Word: hyper
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...Sebastian "has that hyper-focus. I called him my little scientist. He would always intensely observe whatever is going on and try to get to the bottom...
...plaque on the wall of him. We take our burgers outside to finish our chat while we eat.He unfolds the wrapping on the burger, takes off the top bun, and applies the mustard and ketchup in the sine waves just like he had demonstrated. We chat between bites about hyper self-awareness and grueling football practice.“You know,” he says, “I’ve always been weary of being a regular somewhere or having a regular. I think it’s the mark of a stagnant life...
...what was necessary to make the work intellectually coherent,” reflected Schachter. “It was very artistically challenging. I personally have a lot of problems with the way that a lot of academics go about music writing: it’s so hyper-intellectualized and specialized that it’s very hard for the so-called uninitiated to appreciate it on an aesthetic level. I have a problem with people who make music ugly just to create a barrier to entry.” Schacter’s piece was performed last Monday in Paine...
...media has been hyper-focused this weekend on the news that more than 1,000 people in Mexico have become infected with Swine flu, also known as Influenza A H1N1. Nearly 90 people have died from the outbreak. The strain appears to have spread to several countries including the United States. One of the most notable pieces of information about this outbreak is that in the U.S. and Canada the cases have been described as "mild...
...repeated appearances aside, the choice of Barry Manilow as a motif works toward the ongoing theme of Jessica at once decrying and embracing the maudlin. Just as she tries to take herself seriously, she’s brought down humorously.Conveyed directly, irony seems only a result of hyper-focused preoccupation with her own life. When the situations she finds herself in are instead rendered from an objective perspective, it ceases to suggest she’s creating the plot-like quality of her life for herself. The use of third person lends an enhancing element of dramatic irony through seeing...