As a mission, it once seemed futile when pitted against the solid framework of fact and reason, carefully constructed during the two centuries since the enlightenment.
The four actors have mastered the difficult comic timing demanded by the script, and if these characters don't ever quite achieve true depth, Mr. Harrison has obviously done some homework, pinning his absurdist antics to a framework of fact.
In fact, this mode of bare-bones storytelling — in which a pared-down framework of facts is presented, tightly and narrowly, as if foregrounding the plot and locating all traces of character in the actors' performance — is one of the dominant trends of contemporary filmmaking.
On the one hand, there is an anxious and tired political establishment that is very far from perfect in many ways, rarely of one mind about everything, well aware of the EU's many defects, but which nevertheless remains rooted in the common view that policy must be constructed within a framework of facts, truth and rational calculation.
Culling various frameworks of facts, this multi-disciplinary data visualization studio renders complex information into aesthetically pleasing and digestible forms that serve practical functions.
They weave together bits of their own personal experience, emotions and sensory impressions and the minutiae of specific contexts, and tailor them into a story by hanging them on to a framework of historical fact.
In experimental sciences, any experiment is carried out within a framework of known facts and mere assumptions.
The term "adaptation" has a different meaning when used in everyday language and a completely different one when used within the framework of evolution, a fact that was pointed out years ago in the literature of science education (e.g., Lucas 1971; Bishop and Anderson 1985 19900).
The framework provides notions of facts and goals that include interactions with the environment via external goal requests, observations that generate facts, and actions that achieve goals.
This framework in fact consists of potential future states of the region at hand (scenarios), within which targets are reached, together with the policy directions and policy measures that are relevant for reaching each specific future state.
Conceptual frameworks integrate knowledge of facts and of concepts, and require deep understanding of concepts.
