the inscrutable grin he wore was worth the price of admission. Bumbershoot preview: Do mainstage pop acts warrant the big bucks? 2010-09-03T00:09:00Z Even for those of us who like our art films bleakly inscrutable, Kinetta was a tall order. Yorgos Lanthimos, director of The Lobster, on his wild, star-studded life of Queen Anne 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z Some of the tasks I faced resembled Captcha challenges; others were short surveys, and a few were simply inscrutable. Review: In ‘I Agree to the Terms,’ It’s Raining Pennies From Amazon 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Watching “Fallujah” one is reminded of the misery and inscrutable fault lines across the Middle East. Blood, sand and tears: A foreign correspondent's view of the opera 'Fallujah' 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Perhaps this is because Richard's bride is so inscrutable that changes in her behaviour do not have the power to shock. Orkney by Amy Sackville – review 2013-03-24T12:30:01Z Bowen, too, was an ARP warden, walking the Marylebone streets night after night in a darkness that transformed them into "inscrutable canyons"; her flat in Regent's Park was bombed. The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War – review 2013-01-18T09:00:02Z From the beginning of the world to its imagined end, the topics covered are eclectic and sometimes inscrutable; but though styles of animation and quality of execution vary, there are a few standouts. Sundance Film Festival Animated Shorts 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z It’s one thing to look at inscrutable scientific artifacts and pictures of guys standing around the desert pointing at things. Go for the weird: 4 oddball attractions in Las Vegas 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Oh, some cute bits crop up that are tailor-made for Schumer’s brand of socially awkward comedy, and Benanti proves herself dazzlingly right for the role of an inscrutable mischief-maker. Review | What’s Steve Martin up to with ‘Meteor Shower’? Your guess is as good as mine. 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z When that pianist is the supremely gifted but calculatingly inscrutable Evgeny Kissin, it is a choice that brings one to the concert hall with a specially keen curiosity. Evgeny Kissin – review 2012-11-22T17:43:55Z No longer were the austere quarters for personnel kept hidden away on the upper floors: now it was the inscrutable sphere of power that was sequestered there. The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z Yeah, I think people really are inscrutable on the inside. "The Death of Dick Long" dares you to love the men who love Nickelback 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z At first glance, the field for the Academy Award for best foreign-language film looks inscrutable: a record 83 countries and territories submitted entries, including four that are competing for the first time. What to Watch for in the Foreign-Language Race 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z The plot concerns a fortysomething father whose Disney day with his family becomes increasingly sinister and inscrutable. 'Tomorrowland' and 5 more Disneyland movies to mark the park's 60th 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z The super-weird original cover art for Carraway’s tale Going further back, there is Charlotte Bronte’s smoldering Mr. Rochester. He is a prototype of the brooding, inscrutable male. Men in books 2012-06-30T14:00:00Z Ms. Faludi is determined both to demystify the father of her youth — ‘a simultaneously inscrutable and volatile presence, a black box and a detonator’ — and to re-examine the very notion and nature of identity.” C. E. Morgan Among Winners of $50,000 Kirkus Book Prizes 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Fans then were as inscrutable as the performers – although, watching Walker, you appreciate what fun they had. The Girl I Left Behind Me 2010-05-20T21:15:00Z They look at you from behind inscrutable eyes, aloof and moderately annoyed, jawlines jutting like ice floes. Jim Nutt’s Art Remains a Mystery. Even to Him. 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z The performances in “The Dreamed Path” can seem stiff and opaque, and the narrative logic at times verges on the inscrutable. From Brooklyn to South Africa, 8 Filmmakers to Watch 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z It clapped for the road-tested quips and banter between songs, even though much of it was inscrutable. Music Review: Glen Campbell?s Goodbye Tour at Town Hall - Review 2012-01-08T22:56:50Z For one thing, the plot machinations often were inscrutable. For Spielberg, ‘Bridge of Spies’ is culmination of a Cold War fascination 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z In the collection’s title exploit, the inscrutable Ark attempts to aid a Satanist who claims that the Devil is trying to kill him. Review | Long before ‘Ghostbusters,’ fiction’s detectives were exploring the otherworldly 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z The billboards, by the way, are as authentically inscrutable as most of the ones you see on Highway 101, Silicon Valley’s main thoroughfare. 'Silicon Valley' Recap: It's Not About How Much You Earn 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z It requires one to know the difference between PPE and PPP, not to mention lots of other inscrutable topics, “which is very challenging to understand if you’re not an accountant and just a restaurant owner.” Thanks, coronavirus. Will Seattle’s tourist-dependent businesses survive the lost summer season of 2020? 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z The Silence = Death graphic was striking and inscrutable. Can AIDS activism battle the Tea Party? 