The producers of "Southpaw" haven't created a film of people for people; they've populated the movie with humanoids, mere semblances of people who are endowed with the imitation of life by the thankless exertions of the extraordinary actors who embody them — and whose faces and voices might as well be applied digitally.
Boats, water, semblances of people with pipestem limbs and balloon heads, creatures and ghosts of creatures, wayward lines and markings together with descriptive ones, bursts of activity and empty passages inhabit these ephemeral works, welding some discernible current influences into a language of her own.
Beneath the illusory semblance of normality, people know that the settlements are steadily becoming irreversible.
Yet Hayden at that moment didn't want to risk any semblance of monitoring people in the United States, even though there was plenty of latitude to tap those two terrorists under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
In the capital, there was a semblance of outward calm — people went to work, African women walked by with loads on their heads, and pairs of white women went jogging through neighborhoods with names like Trelawney, Avondale, and Belgravia — but the tortured bodies of missing M.D.C. members were still turning up, and Tsvangirai and many of his fellow party members were living in semi-hiding.
For those of you not in the know – I guess you're busy being good grandmothers or something – Instagram's purpose is to provide an excuse for people without any semblance of taste to spew their own bohemian delusions on the people they went to school with.
Something that is legal has the semblance of safety, he said, giving people a false sense of reassurance.
And yet it's closed enough that some semblance of order is maintained and people (at least for now) will keep using it.
But this is the first time we've gotten any semblance of real confirmation from the people running the show.
When I say he became a hero it's because his case is just another step forward in providing some semblance of hope and logic for people impossibly buried under a mountain and a half of student loans.
