This upends the old Hollywood playbook of domestic premieres followed by overseas markets.

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This upends the conventional wisdom that viral cute kitten videos, though they may build media empires, are the ultimate frivolity, merely a time sink.

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Written by von Trier, it inverts and upends the traditional idea of a teacher inspiring his student, and its effect upon the rest of the film is revelatory.

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The hallmark of a meme that upends the traditional way of doing things is the resistance it receives from those who stand to gain the most from its existence.

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Internet-casting also upends the significance of the archive.

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With its uneven mix of scales and textures and juxtapositions that have more to do with unpredictable change than reliable constants, this is a place that upends any conventional or stable idea of "contextual" harmony.

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The finding upends previous studies, which had estimated that the Red Planet's internal water stores were scanty at best something of a surprise, given that liquid water apparently flowed on the Martian surface long ago.

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Just as the theological essays avoid predictable lamentations over the West's abandonment of God (at one point Kolakowski almost welcomed secularization on the ground that it might free the church to be what it is rather than what it thinks the world wants it to be), so in the book's final section, a diverse collection of 11 essays, Kolakowski's writing constantly upends expectations.

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