Arendt writes the word as if it were patently unclean, a modern corruption, whereas, in fact, Hollywood is exactly what she says it's not: the keystone of a new classicism.
She's patently aware of modern art, au fait with Munch and Warhol, and is making art that really matters to her, instead of just being a celebrity show-off.
The terrible irony of the last three decades, under Labour, the Conservatives and the coalition, is that the effort to minimalise regulation, weaken trade unions and liberalise the financial markets has patently failed to propel modern capitalism to greater heights.
While the immense success of modern pharmacotherapy is patently obvious, the recent shift to a preponderance of "chronic" rather "acute" diseases and the threat of empty drug "pipelines" has led to calls for a re-evaluation of the current practice of drug treatment and development.
The bill, which opposing legislators say is patently unconstitutional, is almost unprecedented in modern times: a near-total ban on abortion.
As Bishop and others have shown, the traditional belief promulgated by Hilbert and still widely held today, that intuitionistic logic imposes such restrictions as to render the development of serious mathematics impossible, is patently false: large parts of deep modern mathematics can be, and have been, produced by purely constructive methods.
Curiously, the connections between modern institutions and slavery's past had become so patently self-evident that it seemed to warrant little further research.
To most people no, it patently isn't, but you'd think big budget games like Modern Warfare 2 would try to be as authentic as possible.
Modern revisions of half-finished works usually appeal to me as little as sequels that patently set out to exploit a famous name.
