Theatre, he continues, "presents us with people in action, speaking and moving and doing, while in Laclos's novel we must follow events indirectly, at second-hand, mediated by a series of more-or-less unreliable narrators in the form of letters designed to impress, persuade, reveal and conceal - in a word, to control".
Like many a less clever unreliable narrator, Nick likes lies of omission.
Attention was like ambrosia to me". But as they might in real life, her woeful tales lose their effect after a few rounds -- and Liz starts to seem less an unreliable narrator than a glumly self-righteous (and self-conscious) one.
Wolf's book, however, is undermined by the fact that she has rendered herself less than unreliable over the past couple of decades, with one rant more hysterical than another — Fascist America!, great sex behind the burqa!, the "Stalinist" plot against Occupy Wall Street!, and a particularly loathsome, self-victimizing and vindictive piece about the Shakespeare scholar Harold Bloom.
He might suggest that he and the other eight members of the MPC are less the unreliable partners, more the "sensitive" listeners.
But extracting onshore shale gas could make up for the decline in North Sea gas and make Britain less dependent on unreliable, distant suppliers.
So chalk up this plus for Brown-Vitter: Eliminating risk-weights as part of a capital assessment means less reliance on unreliable ratings.
See Williams, 558 F.3d at 1143 (finding that expert's subjective intuitions about which news moved a stock price "would be no less speculative and unreliable if reached by jurors").
The 2012 revised definition of unmet need tried to simplify its calculation and make it less dependent of unreliable questions (10).