2012-07-24T15:15:00Z Ms. Farmer’s Babe, in sleek blue silk, has killer legs and a marvelous, inscrutable smile that expresses both a soft welcome and a quiet resistance. Theater Review: Dancing to Twyla Tharp and Sinatra?s Music 2010-03-26T04:27:00Z Twin Peaks exchanged inscrutable hokum for the charm of a murder mystery set in small-town USA. Twin Peaks recap: episodes one and two – crazy town just got much, much weirder 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z He proved his superlative comic timing and endearing charisma in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and, when it comes to drama and sci-fi, no one is better at maintaining an inscrutable blankness. Keanu Reeves: ‘Grief and loss, those things don’t ever go away’ 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z “Here’s a song that people know,” Mr. Homme said by way of introduction, wry and inscrutable, merely stating a fact. Music Review: Revisiting and Recharging an Album With a Fleshed-Out Crew 2011-03-27T22:14:47Z The smile of someone with Alzheimer's is private, inscrutable, while that of his or her spouse and children is frangible, see-through. Maps of the mind: The Lion's Face 2010-05-25T20:46:00Z But this year, either by coincidence or by through the inscrutable workings of the spirit of the times, the story is being retold not once, but twice, both times with impressive clarity and seriousness. Review: ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ an Unflinching Take on His Rise and Fall 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z His country is presented to us as all heat and dust and moonlight; his family communicates in inscrutable Eastern-sounding parables. A Syrian Refugee Lands in Ireland in ‘From a Low and Quiet Sea’ 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z A few minutes later, seated in the control room, he clenched his eyes shut, inscrutable as he listened to several versions of the song. Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Lyricist, Busier Than Ever at 91 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z There is also the question of why the design of a book about design, with its dizzying vertical page numbers and inscrutable photography, is absolutely dire. Hello World: Where Design Meets Life by Alice Rawsthorn – review 2013-05-10T13:00:03Z Despite this, the sheer power of these events, the craggy, inscrutable characters and the haunting magic of this only dimly familiar landscape — at one point it rains for a solid month — burn up these pages. Frontier justice was brutal in Los Angeles, and 'Eternity Street' gets to the heart of the matter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Even after finding out the twist with Christina, this is one of the most inscrutable moments of the season. "Westworld" season 4 ending explained 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z It’s fatalistic and bleak, addressed to a distant and inscrutable God: “If thine is the glory, then mine must be the shame/You want it darker, we kill the flame.” The Playlist: The Weeknd, Leonard Cohen and Dirty Projectors All Want It Darker 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the object of that sin looks on, several inscrutable tons of hot-tempered pachyderm. "One Lucky Elephant": Man and pachyderm, a love story 2011-06-11T13:11:00Z Harvard assumes two supporting parts: Boo Radley, the mysterious, rarely seen neighbor of the intimidated youngsters, Scout and Jem Finch, and more prominently Link Deas, the inscrutable local dismissed as a drunk. In ‘Mockingbird,’ a deaf actor finally gets his wish: Not to be defined solely by deafness 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Photograph: Storm Thorgerson Storm Thorgerson could be inscrutable, grand and archly funny – all qualities that placed him some distance from the music industry's standard mixture of flimsy bonhomie and superficiality. Storm Thorgerson, Pink Floyd and the final secret of the world's greatest record sleeve designer 2013-04-19T17:32:49Z The story, while thick with grief, emphasizes redemption, and the idea of an inscrutable but ultimately benevolent destiny comes up frequently in the characters’ conversations. Movie Review: ?The Lucky One,? Based on the Nicholas Sparks Novel 2012-04-19T14:00:00Z An individuated consciousness frames the focus of all experience, and instructs and guides, sometimes with the inscrutable properties of the best mystery, the individual how to receive and perceive everything. Barack Obama, invisible president: To truly see him requires white Americans to see themselves 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Yet a great deal of “Oceania” was inscrutable. Dance Review: InNprogress Collective in ‘Oceania,’ at LaMaMa Moves! 2013-06-16T20:52:12Z In between, she sang with sultry nonchalance and traced slow-motion gestures both elaborate and inscrutable. Review: Globalfest’s World Music for a Connected World 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z It recounts his Hollywood years and the skills he learned as an actor — the bright smile, his affable if slightly inscrutable affect — that made him such a powerful candidate for president. Was Reagan a Precursor to Trump? A New Documentary Says Yes 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Harnik got the shot — a portrait of a man, half masked by the shadow of his rearview mirror, his lips flat and inscrutable — one of the first new photos of an enigma in months. The wait for the Mueller report is over. And now . . . we wait. 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z The show brought me back to my early pandemic sense of time as something shaky, even inscrutable. Josh Kline’s Survival Art for 21st-Century America 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Eleanor, whose half of the story will be largely familiar to anyone who saw "Them," is no longer emotionally available to him, and she remains inscrutable to us. 'Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby' plays better as 'Her,' 'Him' 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z In addition to the hourlong wait at the beginning of the night, pauses between songs were long and inscrutable. Adam Lambert worth waiting for at The Puyallup Fair 2010-09-22T21:30:00Z They made an inscrutable, wordless art movie called Daft Punk's Electroma. Daft Punk: the midas touch 2013-05-18T23:05:39Z It seems it must have a purpose, however inscrutable. Has art's Slant Step mystery finally been solved? 