The elegant Belle Époque world of courtesans and the social distinctions that render Magda's secret so shameful were casualties of World War I. "La Rondine" emerged from the war as profoundly elegiac, its prolonged incubation rendering it instantly outdated, a memorial of a more pleasurable and sensuous world.
The business cycles of rich and emerging markets had decoupled.When this study came out in mid-2008 the worldwide crash seemed to render it instantly obsolete.
And when Mr. Lucas used a colorful English vulgarity to describe a chaotic moment in the play, Ms. Penn rendered it instantly, vividly.
Just as, at the very same moment, the French New Wave swept away many of the conventions of filmmaking while honoring its greatest artistic traditions, Coleman inaugurated a new era in jazz that rendered it instantly pliable to a generation of musicians whose background differed from that of classic artists.
The aesthetic experience of the VR-1 is also notable, with a clean minimalism and reflective front plate that render it instantly recognizable among a lineup of other headsets.
It's an album that reaches into decades of musical and literary history (and film if you count his spellbinding "Runaway" short), studies it closely, then instantly renders it obsolete.
McVeigh told journalists he would quote from Invictus, a 19th century poem by William Ernest Henley famous for the lines: "I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul". In a letter to the Buffalo News daily in New York state yesterday, McVeigh used the word "sorry" for the first time, but instantly rendered it meaningless.
Momentarily, Hemmings finds "meaning" in his images, but comes to realise it's entirely subjective, just like his artist neighbour who works out what his paintings are about retrospectively, or the value of the smashed guitar neck from the Yardbirds gig which Hemmings fights so hard for, then chucks on the street when he gets outside, instantly rendering it junk.
It instantly pops into existance.
