Under New York law, the necessary elements of a private nuisance action are: substantial interference, unreasonable in character, intentional in origin, caused by a person's conduct, and interfering with another person's right to "use and enjoy" his property.
That essay also features a classically unreasonable Portis character, a widower he calls Mr. Purifoy who lectures barflies on temperance, tries in vain to get a McDonald's to use his personal recipe for "thickening gravy" and boycotts a Wendy's after failing to dissuade a man who is neither illiterate nor blind from letting his wife regularly read aloud to him from the newspaper there.
The characters were stormy, unreasonable, and flawed — but not in a way that pathologized youth.
Campaigns like Reclaim don't get traction on their own; they emerge and grow within an enabling environment where ideas that we once would have deemed unreasonable, intolerant and against our national character become mainstream.
As far as I can tell, however, both Liv (Ms. Hudson and Emma Ms. Hathawayare are deeply unreasonable because they are female stereotypes: unreasonableness is built into their character arcs.
This blatant sexualizing of the character to fit a woman is unreasonable.
Instead of portraying Gabrielle Union's character Isis as antagonistic, violent, and unreasonable, she was grounded in her resolve for the best opportunities for the community she led.
These prices basically cover the costs of processing and leave no room for unreasonable profits, thereby inherently preserving the not-for-profit character of these activities.
You might find yourself agreeing with a character who observes, "It's unscientific, unexplainable, unnatural, unreasonable, and it doesn't make sense".
He imagines characters so careful in their reasoning that they are deeply, maddeningly unreasonable but also tenderly hapless at the same time.
