The dialogue shows a marked contempt for life, but not for speaking, as the words pour forth, Charles Isherwood writes.
The dialogue shows what is so seductive about mathematics, that each step follows inevitably from the previous step, in a way that makes it absolutely beyond doubt or error.
Ms. Holofcener's sharp, witty dialogue shows an ear acutely tuned to the edgy, competitive nuances of contemporary banter, and the movie expertly evokes the rivalry percolating just below the surface of the Markses' relationships.
Instead, this enameled creature, who moves her mouth to artfully arranged recordings of songs and movie dialogue, shows a gimlet eye for the mechanics of the feminine mystique as manufactured in the mid-20th century.
However, the elaborate examination of this very thesis, "one is" (hen esti), by Parmenides himself in the latter part of the dialogue shows that Plato thinks it is not to be understood in any such trivial sense.
A further look at the digital dialogue shows that Mark R. Matthews, a "very conservative" law professor, had earlier commended Bush as a "class act" for his decision not to criticize President Obama during his pre-book release interview with Oprah, or at all during his media tour.
