Paradoxically we can talk about beauty like this because we are less, not more, convinced of its value.
Because we are less sure of what fiction is "saying," we are less pre-emptively defended against it or biased in its favor.
We become more vulnerable to injuries as we get older, in part because we are less agile than we used to be, and we have also lost some of our former bone and muscle mass.
It's not that we are unable to control ourselves because we've run out of fuel; it's that we choose not to control ourselves because we're less willing to do so.
"Awake" overflows with sly references like this, and it feels fuelled as well by the audience's familiarity with the clichés of the genre: when Britten's partner wonders why he suspects that a suicide is actually a murder, we know that Britten is right, if only because we're less than fifteen minutes into the show, so someone must be lying.
Try not to eat alone Though there is research suggesting that light eaters will eat more when they dine with others (probably because they spend more time at the table), for people prone to overeating, communal meals tend to limit consumption, if only because we're less likely to stuff ourselves when others are watching.
Romney suggests it can actually be more difficult for a male star to be taken seriously after a nude scene: "Because we're less used to seeing full frontal male nudity in mainstream cinema, it tends to be seen as anomalous, or comic," he said.
It becomes easier to penetrate targets because we are less suspicious about women," Martin Ewi, a researcher with South Africa's Institute for Security Studies (ISS), told the BBC.
THE LEADERS OF CHINA AND RUSSIA MET LAST MONTH AND snarled (especially Boris Yeltsin) at the U.S. Yeltsin is fuming because we are less than enthusiastic about his election-induced-cum-oil-oriented genocidal assault on Chechnya.
BEGETTING DISRESPECT The leaders of China and Russia met last month and snarled (especially Boris Yeltsin) at the U.S. Yeltsin is fuming because we are less than enthusiastic about his election-induced-cum-oil-oriented genocidal assault on Chechnya.
