But three years ago, when McKee was sent Charlie Kaufman's screenplay for "Adaptation," he had a glimpse of another possible (and gloomier) truth: that in the movies of other people's lives we are lucky to get anything better than the role of a character actor, who, with a bundle of evident virtues and vices, bounces for a moment or two off the protagonist.
One strategist told me their failure over healthcare was in trying to sell it as a self-evident virtue - because more people would have access to care - rather than puting the economy first and appealing to people's self interest by branding it the second biggest tax cut in American history.
He was 12 at the time, and tough and cool were self-evident virtues.
And thus when Justice Louis Brandeis famously observed in his pre-judicial career that "sunlight is... the best of disinfectants," he provided a slogan that has subsequently been deployed by countless advocates in urging what appear to them to be the self-evident virtues of openness and full disclosure, and thus of transparency.
In osteosarcoma, soft tissue metastases may also be evident by virtue of malignant osteoid formation.
He clearly thought, at the beginning of his first term, that his evident personal virtues, good will, intelligence, willingness to compromise — virtues evident to him, too, since modesty is not part of the cool man's arsenal anymore than insecurity is — would bring rational right-wingers in his direction and push out the fringe on both sides.
37, q. un).. Per se notae means that they are self-evident; ex terminis adds that they are self-evident in virtue of being analytically true.
There's a way in which we assume that the story will make itself evident just by virtue of what's in the documents, but the story was already there in our own minds when we came to the material and made selections about what we were going to include and not include.
The tragic awe that this paradigm brought to bear on the best of classic Westerns is reduced, in the "Star Wars" series and spotlighted in "Solo"—as an untroubled measure of self-evident and unquestioned virtue.
That virtue is evident in every page of this set of essays.
