The artful indie horror game involves wandering around a forest collecting pages armed only with a flashlight, while avoiding the "Slender Man" who is perpetually chasing you through the fog.
A man genetically incapable of saying anything but what he really meant, he presents a rude challenge to the attitude of professional caution that now prevails in so many precincts of the arts — the aesthetic of avoiding entanglements, of looking over one's shoulder, of perpetually hedging one's bets.
It must perpetually renew itself to avoid being boring.
If we want to contribute to a fairer world we need to be perpetually on guard to avoid letting this instinct run away with itself.
I used to ride the ferries during the summer to escape the heat, avoid the perpetually delayed F train, and give my ears a break from the noise.
There is a wonderful moment, 20 pages into Talk of the Town, where Jacob Polley captures the banal predicament of a powerless, working-class teen: exposed and vulnerable, in a world full of people who are bigger, more ruthless and far more knowing than he, he works perpetually to save face, to avoid the least slip that will draw the whole pack down upon him.
While the state of nature's condition of perfectly private judgment is an abstraction, something resembling it too closely for comfort remains a perpetually present possibility, to be feared, and avoided.
To avoid any doubt, even in the perpetually upbeat new-issues market, Nanosys warns in its registration statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, "We have not yet developed any of these products and may not be able to do so for several years, if at all".
The converse of this, unfortunately, is that I must avoid the naysayers in my life -- the perpetually angry and angsty, the Debbie Downers, the obnoxious overachievers, the pathetic underachievers, the chronically dysfunctional.
Secrest portrays Schiaparelli as a "perpetually self-critical and dismissive" person who surrounded herself with fabulous friends but often avoided real intimacy; perhaps, Secrest writes, "she never considered the extent to which she had transformed a lowly craft into a high art".