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z My difficult, inscrutable, frustrating mother, who long ago cut herself off from the rest of the family and refused to speak to any of us, now barely can speak at all. I can't wait to not do Thanksgiving 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Even now that Don is free to find a woman with the integrity and soul of Rachel or Suzanne, he'll no doubt wander into the arms of some polished, inscrutable doll like Bethany. "Mad Men" recap: Honor before reason 2010-08-23T13:30:00Z The rich remain as inscrutable as they ever were, and we remain just as disdainful of them, and just as taken in. Perspective | The messiness and meaning of Caroline Calloway 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z For Niebuhr, God was inscrutable, and so were God's plans. Why Reinhold Niebuhr matters now 2011-07-21T11:45:29Z As I spoke, the Queen standing beside me, she remained inscrutable. Richard Eyre: arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid 2011-02-15T12:53:26Z I also insist that to a billion contemporary Chinese, Mao Tse-tung has a lot more to answer for than the merry chaos and inscrutable epigrams this opera uses to recall his reckless ardors. A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z Given the inscrutable nature of the whole show, this felt as inevitable as the underpants. Review | Andersson Dance takes on Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z His works, while similarly inscrutable, are not yogic or glacial or designed to direct your attention to ambient stirrings outside the music. Review: Skittering, Creeping Music That Had Me Seeing Things 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z A “bewildered, unsophisticated” 19-year-old when she arrived in Hollywood, Gottlieb writes in this richly detailed, scrupulous biography, Greta Garbo rapidly rose to become the most inscrutable of movie stars, even to her friends. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z In the beginning Littlefinger was more inscrutable but he’s since become a more transparently villainous character. ‘Game of Thrones’: Aidan Gillen on Littlefinger’s Stark Obsession 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Using the long corridors to stretch her viewers’ attention, Ms. Melnick and her liquid motion filled the moat with a pleasing picnic of inscrutable, activity. Dance for the People (by the Pros) at the River to River Festival 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z “Those paintings are so inscrutable and have such a powerful emotional content,” he added. In ?Red,? Molina Shares Stage With Rothko?s Art 2010-03-29T21:45:00Z Probably this was just a matter of their unusually long symphonies and inscrutable mysteries contained therein. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Bruckner at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-04-25T21:50:09Z The landmark AMC program, whose final episodes begin airing on Sunday, illuminates a decade of remarkable social and political change through its inscrutable, hard-drinking protagonist. Women of 'Mad Men' make a strong impression amid their fight for change 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z But after 60 episodes of elaborate, at times inscrutable schemes, and of Chuck and Axe squaring off in various configurations, Lewis was ready to move on. Damian Lewis Discusses the Future of ‘Billions’ 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Only Mr. Browne, inscrutable and tight-lipped until the curtain rises, knows. Fashion Week: Tommy Hilfiger’s ‘Instapit’ and Jeremy Scott’s ‘Cowboys and Poodles’ 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z But if the book is a kind of bible, it’s an inscrutable one, composed in a visual language I can’t translate. Seeing the World, and My Living Room, Through a Designer’s Eyes 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z This 5/4 time instrumental finds them at their most inscrutable yet beguiling. The F&M playlist 2011-07-07T20:37:01Z For years, the exam had proved inscrutable to nearly all but white men with either a college education or closely comparable military experience. The Cost of Defying the President 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Mostly, in places where van Gogh lived, there are a number of plaques featuring van Gogh images or words from his letters, in sometimes inscrutable locations. Touring Europe in the Footsteps of van Gogh 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z The citation continued: "With perfect pitch, she presents to us both playful shenanigans and moments of bright joy, and the inscrutable nature of life and the nearness of death." Top award for author Barbro Lindgren 2014-03-26T10:00:28Z If this sounds inscrutable as musical technique, that’s because it is lifted from a self-help book about gaining influence over others called “The 48 Laws of Power,” by Robert Greene. Bob Dylan, Fanboy 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z Qui Nguyen’s play “The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G,” an ambitious entertainment about modern identity wrapped inside an exploitation drama about what used to be called the “inscrutable Orient,” suggests we have an answer. Theater Review: ?The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G,? by Qui Nguyen 2012-02-21T22:20:41Z There was a brief, inscrutable flicker on his face. What Does Everyone See in Jesse Plemons? 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Once more, it seems, a martial art is standing in on screen for the unfathomable powers of an inscrutable national adversary. The Karate Kid betrays America's fear of China 2010-08-02T08:00:00Z There was part of me I had held back, miserly and secretive and inscrutable, like some crotchety, lonely character in a Dickens novel. Someone to hold me 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z In one vignette, you sit, as Green once did, in a hospital room, which is quiet apart from the hum of inscrutable machines and Joel’s haunting screams. A Father’s Video Game About His Son’s Terminal Cancer 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Throughout, there was a sense of nature as a massive, inscrutable force; the music repeatedly building up, but always evolving. RPO/Brabbins – review 2013-03-13T17:42:25Z Several contributors have focused on campaign posters that have appeared all over Britain in the past week or so: David Cameron as Kitchener, and Gordon Brown as, well, Brown: reliable, steely, inscrutable. Simon Roberts puts political England in the frame 2010-04-12T15:49:00Z A compact little man came out and moved the suitcases and the table around in inscrutable silence for 40 minutes. Stewart Lee: The best performance I've ever seen 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z When watching President Obama on the news, saying that America does not torture, her expression remains inscrutable, even though we know she has been party to such torture. Jessica Chastain: ‘It’s a myth that women don’t get along’ 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z The camera became transfixed by the inscrutable facial expressions of 10-year-old Barron Trump — the lopsided smirk, the Tiger Beat coif, the rolled eyes, the calm endurance that occasionally gave way to the jittery jits. As TV goes, the inauguration was perfunctory and unimpressive, but it had moments 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z This is the first of many inscrutable problems Watt will fail to solve under Mr. Knott’s roof, a failure that will drive him fully insane. