Word: rote
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Based on her findings, she pushed for including the alphabet in the show. Many had resisted the idea, criticized learning the alphabet as a useless rote exercise...
Singers recording albums of standards face a dilemma not unlike actors contemplating Hamlet: how to launch songs with opening lines nearly as familiar--and potentially as rote--as "To be or not to be" and still sound fresh and spontaneous and not at all like a stale peanut-scented night at the airport Sheraton's cocktail lounge. In this regard, Jeffery Smith, an American expatriate living in Paris, has set himself a real challenge on his first American CD. He has sequenced the songs Lush Life ("I used to visit all the very gay places"), Misty ("Look...
Next time, maybe Unwound will leave the feigned introspection and rote regurgitation at the door and actually strike up a dynamic relationship with the audience...
Unfortunately, the role of Harry Roat calls for an actor (I could stop the sentence right there) who can combine the unflappablecool of John Travolta with the chilly, proteanmalevolence of Richard III. Tarantino's Roatis...well, rote. He smirks. He grimaces as ifsomeone left a Royale With Cheese rottingbackstage. He "disguises" his voice using accentsso inauthentic, they make your high school dramaclub look like the Royal Shakespeare Company. Hegleefully brandishes a long, serrated knife withall the panache of a gawky video store clerk. Ifnothing else, you can tell he's having a goodtime...
...discuss with classmates. This feeling of isolated individualism carried over into the academic realm. Rarely were we encouraged as students to ponder methods of inquiry in depth at an early stage in the learning process. Only on a cursory level was investigation and imagination fostered--there was always rote memorization, an atmosphere of discipline and a strictly structured day to inhibit free thought...