"It's trying to merge something quite intelligent and highbrow with something that's obviously the lowest common denominator you can get," says Rosenthal.
The Palestinians weren't looking to merge into something larger.
In the new heroism, the goal is to merge with something larger than yourself.
With its emphasis on Stanislavsky's Method and on the notion of a performing collective, it answered Odets's artistic desire to merge with something larger than himself.
When the food comes, it does not always inspire, like an omelet-and-home-fries breakfast I had on American — part of a $986 full-fare one-connection, one-way flight from West Coast to East — where omelet and home fries had appeared to merge like something out of "The Fly".
In the special religion that deifies Internet stocks, it is considered acceptable to buy another Internet company but sacrilegious to merge with something mundane.
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To craft something, you must drag objects to within a rough proximity of one another, so any items that don't combine end up sitting in an uncooperative pile of junk on the beach, while those that do will glow orange once they're near enough to their constituent buddies, requiring just a click or two to merge into something new and interesting.
"As a result he heard the call to warg into Hodor and, not wanting to leave the lure of the past, either thought he could do it whilst still being in the past or thought he could access present Hodor via Wylis," Coleman explained, adding, "or he was losing control of his thoughts and his conscious and unconscious mind were starting to merge or something trippy like that".
But there is also something odd going on: the urge to merge has been accompanied by an urge to purge.
It's going to be challenging – it's already challenging because it's different and we're trying to merge over to something so mainstream and so different.
