But his work engaged me then for the same reason it continues to engage so many practiced philosophers today: it addresses fundamental questions.
Pat refused to engage with me for six months after the visit, until finally I picked up the phone and called her.
It seems he's perfectly content to engage me when it's convenient for him, and while I enjoy his company when this happens, I feel kind of used.
Least engaging for me at the Whitney are works in key with some tendentious discourse or another, which, at present, commonly express nostalgia for nineteen-sixties-type counterculturalism.
But the other aspect of I'm Not There that was engaging for me was that we referenced the independent or European cinema of the 60s and 70s, of the Goddard's and early New Wave films like Breathless and My Life to Live.
John Rennie, the former editor in chief of Scientific American, criticized me for engaging in "false equivalence" — a habit that I, and many others, have long criticized, particularly on science stories.
So, two weeks after we got engaged by our own definition, my grandparents congratulated me for getting engaged.
Years of psychotherapy, in which I have earnestly engaged, still did not prepare me for the sting of this rejection.
I turned to my two relationship counselors for guidance: my best friend Liz, who owes me for getting engaged, and my best friend Craig, who I consider my gay equivalent.
I've not always agreed with those readers for whom attacking the right and defending human liberty have seemed almost the same thing, but I've enjoyed the clash of opinion, felt grateful for the opportunity to express my own, and grateful to you readers for engaging with me – as you so vigorously have.
