| 单词 | specificity |
| 例句 | “Gee, I hope we find it. Loving the specificity too.'’ Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Milkman used to wonder at her specificity and her acquisitiveness until he reminded himself that Pilate and Reba celebrated no holidays. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She refers to things she could not know with uncanny specificity. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In a way, it is the most unbiologic of all phenomena, violating the most fundamental myth of the last century, for it denies the importance of specificity, integrity, and separateness in living things. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He envied her the specificity of her task, so unlike the elusive nature of his. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z It is not surprising that the history of science is a problematic activity, because science itself constantly claims to escape from its own temporal specificity, its own artificiality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There was no mistaking the identity of the trio, given the specificity of the bulletins. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I was still practicing law, but the specificity of the work and the change of scenery distracted me just enough from the bigger questions beginning to bubble up in my mind. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The author writes about the circus with stunning specificity. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z This looks to us like a principle, maxim, or rule of thumb, not a law, because it lacks specificity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z No one, in fact, can lay claim with certainty to his own mind with anything like the specificity stipulated by fingerprints or tissue antigens. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z People trust specificity, but that specificity can also be investigated, and so this phrase strikes a careful balance. The art of the lie: The art forgery guide to Donald Trump’s tall tales 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z It is a glimpse of a world, both strange in its specificity and familiar in its teenage rituals. Tractor Boys by Martin Bogren – review 2013-07-07T13:00:01Z Brown noted that the symptoms of nostalgia resembled those of melancholia, but nostalgia continued to be seen as a separate affliction because of the “specificity of its object and the rapidity with which it developed.” The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z Daniel, the kings and Balthasar’s queen have chanted monologues with the specificity and emotional richness of later operatic arias. Music Review: ‘The Play of Daniel’ at the Cloisters 2013-01-13T21:22:12Z Instead of creating characters of detail and specificity, Malick went for the shorthand of attempting archetypes, and he ended up with nothing. ‘To the Wonder’: Twirling together the best, worst of Terrence Malick 2013-04-11T20:41:41Z But it's easy to recognize the more than semi-autobiographical "Almost Famous" as his magnum opus, and its soundtrack more than keeps pace with its intimacy and specificity. The 22 Best Movie Soundtracks of the 2000s 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z On “An Evening With Silk Sonic,” Paak’s specificity merges with Mars’s pop generalities, while both of them double down on craftsmanship and cleverness. Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak Revisit Vintage Luxury as Silk Sonic 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z There is a specificity—a fragility—to lateness. Does “Late Style” Exist? 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z There are times when we still struggle to predict them with specificity. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Dangerous Journey Into the Heart of Tornadoes 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z Roughly,” here, is because Sheen was unable to convey the answer of timing with any more specificity than “about four years ago.” Charlie Sheen's 'Today' Interview Was Uncomfortable Television 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z As with everyone on "Reservation Dogs," there's a laser-focused truth to her character that becomes entertaining in its specificity. From "Prey" to "Reservation Dogs," Amber Midthunder always slays 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z “How will we solve the tension between issues of cultural specificity and more universal questions? How will we re-enter history after centuries spent on the sidelines?” Books of The Times: ‘Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution’: Essays From 8 Nations 2013-12-30T21:05:36Z The simultaneous specificity and breadth of her appeal, across gender, race, and nationality based on her self-professed fans, is remarkable, and it took me by surprise the first time I started following her online. The Writing Life of a Young, Prolific Poet 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z But it was the specificity and originality that the actors brought to the familiar words they spoke that made this filmed production worthwhile. Critic?s Notebook: On the Stage, Old Words Are Reborn 2010-12-31T22:25:35Z “That level of specificity is just a gift to a writer,” he said. An ‘Impossible Dream’ Comes True, Again, for Marylouise Burke in ‘Epiphany’ 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z Here was a project she desired to make thoroughly her own, a need carried out with specificity. Music Review: Sinead O’Connor in ‘Gospel Sessions’ at Lincoln Center 2013-07-28T21:36:14Z “It’s the combination of things: the music, text, and cultural specificity of what he is using that makes Wagner’s work, to me, so deeply problematic and fascinating,” Kosky said. Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z For Smith, the film “offered the chance to create subtleties and specificities that you normally don’t get in African-American animated characters.” ‘Hair Love’: 3 Men and a Little Girl (With a Lot of Curls) 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Addiction is a complex, challenging topic, and “Our American Family,” in its sharp specificity, handles it with grace. ‘Our American Family’ Review: How Addiction Affects the Household 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z LEE I hope that there is more specificity in how creators choose to use this device. Some Like It Not: Are Men in Dresses Still Funny? 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Her partner as Prince Siegfried was Tyler Angle; his dancing is elegant, his acting gallant, relatively lightweight and without any of the specificity that makes Ms. Mearns’s performance important moment by moment. Review: ‘Swan Lake’ Features an Authoritative Sara Mearns 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z On the scant occasions when I do want salted butter, I like the control, the customization and the specificity of making my own. Why I (almost) never buy or use salted butter 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z But if authenticity and specificity are not problems here, the play, working so diligently to unpack ethnic and social stereotypes, falls right into the theatrical kind. Review: In ‘God Said This,’ a Hot Mess of a Daughter Heads Home 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z "I didn't want an imitation," said the producer, and indeed there's a specificity to many of the sounds on "The Desired Effect" that elevates the music above the shallow '80s-pop pastiche it might've been. Brandon Flowers' new solo album, 'The Desired Effect,' takes personal turn 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Feinstein affectionately pokes fun with enough specificity to make you feel as if her mother were part of her act. Comedians Like Sebastian Maniscalco Act Out Their Humor 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z The offerings have grown in size, scope and specificity — some tailored to a company’s mission, others unwittingly reflective of it and still others that seem oddly random. There Is a Free Lunch, After All. It’s at the Office. 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Going about his business with such specificity in mind, he shrugs, is “just automatic.” ‘Oliver!’ shows off Arena artisans’ craft 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z She skillfully wields the matter-of-fact language of newspapers, freeing it from specificity and opening it up to new interpretations that we must forge ourselves. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Apatow said this intimate specificity — inspired by reality, if not lifted from it — was necessary to connect with the wide audience he seeks. Judd Apatow’s Life as Art in ‘This Is 40’ 2012-11-14T15:13:43Z Despite the specificity of its setting, much of the movie — its obstacles, ambushes, moments of reflection and oases of respite — felt generic, schematic and often laughably contrived. Sorry, best picture front-runners: She’s just not that into you. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z What is it that happens to you, the writer, when the blurry face you’ve lived with for years is sharpened into specificity? Joan Castleman, Meet Glenn Close. What Happens When a Book’s Character Comes to Life. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z “My experience with a plethora of dating apps taught me very quickly that specificity is the soul of narrative,” said Sarah. Date Lab: Could they find common ground 3,000 miles apart? 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z He avoids doing anything with the camera that risks surpassing the pigeonholed specificity of intentions, that risks breaking the classy surfaces of the movie’s bland smoothness. Review: “Personal Shopper” and the Misunderstood Art of Kristen Stewart 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Moments like this gave the festival a geographic specificity. Review: Movable Roots Jam Brings a Philadelphia Festival to New York 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Could you talk about the show’s balance of relatability and specificity? 'Fresh Off the Boat Star': I Don't Need to Represent Every Asian Mom Ever 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Even in this oddly unconvincing first half, though, her voice was suffused with warmth, if not much pointed specificity. Review: A Soprano Showdown, and a Winner 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Within that context, the phrase was useful precisely because, while still fairly flexible, it also benefitted from a certain specificity. I’m sorry for coining the phrase “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Where many Covid projects have tried to puncture the anonymity of numbers with participation and specificity, Fusco gave herself a harder task: memorializing those whose stories we don’t know. Covid Memorials Offer a Place to Put Our Grief 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z As "Cake" devolves into familiar territory concerning grieving, it loses its specificity and drive — if not Aniston's acerbity — and goes soft. Jennifer Aniston has never looked worse or been better in 'Cake' 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z “Welcome to New York” is just one of the songs on “1989” that might’ve benefited from the razored specificity of Swift’s previous work. Taylor Swift smooths out the wrinkles on sleek '1989' 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Wiig manages to be a scene-stealer whose attention seems focused outward, on the small-time weirdos of the world whose mannerisms she adopts and then builds on, finding their humanity and their specificity. Can Kristen Wiig Turn On the Charm? 2011-05-01T08:30:02Z He shrouded the weight and specificity of the physical world in fleeting tumults of mist, fog, cloud and spray. Review | One rivalry changed the landscape in English art 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z I think this is a successful cover, but it’s a very specific cave, and the specificity of that cave crowds out all other caves. Designing a Book Cover for Italo Calvino 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Mr. James knows where his music comes from and speaks with specificity and certainty about what he’s learned. Pop: José James’s ‘No Beginning No End’ 2013-01-18T23:37:45Z In talking about the craft and how she approaches it, Moore tends to speak of specificity, finding the precise details that define each character she portrays. Oscars 2015: Julianne Moore and the art of effortlessness 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z The words dominate and spill out of song forms so freely that you lose a conventional sense of structure and in some cases even of rhyme and meter, for the sake of specificity. Music Review: Audra McDonald at Lincoln Center 2013-05-10T21:59:41Z In emphasizing the specificity of their stories, Darby also underscores that all three women made choices. ‘Sisters in Hate’ Offers a Window Into Women in the White Nationalist Movement 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z This requires an author who can deftly render both the complexity of the social world and the specificity of a character making their way through it. When Your Family Becomes a Noah’s Ark-Style Experiment With Race 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Here you learn only the simple story, given emotional contours — if not always specificity — by the eyewitness accounts. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘The Green Wave’ Documents Iran’s Green Revolution 2012-08-17T15:12:40Z It has become literally a cultural specificity that we do. What Amanda Seales knows: On comedy, authenticity and success on her own terms 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Several Black-owned brands have formulated products that address the specificity of these attributes. Black Women Make Waves in Hair Care 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z “I think he was really in the process of excavating his past with a level of detail and specificity that maybe he had avoided before,” Piepenbring said. Prince’s anticipated, posthumous memoir is ready for fans 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z It’s powered not by theory but by specificity: It is specifically bourgeois Los Angeles, specifically progressive-Jewish, specifically feminist. Season 2 of ‘Transparent’ Expands Its View of the Pfefferman Clan 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z “Ice don’t be that thick anymore,” mourns one Shishmaref old-timer, unwittingly exemplifying the film’s lack of specificity. | 'Beautiful Islands': Floating Away 2010-07-01T22:56:00Z It’s the best track on the record by a yard because it’s the only one that traffics in the sort of specificity that engenders universal attachment. Britney Spears’ “Most Personal” Record Lacks Personality 2013-12-05T10:45:38Z Back when I saw it, I admired the ambition of writer-director Rian Johnson's debut but thought the specificity of the language was too self-conscious and kept the audience at arm's length. 