[responsivevoice] carte blanche [/responsivevoice] [ kahrt blanch ] Quotation: By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, ‘Let’s ratchet it up.’ And I always think, ‘We don’t need to ratchet this up.’ If you do, don’t call it ‘Captain Phillips’ or ‘The Maersk Alabama.’ Call it something else, and then you have carte […]
[responsivevoice] antipathy [/responsivevoice] [an-tip-uh-thee ] Quotation: The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don’t like adolescents – even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a […]
[responsivevoice] bittersweet [/responsivevoice] [bit-er-sweet ] Quotation: If you go back to your home town or you’re reunited with school friends, it is always slightly bittersweet because as much as there are nice things in terms of seeing them again, the town has changed without you, and you’re no longer a part of it. Edgar Wright […]
[responsivevoice] geriatric [/responsivevoice] [ jer-ee-a-trik ] Quotation: My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people’s stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They’d say, ‘I went to school in a horse and cart,’ and I’d just think ‘Wow!’ I’d picture […]
[responsivevoice] taut [/responsivevoice] [ tawt ] Quotation: When you’re telling taut, tight storytelling that has any kind of built-in plot twist elements, you tend to want to stack everything up on top of itself as opposed to letting things breathe and be languid in terms of the passage of time. Julie Plec Social Example: Did you […]
[responsivevoice] promulgate [/responsivevoice] [ prom-uhl-geyt ] Quotation: The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment. Henry Louis Gates […]
[responsivevoice] oust [/responsivevoice] [ oust ] Quotation: In politics, my role model would be a very weird one – our second emperor, Pedro the Second. He was a person with no vanity. He cared a lot about the public interest. He cared a lot about Brazil evolving as an important country. And he didn’t ask much […]
[responsivevoice] deference [/responsivevoice] [ def-er-uh ns ] Quotation: Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that’s proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery […]
[responsivevoice] squalid [/responsivevoice] [ skwol-id ] Quotation: I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I tried to make it as a musician. I lived in a big squalid house full of dudes outside of Boston. We were all musicians. We built […]
[responsivevoice] dreary [/responsivevoice] [ dreer-ee ] Quotation: I have a lot of alter-egos: I would love to be a back-up singer for someone someday. I have an electronic side-project. I have a ’90s grunge side project; I have a piano project… I have this industrial, goth-electronic song, super creepy sounding, just really dark and dreary. […]