| 单词 | insistence |
| 例句 | The light had retreated at the insistence of the darkness—a scrap of cloud lidding the blank eye of the moon—and Bone Gap was still. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Despite Pearl’s insistence that her mother wouldn’t mind, Mia minded her lateness very much. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Marie didn’t want to, but at the prosecutor’s insistence, she went over our swim, the movies, and going back to my place. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z This was done at the insistence of many child psychologists, who felt that to mix fantasy and reality would be misleading to children. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We were taking a stand against his insistence on a segregated Birmingham—and against the status quo. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Despite Francis’s insistence that he come to his house for a while, he insisted on going home to his own apartment. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Hector Bowen eventually relents to his daughter’s insistence that they remain in New York, but he does so for his own purposes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Probably at Howard’s insistence, he let the press come into the barn to see the horse, albeit without narration from the trainer. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Parents from as far away as New York sent their children to Allen for its rigorous liberal arts curriculum, its religious teaching, and its insistence on imparting social graces to its students. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Dorothy’s insistence also had a collateral effect: one of the white computers in the branch, in the same limbo position as Katherine, had herself gone to Pearson to petition for a raise. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z At Dean’s insistence, “intense negotiations were resumed among all concerned,” York related. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She had an absolute distrust of authority and an insistence on complete privacy which seemed to make her, and my family, even odder. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z So North probably saw not a working model, or even a maquette, but a drawing—hence his insistence that he had only seen it in model. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I had returning visions, annoying in their insistence, of the tall tumbler of club soda I used to enjoy on Friday nights with my parents. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But John was staring at the door that held back the music; towards which, with an insistence at once furious and feeble, his hands were still outstretched. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z At the wife’s insistence Haldar even moved her camp cot up there, along with a tin trunk that contained her belongings. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z His insistence on being more precise than Archimedes goes back into his youth, when he had devised an instrument, the balincetta, which would make more exact measurements of specific gravities than any made before. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Consider, for example, the problem created by the show’s insistence on being clever. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At Milton’s insistence I had been taken one last time to see Dr. Phil. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I discovered that my father’s method of teaching me Talmud and his patient insistence that I learn Talmudic grammar—I had painfully memorized an Aramaic grammar book—was now standing me in good stead. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He believed in Leader, and in Leader’s insistence that all of Village’s citizens, even the children, read, learn, participate, and care for one another. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z There they found him, at Clara’s insistence, looking every bit like a dejected sheep, exactly as she had described him on her slate. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Many academic articles contain bewildering non sequiturs and digressions that the authors stuck in at the insistence of an anonymous reviewer who had the power to reject it from the journal if they didn’t comply. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z At her parents’ insistence, she’d majored in chemistry, for they were hopeful she would follow in her father’s footsteps. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z At Mama’s insistence, I’m in a velvet party dress, and even Mustafa grudgingly agreed to put on an ironed shirt and some jeans without any holes. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Now Rae’s insistence upon staying at her own house last night to “prepare for the big day” makes sense. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z That explained blitzball, that explained the nightly meetings of the Super Suicide Society, that explained his insistence that I share all his diversions. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘So-called’ is apologetic; even stranger is his insistence that the term is already in popular use. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Several women dressed in black came to the well for water, but the boy would speak to none of them, despite the Englishman’s insistence. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In spite of my father’s insistence that I need to earn the right to drive, he’s taken me to empty parking lots. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I remember Amelia’s insistence that we keep the box a secret. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It's only after Ollie leaves me at home, after finishing the hot chocolate at Mama’s insistence, that I realize he never told me where it was, this meeting of his student group. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z At John’s insistence, Ernest was transferred across the bay to Palo Alto Hospital, the better to consult with its Dr. Albert Snell, one of the nations preeminent specialists in colitis. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Howard’s insistence that his horse would not run under more than 130 pounds had put track handicappers in a bind. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Those are ordinary pressures we can relate to, the insistence of fashion or the approval of friends. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z They read my insistence as mere obstinacy, as foolishness, something that would quickly pass; and they had no notion how desperately serious the tale had made me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But her insistence that I was imagining my symptoms messed with my head even more. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z After the fact, eyewitness testimony became a form of virtual witnessing, hence Boyle’s insistence that he did not appeal ‘to other Writers as to Judges, but as to Witnesses’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Paralleling my mom’s insistence that I attend Riverdale because John F. Kennedy had once gone to school there, she was won over to Valley Forge when she heard that General Norman Schwarzkopf was a graduate. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z And what of the children’s insistence that someone was living behind that strange wall in the attic? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He’s whispering, but his voice is harsh with insistence. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The Christian churches could not abandon their belief in miracles and angels, but Christians could certainly retreat from their insistence on the reality of witchcraft, demonic possession, poltergeists, levitation and second sight. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But that’s exactly what brought on this letter—much more than Bessie’s insistence that I write to you about Ph.D.s and acting. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z In the theater, passion and perfectionism and insistence on aesthetic standards are prized qualities, not unruly and unwelcome traits. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z At his insistence, she concedes and makes him an American dinner once a week as a treat, Shake ’n Bake chicken or Hamburger Helper prepared with ground lamb. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There was a lonely insistence to the sound of the wind, and then everything went still. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z At my insistence, Gay called Karen Gievers, the attorney who had handled the class-action suit involving one of Gay’s guardian children. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Sunlight was itself still young, and the day had none of the insistence maturity would bring it in a few hours. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z On Seven’s insistence, the Witchlings met very early the next morning at the edge of Blue Mountain Forest. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z He demanded so much, promised with such insistence that he would not mistreat the things, that Úrsula gave him the keys. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Anytime I asked how he was feeling, though, he gave me the same answer, with the same degree of insistence that he’d given me for years. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He spent a lot of time with the Haudenosaunee, whose insistence on personal liberty fascinated him. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z My arms sting from the insistence in Noodle's grip, and I don't know how many times I have to say it. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z To my relief—and at my insistence—he promised not to ask my parents’ permission for any future dates. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Burr’s own letter, therefore, was a gross insult in its arrogant insistence “upon a basis so vague as that which you have adopted.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But all that was required to abolish this conceptual scheme was an insistence on direct as opposed to indirect experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One of my sisters—despite my insistence that everything be kept secret—told one of her friends that “her brother would soon be going to America,” and soon all Alexandra knew. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Which man of honour,” I wrote, “will desert a lifelong friend at the insistence of a common opponent and still retain a measure of credibility with his people?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was the touch of Kaede’s fingers on her skin, and there the soft insistence of her mouth. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She and the twins had only learned how to swim at Abuelito’s insistence, which had been prompted by her father’s drowning. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z And now all this was forgotten and put aside, our conversation down the telephone, our mutual anxiety, his insistence that he must see me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It had been at Edmure's insistence that Robb had given the river lords leave to depart after his crowning, each to defend his own lands. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In 1957, spurred by the efforts of the ANC Women’s League, women all across the country, in rural areas and in cities, reacted with fury to the state’s insistence that they cairry passes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, at her parents’ insistence, he concocted some lilac-colored sugar pills, which he prescribed with the warning that they were a Siberian remedy for deaf-mutes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The confident presentation of an idea in classic style should not be confused with an arrogant insistence that it is correct. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z None of us had really unpacked our things, on Liam’s insistence, but I had to collect my toothbrush and toothpaste from where I had left them next to Chubs’s in the bathroom. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Indian insistence on personal liberty was accompanied by an equal insistence on social equality. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Maybe that place, the meeting of the two, is here somewhere, in the gentle insistence of the water around his legs, crude letters carved with an old pocket knife. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He and I went away to a Christian camp, at Dad's insistence: Youth Truth ’n Spirit, up in the Poconos Mountains. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z They sped north under whale-power, and at Hazel and Frank’s insistence, Percy settled in for a nap. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Especially important was my insistence that the meridional reflection at 3.4 A was much stronger than any other reflection. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Horns don't honk this early, not with such insistence. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z My thoughts were interrupted by the man’s desperate insistence. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z When the Captain retired, my father, at the Captain’s insistence, took over his position of mine superintendent. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was impossible to determine if farmers were Viet Cong or not, and an insistence on a high body count number contributed to innocent civilian deaths. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The printing press was the precondition for this new insistence that knowledge, no longer authoritative, might at last become reliable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At Elnora’s insistence, I wore a coif to keep the sun from my head and a large kerchief to cover my shoulders. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z And despite his own insistence that his cure needed to be administered at the first signs of fever, he did not have himself bled or purged. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z At my mother’s insistence, she, too, began school; the burden of financing both our educations rested entirely on my mother, even though my father tried to help from time to time. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “If it wasn’t for your stubborn insistence that we go back to Afghanistan five years ago, we wouldn’t be in this mess right now! ” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Their insistence prompted Burnham to telegraph Olmsted immediately and urge him once again to come. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z What killed alchemy was the insistence that experiments must be openly reported in publications which presented a clear account of what had happened, and they must then be replicated, preferably before independent witnesses. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z His insistence on the compatibility of the new science and Christian faith was an expression of his deepest convictions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Bobby played this form of chess at Nigro’s insistence and wasn’t particularly good at it, but it did quicken his appraisal of the position at hand and forced him to trust his instincts. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A quiet strength and subterranean power exuded from his body with understated insistence. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The remaining camaradas who weren’t sick were tasked with chopping down some trees to make spare paddles—also at Roosevelt’s insistence. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z At his insistence she was removing her clothes, and at such speed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z One building in particular appears smoothed and worn by the insistence of fingers: the building he’s in. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The childlike insistence in her tone had the blanket thrown aside and my feet hitting the cool soil-covered floor before I could think. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I was made nervous by their insistence that they still were alEed to their parents’ culture. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The informal touches; the handshaking; the folk music; the insistence upon union—all these changes are aimed at serving Catholics who no longer live in a Catholic world. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The word phobic has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z They walked for a few hours, Harry, at Hermione’s insistence, hidden beneath the Invisibility Cloak. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z His insistence on hope and the potential for mobility, I was coming to see, came from an entirely different and not easily accessible place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z "I hope, Miss Brent, that you are not offended by my insistence that all of us are equally under suspicion?" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z He reiterated his insistence that in Chicago “simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At first the angry insistence of her crying had filled the house, but she had come to be quiet, sucking feebly at whatever was put into her mouth and never lifting up her voice. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Smith, shaken by Pollard’s insistence, told the driver to stop. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That was why none of them slept at the house when they visited the town and the four who had stayed lived in rented rooms at Úrsula’s insistence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I get off the phone, stunned by the news of the deadline and Missus Stein’s insistence to get Constantine in the book. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Tony Blair’s glottal stops and flattened vowels in office were an attempt to downplay his private school background, as is David Cameron’s plausibility-stretching insistence that he’s “middle class.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z They were afraid of Yossarian and persecuted him incessandy with nagging generosity and with their exasperating insistence on doing small favors for him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z There’s something a little off about the sheriff; I don’t think he’s been drinking, but his insistence has an undercurrent that puts me on alert. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I should show Stargirl and the world that I wasn’t like the rest of them, that I appreciated her, that I celebrated her and her insistence on being herself. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z But I felt they were greatly relieved by my insistence. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, it’s our deep insistence on believing things that make no sense that have some religious people not believing in the very real, provable truth of climate change. Tiphanie Yanique on the Necessity of the Spirit 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most profound aspect of “Transfigured” is its insistence that viewers experience the absurdity of our sincerely held expectation of absolution through complicity. Perspective | A Black Jesus is at the center of a ‘Passion’ that transfigures the listener 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z As Muholi puts it in a conversation with the curator Renée Mussai, transcribed in the book: “My practice as a visual activist looks at black resistance — existence as well as insistence.” Zanele Muholi, a South African Artist Who Uses Self-Portraits as Visual Activism 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Does she worry that one plank of their demands – the insistence that models’ BMIs be monitored – will seem to some as if women are once again being medicalised or placed under enforced scrutiny? Two models, one goal: to free women from fashion’s weight tyranny 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z In the land of homeopathic pharmacies and verbena tisanes, Margaux’s insistence on home-brewed, herbal potions seems entirely plausible. Television Review: ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ Is Remade Into a Mini-Series 2014-05-08T21:12:18Z What redeems them, to some extent, is Robinson's insistence on the work ethic. 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson – review 2012-06-14T07:00:03Z The Watson pictures show Parks’s growing sophistication with artificial light, composition and the use of symbolic details, and also his insistence on presenting African-Americans in ways that defied stereotypes. ‘Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950’ Review: Young Talent in Black and White 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z To some, Fine's insistence on Facts' survival may seem reminiscent of the belief that rock stars like Jim Morrison are still alive. Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012 2012-04-20T21:47:00Z A cosmopolitan outlook – "an insistence that there is more than one way of looking at the world" – is vital to social harmony. Michelle de Kretser: Who travels? Who doesn't? What is home?' - interview 2013-06-22T00:33:57Z Gradually a sense of the indomitable attached itself to Murray: a sporting version of the adjectival insistence that FR Leavis observed in Conrad. My hero: Andy Murray by Geoff Dyer 2013-07-12T15:00:01Z The insistence that women in media change the pitch of their voices often comes with little concern for the anatomical and physiological factors that will limit how much pitch change is ultimately possible. What’s behind the obsession over whether Elizabeth Holmes intentionally lowered her voice? 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z She’s revered queerness in all forms, from expressions of gender outside the usual binary to her insistence on having two guys for every girl. What Peaches Can Teach America Now 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z “What amazed her,” Spiotta writes, was the “insistence of boosting the self when the world — and this country, in particular — was in disgraceful shambles.” Review | Dana Spiotta’s ‘Wayward’ is much more than a midlife crisis novel 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z When the ’60s began, young artists like Rauschenberg were in rebellion against abstract expressionism, with its insistence on art as a vehicle for personal feeling and existential angst. The Big Bang of Art and Tech in New York 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z The insistence on maximizing income closely mirrors America’s corporate culture, in which growth trumps all concerns and workers are expected to produce more and more by executives who see employees and customers alike as commodities. 'The Ferguson Report' offers a damning indictment 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z But “The Wong Kids” embeds its messages in fun, and its insistence on being extraordinary proves the upside of standing out. Theater Review: In ‘The Wong Kids,’ a Sister and a Brother Turn Superheroes 2014-02-10T20:38:59Z So at Yaroslavsky's insistence, the county continued to push for the hall to be built, giving fundraisers enough time to mount a new and finally successful campaign. L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky exiting as a champion of arts 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z The RCG's insistence on always consuming a large bottle of seltzer with his requisite rotisserie chicken? The appeal and allure of the rotisserie chicken guy 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Their insistence on sexual reticence, even outright prudery, was much stronger than that of either the working classes or the very wealthy.” Separate beds are liberating 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z But too often the action is strangely far away, and there is a deadening effect to the script’s insistence on emphasizing social injustice even more than Dickens does in his original story. Review: Hey, Eb, 3 Christmas Spirits Would Like to Chill With You 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Why his insistence on talking about eternity and the falsity of endings? ArtsBeat: Popcast: On Wayne Shorter, the Jazz Standard-Bearer and Cosmic Philosopher 2013-02-01T18:30:42Z Since moving here in 1953, "at the insistence" of her late husband, Frenchman Pierre Galante, she found no reason to return to the U.S. Olivia de Havilland Talks About Her Sister 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z “Come Sunday” communicates with crystal clarity Ellington’s admiration for laborers and his elegant insistence on unconditional respect. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Duke Ellington 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z In his insistence on such awkward questions, Pinckney proves himself, as one essay title confesses, “Under the Spell of James Baldwin.” Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The clanging insistence of bells became a critical device to her retelling of this classic story about the game of games: the marriage game. A Madcap ‘Pride & Prejudice,’ Alfresco in the Hudson Valley 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z But the production’s insistence on the big picture precludes intimate engagement. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z Who wants to see their favorite DJ while surrounded by people who don't care or, worse, are starting to get annoyed by your insistence on dancing? Rock in Rio: Do we really need another music festival? 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The honest truth is that I found Natasha grating, and frequently frustrating, especially her repeated insistence on her pre-childbirth hotness and her incredulity about motherhood. And Now, a Case for the Ordinary 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z It is, rather, Bellevue’s enduring commitment as a public hospital to the indigent, its relentless insistence on viewing health care as a basic human right. Review: ‘Bellevue’ Celebrates a Hospital Not Crazy, but Compassionate 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The point is that like there is stuff to love in those pieces of art, and then there's this insistence on just poisoning all of it. Lindy West reclaims the "witch hunt": On comedy, feminism and why terrible men think they're victims 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z He hated their unruliness, their insistence on dictating the terms of their own humanity. Perspective | Rush Limbaugh had a lot to say about feminism. Women learned how to not care. 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z But then there are all the questions left behind by Logan’s death — unanswered partly because of Logan’s insistence on always keeping even his closest allies in the dark. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 3 Recap: Long Live the King 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z In this marriage there’s a willingness and an insistence that our life is a life together, and everybody is meaningful and needs to be taken care of. Two Divorce Lawyers Take Their Work Home 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Speaking in Ottawa, the right-wing Israeli leader ignored Obama's appeal to let sanctions run their course and focused on the president's insistence on keeping the military option open and backing Israel's right to defend itself. Obama, Netanyahu face struggle over Iran 'red lines' 2012-03-05T13:09:00Z The Met’s insistence on mixing and matching, always pushing the relevance of its vast holdings to more contemporary developments, may become a tick. A Polymathic Italian Designer, With Muses and Friends 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z This was something it was possible to verify to some extent because of Charcot's insistence on taking detailed case histories, which were also invaluable to Hustvedt in writing this fascinating book. Medical Muses by Asti Hustvedt - review 2011-07-15T21:55:01Z Anita and her two older brothers studied piano at their mother’s insistence, but only Anita, who began taking lessons at the age of 4, stayed with it. Anita Kerr, an Architect of the Nashville Sound, Dies at 94 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z And, at the insistence of the writers, inserted a “Vanderpump Rules” reference that Wood still wasn’t quite sure he understood. How Roy Wood Jr. crushed the toughest room in comedy 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z There is also Neel’s own indomitable personality, ever-present in her work, and the dazzling insistence of her paintings as objects. ‘Alice Neel: People Come First’ 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z She was indebted to “all those artists, and all those years of work, and an insistence and persistence and invention in that form,” she added. Frank Bowling’s New Paintings Are Family Affairs 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z “I ran from his insistence I was special, from his compulsive and overwhelming need to believe, from his very blood, which of course I couldn’t get away from, no matter where I went.” Book review: ‘High as the Horses’ Bridles,’ by Scott Cheshire She soon believes she’s pregnant, despite doctors’ insistence that there is no baby. Portrait of a Nigerian Marriage in a Heartbreaking Debut Novel 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z It will function nothing like a traditional museum or gallery and will show none of Mr. Kelley’s work, at his own insistence. ArtsBeat: To Honor Mike Kelley, a Replica of His Home 2012-05-14T00:22:43Z Regardless, despite Friedersdorf’s insistence otherwise, the tone of Christakis’s email was not always thoughtful, at times exhibiting an absurd lack of self awareness. Who’s really demanding to be coddled on campus? Yale students aren’t the spoiled brats for refusing to be racially trolled on Halloween 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z This strange insistence on moralizing teen pain, while also presenting completely amoral storylines, makes season three such a frustrating watch. 13 Reasons Why: what the controversial drama gets wrong 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z I sometimes wasn’t so sure about Mechanic’s insistence that we need to extend any special empathy to ultra-rich people, who seem more than capable of taking care of themselves. ‘Jackpot’ Looks at How Inequality Is Experienced by the Very, Very Rich 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Dietland is most subversive in its insistence that not giving in to these messages is actually productive rather than futile. Killer looks: how Dietland confronts the violence of beauty culture 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z But what made the series so exceptional was its insistence on examining the human riddle at its center, turning it over and over again to uncover astonishing new facets and missed connections. 