Word: abysses
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...rich mixture of emotions he registers in a matter of seconds. Jones may have a somewhat simpler line to play in the movie, but he is a marvelously incisive actor, and he brings his character right up to the edge of the demonic without falling into the psychotic abyss. He is playing the role of a man playing a role -- tough omnicompetence -- and the little flickers of ironic self-awareness he permits himself as he judges his effect on others are delicious...
Only a decade ago, for example, the West was seized with a near mass hysteria about imminent nuclear apocalypse. The airwaves, the bookstores, the Congress were filled with dire warnings about our headlong dash to the abyss. Indeed, those who refused to lose their heads were said to suffer from a psychological disorder. "Psychic numbing," it was called...
...Friday's full Congress session, Yeltsin urged the Deputies not to press ahead with the vote to remove him, warning that it could "plunge the people into the abyss of confrontation." Whether Khasbulatov was responding to that or had just counted heads and found he could not muster the two-thirds vote necessary, he too stepped back. Conceding that he may have overreacted to Yeltsin's "special rule" speech, he withdrew his demand for impeachment. "Frankly," he said, "I am not a supporter of impeachment...
...tipping tight drama over into dull farce. As we were informed that the action took place in a post-World War Three bomb shelter, I felt my strongest emotion of the evening: dread. However, consistently good acting and direction just succeed in pulling this production back from the abyss of student pretension...
...pages in the book of love. The artful introspection of his previous record, 1991's The Soul Cages, has been replaced by a puckish objectivity; each song is a self-contained vignette, distilling a moment or sometimes an entire life, traversing the emotional spectrum from unfettered joy to the abyss of abject despair. Sting's sonic palette has grown impressively eclectic: he illustrates each tale with a sure-handed array of dramatic colors -- a stroke of Spanish guitar here, a daub of blue trumpet there...