| 单词 | arbitrary |
| 例句 | These mathematician-artists perfected the technique of perspective and could soon depict arbitrary objects in three dimensions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The fact that the Fourth Amendment was specifically adopted by the Founding Fathers to prevent arbitrary stops and searches was deemed unpersuasive. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It echoed the ideological fear, so effective as a weapon against the taxes imposed by Parliament and decrees of George III, that once arbitrary power was acknowledged to reside elsewhere, all liberty was lost. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z All of this may seem very arbitrary, but it's important to remember that medieval mode theory, just like our modern music theory, was not trying to invent a logical system of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Of course, any choice of a starting date for the history of science is arbitrary, and my own account is restricted geographically, as well as in the time span it covers. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z There was nothing arbitrary or contingent about these changes; they were as inevitable as the discovery of America once Columbus had set sail. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Of his niece he did not think at all, nor of the arbitrary valuation of the money. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw how welfare caseworkers kept clients in the dark about their rights, justifying arbitrary actions by citing mysterious regulations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The cruelty of racial prejudice was so often accompanied by absurdity, a tangle of arbitrary rules and distinctions that subverted the shared interests of people who had been taught to see themselves as irreconcilably different. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It was time to stop thinking about something as arbitrary as skin color. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There are, of course, exceptions to this rule, such as gold or uranium, elements prized because of arbitrary economic conventions or aesthetic judgments, or because they have remarkable practical applications. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Such behavior, the journal said, “would be called treason in countries less enlightened and more arbitrary than ours.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Thus we can hold in mind just a few of the letters from an arbitrary sequence like MDPHDRSVPCEOIHOP. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In reality, all of those dates are merely attempts to label arbitrary points along a continuum. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So many opportunities in this country are apportioned in this arbitrary and miserly way, distributed to those who already have the benefit of a privileged legacy. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The first night they woke up the prisoners at two in the morning and made them do pushups, line up against the wall, and perform other arbitrary tasks. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "It is too complicated. It has too many arbitrary parameters," Lederman said. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The reason it’s worth standing up for punctu-ation is not that it’s an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Remote conditionals are the finicky ones, though their demands, as we shall see, are not as arbitrary as they at first seem. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They don’t go all the way to zero distance from the electron when they calculate the electron’s true mass and charge; they stop short of zero at an arbitrary distance. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But the actual intervals — the way the notes sound — are not arbitrary accidents of history. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model that contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the results of future observations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His lawyers argued that the law is arbitrary and irrational, because it imposes such vastly different penalties on two forms of the same substance. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Then they decided to go after him by imposing additional and arbitrary restrictions. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Again, the choice of coordinates is arbitrary; one can use any three well-defined spatial coordinates and any measure of time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If Tennessee had a temperament, it took after the dark personality of the world, with a taste for arbitrary punishment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Not absent from the place, the arbitrary square of earth which he had named Sutpen’s Hundred: not that at all. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z The routine police harassment, arbitrary searches, and widespread police intimidation of those subject to English rule helped to inspire the American Revolution. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It’s just one way to display syntax on a page, and not a particularly good one, with user-unfriendly features such as scrambled word order and arbitrary graphical conventions. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One complaint I voiced to the International Red Cross concerned the arbitrary way we were charged by the warders. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That kind of arbitrary police conduct is precisely what the Fourth Amendment was intended to prohibit. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This distinction is arbitrary, since Homo erectus evolved into Homo sapiens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Whether public or private, accounting is a peculiar blend of facts and arbitrary procedures which usually require decoding. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z People are also guided by seemingly arbitrary cultural preferences, such as considering fish either delicacies or taboo. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If you concentrate on controversy, then it begins to look as if progress in science is arbitrary and unpredictable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was a story of how the outliers in a particular field reached their lofty status through a combination of ability, opportunity, and utterly arbitrary advantage. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, then, preventing arbitrary searches and seizures by the police was deemed by the Founding Fathers an essential element of the U.S. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Moreover, the idea of a limited set of allowed orbits seemed very arbitrary. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Players are judged on their own performance, not on anyone else’s, and on the basis of their ability, not on some other arbitrary fact. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But there’s an authoritative tone to her voice that makes you feel her appointment wasn’t arbitrary. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z This explains the fact that in some places the frontiers between the superstates are arbitrary. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Even though they were willing to try anything, I'd personally reached peak frustration levels at our country's complex and seemingly arbitrary immigration laws. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Thanks to him the Street of the Turks, with its dazzling display of knickknacks, became a melodic oasis where one could forget Arcadio's arbitrary acts and the distant nightmare of the war. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The frontiers between the three superstates are in some places arbitrary, and in others they fluctuate according to the fortunes of war, but in general they follow geographical lines. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It would never have occurred to them that they could be persuaded to reach a conclusion by something so arbitrary and seemingly insignificant as a smile or a nod from a newscaster. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They formed a union and fought for proper contracts, health benefits, and protections against arbitrary firing, and along with that came a push for fairness in hiring. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z What we might describe as admirably strong executive leadership struck Jefferson and his Republican followers as the arbitrary maneuverings of a monarch. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He was very old, every organ in his body had long since betrayed him, and most of his important decisions regarding Florin had a certain arbitrary quality that bothered many of the leading citizens. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Ted sent me home!”—as if this were some arbitrary injustice. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, Bill’s reasoning started from the seemingly arbitrary hypothesis that only a fraction of the male chromosomal material enters the female cell. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z That may be so, but in that case he also could have made it develop in a completely arbitrary way. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Racial violence has been rationalized, legitimated, and channeled through our criminal justice system; it is expressed as police brutality, solitary confinement, and the discriminatory and arbitrary imposition of the death penalty. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At this point in the presentation, the terms mean nothing to the reader, and the list is too long and arbitrary to stay in memory for long. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z We shared other traits as well, alas: He was rebellious and resentful of authority, quick to rage at arbitrary power. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Through events both arbitrary and conceived it so happened that one of his faces fell away, and then another, and another, until he revealed to me a final level that would not strip off. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Todd also went along with the keto configurations, saying that his organic-chemist friends had drawn enol groups for purely arbitrary reasons. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The arbitrary is no longer in our hands. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The scale is of course more an idea than an object, an arbitrary measure of the Earth’s tremblings based on surface measurements. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z First, because each stage grows out of some previous stage, the lines of demarcation are inevitably arbitrary. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s outlandish that our arbitrary choice of cutoff dates is causing these long-lasting effects, and no one seems to care about them.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Odenigbo will always be my name. Sir is arbitrary. You could be the sir tomorrow.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Many readers may already be protesting: don’t stereotype people by classifying them into arbitrary “races”! Yes, I acknowledge that each of these so-called major groups is very diverse. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There is no theory of the universe: events cannot be predicted beyond a certain extent but occur in a random and arbitrary manner. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Like all alphabetic writing systems, English uses many logograms, such as numerals, $, %, and + : that is, arbitrary signs, not made up of phonetic elements, representing whole words. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At first it seems arbitrary, then I see a pattern, like an intricate maze, appearing in the moonlight on Beetee’s side. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Father said that constant speculation regarding the position of mechanical hands on an arbitrary dial which is a symptom of mind-function. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Such quick, arbitrary, effective, and wholesale annihilation fazed the surviving ant armies not one whit. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This is the argument, he says, that Antigone makes in burying her brother Polynices: it may be against the arbitrary and temporary law of the tyrant Creon, but not against the unwritten law of justice. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z That morning, the collaborators arrived at a new, less “arbitrary” transition between the two parts of ”Why?,” which is performed by a cast of three and a pianist. For Peter Brook, the Experimental Showman, ‘Nothing Is Ever Finished’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z The ease with which Xavier and Faustin are integrated into this “foreign” community reveals the arbitrary nature of territorial boundaries and friend-or-foe distinctions — such is the meaninglessness of modern warfare. ‘The Mercy of the Jungle’ Review: Soldiers Lost Among the Enemy 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Terzian’s actions in blocking their attendance occurred “in an arbitrary, even discriminatory manner,” without explanation, the letter said. Organizers of France’s Oscars Resign, 2 Weeks Before Ceremony 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z He believed that the division of the scale into 12 notes was arbitrary and constricting. Review: ‘Delusion of the Fury,’ With New Partch Instruments 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z And yet, at the same time, that essential ambiguity of literature is neither arbitrary nor unclear. Is there any reason to read? 2012-06-08T00:00:00Z I received some poor treatment, but because of the boss's arbitrary favorites system, I mostly witnessed others being treated badly. Perspective | Ask Amy: Hoarding disorder creates messy situation 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z The deliberate, arbitrary coldness of the assault and Meursault’s lack of empathy are part of the 1942 novel’s point — the Cure’s first single, “Killing an Arab,” encapsulated the character’s alienation in just two minutes. Review: ‘The Strangest,’ a Different Perspective on Camus’s Classic 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Shortly after the election, for no particular reason, I lifted a small set of arbitrary restrictions that I had previously imposed on my life. On Finally Watching “Girls,” a Different and Better Show Than I’d Been Led to Imagine 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The persistence of Franck’s interest in Michel — which begins to resemble love — at times feels arbitrary and baffling, the result of a narrative experiment rather than the exploration of a plausible motive. Movie Review: Death and Desire in ‘Stranger by the Lake’ 2014-01-23T23:17:56Z The root of Protestantism, after all, is protest — against arbitrary and unaccountable authority in the name of a higher truth. ‘Women Talking’ Review: The Power of Speech 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z The direction of the sequence is fundamentally arbitrary, yet if you grouped it the wrong way, it would look like a time reversal. The illusions of advertising 2013-05-16T21:35:00Z Berlioz’s work is undoubtedly a capacious hodgepodge, but Mr. Stuck made elements of it seem arbitrary. Opera Review: ‘Damnation de Faust,’ Staged by Christian Spuck in Berlin 2014-02-24T16:23:16Z As anyone who has tried to outfit herself in an American shopping mall knows, sizing often seems utterly arbitrary. Plus-Size Wars 2010-07-29T15:41:00Z Perhaps their most famous bit was their first, “Rock, Rot & Rule,” in which Mr. Wurster played the author of a book that, in frustratingly arbitrary manner, classified pop artists into those three categories. Tom Scharpling Plans Podcast of ‘The Best Show’ 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z The lexicon of preserving often seems arbitrary, a mystery to me. Canning Class: Peachy Tomato Salsa The book is at its finest when refusing to obey even its own rather arbitrary arrangements. Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History by Eduardo Galeano – review 2013-05-17T10:46:43Z He has raged at aides, summoned up conspiratorial machinations about his enemies and generally been unpredictable, arbitrary and mercurial, sometimes filling important roles in his administration based on criteria such as physical appearance. Our tantrum president: Donald Trump needs to watch “Inside Out” ASAP 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z The commercial advent of recorded sound coincided with a boom in mass evangelism in the United States — not an arbitrary overlap, as this collection definitively shows. Pop Music Gifts, All Bundled Up 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Shaped by arbitrary borders in the aftermath of wars, colonization and waves of migration from nearly two dozen nations across the Americas, our presence is intrinsic to this country. The American Latino Experience: 20 Essential Films Since 2000 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Goldberger dismisses such criticism in making the case for Gehry as a great artist, defending him against the claim that his work is inflexible or arbitrary, the accusation that the architect himself most despises. ‘Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry’ review 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Yet the Reagan years made clear that traditional gender roles are not just some arbitrary cultural preference. We Live in the Reproductive Dystopia of “The Handmaid’s Tale” 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z But Matthew Weiner might deserve that prize for crafting a whole episode around the Clio awards and the arbitrary nature of success to run on Emmy night. "Mad Men" recap: Cure for the common job 2010-08-30T12:59:00Z They said that they learned that the going rate museums paid performers in major 2010 exhibitions was about $20 an hour, which they found low and arbitrary. Looking at How Performers Are Paid for Performance Art 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Just the most absurd, arbitrary … Anyway, we went back and forth and eventually they say: 'OK, you can have a moustache, but it can't be bushy.' Arrested Development season four: the return of the greatest sitcom ever 2013-05-20T16:13:33Z But it revs them up even more, bends them at odd angles and stops and starts them with sudden, arbitrary glee. Music Review: Scrambling and Personalizing the Rock Timeline 2011-07-17T22:10:21Z In his theatrical, if sometimes arbitrary way, Mr. Zhang, who also designed the sets, taps into the teeming forces that course through “Semele.” Review: Handel’s ‘Semele’ Comes With Sumo Wrestlers at BAM 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z What is the Song of the Summer if not an arbitrary and unofficial award created to drum up content amidst the doldrums of the Silly Season on sites like this one? A summer of drive-by listening 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z The current federal loan limits for undergraduates are arbitrary, he says, and not based on the type of program or a student’s estimated future earnings. Are student loans the new subprime mortgages? 