12 Surprising Reasons to Be Grateful for the Arts in 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Berkowitz, who’s in the “best relationship” of his life, wakes after a blackout to his girlfriend’s insistence that “it wasn’t as bad as all that.” Addiction isn’t “fun”: The problem with moderation manifestoes 2014-03-03T23:59:00Z David’s encounters, bracing as they are, made me wonder if there isn’t something oppressive about the insistence on majesty and wonder in modern science writing. Three New Books Explore the Machinery of the Mind 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z That awkwardness may explain, in part, the alarm bells some viewers keep hearing in the movie, despite the filmmakers' insistence that the story itself is entirely true. Untangling the "Catfish" hoax rumors 2010-10-14T11:01:00Z It’s a South peopled by characters who might appear to be stereotypes if it weren’t for the show’s insistence on allowing us to see how multifaceted they are. Brian Reed went to “S-Town;” all he brought back was this profound and unforgettable story 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z The biennial, they added, will reject the “insistence on being unprecedented” that has been so prominent over the last two decades in architecture and focus instead on those firms working to “make new history.” A vast Louis Kahn retrospective lands at the San Diego Museum of Art 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z With the president’s refusal to acknowledge losing the election, expressions of support are now bound up with his denial, defiance and insistence that he has been wronged. What Does the MAGA Hat Mean Now? 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z If there’s a common trait, it is their self-centeredness and stubborn insistence, when faced with conflict, that they are in the right. ‘Life Partners’ Stars Leighton Meester and Gillian Jacobs 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Rapists don't really pay attention to your evangelical insistence on clenching your knees. Why mothers defend Roe v. Wade: Abortion is a fact of life for parents, too 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z The official line was that Mr. Wainwright, who wrote the libretto in French, refused to bend to the Met’s insistence that it be in English. Rufus Wainwright’s 10-Year Journey Back to Judy Garland 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z There is no insistence in Tanowitz’s work; its beauties flower and dematerialize before your eyes. Review: Pam Tanowitz’s Witty Dance Secrets in London 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Although those revelations shadowed her for years, her talent for reinvention and insistence on maintaining the excellence she reached the height of her solo career eventually won out. Simply the best: Tina Turner has died but leaves a legacy of endurance and resurgence 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z The famous butter scene, she said, was not in the script and made it into the film only at Brando’s insistence. ArtsBeat: 'Last Tango in Paris' Star Maria Schneider Dies 2011-02-03T20:43:32Z From beginning to end, a chilling fog of tiny, long-ago faces haunts present-day lives, the insistence on justice making us wonder. | 'Cropsey': Joshua Zeman and Barbara Broncaccio Look at Kidnappings 2010-06-04T02:02:00Z We know only as much as she does, and her risky insistence on knowing the truth is what drives the story through harrowing suspense and potential heartbreak. ‘A Chiara’ Review: A Mobster’s Daughter Dares to Ask Questions 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z The exhibition’s insistence of diverse representations of cultural, economic, racial, and gender identities and experiences feels authentic and compassionate. At Tacoma Art Museum, portraits that reach out and touch you 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z From her parents she absorbed a distrust of “phonies” and rich people, along with a staunch insistence on a steady diet of greasy food. Barbara Ehrenreich Contains Multitudes. They’re All Ticked Off. 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Stewart bristles with ornery charm as the tough-talking Bobby, whose insistence on total control of his charges leads to a showdown with Ajay over the direction of his training. | 'Beautiful Burnout': Hoping to Punch a Path to Glory 2011-03-02T03:01:01Z Despite his insistence that he has little to give, my quarantine boyfriend and I are growing attached. My Quarantine Boyfriend Lost Everything (but Found Me) 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z He skewers the myths about soul mates and the importance of the grand gesture, and shows how TV's insistence on photogenic beauty raises unrealistic expectations. Tonight's TV highlights: A Farmer's Life For Me 2011-02-01T00:05:01Z When a table of chatty Cathies inquired about one A-list actor’s dining habits, the waiter vented about the actor’s insistence upon eating before the restaurant was actually open. Nick & Toni’s, A Restaurant in the Hamptons Where Bonnie Is the Word 2013-05-24T20:41:56Z Cross was a compelling character, but the book became Patterson's breakthrough because of his insistence, against all received opinion in publishing, that it should be advertised on TV. James Patterson: a life in writing 2013-05-11T08:02:02Z They tend to involve feuding exes more than feuding friends, but the upshot is the same: Indulging someone’s insistence on a boycott is tantamount to giving a toddler what she wants to end her tantrum. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Something bold, something rude 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z In any event, the movie’s structure is determined — and sometimes skewed — by its insistence on telling the tale of a writer and his cinematic Boswell. ‘Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time’ Review: An Idol Shares the Camera 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z She is made uncomfortable by the older generation’s insistence on maintaining old customs and parochial habits, which she views as an impediment to breaking loose from her parents’ cultural gravity. Review: ‘The Joy Luck Club,’ by Amy Tan 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z And it wasn't just his insistence that his photograph not appear on book covers — he routinely sued biographers, and in one case appealed to the Supreme Court to stop an author from quoting him. 'J.D. Salinger: A Life': Kenneth Slawenski's biography of a reluctant genius 2011-01-22T00:07:54Z Even if you grow weary of the insistence on musical novelty, it still seems odd to hear a musician talking of "unnecessary development in music". Allah-Las: American cratediggers in London 2013-01-20T19:30:01Z He said he has long admired Mr. Cage and liked his insistence in “Indeterminacy” that audiences bring their own meaning to the work and discover the unity between sounds and stories. Bill T. Jones Will Be Onstage in His New Work, ?Story/Time? 2012-01-18T20:12:35Z The scale of her business, and her insistence on its independence, limited her profits, and Toledo never bought the ads that media outlets reward with editorial exposure. Remembering Isabel Toledo, a Designer with Few Peers 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Recently, and more originally, Bey has fought against the camera’s literalness — its insistence on showing what’s there — by trying to imagine precisely what isn’t there. Review | This photographer transcends his medium — by turning day into night and past into present 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z The 1977 sessions exemplified his problems working within the modern music industry, which stemmed from Mr. Hill’s insistence on micromanaging the recording process. Texas Monthly: Finally, an Album for a Rock Star Who Never Was 2011-11-06T07:30:10Z Her mother, her father, his groomsmen and even their cantor all wore sneakers at the insistence of the bridal couple. Sneakers for That Sprint Down the Aisle 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z And as you listen, its title takes on a few meanings at once — working as both an insistence on contemporaneity and an acknowledgment that he sits along a continuum. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Whitney, for example, rebels against her mother's insistence on keeping her nose clean by taking a secret risk designed to create politically unfortunate headlines. HBO Max's "The Sex Lives of College Girls" is less erotic and more awkward than its alluring title 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z His insistence on ceramics as high art was an argument that Mr. Price, a man of few but well-chosen words, left to his sculptures to articulate. Ken Price, Sculptor Who Helped Elevate Ceramics, Dies at 77 2012-02-25T02:28:11Z The only chink in his otherwise perfect chivalry was his insistence that she gargle with Listerine before they went to bed. Brand designs 2010-04-06T07:00:00Z At Diaghilev's insistence, the company was never officially filmed, and although there are many contemporary accounts of its performances – reviews, reportage, reminiscences – it's always been assumed that there was no visual record. A few small steps from Ballets Russes ... one giant leap for dance historians 2011-02-02T18:23:55Z Responding to Moonves’ insistence that he never used his position to “hinder the advancement or careers of women,” she laughed bitterly. Les Moonves resigns from CBS, but is it a true #MeToo victory if he reaps a payout? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z But Williams’s insistence on making Stoner a blameless martyr, rather than a man with choices, and denying him any ironic self-awareness about the causes of his Job-like misfortunes leaves the novel far from perfect. Classic ‘Stoner’? Not so fast. 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z This limited series shared American Crime’s format, its insistence on moral ambiguity, and, confusingly, two words in its title. Here Are the Best TV Shows of 2016 So Far 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z But Andy's selfish insistence on having everything on his own terms is wearying. 'Dog and Pony's' grating personalities spoil the musical fun 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z There’s some fascinating and provocative material in “The Capote Tapes” that is diluted by the director Ebs Burnough’s insistence on teasing a question that, arguably, has a self-evident answer. ‘The Capote Tapes’ Review: New Narratives and Unanswered Prayers 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The amplification, of course, doesn't help either, and why this show should have been exempt from ENO's insistence on surtitles escapes me. Dr Dee – review 2012-06-27T11:01:40Z With the state of Trump's contagiousness as questionable as his relationship with the truth, the Commission scrapped the second in-person debate scheduled for this week despite Trump's insistence that he was well enough to appear. Trump's town hall is just another ratings ploy, which NBC happily obliges 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z He said he had felt threatened by her insistence. Gary Coleman obituary 2010-05-28T23:57:00Z In contrast, BoJack Horseman’s greatest strength is its insistence that the work involved in doing the right thing is actually pretty compelling in its own right. How BoJack Horseman became the most empathetic show on television 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The show drew some criticism locally for its insistence that the "Irish mob" was Chicago's crime problem, and for what some thought were flaws in the Chicago accent of Clarke, a native of Australia. 'Code' cancelation could hurt city's bottom line 2011-05-11T20:00:00Z That insistence on functionality over aesthetics is something of a lie I tell myself, possibly homophobic in nature, or else it’s a penitential inoculation against my getting too big for my britches. The craft that consumed me 2012-08-10T14:59:00Z Obama’s civil religion was similar to Catholicism in its insistence that “good works” are necessary for salvation. Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z “It struck me that King’s vision was both the empowerment of African-Americans, the insistence on civil rights, but also the reconciliation of people who seemed so hard to reconcile,” he said. Cover Story: “The Dream of Reconciliation” 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z It wasn't always polite playing: Esfahani attacked heavily, pounded repetitions, dragged and overlapped with insistence. Mahan Esfahani – review 2012-07-20T17:36:44Z And yet that doesn’t matter nearly as much as it should, at least partly because of Mr. West’s insistence on his own greatness. Kanye West, Still Unfiltered, on Eve of Fifth Album 2010-11-19T04:30:00Z You can’t help if you’re not healthy yourself, and that means “opposition to her insistence on continuing to support my sibling” is not an act of correction but of conscience. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Don’t talk it out with mom. Just talk. 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z In a Comment from 2017, she writes about the revolutionary nature of the #MeToo movement and its insistence that we value women’s stories about abuse. Sunday Reading: The World of Jia Tolentino 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z She still disagrees with his insistence on the gesture. Brought Together by Fate, and Three Finicky Cats 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Richardson praised her self-control, her insistence on never rushing. Zoë Chao Identified With ‘Party Down’ a Little Too Well for a While 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z During time spent inside on Thursday morning with four other visitors, I quickly understood Mr. Wheeler’s insistence on small groups. Desert Silence, Transposed to the Cacophony of New York 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Ramsey attended a performing arts high school, and later tried to study acting in college, but found the experience “emotionally abusive” for its insistence that students draw from their most painful memories. Why Franchesca Ramsey Is Done Feeding the Trolls 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z An essayist for the Gentleman’s Magazine of 1891 echoes the lexicographers’ insistence that these words were common, opining that “the ‘bad language’ of the present day must be characterized as obscene rather than profane.” The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from 2013-05-11T12:30:00Z No stacks of files dispatched into the garbage can by Ignatius at Levy Pants, where he is forced to defile himself with labor at his mother’s insistence. Review: Nick Offerman as a Giant of New Orleans, Resized 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Its blanket insistence that using snippets from others' works "is not appropriate under any circumstances" ignores various potential legal defenses. Katy Perry's "California Gurls" on safe ground 2010-08-17T02:01:00Z Corden opted for musical mockery, marking Trump’s recovery and insistence he could be immune to the virus with a parody performance of Paul McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed” called “Maybe I’m Immune.” Late Night in 2020: The Show Must Go Home 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Yet there is a truth in the melodrama that the rhetoric of “healing,” “recovery,” or “becoming a survivor” lacks for me, and that is its insistence that what I have lost is never coming back. I don’t know how to discuss being raped: I am different, permanently, but there’s no language to describe how 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z This insistence on unapologetic individuality is what makes modern eccentrics such a powerful force for social change, particularly at a time when authoritarianism and groupthink threatens to take over the world. Eccentric women: why they are more important than ever in our oppressive era 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Daniels subtly imbues a hint of sinister pathology in Ray's weary insistence that he's completely normal. Jeff Daniels makes a powerful return to 'Blackbird' alongside a captivating Michelle Williams 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The company has spent upward of a billion dollars to lure talent like Cuaron, even agreeing to show his movie in theaters despite its insistence that streaming is the future. Perspective | An existential question animates this year’s Oscar race: What, exactly, is a movie? 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Even as the movie is so obviously a work of its auteur, it’s also faithful to Dahl’s spirit, with wry comedy and an insistence on not looking down on its youngest audience members. How to make a Roald Dahl book into a movie the right way 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z With this in mind, Tolentino’s insistence that we move beyond the personal may be her most trenchant political insight. Jia Tolentino on the ‘Unlivable Hell’ of the Web and Other Millennial Conundrums 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z "The idea is the same: an insistence that children actually want to be good at things – as is so often overlooked – and can be if they are given the chance." Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z This insistence on specific, concrete concerns is part of what gives the film its power as an indictment of BP and its managers. Review: In ‘Deepwater Horizon,’ Oil, Fire and Greed 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The power of their unflagging, quiet insistence would swept us along, tsunami-like, carrying all of our messy uncertainty in its wake. Motherlode: Grandfather Knows Best 2011-06-22T20:22:53Z At the Venezuelan conductor's insistence, the gates of the Hollywood Bowl were thrown open to the community, with free tickets for all. After five years of Gustavo Dudamel, what's next? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Alexandre is a creature of impulse and a monster of insistence. ‘The Mother and the Whore’: A Threesome and Then Some 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Some scholars who teach blackface traditions questioned the quickness of some to denounce the students, or to mock their insistence on contextualization as a demand for “trigger warnings.” A Blackface ‘Othello’ Shocks, and a Professor Steps Back From Class 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z I was the only kid who was allowed to take both band and Spanish because of her insistence. Greta Gerwig: My Mother, My City 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z It showed that, despite my health teacher’s insistence to the contrary, sex could be a great many things. From phone sex to webcamming: Capturing the evolution of sex 2014-01-05T01:00:00Z I wanted to actually go back to something you said — and granted, I was fortunate enough to get a supplementary education on this topic thanks to my mother insistence's on my reading about it. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Bustamante's art is a highly subtle affair in which the ordinary is afforded an extraordinary significance by the hypnotic insistence of his camera. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-12T00:05:41Z She thinks of his insistence on getting the documentary finished and done right as “his final act of love for Michelle”. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: the story of the search for the Golden State Killer 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z It is a canny self-observation, about work that is surprisingly quiet, and thus all the more poignant in its insistence and clarity. Perspective | Painting Michelle Obama brought Amy Sherald fame. Now, the artist wants to make works ‘to rest your eyes.’ 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Arnault's insistence that he would keep his French citizenship and remain a resident in France for tax purposes did little to quell his opponents. | France's Trouble With Money 2012-12-07T22:03:24Z While Burberry’s insistence on the “polite” side of the British gentleman laid down a challenge to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s 1987 claim that “there is no such thing as society.” From Jil Sander to Burberry, there were men?s wear risks in Milan 2012-01-15T19:51:37Z At Jurowski's insistence, the cast represented a spectrum of singers from opera to cabaret. The Threepenny Opera/ The Seven Deadly Sins – review 2013-03-04T18:21:00Z At her insistence, she and her mother traveled to Orange, Va., one weekend to visit Montpelier, the James and Dolley Madison estate. Titans in Party Dresses 2010-12-27T21:21:42Z There was something noble and magnificent in Ted's insistence upon healing everyone before himself, in assuring that everything is possible if people simply believe. In the final analysis, "Ted Lasso" is all about a man, a team and their daddy issues 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z The dichotomy is false, and the insistence a little embarrassing; when judged only as a brief for that point, “Dancin’” stumbles. Review: In Fosse’s ‘Dancin’,’ a Wiggle Is Worth a Thousand Words 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z After earning her bachelor’s degree — she graduated first in her class with majors in Spanish and music — the young Ms. Dobbs moved North at her father’s insistence for advanced vocal training. Mattiwilda Dobbs, Soprano and Principal at Met, Dies at 90 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z He chastised the media for a number of things, but seemed to resent most of all its insistence that he be contrite or modest when he is not asking for forgiveness. Charlie Sheen brings rambling road show to a close in Everett 2011-05-04T20:05:06Z Reportedly at the insistence of producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli’s wife Dana, Connery got the role in Dr No over better known actors due to his “sex appeal”. Sean Connery, James Bond actor, dies aged 90 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Washington’s decision is final, however, despite Arnold’s insistence that he can serve on the frontlines while recovering from a leg wound. 'TURN: Washington's Spies' recap: Providence shines on Patriot cause 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z “Perelman taunted the defendants, daring them to sue him if they were not willing to accept his insistence on paying with unwanted works of art instead of cash,” Mr. Gagosian asserts. Larry Gagosian and Ronald Perelman in a New Legal Clash 2013-01-19T01:24:20Z Ramy’s insistence in figuring out who he is and where he wants to go in life, however, creates a sustaining tension that becomes the show’s spine. Smart Watch: "Ramy" blesses us with a thoughtful, funny comedy about goodness 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z Most is the result of Elizabeth's insistence on maintaining the corona of privacy expected of her station. Our Elizabethan Age of Pop Culture 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Willa’s daughter was recently killed; hence her recklessness and her insistence that Oliver swipe some of his doctor father’s prescription pills. | 'Oliver Parker!': Elizabeth Meriwether?s Dark New Comedy 2010-05-20T22:00:00Z The characters, with their insistence on self-determination, feel too modern, and there are a few infelicities, like the idea that “The Communist Manifesto,” first translated into English toward the end of 1850, would circulate onboard. Review: ‘Belfast Girls’ Set Sail, but This Isn’t a Pleasure Cruise 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z He then followed the news with an insistence of his innocence and a promise to continue his legal battle to prove it. Johnny Depp says he has been asked to resign from Fantastic Beasts franchise 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z If those GOP voters had been willing to overlook Kinzinger’s opposition to disinformation and decertification before the attempted insurrection at the Capitol, his insistence on holding Trump accountable for the attack might be considered unforgivable. Anti-Trump Republican Adam Kinzinger accepts his fate, whatever it is 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Despite Ms. Gilbert’s insistence that people are “deeply appreciative” of assigned seating, count me among the silent and excruciatingly polite majority that really don’t like it much at all. Cultural Studies: Arranged Seating at Parties Can Be a Source of Anxiety for Guests 2012-06-01T20:07:09Z My short hair hadn’t been mentioned — I’d had it short third grade through seventh grade, after all, only growing it out at my mom’s insistence. My first time using the men’s room 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z This is where I resist the insistence that translation is an unambiguous good. Did He Really Say That? On the Perils and Pitfalls of Translation 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Ohm, which opens the quiet set and pops up again in the noisy one, works perfectly as an acoustic number, its droning insistence given extra focus by the absence of noise. Yo La Tengo – review 2013-03-22T16:17:47Z But at his father’s insistence he enrolled at Roanoke College in Virginia to study mathematics, in the father’s hope that he would eventually run the family business. Victor Pesce, Painter of Minimalist Still Lifes, Dies at 71 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z Mr. Porter’s insistence on blazing his own path — and the resentments he racked up along the way — are behind one of the most remarkable rise-and-fall-and-rebound stories in New York theater in recent years. Billy Porter Tells His Own Story in ‘While I Yet Live’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z In a letter to his investors, Mr. Smith said that he had created the structure 20 years ago “at the insistence of my only investor in my first private equity fund.” Carnegie Hall Stands By Its Chairman, Despite Tax Violations 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z The insistence on making everything grimmer and grosser is almost comically complete. Review: In Amazon’s ‘ABC Murders,’ John Malkovich Is a Sad Poirot 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z How fateful her initial insistence must seem that Sarah should take her time. Why I conducted a 16-year ‘affair’ with my mother 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z At Perry’s insistence, Della is feted as a hero on the courthouse steps. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2 Finale: Case Closed 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z When she opposes his insistence to invite a beloved war colleague over for dinner, he snaps and commits a horrific act that has already taken place when the film opens. 'Nightingale' tested David Oyelowo's commitment as an actor 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z “Poem of Ecstasy,” a masterpiece of excess and insistence, has no such issues. Can two sensations make revolutionary music? Conductor Dudamel and pianist Trifonov try to find a spark 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z That is a suspect choice, given Dominik’s insistence on recreating the iconography of Monroe’s life in obsessive detail. The Empty Spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s Fantasy Fetus 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Boy Erased tells the true story of Garrard Conley, the son of a Baptist minister in the American south, who at his parents’ insistence was sent to residential “gay conversion” therapy after coming out. Nicole Kidman: ‘To hear women being believed makes me cry’ 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z To be fair to Hays and his generation of academics, there once were very good reasons for this insistence on independence — on what they often refer to as architecture’s “autonomy.” Harvard's first online architecture course: Does it make the grade? