The awful untimeliness of his death is revealed by the fact that in May 2010, Norway signed a Letter of Intent with Indonesia, offering a billion dollars, cash on delivery, for reduced greenhouse-gas emissions from avoided deforestation.
Allen's persistence in using the one and only typewriter of his life, and in practicing cut-and-staple editing are certainly curious, quaint, idiosyncratic, even endearing; but they're also proof on the wing of two of Allen's lifelong qualities — untimeliness and hermeticism — as well as of the enduring struggle in his films between writing and experience.
The story spew that constitutes so much of the cinematic churn as well as the episodic series — in other words, audiovisual creation in which the audiovisual is a means, not an end — is matched by a wider and wilder range of invention that, nonetheless, bears the burden of its belatedness and brings an inescapable air of loss and untimeliness to its most forward-looking creations.
Their analysis coalesces with their untimeliness, their curiosity with their isolation.
However, the other likely psychological consequence of democratic untimeliness is complacency.
But Murphy is only fifty-five; I hope that there will be lots of time — and that his own untimeliness, the very mark of art, will itself become the engine of his art.
The search for lost time — and for vanished times — is crucial to his movie's drama, indeed, to its conception; perhaps his is an untimeliness whose time has come.
This untimeliness, the uncanniness and homelessness of Abts' paintings, is important.
The secretary of state takes the position that the law requires the county canvassing boards to certify and report the results of elections in their counties no later than 5 p.m. Nov. 14, 2000, that there are no exceptions to this mandate, and that the secretary is likewise required by law to ignore any untimely received returns unless the untimeliness is caused by a hurricane or other act of God.
For generic reasons, and for their untimeliness.
The term that attaches itself most frequently to such work, in Said's account, is untimeliness.
