"Words are no longer, quite frankly, interesting to us.
She found these molestations frankly interesting, the body deconstructed so that you could see what it really was: just bits and pieces, really, no different from the snatches of fabric that Marjorie wrestled into dresses for Mr. Victor of Paris, the tailor in Burbank who had employed her for thirty-seven years.
He would probably never have made it anyway: too rude, too rebellious and, frankly, too interesting.
Still, the principle is the same: an inability to transmute one's own experience into something larger, stranger and, frankly, more interesting than the life which produced it.
"If we do away with this relevant advertising, we are going to make the Internet less diverse, less economically successful, and frankly, less interesting," says Mike Zaneis, the general counsel for the Interactive Advertising Bureau, an industry group.
The rest of us will be left to grow more manageable and, frankly, more interesting beauties: bloomily translucent Muscat grapes; explosively tart wild strawberries; calendula and cosmos, glowing like quiet fireworks; aromatic bay and thyme and sage the daily miracle of horticulture, available, without pretension or personal risk, to anyone with a windowsill.
I haven't used the product except in the context of this story, but Andreessen Horowitz is perhaps the smartest money in tech at the moment: Companies attached to it are frankly more interesting by association.
The second — and, frankly, more interesting — technology is traffic sign recognition, which shows you right on your dashboard the most recent passing restrictions, speed limit signs and other information.
However, the drama of Jumbo's life becomes increasingly intrusive as the play goes on, interrupting the flow with of-the-moment crises that are unconvincing and frankly less interesting than the crises in Baker's life, no matter how well Jumbo acts them out.
Mitch isn't all that interesting, frankly, but others are.
It would be interesting, frankly, if some new anarchy-adjacent, "powerless" form of social organization came to pass, but if history has taught us anything, it's that kingdoms might rise and fall, but power finds a way.
