Yet I think the elusive metaphors Soloway uses jolt us in multiple ways -- not only are we left confused about what literally just happened on the screen, but the more we contemplate it, the closer we come to seeing the actual reality of how misguided our own conceptions of gender are today.
This is not the first time Churchill has used drama to jolt us into an awareness of apocalypse.
These shock-and-awe tactics might touch on the sublime at a level that uses spectacle to jolt us out of our complacency with images.
Over time, the effects of chronic stress are insidious, reflected in our lifestyle choices: we toss and turn each night struggling to sleep; use caffeine to jolt us into alertness in the morning; confront mid-afternoon slumps with a cookie or soda; and then numb and soothe ourselves at night with junk food, alcohol, social media, or medication.
In these new paintings, he "deftly uses his passion for color as a prolific language to jolt us into facing one possible path of our shared uncertain future: a world so distracted by technology that humans have mindlessly pushed virtually all animals into eternal extinction, forever changing our earth".
Do they jolt us into awareness or inure us even further to the suffering of others?
These voices still jolt us, however, because they sound like us, and not stars.
How else to jolt us out of our complacent understanding of the world we think we know?
The breaks between these sections jolt us back in time to see the causes of consequences we have already observed.
Charities with small budgets can still jolt us into action – just watch Ed Morris's film for Cybersmile.
The poems jolt us into facing the costs of war in terms of human distress, tears and agony.
