veering

If Al Gore had become President, would we now be wondering why climate change indicators are veering towards the worst case scenarios, or whether we’ll perish by water or fire?

There’s no nominated film this year as original as “The Substance,” and despite the film occasionally veering on a pastiche of other body horror commentaries, Fargeat’s confident screenplay sets the film apart from any comparison.

He wanted to show me where the city had installed two monstrous fences, ostensibly to protect habitat and keep hikers from veering off the main trail.

Songs like “Ruthless” and “Vicious Sensitive Robot” showed the full band firing on all cylinders, veering from yacht-rock trumpets to meditative jazz grooves, while “Paranoia” had a hypermodern ambience.

This was a period in which Tanton himself was veering in an increasingly extremist and overtly racist direction.