2012-10-07T14:00:00Z It took me a long time to understand that those classifications are as cruel as they are arbitrary. Elena Ferrante: ‘It is time to eliminate the concepts of winning, losing and failing’ 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Manguso writes that, rather than waiting until the end of her own life to think about the end of her friend's, she waited "what seems an arbitrary, meaningless length of time". The Guardians: An Elegy by Sarah Manguso – review 2012-07-06T21:55:15Z The rest of the segment concerned what Colbert deemed the "arbitrary" rules employed by CBS when it comes to what can and cannot be shown on the network. Stephen Colbert lampoons mainstream media's penchant for censoring art 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Homunculus becomes their proctor, presiding over games where the rules seem arbitrary and the judgment appears subjective. ‘Stanleyville’ Review: The Most Senseless Game 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z How he managed to memorize music that seems such a succession of arbitrary ideas is beyond me. Music Review: Hungarian Tradition, African Lilt 2011-05-27T23:00:24Z Woo reviews some of the byzantine politics of place-naming, where the line separating Van Nuys from Sherman Oaks may be arbitrary but still influences real estate prices and community identities. 'LAtitudes' navigates the histories and cultures of L.A. 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Subject choices that seemed arbitrary in the smaller exhibition look more coherent here, part of a programmatic redemption of surfaces marginalized, forgotten or so ordinary as to seem invisible. Art in Review: JOSEPHINE HALVORSON: ?What Looks Back? 2011-11-03T21:37:59Z Like the release dates of movies, the release dates of music are often arbitrary. The Best Archival Jazz Releases of 2018 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z She grew up in communist Bulgaria and remembers that system’s arbitrary cruelty, which finds echoes today in the mistreatment of refugees and migrants. Mapping history 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z It was hilarious and a display of Letterman’s ability to make guests as uncomfortable as possible, and his disdain for arbitrary celebrity. Video: Your Favorite David Letterman Memories 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z The twists of the story — the shifts in attention from Wayne and Maxine and their colleagues to Howard and Pearl — are hardly arbitrary. ‘X’ Review: Trash, Art and the Movies 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z “A city should have a sacred geography,” she recites, “never arbitrary but planned in strict accord with the dictates of a doctrine that the society upholds.” Review: Who Committed the ‘Ohio State Murders’? Who Didn’t? 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z It feels arbitrary pitting a Renault concept car against a new edition of Tristram Shandy. Light is right at the Brit Insurance Design awards 2011 ? review 2011-02-17T09:51:50Z It is a skipping portrait of arbitrary desires in which character is bent like a pretzel to accommodate a convoluted plot. Review: Mating-Season Mood Swings in ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’ 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The NFL protests he continued, "are not some arbitrary statement about a flag," he wrote. 'Protest is Patriotic.' John Legend Slams President Trump 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z The problem is, those numbers are fairly arbitrary. Adam Liaw: five simple dishes, and the mistakes you’re making with them 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z But at what seemed like an arbitrary age to a girl who never really grew breasts, it came to my attention that girls shouldn’t like bikes and cars and things that got them dirty. Breaking up with my type: How I learned to stop worrying and let myself loathe the men I once desired 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z In trying to find an efficient solution to an arbitrary mathematical problem, they arrived at a shape as functional-looking as a crowbar. The Week in Arts: Renée Zellweger as aTemptress; Tilda Swinton and her Daughter as Co-Stars 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z Carting a kid about for a day is stressful enough as it is, and fretting about hitting a seemingly arbitrary vegetable target just added another level of anxiety to proceedings. The 10-a-day diet tested: 'I feel like a sentient composter' 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z "And that goes to show how careless and arbitrary they are about who they're going to flag, and who they're going to let in." Kraftwerk denied China visa over 1999 Free Tibet concert 2013-03-29T18:54:14Z Not doing the last 25 years of Pryor’s life simply seems arbitrary. Book review: ‘Becoming Richard Pryor,’ by Scott Saul 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Here’s the list that I submitted, in ranked order—and the ranking was purely arbitrary, arising on the basis of the order in which the titles came to mind: Choosing the Best American Movies 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z It’s a feeling that gets my mind racing angrily about society’s unfair, arbitrary beauty standards; then it makes me wonder why I’m subjecting the most sensitive part of my body to their whims. Watch a group of men get bikini waxes, turn bikini waxing into a (sort of) feminist act 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The activity felt arbitrary and undirected; no relationships formed or dissolved, no momentum built, no patterns accumulated. At Ivy Baldwin Dance’s ‘Oxbow,’ only the dancing is static The government had issued arbitrary warrants for Wilkes’s publications, censored him, arrested him, forced him to flee the country, and denied him permission to take his seat in the House of Commons. Freedom fighter 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z A conceit that has a couple of scenes unfurling in video form, on the submarine’s walls, seems arbitrary and unnecessary, but otherwise the visuals add suspense and atmosphere. Two classic Shakespeares, each with ups and downs 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z In this way, words wouldn’t just be arbitrary labels, haphazardly assigned. Isaac Newton’s universal language 2013-05-11T15:00:00Z A rule that sets a birth date of Jan. 1 for entrance into kindergarten is going to be arbitrary and unfair to the child born at 11:59 the night before. For a Fairer World, It’s Necessary First to Cut Through the ‘Noise’ 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z “The Age of Innocence” opens in “a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.” The Age of ‘The Age of Innocence’ 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z And drawing a line at 40 is, to some extent, arbitrary. Author, author: Deborah Treisman 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z Characters shuffle offstage to the bathroom or the bedroom for arbitrary reasons, so others can be left alone to air the grievances between them. Review: ‘The Herd,’ Rory Kinnear’s Drama About Family Friction 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z That vocabulary sometimes aids Mr. Abraham’s message and sometimes seems arbitrary, lathered on too thick or lacking structure. Kyle Abraham’s Abraham.In.Motion Echoes a Max Roach Album 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Its bruising extremity is relieved by flickers of tenderness that can seem as arbitrary as the ambient meanness. | 'Tyrannosaur': ?Tyrannosaur? With Peter Mullan - Review 2011-11-17T22:48:28Z “The entire country is outraged by it,” Martin Preib, of the FOP, told the Chicago Sun-Times “This decision appears to be utterly arbitrary, capricious and suspicious.” The Jussie Smollett saga: a look into Chicago's broken criminal justice system 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z “It is important to remember just how arbitrary and unexpected the outcome of this era really was,” he says. The Opium War and the Humiliation of China 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z And I can’t think of a better illustration of the fluidity of tradition, its almost arbitrary nature, than our — and that’s a big our, the entirety of humanity, more or less — response to recent times. A Gratin That Embraces Tradition, and Innovates on It 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z It's not a penalty assessed by any code or standard of fairness; it's arbitrary. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to make amends to an ex who says ‘Never contact me again’? 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z Each of these events seems whimsical and arbitrary and yet, as Javier Marías shows in this masterly novel, chance is nothing but the result of our own negligent reading. The Infatuations by Javier Marías – review 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z Scenes in church connect Mr. Pitt’s character to a fearsome, unpredictable Old Testament God — the God of Job — dispensing arbitrary judgment. Authority, From God to Dad 2011-07-14T22:53:02Z Many critics found the book unscientific, arbitrary and curiously weighted toward people and events relevant to an American living in the 20th century. Michael Drosnin, Who Found Clues in the Bible, Is Dead at 74 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Certainly, Mr. Nolan’s Pozzo is close kin to such arbitrary authority figures as that celebrated advocate of child beating, the Duchess. Review: A ‘Waiting for Godot’ as Comically Futile as a Looney Tune 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Whiny actors agitate to get their lines increased or improved, producers tinker with the show’s integrity to improve ratings, and relationships, like the one Victor pursues with the show’s art director, are hopelessly arbitrary. Book review: ‘The Martini Shot,’ by George Pelecanos 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z It attracted a record audience for a one-off TV and is a sombre, sober, unsentimental work about chance fate, the arbitrary horrors of war and people trapped in a bureaucratic machine. The Execution of Private Slovik 2012-05-26T23:05:31Z For example, the final grouping of The Burghers of Calais is an arbitrary affair. Henry Moore talks about Rodin's irresistible influence – from the archive 2013-03-23T07:59:02Z Until recently, the accepted view was that colour categorisation was arbitrary, with distinctions rooted in culture and language. The vision thing: how babies colour in the world 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Compiling any list is an arbitrary, thankless task. Choose the final classic to digest 2010-10-13T06:00:00Z But despite this arbitrary starting point, there's a definite end point for any sneeze count. From stationery fiends to hand dryer enthusiasts… who are you calling boring? 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z The room changes lighting to simulate morning, midday and night; delivers three daily “meals” of a flavorless liquid labeled FOOD; and holds Kate and Mikey to a number of arbitrary rules. ‘The Immaculate Room’ Review: A Blank Slate 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Oddly, I still like her, regarding her opinions as an arbitrary appurtenance that she pops on in public, like a daft hat that says "Immigrants Out" on the brim. Russell Brand: what I made of Morning Joe and Question Time 2013-06-28T19:06:09Z But the highly forgettable songs seem to be imposed on the action rather than arising organically from it and many of the jokes are just as arbitrary. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - review 2011-02-22T02:09:02Z Nobody’s dress code was more arbitrary than the lounge’s. At 20, Eighteenth Street Lounge is a geezer by D.C. nightlife standards. Why do people still line up to get in? 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z In his rush to meet a self-imposed and arbitrary deadline, West neither shapes this tumult into a lucid narrative nor offers the humanizing moments that might allow listeners to empathize with his plight. Review | Kanye West’s ‘Ye’ is the unedited ramblings of the world’s oldest adolescent 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z "I don't start with an arbitrary selection of which things matter, I start with what will make this child blossom… and if that turns out to be sport or music or art, I celebrate that." Rewind radio: Today; Victoria Derbyshire; Ed Reardon's Week; My Teenage Diary ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:52Z But casting, done by the director or choreographer, and often announced close to the performance date, can seem mysterious and arbitrary. What Is a Ballet Body? 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z A radical correction of our assumptions must seem planned, not arbitrary. Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks 2012-07-20T21:55:02Z As the story progresses and Abbie’s condition deteriorates in harmony with his surroundings, we see that the horror-movie music that opens the movie was far from arbitrary. ‘Relaxer’ Review: Help! He’s Sitting and He Can’t Get Up 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Their suffering is not entirely arbitrary, because not all of them are completely innocent. Review: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman and ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Perhaps we were being arbitrary, but it was how we narrowed the field. Cabernet Franc and the Finger Lakes: Made for Each Other 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Her love of “anything” Japanese, while it may come as a surprise to fans, is anything but arbitrary. Lauren Graham’s Taste of Tokyo 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Ron Hutchinson is skilful, too, in Durand's Line, illustrating the arbitrary arrogance of empire. The Great Game: Afghanistan 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z He sees my parents’ exclusion as hurtful, arbitrary and controlling. Carolyn Hax: Time to stop being tugged between family and boyfriend 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z However, more often than not, there are reasons for what may seem like totally arbitrary decision making. Parents, know your special education rights 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Instead of expressive story development it depends on arbitrary structural tactics for its effects: not just the reversals and the symptoms-as-titles, but also the pointless weaving of characters into one another’s stories. ‘Breathe’ Review: A Pandemic Musical That Strains to Surprise 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Kahlo dug into her own psyche to champion women and subvert the arbitrary rules of gender; Rivera sought to connect people across racial, geographic and class lines. Detroit museum roars back with powerful exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z They are about “the protagonist’s struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books.” An Unassuming Heroine Envies Her Harvard Classmates the Confidence of Their Convictions 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z "Wolf Boys" author Slater called the TDCJ's censorship procedures "aggressive and arbitrary." Texas prisons ban books by Langston Hughes and Bob Dole - but 'Mein Kampf' is OK 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Such racial distinctions were just as arbitrary, as if we separated people based on height or hair color. Suspending Whoopi Goldberg doesn’t help anyone fight against bigotry 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z We are not as valued as our lighter-skinned counterparts when seeking romantic partners, our dating pool constricted because of something as arbitrary as shoe size. Dark-skinned black girls don't get married 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z A federal appeals court had thrown out the FCC's fine and called it an "arbitrary and capricious" action. Court won't hear `wardrobe malfunction' appeal 2012-06-29T14:22:08Z They were smart and had internalized a sort of gallows humor, seeing that the corporation was so capricious and arbitrary that you could be fired by the time you came back from lunch. Career advice for Sean Spicer: Work nights at a supermarket — like I did after he cost me my job 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z But the rules can extend to more arbitrary things: In 2017, caffeinated soda was finally allowed to be sold on B.Y.U.’s campus after over half a century of a ban on sales. Beard Crusader 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z She was allergic to the arbitrary and the exorbitant. Colm Toibin on Elizabeth Bishop: A Different Kind of Literary Tango 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Adding an arbitrary national shape to an established one to attempt an entirely English croissant, that future scholar will argue, is an affirmation of refusing to be one with Europe. Straightened-Out Croissants and the Decline of Civilization 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z A lot of the “obvious” rules about dating are actually pretty arbitrary, so we aren’t instinctively aware of them. Dating with Asperger’s 2013-12-06T13:00:00Z By the arbitrary laws above, this reunion was a violator, but Venom P. Stinger’s music is hazy in our minds, if it’s there at all, right? Music Review: Venom P. Stinger at Shea Stadium in Brooklyn 2010-05-13T20:31:00Z Let’s follow him on his spurious, entirely arbitrary journey to see if his journey is what Robson Green hoped it might be. Stop it, Sherlock! Five TV tropes that need to die 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z It is neither a form of academic inquiry nor a paranoid platitude nor an arbitrary gesture. Review | The value of Trevor Paglen’s art may remain a secret 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z This third album, though, is not a warm wash of hypnagogia, but a strangely arid collection of tracks that register not so much as songs, but as experiments following arbitrary, sometimes aimless, courses. Memory Tapes: Grace/Confusion – review 2012-12-09T00:05:50Z The official who concluded that MacLean had disclosed secret information was now suggesting that the label was arbitrary and part of “security theater.” What happens when a whistleblower returns to work after a decade’s fight 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z When an author inflicts his idle and arbitrary fancy on a helpless person whom he has invented for that purpose, a lot of talent is needed to have that trick work. Review: ‘Nausea,’ by Jean-Paul Sartre 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The links between the younger and the older Theo’s experiences feel even more arbitrary than the plethora of coincidences and extravagances on which the story depends. Review: The Wan Faithfulness That Made “The Goldfinch” Movie a Flop 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z That man, hulking and grunting, is an agent of chaos, his motives unknown and his actions seemingly arbitrary. ‘Piggy’ Review: A Bullied Teenager Gets an Unexpected Assist 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The timeline of “The Accountant” is so arbitrary that the subplots seem shuffled like pieces of an unfinished jigsaw puzzle. Review: In ‘The Accountant,’ a Savant With Daddy Issues Has a Dark Secret 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Of course much of my thinking is in images and, yes, every picture for me holds thousands of fairly arbitrary adjectives and adverbs. Twyla Tharp’s Final Rehearsals: Creating a Company 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Here, we see the adult Coleman in protean form: engaged, resourceful, unwilling to be bound by the arbitrary limits of a culture against which she would push throughout her life. Should L.A. have a Wanda Coleman Memorial Library? 