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z But then Milo downed a whole bottle of Enfamil in the exam room and immediately looked less yellow, and I began to wonder if my insistence on breast-feeding wasn't more about me than him. Motherlode Blog: When Breast Isn't Best 2012-11-07T14:49:58Z That position may seem at odds with Kaplan’s insistence that only by “immersing themselves” in nuclear logic can presidents and their advisers find a way out of the rabbit hole. Nuclear Nightmares 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Does the media insistence on reflecting the fresh fail to acknowledge the possibility that formats mature and improve? Daybreak, 10 O'Clock Live and TV's slow starters 2011-04-12T20:29:00Z But they were repelled by management's insistence that the network stay even-handed in fear of alienating the cable operators that granted it carriage. New troubles at Al Gore's Current TV 2010-06-25T04:04:00Z Much of that uncertainty manifests in her insistence upon sparing her young sons from learning the truth of how white Americans view Black men. Thanks to its stars, "Passing" is a masterpiece of subtle expression, rendered in black and white 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z And Hope Edelman surprises herself when, in contrast to her previously ardent insistence on financial equality in marriage, she feels an “undeniable sense of relief” from not having to support herself. ‘The Bitch in the House’ Has a Sequel: ‘The Bitch Is Back’ 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Even so, he says, in a comment reminiscent of Facebook’s party line, “there is still something to the company’s insistence that the good it does outweighs what it now admits is the bad it foments.” ‘Facebook: The Inside Story’ Offers a Front-Row Seat on Voracious Ambition 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Despite Emma’s insistence that Sarah had decamped for “a house of ill fame,” a search of St. Louis bawdy houses turned up no sign of her. Diamond Doris, the Bourbon King and Other Stars of True Crime 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Quietly told, the story nonetheless pulses with insistence: Attention must be paid. Review | In Joshua Henkin’s ‘Morningside Heights,’ a married couple copes with an unexpected illness 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z But, despite his insistence that he “ain’t no conscious cat,” we get glimpses of his humanity here, too. A$AP Rocky Fends Off Naysayers Who Say He’s All Style, No Substance 2013-01-08T15:30:49Z To the uninitiated, these are not always clear; but the movie’s insistence on the healing power of cadence and beat needs no explanation. Review: ‘They Will Have to Kill Us First’ Documents Malian Music in Exile 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The annoyance quotient rises with the script’s insistence on the million-dollar sweepstakes coupon. Nebraska: Alexander Payne’s America, Plains and Simple 2013-05-23T19:09:59Z Claustrophobic harmonies underpinned with sparse insistence the line: “So we had to go on the open edge/one at a time.” Review: A Dark, Haunting Work by Michael Hersch Gets a Premiere 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z It’s a long process, topped off with Kondo’s insistence that the remaining T-shirts, underwear and socks be folded into consistent rectangular shapes that line up in drawers like cute, obedient children. Review | Marie Kondo brings something besides her famous tidying skills to reality TV: Gratitude 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Most of the squabbles were about The New Yorker’s insistence on absolute clarity. Books of The Times: Fighting The New Yorker Over Extra Commas and Steaming Cowflops 2011-02-08T22:00:14Z He was entranced, wooing – and winning – Elisabeth despite her family's objections to his age and their insistence on the attentions of a chaperone. Dame Elisabeth Murdoch obituary 2012-12-05T13:50:47Z But if racism is the insistence on imagining a code where none exists, then the failure of “Westworld” ’s allegory is its choice to print the legend. How “Westworld” Failed the Western 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z People went on about Kondo's unrealistic expectations of perfectionism or her insistence on folding shirts a certain way. Everybody relax: Marie Kondo isn't a fraud. She's simply as worn-out as the rest of us 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z He excelled particularly as a choir trainer, and his insistence on the highest standards from his singers produced results for which he became renowned internationally. Stanley Vann obituary 2010-06-03T17:02:00Z But there was something resonant about his insistence that old forms of youthful rebellion, particularly ones that rely on loud, fast guitars, had run their course. Oasis and the Fading Dream of the Nineties 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Cancel culture, the insistence on perfection in political candidates, and the social media inspection of everyone’s former words and deeds carries a flatulent whiff of dogma, inquisition, and excommunication. My regrettable libertarian romance: I rebounded from my experimental phase, but many don't 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z At the insistence of Nick, Tom marries a local freak of nature, the bearded lady Baba the Turk, whose only asset is her fame. Review: A ‘Rake’s Progress’ for a Fame-Hungry Internet Age 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Ace’s insistence that he and Jessa go say hello to his ex and her new boyfriend was an even more twisted idea than making her run around Brooklyn in high heels. 'Girls' Recap: Hannah Tries to Enter the Land of Grown-Ups 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z The gender barrier was broken in 1976 by Sarah Caldwell, but only at the insistence of Beverly Sills, who agreed to sing in “La Traviata” on the condition that Caldwell be hired to conduct. With Women in Command, the Met Opera Addresses a Gender Gap 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Though there’s no greater gift than a song, And I love it when folks sing along, Your insistence we sing Every note of “The Ring” At your wedding, was, frankly, just wrong. Style Invitational Week 1244: Primed for creative Amazon product reviews 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z This is where Gladwell’s insistence on theory can be distorting, rather than clarifying. Who’s Lying to Us and Who’s Telling the Truth? Malcolm Gladwell Has Some Ideas 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Giuliani is flat earth, despite his boosters' insistence that he is complex, a term used more than once. Is CNN's "Giuliani: What Happened to America’s Mayor?" a matter worth pondering right now? 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z But its insistence that it is somehow more dedicated to pure flavor without any distractions than any other show is amusing. The Taste: Do Cooking Shows Really Need The Voice Treatment? 2013-01-23T14:41:32Z From the scant information you’ve given, it does sound as if bride is being needlessly, and selfishly, stubborn in her insistence on the double escort. Mom has to step to the sidelines in bride’s wedding decision 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Also, never forget her insistence that both Santa Claus and Jesus are white, admonishing naysayers that “just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn’t mean it has to change.” Megyn Kelly and Alex Jones: Two peas in a pod 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Their integration remains a challenge, with many on Ms. Merkel’s center-right side of the political spectrum calling for greater insistence on Leitkultur, or lead culture: the assertion of core German values. At G-20, Beethoven Sends a Mixed Message to Trump 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Drawing on West African griot style, she sings with gritty insistence, building up to a sandpapery rasp when her melodies hit their peaks. Rokia Koné, From Mali, Sings for the World. Especially Women. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z In the novel, the story with the animals appears not to have saved Pi from trauma, and so we begin to wonder about how Pi’s insistence on belief may have actually reinforced his precarious condition. How “Life of Pi” anticipated 9/11 2013-04-28T19:00:00Z That should have been a clue to the extent of her Anglophilia, I now realize, along with her emphatic insistence that her children "speak the Queen's English" whenever we'd lapse into slang. "The Crown" presents Princess Diana of Wales, patron saint of tradition-defying divorcées 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z Stacton's insistence on the linkage of the three books served notice that his brilliant mind was uncommonly inclined toward bold patterns and designs, whatever their underlying rationales. David Stacton: the method man 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z Oliver echoes Stewart's long-standing insistence that the show is mere comedy, performing no useful journalistic role. John Oliver: a very British coup 2013-06-07T22:00:00Z I don’t have her parents’ responses to her letters, but you can infer their disapproval from her increasingly firm insistence that she is going to stay in Paris. How I failed at Paris: Why I didn’t fall in love with the City of Light 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z He would grow friskier, more pragmatic and less self-dramatizing during the course of his long correspondence with Kerouac, but one thing never changed: Ginsberg’s insistence on keeping the friendship alive. Books of The Times: ?Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters? 2010-07-19T22:25:00Z Bringing the insistent, romantic Giuseppe into his story allows Cantone and the writers to showcase that side of him and his stubborn insistence on pushing away frightening unknowns. "And Just Like That," Carrie's last supper serves up Samantha's cameo and just maybe, a fresh start 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z This made my job more difficult, but the underlying message resonated: the insistence on reallocating power. The Artists Are in Charge. Step 1: Upend the Status Quo. 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Though well received, the book had its detractors and continues to draw criticism for, among other things, its cut-off dates and insistence on the coherence of the Hollywood style. Film: David Bordwell, Film Historian, Focuses on Movie Blog 2010-04-24T02:36:00Z And for sheer physical terror, she swirls up apocalyptic dust storms, ordeals of gritty insistence that last for days, transforming the landscape, burying homes and filling lungs. Review | ‘The Four Winds’ is Kristin Hannah’s next inevitable bestseller. Don’t forget the tissues. 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z What this latest work shares with its predecessors is an insistence that you look — really look — at what’s around you, and realize afresh how all the city’s a stage. Review: ‘Behind the City’ Immerses You in New York and Yourself 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z What makes it truly shine, however, is its insistence that our workaday world might not be quite as mundane as we think. Alan Moore’s sprawling new epic, ‘Jerusalem’ 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Cain also repeated his insistence that he and White were no more than friends. Cain: Wife didn't know about latest accuser 2011-12-02T05:27:00Z But he also dramatizes her intellectual awakening, and her insistence on being regarded as both a real writer and a full person. ‘Raw,’ ‘Monogamy’ and Other Streaming Gems 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z The only cover is of Joni Mitchell’s “Love,” which Ms. Carrington described as “an antidote” to the dogged insistence of the originals. Terri Lyne Carrington on the Power of Betting on Yourself 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z One thinks of the seventeen thousand or so “Consumer Guide” reviews and Christgau’s insistence on keeping them coming. The Rock Critic Robert Christgau’s Big-Hearted Theory of Pop 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z If we got to a point where we thought the show absolutely stunk because of our insistence on continuing to make it, I'd hope that we would be wise enough to stop making it. Dan Harmon on the Future of Rick and Morty and That Community Movie 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z "With the originality of his thought," says Thomas, "the honesty of expression, his refusal to pander, his insistence on giving audiences his unique vision, there's a wonderful feeling that Daniel could go anywhere." Daniel Kitson: the Salinger of standup 2012-08-05T17:30:01Z Dr. hooks’ insistence that Lemonade is “all about the body, and the body as a commodity” does much more for invalidating black women and simplifying our complexities than Beyoncé’s so-called “anti-feminist” image ever could. bell hooks vs. Beyoncé: What this feminist scholarly critique gets wrong about “Lemonade” and liberation 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z He is proud of his insistence on marrying the prestige of directors and singers, with high-profile names from top to bottom on most billings and small roles taken by a superb ensemble of rising artists. The ‘Prince of Opera’ Bids Munich Farewell 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z It comes at a time when the island disputes and China's insistence that Japan owns up to war time atrocities take centre stage. VIDEO: Play on Japan's Singaporean legacy 2014-04-11T10:32:09Z "Their music," Jones points out, "offered a presentation of provincial female life crafted with sympathy and solidarity, and an insistence on their social and sexual agency." Clampdown: Pop-cultural Wars on Class and Gender by Rhian E Jones – review 2013-05-16T06:00:08Z The producers’ continuing insistence on showing this stuff is one of several things that make “The X Factor,” at least to this point, feel bloated. ArtsBeat Blog: 'X-Factor' Recap: Now You See the Judge, Now You Don't 2011-09-29T14:24:58Z What makes “Habit” feel fresh is its implicit insistence that actors lead working lives that parallel our own. Theater Review: ‘Habit’ at the Essex Street Market, Building B 2012-09-23T21:21:05Z If there’s one thing I worry about in this show, it’s the insistence on verisimilitude. 'Silicon Valley' Season 2 Premiere Recap: Datageddon 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Yet arguably the worst aspect of "Stardust" is Range's insistence on cudgeling viewers with the "Be Someone Else" message. Wretched David Bowie biopic "Stardust" should be launched into the sun 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z And it was at Tenniel’s insistence that Carroll dropped one of the “Looking-Glass” chapters, “The Wasp in a Wig,” a creature he declared to be “altogether beyond the appliances of art.” Looking at the Birth of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice,’ 150 Years Old 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The insistence that men can be strong and vulnerable at the same time without risking their masculinity is at the heart of each of these programs. Nobody has to “man up” here: Feminist shows “Jessica Jones” and “Transparent” are also a win for men 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Today’s European nationalists exhibit a similar impatience, especially with the rule of law: think of the Brexiters’ insistence that nothing can be allowed to impede “the will of the people”. The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z His insistence is palpable, and, through that, we grasp the freedom in flesh. Dance Review: TAO Dance Theater Performs 2 Meditative Works 2014-02-21T23:02:01Z His insistence upon pushing Lavinia away is exciting — if it means we are a step closer to Lady Mary stepping into her place — but most of his scenes end in crumbling self-pity. Downton Abbey Watch: House of Despair 2012-01-30T13:30:25Z But after his second offer and his insistence that it was “only a beer”, I decided that I could use some conversation. 'It's only a beer': the unwritten contracts between men and women 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z But Megan had experienced something much more profound, and her insistence that her feelings were reciprocated was particularly unusual. ‘I just knew he loved me. I could see it in his eyes’: can a psychologist cure lovesickness? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Paige occasionally shows a flicker of fear or a flare of impatience, but the insistence on Zola’s stoical, capable good sense puts other, potentially messier possibilities out of reach. ‘Zola’ Review: Twitter? I Hardly Know Her! 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z As does his insistence on doing everything properly – understanding all the technology involved in achieving what he wants in his multimedia schemes and mastering the techniques needed. Michel van der Aa: 'I'm an art omnivore' 2010-04-29T22:20:00Z Negative thoughts were fiercely denounced — a message that echoed “the old religion’s condemnation of sin” and added “an insistence on the constant interior labour of self- examination.” Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z Is it tantamount to condoning the art market’s desire and the government’s insistence on returning to “normal” while Covid-19 cases spike around the country? As Galleries Reopen, Two Critics Find Rewards Eclipse the Angst 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z When at Tonto’s insistence he dons the mask, he asks, like a self-conscious actor forced to wear jester’s garb, “You sure this works?” The Lone Ranger: Lost in a Western Myth 2013-07-02T18:21:11Z There is something of the nursery in the show’s insistence on unfettered imagination, and something of the bedtime story in the way the best of these tales unfold. Review: The Bard as Bedtime Story in ‘Table Top Shakespeare’ 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z “This movie opposes that one with every fiber of its ornery being, including by its insistence on procedural tedium over cinematic excitement.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Hanna’ and ‘The Highwaymen’ 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Last month, New York magazine wrote a lengthy piece suggesting Logan would not return to CBS despite the network's insistence that she'd be back eventually. Upfront market gets moving. Lara Logan back at work at CBS News. 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z But “Truman” has a different flaw: its insistence on excusing tired standards of machismo, however understated. Review: ‘Truman’ Focuses on a Man Whose Days Are Numbered 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Long before Giveon’s multiple Grammy nominations and chart success, the budding R&B performer would sing “Happy Birthday,” at his mother’s insistence, when he was a child. At the Howard Theater, R&B singer Giveon stretches his vocal chops before a sellout crowd 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z But this movie genuinely earns the label: Its protagonist is punished simply for existing, or at least for her insistence on pursuing an individual destiny. “Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem”: A riveting divorce drama, Israeli-style 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z But it seems to me that his lyricism is its own argument, an insistence on the inseparability of art and life. How Luchino Visconti Made History Sing 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Certainly, many of BoJack’s most memorable and affecting moments come from the series’ insistence on not shying away from grief. How BoJack Horseman became the most empathetic show on television 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z His brand of weird is gooey and misanthropic, with an insistence that the universe is at best indifferent to human life and at worst antagonistic. Gods, Monsters and H.P. Lovecraft’s Uncanny Legacy 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z If there’s something numbing about the dogged insistence on starting over before moving on, there’s something delightful about the ingenuity of small variations. Review: The Stephen Petronio Company Reconnects 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Some dislike his style, but Humphrys' direct and dogged insistence on answers was absolutely justified, and good to hear. Radio review: Today programme 2011-07-07T21:30:03Z This explains this insistence in the recently published Men's Health profile to which Lattshaw refers, topped by the pull quote contradicting years' worth of social media evidence: he is not all about religion. Is Chris Pratt really The Worst Chris? 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z Take his insistence, now widely shared by commentators on both sides of the Atlantic, that “fascism” is on the rise across the West. The Sickness of Our Time: Is It Populism or Fascism? 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z She is repulsed by a tortured relative’s overzealous dinner prayer and insistence on physical touching. For a Film About Korean Adoptees, a Group Effort 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Only in an epilogue — could it have been at an editor’s insistence? — does she acknowledge that the operation went “tragically wrong,” leaving Rosemary with difficulties walking or communicating. Jean Kennedy Smith Remembers Growing Up Kennedy 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The voice bores in, instilling fear in the girl by threatening her with jail, and commanding obedience from the manager through unrelenting insistence that she follow his instructions. 'Compliance': Following prankster's orders turns creepy, unsettling 2012-08-23T20:56:10Z It’s also of a piece with his insistence that vulnerability is a necessary risk to take, at least sometimes. Tom Hiddleston on ‘Betrayal’ and the Art of Self-Protection 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Ford said he had enjoyed making the movie but was annoyed that he had to record a voiceover narration at the insistence of the producer, Bud Yorkin, who had also insisted the ending be changed. Blade Runner at 30: Celebrating Ridley Scott's Dystopian Vision 2012-06-25T14:31:59Z Unfortunately, he also badly botches a section that addresses Harlan’s postwar insistence on his innocence by inserting a clip from “Jew Süss” in which the caged Süss declares his own virtue. Movie Review | 'Harlan': Haunted by What Dad Did in the War 2010-03-02T23:38:00Z Does Jeremiah’s insistence that societal corruption is reflected in the systematic misemployment of words really amount to “a critique of language”? The Bible goes Greek 2012-09-30T12:00:00Z At De Cárdenas's insistence they also looked at a few other options, but the duo soon realized they were both completely taken with the first place. A Greenwich Village Penthouse Designed by Rafael de Cárdenas 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z For the cognoscenti, it is a wry joke about Clement Greenberg’s insistence on the flatness of Modernist painting. Art Review: ?Off the Wall: Part 1,? Performance Art at Whitney 2010-07-29T20:08:00Z One of the strengths of Ms. Anderson’s script is its insistence on its leading characters’ connection to the land and the facts of a life that was often short and brutal. Review: Glenn Close Raises a Saint in ‘Mother of the Maid’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The nonresponse from the university and the denial of all that took place, coupled with their insistence that I keep quiet, could not have been clearer. Assaulted by an art professor 2013-03-29T00:00:00Z It’s said with insistence and a filial tenderness. YoungBoy Never Broke Again Brings Back Rap Realism 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Anthropomorphism was simply not on, they told Goodall when, in the early 60s, she took a PhD at Cambridge at the insistence of Leakey – who was desperate for his protege to gain academic respectability. Jane Goodall: 50 years working with chimps 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z To laugh at the absurdity of race comes naturally; what feels strange is the insistence from white people that I should weep. The Performance of Racial Passing 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z There’s a powerful insistence, in this country, that the best life is the freest life. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z But if not for Nichols' insistence on representing her officer in a way that honored her station, Gooding's cadet might not have gotten her chance to shine brightly so early in the show. Nichelle Nichols completed her "Star Trek" mission so that I'd never know a world without Lt. Uhura 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The problem is that the insistence on white US perspectives ends up stripping all the non-Americans of a central role in their own lives. Narcos and Our Brand is Crisis both sell Latin America short 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z This had happened to us many times since moving to Brooklyn, but this time stood out because of his insistence on causing a scene. Who’s Allowed to Hold Hands? 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Perhaps Majumdar's riposte to our insistence on a contemporary Royal Court play, The Djinns of Eidgah merges old and new in a fusion of traditional Indian theatre forms and contemporary themes. Royal Court's New Plays from India: snapshots of the subcontinent 2012-11-09T14:53:47Z But even more striking was a quiet insistence of feminine shapes. Fashion Review: Thakoon, The Row, Diane von Furstenberg, Carolina Herrera: Fashion Review 2012-09-11T00:14:35Z In its prickliness and insistence on the messiness and ineluctable pain of life, this is very different from the pandering, gold-grubbing titles that tend to hit theaters starting around now. Around the Movie World in 17 Days at the New York Film Festival 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Worse still was the documentary's insistence on superimposing its contributors on to illustrated "comic" backdrops. Last night's TV 2010-06-17T07:00:00Z Your insistence on referring to your guy’s stepson as a “stepson” — as if this is debatable — is revealing. Ask Amy: Girlfriend wonders about ‘stepson’ relationship 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z But it is a thought-provoking play about memory, its corruption and our insistence that technology help us outwit death. ‘Marjorie Prime,’ a Tender Comedy Starring Lois Smith 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z It is further complicated by white America's insistence on seeing "Asian" as a monolith, forever foreign and othered. Cathy Park Hong: "Sometimes you just have to push back – being offended is part of the process" 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Above all, it’s a tribute to the brand: No band — certainly no hard rock/metal one — can match AC/DC’s disciplined insistence on wearing, singing and playing the exact same things, always and possibly forever. AC/DC and Wu-Tang Clan: These bands are brands — and can they sell in this era? He referred to the senators’ insistence to Sony that “the use of torture should be banished from serious public discourse,” and echoed what was being said privately by others here this week. D.C. Journey for ‘Lincoln,’ ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and ‘Argo’ 2012-12-21T23:58:57Z Mr. Petronio’s newest dance, “The Architecture of Loss,” shows a slight shift toward tenderness from the choreographer, offering bodies that wilt, instead of his norm, which is dancers whipping their legs with swirling insistence. Dance Review: Stephen Petronio, Joined by Wendy Whelan, at the Joyce 2012-03-08T00:28:50Z A central issue is Wolff’s insistence on overburdening his characters with trauma. Seeking the Elixir of Life Through High School Science Class 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Pollard testified that she had two children by him — abandoning the babies to foundling asylums at his insistence — and that during the engagement she had miscarried a third. Revelations and Reckonings in a Sex Scandal From Long Before #MeToo 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Burton's insistence that his film was not a re-imagining or sequel to other "Alice movies" made me wonder whether he had actually read the book at all. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z What’s really threatening in this Roundabout Theater Company production, which opened on Thursday night, is its creeping, gut-knotting insistence that family is no fortress against a darkness that erases all sense of a separate self. Review: Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano Go Mano a Mano in the Riveting ‘True West’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The religious right’s professed insistence upon “family values” might appear at first blush to be at odds with the anything but saintly personal behavior of many of its leading proponents. GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party 2012-08-05T16:00:00Z While Cohen’s always played on the insistence of mortality, the album tremors with a sense of finality that leaves one to wonder whether this is the last batch of Cohen originals. Leonard Cohen's New, Beautiful Old Ideas 2012-01-31T14:30:28Z But more baffling is his repeated insistence that writers must find the “one right order” in which to arrange their words. Adam Gopnik on the charms and struggles of being a young writer in New York 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z "Misogynist violence is unacceptable," argued Gopal, "but we must also be concerned by the continued insistence that the complexities of war, occupation and reality itself can be reduced to bedtime stories." Bibi Aisha, victim of the Taliban's political strategy 2010-12-05T00:06:00Z Yet the production’s shrill insistence on scandal-mongering as the poison of our political process is trivializing, too. ‘The Front Runner’ Review: All the News That’s Unfit 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The composition’s insistence on constant harmonic change offered another. Live Jazz: Three September Standouts, From Fay Victor to Starebaby 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z But he also followed Plato’s insistence that reason could still rule supreme. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z There was also something especially American in Mr. Bernard’s insistence on vigorous physical workouts for all. Books of The Times: ?The Great Oom,? by Robert Love, on Yoga?s Pierre Bernard 2010-04-14T22:33:00Z The unpopularity of the visit wasn’t helped by Reagan’s insistence that the SS dead “were victims, just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps.” The 21 best Reagan protest songs of the ’80s 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z It could use some tightening, but its insistence on being intuitive rather than explanatory is a strength. Art band at On the Boards is a little cryptic, but still 'Awesome' 2010-04-23T20:21:00Z Readers are bored by the sameness of Anglo-American fiction, with its middle-class focus and its insistence on dialogue and scene. Ties that bind 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Like ballet, too, is his insistence that tango is an art of elegance in which the man always, in his words, “presents the lady.” Dance Review: Gabriel Missé and Analía Centurión Dance Tango 2013-08-12T21:40:10Z What sticks with him is the insistence on skill, without excuses. A fond farewell to Ringling Bros. and the wonders of the circus 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z While visiting Spain in 1966, he met Salvador Dalí, whose insistence on following a path of originality inspired Mr. Froese’s thinking from then on. Edgar Froese, Leader of Tangerine Dream, Dies at 70 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Two of the sonatas framed the first half of this programme, sharing, along with the Bartók they sandwiched, a sense of insistence. Leif Ove Andsnes – review 2013-04-10T17:20:01Z Despite my insistence that I be left alone for a few hours on my day off, Jeff was calling me. Pudge Will Keep Us Together 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z “An Acceptable Loss” errs in its insistence that political conspiracies demand larger-than-life action. ‘An Acceptable Loss’ Review: Conspiracy Drives a Nuclear Attack in a Rote Thriller 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Firstly we see Don react to Ted's collaborative work and insistence on timekeeping by acting the bully. Mad Men recap: season six, episode seven – Man With a Plan 2013-05-15T22:00:00Z Interdependence, despondence, insistence and resistance are the central relationship issues that flow across the generational divides, accompanied by Chopin, with a dash of Beethoven and Nina Simone. 'Love Is Strange' and profound with Lithgow, Molina paired 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z In the end, Grant was replaced by a professional actress at the insistence of the officer playing Othello, who, Longstreet wrote, “could not pump up any sentiment with Grant dressed up as Desdemona.” Measuring America’s Shakespearean Devotion 2014-03-19T20:47:10Z Formica became a cheap substitute for lacquer, its popularity fuelled by art deco's insistence on sleek black surfaces. Formica turns 100 2013-01-17T10:18:40Z This, of course, brings us to Pernicious Trend No. 2: the insistence on casting movie, television or pop names in Broadway shows, regardless of their appropriateness for the role. