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The real trouble comes when pregnant women are, in a sense, unreliable narrators, when fetuses are led to expect a world of scarcity and are born instead into a world of plenty.
As we know, our feelings about how we're feeling are notoriously unreliable.
He went to work every day in an operating theater like this one, trying to deliver anesthesia and teach others how to do so using that same equipment that became so unreliable, and frankly unsafe, in his hospital.
We're often told though that only coal and nuclear plants can keep the lights on, because they're 24/7, whereas wind and solar power are variable, and hence supposedly unreliable.
What if we could overcome the problem of unreliable Internet and electricity and reduce the cost of connection?
But if, on the other hand, they're unreliable, we might not.
They find the body too messy, too unreliable to guarantee eternal life, and so they set their hopes on the third, more spiritual immortality story, the idea that we can leave our body behind and live on as a soul.
Through his pioneering use of unreliable narrators, Poe turns readers into active participants who must decide when a storyteller might be misinterpreting or even lying about the events they’re relating.
And if you reduce the brain to individual neurons, you're left with something that is notoriously unreliable, and nothing like how we think and behave, at least most of the time.
Memory based on short glimpses can be unreliable, and we often overestimate our own accuracy.
But thanks to improving technology and precision, these objects with limited access and unreliable longevity are now being replaced with standards based on universal constants, like the speed of light.
This is what makes our situation so precarious, and this is what makes our intuitions about risk so unreliable.
So, Von Neumann was already off in a theoretical cloud, doing abstract sorts of studies of how you could build reliable machines out of unreliable components.
For example, a creative thinker who is unreliable might be matched up with someone who's reliable but not creative.
And I know this because if I've learned anything as a therapist, it's that we are all unreliable narrators of our own lives.
Now, I told you I'm a therapist, and I really am, I'm not being an unreliable narrator.
At a time when unreliable computers filled entire rooms, the AGC needed to operate without any errors, and fit in one cubic foot of space.
So most vehicles are either too expensive or too unreliable for the average consumer.
But in most rural and peri-urban areas, it's fragmented and unreliable.
Von Neumann, in the '50s, did the same thing for computing; he showed you can have an unreliable computer but restore its state to make it perfect.
And one of the problems with this is that, when you research this field, people are notoriously unreliable when they actually self-report on where they have their own good ideas, or their history of their best ideas.
7. Unreliable action scenes (and not too good, either).
This is the umpteenth nonsensical horror movie in which Malcolm McDowell pops up and he practically always depicts an unreliable, greedy and self-centered authority figure.
All of the Lifetime tropes are there- a divorced mother in peril from a deranged stalker, an unreliable ex-husband (who, of course, cheated on her while they were married), and a police department that patronizingly dismisses her complaints, forcing her to Stand Up For Herself.
This also instills a very unreliable love story into the mix between Ned (Ledger) and Julia Cook (Watts) to entice all the romantics, females being especially susceptible.
Walter Matthau plays Oscar, his friend, an untidy, unreliable sports-reporter who lives in divorce from his ex-wife in a bachelor apartment.
He's been rather unreliable these past few years, so I turned to the 'user comments' section of IMDb to find some sanity amongst my fellow amateur viewers...only to find many of them sick with the same malady.
The story deals with Chevy Chase, Gregory Hines, and Sigorney Weaver scheming to sell a dangerously unreliable aircraft to a third-world nation after it fails miserably in a demonstration for the US military.
His claim he was innocent of murder, may be true enough, due to an unreliable source accusing him in court, yet producing little supporting evidence.
It's very difficult to dramatize novels hinging on an unreliable narrator without losing their essence.
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