5 favorite Joseph Gordon-Levitt performances 2012-09-27T23:08:13Z The towering playwright, who died in 2005, and whose work Mr. Leon has widely produced and directed, told him that “cultural specificity is the best route to universal appeal,” Mr. Leon said. Television: Kenny Leon Directs a New ‘Steel Magnolias’ for Lifetime 2012-09-29T23:29:02Z But it deliberately transcends specificity in many regards. A new opera about a dictator may or may not be about Trump. It depends whom you ask. 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z He doesn't articulate those events with any specificity or deliver any contextual clues, but instead paints open-ended narrative fragments charged with a pervasive sense of tension. Scenarios of distress from China's Ma Ke 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z It was the specificity of Claire that allowed me to experience that. “Breaking Bad” star Betsy Brandt on carrying the indie film “Claire in Motion” 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z I asked Mr. Muller why Hammett wrote about San Francisco with enormous specificity but little emotion. San Francisco Noir 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z With this kind of specificity as his anchor, Hammons became free to dive into the most pregnant ambiguities without ever losing his footing. David Hammons, Body and Soul, at the Drawing Center 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Whatever the state of the industry or the prevailing winds in the culture and the digital economy, the integrity and specificity of cinema is a fact. Cinema Is Dead? Telluride Says Not Yet 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z The three of them are part of Washington’s black lower-middle class, a milieu that Mr. Daniels depicts with a warm specificity that recalls the short fiction of Edward P. Jones. Movie Review: ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Stars Forest Whitaker 2013-08-15T16:52:46Z But in our times, the scene takes on a more painful specificity, speaking to the fear and trauma experienced by many Black families, in particular. ‘The Snowy Day,’ a Children’s Classic, Becomes an Opera 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z But it sacrifices the intimacy, and the specificity, of those stories by pretending to link them to something bigger without providing a coherent sense of what that something might be. ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Review: I Remember Mamaw 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z While her performances are hardly unemotional — indeed, she radiates feeling — those emotions lack specificity and bite. Music Review: Susan Graham and Malcolm Martineau at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-02T23:20:09Z But he doesn’t mind the lack of specificity. The term ‘Asian American’ was meant to create a collective identity. What does that mean in 2018? 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z One of the things that this show does so well, as you've said before, is finding the universality in specificity. "Reservation Dogs" and "Echo" star on the "appetite for Native stories" and living up to her name 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Perhaps tracking the rise and fall of one band, or even one musician, would have given “These Streets” more shape, specificity and narrative drive. ‘These Streets’: guts and glory, but little story 2013-02-27T22:58:32Z Does the specificity of that small eastern European nation have any significance, or is it just coincidentally the First Lady’s birthplace? Mad hair. Russian owners. Is Jurassic World 2’s meanest dinosaur really Donald Trump? 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z At times this “we” detracts from the specificities of the central characters, but it works, because this is a story of a generation, a class, a community, a gender, a world. In This Novel, the Fate of an Indian Slum Is in the Hands of Its Women 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Anchoring them all on a randomly normal day confers on the narratives both specificity and universality. What does a theater company do when it can’t make theater? Make a film. 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Some artists want more specificity in a script; others want more freedom. Hope Larson and Brittney Williams discuss 'Goldie Vance,' their upcoming teen detective comic book series 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Perhaps it is the novelist’s aspiration to universality, the fear that specificity pinions art’s wings. Review | Most novelists avoid all mentions of Donald Trump. Mark Doten went the other direction. 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z But against that backdrop the nuanced performances of the singers, choristers and dancers emerge with tender specificity. Music Review: Muti Directs ?Orfei ed Euridice? at the Salzburg Festival 2010-08-02T21:59:00Z It is no coincidence that Lichtenstein's painstaking, hand-made works about reproduction do not themselves reproduce well: when they are reproduced, they lose their individuality, specificity, scope and delicacy. From heresy to visionary 2013-02-23T09:01:01Z Faber vivifies the atmosphere and environment of the fictional planet, from its marked humidity to its insect life, with fascinating specificity. Books for Left-Brained Readers 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Test specificity refers to the likelihood of getting a false positive result. At-home COVID tests and omicron: What you need to know 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z The song arrangements were pure, familiar and respectful of this artist’s love of specificity and emotional clarity. Review | A blessed event for hard times: Sondheim sung by Broadway’s best 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z The show’s set-‘em-up, knock-‘em-down style of sitcom banter hasn’t changed with the times, and while that specificity of style works for a show like “Will & Grace” it feels stiff and stilted here. “Murphy Brown” returns revived, but not refreshed 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z This season it is confirming, with withering wit and sociological specificity, that youth is never evergreen. Critic’s Notebook: On British Stage, Baby Boomers Fare Poorly 2012-06-22T23:54:12Z But his ability to unify gesture and tone paradoxically appeared imperious to some, even authoritarian, a denial of spontaneity and specificity of style. A Monkish Conductor Who Expressed His Faith Through Music 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z In their breadth and daring, they are akin to opera, except that the words are not a sequence of singable vowels but real thoughts that ripple with specificity. It’s Not the Music. It’s Not the Lyrics. It’s the Drama. 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The prose is gorgeous, and the specificity of place is an enjoyable counterpoint to the mythic vastness of a story about traveling to the underworld. The Best New Fantasy Novels 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z She writes about loving and living with women and men with such heat and specificity that it feels revelatory. Fairy Tales About the Fears Within 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Full of detail while also evoking fingerprinting, they’re a kind of abstraction of specificity, a generalized refusal to generalize. David Hammons, Body and Soul, at the Drawing Center 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z “It’s a way to show the specificity of our brand, which is a fashion brand with an eye for creative artistic capital,” Mr. Rozan said. Front Row: Surface to Air Comes to New York 2011-08-10T20:40:53Z I wonder if Jesse Armstrong knows somebody like Lady Caroline, because there is such a specificity to her lousy mothering. ‘Succession’ Series Finale Recap: The Dotted Line 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z But in 1879, on a book tour through Europe, he craved the simplest foods from home, with agonizing specificity. The Story of America, Told Through Mark Twain’s Favorite Foods 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Tatiana Maslany is a revelation on “Orphan Black,” where she plays a series of clones, each with subtle nuance and specificity that, even over the phone, you can tell which character is speaking. What Happened at the 2016 Emmy Awards 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z A favorite with locals, the iconic Burbank, California big box store gives Peele's movie a quirky specificity while also grounding its fantastical story in the real world. "Nope" and the Fry's Electronics UFO sighting that almost wasn't 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z But the tough subject is mostly handled with a simplicity and specificity that impress. Theater Review: ‘Children of Killers,’ by Katori Hall, at the Castillo Theater 2012-10-02T22:14:13Z As its ending shows, specificity is no barrier to emotional oomph. 'I completely lost it': the movie scenes that made our writers weep 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Given this meticulous specificity, it never ceases to amaze and delight me how different this deservedly popular music sounds from one interpretation to the next. Music Review: Europa Galante Brings Vivaldi to Zankel Hall 2014-02-12T22:55:33Z I likewise get that specificity is an asset in nomenclature. A Gilda’s Club loses Gilda 2012-11-28T16:33:00Z Now Peloton, which pumps out dozens of streaming classes a day, has introduced topicality and specificity to the genre. This Is Your Brain on Peloton 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z These letters take the grand archetype of suicidal Plath, the elaborate, brittle mythologies that have sprung up around her, and give them an unforgettable human specificity. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters Show Her Struggling to Imagine Life Without Ted Hughes 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Rural and urban environments are conjured with a specificity that evokes the very different, equally daunting vastness of each. ‘Lula del Ray,’ a Spectral Parade of Fantastical Images 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z From that perspective, this is simply another Taylor product to consume, not a referendum on the specificity of memory and rights of an artist to her master recordings. Taylor Swift Remade ‘Fearless’ as ‘Taylor’s Version.’ Let’s Discuss. 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z However, the show’s true power is in the specificity of its setting. A Korean Television Show About the Power of Pop Culture 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z "We were friends when you were literally wearing combat boots and skinny jeans and didn't have a dime to your name, driving a 1997 Honda Civic," she said with alarming specificity. The heart of Schwartzness: The roots of the "Vanderpump Rules" Scandoval implosion run deep 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z You can see that intention in the kitchen-sink realism of the hyper-stuffed “I’ll Get You Back Again” set, the specificity of West Coast progressivism that will be augmented by authentic rock and roll. ‘Great Comet’ director follows Tony nomination with D.C. premiere 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z But the remarkable specificity of her songcraft and the expansive, almost mythic scope she brings to her human experience as a wife, mother and 40-something woman demand to be taken seriously. After 16 Years in ‘Hadestown,’ Anaïs Mitchell Emerges With a New Album 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Fantastic as they may be, Mutu’s beings are solid and real with a high degree of what might be called local specificity. Wangechi Mutu: An Imagined World Made Possible 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Still, the affectionate specificity of the portrait she offers is one of the book’s real pleasures. Her Best Friend Claims They Witnessed a Sex Crime. She Has Her Doubts. 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z He channels the voice of a young girl with depth and feeling, and an offbeat, appealing specificity. A Bloody Crime, a Mysterious Disappearance and the Long After 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z I wanted to bring politics and specificity and direct linkage to climate in a lot of these speeches that we did. Q&A: Leonardo DiCaprio and Adam McKay dare you to look up 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z But the Louvre’s “Supper” has a uniquely down-to-earth quality, reinforced by the human specificity of Jesus’ features and the solidity of the Romanesque architecture behind him. Art Review: ?Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus? in Philadelphia - Review 2011-08-26T04:00:08Z But though he repeatedly says the film is personal – and has even dedicated it to his late mother – Considine is tight-lipped about these people and the specificity of such circumstances. Paddy Considine: 'I'm trying to make sense of a lot of things' 2011-02-03T23:00:01Z At times, the specificity in which Jin details China’s online surveillance apparatus renders the novel aggressively realist. Ha Jin Considers the Cost of Freedom in ‘A Song Everlasting’ 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Creating Abby was really wanting to bring that kind of specificity back into movies. In a Holiday Lesbian Rom-Com, Kristen Stewart Saw Herself 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z As an actor, Paul Dano brings determination and specificity to his work. Sundance Film Festival: 5 Movies to Watch 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z There’s nothing in the song to personalize the outrage, to give it relevance or impact or specificity. Born in the U.S.A.: When the president met the Boss 2012-05-28T18:00:00Z Happily, even airy whimsy cannot suppress the dancers’ specificity. Review: In Fosse’s ‘Dancin’,’ a Wiggle Is Worth a Thousand Words 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z What lifts it above a majority of coming-out movies is its specificity, not only about its characters but also about its location. | 'Pariah': ?Pariah,? With Adepero Oduye as a Young Lesbian - Review 2011-12-27T23:41:52Z And it’s not easy for singers to reflect that specificity in a show like this one. | 'Sondheim on Sondheim': Barbara Cook and Vanessa Williams at Studio 54 2010-04-23T02:50:00Z Along with the scene’s monstrous substance, Losey draws out its aftermath with an agonizing attentiveness to the specificity of time. “Mr. Klein,” a Political Mystery of Mistaken Identity in Occupied Paris 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z I think it’s ultimately about specificity more than gender. Reed Morano on Directing the First Three Episodes of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z I wanted to go on hearing her every passing observation, as though I might find salvation in the free-floating, embracing specificity of her details. A Novel of the “Post-Wounded Woman” 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z It pulls you into the specificity of a moment. Dance Review: Watch It Tonight, Consider It Tomorrow 2011-04-21T21:45:17Z A decade later, I’m still moved by the way those who dined with us recall the details of those evenings with specificity and warmth. Samin Nosrat Wants Us to Make Lasagna Together 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z “It felt like an attempt to capture as much Blackness as possible, even if it was not rooted in cultural specificity,” he said. Juneteenth is growing. Some Texans worry it’s losing meaning. 