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z "He always had this kind of taciturn, inscrutable spy guy thing happening," Mr. Affleck said. The Carpetbagger: 'Argo' and the Workaday C.I.A. Officer 2012-12-21T17:40:17Z Hessler spent two years teaching English in a nondescript small town on the Yangtze, and used it as a base from which to explore the country's enigmatic past, inscrutable present and unpredictable future. Hilary Spurling's top 10 unputdownable Chinese books 2010-05-11T10:30:00Z Jean was at home everywhere with everybody — disarming high-ranking cops and inscrutable former gang members. How I learned the art of the interview from Jean Stein in the wake of the L.A. riots 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Dancers in scrubs skip around and gesture officiously, doing a stylized version of the inscrutable activity that any patient might recognize. ‘Last Ward’ Review: Ashes to Ashes, Dirt to Dirt 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Throughout it all, they wore the inscrutable expressions that have seen them through decades of opening leisure centres, being shown around factories and, indeed, of the royal variety performance. Queen's diamond jubilee concert a tough gig for rock and royalty 2012-06-05T08:14:18Z Silent and inscrutable in his cot, he sours the atmosphere of the house like a sickness. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z The Guggenheim has supplemented them with judicious loans — including his inscrutable gameboard “No More Play,” from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and the spindly woman-and-vehicle pair “The Chariot,” from a private collection. Giacometti: Beguiled by Thin Men and Women 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z ‘The LikeWars of tomorrow will soon be fought by highly intelligent, inscrutable algorithms that will speak convincingly of things that never happened, producing ‘proof’ that doesn’t really exist.’” New & Noteworthy 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z I especially enjoyed learning that "Beavers make dams; humans make friends," though my new BFF built from twigs and mud is proving so far rather inscrutable. Et cetera: non-fiction roundup ? reviews 2011-07-22T21:55:03Z A grab bag of impressions of a seemingly inscrutable woman, Ann Beattie's "Mrs. Nixon" enticingly blends fact with fiction in examining the life and psyche of the former first lady. 'Mrs. Nixon': Stories, real and imagined, of an enigmatic first lady 2011-12-01T00:41:04Z Cher is — she of the , impeccably made up, inscrutable public face. Why ‘The Cher Show’ Gets Me, Babe 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Also inscrutable, and just as terrifying, is the devious ship’s computer, HAL 9000, which disobeys its orders to protect human life when it fears it might be switched off forever. Barack to the future: what can we learn from Obama's sci-fi movie list? 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z “The Secret Life of Textiles: Animal Fibers” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art delves deep into the history and beauty but also the often inscrutable facts of textiles. Delving Into the History and Beauty of Textiles at the Met 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z The nuclear weapons of fragile Pakistan and inscrutable North Korea preoccupy large sectors of our intelligence community. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: The State of the Nuclear World 2013-01-11T20:44:21Z “Catty” is a word most commonly associated with speech; Potter’s cats, meanwhile, are mostly silent and inscrutable, like their real-life counterparts. The Bittersweet Announcement of a New Beatrix Potter Book 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The buyer was J. Paul Getty, an inscrutable 45-year-old oilman from Minnesota who had suddenly emerged as a major collector of European paintings. Self-Portrait Of the Oilman As Collector 2010-12-26T02:23:54Z Each paragraph — on the inscrutable mechanics of “packaging fees” and production stakes — intensified that familiar cliff’s-edge feeling. A Former TV Critic Puts Himself Under the Microscope 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The result is at once acutely distressing and quite lovely, transforming the island into something primitive and inscrutable. ‘Island of the Hungry Ghosts’ Review: Migration and Trauma on Christmas Island 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z “My Woman” is Olsen’s most immediate album; some of her earlier work, like “Strange Cacti,” an EP she released in 2011, is inscrutable—her voice lilting, buried, barely in tandem with her skeletal arrangements. The Singer Angel Olsen Is Present 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Even the innocence of birth is shattered by the inscrutable motives of other people. Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell – rereading 2012-06-08T21:55:17Z Worst of all, in one of those chillingly surreal moments that makes me forgive Lynch and Frost all the previous inscrutable longueurs, the camera tracks from Bill’s cell to the next. Twin Peaks recap: episodes one and two – crazy town just got much, much weirder 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Yet though the plot is blessedly unpredictable, its hero is no inscrutable warrior type: Ren is motivated by understandable emotions born of a culture well described. ‘River of Stars’: A sweeping saga of a swordsman and a poetess 2013-04-18T21:17:46Z But the larger, tragic landscape Harun sketches is acutely destabilizing, wonderfully inscrutable and, at moments, ravenously absurd. Shrewd Short Stories That Merge the Hopeless and the Hopeful 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z For the versatile, sometimes inscrutable German sculptor Cosima von Bonin, too, the sea is a metaphor for our own lives, and she brings to our dry environment visitors from the deep. ‘Cosima von Bonin,’ Swimming Against the Tide 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The book, widely considered Joyce's most experimental and inscrutable work, was promoted by an unusual billboard campaign in major Chinese cities - with 16 of them in Shanghai alone. Translation of 'Finnegans Wake' sells in China 2013-01-31T03:34:14Z Thousands of families displaced from their homes in the "hot" outlying areas have crowded into the safety of such houses, whose seamless exteriors in the maze of narrow lanes present only an inscrutable facade. The civil war's threat to Damascus 2013-01-02T08:00:02Z “Wiener-Dog” dramatizes these assumptions in the inscrutable presence of a nonhuman observer, a dachshund who goes by a few different names and endures the company of a variety of masters. Review: ‘Wiener-Dog,’ the Tail That Wags Through a Few Bitter Lives 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Mr Tetlock’s thesis is that politics and human affairs are not inscrutable mysteries. Unclouded vision 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Then again, the psychological isolation that made him so inscrutable may well also explain why at times he could be staggeringly obtuse. Lord Browne: 'I thought being gay was basically wrong' 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z One of the most inscrutable truths of watching a parent, partner, or friend playing is that it doesn't always look like much fun. Should we be playing video games now? 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z WWE are just as inscrutable to outsiders, involving trundling your stiff-limbed muscle-dummy around the ring and its immediate locale, grappling, pounding and stomping on your opponent's solar plexus until they submit. WWE'13 – review 2012-11-17T00:05:30Z Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s monograph “Fly in League With the Night” featured my favorite character of the year: the inscrutable woman with the cropped hair and abundant secrets from the painting “No Such Luxury.” Times Critics Discuss 2020 in Books, From ‘Pandemic Blur’ to Favorite Discoveries 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z The wilderness, a barren and silent entity in “La Libertad” and “Liverpool,” now feels haunted, full of inscrutable meanings and intentions. Review: ‘Jauja,’ a Desperate Odyssey in the Argentine Desert 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z After months of suspense and typically inscrutable standoffishness, Bob Dylan, the elusive Nobel laureate, will finally accept his literature prize at a meeting with members of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm this weekend. Bob Dylan Will Receive His Nobel Prize While on Tour in Sweden 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z They are sitting outside in a wicker loveseat, their faces inscrutable. My mom finally made her choice, after a lifetime colored by the one she wasn't allowed 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z The other metaphor is that of Chinatown, an inscrutable place which outsiders either stand back from or misread in a way that demonstrates the futility of good intentions. Chinatown: No 1 2010-10-17T10:55:00Z The live performances were interspersed with a variety of canned features, some clever, some simply inscrutable. Critic?s Notebook: Bolshoi Theater Gala on Live HD Broadcast 2011-10-29T00:57:28Z That patient, inscrutable animal is the title character, and in effect the female lead, of “First Cow,” Kelly Reichardt’s deceptively simple and wondrously subtle new film. ‘First Cow’ Review: The Milk of Human Kindness 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z In the other, her mouth stretches into a tight-lipped, inscrutable smile. The Vexing Inscrutability of Elizabeth Holmes 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z The elongated proportions, the rhythmical stylization of the loincloth, and the inscrutable expression of supreme authority speak of an art at the apex of a first blossoming. Review: Lifting Hazy Veils From Centuries of Vietnamese Art 2010-02-26T18:30:00Z She knew a camera lens was always capturing one of her angles, so she worked tirelessly to ensure most would be inscrutable. A matter of character: How "The Crown" squares Charles with our longstanding villain edit 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z A scene that could rival The Wire at its most inscrutable follows, as a brass band negotiates their terms with an employer in a corner bar before a second line parade. Down but not out 2010-04-09T23:11:00Z Its inscrutable Web commercials, meanwhile, could double as video installations at the Whitney Biennial. Guerrilla Fashion: The Story of Supreme 2012-11-21T22:29:38Z As a book, “I Can Make You Feel Good,” can be inscrutable. Tyler Mitchell: ‘Black Beauty Is an Act of Justice’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z But it’s more of a wine-and-cheese place, anyway, with a playful drink menu that eschews inscrutable snobbery. Roofers Union review: ‘Top Chef’ puts the spotlight on Marjorie Meek-Bradley 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z The complicated webs hint at strange, sometimes inscrutable undercurrents in otherwise anodyne images. Nina Katchadourian’s Eccentric Existentialism 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Portman tries to portray this most enigmatic figure as frosty, inscrutable and vulnerable, but the performance comes off as calculating and mannered. Jackie Places the First Lady Under a Microscope 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Throughout, Briercliffe remained a steady but elusive presence, scowling out from yellowing photographs, bespectacled and tweedily inscrutable. TV Review: Britain By Bike and Baby Beauty Queens 2010-07-28T07:00:00Z Easygoing and engaged, Linklater nonetheless can be at times emotionally inscrutable. 