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If the early reactions seem tilted in Verhoeven's favor, it's surely because this indecently entertaining provocation — his first film since "Black Book," and his first to compete for the Palme d'Or since "Basic Instinct" — seems to belong equally to the French actress Isabelle Huppert, who rises to the occasion with one of the greatest performances of her very great career.
He does not always help his cause with comments like this in response to being booed last season: "It's surely because I'm good-looking, rich and a great footballer". Ronaldo is all of those things and many more.
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"If people dislike being laughed at," Scruton says, "it is surely because laughter devalues its object in the subject's eyes" (in Morreall 1987, 168).
If this show neglects Hepworth's last years, it is surely because it wants to free her from any provincial status as an idiosyncratic British artist who chose to live far from urban modernity in seawashed St Ives.
But if there is any particularly compelling contemporary traction in this thrilling work it is surely because its gory charms are universal and timeless.
"It is surely because you are German".
If so far there is little public outrage in Athens and Rome, it is surely because millions of Greeks and Italians hold their political classes in such contempt".
If Airstreams are perceived as cool among 30-somethings, it is surely because mobile living is an idea with lingering appeal.
Part of it was surely because of the gruesome knee injury that tackle Sean Locklear sustained Monday, in a sequence that is sickening to watch on instant replay (Locklear's leg bends in the wrong direction).
If the programme remained a heavily guarded secret, it was surely because of the rather obvious risks associated with it, notably that the men, once released would immediately take part in new attacks against the US and publicly reveal their journeys through Penny Lane to embarrass Washington.
It is surely because they were so ruthlessly true to their own instinctive susceptibility to the unique and the beautiful and shrugged off the imperatives of any institutional agenda -- academic, political, moral -- that each object in the collection retains its own distinctive character and radiates so arrestingly its own sacred essence.
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