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z As I’ve stated in previous recaps, the specificity of “Insecure” is one of its greatest strengths. ‘Insecure’ Season 1, Episode 6: A Real One 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z At first, setting plays in Idaho was a kind of accident, a shortcut to specificity. Samuel D. Hunter’s Own Private Idaho 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it’s specificity that makes a good story. Rachel Bloom Is Breaking TV Boundaries With Spanx and Diversity 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z It’s about a specificity of experience—and about the energy that the player is putting into the note. Barry Jenkins on “The Fire Next Time” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z I assumed for years that B. Wurtz was a woman rather than a man — a man who, it turns out, likes manifesting his feminist sympathies with a name that avoids gender specificity. Art Review: An Artist Who Makes Much Out of Very Little 2011-06-30T22:05:51Z In Mr. Taylor’s work the steps and specificity of the positions, in relation to the music, tell one story. Critic?s Notebook: In the Mysteries of Everyday Movement, Multilevel Stories 2011-03-06T22:56:33Z “We’re not cutting edge in tech specificity — we’re engaged in our story — but we are close,” Mr. Mann said on Saturday of his film’s presentation of the hackers’ methods. ‘Blackhat,’ Michael Mann’s Cyberthriller 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z With “Cage 100: The Bootleg Series,” So Percussion found a way to bypass the problem with a composite release that celebrates the composer’s centennial with both craftsmanlike specificity and an openness to chance. So Percussion’s Limited-Edition John Cage Project 2012-11-25T00:50:16Z Their shared goal was to save their people, but their solutions were shaped by the specificity of their contexts. ‘Rooted Cosmopolitans’ Review: Of Persons and Peoples 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z “There’s a fluidity in the way that they allow people to inhabit the work, and also a specificity,” said Laurie Berg, who performs the role of Coach, Twitta’s masked bodyguard. A Dance Troupe Adds Fresh Faces. The Youngest Is 66. 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Was it difficult to balance your notion of a coming-of-age story with the specificity of the setting unfamiliar to many viewers, all in the running time of a movie? Max Joseph on Catfish and We Are Your Friends 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z “But cultural specificity is a myth, even within national groups of artists. Making room for difference is what counts today.” El Museo del Barrio, Stabilized, Expands Its Mission 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z What some might see as deflection strikes me as a kind of humility, a director acknowledging the specificity of her own worldview. Sofia Coppola: ‘I never felt I had to fit into the majority view’ 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z This looks as much like segregation as it does specificity. What exactly is a beach read anyway? Summery, sexy — or sexist? 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Like “Insecure” — and the surprise blockbuster of last summer, the movie “Girls Trip” — the specificity of “Ctrl” gave it particular resonance among a generation of young black women who have been underserved by mainstream entertainment. SZA Almost Quit Music. Now She’s a Grammys Contender. 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Everyone is in favor of winning and opposed to losing, but there’s no meaningful motivation or specificity to any of their behaviors. Review: ‘Industry’ Is a Familiar Story, but With More Zeros 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z But every role in this production has acquired new force, new specificity. Ratmansky’s Beauty Wakes Up 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z But Ms. Reichenbach was taken aback by the specificity of the advice. Is There a Secret to Success on Instagram? 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z The naturalism and specificity of the local landscape, whether monumental volcanoes in Mesoamerica or misty mountain tops in Central Europe, were infused with portentous meaning. Getty exhibition makes a case for the enduring power of Theodore Rousseau 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Nor, for all the specificity of its setting, does “Black Girl” offer an easily digestible picture of African identity. Ousmane Sembène’s ‘Black Girl’ Turns 50 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Because the Avengers have, for the moment, disassembled, it’s no longer necessary to slot Wakanda and its heroes into a larger cosmic ensemble, which gives the busy narrative a welcome degree of focus and specificity. ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Review: Women on the Home Front 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z For all the specificity of the characters, the big stage — too big for this production — is aching to be explored by dancing bodies. Review: In ‘Like Water for Chocolate,’ Plot Overtakes Ballet 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z To the average person the issues Winter explores in his other documentaries have a specificity about them that may defy appeal to a wide audience. “The system is rigged”: How the crimes of “The Panama Papers” affect us all 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z "I think our story, for its specificity of character and place, is giving voice to a world and a certain kind of person that normally is unheard." 'Moonlight' director hopes to resonate with the 'disenfranchised' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The fact that I’ve many times participated in, and enjoyed, friends’ seders suggests there’s a specificity to it, though: I object to religion when it feels forced upon me. A skeptic goes to yoga 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z “And stories ‘steeped in specificity’ are actually more relatable,” he added. Alabama Shakespeare Festival Aims to Update Southern Canon 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Their performances are bolstered by meticulously designed period sets and costumes, which help maintain the novel’s rich historical specificity. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Alienist’ and ‘Mosaic’ 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Yes, Mr. Goodykoontz’s readers can infer that the critic will soon be writing about Mr. Lee, but the lack of specificity renders the communiqué more tease than promise. Circa Now: To Woo Twitter Followers, a Trail of Self-Promotional Tweets 2014-02-14T19:56:24Z And he knows why some words, such as “paradigm” and “integrity,” are evergreen: because they’re broad, abstract concepts that leave us scrabbling for specificity and certainty. For many people, the search for meaning in the coronavirus pandemic starts with the dictionary 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Smash the teacher’s unions? — but specificity is less important than urgency, and the feeling that these are more than just movies. Film: Documentaries (in Name Only) of Every Stripe 2010-10-13T18:08:00Z “It’s a real-time way of valuing the specificity of choreography, a subjective real-time practice,” Mr. Linder said by telephone. New Live Performances Redefine Frieze London’s Limits 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Several songs pose philosophical questions expressed with charming specificity: “What manner of things are the darkness and light?” A Dazzling Chinese Singer’s Riveting Song Cycle 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z In a field that hinges on subtlety and specificity, to be constantly invoking the word “great” feels lazily general. Perspective | Maradona was great, and maybe the greatest. Can we make similar claims about artists? 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Shaving off the last name gives McCartney enough syllables for some more specificity in the story: “Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona …” Know How the Beatles Ended? Peter Jackson May Change Your Mind. 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z “It’s about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness.” DVD: John Ford?s ?Fort Apache? on Blu-ray From Warner Home Video 2012-03-25T01:23:02Z It’s not just that the show, which arrives Thursday on Netflix, shares the intensity, cultural specificity and psychological acuity of Winger’s earlier series. Review: ‘Unorthodox,’ a Stunning Escape From Brooklyn 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z One of its songs, "Angry Inch," describes the aforementioned botched operation with an anatomic specificity that would not seem out of place in a medical textbook. 'Annie' with a bad attitude: 'Hedwig' rocks the Pantages 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z But real-world problems, overwhelming as they may be, have stakes, specificity and individual flavor. ‘This Space Between Us’ Review: A Do-Gooder Faces a Chorus of Resistance 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Gris’s influence at times asserted itself with remarkable specificity. These Shadow Boxes Are Striking. The Story of Their Origin Is, Too. 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z In this work of semi-fictionalized memoir, the celebrity known to the public wrestles with both his memories of his father as well as himself, with a specificity bordering on the confessional. Facing facts: how memoir movies are finally showing the ugly truth 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Some producers have taken the notion of specificity even further. Champagne Seeks to Discover Itself in Single-Vineyard Wines 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Steven Morris, one of the composers of the “Duck Commander” show, said that he believed “the specificity and the strangeness of the family’s lives and home are a great fit for a compelling musical.” 'Duck Dynasty' Family at Center of New Las Vegas Musical 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Wine fans who cherish bottles with a sense of place look for specificity in appellations, hoping the wines will reflect the qualities of an area or vineyard. Another Variable in the Winemaking Process: Climate Change 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z But a performance by the two on Saturday night, at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, showed oddly little stylistic specificity. Dance in Review: Royal Ballet School and ABTII 2011-03-06T22:55:57Z In the editions of the 1920s, all specificities about luxuries had been removed from the standardized introductory sentence about the hotels. The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z Part of that sense of genuineness comes from the show’s giddy specificity. Review: The Find-Yourself Beauty of ‘Shrill’ 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z One of the greatest strengths of “Insecure” is its specificity. ‘Insecure’ Series Premiere: Single Black Woman 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z But in its loving, fierce specificity, this book on how to die is also a blessedly saccharine-free guide for how to live. What the Living Can Learn by Looking Death Straight in the Eye 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Tenorio’s insistence on the specificity of his characters’ dreams and longings is its own kind of argument for their right to be here. How Do You Tell Your Child He Is Undocumented? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Every detail of the film is full of specificity, even as the dreams and insecurities of its two leads are ubiquitous genre staples. ‘Rye Lane’ Review: A Lively Modern Rom-Com With a British Accent 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The work has its greatest tension and highest stakes when the specificities of individual personalities are transcended, and the chorus is singing. Critic’s Notebook: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ Has the Gay Closet as Its Subtext 2012-07-03T21:36:04Z Ms. Jenkins revels in the specificity of the characters, in their tastes and habits and imperfections, without bloating any of them into representative or stereotypical figures. Review: ‘Private Life,’ a Piquant Look at a Couple’s Campaign to Conceive 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Readers can’t help but bite and are quickly pulled deeper and deeper by a guide who displays the wisdom of a shaman and the specificity of a scientist. Best new poetry for February 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z At-home rapid antigen tests have pretty high specificity and are probably fairly reliable in confirming that you have the coronavirus and are infectious, he said. At-home COVID tests and omicron: What you need to know 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z A level of specificity that was pretty disgusting. Reporter who broke R. Kelly sex abuse allegations: “Nobody matters less to our society than young black women” 2013-12-16T18:51:00Z Yet the concentration and physiological specificity with which he embodied characters, from power-hungry medieval monarchs to a 20th-century sensualist painter, made you tense up in anatomical empathy. No Matter the Role, Antony Sher Made Soaring Seem Possible 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z But the authors admit that the Bill of Rights sets forth “with some specificity the only ‘fundamental law’ that courts were authorized to prefer over the text enacted by the people’s representatives.” Scalia’s shameless political agenda 2012-10-01T19:53:00Z The reason for the dull lulls in Uncle Vanya is the assumption of director and designer that Chekhov demands an elaborate specificity of setting. Scene changes – the traffic jams of theatre 2012-11-13T13:33:09Z Jung’s interpolations are perhaps an improvement on the real first lines — an elaborate play on “collier” and “choler” — though specificity of acting and direction would have put the language across. Review: A ‘Romeo and Juliet’ That Clowns Around With Tragedy 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z The document filed with the European Union's Commission of Regulations in 2010 added an additional layer of specificity: When does pizza stop being pizza? 