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: The Short Life of 'Evita' 2012-12-13T21:26:51Z If any late-night host brings his or her show back on the air, said host will be doing so at the insistence of network overlords holding the livelihoods of their remaining staffs at ransom. If late-night comedy goes on strike: What happens if Jimmy Fallon has to write his own jokes? 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Lindo, who was born in London and also lived in Toronto before coming to the United States, said he found Mr. Ryan’s insistence on shooting in Chicago to be valuable. Television: Reform? Forget It, Boys, It?s Chicago 2011-02-06T02:08:20Z There's going to be a lot of insistence on the linguistic and declamatory aspects of this music. Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z But the update does no favors for Isabella, whose insistence on maintaining her sexual purity seems even more priggish in an implicit contemporary context. 2010-02-15T22:29:00Z Moshfegh’s insistence on focusing on the uneasy, outwardly hostile relationship the characters have with their bodies can at times feel puerile and, other times, it obscures the larger story. Ottessa Moshfegh's short story collection 'Homesick for Another World' wades into the ugliness of people 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Another, "Heroes Never Die," was not originally intended for the set but was added at the insistence of mixing engineer Spike Stent. Bush "reunites" for album and tour 2010-07-21T20:49:00Z So relentless is Gary’s insistence on narrative omniscience that she refuses to quote almost anyone. A Sleepy Biography for the Author of ‘Goodnight Moon’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The song stayed on “Brothers” at the insistence of Brian Burton, who produces and performs as Danger Mouse. Music: The Black Keys Change Gears With ?El Camino? 2011-12-01T18:34:37Z And it defies the television industry's insistence on youthful female presenters. Loose Women: more super than superficial? 2011-01-26T15:12:56Z Producers typically respond to questions about inclusive casting with an insistence that they selected the best person for the job. The slow dread of "The Outsider," HBO's series that defies Stephen King expectations 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Despite staggering levels of technological, intellectual, and cultural advancement, there remains an insistence on celebrating the most stupid and destructive forms of “ugly peacockery,” masquerading as strength and courage. Toxic masculinity doesn’t just target women: The viciousness and vacuity of modern American manhood is also harmful to the self 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z But at an outdoor screening of “Touki-Bouki,” a group of boys doesn’t recognize him as the romantic figure on screen, and mocks his insistence that it’s really he. ‘Mille Soleils,’ a Portrait of Senegal by Mati Diop 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Is it the lack of garish advertising and the quiet insistence on self-reliance? Great Danes: the Denmark of Hamlet and Karen Blixen 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z In 1969, Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin ran a political campaign largely devoted to the idea of Gotham’s sovereignty — with the mulish insistence that the city get custody of the name “New York.” A Polite Drive for Secession in ‘Radio Free Vermont’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z One is that his insistence on building on a grand scale often meant that not much was built at all. The Man Who Rebuilt New Haven, Boston and Beyond 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Ignoring the autobiographical elisions, they resonated to the book’s insistence that we mustn’t settle for the spirit-sapping path society has laid out for us. Perspective | Why I still love Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z She decides to make some “improvements in efficiency and profitability,” which include a creative adjustment to the way drinks are poured and an insistence that employees refer to nachos as “‘chos.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Queen & Slim’ and ‘Hamlet’ 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z The insistence on "heart" implies that the "breakthrough" has been accomplished not by skill or knowledge, but by art's direct appeal to the emotions. Poem of the week: The Seventh Art in the Sanatorium by Heather Hartley 2010-11-22T13:27:00Z The trouble with this way of looking at Bacon is that Littell is too smart and attentive a writer to quite accept his own insistence on a purely gestural or textural approach to the paintings. Triptych: Three Studies After Francis Bacon by Jonathan Littell – review 2013-07-20T11:01:01Z The conspicuous absence of color on this relentlessly colorful tropical island, and the insistence on simplicity in the all-white interiors, lets the furnishings, a meticulously executed blend of the antique and the now, stand out. Key West Contemporary 2010-09-01T04:00:00Z But Reynolds makes a good argument for glam representing an “individualized, privatized form of revolution” and “glamour as a spooky insistence of self.” Was glam any different from pop? Simon Reynolds has the answer in 'Shock and Awe' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Against: It’s possible – and would fit the Chinatown echoes of this season – but there’s no reason to doubt Blake’s dying insistence that Catalyst was shocked by Caspere’s death. True Detective: place your bets on the identity of the killer 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Prompted by his lawyer's insistence to remember everything he can about the night Johnson was killed, McGlue's memories mingle and run together. 'McGlue' casts a groggy sailor into a drunken murder tale 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Pinker’s insistence that written language loosen to reflect natural American idiom is parochial: there’s too wide a range of idiom to be captured in one style. Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Susan Cain's book Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking, which takes as its mantra Mahatma Gandhi's insistence that: "In a gentle way, you can shake the world." In defence of mumbling: there's a poetry in our quietness 2013-07-16T13:54:51Z His insistence that clothing was a form of design was considered avant-garde in the early years of his career, and he had notable collaborations with photographers and architects. Issey Miyake, Japanese Fashion Designer, Dies at 84 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z And neither is Beauregard’s feeble insistence that the universe possesses quantum consciousness, that psychic powers represent quantum phenomena, or that there is an infinitely loving Cosmic Intelligence. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z But its insistence that self-help is the best help allows Mr. Cross — now medication free and messianic — to lay responsibility on ourselves. | 'Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead': A Road-Trip Diet 2011-03-31T23:39:39Z For me, the final moments of their relationship are a startling, even magnificent repudiation of sentimentality and an insistence on sex. Looking for casual sex? Head for the cinema 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z And his burly rhythmic insistence makes unexpected triumphs of Franck’s Symphony and Rachmaninoff’s “The Isle of the Dead.” A Monkish Conductor Who Expressed His Faith Through Music 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z One very important piece of advice Celia Bader passed along to her daughter was her insistence that Ruth be a lady. Smart Watch: The notorious “RBG” comes to CNN and more top TV picks for the week 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Merida's fashionable insistence on self-realisation at all costs threatens to plunge her homeland into war. Brave by name, bland by nature 2012-08-20T10:03:02Z Juliana is a fugitive, but her insistence on spreading that hope at any cost is the main plot engine. Finally, "The Man in the High Castle" fascist fantasy ends amidst America’s sobering reality 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Then there was the US government's insistence that the leaks were endangering lives, wrecking Washington's ability to do business with its allies and partners, and helping terrorists. WikiLeaks: Tunisia knew its rulers were debauched. But leaks still had impact 2011-02-02T19:59:00Z Not to mention — at Lee’s insistence — a drain under the stage. Jonathan Barlow Lee knows all the Mark Taper Forum's secrets — and he's telling 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Obama’s meticulous approach — and insistence on writing the book himself — offers a second clue. Presidential Memoirs Don’t Always Take This Long to Write 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z A stronger explanation of why this show is defying our collective doomsday fatigue points is its insistence on pushing back against despondence. In "The Last of Us," Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett battle loneliness at the end of the world 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Their insistence on overt symmetry, especially the one with the Superman logo stuck in the middle, where it is supposed to go, makes it pretty obvious that Koons is a visual dullard. When Jeff Koons painted Michel Jackson white 2013-06-10T16:18:00Z The assertion of particular identities, and the insistence that respect be paid to them, is a hallmark of our age. What Is Identity? 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z I took up French rather than Mandarin classes, despite everyone’s insistence about my natural proficiency, or perhaps because of it. When my birth mother found me 2013-09-16T23:30:00Z Silvio might have purchased a birthing tub — again, without consulting Deb — but “Doula” takes sides only with the mother, its repeated insistence on a woman’s right to make her own choices landing with unexpected timeliness. ‘Doula’ Review: Rules of Contraction 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z His sly insistence on making the most of the turbulent aftermath of the war gets under Simon’s skin, but the looted spoils he takes home are indispensable. | 'The Whipping Man': Candles, Matzo, Wine and Some Unusual Hosts 2011-02-02T03:30:37Z Adding to this frenzy is Lynch’s insistence on shrouding the entire project in mystery. My log has something to tell you: David Lynch’s waxes surreal for Showtime’s 2017 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Tito admits a touch of shock in looking back at their father's insistence that Janet perform. Janet Jackson is finally back in control of her rightful legacy in must-see docuseries 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Intellectually, I admired their insistence on attending to my child rather than my feelings, but I couldn't help but wish for an endless stream of updates. A lunchbox lesson in letting go 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Wilkerson mentions the role of the Federal Housing Administration’s denial of mortgages to Blacks and its insistence on segregation in generating these disparities. What Do America’s Racial Problems Have in Common With India and Nazi Germany? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Her insistence on maintaining her privacy only feeds the public’s appetite for the facts of her life. Harper Lee objects to new book about her by Marja Mills The exchange is in keeping with Mr. Allen’s oft-repeated insistence, on-screen and off, that life is meaningless, which may be true even if he seems feverishly bent on refuting it with his prodigious cinematic output. Review: Woody Allen’s ‘Irrational Man’ Explores Life’s Randomness 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z There's a lot of wading in rivers and trudging across damp hillsides on horseback, and at Macdonald's insistence, nothing was computer-generated. Kevin Macdonald: "I didn't understand Hollywood" 2011-03-17T21:30:00Z This stems not only from the league’s fastidiousness about its image but also from Mr. Madden’s insistence that the game be exciting and educational. Capturing Football’s Snaps, Crackles and Pops in Madden NFL 2014-01-28T22:55:42Z With an intellect that supersedes social boundaries through sheer insistence, Sycamore chronicles the paradox of inhabiting a fluid life in a rigid world. Review | ‘The Freezer Door’ is an aching, playful memoir of vivid desire amid the desperation of midlife disconnection 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Finally a segue in which agents party on a rooftop in Islamabad, drinking and shooting off an AK47 in celebration, was also removed upon CIA insistence. CIA requested Zero Dark Thirty rewrites, memo reveals 2013-05-07T15:47:03Z At Mr. Brandon’s insistence, they also cared for feral kittens living underneath their neighbor’s barn. Taking the Plunge After a Farmhouse Sauna 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z On the contrary, it hews to them with an unchanging insistence that ultimately drains them of their power. Review: ‘The Wrong Man’ Sets a Universal Nightmare to Music 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Van Gelder was known not just for his skill as an engineer but also for his fastidiousness, as exemplified by his insistence on wearing gloves while working. Rudy Van Gelder, 91, Audio Engineer Who Helped Define Jazz Sound on Records, Dies 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z The only regulatory mechanism is the insistence that all participation is voluntary, and all experience is reciprocal. George Michael, a queer guide for the straight guys 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z The family's insistence that Wells was an innocent "bomb hostage" is mirrored in the comedy. Family, investigator question 'pizza bomber' movie 2011-08-07T17:05:11Z For instance, there is nothing except Paul's insistence that Serge and his wife do not really love their adopted son Beau as much as they love their biological children. The Dinner by Herman Koch – review 2012-08-17T21:45:05Z For him the excitement of the sonnet stems from its insistence on change: It must include a volta — a sudden turn, a new argument. Sonnets That Reckon With Donald Trump’s America 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z This associate professor at Duke Divinity School and podcast host follows up on her 2018 best seller, “Everything Happens for a Reason,” with a sendup of the advice industry and its relentless insistence on positivity. Once a Best Seller, Always a Best Seller, Especially if You’re Rick Ross 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Hern's experience of her polite but precise insistence is echoed in stories from the rehearsal room. Caryl Churchill, by the people who know her best 2012-10-03T17:44:37Z What he questioned, he said, was the insistence on seeing Jackson purely as someone “who just wanted to kill everybody,” as well as what he sees as a politicized approach to writing history. Clash of the Historians: Paper on Andrew Jackson and Trump Causes Turmoil 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z It was a viral insistence to which Michaels, counter to his control-freak image, caved in and gave the people what they wanted. Perspective | Goodbye to Betty White, popular culture’s beloved (and saucy) great-grandma 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z At his father’s insistence, he trained in mine engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, but artistry took over. ‘The Art of Rube Goldberg’ Review: The Machinery of Humor 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z At her insistence, he created a full line of furniture, which they named Leftover and first exhibited in 2012 at the Venice Architecture Biennale. | One Man’s Trash 2014-04-02T18:00:21Z The means by which she learns is crucial to the story's development and denouement, which finally clarifies her insistence that she wrote all this herself. The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon – review 2012-06-15T21:55:06Z Most selfless was Kate’s insistence that Singe find another woman to replace her. Mum’s bucket list: ‘Have a great time after I’ve gone’ 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z She is held up by producers and the entertainment news media as refreshing, long overdue evidence that Hollywood’s insistence on microscopic waistlines is ending. In a Body-Positive Moment, Why Does Hollywood Remain Out of Step? 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z The pages are populated with lovely colour pictures and stylish paradoxes; lucid dreams, mirages, echoes, bubbles, mirror images and more are explored with a pleasantly provocative insistence on multiplying difficulties. Steven Poole's non-fiction choice ? reviews 2011-03-19T00:06:01Z Furthermore, even though she’s often submissive, Eva, with her own dark past and insistence on her own sexual and psychological power, is a stronger and tougher character than James’ less experienced heroine. “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z Over time, at the insistence of wise editors, I began to understand that the story needed to be grounded in my own subjectivity. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Missionary’s Daughter in Haiti 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Despite my mother’s insistence, I knew I was a Mary. Everything I Learned from Mary Tyler Moore 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z For Kizer, this was one of the most important tools poetry offered, the insistence to be heard. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carolyn Kizer is dead at 89 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z WC: Yes, the importance of the chorus is again about the French insistence on big dramatic scale. Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z "If that happens, there are no limits," Horowitz said of the insistence on a review of his news-media moments. In family court, a reckoning for Mel Gibson's career 2010-11-23T01:05:00Z And his insistence that the news media coverage remain minimal backfired midway through his remarks. The TV Watch: Vulnerability in a Disciplined Performance 2010-02-20T02:50:00Z This was Lorde’s challenge, her mandate to black male writers: an insistence that black men reckon with both racism and their complicity in patriarchy. A Memoir of Black Life in the ‘Other America’ 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z To Schroeder’s camera and in public preaching, he pursues this theme with relentless insistence while denying he condones violence. ‘The Venerable W.’ Review: A Buddhist Monk Preaches Hate 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z It's typical of Juster's insistence on considering things from all angles that he follows this beautiful and stirring speech with Milo's wry thought: "For someone who loves silence, she certainly talks a great deal." Summer Voyages: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster 2013-07-17T09:16:27Z Honorée Fanonne Jeffers invites us to see as “nearly a revolutionary act” Toni Morrison’s insistence in 1983 that white people had a race too. Sexist Silences and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z He was alternatively gee-whiz and grumpy, and his insistence of his rights as an artist seemed like a not-so-gentle reminder that he was one. The George Awakens 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z In her recollections and insistences, there’s a powerful, if fragmentary, view of social history at work. An Extraordinary Documentary Portrait of a Playwright Facing Alzheimer’s Disease 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Christ's insistence on man's freedom led to moral and social chaos, the Inquisitor argues. Paul Murray's top 10 wicked clerics 2010-03-17T15:38:00Z For Friedkin, this hardline insistence on setting his own rulebook has fueled a career spanning five decades and ensured that his films remain fiercely original even as his résumé continues to grow. William Friedkin: 'You don’t know a damn thing, and neither do I' 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z “She’s a funny, smart, compassionate narrator, and I … admired her insistence on taking women’s concerns seriously.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z By revealing little details, implications, readers form a relationship with the character based on their own understanding, not my insistence. This Week in Fiction: Cynan Jones on His Story “The Edge of the Shoal” 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Taylor’s insistence on local ingredients meant the Senator had to change how it sources food. Bites: Restaurant Report: Senator Restaurant in Toronto 2014-03-26T16:28:11Z He asked this in the early '70s, at a moment in pop music when a self-satisfied insistence on authenticity had settled into rock. 'David Bowie Is': How do you fit a rocker into an art museum? 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z "Zeva" derives from a Hebrew word that means "she-wolf," and she adopted it as a screen name at her mother's insistence that she not use her real name upon joining MySpace. A teen fashion blogger gets a feature-length video 2011-07-08T01:34:21Z The insistence of the electronic sounds, coupled with the bodily failures at the core of the live element, creates a tension that’s strangely mournful. Nate Wooley’s ‘For Kenneth Gaburo’ Manipulates a Sentence 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Here he was the only person to call correctly England's formation, firm in the face of the BBC's insistence on some kind of diamond malarkey. World Cup 2010: Something comforting about return to the BBC fold 2010-06-23T20:16:00Z Your insistence that people are obligated to respond honestly — even if they think you are a terrible person — is putting the burden on someone whose only crime is to be in your Rolodex. Perspective | Ask Amy: Rolodex rancher trolls contacts 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Ms. Davis takes a solo of slippery insistence, then turns things over to the trumpeter Marquis Hill, a virtuoso with a sandy tone and an ear for reflective phrasing. The Playlist: Shawn Mendes Shows His Scars, and 9 More New Songs 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z At Bea’s insistence, their first stop is a visit with her brother, Alex, who manages a hotel near a small town in Burgundy, France. Review | In Sadie Jones’s “The Snakes,” parents are more venomous than reptiles 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z But it’s impossible to highlight Diski’s insistence that she wasn’t being brave or strong without implying that there’s something extra brave and extra strong about that resistance. Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z New stations are designed — at the insistence of the train companies — to be pass-through stations. Traveling within Europe? Take a high-speed train 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Some of the suggestions turned out to be not relevant to us, such as his insistence that the first thing you do is get a post office box. How to work with an illustrator 2013-02-15T01:00:00Z Her parents shielded her from Birmingham’s pervasive racism, she writes, “by imposing high expectations and a determined insistence on excellence.” Books of The Times: A Controversial Figure; Hold the Controversy 2010-10-12T17:03:00Z And though dexterous and melodic use is made of piano, strings and wind and brass instruments, the sound that keeps coming to the fore is that of a drum, beaten slowly, with ominous insistence. Theater Review | 'The Scottsboro Boys': Kander and Ebb Revisit an Infamous Case 2010-03-11T05:17:00Z The continued insistence on reviving old, tired, overseen, overdone shows is a cop-out by Broadway producers who just want an easy buck. The Problem With Broadway Revivals: They Revive Gender Stereotypes, Too 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z You hear that disbelief in the frantic insistence of certain Sanders supporters that the primary was “rigged”, simply because Clinton won it. Why do we love a trainwreck? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z “He took care of me at his own insistence,” Ms. Brandon said. She Wanted a Mate, He Needed a Mower 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z I regret that I complied, and I also never set up Facebook — again, at his insistence. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Her husband isolated her. Post-split, will friends welcome her back? 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z And the insistence that the special counsel’s investigation is a groundless “witch hunt” — even when that is often debunked, and clearly untrue — gains traction because he just keeps saying it. Perspective | Instead of Trump’s propaganda, how about a nice ‘truth sandwich’? 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Meredith Willson’s adaptation of a classic Christmas film adds music to the tale of a Macy’s Santa and the court case that results over his insistence that he’s the genuine article. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T01:34:36Z What is perhaps most striking about Solms’s project, though, is his insistence that Freud already laid the groundwork. Review | A brain researcher on what Freud got right 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Impatient with his insistence, she warned him to keep away. One Last Book From a Virtuoso of the Short Story 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z The repetition of the voice being “so tired of fire, so tired of smoke” is another insistence of danger from a mind predisposed to find it. Musically, David Lynch's Crazy Clown Time Is Just as Creepy As You Thought It Would Be 2011-11-08T10:00:41Z There’s no record of how many performers there were, or what instruments they played—though some who attended recall Eastman’s insistence that the audience be served soup. Song of the Summer: “Femenine,” by Julius Eastman 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z And some things about her have been constant: her even keel, her insistence on respect and dignity–especially at the office–and, always, control. Mad Men Character Study: Cleopatra Joan 2012-05-30T13:07:06Z “Sing it!” he demanded recently with a toddler’s insistence. Parents want elementary pupils to learn foreign languages -- but where? Whiteness as a central category for thinking about American life and literature was integral to all of Baldwin’s writing, well before Morrison’s insistence. Sexist Silences and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z I might surmise as much even without their insistence, because it's completely delicious. 12 natural wines for those intimidated by natural wine 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Jenner’s insistence on personal authenticity after decades of distress and dissimulation—as recounted to Vanity Fair’s Buzz Bissinger in an in-depth interview—was widely hailed. Caitlyn Jenner’s Big Début 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The insistence on “presenteeism” is a long tradition stemming from management fears of worker complacency. Remote working is not going away: who wins and loses when workers stay home? 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z All those repeated phrases take on the haunting insistence of melodic motifs. Review: In an Energized ‘Iceman,’ the Drinks are on Denzel 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Offline, ballet institutions are just beginning to rethink their insistence on conformity, particularly their adherence to rigid gender norms. On Ballet TikTok, a Place for Young Dancers to Be Real 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Darcy aside, you might call it Austen’s biggest fantasy — her seemingly unrealistic insistence that exercise is fun, enjoyable and, above all, easy. Jane Austen believed beauty could come in every shape and size. What else can she teach us about wellness? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z But “Lullaby,” the directorial debut of Andrew Levitas, a jack of all artistic trades, is the kind of manipulative, cliché-infested hokum that alienates moviegoers by its insistence on hogging all the tears. ‘Lullaby’ Features Richard Jenkins and Amy Adams 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z This was presented alongside his insistence that he, too, is a victim of domestic abuse, first at his mother's hands and later at Heard's. Why Fox News is obsessed with Johnny Depp, its Manliness Under Siege mascot 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z He took piano lessons for eight years, at his mother’s insistence, but the only thing he could successfully play, he said, was Bach’s Minuet in G. Chuck Stewart, Jazz Photographer, Dies at 89; You’ve Seen His Album Covers 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The father rejects postponing an operation, despite Bill’s insistence that the baby was his son, who would benefit from therapy, possible reconstructive surgery and hormonal shots — all much later in life. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Of Might and Men 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Tris, too, seems becalmed and unsure, vacillating between David’s professed humanitarianism and Four’s insistence that evil is afoot. Review: ‘Allegiant’ Diverges as the End Nears 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z An insistence on connection and revealing quiet moments of beauty in the lives of Londoners — many of them struggling to stay afloat in economic uncertainty — is at the heart of Ms. Tempest’s work. Kate Tempest, a British Triple Threat, Crosses the Pond 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, he pushed his work further and further away from a simple-minded insistence on the primacy of emotion and psychology, exploring physical action and the crucial importance of rhythm in acting. Simon Callow: Stanislavski was racked by self-doubt 2013-03-16T08:00:09Z In the wrong hands they are less the soaring creatures Messiaen sought, and more like road kill, with a jarringly repetitive insistence that suggests neurosis. Review: A Pianist Pays Homage to Birdsong 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z This is made clear not only by his inaction, but his insistence upon it. Sebastien Tellier on Eurovision 2012-05-25T23:03:00Z Rather, it is her insistence on a wholeness and singularity to her art and her refusal to adopt the interpretive language of others that is refreshing. Perspective | An exhibition of the beloved Kusama with everything but Kusama herself 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The stencilled dots and lines and fillings-in don't get more interesting when you do, and in any case the shrill insistence of the colour and tempo are so shouty you want to hang back. Roy Lichtenstein: too cool for school? 