Word: broodingness
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Brooding before a video-tape machine, a cigarette drooping from his mouth, Eliot Feld was working and reworking the choreography of his 1972 ballet of Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale. Two dancers stood by. Finally, Feld snapped off the TV and nodded to the pianist. Spinning out...
But the brooding, steady music of "Daddy" spirals deftly around the sound "oo."
As he aged, this misanthropic Kipling-hardly at his best in writing about people-gave up complex characters for stock types, and then stock types for animals, ghosts and pure demonic forces. Thus the stereotype of the bluff chap with the pipe and the dog was replaced by a hypochondriac...
This long, rueful novel successfully winds up Paul Scott's enormous masterwork, The Raj Quartet, a brooding view of the last years of British rule in India. Together, the four novels of this remarkable cycle-The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence...
His novel is carefully framed between 1902 and 1917, surrounding the robust, unambiguous patriotism of Teddy Roosevelt and the complex, brooding morality of Woodrow Wilson. It was Winslow Homer time, when, as Doctorow writes, "a certain light was still available along the Eastern seaboard." Eccentrics still putter in their garages...