'Boyhood' director Richard Linklater versus time: the big stare-down 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z It becomes a useful lens through which to see this book, which is self-contained, inscrutable, and weirdly captivating, like a salvaged object that wants to return to the sea. Chloe Aridjis’s “Sea Monsters” Is a Hypnotic Narrative of Disenchantment 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The constant cloning of the heroine, and of the major villains, adds welcome and inscrutable complications to the plot. The Unusual Genius of the “Resident Evil” Movies 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z This is huge; it’s the first time Anonymous has ever cooperated with an aboveground entity, lending an unprecedented amount of political legitimacy to the often inscrutable group. Anonymous strikes back 2012-06-03T13:00:00Z Out of sorts with its esteemed surroundings, this red-brick postwar building is now awaiting demolition, its faded surfaces bearing inscrutable testimony to the untold lives that passed through its rooms. Artist of the week 150: Emily Speed 2011-08-11T15:26:52Z The city’s main post office — a sprawling, inscrutable block — was by Fuchs, as were many bank buildings, shopping arcades and several elegant villas. Cultured Traveler: Exploring Czech Functionalism in Brno 2012-06-15T18:42:49Z Meanwhile, UW’s case relied on nuanced, nearly inscrutable reading of the bylaws that attempted to show the schools hadn’t abdicated their board seats. What WSU, Oregon State win in court means for Pac-12’s future, outbound schools 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Henry’s mouth issued inscrutable odes and like the tire factory, he was often alone. Liner notes for the Citadel 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Observers will be watching to see whether Charles, who freely shared his views, especially on the environment, before he took the throne — will be equally inscrutable. King Charles III will preside over Britain’s State Opening of Parliament, where pomp meets politics 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z Observers will be watching to see whether Charles, who freely shared his views, especially on the environment, before he took the throne – will be equally inscrutable. King Charles III will preside over Britain’s State Opening of Parliament, where pomp meets politics 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z Painted close-up with hyper precision, the objects recede in an orderly diagonal across a wooden tabletop, which implies an inscrutable narrative to the specific choices. A show about L.A.'s rambunctious 1960s Ceeje Gallery proves that progress in art is an illusion 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Streaming is an inscrutable black box, about which so many stories might be told. Column: Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley's magical thinking 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z With better telescopes and new methods to glean properties about a neutron star’s inscrutable interior, scientists can hope to find out just how far this analogy between cold atoms and neutron stars can be taken. Ultracold Gases Can Probe Neutron Star Guts 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z But its contents remain as inscrutable as they were 50 years ago. You always hear about the ‘nuclear football.’ Here’s the behind-the-scenes story 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z That becomes even clearer when Trina begins exhorting Gia with passages from the Book of Jeremiah, a well-meaning gesture that her friend accepts in polite but inscrutable silence. Review: 'Earth Mama,' Savanah Leaf's portrait of Black motherhood, is a quietly extraordinary debut 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z It is hard to deny that octopuses are as fascinating as they are apparently inscrutable. Exposed to cold water, octopuses will change the genes in their brain, study reveals 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z The training works — but some argue that fine-tuning a language model this way doesn’t actually make the underlying model less weird and inscrutable. Your Wednesday Briefing 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z But some argue that fine-tuning a language model this way doesn’t actually make the underlying model less weird and inscrutable. Why an Octopus-like Creature Has Come to Symbolize the State of A.I. 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z But that leaves us with the inscrutable singularity that started everything off. The Universe Began with a Bang, Not a Bounce, New Studies Find 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Every refresh brought genuinely inscrutable memes, posts from an AI duck account that spewed gibberish, and a torrent of nude selfies. Column: Bluesky evokes nostalgia for the days when social media was fun. But is that enough? 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Scientists have found that some bits of that inscrutable DNA help determine which proteins get made at certain places and at certain times. What Cheetahs, Armadillos and Whales Revealed About Human DNA 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z For all her naughty candor, she remains inscrutable, loyal only to her own capricious heart. Review: In 'Ava,' Elizabeth McGovern casts a spell at Geffen Playhouse as a classic Hollywood femme fatale 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z But the man remains essentially inscrutable, as if we are cross-examining him from the distance of a drone — we learn where and when he went, but we have no idea why. Review | Ethan Hawke on a new biography of the elusive Sam Shepard 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z In essence, when faced with a more inscrutable opponent, the brain was busy making calculations and predictions, trying to figure out when the ball would arrive. Facing robot opponents puts table tennis players' brains on high-alert 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Earnest news items ticked past inscrutable jokes that disappeared behind someone getting furious at an airline company. Column: Bluesky evokes nostalgia for the days when social media was fun. But is that enough? 