2013-02-18T18:15:39Z Always, through peace and peril, the camera hugs her side like a bodyguard, its fidelity a constant insistence on the significance of her survival. Review: ‘Here Alone’ Will Scare You With Menacing Little Jolts 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z The Calgary Herald recalled, in its coverage of his death, Silverman’s oft-repeated insistence that “men are about as likely as women to say they have been the victims of domestic abuse.” Feminism didn’t kill men’s rights advocate Earl Silverman 2013-04-29T14:55:00Z But the refugee is familiar with the emotional impact of an inexplicable death; he can't help antagonizing the principal with his insistence on openly discussing self-destruction. 'Monsieur Lazhar': a tale of suicide, sixth graders, substitute teacher 2012-04-26T20:10:08Z At Jack’s insistence, he and his engineers visit the underground data storage vault where Pied Piper’s pitiful appliance will be tucked away like the holy relic at the end of “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” ‘Silicon Valley’ Season 3, Episode 3: Julia Roberts and 11 Men 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Part of the issue, I suspect, is the writers' insistence upon bludgeoning us with their takes on issues. Why #Resistance TV shows are so hard to watch 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z The whole production was distinguished by an insistence on doing things for real, on working in conditions not so different from those faced by the drama’s characters. Alejandro González Iñárritu: 'When you see The Revenant you will say "Wow"' 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Norris compares her to the Dogme film-makers in her insistence on honesty, which she applies as stringently to her actors as she does to herself. London Road: Murder, they sang 2011-04-10T20:46:00Z Back in March, with her mother ailing, Hirschberg struggled with the idea of flying for two reasons; her mother’s insistence that she wait and confusing government messaging. And what do you do when the trip in question might be your last chance to say goodbye 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Generally I'm not a fan of this argument – the insistence that all grown women conduct themselves as though they were permanently and personally in charge of the moral development of children is restrictive and infantilising. My possible superhero 2011-03-28T20:30:01Z Yet his laser focus on expansion and upping the thrills made him a paragon of “stubborn insistence and myopia.” Review | ‘Action Park’ looks back at one very dangerous amusement park 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z The Bramans’ insistence on footing the bill contrasts starkly with the shaky fiscal health of several local museums. In Miami, the Bramans Plan the Institute of Contemporary Art 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z There was much griping about reality pay scales, much insistence on the fact that the TV cameras captured the truth. Big Ant and Vyxsin and, Maybe, You 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z The plane model was grounded in many countries around the world after the Ethiopian Airlines crash, including in the U.S. – despite Boeing’s insistence on the airworthiness of the jet. Boeing says MAX 8 software fix complete, awaiting FAA approval 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z And that's why Mason and McEnany went into every pitch with a dogged insistence that the series could not go forward without her at its center. “Work in Progress” tackles queer identity comedy nearly 30 years after “It’s Pat” 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z These parts in Icke’s productions have been important moments in her career, Stevenson said, adding that she would never have taken on Gertrude in “Hamlet” without his insistence. Juliet Stevenson Returns to ‘The Doctor,’ and the New York Stage 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Belal’s sorrow is hard to watch, and his insistence on remaining hopeful in spite of everything is heartbreaking. | 'Iron Crows': Documentary on Shipbreakers, and Where Tankers Go When They Die 2011-08-23T21:53:07Z You see how that lines up with the traditional insistence upon certain limits. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z It’s her insistence on finding a “Kimmy” way to approach whatever problems come her way that is going to free her from ever being placed in someone else’s box. The radical subversion of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's survival narrative 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z This insistence on subject matter brings Mr. Thiebaud closer to Pop, especially where the still lifes are concerned, undercutting recent arguments that he is more of a classicist in the tradition of Morandi and Chardin. Art Review: Wayne Thiebaud Retrospective at Acquavella Galleries 2012-11-08T23:37:53Z Since Lee primarily focuses on small businesses, many of them Black-owned, he might not have visited Burruss’ place if not for the insistence of someone imploring him to swing by. How Keith Lee, a TikTok food critic for the new economy, guides us to eat well -- and good 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z There’s the Nordic insistence on knowing how to do practical things and doing them well, on taking care of your body with time outdoors every day. The Year of Hygge, the Danish Obsession with Getting Cozy 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z His conduct, his insistence on “having fun as a categorical imperative, on the ephemeral,” left its mark on Italy. Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘Great Beauty’ Explores Italy’s Decline 2013-09-08T21:23:29Z The announcement of the film, combined with Tribeca’s shrugging insistence that it was just presenting an “opposing side,” was immediately met a groundswell of justifiable shock and disgust. Anti-vax film isn’t being “censored”: Andrew Wakefield is not entitled to a prestigious platform for his discredited autism claims 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z This movie opposes that one with every fiber of its ornery being, including by its insistence on procedural tedium over cinematic excitement. ‘The Highwaymen’ Review: Grumpy Old Men on the Trail of Glamorous Killers 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z And after 14 seasons, Big Bird’s insistence otherwise was beginning to call his general credibility into question. 9 Times Big Bird Helped Us Be Better People 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Her insistence on keeping the focus on her movies is a quiet yet profound form of rebellion. Kathryn Bigelow: How Oscar Found Ms. Right 2010-03-10T19:14:00Z But the issue isn’t that “Utopia Avenue” and some of the other novels fail some superficial critical litmus test — some arbitrary insistence on tonal consistency or unity of genre. David Mitchell Brings His Novelistic High Jinks to the Swinging ’60s 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z But the film frames their insistence on following their desires, whatever the consequences, as a powerful form of dissent; Atafeh tells a friend: "Here anything illegal becomes politically subversive." Maryam Keshavarz: 'In Iran, anything illegal becomes politically subversive' 2012-08-23T20:00:04Z The delay in serving the food of his homeland is explained by Ilhan’s insistence that the flavors be right. Ottoman Taverna serves a vivid taste of Turkey 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Despite Matt’s insistence on keeping up his potty ruse, he managed to break character out of concern for his dad. Potty-training toddler lies to dad in hilarious viral video 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z But Mr. Malick’s insistence on freedom does not preclude obsessive fine-tuning: after the shoot, he called her in — by her count, more than 30 times — to record new lines and re-record old ones. Without Ever Showing Up, Malick Is Talk of Cannes 2011-05-16T20:16:10Z At his father’s insistence, JFK asked them to stay in their highly sensitive positions. JFK loved James Bond: How Ian Fleming's spy novels influenced the CIA 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z In its success in less than ideal circumstances, its insistence on growing beautiful and strong, in defying winter, there is hope. My houseplant garden is a tiny national park Donald Trump can never destroy 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z It's more reason to remember her bravery and her insistence that Till's story be used to educate, even when some consider it controversial to do so. With the movie ‘Till,’ Mamie Till-Mobley’s quest to educate the world about her son’s lynching march 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z While Albers’s observations are interesting, I am troubled by her insistence on establishing some physiological explanation for the brilliance of Mitchell’s abstract evocations of sights and emotions. Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell: Abstract Expressionist Lives 2011-07-08T15:56:48Z Bellow was aware that his repeated insistence on our “state of radical distraction” made him sound, at times, like a fogy, a turkey gobbling at the inanities of the young. Review: Revisiting Saul Bellow’s Words, on Society, Chicago and Other Writers 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z There is an insistence that they must work together — performing with and for each other to immerse themselves into the perfume of each particular world. Alexei Ratmansky Has Russian Poetry and an American Pulse 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z I waded into this tide of public sentiment carrying a lifetime of my father’s dogmatic insistence that I always have a gun for self-protection. My father taught me to love guns 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Rather, I now was unsure about my lifelong insistence that it was my favorite book as a child. I Saw Myself in ‘A Wrinkle in Time.’ But I Had to Work Hard. 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Lloyd Webber’s music often inhabits a similar zone of singsong insistence, with certain melody lines repeated so often you fear surgery may be necessary to have them removed from your memory. Review: That ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Close-Up, Finely Focused 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z His insistence that Serbs were merely defending themselves against external threats, she observes, is rooted in memories of actual “historical wounds” that continue to exert a powerful influence. Conversations With a Mass Murderer 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z What made Drake singular upon his arrival, and for the first half of his career, was his insistence that those two impulses were not only related, but necessarily intertwined. For the First Time, Drake Runs From His Feelings 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Like the Aardman movies, “ParaNorman” was made with physical puppets and sets, and an almost tenderly stubborn insistence on the human touch. ‘ParaNorman,’ About a Boy and Zombies, With Elaine Stritch 2012-08-16T21:44:18Z Apocalypse Dreams and the mantra-like insistence of album opener Be Above It. Tame Impala: a trip inside the head of main man Kevin Parker 2012-10-05T23:03:00Z Between those emotional markers, which kept reappearing with rhythmic insistence, Bartee and Lopez approached each other from every angle imaginable, navigating a series of choreographic slipknots that fused the tender with the tormented. Review: Here there be monsters ? of vital interest to dance fans, thanks to Whim W'Him 2011-01-15T17:57:04Z The assumption would be that they were just looking for any justification, no matter how baseless, for their politically motivated insistence that 97 percent of scientists are wrong about climate change. Science explains Donald Trump: Why cold weather makes people doubt global warming 2014-01-14T15:24:00Z That's an odd note to strike — typically, writers don't aspire to the quality of a sponge — and it's followed by other peculiarly defensive notes, such as Reitman's insistence on labeling her work as "objective." 'Inside Scientology': an in-depth look at a secretive religion 2011-08-03T20:48:04Z This was achieved at the insistence of the N.A.A.C.P. that objected to the stereotypes in the audition scripts written by white writers. Blacklisted from Birth: A Letter from Langston Hughes 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Metallic percussion instruments add tiny impulses that set off a downward flow of strings — in halting smooth waves at first, then gradually with growing insistence and confidence. Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Their specific demand for justice as they grew older was thus also part of a larger insistence on recognition and the acquisition of a public voice. Movie Review: ‘Mea Maxima Culpa,’ Alex Gibney Documentary 2012-11-15T23:34:58Z Leslie’s insistence on keeping the twins because it “just feels right” will push buttons on both sides of the argument for and against her continuing the pregnancy. Review: ‘The Young Kieslowski’ Is a Sobering Comedy of Consequences 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z As a Christmas gift, the widow’s son gives her a television set, despite her earlier insistence that she had no interesting in owning one. ‘The Night Of’ Season 1, Episode 7: A Test of Faith 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z The main dispute blocking diplomatic ties is the Vatican’s insistence that the pope - and not the government - be responsible for appointing bishops. Vatican, China swap art in bid to mend strained ties 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z He ended up leaving his 3-year-old daughter at home in Atlanta, he said, because of Trump’s insistence on a chance of hurricane. Trump warned Alabama about Dorian. So we sent someone to cover the ‘hurricane.’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z "I'm just stupid – I mean outrageous," raps Maxsta, born Ian Koromah 20 years ago, before announcing that he wants to "rock right now" with the dazed insistence of a man concussed. New band of the day – Maxsta (No 1,306) 2012-07-11T13:48:50Z And now that she’s gone, having died Thursday in Michigan at 89, you just might pick up her whisky-voiced insistence in the wind, that no one ever will. Elaine Stritch: There was nothing like this dame But Bulgari's insistence that the Spanish Steps now be better cared for was evidence of a certain sense of entitlement that these private sponsors are able to exert. Italy reopens Spanish Steps after controversy over fence 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z At her insistence, the vinyl sleeve of Seasons of My Soul features different artwork to the CD. The persistence of Rumer 2011-03-17T21:29:00Z His collected stories runs to nearly 900 pages, despite its exclusion, at Cheever's insistence, of his entire first collection. A brief survey of the short story part 45: John Cheever 2012-11-16T11:05:54Z What’s different is the framing, the insistence that this era is a hard pivot more than a gentle evolution. Kanye West, Heretic by Nature, Finds God 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z The film is pointed in its insistence on this point. "Birds of Prey" is a fantabulous, feminist grenade 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Directed by David Cromer with an inspired inventiveness that never calls attention to itself, “The Band’s Visit” flows with the grave and joyful insistence of life itself. Review: ‘The Band’s Visit’ Is a Ravishing Musical That Whispers With Romance 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The good doctor becomes taken with this enigmatic yet exceedingly proper woman, who claims she remembers nothing of the murders and pleaded guilty only at her lawyers’ insistence. ‘Alias Grace’ is the second Margaret Atwood TV series, with more on the way. Why now? 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Hurston’s work has been a guiding light for my own writing, especially its radical insistence on the value of singular attention to black communities, the black vernacular and black oral traditions of speech and storytelling. Review | For many writers, Zora Neale Hurston’s work has been a guiding light. Now there’s even more to read. 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Their ridiculous subtext is occasionally broken by one or other's insistence that they're definitely just friends now OK. Camelot: episode six 2011-07-10T21:09:00Z I could expound on the implausibility of Julia's ferocious insistence on bedding Dale. Horrible Bosses. So-So Movie. Excellent Jason Bateman! 2011-07-07T12:25:00Z Such realism is also reflected in Greenwood's insistence on dialogue faithful to the Salfordian-Mancunian dialect. Rereading: Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z Her insistence felt premature, but again, I just thought it was more early planning. In my mother's kitchen, Diwali came early this year 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Why the insistence on physical proximity between musicians and audiences? Le Salon de Musiques continues to embrace intimacy 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Starting with their first single I Watch You, there's enough vim on this debut to excuse a mid-album lull, where their attempts at mantric insistence grow a little leaden. Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs: Clarietta – review 2013-05-18T23:05:14Z Viewers will find her earliest research and drawings from graduate school and the first paintings in which she invented her signature mark making, which the artist defines as “an insistence, persistence of being.” Julie Mehretu’s Reckoning With Success 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z My parents insistence that we visit had a deeper meaning later — I didn’t know it would be the last time. “DETROIT”: Cleaning up the mess white people made or adding to it? 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Adora’s wields her brand of white southern womanhood violently, as she uses her supposed frailty and insistence on propriety as a way to dominate everyone around her. Deep cuts: how Sharp Objects offers up a radically dark view of women 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Catrow's simple story is shot through with humor, much of it from Max's insistence at taking things at face value. Books that get beginning readers off to a good start 2011-02-12T02:26:03Z Sharp Objects’ success hinges on the show’s insistence on interrogating our assumptions about who gets to be the subject in a story. Deep cuts: how Sharp Objects offers up a radically dark view of women 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z There's that, and the fact that he looks massively uncomfortable as the white guests cheer at a queasy minstrel show staged at Lift's insistence. "Sorry to Bother You" speaks the hidden truths of "white voice" out loud 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z They are compounded by the insistence that translators be respected as artists — no matter the quality of their work. Did He Really Say That? On the Perils and Pitfalls of Translation 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Like Big Ben overseeing every page of Virginia Woolf’s modernist classic Mrs. Dalloway, time — even the actual word — haunts with a needling and anxious insistence. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z But unlike an art gallery, the white walls here remain unadorned, at the insistence of Mr. Helfenstein, who attended high school in a Benedictine monastery. On Location: For the Director of the Menil Collection, an Unadorned Home 2011-11-10T03:30:31Z On the other hand, those friendships are already on the rocks over my newspaper’s insistence on calling the crustacean in question crayfish, rather than crawfish. The Chinese Crayfish Craze Hits the East Village, at Le Sia 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z But he suggested its small errors had accumulated via the authors’ “monocausality” — an insistence on seeing everything through the lens of slavery. How the 1619 Project took over 2020 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z All but one of the 17 paintings here are from 2017, and her insistence on painting each work in a single day is not serving her well. The Psychosexual World of Carol Rama Still Shocks 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Fred rattles Velvet, and the claustrophobia of the staging and his aggressive insistence put her and you on edge. Movie Review: ‘Some Velvet Morning,’ Directed by Neil LaBute 2013-12-12T23:19:36Z But with their heavy outlines, and the riot of color and pattern that surround them, they inhabit the image with a forceful, blunt, plain-spoken insistence. Review | Suzanne Valadon modeled for some of the world’s greatest artists. Then she became one. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z From the scant information you’ve given, it does sound as if Bride is being needlessly, and selfishly, stubborn in her insistence on the double escort. Carolyn Hax: Is bride right to insist that dad and stepdad walk her down the aisle? The chorus of that tune, like the title, is a simple but vital declaration — an insistence, really — and the arena roared its fist-pumping assent. Music Review: Pearl Jam on Tour at Madison Square Garden 2010-05-21T22:57:00Z Not only is Sal romantically drawn to this handsome, educated man, but she also is torn nearly apart by his insistence that she run away with him and work to overthrow slavery. Blending fact and fiction to create a moving tale 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Yehoshua also stirred controversy with his insistence that authentic identity as a Jew required settlement in Israel. A.B. Yehoshua, Israeli Writer Who Explored Moral and Political Dilemmas, Dies at 85 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z But in an era in which Today’s Hits and unknown pleasures exist side by side, both equally accessible via your favorite platform, why the insistence on the present? Throwbacks: Summer reissues of strange surf music, gay proto-punk, 'Robocop' and more But we are a stubborn group of people, and it is often easier to focus on the silly, the superficial and the insistence that we are right. "The Marriage Ref" is a therapist's nightmare 2010-03-09T16:09:00Z Scott of the New York Times wrote that “the real virtue of this short, sometimes frustrating book lies in its insistence that thinking for oneself is a difficult and lifelong undertaking.” “Why grow up?” is a political question: Our cult of youth is no accident — and it has dire consequences 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z "She was triumphant in her music, in her insistence on singing the way she felt and feeling the song in order to sing it," he said. Singer Audra McDonald returns to Broadway as Billie Holiday 2014-03-19T21:15:14Z Those interminable summer Sunday afternoons that seemed to lead from the end of The Big Match all the way to still-bright bedtime haunt my memory with Proustian insistence. One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z The project, a collaboration with the Kunsthaus Bregenz, has been hugely complicated logistically, particularly because of Gormley's insistence on the figures being in a horizontal line, and involved the Austrian army and mountain rescue teams. Antony Gormley poses lofty questions in the Austrian mountains 2010-07-30T16:35:00Z "Is There A Ghost" is the breakout hit from their second album, 2007's Cease To Begin, and they play it with a little more drama and insistence than the others. Band of Horses 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z The Modernist insistence on the separation of representation and abstraction robbed painting of essential vitality. Painting, Still Lively in the 21st Century 2010-03-26T16:33:00Z Our leaders should renounce the use of force, he writes, directly countering Obama’s insistence on keeping a military option on the table. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z And that instinct, that insistence on documenting the city we lived in rather than the city we imagined, is what makes Spike Lee one of New York’s essential filmmakers. ‘25th Hour’: The Best 9/11 Movie Was Always About New York 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z By refuting the “dumb blonde” trope, Elle has become beloved for her sincerity and her insistence on unapologetically being herself. ‘Legally Blonde’ Oral History: From Raunchy Script to Feminist Classic 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z The most eccentric of Glasheen's quirks is his insistence on maintaining a large – and largely brown – bowling green, which he cuts with a petrol-powered mower. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild – TV review 2013-04-23T06:00:08Z His downfall was his insistence upon believing in a version of the world that simply wasn't there anymore or never really existed in the first place. On the Iron Anniversary of "Game of Thrones," here's hoping Joe Biden doesn't go Ned Stark on us 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z And Coop’s insistence that his dream was essential to cracking the case kept fans busy for weeks, decoding all the symbolism. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 6: A Dark Age 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z But the differing narrative venues, modes and atmospheres in each sequence exhibited VanderMeer’s insistence on clothing his perennial themes and obsessions in diverting new garments. Review | Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Hummingbird Salamander’ is a gripping eco-thriller full of cinematic set pieces 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z But upon insistence by the Dungeon Master, I took a while to research my character’s worldview. Dungeons and Dragons: My dorky literary muse 2012-12-08T16:00:00Z At his mother’s insistence, Till’s tortured body was put on public view and photographed. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z That’s not an entirely unpersuasive read, although it doesn’t discount the Wolf’s icky insistence: the way he keeps interrupting her, the way he cajoles and ignores her protestations. Is “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” a date-rape anthem? 2012-12-10T21:14:00Z She calmed them with a cheerful insistence that term limits are good for democracy. How Michelle Obama talks to voters in a way Hillary Clinton can’t 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z This is perhaps the building’s most classical feature, this insistence that a building gains power and presence by bringing stone all the way down to street level. Philip Johnson's AT&T Building has always been vain, idiosyncratic and flawed. Let's keep it that way 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z He sang the part of a Cockney man distraught at his Italian wife’s insistence on cooking such muck as tagliatelle. Frozen in Time: Sophia Loren, London, June 1960 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z Live-action segments about kids across the country helped drive home the show’s expansive worldview, its happy insistence that curiosity and forgiveness can take you just about anywhere. Best TV Shows of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The drumbeats galloped and pushed harder as she sang verse after verse, her voice swooping toward notes that she lingered over with a quavering insistence. SXSW Music 2015: Ancient Songs With a Rocking Beat 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z But what is clear from this sober yet electrifying film is that the power of the Panthers was rooted in their insistence — radical then, radical still — that black lives matter. Review: ‘The Black Panthers’ Captures a Militant Movement’s Soul and Swagger 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z In this piece it exemplifies the B-grade nature of the production's aspirations and its insistences on maintaining a predictable linearity to its quest. Even a magical sword can't help "Cursed," a retelling of the Arthurian legend that needs honing 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Way is a great artist undeterred by mental illness and his insistence on remaining homeless. The Outsider Art Fair Returns, in Top Form 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Where she continues to fail, however, is in her insistence on putting the story of her voyage of discovery first. The exasperating Lena Dunham paradox: Heads she wins, tails we lose 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z One of the good things about the play is Greene's insistence that spiritual pain is not reserved for the privileged. The Living Room – review 2013-03-13T18:17:36Z “If that happens, there are no limits,” Mr. Horowitz said of the insistence on a review of his news-media moments. In Family Court, a Reckoning for Gibson?s Erratic Career 2010-11-21T22:33:00Z Instagram users were completely baffled by the man’s insistence on swiping his bill to no avail. NYC subway rider swipes money at turnstile instead of MetroCard in hilarious video 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Harry Brock, on the other hand, with his proud vulgarianism and insistence on his fundamental right to bend the law to his monetary will, feels unpleasantly timeless. | 'Born Yesterday': Daffy Blonde Gets Wise to Washington 2011-04-25T02:01:07Z Milton listens to Uche’s insistence that Lydia was always there for him — not Milton. The best takeaway from this season of "Love Is Blind"? Act like Milton 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z Some of this is by design — and no doubt at the insistence of The Firm, the organization that runs the royal household and maintains its interactions with the public. Our Elizabethan Age of Pop Culture 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z At the hotel’s insistence, we had made dinner and breakfast reservations, something our other accommodations recommended, too. We walked half of Scotland’s West Highland Way to fulfill an old hiking dream 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Contrary to his insistence, Tribe does not argue that the natural born clause of the Constitution renders Cruz ineligible, but rather uses the issue to draw attention to the absurdity of Cruz’s judicial philosophy. Don’t be a Ted Cruz birther: Liberals should reject the xenophobia behind “natural born” citizenship 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Ms. Rosales agreed to pay most of the refund and court costs and, at Dedalus’s insistence, the back of the “Elegy” was stamped “forgery” in indelible ink. Arts & Leisure: Authenticity of Trove of Pollocks and Rothkos Goes to Court 2012-02-22T13:00:00Z While The Voice was ploughing on with its insistence that earnest credibility will always out, everyone else was too busy hooting at a dancing dog on Britain's Got Talent. Has The Voice lost its charm? 