Word: artlessness
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...theory, Fireproof is as alien to me as Religulous is familiar. At more than two hours, the film will make those viewers restless who aren't utterly resistant. But there's something affecting about its artless earnestness, its aim to dramatize large portions of ordinary lives that most movies ignore. I wasn't converted, but I was charmed...
...Ezra Pound were flirting with fascism and when Sartre would infamously declare, “There is total freedom of criticism in the U.S.S.R.” It is not difficult to understand, then, why an appalled and battered public found inspiration in Solzhenitsyn’s courageous if artless novels; many even recoiled from the labyrinthine self-indulgences of more “profound” writers.One problem with this moralistic praise for Solzhenitsyn is that it is ephemeral. His books, because they are topical artifacts of a vanished epoch, will probably be relegated to what Trotsky dubbed...
...feet, and what initially appear to be outstretched arms turn out, upon closer inspection, to be tattered folds of cloth. Yet it is almost impossible to look at this small work and not be reminded of the more recent image of a hooded prisoner at Abu Ghraib, an artless photo that testifies with similarly painful eloquence to human brutality in times...
...more absurd methods for naming a department. Ask the United States government, which could not have done worse its current moniker for our consolidated domestic security bureaucracy: the “Department of Homeland Security.”“Homeland Security” is a chilling and artless term—both for its linguistic similarity to the terminology of totalitarianism, and for the inaccurate and unhealthy implication that America is a “homeland.” And the term’s ties to an unfortunate set of policies further magnify its natural lack...
...without machine-like drive. Smith's four most recent movies--The Pursuit of Happyness, Hitch, Shark Tale and I, Robot--have each grossed more than $300 million worldwide, vaulting him into a category usually reserved for white guys named Tom. Because Smith has mastered the delicate art of appearing artless, few moviegoers realize that his is one of Hollywood's most meticulously planned and executed careers...