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Which is one reason some detractors in the weather field don’t like the system: they say the process may just be arbitrary and confusing, if anything undermining public awareness of the weather. Buy the Sky and Sell the Sky: The Weather Channel Is Now Branding Winter 2013-01-04T13:00:07Z Contrary to cliché, the gesture is not romantic but droll and startlingly arbitrary — it’s early in the morning, and the two are at an empty suburban intersection. ‘Nobody’s Hero’ Review: Little Desires Everywhere 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z "The book lacks narrative unity, while it is written in an arbitrary fashion that is devoid of cohesion in meaning," a Turkish government board said in a March ruling. Turkish state pans Beat Generation author 2011-05-16T11:46:04Z After all, when it comes down to four or three, things can get very, very arbitrary. Will "Survivor" mastermind Russell reign supreme? 2009-12-13T01:30:00Z In his ruling, A. Tingling Jr. called the measure “arbitrary and capricious.” New York can continue to guzzle its Big Gulps 2013-03-12T15:44:00Z A year might be a handy if arbitrary length for a memoir or novel, but a sleepless night stretches out like a blank page, the inability to fill it a writhing stasis. ‘What Pea Disrupts Your Sleep, Princess?’ 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z It wasn't a deliberate decision to fill out the sound, but one that became apparent as she tossed out the arbitrary limits she had placed on her songwriting. Julien Baker questioned her faith. Music helped her embrace the uncertainty. 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Spending time browsing here was among my most dismal shopping experiences in recent memory: joyless, arbitrary, spiritually empty. The Amazon Warehouse Comes to SoHo 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The arbitrary cutting back of trees and shrubs is generally a bad horticultural practice that destroys a plant’s natural shape and promotes excessive sprouting of weak new shoots near the wound. Here’s what to consider when picking pepper seeds 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Because he had been bred to conform to a seemingly arbitrary set of canine beauty standards, the long-term effects of which can include increased incidences of inherited diseases and other health issues? Eau de pawfum: is it barking mad to buy cologne for dogs? 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Instead of moping over singledom or aggressively trying to find partners with arbitrary deadlines in mind, they are declaring to be happily unmarried and proudly find solace in living solo. Unmarried, Happily Ever After 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Dances and theatrical vignettes succeed one another like music-hall turns, and their place in a work can often feel arbitrary. Critic’s Notebook: Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal Performs in London 2012-07-13T22:45:17Z They may be arbitrary, but those are the rules. Motherlode Blog: Naked, With Children ? but for How Long? 2012-04-02T00:48:51Z It uses three voice-over narrators who break in at seemingly arbitrary moments to hasten the story along. Movie Review: ?Declaration of War,? Directed by Val?rie Donzelli 2012-01-26T23:30:42Z Fashion in this context was not about looking au courant or attractive by some arbitrary standard. Perspective | For Nancy Pelosi and the new women in Congress, fashion was a defiant statement of purpose — and resistance 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z “It’s an arbitrary censorship,” he said by telephone from Italy, his indignation sizzling through the telephone line. Abel Ferrara Fights to Stop Re-Edited Strauss-Kahn Film 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z To judge and appraise someone solely on the basis of arbitrary and nonmoral attributes such as skin pigmentation and so-called racial identity is not only irrational and nonsensical it is evil. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z Give a woman a problem and she'll take action, however arbitrary. "Rescue Me": The tragedy of the modern guy's guy 2010-06-29T15:01:00Z Neither is there in the markets and Surviving Progress was equally good on explaining why economics is less a science and more a chalkboard of arbitrary equations devised to underpin a set of doubtful values. TV review: Diamond Jubilee and Surviving Progress 2012-06-04T22:30:04Z Her fight to get back, and to understand herself as both-and, neither-nor, Egyptian and American, exposed the arbitrary cruelty, casual racism and occasional kindness of people within the United States immigration system. An Arab-American Poet Asks What It Means to Belong to Two Cultures, or None 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Where some purists see an arbitrary nonachievement, others see a fun and worthy goal. Off Belize, a Hunt for Saltwater Fly-Fishing’s Top Prizes 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z The truth is that Mr. de Blasio’s program is about fulfilling a campaign promise — to meet an arbitrary number. In Gowanus, a People’s Housing Plan to Challenge the Mayor’s 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z The arbitrary divisions of clock time are a Western invention, “Refuse the Hour,” boisterously demonstrates, handily allowing the overall coordination needed for the 19th-century colonization of Africa. When refusing the hour saves the day 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z In fact, many of Wangenheim’s fellow prisoners were artists, intellectuals, clergymen and nobles, assembled “by the iron fist of the arbitrary ”: 'Stalin's Meteorologist' illustrates the life and idealism in the under a dictatorship 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Ms. Adams, meanwhile, is subjected to a series of humiliations that quickly come to seem arbitrary and cruel. 2010-01-08T03:34:00Z So between Bible verses, arbitrary facts about Mexico’s presidents and words too big for my small Chicano lips, I was not at all interested in picking up a reading habit. Enrique Garcia Naranjo, on the importance of being Mexcellent 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Like every Western, Howarth’s spotlights how arbitrary frontier justice can be. Review | Two Australian boys seek revenge for their parents’ murder in this blood-soaked tale 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z This is an arbitrary list, not necessarily meant to soothe or inspire. “The Brave and Strong Survive, Child” 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z One of the reasons all of this is so hard to understand is because the entire concept of race is an arbitrary modern social construct. Suspending Whoopi Goldberg doesn’t help anyone fight against bigotry 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z But this decision of theirs seemed a little more ... arbitrary. Perspective | His grandson’s name was at stake. Would the Nats throw Gene Weingarten a curve? 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Rawls posited that true justice can only be determined if we are ignorant of morally arbitrary contingencies such as class, status, intelligence, etc. On this dark day for DACA consider what open borders really mean 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z A critic at large for The New York Times Magazine, he goes on to describe Oklahoma City, which he first visited in 2012 to report on its N.B.A. franchise, as “unlikely, unreasonable, arbitrary.” Oklahoma City, the Ultimate ‘Boom Town,’ Rendered Vivid and Surreal 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Finally, why not shed the Manhattan myopia and agree that beyond an arbitrary but sensible price cap based on income a wine cannot be a value. 20 Wines for Under $20: The Spring Edition 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z We are awash in a “princess” culture, in which girls — very little girls — idolize a subset of characters distinguished mainly by their cinched waistlines, their ability to accessorize with a diadem, and an arbitrary title. Motherlode Blog: Princes Are for Fairy Tales 2013-07-22T22:04:23Z Some of Holmes’s deductions in the first murder case seem arbitrary even by TV procedural standards, and regular viewers of crime dramas will have the kind of nagging questions that drive them crazy. Television Review: ‘Elementary,’ Starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu 2012-09-26T21:59:16Z Brown says Markle represents the kind of woman whose life was not limited by preconceptions and arbitrary social boundaries. For some African-Americans, Meghan Markle is cause for celebration 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z This motivation for arbitrary change in the name of surprise is a terrible justification for messing with the foundation of someone else’s story. Preacher's AMC makeover gives fans reason to hope 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The beginnings of Girlpool, on the other hand, was far more arbitrary. Girlpool makes its move from L.A. to the 'Big' world 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z The comparison isn’t arbitrary; we know that Cooke was familiar with the song, which was written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein’s 1927 musical “Show Boat.” The Unlikely Story of “A Change Is Gonna Come” 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z His more general attacks in "Politics" on what he perceives to be bad style are often outright ridiculous, parading a comically arbitrary collection of intolerances. My problem with George Orwell 2013-01-17T15:49:30Z And the past keeps surfacing — a Roman road, a cache of funeral urns — but it’s full of arbitrary things. Love Among the Ruins 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Many Twitter users, however, took issue with Russell’s arbitrary ranking. Chart ranking of best types of fries sparks hilarious Twitter outrage 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Discipline, when it came, was arbitrary and capricious. Sue Grafton: 'My childhood ended when I was five' 2013-03-18T09:00:06Z The title, concept, and seemingly arbitrary tracklist are all so formal and final. Ready for the Elliott Smith "Greatest Hits" album? 2010-09-20T21:12:00Z Furthermore, waiting lists at transplant centers around the country are not subjected to proper oversight to ensure more fair and less arbitrary distribution of precious life-saving organs. The tragedy of American organ donations: So many more people could be saved 2014-03-23T14:00:00Z “In C” consists of 53 short musical motifs that can be repeated an arbitrary number of times or sometimes skipped outright. Music Review: Summertime Anarchy, but of the Guided Kind 2011-07-03T21:09:12Z "The price of compactness is a certain amount of arbitrary exclusion." Obama, Palin and Jobs join Bartlett's club 2012-11-09T18:27:08Z True, such lists can be arbitrary and misguided. Modern Love: GPS on a Path to the Heart 2011-02-11T01:08:11Z Still others objected to the idea of a list in the first place, noting its intrinsically arbitrary and invidious nature. ‘Surprised and Dismayed’: Readers Respond to Our Best 25 Plays List 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Alphabetical order requires us to pay attention not to meaning but to spelling, ensuring it would stay rare through the Middle Ages, disdained as an arbitrary imposition that was “the antithesis of reason.” A Smart, Playful Book About the Underappreciated Index 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z A later change of clothes seems as arbitrary as the deliberately meandering movement, a sort of amateur veneer laid over clearly trained bodies. Dance Review: Watch It Tonight, Consider It Tomorrow 2011-04-21T21:45:17Z “Halfway Home” combines case studies with memoir, focusing on Miller’s brother, whose collect calls, arbitrary parole officer and efforts to remain free bedevil the author and his middle-class family. The Hazards of American Justice 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z The Globes likes what it likes and should be commended for awarding under-the-radar shows and performances but can’t be taken too seriously when their criteria for quality often seem so arbitrary. Golden Globes 2016: who will win, and who should win the TV categories 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z The arbitrary exposure to certain songs was such a fine way to see the chinks in the adult facade. If only I knew what the lyrics meant 2012-09-16T17:00:00Z Department of State said it now "strongly recommends" against all travel to North Korea, citing the risk of "arbitrary arrest." Isolated North Korea a visitor draw, but sometimes literally a tourist trap 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, though, strategic as the first 35 days of "Survivor" are, the last four days always feel about as arbitrary as drawing straws. Will "Survivor" mastermind Russell reign supreme? 2009-12-13T01:30:00Z That means its performers assemble an arbitrary combination of unlikely elements into logic and harmony, on the spot and off the cuff. ‘Blank! The Musical’ Is a DIY Revue at New World Stages 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Life taught this refugee from Hitler's Europe early on that the line between comedy and tragedy was arbitrary, and he reiterated the lesson to memorable effect throughout his glorious career. Mike Nichols' theater legacy: Laughter and tears with equal genius 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Seven sackings is, as Mr. Kneale frankly admits, an arbitrary total. ‘Rome: A History in Seven Sackings’ Review: The City That Survived 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z "The Paying Guests" unfolds in a deceptively languid fashion, but its meticulous descriptions and period details are neither arbitrary nor superfluous. Sarah Waters mixes crime and romantic strangers in 'Paying Guests' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Yet many restaurateurs still feel aggrieved about the rating system; they talk of the health inspectors as arbitrary, unjust — and frightening enough to send an owner to the hospital with a panic attack. The Life of a Restaurant Inspector: Rising Grades, Fainting Owners 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z With too many of the supporting performances favoring style over substance, the play’s quirks and reversals seem arbitrary and opaque. Critic’s Notebook: Back in Chicago, Michael Shannon and David Schwimmer 2013-08-09T20:44:12Z In the end, the Emmys are arbitrary and often don’t matter. Why Was The Good Wife Snubbed by the Emmys? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z I mean, if we submit to the scientific definition of love, that leaves us with something glandular that has a completely arbitrary existence. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Patent and Trademark Office were being arbitrary and hypocritical, inasmuch as they apparently have had no problem with other offensive trademarked names. Gene Weingarten: Taking a page from Dan Snyder’s playbook 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Scott Atran and Pascal Boyer have independently pointed out that actual religious superstitions over the whole world constitute a narrow subset of all the arbitrary random superstitions that one could theoretically invent. Jared Diamond: It’s irrational to be religious 2013-01-13T12:00:00Z Etiquette is often misunderstood as a set of arcane or arbitrary behaviors governing how to sit or the right way to eat asparagus. The new rules of cannabis: how to pass the joint and more 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z “Because they’re so focused on, say, an arbitrary weight goal, they don’t notice that they are sleeping better or feeling less anxious.” New Year’s resolutions may be more procrastination than motivation 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z The ensemble works with incredible precision, selling gestures and movements that might otherwise seem bizarre or arbitrary. Review: ‘Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era’ Stages a Disaster in Reverse 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Cubans don’t chat about the matter casually, but there were 7,900 reports of arbitrary detention of Cuban citizens by their government in just eight months in 2016, according to Human Rights Watch. Found in Cuba: The American Dream (and nightmare) 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z With hearing loss, however, the distortion created is arbitrary and destructive, rather than provocative. My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z But being placed in a recording studio with an arbitrary producer wouldn’t work. Sudan Archives Plays the Violin a Bit Differently 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Brown used passing to expose the arbitrary nature of white privilege. 'Passing for white': how a taboo film genre is being revived to expose racial privilege 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z These circumstances are arbitrary and certain,as the forecast always gets it wrong. ArtsBeat: Poetry Profiles: Black Ocean 2014-03-03T21:26:30Z Confronted by their ardor, she realizes how arbitrary such important choices are. Music Review: Words or Music: Why Choose? 2011-03-29T22:23:23Z The situation is made worse by over-policing and rink owners who do not welcome African American skaters, barring them with anodyne and arbitrary rules. 'It brought me a sense of community': the fight to save US skating culture 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z Rohatgi called Khan’s arrest “arbitrary,” adding that the agency did not conduct a medical examination to show he had consumed drugs. Bollywood superstar’s son gets bail in drugs case 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z There’s something moving about these Enlightenment leaders losing themselves in the arbitrary, and, as always, Roussel points back to the intricacies of his own method, its reliance on chance and play. How Raymond Roussel Put the Impossible on the Page 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z They appeal to women who do not measure their success by their social media status, by logos or status handbags or by arbitrary definitions of beauty. The Olsen twins’ label The Row is constantly on the hunt for perfection. And perfection is very expensive. 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z “No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by the client,” he wrote, “for whatever dopey, arbitrary reason, there is often another amazing, absolutely brilliant solution possible.” Bob Gill, Graphic Designer Who Elevated the ‘Message,’ Dies at 90 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Selecting highlights from an array like this is inevitably arbitrary. In the galleries: Using heat to create several kinds of artworks 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Some of the artists in the scene seemed to resent being grouped together under an arbitrary genre term by a big corporation. How Hyperpop, a Small Spotify Playlist, Grew Into a Big Deal 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z His choices of subjects have felt both arbitrary and deliberate, prosaic and loaded, like Duchamp ready-mades. Art Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Regrets,’ a New Series at MoMA 2014-03-21T16:46:57Z "It was an arbitrary decision on my part," Child explained. Lee Child wins crime novel of the year award 2011-07-22T10:24:29Z But the focus is on the way the background threat of political violence systematically degrades those layers of values that, however arbitrary, hypocritical and unfairly privileged they may be, give meaning to our social identities. Wallace Shawn's 'The Designated Mourner' gets new relevance in the Trump era 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z As a bonus, this would remove from your relationship this arbitrary pressure for Answers, and allow it to follow its own course at its own pace. