"Fire at Sea" looks rigorous in its distanced, aestheticized view of the arrival of refugees on the island of Lampedusa and the lives of the island's residents, but it's actually a coy and intellectually lazy shrug.
It's modernist and backward-looking, rigorous and sentimental, often bland but with a distinctive, instantly recognizable, easily imitated look.
Prior to these little lectures, I have never exhibited the slightest curiosity about sets, although I do sometimes wonder how I have managed to raise a child whose idea of a birthday present is a book called A First Look At Rigorous Probability Theory.
Over time, there have been several similar changes of this kind in Liuhe's reports, which suggests that its report preparers have intended to improve their CSR report by means of using less biased words and less affirmative tune to make the reports (look) more rigorous.
By the time Obama was finished, Romney's tissue-thin acceptance speech looked almost rigorous by comparison.
Currin does kitschy-looking, sneakily rigorous imaginary portraits, mostly of women, using a scrap heap of styles disdained by modern artists.
This, of course, is not what Kickstarter is set up to do, and until recently the company vetted campaigns, looking for rigorous, serious fund-raising projects.
They have the problems common to intellectuals who go mainstream, of looking less rigorous, more easy-listening, although they still seem pretty smart to me.
But those looking for rigorous analysis and informed inspiration will be disappointed.
