This seemed like a bafflingly personal response, even to me, until I realized that all the commentary was making me feel old.
A few commentaries were made (see Smalley [1960], pp. 58, 61f, 88-101, 121-32), but not many, since The City of God was never a set text.
In the Talmud, a compendium of Jewish law, lore, and commentary, the statement is made that "He who does not marry is like a murderer and he mutilates (violates) the image of God".
Spoken directly to the audience, running over the action as a commentary, the first-person narrative is made florid and bustling.
Your Feb. 13 news article about the battle between Washington lobbyists to persuade President Clinton to go or not to go to Pakistan was a sad commentary on how foreign policy is made today.
Conclusions about the critical failure mechanisms are drawn and commentary on the overall stability is made.
I've found a special spot between self reflection, social commentary, and photo journalism that is made for social media channels.
Though Wu's new exhibition, On Parole, is more collector-friendly, the biting political commentary remains: The Heritage series is made up of traditional farming tools eaten away as if by termites and set in cases like artifacts; the A Sentence series is made up of light boxes featuring a phrase originally written in Chinese, then made unintelligible through dingbat fonts.
"Manly Games" is Mr. Svankmajer's first piece of unambiguous social commentary, but its heavily didactic nature is made tolerable by humor: it's easily his funniest film.
Over the years they've become a household name for their consistently anarcho-ludicrous sensibility and social commentary, that's made them equally likely to play a pub in Edinburgh as perform at the Venice Biennale.