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Whether it’s half past love or quarter till, live in the moment 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z She exerted arbitrary control over productions of the plays and frightened off biographers. Tennessee Williams and the menagerie that made up the life of a legendary playwright All of which brings us to The Baller List, an utterly arbitrary, totally subjective, certainly incomplete list of heroes. What it takes to be a 'baller' 2010-06-14T00:08:00Z Yiadom-Boakye insists that clothes are not her focus, and that the painted accouterments are arbitrary. T Magazine: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's Fashionable Eye 2010-11-15T19:34:00Z Within an arbitrary, almost silly structure, some of the unvarnished truths of human experience are revealed. Aural Installations Take Over New Museum 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The system has always been controversial, and at times its rulings have seemed arbitrary. Dystopia, Apocalypse, Culture War: 2018 or 1968? 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z But more often than not, the decisions seem arbitrary, amounting to dissidence on the consumer level — something that Susan Sontag and other cultural critics complained about in the 1990s. Critic?s Notebook: Pushing Fashion Boundaries in an Era Without Any 2011-01-12T22:45:41Z The photographs remind us, repeatedly, that the racial delineations imposed by society are often arbitrary and flimsy, always fraught. An Artist’s Costumed Alter Egos Cross Racial Lines 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z In that story, however, we see an example of the "Hemingway code", in which the arbitrary violence and meaninglessness of life is met with dignity, which in turn confers meaning. A brief survey of the short story part 34: Ernest Hemingway 2011-07-15T10:54:43Z “There were some arbitrary changes I didn’t like,” admits Susan Hill in an email. The Woman In Black: why did Britain's scariest horror film disappear? 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Come to think of it, this feckless man who would be God might have directed the arbitrary production in which he appears. Review: Shakespeare Meets Elevator Repair Service. Mayhem Ensues. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z The "results" of your answers seem arbitrary and innocuous. Will this personality test make you insane? 2011-04-07T22:08:00Z “The term ‘bottom one-half of the anal cleft’ is not well-defined or reasonably understandable, and the ordinances otherwise fail to provide clear guidance and raise risks of arbitrary enforcement. Bikini baristas appeal city ordinance issuing dress code, debate definition of 'anal cleft' 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Viewers respond to cartoons in arbitrary and personal ways — even more, I think, than they respond to live-action comedies. ‘BoJack Horseman’: The equine ennui of a Hollywood stud And, with Roy, it just seems completely arbitrary who he ends up with. Woody Allen: 'My wife hasn't seen most of my films... and she thinks my clarinet playing is torture' 2011-03-13T00:05:42Z For years Mr. Camnitzer made apartness a kind of personal ethic, which didn’t mean that he ignored the art market and its arbitrary values. Art Review: In the Beginning Was the Word 2011-02-16T13:00:07Z Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/Columbia Compiling a list of the 100 classic reads of the 20th century to digest is an arbitrary task. Digested classics: the 20th century's greatest novels 2010-10-13T06:59:00Z Want to Parent, Not Sure About Being a “Mommy”: It is daunting to be idealized, pigeonholed, publicly judged, minimized, lionized, objectified, weighted by arbitrary expectations, stereotyped and, literally, vomited on. Ambivalent about motherhood and wondering whether she’ll get over it 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Although each chapter struggles to develop some kind of theme, the settings seem arbitrary, and the ideas need to be coaxed forth. Books of The Times: A Collector of Road Trips, Just Passing Through 2010-02-17T23:31:00Z But he also asks: How much less arbitrary is a purportedly civilized society? Review | Two Australian boys seek revenge for their parents’ murder in this blood-soaked tale 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Records themselves are almost anachronistic to many young listeners, more accustomed to the arbitrary shuffle than the curated sequence of songs. A Brooklyn gentrification soundtrack: Kraz's "Telescope," a timely New York story 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z But, the episode observes, that’s how the world works; a choice has to be made, and what goes into the choice is often unpleasantly arbitrary. White guilt and “The Good Wife”: When good intentions about corporate diversity fall painfully short 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z It will seem arbitrary to someone outside of our bodies, but we have to take the arbitrary thing and make it seem essential. Two Television Showrunners on ‘Creative Short Circuits’ 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z It's an arbitrary flourish of randomness, keeping us off balance and disturbed. Film review: Mother 2010-08-19T21:07:00Z When Mr. Moran halts the work to explain its musical architecture, the break initially feels arbitrary and jarring. Music Review: Collaboration at 72 Beats Per Minute 2011-06-26T21:54:06Z Kuhn argued that science was not just about the simple delineation of material facticity but also included "an apparently arbitrary element, compounded of personal and historical accident". The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S Kuhn – review 2012-07-03T07:00:03Z These similarities were superficial and beside the point, arbitrary attempts to impose a structure onto a journey that was just an accident. I Crossed the World 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The theatre was mostly empty, with maybe twenty other people distributed like arbitrary commas in the semi-darkness. Going to the Movies with Jackie Kennedy 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z There’s a particular kind of resentment that can fester when a self-described rule follower feels she did everything right only to be thwarted by unwritten rules that feel arbitrary and wrong. The Education of Ellen Pao 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Council denounced Saudi Arabia’s “continuing arrests and arbitrary detentions of human rights defenders” 3 Saudi women activists receive PEN Freedom to Write Award 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Those recommendations are “completely arbitrary,” according to Dr. Richard Ford, a professor of medicine at North Carolina State University. Yes, “dog anti-vaxxers” is a thing. In Brooklyn. But they might not be as crazy as you think 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Other bloom peepers flowed down along the path, swarming around the arbitrary patch in the basin. Catching California’s Superbloom 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z “It started making me think about boundaries and borders and how arbitrary they are,” he said. A Modern Take on the Hudson River School Tradition 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z However arbitrary the placement of these particles might have seemed, each was precisely notated and painstakingly exacting in articulation and dynamics. Music Review: A Work?s Long Road to New York 2010-12-22T23:06:06Z The story of “Queen & Slim” is propelled by an arbitrary traffic stop, in which a white officer detains a couple, whose names we do not know yet, played by Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith. The Powerful Perspective of “Queen & Slim” 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Instead, he supplies an aggressive choreographic style that dismembers familiar classical syntax and reassembles the pieces in arbitrary new patterns à la William Forsythe. Mariinsky Ballet steps splendidly, but revised 'Cinderella' falls flat 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z The Curse of Ham is terrifying because it seems so arbitrary. Why Is Being Held Accountable So Terrifying Under Patriarchy? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Spelling and grammar, apparently, will be more arbitrary in the post-catastrophe world, but squirrels will be every bit as tasty as they are now. Critic?s Notebook: Gutting a Porcupine and Other Tips for the Apocalypse 2010-12-29T20:22:17Z I have no doubt some viewers will experience "Asteroid City" as a maddening Russian doll nested with clever but pointless gags, or as arbitrary and formless. Love and loss in "Asteroid City": Wes Anderson's intoxicating alien-invasion meta-movie 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z Listicles are fun, but the small and arbitrary numbers tend to reinforce the idea that there aren't really that many examples of women in film history and these were the best stories you could find. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z But she also felt the country needed his win in order “to stop thinking about something as arbitrary as skin color.” Isabel Wilkerson on Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ and the Great Migration 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z “It was as though Trump was trying to show he had as much arbitrary authority as Erdogan.” In ‘The Room Where It Happened,’ John Bolton Dumps His Notes and Smites His Enemies 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z They're girls/women embracing life unencumbered by high heels and arbitrary rules. All Twisted Up by Gender Bending 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Brooke excels at depicting unknowable and scarily arbitrary extraterrestrials and a human race crushed by endless cruelty and domination. Science fiction & fantasy roundup – reviews 2012-07-06T21:55:14Z It does, after all, seem a bit arbitrary that only the original cast members of a show can be eligible for Tonys, as is the case under the current rules. Sometimes There Are Second Acts in Broadway Casting 2010-08-25T22:46:00Z The film was a household name, even before its bizarre and rather arbitrary connection to the Watergate scandal, with which the term “Deep Throat” is now more popularly associated. My dad, the pornographer: How “Deep Throat” forever changed my childhood 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z “I like to see where crossing limits actually causes pain, and where it turns out that those limits are arbitrary.” For Latin American Women, Horror and Fantasy Capture Everyday Struggle 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z There is something arbitrary, lightweight and almost comic about employing a pillow to represent a child. Theater Review | 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle': Brecht?s Test of Devotion, Set Amid Modern Warfare 2010-03-01T22:49:00Z And his choice of words often feels arbitrary; he’s not obsessed with picking the right ones or the most important ones or the most revealing ones. Critic?s Notebook: Lil Wayne?s ?Tha Carter IV? - Review 2011-08-30T22:28:26Z They also argued that current FCC policy against indecency is vague and arbitrary and should be voided on those grounds. Supreme Court hears case on profanity rules 2012-01-10T20:02:00Z If Hilderbrand had “been building a career as a ‘serious and literary’ writer — understood that these categories are arbitrary,” he said, “I likely would have been more involved.” Perspective | It’s okay to admit it: We’d all like to be living in an Elin Hilderbrand novel 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Let arbitrary be our co-pilot and purposelessness our destination.” Watch List: ‘Up to Speed,’ With Timothy Levitch, on Hulu 2012-08-10T23:47:45Z When he puppyishly asks if they’re girlfriend-boyfriend, she says, without affect, “You know I believe that monogamy is an arbitrary cage foisted upon us by the miserable capitalist patriarchy.” The Ennobling Smut of Gregg Araki’s “Now Apocalypse” 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z The production, particularly in a haunting first act, memorably conveys the strangeness of a new religion: the arbitrary nature of its rituals coupled with the stringency with which they’re performed. Review: A Present-Day ‘Parsifal’ With a Nod to the Past 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z It may be possible to imagine such a juxtaposition making sense, but like so much else in “Miral,” this musical choice seems hasty, half-baked and arbitrary. | 'Miral': Hopes and Struggles in a Difficult Land 2011-03-24T21:53:01Z And presumably all music means something, so Mr. Botstein’s choice of four unrelated works, however fine and meaningful individually, seemed merely arbitrary, the very quality thematic programming is meant to avoid. Review: American Symphony Orchestra Goes in Search of a Theme 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Also, not to be pedantic or anything, but “The Hobbit” is just one book, and its expansion into three movies feels arbitrary and mercenary. Movie Review: ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,’ by Peter Jackson 2012-12-13T18:58:19Z To paraphrase a Thrifty Vinyl post, it is an amusing distraction from the sure knowledge of life's arbitrary but unceasing vortex towards moral, spiritual and, ultimately, physical nothingness. Blog jam: Thrifty Vinyl 2012-05-31T14:45:04Z Departments at Harvard seem arbitrary to Selin, who wonders why there isn’t a department of love. In Elif Batuman’s ‘Either/Or,’ a Witty and Perceptive Young Woman Returns 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Her images were so highly ferocious and so controlled that any misguided readers could easily mistake her brilliance for arbitrary oversight or chaotic overintoxication or abuse of symbolism. The Book That Terrified Neil Gaiman. And Carmen Maria Machado. And Dan Simmons. 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Perhaps also you can give me an explanation of why it's worth investing any emotional energy in Okri's "spirit child" Azuro when his world is governed by such arbitrary forces. Booker club: The Famished Road 2011-01-20T13:46:07Z “What do such large, loose, baggy monsters, with their queer elements of the accidental and the arbitrary, artistically mean?” What Was “The Good Wife” Really About? 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The autobiographical work of writers such as Cheney and Fry show how the apparently arbitrary cycles of manic depression are never accidental. Bipolar memoirs: What have I done? 2013-04-26T06:30:11Z Perhaps the loss of memory is a little arbitrary in its working, but it is a good device for the display of Mr Belloc's scornful irony. A novel by Hilaire Belloc with twenty-two drawings by G.K. Chesterton 2012-06-05T06:30:00Z In many ways, their work resembled that of modern-day cooking show contestants who are presented a handful of seemingly incompatible ingredients, arbitrary restrictions and a punitive time frame in which to whip up a feast. Review: Donizetti’s ‘La Favorite,’ a Rare Concert Performance in French at Caramoor 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z The poor math skills that seemed at first like an arbitrary character trait were more likely invented to enable that very joke. Review: ‘The House’ Is a Comedy Built on Despair 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z He is threatening to deport millions of undocumented immigrants on vague and arbitrary legal grounds, in the process turning local and state law enforcement into de facto citizenship cops. One small step on the long march to freedom: This weekend, I will not say his name 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z The characters do not break into song so much as adapt their declaiming styles to music when it crops up, which it does in a sometimes arbitrary way. Review: Joan of Arc Is a Young Headbanger in ‘Jeannette’ 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z But she also captures the Chinese state at its most arbitrary and despotic, disregarding the rule of law and international human rights conventions to which it is a signatory. Inside the Documentary ‘Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry’ 2012-07-20T21:04:05Z So its exclusion from the Oscars seems somewhat arbitrary. Arts & Leisure Preview: A Golden Age of Foreign Films, Mostly Unseen 2011-01-27T17:15:40Z Because the sentiment isn’t the problem, the arbitrary age tacked on to it is. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: An age-old question: How to respond to tone-deafness? 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z We must treat these tender emotions as a finite resource, one that should only be doled out for the most deserving reasons though how we measure what deserves our attention is intensely arbitrary. The power of communal grief: Mourning Mandela and beyond 2013-12-06T16:45:00Z One 20th-century English jurist called the Magna Carta “the greatest constitutional document of all times — the foundation of the freedom of the individual against the arbitrary authority of the despot.” Last Chance: Magna Carta at the Morgan Library: Its Birth Was a Royal Pain 2010-05-21T22:51:00Z The book rivals George Orwell’s celebrated essay, “Such, Such Were the Joys,” in its depiction of the arbitrary ruthlessness of English boarding school life. ArtsBeat Blog: Happy Birthday, Roald and James 2011-09-13T20:54:02Z Dale, Nick and Kurt are all stuck in terrible jobs, at the mercy of employers whose power is absolute and arbitrary. | 'Horrible Bosses': A Treatise on Issues of the Workplace. Not. 2011-07-07T16:06:51Z An intense interest in the disquieting operations of arbitrary, rule-based systems makes a certain sense for an African American artist raised into the perversity of the Jim Crow South. Hammer's 'Gridwork' plots Charles Gaines' captivating process 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z By the same token, faith becomes vulnerable to skepticism when it links itself to more or less arbitrary decisions about diet or dress. Screening Room: “Bacon & God’s Wrath” 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z More than once, I put the phone away and walked for 30-minute stretches with no destination in mind, taking arbitrary turns until, somehow, I ended up on the banks of the Saône. Two French Cities, Neither of Them Paris. Which One to Love? 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The show is more faithful to Herron’s novel than you might expect, with the result that the turns in the story can seem arbitrary and be hard to follow. ‘Slow Horses’ Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Failure 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Instead, since Danny doesn't want money but wants a job, Don hires him -- the start of just another arbitrary success story in the highly arbitrary world of advertising. "Mad Men" recap: Cure for the common job 2010-08-30T12:59:00Z They are expertly staged black-and-white studies of family and community, patriotism and the persistence of dignity in the face of arbitrary and dehumanizing injustice. Perspective | If America fails its people again, what will the catastrophe look like? 