Word: tellingly
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...about being popular," Cochran added. Don't let anyone ever tell you about playing the race card, because that's just an attempt by other people to keep people from talking about [race...
Sexist assertions by anti-gun activists tell women to fear guns. Arguments that an attacker (presumably male) would wrest a gun from a woman's control or that a woman with a gun would be more likely to hurt a family member than a criminal are clear sexist fallacies that attempt to rob women of agency, suggesting that they have no control over their own actions. Both are insults to the intelligence and independence of women...
...problem with Artaud's argumentation lies in his decision to ignore the playwright's role as storyteller. Regardless of whether or not one wishes to tell a story with a given piece of theater, it is impossible to put anything on a stage without telling a story on some level. Narrative, in its most basic form, is simply a direct and inevitable byproduct of time. And unlike artforms such as painting or sculpture which work only with space, both space and time are the fundamental media of theater. Artaud condemns the overemphasis on dialogue in modern theater as a means...
...better or worse, playwrights can never avoid telling a story when they put pen to paper, and if their realm of authority extends only so far as spoken dialogue, then they will have no choice but to tell entire stories through dialogue alone. On top of this a director will then add his or her own visual story in the visual language that Artaud holds so dear. Combining these distinct layers of narrative-one conceived in words by a person at a desk, the other conceived in images by a person in a theater-into a single performance...
...really talks...there's not much to tell. I knew and they knew I was too old to be Anakin. Man, I so wanted to work with Natalie Portman. She's hot! Whoops... maybe I shouldn't have said that...my girlfriend might...