We're talking about the absolutely personal, face-to-face culture of village life.
Having himself just started the BSc in management and leadership in health and social care, MacKay says that being able to fit his studies around his family life is another major advantage, but observes, too, that considerable self-motivation is essential when there is absolutely no face-to-face contact time during the entire period of study.
Absolutely, meeting face-to-face is worth it on occasion.
What makes The Lobster work is Lanthimos's absolutely straight face, his complete conviction in the face of this craziness.
It is our country, and we absolutely must face it," he said.
"God, no, are you kidding?" She laughs loudly, suddenly looking very like her Seinfeld character, Elaine Benes – big eyes, wide smile in the middle of an absolutely symmetrical face.
But it was his natural mode, as in the joke about the electrocuted turkeys: which was a joke, and had a serious point, and was something he actually did, and the whole thing depended on being reported with an absolutely straight face.
All that's missing in this entertaining glorification of the pleasures of cock-rock is a big, American major label rawk! album that boogies, choogles, howls at the moon and does it all with an absolutely straight face, no irony intended, no guilt entertained.
However, many Black and trans people absolutely still face an underlying sense of danger and mistrust every day.
Jamie Owens, London Nowadays it seems people can't just have a drink and enjoy themselves; they have to get absolutely rat-faced.
"There are, right now, sitting thousands of miles away on the western coast of California, a group of men who control this industry who would absolutely straight-faced say to us, 'No you're wrong,'" Beachy said.
