Although Gilliam has publicly debunked a supposed "trilogy" connection with Brazil and Twelve Monkeys, it's clear that screenwriter Pat Rushin has been marinated in the director's back catalogue, with riffs and preoccupations from previous works (wheezing machinery; intrusive surveillance; man against the state; imagination v reality) littering the landscape.
The searches are seen as deeply intrusive for men in Afghanistan, where turbans carry both religious and social significance.
And yet the law had already permitted Jones to ask, and required Clinton to answer under oath, the sort of aggressively intrusive questions any man would do what he could to evade, the law be damned.
Back then the theme of man against intrusive, potentially insurgent technology was still strictly a sci-fi staple.
Inevitably, an actual severed extremity turns up; alas, missing are fully fleshed characters, aside from Theroux himself, who makes a vivid cameo halfway through the book as a "smirking, intrusive, ungenerous, and insincere man".
High points do come, but rarely: one is that prickly moment when Jerry, having discovered in Mrs Unger "a character", finds another writer nosing around, a "smirking, intrusive, ungenerous and insincere man" who dispenses versions of himself before disappearing "into a thicket of half truths he hoped was art".
Furthermore medical treatment is more intrusive on women than men (time-counsuming, painful [ 31, 32].
A prospective association between men's intrusive thoughts and psychological distress was found by Macefield and colleagues during prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing and the subsequent biopsy [ 27].
It is also exactly the kind of messy, unsubtle, intrusive and speculative work the man himself understandably shunned.
On the other hand, "mademoiselle" can expose a woman to pity or to advances; it compels a woman to define herself in relation to a man, constituting "an intrusive and condescending civility".
