What sets her apart is the pure primal aggression with which she lives her life she controls every situation through a terrifying mix of heightened competitive sexuality, simmering violence, and a confidence derived from a dozen or so watermelon Cruisers.
What of last year's breakout hit Rocket League, which is ultra-competitive but has no violence?
And then, on top of that, I was sick of New York itself, this desperately competitive inhuman city with its violence, its coldness, its electric assault on the nerves — perhaps I'm just getting middle-aged — at any rate we went up to the country in Connecticut to visit some friends, and found a house we liked very much, and we are now in the act of buying it. . . .
"Entrepreneurs" who hire or work for the security services or the police have done especially well, because they have the ultimate competitive advantage: a licence for violence.No one worries about conflicts of interest; the notion does not exist.
Sampling a respectable range of beliefs and backgrounds — including a competitive skeet shooter and more than one victim of violence — Ms. Czubek reaches the unremarkable conclusion that women who like guns do so for lots of different reasons.
Competitive individualism, insecurity, neoliberalism: the triad undergirding our penchant for violence.
Our entire culture depends on our collective willingness to act as if violence and depravity are natural by-products of a competitive system, so why should the national pastime be any different?
As the vote has grown too competitive for analysts to call — some polls have Sirisena leading — acts of politically motivated violence have increased ahead of the election.
A competitive dance culture, meant to channel inter-neighborhood rivalries into a more structured activity than street violence, also developed alongside it.
Referee corruption, on-court violence and overall quality of play remain problematic, but the league's lack of competitive balance lingers as a main reason it has not been able to take hold.
