The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
That’s one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That’s only one thing you can do with it, but it’s one of the things I find most entertaining about it.
Putting on weight is easy all the way through. But after the first couple of weeks, the novelty wears off very quickly, and your body is groaning and starting to really shout at you, saying, ‘Why? Why? Why? Why are you doing this?’
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.
In the mid-1970s, I even decided to make my own country album. I put the idea to my record company, thinking we’d just go into the studio in the U.K. and make a novelty album. But instead, they suggested I go to Nashville. I was flabbergasted. I hadn’t expected that at all.
I can’t believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.
I’m not a novelty act from the ’80s in most parts of the world.
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Like Tamil audiences, the Telugus, too, are welcoming of novelty. The fact that ‘Arjun Reddy,’ which had no regular songs, became such a big hit, says it all.
Growing up, I’d watch ‘Rambo’ or ‘Commando,’ and so many action heroes were these huge guys with six-pack abs. It almost became a novelty.
The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders – who will rule the country for ten years. But we do know they’re the first generation of Chinese leaders who have spent the majority of their lives in a China ‘opening up’ to the rest of the world.
There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.
Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families and form cohesive social groups.
If you just casually look at a baby, it doesn’t look like there’s very much going on there, but they know more and learn more than we would ever have thought. Every single minute is incredibly full of thought and novelty. It’s easy as adults to take for granted everything it took to arrive at the state where we are.
Nature conserves, prefers novelty.
Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it’s a novelty.
As a rule, I think people in L.A. are interested in any writer who brings a different skill set and experiences. There’s an attraction to novelty and to anyone whose writing isn’t based in screenwriting. I had that novelty.
I’m a flash in the pan: a novelty.
While you certainly will recognize ‘Outlander’ if you’ve been reading the books, there’s also this wonderful sense of novelty and discovery about it because of all the little new touches and twists. I watch it in utter fascination waiting to see what will happen.
Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.
I feel the same way about Shondaland I feel about Africa and Greece. I feel pretty in both places. Men look at me like I’m a novelty, and women think I’m just cool. I feel absolutely at home immediately. I’m not altering myself to fit in. I’m walking in just as I am. And there are open arms stretched out to greet me.
It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one’s own.
Mental health is not a novelty; it’s part of who we are and we need to treat it as if it were a broken arm or any other kind of medical consideration.
If being a woman is a factor politically, it’s usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
If you can make something that looks new – novelty is exciting.
If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.
On average, the higher the novelty score a film had, the better it did at the box office. But only up to a point. Push past that novelty threshold, and there’s a precipice; the revenue earned by a film fell off a cliff.
I wasn’t interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.
I think any company should compete on the quality of their products, their prices, the novelty they can produce, their services, because that would be fair competition.
I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.
Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need.
Maybe they’re not ‘books,’ but ‘Acme Novelty Library’ and ‘Eightball’ are two comics I can’t get enough of.
In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
The novelty business is astounding. We can’t keep up with it.
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Every time I hear a revenge story, I run the opposite direction. I just don’t think such stories have any novelty value.
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.
In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people… now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty.
I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.
That’s the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.
I own a lot of novelty knitwear and I think some of it’s quite fun.
I think the relationship between social-dominance orientation in people and the extent to which they’re made uncomfortable by ambiguity and novelty is really important. Better a stable world that’s familiar, in which I’m doing pretty poorly, than dealing with all the ambiguity of a changing world.
No house was so poor as not to have its ‘family altar,’ its shelf of wooden gods, and table of offerings. A religious atmosphere pervades Tibet and gives it a singular sense of novelty.
Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview – nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn’t talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.
While some artists hunt for more groundbreaking ideas, A Hawk and a Hacksaw finds novelty in tradition, proving that what’s new depends only on who’s listening.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
For me, novelty matters; uniqueness matters.
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