2012-05-18T10:56:43Z The Angulo children were healthy and educated, and, at their mother’s insistence, routinely taken to the doctor and dentist. ‘The Wolfpack’ Brothers Step Out of Their World 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Some experts assign blame beyond Greece as well, citing structural deficiencies in Europe’s economic club and the insistence of Germany and other creditors on unbending austerity measures that have sliced into the quality of life. Myths explain Greece 2012-06-25T15:15:00Z The main dispute blocking diplomatic ties is the Vatican’s insistence that the pope - and not the government - be responsible for appointing bishops. Vatican, China swap art in bid to mend strained ties 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Separate sleepers cite a bevy of reasons for their habit, including apnea, restless leg syndrome, his insistence on watching “SportsCenter,” her need to get up early for yoga. Family Matters: Married, but Sleeping Alone 2010-07-23T18:19:00Z Hitchens understood the secular nature of Saddam’s Ba’ath Party, which made all the more puzzling and problematic his stubborn insistence that Saddam was colluding with Al Qaeda. The real New Atheism: Rejecting religion for a just world 2013-12-14T19:00:00Z He also compared the strangeness of Degas's vision – "I often feel he wants to make looking more difficult for us" – to Wallinger's insistence that his artwork can only be glimpsed through holes or apertures. National Gallery puts on a peep show with Mark Wallinger's nude Diana 2012-07-09T15:25:00Z Keith’s insistence on 75 times, which of course comes from WE Gladstone, is the definitive answer. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Despite her insistence to the contrary, there is a strong whiff of “just-get-on-with-it” matter-of-factness that may be a little beyond some of us. I’m Dying Up Here: Books on How to Grieve and How to Die 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z But despite Capa’s insistence on payment for both black-and-white and color photographs, a wall label tells us that Look and Illustrated magazines “were disappointed with the color images,” and published only the black-and-white ones. Art Review: ‘Capa in Color’ at International Center of Photography 2014-02-06T22:07:19Z And though it is also easy to dismiss the adaptation of such issues into commercial products, an insistence on context is part of Ms. Semaan’s mission. Refugee Designer Shines a Light on Global Issues 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z In doing so, he compels us to consider the costs of an insistence on excellence as a means to an end and the only conceivable option for a black kid in America. When Excellence Is a Survival Strategy 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Her own composing, meanwhile, was at Mahler's insistence, disregarded. The Alma problem 2010-12-02T22:31:00Z A worse indulgence Saturday was his insistence, at one point, in taking over singing duties from Reed. Savion Glover, and his feet, tapped out a show as if the audience wasn’t there 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z I have to wonder how such a statement would play with the Hunt Prize’s insistence on “sound moral character.” Literature and the moral question 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z For a minute or two, I felt that the insistence on anonymity might qualify as mildly admirable behavior under the circumstances. The Coy Art of the Mystery Bidder 2010-05-08T18:32:00Z McDermott’s nuns insist on showing up for those who suffer, and insistence might be the unspoken fourth vow of sisterhood, after poverty, chastity and obedience. The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z They also possess something else, she said: an insistence that although lives may be unfulfilling, happiness in love impossible and security a distant dream, everything, no matter how grave, contains the possibility of laughter. Mavis Gallant, Short-Story Writer, Dies at 91 2014-02-18T19:55:45Z Maybe your wife is actually keeping things from you that I would advise her not to, but there’s also a controlly undertone to your insistence on knowing everything your wife is told. Carolyn Hax: Should you keep secrets from your spouse? 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z His motto was "one man, one picture", his movies marked by his unusual insistence that his name appear above the title, possessing the enterprise – it was always "Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life". Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z I first met Hillary in 1978 in Little Rock, when she was still Hillary Rodham, and her insistence on keeping her maiden name had hurt Bill’s career. In ‘Rodham,’ Curtis Sittenfeld Reimagines Hillary’s Life 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z He watched her face, saw her insistence that Bobby Kennedy hear her. Lorraine Hansberry, American radical: She pushed RFK to make “a moral commitment” on civil ri... 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z He went so far as to call the production conservative for its insistence on clarity. Risking Boos, the Met Opera Puts Present-Day America Onstage 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z But she won’t be stopped, and it’s terrific comedy: her unperturbed insistence, his escalating agony. In a Battle for Female Personhood, These Plays Are on the Front Lines 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z I think it’s partly because they learned to trust one another, and not to let their insistence on individualism and individual rights become so overwhelming that nobody would listen to anybody else. Q & A: Daniel James Brown on ‘The Boys in the Boat’ 2013-06-07T22:35:35Z You might hear the shadow influence of second-wave Detroit techno on “Speak the Name” and “Beat the Ground” in their asymmetrical pulse patterns — but you don’t notice any insistence behind the allusion. Playlist: New Music by Craig Taborn Trio, J. D. Allen and Eric Church 2013-04-20T22:50:58Z His insistence on a divorce so he could marry Anne led directly to Henry’s excommunication by the Catholic Church and thus to the birth of the Reformation. These Are The 25 Most Influential Marriages of All Time 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z The film’s first act, set at the 1984 launch of the Macintosh, focuses on Jobs’s maniacal insistence that the computer say “Hello” to the audience. Aaron Sorkin on the cult of Steve Jobs: ‘I hadn't seen anything like it since John Lennon was killed’ 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Others come as a shock: the kettledrums that sound like cannon fire; the piercing insistence of a piccolo that seems to have been requisitioned from Napoleon’s army. Music Review: John Eliot Gardiner Leads Ensembles at Carnegie Hall 2012-11-19T22:57:38Z The rule was familiar to me, but the insistence on it in these raucous surroundings surprised me. Review: ‘Everybody Rise,’ Stephanie Clifford’s Debut Novel, Features That Old-Money Scent 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z It’s tucked between his claim that he is one of the few who really loves her and an insistence that the kids not be more disrupted than we already are. Greetings from Tatooine, Arizona 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z And there was a touch of diplomacy in their insistence on letting the songs articulate their positions. Review: Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, Harmonic and Political Still 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z “When I heard the guerrillas refer to us as ‘cargo,’ as ‘packages,’ I shuddered,” she writes, explaining her insistence that her captors call her by her name. Books of The Times: Held Captive, yet Clinging to Hope 2010-09-20T22:16:00Z Rivers' insistence on using dirty language rubbed some audiences the wrong way, but also helped make her who she was. The true story behind the Midge Maisel-Sophie Lennon rivalry 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z The low/high point had to be Kelly lashing out at the other women's stubborn insistence on discussing their emotions. "Real Housewives of NYC" finale: Goodbye, wackadoos! 2010-06-04T13:30:00Z In a world where survivors are still often presented as damaged, the insistence that Kimmy is really OK, despite her various struggles, is perhaps the series greatest legacy. The radical subversion of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's survival narrative 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Some experts assign blame beyond Greece as well, citing structural deficiencies in Europe's economic club and the insistence of Germany and other creditors on unbending austerity measures that have sliced into the quality of life. Greek crisis: An odyssey seen through ancient myth 2012-06-24T11:41:12Z In a burst of inspiration, I realized what would please him most: for me to leave this department store empty-handed, to defy Hallmark’s insistence on the significance of this holiday. The Valentine’s Day we got it all wrong — and right 2014-02-14T00:00:00Z Anything that impedes that is going to be extraordinarily unwelcome — and thoroughly resisted — despite Zuckerberg’s insistence to the contrary. Perspective | Members of Congress can’t possibly regulate Facebook. They don’t understand it. 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Her strongest dramatic performance was a rendition of “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” that took at face value Eva Perón’s insistence that fortune and fame are “illusions” and “not the solutions they promised to be.” Music Review: Elaine Paige at the Allen Room, Friendly and Confessional 2012-02-13T23:21:13Z But adult life, of course, is a series of compromises and negotations, and I find the moral insistence of these songs to be wholly admirable, if unworldly. My favourite album: The Modern Lovers ? The Modern Lovers 2011-08-10T15:00:25Z Cruise is a small man who, through the magic of the movies and the insistence of his own physical will, does large and remarkable things. Tom Cruise: The Good Kind of Crazy 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z In the past, Mr. Feinstein’s insistence on vocal polish and smoothness has sometimes impeded his ability to dig into the essence of a song. Review: Michael Feinstein, Strolling Down Broadway and His Own Memory Lane 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Her lyrics — on subjects of love, fellowship and postcolonial reckoning — spring from a similar insistence on inquiry. The Playlist: John Prine Comes Home, and 10 More New Songs 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z And then there is her insistence on handling her career in a less than traditional fashion. FKA twigs Lives Large, in ‘Congregata’ and Beyond 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z His insistence on continuing to ask questions made Villanueva a nuisance there as he had always been, everywhere. One Man and His Followers Sought Salvation. Did It Exist? 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Our modern woman-ness sometimes seems to be built on competitive honesty and an insistence that we are failing; self-deprecating as if it was an Olympic sport, with medals. why its ok to be bad | Eva Wiseman 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z If this seems at odds with his insistence of the importance of support networks, then you guess that is where the guilt comes in. What Danny Boyle did next 2010-12-05T00:04:00Z The movie’s insistence on heroizing him, though, is a puzzle, particularly because Welles was the more persuasive outsider. David Fincher, the Unhappiest Auteur 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z That is what drives this course: the insistence that these two things—the stories of slavery and freedom—must be studied together. When the past is present: What slave narratives teach us about our greatest human desire 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z At various times, characters comment about “that Spanish insistence on everything being black and white” and the “Spanish walk, marked by its verticality.” ‘There Your Heart Lies,’ by Mary Gordon, plunges into the Spanish Civil War 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Even these cases, though, don’t justify your insistence on citing what-ifs, for the simple reason that it’s not working. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The glass is half full, but it’s cold water she throws on his enthusiasm 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Together, these hangers-on constitute most of the minor weak points in the season, the other being its insistence on filling in Will’s/Joe’s origin story by flashing back to his childhood. New year, new "You": Netflix's stalker drama seeks romantic nirvana in a twisted Season 2 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Still in his early 20s, he invited his French girlfriend, Marie-Christine, to join him, and married her at her father’s insistence. John Casablancas, Modeling Visionary, Dies at 70 2013-07-21T00:17:05Z And, surprisingly, given Lloyd Webber’s public insistence that pandemic theater can and must be done safely, there was no vaccination or testing requirement for the audience. Hope (and Ian McKellen) Lured Me to Britain. Was It Worth the Risk? 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z It’s the insistence on respect, which is downplayed in most cooking shows if not left out entirely. "Lessons in Chemistry" understands the assignment: Never forget that cooking is vital work 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z Sometimes white feminism is so emphatic in its insistence that the world reckons with it that it obliterates all else in its path. Weaponized white feminism in "The Handmaid's Tale" and "When They See Us" 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z At the insistence of a record producer, she took Léo, a name she hated, from her middle name, Léonie. Léo Marjane, a Music Hall Star in Occupied France, Dies at 104 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Most of these matched the main show’s insistence on a conversation pitched first and foremost to architects, with less concern about how meaningful it will be to the general public. 'Make New History,' the second Chicago Architecture Biennial, brings the focus back to square one 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z What some of us say is that Joan Rivers’s great quality was her insistence that nothing ought to be beyond a joke. It’s worse than Jerry Seinfeld says: PC is undermining free speech, expression, liberties 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z Chords are frequently repeated with an almost Minimalist insistence, but rhythmic patterns evolve. Music Review: Difficult Pieces Inspire a Pianist 2010-08-25T22:15:00Z But what about those dancegoers who find themselves nodding vigorously in agreement with George Balanchine’s insistence that “there are no mothers-in-law in ballet”? The Week Ahead: Jan. 30 ? Feb.5 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z Those who need grand statements in their Beethoven might be disappointed, whatever the grinding insistence of his Fifth Symphony, the liquid flow of his Sixth, the effervescence of his Eighth. He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z His undoubted charm often curdled while on tour, due to his insistence that Big Shug, a minor Boston rapper and criminal, accompany him. Guru obituary 2010-04-21T16:33:00Z Simon's insistence on, ahem, early withdrawal is part of a significant twist in the series. Actually, "Bridgerton" sex is not good sex 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z These included his insistence on playing one note constantly during live shows and the recording session in which he introduced a new song called "Have You Got It Yet?" Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman 2010-04-24T23:09:00Z In your book, you drop an insistence on looking at the classic texts of Marx as providing a coherent political programme for today, but where do you think Marxism as a political project goes now? From Marx to the Milibands 2011-01-16T00:04:08Z Given Brand's own semantic insistence upon addiction's status as an illness, that seems a bit rich, and you can see why he drives Hitchens mad. Russell Brand: 'It's irrelevant what other people think of you' 2013-02-03T20:00:01Z One insistence about his identity that Earle articulated multiple times is that he is “not a political songwriter”: “I write more songs about girls than anything else.” Steve Earle’s outlaw heart 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z My mother’s furs are her insistence on public elegance in a world frequently inhospitable to her. A Black Legacy, Wrapped Up in Fur 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z For the Brazilian artists behind the book’s many adaptations into film, theater, and art, Andrade’s insistence on maintaining the complex vernacular that he overheard on his travels is precisely what makes the book so vital. New Translations Explore Brazil’s ‘Endless and Unfinished’ Character 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The most scathing it gets is his insistence that a wall is the ideal solution for every problem facing America, an answer Fallon’s Trump finds amazing—like the host finds most things. The 8 Best Impressions of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Did her insistence on irrefutable scientific proof keep her from first theorizing the double helix herself? Female scientist’s life, work exposed 2013-02-08T20:26:09Z All too often, Mr. Cruise’s insistence on doing frightening stunts in the “Mission: Impossible” series has become its most distinguishing quality. Review: ‘Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation’ With Tom Cruise and Plenty of Stunts 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z We watched, as if at a historic re-creation, the insistence on modest clothing and "gender appropriate" hairstyles, and the parent-controlled courtships of the elder children. Yes, TLC, as Duggar scandal shows, life surprises. Shocker? No. 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z In light of what we know about the composer, however, all this is probably in earnest: the desperate insistence is most likely his own. Cult Fame and Its Discontents 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Her insistence on staying in her home, from my perspective, seems like a form of survivalism. Quarantine book club: Reading for mental health in a plague year 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Her insistence on remaining close to her family in Rome kept her from venturing more often beyond Europe, limiting her career in the United States. Virginia Zeani, Versatile and Durable Soprano, Dies at 97 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Chandler's insistence on rendering toska as was a noble if quixotic effort to enrich the English language. Say 'non' to phrasebook foreign language in fiction 2011-07-13T16:46:52Z But with his construction of so many mystery boxes and his insistence on a certain rhythm and intensity of suspense, he runs the risk of repeating himself. Filmmaker J. J. Abrams Is a Crowd Teaser 2011-05-29T01:23:02Z Michael Jones read “The Great Gatsby” at his wife’s insistence, and he read “This Side of Paradise” because, well, they lived in the home where it was written. If you can’t afford Gatsby’s mansion, how about Fitzgerald’s old house? 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z This book’s tone — I kept waiting for Ms. Meade, like a gum-snapping waitress in a diner, to start calling the reader “Hon” — isn’t improved by her insistence on referring to people by their nicknames. Books of The Times: ?Lonleyhearts? by Marion Meade: Lives of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney 2010-03-18T23:29:00Z The prolific skyscraper architects at Shreve, Lamb & Harmon turned to their advantage the development team’s insistence on simplicity of detail in order to erect the building quickly. Renewing an Affair With the Empire State Building 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z He only opened his war medals on his 80th birthday at the insistence of the family. Family life 2013-03-23T07:15:01Z Is his insistence on perpetual renunciation a form of self-deception? Twin Brothers on a Quest to Find the Next Dalai Lama 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z “City of Life and Death” doesn’t address the politics of this silence, but Mr. Lu’s insistence on humanizing the Japanese, particularly through Kadokawa, is itself boldly political, and moral. | 'City of Life and Death': A Tale of Nanjing Atrocities That Spares No Brutal Detail 2011-05-10T22:03:01Z But Welles himself contributed to the delays with his insistence on having his own way. The story of the final — and unfinished — work of Orson Welles 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Daft Punk's insistence on wearing masks is more than a gimmick; it's connected with their determination not just to add to the rows and rows of pop icons, faces here today and gone tomorrow. Daft Punk: 'Maybe when we were 16, rock was OK' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-03-20T12:41:57Z “I ran from his insistence I was special,” Josiah says, “from his compulsive and overwhelming need to believe.” Edan Lepucki’s ‘California,’ Alberto Moravia’s ‘Agostino,’ and More 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z It can create its own necessity, its own insistence that, in the act, the world conform to the demands the work is making on it. Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Its electronic music repeats key phrases with an insistence that makes you long for the jolly melodic variety of Philip Glass. Review: A Dirge for Wilting Salad Days in ‘This Ain’t No Disco’ 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Trump’s insistence on vilifying immigrants has, in some perverse ways, only shown how dependent we are on each other. The Sriracha Argument for Immigration 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z The twenty-first century has seen a stiffening of literalism among believers and nonbelievers alike—an insistence that all writing must be classified as either fact or fiction, no gray allowed. The Book of Mormon: the Great American Bible 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Craig Colclough, the American baritone who has sung the title role in five previous productions, said Mr. Waltz’s insistence on subtle acting was a new challenge. Christoph Waltz, Directing Opera, Moves From Tarantino to Verdi 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z And what it lacks in greys it makes up for in its forceful insistence to white America that black America is its equal. To Kill a Mockingbird isn't a great book but it made America a better place 2010-07-13T17:04:00Z It arguably opens him to charges of naivete, but perhaps it is also that his affirmative insistence is a corrective to our 21st-century news-junkie reticence and fear. Cannes 2013: A Story of Children and Film – review 2013-05-17T16:25:01Z It’s just pukey in its insistence on pigeonholing people from the moment fabric touches skin. Carolyn Hax: It’s a girl! One who won’t be allowed to be pretty in pink. 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z In some ways, the insistence on wonder is a reversal of the standard festival practice of challenging a comfortable audience with reminders of the world’s misery. Wonders in a Grim World: The New York Film Festival’s Best Trick 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Even Danza's insistence on performing his way through classes trying to keep the kids entertained rather than educated is a cringe-inducingly accurate portrayal of a common trap for young teachers. "Teach": The useless tears of Tony Danza 2010-10-01T00:30:00Z Key to the way the show sounds is the insistence on talk so fast and so smart that it makes the characters in The West Wing sound monosyllabic. Billions: the show so smart it makes The West Wing look slow 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z What is the impulse, the insistence on story, on seeing and representing the world? The death of writing? Not again 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z He remains curious about his absent father, Troy, despite her insistence against his curiosity, and is struggling with his identity. 'Welcome to Night Vale' podcast becomes an equally weird, haunted yet humorous novel 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Your insistence on splitting the finances and leaving him cash-strapped by his loans is not marriage, it’s cohabiting. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She got married, but her bank account remains single 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z What he has done is use his extraordinary palatability—and his insistence on a kind of wild, unchecked positivity—to further normalize the idea of pop star as brand ambassador. The Corporate Optimism of Justin Timberlake at Last Night’s Oscars 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Its insistence on appealing to all ages means elder gamers may find it patronisingly straightforward. iPod, iPhone & iPad games round-up 2011-07-29T23:10:46Z The military dustup and Monsoon's insistence on taking up space in hostile partisan territory qualify as provocations. With "Swarm," two "Atlanta" collaborators kick the beehive of toxic fandom 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z At Sinatra’s insistence, he played Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration. Don Rickles was politically incorrect before it was incorrect. And at 90, he’s still going. 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The owner of Penthouse magazine made a formal bid for the Playboy empire Thursday despite founder Hugh Hefner's insistence that he does not intend to sell the company. Penthouse owner makes competing bid for Playboy 2010-07-15T17:20:00Z I'm not sure what justifies the author's insistence on comparisons to hip-hop culture, except that Mr. Johnson is black. JJ Johnson Is a Young Chef on the Rise, to a Hip-Hop Beat 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z “I was intrigued by her insistence that I leave to prepare for my interview,” he said. Unreliable Witnesses to Their Own Meeting? 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z To a youth aspiring to books and Beethoven, it looks like a trap – the high-minded romance of life brought low by a communal joke about the body, the insistence on our beer-swilling, snoring, sweating selves. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z But the film remains very much of her style: it's a deceptively small piece of onscreen art that resonates afterward with such insistence that I felt positively nagged by it. Meek's Cutoff: Michelle Williams Hits the Oregon Trail in a New American Classic 2011-04-07T09:20:00Z Yet it's unlikely to be a smooth path for Charter, despite Chief Executive Tom Rutledge's insistence that the purchase of the bigger Time Warner Cable will mean "better products at better prices" for subscribers. Outlook for approval of Charter-Time Warner Cable deal appears favorable 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Smith doesn’t agree with the Joker director Todd Phillips’ insistence that woke culture has destroyed comedy. Director Kevin Smith on heart attacks, happiness, extreme weight loss – and Weinstein 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z His stare may seem at times pitiless, but there’s compassion in his insistence on looking. | 'Aurora': Following in the Shadows Of a Very Shadowy Man 2011-06-28T22:22:04Z This is the opposite of a truth meter, understan – it describes the network’s insistence on letting the viewers drive its misinformation machine. "Do they not realize I like to fight?" The 6 most revealing details from "Network of Lies" 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Ruskin's insistence that art might have some higher moral purpose no longer seems to trouble the wealthy aesthetes of the 21st century. Victorian social reformers saw beauty, truth and goodness as one. We no longer do 2012-10-12T18:00:01Z Female imagination can produce a novel, but it has also always been an engine of migration — that insistence that another world, another life must be possible even if for some future, longed-for generation. In ‘Women Talking,’ Miriam Toews Ponders Punishment and Justice After Horrifying Crimes 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Such an insistence on being seen — sometimes while bearing witness — runs throughout “Resistance and Power,” a program of works performed by the Urban Bush Women on Thursday night at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse. Dance Review: Sisters Standing Up to the Man 2011-04-29T21:21:24Z Published on the heels of her 800-page “Collected Stories,” her most recent collection, “How High? — That High,” lends credence to this insistence. Diane Williams Navigates the Tricky Business of Intimacy 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z And let’s not forget the dazzling reality of Neel’s paintings as objects, the insistence of her color, light and flattened compositions, the undisguised preliminaries, drawn in blue, and her surface textures. It’s Time to Put Alice Neel in Her Rightful Place in the Pantheon 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Brettschneider’s insistence on a coherent, unified constitutional narrative allows him to claim that the liberal values he favors are dictated by the Constitution itself. What Do Presidents Need to Know? 