Consumed, with its narrative cat’s cradle tightly woven around putatively anthropophagic husband-and-wife French philosophers, wouldn’t be easy to pitch to Hollywood execs.

The key to the situation was judgment of the role the railways could play in modern times.

Ours is a generation of aromantics, jaded about matters of the heart — often before gaining firsthand experience.

By definition, a Riemannian manifold M has at each point p a tangent space T_pM equipped with a positive definite inner product, g_p; information about these inner products is encoded in the Riemannian metric tensor, g.