Example sentences for: russell

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  • Based on a grim novel by the Baron of Bleak, Russell Banks, and set in a frigid town in northern New Hampshire, Affliction tells the story of Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte), a part-time police officer and full-time flunky, who's constitutionally unequipped to survive a succession of personal and professional crises.

  • The ambiguity in this case is necessary, and the fact that we are never given a final solution to the mystery of what happened to the bus is central to Russell Banks' and Egoyan's premise that it is the nature of some tragedies to be incomprehensible--better to spend our energies fighting the evils we ourselves make than to rail at the unfeeling universe.

  • The talent is name-brand--among the stars scheduled to shine there briefly at some point in the future are Harvard theologian Cornel West, Harvard philosopher Anthony Appiah, Parisian semiotician Julia Kristeva, feminist psychoanalytic critic Juliet Mitchell, and even, interestingly, that elegist of public intellectualism lost, Russell Jacoby, author of The Last Intellectuals --but all of them are of a political inclination (leftish) that has been losing the culture wars on campus of late.

  • Wishbone (TM) plush, inspired by TV's popular, literature-loving Jack Russell terrier.

  • It might have been even better if it had been less bound by formula; the writer-director, David O. Russell, is working at such a high level of inspiration--and outrage--that the structure he has employed can't fully contain the emotions he kicks up.


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