Despite the speed bumps of exposition, the movie is a hard-driven, fascinating affair.
Andy Murray beat Novak Djokovic for only the second time in 14 matches since the 2013 Wimbledon final to win his first Rome Masters title – a fractious, fascinating affair – and heads for Paris with every hope of creating more history in the French Open.
Identity is a complex, fascinating affair, a core element of what it is to be human, and the Welsh settlement in Chubut abounds in interesting questions about it.
Funerals can be fascinating affairs.
But while the play itself is a fascinating, freewheeling affair, it was Richard Twyman's production that really knocked me out.
The most fascinating thing about the story is how it dramatises the way human misunderstanding and human fallibility can have a disastrous effect on world affairs.
Still, the canons of gender, class and fashion were, with a few remissions, upheld rigorously: "During the 19th century," Jill Fields notes in her fascinating account "An Intimate Affair," "virtually all free-born women in the United States wore corsets".
Regarding our educational mission, to us the message is clear: We should be cognizant not only of what we teach, but how we teach (e.g., O'Brien et al. 2009) to best educate and enthrall our students about the scientific enterprise, to illuminate evolutionary theory and its fascinating application to human affairs, and to arm them against fallacious, pseudo-scientific messages.
Somebody up there likes us: just as Adam Gopnik's fascinating parsing of the Dreyfus affair turns up in the pages of The New Yorker, TCM offers, today, at 5 15 P.M. E.T., "The Life of Emile Zola," a 1937 film starring Paul Muni as the heroic writer.
Arcel's first-rate Danish costume drama (co-produced by Lars von Trier) will introduce most moviegoers (including me) to the fascinating tragedy of the love affair in the 1770s between England's Caroline, wife of the problematic Danish King Christian, and the king's German physician, Johann Struensee, both dedicated social progressives.
The author, a reporter for The Times, makes clear and concise the complexities of the 1990's price-fixing scandal at Archer Daniels Midland, the feed makers, and the fascinating part played in the affair by a government informant whose core of truth was surrounded by a truly baroque facade of lies.