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z By their past actions—and through the arbitrary fact of having been born in one place rather than another—they have become committed to a view of the world which they are unwilling to revise. Who Is Loving “The Americans”? 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z To answer your question, I can't say what “people” think — but clearly these people do indeed have arbitrary definitions of what parts of others' lives are “real,” and weaponize their RSVPs accordingly. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Teen daughter wants space from parents but is upset when they give her space 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z In other words, Purlie’s strategy hinges on Cotchipee’s inability to differentiate one Black woman from another, and in so doing, the play uses comedy to expose racism as absurd, arbitrary and detrimental to Black life. ‘Purlie Victorious’: Ossie Davis’s ‘Gospel to Humanity’ Returns to Broadway 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z It’s about the invention and execution of concepts that shed light on the arbitrary nature of art itself, and on the absurdities of the society that produces it. ‘Never Look Away’ Review: A Lush Adventure in Sex, Politics and Painting 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Conversely it's delightful because, given the arbitrary nature of the cut-off, I could draw the line at 20. How to learn poetry by heart 2013-01-09T18:04:27Z In the 1980s, the agency introduced a series of ads setting a new arbitrary but authoritative-seeming benchmark: “Isn’t two months’ salary a small price to pay for something that lasts forever?” How Americans Learned to Love Diamonds 2013-05-03T20:08:21Z However, it did make me think of how much of what we eat and drink is dictated by seemingly arbitrary rules. This summer, I finally surrendered to the pumpkin spice creep — and you should, too 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z “We prefer the myth of meritocracy to an arbitrary rule of exclusion.” ‘The Gilded Age’ Finally Arrives on HBO 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z And why the chaplain, a recent convert, admits that her checkered religious history isn’t the only thing that makes her life seem arbitrary. Review: In ‘Mary Jane,’ a Young Mother Faces Her Worst Fears 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Despite his imprisonment, made even more challenging by Russia’s opaque and sometimes arbitrary judicial system, Mr. Serebrennikov is directing a production of Mozart’s “Così Fan Tutte” that is to open here Sunday. Russia Locked Him Up. But He’s Directing an Opera 1,400 Miles Away. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Divisions by genre, format, or mood may be arbitrary. Seeking Genuine Discovery on Music Streaming Services 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z “It is arbitrary considering how many extraordinary performances there have been by women, not only in this room,” she said. Andrea Riseborough Can’t Believe She Was Nominated for an Oscar, Either 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z The massive columns from which they are hung — one of the sticking points for many critics of the project — aren’t just arbitrary concessions to their weight. Frank Gehry’s variations on a theme 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z It’s an arbitrary length of time but it’s a specific date – it’s a specific date that means something to people. ArtsBeat: An Interview With James Cameron 2010-10-19T13:40:00Z A lot of life is arbitrary, so I’m not faulting Picasso. Baltimore loves Matisse. That’s one more reason to love Baltimore. 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z I could join the club but I still wasn’t sure what the appeal of circumnavigating the globe was — of ticking this arbitrary box — versus a lifetime of interesting trips to intriguing or unusual destinations. I Crossed the World 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z I mean the way that the arbitrary injustice of the world, and its cruel divisions — rich and poor, weak and strong — made themselves starkly apparent. Bullied and Shunned, They Found a New Way to See the World 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z The placement of chapter divisions seems as arbitrary as Akomfrah's inert juxtapositions of image and text. 'The Nine Muses': Strange take on migrants' icy reception 2012-02-02T21:10:04Z Their tranquil assurance and the sculptural serendipity of their occasional, seemingly arbitrary, pauses were quietly intriguing if consistently dry. Dance Review: Doug Varone?s Former Dancers, at the 92nd Street Y 2010-03-15T21:39:00Z It's on both sides of the border, which is arbitrary. "Change immigration laws": Linda Ronstadt reflects on her Mexican heritage & music in new film 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Or that a novel so concerned with the arbitrary, impossible nature of storytelling should embrace archives, with their shapeless, indeterminate character, as its scaffolding. Valeria Luiselli Traces the Youngest Casualties of the Border Crisis 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The same habits of mind that produce arbitrary and absurd chains of reasoning also produce the theories that splendidly annihilate our ordinary notions of time and space and logic. Who Can Be Finished With Alice? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Lewin’s screenplay, a forced amalgam of Greek mythology and Germanic seafaring legend, seems deliriously arbitrary at first but is in fact a shrewd assessment of the appeal of its two leading players. DVDs: Mythic Mash-Up in Feverish Color 2010-08-29T02:23:00Z But animal archetypes are not arbitrary; fables can become ludicrous if they mismatch temperament and creature. Exhibition Review: ?In the Company of Animals? Opens at the Morgan Library 2012-03-02T21:47:25Z But he wasn’t satisfied with what he was producing, which seemed too often arbitrary, or inexplicable, even to the artist himself. Art so good it needs a spoiler alert 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z An element so vital that missing it would make the ending of the film seem arbitrary and dishonest and cheap. I missed a crucial moment in Jurassic World. Have I misjudged every movie? | Joe Queenan 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z “Salvation” and Judith Sargent Murray, for their part, believed that the promise of heaven for all presented a more perfect and rational view of God as loving and merciful rather than vengeful and arbitrary. Damnation, American style: How American preachers reinvented hell 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z My body wants food, but my mind wants to meet arbitrary beauty standards. Your phone can't save you now: On Buddhism, technology and the alleged supremacy of the mind 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z “I can’t say that my breaking the rules was so much a protest as just a natural response to something that seemed arbitrary, and not only unfair, but unseemly,” he said, laughing. Percival Everett Has a Book or Three Coming Out 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z The segues between Lim’s chapters seem either arbitrary or linked by a hidden esoteric logic. Review | Eugene Lim’s ‘Search History’ is a pulpish adventure interwoven with meditative moments 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z The book reminds us that evil is not only banal; it is also completely arbitrary. Book Review Podcast: A Rare View of North Korea 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z History suggests that political Oscar speeches are tricky business, easily translating as strident, self-important, or arbitrary. Grading the Oscar Speeches: Patricia Arquette Gets an A+ 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z But that leaves more than 20 docents without an opportunity to volunteer because they can’t commit to the arbitrary minimum of 15 hours a week. Hirshhorn ends docent program, telling volunteers that they are no longer needed Simon Clark of Forest called the proposal "arbitrary, unenforceable and completely illiberal". Doctors vote for ban on UK cigarette sales to those born after 2000 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Even readers who balk at this novel’s arbitrary flourishes will grasp its obsession with technology’s effect on the natural world. Books of The Times: ?The Chemistry of Tears,? a Novel by Peter Carey 2012-05-21T03:47:19Z The members of both groups received treatment based on that one arbitrary quality, the pigmentation of their irises. The Return of Jane Elliott 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Conservatives complained that this so-called deconstruction would render meaning itself arbitrary. Review | In the impeachment spin wars, only the English majors can save us 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z His 100-point scale, while admirable in its effort to weigh contradictory evidence, seems relatively arbitrary. Books of The Times: Crunch the Numbers; Solve a Famous Murder 2011-06-02T21:24:11Z The arbitrary timeframe made me wonder what exactly people were promised. Netflix's pole dance therapy film "Strip Down, Rise Up" exploits trauma & is fixated on male gaze 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z On the day I saw the movie, Sept. 8, 2001, I found it too abrupt and arbitrary. Sex and Power: The Provocative Explorations of Catherine Breillat 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z It's quite arbitrary who gets a halo and who gets horns. Lohan director explains why we hate Lindsay 2010-07-08T15:30:00Z But to reduce the bulk of a tree by cutting the upright main stems to some arbitrary point is harmful to the tree and injurious to the eye. It’s tree-pruning season. Here’s how to do it without resorting to ‘crape murder.’ 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z What might appear to be arbitrary encounters of disparate objects – a fragment of metal grill fencing with a wisp of delicate fabric – accrue a precarious mystique. This week's new exhibitions 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z City of Los Angeles that prohibits arbitrary confiscation of street dwellers’ belongings. What police are doing right (and wrong) with the homeless in downtown L.A. 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Step four: Oh, it's because you transformed your ceiling into a kind of makeshift airport departure board full of arbitrary letters and numbers because you assumed it's the kind of thing that geniuses do. Limitless: Dud is the drug 2010-12-22T17:18:00Z The placement of chapter divisions seems as arbitrary as Mr. Akomfrah’s inert juxtapositions of image and text. | 'The Nine Muses': ?The Nine Muses,? by John Akomfrah - Review 2011-10-05T22:07:26Z "I do not think the motifs on that jacket are arbitrary," says Dubin. Object Lesson: Rare Cree coat a window into America's complex history 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z There is an arbitrary notion where one place ends and another begins.” This Season’s Breakout Star: The Border 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement If this all strikes you as a bit arbitrary, that’s because it is. Review: ‘Pacific’ Is Simon Winchester’s Latest Big-Picture Book 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z It’s a decent idea, but the matching is poor and the clips appear arbitrary. Review: Burt Reynolds Confronts His Past in ‘The Last Movie Star’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z “Così” explores the baffling truth that romance may be more arbitrary than we like to admit. Review: As James Levine Sues, the Met Opera Opens a New ‘Così’ 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Detached from their volume and framed as “Persian miniatures,” book paintings are reduced to an arbitrary construct suiting the desire of collectors unaware of the nature of the art. Auctions: Century-Old Vandalism of Islamic Art, and Its Price 2011-04-15T12:00:27Z Even those who found his tweets vulgar believed that he was being held to a disturbingly vague and arbitrary standard. The Civility Wars 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z It’s also an example of its seemingly arbitrary decisions on when to kill a project. Google Finally Shuts Down Orkut, Its First Social Network 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z The basis of the genre is an arbitrary limitation: Why sing “Wow wow wow” when electric guitars are widely available? How to Follow Your Dreams and Burst Into Song 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z “In a Kerry James Marshall painting, nothing is arbitrary. Everything has been thought through. He is building a picture from the ground up.” For Kerry James Marshall, the mission is clear: Bring portraits of black life into very white art museums 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z He was my friend and was now in prison; everything else seemed arbitrary. My friend, the murderer 2013-05-16T00:00:00Z Part of the problem is the filmmakers never figure out why this particular story needed to be told at this specific moment; it feels at once dutiful and arbitrary. Review: ‘LBJ’ Hides It Light Under a Bushel of Makeup 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Written by Matthew Dabner and Mr. Edgerton’s brother, Joel, it turns a humdrum Down Under backwater into a black hole of haphazard crime and arbitrary punishment. | 'The Square': Sin and Comeuppance in Film Noir From Down Under 2010-04-09T01:45:00Z “I feed into it the fodder, and it spews out reams of paper with these arbitrary combinations of words and phrases,” he said. David Bowie, and His Personas, Will Live On at Victoria and Albert Museum 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Betty represents the female version of this lack of foresight, and as the fourth season develops, the arbitrary nature of her recent decisions starts to become more apparent. "Mad Men": Stillbirth of the American dream 2010-07-17T23:01:00Z The credentials for Bartlett's are admittedly arbitrary: Space concerns, individual tastes and the uncertain definition of the word "familiar" make the book an invaluable excuse for an argument. Obama, Palin and Jobs join Bartlett's club 2012-11-09T18:27:08Z He said rules, self-imposed by the production team themselves, were arbitrary and frequently subject to change. Cross-border S Korean drama overcomes political risks 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z He argued that the suspension, which began Aug. 16, was arbitrary and violated his constitutional rights of free speech and due process. Judge orders White House to restore press pass of reporter involved in confrontation 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z The Wire found an extremely clever way of subverting the normal character arc, by brutally cutting it off at an arbitrary point. John Yorke on why the best screenwriting works 2013-03-15T16:00:03Z Randall Jarrell once praised Moore for not putting on “Poetic airs,” for “her restraint, her lack — her wonderful lack — of arbitrary intensity or violence.” Books of The Times: Stealthy Insights Amid Short Phrases 2010-03-05T00:07:00Z He impulsively believes that he can be a hero again, if he takes some arbitrary action that he can paint as heroic. "Mad Men" finale: Hello darkness, my old friend 2010-10-18T12:38:00Z Mr. Olive’s play captures the surreal, satisfyingly subversive tone of Mr. Sachar’s tales, which, like Roald Dahl’s, often pit resourceful children against an absurd and arbitrary adult world. Spare Times for Children for May 17-23 2013-05-16T22:17:51Z Many of the monarchy's arbitrary powers, such as the ability to wage war, ended up in the hands of the prime minister. The establishment uncovered: how power works in Britain 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z “Which means that law enforcement is not prevented from prosecuting a case because of an arbitrary time period set by law.” Bill Cosby accused of sexual assault by 2 more women, including “Cosby Show” actress 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z In an early paper, an arbitrary threshold was put forward as being indicative of a true infection rather than contamination. 'In pain all the time': will there ever be a cure for chronic, life-changing UTIs? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Relationships dissolve and coalesce in a vague yet predictable fashion that’s probably a function of both the group authorship and the arbitrary, episodic structure. | 'Clear Blue Tuesday': A Post-9/11 Pop Musical 2010-09-02T22:15:00Z The intention was to not be arbitrary in any way. "Captive State" director Rupert Wyatt on sci-fi, commercial failure and the age of Trum 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Bartering for the right to live—for free—within these celebrated walls, Chironi reveals the arbitrary nature of the way space is valued and allocated on a global scale. Cristian Chironi Begins His Project “My House Is a Le Corbusier” 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Worse, the examples seem arbitrary, given the urgency and ubiquity of the film's major theme in contemporary life. 'Payback': Audience is owed a bit more than film delivers 2012-07-19T20:09:04Z Noting that 28 May will be Assange’s 2000th day in captivity and citing a recent UN report that called the UK’s detention of Assange “arbitrary”, she called for his immediate release. Wikileaks staff: Julian Assange would find life no easier under President Clinton 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Projections are not neutral, natural or ‘given’: they are constructed, configured, underpinned by various — and quite arbitrary — conventions. The Mapmaker's Conundrum 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z The House did indeed impeach a Federalist justice, Samuel Chase, for being “highly arbitrary, oppressive and unjust,” but after Marshall testified for Chase, the Senate acquitted him. The Man Who Made the Supreme Court Supreme 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z A reluctant kidnapper flips through a phone book, dials an arbitrary number and dictates a ransom note. We?re Holding Your Plot Device. If You Want It Back, Send Us ... 