Obama himself speaks as if pragmatism were a substitute for ideology, or at least an improvement on it.
Up until now, "The Master" was Anderson's best film, but "Phantom Thread" is also, in many ways, an improvement on it.
The problem was that Syberberg's methods were apt to his film, which was conspicuously stagebound and impressionistic; Coppola was making a Hollywood film with at least a simulacrum of dramatic realism, where the artifice had to be no mere approximation of life but an improvement on it.
Recorded for their original label (the then-fledgling, now-tastemaking DFA) and structured around sharp guitars and the singer Luke Jenner's stratospheric yelp, that album is an angular throwback to the giddy dance whirl of New York as well as a thoughtful improvement on it.
The objectives of this chapter are concerned with the question of accuracy and a possible improvement on it by a posteriori treatments of the finite element data.
While The Comedy of Errors has a few passages "which bear the decided stamp of [Shakespeare's] genius", Hazlitt for the most part characterises it as "taken very much from the Menaechmi of Plautus, and is not an improvement on it".
