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Whatever,it's an unwelcome and redundant return to Mean Time territory (now over over 20 years old) that reeks of the late '70s/early '80s and,despite its pretensions has little of the flavour of modern Britain.
An altogether horrible film, the worse for its pretensions and delivering some "profound" truths.
It beats out grade Z movies because of its "deep arthouse movie" pretensions.
This film is founded on little more than pretensions, the content is insipid and vacuous, the result is annoyance.
These are the critics who complain about porn with pretensions.
This film has pretensions of being an art film.
While most modern action films (Smokin' Aces for one) aspire to some sort of grand intelligence while providing shoot-outs and explosions, this film is a reminder of times when action films suffered no such pretensions.
After all, his attempts to reform the French economy, public sector, and labor markets – not to mention his perceived elitist pretensions and imperialist tendencies – have produced a swift and severe backlash.
“Totalitarianism” began its conceptual life in 1923 as a criticism or parody by the liberal writer Giovanni Amendola of the megalomaniacal pretensions of Benito Mussolini’s new regime.
But the real question now is whether America is still able and willing to uphold its global pretensions.
As we confront the warnings of Chemobyl and Yalta, it is time to seek that which transcends the horizon of mere rational or scientific thought and the limits of the illusory pretensions of Chernobyl's social engineers and Yalta's geopolitical strategists.
But it is not willing to underwrite with hard cash Russian pretensions to world power status.
A great Eurasian bloc suddenly appeared in opposition to America’s hegemonic global pretensions, prefiguring a new fluidity in geopolitical relationships, if not a tectonic shift in alignments.
Slowly, however, Europe has seemed to grow more cohesive in its opposition to American unipolar policies and pretensions.
The new “Competitiveness Pact,” proposed at the EU summit by France and Germany, did not make the same pretensions to global grandeur, but was instead sold as a step required to ensure the survival of the euro.
Nationalism and TerrorismBOSTON – September 11, 2001, may – at least at first – seem like an inappropriate addition to the history of nationalism, given Al Qaeda’s explicitly stated global pretensions.
Besides abandoning any Gaullist pretensions, the other lesson Germany must learn is that influence is based not only on soft "civilian power," but also on hard military capabilities that are adapted to the exigencies of the post-Cold War world.
Compulsory student participation would not only improve Wikipedia ’s already impressive collective knowledge base, but also might help curb the elitist pretensions of researchers in the global knowledge system.
Europe is plainly in decline, politically and culturally, though most Europeans, blinded by their high living standards and the pretensions of their impotent statesmen, are happy to dress this up as progress.
But there is a strong case for adopting a policy that has proved its effectiveness in confronting a country with imperial pretensions abroad and feet of clay at home.
The United States, moreover, remained a perfect foil for a leader with pretensions to global leadership.
Economists vs. EconomicsCAMBRIDGE – Ever since the late nineteenth century, when economics, increasingly embracing mathematics and statistics, developed scientific pretensions, its practitioners have been accused of a variety of sins.
More importantly, rallying the world solely against Russia would mean taking Russia’s great power pretensions too seriously.
Invoking Generalissimo Francisco Franco’s long dictatorship – now four decades in the past – is a feeble attempt to disguise the separatists’ economic pretensions and overblown sense of cultural superiority.
The Technocracy fad proved to be short-lived, though, after top scientists debunked the idea’s technical pretensions.
Despite his religious pretensions as a spiritual guide, Khamenei’s future rests largely in the hands of the Revolutionary Guards.
The impact on Russia’s economy – and on Putin’s military pretensions – would be considerable.
In the meantime, the graph of deaths from conflict will keep trending upwards, mocking the world’s diplomats, peacemakers, and pretensions to humanity and civilization.
The main domestic players will lower their maximalist pretensions only when their foreign supporters do the same, ending hypocrisy once and for all and making a sincere effort to find room for consensus.
But longstanding and bipartisan pretensions of moral exceptionalism, the perception of China as a strategic competitor, rising domestic concerns, and a lack of policy clarity suggest that, even if he is voted out in November, the US-led cooperation the world needs will not soon emerge.
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