Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Johnston, seemingly aware of the criticism, claims that Larson’s personality was deliberately created to provoke. Johnston and Van Gregg were influenced by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Michael Herr’s Dispatches, and the pseudo-documentary recreation of the French war in Algeria, The Battle of Algiers, and they do not consider their protagonist a hero, even though some of his opinions and emotions coincide with theirs. Rather, Larson’s preoccupation with the attacks on the U.S., his superficial knowledge of Afghanistan and his frequently cavalier attitude towards collateral damage...
After a year of college, I’d forgotten what Isaac was like. He wasn’t some pseudo-intellectual who wrote long papers on the philosophy of reflections in the art of the Japanese garden. My brother was a young man who liked short skirts, violent comics, and a second order of ramen. He also taught himself Japanese, gave up bus seats for ladies, and knew when my backpack was too heavy. We went to Japan so Isaac could find himself, but it was I who needed to find him. As July drew towards...
...delegates were working alongside local residents to “clean up” the park, which had been closed temporarily in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 tragedy. They were almost outnumbered by members of the media eager to photograph and report on the morning’s pseudo-event. The “clean up,” as far as we could observe, was a farce, consisting mostly of sweeping and raking the handful of leaves that had gathered and clumped in the grass over the summer...
...Outfoxed, a “guerrilla” (read: low-budget) documentary about the persistent conservative bias in Fox News Channel’s coverage. A worthy cause indeed! Gathered at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium (66 West 12th Street) is a smattering of pseudo-celebrities and political medium-wigs, here to take in the latest topical cinematic tirade...
...false arguments marshaled by those who oppose same-sex marriage is not how absurd they are, how tired, how hollow-sounding—it’s that, with logic that so half-heartedly masks the irrational and old-fashioned bigotry underneath it, conservatives bothered to put on the pseudo-sensical...