Onstage, she creates a sort of contest with the audience in which it is invited to sport with her.
This story collection moves from the 19th century to an unidentified future, evoking gothic horrors and outsiders who, as Doctorow puts it in a preface, "are distinct from their surroundings — people in some sort of contest with the prevailing world".
Team Fate, as Dr Frank's researchers are called, has won a number of contests with its hybrid vehicles as the black victory banners depicting skulls and crossbones (Professor Fate's insignia) on the lab's walls attest.
It's a truism to say that the story as a form is devoted to loneliness and alienation — "people in some sort of contest with the prevailing world," as Doctorow puts it here — but that may be the best explanation for why these stories so often fail.
This is exactly the kind of contest, with the kind of prize Bix needs to catapult itself into public awareness.
She then went on to compete in a series of contests with Victoria, Eve Torres, Maryse and Cherry to determine SmackDown!s top Diva, winning the title.
Evenings are spent negotiating the newest aches and pains that have settled in by day's end, and what would normally be considered prime sleeping time has become a sort of contest with myself to see how many times I'll get up to pee in the night.
Difference in PC1 continued to predict the outcome of contests, with the larger male both: a) winning significantly more contests (55/86 = 64%, binomial p = 0.013), and b) being increasingly likely to win with greater disparity in weaponry size (χ2 = 7.431, p = 0.006, Nagelkerke R2 = 0.110, slope±SE = 0.910±0.352, odds ratio = 2.5).
Here is a tip to make sure you have extra fun! Make sure to stay up late all night and if you want you can have a couple of contests with some prizes.
A halt to aesthetic progression, an emergence of strong schools of thought contesting with each other, as was true before the rise of the MFA system.
