I cannot speak about Ukraine and the revolting images filmed there but the Poland I have lived in for the past 11 years, while certainly not devoid of problems with tolerance, has made great strides in that area and in my opinion has been unfairly portrayed by the BBC.
Scene after scene, moment after moment, "20th Century Women" evokes what someone in Dorothea's generation would have been expressed as "awwwww" and what younger people today might refer to as "cuteness!" Mills's world is certainly not devoid of pain, but it's leached of bitterness, leached of conflict, leached of aggression, leached of hostility; the pain and the trauma are leached of consequence.
Regardless of the approach, a significant amount of labour is involved that is certainly not devoid of human errors.
The cyclical and linear approaches are matters of emphasis rather than mutually exclusive alternatives, and the scriptural traditions upon which Augustine relies are certainly not devoid of cyclical motifs [e.g. Ecclesiastes 3.1 8], nor does Augustine himself embrace one approach wholly to the exclusion of the other, as even a cursory reading of his Confessions reveals.
The former work on the sediment stabilisation potential of microalgae appears in a new light, since the natural "microalgal mats" investigated were certainly not devoid of heterotrophic bacteria.
Further, the technique is certainly not devoid of variability between centers with variations in tissue preservation, fixation, and staining.
This analysis is certainly not devoid of a circularity problem, as part of the reference fungal taxonomy used here was likely established using numerical methods that convey implicit or explicit assumptions on the definition of a fungal taxon.
These rural areas are, in Flanders, certainly not devoid of environmental pollution and might (see discussion) even show some higher exposures [ 5, 23] due to certain local habits such as burning waste, inappropriate use of pesticides and consumption of self-grown food [ 24].
Many feel Long Run's very best days are behind him and they may be right; certainly, he has been devoid of his old sparkle so far this season.