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Additionally, an AI algorithm tends to be more like an inscrutable black box than a clockwork mechanism. AI Is Getting Powerful. But Can Researchers Make It Principled? 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z A mystery wrapped in an enigma topped in a frizzy blond perm and librarian glasses, Misty is one of the most intriguingly inscrutable characters in “Yellowjackets.” 'Yellowjackets' left many open questions. Will Season 2 provide answers? 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z The characters are generic — plucky heroes, superior superiors, inscrutable politicians, eccentric assassins — which is not in itself a problem; it’s just that little interesting is done with them. ‘The Night Agent’ and ‘Agent Elvis’: A double dose of spies 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Still, he lamented that Japanese people remained “inscrutable in the eyes of Europeans and Americans.” Kenzaburo Oe, lyrical novelist and Nobel laureate, dies at 88 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z The figure who emerges at the end, however, remains every bit as inscrutable. Why you've probably never heard of one of L.A.'s most influential rockers 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Reading that nearly inscrutable piece on the economy — with one economist saying this, another saying that, and everyone hedging their bets — I can easily see why the first editor wrote a confused, dizzying headline. Will the New York Times ever give Joe Biden credit for his accomplishments? Chances dim! 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z He could be inscrutable, turning down interview requests and telling Spin magazine, “I like thinking of myself as invisible.” Tom Verlaine dies at 73; guitarist co-founded the punk band Television 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z But as researchers, we argue that this machinery is so complex, inscrutable and mysterious that popular concepts of “free will” or the “self” remain incredibly useful. Free Will Is Only an Illusion if You Are, Too 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z His approach makes him inscrutable compared with most superstars, especially quarterbacks. Lamar Jackson’s absence looms over the Ravens’ playoff hopes and beyond 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Once my account was live, placing a bet was somewhat inscrutable. Sports-Betting Apps Transform Clueless Spectators Into Rabid Fans. Trust Me. 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z Sylvie is definitely not always the boss you want to have, but with Leroy-Beaulieu’s finesse, the layers underneath her cool facade have made her a compelling, if somewhat inscrutable, antagonist. Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu isn't the villain of 'Emily in Paris.' She's the role model 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Diop’s austere approach — long takes captured by a fixed camera — requires patience, but the reward is an intimate film that destabilizes the audience’s preconceptions as it delves into the knotty, inscrutable actions of its protagonist. Oscars 2023: 10 women directors deserving attention 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Inside a living colony, where these three phases are in a hubbub of constant, inscrutable contact, pupae seem to stay dry. Ant Milk: It Does a Colony Good 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z The legendary — and legendarily inscrutable — musician and Pulitzer Prize winner released a rare public statement Friday following a controversy concerning supposedly autographed copies of his new book, “The Philosophy of Modern Song.” Bob Dylan apologizes for book controversy in rare public statement 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z An inscrutable motive was suggested by 15 to 20 copies of a flyer Weinstein said he found taped to the sides of the building. Beloved L.A. book emporium the Iliad bounces back after a mysterious fire 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Elizabeth, inscrutable even in her younger years, gives her a long look. Review | ‘The Crown,’ good as ever, may change your opinion of Charles and Diana 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Her face, inscrutable, contemplative, is the movie’s most distinctive image. ‘Causeway’ review: Jennifer Lawrence’s silence speaks volumes 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Field and Blanchett spoke to The Associated Press about the inscrutable Lydia Tár, their inspirations and NOT showing her hands playing the piano. Q&A: Todd Field and Cate Blanchett go deeper into ‘Tár’ 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z What’s more, this model skips over the inscrutable workings of the nervous system, instead making direct connections between molecules and smells. AI Predicts What Chemicals Will Smell like to a Human 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z In a perhaps inadvertently telling gesture, the camera eases the suffering, flatlining patient out of the frame and creeps slowly toward Charles, whose inscrutable expression is meant to chill you to the bone. Review: Jessica Chastain is good as 'The Good Nurse,' but Eddie Redmayne is bad as the bad nurse 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Yet she and Chambers are naturals with visual content, as demonstrated by the extremely meme-able “Chaise Longue” clip, in which they wear long white dresses and oversized sun hats for some delightfully inscrutable reason. Wet Leg, adorably, have no idea what the Grammys are 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z So sayeth Pingu, a clay animation penguin tyke who lives in an igloo village at the South Pole and who speaks in Penguinese, a language that is at once totally inscrutable and mysteriously — hilariously — comprehensible. Your Wednesday Briefing 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z America’s rickety democracy is shaping voter attitudes in other inscrutable ways. In one swing California suburb, Jan. 6 is minor subplot as voters focus on pocketbooks 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z But Mr Swinney was inscrutable - merely saying the Government will look carefully at their tax position in light of the changes and that it would be set out in an orderly fashion. Mini-budget: Tax gap between