Word: broodingness
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The books reflect their authors' public personas. Darden's autobiographical memoir is brooding, complex, ambitious and at times emotionally overwrought. He has a habit, for instance, of referring to Simpson with an unprintable epithet. Shapiro takes a more measured, if Hollywoody, approach. But in both works, details of the lawyers...
The film is well acted, and Duvall and Jones generate some genuine, tastefully understated chemistry without slipping into sloppy sentiment. Another plus is Irma Hall, who is wonderfully enjoyable as the testy, domineering, but open-minded and warmhearted Aunt T., the sister of Earl and Ray's dead mother. But...
My father was little help. Not only did he encourage my mother to carry on the tradition with my first name, he had to go and contribute his last name to the mess. The crowning blow to a brooding teenager is to give her a last name which illicits cringes...
It wasn't only his marriage that was in trouble. Foster was already brooding about his relationship with Hillary, which was turning out to be much different from the close friendship they'd enjoyed at the Rose firm. The new dynamic had been made painfully clear to Foster in an...
Yet the first sentence of this fine, brooding novel expresses not hate but loss: "My mother died at the moment I was born, and so for my whole life there was nothing standing between myself and eternity; at my back was always a bleak, black wind." The narrator and title...