Even hard core escapists are bound to be defeated by the generic tough-guy twaddle and the impersonal action sequences. |
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Goethe's Faust reminds us forever that the devil is personal, not impersonal. |
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More importantly, she altered the impersonal tone of Chinese verse, inundating her translations with personal pronouns. |
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On one hand, the seekers must be cold, impersonal, testing each theory mercilessly. |
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Suddenly the room felt like a hospital room again, cold, silent and impersonal. |
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Joel Shapiro is best known for humanizing the cold, impersonal forms of Minimalism. |
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London's image to many is cold, wealthy and impersonal, but its real history is of revolt and subversion. |
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It might suggest a curt, efficient, formal, impersonal, or even angry attitude about the conversation. |
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Hugging didn't seem impersonal, nor did it say she was ready to kiss him yet. |
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Commercialism is getting more brutal than ever and people are getting more impersonal than ever before. |
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She knew she'd have to be a little impersonal if she were to help her friend. |
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The impersonal nature of remote collaboration increased their productivity and facilitated collaborative intellectual contributions. |
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That hostility is triggering a backlash against both existing regimes and the impersonal forces of globalization. |
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The subject matter may be impersonal and unemotional but it doesn't make it any more enjoyable to know that. |
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But a book is always an extension of its author, however impersonal the subject matter. |
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Without a human being, it was not possible to manage knowledge, or extract it from raw data and impersonal information. |
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Living in a digital age makes communication so much easier, yet perhaps more impersonal. |
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I was going to do this with bullet points, but in the end it seemed a bit impersonal. |
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It also helps a patient feel far more comfortable than in the more centralised and impersonal environment of a larger complex. |
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But what about larger, more impersonal workplaces, such as factories and supermarkets? |
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She says department stores with their armies of sales people are too impersonal. |
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You may have a tendency to avoid gyms because you think of them as unattractive, boring or impersonal places. |
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But online stores are cold, impersonal places devoid of any sense of human contact, where every book is merely an itemised commodity. |
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They shifted authority in public life from the personalities of notable citizens to impersonal organizations. |
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Feelings of loneliness for family and friends were constant in the impersonal environment to which they had come. |
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Mission work is not just limited to raising money for impersonal organizations. |
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I couldn't bear the thought of her lying in some impersonal place with other people looking at her. |
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The impersonal nature of the facility has encouraged a lot of motorists to inform the police about accidents. |
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The regular corporate structure is so impersonal, they don't get to know the artist. |
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In addition, many Southerners felt these churches to be too large, formal, and impersonal to meet their spiritual needs. |
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As with impersonal constructions, referentially deficient subjects usually occur in the independent clause. |
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Today we understand most of these things in terms of physical forces acting under impersonal laws. |
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As philosophers or historians we treat the datum as something impersonal to be brought within the compass of our own world of thought. |
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Freud's abstract, impersonal concepts have worn away the specificity of fictional character. |
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I thought of the necessarily impersonal flurry of activity around the woman's window as she confusedly watched a now very small world go by. |
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From theory we can extract impersonal, institutionally approved reasons for liking art. |
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I will exhibit the evidence for personal contexts and then say a word about impersonal ones. |
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Laban studied corporeal movement in notably impersonal terms, disciplining bodies even as he asked them to pulse with new life. |
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When the agent is a thing, not a person, the dative is commonly used whether the subject is personal or impersonal. |
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Now, the impersonal one-size-fits-all breast prostheses may become a thing of the past. |
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For her, the box is a useless and impersonal thing, like the random presents pulled out of a grab bag. |
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The expectation is disappointed because the universe is simply impersonal and uncaring. |
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Obligations to kin, he believed, precluded working in the required impersonal and even-handed way. |
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He feels the need to retreat into impersonal abstractions, into structures or alleged structures over which the victim has no control. |
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In Russian, this sentence is impersonal, without a subject or a predicate, and only Russian case endings indicate the relations between words. |
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In an increasingly impersonal age, swords provide the human touch which is so lacking in guns. |
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The phenomenon is transforming the nature of technology service, an industry long infamous for being impersonal. |
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What exactly is the impersonal causal connection between the misdeeds in past lives and the painful events in this life? |
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Even the account that he gives of his schooldays has an impersonal, second-hand feel to it. |
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Neither is it bound by any legal constraints since it is impersonal and can be practiced without a formal declaration of war. |
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At some times of day I half expect to see tumbleweed drifting around the sterile, impersonal, weird space that has been falsely created. |
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Our health care system so bewildering and impersonal that one often doesn't know where to turn or whom to trust. |
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Deleuze incites us to consider instead a participation in the impersonal process of singularisation. |
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I went to a modest-sized grammar school with a sixth form rather than a huge, impersonal comprehensive. |
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Some astrologers claim that scientific research is impersonal or unspiritual or insensitive to deeper truths. |
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This impersonal and bureaucratic approach, which is implicitly untrusting of physician clinical judgment, is problematic. |
