Similarly, rather as teachers often teach to the test, financial instruments are increasingly designed solely to carry a particular rating, not the other way round.
This high-spirited self-referentiality, so different in tone from the programmatic self-exposés of Postmodernism, performs nevertheless a somewhat similar, alienating function: it is always telling us 'this is a poem,' rather as Rossini often tells us 'this is an opera.' Tchaikovsky would make heavy weather of these feathery cirruses.
These happy circumstances mean that the final episode of The IT Crowd is genuinely a lap of honour, rather than, as often with a TV last chance to see, a stumble of shame.
And the scripts address a theme with universal appeal – the tantalising and terrifying social possibilities of convincingly human robots – and therefore potentially global sales, but do so in a manner that is smart and dark rather than, as often happens with projects seeking wide appeal, a reduction to common-denominator banalities.
Our primary aim is therefore to demonstrate how simulation techniques can be employed to investigate when and if it might be better to use data from a CTM rather than as often happens in practice, aggregating over grids and using average pollution values based on monitor data.
While traveling through the second world, I learned to see countries not as unified wholes but rather as having multiple, often disconnected, parts, some of which were on a path to rise into the first world while other, often larger, parts might remain in the third.
Torture wasn't glorified as pleasant or inconsequential but, rather — as it has often been portrayed on television and in film, before and after 9/11 — as grimly necessary.
Making refinements with your own hands — rather than automatically, as often happens with a computer — means "you have to be extremely self-critical," says Mr. Sennett, whose book "The Craftsman" (Yale University Press, 2008), examines the importance of "skilled manual labor," which he believes includes computer programming.
Furthermore the nib pressure appears steady, rather than forceful, as often occurs with dystonic posturing.
Since they lose players they would rather not lose about as often as they lose big matches at home, which is not very often at all, his departure will hurt them.
