After I hung up, I wondered if perhaps Clementine's sudden-found doll stage had more to do with a yearning for a certain kind of time-honored imaginative play than for any particular brand of doll, a theory supported by evidence I found in her room.
Undine's sole motivating appetite, which is to have a certain kind of flashy good time, may bear little resemblance to Wharton's sophisticated hunger for art and foreign travel and serious talk, but Undine is nevertheless very much like her creator in being a personally isolated woman doing her best to use what she was given to make her way in the world.
"We took the fermentation step out of baking," says Whitley. "Because a certain kind of profiteering mentality regarded time as money, they cut as much time out as possible".
"We have this idea that orgasm is supposed to take a certain amount of time and a certain kind of effort, and if it takes too much time and effort, we start to get impatient and frustrated".
There isn't one way to be black — and Obama's blackness is just as valid as anyone else's — but he's still a certain kind of black, and at times, seems disconnected from his core fan base.
But her most memorable roles also embody a certain kind of woman at a certain time, in films that hinge on the contradictions of autonomy and emotional commitment brought on by the rise of feminism.
"Badges" reward consumption: for those who hit a certain number of a certain kind of restaurants in a given time, or check in after 3 a.m. on a weekday (the "school night badge").
Still, when I consider the vanished bookstores of Manhattan, I mourn not just their passing but the loss of a certain kind of book-buying innocence — a time when where one bought a book did not constitute a political statement, and reading it did not feel like participating in a requiem.
"When I consider the vanished bookstores of Manhattan, I mourn not just their passing but the loss of a certain kind of book-buying innocence — a time when where one bought a book did not constitute a political statement, and reading it did not feel like participating in a requiem".
It was favored by a certain kind of comedy fan at the time, and, in the years since, thanks in large part to the subsequent success of many of the people who worked on it — Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Louis C.K., Robert Smigel, the filmmaker Charlie Kaufman, and others — has remained an object of fascination and discussion in the comedy world.
