True, some of that discontinuity, especially in the first movement, seemed a function of searching, and it was moving to see Mr. Cliburn still trying to plumb depths of meaning in this piece after so many repetitions.
Perhaps access on the ground meant pulling some punches, but the dearth of reflection, or time beyond the frame, also seemed a function of the film's diary structure.
The fabulousness of Club Fabulous, on this night at least, seemed a function mainly of its Mardi Gras-themed décor, conceived and executed by Freedia herself.
Banking is expanding, but this seems largely a function of government support that is being withdrawn.
The construction success seems more a function of experience and skill of the crane operator than any repeatable or potentially machine-programmable methodology.
That seems largely a function of the economy, which has become a major worry, and many voters perceive the Liberals as having the soundest economic plan.
Department store sales have been depressed all year, but that seems mainly a function of the slack economy and the failure of spring trends, like a 1980's revival, to excite customers.
Though the novel provides Anna Fox with a painstakingly stitched backstory that has consequences for the present, she ultimately seems more a function of the plot than a fully realized person, not quite as interesting as her problems.
McGinley is almost entirely forgotten today, and while her anonymity is attributable in part to the disappearance of light verse, it seems equally a function of our refusal to believe that anyone living on the manicured fringes of a major American city in the middle of the 20th century might have been genuinely pleased to be there.
Yet Rand's bad writing, like her Nietzschean delusions of grandeur, comes to seem like a function of her harsh individualism, her need to dominate.