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z That lack of specificity is why the recipes included here are purposefully vague. You’re getting it all wrong about tapas — starting with the meaning of the word 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z “Objects have this specificity that tell stories of place and time,” Akunyili Crosby said. Njideka Akunyili Crosby Wants to Take it Slow, Despite Her Rapid Rise 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Speaking rapidly and with unusual specificity Ms. Anderson riffs on , the banking crisis, the war in Iraq and civil rights post-9/11. Laurie Anderson?s Heart, Politics and Processors 2010-06-25T16:17:00Z In other areas, the lack of specificity raises questions that remain unanswered, as when an image of the Pentagon flashes by without explanation. Review: ‘Get Me Roger Stone’ Profiles a President Whisperer in Peacock Mode 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Language is about words, but also about context and structure, and sometimes those things render specificity null. Barbara Kruger: Infinitely Copied, Still Unmatched 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z As it is, the mid-1970s set and costumes designed by Katie Bellman for this production have an almost anthropological specificity, which makes you take the characters and their plights more literally than Gems probably intended. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Change in the Air 2013-07-12T16:58:10Z In California, the lack of specificity around that state’s parent trigger law led to protracted court battles when a community first made use of the law. Playing for Michelle Obama 2012-06-11T21:25:00Z How in the world did you recall these decisions with such specificity? Fleetwood Mac is “the great American story” 2013-06-03T19:02:00Z These juxtapositions—man’s vagueness against the hard specificity of the structures that surround him; ground-level squalor and cleanliness above—are a wordless description, and rebuke, of forties Harlem’s alienating and dehumanizing decay. Ralph Ellison and Gordon Parks’s Joint Harlem Vision 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z A similar specificity attends Shepard’s descriptions of his hero’s memories and fears. Review: ‘The One Inside’ Presents Sam Shepard in a Minor Key 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z But just as important, at the time, was their social specificity. Ninety and out to shock: meet the first Oscar nominated female director 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z He said his recent string of successes only emboldened him to double down on the specificity of his sound. A Trip Home With Moneybagg Yo, Trap’s New Ambassador 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z It addresses, with a daring specificity, the very conditions of work and life in the place where it’s made. “Pig,” Reviewed: An Iranian Comedy About Filmmakers Who Become the Targets of Murder 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Each dancer moves with intriguing, individuating specificity: this one shaking, that one twitching sinuously or twisting like the head of a sprinkler. Review: The Inescapable Vibrations of ‘Violet’ 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z The earlier shows had moments that worked for American viewers, despite the specificity of the humor and Mr. Lilley’s humdrum plotting. Television Review: Chris Lilley Stars in ?Angry Boys? on HBO - Review 2011-12-31T00:29:11Z New York sex therapist Michael A. Perelman explained to the publication that the problem might not be the grip itself as much as the specificity. “Men are rubbing themselves raw”: The trick to avoid losing penis sensitivity 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z In the end, the novel’s mix of elements — a plot that draws on magic, language steeped in Tejano specificity, deftly rendered insight into the nature of humanity — makes for a thoroughly satisfying read. One Family, and One Multigenerational Curse, in the Texas Borderlands 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z It is, instead, a music-business comedy marinated in specificity and local flavor, set in a real place with realistic people trying to get by. The Joys of ‘Atlanta,’ Where Real Life, for Some, Insists on Being Surreal 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z It’s a well-observed comedy that succeeds because it’s so rooted in specificity. New on TV Sunday: ‘Turn’ bores, ‘Silicon Valley’ scores 2014-04-04T18:01:52Z We loved specificity and detail, and the doctor used great detail in his stories. Grappling With the Language of Love 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Most movies don’t try to capture such a specific time with such specificity. The Carpetbagger: 'Reality Bites' and the Perils of Being a Generation's Touchstone 2012-01-21T19:45:42Z One has to be there, not just in the sense of making a visit to an Irwin piece, but in the deeper sense of engaging fully in its specificity, its demands, its resistance. Artist Robert Irwin’s roots run deep in Southern California 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z It includes recognition of the socially constructed nature of race and allows room for further specificity. Why we should stop using acronyms like BIPOC 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z Unformed, maybe, but Wilson also elevates his performances with a delightful specificity. For 'Backstrom's Rainn Wilson, oddball roles just come naturally 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z There’s a way that the gender specificity in this piece addresses a larger social void. ArtsBeat Blog: Under the Radar: 5 Questions About 'Word Becomes Flesh' 2012-01-06T19:39:12Z The paintings have a hands-on specificity yet evoke vast associations, including scrapbooks, archaeology, maps, the cosmos, dreams, sutures and trauma. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z The relationship of meaning and form to process and material is illuminated with revelatory specificity, often with surprisingly recent acquisitions. The Week Ahead: Aug. 29 ? Sept. 4 2010-08-26T15:25:00Z The episodes have a firm sense of place and geographical specificity; Chicago is also a virtual character throughout the series. Eight Tales of Art and Sex in Joe Swanberg’s “Easy” 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z But the song repertory requires an authority and a specificity that he does not yet provide. Music Review: Jonas Kaufmann in Recital at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-10-31T21:41:18Z Of course, there’s a specificity to the cultural background and the context of it all — but in the end, it’s storytelling. Matthias Schoenaerts Knows You’re Ogling Him. But He Has Grander Goals, Too. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The line’s ironic specificity foreshadowed the cultural precociousness that Monsoon brought to an otherwise bland season. | Jinkx Monsoon’s Joyfully Cracked Ode to Vaudeville 2013-07-17T22:20:27Z I’ll always remember my affinity for those characters I created, but I may no longer be able to tell anyone, with total specificity, what characters in the book said or did. Perspective | Meg Wolitzer on rereading — and avoiding — her past work 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z The setting also lacks specificity; except for the basketball, the season doesn’t feel as if it takes place in the state of Indiana so much as The State of Our Woeful Nation. In ‘American Crime’ Season 2, a Rape Accusation Raises Troubling Questions 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z But it was, perhaps, exactly this limitation that heightened her ability to pinpoint, with a beautiful specificity, the character of her feline protagonist. Mog the Cat, and the Mysteries of Animal Subjectivity 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z But the success of this production hinges on the moment-to-moment precision of Bernat and Dos Santos, both of whom bring flavorful specificity to their characterizations. 'Julia' updates 1888 classic with passionate acting, stunning staging, modern observation 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Those segregationist rules and norms—and the personal attitudes and actions that sustained them—are unfolded with a clear, forceful, analytical, and unstinting specificity. “Hidden Figures” Is a Subtle and Powerful Work of Counter-History 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z No wonder that when Reed came across Ahlert and Drake’s script, he was immediately drawn to its throwback spirit and visual specificity. ‘Down With Love’ 20 Years Later: Celebrating the Phoniness of Rom-Coms 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z “Speed Trap Town” brings heartbreaking specificity to the shopworn trope of the highway’s salvation. Review: Jason Isbell’s ‘Something More Than Free’ 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z A common feature of YouTube cooking videos is their specificity: they often tackle a single technique, rather than a whole dish. Can you learn to cook like a chef by watching YouTube? 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z What we learn about this unnamed narrator — let’s call her U.N. — is delightful in its specificity. She Dropped Everything to Meet the K-Pop Star of Her Fantasies 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Maxwell’s later writing certainly anticipates some of the advantages of autofiction — specificity, modesty, candor — while avoiding some of the pitfalls of solipsism and passive-aggressive self-consciousness. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z And as in “The Flick,” with movies projected overhead and popcorn being swept from the floor, you sink into the rich specificity of this B&B and feel it come slightly alive. Review | ‘The Flick’ playwright Annie Baker goes long again in the three-hour ‘John’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z The specificity of that line also ensures the Kent State massacre isn't forgotten. The power of Neil Young’s “Ohio” in 2018: Why the Kent State protest anthem remains so rele... 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z And yet, the strength of her best bits is the specificity and depth of her analysis of her own psychology. Taylor Tomlinson: A Comic With the Confidence of a Star 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z “For me it's about the specificity of that character,” Owusu-Breen said. TV revivals and inclusive casting: An opportunity that can’t just be skin-deep 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z But the withholding of details necessary to engineer the initial lull backfires in the second half, when the lack of specificity leaves the characters ill defined. Review: In ‘This Time Tomorrow,’ a Family Will Be Upended 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The arrival of a superstorm that, with biblical specificity, is expected to last 40 days, forces Finch and his pals into a solar-powered R.V., destination San Francisco. ‘Finch’ Review: Three for the Road 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Even as its swan song got maybe a little too swanny, “The Good Place” never lost track of its greatest strength: specificity. Best TV Shows of 2020 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z At one point, the storyline threatens to break into the realm of dynamic specificity: Ali gets a chance at her dream of being a boxer! Acclaimed playwright Caridad Svich’s ‘Spark’ largely disappoints All of it contrasts painfully with the specificity of the name and date of death of the unseen migrant. “Best of Luck with the Wall” Puts the Borderlands Back in Context 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z But there’s also a mystery and a specificity, and you lose that mystery and specificity by existing online. Hari Nef and Parker Posey: Two ‘It’ Girls Whose ‘Humanity Peeks Through’ 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z The downside is the lack of specificity to those recommendations, which is why I’ve included, where available, links to capsule reviews, video discussions, and blog posts about the films in question. A Response to “The 50 Best Foreign Language Movies Of the 21st Century So Far” 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z It’s increasingly clear the key difference between network and cable dramas is realism and specificity. Realism held hostage in NBC’s new drama ‘Crisis’ 2014-03-14T20:24:38Z “Girlfriend” is the most explicitly Jewish series this side of “Transparent,” and its specificity only starts there. ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’: Everything It Promised, and Then Some 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z His lawyers had said that the lawsuit lacked specificity and was disqualified by a deal she reached in 2009 with lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein. Lawsuit against Prince Andrew a go despite Epstein deal 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Their movies are elemental things, concerned with the flow of history, the beauty of the natural world and the specificity of their human actors. Sick of Popcorn Movies? Straub-Huillet Retrospective Offers an Antidote 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The exquisite, lyrical stillness with which Becker imbues the performances is, in turn, matched by his fanatical physical reconstruction of the era, with costumes, styles, décor, and dialogue of a seemingly documentary specificity. An Essential Retrospective of the French Filmmaker Jacques Becker at the Newly Renovated Film Forum 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Without that feeling of specificity and differentiation, the movement blurs into sequential torpor. Dance Review: Movements in the Cunningham Mode 2011-04-29T21:20:53Z I think you honor the universality of it by honoring the specificity. 