In "No Sex in New York," inspired by a trip he made there not long after 9/11, he depicts himself as a schlemiel with an inconvenient Muslim name, a natural-born loser in a ruthlessly competitive sexual marketplace.
Elizabeth Glynn Griffitts's is the story of an inconvenient woman conveniently named insane in the 1920s Deep South, sentenced to complete her life within the walls of an insane asylum that reflected in microcosm the fears and desires of the larger culture it occupied.
Instead, hers is the story of an inconvenient woman conveniently named insane in the 1920s Deep South, sentenced to complete her life within the walls of an insane asylum that reflected in microcosm the fears and desires of the larger culture it occupied.
History is replete with examples of the slippery slope that begin with constrained restrictions of inconvenient democracy in the name of addressing real or trumped up threats but end with more generalized despotism.
That's a good idea in theory, but unfortunately the call-and-response format of the voice recognition seems kind of inconvenient; why can't I name the clock something else, or make it just beep when I address it?
We went through this after 1937, when the names of the inconvenient dead were removed".
For others, the timing is inconvenient (dinner time, screaming kids, you name it).
Some contenders for best team name this year were "An Inconvenient Sacrifice," "Britney Offers No Draws" and "Barack Rank Mate".
Directed by Davis Guggenheim, who also directed Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," "Waiting for Superman" takes its name from an opening interview with the remarkable Geoffrey Canada, founder of the Harlem Children's Zone.
Now we've got a new challenger in the metaphorical ring of Toronto politics: a man who shares a name with everyone's favorite inconvenient truther.
Maybe it's time for politicians and law enforcement to acknowledge inconvenient truths and confront the extremists with "American" names and grievances as they would any other.
