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Some critics are less generous and note a heavy reliance on melodrama and film noir tropes; the Daily News ' Fintan O'Toole writes that the play is no "lost masterpiece."
One of the more remarked-upon trends in modern (actually, postmodern , I guess) advertising is the reliance upon anti-ads, those commercials that acknowledge the basic insincerity of the adman's project and which presumably please viewers by nudge-nudge, wink-winking them in a way that recognizes how phenomenally aware we are of advertising's attempts to ensnare us.
It's not just the increasing complexity of technology, but our increased reliance on it.
Just regarding the complaint about reliance on girlfriends, though, Prudie suggests you have a loooong and serious heart-to-heart with your wife, outlining your disturbance with her choices.
An increase in the number of replicates is preferable to reliance upon magnitudes of fold changes, as the latter is not always linearly related to target concentration and is extremely variable for low transcript concentrations.