'Fresh Off the Boat Star': I Don't Need to Represent Every Asian Mom Ever 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z But what gives the film a certain confidence is its cultural specificity and the fresh clashes and contrasts it presents. ‘Drunktown’s Finest,’ by Sydney Freeland, Shows Navajo Life 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z The actors here spend a lot of time doing everyday activities — mime calling cards like showering, toothbrushing — that made me long for the abstraction of dance or the greater specificity of an actual toothbrush. Review: In ‘Skin,’ More Than Words and Sometimes Less 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Lepage said he wanted to avoid that kind of specificity, and the set helped him. Director at finish line for Met's new 'Ring' 2012-01-25T12:22:09Z But Thompson, a virtuoso of psychological insight and emotional specificity, makes each centuries-old line sound like it has occurred to him in the moment. Review: A ‘Merchant of Venice’ That Doubles Down on Pain 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z The film is more notable for its cultural specificity, and keenly observed portrait of modern, young, black American life, which shouldn’t feel as blissfully refreshing as it does in 2015. Creed adds to short list of boxing films starring a black hero 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z But at City Opera, the work was set in a grim public park, and Mr. Alden’s antic, enigmatic direction made its impact in relation to the specificity of that location. Dudamel Leads Mozart’s Opera With a Zaha Hadid Set 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z As an African American artist, he says, “I don’t want to vacate my specificity from the things I’m interested in, in order for it to be embraced.” Filmmaker Arthur Jafa makes his Hirshhorn debut with a stunning video installation 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Indeed, one of the issues in choosing music written specifically for three very different singers has been how to reconcile the specificity of this operatic troika with my own vocal and stylistic idiosyncrasies. The original three tenors 2010-10-21T21:25:00Z First came the rise of satellite radio, which jeopardized local specificity. Zach Sang, the Ryan Seacrest of the Youth, Wants to Save Radio 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z The lack of specificity means that, for guests, the entire meal is a surprise. Bites: Restaurant Report: Gastrologik in Stockholm 2012-07-13T17:34:17Z So I had convinced myself that if you’re going to tell these oddball characters and this level of specificity, it’s never going to be successful. Mark Duplass Can’t Get Enough of ‘Rocky II’ 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z As ever, there is good reason for this leaden specificity. Ian McEwan, novelist-historian 2012-11-14T21:06:00Z Accuracy depends, in part, on test sensitivity and specificity. At-home COVID tests and omicron: What you need to know 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z But in his right hand he worked with a sharp incisor, sculpting shapely phrases with a harmonic specificity of their own. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Powers said they were all aware of the specificity needed for Joe’s character. ‘Soul’ Features Pixar’s First Black Lead Character. Here’s How It Happened. 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z But successful web followings are usually built on specificity. Couric to Yahoo: Why Hire a Broadcaster in a Narrowcasting World? 2013-11-25T21:17:32Z But satire requires a bit more specificity, and as a portrait of anxious, status-conscious Brooklyn parents living in a chiaroscuro of self-righteousness and guilt, “Carnage” misses its mark badly. | 'Carnage': Roman Polanski?s ?Carnage,? With Jodie Foster - Review 2011-12-15T15:59:53Z I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details is how you get the big, big audiences; by talking about your relationships, or your personal tragedies. Absolute beginners 2011-07-15T23:03:00Z Recalling Mr. Daniels and Mr. Strong’s original pitch for “Empire,” Mr. Newman said that what connected for him was “the specificity of its characters, the authentic way they spoke about the world.” The Cast and Director of ‘Empire’ Discuss Their New Show 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z “There’s specificity in how we choose to do our nails,” said Miss Pop, the artist who created these four looks. Nail Art Is Now Hand Art 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z And there is communication in the theater, another very different specificity. | '3 2?s; or AFAR': ?3 2?s,? by Mac Wellman, at Dixon Place - Review 2011-10-17T23:32:34Z It was a really solid, tight, harrowing journey, and I appreciated the specificity of what each character represented. Christopher Meloni: Playing Gene in the "Wet Hot" Prequel 'Was Like Going Home' 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z With the strict and mighty edifice of social order rendered visible, Stillman, in “Love & Friendship,” brings his career-long big idea to a new pitch of specificity and clarity. Whit Stillman’s “Love & Friendship”: Subverting the Social Order with Style 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z “To hear a woman sing to another woman, or a man to a man, lends the song a specificity that is so much more impactful than addressing ‘you,’” she said. Bob Dylan Sings About Gay Love 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Each bristles with vivid specificity, even those in nonspeaking parts, like the infant Bobby, a feral rabbit and the aforementioned goose. Review: A Thrilling ‘Ferryman’ Serves Up a Glorious Harvest Feast 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The novel, though originally written in French, is grounded in the worldview of Senegal’s Wolof people, and the specificity and uniqueness of that culture’s language comes through even in Anna Moschovakis’s translation. In the Trenches of World War I, a Bloody Ritual Fueled by Guilt 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z "Our job is to be very specific, and in that specificity to make it real, to make it live again." Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear: 'Othello and Iago are a bit cracked' 2013-04-10T19:00:00Z I think it is universal in its specificity. "The Persian Version" director on creating a film that is "playful in terms of sexuality" 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z For all its political specificity to current-day France, Dumont’s film is also a philosophy of aesthetics—a vision of society that is inseparable from artistic experience and imaginative transformations. Bruno Dumont’s Vision of a Confused, Far-Right, Alienated France 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Their greatness, it seems, is largely a product of how many unknowns congeal around them, as well as the intensity, specificity and profundity of those unknowns. Perspective | The black hole image is beautiful and profound. It’s also very blurry. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z It’s the specificity you have to appreciate here. The world’s 19 most imaginative insults 2014-02-12T13:15:00Z The novel’s explorations of everyday village life in London and Africa contain specificity and verve. Zadie Smith’s New Novel Takes on Dance, Fame and Friendship 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The specificity of every moment, every breath, every pitch is so important. For Your Ears Only: Broadway’s New Stage Is a Mic 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z It also addresses, albeit not with too much specificity, the economic anxieties of creating these businesses. Review: In ‘Constructing Albert,’ a Chef’s Ambition, Meticulously Plated 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z For all its S&M specificity — down to earth and sometimes comical — the movie holds its beveled mirrors up to the role-play, ritual and compromise in all love relationships. 'The Duke of Burgundy' a mesmerizing sexual thriller 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z “I wish I could go back now and put in the specificity,” she wrote in a 2020 Guardian essay. Susie Steiner, Author of Acclaimed British Crime Novels, Dies at 51 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The collection endures for so many reasons, beginning with the exquisite language, the universality of its Dublin specificity — and the sense granted to the reader that each story somehow continues beyond its final word. Honoring James Joyce’s ‘Dubliners,’ Published 100 Years Ago 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Amid the episodic specificity, though, there's very little in the way of broader resonance. 'Death Play,' unfortunately, stays true to its name 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z “It gives so much specificity and wonder at the same time.” An Avant-Garde Theater Artist Gets Her Due 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z The drama of “Leave No Trace” is diffuse and vague, but its lack of specificity opens the door to the powerful abstraction of a central and decisive idea. Review: “Leave No Trace” Explores the Ground in Which Poisonous Politics Grow 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z “Show business has taken over the specificity of the opera. My approach is aiming for something more intimate and not as showy.” A Busy Baritone Gets Ready for a New ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z The result is a purity and specificity of style — elegant, precise — that is becoming a rarity in the increasingly cosmopolitan and migratory world of ballet today. Paris Opera Ballet Visits U.S. for First Time Since ’96 2012-07-08T03:53:12Z Heller’s geographic specificity includes appealing glimpses of some of the borough’s most picturesque bookstores—happily, ones that survive to this day, such as Argosy, Westsider, the Housing Works Bookstore Café, and Logos. “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” Reviewed: Melissa McCarthy Finally Gets the Dramatic Role She Deserves 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z But specificity and context are two things missing from his first full-length play, “Little Doc,” which opened on Thursday night at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. | 'Little Doc': ?Little Doc? by Dan Klores: Departing Friends 2010-06-21T22:46:00Z One of the things that elevated The Office at its best–and quasi-spinoff Parks and Recreation now–is their commitment to regional specificity. Back to the Land: NBC’s The Farm Spinoff Failed, But Networks Shouldn’t Abandon the Country 2013-03-15T13:53:56Z "We would certainly like to see some of these individuals treated and housed in locations better equipped to treat the specificity of their conditions," Hambright added. In PA county jails, guards use pepper spray and stun guns to subdue people in mental crisis 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z The best photographs waft before your eyes with the visceral immediacy — and spotty specificity — of a remembered dream. Arbus, Untitled and Unearthly 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z And they do so with as much playfulness and specificity as possible. Inside the Minds of Two Expert Improv Comedians 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z In their paintings lack of specificity enhances atmospheres of fear and depression. Art Review: ?Real-Surreal? at the Whitney - Review 2011-10-27T22:50:36Z Her works are individually impressive, but they lack the specificity, the definition, the urgency of the very best art. Review | In San Francisco, arresting sculptures disrupt life at the intersection of Afrofuturism and hippie vibes 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z It’s the unexpected specificity of Halberstadt’s observations that ultimately makes this memoir as lush and moving as it is. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z But in their best seasons, both series confronted failure with exacting specificity. Office lol-itics: the evolution of the workplace sitcom 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Its strength and specificity means that a Scouse accent is less likely to be lost than many others. Well in: how Lady Gaga could teach herself Cilla Black's Scouse 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Props, sets, and costumes are upcycled or simply reused, and the nuance and cultural specificity of different indigenous nations is lost. "The Native characters aren't afterthoughts": "Barkskins" writer on reclaiming Native narratives 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z The texts to Meadows put specificity to some of the communications. Hannity, Fox face ethical issues over Trump text revelations 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z They toggle between sweeping generalizations and pointed specificity, referring in passing to names and events that may have receded into the past but clearly sparked a vehement response. Feminism Means a Lot of Things, and This Book Contains Them All 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z A giddy glee dwells in “Documentary Now!,” a sense that the show’s creators and audience are sharing in a deep and satisfying dorking out, where stylistic hyper specificity is a special currency. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Wiener deploys this strategy liberally, with adroit specificity and arch timing. A Tech Insider Stylishly Chronicles Her Industry’s ‘Uncanny Valley’ 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z It was about a specificity of cadence, and an intention. This Tom Hanks Story Will Help You Feel Less Bad 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z His films often have a geographic as well as cultural specificity, and food and music are often the featured elements. Icon of Indie films Les Blank dies 2013-04-08T04:13:39Z Mr. Kentridge sees his role as providing the structure for a production and illustrating broader themes, giving the performers unusual freedom to fill in the psychological specificity. Review: The Searing Beauty of Kentridge’s ‘Wozzeck’ at the Met 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z Rees tells Alike’s story with an uncompromising specificity that has etched its place in great American cinema. ‘Pariah’ at 10: When Black Lesbian Characters Had the Spotlight 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z “Unlike anything I’ve ever participated in, it required real specificity and an attention to detail,” he said. Dwayne Johnson Finds Room to Grow in ‘Young Rock’ 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z But his definition also offers the benefit of a clarifying specificity. Democracy Is for Losers (and Why That’s a Good Thing) 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Much of the show’s humor lies in its specificity, both geographically and in terms of its characters and relationships, and they totally nailed it here. Abbi’s strap-on scene wasn’t even the best part of last night’s “Broad City” 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Director Rodney To shapes the story with tremendous variety and specificity. Boni B. Alvarez's remarkable 'Fixed' by Echo Theater: Love, and gender roles, tested by naysayers 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z A bridge appears in two prints and a seascape in another, but the overall lack of specificity is not a detriment. First U.S. show for German woodblock artist is delectably disorienting 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Platitudes abounded, and specificity was in short supply. Theater Review: ?How Much Is Enough?? at St. Ann?s Warehouse ? Review 2011-11-18T23:46:52Z Sometimes actors chafe at specificity in fear it will inhibit the organic or truthful quality they strive for.” Talking About Her Love of McCullers 2011-04-27T16:06:15Z The specificity of this cooking — as when Caridad shows Renata how to score the plantain’s skin and strip the peel away — gives the show its particular flavor. Review: In ‘Sancocho,’ a Family Crisis Is Cooking 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Its songs teem with specificity of detail, every word a memory. Music Review: Fantastical Thrust (and Hair Color) 2010-12-05T22:42:00Z But through wonderful and apt specificity, his visit to his daughter this time around shows us just how much she’s grown and how much growth lies ahead of her. Review: In Season 5, Girls Becomes a Traditional Sitcom 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z There are mountains in the scenes, and also flowers, but specificity doesn't preclude multiplicity. Flower? Animal? Person? The color-drenched questions in Mimi Lauter's drawings 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Des Bishop Its success lies in its specificity. Des Bishop 2010-08-21T12:27:00Z And its specificity to its creator cuts its tether to any specific and familiar modern era, lashing the plot to mood instead. “Twin Peaks”: Can a classic succeed at being happening again? 