Scotland and England set to widen 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Across the country, people like Jones are stumbling through inscrutable election processes fraught with poor ballot design and rigid registration rules. The fight against an age-old effort to block Americans from voting 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Queen Elizabeth II was an analog celebrity in a digital age, perhaps the most famous, and famously inscrutable, woman in a world more inclined toward oversharing reality TV stars and internet influencers. Queen Elizabeth II: The One Constant in an Inconstant World 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Her expression is about as inscrutable as that of her husband’s, but the effect is more accessible. Perspective | In new Obama portraits, a traditional but necessary nod to goodwill 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Electrophysiologists must first map the heart's aberrant electrical impulses, a feat as astonishing and inscrutable as a city power grid. When an ER doctor becomes an ER patient 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z When information about them is made public, it’s often either watered down by corporate P.R. or buried in inscrutable scientific papers. We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z And, these being God’s inscrutable instructions, he must take only two companions, an old monk and a young one. Review | In Emma Donoghue’s ‘Haven,’ the drama accumulates slowly 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the inscrutable Arizona Democrat who has at times voted against her party’s demands, staked her vote on two changes. Sinema's last-minute push on Democrats' climate bill added $4 billion to combat Western drought 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z In a 50-50 Senate where every vote matters, the often inscrutable and politically undefinable Sinema puts hers to use in powerful ways. Sinema gives her nod, and influence, to Democrats’ big bill 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z The transparency takes a good amount of mystery out of what can be an inscrutable branch of bureaucracy. Opinion | Florida started penalizing bureaucratic delay. Housing permits spiked. 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Instead, the fate of those inmates passes into the hands of the Population Management Division of the county’s Department of Corrections, colloquially known as “pretrial services,” which the lawsuit describes as “an inscrutable black box.” Opinion | As inmates languish, Prince George’s County judges turn a blind eye 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Aggravating and inscrutable though Manchin’s behavior may be, he didn’t kill America’s chance at curbing climate change. Opinion | Manchin wasn’t the only one to kill climate action 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z The menu bar is a particularly good idea given how many apps tend to bury their settings behind inscrutable icons, but we’ll have to wait and see how it turns out. iPadOS 16 preview: jack of all trades, master of some 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Through conversations with an unseen neighbor and after a series of inscrutable tests, Nell gradually concocts an escape plan. Review: 'Mad God,' Jennifer Lopez, a new 'Father of the Bride' and more movies for the weekend 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z While it may be a bit inscrutable on first watch, an overriding sentiment comes through loud and clear — in the form of a middle finger raised straight to the camera. Review: 'Neptune Frost' is a visually and sonically dazzling cry for liberation through technology 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Others were shocked that Mr. Agrawal had dismissed longtime leaders and found him inscrutable. Twitter’s Chief Tries Staying the Course as Elon Musk Upends Plans 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z This may work if you want your religion “inscrutable,” as Mr. Hershovitz does. Opinion | Dear God, Even if You Don’t Exist 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z It cultivates its own set of rules and rituals, many of which are inscrutable to outsiders and therefore vulnerable to critique as elitist and out of touch. A New Class of Campus Satire 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z His actual views on abortion are a little inscrutable, which I’ll get to in a minute. The death of the moderate in WA politics 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Chuppa and Victoria were long and muscular, their eyes inscrutable drops of black ink, their skin mostly light gray with charcoal stripes. A Free Diver’s Training Partners: Sharks 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Elon Musk can at times be inscrutable, and his politics are elusive, which has made it somewhat difficult to determine exactly what the billionaire would do if he successfully acquired Twitter. 4 ways Twitter could change under Elon Musk 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z The movie is also a strong spotlight for Salazar, a consistently fascinating and magnetic actress whose funny, warmhearted and ultimately inscrutable Maria represents the potential for meaningful human connection always just beyond Harrison’s reach. Review: Gross-our horror 'Choose or Die' on Netflix and more movies to watch this weekend 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Similarly, AI systems overall could be deemed fair even if individual decisions are inscrutable, said Daniel Roy, an associate professor of statistics at University of Toronto. AI is explaining itself to humans. And it's paying off 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z One good thing for home buyers today is that some of the most complex and inscrutable loans either are no longer on the market or are less widely available. Thinking about an adjustable-rate mortgage? Know the risks 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z If you need an emotional bond to want sex with someone, it sounds more inscrutable, and thus tolerable, if you call yourself “demisexual.” Opinion | How radical is ‘radical monogamy,’ really? 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z |
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