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The most obvious reason is its insistence on an American, or English-language, hegemony -- a kind of literary imperialism, let’s say. Patrick Modiano, the Nobel Prize and what (if anything) it means 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z It boasts Vanuatu’s only four-lane road – built at the insistence of the US commander here during the war. Vanuatu's Espiritu Santo, where paradise is a leaky canoe without a paddle 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z She notes, “This insistence on the positive may seem compassionate, but it rarely is, for it cannot tolerate anything that is not happy and winning.” Mary Gaitskill Looks Unhappiness Straight in the Eye 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Only Ingres and Matisse have painted patterned textiles with such insistence and panache. Bronzino's Medici portraits ? review 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z As someone who eats ice-cream with their Christmas pudding, I’ve never understood the peculiar British insistence on saving it for summer. How to make the perfect blood orange sorbet 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Publishers' willingness to experiment makes a change from the insistence that price be determined by the effort that goes into producing something, and no doubt they're enjoying the roaring sales. Ebook bargains: is there a heavier price to pay? 2012-07-21T23:05:08Z He doubled down on his insistence that art and commerce should play nice. Review: Kanye West, Both Close and Out of Reach at His Tour Opener 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z This season’s focus on Elizabeth’s insistence on Soviet greatness, despite all evidence to the contrary, is particularly searing right now. The danger of nostalgia: a tough, timely final season of The Americans 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z And this, I suspect, is what lies behind Allen’s outward insistence of fine-ness: he can’t voice whatever rage he feels, because he knows all too well it would hurt those closest to him. 'Do I really care?' Woody Allen comes out fighting 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z His insistence on his documentary having an emotional dimension underwritten by epic images and loud music highlights is what we might call Cox's Paradox. Brian Cox: Physics is better than rock'n'roll 2011-03-24T08:01:00Z Each year she’d check it out to refresh her knowledge, and there is something in this, in learning how to cut a deer from a book and in her insistence on self-reliance that I appreciate. When I learned to hunt 2013-01-06T01:00:00Z Clark’s insistence on the kitchen as the center of their home made its impression. For this ‘Top Chef’ star, one tropical fruit represents both past and present 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z But New York club owners often complain about the band’s insistence on wearing sneakers and street clothes onstage, instead of the fancy shoes and suits that are almost obligatory. La Excelencia, Salsa With Social Commentary 2010-07-14T23:00:00Z And Vänskä's insistence on precise enunciation in the finale of the Beethoven led to syllabic, declamatory singing from the BBC Symphony Chorus. Proms 56 & 57: Minnesota Orchestra/V?nsk? 2010-08-29T11:52:00Z I won't give too much away, except to say that the killer is really … nah, better not … but I will say that I appreciated the movie's gentle insistence on actually ending. Ghostface still phoning home 2011-04-14T13:58:00Z He influenced a generation of architectural students as much through his insistence on the socially ennobling role of architecture, and its integrity as a discipline, as through his work. Raimund Abraham, Architect With Vision, Dies at 76 2010-03-06T06:27:00Z The adult insistence that children are innocents corrupted by civilisation is a presumption the brothers want to subvert. How the Chapman Brothers became the brothers grim 2010-08-03T20:31:00Z Hence the artist’s typically bland and clunky name for the show — “Unlights” — and his insistence that these works are “drawings,” a term meant to suggest a certain sense of improvisation and free play. Robert Irwin’s Ambient Odyssey 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z It’s a claim that Gerwig underscores in everything, from her insistence on filming at the Alcott family home in Concord, Mass., where Alcott set the book, to the movie’s lavish, richly detailed production values. Can real men love ‘Little Women’? Greta Gerwig thinks they should. 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z An economist who lost his research grants, Hank tried to make up the difference with his wife’s money — hence her insistence that Marlene keep clear of her father. Theater Review: ‘What Rhymes With America’ at Linda Gross Theater 2012-12-13T03:00:12Z Ms. Dunham knows this, and there’s nothing that I love more about “Girls” than its insistence on Hannah’s slurping and blabbing, her inconsideration and periodic cruelty, her neediness and narcissism. 6 Ways ‘Girls’ Changed Television. Or Didn’t. 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z From garden variety Santaphilia to Megyn Kelly’s confident insistence that “Santa just is white . . . that's a verifiable fact,” everybody claims a very specific vision of the man, the myth, the legend, as the correct one. Smart Watch: We need hot Santa Claus, now more than ever 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Instead of enhancing our understanding of the characters, these dance moments, however astonishing, seem unrelated and unspecific, detracting from the play’s insistence on valuing workers, not just work. Review: In ‘Skeleton Crew,’ Making Quick Work of Hard Labor 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z At my insistence, the gift was refunded, so they are not out financially. Perspective | Ask Amy: Leaving the church has family consequences 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Completely whitewashed due to Hoover's insistence that his agency be portrayed as eternally just and squeaky clean, much of the story is apocryphal, but this is nonetheless an entertaining crime picture. Scarecrow Video recommendations for 'J. Edgar' 2011-11-10T14:23:09Z “I guess the music I’ve found myself to be a part of has always had a certain kind of sensibility of defiance and insistence on dignity and being treated as human beings,” Iyer said. Ojai Music Festival expands its eclectic vision under the eye of Vijay Iyer 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z “GLOW” is set in 1985 — the most vintage slice of the Reagan era, which is perfectly depicted in all its “Dynasty” notions of glamour and Jane Fonda workout-tape insistence on self-actualization. Review | Netflix’s ‘GLOW’ fits right in with today’s feminist TV, but mostly it’s just ready to rumble 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z We whiled away the 45-minute wait for our ride in the hotel bar which, due to its insistence that we pay for our drinks, was mercifully empty. Winner's diary 2011-02-28T16:48:07Z They wind up bonding over visits to a number of landmarks in town, despite Jin’s initial insistence that he hates architecture. 'Meth and modernism': The understated 'Columbus' offers a complex portrait of small-town America 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z “I Am Love” took eight months to shoot and edit, complicated in part by Mr. Guadagnino’s insistence that the opening take place after a snow storm has blanketed Milan. Tilda Swinton and Luca Guadagnino?s Film Partnership 2010-06-12T03:44:00Z It would also be a firm insistence on “Black Girl Magic” in a genre that has been dominated by white male protagonists for the past decade. The end of Scandal: in praise of Olivia Pope, TV's most glamorous antihero 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, James's call for a guaranteed income, her insistence that a post-work world might be possible, finds echoes in contemporary movements, from Occupy to the Pirates party. A life in writing: Selma James 2012-06-08T21:45:05Z Its insistence on frugality, black dress code, continuous fight against temptations of the flesh, frequent scripture readings at the family table, and its punitive God—all contributed greatly to Dutch literature. Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z At the insistence of Dedalus, the painting was branded a forgery in indelible ink on the back. Federal Inquiry Into Possible Forging of Modernist Art 2011-12-03T03:33:26Z These include relations with whom they fail to relate, as much because of their own insistence as the relatives' reluctance. Rabbit Hole burrows into our ideals 2011-02-07T13:39:43Z The first hint that something’s not exactly honest about this “Capitol TV” spot: President Snow’s insistence that Panem has known only peace. Watch the Super Creepy First Teaser for the Next Hunger Games Movie 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z A possibly stronger counterpoint to the "Queen Charlotte" disclaimer rests not in its insistence that we see its historical fiction but in its classification as a romance above all. She is very brown: "Queen Charlotte" explains how the integrated ton was won, but what is left out? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z In whatever version of the world that follows, wisdom has a part to play — hence Dany’s insistence that Tyrion stay out of the fight. Long live Ser Brienne of Tarth: An argument for a "Game of Thrones" knight's survival 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z His main contribution to the Sunday Times was a long stint as television critic, an unusually influential one in his insistence that the medium should develop a strong visual language and character of its own. Peter Lennon obituary 2011-03-20T17:10:17Z Gradually, with an underlying insistence, Roberts’s ballet begins to grow on you. Review: City Ballet Gets a Modern Dance Fix 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z And while I was intrigued by the premise, it was the sheer weirdness of the book, its insistence on subverting expectations at every turn, that made it so good. A Dark Cavalcade of New Horror Fiction 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Throughout, Brown’s works hold a mirror to our own tendencies to wall ourselves off or not, and to what it looks like to start conversations through gentleness, rather than rough insistence. Perspective | Storytelling is the key ingredient in the year’s best dance works 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z At her insistence, she and her mother traveled to Montpelier, Va., one weekend to visit the James and Dolley Madison estate. Titans in Party Dresses 2010-12-23T23:42:46Z The first was an insistence on the flatness of the picture plane. Philip Pearlstein, Whose Realist Nudes Revived Portraiture, Dies at 98 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Has television’s insistence on the easy joke undermined the way we hear comedy in the theater? Theater Talkback: The Perils of Being Too Funny 2010-07-01T18:01:00Z I didn’t talk politics, and then my healthcare premium went up to $800 a month with a $12,000 deductible because of Republican insistence on destroying the Affordable Care Act without any alternative. What it took to finally confront my family about race and politics 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Brightly it reminds us that problematic statues aren't the real problem; it's everything propping them up, including our insistence upon being seen as good instead of doing what's right. In comedy "Rutherford Falls," Ed Helms is a nice guy who prefers the myth of his whitewashed history 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z And yet that doesn't matter nearly as much as it should, at least partly because of West's insistence on his own greatness. Kanye West: Do not disturb 2010-11-20T01:25:00Z In another year, the show’s insistence on humanizing fascists might have seemed like a provocative choice—an effort, like Arendt’s, to understand how normal people can find it in themselves to commit the worst atrocities. Philip K. Dick’s Intellectual Vision for Living in a Fascist America 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z The artist’s Matisse-inspired insistence on showing mistakes lends the paintings a raw, unfinished appearance. An Exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts Contemplates the Oeuvre of Richard Diebenkorn 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Kelly Macdonald voices Princess Merida, an independent firebrand blessed with uncanny skills with a bow, who is shocked by her mother's insistence that she choose between three equally unsuitable suitors. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up – review 2012-11-25T00:05:26Z This isn’t to deny the personal in art, only an insistence on the elusiveness of creation. Movie Review | 'The Ghost Writer': Writer for Hire Is a Wanted Man 2010-02-19T05:58:00Z None of these is an essay, and D’Agata’s insistence on recasting them—and, in so doing, flouting the interests and intentions of their creators—is evidence of the flawed idea that underpins his effort. What Makes an Essay American 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Montero's insistence on everyone, musicians and maybe even doctors, participating in change is credible and passionate and must be listened to. Gustavo Dudamel, Gabriela Montero sound 2 different notes on Venezuela 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z His insistence on keeping the focus on his writers rather than himself has a humble appeal. Review: In ‘The Accidental Life,’ Golfing on LSD Is Just Part of an Editor’s Job 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z But her insistence on involving an audience in her struggle to retrieve a word is brave and even inspiring. Movie Review: ‘Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me’ Goes Backstage With a Legend 2014-02-20T22:58:17Z Smith is a white captain in the First Kansas Colored Infantry, who staunchly maintains that he’s never wanted to own a slave, despite the colonel’s goading insistence that he’d secretly like to. ‘Father Comes Home From the Wars,’ by Suzan-Lori Parks, at the Public Theater 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z The insistence on substitution – on the interchangeability of characters and plot-lines, on repetition and circularity – is deliciously unsettling. The Lighthouse by Alison Moore 2012-08-24T21:55:04Z But the insistence that things are always getting better can lead to a kind of retrospective magical thinking, an eagerness to declare that the problems of the past have been solved once and forever. Hollywood, Separate and Unequal 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The camera’s insistence on its lofty perspective, on looking down on the birthing woman’s full body from a spectator’s remove — that strikes me as the real violation. The Many Violations of the Violent Birth Scene 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z He is proud of her broadmindedness, her insistence that her family avoid behaving abroad like "ugly Americans". The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z Perhaps he does so with more insistence than necessary, as if uncertain his readers will grasp the parallels between the 1930s and our own day without his firm direction. How Hitler Took the World Into War 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z But the character’s nobility — her insistence that even the fallen are capable of grace and generosity — is poignantly etched. | 'Vieux Carr?': The Boarders Put the Polish on Eccentric 2011-02-23T03:01:40Z These works perfectly illustrate Hay’s insistence that his art arises from circumstances of an unusually mundane sort. Alex Hay, Comeback Painter 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z But most people are aware of the man's profile and shudder at his giddy insistence on seizing the spotlight. "Elon Musk's Crash Course" warns of the danger of a billionaire's love of being unreasonable 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z From the moment he received his first revelation, Joseph never wavered from his insistence that Mormonism was a restoration of the original church of Jesus Christ, and of the Old Testament prophets. Blood vows: Joseph Smith, Mormonism and the invention of American polygamy 2014-04-20T17:00:00Z He remains in the house only at Nadia’s insistence, and starts carrying a gun. Mohsin Hamid's 'Exit West' imagines a new way out for refugees 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z But the title mainly alludes to Monk's insistence that he is trying to get to the heart of Oppenheimer, the man. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z “Despite our passionate insistence that the Cure was not a Goth group, the Cure was very much a Goth group,” Tolhurst writes in “Goth.” "A similar genesis": The Cure's Lol Tolhurst honors goth and its (spider)web of artistic connections 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z If this billing is at the insistence of the Gershwin estate, they should be ashamed of themselves. ArtsBeat Blog: Stephen Sondheim Takes Issue With Plan for Revamped 'Porgy and Bess' 2011-08-10T16:12:09Z The president, in fact, has pretty much little effect over the actual creation of jobs, but our insistence on pushing people into left and right teams every day on every issue is annoyingly consistent. Why cable news networks could use a reality check 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Bolton’s insistence on the prevalence of misconceptions feels like a reminder of the fragility of the modern American bull rider’s masculinity. The cowboy code: Bonner Bolton on being the model all-American man 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Ignore the emotional implications of her insistence you “agreed,” because that’s a rabbit hole and an utter fiction. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Mom gives you a calendar, but she wants to be your monthly planner 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z We watch him chafe against the industry's insistence that he stay in his production lane despite his confidence in himself as a performer. If "Jeen-Yus" is in the eye of the beholder, this film doesn't adequately explain Kanye West's 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z With their planetary awareness, insistence on transformation and appetite for contradiction, the feminist futures proposed here can’t come too soon. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z At the same time, Moustafa’s book is a long, sustained insistence that we understand all the ways in which people—particularly Muslim people—live their lives outside the War on Terror. “All Muslim life in America is seen through the lens of terrorism” 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z But several of her male colleagues turned their masks into statements of style, nationalistic cheerleading or an optimistic insistence that this too shall pass. Perspective | Tim Kaine’s tie-dyed bandanna was one of the Senate’s many mask style statements 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z And while his insistence on political content is one of the more intriguing aspects of his work, it is also one of the slipperiest and least resolved. Art Review: The Shock of Fashion, When It Turns Into Something Else 2011-05-04T23:32:08Z We cloaked George W. Bush’s costly foreign policy in pageant-style patriotism and then believed Barack Obama’s insistence that Americans were not as divided as we seemed. American exceptionalism was our preexisting condition 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z The whole episode casts new light on the pilot, in which they cut her off, at her mother’s insistence. Girls Watch: A Spartan Existence 2012-05-22T14:25:30Z Almond suggests it’s not the time for civility, but there’s something radical about Stewart’s insistence that we can find middle ground. Jon Stewart, capitalist stooge? 2012-07-25T21:00:00Z McWhirter's insistence on attaching names — to the dead and, when possible, to those responsible for the violence — provides the book with a cumulative power and a sense of historical accountability. 'Red Summer': 1919, a year of epic violence against America's black citizens 2011-07-13T22:02:04Z The magazines’ insistence on the status quo, even as womanhood changed dramatically, led them to irrelevance, Brown says. Women’s magazines are dying. Will we miss them when they’re gone? 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z In a gesture speaking to the band’s insistence on not releasing a song unless it worked, some demos are quite different from the final studio versions. What was shares the stage with what might have been in Crowded House vinyl reissue 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z One of most dangerous transgressions is his insistence on near-total artistic subjectivity—private messages seemingly intended for his personal satisfaction. An L.A. Artist Who Anticipated Our Trumpian Moment 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Their explanations share an insistence on making her decision all about themselves. Anthony Minghella's prescient playwrighting finds life on a Venice stage 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z With almost psychopathic insistence, Christian persuades Elias that the only true of course of action is revenge. In a Better World ? review 2011-08-18T20:40:01Z It’s not really necessary to sock it to us with quite so much insistence. | 'The Best Is Yet to Come': Brassy and Bawdy, With Fingers Snapping 2011-05-26T22:00:14Z "This regard for order, this insistence on order, it's just weird," says Richard Bensel, a professor of American politics at Cornell University. With choreographed conventions, is something lost? 2012-08-29T03:21:08Z “I couldn’t sign on those lines, with that insistence. It wasn’t going to work for me.” Making ‘The Dark Horse’: An exceptional process for an exceptional role 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Rogers hid his anxieties, expressed only in his insistence on maintaining a weight of 143lbs. How two small documentaries stormed the US box office this summer 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z It was a big risk, both financially and emotionally for him and Rose, but he credits her support and insistence for its success. On Love: Rose Overbey and Peter Silva The insistence on modesty and a refusal to Instagram filter one’s work marked a different attitude: one where feeding the community presided over hailing the chef. Chef Amy Thielen explains her love for rural and urban, highflung and lowdown in 'Give A Girl A Knife' 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Her architectural response, created in four hard weeks, was a layered, strongly horizontal design, broken only by the dominant fly tower that expressed Scott's insistence that "every structural feature introduced should serve a practical purpose". A stage of her own: Elisabeth Scott and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre 2011-01-29T00:06:16Z The title derives from his insistence on avoiding unnecessary pain and suffering when he carries out his killings. Brad Pitt mob movie portrays broken American dream 2012-05-22T11:33:20Z There were some crass sounds from the horns, perhaps also the result of podium insistence. In Search of Charisma at the New York Philharmonic 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z They distantly echo the declamatory insistence of ancient cave paintings, the marks as indelible records: "I was here. This is what we do." Roger Herman ceramics: bold, bawdy and ... is that a little bondage sketched on there? 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z The insistence that viewers rise to an understanding of "The Master" poses a fascinating challenge when the film is released later this month. ArtsBeat: In Toronto, Moviegoers Waiting to See 'The Master' Ask What It's About 2012-09-09T12:42:12Z Whenever the precise date falls, the director’s insistence on making a film approximately every 10 minutes means two things. Everyone says I hate you … pinpointing the exact moment Woody Allen became toxic 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The focus on bleak lives, and the insistence on pushing the characters to their breaking point, would seem to situate “Tyrannosaur” in a tradition of British kitchen-sink realism that has often tipped into miserablism. Paddy Considine Directs ?Tyrannosaur,? Starring Peter Mullan 2011-11-12T22:00:05Z Besides, the insistence on one trait as a cure-all is asking for other kinds of trouble. What’s so great about true grit? 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z It’s in her proud, high-stepping body language; her air of mischievous, never-say-die sensuality; and her insistence on laughing at life’s misfortunes that she personifies unstoppable vitality and joie de vivre. Pop Picks for New Year’s Eve in New York 2013-12-26T23:11:43Z Nothing better illustrates his desire to unify fellow Jamaicans than his insistence on performing a hometown concert after he was nearly assassinated by a gunman from one of two rival gangs. Bob Marley documentary long but amazing 2012-04-19T20:24:08Z It papered over every difficulty in a way that felt less like resolution than a cheat—adopting an almost cult-like insistence on perfect happiness in life, and happiness in a particular mold. We’ll Always Have Pawnee 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z For most of it, Mr. West was on a platform in the audience, shouting his rhymes with visceral, sweaty insistence. A Year of Concerts With Staying Power 2013-12-29T22:45:02Z “He is writing stories that are often quiet stories of people who aren’t heard, but there’s an insistence there that we listen.” Abdulrazak Gurnah Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Despite her lawyers' insistence that she include the film in her community property with Depp, Heard refused, wanting to be out of the marriage as swiftly as possible. 5 new revelations from unsealed documents in the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z She also asked people not to support her for her insistence on wearing the niqab, and that the whole issue "be kept to one side", for people only to pay attention to her poetry. The Saudi housewife who spoke out 2010-04-12T10:00:00Z The unyielding martial insistence of the first movement and especially the pathos of the huge Adagio speak of oppression, tyranny and loss of life. Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 'Leningrad' – review 2013-04-27T23:07:01Z The book’s weakness is its incessant, borderline tiresome, insistence that its author is on the side of good; that she’s in it “for the kids”; that she suffers in the knowledge that others suffer. ‘What the Eyes Don’t See’ Review: Sounding Flint’s Siren 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The argument will sound familiar to readers of Pinker’s 2018 book, “Enlightenment Now,” with its insistence that “everything is amazing” and its repeated complaints about people complaining too much. In ‘Rationality,’ Steven Pinker Sticks Up (Again) for Reason’s Role in Human Progress 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Froseth reminds us of the dancer Betty was and provides a basis for her insistence on finding and using her voice as a president's wife. "The First Lady" tells the story of three revolutionary presidents' wives in an inconsequential way 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Despite Hadid’s insistence that she could “keep an open mind on the facts,” the defense and prosecutors later agreed that having her on the jury would be too much of a commotion. Gigi Hadid nixed from potential Weinstein juror list 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Rather, officials were motivated by misplaced fear of bond- market vigilantes, desire for a smaller state, or, in Europe’s case, an insistence that profligate governments tighten their belts in exchange for support. Root causes 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z The point, he added, is that fashion must open itself up to a plurality that makes no insistence on “being a woman or a man when you can be everything and anything in between.” For Capitalism, Every Social Leap Forward Is a Marketing Opportunity 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Bolaño wrote this book around the same time the cyberpunk movement was getting underway, with its similar insistence on dragging old SF paradigms kicking and screaming into a hipper future. Review | Roberto Bolaño’s popularity surged after his death. What does a ‘new’ book do for his legacy? 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z After many demands from the legendarily hard-to-please singer, the deal was finally hinging on Franklin’s insistence that the air conditioning be turned off during her performance. 'Nobody has any idea what you're really feeling': Songwriter Carole Bayer Sager talks about her candid new memoir 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z For insistence on what actually happened, not revisionism. Perspective | This week should put the nail in the coffin for ‘both sides’ journalism 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z He thanks another woman for “your insistence that there was a good book hidden somewhere in the jumble of pages.” A Young Man of Strict Nigerian-American Parents Comes of Age While Coming Out 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Dear Amy: Your advice to “Only Daughter” to wean her father from his daily insistence of “proof of life” phone calls was actually very similar to what I did with my father. Ask Amy: Long lost in-law comes to town for inheritance 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z "A woman needs to combine niceness with insistence," she concludes, having surveyed all the evidence that people respond badly to women who lobby in their own interests. Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg 2013-03-13T11:18:53Z The director put its withdrawal down to the army’s rigid adherence to what he called “the warrior myth”: the insistence that men who went to war returned somehow stronger in body and spirit. My streaming gem: why you should watch Let There Be Light 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z It would be termed New Wave, and it was characterized by an insistence that speculative fiction doesn’t need to rely on laser blasters, one-eyed Martians, and sub-light engines to expand its imagination. The Anti-Tolkien 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z His father was an engineer, and at his pragmatic insistence young Kurt studied to become an electrician. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Both long tones and shorter attacks weave around the steady insistence of his acoustic piano playing — and your sense of where the performer ends and the laptop assistance begins grows pleasingly obscured. Listen to Three Hours of Music, From a Single Note 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z When the band members push back against his crude insistence on pigeonholing them — “Wouldn’t the adjective ‘eclectic’ be more apt?” David Mitchell Brings His Novelistic High Jinks to the Swinging ’60s 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z The formality—the insistence on rules, boundaries, respect—is hilariously at odds with the chaos and violence that rages all the time. “The Godfather” at the Philharmonic 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Midler arranges her component parts with the seductive insistence with which Dolly Levi arranges other people’s lives. Review: ‘Hello, Dolly!’ Is Bright, Brassy and All Bette 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z He also loves that she became, at his near insistence, a Denver Broncos football fan. Feeding Houstonians With a Feast From a Wedding Disrupted 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z That insistence on authenticity is a familiar pose in hip-hop, which often measures success not by how far an artist travels but by how little that travel changes him. J. Cole's '2014 Forest Hills Drive' hits authentic notes 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z That insistence fades in a movie that is itself largely a conventional, wan affair, despite its art-cinema flourishes, like scenes that start and end in medias res. | 'Like Crazy': ?Like Crazy? From Drake Doremus ? Review 2011-10-27T22:04:03Z That insistence also made a special performance of the "Four Sea Interludes" from "Grimes" that preceded the "Pagodas" suite Saturday regrettable. Benjamin Britten triumphs in San Francisco 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z “Zeva” derives from a Hebrew word that means “she-wolf,” and she adopted it as a screen name at her mother’s insistence that she not use her real name upon joining MySpace. Up Close: Becoming One of the ?Relevant? 2011-07-06T21:01:01Z An insistence that they share our values, our sense of humor, our embrace of capitalism. A Dog’s Purpose? To Speak on Film, So to Speak 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z While she rejects the Clinton campaign’s insistence that the private email server was a nonstory, she regrets that Emailgate became a dominant narrative of the campaign. The Walls That Hillary Clinton Created 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z The awfulness of Verbinski’s is that he has something to say, but it’s of a stultifying banality, and he says it through a cinematic megaphone with a crude and tasteless rhetorical insistence. The Tasteless Intricacies of “A Cure for Wellness” 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The first line of another poem crucially alters Theodor Adorno’s famous insistence that “every work of art is an uncommitted crime.” What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z But whereas Prokofiev marshals his with a fair degree of variety, his maverick Brazilian near-contemporary hammers away at his rhythmic figures with tedious insistence, and the result is a banal finale. SSO Chamber Series offers radiant reading of rarely-played Strauss sonata 2011-04-23T17:10:05Z So principle would be completely on your side even without the bride’s insistence that your presence is wanted. Carolyn Hax: Don’t miss your half sister’s wedding because of her vindictive father 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z So her insistence that this sketch be drearily real, even when it means waiting for a joke, was telling. Amy Schumer’s Comedy Central Show, From the Inside 2013-04-18T12:00:01Z But his primary interest is something deeper: the question of how to balance our civilization’s drive for control with nature’s insistence on wildness. Michael Pollan: Bad food is costing America its economic health 2013-12-08T19:00:00Z The monologue not only epitomizes Hayes’s insistence on taking his time, it also changes the song’s narrative by making the man’s departure a response to continued betrayal. How Isaac Hayes Changed Soul Music 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z His insistence on perfecting the poses – or asanas – won him a huge following, among them celebrity fans ranging from the cricketer Sachin Tendulkar to the writer Aldous Huxley. BKS Iyengar, Indian guru who sparked global yoga craze, dies aged 95 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z The result is a relentless deconstruction of the Communist Party’s insistence that society can be perfected through enlightened centralized control. Review | Banned in China, Sheng Keyi’s ‘Death Fugue’ is a pungent political satire 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z He took it up again at his older brother’s insistence and came to appreciate the piano when girls admired his playing. Angelo Badalamenti, Composer for ‘Twin Peaks,’ Is Dead at 85 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z It is a movie with right on its side, and never was that right proclaimed more shrilly or more smugly, or with a more obtuse insistence on privileging soft-focus personal over political relevance. Fair Game ? review 2011-03-10T15:00:00Z Flegenheimer It just speaks to Trump’s ability / insistence to nose into any moment. Kavanaugh, Kanye, Beyoncé, ‘Black Panther’: Washington on Pop Culture in 2018 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Her parents shielded her from Birmingham's pervasive racism, she writes, "by imposing high expectations and a determined insistence on excellence." 'Extraordinary, Ordinary People': Condoleezza Rice's incomplete tale 2010-10-13T00:01:00Z Distributor Sony could not have asked for a bigger publicity effort by the film-making duo, although the pair's insistence that their film is a drama rather than a comedy might have given audiences pause. UK audiences send Dear John to top of box-office chart 2010-04-20T10:13:00Z Talking about her insistence on being leather-free, McCartney told me that she doesn’t think the rules of the fashion industry change very much. What Drives Stella McCartney 2012-02-22T11:58:00Z There’s no insistence that working hard is bad — toys are present along with books and paperwork. 3 Picture Books: How to Hike, Camp, Relax in the Great Outdoors 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z The novel’s narrator addresses us with the brazen directness of our own moment’s memoirists, though Proust is strangely self-effacing, even his terrifying omniscience grounded in his repeated insistence that he really knows nothing at all. A Century of Proust 2013-05-02T18:12:35Z The transracial Martin’s insistence on a kind of existential blackness prompts a consideration of race by Kelly, a failed academic grieving over the accident that took the lives of his Chinese wife and their daughter. Jess Row’s ‘Your Face in Mine’ Explores ‘Racial Reassignment’ 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Julia Raeside A charming biography of the great photographer which manages to make a virtue of its subject's irascible insistence that he isn't worth the attention. TV highlights 02/04/2013 2013-04-02T06:00:05Z “Alice in the Cities” starts with its protagonist in the United States, doing a report on the real America of the road, but, with his insistence on making images rather than writing, he gets fired. Where Wim Wenders Went Wrong 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z We scarcely bat an eyelash at its power or insistence. What I learned talking to 120 women about their sex lives and desires 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z He has said he signed on for "The King's Speech" at the insistence of his mother, who saw a stage version of the story. Tom Hooper wins directing Oscar for "King's Speech" 2011-02-28T04:13:34Z And its weird insistence on reviving dead characters such as Den and Kathy seems to condone a form of witch-doctory that flies in the face of conventional modern medical knowledge. Seinfeld and Simpsons – why your favourite TV show is problematic 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z His book details how Union insistence on the equal status of black soldiers blocked prisoner exchanges, leading to thousands of avoidable deaths in miserable camps on both sides. ‘Lincoln’s Code,’ by John Fabian Witt 2012-10-10T21:53:50Z His mother, Stephanie Safechuck, recalls in the film her early insistence that her son could not stay overnight in Jackson’s bed; she drew a line that was somehow quickly erased. Review | A devastating and credible ‘Leaving Neverland’ will turn you off Michael Jackson for good 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Hence her insistence in her Instagram post that "We are in compliance with not discussing or promoting film and television that is struck of any kind." Drew Barrymore, Bill Maher and the whole, confusing talk show strike mess, explained 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z It refers to one character’s insistence that their podcast remain strictly local; imagine Martin saying, “Only murders IN THE BUILDING.” Review: Martin Short Kills in ‘Only Murders in the Building’ 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z But your support and loyalty and, if I may use the word, insistence, ultimately required that I keep going. Olbermann and MSNBC: a failing relationship 2011-01-23T01:45:50Z Though it strained the family budget, Christopher was sent to private schools in Tavistock and Cambridge, at the insistence of his mother. Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011: Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 ? Obituary 2011-12-16T06:27:29Z Trunk Lines: Best laugh of the week was the zoo’s insistence that consistent, passionate public pressure to abandon the elephant exhibit had nothing to do with their decision. Zoo to elephant activists: You wanted them moved, right? 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z But in its insistence on being read on its own terms, its commitment to complexity, it does something better than describe freedom. ‘New People’ Riffs on Race and Love, With a Twist 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z But in its insistence on cooperation from its practitioners and demand for mindfulness from its listeners, music can help open dialogue. Classical music's soothing powers in troubled times can help open minds and inspire dialogue 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Despite his insistence that his show will essentially stay the same, he reserves the right for it to evolve with its audience. Jimmy Fallon, back home in NYC, can’t wait for ‘Tonight’ 2014-02-13T21:29:35Z It is notable for its drolleries of language and image, occasional descents into outright corniness and flat-footed insistence on randomness, coincidence or uninflected information as the artist’s main compositional options. Art Review: Tweaking Tradition, Even In Its Temple 2010-10-21T21:30:00Z Tenorio’s insistence on the specificity of his characters’ dreams and longings is its own kind of argument for their right to be here. How Do You Tell Your Child He Is Undocumented? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Bishop lived in Brazil for many years with her lover, Lota de Macedo Soares, and she loathed the magazine’s insistence on including “Brazil” in many of her titles. Books of The Times: Fighting The New Yorker Over Extra Commas and Steaming Cowflops 2011-02-08T22:00:14Z He did have a caveat: “The authors have such a picturesque yarn to spin that their insistence upon thrusting bespattered conversation down the throats of the audience is as superfluous as it is unpleasant.” Review: ‘The Front Page’ Is Diverting, but Don’t Stop the Presses 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's insistence on elections instead of an interim government raised concerns of prolonged instability and delays to economic reform. Wall Street tumbles as eurozone wavers 2011-11-09T22:06:07Z Dance purists might dismiss Streb's work as circus gymnastics, but a bracing aesthetic is inseparable from the corporal shocks, as is an insistence on challenging accepted constraints. 'Born to Fly' captures Elizabeth Streb in action 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z There remains an uncomfortable insistence that Spader’s “Concierge of Crime” Red Reddington is merely one part of a larger team instead of the gloriously melodramatic focus for the show. Is The Blacklist Today’s Columbo? 2014-01-21T10:00:58Z But his insistence on the complete irrelevance of "personal responsibility" leads him to rely on some ropey metaphysics and oversimplified science. Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth About Sugar by Robert Lustig – review 2013-01-25T10:00:01Z “We had a great time, didn’t we?” says Silver with jolly insistence. Review: In ‘The Ruins of Civilization,’ a Bleak Future, Brightly Told 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z The most delusional part of the film was Beyoncé's repeated insistence that she was an icon of feminism. Imagine: Beyoncé – Life is but a Dream; James May's Man Lab; 40 Year Old Virgins – TV review 2013-03-29T07:00:07Z Stoppard's insistence that he isn't an outstanding scriptwriter stems, in part, from his reticence. 'Parade's End' keeps British TV invasion going 2013-02-22T19:09:13Z Though it doesn’t answer the unanswerable, the novel’s quiet insistence resonates: that it is our perfectly ordinary proclivities that make us who we are. Julie Otsuka Dives Into the Underground World of the Community Pool 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z So, was his insistence that his art was independent of politics and society fact or fiction? Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z What is novel is the vehemence of this consensus, the insistence that these things were not just good but somehow the very best, and the way in which this consensus immediately entered the larger culture. Everyone's a critic now 2011-01-30T00:06:14Z “The show’s maddening appeal is its insistence on dressing up like a soap opera as it willfully declines to behave like one,” Ginia Bellafante wrote in The New York Times last year. DVDs: Mythic Mash-Up in Feverish Color 2010-08-29T02:23:00Z As in Germany – the other country to suffer most grievously from the Depression – there was a dogged insistence on protecting the currency and on balancing the budget. What the 21st century can learn from the 1929 crash | Larry Elliott 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Benyamina has said that African-American culture, with its dogged insistence on visibility, helped her make sense of the world and her place in it. Houda Benyamina, the French Filmmaker Who Brought the Banlieues to Hollywood 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Soon after came his insistence that the travel ban targeting countries with large Muslim populations was not a ban even though his boss used that exact three letter word. Hey, talk show gatekeepers: Let’s not enable Sean Spicer 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Most of all, Marshall’s earthly paradise gardens radiate an insistence on self-representation. Kerry James Marshall's paintings insist on black self-representation 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Lloyd set up SevenStreets with a Twitter friend, Robin Brown, when he became frustrated with his employers' insistence on featuring perma-tanned Wags in their entertainment supplements. Liverpool's booming blogosphere shows city's cultural resurgence 2013-02-14T14:41:59Z Still, Kantor's reporting rings true – and considering the administration's insistence on presenting a unified front, it is a considerable achievement. 'The Obamas' a portrait of their life in D.C. 2012-01-09T15:37:00Z Growing up in Philadelphia, he started piano lessons at 6, at his mother’s insistence. Eric Owens as Alberich in Wagner?s ?Ring? at the Met 2012-02-18T05:03:04Z The noble Confucian model of the morally grounded intellectual speaking truth to power in a single dramatic confrontation was called on so often as to become, seemingly by intention, an unnoble and relentless insistence. Critic?s Notebook: An Artist Takes Role of China?s Conscience 2011-04-05T22:31:29Z The famous scene, she said, was not in the script and made it into the film only at Brando’s insistence. Maria Schneider, Actress in ?Last Tango,? Dies at 58 2011-02-04T05:13:01Z Other decisions play as comical even to the voters, including Goloborodko's dismissal of his personal security and insistence upon taking public transportation instead of commanding a motorcade. "Servant of the People" is an example of a politician living up to the promise he plays out on TV 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Jones's daughter, novelist Kaylie Jones, said her father fought "bitterly" to keep the novel's language the way he'd originally intended it, but eventually acceded to his editor's insistence. Censored gay sex in From Here to Eternity restored for new edition 2011-04-05T15:20:59Z Notwithstanding her insistence on the cerebral underpinnings of her art, Hesse also refers to the fact that her feelings are a vital part of her creative process. Two Artists’ Divergent Roads to Eros 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Believe it or not, though, that's less of a problem than Craig's insistence that he knows Black people better than they know themselves. This Juneteenth, "Atlanta" will give you all the insights you need on how America co-opts a holiday 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Narratively, Megyn’s insistence on calling Trump out for his treatment for women — and then dealing with the ominous backlash — becomes a prelude to the looming crisis with Roger. ‘Bombshell’ Review: Blind Ambition and Blond Sedition at Fox News 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z She didn’t want to go to authorities, even after my daughter’s insistence. Ask Amy: Sober life exhausts college freshman 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Then the musical started, brimming from its first notes with an urgency and insistence you associate with young people of conviction who have something they must, but must, tell you. | 'Rent': That Ragtag Bohemian Army Returns 2011-08-12T02:01:00Z The insistence on modern-day parallels is so unremitting that the interesting details of Darien life are smothered. Caledonia; The Gospel at Colonus; Vieux Carr? 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z I called home every night that year and the next, when I was living in New York at Mom's insistence: Go, go, I'll be waiting for you when you get back. "Love, Linda": Reading my late mother's love letters to a man who is not my father 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z In this way, Big Mouth’s insistence that young people can grapple with morality and kindness, even when trying to keep their unruly hormone monsters at bay, is as affecting as it is hopeful. Big Mouth: how Netflix's sex education comedy remains vital 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z "The drama of difference and the insistence that we are not so very different from each other." Rachid Bouchareb: my film about the 7/7 London bombings 2010-07-06T20:46:00Z I spent nearly three years fixated on the problems that I thought isolated Americans most: our insistence on individualism, our unrelenting attitudes toward work, our cavernous political divides. Kristen Radtke Considers Another American Epidemic: Loneliness 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z As Bill Clinton's wife she made concessions to help him win election in Arkansas, such as surrendering her insistence in keeping her name and taking his. "Hillary" review: Scorching contempt is this trailblazer's lot in Hulu's candid Clinton docuseries 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z With a certain calm insistence, Fischli and Weiss have, over the space of 30 years, activated the shushed magic of the everyday, and everywhere it is found changed. Fischli and Weiss: the art of humour 2012-06-05T12:03:00Z “Gilmore Girls” received a warmer reception, if one can overlook the creators’ stubborn insistence in maintaining Stars Hollow’s ethnic homogeneity. “Twin Peaks”: Can a classic succeed at being happening again? 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z The show is a testament to its young subjects’ insistence on being seen, their style the outward expression of a thorny refusal to be ghettoized or, conversely, assimilate. Style That Demands to Be Seen 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z In the gardening world, designers turned to perennials and grasses in the 1980s, and this naturalism later evolved into a popular and sometimes simplistic insistence on native plant gardens. A native plant designer’s memoir reflects on a life in the field 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Her insistence is on telling the story of a collective with blunt clarity, and sidestepping the genre’s potential for sentimentality or sensationalism. ‘W-3,’ a Memoir That Recalls Suffering Without Sentimentality or Sensationalism 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z If you remember 30 Rock’s insistence on occasionally meandering into the flabby wastelands of its live episodes, you’ll understand why it should never be let anywhere near a theatre. Sitcoms that should and shouldn't be turned into Broadway musicals 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z In everything Ms. Kole sings, you sense her insistence on getting it right by maintaining a precisely calculated balance between technique and expressiveness. 2010-02-12T00:36:00Z Wojnarowicz’s insistence that the Reagan administration was practically gleeful in ignoring the disease while simultaneously stigmatizing its victims provoked a number of controversies, over arts funding and more. ‘Wojnarowicz’ Review: A Revolutionary Provocateur 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z In his insistence on darkness and disappearance, she sees not self-annihilation, but a will toward utter rebirth. Earth Couldn’t Contain Sun Ra’s Ideas. His Arkestra Is Still Exploring Them. 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z The meta-metaness of it all is saved by an insistence on giving Valerie, and indeed all the characters, a humanity that make the humor as universal as it is often painful. TV Picks: 'The Newsroom,' 'The Comeback,' 'The Blacklist' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Over all the music pulses with a hard-wrought insistence that crests with a hallelujah coda. Music Review: Simon Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-26T21:18:46Z While the doctors and nurses came across as never less than caring, their insistence on the over-medicalisation of obesity seemed unconvincing. TV Review: Miniature Britain; Weight Loss Ward; Rome 2012-12-12T22:00:02Z Despite its EL James legacy, and Meyer’s Mormon insistence on the sinfulness of premarital sex, we see that Twilight didn’t confuse readers. Vampires, blood and chastity: how Twilight turned teens on | Eva Wiseman 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z If anything, an obsession with "realness" exists in disco circles that is as fierce as anything in rock: an insistence on remaining true to the original sound by the proponents of disco past and present. Disco gets lucky 2013-05-31T08:58:13Z At his insistence, female nudity was permissible on stage only provided the models were motionless and discreetly lit. Pamela Green obituary 2010-05-19T17:18:00Z At Jeremy’s insistence, the lodge hired a local trapper, Arnold, to lead us through uncharted territory with the lodge’s own guide and tracker. A Crash Course in Honeymoon Survival 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Were we witnessing a publicity stunt staged to counter the tabloids’ insistence on trouble in paradise? The Unauthorized Beyoncé Biography Will Be Better Than Any Authorized Biography Ever Could Be 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z What she misses is that the insistence on privacy does create secrecy, along with shame, lack of understanding and inequality. There’s no such thing as “TMI”: Talking openly about the body is a feminist act 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Two and a half years into their restaurant’s existence, the place is still on shaky financial ground, and the chef’s insistence on the finest, most rarefied ingredients does not help. ‘Seared’ Review: For a Pompous Chef, Comeuppance on the Menu 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z The film’s passionate insistence on remembrance lends it a moral as well as a metaphysical weight. | 'Nostalgia for the Light': Chile?s Past Is Present in the Desert 2011-03-17T21:58:19Z Even scholars who appreciate Twitty’s insistence that the African and African Americans who helped create Southern cooking be recognized say he sometimes overstates his case. His Paula Deen takedown went viral. But this food scholar isn’t done yet. 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z So his insistence on knocking both parties, even when his jibes at President Obama are clearly dutiful at best, seems oddly contrived, if not self-defeating. Critic’s Notebook: Comedy and Politics, Uneasy Bedfellows but Snuggling 2012-10-03T20:05:01Z His insistence on producing his work his own way is not a rejection of the crowd, but it does reflect an interest in reinventing his relationship with them. Can Daniel Kitson Redefine the Relationship Between Comic and Audience? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z But she decided to resume looking several years ago at the insistence of her grown children. Oprah Winfrey finds sister she didn't know existed 2011-01-25T02:18:43Z Roth’s insistence on producing “The Admission,” Lerner’s provocative drama about a massacre of Palestinian villagers by Israeli soldiers in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, sparked a bitter dispute with his superiors at the D.C. A playwright who wants to change society, not merely observe it 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Daniels gives himself one of the funnier bits in the show, ignoring Lucious insistence that he be part of the commercial, sharing the stage with Jamal. Empire recap: season two, episode nine – Sinned Against 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z You can’t compromise between a reasonable concern and an insistence on being obtuse. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Fiance is in�trac�table about changing his timetable on having kids 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z He achieves what he does in large part because of the qualities inherent in his autism: his extraordinary memory and attention to detail, his obsessiveness, his insistence on honesty. Tonys 2015: 'Curious Incident of the Dog' brings 'autistic perspective to life' 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z They don't want to discuss his insistence that "us men . . . caused a lot of harm. We control so much." Feminism has come to "Mrs. Maisel" – dad feminism, that is 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z The sense of divide is further heightened by the series’s insistence on reminding us just how steep a challenge he is facing. | 'The Choir': BBC America Features a Choirmaster With a Mission 2010-07-06T20:23:00Z I have to go", and Tom's insistence that "there's plenty of time yet. Skintight – review 2013-07-22T17:49:16Z Specifically what’s stopping you is your insistence on being there on your terms and only your terms: Staying at your family’s farm, in bedrooms vacated by your sister’s kids. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: If you want family time, you’ll have to make accommodations 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z And in Ned Stark's insistence in carrying out his executions himself, taking no pleasure in it, we see the harsh sense of honor to which he holds himself. Game of Thrones Watch: It's All in the Execution 2011-04-18T19:00:00Z Her very insistence that they will reunite signals her heartbreaking realization that it will never happen. Interpreting the Interpreter: Who Was Lafcadio Hearn? 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z The baffling insistence that we lump working mothers into a single category upon which survey respondents are expected to opine renders the resulting numbers of little more than academic interest. Motherlode Blog: What’s Wrong With the Breadwinner Moms Study 2013-05-30T14:13:35Z In the finale, Mr. Rattle drove the rhythmic figure that runs through the movement with an insistence that bordered on the eerie. Simon Rattle Conducts Schumann With Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Amazon has given Connelly a prominent role in shaping the series, including an insistence that it be filmed locally. Amazon is a rising star in Hollywood 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z This sheds light on another facet of Sally's trauma survivor narrative and her flawed insistence that her experience with abuse makes her art more powerful. "Barry" returns three years later and is funnier and darker than ever 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z Because yes, it’s Claire — not Frank — who occupied the trenches during World War II, and this reversal of traditional roles sets the viewer up for Claire’s insistence on challenging gender norms in 18th century Scotland. Outlander Recap: Claire Discovers the Folkloric Key to Her Escape 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z At my father’s insistence, I spoke to the police. Experience: I had a date with a serial killer 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Catharsis and symbolic defiance have given way to hard evidence and insistence on substantive change. ‘Straight Outta Compton,’ N.W.A. and the new vernacular of protest 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The continual insistence of “S.N.L.” on reminding us just who and what we’re dealing with has become a significant part of its power. “Saturday Night Live” Celebrates Itself 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z I am not suggesting, by the way, that the Tories are not economically illiterate – their stubborn insistence on acting as if Keynes had never existed is a tragedy for us all. Arts funding cuts will bring down the curtain on our theatre's golden age 2010-07-28T12:31:00Z In certain episodes and scenes, “Feud” feels like Murphy’s masterwork, combining his fervor for showmanship and irony with his insistence on of-the-moment relevance. Review | FX’s ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’: Another total knockdown, drag-out hit from Ryan Murphy 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z “Don’t confuse anger and hostility with an insistence on getting to the bottom line — to the fact,” Wallace said while interviewing TV host Larry King, who was known for a softer approach. How Mike Wallace created ‘a revolution’ in journalism — while battling depression 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Glück’s intensity repelled me when I first encountered her work, as a student — think of the stern insistence of “Mock Orange.” Louise Glück’s Stark New Book Affirms Her Icy Precision 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z |
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