Word: generic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bring you down about my suicide”—and continues, “I won’t beg to put you out about my right to die.” But all this feigned moodiness contrasts with the rather tame and generic rock ambience of the music itself. Throughout, you can’t help but wonder if Smith is singing about a real heartache or just crooning about suicide because that’s what he’s supposed to do. As the album progresses it only creates more confusion. A clear difference between...
...pornographic aspects of this film only undermine the comedy and prove annoyingly vulgar. Smith and Rogen both fumble with the basics, suggesting a bad chemical reaction. The film is primarily underscored by what sounds like a bizarre combination of trance and elevator tunes. The writing is forced, clinging to generic jokes, such as the racist implications of asking a black employee to work on Black Friday. Rogen, known for his improvisational style, is apparently incapable of delivering lines naturally if they’re actually written in a script. Smith relies too heavily on what I like to call...
...Borders who saw the number “16” on my application and, without so much as a glance at my qualifications, tossed it in the shredder for sustainable recycling.So I set my sights lower: ever the ambitious young upstart, I accrued 30 generic applications at even more generic establishments only to have the majority swallowed up and effectively lost forever in some pile on an assistant supervisor’s desk. Occasionally I would hear back, but the response was invariably a flat rejection or, once, a confused call from a hardware store clerk who inexplicably assumed...
...exhibition's curators, sees the wooden sculpture as crucial to understanding the Byzantines' obsession with ceremony and mystery, which he believes were efforts to offset a low-rumbling sense of insecurity. Byzantine figures and icons seem crudely rendered to us now because the artists carefully chose to make them generic and timeless. "If you give a figure a [personalized] resemblance," Cormack explains, "it becomes ephemeral, like its model...
...affected, as will its wholesale operation: small t-shirt design companies like Boston’s Johnny Cupcakes and merchandisers for music groups will likely be forced to shift priorities in an effort to cut costs. Hipsters and middle-aged, middle-class pseudo-hipsters may have to settle for generic brands in order to affordably complete their outfits.At the same time, though, history shows us that we shouldn’t be too quick to write off such a successful brand. In the 30s, during the Great Depression, there was a shift in consumer culture away from products that were...