Much of Riener's choreography seemed based in this chilling world, but never in an overt way.
He claimed that motivational researchers such as Dichter, with their scientific cunning and Freudian voodoo, had unleashed the "chilling world of George Orwell and his Big Brother".
But the method fell into disrepute after Vance Packard, in the 1957 best seller "The Hidden Persuaders," called it manipulative, comparing it to the "chilling world of George Orwell and his Big Brother".
Nathan playing god, Ava's confinement, and poor, mute, Kyoko (who, in the world of "Blade Runner," would be a "basic pleasure model") are all examples of the chilling world "Ex Machina" paints -- a world devoid of empathy.
For all the deterrent effect such long sentences may have in America's boardrooms, it is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act passed in the wake of the collapse of Enron and WorldCom, which requires that chief executives attest to the accuracy of their accounts that has most noticeably brought a touch of chilling reality to the business world.
Some commentators on the growth of technology see this step as the beginning of a chilling new world in which we have uploaded everything we know quite out of our own heads, becoming fools in the bargain.
Lonely at first in the chill world of Oxford, he moved to London, where he met several other politically minded young Africans; and then Ruth, at a dinner dance, in June 1947.
Then look no further than The Decelerator Helmet, from design student Lorenz Potthast, which might make you look like a member of Daft Punk, but it'll also chill the world out, man.
The current Brits head honcho then heaves into view, announcing that the days of drunken chaos are long behind them, deploying the chilling phrase "world-class professionalism" and assuring a grateful nation that they're in for another year's ghastly stage-managed craziness and death-dealing patter from the host: come one, come all to pop music's own joyless office party.
It was a time of enormous environmental stress, Straus said, when glaciers not only chilled the world, they bound up moisture, resulting in a "polar desert," barren and treeless, across much of Europe that was not covered in ice.
In one scenario, eruption of the lavas of the great Siberian Traps at the time of the P-T boundary (Science, 21 November 2003, p. 1315) would have poisoned the air and water with acid and alternately chilled the world with a sun-screening haze and baked it with the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
