Word: inferiority
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...Here's a movie trivia game I wish I didn't have to play. Is there any major director who has made six consecutive films, each one markedly inferior to the one before? A case can be made that the answer is M. Night Shyamalan. (I'm ignoring Shyamalan's first two features, the cross-cultural Praying With Anger and the juvenile drama Wide Awake, because they were clearly apprentice work and, frankly, they don't fit into my argument...
...want to disappoint." Some practice rooms are lit by just one low-wattage bulb, while the dormitories reek of urine and sweat. There isn't a blade of grass on any of the school's athletic fields. Not that we are allowed to photograph anything the propaganda director considers "inferior aspects" of the school. Other aspects deemed unfit for photography include tattered wrestling mats, an 11-year-old student mopping a gym floor with chilblained hands, even a formation of preteen sharpshooters marching by with rifles propped on their shoulders...
...appear to feel threatened by my bringing up this issue. Furthermore, I have received a stream of insulting and threatening emails calling me, among other things, an “anti-Semite,” a “pussy,” and a “mentally inferior black jew-hater.” Some called for my dismissal. It is difficult to stand up while everyone else is sitting down. One risks the hammer...
...committee that drafted the new Gen Ed rules tried to produce something more innovative than the kind of distribution requirements that other schools have,” he wrote. “In the end, the process generated a product that was innovative but inferior. Unfortunately, it looks like we have little choice now but to live with...
...problem is not that “art” is becoming the inferior “entertainment”—indeed the boundary between the two is often blurry. The important distinction is in the degree and subtlety of thought involved, both that which goes into the creative product and that which it provokes. The stupidity of Shvarts’ and others’ projects stems from the sense that the pure, ugly spectacle is all that there is to be had here. We might as well attend a Victorian freak show or circus...