Word: staticity
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...contrived; granted, photography is somewhat of an artifice itself, but in these instances, doubly so. Frozen fight scenes captured in daguerreotypes lack animated force and physical drive, and vignettes depicting cooing lovers have been robbed of amorous depth. It becomes clear that daguerreotypes are best left to focus on static portraiture...
...task. This 19-year-old is headed to the Olympics this month and to Harvard next year. She keeps in touch with family and friends like the average soon-to-be college student—with cell phones and e-mail—but it gets difficult with the static and raucous background noise on the bus of the U.S. women’s ice hockey team...
...support and nothing whatever to do. An equally bored-looking cat, if cats can look bored, hesitates between the two of them. The very air is congested with the excessive patterns of a middle-class interior, with its ugly mock-Henri II furniture. It manages to be monumentally static, miserable and funny, all at once...
...will probably plug in a TV and show lots of static and have kids playing four-square to show what students have had to resort to,” Espy said...
...hallowed halls of museums we bless the lucky few whose is art is worthy of eternal praise. Elevated above the ordinary, this art defies the insidiousness of time and endows the great artist with a kind of immortality. We stand back and admire the finished product as a static entity. But what do we do if the masterpiece is a 30-year old decomposing lump of chocolate in the shape of lion? What if the work of art changes with time and will eventually disintergrate entirely? And how can food, such an ordinary part of life, be transformed into something...