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z “I wanted an emotional musical landscape that was more towards abstraction and musique concrète than the cultural specificity of blues,” Mr. Mann said by phone from Los Angeles. Tangerine Dream’s Music in BAMcinématek Series 2012-06-02T23:03:01Z The results are both outrageously funny and unexpectedly poignant: deeply personal work that attacks the stigma of mental illness by its sheer openness, specificity and sense of humor. Maria Bamford's favorite self-help books 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z It’s about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness. | 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close': ?Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close? With Tom Hanks - Review 2011-12-22T19:40:23Z It’s difficult and somewhat superfluous to say exactly what Modern Vampires of the City is “about,” as this particular Vampire Weekend record values impressionism over specificity. Vampire Weekend’s Modern Vampires of the City Lives Up to Title 2013-05-14T09:45:57Z Ousley may book gigs in places like the catacombs of the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn or a cave underneath St. George’s Church in Manhattan, but that gothic site specificity is a theatrical, tongue-in-cheek fringe benefit. Review: With Owls, Classical Is Alive and Well and Living in a Crypt 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z He writes in praise of “the physics of the form”: efficiency, velocity, specificity and, above all, escalation. George Saunders Conducts a Cheery Class on Fiction’s Possibilities 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z In true Perry form, she is steadfast in her avoidance of specificity in her lyrics. Pop Goes Katy Perry: PRISM Promises Hits 2013-10-22T14:08:45Z Elder got some of the best ensemble playing of the night, right through to the specificity of the final chords — no muddiness here. At a moment of transition, NSO offers the old-new: 20th-century classical works 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The reason I bring that up is that one of the things that you wrote, and I think comes out in your writing for TV, is a city specificity. "The Outsider": Crafting Stephen King's suburban horror despite a New York state of mind 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z With “Moonlight,” that mode is an overwhelming specificity. The Unbearable Intimacy of “Moonlight” 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Galileo and Scaramouche are stock depictions of leather-and-fishnet types, with zero specificity about what's driving them on their quest to locate a magical instrument that promises to loosen Globalsoft's stranglehold on organic creativity. Review: 'We Will Rock You' totally misses Queen's mercurial nature 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Yet it is for the very lack of specificity, the questions that have no answers, that allows his legend to inspire. 'Steel Hammer' bangs out a spectacularly inventive social message at UCLA's Royce Hall 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z The specificity has a richly theatrical effect: in "Jimmie Standing in the Rain", we vividly feel the exhaustion of a failed music-hall singer getting drenched at a Lancashire train station. Elvis Costello: National Ransom ? review 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z It lingered, with granular specificity, in the fabric of my imagination. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z As a songwriter, Ms. Charles favors earnest generalities over tactile specificity, a limitation that somehow doesn’t feel like one. New Music From the Mountain Goats, Joey Calderazzo, Becca Stevens Band and More 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z And, despite the cultural specificity of these stories, many people living in North America are still be able to relate. Hollywood, please stop adapting K-dramas. It's not just unnecessary, it's racist 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z The rest of the parts, we just really delved into the specificity of each character. Alison Brie on filmmaking, "back to old antics" with Danny Pudi and a possible "Community" reunion 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Although none of the specific references mean much of anything to someone who lives outside of northern Florida, it’s the execution of specificity itself that absolutely kills. The Best Jokes of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z After all, women, men and children die on television every day, in depraved specificity and disturbing anonymity. TV's alleged 'rape glut' may just be a more reflective reality 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z That specificity only is going to make a show better. "Gossip Girl" boss: "It's class warfare with one dictator … I could write this show every 15 years" 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z A tangy rustic passage sounded like Bartok but lacked his specificity. Music Review: Anne-Sophie Mutter Returns to Carnegie Hall 2013-12-16T23:36:52Z The specificity of the list, she added, helped her imagine Vermeer’s private universe. The Fullest View of Vermeer Still Leaves Plenty to the Imagination 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z We always try to make sure the show has an authenticity and a specificity, because we want it to feel like these are real people. Nahnatchka Khan on ‘Fresh Off the Boat,’ Chinese New Year and Michael Chang 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z But it’s the local specificity of the music that really gives go-go its heart; neighborhoods and cliques get personal shout-outs, or “stamped,” and thus are immortalized as a geographic imprint in the song’s recording. Go-Go Music as a Rallying Call to Resist Gentrification 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Once, replying to a New York Times reporter who inquired where he lived, he declined to respond with more specificity than “somewhere in New England.” Robert M. Pirsig, best-selling author of ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,’ dies at 88 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z He returns to old grievances with greater specificity. Morrissey Releases ‘World Peace Is None of Your Business’ 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Despite the show’s specificity, the creators believe “The Lonely Few” will have broad appeal. For Two Broadway Stars, a Love Story Blossoms in a Honky-Tonk Bar 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z And it occurred to me that maybe the real problem with Lego, for girls and boys, isn’t the gender specificity of the various building sets. Motherlode Blog: Should Lego Be Gender-Free ? or Just Less Complicated? 2012-01-03T17:14:57Z But then Barnett surprised me with vivid literary specificity: Once, she watches an egret fly alongside her bus, its “black-tipped wings working in perfect, elegant unison, its blue eye parallel with our own.” The Injustice Deep Within the Justice System 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z In her opinion, United States District Judge Jane J. Boyle said the “dearth of specificity” in the complaint “and the allegations are both generic and conclusory.” ArtsBeat Blog: Judge Dismisses Suit Against Dallas Art Museum 2011-12-01T19:29:21Z To insist that stories about poor, oppressed or otherwise marginal groups of people are really about everyone can be a way of denying their specificity. ‘Moonlight’: Is This the Year’s Best Movie? 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z In the squabbling and eventual all-out feuding that ensues, characters who had seemed so easy to ridicule as stereotypes acquire a substance and specificity that inhibit both derision and facile categorization. Review: Opinions Collide in the Explosive Comedy ‘Eureka Day’ 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z “We loved the aesthetic of the films, the bittersweet nostalgia, the tangible objects. We like the specificity, the connection to — something. Especially in this day and age, when things are not so tangible.” Design Notebook: The Wildebeest in the Room 2014-03-06T01:03:32Z I have been dancing so long that the stylized specificity of ballet, even when painful, makes sense to me. ‘How Do You Do?’ On Being a Gentleman in 21st-Century Ballet 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Alam doesn’t dwell in the specificity of apocalypse, which has been the obsession of writers since the Flood. What Happens When a Vacation Goes Wrong — and Not in a Funny Way? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z It is unashamedly the first best of British-Hyphen novelists, and even within "British" , it seems as if writers are keen to explore the specificities of regionalism rather than the bland Tescopolis. How to choose the Best Young British Novelists 2013-04-16T12:43:52Z So while there is a degree of abstraction that appeals to modern eyes, there is also an emotionally gripping, real-life specificity. Art Review: Metro Show and Editions/Artists’ Book Fair 2013-01-24T22:27:36Z Despite the wildness of the film, it stays grounded thanks to its specificity. The baptism of Nic Cage in the bloodbath of “Mandy” 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Like the experiences portrayed on the show, wardrobes are often imbued with autobiographical specificity. On This Hit Show, the Clothes Make the ‘Girls’ 2013-01-02T21:41:52Z But this cast’s chemistry and performances, particularly from Ms. Ambrose and Mr. Ebert, create a comparable specificity, demonstrating their own spin on the efficient loathing of a failing New York marriage. Amazon’s Literary Forays for TV: ‘The Interestings’ and ‘The Last Tycoon’ 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z But in their search for points of specificity, it became obvious that tapping into their lived experience was the best approach. "The Patient" creators on using Holocaust imagery when antisemitism is spiking: "It feels true" 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Brooks, a former bodybuilder, warns that if you are going for pronounced biceps or some other look or shape, the integrated nature of body-weight exercises won’t provide that specificity. Why you should try body-weight exercises 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Her poetic vignettes, set along the way from Southeast Asia to Quebec, bring specificity to the familiar immigrant journey. ‘The Testament of Mary,’ by Colm Toibin, and More 2012-11-28T21:05:09Z The way a musician records a verse or song 50 times to get it right, Taylor gave her performance the same level of specificity. Teyana Taylor Has a Story to Tell 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z One bone of contention for Balagia is that the No Refusal law itself is written with the specificity of a coloring book. A DWI offer you can’t refuse 2012-11-23T00:00:00Z Julie Dash—who had already directed a short film, “Illusions,” centered on the absence of black artists and their stories in classic-era Hollywood—approaches history with an astounding blend of subjectivity and specificity. Three Boldly Personal Visions of Black History in a Great New Film Series 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z “I love the specificity of academic dance — the articulation of arms, legs, feet,” he said later. Jean-Christophe Maillot Brings ‘Lac’ to City Center 2014-03-13T22:17:53Z That specificity may be part of the reason there’s never been a large scale retrospective of 80s indies before, and why these forthcoming weeks are so exciting. First 80s indie film fest shows movies that paved the way for the indie boom 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z If you change those things, it would dilute the play: specificity is its power. Nick Clegg's private (musical) passions 2010-05-04T21:15:00Z But it was a surprise at first, given the specificity of the character in this film, to see Daniel Kaluuya get the part. Jordan Peele on making a hit comedy-horror movie out of America’s racial tensions 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Britney Young: What really draws me to both projects and makes me love them is that with all the specificity in them, they’re so universal and so relatable. “Women’s stories are about kicking ass” 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Her style is ostensibly expressionist, loosely and sometimes sketchily painted but almost always given a weird specificity, thanks to an eye or mouth rendered with photo-realistic precision. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The pleasures of these series lie in the specificity of the tasks and the passion of the contestants, which both spring from and compensate for the shows’ formulae. The Depressingly Realistic Workplaces of “Sell It Like Serhant” 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z But the highlights of the new court papers are more specificity about what is alleged to be a copyright infringement. Studio Claims Crowdfunded 'Star Trek' Film Infringes Klingon Copyright 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The menu’s homeyness — those glazed doughnuts — and its specificity made her think of all the meals she had prepared and shared with her family. Julie Green, Artist Who Memorialized Inmates’ Last Suppers, Dies at 60 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z “Casting a mixed race character with a white actress undermines the specificity of the mixed race and Black American experience,” Bell wrote on Instagram. Jenny Slate and Kristen Bell Leave Voice Roles as Black Characters 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z The novel isn't particularly thought provoking, and it offers little in the way of the social commentary and specificity of place that put Nordic noir on the map. Revenge and corruption plays a part in Jo Nesbo's thriller 'The Son' 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z “But in its loving, fierce specificity, this book on how to die is also a blessedly saccharine-free guide for how to live.