"Even if you produce some superb invention, your salary and position don't improve [in Japan]," he says.
Men are endowed with a cortex, a superb invention that can teach us, among other things, to read, write, empathize and show restraint unknown to lions and tigers, who sometimes kill the offspring of their rivals.
It turns out that there's a bond between these two (which I won't reveal), and the rest of the movie, which includes some superb comic invention as well as scarily turbulent scenes, grows out of it.
Crucially, the pacing is superb, full of visual invention but never frenetic and always still at points of emotional crux.
Because the author-character openly discusses her rights and responsibilities in trying to reconstruct the family in which her mother grew up, there's no moral queasiness, no need to ask "Is that true or are you making it up?" And because her skill and powers of invention are superb, the imagined passages are completely satisfying.
Those included "the propagation of truly deep and beautiful mathematical ideas (not just 'mathematical games,' far from it!); the intense battling of pseudoscience and related ideas; the invention of superb magic tricks; the love for beautiful poetry; the fascination with profound philosophical ideas; the elusive border between nonsense and sense … and on and on and on and on," Hofstadter said.
A more playful, yet still stirring, exercise in mortal thoughts was evident in Jack O'Brien's superb production of Tom Stoppard's "Invention of Love" for Lincoln Center Theater, with Richard Easton and Robert Sean Leonard in excellent form as older and younger versions of the poet A. E. Housman.
His music lasts" (Maconie 1988), and "As Stravinsky said, one never thinks of Beethoven as a superb orchestrator because the quality of invention transcends mere craftsmanship.
Norrington is a superb Berlioz conductor, who relishes every spark of invention in the score, every innovatory texture.
Harrison's years of determination, superb technical expertise, and meticulous documentation culminated in an invention that forever changed navigation at sea.
The superb sweeping move that led to Jill Scott's goal against Cameroon showed a flair and invention any team would be happy to possess.
