(It's exemplary of Jenkins's art that, during an outburst by Chiron's mother that terrifies him, her shouting voice is kept off the soundtrack).
(It's exemplary of Soderbergh's rationalistic vision that he resolves relations between white and black inmates of the county jail not with politics but with the universal and abstract solvent: money).
It's exemplary of Mills's approach to her that, when she agrees without inhibition to let Jamie cut school and signs notes to excuse him, the two notes that are sent explain that he was busy working for the Sandinistas and that he was in a small-plane accident — great anecdotes if true, and great lines if not (even though Mills can't be bothered to let on what Jamie was in fact doing).
It's exemplary of our own times that a character with Alice's obsessions should be presented not merely as odd but as ill, that her road to self-realization depends on rejecting her medication — and (spoiler alert) that ultimately, her doctor turns out to know best.
It's exemplary of our own times that a character with Alice's obsessions should be presented not merely as odd but as ill, that her road to self-realization depends on rejecting her medication and (spoiler alert) that ultimately, her doctor turns out to know best.
It's exemplary late Jay Z: all stark, cavernous production and cryptic boasting.
Why? It's exemplary of the history of relics — or, rather, of how their function has changed and been quietly de-emphasized within the Church.
This is something King would revisit in later short fictions, where he abandoned fantastical horror for cruel, bitter realities; but as a rare note here, it's exemplary.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet It's exemplary of the history of relics — or, rather, of how their function has changed and been quietly de-emphasized within the Church.
It's exemplary of everything wrong in blockbuster filmmaking today, and it's all our fault.
Wizard of Earthsea was my first foray into fantasy, and I still think it's exemplary.