2011-07-02T01:33:02Z But even as hagiography, “Soros” is unfocused; it races from topic to topic, with clips that seem arbitrary at best. ‘Soros’ Review: A Philanthropist in the Spotlight 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z The order of the hanging is arbitrary, up to the curator, in this case Yasmil Raymond of the Dia Art Foundation, which owns the piece. Art Review: ?Warhol: Headlines? at National Gallery of Art - Review 2011-10-20T22:00:37Z Lucky is the right word because it exposes the arbitrary and deeply flawed nature of how people are valued in capitalist consciousness. I’m not going back to work in restaurants — but only because I have a choice 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z It’s a bit of an arbitrary distinction — there is often more than one “it” song — but this annual exercise is not entirely without its merit. What will be the 2017 song of the summer? Here are the contenders 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z I met the quartet during my October visit, but in arbitrary life, I would not have known their identities unless I had signaled an S.O.S. When Americans land in trouble abroad, these expats step in 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z And the White House's troop commitment was coupled with a pledge to begin bringing them home in July 2011, in what counterinsurgency strategists advising McChrystal regarded as an arbitrary deadline. White House summons US general to explain himself 2010-06-22T12:12:00Z It is because the country is so big that the identities of states – most of them fixed by arbitrary straight lines on a map – have such romance. American Gods by Neil Gaiman 2011-08-26T21:55:09Z “Women’s sizing is arbitrary,” Janice Wang, the chief executive of Alvanon, a Hong Kong company that uses technology to update fit patterns to adapt to contemporary body types, wrote in an email. Toward a Different Language of Size 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z To even begin to list examples is to be hopelessly arbitrary. How Thatcherism politicised the arts in Britain 2013-04-09T10:51:09Z The British Library exhibition will follow the evolution of the Magna Carta from its 1215 roots as a medieval peace treaty to a global statement against the arbitrary use of power. British Library to show Declaration 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z There was a sense in the air not just that we were all equals but that our origin stories were in some way arbitrary, even interchangeable. The Most American Thing 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Just how necessary or arbitrary is the alphabet? ‘A to B via C,’ an Alexandra Bachzetsis Dance Theater Work 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The ruling is "arbitrary", Senatus said, claiming that Jean is a long-time resident – his role as roving ambassador to Haiti simply forced him to spend lots of time abroad. Wyclef Jean cannot appeal against Haiti presidency ruling 2010-08-26T10:47:00Z In my experience, all their anxiety leads to a lot of rules, some sensible, some arbitrary. One upside to the divorce I didn’t want 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z It often seems arbitrary and belligerently so, like the scoring in a comedy panel show. Should Andy Murray receive a knighthood? 2013-07-14T08:09:02Z The thinking: It's arbitrary to pit shows that are essentially eight- to 10-hour movies against open-ended programs that span several seasons. Emmy bids by 'True Detective' and 'Fargo' bend categories 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z In place of spaghetti, he proposed recipes that are as arbitrary and disconcerting as the discombobulated poems he called "words in freedom"; food as subversion, as provocation – and as art. The Experimental Food Society's culinary revolution 2010-09-22T20:59:00Z The children’s reactions to Mia make sense on paper but feel arbitrary and not very authentic on screen. Television Review: ‘Hit & Miss,’ With Chloë Sevigny, on DirecTV 2012-07-10T22:31:12Z It is a terrific film, a study in race and identity and the arbitrary nature of pigmentation. Lupita Nyong’o: ‘Under the makeup, Star Wars is just human wants and desires’ 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Despite their best efforts, the self-consciously arbitrary plot remains glutinously indigestible. Ambitious 'Assassins' at Pico Playhouse can't overcome the show's peculiarities 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Ian Bradley, a church bishop, dismisses his grief, believing “good things are heaven sent and bad things are arbitrary.” Katy Simpson Smith’s ‘The Story of Land and Sea,’ and More 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z As Adja struggles for asylum in Canada, she finds herself at the mercy of paperwork and seemingly arbitrary decisions. My streaming gem: why you should watch And Breathe Normally 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z “One hundred was too conventional and 110 was too round,” she offers in explanation of the seemingly arbitrary number of stops. A mini-tour of Washington sights you’ve probably never noticed 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z For Ms. Siadat, who is based in upstate New York, this involves unlearning previous arbitrary expectations. Welcome to ‘Healing Girl Summer’ 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z Good as the idea might be, the recital, announced early in the book, seems arbitrary and unnecessary, essentially a narrative framing device. ‘The Late Starters Orchestra,’ by Ari L. Goldman Though the program identifies two halves — “Quest for FireWater” and “Led Into Gold” — the overarching structure of “Alchemia” seems arbitrary. Review: Momix Shoots for Astonishment With ‘Alchemia’ 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Because “white” really means “nonblack,” the arbitrary white category is infinitely elastic, capable of being enlarged to include practically anybody who is not clearly of black African descent. Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t say the N-word 2012-06-05T15:45:00Z It was no arbitrary choice, the reader then realizes, to explore images of pouring. Philip Pullman’s ‘Daemon Voices’ Casts an Entrancing Spell 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z As Gekoski makes clear, the idea of repatriating cultural objects to their assumed homeland strikes him not only as arbitrary but potentially impoverishing. Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature by Rick Gekoski – review 2013-06-29T08:00:54Z Compiling a list of the 100 classic reads of the 20th century is more arbitrary and thankless than most. Choose the final classic to digest 2010-10-13T06:00:00Z That 1972 book, which celebrated advertising and apparently arbitrary decoration as legitimately expressive parts of architecture, thereby leading the way into postmodernism, grew, in part, out of a seminar held in Ruscha’s studio. Ed Ruscha’s stunning Sunset Strip art project lets you tour its full length, east to west — and back in time 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Our rule at home is that we don’t entertain any rules that are arbitrary, and “no swearing” is one of them. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Teach kids to ‘code-switch’ at their aunt and uncle’s home 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z And if we weren’t arbitrary about it, but chose a piece that was more like an overture that thematically spelled out the episode to come before the curtain went up, could that work? Damon Lindelof on the ‘Leftovers’ Finale, Mark Linn-Baker and Preserving the Mystery 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z I am an optimistic person, and it makes me appreciate life because of its highly transient and arbitrary nature. Psycho thrillers: five movies that teach us how the mind works 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Top 10 lists are arbitrary things, and this book is on my list because of what it might have been, rather than because of what it is. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z As a woman of her generation, Rachel draws no arbitrary social distinctions. How ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ and My Work Friends Made Me an Honorary Millennial 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Keck clicks on “var” then “mobile” then “applications” and a series of folders appear, each with long, arbitrary titles. Snapchat is secretly storing your photos 2013-05-21T21:47:00Z Beyond the first few, honestly, the rank order is fairly arbitrary and apples-to-oranges. The Top 10 TV Shows of 2014: The Best and the Rest 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z They remind us how arbitrary the mental world we live in is. Sticking the world together with words 2010-07-19T09:22:00Z At times he combined music from incompatible sources, made arbitrary decisions about tempo markings and, in at least two instances, recomposed brief passages. Still Searching For Bruckner?s True Intentions 2011-07-09T04:30:28Z On existential angst: “Pick an arbitrary, stupid goal, become totally involved in it, and pursue it with vigor, and what happens to you in that pursuit is your life.” Remembering Kenny Shopsin, the Irascible Chef-King of Lower Manhattan 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z And without that baggage, we’re left analyzing the music, which again, is fittingly arbitrary. Usher Finds New Sound on Looking 4 Myself 2012-06-15T10:00:56Z On another, somewhat more oblique level, Mr. Bendjelloul acknowledged, “Searching for Sugar Man” can also be interpreted as a meditation on the fickle and arbitrary nature of celebrity and fame. A Film Spotlights the Musician Rodriguez 2012-07-20T15:58:26Z Then, at a seemingly arbitrary moment, it’s all over: She passed. ‘The African Desperate’ Expands the Movies’ Narrow View of the Art World 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z So how do you resolve the question of what is genuinely an "unfolding" of the original vision and what is an arbitrary elaboration that distorts that vision? Christian Beginnings by Geza Vermes - review 2012-07-11T07:00:02Z Information is withheld from viewers in arbitrary and irritating ways simply to goose the suspense. ‘Fortitude’ on Pivot, Murder Mystery in the Arctic 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Yet, all that is changing and for reasons that could be market-driven but also as arbitrary as most else in fashion. At Prada, It’s in With the Old 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Generally, I tried to not just throw in arbitrary digs at people unless they were actually involved in an interaction with Madonna. After 25 Years, How Well Has Madonna’s ‘Truth or Dare’ Aged? 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z “But it is an arbitrary ban. The flatness of the picture plane is no more a truth than was the flatness of the world before Columbus.” Philip Pearlstein, Whose Realist Nudes Revived Portraiture, Dies at 98 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z I wouldn't say this switch-up was necessary – it seems rather arbitrary, really. "Skins'" salacious teen thrills 2011-01-18T16:53:00Z Calling “Refuse the Hour” opera might, itself, seem arbitrary, even though opera is Italian for “works,” and, if anything, this is theater as a display of works. When refusing the hour saves the day 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z The best thing — the most critical, even — about what’s happening on runways is we get to see arbitrary gender divisions breaking down in real time. The End of Gender 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Movement and pulse are ingredients missing from some avant-garde music, whose arbitrary array of sounds can seem frustratingly static. Music Review: For Composers, Bending the Notes for Cunningham 2011-03-21T21:36:32Z This is not to say that “Klinghoffer” is an innocent victim of arbitrary attacks. The Met's Klinghoffer Problem 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z "Aspiration is as good as perspiration," Danny tells Don, but then we see just how much aspiration -- and arbitrary luck -- went into Don's success. "Mad Men" recap: Cure for the common job 2010-08-30T12:59:00Z There was nothing arbitrary about the crispness with which the orchestra wrapped up its thoughts, letting sound deliberately linger in the air. Baltimore Symphony opens Sunday matinee series with a hearty menu of robust classics It’s true that the dividing lines between generations are debated and somewhat arbitrary. How do we know the millennial generation exists? Look at the data 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z As the Aussie absurdist hits transcendent levels of daftness, the gut-busting effort he puts into arbitrary activity is funny in itself. Sam Simmons ? review 2011-08-11T16:55:59Z But, as with so much else with Sleater-Kinney, nothing is arbitrary. How Sleater-Kinney became heroes of rock 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z The pieces don’t build or develop, sections are carelessly joined, endings seem arbitrary. Dance Review: Let a Few Good Ideas Loose, Then Repeat 2011-06-03T22:11:33Z The tracks on “Yeezus” are raw and bumpy, with the arbitrary whims of a studio despot. Music Review: ‘Yeezus,’ Kanye West’s Raw and Jolting New Album 2013-06-16T18:25:47Z The distribution may seem arbitrary as each bag receives a different number and combination, but after years of observing, I've realized that it's dependent on a variety of factors. What exactly is duck sauce? The sticky history of the Chinese-American takeout staple 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z But “The Fortunes” is powerful as a chronicle of perpetual frustration, as each new generation grows aware of the arbitrary line between margin and mainstream. The Anxious, Unfinished Story of Chinese-American Assimilation 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z All awards programs — the Oscars, the Tonys, the Pulitzer Prize — are subject to arbitrary judgments and second-guessing. World’s 50 Best Restaurants to Be Announced Amid Criticism Over Voting 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z He worked with LucasArts, LucasFilm's games arm, when the concept of combining items with one another in seemingly arbitrary combinations to solve ridiculous puzzles was the height of fashion. PAX Australia: Ron Gilbert's advice for games makers 2013-07-20T00:54:46Z We make increasingly arbitrary delineations between physical cheating, emotional cheating, cyber cheating, and so on. Two Real Stories That Will Change Your Mind About Cheating 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Like so many references on “Mad Men” the dual ones to Kansas hardly seemed arbitrary. ‘Mad Men’ and the 1960s as Wild Republican Times 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Episodes from Brown's life, some labeled by year, some not, are put on screen in what plays like completely arbitrary, non-chronological order. 'Get on Up' reaches for high concept instead of getting down 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z He’s ready to fire anyone who disagrees with him or seems at all resistant to his arbitrary demands for change. Perspective | ‘Magnum P.I.,’ ‘Manifest’ and the problem of reviewing fall’s dreadful new shows 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z In interviews, she’s talked about the pressure to fit into an arbitrary binary of “manufactured” pop stars and totally DIY songwriters. Review: Ryn Weaver Won't be Pinned Down on 'The Fool' 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z The most important aspect of parenting is connection, not holding onto arbitrary rules. Perspective | My preteen stepkids are lying about me to their biological mom 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Every year I do my best-TV list in alphabetical order because numbering a bunch of shows that I love for very different reasons feels arbitrary and dishonest. Best TV Shows of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z They arrive in the arbitrary increments of 10 or 50 or 100 years, with no natural correspondence to larger social forces. No closure after Appomattox 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z But now, I was the one whose fate was subject to the whims of arbitrary justice. I’m an American Jew. Palestinians tried to kidnap me. Then we became friends 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z None of these decisions are terrible, but they all seem arbitrary. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1, Episode 3: Rock Star Karaoke 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z It’s both the sound of life, and a signal of abrupt and arbitrary death. Review: The Unspeakable Pain of an African-American Afterlife 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z It's like being at a very strange dinner party with an arbitrary collection of people, none of whom seem to know the host. Ricky Gervais's ballad of Reading jail 2010-04-08T21:00:00Z And then there's the way he will join separate pieces of the body together in almost arbitrary fashion. Henry Moore talks about Rodin's irresistible influence – from the archive 2013-03-23T07:59:02Z The extraordinary thing is how these apparently arbitrary events — conflated, juxtaposed, left in isolation — gradually accrue to create a specific world. A Pina Bausch Revival at Tanztheater Wuppertal 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z But as our actions on the floor had no discernible effect on the action of the production, these trading sequences came to seem arbitrary. ‘Trade Practices,’ a Collaborative Show With Funny Money 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z It called the White House’s policy “an arbitrary restraint and unwarranted interference in legitimate news-gathering activities.” Propaganda or news: Should media publish government’s child-detention photos? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z But there are exceptions, and enforcement can be spotty or arbitrary. Cannabis cleanse? Why big tech is giving pot businesses the boot 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Replacing the potatoes with parsnips may seem arbitrary, but the result is sweeter, earthier and more fragrant. A January Menu That Comforts and Restores 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Winnowing these treasures down to five — the assignment here for three critics for The New York Times — is a pleasant, invigorating yet implicitly arbitrary endeavor. Landscapes and Still Lifes of New Territories 2010-12-30T23:01:02Z Its structure, however, is arbitrary: according to the program notes, the piece is constructed from movement phrases that are performed in a specific order. Dance Review: Evolving Movements That Flow Through Time and Into Infinity 2010-10-12T21:40:00Z The assertions drew a rebuttal from Boutrous, CNN’s attorney, who described the ban on the reporter as arbitrary, capricious and unprecedented. Judge hands CNN a victory in its bid to restore Jim Acosta’s White House press pass 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z However current the issues of income inequality, a living wage and an arbitrary criminal justice system may be, “Within the Law” reminds us that they have long been fodder for popular entertainment. ‘Within the Law’ Is a Revival Focusing on Social Justice 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z “Danti was precise, there is nothing arbitrary” to the layout, she said. At the Vatican, a Newly Refreshed Snapshot of Italy, Circa 1580 1465-11-10T05:00:00Z We're never ones to shy away from arbitrary, unwinnable and ultimately pointless debates on guardian.co.uk/music, chiefly because we find them immensely fun. Open thread: which was the best decade for music? 2012-07-09T15:44:00Z In the hands of a lesser crime writer, the zigzagging cross-country path that “The Informant” takes might seem arbitrary and forced. Books of The Times: Hired Killer, Forced Out of Retirement, Says Hello Again to an Old Adversary 2011-05-04T22:28:57Z True, the classical Grammys are not much more than an arbitrary popularity contest among the nominees, in which voters tend to stick to what they’ve chosen before. Perspective | Orchestras don’t get record deals any more. The Grammys show a silver lining. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Readers responded: They found this arbitrary, arrogant, pedantic and just plain wrong. Gene Weingarten: How do you tell Snap, Crackle and Pop apart? Who cares? 