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These impersonal, brief interactions were all I had need of for quite a while. |
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It sounds more impersonal, but looks at the bigger picture in the decision-making process. |
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Passionate Parisians have come up with a savoury and sensual answer to the impersonal world of internet and speed dating. |
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He was supernally beautiful, majestic, god-like, and impassive and impersonal to the last degree. |
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Although highly paid, directors were expected to stick strictly to an impersonal house style. |
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At the time, however, my dad deplored the feeling that he was becoming just another number in an impersonal organization, a cog in the machine. |
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The impersonal character of these cognitional methods rules out the subjective desires or involvements that might lead us away from reality. |
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We must, then, somehow think of God as both personal and impersonal, and in one sense, it would seem, this presents no difficulty. |
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I think that history is certainly made by some impersonal forces, on occasion. |
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In other words, markets were impersonal, but that was good, because sometimes personal ties were cruel and oppressive. |
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But over the 20th century, they evolved into something more mechanical and impersonal. |
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Staff members can be rough and impersonal at times, particularly in high-stress areas like emergency rooms. |
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He has suggested that such communities preserve a residue of traditional Gemeinschaft amid the more individualistic and impersonal Gesellschaft of modernity. |
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The information media are impersonal and pretend to be objective. |
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Caught up in his naval background, he was distant and impersonal. |
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Commerce in technologically advanced countries is no longer an impersonal exchange of goods. |
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One of the hallmarks of her column, however, is its impersonal nature. |
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In the next two years when every household in America is hopping on the narrowband info-highway for free, the Internet will be crowded, aggravating and impersonal. |
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The it in suffice it to say is an impersonal or indefinite pronoun, one that functions as a grammatical placeholder without supplying much real meaning. |
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Some nations are apt to believe that war is an inevitable evil, like acts of God, occurrences in accordance with laws of Nature, something utterly impersonal. |
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Yes, it has some amusing dialogue, mostly one-liners, but the humor is that of a professional popgun for hire, an impersonal jokester, rather than an observer of humanity. |
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God is not a personal heavenly Father but an impersonal force. |
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I'll never understand how people can take such pleasure in struggling a wonky trolley around endless impersonal aisles of soullessly stacked goods week after week after week. |
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It is a far cry from the hectic, impersonal atmosphere of a hospital ward. |
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The impersonal nature of major companies is no accident and at the end of the day, too often there is no one person who can be called to account when something goes wrong. |
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Under any of those names this philosophy assumes that in the beginning were the fundamental particles that compose matter, energy and the impersonal laws of physics. |
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In both cases large, impersonal, bureaucratic structures proved incapable of responding to the needs of a more diverse population and their non-material aspirations. |
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But there is something a little impersonal about the whole affair. |
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I know that my last several entries here have been rather impersonal. |
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Living in one place, you are in constant touch with another, not just through impersonal information, but through sustained contact, daily exchange. |
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To formalize the opposition between the reflexive passive and the impersonal reflexive, he distinguishes between argument se and nonargument se. |
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By comparison, a nation is more impersonal, abstract, and overtly political than an ethnic group. |
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According to Frazer, humans begin with an unfounded belief in impersonal magical laws. |
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As a traditionalist, he placed great emphasis on the role of individuals in history instead of abstract, impersonal forces. |
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Law was what the sovereign commanded, and this meant absolutism, but it was an absolutism of law as impartial and impersonal. |
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The commentary, by Giuseppe Bonaci, states that Dalli's nudes are impersonal and unsexed. |
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The absence of common courtesy, such as indifference from retail clerks, or being treated like a number by impersonal bureaucracies. |
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Impersonalization I feel that I treat some inmates as if 23 51 l4 10 2 they were impersonal objects. |
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The Republicans seem as unalert as ever to countless encyclicals' concerns about impersonal market forces. |
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A cold and impersonal doctor, unless he's just a mechanical implanter, can't work successfully with these patients. |
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A sunflower, bending its head, peered at us with its round, polyphemic, impersonal eye, the long yellow lashes half-curled over the great black pupil. |
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Much work in nonindustrialized sectors in developing countries is organized in workshops or family-owned businesses, not in large-scale, impersonal factories. |
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She covers lexical variety and supersession, synonyms in some semantic fields of emotion, God's love the Seven Deadly Sins, and impersonal and reflexive constructions. |
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These two deities are sometimes viewed as facets of a greater pantheistic divinity, which is regarded as an impersonal force or process rather than a personal deity. |
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Analysis of the alternation between impersonal reflexives and reflexive passives in Spanish shows that higher animacy makes an argument less marked as an object. |
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Unable to conceive impersonal natural laws, early humans tried to explain natural phenomena by attributing souls to inanimate objects, giving rise to animism. |
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The accepted view of the 1930s ignores the arms race which was 'an independent, self-perpetuating and often overriding impersonal force that shaped events' in this period. |
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He may use the entire system as a means to the achievement of his national and international ambitions, but to do so he must not disrupt its impersonal workings. |
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Choice cuts off substantializing the friend into an impersonal given, while activity according to virtue obviates the loss of self into the other. |
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These terms rely on a neoplatonic, upward, sublimatory movement away from material particularity, whereas Emerson's impersonal moves in the opposite direction. |
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