static

Although America’s two-party system is pretty much baked in, we should not assume it’s entirely static: I recently wrote a historical essay that partly concerned the World War I-era demise of Britain’s center-left Liberal Party, which was destabilized and ultimately destroyed after its collision with a homegrown authoritarian movement.

In February, President Joe Biden decried the concept of “shrinkflation” — cutting the amount or quality of an item, yet keeping the price static — ahead of the Super Bowl, saying that “it’s a rip off.”

As Jamelle Bouie writes in the New York Times, “This brings us to the second thing you must keep in mind if you want to understand Trump. He may rant and he may rave, but his rantings and ravings aren’t static; they carry meaning, even if the signal is hard to find in the noise.”

You could see Ford was looking at Randall and not wanting the ball because he was on the back foot and static.

The painting’s surface appears squishy, dissolving from a static plane into an optical cloud.