Word: artless
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...announce a Prix du Jury (essentially third place) to another Asian film about the rapture of lost love. Unfortunately, it was a fairly dreadful one: Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul?s ?Tropical Malady,? in which one man falls in love with another and tracks him through the jungle. This artless, plotless film had, according to Tarantino, ?the strongest defenders on the Jury.? And the strongest of those was apparently Tsui Hark...
...girls' dad on Full House), we get to observe the mortification of some fine comic actors: Eugene Levy as a truant officer who thinks he's Dirty Harry, Andrea Martin as a Senator, Andy Richter as a klutzy villain and Darrell Hammond as the hapless victim of the twins' artless physical comedy...
Given the rigorous informality and artless effervescence required by the ceremonies of modern politics, John Kerry's rise to prominence is difficult to explain. His is a solemn New England sensibility. I have never seen him experience a moment of spontaneous wit; his nonspontaneous attempts at humor are ghastly. He is not a very compelling speaker. Indeed, when attempting to answer the most basic of questions--his position on the war in Iraq, for example--he tends to entwine himself in endless codicils and subclauses. And yet the Senator from Massachusetts breezed through the Democratic presidential primaries this year...
...long run no criticism of instruction is sound which does not also recognize that the formal instructor is responsible for very few of the personal aptitudes and aversions of the individual student; and no execration heaped upon the head of students is just without the knowledge that artless instruction can bar the progress of many an incipient aptitude...
...Left Bank, has few friends. And in the 19th arrondissement, a working-class district in the east of the city, a forest of high-rise apartment blocks has made a cruel joke of the Place des Fêtes, a "festival square" where an infernal wind whips across an artless expanse of concrete. More of that? No thanks, say many Parisians. "Do we really have to leap into an infantile contest of verticality with other world cities to see who has the most beautiful and biggest?" asks Jean-François Blet, a Green member of the city council...