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z “No work was actually completed. Only arbitrary deadlines for catalogs or exhibitions caused him to allow the work to leave his domain and control.” David Aronson, Expressionist Artist, Dies at 91 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z The maritime theme is somewhat arbitrary, but that’s half the point. ‘Cosima von Bonin,’ Swimming Against the Tide 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Though autobiographical in style and substance, it is almost indistinguishable from his stories, in keeping with Mr. Salter’s often-stated refusal to believe in the “arbitrary separation” of fact and fiction. James Salter, a ‘Writer’s Writer’ Short on Sales but Long on Acclaim, Dies at 90 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z There are some writers who, for completely arbitrary reasons, pass from a period of renown almost directly into obscurity. Thomas Berger’s Egoless Fictions 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Many segments seem amorphous, squeezing variations from an already squeezed-out idea, with exits and endings that are arbitrary or baffling. Only Connect: Finding a Way Into Kinetic Light’s ‘Wired’ 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z And yet, as visually impressive and meticulously designed as "Inception" is, it occasionally gets bogged down by exposition, arbitrary rules and plot inconsistencies. 'Inside Out,' 'The Matrix' and more: Ranking cinema's notable head trips 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The next day would be our first Valentine’s Day together as parents, a fact to which I’d been assigning increasing – and arbitrary – meaning. After giving birth to my first child, I wondered: would I ever want sex again? 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z But beyond that, I think there’s a value to setting a difficult, arbitrary limit. The Year Is Ending: What?s On Your List? 2011-11-18T17:19:05Z I wanted to do justice to this richness, and also, when starting the book I could not identify some arbitrary point when travel literature “in the normal sense” was born. ArtsBeat: Peter Whitfield Talks About the History of Travel Literature 2012-03-14T14:30:34Z Cohaagen is a delectable villain for Schwarzenegger to knock off, but he’s not an evil genius with some generic or arbitrary plans to be unraveled. Total Recall at 30: a thrilling reminder of Paul Verhoeven at his best 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z But jarringly, what begins as an amiable record of a woman in the full flush of success soon takes sharp, seemingly arbitrary turns for the vulnerable. Television Review: ‘Kesha: My Crazy Beautiful Life,’ a Documentary on MTV 2013-04-22T21:45:35Z As an editor, however, it is of the prissy, arbitrary, rule-besotted sort whom good writers want to kill. Gene takes Grammarly to school 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Upon a bit of reflection before writing and recording “The Most Lamentable Tragedy,” Stickles realized he’d even created these sorts of arbitrary statutes for himself. “It’s OK to always be a loser”: Patrick Stickles reveals the secrets of Titus Andronicus 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Ms. Cojocaru was her radiant, transcendently lyrical self in the Rose Adagio, but without the context of the full ballet, the excerpt felt entirely arbitrary. Dance Review: Couples? Affair, Business Edition 2011-05-17T23:40:15Z Many more people realize, as Havel did, that arbitrary and inhuman power cannot deprive them of the inner freedom to make moral choices, and to make human community meaningful. Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z What is time, anyway, other than an arbitrary human construct that happened to, in this instance, align in a way that’s appealing to the pattern-recognition parts of our brains? Here comes Tuesday, 2-22-22, a.k.a. Twosday. (It can mean anything you want it two.) 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z “Right now, it’s arbitrary where they’ll say a product is or isn’t allowed in a way that we think has really sexist undertones and a lack of understanding about health,” Ms. Rotman said. Why Did Facebook Reject These Ads? 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Well, sort of, since what is being discussed here renders all dividing lines arbitrary and inadequate. Review: ‘Dana H.’ Maps a Harrowing Journey Into Hell 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Such is the humble lot of composers in Hollywood: they enter the creative process late, they write on dire deadlines, and they grapple with all manner of vague or arbitrary demands. Composing for Hollywood 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The symbolic elision of Wally's volatility with the arbitrary ferocity of nature sits awkwardly with the work's realistic psychology. La Wally ? review 2011-08-01T17:35:37Z But the “line” of plot upon which Godard hangs his inspirations isn’t arbitrary or incidental. The Book That Reinvented Hitchcock 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z “I wanted them to feel the murderous heat and arbitrary death and relentless absurdity that came with my job,” Brody writes. “Relentless Absurdity”: An Army Photographer’s Censored Images 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z As the lights faded and the song reached its conclusion, its cutoff suggested an arbitrary ending, that it could have lasted forever. At 80, Meredith Monk Is Still Seeking Ways to Communicate 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z Levy discovers she is not exempted from certain hard truths: Fate is arbitrary and beyond our control. A Memoir of Motherhood Lost 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z And as the piece proceeds, it’s clear that however arbitrary the sources of movement and action, there is nothing unrehearsed about them. Dance Review: Spontaneity, Nudity and Absurdity: It Is What It Is 2011-03-25T22:43:59Z He called the arrest “arbitrary” and said the agency did not conduct a medical examination to show he had consumed drugs. Bollywood superstar’s son walks out from jail in drugs case 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z While curious individually, the work’s many elements, cobbled together, amount to an arbitrary sequence of events. Sandbaths, a Huge Butterfly Net and More Choreographed Whimsy 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Such hectic inventiveness is not without its downsides, as when the constant push to up the voltage turns the Why of plot and character into an arbitrary Why Not? Stories That Look Askance at the American Midwest 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Previously, the country was under a Level 2 warning due to “arbitrary enforcement of local laws and special restrictions on dual U.S.-Chinese citizens.” US State Department updates language of China travel advisory amid coronavirus outbreak 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z As the multi-pierced floor manager at the Austin independent bookstore BookPeople, Farr spent the run-up to New Year’s Day chiding his younger employees about their planned lifestyle changes pinned to an arbitrary date. She makes a tiny chair, he eats a taco, she braids a lock. Every. Single. Day. 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z This disproportionate consequence is like the shouting of angry gods: nothing is arbitrary, nothing is an accident, you will reap what you sow! “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z Dazzling and unsettling the residents with his arbitrary rules and pronouncements about how the world works, Abraham speaks in portentous aphorisms and exhibits a growing paranoia. She Got Away With Murder, but Now the Past Is at Her Doorstep 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z While photographing the tower being built, Rose wrote, he was sometimes confronted by guards “who enforced an arbitrary ban on my view camera even as dozens of tourists snapped pictures around me.” When the Twin Towers Quietly Commanded the New York Skyline 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z And “Them Bones,” the Alice in Chains song, seemed an arbitrary jolt of in-your-face intensity. Review: ‘The Reef’ Speaks in the Tongue of a Chamber Orchestra 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z The modernist aspects of it include the refusal to accept the arbitrary divisions of chapters and line breaks. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z That reminds us that language is an imperfect, and sometimes even arbitrary, means of representing the world. In the galleries: Brick by brick, a dark history emerges 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z But the rule change governing the White House frontage is arbitrary, unnecessary and deeply troubling. Perspective | How the Park Service plans to help Trump keep protesters off his lawn 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z This year my daughter turned two and I turned thirty, which is arbitrary, really, but still feels like a big deal. I was raped — and now I can finally say it 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z "Will is so deceptively all-American handsome, but his taste in comedy is so wonderfully weird and unafraid to be arbitrary, dark or occasionally even filthy," Fey said in an e-mail. A dramatic turn for Will Forte, sans celery 2013-04-23T15:33:11Z The other thing that struck me," Mackenzie adds, "was that it was festooned with expression marks, which just seemed arbitrary and meaningless. Iamus, classical music's computer composer, live from Malaga 2012-07-01T11:56:51Z The ability to associate online with those we find most stimulating would lead to truer bonds than real world relationships determined by arbitrary variables of proximity and social class. When the Internet was for strangers 2013-02-17T17:00:00Z After all, we can’t ever fully explain a world that often seems cruel and arbitrary. Theater Review: Conor McPherson’s ‘The Night Alive,’ With Ciaran Hinds 2013-12-13T03:00:09Z Many a densely written book has been devoted to Benjy’s way with words, which is a lot less arbitrary than it seems. Review: ‘The Sound and the Fury,’ Elevator Repair Service’s Take on Faulkner 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z And they’re generally racing against an arbitrary deadline, never a good thing for this type of show. Television Review: ‘Owner’s Manual,’ a Reality Show, Makes Its Debut on AMC 2013-08-14T23:04:16Z But it’s become a self-evident truth that the correlation between Oscars and actual merit is arbitrary at best. ?Next to Normal,? Drama Pulitzer Winner, Is in Some Way 2010-04-13T21:11:00Z The State Department issued an updated travel advisory for China Thursday, warning Americans to "Exercise increased caution ... due to arbitrary enforcement of local laws as well as special restrictions on dual U.S.-Chinese nationals." State Department issues new China travel warning 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Nick Paolucci, a spokesman for the city’s Law Department, said he was pleased that the appellate court agreed that the board’s “determination regarding the development of this historic site was proper, rational and not arbitrary.” Appeals Court Backs Landmarks Commission on House Used for Underground Railroad 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Then he cut to 2008 footage of then-candidate Obama promising to "set an example that the law is not subject to the whims of sudden rulers, and that justice is not arbitrary." Jon Stewart was born to bash Obama 2010-06-22T18:25:00Z In the book’s introduction, he playfully composes an Ode to Futility, writing: “Good stuff was left out due to arbitrary circumstance, your editor meant well but probably shouldn’t be trusted on critical matters of judgment.” For ‘Best American Comics,’ Scott McCloud proves a gifted showman for today’s artists The ad hoc, arbitrary, week-in-week-out sampling of stories and pictures must add up to something, right? Film: The Cinematic State of Things 2010-12-16T19:28:34Z Untethered by style, medium or geography, such ventures can seem both arbitrary and amorphous. Postwar Art Gets a Nervy Makeover 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The graphics are just arbitrary, so don’t worry about that,’ ” Lantz said, on a podcast. The Unexpected Philosophical Depths of Clicker Games 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z It also means that once again I refuse to number my list, because once you approach the summit of the peak, the differences among most of the lead climbers are arbitrary. Best TV Shows of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z There are so many somewhat arbitrary rules here that sometimes I found myself stubbornly resisting Mitchell’s advice. Among the Vulgarians 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Backed by the music director Greg Jarrett on the piano, the five actors in this York Theater production step up to the plate in a seemingly arbitrary order. Review: Five Pieces From ‘Nine,’ and Plenty More From Its Composer 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z But these new songs don’t feel arbitrary when they warp or convolute. Playlist: New CDs From Blk Jks, Deer Tick, Dr. Lonnie Smith 2010-06-04T20:27:00Z You have to swallow, every day, that you are a secondary being whose worth is measured by an arbitrary, impossible standard administered by men. The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed it for a long time and let it shrink my life 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Such arbitrary, unilluminating comparisons could be drawn between any real person and any number of fictional characters. Books of The Times: ?Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life,? by Ann Beattie - Review 2011-12-12T22:55:42Z Since television was invented, scripted dramas and comedies have pitted striving humans against an arbitrary universe for entire seasons without saying as much as is conveyed in 10 minutes of this show. Television Review: ‘Killer Karaoke’ and ‘Wives With Knives’ on Cable 2012-11-21T15:00:00Z Although the rule itself might seem arbitrary, obeying it signals to your dining companion that you respect his culture, an invaluable skill in business dealings. Why Table Manners Still Matter 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The attractiveness of facial hair is a divisive and seemingly arbitrary preference. Sorry guys! New study says you may want to rethink your beard 2014-04-16T22:30:00Z After removing the leaves, he takes a tree saw to the main stem, cutting it at an arbitrary six feet or so above the roots, and then digs it up with a shovel. The banana plant went gangbusters. Now what? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z For the first time it’s possible to discover the design choices behind what had long seemed the garish and arbitrary production design of “No Business.” DVD: Marilyn Monroe, Lushly Rendered 2012-08-03T16:00:00Z This is a deliberate stylistic choice — but it’s also exasperating, even allowing for the fact that Theo is meant to be an exasperating character, an Everyman whose motivations are arbitrary and haphazard. Heart-Hammering Science Fiction and Fantasy Thrillers 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Instead, I thought I’d take you along for what is necessarily a somewhat arbitrary ride. Diary of a Cruise Season 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z And yet many of the references are hermetic, and perhaps entirely arbitrary. Man Ray inserts the human factor into the equation 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Rose Bay was really just an arbitrary destination; there is an entire network of ferry lines to explore. A $1,000 Day in Sydney for $100 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z They would see it as a "gift", not an arbitrary retelling of history, but one that helps us to develop truthfully. The Book of Genesis, part 8: Why this story? 2011-01-31T10:00:00Z In this context, where tidiness and sense-making are the worst of all vices, "arbitrary" and "meaningless" are terms of praise. The Guardians: An Elegy by Sarah Manguso – review 2012-07-06T21:55:15Z Sam’s violence is cruel, sudden, arbitrary and meaningless. 'Bloody' Sam Peckinpah: wasted, insane and indestructibly pure 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z It wasn’t like she’d invented arbitrary reasons to corral her music into categories; developing her taste as an introspective Black listener and musician, she’d noticed that some genres are marked, and marketed, as white domains. Amythyst Kiah Found Her Powerful Voice. Now She Has a Sound to Match It. 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Each was disrupted by a thick, arbitrary line of color running edge to edge. Jennifer Bartlett, Conceptual Painter on a Vast Scale, Dies at 81 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Berie remains passive, never questioning the leader’s arbitrary or cruel directives, and even taking his lies and hypocrisies in stride. ‘The Ash Family’ Is a Debut Novel for Our Climate-Anxious Age 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z “Girls Like Us” was nostalgic and likable enough to get away with its arbitrary casting. ‘The News Sorority’ Links Sawyer, Couric and Amanpour 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z The changes you describe stem from awareness that, when anger and blame are in charge, consequences for misbehavior tend to be arbitrary, dehumanizing and often more costly to us all than the misbehavior itself. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Does personal accountability still exist? 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Should you ever encounter a person who smells as if they don’t cross an arbitrary earnings threshold, do the right thing and jettison them from your life. Trust your nose: what rich people can learn from Parasite 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Planning for the future during early quarantine meant imagining arbitrary dates when normality would return. Leave It in ‘Early Quar’? 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z “It felt very arbitrary,” she said of the attention on her looks. Brooke Shields is just getting started 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z If you scroll through the Life in Hell archive, stopping on random strips to read arbitrary panels, you’ll see what I mean. Why Matt Groening's new adult fantasy Disenchantment will find the fun side of hell 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z The dialogue of their argument is taken from Leonowens' memoirs, but in real life Mongkut was not just being petulant and arbitrary, as he appears in the film. The King and I: the all-singing, all-dancing harem whitewash 2010-04-15T07:58:00Z A lot of my early exposure is based on the fairly arbitrary fact that one person happened to like my work. What every writer needs to succeed 2014-02-27T23:59:00Z However, saying generations don’t exist because the birth year cutoffs are arbitrary is like saying that teenagers don’t exist because the age cutoffs are arbitrary. How do we know the millennial generation exists? Look at the data 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Which is to say that Trump’s habit of banning news outlets isn’t just unprecedented for a presidential candidate — it also seems entirely arbitrary. No, there’s no rhyme or reason to Trump’s ban on news organizations 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z His set, like his six-decade-long career, was a reminder that the walls that divide spiritual music, popular music and art music can often be arbitrary. Solange Curates Powerful Performances of Black Joy and Pain at BAM 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Last week, Taylor focused on what might politely be called old-school methods employed by the United States and the west: arbitrary detention, secret prisons, outright torture. