But that description at once melodramatizes and banalizes "Dept. of Speculation".
Nauman and Serra addressed a culture in which "artist" was becoming a job description, at once secure and drained of meaning.
When clues emerge that the family is not what it seems, the filmmakers follow Nev to Michigan to unravel the mystery of who, exactly, he's been corresponding with.The film has been called "creepy"—a description at once appropriate and insufficient.
One of Bakker's gifts is an ability to place us in a landscape so utterly that the damp begins to seep through the soles of our shoes, yet the terrain is never romanticised and his descriptions are at once attentive and economical.
Lest the film's description sound at once saccharine and morbid, rest assured that "Breathing" is neither an oddball triumph of the human spirit nor another artily austere, stacked-deck entry in withheld redemption.
These contemporary observations and descriptions present Tubman at once in her ordinariness and her extraordinariness, render her as both real and impossibly heroic, and offer us the best opportunity to begin to understand how and why Harriet Tubman "rocked the world".
The reader should not be suprised to find that for Mellors the greatest intimacy is anal intercourse, of which Lawrence provides a description that is at once prudish and rhapsodic.
In an actual story, you don't want to put in a lot of description, especially not at once.
The airy scrupulousness of that description, its hybrid tone (at once mocking and celebratory), its catalogue structure, even its little linkage of present to past, are characteristic of the writing throughout, in which a witty, well-informed intelligence is constantly at play, listing its own irrepressible flow of observations.
"I am gay and that is just fine," he proclaimed in 2001, becoming the first candidate for state premier to out himself, and the stigma seemed gone at once.His description of Berlin as "poor but sexy" stuck.
