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While all accounts I've read about Cassavetes mention that one of his most endearing traits was his wild sense of humor, there's certainly no evidence of that in this misfire.
That being said, unlike most of the Fantasies in the past few years, these traits do not ruin the movie.
It shares many traits with Altman's best (i.e.
What could've been a nice little exploration into the psyche of a human who is picking up the traits of a cat, is instead just boring.
He perfectly blends all these different traits and is utterly convincing in portraying the outward stiffness as a simple facade for the strong emotions and character underneath, rather than simply being stiff and wooden.
David Bamber is great as Mr. Collins and perfectly conveys his mix of traits.
But while these traits are clearly problematic, they obviously have not hurt Trump’s political career.
As Sandel points out, perhaps we could design a world in which we all have access to mood-brightening drugs and cosmetic surgery; in which athletes have access to safe, performance-enhancing drugs; in which we could safely choose and manipulate the genetic traits of our children; and in which we eat factory-farmed pigs and chickens that are genetically engineered not to feel pain.
Many will condemn this as a resurgence of “eugenics,” the view, especially popular in the early twentieth century, that hereditary traits should be improved through active intervention.
If that looks and sounds familiar it is because Viktor Chernomyrdin is a paradigm of those traits.
To the extent that human capital involves character traits and varieties of “know-how” that are transmitted within the realms of the family and the community, rather than by formal education, it becomes both methodologically elusive and difficult to manipulate by public policy.
These cultural traits are difficult to quantify, so economists are uncomfortable in dealing with them.
Natural selection has provided scientific explanations of traits as diverse as the mammalian eye, the bird’s wing, and the ability of plants to transform light into sugars.
Or is it irrationality, imperfection, and doubt – traits beyond the reach of any non-biological entity?
Indeed, individuals could have similar traits but very different gene sequences.
Epigenetics is crucial for comprehending the link between the genetic composition, or genotype, and the traits we can actually observe.
Another factor in the relationship between genetic composition and observable traits is the way that proteins can sometimes be modified.
Europe turned diversity into one of its constitutional traits, and this is why it has had such an impact on the world.
Useful traits in business, like aggressiveness or political savvy, might be poorly suited to philanthropy.
I believe that the West is a mindset defined by three fundamental traits that cannot easily be found in the so-called Eastern civilizations: a passion for innovation, a capacity for self-criticism, and gender equality.
These two traits, although they seem to conflict, and are certainly different from the values of American and British conservatives, nonetheless form a sound basis for a realistic pragmatism and the shunning of ideological politics - which is precisely the politics that Germany now requires.
The atmosphere surrounding the Sochi Games reflects many of Russia’s worst traits.
In the years since, social science has reinforced skepticism that all terrorists share such essential personality traits.
Rather, our species, just like any other biological species, is characterized by a dynamic and evolving set of traits that are statistically typical for our lineage but neither present in every member nor absent from every other species.
A man who has any "feminine" traits is "poco hombre": boys who dislike soccer, men who enjoy the opera or express unmanly feelings such as sadness or tenderness, husbands who help with the housework or tend to their children, are considered effeminate.
This definition is all too reflective of traits that Trump regularly exhibits.
Gene drives have been described as “genetic forcers,” because they literally force genetically engineered traits onto entire populations of insects, plants, fungi, and other organisms.
Mujica has a populist profile, based on charisma, anti-establishment stances and an appeal to the poor, which was strengthened by his personal traits and his lineage as a member of the 1960’s Tupamaros guerrilla movement, as well as his affinity for the ruling Kirchners of Argentina and the “Bolivarian” left.
Joseph Stalin rejected Mendelian genetics (the fundamental laws of heredity) and even Darwin’s theory of evolution in favor of the bogus theories of Trofim Lysenko, the Soviet biologist who believed that human traits were acquired, not inherited.
Despite the high-born image Eban projected, he was an extremely vulnerable person: what some occasionally discerned as traits of vanity may have had their origins in his humble origins.
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