There's a word for this sense of loss for things that haven't even happened yet: solastalgia, used to describe the sinking feeling of loss for places rendered utterly unrecognizable due to environmental ruin.
Michael Ritchie's verité-style, bitingly cynical send-up of electoral politics resonated with viewers in the year of Nixon's reelection campaign, and yet it still feels utterly contemporary, partly due to the participation of actual journalists and media personalities.
The main reason we were talking to each other as never before was because we were occupying public space and using public transport in a way that city dwellers do the world over, but that is utterly foreign to South Africa due to apartheid planning and the fear of crime.
I've literally seen pensioners unfairly ordered off buses because the clock on the bus's ticket machine was slow, and more than once the experience was utterly humiliating for them due to the poor social and communication skills of poorly trained, hostile drivers.
To a hypothetical external observer, the initial phases of the new life of the selected individuals will appear utterly chaotic, but in due course order and regularity would emerge: "…in place of an incoherent multitude, all seemingly acting at random, we should have a social and economic organization, every member of which had his appropriate place and function" (55 56).
Among them: Due diligence, while utterly out of fashion during the bubble years, is absolutely essential for investors, potential executives and entrepreneurs.
Vitaris called the scene "one of the most charming finales in an X-Files episode" due to its "utterly endearing" qualities and its "unspoken subtext".
And so we're being gulled into a new-and-improved crusade to fix a Middle East still utterly destabilized in large part due to our still-smoldering failure to reshape desert sand into a form more to our desires.
On the other was MIA, getting jiggy on stage on her due date in an utterly fabulous semi-maternity outfit by UK designer Henry Holland.
On one reading, the claim that an idea or a concept is only possible within and due to a social context is utterly obvious.