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Between choreographer Cassie Crump’s specificity, music director Stephan Terry’s sizzling arrangement and the ensemble’s abandon, resistance is all but impossible. A rollicking remembrance of Hollywood's place in pop history 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The painting allows African, indigenous, and European forms to jostle with and transform one another without losing their cultural specificity. The Art of Caribbean Exchange, in Gold, Stone or Hardwood 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z When he was shopping it around, major studios balked at the specificity of a movie about a ’90s-pop-culture-obsessed geek growing up in Inglewood. A guide to making Hollywood less white, by the filmmakers who have done it 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z But her story, told with searing specificity, is just one narrative thread in a book that reflects on the possibility — or necessity — of finding common cause in individual suffering. ‘The Undying,’ an Extraordinary and Furious New Memoir About Cancer 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z “Matthew’s story was very sincere, so we wanted a specificity in how the characters acted vs. the stereotypes we were trying to avoid,” Smith said. ‘Hair Love’: 3 Men and a Little Girl (With a Lot of Curls) 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z They currently operate 777 bookstores by his count, a number he whips out with startling specificity. Rueben Martinez, winner of the Innovator's Award at the L.A. Times Book Prizes 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The spare flexibility that O’Hara introduces mostly works, even if the libretto’s specificity of place and situation gets sacrificed in this more abstract vision. Review: After 36 Years, a Malcolm X Opera Sings to the Future 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z “If we give some freedom, it’s actually a backdoor to finding the specificity of the detail.” A Trisha Brown Masterpiece, ‘Reset’ on an Inclusive Troupe 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z But as a regular of the festival, I’ve always been struck by its ambitious bridging of cultural specificity, social justice and the avant-garde, making it an exciting, expansive and revelatory cinematic experience. At the BlackStar Film Festival, a Revelatory Understanding of Cinema 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z The songs resonate with an emotional specificity that make them hard to replicate. Fleetwood Mac: magic you just can't cover 2012-07-25T15:09:00Z It’s the only part of her book when she starts writing from a defensive crouch and loses some of her scathing specificity. An Undercover Trip Into the Rageful Worlds of Incels and White Supremacists 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z In particular, the relationships between women — sisters, friends, colleagues — are beautifully drawn, dense with detail and specificity. ‘Notes on an Execution’ Isn’t Your Typical Serial Killer Novel 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z But nothing about Adams’s novel is simple, as it unfurls its catchy premise with surprising wisdom and specificity. Four Winter Romance Novels Find Love in Hopeless Places 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z That specificity meant weaving into the adaptation the concept of jugalbandi performance, a type of Indian duet. Onstage in Brooklyn, ‘Monsoon Wedding’ Tries to Capture the Film’s Spirit 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z As with the porcelain leaves, the images in the woven installation occupy a middle ground between detailed specificity and generalized memory. Pacific Standard Time exhibition at the Fowler traces the power of sacred plants in Brazil 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z The specificity with which Dessau responded to such varied sources is something that the baritone Dietrich Henschel also identifies, and prizes, in the composer’s works. A New Album Reflects a Composer’s Stubborn Versatility 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z If “Sanford and Son” and “Good Times” and “The Jeffersons” were not quite the first sitcoms to feature African-Americans, they sought to do so with far more specificity and complexity than ever before. Norman Lear sits down with Salon: “Trump is the middle finger of the American right hand” 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z In that specificity there’s something universal, but also there’s a statement on the black experience. Barry Jenkins on ‘Moonlight,’ a Tale of Black America and Personal Adversity 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Coelen, the executive producer, hopes “Queer Love,” in both its relatability and specificity, is able to “lowers barriers between people in some way.” ‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ Is a TV Rarity With Familiar Drama 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Kulick preferred an approach that declined to change place names or alter text, while Ms. Pinkins, he wrote, called for greater specificity. Star of ‘Mother Courage’ Quits in Creative Dispute 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Hart, who wrote the script with Jordan Horowitz, sketches a world diminished by its altered climate with a shivery dramatic specificity. “Fast Color,” Reviewed: A Superhero Movie That Pays Close Attention to Ordinary Life 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z “When you take away the specificity of people’s lineages, you take away the variety of human existence.” Perspective | A star opera singer is changing classical music with a radical idea: Listening 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z But the site specificity goes deeper: “Monochromatic Light” closely echoes the instrumentation and the mournful, glacial style of Morton Feldman’s “Rothko Chapel,” written for the space soon after it opened in the early 1970s. A Work of Mourning Comes to New York, With No Rothkos in Sight 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z I agree with you that decreasing the level of specificity is important for pacing. Building the alternate-universe New York: Novelists Seth Fried and K Chess in conversation 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Add to all this Taylor’s deeply rooted understandings of the rarefied worlds of both provincial grad school life and biochemistry in particular, which should inspire envy in every writer striving for specificity. Jeremy O. Harris: Brandon Taylor ‘Subjugates Us With the Deft Hand of a Dom’ 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z One monologue, in which a woman describes an assault by her ex-husband, is forceful in the horrors of its specificity. Review: ‘She’ Brings Stories of Sexual Violence to the Stage 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z But despite that specificity of time and location — and a milieu of predominantly white, educated people — they have achieved broad resonance, including international adaptations and imitations. Richard Nelson’s New Play Closes a Chapter of Theater History 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Its uncommon specificity is severe, ruling out apologies and explanations. Review: Ohad Naharin’s ‘Last Work’ Isn’t 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z The result is a bittersweet family portrait that, though relatable, lacks the specificity that makes for truly universal cinema. ‘Africa’ Review: Aging and its Discontents 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z They wrote about immigrant foods with deference and sensitivity, and importantly, with specificity, distinguishing between regional customs and flavors, and incorporating history, culture and politics into their assessments. Soleil Ho is a young, queer woman of color who wants to redefine food criticism 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z The idiosyncratic specificity and dark humor of Presley’s lyrics were what originally drew in Monroe and Lambert. Country’s Fierce Supergroup Pistol Annies Returns, Humor Intact (and Baby on the Way) 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z In the past, Costello has allowed his songs to be more loosely allusive, so why the sudden specificity? Elvis Costello 2010-10-16T23:04:00Z In any case, there have been no outright denials from any party about the alleged crime Erdely reported, a rarity given the relative specificity of the allegations and the enormous impact of the story. Sabrina Rubin Erdely, woman behind Rolling Stone’s explosive U-Va. alleged rape story Having that perspective an adult sometimes can maybe bring more specificity to a performance, more nuance to a performance. Nasim Pedrad finds her inner boy as "Chad": "It’s such a universal notion to just want to belong" 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z But there’s a lot of variance in my specificity.” Michael Cyril Creighton, Actor Without Limits 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z But how many equally suitable if not better filmmakers were never even considered for projects that could have been vastly improved by the specificity of their visions and voices? Amid calls for gender equity in Hollywood, the stakes are high. 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z MT: It's a specificity of time place with foods like the rainbow cookie, while pizza and French fries are really anywhere and everywhere. Rachel Antonoff details her love for food, fashion and their inextricable connection 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z But Mr. D’Rivera and his partners bring a cultural specificity to their arrangements, advancing wild theories of connection. Review: Paquito D’Rivera in Concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z “But if I can achieve specificity and precision in the acting — well, I wanted to see if that’s possible. ‘Rosenkavalier’ showed me, at least, that it wasn’t a bad idea to pursue that. Christoph Waltz, Directing Opera, Moves From Tarantino to Verdi 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z But Ms. Jones’s talent for bringing alive voices of such piercing specificity helped me overlook the main problem that I had with the show. Review: ‘Sell/Buy/Date,’ Sarah Jones’s Futuristic Look at Sex Workers 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z The power was there, the ideas were there, but the specificity of feeling was not. Review | To start NSO residency, Elder beguiles with words, not tones 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z “When we lose businesses that are not chains, we lose specificity and difference.” Everybody Goes to Burger Heaven 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Now it seems that the specificity of your attack on the guitar — whether and how you strum a chord or pick a note — determines the texture of the orchestral sounds that result from it. Music Review: Pat Metheny Brings His One-Man Band to Town Hall 2010-05-23T21:29:00Z If the buyers like what they see, producers have the other eight episodes at the ready—and the ability, essentially, to demonstrate to TV honchos with rare specificity exactly how a season will play out. Sundance 2015: Can an animated animal show change the way TV is made? 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Butz’s portrait of the alcoholic Michael, with his whipsaw changes of mood, combines idiosyncratic specificity with textbook exactness. Review: ‘The Whirligig’ Is a Feast for Actors, by a Knowing Chef 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z The general ban on fanciness seems to have banished specificity as well. Review: An ‘As You Like It’ That Is More Prose Than Poetry 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z That sequence combines telling, quirky detail with an elliptical openness, a respect for both the specificity and mystery of life that Mr. Stephens sustains so beautifully in “Harper Regan,” first produced a decade after “Bluebird.” | 'Bluebird': He?ll Take You Anywhere You Want to Go 2011-08-23T02:01:00Z There's a spectrum in art, with specificity at one end and ambiguity at the other. David Mitchell: 'In a libretto you just write "storm"' 2013-03-25T20:40:00Z And in that specificity, I think a lot of people have found a lot of takeaways. Joel Kim Booster on his radically transparent comedy, critiques and "the Bechdel test of it all" 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z However, Zambra turns sentiment and nostalgia into occasions for humor, vulnerability and truth by deploying a frank specificity. For the Art of Love and the Love of Art 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z The job description claims that responsibilities will include acting as a UK cultural consultant and highlighting UK cultural specificities and taste preferences. Playing tag: Netflix will pay me to watch films all day. Only catch – they're Dyer 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z "It was a unique opportunity for us to craft something to that level of specificity. We actually incorporated many fragments from the cast and their families into the set." Behind the scenes of You Can’t Take It With You on Broadway 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Olyphant can be evangelical about Mr. Leonard’s stories, praising the specificity that breathes believability into gonzo characters and situations. Television: Timothy Olyphant in Elmore Leonard?s ?Justified? on FX 2012-01-05T12:00:00Z Couvreur, of Netflix France, said that another of the series’s strengths is that it does not try to sand out its Gallic specificities. ‘Lupin’ Took the World by Stealth. Part 2 Can’t Be So Sneaky. 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z The specificity of the show’s vision allows us to see black women making mistakes without pathologizing them. ‘Insecure’ Season 1, Episode 5: Making the Cut 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Describing various people and situations in his hometown of Nyack, New York, Wyland June’s excitement and specificity reignites my interest in storytelling, and the people that are the source of the stories. Theatre, Film, and Culture of 2014 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Within the work, the balance between specificity and freedom shifts constantly. Make Music New York’s Main Act Is Cardew’s ‘Great Learning’ 2013-06-20T22:28:32Z If that wasn't vague, the secondary definition leaves us with less specificity: "Something resembling or suggesting such a drink as being a mixture of often diverse elements or ingredients." So what's a cocktail, really? 