Gould and Lewontin refer to Voltaire's Dr. Pangloss of Candide, whose philosophy that "everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds" leads to numerous just-so explanatory stories, such as "the nose has been formed to bear spectacles – thus we have spectacles" (Voltaire 2010, p. 2).
Viewers are thus afforded the spectacle of beautiful women fighting over beautiful jewelry, and beautiful women being awarded beautiful jewelry by a powerful man.
Thus the sorry spectacle of Cruz stomping about and refusing to back an increase in the debt ceiling unless it receives sixty votes, which would require five Republicans breaking ranks and voting with the Democrats.
Thus the weird spectacle of a Democrat lauding the qualities of Mr Akin, as Ms McCaskill was doing yesterday – in a bid to persuade social conservatives not to desert their man.
For that matter, his best work is of the theatre and the city, in which characters turn the city into a virtual stage for a plotted private spectacle, thus imprinting public and often nearly anonymous and workaday places and spaces with the overflowing idiosyncratic fantasies that his characters (and, in turn, his camera) bring to them.
For that matter, his best work is of the theatre and the city, in which characters turn the city into a virtual stage for a plotted private spectacle, thus imprinting public — and often nearly anonymous and workaday — places and spaces with the overflowing idiosyncratic fantasies that his characters (and, in turn, his camera) bring to them.
Attendees of the upcoming Lincoln Center performances on February 12 , 19 and 27 will thus experience a spectacle at once as moving and cinematic as it will be static and sculptural.
Thus, the pedestrian becomes spectacle — but on a human scale, one of the qualities Ms. Rainer pulled into dance during her Judson years.
Conmebol, rather than the two host clubs, will be in charge of the logistics, and through that authority it would be able to guarantee not only the presence of both sets of fans at the final, but also their security, and thus produce a grand spectacle — "a world-class event," Dominguez boasted.
Thus we have the spectacle of two reporters one from the New York Times and one from Time magazine facing jail time for refusing to disclose their sources and notes concerning a federal criminal investigation.
