The expressionism here is not Neo-, exceperhapsaps in the case of Arnaldo Rabell's obese, ropily impastoed male nudes in mysterious situations.
"We have a lot of mysterious situations in life in Italy," said Antonio Sellerio, whose family owns the Sicilian publishing house, Sellerio, that introduced Inspector Montalbano.
And then, to add to an already mysterious situation, the fleet roared down Broadway again at 10 o'clock.
Part of the fun is the swirling disorientation of the opening scenes, in which each sector of the screen comes to life with a perfectly ordinary, utterly mysterious situation, the relationships among which are far from apparent.
Among the dramatists of the last century, Beckett is his only serious rival in terms of theatrical influence; and it is a measure of Pinter's power that early on in his career he spawned the adjective "Pinteresque" suggesting a cryptically mysterious situation imbued with hidden menace.
Among the dramatists of the last 50 years, Samuel Beckett is his only serious rival in terms of theatrical influence, and it is a measure of Pinter's power that early on he spawned the adjective "Pinteresque", suggesting a cryptically mysterious situation imbued with hidden menace.
"We knew at some point in the show that someone is going to get sad, or there's going to be a mysterious situation, so we'll figure out a way that we're going to come up with some sort of motif that may work," says Dixon. "We did a lot of that work up front and some of it ended up being able to drop into place".
While Cunningham et al. [ 15] reported that the most likely cause of vulture decline was a novel infectious disease, Pain et al. [ 16] said that although there could be more than one factor responsible for such a mysterious situation, the role played by contaminants cannot be entirely ruled out.
So too for Miwa Yanagi's eerily futuristic pictures of groups of beautiful, identically dressed Japanese girls arranged in mysterious, possibly ceremonial situations (at Kodama and at Almine Rech).
There was actually nothing mysterious about the situation at all.
"It was subdued after the first two deaths, but it rose again in 2001 and 2002, when you have a similar situation: mysterious deaths and, more to the point, no investigation.
