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Other examples of beautiful songcraft include “Cards to Your Heart” and the album’s lead single, “Paper Romance,” both of which exhibit a defiant sophistication and verve. “Paper Romance,” in particular, bristles with a beguiling otherworldliness; a combination of haunting vocals, a menacing synth background and some uplifting xylophone flourishes. This is the new Groove Armada at its most unique and bold, and progress with a subconscious, bouncing musicality; a seemingly more refined, updated version of their past house identity...
...peculiarly anarchist decade because of Prohibition. You have this brand new constitutional amendment. You have the social upheaval that followed World War I. You have this undercurrent of lawlessness that starts running through the decade as people reject the government trying to legislate moral behavior. This really defiant drinking that fosters the rise of massive organized crime. I feel really lucky that the scientists I like invented their field in Jazz Age New York. It's like someone saying, 'Here, take the best theatrical backdrop in the world for your story...
...literary master’s mind. Callahan said he hopes the work will humanize Ellison. Instead of being seen as a self-critical perfectionist, it is Callahan’s wish that Ellison be seen as a good-humored man who loved dogs and children and had a "defiant imagination...
...viewer on a visceral level. Its quiet moments are sublime, packed with unspoken emotion as Andi dances across vertical rock walls, Toni looks out at the dark mountains at night with an expression as inscrutable as the mountains themselves, and the piton hammers into the rock face with a defiant chink...
...center court was the meeting between sophomore Nirasha Guruge and the Bantams’ Pamela Chua. Guruge had to battle her way through the first sets only to be halted in the second and third sets. Chua kept her cool, even after dropping the fourth game to a defiant but tired Guruge, and won the matchup in the fifth set, 9-11, 13-11, 11-9, 7-11, 11-7. This was the second day in a row that Guruge was forced to go to five games, but luck wasn’t on her side this time around...