Word: broodingness
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Britain's love affair with the Indian subcontinent, in books, films and mini- series, is a quaint disease, a melancholy for everything exotic the empire has owned and lost. To a romantic imperialist brooding over his sherry, the decorous Indians, with their subversive good manners, impressive intellectual tradition and caste...
Terror, insists the protagonist of this ingeniously macabre novel, is the % lodestone of the architect's art. It is a bizarre aesthetic, but then, Nicholas Dyer is hardly your everyday architect. A brooding protege of the great Christopher Wren's, he is carrying out a commission to design seven new...
"You'll be on one of those planes someday, on your way to California or Paris. Do you believe that?" Maria shrugs. She is still brooding about college.
VIEWERS OF THE FIRST 1960 debate between Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy '40 remember most vividly Nixon's brooding, perspiring visage, his dark, shifty eyes, and his shadowy beard growth, all of which stood in contrast to Kennedy's composed image.
If Nelligan manages to redeem herself with bombast, Malkovich as her less-than-saintly son is an utter bombastic disappointment. Where Malkovitch was superb in earlier off-beat roles as the photographer in The Killing Fields and the blind boarder in Places in the Heart, his portrayal of Gage is...