It feels like quite a while since Japan had a similar sway on the mainstream fluxus: another release from the last couple of weeks, Sadako 3D – a comeback for the lank-haired hauntress from Ringu – reminds us it's been nearly 10 years since J-horror reconfigured the genre around the world.
The victim peers across the courtroom, points at a man sitting next to a defense lawyer, and confidently says, "That's him!" Such moments have a powerful sway on jurors who decide the fate of thousands of people every day in criminal cases.
In the Ugandan dancehall scene, however, there are artists who have a major sway on the actions of much of their local community.
All the phthalocyanine compounds are blue to green in color because substituents in their fused benzene rings exert only a minor sway on the color of phthalocyanines.
Interestingly, however, women in the placebo group were more antisocial if they thought they had received testosterone, indicating that our negative attitudes toward the hormone have a powerful sway on behavior.
Well, as many of you likely grew up watching Disney animated films, it is undeniable that Disney has a HUGE sway on young girls (and kids in general).
Early in last year's first Chase race, also at Loudon, a sway bar broke on Busch's car, and he finished 34th.
Each piece — classic, crazy or chaotic — was offered with the same energy, with the chink of bangles, the toss of long dark hair and a swaying walk on what looked like Lucite platform-soled shoes.
Whenever she saw a girl her age stepping from a large new car among the expensive shops in Liberty Market, or glittering in a pair of diamond drops at a wedding, Husna's mind would hang like a swaying fruit on these symbols of wealth, not letting go for hours.
On the page O'Brian's characterizations and the social and political dynamics of an age hold sway; on screen "it is rare, nowadays, to see a story of such scale and complexity filmed with such clarity, swiftness and attention to detail," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
