The gay political awakening of the 1970s, as depicted in this historically canny, resolutely present-minded film, rejected secrecy and shame in favor of openness and visibility.
In an age of hype, the company does not advertise and resolutely presents its products in generic-looking bottles whose labels look like someone made them with a home type-setting kit.
Mr. Murphy's costumes, which find the men of the chorus in battle fatigues, are resolutely of the present but also a source of confusion when Elsa and Ortrud look almost identical in long, gray coats at the end.
That sentence — an arresting thought, specific in detail but universal in application, meditating on the past but resolutely of the present — is a model of Michaels's novelistic aesthetic, which she shares with her contemporary and fellow Torontonian Michael Ondaatje.
She sings of the hard times, murderous urges and chilling loneliness that haunt the old Anglo-Celtic ballads but, with one exception, sets her plain-spoken narratives resolutely in the present.
His narrative - lyrical, swaggering, urgent, with the odd telltale twist of Gallic syntax - keeps resolutely in the present tense, yet it is impossible not to find portents in his descriptions of these contemporary towers of Babel, built 'in total disregard of the commandment, "Thou shalt not try to reach the clouds".' Petit himself had been rebelling against that commandment since his youth.
The first time I saw her was at a book launch in an English pub - long before her media-training - where she sat with her back resolutely turned on the journalists present, completely engrossed in the circle of musicians with whom she was playing.
I resolve to resolutely restyle my resolutions.
The air of nostalgia in the packaging — i.e., the age of movies is obviously not now, when they no longer matter — is undermined by the prose, which is resolutely and often thrillingly situated in the present.
