The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal «objectivity,» as in
subjective qualities like its usefulness, its «elegance,» or its congruity with our residual beliefs.
Not exact matches
What attracted critical minds
like Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, and others to Nicholas Ray and his oeuvre — bored stiff as they were by the risk - averse, respectable, and ultimately neutered «cinema of
quality» — was the stamp of the personal and the element of danger they discerned in his films, whether that meant the improvisatory handling of actors with a touch deft enough to coax remarkable performances out of even non-professionals; the «superior clumsiness,» cited by Rivette in «Notes on a Revolution,» resulting in «a discontinuous, abrupt technique that refuses the conventions of classical editing and continuity»; or the purely visual flourishes Ray relished — ranging from the sweeping, vertiginous helicopter - mounted shots in They Live By Night to disorienting,
subjective POV compositions
like the «rolling camera» during a car crash halfway through On Dangerous Ground, its very title indicating the source of Ray's critical appeal.
The
quality of a fund / fund manager is v
subjective — I would perhaps put it another way: Perhaps investors are more comfortable with larger / longer established fund managers
like F&C and Schroders, so they need to show less balance sheet commitment to their funds?
It looks at what a low carbon society might look
like, approaching this partly through traditional analysis (with leading academics
like Prof. Tim Jackson from Surrey Universities RESOLVE group) and cases studies (with some good examples of domestic projects from Prof. Robin Roy's OU research), but also through a series of short fictional stories to try to catch some of the
subjective reality and the human
qualities of what life might be
like in the future.
Grades look to be an objective measure of a person's
qualities;
qualities like an interesting resumé or character are viewed as
subjective and are therefore to be distrusted.
Like the main Vault Law 100 rankings, the
quality of life rankings reflect the
subjective opinions of associates, with Vault noting that the rankings are based on perceptions of insiders — some of whom may be biased in favor (or against) their firms.
I also
like how you all couple objective (read: measured sound isolation) results to go along with
subjective opinions on sound
quality.
I respect other people tastes but I do not
like when personal tastes are given as objective facts and when sound
quality (more or less objective) is confused with sound signature (greatly
subjective, always, no matter if flat, neutral, uncolored, colored, bright, warm, or whatsoever.).
However,
subjective assets
like personal
qualities are harder to incorporate into a resume.