Word: appealingness
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In fact, this is “politics as usual”—just with a terribly trashy makeover. It’s no wonder cynicism looks so appealing in comparison.
Before television, people used to leave their couches and compare themselves with their neighbors. Now we stay put for an action-packed 22 minutes that is much more appealing than any roommate. The obvious is never asked: Why do I suddenly want Sarah Jessica Parker’s shoe collection...
Read a book or two on media theory and it gets worse. “Television is set up with no motive more sinister than to appeal to the largest possible audience—pretty people tend to be more appealing to look at than non-pretty people,?...
To listen to Daniel A. Dunay ’06 talk—to watch as he strums one hand’s fingertips against the other’s, to nod attentively as he crosses and uncrosses his legs for a few strategically inserted beats of silence?...
Taha's fate demonstrates how, in most Muslim countries, it remains all but impossible to reinterpret for modern times a text considered to be the literal word of God. But in France, home to the largest Islamic community in Europe, an effort is in full swing to separate the eternal...