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-03-21T08:00:02Z The curfew was a period of fear, bad advice, arbitrary searches, intimidation and the nastiness common in most civil unrest, people taking advantage of chaos to settle scores. Paul Theroux Recalls a Fear-Filled Lockdown 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z His presence and participation had much more meaning than whatever service a strange and arbitrary “man of the cloth” could provide. Engagement season panic sets in: Before you plan a big expensive traditional wedding, read this 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Some of the listings seem a bit arbitrary. Expedia Opens Gay Travel Store 2010-05-20T18:13:00Z The arbitrary circling about of the main characters to delay a prophesied meeting. Review: Netflix Sends ‘The Witcher’ Into the Fantasy Fray 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z All of which turns the films’ surface hilarity into something stressful, arbitrary and relentless. Review | Art’s sharpest social commentators since Andy Warhol reveal the state we’re all in 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z The choices made, the rights advocated, the causes honored, become so sweeping they start to seem arbitrary. National Center for Civil and Human Rights Opens in Atlanta 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z I love that you put “good girl” in scare quotes, because your novel so powerfully depicts the consequences of imposing these arbitrary labels. Intense girlhood friendships are “excellent practice for surviving the heartbreak … of future love affairs” 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z And yet the Christmas association of The Great Escape is not entirely arbitrary. The Santa supremacy: Peter Bradshaw's top Christmas movies 2010-12-15T21:30:07Z At first, the arbitrary deadline annoyed me, but after living together for two years and working through the death of her mother, I really am taking the thought seriously. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She wants a big rock, leaving him in a hard place 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z He explained that in Mr. Sorey’s hands, seemingly arbitrary rearrangements can actually make a performance more electric. Is It Jazz? Improvisation? Tyshawn Sorey Is Obliterating the Lines 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z This shrugging off of arbitrary brutality strikes Shepard as truer to the way gangsters actually behave, and he draws analogies with the politics of the day, especially the George W. Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq. Review | Films that offer a surprising reflection of U.S. foreign policy 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z The two succeeding episodes—on “History’s Worst Medical Advice” and “The Drug That Changed the World”—match the première in being rather shallow and arbitrary. Craig Ferguson’s History Show, “Join or Die” 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Only one female character, the virgin-goddess Diana, is depicted as assertive and commanding, but her actions are arbitrary and cruel. Can We Ever Look at Titian’s Paintings the Same Way Again? 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z We know that love is an irrational collision of pheromones and feelings, an arbitrary emotional reaction to another human being. I can’t come to terms with my boyfriend’s female friendships | Dear Mariella 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z The galleries dominated by postwar American art are the most confused and arbitrary, but they also roil with different sensibilities. Crystal Bridges, the Art Museum Walmart Money Built ? Review 2011-12-26T15:29:45Z The regulations—where picking is allowed, how much, and what documentation is required—strike the hunters as totally arbitrary. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z The arbitrary segregation is presumably a reference to the political forces that divide populations, sometimes families, through obscure or meaningless rules. Dance Review: YelleB Dance Ensemble at the Joyce SoHo 2010-05-28T21:57:00Z It’s sad how long I believed stories based on arbitrary physical objects that my daddy fished out from his past and plunked down into my present, like that shirt. Sacred Carnality 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Critic's view: "The gut-busting effort he puts into arbitrary activity is funny in itself." Edinburgh comedy award 2011 shortlist: who's who? 2011-08-24T16:28:03Z For weeks, he’s been calling the polls “arbitrary” and “irrelevant.” For Santorum and others not in top 10, grin and bear it. (And be a little bitter.) 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The film renders their ethnicities completely arbitrary, yet it never offers an alternative explanation for the overwhelming sense of alienation they seem to experience. Clarity, cohesion elude 'Strongest Man' 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Friendly online exchanges turn chilly when hosts see guests’ faces; they are subjected to arbitrary rules or false accusations. Black Travelers Say Home-Share Hosts Discriminate, and a New Airbnb Report Agrees 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z It was improvisational but not arbitrary; there was seriousness behind the sneer. Music Review: At Terminal 5, Public Image Ltd. Rages Anew 2010-05-19T22:32:00Z Sure, it’s a little arbitrary to consider that if Lucy, who describes herself as “nearly 18,” were already 18, the whole thing would be far less of an event. James Franco’s oddest stunt yet 2014-04-04T18:55:00Z Women who don’t adhere to arbitrary and often extreme standards of sexual behavior are also fully capable of being confident, intelligent and deeply moral. If the “C-Word” fits, let’s embrace it: Women don’t need to be sheltered from this one powerful insult 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Republicanism was often used to describe a language of dissent – aimed at arbitrary government, against political corruption or anyone who put their own interest before that of the public. 'There is now a republican movement': anti-royal campaigners get organised 2013-07-19T17:59:00Z Watching an episode of Family Guy is like watching an episode of The Simpsons where all the heart and sincerity have been boiled away, leaving a twitching mess of arbitrary cultural references. The Simpsons is debasing itself with a Family Guy crossover episode 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z It faded at last, at an arbitrary moment, into “Don’t Stop Believing,” our national herald of the inevitable ill, valedictory moment in an American night. A Dark Night at the Javits Center 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z It’s the polar opposite of generic or arbitrary and the result is as unique as a signature or a fingerprint. Critic’s Notebook: Soderbergh Explores a New Medium 2013-05-01T21:34:35Z The first explanation is the most obvious, but it's also the easiest to ignore or fix given how arbitrary it is: Benedict being queer doesn't align with the character's storyline in the books. Why “Bridgerton” probably won't make Benedict queer (but should) 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z "Lena really doesn't ever write a sex scene or nudity that doesn't have a point in the story - we're never going to have a sex scene that's arbitrary," says Mamet. Girls wants 'to normalise sex on TV' 2014-01-20T07:24:21Z But Liszt had chosen deliberately: His recitals would offer not just an arbitrary mixture of scores but also, as with literary readings, a program with larger thematic threads, musical resonances and even personal significance. Two Pianists, Two Recitals, Two Deeply Personal Statements 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z It added the current "arbitrary" rule banning children under 14 from taking part in certain performances should be scrapped "as soon as practicable", instead recommending a range of protection appropriate to different ages. Child worker laws 'need relaxing' 2010-03-19T17:05:00Z Sick and tired of waiting until an arbitrary afternoon hour to devour your favorite Hostess treats sans judgment? Cereals inspired by Hostess Donettes and Honey Buns coming from Post in January 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z That the storyteller is a paranoid schizophrenic Native American who retreats into imaginary fog every time the chaos hits the Combine isn’t arbitrary or insignificant. Eli Gottlieb’s ‘Best Boy’ 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z I’m not aware of that, beyond having called on some of the brisker, even arbitrary narrative conventions of film, though I know both of these references and recall the pleasure of their hurtling story lines. This Week in Fiction: Thomas McGuane 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z His installations and sculptures rejoice in the arbitrary beauty of the modern world. Van Gogh's true colours exposed – the week in art 2013-05-03T11:35:59Z In later footage of the gig, none of the standups draw on these arbitrary tasks. Show Me the Funny ? and the unfunny 2011-07-18T13:38:39Z Graphical coups tend to push out psychological, found-footage and other adventures in perception, and the short shrift given to certain voices is puzzling and arbitrary. Movie Review: ‘Free Radicals,’ by Pip Chodorov, on Experimental Film 2012-08-02T20:51:21Z But that minimalism serves as an excuse for an irritating lack of narrative clarity, so that much of what happens seems arbitrary rather than haunting. ‘The Rover,’ a Drama With Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Its classicism showed, as Stravinsky wrote in his “An Autobiography,” “the triumph of rule over the arbitrary” and “the perfect expression of the Apollonian principle.” Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty,’ Reawakened by American Ballet Theater 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z But when you lose HQ — which the vast majority of players do the vast majority of the time — it often seems arbitrary and unfair, the fault of the unskilled question writers or the unsophisticated technology. How HQ Trivia Became the Best Worst Thing on the Internet 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z The last months of savage and arbitrary repression are presented more or less in caricature, almost at times as farce. Carry on up the Kremlin: how The Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with the truth 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Whose daily life is encumbered, in a hundred arbitrary ways, because the world is not set up for them. Perspective | Cynthia Nixon asked to turn down the AC. It isn’t silly. It’s symbolic. 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Its arbitrary and conspicuous omissions do the larger church little service, for it aligns the show, and the museum, with the dogmatic tradition of Catholicism rather than its rich, exuberant and open intellectual tradition. ‘Picturing Mary’: Filled with highlights but flawed in its omissions Sometimes all the comedies are kind of bummers or many dramas are quite snappy; sometimes the length distinction feels arbitrary at best. Emmys: Our Critics on ‘Beef,’ ‘Succession’ and Category Confusion 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z According to Dr. Silich, “it’s the most arbitrary thing in the world.” My boobs, my burden 2014-02-24T01:00:00Z Angelos is a remarkable character – part idiot child, part grumpy old man – who exists in a self-contained universe governed by seemingly arbitrary and yet very strict rules. This week's new comedy 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z The contest intentionally lacks meaningful rewards, an obvious metaphor for life’s arbitrary stakes. ‘Stanleyville’ Review: The Most Senseless Game 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z As a linguist who argues against arbitrary policing of language, I’ve found this a tough nut to crack. 2015 in language: “We can get up in each other’s faces so easily” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z He's unsure if his next album will simply be as himself: "It just seems kind of arbitrary to be like: This is a James Murphy record, not an LCD Soundsystem record." In concert film, a last waltz for LCD Soundsystem 2012-07-17T15:19:13Z Still, somehow those who judge and seek to shame such women ridiculously expect that at the arbitrary age of 18, naiveté instantly transforms into experience. Real “spring breakers” don’t have happy endings 2013-03-29T16:01:00Z Presumably intended as a compliment, this erasure of Boulogne’s name not only subjugates him to an arbitrary white standard, but also diminishes his truly unique place in Western classical music history. His Name Is Joseph Boulogne, Not ‘Black Mozart’ 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z So while they ask for your advice or help solving problems, they accept these directives for what they are: arbitrary suggestions. Reviews: Tomodachi Life; Divinity: Original Sin; Shovel Knight; and Civilization: Revolution 2 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Murray’s ideas about the arbitrary nature of those categories were so far ahead of the times, they were dismissed or ignored. Pauli Murray should have been a civil rights icon. Now Murray’s moment has finally come. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z 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 The renewed interest in Ms. Kruger — also demonstrated by the book publisher Rizzoli’s recent release of a comprehensive monograph — seems to her “arbitrary on a certain level,” she said. Resurgent Agitprop in Capital Letters 2010-08-29T02:30:00Z This Metropolitan Playhouse revival of Bayard Veiller’s 1912 play reminds us that income inequality, living wages and an arbitrary criminal justice system have long been fodder for popular entertainment. Theater Listings for June 27-July 3 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z “Paranormal Postcards” is part travel log, part investigation into the often arbitrary ways we classify and categorize information. Nina Katchadourian’s Eccentric Existentialism 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z As we move through the building, it becomes clear that the layout is frozen at an arbitrary moment in time. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z All the same, as Mr. Manguel writes elsewhere in his book, “all classifications are ultimately arbitrary.” Seeking Genuine Discovery on Music Streaming Services 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z “Anniversaries” does not have a robust theory of history, any more than a time line does: Mecklenburg’s fate is both inevitable and arbitrary. A New Translation of an Anti-Heroic German Doorstopper of 1968 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Quotation marks are apparently used around words they’re more sure of, but there’s a seemingly arbitrary pattern to the way those marks are used and not used even within the same brief conversations. Bob Woodward Extends His Trump Chronicles With the Chaotic Transfer of Power 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The Almeida is a far smaller venue, but Mr. Dillane’s performance is no less eccentric, juggling apparently arbitrary shifts in volume with the sense that he is vaguely disengaged from the event. On the London Stage: It's Judy's World and Welcome to It 2010-12-01T08:00:00Z Some of the edits were made for clear ideological reasons; others seem arbitrary and self-defeating. Dvdsdave Kehr: It?s Overlords vs. Lower Depths in a Future City 2010-11-20T19:15:00Z Provea, which documents arbitrary detentions of the opposition and extrajudicial killings, is an old enemy of Maduro’s government, which accuses it of being “financed by the empire.” Reviving Venezuelan Punk, the Music of Revolution 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z As well as the farcical cat-and-mouse chase, the episode also included a postmodern deconstruction of “the club”, with its arbitrary rules, VIP area etiquette and wristband color-coding system. Atlanta: Donald Glover's show is the smartest – and funniest – on TV 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z That response effectively forced Arena Pharmaceuticals to “disprove a negative” by a statistical standard that the FDA itself called “arbitrary.” Two Ideas That Will Turbocharge the FDA, Part I 2011-11-09T13:21:40Z They feel arbitrary and aesthetic, with no particular connection — sincere or ironic — to Ravel’s “Bolero,” which starts up a few minutes into the piece. Dance Review: Leafy Carpets of Laughter, Hints of Wartime and a Quirky Coltrane Score 2010-10-04T21:11:00Z “The SAT was thought to democratize and objectify what would otherwise have been a chaotic and arbitrary process of selection open to favoritism and corruption,” he says. Books of The Times: Application Adventure: A Dad?s College Essay 2011-03-03T16:59:43Z One of the peculiarities of sports is that the rules are arbitrary, but they nonetheless inspire a vast set of conventions and of emotional investments. “High Flying Bird,” Reviewed: Steven Soderbergh’s Boldly Creative Look at the Politics of Sports 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Famm’s brief adds that the way mandatory minimum laws shift discretion in sentencing away from the “independent judiciary … can lead to arbitrary, capricious and unfair sentences”. Supreme court considers taking case of veteran given life in jail for growing pot 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Q. You’ve questioned the arbitrary divide between genre fiction and literary fiction in the past. Stephen King, Not Just the Guy Who Makes Monsters 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z But all defy aesthetic expectations rooted in the arbitrary categories of race and gender. Review | They’re women, they’re black and they don’t make art about that 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z The 52 drawings here are executed in photo-realist detail from a series of photographs selected according to a strict yet seemingly arbitrary game plan. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-29T23:10:59Z But it is also possible that practices and attitudes now widely taken as natural will look arbitrary and cruel to future generations, and that the future will arrive sooner than many of us expect. Review: In ‘Unlocking the Cage,’ a Struggle to Raise the Legal Status of Chimpanzees 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The merchants prospered, not the farmers, who were often subject to arbitrary price changes or decisions not to buy grapes at all, if the merchants decided the market warranted such a drastic step. A Farewell to Becky Wasserman, a Great Sage of Burgundy 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z It was an arbitrary and, I think, not tremendous choice.” Postscript: James Salter, 1925-2015 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z Hebron is hardly the only one to face the arbitrary hand of social media moderators. Social media have become a vital tool for artists — but are they good for art? 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Completed by Feyder when Ravel fell ill, this fascinating little film that seems quintessentially French in the way it poses a perfectly arbitrary formal challenge, and answers it with elegance and ease. DVD: At Gaumont in France When All Was Possible 2011-04-22T23:43:02Z The minute-long time frame runs the risk of seeming arbitrary, or shallow. Tierra Whack Stretches the Limits of One-Minute Songs 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Republican lawmakers, who recently sued the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to end the mask mandate for air travel, call the rule “arbitrary.” What’s the deal with masks on planes? 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z |
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