When the Perry case was argued before the 9th Circuit, the three-judge panel questioned the proponents' standing, asking whether they could demonstrate how striking down Proposition 8 causes them immediate harm.
But a tightening market for independent films, with more and more movies fighting for screens in the nation's art-film cinemas and more Hollywood studios getting into the independent-film production and acquisition racket, has made striking gold a more difficult proposition.
Six years ago the musician Nick Cave and the director John Hillcoat made the visually striking, ultra-violent outback western, The Proposition, a return to the glory days of Australian cinema.
A striking instance of this is provided by the proposition that a material thing cannot be in two places at once.
It's the combination of hooky gameplay with those striking visuals that makes for a chart-topping proposition.
A final view about the nature of narrow content has some striking structural resemblances to the idea of a diagonal proposition, but is motivated very differently.
But Swyneshed's third conclusion is striking, whether put in terms of "contradictories" or in terms of a proposition and its negation.
This gesture, too, is a striking revelation of character: here is a guy whose entire biography testifies to the unassailable proposition that money talks.
Mostly, though, "Serenade/The Proposition" derives its intermittent impact from the text, Mr. Jones's ability to create striking theatrical moments, and its sometimes thought-provoking intersections of individual and social history.
Giving developers more bare metal options is an interesting proposition, but it is Packet's long-term vision that I think is most striking.
