Yet, as Sarkozy this week wrapped up what has been a resolutely rightwing campaign, designed to win over extreme-right supporters from the Front National's Marine Le Pen, his opponents accused him of pitting different sections of French society against each other: workers versus people on benefits; French people versus foreigners, of whom he said there were too many.
Giger's alien is a demented conflation of male and female characteristics, purposely designed to be resolutely sexless and extremely sexual.
But like all fashion cycles, they have now come back into favor and contemporary jewelry designers are breathing new life into them through resolutely modern designs.
Narendra Kumar Ahmed, a rising star, sent his models onto the ramp in resolutely Western designs: dresses (pictured), structured jackets and trousers.
Not all of the venues involve "resolutely modernist designs" – let's not forget that some celebrate historic sites, such as the equestrian arena at Greenwich and beach volleyball in Horse Guards Parade.
Prince Charles's favourite architects have accused the head of England's national architectural review body of "overt prejudice" after he made a barbed attack on the heir to the throne's love of traditional buildings, and heaped praise on the resolutely modernist designs that will be beamed around the world as the backdrop to next summer's games.
Also on show was this year's lovely two-seat GT coupé concept which has been designed by Adams's team as a resolutely non-retro return to the same idea.
With all the design details on the inside, the bags of Valextra are designed for a man who wants an ergonomic product on the highest level — but resolutely no fancy, extraneous effects.
And yet now, in the face of an infinitesimally smaller threat, we have a government resolutely failing the test of civilisation by creating powers for the state that fundamentally infringe liberty and are designed to have permanent effect.
The 100-year construction of Little Moreton Hall coincided with the English Renaissance, but the house is resolutely medieval in design, apart from some Renaissance decoration such as the motifs on the Gatehouse, Elizabethan fireplaces, and its "extravagant" use of glass.
"The Babadook has the elaborately fabricated look of a giant pop-up movie, sporting the kind of intricately detailed and resolutely analog visual design one associates with the early films of Terry Gilliam or the recent ones of Wes Anderson, Scott Foundass wrote in Variety.