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Later works seem to loosen up, though without losing the specificity of the dance hall; in 1983’s “Crowns of Dub,” heads and headgear are absorbed into a churning central mass. What to See in New York City Galleries This Week 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z This is how the series achieved a Mad Libs kind of cultural specificity while remaining essentially timeless, acquitting itself remarkably well to the arising streaming generation in the process. Rewatching the X-Files: my 50-episode binge 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Having trained at the School of American Ballet in the Balanchine style, which emphasizes speed, vigorous athleticism and syncopated musicality, Bross had to adapt to the specificities of Ashton's style. Los Angeles Ballet's 'Romeo and Juliet' a happy alliance between dance families 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z “Her story, told with searing specificity, is just one narrative thread in a book that reflects on the possibility — or necessity — of finding common cause in individual suffering.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The unruffled disposition masks the insistent specificity of his vision. Front Row: The Dries Van Noten Exhibition in Paris 2014-03-06T00:30:31Z Petty manages to imbue this perfect song with enough specificity and antic poignancy that it still, after all these years, feels more personal than anthemic. 16 Songs to Soundtrack Your Fourth of July Barbecue 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Plaza and Kendrick work hard to infuse these stereotypes with specificity, but the strain shows. “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates” and the Death of the Hollywood Comedy 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z “Derry” reveled in its specificity, a comic precision that led to a sense of universality. Best TV Shows of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The note, despite its specificity, does not necessarily reflect the jurors’ eventual verdict — it could have been posing a hypothetical scenario or could simply reflect their confusion over the complicated charges. Harvey Weinstein jury suggests it’s deadlocked on two counts, unanimous on others in sexual assault case 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z And then you realize the specificity of the work the actors had done, creating a world so strong that it induces the behavior. ‘The Godfather’ Explained in Seven Quotes 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z “You talked about people cheating. You talked about womanizing. You talked about roving eyes. But I don’t think you thought about the level of specificity that we ended up hearing about.” The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal was embarrassing to talk about — but changed how we discuss sex 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z All this specificity adds up to an aura of ambiguity, completely open to the viewer’s interpretation that is De Forest’s parting gift. Roy De Forest’s Greatness Shines Even in a Virtual Display 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Serpa is a lithe singer who never seems limited by the specificity of her phrasing and ideas. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Their delicacy and specificity are not usual to their sources, confirming the notion that older art is always a candidate for further use if the talent is there. What to See in New York City Galleries This Week 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z But the Ballez founder has worked with each performer to add touches of autobiographical specificity, so that the production, Pyle says, speaks to “the dancers’ histories, and ways of coping — the ways they’ve suffered.” This LGBTQ ‘Giselle’ celebrates individuality, putting a spotlight on non-inclusiveness in classical ballet 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Undercover of the Night is good fun and free of the ennui that sits so heavily on latterday Stones material, though the lack of specificity in the lyrics was derided on the track's 1983 release. Readers recommend: Songs about the police - the results 2011-03-24T16:42:45Z But that will always be a difficult needle to thread, because the need to work on an elevated scale often destroys the quirkiness and character-driven specificity of a good comedy. Too many sequels, too much money: why did so many comedies flop in 2016? 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z It’s all about the specificity of that—that’s what her act is. Mitch Hurwitz digs deep on “Lady Dynamite” — and gives “Arrested Development” details: “We’re ready to go at a moment’s notice” 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Every day, with remarkable specificity, Trump sets an example of the kind of person we desperately hope our children will never grow up to resemble. Raising an Un-Trump: Don't just shield your kids from Donald Trump — use him as a teaching tool 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z The parents' group said it found not only an increase in gore from other studies it has conducted over 18 years but a greater specificity and darkness to the violence. Report shows persistence of TV violence 2013-05-01T13:39:09Z The "What if" creators say that they believe the specificity of the film's personalities and dialogue transcend the fact that these are struggles we've seen before. 'What If's' Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Dowse try to elevate the rom-com 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z How do you balance the specificity of the experience of growing up Chinese- American with the constraints of a sitcom? Nahnatchka Khan on ‘Fresh Off the Boat,’ Chinese New Year and Michael Chang 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Here, in a far smaller venue, there is a closer perspective to assess the text, which is both accomplished -- Mamet’s use of opaque motivation, withheld details and rhythmic specificity remains razor-sharp -- and frustrating. 'Anarchist's' artful words don't make satisfying drama 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Most documentaries are produced like feature films, and that kills its specificity. Film: ?Babies? Documentary From Balm?s Chabat 2010-05-08T02:54:00Z Technically it’s set in 2005, but that is established via titles and music only, not through any other kind of specificity. Review: ‘Looking For Alaska’ but Finding Talky Teens 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z A man runs into a fellow who seems to embody, with eerie specificity, the life he chose not to live. Review: David Ives, in ‘Lives of the Saints,’ Mixes Gags and Philosophy 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z “The affectionate specificity of the portrait she offers is one of the book’s real pleasures.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z What he hasn’t dropped is his focus on the specificity of Petipa’s style. In ‘Harlequinade,’ Gestures Dance, and Dances Tell Stories 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Nearly all of these are displayed with the paintings at the Guggenheim, surrounding their calm specificity with history’s chaos. The Guggenheim Shows First On Kawara Retrospective 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Again we see the play between almost inchoate mark-making and stunning specificity: An undefined face is rubbed into the surface with charcoal, but its hand is picked out, clearly, with purple crayon. Jennifer Packer: Painting as an Exercise in Tenderness 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z But what amazes me is how studiously Schweblin shuns this low-hanging fruit, pushing the book’s thematic content into the background and spotlighting instead the intensity and specificity of her characters’ inner lives. The Cute Little Devices Are Watching You 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z The movie is also Bergmanesque in its geographical specificity, with the brownstones and storefronts of gentrified Brooklyn, its vestigial and picturesque touches of grunginess, coming to life with an ironically hermetic charm. Highlights from the 2017 Sundance Film Festival 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Sometimes this sort of specificity is an express train to success, and sometimes the obstacle that knocks the train off the track. Critic’s Notebook: Young Thug’s ‘Black Portland’ Extends His Reputation 2014-02-05T21:42:57Z If it lacks the focus and the specificity of his acclaimed “Factory Complex,” this new installation nevertheless succeeds in evoking the traumas of life after war, through images both real and surreal. Im Heung-soon Explores the Horrors Women Endure in War 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z “Better yet, her jokes sing with specificity and an understanding of children.” Amy Krouse Rosenthal, author of best-selling children’s books, touching farewell essay, dies at 51 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z The result is often an interpretation rich in specificity and color, to a degree that can impress even seasoned musicians. Louis Langrée Wraps Up a Quietly Transformative Era of Conducting 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z All of this happened a long time ago, of course, but in spite of its historical specificity, “BPM” never feels like a bulletin from the past. Review: ‘BPM (Beats Per Minute)’ Captures the Fierce AIDS Fight 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z It’s the political specificity of The Thick of It’s situations that give it bite. The Morning After: Back Into The Thick of It 2012-09-10T11:32:30Z Then there are the new classic line dances, like the Cupid Shuffle and the Wobble, that seem somehow universal, devoid of their geographic specificity but part of the larger black collective memory. Ten Years of Swag Surfin’ 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Like all ensemble dramas, “Rise” has a lot of characters and plotlines to service, and the level of specificity and freshness in each narrative isn’t consistent. Review | ‘Rise’ is a good-enough version of the old standby: Appealing kids put on a show 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Something similar happened with "Lemonade" despite the meticulous analysis of the visual album's cultural specificity. Is Netflix's "Bo Burnham: Inside" our lockdown "Lemonade"? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z For casting the show, we had some specificity in the way the characters were written, but then we told Allison Jones, who was our casting director, just cast a wide net. Kal Penn on why Democrats are losing and what constitutes a patriotic comedy 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z We wanted to keep as much specificity in the moments, in the emotional moments, as possible, without feeling like we had any kind of allegiance to say something about a general subject, you know? Terence Nance on “Random Acts of Flyness”: How HBO’s most daring show gets made 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Talusan describes such experiences with unadorned prose that conveys a startling specificity. Documenting Undocumented Lives in ‘The Body Papers’ 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z That mix of specificity and freedom corresponds to the show’s narrative style. “Sex Education,” Season 2: The Doctor Is In 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Now “Beef,” “Shortcomings” and “Joy Ride” have helped further emphasize the not-a-monolith refrain, in part with even greater specificity. For Asian American Actors, Playing a Hot Mess Is Liberating 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z He has received thousands of such words, official and not, from around the world, which gives his work both a specificity and a universality. Review: ‘Landmarks,’ a Book on Language and Landscape 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z And I was reminded that in his grasp of the specificity and ultimate elusiveness of human motives, Mr. Frayn is - dare I say it? - almost Shakespearean. ArtsBeat: In London, a 'Henry V' That Doesn't Take Sides 2012-06-27T15:15:09Z “Catching Feelings” starts to sag a little at this point; cultural specificity or no, the spectacle of a man exploding his own life for no good reason is a familiar one. In ‘Set It Up’ and 2 Other Netflix Comedies, No One Emerges Unscathed 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The ones I'm attracted to are archetypal, they touch on primal emotions stripped of all specificity. Anaïs Mitchell on Child Ballads: 'They're so beautiful, so strange and weird. That's the poetry of it' 2013-02-08T07:00:05Z It’s more that for whatever reason, they’ve brought out in her a specificity this album lacks. Review: Kelly Clarkson's 'Piece By Piece' Is a Victory Lap 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Novels can certainly cover plenty of ground, containing hundreds of characters in diverse settings, but they’re still all about specificity. Why There’s No ‘Millennial’ Novel 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z “Entertaining, deeply steeped in the cultural specificity of its characters and searingly political in advocating social change to make the depicted characters’ lives better.” Other stories: why now is the time for a new movie canon – chosen by women 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z “Cinema is a specificity of vision,” he said. Critic’s Notebook: Soderbergh Explores a New Medium 2013-05-01T21:34:35Z That language is very vague and lacks specificity. "Apocalypticism": Polling expert reveals the root of "panic among conservative White Christians" 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z In other words, the 62nd’s emphasis does not have a narrow geographical specificity, such as, say, the defense of the Puget Sound region. This site has my vote for building a new airport | Op-Ed 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z The CAT ruled Gutmann's claim should be certified to continue, but that there was "a lack of clarity and specificity" in the case which needed to be resolved before any trial. Mass lawsuit against Apple over iPhone batteries can go ahead, London tribunal rules 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z In the specificity of her situation — and the trust she builds with the reader — Land exposes the gap between the public perception of poverty and the very different reality in today’s America. Stephanie Land's new memoir takes 'Maid' readers to school — not always in a good way 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z As the Israeli tanks started rolling near Gaza City on Monday, the whispers began to spread — terrifying in their specificity, terrifying in their vagueness. ‘One Would Rather Die With His Family’: Some See No Point in Fleeing Gaza. 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z The specificity of the scenarios and potential countermeasures are being reported for the first time by Reuters. China weighs options to blunt U.S. sanctions in a Taiwan conflict 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z |
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